CHELSEA NOW, JULY 3, 2013

VOLUME 5, NUMBER 22

THE WEST SIDE’S COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER

JULY 3 - 16, 2013

park Bill Made Little Noise, Could have huge impact

Photo by Tequila Minsky

Victorious DOMA plaintiff Edie Windsor, right, spoke outside the Stonewall on last Wednesday evening as Council Speaker Christine Quinn beamed proudly.

Supreme Court Strikes down doMa’s key provision, ducks on prop 8

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD In a pair of 5-4 rulings released on June 26, the United States Supreme Court held that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) violates the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution, but that the court did not have jurisdiction to decide whether California’s Proposition 8 violates the 14th Amendment,

because the initiative’s Official Proponents, who appealed District Court Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision finding it unconstitutional, lack federal constitutional standing to have done so.

On Friday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, issued an order dismissing the appeal and lifting the stay on Walker’s 2010 ruling.

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON As the State Legislature’s session drew to a close last week, a sweeping bill to modify the Hudson River Park Act, which would, most notably, allow the park to transfer its unused air rights, was quietly passed by both the Assembly and the State Senate.

“Radio silence” was how one stunned park watchdog described how the bill suddenly popped up in the session’s final days, seemingly without anyone — other than local affected politicians, the Hudson River Park Trust and, no doubt, key stakeholders — having heard a peep about it until then.

The bill was approved by the Assembly 96-5 last Thursday.

Then, after a marathon session that began Friday and turned into an all-nighter, the bill finally came up before the Senate on Saturday morning, and around 5 a.m. was passed unanimously 57-0.

The governor’s signature is still required, though his approval is expected.

The bill’s sponsors were Richard Gottfried and Deborah Glick in the Assembly. In the Senate, the sponsor was listed simply as

At that point, later in July or early in August, same-sex marriages could once again become available throughout California, though the Official Proponents may yet argue that Walker’s order does not apply to anyone other than the two plaintiff couples or the two counties sued and

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“Rules Committee.” In other words, there was no sponsoring senator.

Most notably, approval of the bill will allow the Hudson River Park to sell its unused air rights for development up to one block inland of the West Side Highway — with the proceeds from Pier 40’s air rights specifically earmarked for sorely needed repairs to the West Houston St. pier’s roof deck and support pilings.

The bill also extends the lease terms for commercial uses in the park to 49 years, and in some cases, for larger developments, up to 99 years.

However, on Pier 40, the lease term remains 30 years.

Potential Pier 40 developers have, in the past, argued their plans wouldn’t work without a longer lease.

Also, under the new bill, the city is required to give Pier 76, at West 36th Street, fully to the Trust, once the tow pound is removed from the pier. Fifty percent of this pier’s footprint will be designated for park use, with the remainder of the pier slated for park / commercial use. The Trust would get all the revenue generated by the pier.

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garden tour touts Many ‘pit’ Stops

Image courtesy of the artist and T.A.G

Amelia Nierenberg’s “Splash” (oil on canvas).

That little sign you see sprouting out of certain bike lane tree pits along Eight and Ninth Avenues indicates that the visually appealing patch is lucky enough to have been adopted by a Chelsea Garden Club volunteer. With the fruits of their labor in full bloom, the altruistic flower power brigade is about to embark upon their “Second (sort-of) Annual Chelsea Garden Club Pit Tour.” This free event, open to the public, begins at 10am on Saturday, July 13. Meet at Eighth Ave.

and 22nd St., and marvel at their composter in front of Foragers! Then, make a side trip to 23rd and Seventh (to Kent’s gardens) and proceed south, to 17th and Eighth, then over to Ninth Ave. — where the group will stroll north (perhaps as far as Cynthia’s pit at 30th). At that point, the plucky but thoroughly exhausted group will trek back to Eight Ave. and down, finishing at 23rd — at which point you’ll not be far from the coffee or yogurt you so richly deserve.

t.a.g. (teen art gallery) presents “Full Spectrum” Determined to overcome “the limiting environment assigned to us because of our age,” the members of T.A.G. (Teen Art Gallery) make their own opportunities by helping young artists navigate the process of showing in a gallery setting. Their latest exhibition is the group’s sixth since its inception in 2010. “Full Spectrum” features the work of 24 fine artists from across the country, as well as a selection of creative writing and four films exhibited via the new T.A.G. YouTube channel.

July 10-19, at chashama (303 10th Ave., btw. 27th & 28th Sts.).Gallery Hours: 12-5pm, Tues.-Sat. The opening reception (July 10, 6-8pm) features an acoustic performance from N YC’s The Jacobins. For info, visit teenartgallery.org (which is regularly updated with new works).

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Legal Same-Sex Marriages Win Federal Recognition thereby delay that outcome.

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Jr., wrote for the high court in the challenge that Edith (“Edie”) Schlain Windsor, a New York widow, brought against DOMA based on a $360,000 inheritance tax imposed on her after the death of her spouse, Thea Spyer. He produced a somewhat typical Kennedy opinion that obscures the ruling’s doctrinal basis and will leave commentators and lower courts guessing as to its effect in subsequent cases.

He referred to liberty protected by the US Constitution’s due process clause, federalism issues related to the traditional authority of the states to decide who can marry, and the equal protection requirements that the Court has found to be part of the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause.

In some respects, his opinion evoked his 1996 opinion for the court in Romer v. Evans, which struck down a Colorado voter amendment that prohibited any nondiscrimination laws based on sexual orientation in that state.

Kennedy’s argument regarding DOMA rested on the idea that any enactment whose clear purpose and effect are to treat some people adversely, creating a sort of second-class citizenship, is unconstitutional on its face, without much need for further analysis.

At the March 27 oral arguments, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg described state marriage without federal benefits as “skim milk marriage.” Kennedy did not adopt that nomenclature, referring instead to second-class marriage.

As usual with Kennedy, his opinion avoids the technical terminology of constitutional analysis many commentators use in describing what standard of judicial review applies to the case, so it is not easy to classify it among categories including “strict scrutiny,” “heightened scrutiny,” “suspect classifications” or “rational basis.”

The court therefore avoided settling the differences between standards applied by the trial court, which used the most deferential scrutiny in evaluating DOMA and found it lacks any defensible rational basis, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which found that “heightened scrutiny” should apply to sexual orientation discrimination cases, a situation in which the government must show a compelling non-discriminatory purpose for a law. The appeals panel, while upholding Windsor’s trial court win, noted that DOMA’s Section 3 would survive a less demanding, more deferential rational basis review.

Kennedy’s approach in this respect was at least a small disappointment for Windsor’s counsel, Roberta Kaplan of Paul Weiss LLP, and the LGBT Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, who had hoped that a “heightened scrutiny” ruling by the Supreme Court could be used in other cases, especially pending cases challenging state bans on samesex marriage in other parts of the country.

Claims of discrimination raised regarding laws subjected to heightened scrutiny are more difficult to defend against.

As usual when responding to a Kennedy gay

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Chad Griffin, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, who as founder of the American Foundation for Equal Rights launched the Prop 8 litigation, seen with one of AFER’s lead attorneys, David Boies.

rights opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent expressed relief that the court had not used heightened scrutiny to strike down the 1996 law, but he then expressed puzzlement about its basis. After summarizing and criticizing Kennedy’s analysis, Scalia wrote, “Some might conclude that this loaf could have used a while longer in the oven. But that would be wrong; it is already overcooked. The most expert care in preparation cannot redeem a bad recipe. The sum of all the court’s non-specific hand-waving is that this law is invalid (maybe on equalprotection grounds, maybe on substantivedue-process grounds, and perhaps with some amorphous federalism component playing a role) because it is motivated by a ‘bare… desire to harm’ couples in same-sex marriages.”

Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined Kennedy’s decision and did not write separately.

President Barack Obama promptly issued a statement applauding the court’s ruling and said he had directed Attorney General Eric Holder “to work with other members of my Cabinet to review all relevant federal statutes to ensure this decision, including its implications for federal benefits and obligations, is implemented swiftly and smoothly.”

In a press conference to discuss the Prop 8 ruling, Chad Griffin, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, said he had spoken to Holder “to discuss with him an expedited implementation of the DOMA ruling.”

This is especially good news for binational married same-sex couples, whose marriages can now be recognized as equal to those of different-sex couples, and it eliminates the

need to amend the immigration reform legislation pending in Congress, something that even reform advocates who are marriage equality supporters, like New York Senator Chuck Schumer, have warned could derail that bill’s prospects.

Under the president’s directive, those federal statutes that contain specialized marriage definitions for particular policy purposes should now be construed to treat lawful samesex marriages the same as lawful different-sex marriages.

However, as Scalia pointed out in his acerbic dissent, the court’s opinion is obscure on one very important question — whether lawfully married same-sex couples who live, work, or travel in states that don’t recognize same-sex marriages will be recognized as married for federal purposes in such locations should the question arise. Kennedy ended his opinion with a cryptic statement, “This opinion and its holding are confined to those lawful marriages.” That sentence followed a passage criticizing DOMA because it “singles out a class of persons deemed by a State entitled to recognition and protection to enhance their own liberty” and has the effect of “disparag[ing] and injur[ing] those whom the State, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity.”

This section of Kennedy’s opinion relies on principles of federalism, under which a state

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California Weddings Resume, but No Broader Ruling on Right to Marry Continued from page 3 may, presumably, decide not to perform or recognize same-sex marriages unless, of course Kennedy’s due process and equal protection concerns would override that state’s reservations. That’s a question he does not resolve in his opinion.

There were three dissenting opinions.

Scalia’s dissent was joined by Justice Clarence Thomas and, in part, by Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrote his own dissent as well.

Justice Samuel Alito also wrote a dissent, which was joined in part by Thomas. Roberts and Scalia argued that the court did not have jurisdiction to decide the DOMA case, because the Justice Department, whose appeal was granted in this case, agreed with the rulings by the trial court and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Consequently, the parties before the court were not “adverse” on the merits and so lacked a true “case or controversy” as required by the Constitution. They both suggested that it was not appropriate for the government to ask the Supreme Court to affirm a lower court decision with which the government agrees.

The chief justice’s dissent stressed the “federalism” aspects of Kennedy’s opinion, a focus that could lessen its significance for pending challenges to state same-sex marriage bans.

Roberts pointed to the fact that Kennedy’s opinion purported to take no position on the question whether same-sex couples have a right to marry under the 14th Amendment. He said “the disclaimer is a logical and necessary consequence of the argument that the majority has chosen to adopt. The dominant theme of the majority opinion is that the federal government’s intrusion in an area ‘central to state domestic relations law applicable to its residents and citizens’ is sufficiently ‘unusual’ to set off alarm bells. I think the majority goes off course, as I have said, but it is undeniable that its judgment is based on federalism.”

As such, Roberts would argue, it has no relevance to disputes over the basic question of whether same-sex couples have an underlying right to marry.

Roberts did not join the part of Scalia’s colorfully worded dissent where he disagreed with Kennedy on the merits of the case. Scalia discounted Kennedy’s disclaimer that the court was not deciding whether same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, predicting that lower courts would rely on his opinion to strike down state restrictions on same-sex marriage. In fact, Scalia took the unusual step of demonstrating how a lower court could appropriate paragraphs from Kennedy’s opinion, change a few of the words, and produce a result requiring a state to let same-sex couples marry.

