CHELSEA NOW, Sept. 5, 2012

Hard Times, p. 20

VOLUME 5, NUMBER 01

THE WEST SIDE’S COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER

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CPC eyes evolved Chelsea Market scenario

Photo by William Alatriste, New York City Council

Like the bike lane tree pits they beautify, the accomplishments of our own Chelsea Garden Club keep growing.

On August 22, the group was summoned to City Hall — where Speaker Quinn and Senator Tom Duane presented them with a proclamation honoring their work. For more info on the club, see page 9.

BY SCOTT STIFFLER The City Planning Commission (CPC) emerged from its August 20 review session having largely solidified design, preservation and community benefit scenarios under which Jamestown Properties would be granted the Special West Chelsea District (SWCD) zoning variances necessary to vertically expand Chelsea Market.

As Chelsea Now went to press, the CPC was expected to vote on the matter at a public meeting scheduled for 10am on September 5 (at 22

Read Street). After submitting its non-binding recommendation, the City Council will have 50 days to issue its own verdict on Jamestown’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) application.

No recent Manhattanbased ULURP to come before the council has been rejected outright — making it likely that the Jamestown application will be approved, albeit in an amended form that reflects an evolved vision of the project arrived at over months of scrutiny by Community Board 4 (CB4), Manhattan Borough

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Avenues: The World School to open local, go global

BY WINNIE McCROY On September 10, Avenues: The World School opens the doors of their flagship New York campus — located on Tenth Avenue and 25th Street, in a 10-story, former Cass Gilbert warehouse. Chelsea Now recently took a tour of their 10-story, $75 million campus, and discussed the private school’s K-12 amenities, educational philosophy and bilingual immersion teaching strategy.

For the inaugural class of 725 students (from nursery school to high school), the question remains as to whether Avenues’ innovative, global approach to education will measure up to stalwarts like Horace Mann and Dalton School.

“We don’t subscribe to the theory that there is one best school.

There are a lot of good schools, and parents choose the one they think is right for their family. We hope to be right up there in the family of great schools in the city,” CEO Chris

Whittle told Chelsea Now during a recent tour.

As workers installed walls of flat-screen digital televisions and educators practiced CPR on manikins, Whittle explained that the Avenues New York campus is only the first of 20 planned campuses across the globe, where students will receive a bilingual immersion education, focused on mastery in their chosen field.

Whittle, an education and media entrepreneur who revolutionized the charter school movement by founding Edison Schools, began working on Avenues five years ago.

After losing a significant backer during the economic crisis, the company raised $75 million from two private-equity firms. They dedicated $60 million to restoring the 215,000-square-foot campus, with the other $15 million invested in teacher recruitment and preparation and parent outreach.

Equal parts charm and moxie,

Whittle shares his philosophy that a global, bilingual education is not the future, but our current reality. Beginning in nursery school, students will study in English and either Mandarin Chinese or Spanish via immersion education. In high school, they will be encouraged to study a third language.

“Students will have two classrooms, with half their day in English, and the other half in either Chinese or Spanish. And they’re not learning about the language, they’re going to school in the language.

They’re doing math and science in Chinese,” said Whittle, who insisted that this, as opposed to most school’s two-year foreign language classes, was the only way to have every child graduate bilingual.

The new building houses nursery, lower, middle and high schools.

Each boasts spacious classrooms flooded by natural light from the warehouse’s 7-foot windows, pristine cafeterias and a split-level com-

mons, an organizing area for that school. In elementary school, the commons is a small, elevated area for kids to stage productions. In high school, it is a spacious area kitted out with leather couches and individual cubicles for independent study, all overlooking the High Line.

“By high school, kids will work half the day in class, and half the day on their own, independently,” said Whittle. “This will be a lot more like college than like what you and I think of as high school, when you sat in class all day long.”

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Whittle was visibly proud as he showed off the school, saying that Avenues was the largest private school building project in the history of the city. Noting that his construction crew had to bore through the single-floor model to make the commons bilevel, he also touted the campus’ solid bones.

“This was a great old Chelsea building, and we tried to keep it very much in the vein of down-

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With the Whitney, another transformation is on track

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON As the Whitney Museum’s new home is starting to rise at the High Line’s southern end, with completion slated for 2015, major changes are in store for the everevolving Meatpacking District.

Lauren Danziger, executive director of the Meatpacking District Improvement Association (MPIA), said she has been told the museum’s estimated visitor figures, and they’re huge — which is exactly what the Whitney’s impact will be. “Absolutely,� she said, “it brings culture Downtown in a big way — not that we don’t have culture right now. But it will change the face of the neighborhood.� For one, the museum crowds will mean more shopping, she said, in a district that is currently nightlife-heavy.

The smaller, adjacent High Line maintenance-and-operations building is farther along than the Whitney project, with its steel structure already built, while the museum is only now starting to rise above its foundation level.

In more immediate happenings, a temporary outdoor retail and food market by Urban Space recently opened at the corner of Washington and 13th Streets, which should be another neighborhood draw, Danziger noted. Momofuku Milk Bar, known for its decadent “compost cookies� and “crack pies,� will be among the market’s vendors.

Taking it down to the street level, as

Photo by Lincoln Anderson

The Whitney Museum — shown in a rendering with the view from the north on the High Line — is slated to be completed within three years from now.

for the district’s stiletto heel-grabbing, uneven, cobblestone roadways, Danziger said the city unfortunately doesn’t plan to reset and level the side streets, as she had hoped. However, a major water-main and sewer-line project will affect Ninth Avenue from 16th Street to Gansevoort Street,

after which the city will fix up the avenue as well as 50 feet in on the side streets.

But Danziger said that won’t happen for a couple of years.

Meanwhile, she slammed the “flak� that the district has faced for its rising rents, calling it unfair and exaggerated.

“Property values are higher — but not as high as Soho,� she said. “I’m sick of hearing that. The prices are similar. The rents are higher than 10 years ago, when they were $20 a square foot — and rightly so. “It’s like any neighborhood that goes through a rebirth,� she said. “There’s always a backlash against a district when it achieves extreme success. Look at Williamsburg — it was cutting-edge, and now people are knocking it.�

While some high-fashion flagship boutiques have indeed departed, there’s still a fashion presence of “incredible depth,� she noted. Plus, she added, the new, mainstream stores that are coming in are “a little different� than the usual fare. For example, at the new Levi’s store, there is a tailor who will customize jeans, and people can also bring their jeans in for repair. “The retail environment is definitely changing,� she said.

Basically, the Meatpacking District has it all, according to the MPIA executive director. “The Standard is like the height of cool,� she said. “There’s everything from the low-key Brass Monkey bar to highend Catch — it’s one of the hottest restaurants in the city. And Bagatelle has the most famous brunch in New York City.

There’s more to do here than ever. It’s so much fun to be here during the day — and at night.�

WE’VE GOT THE CORNER ON THE MEAT MARKET

LOCATED IN THE HISTORIC GANSEVOORT MEAT MARKET

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Avenues: The World School opens first campus in Chelsea Continued from page 1 town,” said Whittle. “We really believe in using what already exists in a neighborhood, rather than recreating it. Most of our athletic activities occur at Chelsea Piers. We’ve got a large partnership with them. Our older children do athletics there, and we have a gym in the building, so the little kids don’t have to travel.”

With its pristine wood floors and illustrations of classic plays like Magic Johnson’s Junior Sky Hook and Duke’s 1992 Buzzer Beater, the gymnasium is impressive. Complementing it are individual studios for aerobics and dance.

Whittle spent five years designing the school’s amenities, including labs for robotics, design, science and engineering, plus the well-appointed art studios, which he noted “overlook real-live galleries, so it’s sort of a nice combination.”

Each classroom also comes equipped with a “digital bulletin board” via flat screens in the hall. Students and faculty are able to program these to reflect what is happening in the classrooms, and all are networked together. One set of screens projects images from cameras located on the High Line; pedestrian’s feet are seen moving from one screen to the next as they walk. The “bulletin boards” allow for both individuality and school-wide projects.

“If we want to turn the whole school into a gallery display of Chinese art, we can,” said Whittle. “And these are ways to teach children digital skills. They’ll be working on how we program these throughout the school.”

Pointing across the block to an empty lot on 26th Street, Whittle announced future plans to construct a dormitory for visiting students from other Avenues schools around the world.

He assures that, as a for-profit venture, they will not hold capital campaign fundraisers to pay for these additions, saying, “If we want to build a new gym, we’ll just build a new gym.”

This enterprising attitude extends to his other ventures, which include Avenues campuses across the globe.

“We think of it as one school on 20 campuses; the next two are Avenues Beijing and Avenues São Paulo,” said Whittle. “A child is encouraged to spend two years at other campuses, starting in middle school with six-week summer programs abroad, and in high school with full semesters abroad. But they’re going to another Avenues campus, so they won’t miss a beat.”

ADDRESSING THE CITY’S GROWING YOUTH POPULATION Although some pundits doubt that Avenues will be able sustain itself financially just via tuition, the fact remains that Whittle has courted an inaugural student body of 752 children, where other nascent schools begin with 50.

Much of this can be attributed to the desperate need in Manhattan for private school seats.

While the city’s population of children under 5 has risen 52 percent in the last five years, the number of slots at independent schools has not kept pace. What openings there are often go to siblings and legacies.

About 6,000 families attended 200 open houses in the past 20 months, from which

Photos by Winnie McCroy

Gym class heroes: This on-site facility supplements activities at Chelsea Piers.

Avenues received 2,600 applications. From those, 725 children had the transcripts, test scores and interviews to pass muster. True to statistics, 65 percent of these students lived below 42nd Street, with the other 35 percent hailing from other parts of Manhattan, or other boroughs. Whittle said Avenues will scale up over the next four years to a student body of 1,630.

