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r. Jeremy Boal, the new president of the Mount Sinai Downtown health network, and Susan Somerville, Beth Israel Hospital’s president for the last three years, recently teamed up to lead a community informational meeting on the Beth Israel rebuilding

plans.

A concerned crowd of more than 100 locals, including area politicians, filled Baruch College’s Mason Hall, on E. 23rd St., on Oct. 27 to hear the presentation of the hospital plans, followed by a Q & A. Despite Boal and SomerHOSPITAL continued on p. 12

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a sharp rent hint at the Bakery Kitchen.

Rumors swirled in the neighborhood that Blue Ribbon was facing an astronomical “200 percent” or even “400 percent” rent hike on the larger restaurant space, but those could not be confirmed by press time.

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Bathed in blue but blue states too few. A Hillar y Clinton suppor ter in Rockefeller Center was aghast while watching the election results roll in Tuesday night.

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when it is over.” Patz also added that continued references to Jose Ramos — the previous prime suspect in the 6-year-old Soho boy’s unsolved 1979 disappearance — as the boyfriend of Etan’s babysitter are inaccurate.

“In future reporting,” Patz said, “please do not apply the word ‘babysitter’ to Susan Harrington. She was hired by a few parents to walk children home from school during the school bus driver strike. ‘Babysitter’ implies a level of intimacy; she was never alone in our loft with our children. That is an important distinction considering her relationship with Jose Ramos.” The last trial of Hernandez — a former Soho bodega worker — went on for months, and the same is expected this time around. Hernandez initially had confessed that he killed Etan, but later recanted. His defense attorneys continue to argue that he is mentally challenged and hallucinates.

INCUBATION SITUATION: The opening of the eagerly awaited new middle school at 75 Morton St. has been pushed back a year to September 2018 due to construction issues. For the coming 2017-18 school year, 75 Morton may possibly “incubate” its first sixth-grade class at the Clinton School for Writers and Artists, at 10 E. 15th St. Bonnie Laboy, the Community School District 2 superintendent, recently sent out a letter to break the news to the community. “Contractors are working diligently to complete the [75 Morton] project, but due to unforeseen structural steel conditions that could present significant safety concerns, the opening is being pushed back,” she said. “The Department of Education intends to propose the incubation of M.S. 297 in building M868… until construction on the school’s permanent space at 75 Morton St. is completed.” The Union Square-area school has space for the sixth graders, Laboy assured.

Meanwhile, students and families are invited to a “Meet the Principal” event on Tues., Nov. 15, at 6:30 p.m. in the spacious gym of the aforementioned Clinton School (between Fifth Ave. and Union Square West), to meet Jacqui Getz, the leader of the 75 Morton school. Getz will share her exciting vision for the new Village middle school.

ETAN TRIAL II: Stan and Julie Patz, the parents of Etan Patz, generally have seldom spoken to the press over the years. But after we saw Stan at a rally to save the Elizabeth St. Garden in September, we reached out to him about Pedro Hernandez’s retrial in Etan’s disappearance, and he shared his feelings, albeit briefly. In short, he’s hoping this time there will finally be a conviction. “Last year, at the end of the first trial, I made my views very clear — Hernandez is guilty beyond any reasonable doubt,” he told us. “Now that we are in… trial number two, I think it would be inappropriate to make any substantive comments. What you can write is that, after almost 38 years, my family and I will be glad

LANDMARK MOMENT: As anticipated, the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission last week voted to calendar the third and final phase of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s proposed South Village Historic District. The hearing for the area under consideration will be held Nov. 29. If this proposed area is designated, it will bring to 1,300 the number of buildings G.V.S.H.P. has helped get landmarked since 2003.

This includes 10 historic districts and historic district extensions, as well as more than a dozen sites designated as individual landmarks. Wow! Hats off to Andrew Berman, the society’s tireless executive director, and the rest of the G.V.S.H.P. staff. Truly extraordinary!

WESTBETH FLEA HAS OUR VOTE: As if this Election Day didn’t already hold enough excitement, it also, as usual, marked the start of the Westbeth Fall Flea Market. It’s the 32nd year for the annual affair, sponsored by the Westbeth Artists Beautification Committee.

“We are an old-school flea market,” organizer Gina Shamus said, “with unusual and unique items coming from artist collectors and artist producers. We also have vintage items. We have almost everything you can think of: housewares, clothing, lots of books, electronics, sporting goods. This season we have a huge amount of art books, and we always have original art. Great prices and a great experience. ” There are four more days of the flea market craze: Fri., Nov. 11, to Sun., Nov. 13, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., plus Sun., Nov. 20 — a.k.a. the big “Bag ’N’ Box Sale” — from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., when you can buy a cardboard box or big black plastic bag from the Westbeth folks for $5 and fill it with stuff. It all happens at the Village’s renowned artists’ enclave, at 55 Bethune St. (elevator access) and 137 Bank St. (stairs), both near the corner of Washington St. For more information, go to westbeth.org or e-mail westbethfleamarket@gmail.com or call 212-691-1574.

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Poet Ilsa Gilber t, outside the 20 Washington Square Nor th senior center, where she lunches, is one of three ar tists featured in the documentar y “ Winter at Westbeth.”

on Wed., Nov. 16, at 5 p.m., and Thurs., Nov. 17, at 10:15 p.m. Done over the course of one year, the film profiles video artist Edith Stephen, 95, who hopes to complete an experimental film for her birthday; contemporary dancer Dudley Williams, 75, who rehearses for a triumphant return to the stage; and poet Ilsa Gilbert, 82, who faces her mortality through her revealing verse. The movie has been described as “An inspirational story about community, aging and the need to keep creating.”