Scalia’s dissents in gay rights cases are usually packed with impassioned rhetoric, and this was no exception, but this is the first time he actually shows lower courts how to accomplish the terrible results he forecasts will occur. (Ten years ago to the day, in his dissent disagreeing with Kennedy’s opinion in the Lawrence case that struck down sodomy laws nationwide, Scalia warned that opinion would open the way for gay marriage.)

Alito, by contrast, argued in his dissent that the intervention of Speaker John Boehner’s socalled Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the House of Representatives (BLAG) — which stepped in to defend DOMA when the Justice Department announced two years ago it would no longer do so — took care of the “case or controversy” problem. He suggested there is necessarily a role for the courts to play when both the plaintiff and the government agree that a statute is unconstitutional. And he accepted BLAG’s contention that Congress has a legitimate interest in defending such a statute to protect its legislative authority.

Alito disagreed with Kennedy on the merits of the constitutional claim, asserting that whether the federal government must recognize same-sex marriages was a political question not suitable for resolution by the high court. Noting that the Constitution has nothing to say about same-sex marriage one way or the other, he argued the issue should be left to individual states to decide through their political processes.

Chief Justice Roberts wrote for the majority in the Prop 8 case, where he argued that amendment’s Official Proponents did not have standing to appeal Judge Walker’s ruling that it violated the 14th Amendment because they had no personal tangible stake in the outcome.

Scalia, Ginsburg, Breyer and Kagan joined the court’s opinion. Kennedy wrote a dissent joined by Thomas, Alito and Sotomayor.

Pundits will undoubtedly tie themselves in knots trying to figure out why three of the Democratic appointees joined Scalia and the chief justice in the majority while Sotomayor joined Kennedy and the court’s two most conservative members, Alito and Thomas, in the dissent, especially since the four Democratic appointees were united in joining Kennedy’s decision on the merits in the Windsor case.

Although the immediate results of both decisions are clear, their longer-term effects are not. The full meaning of a Supreme Court opinion cannot be determined on the day it is issued, but will depend on the responses of government officials, legislators, and lower courts, as well as private sector actors.

Section 3 of DOMA is gone, but that does not necessarily mean that all the barriers to full equality in federal rights are necessarily eliminated or will all disappear overnight. At the time of the decision, the president’s prompt statement and the comments HRC’s Griffin made about his conversations with the attorney general suggested that by the time the high court issues its mandate in the Windsor case toward the end of July, there should be some guidance from the Justice Department so that all federal agencies are on the same page concerning treatment of legally married same-sex couples.

It would be particularly helpful if this guidance addressed the issue of lawfully married couples who reside in states that don’t recognize same-sex marriages.

The pending Respect for Marriage bill in Congress would mandate federal recognition for those marriages regardless of where the couple happens to live or be visiting, and the administration had stated support for

that legislation. It is unlikely that Congress, politically fractured at present, would take any action were the administration to adopt this rule administratively.

Kennedy pointed out in his opinion that studies have identified more than 1,000 federal statutory or regulatory provisions for which marital status is relevant. Most of those provisions contain no express definition of marriage, while some include or refer to descriptive language relevant to the particular policy of the statute or regulation. Presumably, after the Windsor ruling goes into effect, any such provision that would not on its face include same-sex marriages would have to be interpreted consistently with the Supreme Court’s ruling to meet constitutional muster.

But some changes are moving full speed ahead. This Sunday, Bulgarian immigrant Traian Popov and his American husband, Julian Marsh, came forward as the first binational gay couple to receive a green card. After using a series of student visas to reside in the United State for the past 15 years, Popov applied for a green card in February and was notified of his receipt of a permanent resident visa in an email just two days following the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down DOMA. “The amazing overwhelming fact is that the government said yes, and my husband and I can live in the country we chose and we love and want to stay in,” Marsh told the New York Times.

Meanwhile, the court’s ruling on the Proposition 8 case is not a ruling on the merits of whether the California amendment is unconstitutional. Neither Roberts’ majority opinion nor Kennedy’s dissent takes any position on the merits of the equal protection theory adopted by the Ninth Circuit or the more sweeping equal protection and due process theories endorsed by Judge Walker in the trial court.

There are likely legal skirmishes yet to come in California. The original defendants in the lawsuit were the County Clerk’s Offices in Alameda and Los Angeles Counties, so they would clearly be bound by Walker’s Order. Whether clerks in other counties would be bound or would be subject to direction from state officials to comply is an unsettled question. Decisive action by Governor Jerry Brown may avert any chaos threatened by lawsuits contesting the scope of Walker’s ruling.

Determined opponents of same-sex marriage, however, signaled immediately that they will do everything they can to try to block its implementation statewide.

On the Saturday immediately following the rulings, supporters of Proposition 8 made a last-ditch effort to file an emergency appeal, which was rejected by Kennedy.

Eager couples have been paying no heed to the lingering naysayers: in Los Angeles County, 600 online marriage license applications were filed over the first weekend alone.

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Stealth Hudson Park Bill to Allow Air Rights Sales Continued from page 1 In addition, the bill calls for the imposition of a surcharge of up to $2 on tickets for all commercial vessels (entertainment, sightseeing, day or dinner cruises) that embark or disembark within the park, with this tax paid directly to the Trust.

Floating heliport

Under the modification to the park act, the current West 30th Street Heliport also will be moved off the upland part of the park and out onto a one-story heliport terminal on a floating structure — possibly, a barge or pontoons — in the Hudson River somewhere between West 29th and 32nd Streets.

No additional structures can be built on the landing pad. Though still located in the park, which extends out to the pier-head line, this floating landing pad will move the noisy and noxious heliport farther away from park users and the community.

Furthermore, the bill expands allowable revenue-generating uses at the park’s designated commercial piers to include restaurants, media and film studio facilities, commercial amusements — such as carousels — performing arts, schools and educational facilities.

Finally, the bill allows Pier 54, at West 13th Street, the park’s main event pier, to be rebuilt wider than its original footprint.

‘There should have been hearings and consultations with affected communities.’

Andrew Berman

Neither Glick nor Gottfried — whose districts each include part of the park — got everything they wanted in the bill.

The bill doesn’t allow things at Pier 76 that Gottfried favored, such as hotel and residential use and possibly a large Ferris wheel. It doesn’t permit something Glick wanted at Pier 40, commercial office use, which is needed to allow Douglas Durst’s adaptive reuse proposal to convert the pier’s three-story shed structure into a hightech office campus.

The area’s local youth sports leagues last year put on a major push to change the park’s legislation to allow residential use on or next to Pier 40 — feeling it was the best way to ensure funding to fix up the crumbling “sports pier.” However, lack of political support sunk that idea.

‘Certainly a compromise’

“The bill is certainly a compromise,” Gottfried told our sister publication, The Villager. “It does several important things for the financial viability of the park and for the quality of the park. However, most of the provi-

sions relating particularly to Pier 40 or Pier 76 were deleted [from the bill’s final version]. We will hopefully take up issues relating to those piers next year. I felt it was better to do that than enact some very inadequate provisions that would then be very difficult to change in the future.

“The provision allowing the Trust to sell unused development rights of the park to adjoining properties can potentially provide considerable revenue for the park,” Gottfried said.

The heliport was slated to vacate the park in two years. But Gottfried said it’s being kept, albeit out in the water, because “there is a strong desire for a heliport on the West Side — for emergency transportation, and, as you can imagine, there are some people with influence in our society who think getting in and out of Manhattan by helicopter is very important to them.”

For State Senator Brad Hoylman, satisfaction at the bill’s passage was tempered by what he criticized as a lack of transparency in the process.

“The amended Hudson River Park Act isn’t perfect,” Hoylman said, “but it provides critical new sources of revenue to facilitate the park’s completion, operation and maintenance, and on balance it’s good for my constituents, many of whom are among the millions of people who visit Hudson River Park each year.”

‘Lack of transparency’

“That said,” Hoylman continued, “I am disappointed by some of the provisions, and particularly by the lack of transparency or opportunity for public consultation on major portions of the bill.”

It was actually Hoylman, the freshman senator, who sent The Villager a draft of the bill on Tues., June 18 — the newspaper’s first notification that the legislative changes were being proposed.

Hoylman added there was a lot of “momentum” behind the bill, and that he worked to achieve what he could, including ensuring that the air rights transfers would undergo public review.

“I am particularly happy,” Hoylman added, “that the legislation facilitates the preservation of Pier 40 and its sports fields and ensures the entirety of Pier 76 will be incorporated into the park.”

In a statement, Glick hailed the legislation for keeping inappropriate private development out of the park, while at the same time providing the Trust with some new financial mechanisms to maintain the park’s upkeep.

Preserving Pier 40

“I am pleased that this legislation strikes a balance between financial support and protecting public space,” she said. “In particular, I am glad that any sale of the air rights from Pier 40 will directly be used to repair and secure Pier 40’s infrastructure — thus ensuring that playing fields utilized by children and adults will continue to exist for generations.”

The idea for a surcharge on commercial ves-

there’s a couple of hundred thousand square feet there.”

No air rights study?

Photo by Lincoln Anderson

This development-ready property on West St. between Clarkson and Leroy Sts. could possibly benefit from an air rights transfer from the Hudson River Park.

sels using the park was originally Glick’s, and she claimed it could bring in $1.5 million for the Trust annually.

Before the vote on the legislation, Madelyn Wils, the Trust’s president, sent out a letter to politicians and park advocates stating, in part, “Last night the Assembly and Senate each introduced a bill to amend the Hudson River Park Act, enabling legislation in line with many items discussed and introduced by the Hudson River Park Task Force over the last year and a half. … It provides many significant and important additional rights [for the Trust], plus some language clarifications that will allow us to improve our bottom line and help support the park’s viability into the future.”

Widening Pier 54

Wils also noted that authorizing Pier 54 to be built beyond its historic footprint “will allow for securing [a] significant donation to be used toward development of Pier 54 as a world-class public programming space.”

It’s been rumored that Barry Diller, husband of fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg, will make a multimillion-dollar matching grant toward Pier 54’s renovation. Widening the pier would make it easier and safer for people to enter and exit it at big public events, according to the Trust.

However, while politicians are hailing the Legislature’s latest modifications to the park act, the Village’s leading preservationist, for one, is up in arms. Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, said the public should have been consulted about the bill’s most dramatic change — allowing the Trust to transfer the park’s unused development rights one block inland.

Pier 40 alone has massive air rights, the preservationist added, noting, “I’ve been told

The preservationist said he is, first of all, concerned that the bill was passed so quickly, but also that there doesn’t seem to be any study about the air rights transfers and their potential effect on the Lower West Side.

“I’ve asked people, and no one is aware of it,” he said of whether any formal study exists.

Asked for a potential site that could be impacted, he said, “The ‘car wash / gentlemen’s club block’ north of the St. John’s Building [between Clarkson and Leroy Sts.] — basically, sites that are not landmarked and don’t have contextual zoning that would limit what could be squeezed in there.

“Even blocks that are currently developed — if they could access thousands of square feet of development rights, they could be developed further as a result,” he said.