Tuition is $39,000 per year, on average with other local private schools. Whittle said about 10 percent of students are on financial aid, adding that early in the process, he worked with Community Board 4 to ensure that local, low-income students would receive scholarships.

Over time, he hoped that alumni would help create additional scholarship programs for underprivileged youth.

many of whom, Whittle notes, were not born in the United States. Soliciting opinions on whether to open their India campus in Mumbai or Delhi, Whittle identified two-dozen parents from that country.

“Second to the United Nations school, this is going to be the most diverse private school in

CEO Chris Whittle and educator Sarah Bayne.

the city. Our second grade, about 50 kids, hails from 23 countries. It is hugely diverse, very representative of New York and the world,” he said. And although the state-of-the-art campus is beautiful, Whittle said that what really makes

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A GRADUATING CLASS OF KINGMAKERS? One of the goals of Avenues is that after seven years of immersion and four more years of intensive writing skills, students will graduate truly bilingual. Whittle’s educational philosophy also focuses much more on children having an experience where they gain depth and mastery in one area, rather than basic coverage in a wide range of subjects.

So are all Avenues graduates headed to Harvard? Whittle thinks not, noting that there are more than 50 great schools in the world, and if you pin your hopes on an Ivy League school, you may be disappointed.

“We actually say in our parent events that they should not think exclusively about Ivy Leagues; statistically, it’s getting to be like winning the lottery,” said Whittle. But despite the benefits of not having legacy students taking all the empty slots, as an unproven entity, Avenues has no bragging rights to the number of alumni who have gone on to Ivy League schools.

Still, this has not seemed to daunt parents who embrace this modern approach to school,

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Chelsea Market expansion entering final City Council phase Continued from page 1 President (BP) Scott Stringer and the CPC. Once approved by the council, only a rarely invoked mayoral override could prevent the project from moving forward.

Many of the CPC recommendations are similar, or identical, to accommodations proposed by the full board of CB4, when they reached a 24-14 “No, Unless” vote on June 6.

They include the withdrawal of plans to build a hotel, a commitment to retain the retail character of the concourse and height, setback and façade changes — as well as the creation of a West Chelsea Affordable Housing Fund (WCAHF).

At numerous CB4 and CPC meetings, Jamestown has expressed its willingness to accept these conditions — pending negotiations at the city council level.

In an August 24 email to Chelsea Now, Jamestown spokesperson Lee Silberstein praised CB4’s June 6 Resolution to the Department of City Planning as a "thoughtful and thorough" road map. "Using it as a guide," Silberstein noted, "Jamestown has been working diligently to modify the project to incorporate the desires of numerous stakeholders, and is hopeful that it will lead to the successful conclusion of the public review process.”

Based on recent public meetings and ongoing negotiations, the CPC’s recommendations to the City Council are likely to include the following: Photo by Kaitlyn Meade

• Thirty percent of the $17 million dollars currently earmarked for the High Line Improvement Fund (HLIF) would be diverted to the WCAHF — with Fulton Houses as a preferred site for construction.

• The project’s total square footage (dedicated to office space) would be approximately 209,000 square feet on Tenth Avenue and 80,000 square feet on Ninth Avenue (down from 240k and 90k, respectively).

• Use of the ground floor Chelsea Market concourse would be restricted to retail in the through-block area from Ninth to Tenth Avenue. Although the CPC would not require a specific percentage, Jamestown is said to be amenable to retaining 60 percent of the concourse for food-related businesses. The current amount is 85 percent.

• A call by BP Stringer to shift Tenth Avenue construction to elsewhere in the 18-building, block-long complex is not part of the CPC plan.

That move, meant to preserve current aesthetic conditions on the High Line, was on the mind of CPC chair Amanda Burden — who questioned a Jamestown rep during the CPC’s July 25

The 60 percent solution: Jamestown has indicated it’s amendable to preserving that amount of food-related businesses on the Chelsea Market concourse.

public comment session. “I’m coming at this from the perspective of a visitor to the High Line. That light and air, that sky, is really important. How much are you going to take away?”

A scenario being considered by the CPC (which Jamestown is said to be amenable to) allows for Tenth Avenue vertical expansion, but requires construction to begin with a setback — so the new element is not flush with the old building.

While taking away some light and sky, an initial 15’ setback would create a less imposing visual experience for High Line pedestrians than the current design. Three more setbacks (at approximately 185’, 200’ and 215’) would follow — with the total height capped at around 230’.

Height on the Ninth Avenue side would be reduced to 135’ (from 160’) — and midblock height would be reduced to 130’ (from 150’), with a setback of 20’ at 110’.

In an August 26 email, Save Chelsea said that both the current ULURP plan as well as any of the proposed alterations “contradicts City Planning Commission’s own carefully crafted Special West Chelsea District zoning of

2005…which included moving height and density of new development away from the High Line, as well as maintaining light, air and a positive experience for those who live, work and visit this area.”

The protections created by the SWCD, Save Chelsea asserts, “are vital to the preservation of our community’s character, and must not be stripped for the convenience of developers. While other as of right development is inevitable, this proposal can and should be stopped.”

That perspective, familiar to those who’ve followed this issue at the CB4 level, was countered by an equally familiar assertion by Jamestown — which stated, via Silberstein, that the proposal to add 289,000 square feet of office space to West Chelsea “is economically viable, creates jobs, accommodates growing technology and media firms, generates support for important community priorities and fits into the community.”

NOTE: For an updated version of this article, based on Sept. 5 CPC events, visit chelseanow.com and search for “CPC eyes.”

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A sculpture by Erwin Wurm called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Big Box Manâ&#x20AC;? will grace The Standardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s front plaza until November.

BY EILEEN STUKANE The Standard has fashioned itself as a center of invention, a place to meet any mood any time. While 337 rooms on 18 floors make this free-standing, concrete-and-glass creation that reigns over the High Line a hotel, the Meatpacking Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Standard at Washington and West 13th Streets (not to be confused with the latest Standard in the East Village) has evolved into both anchor and launchpad for the area.

Start with whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the street. Visitors and locals alike can begin a day stepping from sidewalk to a floor of 480,000 pennies in the Standard Grill, slipping into a booth, and having a 7am stack of pancakes.

Outdoor seating for The Standard Grill spills into a vine-covered area that separates it from The Standard Plaza, a new summer restaurant with dining al fresco until Sept. 30, when it will likely revert to the ice-skating rink it was last winter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Standard is committed to this community,â&#x20AC;? said Lauren Danziger, executive director of the Meatpacking District Improvement Association. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It engages with the community, whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an Easter petting zoo or an ice-skating rink that is open to the public. It welcomes everybody.â&#x20AC;?

The Standard Plaza opens as a brunch spot at 11:30am and goes until midnight, Sunday through Thursday, and until 1am on Friday and Saturday. Here chef Seamus

Mullen (of Boqueria and Tertulia) specializes in Mediterranean, especially Spanishinfluenced, cuisine, using fresh herbs and produce from The Locusts, the Upstate Staatsburg farm of The Standardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creator, hotelier Andre Balazs. The menu of large and small plates has offerings from a wood-burning grill and an outdoor oven.

Grilled shrimp, grilled bread with tomatoes, or grilled swordfish with summer squash can be accompanied by a delicious sangria. This is all before setting foot inside The Standard Hotel itself. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Opennessâ&#x20AC;? is key, said Daniela Maerky, marketing coordinator of The Standard.

The golden-yellow revolving front door is opaque except for the clear â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at eye level. The inside/outness of The Standard became apparent to the West Village while the hotel was still under construction. Several floors were available to guests before the hotelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s official opening in 2009. Every room of The Standard boasts floor-to-ceiling windows of a nonreflective glass so crystal clear it seems as if it is not even there.

The spectacular Hudson River and city views no matter what room you are in â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the building itself is narrow, only the width of two rooms and a corridor â&#x20AC;&#x201D; caused people inside to stand at the glass agape. Soon those insiders were engaged in naked activities at the glass. Men and men, men and women, women and women

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Good things in brown bags: fast, healthy back to school meals

BY CARLYE WAXMAN RD, CDN On busy mornings (are there any other kind?), packed lunches are either challenging, rushed or non-existent. We keep seeing recipes and tips, but never get around to doing the obvious thing: Pack a healthy school lunch!

Fun and delicious (and easy) recipes can be made ahead of time, with the help of your kids.

Involving children in the food shopping and preparation process is a good way to get them to eat their favorite healthy foods, since it was their choice to buy them…and you can keep reminding them of that.

BREAKFAST It’s a cliché because it’s true: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Also true: A nutritious breakfast helps improve children’s test scores as well as their ability to function in a classroom.

Keep this daily starter meal simple to prepare so there’s more time to eat.

SMOOTHIES Make these smoothies ahead of time and freeze them into popsicle sticks. Give them for after school snack time. Not all kids like the flavor of plain yogurt, so you can swap that with a flavor like honey or vanilla.

SPEED SMOOTHIE: Prepare frozen strawberries, blueberries or bananas and keep them in the freezer in Ziploc bags — or buy

Photos by Carlye Waxman RD, CDN

A healthy stir fry can last a few days. Try making this ahead of time and adding either brown rice or whole wheat linguini.

Before you cut these bars, make sure they are small squares. Enjoy with yogurt.

HEALTHY MUFFINS frozen fruit. You can also buy small bags that hold just the right amount of servings for a smoothie (try using an 8 oz Ziploc bag).

STRAWBERRY OATMEAL SMOOTHIE: ¼ cup of quick cooking oats, 1 cup of sliced frozen strawberries, 1/2 cup of 1-2% or fatfree skim milk, ½ cup of strawberry yogurt, 2 tsp of sugar or a tablespoon of honey.

H I G H P R O T E I N C H O C O L AT E SMOOTHIE: 1 envelope of cocoa mix (80 calories per serving), 1 cup of plain Greek yogurt, 1 banana, 1/2 cup of 1-2% or fatfree skim milk.

FRUIT-N-YOGURT PARFAIT: Make ahead of time in the refrigerator in plastic cups covered with tin foil. Layer your child’s favorite yogurt, fruit and ¼ cup of granola (I like Kellogg’s low-fat granola). Pull it out in the morning with a spoon so they can enjoy, and you can dispose without a mess! NOTE: If your child hates fruit and refuses it, give them a small glass of orange, apple or grapefruit juice as an alternative two to three times per day.

Getting kids hooked on juice — and large portions of it — can contribute to obesity and weight gain. If they like the fruit, give them the fruit and try to do away with juice!

Grabbing pastries on the go is a major no-no — but “fast food” can be very healthy if you make it at home. Involve the kids in making muffins and breads, and they’ll be excited to eat what they’ve made. Give them one or two muffins with a glass of skim milk.

EGG SANDWICH: This is very easy to make quickly. Toast a whole wheat English muffin, fry one egg and add low-fat cheese and either tomato or spinach (spinach cooks quickly when added to eggs). Put the sandwich in aluminum foil, and off you go.

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68% OF NEW YORKERS SUPPORT THE CHELSEA MARKET EXPANSION Space for Growing Tech & Media Industries 600 Union Construction Jobs Preserving the City’s Most-Beloved Food Market Support for the High Line 1,200 Longterm Jobs

AND SO DO WE!

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“I am proud and excited to endorse Brad Hoylman For State Senate.

He shares my progessive values and commitment to reform, and I know he will continue to champion so many of the causes that I have fought for throughout my career.”

ENATO OR TO OM DUANE SENATOR TOM

“Brad is the kind of progressive reformer our City needs in Albany. He has a proven record on the issues that matter most.”

-CITY COUNCIL SPEAKER CHRISTINE QUINN

“Brad Hoylman has a proven track record of advocacy for the residents of the West Side and Lower Manhattan.”

-CONGRESSMAN JERRY NADLER

“Brad has a proven track record of defending our neighborhood and has been at the forefront of key preservation efforts.”

-ASSEMBLYMEMBER DEBORAH GLICK

“Brad brings all the qualities needed to this senate district. He’s smart, progressive, a consensus builder, and a leader.”

-ASSEMBLYMEMBER DICK GOTTFRIED

VISIT WWW.BRADHOYLMAN.COM OR CALL 212.206.0033 VOTE IN THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13TH

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EDITORIAL

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Hoylman for Senate After 14 years of Democrat Tom Duane’s service in the state Senate, voters in what is now designated the 27th District will find themselves deciding September 13 who next will represent a major swath of Manhattan from the Village and Lower East Side up to the West Side.

Duane, of course, has been a leader on LGBT and AIDS issues in Albany. During his tenure, New York enacted a hate crimes law, a gay civil rights statute, school anti-bullying protections for categories including sexual orientation and gender expression and, last year, marriage equality.

Maintaining an LGBT voice at the table in the state Senate is an important consideration. But our endorsement of Brad Hoylman, the only gay contender in the Democratic primary that will decide the race, is not based on that factor alone.

In the 11 years since Hoylman, who is 46, made his first run for office in a hard-fought 2001 City Council primary in Lower Manhattan, he has played a high-profile leadership role on the Lower West Side. As chairperson of Community Board 2 (CB2) for three and a half years, he has successfully pushed for two new public schools, supported historic preservation and helped build consensus for an AIDS memorial in a new park planned near the former St. Vincent’s Hospital campus.

He was the board’s chairperson during its intensive, two-month-long review of the ULURP for NYU’s 2031 project, which saw CB2 vote an “absolute No” on the university’s large-scale development plans for its two South Village superblocks.

As the Village’s local Democratic district leader, he has worked to get voters to the polls on Election Day and ensure that voting machines are in good working order.

Hoylman’s opponents charge he was essentially handpicked by Duane and other West Side Democrats, and point out that his employer of 12 years, the Partnership for New York City, a business-friendly, nonprofit group where he served most recently as general counsel, often champions policy positions at odds with the progressive profile he now presents to voters. These are fair issues to debate.

Duane threw in the towel late in the lead-up to the primary process and virtually endorsed Hoylman at his retirement press conference; Hoylman acknowledged that the two discussed the incumbent’s likely departure weeks in advance. It’s not surprising that voters would have liked to have seen a genuine choice in this primary race.

Hoylman’s opponents, however — Ritz Bar and Lounge owner Tom Greco and educator Tanika Inlaw — have not made the case that their community engagement and command of local and state issues have prepared them sufficiently for the seat they are seeking. In their August 20 debate at the LGBT Community Center on West 13th Street, the two made valid arguments about the importance of political independence, but failed to explain how their outsider status would inform their efforts in Albany.

It’s also important to note that Hoylman has demonstrated his own record of independence. The Partnership for New York City this past spring balked at supporting the living-wage bill that will establish a minimum compensation package for employees of companies receiving city subsidies; Hoylman supported the measure.

The fact that Hoylman is gay was not determinative in this endorsement, but neither was it incidental. He is well-situated to bring thoughtful attention to the need for passage of the long stymied Gender Expression NonDiscrimination Act (GENDA), for identification of revenue streams to support housing and services for homeless youth, and for enactment of the rent relief for HIV/AIDS Services Administration clients living in private housing for which Duane fought so hard over the past half-dozen years.

Chelsea Now recommends a vote for Brad Hoylman on Thursday, September 13.

Lesson of the prison barges To The Editor: Re “That sinking feeling: Trust warns Pier 40 may face closure” (news article, Aug. 22): Paris is in the process of restricting vehicular traffic along the Seine to provide more open spaces for visitors and residents alike. Meanwhile, our politicos are proposing to reconfigure Pier 40 to accommodate apartment buildings. What they are proposing doing is building a wall of construction between the Village and the sights of Lower Manhattan and its harbor.

Remember their scheme with prison barges? The politicos had to heat the water around the barge in the wintertime to keep the barge livable and cool the same waters to keep the prisoners cool enough in the summer. Will we ever learn?

Housing, megastores, prisons, universities, etc., have no place in our rivers. That’s what was originally agreed upon in the Hudson River Park Act — yet, more importantly, parks are not “profit centers,” nor should they ever be.

Community Supported Agriculture at Pier 40 that generates revenue and fresh produce.

Now is not the time to trust the Trust. The Village and our elected officials have always stood strong for our community.

Why stop now?

Sheelah A. Feinberg Feinberg is former vice chairperson, Community Board 2

You’ve got to be kidding!

To The Editor: According to its spokesperson, the Parks Department is relying on future tree growth to shade and cool the black, hot-seat benches in Washington Square Park. However, most exposed hot seats are nowhere near the tree lines, especially on the eastern part of the park.

This is more pablum that the Bloomberg administration feeds the public, and is not much better than its deafening silence on the disappearance of St. Vincent’s Hospital.

Bob Oliver Vahe A. Tiryakian

That’s what I’m sayin’…

To The Editor: Re “That sinking feeling: Trust warns Pier 40 may face closure” (news article, Aug. 22): By all means, anyone who questions whether the pier is falling apart should simply come and look at it.

Our company, biz kids ny and pierStudios, has been on Pier 40 since 2001. We have had to evacuate two-thirds of our space because the ramp was falling in on us! We have pointed out the problems with the pier’s physical plant for years.

Personally, I hoped The Related Companies would get the bid and rebuild the pier — which is what it needed!

Unfortunately, the majority of the people using Pier 40 only see the field and the lights. Just picture the reality — if the crumbling pier is shut down — of all those cars circling the West Village looking for a place to park!

Peggy Lewis

Not trusting the Trust To The Editor: Re “That sinking feeling: Trust warns Pier 40 may face closure” (news article, Aug. 22): When have threatening tactics ever worked? The issue of Pier 40 is not a new one — yet to hear it from the Trust, the pier will sink today! That hasn’t happened yet, and won’t anytime soon, but we do need to generate revenue for the park.

However, these dire warnings are misplaced. I’m sure many recall the attempts made just a few years ago by the Trust to amend the Hudson River Park Act. At that time, the Trust proposed amending the park act to allow for parkland alienation and for longer lease terms for Cirque du Soleil, which may have brought in revenue.

And they are at it again. This time the Trust is trying to alienate precious parkland so that luxury housing can be built. In a community that has very few parks and even fewer open spaces, this new idea certainly is not in the interest of the neighborhood and park users.

Instead, we need to go back to the drawing board and have a robust community discussion. Through community forums we can look at the many options to generate revenue including a Park Improvement District, building more ball fields and building community commercial space.

Personally, I would love to see a Greenwich Village

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AUNT CHELSEA! We’re exceedingly proud to announce that as of our October 3 issue, beloved local icon Aunt Chelsea will be joining this publication as a regular columnist.

Tough but fair, worldly and wise, Aunt Chelsea will answer all letters.

Do you have a personal problem at work, the gym, the bar or the corner coffee shop? Is there a domestic dispute that needs the sage counsel of an uninvolved third party? Then Ask Aunt Chelsea! Pour your heart out in an email, because Aunt Chelsea has pledged to answer every letter and see the problem through until it’s resolved to the writer’s satisfaction. Contact her via askauntchelsea@ chelseanow.com, and feel free to end your pensive missive with a clever, anonymous moniker (aka “Troubled on 23rd Street,” or “Ferklempt in the Fashion District”).

New York is a tough town…aren’t you glad Aunt Chelsea is here to help?