A pressing question, Berman said, is whether — now that the state has approved the air rights transfers — the city will still have a review role under the ULURP (Uniform Land Use Review Procedure) or even by a special permit through the City Planning Commission.

‘Frankly, quite disturbing’

“The speed with which this moved — and with lack of consultation and lack of information about its impacts — is frankly quite disturbing,” Berman continued. “There should have been hearings. There should have been consultations with affected communities. There should have been a very clear analysis of the scope of development that this could allow and what the impact could be.

“We understand that there is an imperative to find new ways to find revenue for the park,” Berman added, “but this was so sudden and dramatic.”

We asked Gottfried how much income the air rights transfers could potentially generate for the park and if there had been a financial study. Gottfried said he didn’t think a full study had been done, and also that he couldn’t really give a dollar amount since development is always “speculative,” based on the real estate market.

In a telephone interview on Monday, Glick said, “Like all negotiated bills, there are compromises that were made on all sides.”

Trust’s relentless pressure

“I’m totally thrilled that we prevented the Trust from permitting any residential or hotel use in the park,” she said. “That was something that they kept pressing for right until the end. And they wanted long-term leases at Pier 40 — they didn’t get that.

“I had a goal, and the goal was to preserve Pier 40 for the playing fields and to prevent major hotel and residential development in the park — and these were accomplished.”

As for whether the air rights transfers from the park to east of the highway would undergo the city’s ULURP public review, Glick noted the bill says, the transfers would

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quinn Recommends Relocation of MSg

Photo by Yanan Wang

Speaker Quinn makes the case that MSG must move, if Penn Station’s capacity and safety issues are to be addressed.

BY YANAN WANG In a June 19 letter to Madison Square Garden (MSG) Company President and CEO Hank Ratner, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn argued for relocating MSG in order to accommodate improvements on an outdated Penn Station.

“For the last 50 years,” Quinn wrote, “Tens of millions of commuters, business travelers and tourists have had the lackluster experience of entering and depart-

ing Midtown from a dismal Penn Station that is dangerous, overcrowded, lacks adequate ingress and egress, and is not fully ADA accessible.”

Last month, the City Planning Commission approved a 15-year term for the MSG’s Special Permit, which allows them to remain on their current site above Penn Station. In her letter, Quinn expressed support for Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer’s proposition that the span of the permit be changed to 10 years.

With this shortened permit period, Quinn wrote, the city will be able to implement a plan for the site’s future — a vision that rests on MSG’s relocation.

Last week, the speaker's recommendation was accepted, as both the City Council's Zoning and Franchises Subcommittee and its Land-Use Committee voted in favor of the reduced term.

“Significantly improving Penn Station while Madison Square Garden sits atop it has proven to be an intractable problem,” she said in her letter. “It is my belief that finding a new location for the Garden is likely the only way to address the ongoing capacity and safety issues at Penn Station, as well as to bring this area to its best and highest use.”

Although no official proposals have yet been sent to his office, Community Board 4 (CB4) District Manager Bob Benfatto

said he would be open to having MSG moved into the Chelsea area. Around four years ago, Benfatto noted, there had been talks about relocating it above Old Chelsea Post Office.

As for the length of the permit, Benfatto said CB4 has not taken an official position on the issue. Rather, the board’s key priority in regards to MSG — outdoor signage — has been addressed in the City Planning Commission’s May 22 ruling.

Since MSG is not located within the CB4 district itself, board members were primarily concerned about the advertising that faces the neighborhood, Benfatto

said. In City Planning’s proposal, it calls for a signage size reduction to 44” x 64” (CB4 had initially requested 44” x 44”), as well as a restriction on advertising that prohibits any signage that is unrelated to MSG programming. The latter condition was modified in the Council Report released last week to allow for sponsor advertising, but Benfatto said the size reduction request remains the same.

The City Planning Commission will soon vote on the application’s changes, after which the final conditions of the permit will be decided by the full City Council.

Return to Sender: Missing Mailbox Back Soon Community members became concerned a few weeks ago when they discovered that a mailbox was missing from the southwest corner of 17th Street and Seventh Avenue. Worried that the removal may be related to the potential sale or relocation of the Old Chelsea Station Post Office, local resident Dianna Maeurer sent an email to State Senator Brad Hoylman’s office about the matter.

A June 18 email response sent to Maeurer by Hoylman’s legislative aide, Ellen Louis, shared some good news about the mailbox’s whereabouts.

“Staff in the office of our federal representative, Congressmember Jerrold Nadler, reached out to the United States Postal Service and we have been assured that the box was removed because of a broken flap,” Louis wrote. “Apparently, USPS cannot do repairs locally so a new and fully functional mailbox can be expected in the next 6-8 weeks.”

Residents in the area can rest easy now knowing that their mailbox will return home soon.

—Yanan Wang

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editorial

Out of Thin Air

Everyone, or almost everyone, was taken off guard, when the State Legislature approved a series of major changes to the 1998 Hudson River Park Act. The most significant of these allows the park to sell its unused air rights for development one block inland.

According to the Hudson River Park Trust, the park — on its commercial piers — has about 1.6 million square feet of unused air rights. The Empire State Building has 2.77 million square feet of floor area, and the Trump Soho condo-hotel 300,000 square feet. So the park’s air rights equal more than half an Empire State Building, or more than five Trump Soho’s. In short, 1.6 million square feet is a whole lot of air rights.

What’s good about this is that any air rights sold from the park are, by definition, no longer in the park — meaning this limits large-scale development in the park. It could even happen that part of Pier 40’s pier shed could be razed and those now newly unused air rights then sold across the highway — thus, opening up the West Houston Street pier to views to the river.

Moving air rights out of the park is definitely a good thing. But what will it mean for the western edge of the Village and Chelsea? Tribeca has no commercial piers.

Does that mean none of the park’s air rights will be transferred into Tribeca? Most of the park’s commercial piers are in Community Board 4 (Chelsea/Hell’s Kitchen). So will most of the air rights get transferred up there? How much of the park’s air rights will be able to be stacked at any one site? Will there be designated sites? Will Pier 40’s air rights have to transfer directly across the highway to the St. John’s Building, or can — and should — they go elsewhere?

No one seems to have any clear answers yet. Noreen Doyle, the Trust’s vice president, explained that the air rights transfers will all be done according to city zoning, and that it will likely be at least two years from now before anyone can actually start buying and using the park’s air rights. She assumed ULURP reviews would naturally be required.

“The city’s going to have to figure out with us how this will work,” she said.

That there has been no comprehensive study of all of this to date is concerning.

The way the bill’s language is crafted, Pier 40 — by which we also mean the youth leagues and other athletes that use it — is the big winner. Any proceeds from sale of the 15-acre pier’s copious air rights must go back into repair of its dilapidated infrastructure.

The secrecy with which the bill was passed was also troubling. The Trust maintains the air rights idea was periodically mentioned at community board meetings and in the media in the past year, but that’s different than notifying the community that there is definitely a pending bill and that it’s moving full-steam ahead! Public hearings would have allayed people’s concerns and also, no doubt, helped strategize on what to do with all these air rights and where to put them and what the impact will be.

“No legislation would happen over all in New York State if everything required a public hearing,” Doyle responded.

Sorry, but we just don’t buy that. The public should have been more involved on such an important change.

Allowing air rights has had another consequence: Douglas Durst, former chairperson of the Friends of Hudson River Park who has been spearheading the plan for a Hudson River Park Neighborhood Improvement District, has pulled his funding from the NID effort. A source told us, “Until development [from the air rights] is quantified, you can’t ask people to pay into a NID.” The NID special-tax district was already on the ropes.

Now, we’re told, it’s on hold, and probably will be shelved.

letters to the editor MTA stumbles on dangerous steps To The Editor: As a senior citizen, I have sent innumerable written notices to the MTA regarding the dangerous situation of the unhighlighted, and poorly lit, steps at the 12th Street entrance to the IRT Seventh Avenue subway line in Manhattan (14th Street Station, 12th Street entrance).

I know a senior citizen who stumbled and fell on these very same unmarked steps, and eventually died as a result. I hold on dearly to the banisters as I descend carefully, often missing my train.

Before another accident occurs, I wish to draw this dangerous situation to the attention of the general public in order to create pressure on the MTA to finally correct this problem.

Dina Perlmuter

Kudos, but try some transparency To The Editor: Kudos to Assemblymember Deborah Glick and state Senator Brad Hoylman for once again warding off the misguided, often-revived push to amend the Hudson River Park Act to allow residential development in our waterfront park. Although some may dislike the permission for air-rights transfers, I am grateful to our two legislators in finding other funding sources for our park.

Absent (and lamented by Senator Hoylman) was transparency. Proposed legislation that can fundamentally affect our precious open waterfront has to be reviewed by the community, not hidden from public view until it is done.

When the Hudson River Park Act was enacted in 1998, it was only after many public hearings and committee reports.

Assemblymember Richard Gottfried has already announced that “provisions relating particularly to Pier 40 and Pier 76” will be on the block next year. Let our legislators and our governor pledge now that proposed future amendments to the park act — especially concerning these piers — will be reviewed by the public, not decided behind closed doors.

Jonathan Geballe Geballe is District Leader, 66th Assembly District, Part A

Rising rents equal transient tenants To The Editor: Thanks to State Senator Brad Hoylman for defending affordable housing. As a rent-stabilized tenant, I am about to sign on for a 7.75 percent increase on a two-year lease, and I can tell you that 7.75 percent in itself will be a financial hit for me. That the Rent Guidelines Board is considering upping the ante to 9.5 percent for two-year leases is unconscionable.

There are other problems that threaten our eroding base of affordable housing. Twelve years ago, my building had 16 rent-stabilized units out of 16 units; now it has four. Relatively stable market-rent tenants are complaining that the rising “market rents” they are being asked to pay at renewal are too high. These rents are not justified in a four-story, walk-up tenement that is, on the whole, rather poorly maintained, and the tenants cannot afford the increases.

Now we have discovered that some of the units are being rented out as hotel rooms, at prices that are triple, quadruple, quintuple and beyond “market,” as well as legal, stabilized rents.

After petitioning in the area around Petrosino Square for the upcoming September primary, and being bowled over by how many people identify themselves not only as not registered Democrats but as temporary residents and noncitizens, I went online and discovered on Airbnb — one of the main clearinghouses for apartment hotel rentals — no less than 156 units advertised in the nine square blocks bounded by Cleveland Place and Elizabeth Street and Broome and Prince Streets.

My building has been plagued by burglary, blasting sound systems, hallways reeking of marijuana, trash being dumped inside and in front of the building, and the list goes on. As I wrote to my landlord recently, our affordable housing residence is being turned into a pricey flophouse for transients.

Who will step in to arrest this destruction of our homes and, as importantly, our sense of community, which depends on residential continuity?

Georgette Fleischer Fleischer is founder, Friends of Petrosino Square

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edie’s victory, our progress and the Road ahead talKiNG PoiNt

BY PAUL SCHINDLER It was in the late winter of 2004 when I met Edie Windsor and the woman she would marry, several years later in Toronto, Thea Spyer. A couple of weeks before, Gavin Newsom, then mayor of San Francisco, declared that the city had the authority to marry same-sex couples.