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Community Contacts To be listed, email info to scott@chelseanow.com.

COMMUNITY BOARD 4 (CB4) CB4 serves Manhattan’s West Side neighborhoods of Chelsea and Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen. Its boundaries are 14th St. on the south, 59/60th St. on the north, the Hudson River on the west, 6th Ave. on the east (south of 26th St.) and 8th Ave. on the east (north of 26th St.). The board meeting, open to the public, is the first Wednesday of the month.

The next meeting is Wed., Oct. 3, 6:30pm at Fulton Auditorium (119 9th Ave., btw. 17th & 18th Sts.).

Call 212-736-4536, visit nyc.gov/ mcb4 or email them at info@manhattanCB4.org.

COMMUNITY BOARD 5 (CB5) CB5 represents the central business district of New York City.

It includes midtown Manhattan, the Fashion, Flower, Flatiron and Diamond districts, as well as Bryant Park and Union Square Park. The district is at the center of New York’s tourism industry. The Theatre District, Times Square, Carnegie Hall, the Empire State Building and two of the region’s transportation hubs (Grand Central Station and Penn Station) fall within CB5. CB5’s board meeting, open to the public, happens on the second Thursday of the month.

The next meeting will be at 6pm on Thurs., Sept. 13 at Xavier High School (30 W. 16th St., btw. 5th and 6th Aves., 2nd fl.). Call 212465-0907, visit cb5.org or email them at office@cb5.org.

THE 300 WEST 23RD, 22ND & 21ST STREETS BLOCK ASSOCIATION Contact them at 300westblockassoc@prodigy.net.

THE WEST 400 BLOCK ASSOCIATION Contact them at w400ba@gmail.com.

CHELSEA GARDEN CLUB Chelsea Garden Club cares for the bike lane tree pits in Chelsea. If you want to adopt a tree pit or join the group, please contact them at cgc.nyc@gmail.com or like them on Facebook. Also visit chelseagardenclub.blogspot.com.

LOWER CHELSEA ALLIANCE (LoCal) This group is committed to protecting the residential blocks of Chelsea from overscale development. Contact them at LowerChelseaAlliance@ gmail.com.

THE GREENWICH VILLAGE-CHELSEA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Call 212-337-5912 or visit villagechelsea.com.

THE MEATPACKING DISTRICT INITIATIVE Visit meatpacking-district.com or call 212-633-0185.

THE BOWERY RESIDENTS’ COMMITTEE: HOMELESS HELPLINE If you know of anyone who is in need of their services, call the Homeless Helpline at 212-533-5151, and the BRC will send someone to make contact. This number is staffed by outreach team leaders 24 hours a day. Callers may remain anonymous. For more info, visit brc.org.

THE LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER At 208 W. 13th St. (btw. 7th & 8th Aves.). Visit gaycenter.org or call 212-620-7310.

THE ALI FORNEY CENTER Their mission is to help homeless LGBT youth be safe and become independent as they move from adolescence to adulthood. Main headquarters: 224 W. 35th St., Suite 1102. Call 212-222-3427.

The Ali Forney Day Center is located at 527 W. 22nd St., 1st floor. Call 212-2060574 or visit aliforneycenter.org.

GAY MEN’S HEALTH CRISIS (GMHC) At 446 W. 33rd St. btw. 9th & 10th Aves.

Visit gmhc.org. Call 212-367-1000.

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HUDSON GUILD Founded in 1895, Hudson Guild is a multi-service, multi-generational community serving approximately 14,000 people annually with daycare, hot meals for senior citizens, low-cost professional counseling, community arts programs and recreational programming for teens. Visit them at hudsonguild.org. Email them at info@hudsonguild.org. For the John Lovejoy Elliott Center (441 W. 26th St.), call 212-7609800. For the Children’s Center (459 W. 26th St.), call 212-760-9830. For the Education Center (447 W. 25th St.), call 212-760-9843. For the Fulton Center for Adult Services (119 9th Ave.), call 212-924-6710.

THE CARTER BURDEN CENTER FOR THE AGING This organization promotes the wellbeing of individuals 60 and older through direct social services and volunteer programs oriented to individual, family and community needs. Call 212-879-7400 or visit burdencenter.org.

PENN SOUTH The Penn South Program for Seniors provides recreation, education and social services — and welcomes volunteers. For info, call 212-243-3670 or visit pennsouth.com.

FULTON YOUTH OF THE FUTURE Email them at fultonyouth@gmail. com or contact Miguel Acevedo, 646-671-0310.

WEST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE Visit westsidenyc.org or call 212956-2573. Email them at wsna@ hcc-nyc.org.

CHELSEA COALITION ON HOUSING Tenant assistance every Thursday night at 7pm, at Hudson Guild (119 9th Ave.). Email them at chelseacoalition.cch@gmail.com.

FRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK Visit fohrp.org or call 212-757-0981.

HUDSON RIVER PARK TRUST Visit hudsonriverpark.org or call 212627-2020.

PUBLISHER Jennifer Goodstein ASSOCIATE EDITOR / ARTS EDITOR Scott Stiffler REPORTERS Lincoln Anderson Aline Reynolds Sam Spokony EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS

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SAVE CHELSEA Contact them at savechelseanyc@ gmail.com.

MANHATTAN BOROUGH PRESIDENT SCOTT STRINGER Call 212-669-8300 or visit mbpo.org.

CITY COUNCIL SPEAKER CHRISTINE QUINN Call 212-564-7757 or visit council.nyc. gov/d3/html/members/home.shtml.

STATE SENATOR TOM DUANE Call 212-633-8052 or visit tomduane.com.

ASSEMBLYMEMBER RICHARD GOTTFRIED Call 212-807-7900 or email GottfriedR@ assembly.state.ny.us.

CHELSEA REFORM DEMOCRATIC CLUB The CRDC (the home club of City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, State Senator Tom Duane and Assemblymember Richard N. Gottfried) meets monthly to exchange political ideas on protecting the rights and improving the lives of those residing in Chelsea. Visit crdcnyc.org or email them at info@crdcnyc.org.

At 147 W. 24th Street (btw. 6th & 7th Aves.)

THE SYLVIA RIVERA LAW PROJECT works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine their gender identity and expression without facing harassment, discrimination or violence. Visit srlp.org.

FIERCE (Fabulous Independent Educated Radicals for Community Empowerment) builds the leadership and power of bisexual, transgender and queer youth of color in NYC. Visit fiercenyc.org.

QUEERS FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE is a progressive organization committed to promoting economic justice in a context of sexual and gender liberation. Visit q4ej.org.

THE AUDRE LORDE PROJECT is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, two spirit, trans and gender non-conforming people of color center for community organizing. Visit alp.org.

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POLICE BLOTTER CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: Idle bus enrages passenger

PETTY LARCENY: He locked up bike, thief unchained it

At approximately 10:20pm on Mon., Aug. 27, a NYC Transit bus was idling in front of 237 W. 14th St. — because, the driver told police, he was ahead of schedule. That didn’t sit well with a passenger who was sitting in the back of the bus.

The man got up and asked the driver why the vehicle had stopped. Once informed that they’d be moving shortly, the man became irate and declared to the driver, “I can’t wait,” and exited the bus. He then picked up a brick from a nearby construction site, threw it through the bus door window (the police report didn’t note if it was open or closed), and fled eastbound on W. 14th St.

A Katana 54cm bike that was chained to a rack located on the southwest corner of W. 27th St. & Ninth Ave., was stolen. The owner, a 46-year-old male, told police that when he went to retrieve the bike (valued at $350), he discovered it was gone, and the chain was cut. The victim found the cut lock and chain in a nearby garbage bin.

PETTY LARCENY: How will she get back to Kiwi country?

Around 1am on Wed., Aug. 22, a 26-year-old female left the Avenue bar (116 Tenth Ave.) to smoke a cigarette.

Ten minutes later, she returned to the establishment and found her bag missing — along with a New Zealand passport.

PETTY LARCENY: Taxi cab grab Maybe he should have flagged down a ride whose hack had the air conditioner running.

A 31-year-old male passenger had his $500 Apple iPhone swiped as his cab was stopped for a red light on the northeast corner of W. 17th St. & Tenth Ave. (at 3:40am on Sat., Aug. 25). The thief, who fled eastbound on Ninth Ave., removed the phone by reaching into the front passenger side window.

PETTY LARCENY: Dough grab at sidewalk ATM At 12:36am on Sat., Aug. 25, a 44-year-old female was withdrawing

Thursday, September 13 Democratic Primary j o i n u s i n s u p p o rt i n g p ro g r e s s i v e c a n d i dat e s State Senator, 27th District:

Surrogate:

Rita Mella

Brad M. Hoylman Civil Court, District 3:

Lisa Sokoloff

Delegate to the Judicial Nominating Convention:

Alternate Delegate to the Judicial Nominating Convention:

from Groncki to Johnson

from Collins to Walsh

All candidates endorsed by State Senator Tom Duane. Brad Hoylman, Lisa Solokoff, delegate and alternate delegate candidates endorsed by Assemblyman Richard Gottfried. for more information about us, how we can help you, or to get involved, visit www.crdcnyc.org

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money from an ATM on the sidewalk in front of Capital One Bank’s 401 W. 23rd St. & Ninth Ave. location — when a male approached her and ran off with the money (which was still on the ATM when it was removed by the perp). A search of the area by police was conducted, with negative results.

PETTY LARCENY: Bad break A female employee of the Equinox fitness club (100 Tenth Ave., at 17th St.) told police that at approximately 3:30pm on Sun., Aug. 26, she left her iPad (valued at $499) and her iPad case (valued at $50) on a table. When she returned, the items were no longer there. Several employees had access to the room (fittingly identified in the police report as the “Employee Break Room”).

G R A N D L A R C E N Y: Yo u snooze, you lose: I In the early morning hours of Sat., Aug. 25, a 33-year-old male resident of Chelsea’s westernmost outskirts met another male at E. 6th St. & First Ave., then invited him back to his residence “at which time,” the police report indicates, “they hung out for a few hours.”

The victim fell asleep, and after waking up discovered his new acquaintance had made a quiet retreat — along with an Apple laptop valued at $1,300 and an Apple iPad valued at $600.

GRAND LARCENY: You snooze, you lose: II On the evening of Sat., Aug. 25, a male resident of the West 20s met another man (known only as “James”) inside the Gym Sportsbar (167 Eighth Ave.), then took him back to his apartment for what the police report tastefully described as “socializing.” With the getting to know

you part of the evening consummated, they both fell asleep. The victim woke at 4am the next morning to discover his new acquaintance was nowhere to be found — and neither was his Apple iPad (valued at $700), iPhone ($500), MacBook Air laptop ($1,200), Nike running watch ($80), Tissot watch ($200) and digital camera ($110).

GRAND LARCENY: New friend’s a Lotto trouble A shared interest in lottery tickets led to a short-lived partnership between two men that proved fruitful for only one of them. The victim, a 41-year-old from Brooklyn, told police that he befriended a male (approximately 55 years old) at a corner store on 15th St. & Eighth Ave. at around 1:20pm on Tues., Aug. 28.

The perp was attempting to buy a lottery ticket, then convinced the victim to go to Pay-O-Matic (a check cashing business at 94 Eighth Ave.), where he bought Lotto tickets. The perp, who said he was an MTA employee, then offered the victim a job. When they were exchanging information, the perp grabbed $180 out of the victim’s hand and made a run for it.

—Scott Stiffler

THE 10th PRECINCT Located at 230 W. 20th St. (btw.

7th & 8th Aves.). Deputy Inspector: Elisa Cokkinos. Main number: 212741-8211. Community Affairs: 212-741-8226. Crime Prevention: 212-741-8226. Domestic Violence: 212-741-8216. Youth Officer: 212741-8211. Auxiliary Coordinator: 212-741-8210. Detective Squad: 212-741-8245. The Community Council Meeting normally takes place at 7pm on the last Wed. of the month — but the Council is on summer break until September 26.

CASH FOR GUNS

THE 13th PRECINCT

$100 cash will be given (no questions asked) for each handgun, assault weapon or sawed-off shotgun, up to a maximum payment of $300. Guns are accepted at any Police Precinct, PSA or Transit District.

Located at 230 E. 21st St. (btw. 2nd & 3rd Aves.). Deputy Inspector: Ted Bernsted. Call 212-477-7411.

Community Affairs: 212-477-7427.

Crime Prevention: 212-477-7427.

Domestic Violence: 212-477-3863.

Youth Officer: 212-477-7411.

Auxiliary Coordinator: 212-4774380. Detective Squad: 212-4777444. The Community Council Meeting normally takes place at 6:30pm on the third Tues. of the month — but the Council is on summer break until September 18.

CRIME STOPPERS If you have info regarding a crime committed or a wanted person, call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS, text “TIP577” (plus your message) to “CRIMES” (274637) or submit a tip online at nypdcrimestoppers.com.

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Avenues offers immersive education Continued from page 3 a school is the teachers.

“Though we love the building, buildings are not the most important thing; the faculty is the most important thing,” said Whittle. “We spent two years assembling them. We were very lucky; 5,000 teachers applied to work here.”

Whittle said that while the pay and benefits were somewhat better than at public schools, many teachers were excited to build something from scratch. To wit, the school has already signed on legacy hires including Nancy Schulman, who ran the 92nd Street Y for 23 years, to head Avenues early learning center, and co-leaders Robert Matoon and Tyler Tingley, who ran the Hotchkiss School and Exeter Academy, respectively.

‘We think of it as one school on 20 campuses; the next two are Avenues Beijing and Avenues São Paulo,’ said Whittle. ‘A child is encouraged to spend two years at other campuses, starting in middle school with six-week summer programs abroad, and in high school with full semesters abroad. But they’re going to another Avenues campus, so they won’t miss a beat.’

Director of Education Design Sarah Bayne headed up the Hillbrook School in California for more than a decade. She had planned to retire when approached to work with Whittle on Avenues. He made her an offer she couldn’t refuse.

“We got a chance to start from scratch and decide what kind of school we wanted to be, and what kind of school was the best for children to learn. And that’s pretty irresistible,” said Bayne. “We also got a whole year to plan, whereas most teachers have the summer.”

Literally mapping out the curriculum they envisioned, Bayne and her 180 fellow educators constantly referred to Avenues mission statement, which includes things like graduating students who are emotionally unafraid and great leaders, “architects of lives that transcend the ordinary,” sharing prosperity through finan-

cial aid, providing faculty support and advancing education as an effective, diverse and accountable school.

AN IMMERSIVE EDUCATION One of the early challenges was creating an immersion-based curriculum starting with preschool-aged children, and finding teachers who were not only bilingual, but skilled at early education.

“One of our consultants responsible for all the immersion schools in Utah and Colorado said that [young children] are still learning English, and they don’t always understand what the teacher is saying, so what’s the difference?” said Bayne.

Although Bayne thought it would be difficult to find Mandarin-speaking teachers, the head of their Chinese program was raised in Mandarin, did graduate work at Stanford and had experience teaching in American schools. Word of mouth took care of the rest, although she admits that it was a bit harder to find Spanish teachers.

While parents might be interested in the cache of Avenues, the teachers got on board because, like Whittle, they were risk takers, excited by the chance to start something new under good leadership, and the possibility to teach internationally in the future.

“Working with Chris, a visionary in his own right, is another reason why we’re here, because he’s an amazing leader,” Bayne told Chelsea Now. “We deliberately chose to join something that he was starting because he had a vision for the kind of school he wanted to have.”

Unlike overcrowded, undersupplied public schools, Avenues keeps a class size of 18 students, provides top-tier equipment and arms their teachers with the resources they need to succeed.

In addition to the $60 million in renovations, Whittle earmarked $15 million to prepare the faculty via a weeklong retreat in the Poconos, presentations on immersion, philosophy and psychology of teaching and school culture.

“I always knew this school was going to be challenging academically; as soon as you decide you’re going to have kids fluent in a second language, it’s challenging,” said Bayne. “But what’s most important is to have a school where kids are really valued, where they are not just safe physically but treat each other right and have a good advisory system.”

At Avenues, students will be constantly assessed, but won’t begin receiving grades until the 8th grade, as colleges begin counting GPAs from 9th-12th grades. It does students no favors to shield them from knowing how to take a standardized test, said Bayne, since high SAT scores are a big part of college admission requirements.

She didn’t think there would be any problem with parental involvement, adding, “I expect we’ll have to keep parents from getting too involved, as opposed to trying to get them in for a conference.”

A Parent’s Café at the school’s entrance will provide a space for parents to discuss issues as they wait for their children, and a

Photo by Winnie McCroy

The high school cafeteria.

spacious overhang along the length of the building will shield students from inclement weather as they await pickup during the colder months.

For the time being, the opening class of Avenues school is finishing up their list of required summer reading, and purchasing their black, grey and white uniforms from Land’s End, which Whittle described as “mix and match, very Downtown.”

For Tribeca mother Kim Carton, the uniforms are one of the only things that give her children pause. The family is eager to

begin the school year, with three of their four children attending: a second grader, a fifth grader and a sixth grader.

“I was really excited about Avenues because it’s brand new, and I thought it would be neat because everyone else would be brand new, too,” said Carton, whose family just relocated to Manhattan from Philadelphia. “I’ve heard such wonderful things about the people who started the school and where they came from, and the ideas about the school and the languages, and my kids are so excited.”

Carton sent her children to summer camp at Chelsea Piers, to acclimate them to their new athletic facilities, and although she is nervous about the school’s travel abroad component, she thinks it is an amazing opportunity.

“My kids are really smart, and kind of always excelled in everything, so I’m lucky.

They did the required reading, and they’re ready to jump in,” she added.

Was there any question about whether her children would attend Avenues: The World School? Not at all, said Carton.

“We just jumped in here, and the kids got in, and that was that,” she said. Hesitating a moment, she added, “Actually, we tried to get into Dalton, but they were full.”

With that, she Rollerbladed along with Whittle, who despite having another morning appointment waiting, was only too happy to give Carton a tour of the facilities.

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Photos by Lincoln Anderson

Development and dreams of After a long, drawn-out construction process, 450 West 14th Street, aka The High Line Building, above, is reportedly enjoying 100 percent occupancy. The 11-story office building — rising above Diane von Furstenberg’s “jewel”-topped skylight — was developed by Charles Blaichman. Meanwhile, Novac Noury, the disco era’s Arrow Keyboard Man turned hopeful developer, is still searching for a partner to develop his now grass-covered lot on Little West 12th Street, right, near The Standard Hotel’s Biergarten. The city tore down his building two years ago, deeming it structurally “compromised.” Noury — inventor of a wireless keyboard he wore on a shoulder strap like a guitar while boogying on the dance floor — had an afterhours club there called RSVP during the Studio 54 days. The mini-inn he envisions on the lot would have Rechargeable Solar-Powered Venetian blind energy, another Noury first. At this rate, though, his mini-inn might take even longer to build than the High Line Building.

An arrow of glass blocks on the sidewalk marks “Arrow Way,” up which Noury would drive his white stretch limo directly into the RSVP club’s garage.

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TADA! Youth Theater builds skills

Your doctor retired to where?