Relying on a legal argument that nothing in New York State law forbade marriage by gay and lesbian couples, activists planned a demonstration outside the City Clerk’s Office, then across the street from City Hall, demanding that same-sex marriage licenses be issued here as well.

When a crowd got together at the LGBT Community Center a few evenings before the demo to strategize and make signs, Edie and Thea were among them — certainly the oldest couple on hand.

The demonstration had no immediate effect on the right to marry here in New York, and Newsom’s experiment in San Francisco was soon halted. The following year, marriage equality advocates won a trial court victory in Manhattan, but that was quickly appealed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

We lost at the Court of Appeals in the summer of 2006.

When I met Edie and Thea, they were well into their 70s and Thea had suffered for decades from multiple sclerosis. By 2007, she was quite ill, and with marriage equality available only in Massachusetts — and there still only for in-state couples — the two women feared they would not see the day they could wed. With the help of the New York grassroots activist group Civil Marriage Trail — and six friends who helped handle Thea’s wheelchair at the airport — the couple traveled to Toronto to marry. The following year, a state appellate court here ruled that marriages like Edie and Thea’s deserved recognition in New York.

Thea died in 2009, but even though the women enjoyed two years of married life among their more than four decades together, the federal government judged them to be legal strangers. Edie received an inheritance tax bill of more than $360,000.

Edie, who is now 84, has spent more than two years litigating DOMA, an endurance test she described as “joyous, just joyous.” I have run into her at more fundraisers, political events, and community gatherings in the past several years than I can count. She is energetic, passionate, opinionated, irreverent and articulate — in short, a consummate New Yorker. It should be a point of pride for all LGBT New Yorkers that we have Edie and that it was she who won this smashing victory on behalf of gay and lesbian couples across the nation.

As each successive victory at the Supreme Court has

done, Justice Anthony Kennedy’s finding — that DOMA “is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the State, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity” — advances our ability to mount successful legal claims for full equality.

As Arthur S. Leonard’s piece (starting on page 1) points out, Kennedy did not take the bigger step we hoped he might and find that claims of sexual orientation discrimination must be subjected to “heightened scrutiny” by the courts. Such a decision would have accelerated dramatically the vital work of clearing away the underbrush of homophobic marriage restrictions still in place in roughly three-dozen states. His opinion appears,

She is energetic, passionate, opinionated, irreverent and articulate — in short, a consummate New Yorker. It should be a point of pride for all LGBT New Yorkers that we have Edie and that it was she who won this smashing victory. at first blush, to finesse that pressing legal question.

Similarly, the court’s decision to deny standing to those appealing a lower court decision striking down Prop 8 put off for the moment the effort to litigate the fundamental question of whether same-sex couples have a federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage.

Those caveats aside, June 26, 2013 is every bit as good a day as June 26, 2003, when the high court struck down the nation’s remaining sodomy laws. It added two very significant victories and did nothing to foreclose continued efforts to press for marriage rights, both in state courts around the country and before the federal judiciary.

The sweep of our victories, in fact, should humble us, given the continued adversity that remains on other fronts. Five days before the news came down from the Supreme Court, the update out of Albany was depressingly familiar. The State Senate finished up its regular 2013 session without allowing a vote on a basic transgender civil rights law, the Gender Expression NonDiscrimination Act (GENDA), which has now won

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The Senate leadership — a partnership between the minority Republicans and four Democrats who bolted their party to form the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) — bears primary responsibility for the failure to get the job done on GENDA. There is little doubt the bill would pass if given a vote. The IDC’s members, all of whom support the civil rights measure, justified their betrayal of party on the argument they could marry progressive action to a Senate leadership regime not mired in the dysfunction that plagued the Democrats when they last led the chamber in 2009 and 2010.

On issues from women’s equality to campaign finance reform to GENDA, the IDC failed miserably. As I have previously written, Governor Andrew Cuomo also missed an opportunity to show the sort of leadership on GENDA that he so brilliantly exhibited on marriage equality two years ago. The transgender community is a small portion of the overall LGBT population — and so the political dividends from action may seem modest — but it is also a marginalized and vulnerable community in dire need of basic legal protections. Getting the job done cannot wait for another election cycle. Next year, if not earlier, must be the deadline on delivering on the promise of equality for transgender New Yorkers.

Also overdue are basic employment protections for LGBT Americans nationwide. More than half the states provide no protections against private sector workplace bias, based on either sexual orientation or gender identity and expression. The federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), pale a remedy as it is compared to efforts decades ago to enact sweeping civil rights law protections, remains a hostage to Republican intransigence in the House of Representatives.

Many advocates assumed President Barack Obama, once he got past his reelection fight, would issue a longsought executive order barring employment discrimination by businesses with federal contracts. Eight months after the election, there is no sign the president is ready to move. Given the clear signal from the high court today as to where the nation is moving on LGBT rights, the president should seize the initiative with an executive order. The time is now.

After celebrating our hard-fought wins this past Pride weekend, we should remain mindful that the very same Supreme Court whose marriage decisions we rejoice in stripped the federal Voting Rights Act of its teeth in a decision that imperils decades of progress on equal access to the ballot and to representation. LGBT people of color are among the millions whose basic right to vote is now at risk. And we should never forget that the political forces who are trying to curb the rights of African Americans, Latinos, and other ethnic communities are no friends to LGBT communities of whatever color.

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Police BLOTTER Assault: Beer drinker couldn’t can his mouth A 31-year-old man was repeatedly struck in the head — then stomped, as he lay in the street — by an assailant unknown to him. He wasn’t entirely without responsibility for the incident, which happened around 9:15pm on Fri., June 21, on the southwest corner of Ninth Ave. & W. 40th St. Police noted that the victim, who was taken by ambulance to Bellevue Hospital for treatment, admitted getting into “a physical dispute” with the stranger after having downed six beers. Based on what one supposes may have been a hazy description, uniformed officers of the 10th Precinct canvassed the area for the assailant (who fled on foot), but were not able to find him.

and run. It happened at the tail end of a half-cocked love connection, which began to brew around 12:15am on Wed., June 19. That’s when a 38-year-old-male met a potential suitor 13 years his junior in the aisles of a popular Chelsea matchmaking location (The Blue Store, 206 Eighth Ave., btw. 20th & 21st Sts.). Having arrived at the victim’s nearby apartment, the two men agreed to have sex — but when the 25-year-old was naked, his skittish suitor declared he was no longer interested.

When the young man requested money, he was told no and escorted out of the apartment. As the two were in the vestibule, the perp hit the victim and ran away. No money was taken, according to police — who noted that after video from the Blue Store was used to identify the perp, they canvassed the area (with negative results).

Grand Larceny: Megabus snooze nets mega loss

Trademark Counterfeit: Knock-offs pop up

Good thing she wasn’t driving, because this one was certainly asleep at the wheel.

A Megabus passenger traveling from Boston to NYC caught a few Zs with her phone in her hand — and woke up to find the pricy item missing. Thirty minutes after arriving at her 28th St. & Seventh Ave. destination (at 4pm on Sat., June 22), the victim began to track her missing mobile by using Apple’s “Find my iPhone” app. The phone, worth $1,000, was traced by the app to a specific street corner in New Jersey. Upon retrieving records of recent activity from the Apple website, the victim’s father called a number that had been dialed after the theft occurred — but the person who answered did not say anything.

The building manager of 208 W. 28th St. told police that while checking on an apartment that was supposed to be vacant, he found 30 cases of counterfeit clothing and accessories — from highly desirable brands, including Louis Vuitton and Coach. A representative of the private counterfeit investigations firm MSA Investigations confirmed all of the goods to be counterfeit. It was unknown how they came to be in the supposedly empty apartment.

Assault: Fists fly after naked truth Second thoughts surrounding a gentleman’s agreement resulted in a painful hit

Petty Larceny: Falling is her ‘Marquee’ scam Think fast the next time you help a stranger who’s fallen and needs help getting up — and check your belongings once they say ‘thanks’ and disappear into the night. That’s the costly lesson learned by a 31-year-old local, who was sitting on a bench seat at Marquee nightclub (289 Tenth Ave., btw. 26th & 27th Sts.),

at around 2:30am on Thurs., June 20.

She was approached by a woman who appeared to lose her balance. As the victim instinctively put her hands up to cushion the fall, she placed her phone down next to her. Once the woman was helped up, her Good Samaritan went to retrieve the phone — and discovered it wasn’t there. The victim quickly cancelled service on the $700 Apple iPhone.

bag (which, he noted, had no zipper or buckle to secure it). Once home, he went to retrieve his tasty treat and noticed the wallet was gone. The victim, who speculates that someone may have reached into the bag, does not recall being jostled or bumped by anyone in the store or out on the street. The wallet, valued at $25, contained a $10 MetroCard, $50 cash and credit cards (which were cancelled by the victim).

Grand Larceny: Trip to 16 Handles cost him 85 bucks

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Papa needs to get a brand new bag, if he wants to avoid sticky-fingered opportunists. A 47-year-old man told police that he discovered his wallet missing, just 15 minutes after a trip to 16 Handles (178 Eight Ave., btw. 19th & 20th Sts.).

After making his purchase at the popular yogurt shop, the victim placed it in his

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Third graders weigh in on healthy eating.

BY YANAN WANG I heard the sounds of the PS 11 Farm Market before I arrived. Above the soft chatter of adult voices, kids were shouting out words I hadn’t heard before: “Purslane! Kohlrabi! Sorrel!” In front of a white counter displaying a colorful arrangement of produce, eggs and maple syrup, parents and third-graders talked excitedly about that day’s sales. Groups of two or three kids were approaching passersby with paper slips, asking them whether they wanted to buy tickets for a raffle. The winner, a girl named Kimberly eagerly explained, would receive eggs

hatched by the PS 11 chickens.

“Eggs in the supermarket come from big farms, where the chickens are all in one coop,” she said gravely. “We raised these chickens in our yard.”

When I was eight years old, I thought that eating local meant going to the Vietnamese restaurant a few blocks away from our house. The concept of “organic” had never entered my mind, and my only concerns while out at the grocery store with my mom had been whether we would be buying popsicles or ice cream. I had a lot to learn from the third-graders behind the counter.

At the PS 11 Farm Market, kids rule the roost.

The PS 11 Farm Market began six years ago under the leadership of programs director Deborah Osborne. It was a natural offshoot of their existing health and nutrition initiative, Osborne explained, and it would give families access to local foods.

“This is very much in line with the philosophies and goals of the school,” she said.

Every PS 11 third grader is given the opportunity to operate the market, from bagging groceries and weighing produce to making change and unloading the truck on Tuesday afternoons. Interacting with the farmer who delivers the goods has allowed the students to see a link between themselves and what they sell, Osborne noted.

For parents, the farm market has been an effective way of getting their children excited about eating fruits and vegetables.

“There’s the feeling that they’re connected to the food,” said Sami Plotkin, the mother of a third-grader. “Now my son has an interest in eating healthy.”

On the counter sat a plate of chopped kohlrabi for sampling. After I took a piece, a boy named Luke who was overseeing that section of the table promptly asked me, “Will you be buying some of this?”

I replied politely that I had only five dollars to spend (a limit set by my editor), so I needed to consider the other vegetables first before deciding on my purchase. Ever the persistent salesperson, Luke smiled coyly and asked me what, then, he could interest me in using my money on.

“We got everything from Stoneledge Farm,” he said proudly. “Fresh, no pesti-

cide, local...” A girl behind him chimed in, “And it’s organic!”

They knew their product well. Taking my laughter as further curiosity, Luke began explaining to me why the vegetables from Stoneledge were better than what you would normally get at the supermarket: “In-season means that you only eat the vegetable when you’re supposed to. You’re not supposed to eat tomatoes in the winter, because there is a lot of percent chance that they’re going to taste bad or be made from chemicals.”

I blushed. After two decades of eating tomatoes regardless of the season, it’s not easy to be told by an eight-year-old that you’ve been doing it wrong all this time.

The students’ enthusiasm for their food provider is likely a result of their recent field trip to Stoneledge. Because of the long distance to the farm (a two-hour bus ride to South Cairo, NY), this year has been the first in which students were able to see first-hand the origin of their wares. “They really got their hands dirty,” Osborne said, recalling that the thirdgraders walked through the fields and picked corn and rosemary to take home.

For some students, the trip was a lesson in perspective.

“At first it looked empty, but we learned that the places that look empty aren’t always empty on the inside,” said Tyler of Mr. Hand’s class. “Just that the seeds aren’t sprouting yet so we couldn’t see them.”

The Farm Market takes place Wednesdays, from 8-10am, at PS 11 (320 W. 21st St., btw. 8th & 9th Aves.). For more info, email ps11programs@aol.com or visit ps11chelsea.org.

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Elevate Your Summer, with High Line Happenings

BY MAEVE GATELY The High Line’s summer activities range from dance parties to nature tours to afternoon activities for little ones and nighttime stargazing for urban astronomers.

Organized by Friends of the High Line, it’s hard not to find something along the renovated train tracks that piques your interest.

Here are a few of our favorites. For a full schedule, visit thehighline.org/events or call 212-206-9922. Many of the events are recurring — so if you happen to miss one, just head over the next week! Unless noted otherwise, all events are free.

DROP-IN VOLUNTEERING

Kick off your office pumps (or loafers) and slip into a pair of work boots for a morning in the soil! For those of us craving a little green on our commute to work, Drop-In Volunteering Tuesdays offer a chance to get in touch with our inner gardener, then go back to the air-conditioned office. No materials required — just your able hands and a willingness to weed.

Show up at the Chelsea Market overpass between 8 and 11am (sign-up ends at 10:30am), and a High Line gardener or custodian will direct you to your task and get you started. Activities include weeding the beds, pruning plants, cleaning the park’s design features and more. Get down in the shrubbery, then slip back on those heels and go to that meeting as if you’ve just gone to get a latté.

Sign-up at the Chelsea Market Passage at 16th St. Space is limited to 10 volunteers.

Volunteers must be 14 or older, and those 14-17 must be accompanied by a caregiver.

For more information on this and other volunteer opportunities, contact Volunteer Coordinator Karla Osorio-Pérez at karla. osorio-perez@thehighline.org, or call 212206-9922.

Photo by Dan Zalcman, courtesy of Friends of the High Line

Hands in, and ready to help: Drop-In Volunteering lets you get in touch with your inner gardener.

band Forró da Madame bring Brizillian forró (a style of music characterized by percussive beats and the zabumba bass drum) to Chelsea, with vocals that will keep you dancing till you drop. August 21 features Nu D’Lux. New York’s “most original Cuban style dance band and perhaps the funkiest Salsa on the planet” combines a host of styles to make a sound that is lively, spicy and entirely their own. Wear through your dancing shoes, and then head down to a nearby restaurant or wine bar to mellow out the end of your night with laughter and conversation. As Nu D’Lux declares, “This party’s not for sitting, friends.”

Wednesday, July 24 and Wednesday, August 19, 7-10 pm. Chelsea Market passage at 16th St.

WILD WEDNESDAYS

Bring your little wild ones down to the High Line to meet some critters of their own! Wild Wednesdays are themed, interactive opportunities for kids to engage with nature, learn about plants and animals and get in touch with their inner botanist. This month, it’s all about the life cycle of plants, with consecutive Wednesdays focusing on roots, stems, leaves and flowers. Follow the bloom of High Line plants, and watch your five-year-old peer at the vein structure of a leaf. If this is not enough to sprout your interest, the last Wednesday of the month (July 31) coincides with High Line Honey Day. So go “Wild,” then taste your way through NYC’s honey offerings (and meet beekeepers from all five boroughs).

Throughout the month, kids will have the opportunity to play with the High Line Children’s Workyard Kit. Inspired by the High Line’s industrial past, its finished wood planks and oversize bolts fit together with knobs, cranks and various odds and ends to make for a unique building experience that is as informative as it is fun!

Open to kids aged 4 and up, accompa-

Photo by Rowa Lee, courtesy of Friends of the High Line

Wild Wednesdays introduce your little ones to plants, animals and the joys of wearing a tool belt!

STARGAZING ON THE HIGH LINE Photo by Liz Ligon, courtesy of Friends of the High Line

¡Arriba! Community Dance Parties bring a little swing to those hot summer nights.

nied by their caretakers. Wednesdays, 4 -6pm, Chelsea Market 14th St. passage.

HIGH LINE INFORMATION STATION

Ever wonder how the High Line went from an abandoned railroad to one of the city’s hottest attractions? Looking for a chance to read about the local plants, or ask all of the questions you might have about that modern art bird feeder? Come to the Chelsea Market overpass and meet the High Line Greeters, who will share their knowledge of the elevated park with you.

In addition to fielding your questions, the information station greeters will hand out bloom calendars, explain what is in season and talk about upcoming events.

Every Thursday from 1-7p,m, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11am-7pm in the Chelsea Market Overpass at 16th St.

¡ARRIBA! COMMUNITY DANCE PARTIES

Salsa to Latin mamba under summer skies, and be happy again. Part of High Line Live! and presented with HAI (Hospitals Audiences, Inc., an arts nonprofit that brings arts events to the city’s underserved communities) and Hudson Guild, ¡Arriba!

Community Dance Parties bring together dancers and amateurs alike in an open-air Latin dance party! On July 24, the joyful, driving lyrics of Liliana Araújo and her

Chelsea’s elevated park has more to offer than cool breezes and lazy strolls.

Long before the sky darkens, members of the Amateur Astronomers Association gather on the High Line — and invite you to watch the sunset through their telescopes. The real show begins when the planets and red giants begin to emerge.

On a recent Tuesday night, tourists, families and locals alike peered through the lens at a dim, red spot we soon learned was Mercury. The smallest of the planets, Saturn, was also visible (as were its orange rings). When Venus rose over the Hudson, we gasped in wonder as a huge white spot flew by. Too big to be a plane and too fast to be a star, it was the International Space Station — and we all looked up in awe, at humanity in the heavens.

Free. Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30pm, on the High Line. Location and times vary, depending on conditions. For updated info, visit thehighline. org or call 212-206-9922.

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No Rest: Fests All Summer Long By the River, on the Roof, at the Brick and Beyond

BY SCOTT STIFFLER Anyone can slap together a few thematically similar events, put out a press release and tell the world they’ve got a festival. Plenty have — but you won’t find any of those lazy posers in this roundup.

Everything here is solid.

RIVER TO RIVER

Through July 14: This month-long, mostly outdoor (and completely free) annual event offers music, theater, art and family activities — all taking place at 28 iconic and unexpected sites throughout Lower Manhattan.

Open rehearsals and studio visits allow visitors a glimpse into the ways in which a painting, sculpture or song is created. On Thurs., July 11, 12:30-1:30pm, Brooklyn’s Hungry March Band brass ensemble fills One New York Plaza with its pulsating sounds (dancing encouraged — they’ll be doing it, too). Weekdays from 8am6pm, through July 14, the “Fluid: Construct” exhibit at One Liberty Plaza features the work of four NYC-based artists who examine the city’s relationship with water. For a complete schedule, visit rivertorivernyc.com.

Photo by Hunter Canning Photo by Lee Sunday Evans

Skip the family reunion, and see Collaboration Town’s “Help Me To Make It” — part of the Ice Factory Festival.

Me To Make It” follows multiple generations of contemporary families as their personal moments of everyday existence add up to lifetimes of monumental compassion, devastating betrayal and inevitable transformation.

Through Aug. 3, Wed.-Sat. at 7pm. At the New Ohio Theatre (154 Christopher St., btw.

Greenwich & Washington Sts.). For tickets ($18, $15 for students/seniors), call 888596-1027. Schedule and tickets available at newohiotheatre.org.

THE WASHINGTON SQUARE MUSIC FESTIVAL

The city’s second-oldest free, outdoor classical music series wears its low budget — and its fondness for eclectic, experimental programming — as a well-earned badge of honor. Music Director Lutz Rath peppers his description of the upcoming 55th season with words like “unusual,” “rarely performed” and “odd” — but that doesn’t mean purists will be disappointed or alienated. Among the selections of contemporary avant-garde pieces and jazz or worldbased improvisation, you’ll find a solid roster of pre-20th century classical works. July 9’s opener features “The Judgment of Paris” — a Baroque opera by British composer John Eccles, followed by a performance of “Concerto in D Major,” for three trumpets, two oboes and strings, by German baroque composer George Telemann.

On July 16, toy piano virtuoso Margaret Leng Tan coaxes a mighty sound from her tiny instrument, as she performs two U.S. premieres, along with works by John Cage, Phyllis Chen and Jed Distler. July 23’s installment celebrates 2013 as the 200th anniversary of the births of famed composers Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner — and on July 30, an ensemble led by African-born composer/singer/guitarist Nepo Soteri spans the globe by blending funk, R&B and world jazz sensibilities.

Free Tues., July 9, 16, 23, 30 8pm in Washington Square Park. Rainspace: St. Joseph’s Church (371 Sixth Ave., btw. Waverly Place & Greenwich Ave.) Info: 212-252-3621 or washingtonsquaremusicfestival.org.

CULTURE PROJECT’S WOMEN CENTER STAGE FESTIVAL

The Culture Project collaborates with advocacy organizations and performing artists in order to promote dialogue and inspire action surrounding various forms of injustice (“The Exonerated” was an in-their-own-words look

On July 31, Soomi Kim (pictured), Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai and Bora Yoon present “New Looks @ New Works” as part of the Women Center Stage Festival.

ST. BART’S SUMMER FESTIVAL OF SACRED MUSIC Photo by Dave Carroll

Rooftop Films screens the Coney Island strongman documentary “Bending Steel,” on July 8.

at the lives of six innocent death row survivors). The Project’s recently renamed Lynn Redgrave Theater is the setting for the Women Center Stage Festival — their annual laboratory for new work. The Directors’ Weekend (July 13 and 14) challenges 10 directors to create 15-minute pieces considering the media’s role in writing history, how it crafts the personas of women in power and by what means the media narrative can be shifted. Presented in partnership with the Warrior Writers (warriorwriters. org), July 15’s “Smashing the Stigma” finds female veterans taking the stage to reflect on war, trauma, rape and motherhood in the military. The documentary “Girl Rising”(July 20) tells the stories of nine extraordinary girls from nine countries — and on July 31, race, culture and gender are considered by multidisciplinary theater artist Soomi Kim, spoken word poet Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai and musician Bora Yoon, in an evening of “New Looks @ New Works.”