Decades before reality TV flooded the market with elimination-minded competitions like “American Idol,” there was a TV show called “Fame” — where a tough as nails dance teacher ominously emoted to her starry-eyed students: “You got big dreams. You want fame. Well, fame costs…and right here is where you start paying. In sweat!”

Less than half a block away from the glory of Broadway (albeit the 1100 block), TADA! Youth Theater is a Drama Desk Award-winning organization which knows how to nurture young talent without resorting to the tough love

tactics of Simon Cowell or 1980s-era Debbie Allen. See for yourself by attending their free Open House. There, you’ll get to preview the fall TADA! curriculum. Self-confidence is guaranteed and fame is an occasional side effect.

On Sat., Sept. 15 from 10am-2pm at TADA! Youth Theater. Located at 15 W. 28th St., 2nd fl. (btw. Broadway & Fifth Ave.). Reservations for sample classes can be made by emailing your name, phone number, email address and your child’s name and age to education@tadatheater.com. For more info, call 212-252-1619 or visit tadatheater.com.

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Ace that back to school lunch test LUNCH Continued from page 6 RECIPE: BANANA CHOCOLATE CHIP MUFFINS (serves 12) Ingredients: • ½ cup white flour • ½ cup whole wheat flour • 2 bananas • 2 tbsp mini chocolate chips • ¼ cup sugar • 1 tsp salt • 4 tsp baking powder (or 1 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp baking powder) • 1 egg • 1 cup plain Greek yogurt • ¼ cup vegetable oil • nonstick spray DIRECTIONS: Preheat oven to 400°F (200°C). In a large bowl, mix together the flour, oatmeal, sugar, salt and baking powder/soda. Mix in the mashed bananas. In another bowl, break the egg and use a fork to beat it. Add yogurt and oil, then mix. Add this to the large bowl, then mix all ingredients together. Don’t over mix or you’ll have “falling muffins” (25-30 times is good, just to get out the lumps). Line a muffin tin with paper liners or lightly spray with nonstick spray. Spoon in the muffin mix. Fill each muffin cup about two-thirds of the way up.

Bake for about 20 minutes.

TORTILLA “ROLL-UPS”: Kids have fun with finger foods, and this could be a good hit. Buy whole wheat tortillas, spread peanut butter, low-sugar jelly and bananas and roll them up tightly. Cut them into finger pieces as a good snack with lunch.

Most school lunchtimes range from 11:30am1pm. The best healthy lunches are the ones that will last them until 4pm (about the time when they come home from school).

The best way to do this is to abide by the guidelines of a balanced meal — which includes a healthy carbohydrate (e.g., whole grain breads, pita, brown rice, potatoes and pasta), a lean protein (chicken, low-fat cheese, nuts, fish, beans) a vegetable and a fruit. Here are four options for preparing lunches that supply all the essentials: BROWN BAG #1: A whole wheat 2% or fat-free cheese quesadilla with sliced tomatoes.

On the side give sliced apple and peanut butter.

BB #2: Penne pasta with chicken and red sauce (use a hearty vegetable sauce so it counts as a vegetable or make your own with eggplant). For dessert, sliced plums and yogurt.

BB #3: Black beans with rice and corn.

Sliced plantains for dessert.

BB #4: Shredded chicken, lettuce and tomato sandwich on whole grain bread with mustard.

Add 2% string cheese and an apple for dessert.

TIP: Instead of cold cuts, prepare or buy a whole roasted chicken, shred that meat and use as an alternative to cold cuts. You will reduce sodium and nitrates in your child’s diet.

SNACKS Snack time should be a few hours before dinner. If dinner is coming close, skipping out on a snack is okay. Theoretically, you want your child to eat four small meals per day. If they get home at four and dinner isn’t until 7 or 8pm, a small snack is warranted.

Photo by Carlye Waxman RD, CDN

Fast-food pastries are a big no-no…but you can grab this healthy choice on your way out the door.

STIR FRY: A healthy stir fry can last a few days. Try making this ahead of time and adding either brown rice or whole wheat linguini.

Prepare these quick nutritious suggestions so there’s more time to eat.

Put together your child’s favorite vegetables with grilled chicken, low-sodium soy sauce and sesame oil. Make a very large amount of this, then get creative with it for the week. You can grab steamed rice or lo mein from your favorite Chinese restaurant on the way home and add that stir fry to the dish. This dish will keep in the refrigerator for up to one week.

Keep healthy foods available at eye level in refrigerator (e.g., cherry tomatoes, baby carrots, sliced cucumbers, grapes, sliced apples, 2% or fat-free string cheese).

YOGURT AND FRUIT WAFFLE CONES: Buy waffle cones, fill bottom with some low-sugar strawberry jelly, add sliced strawberries, yogurt, more strawberries and layer until you have reached ½ cup of yogurt and ½ cup of berries. Top with a little low-fat Cool Whip for an interesting twist on this snack.

Carlye Waxman is a Registered Dietitian in Manhattan, specializing in weight loss and other medical nutrition therapy. Visit sweetnutritionnyc.com for more information.

For Waxman’s Strawberry Bars recipe, visit chelseanow.com and access the web version of this article.

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A hip and happening day in the life of The Standard Continued from page 5 gave outsiders, the meatpackers, those walking the High Line in its early days, a lot to see. New York City’s voyeurs had no complaints and The Standard Hotel’s reputation as an anything-goes, hip, exhibitionistic venue could not be debated.

Today more curtains are pulled across the glass and there’s more talk about what goes on in The Standard’s nightclub, LeBain, than in its windows, but one feels the pull to be anything but “standard” at The Standard, which reminds us of its contrarian ways in its upside-down, backward logo.

Spacious rooms offer free-standing bathtubs and glass-walled showers without walled-in bath “rooms.” Toilets have doors but they also face floor-to-ceiling windows and it’s your choice whether to pull the curtain or not. You also will find a black bathrobe in the closet.

Whether you are a hotel guest or not, starting at 2 o’clock in the afternoon until about 11pm, you can take an elevator to the 18th floor while watching Marco Brambilla’s video installation “Civilization” pull you into the experience of ascending to heaven or descending into hell. Exit the elevator and walk through the golden doors of The Top of the Standard (formerly the Boom Boom Room, but a copyright dispute

resulted in a name change). The Top of the Standard, and the nightclub LeBain, both on the 18th floor, are such exceptional nightspots that Madison Moore, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University who taught a class last fall called “The History and Culture of Night Life,” brought his students to both venues to observe the architecture and understand the flow of these spaces.

“What’s great about The Top of the Standard is that you can take anyone up there and they will be wowed, whether it’s 2 o’clock in the morning or 2 in the afternoon,” Moore said. “The view is wonderful, as is the architecture.”

The golden-blonde wood “tree” that emanates from the floor of the bar and reaches up to the ceiling, spreading beams, like branches, across the bar is the centerpiece of the room itself, but the real focus of attention is the view. Again, those special, floor-to-ceiling glass windows bring the sunset above the Hudson River from far down the Jersey coastline, past the Statue of Liberty, along the piers, and right into your Lady Lavender cocktail. Turn your head and through the windows behind you, the Empire State Building is glistening. The Top of the Standard, which also has live music, becomes a private club at 11pm, but until then anyone can sink into the vanilla leather banquettes.

“I love the old Hollywood feel, so creamy, as if you could eat it when you walk in,” said Moore.

Across from the Top of the Standard is LeBain, as dark as the Top is light. Black leather banquettes, black vinyl floor, a diamond-shaped, 4-foot-deep jacuzzi with an overhead swing nearby. Early in the evening, before the true devotees of the night appear, anyone can walk through LeBain, make a right and go up the staircase transformed into a painted passage filled with graffiti-like images of man and nature by the artist Lady Aiko.

Outdoors starting at 2pm on the rooftop in summertime, one of the specialties of the open-air bar, a cucumber lemonade (really a vodka cocktail) can be enjoyed on a circular, pink-covered waterbed, or sitting at one of the tables. The incomparable view of river and sky can take one’s breath away. Hungry? Have a Nutella crepe or sample another offering from the crepe shack.

Doorperson approval is needed for the parties that begin at LeBain about 11pm.

Among other attractions, the popular On Top parties of Susanne Bartsch on Tuesday nights bring out the outrageous in people, the latex, leather-wearing, the club kids, the cross-dressers, the scenesters, all want to be there for the underground music, the electricity of the moment. Swimwear can be purchased in a vending machine

but people may wear nothing at all in the jacuzzi. Party nights at LeBain are hot nights for those “on the list” and those who are granted entry to be among them.

For continuing into the night without doorperson approval (until 2am on Thursday and Friday, until 1am other days), the Biergarten rocks. It’s hard to believe that so much energy and harddriving ping-pong can come from serving only three kinds of German beer. The Biergarten is a year-round outdoor, openair space on the street level with a ceiling that is the steel structure of the High Line.

The Standard is a world unto itself that has set a standard of creativity for the Meatpacking District.

“I think The Standard is at the top of its game, always reinventing itself, and I think it is a reflection of the neighborhood, which is always reinventing itself, whether it be food, nightlife, landmarking,” said Danziger.

To find The Standard Hotel on the corner of Washington and West 13th Streets, look for Austrian artist Erwin Wurm’s amusing, aluminum/pink-enamel “Big Kastenmann” (or “Big Box Man”) an 18-foot-tall, 1.6-ton, headless suit that will be out in front of the hotel until November.

In the virtual world, you can find out what’s happening at The Standard on Facebook and Twitter.

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Photo by Liz Ligon, courtesy of Friends of the High Line

Meanwhile, down on the High Line, the real party’s going on Friends of the High Line (FOHL) offers a full slate of free, fun summer events for children, teens and adults. These range from studying the elevated park’s horticulture and wildlife to art projects, musical and dance performances — like the one above, underneath The Standard’s span — and movies. FOHL staff and volunteers survey park users to get their feedback. “We saw that kids wanted a little more free play and an opportunity to imagine and create,” said Danya Sherman, FOHL director of public programs, education and community engagement. “Many people expressed a lot of interest in films for families.” On Tuesdays, free guided walking tours of the park are available at 6:30pm.

Around dusk, there’s free stargazing with telescopes. “We really gear our programs to our neighbors and New Yorkers,” Sherman said. There are activities year-round. For the event calendar, visit the High Line’s website, thehighline.org.

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CHELSEA: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Reinvention rules the art scene Exhibitions put a new spin on the wheel (or films, paintings, cans)

BY STEPHANIE BUHMANN

AL TAYLOR: PASS THE PEAS AND CAN STUDYS This will be the gallery’s third solo presentation of the important American artist (19481999), who is not easily assimilated into any exclusive movement or school. It will focus on the two individual series: “Pass the Peas” (1991-92) and “Can Studys” [sic] from 1993, as well as on a related group of works entitled “Cans and Hoops” (1993). Though Taylor began his career as a painter, he embraced a unique approach to process and materials by the mid-1980s. Involving both two-dimensional drawings and three-dimensional assemblages, his work favored unconventional materials such as wooden broomsticks, wire and carpentry remnants. Making no distinction between his three-dimensional works and his drawings, Taylor referred to his constructions as “drawing in space.” In addition to physics, mathematics about depth, volume and measurement, Taylor drew inspiration from historical precedents such as the sculptures of Matisse and the timelapse photography of Etienne-Jules Marey.

Sept. 7-Oct. 27. Reception: Sept. 7, 6-8pm.

At David Zwirner, 519 W. 19th St. (btw. Tenth & Eleventh Aves.). Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am6pm, Mon. by appointment. Call 212-5178677 or visit davidzwirner.com.

ANALIA SABAN

LEONARDO DREW

Saban, who originally hails from Buenos Aires, deconstructs paintings in order to explore their making. Along these lines, she pours acrylic into silicone molds of objects in her studio — creating sculptural paintings that play with the idea that paintings are two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional objects.

In the past, she has programmed a laser cutter to remove the outlines of individual letters and images from thick white paper, running the paper through a printing press so that its contents appeared to be bleeding. Other projects have included erosion works, in which Saban’s drawings are singed onto canvas — leaving only the architecture of her original lines visible.

Sept. 6-Oct. 20. At Tanya Bonakdar Gallery (521 W. 21st St., btw. Tenth & Eleventh Aves.).

Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm. Call 212-4144144 or visit tanyabonakdargallery.com.

Inspired by the cyclical nature of existence, Drew’s dynamic sculptural installations often reference the detritus of everyday life. In the past, they have involved 20,000 handmade two-inch white cotton paper boxes, openended wooden cubes painted black, found objects, wood and fabrics, for example. In contrast to these earlier constructions and large-scale tableaux made of geometrically organized castoff items, Drew’s new work embraces a sense of lightness and simplicity.

There is an emphasis on drawing, and the installation here will be composed of many individual material elements. These will be connected through an intricate web of drawings that will be applied directly to the walls.

This will be Drew’s most ambitious project to date and it will be accompanied by a comprehensive monograph.

Sept. 6-Oct. 12. At Sikkema Jenkins & Co. (530 W. 22nd St., btw. Tenth & Eleventh Aves.). Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am6pm. Call 212-929-2262 or visit sikkemajenkinsco.com.

QUERELLE — PHOTOGRAPHED BY ROBERT FRITZ This will be the first New York exhibition of Fritz’s production photographs taken on the set of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s classic and final film, “Querelle” (1982). One hundred and nineteen color images by Fritz — a photographer, producer and performer — will be on display. In the case of “Querelle,” he worked daily on Fassbinder’s set as both an actor and production documentarian. Originally shot as color transparencies, these images were previously known to exist only as “Querelle — The Film Book” (Schrimer/Mosel-Grove, 1982). Unlike film stills, which are sourced directly from filmed footage, these photographs capture re-enactments. Here, the action was re-staged for the still camera.

Sept. 7-Oct. 14. At White Columns (320 W. 13th St., enter on Horatio, btw. Hudson & Eighth Ave.). Hours: Tues.-Sat., 12-6pm. Call 212-924-4212 or visit whitecolumns.org.

Continued on page 19

Image courtesy the artist & Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

Analia Saban: “Still Life” (2012, Graphite on laser sculpted paper, 14 3/4 x 8 3/8 x 1 3/4 in., 37.5 x 21.4 x 4.4 cm.).

Courtesy of the artist, VeneKlasen/Werner, Berlin and Michael Werner, New York

Roger Fritz: “Fassbinder’s Querelle Nr.82” (1982/2011. Digital C-print, Ed. of 5, +1 AP 19 3/4 x 29 1/2 in.). See “Querelle — Photographed by Roger Fritz.”

Artwork © 2012 Leonardo Drew, courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

Leonardo Drew: “Number 137D” (2012, Wood, aluminum, paint and graphite on paper in Plexiglas box, 37.5 x 43 x 25.5 in., 95.3 x 109.2 x 64.8 cm.).

© 2012 The Estate of Al Taylor; courtesy of David Zwirner, New York. Reproduced by permission.

Al Taylor: “Cans & Hoops” (1993).

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Fall into the Downtown gallery scene

Courtesy of the artist, VeneKlasen/Werner, Berlin and Michael Werner, New York

Andrew Gbur: “Untitled” (2012, gouache and screen printing ink on canvas, 68 x 84 in.; 172.1 x 213.4 cm.).

ALEX OLSON: PALMIST AND EDITOR Continued from page 18

ANDREW GBUR The painter’s solo gallery debut will include two bodies of work spanning the gallery’s two LES locations. Concerned with painting’s reliability as a mode of communication, Gbur favors a highly graphic, formal and material visual vocabulary that reveals characteristics of postwar painting. Influenced by the works of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, Gbur’s technique involves collage, silkscreen, gouache, inks and acrylic — and allows for handmade irregularity. Autobiographical and iconic imagery, ranging from self-portraits to signs and symbols, add to a dense web made of personal code. Overall, Gbur’s work reads as a complex synthesis of the demands and stresses of contemporary life. This quality crescendos in the artist’s so-called “face paintings,” in which an abbreviated language of color, material and shape depict the mere remnants of the human visage.

Through Sept. 30. Reception: Sept. 9, 6-8pm. At Eleven Rivington (195 Chrystie St. and 11 Rivington St., btw. Bowery & Chrystie).

For fall gallery hours and more info, call 212982-1930 or visit elevenrivington.com.

This will be Olson’s second exhibition with Lisa Cooley and the first in her new space (the former popular music venue Tonic). Olson’s paintings focus on surface appearance and treatment. She scratches, scrapes and scars her composition, pushes her materials and applies multiple layers to establish heavy impasto. This technique provides the viewer with a sense of time and of the aging of the work itself — which adds an organic, almost humane quality to an otherwise abstract vocabulary.

Sept. 9-Oct. 14. At Lisa Cooley (107 Norfolk St., btw. Rivington & Delancey Sts.). Hours: 10am-6pm,Wed.-Sun. Call 212-680-0564 or visit lisa-cooley.com.

GINA MAGID Born in New York City in 1969, Magid received her MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. While the subject matter of her paintings and works on paper is usually derived from popular culture, her use of form springs from her interest in the abstract layering of imagery.

Striving for a feeling of transcendent beauty and mystery, Magid creates works that provide a sense of underlying psychological complexities and the connections between all things, the negative ones as well as the positive.

Sept. 5-Oct. 7. At Feature Inc. (131 Allen St., btw. Rivington & Delancey Sts.). Hours: Wed.-Sun., 12-6pm. Call 212-675-7772 or visit featureinc.com.

Image courtesy of the artist and Feature Inc., New York

Gina Magid: “Hwy 1, Big Sur” (2012; oil paint, charcoal on satin; 45 x 39 in.).

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The ‘Hard Times’ of black and white America Kirwan explores the ‘coupled together unwanteds’ THEATER HARD TIMES

Written by Larry Kirwan Music by Stephen Foster and Larry Kirwan Directed by Kira Simring At the cell (338 W. 23rd St. btw. Eighth & Ninth Aves.)

Sept. 13-30 For tickets ($18) or more info, call 1-800838-3006 or visit thecelltheatre.org Photo by Steven Simring

Thomas Jefferson (Stephane Duret), Nelly Blythe-O'Brien (Almeria Campbell), and Michael Jenkins (Phillip Callen), in Larry Kirwan's “Hard Times.”

BY JERRY TALLMER Two unforgettable culture shocks experienced by an otherwise reasonably sophisticated American male whose mother always wanted him to write under the good WASP name Roger Maxwell: Shock A: The railroad station in Washington, D.C., democracy’s capital, circa 1935, where New York school kid Roger Maxwell (age 14 or 15) has arrived — hot, tired and very thirsty. Spots a couple of drinking fountains at the far end of this vast marble space. Walks up to those spigots, lugging his gear, until he can read the words — two different words — inscribed above each of them. On the right, “WHITE.” On the left, “COLORED.” Democracy! Fifty-two years after Gettysburg.

Shock B: London, England, summer of 1964. First time Roger Maxwell, then age 43, has ever been in this most nourishing of great cities. Goes for a stroll in the lower-middle-class neighborhood where he is staying. Sees sign after sign after sign purveying “Room to Let.” And under that, again and again and again: “No

blacks or Irish need apply.”

The coupled-together unwanteds. The despised and undesired. What could say it any clearer than that? No blacks or Irish need apply.