Through Aug. 3 (kick-off party from 7-9pm, Mon., July 8). All events at the Lynn Redgrave Theater (45 Bleecker St., btw. Mulberry & Mott Sts.). All shows $12 ($20 premium seats available with advance purchase). For info, call 866811-4111 or visit wcs.cultureproject.org.

LA MAMA MOVES! DANCE FESTIVAL

Featuring works designed to transcend politics and unify cultures, this month-long festival of emerging and seasoned chorographers (which began on June 7) is winding down — but you still have a chance to catch the NY Premiere of Irish director Luke Murphy’s “Drenched” (July 5-6 at 7:30pm & July 7 at 2:30pm). With visual splash provided by David Fischel’s multi-channel projection installation, it’s an intimate duet between Murphy and Carlye Eckert which examines the contrast between representations and realities of contemporary romance. At La Mama (74 E. Fourth St., btw. Bowery & Second Ave). For tickets and info, call 212-475-7710 or visit lamama.org.

ICE FACTORY FESTIVAL

The New Ohio Theatre provides a space where Downtown companies can take risks and try out new ideas — with an eye towards nurturing their works for Off-Broadway productions, commercial runs and national and international tours. This year’s six new productions include The Mad One’s “Untitled Biopic Project” (July 10-13), a trippy meditation on 1960s folk rock culture. From July 17-20, Collaboration Town’s ensemble-driven “Help

On Sundays throughout the summer, the St. Bartholomew’s Choir and the Boy and Girl Choristers present an array of mass music from the 15th century to the present (as part of the 11am service — the liturgical context for which it was composed). On July 14, the Choir is accompanied by an orchestra of period instruments, in a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Missa Brevis in G Minor.” Free. At St. Bart’s (325 Park Ave., at 51st St.). Call 212-378-0222 or visit starts.org for a complete schedule of upcoming events.

ROOFTOP FILMS

Cool breezes courtesy of the great outdoors trump multiplex air conditioning, as the 17th season of this series continues to promote the work of emerging and established independent filmmakers — with screenings on rooftops throughout the Lower East Side and Williamsburg. Two well-received documentaries from the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival deserve a look: “Bending Steel,” the story of an aspiring Coney Island strongman, unspools in that neighborhood on July 8 — and the painter-as-pugilist relationship saga “Cutie and the Boxer” shows atop Brooklyn’s Old American Can Factory on Aug. 3. Screenings are scheduled every weekend, through August. Tickets start at $13, and many screenings are free (donations welcome).

For a complete schedule, visit rooftopfilms.com.

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Tighten and Tone Before the Kids Wake Up KICK BACKS: 2 SETS, EACH LEG

Photos by Sue Johnson

BY TEAM HEAT (Devon Cormack & Heather Hardy) The kids are home for the summer, and I know what you’re thinking: Noooooo!!!!

Not being able to get to the gym shouldn’t be an excuse to skip your daily workout and fall completely off the wagon for the next three months. Take it from a personal trainer when I say that we’re sick of having to nurse you all back into shape after your three month hiatus and late night rendezvous with the ice cream man. Give yourself thirty minutes before the kids wake up to tighten, tone and keep your flabby tushy in shape!

Stand against a wall with your legs 1-2 feet out. Press your back into the wall and slide as far down as you can. The goal is to be in position as if you’re sitting in a chair, with your knee and hip bone in one straight line. Hold this position for one minute, then rest for 45 seconds. You can up the intensity of this workout by holding small hand weights or a medicine ball. If you have no equipment handy, a container of laundry detergent works!

Stand with your hands on the seat of a chair and raise your left leg until it forms a straight line with your neck and back. Lower it to the floor, then quickly jump it back up. When the leg is extended out, squeeze the muscles in your gluteus before dropping it back down and then quickly back up. Do this for one minute, with each leg. Repeat this twice.

PLANK POSITION: 2 SETS

LUNGES: 3 REPS

LEGS: Your glutes and quads are a part of the largest muscle group in your body — so by working your legs, you can increase metabolism and burn more calories.

Get into pushup position — but instead of being on your hands, get onto your forearms. The elbows should be directly under your shoulders. Your belly should be super tight. Do not arch your back, and keep your neck and spine in one straight line. Hold for 1 minute.

WALL SQUATS: 3 REPS

PLANK POSITION WITH AB TWIST: 3 SETS

Position one leg forward with your knee bent and your foot flat on the floor, and one leg straight behind, on your toe.

Lunges are done north to south, so bend your front knee, making sure not to extend your knee past your ankle. No leaning forward — it’s a straight up and down move. Down and up, 20-30 times. You can up the intensity with hand weights, a medicine ball or anything you can grip onto around the house.

Get into the plank position (again, on forearms). Twist your waist so your right hipbone touches the floor, then return to home position. Left hipbone touches the floor, then return to home position. Keep alternating left to right for a total of 10 sets (twisting right and left equals one count).

LEG LIFTS, 3 SETS:

Laying on the floor on your back, put your hands under your tailbone (for lower back support). Have your legs straight out and your head down. Press your lower back hard into the floor and raise your legs until your heels are pointing straight up to the ceiling.

Lower them down as close as you can to 6 inches above the floor (Caution: Do not lower the legs where the lumbar lifts off the floor, or starts to arch). Do not bend your knees! Both legs should move up and down as one piece, to maximize the work in the lower abs.

Stay on track. It’s just a 30-minute commitment every day — and before the summer is over, you’ll see results and be so happy you did it.

Now, do it!

The photos were taken at Gleason’s Gym (77 Front St., Brooklyn) — where Devon Cormack and Heather “The Heat” Hardy work as personal trainers, while prepping for fights.

Before turning pro, Hardy (a single mom) won championships in Muay Thai and Kickboxing.

As a Golden Gloves contestant, she won silver in 2011 and gold in 2012 (125-pound division). Her next pro fight is July 24, at NYC’s Roseland Ballroom (where she’ll enter the ring with a 5-0-0 record). Chelsea resident Devon Cormack is a three-time World Kickboxing Champion who coordinates fight scenes for film & TV. If you have a fitness or nutrition question for Heather or Devon, send an email to askteamheat@chelseanow.com. For more info, visit heathertheheathardy.net and follow her at facebook.com/TheHeatHeatherHardy.

Also visit gleasonsgym.net.

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THE BRICK’S GAME PLAY FESTIVAL

Over the bridge, on the edge and always worth the trip, Brooklyn’s Brick Theater excels at curating festivals whose high concepts are more than just convenient hooks (The Antidepressant Festival showcases “all aspects of questionable and medicated happiness,” while the recent sound scape fest put theater’s aural element front and center). Other annual events, like the Comic Book Theater Festival, mine the fundamental appeal of seemingly competing mediums for their live performance potential.

This year’s fifth annual Game Play Festival once again features “cutting-edge works that lie at the intersection of video gaming and performance.” Presented by The Story Gym (whose work “makes immersive experiences that encourage the audience to move and be involved”), “The Photo Album” takes a collection of photos recently found under the floorboards of a basement apartment in Brooklyn and challenges you to a scavenger hunt in which smartphones and tablets are used to scan the photos in order to discover the backstory behind the snapshots. Raised to avert her gaze, Semi Ryu’s “Targeting Eyes” explores her upbringing in Korea with a live game performance whose goal is to aim for the eyes, while in First-Person Shooter

Photo by Justin Plowman

At The Brick’s Game Play Festival, Dysfunctional Theatre Company’s “Final Defenders” gathers a ragtag band of earthlings whose gaming skills just might save The Konami Atari Alliance of Eden 3.

mode. Using characters from WoW, Far Cry 3, Minecraft and other games, the digital puppeteer performers in “Legendary, Maybe: 4 Machinima Theater Pieces adapted from Livy” combine ancient texts with modern technology to tell stories from Livy’s “Ab Urbe Condita.” Post-apocalyptic games like Fallout, Wasteland and Bioshock inspired Charles Battersby’s “The Cute Radioactive Couple: A Post-Apocalyptic Comedy,” in which nuclear war strikes and Ray’s fallout shelter (built for one) must also accommodate his new wife.

July 5-28, at The Brick (575 Metropolitan Avenue at Lorimer St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Subway: L to Lorimer, G to Metropolitan). For tickets ($15) and info, visit bricktheater.com or call 718-285-3863.

THE WEST VILLAGE CHORALE’S SUMMER SINGS SERIES

Technically, this isn’t a festival — but don’t let that stop you from showing up (and piping up).

Since 1972, The West Village Chorale has been providing amateur and experienced singers with the chance to perform the classical choral masterworks (a special treat for those whose regular chorus takes the summer off). Participants will have an opportunity to meet the conductor (a revolving roster culled from local choral groups) and discuss the evening’s work at intermission.

Free. Through Aug. 19, in the historic (and air-conditioned) Judson Memorial Church (55 Washington Square South, btw. Thompson & Sullivan Sts.). For schedule and info, visit westvillagechorale.org.

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great Wine for the great outdoors

BY MORIAH SIMMONS (of Chelsea Wine Vault) It’s hot outside — but the only place hotter is your third-floor walkup. So we’re all heading outdoors, determined to enjoy the sunshine by making it an event with food and wine. Whether you’re decamping to the Hamptons with a private chef or packing sandwiches for Coney Island, you need the right wine to set the tone for your summer feast. These are some of the best wines for the major food events of the season.

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Not all wines can stand up to the tangy, smoky flavors of grilled food doused in barbeque sauce — but Zinfandel and Syrah blends do it with aplomb. Chatom Vineyards Zinfandel Calaveras County 2008 ($21.99) is bold and full-bodied enough for a well-marbled steak or brisket, and J.L. Chave Sélection Chave Mon Coeur Côtes du Rhône 2011 ($21.99) is great with pulled pork and dry-rub chicken wings. If you prefer white wine with dinner, Kings Ridge Pinot Gris Willamette Valley 2012 ($13.99) is a good pairing for everything from zucchini to turkey, and all but the reddest meats. The summer wine rule of thumb is that rosé goes with everything — and Copain Saisons des Vins Tous Ensemble Pinot Noir Rosé Anderson Valley 2012 (Organic, $24.99) and Diamarine Cuvée Spéciale Rosé Coteaux Varois en Provence 2012 ($9.99) are consistently great every year.

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When you can’t get out of the city, get your fresh air fix with a park picnic. Chilled reds like Terres Dorées Beaujolais L'Ancien Vieilles Vignes 2011 (Sustainable, $18.99) are great with cold cuts and pasta salad, and cold fried chicken gets even better with a crisp Chardonnay like A to Z Chardonnay Oregon 2011 (Organic, $14.99). Serve your wine in reusable, shatterproof GoVino tumblers. Since you’re not technically allowed to drink alcohol in NYC parks, this is a great time to try out wines in alternative packages like Tetra Paks, CalNaturale Cabernet Sauvignon 2009 (Organic 500mL, $7.99) or bag-in-box — Gil Family Estates Shania Monastrell 2011 (3L, $19.99). They’re great with food and so affordable you can save your money to splurge on Greenmarket heirloom tomatoes instead. If you’ve got wine in a bottle, you can transfer it to a clever flask that folds flat when empty, the Tote + Able Dots Water & Beverage Canvas Tote ($22.99), or put the bottle in a Freaker Penguin Wine Sweater ($9.99) for some incognito insulation.

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By far, the best wine pairing for sun and sand is a cool, crisp rosé, like Vie Vité Rosé Côtes de Provence 2012 ($18.99).

It’s great with fresh seafood and charcuterie, and it makes you feel like you’re in the

Photo by Lynn Borowitz

Field tested: The summer wine rule of thumb is that rosé goes with everything.

South of France — even when you’re at the East River. But with all that sand and sun, sipping wine on the beach is as much about strategy as it is about substance.

First, you’ll want to keep reds slightly chilled, and whites and rosés just above freezing. You can keep wine cold with a Corkcicle, an Oprah-approved chiller that you freeze, then pop into an open bottle of wine. If it’s windy, seek single-serve packaging to keep your wine sand-free. Try Coppola Sofia Blanc de Blancs Mini Cans Four-Pack NV ($19.99), sparkling wine in individual cans that come with straws.

Another great beach wine is called Stack, and $14.99 gets you a stack of four individual sealed glasses of either Cabernet Sauvignon or Pinot Grigio for easy beach bag packing.

Now that you know what you’re doing all summer, you’re ready to get outside and stay cool in the sun. At least until your apartment is bearable again — which should coincide neatly with the end of outdoor drinking season.

Moriah Simmons is the Web Editor at Chelsea Wine Vault, and she’ll bring rosé to any backyard grilling party, any time.

Find her at Unfiltered: The Chelsea Wine Vault Blog — and find the Wine Vault inside Chelsea Market (75 Ninth Ave.).

Call them at 212-462-4244 or visit chelseawinevault.com.

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Summer Festivals Bring the heat talent vying for the chance to perform at July 13’s Final Throwdown at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 5 Uplands. From 12-3pm, a “good old-fashioned, pop the sprinklers, speakers in the window” block party delivers kid-friendly music, demos and workshops.

From 3-8pm, EPMD, Redman, Pusha T, Dizzy Wright and Soul Understate and others perform, along with local talent including F.Stokes, Danse of BKLYN STICKUP and Justo. The festival after-party takes place 9pm-2am, at SRB Brooklyn (177 2nd Ave.).

For info, visit bkhiphopfestival.com.

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the diXoN pLaCe hot! FeStivaL

Always sexy, occasionally sleazy and not afraid to cross the line of good taste in the name of getting a rise out of you, the flame of Dixon Place’s HOT! Festival continues to burn bright 22 years after its debut. Back then, popular sentiment hadn’t even begun to warm up to the notion of gays in the military, in the wedding chapel or at the prom. Today, polite society seems to have caught up with NYC’s premiere LGBTQ arts festival — so HOT! 2013 has raised the bar, with a dizzyingly diverse roster of over 200 button-pushing burlesque and circus acts, comedians, dancers, musicians, cabaret crooners, theatrical performers and miscellaneous troublemakers.

Through Aug. 3, at Dixon Place (161A Chrystie St., btw. Delancey & Rivington Sts.). For tickets ($10-25, $60 festival pass), schedule and reservations, visit hotfestival. org or call 212-219-0736.

the FReSh FRuit FeStivaL

the BRookLyN hip-hop FeSt

From July 10-13, Hip-Hop culture’s legacy as an agent of artistic progression, community building and social change is explored and celebrated through panel discussions, exhibitions, parties, an awards show and plenty of live performances. July 11’s Show & Prove Super Bowl is a showcase of up-and-coming

Photo courtesy of The Studio

They mean to offend you: Lea DeLaria and Maggie Cassella, in “The Loudest Show on Earth” — part of the Dixon Place HOT! Festival.

Even after 11 years on the shelf, this ultra-inclusive queer confab of theater, music and dance still passes inspection. With particular attention paid to booking the work of lesbian and transgender artists, Fresh Fruit also wrings delicious pulp from performers of all racial and many ethnic backgrounds, sexualities and gender orientations (or, as they describe it, “African-, Caribbean-, East Indian-, Hispanic-, Japanese-, Native- and even unhyphenated Americans”) — and it’s not just fruity fodder from the five boroughs.

You’re just as likely to fill your shopping basket with the delights of artists from Australia, Canada, France, Mauii, Israel, the Philippines and the United Kingdom — a global rainbow of fruit flavor!

July 8-21, at The Wild Project, Nuyorican Poets Café and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art. For tickets ($1018) and info, visit freshfruitfestival.com or call 212-352-3101.

the MidtoWN iNteRNatioNaL theatRe FeStivaL (MitF)

For years, John Chatterton’s OOBR (Off-Off-Broadway Review) championed

local theater whose imagination, talent and ambition far exceeded its budget.

Back in 2000, his print and cyber advocacy morphed into the brick and mortar world of MITF. With an emphasis on imaginative, low-tech staging, the “Festival That Cares” offers participating artists a safe environment to develop innovative theatre. They also keep it affordable, by providing free rehearsal space, storage and insurance.

July 15-Aug. 4, at four different 36th St. locations. For tickets ($15-18), call 866-8114111 or visit midtownfestival.org.

You’re not done yet! Before summer cools down, you can also see: • The New York Musical Theatre Festival (nymf.org, July 8-28) • Between the Seas [Mediterranean] Festival (betweentheseas.org, July 22-28) • The Asian American International Film Festival (July 24-Aug. 3, aaiff.org) • The Joyce Theater’s Festival of Contemporary Ballet (Aug. 6-17, joyce.org) • FringeNYC (Aug. 9-25, fringenyc.org) • Battery Dance Company’s Downtown Dance Fest (Aug. 10-15, batterydance.org) • Theater for the New City’s Dream Up Festival (Aug. 18-Sept. 8, theaterforthenewcity.net)

Photo by Michael Lamont

The Crooning Crabcakes grasp at boy group glory, in “Life Could Be a Dream” — at The New York Musical Theatre Festival.

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Fruit & vegetable Smoothies are a Magic Bullet to Slimness

BY CARLYE WAXMAN RD, RDN There’s no debate about what constitutes the full biological value of vitamins and minerals in your fruits and vegetables. In any form, these low-calorie foods aid in weight loss — but when vegetables are cooked, we know there is some loss of their vitamins and minerals. This could be the biggest reason that the raw foods diet became popular and widespread. So how much of these vitamins and minerals do we really need….and how crazy should we get about maximizing them?

Though I’ve worked in the field of dietetics for the past five years, I’ve just recently started drinking fruits and vegetables. As a former firm believer in eating your foods instead of drinking them, I now have a newfound appreciation for vitamin-rich and slim-feeling shakes. They not only make me feel “healthier,” but also start my day off right on the weekend.

Before I go into my secret smoothie recipes, I’d like to break down the difference between (and the relative merits of) juicing and blending — a debate I had during a random dinner conversation amongst nutrition enthusiasts. It all started with wedding gifts of a juicer and a Magic Bullet (whose long-running infomercial most late night or weekend couch potatoes have seen by now). The couple wasn’t sure which contraption to keep.

My Bullet, thanks to my cousin who apparently had no use for it, has become my new favorite appliance. Though not a “real juicer,” it can pulverize my spinach and kale (which makes it taste creamy, as opposed to frothy). I feel bad about the left-behind pulp, so I add that back in after. I’m very happy with this — and the fact that it fits very snugly behind my Keurig machine in my two-by-two kitchen.

So clearly, I was a bit biased during this debate. The others at the table started talking about the benefits of juicing. While the newlyweds were waffling between their juicer or their Bullet, I was thinking that the former — a huge, expensive machine — must have a healthy purpose, right? The answer to that depends on what you are trying to get out of your fruits and vegetables.

By far, blending is the best at delivering the most nutrients and fiber. It also promotes satiety and weight loss. Blending does introduce some oxygen and heat, so this method can decrease the amount of Vitamin C and some B vitamins. But how much do we actually need in our bodies?

One cup of carrots alone has 407.6 percent of your Vitamin C needs, so I think you’re okay. Some super foods you can have in large quantities, like spinach and kale. With only 15-30 calories in two cups of these greens, you’re getting a very large amount of fiber, iron, Vitamin A and C. When you juice, fiber and some nutrients are removed. This can promote overeating, as we don’t get full on the sugar of the fruit and vegetables. In fact, that mechanism will spike your blood sugar

levels — which isn’t the best for your body, and definitely not good if you are a diabetic. The calories are concentrated when juicing, especially if you use more fruit than vegetables, and can promote weight gain. The only benefit I can see with juicing is that if you can’t have fiber due to specific diseases like Crohn’s Disease, diverticulitis, or irritable bowel syndrome, juicing can be a good way for you to get vegetables and fruit into your diet. Please note, taking out fiber does not make vitamin and mineral absorption more prevalent. It makes sugar absorb more quickly into the bloodstream, which is not the same thing.

I’m more of a “weekend” vegetable drinker. On the weekdays, I have a hard time parting with my beloved coffee in my one free hand. I attempted this on one occasion, and drank them both interchangeably — trying to enjoy both the coffee while it was hot and the green giant while it was cold. It was disastrous, and I annoyed a lot of subway commuters when swiping my MetroCard. Perhaps when I live in a less urban area, I can commute with a car and therefore not have to make such a drastic decision between the two beverages.

Having the routine of a large, ice cold vegetable smoothie and a full workout before noon keeps me fit on the weekends and inspires me to eat healthier throughout the day. I hope this message serves as the same motivation for you. Below are my “Secret Smoothie Combos.” Not only a foodie, but also a food expert, I know what vitamins and minerals can do together in the correct combination — and with that in mind, I’ve made these drinks flavorful and functional.

the gReeN giaNt

This one has two things that go together like peanut butter and jelly: Vitamin C and iron. Vitamin C is iron’s BFF. It makes the iron more biologically available (and iron is responsible for increasing your blood oxygen, giving you more energy). You’ll feel like a giant after this drink, but won’t look like one. · 3 cups of spinach (about 40% of your day’s worth of iron) · 2 tbsp. lemon juice · 1 orange, without pits — squeeze first, remove pits, blend (over 100% of your day’s worth of Vitamin C) · 8 ice cubes · 5 fresh mint leaves

gReeN appLe gReeNS

Vitamin A is essential for immunity and bone development. High levels of this in your body can reduce the risk of several chronic diseases. It’s great for your cell growth and vision.

Since Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin, you should maximize its absorption by combining it with a healthy fat, like nuts! · 2 cups of Kale (>300% of you day’s worth

of Vitamin A) · 1 green apple · 14 almonds · 1 oz. of apple juice · 8 ice cubes · 5 fresh mint leaves

CaRRot giNgeR Nut

For a more “nutrient rich” option, which works well as a lunchtime smoothie, I’ve added some magnesium, protein and betacarotene. A high intake of magnesium can give you greater bone density. Magnesium works in muscle contraction as the relaxer, so it’s good for the heart. · 2 large carrots · 1 celery stalk · 14 walnut halves · 2 tbsp. fresh ginger · 2 tbsp. lemon juice · 1 orange, juiced seeded and added to blender · 8 ice cubes

SiMpLe StRaWBetty SMoothie

Protein is proven to keep you full and focused, and it helps achieve weight loss. The added magnesium from almonds will aid with cell production, while protein contributes to the repair of body tissue. Drink this after your workout, for maximum effect!