Right there, in London, in 1964, 48 years after the 1916 Easter rebellion and seizure of the Dublin Post Office — 101 years after 1863 and Gettysburg, an even 100 years after the 1864 death (at 37, to poverty, booze and starvation) of that greatest of American songwriter-poets: Stephen Collins Foster.

“Beautiful Dreamer” — try that for size. Or “Oh! Susanna.” Or “Swanee River.” Or “My Old Kentucky Home.” Or “Old Black Joe.” Or “Camptown Races.”

Or “Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair.” Or “Hard Times Come Again No More.”

Not Charles Dickens’s “Hard Times.” Not Studs Terkel’s “Hard Times.” But white and black America’s hard times, in and around the Civil War era’s slum-ridden, crime-ridden Five Points intersection of Downtown Manhattan, near where a soft-spoken, fair-haired, ruddycomplexioned, bespectacled Irish-born singer, composer, musician, novelist and playwright

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named Larry Kirwan makes his home just off Canal Street in our own day.

You may know Kirwan from his popular Irish rock band, Black 47 — a moniker which has to do, he says, “not with color but with the mood.” You may have known him from Malachy McCourt’s Bells of Hell, 13th Street and Sixth Avenue. You may know him from CBGB’s. You may more recently know Kirwan from “Blood,” a play of his about that 1916 rebellion in Dublin.

A terrible beauty was born?

“Exactly,” says Kirwan.

“Blood” was done last March at the little lower-cased cell theater on West 23rd Street, where Kirwan’s “Hard Times” — an interracial musical — will be playing.

It is set in a saloon in Five Points, owned and operated by Nelly Blythe (actress Almeria Campbell), a hearty, healthy no-nonsense Negro woman whose current lover, Michael Jenkins (Phillip Callen), is an Irish-American ideologue of the backward-facing immigrant-hating Know Nothing white-supremacy political party, and if you see any resemblance to anything anno domini USA 2012, well, so be it.

Blacks and Irish not wanted. Blacks not wanted even by the Irish — the new immigrants — who saw the blacks flooding up from the South as taking the Irish jobs away and being freed to do so — freed as human beings, or at least three-fifths human beings — by Abraham Lincoln’s Civil War that white Irishmen are being drafted willy-nilly to fight and die in by the thousands.

Of course, you could buy your way out of the draft for $300 — but who had $300?

The great Irish Potato Famine had been 1845-47; the big influx of Irish to America had been 1845-51.

“When the men went west,” says Kirwan, “their women took up with black men.”

That didn’t add to peace. “It was called amalgamation,” Kirwan says wryly. “There’s

been a lot of calcification over what happened in those years.”

What is now called tap dancing was the product of another amalgamation — Irish stepdancing and black shuffle.

Yes, Kirwan has been to Gettysburg — as has our friend Maxwell (twice). “You kind of get the enormity of it, and of the Draft Riots,” says Kirwan.

On July 13, 1863, one week after the highwater-mark of the Bloody Angle at Gettysburg, all hell broke loose in the Irish-fireball Draft Riots that swept New York City and particularly the Five Points dynamite keg.

Kirwan’s “Hard Times” takes place on that day, and opens with Owen Duignan (John Charles McLaughlin), a young Irishman, dancing and singing in Nelly Blythe’s saloon to Foster’s “Camptown Races” — a white man in the requisite blackface for that sort of song in that era — and hating having to do so.

Even Thomas Jefferson, a young black dancer (Stephane Duret), has to wear blackface! It’s the convention. “Nobody would pay just to see an Irishman on stage.”

No, Foster was not black. He just learned from gospel and wrote black and sang black when he wanted to.

Nelly Blythe’s saloon becomes a refuge for white and black when the rioters and counterrioters set fire to much of the city, including the Colored Children’s Orphanage Uptown. In all, the deaths were more than a hundred, and the numbers could have been much worse if President Lincoln hadn’t sent troops of the Army of the Potomac up from Gettysburg to restore peace in New York.

“When the riots started the mixed-race families had to either move out or break up. Things didn’t come together again until the 1960s,” says Kirwan.

But are things coming apart again in this 2012 season of “Hate the President Just Because He’s Black?”

Foster could turn that into heartbreaking song, but he is no longer with us. Some of him is, though, at the cell on West 23rd Street.

Kirwan was born in Wexford, a seaport on the southeast lower corner of Ireland. His father was in the Merchant Marine. “It was the Irish sailors, by the way, who brought blackface to Ireland.”

Kirwan got to New York in the mid-1970s, singing all the way (not in blackface). He has two sons in their 20s and a choreographer/ dance-teacher wife named June Anderson.

“Hard Times” is directed by Kira Simring, and Jed Peterson plays Stephen Foster, who sang and wrote: Whenever times are troubled And the truth tears me apart I gain my strength from you And the courage you impart Dear friends and gentle hearts Dear friends and gentle hearts.

At the drinking fountain where anyone, white or colored, can apply.

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Just Do Art!

Photo by Ann Bettison Enzminger

Your best Bud: St. Rev. Jen Miller, elfin elixir in hand, might read something dirty when “Faceboyz Folliez” makes its Bar 82 debut.

BY SCOTT STIFFLER

FACEBOYZ FOLLIEZ Dirty minds shine and freak flags fly exceedingly high — when the “Faceboyz Folliez” crew lets loose with its somewhat disturbing, shamefully compelling, always entertaining version of burlesque, variety and sexualized audience participation. With Bowery Poetry Club closed for renovations both aesthetic and stylistic, “Folliez” moves to the stage of Bar 82 until further notice.

Expect whip smart antics (courtesy of skilled body work from Amanda Whip), profane literary readings from St. Rev. Jen Miller, short films from ASS Studios (directed by Courtney Fathom Sell), gay comedy shenanigans from Dick and

Leslie Jordan, in “Fruit Fly” (see “All For One”).

Duane and select naughty bits from the likes of Scooter Pie and Reverend Mother Flash. Cast members Velocity Chyaldd and Stormy Leather are expected to make an appearance via video. Also on the bill: the “incredibly confident and ridiculously nervous” Keyke is the musical guest…and fetish model Maggie Mauvaise will present her very first Burlesque act!

Lord knows what train wreck of a concept Faceboy has cooked up for the audience participation part of the evening — but it’s safe to say the winner will walk away with a valuable prize, considerably less pride and more than one body part red beyond recognition.

Sat., Sept. 8, at 9 pm. At Bar 82 (136 2nd Ave., btw. St. Marks Pl. & 9th St.).

Admission: $10. For info, call 212-228-8636 or visit bar82nyc.com. Also visit faceboyzfolliez.com and facebook.com/faceboyzfolliez.

Joanna Rush, in “Asking For It” (see “All For One”).

THE 2012 ALL FOR ONE THEATER FESTIVAL One more installment and it’s officially a fall tradition…but first, they’ve got to get through the second season of “All For One” — a festival of solo performances written by the onstage talent and directed by equally formidable veterans of the New York boards (think BD Wong and Colman Domingo).

Curated with an eye towards premiering works that will go on to tour theaters and campuses across America, this year’s crop of 10 includes the world premiere of “What I Thought I Knew.” Elizabeth Margid directs this account of mid-life pregnancy, performed by Alice Eve Cohen and based on her memoir. Making its New York premiere, Emmy-winner Leslie Jordan’s “Fruit Fly” ponders whether gay men are destined to become their mothers

(David Galligan directs). Lynne TaylorCorbett directs “Asking For It” — Joanna Rush’s account of being raised in a strict Catholic household, then running off to NYC with dreams of making it as a dancer…and Eliza Gould holds the reins when Aizzah Fatima embodies six PakistaniAmerican women with sex, politics and religion on their minds — in “Dirty Paki Lingerie.”

Sept. 14-20. Wed.-Sun. at 7pm; Sat./ Sun. at 2pm & 4:30pm. At the Cherry Lane Theatre (30 Commerce St., West of 7th Ave. South, 3 blocks South of Christopher St.). For tickets ($25; $15 for student rush, $20 for seniors, $200 for festival pass, $15 each for groups of 10+), visit afofest.org or call 212-352-3101. A full schedule and info on workshops, special panels and audience talk-backs can be found at afofest.org.

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Power to the adapters Anthology Films shines spotlight on ‘brutally neglected’ screenwriters FILM THE LOVED ONE

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The happenstance winner of an airplane ticket to Los Angeles, English lad Dennis Barlow (played mostly straight by a weary, sunken-eyed Robert Morse) reconnects with his studio employee uncle (Sir John Gielgud) — whose unexpected suicide embarrasses an insular group of expat Brits determined to give the old chap a dignified sendoff.

So Barlow is assigned the task of arranging burial at Whispering Glades — Reverend Glenworthy’s statue and waterfall-filled afterlife wonderland. There, aspiring poet Barlow falls hard for naive cosmetician

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Aimée Thanatogenos (Anjanette Comer) — who aspires to become the “First Lady Embalmer of Whispering Glades” (when she’s not dreamily manning a swing which overhangs her condemned clifftop home).

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“We’re a nation on the move,” declares the Reverend. “Death...death has become a middle class business. There’s no future in it. Soon, there shall rise from these grounds a self-contained city of glass and alloy for our senior citizens.”

Written by Terry Southern, the film’s entire run time is peppered with dialogue that rivals the black and white cinematography in its precision and depth. In the same way Miss Thanatogenos dotes on embalmed corpses, expert manipulation of language is the reason Anthology Film Archives will be screening director Tony Richardson’s film of Southern’s screenplay of Evelyn Waugh’s novel.

“The Loved One” is featured in “From the Pen of” — which, according to the easily obsessed folks at Anthology, “is devoted to highlighting screenwriters. This installment of our ongoing series is highlighting the screenwriting work of writers best known as novelists. All these films are different, but unified by the fact that the screenwriter of the film was best known as a novelist.”

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