· ½ tbsp. agave nectar syrup · 1 cup of fresh or frozen strawberries · ½ mango · 1 cup of FAGE 0% Total Greek Yogurt · ½ cup skim milk · 14 almonds · 8 large ice cubes · 5 fresh mint leaves

BLue CoLd BLuSteR

Sometimes when I feel like I’m getting sick, I try to maximize my Vitamin C. Strawberries have a very high amount — but combining them with other berries and lemon breaks down kale’s bitterness, and makes a naturally sweet-tasting shake! · 1 cup of blueberries (15% of your day’s worth of Vitamin C) · 8 strawberries (>100% of your days worth of Vitamin C) · 2 cups of kale (90% of your days worth of Vitamin C) · 2 tbsp lemon juice · ½ tbsp. agave nectar · 8 large ice cubes Carlye Waxman is a Registered Dietitian living in NYC. For free recipes, nutrition tips and smoothies, visit SweetNutritionNYC.com and sign up for her newsletter.

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Preservationist, Park Activist Slam Lack of Hearings Continued from page 6 be allowed, “to the extent…permitted under local zoning ordinances,” so, by her understanding, that would seem to indicate ULURP would apply.

Glick dubious on air rights

In fact, she remarked, of the air rights transfer provision, “I would have rather not seen it done, but I wasn’t the only one in the Assembly majority.”

She wouldn’t clarify if she was referring only to Gottfried, or perhaps also to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

In a statement on the Legislature’s passage of the bill, Silver said, “Parks and ball fields are such precious commodities in Manhattan and this agreement enables us to maintain and expand those resources to thousands of local residents, workers and visitors. I applaud the many community stakeholders who have worked with us to arrive at this landmark agreement that ensures this great park will continue to serve us for many decades to come.”

As for why there were no public hearings on the park act changes, Glick said, “We don’t have hearings on everything. We didn’t have hearings on speed cameras. It’s not required. And the circumstances were what they were: The city pushed hard, the Trust pushed hard — and yet we were

successful in blocking the inappropriate development that they were desperate to include.”

Says Glick was Missing in action

Arthur Schwartz, vice chairperson of the Hudson River Park Advisory Council, lost no time in criticizing his frequent political foe over the lack of public review of the changes to the park act.

“We had three or four public hearings on the proposal to build residential housing on Pier 40,” Schwartz said, referring to hearings last year. “I mean, where is this Deborah who is rallying the troops?

Where did she go?”

Schwartz said Trust President Wils was at the advisory council’s meeting this Monday and discussed the air rights transfer provision. Basically, there are 1.6 million square feet of unused air rights in the park available for sale right now, according to Wils. The park’s upland portion — the part on land — has no air rights. It’s only the piers designated for commercial use that have air rights, namely, the Chelsea Piers, and Piers 40, 57, 76, 81, 83 and 98. Once piers are designated as public space they apparently lose their air rights.

Schwartz said the bill should have more restrictions on the development rights transfers, such as how much F.A.R.

(floor air ratio) can be transferred to certain sites and height caps on development.

“It was not well thought-out and there should have been a lot of public comment on it,” he said.

Indeed, the reason hearings were held on the Pier 40 residential idea last year was largely because Glick demanded them.

‘It’s great for Pier 40’

However, Tobi Bergman, president of P3, a Pier 40-based youth sports organization, saw the bill’s passage as a win-win.

The 15-acre pier has become the Lower West Side’s equivalent to Central Park and a youth sports mecca, due to its huge courtyard artificial-turf sports field.

“I was happy to see that Pier 40 remains protected from the worst kind of development, large-scale retail and entertainment projects, because the lease term there will remain 30 years,” Bergman said.

“The best new opportunity will be the potential sale of air rights, creating the possibility of income for Pier 40 without new buildings at the pier. The ability to sell air rights may create the possibility of removing parts of the existing mammoth [pier shed] structure to open the park to the river.”

Bergman led the local youth leagues coalition, Pier 40 Champions, in their

failed push last year for a pair of residential towers to be built next to the pier, to provide revenue to fix up and maintain Pier 40.

As for the public having been kept in the dark until the bill was O.K.’d last week, Bergman downplayed it.

“Everyone loves transparency,” he said, “but the legislative process isn’t usually that way, and in the end we need to rely on the people we elect to legislate, for better or for worse.”

Fortress / 40 connection

Another eyebrow-raiser about the air rights transfers concerns Pier 40 and Michael Novogratz, the new chairperson of Friends of Hudson River Park, the park’s main private fundraising arm. Novogratz formerly sat on the Trust’s board of directors.

Earlier this year, it was reported that Fortress Investment Group, which is headed by hedge-fund investor Novogratz, had purchased the majority share in the St. John’s Building, located directly across the highway from Pier 40.

When queried about this by The Villager in February during a sit-down with Wils, Novogratz said he is more on the investment side of the company — not its real estate division — and he and Wils shared a laugh, saying that he didn’t even know there had been a story about it until Wils told him.

July 3 - 16, 2013

Dear Aunt Chelsea, I’m a sun-loving gal who couldn’t have been happier to see the end of the snowy season. Last week, I got out my bikini, blanket and sunglasses and marched my pale booty over to the beach.

But Aunt Chelsea, the beaches are not as I remember them from my childhood in Cape Cod. They’re filled with ruffians now! People insisting on playing beach volleyball or running with their big dogs, messing up the sand and, worst of all, my hair! I’ve been getting sand sprayed all over me by couples too busy holding hands to notice a girl trying to lie peacefully on her beach towel, or kids making sand castles with debris that just seems to enjoy flying my way.

When I get home, my body is brown from the SAND, not from tanning in the SUN. Please tell me, what’s a gal to do about these beach bullies?

Sad and Sandy

My Dear Readers: Your old Aunt Chelsea’s E-mail bag always seems to be a barometer of what’s eating the good citizens of her beloved neighborhood — and every so often, it overflows with letters of a similar ilk. Recently, summertime etiquette has been on your brains, as is the case with these two doozies. So I’m going to run their letters one on top of the other, then give a twofor-the-price-of-one answer (ironic, considering that my advice, like the simple joys of a drink and dish stoop session, is free).

Dear Aunt Chelsea: I have a problem with movie theaters. I have long since tried to avoid the seemingly endless barrage of overpriced, overcrowded cinemas that plague our city — but the final straw was drawn last weekend. I was making a rare pilgrimage to one of Chelsea’s cinematic meccas (I couldn’t miss the much talked-about, scandalous nude scene from the latest hotshot celebrity). I arrived just in time and cozied up with my overpriced popcorn and oversized soda and prepared to OD on celluloid goodness. Well...my movie experience was ruined by those drink-slurping, joke-making, hormonedriven teenagers. Now I know you’ll reprimand me for this Aunt Chelsea, but I had to take matters into my own hands.

When the added sound effects ceased to end (thus ruining most, if not all, of the movie), I started throwing pieces of popcorn at them. You can consider me…

Ticked Off at Teenagers

Dear Ticked and Sad: Although she shares a small but cozy office cubicle with this paper’s resident horoscope writer, Aunt Chelsea doesn’t need to borrow Mystico’s crystal ball to divine what the problem is with you easily-bothered, cranky types — or, as I always say, “Soft Shell Crabs.” Actually, I just made that up…but I hope it sticks, because it has a certain ring to it — a ring of truth!

Oh, snap!

Sorry folks. Aunt Chelsea seems to have some leftover sass from cheering on her beloved gays at last weekend’s Pride parade. Back to the task at hand.

A page has been turned in the book of life — and the chapter the both of you are on is one Aunt Chelsea has very little use for. Clearly, you’ve reached that definitive age at which the joy you used to take in recreational activities is totally ruined by the joy of others.

Movie theaters and beaches are public places, not exclusive destinations where one can reasonably expect to plant one’s tush and enjoy the experience without the distractions of “teenagers” and “ruffians” — which, in your cases, are just code words for “those who dare to disturb me.” At the risk of stealing Jeff Foxworthy’s material, “You might be getting old if…” the sound of a baby giggling turns you into a fawning gob of goo, while the chortles and snorts of teenagers turns you beet red and makes your blood boil.

You’ll never enjoy a summer blockbuster or a day at the beach if you’re too busy handing out demerits for every imaginable infraction. So rather than waste time stewing while you wait for the world to bend to your will (a world that is almost certainly oblivious to your discomfort), I recommend one of two actions. Either go with the flow or remove yourself from the offending situation.

If the former option appeals to you, then share your popcorn instead of throwing it, and earn your tan while spiking the volleyball or putting a torrent on a child’s sandcastle. If you prefer the latter, then find your bliss by seeing the first screening of the day (when those teens are still asleep) — and secure your sandy solitude at a gay beach (where the couples will be minding their own “business” on the dunes, far from your blanket).

Now make your choice, stand your ground and enjoy your summer!

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Ho r osc o p e s

Aries Your firm admonishment to a helmet-less Citi Bike rider may lead to romance if administered with wit, concern and an all-you-can-eat dinner invite.

Taurus You will become hot and bothered by the fact that you’ve yet to find your summertime pop anthem.

Patience, passionate Taurus. It will happen!

Gemini Smalltalk under sidewalk shedding will dissipate faster than that sudden downpour. Come with prefab topics and claim your status as an urbane storm prepper!

Cancer Why do you keep avoiding that coveted Mister Softee treat? One won’t kill you — but the bitter taste of self-denial just might. Treat yourself!

Leo A potential suitor just keeps on walking after overhearing your bad review of an adorable moppet’s lemonade stand. What is wrong with you lately?

Virgo Skepticism, when presented with a “sure thing”

investment, will save you from financial doom. Vigilant Virgos profit by putting themselves in Suze Orman’s shoes.

Libra Wise counsel is found by taking a talk show sound

bite out of context and applying it to a troublesome personal matter you stubbornly refuse to share with others.

Scorpio A trip to the beach you’ve been planning

for weeks is trumped by a shopping spree, courtesy of a coupon-cutting casual acquaintance. Savings are the new sand!

Sagittarius A road trip beckons, and Sagittarians heed the call — but resist those gas station vending machine snacks. Unlike your sense of adventure, many of them are past expiration!

Capricorn Uptight, structured Capricorns should take a page from the playbook of that nice old lady who mistakenly booked herself on a gay harbor cruise. She sat back, got lit and enjoyed the show!

Aquarius Beware of pickpockets who ply their trade as you’re entranced by fireworks. Employ similar caution this week, in the face of tempting distractions.

Do you have a personal problem at work, the gym, the bar or the corner coffee shop? Then Ask Aunt Chelsea!

Contact her via askauntchelsea@chelseanow.com!

Pisces Your once-daring Weekend Warrior routine has jumped the shark — time to broaden your horizons with new (and risky!) challenges.

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Are We Proud? Damn Straight!

Light sprinkles weren’t enough to rain on June 30’s Pride parade, as people of all stripes showed up to celebrate recent milestones — with eyes on the prize of future victories.

Photo by Michael Shirey

Photo by Cheryl Williamson

Photo by Michael Shirey

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