VILLAGE VIEW ELECTION TO-DO: Things are heating up at Village View, where a battle over the possible privatization of the East Village complex could be looming. The Mitchell-Lama affordable co-op, with 1,200 apartments, will hold its election for board of directors on Nov. 16. Watchdogs are calling for transparency in the election, and were recently backed up by local elected officials, who sent a joint letter to the board to that effect. The board, in turn, responded to Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, one of the letter’s signers, but we’re told he called their response “inadequate.” The board’s composition is critical, a source stressed to us, because it will vote early next year on the possibility of doing a feasibility study, the first step toward a vote on whether to leave the affordable-housing program. Currently, tenants can’t resale their affordable units. The apartments simply go back to the co-op and there is a waiting list to fill them. You get on the waiting list by lottery. Even if the co-op’s members were to vote to leave the MitchellLama program, the profit from selling units would not be that high, our stressed a source, who supports the complex staying in the Mitchell-Lama program, told us.

“If the sale price is $500,000, 45 percent goes back to Village View, and then there are real estate taxes,” she said. “You’ll be left with $200,000, and you can’t buy anything around here with that.” Indeed, it doesn’t look like you can get anything in the East Village right now for under $400,000. And, hey, what about the principle of leaving a stock of affordable housing for future generations of New Yorkers to enjoy?

CORRECTION: Last week’s article on Merchant’s House Museum’s 80th anniversary incorrectly stated that it is only open three days a week. In fact, the museum is open to visitors five days a week, from Friday to Monday, noon to 5 p.m., and Thursday, noon to 8 p.m.

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Scott, who drank himself to death, was singing about booze and drugs. And for the young bargoers, it was dawning on them that we are in for, well...one strange trip.

Morgann followed that right up with R.E.M.’s “It’s the End of the World (As We Know It).”

You could call it The Donald Doomsday Mix. As the night wore on, key battleground states, like Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, went red as Trump only further piled up his lead. He beat Clinton soundly, with 275 to 218 electoral votes, though lost the popular vote by around 200,000 ballots.

If Downtown Manhattan were the only place that mattered, Clinton would have crushed Trump. There were long lines at most of the polls, as people turned out to cast their vote for Clinton — and, equally, if not more importantly, against Trump.

Election workers reported record numbers — topping even the two previous presidential elections won by Barack Obama.

At the polling place at P.S. 41, at W. 11th St. and Sixth Ave., the line started forming shortly after 5 a.m. and stretched around the corner all the way to W. 10th St. “Oh, my God, it was over the top,” said Marjorie Kouns, the site’s information clerk.

The long river of voters flowed unbroken throughout the day, as people came in droves to weigh in on what most felt was one of the most critical elections of our lives. Local stars felt that way, too.

“We had our celebrities show up,” Kouns said. “Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Michael Kors, Marisa Tomei — and that says a lot to me.”

At around 2 p.m., Village District Keen Berger had just completed her first round of checking all 15 poll sites in her part of the 66th Assembly District.

“There were very long lines everywhere,” she reported. “The Palladium, they had lines down the street,” she said of New York University’s dorm on the former Palladium nightclub site on E. 14th St. Berger said that, according to Teresa Hommel, the P.S. 41 poll site coordinator, people had been voting there at a brisk clip of 1,000 per hour.

A problem at P.S. 41 and also at P.S. 63, on E. Third St., and likely at many other poll sites, was that some optical scanners filled up with the flood of paper ballots that had been fed into them.

Berger said Hommel earlier had been trying to figure out what to do with a machine packed full of the paper ballots.

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The line outside P.S. 41 was down the block all day long.

Deborah Glick spor ted a spiff y blue pantsuit for her candidate, Hillar y Clinton.

empty scanner was brought in.

Each scanner can hold somewhere 1,000 ballots.

At P.S. 63, as the voting was wrapping up around 9 p.m. Tuesday night, Saran Thrasher, the poll site coordinator, said they chose to keep the unscanned ballots until after the poll closed, and then would scan them then.

“We can’t leave here until we do it,” she said.

Also on the ballot for re-election at P.S. 41 were Assemblymember Deborah Glick, who ran unopposed, state Senator Brad Hoylman and Congressmember Chuck Schumer.

Entry / exit polling at the Greenwich Village School yielded many similar descriptions of the two presidential candidates when voters were asked why they were supporting Clinton and not Trump.

No one seemed to be backing Trump — except possibly two guys who said they would talk after voting.

Trump was described as “a disaster,” “insane,” “maniacal,” “frightening,” “a loose cannon,” “unpredictable,” “hideous,” “likely to get us into wars,” “psychopath” and “cuckoo.”

In contrast, Clinton was called “experienced,” “rational,” “logical,” “strategic.”

As one voter, Judith Levin, who teaches at N.Y.U., explaining her choice, put it, “It’s a no-brainer.”

But others, though supporting Clinton, were less than enthusiastic.

“She just doesn’t stand for anything,” said one man, who didn’t give his name.

He had thought of backing Green candidate Jill Stein as “the ultimate protest vote,” but made up his mind by the time he entered the school’s door.

Another man, Kevin Spina, however, who said he actually was a Green, did say he was voting for Stein because of her environmental positions and her pacifism.

“Nothing the major candidates said

Trump, Glick scoffed, “They have to have their heads examined. I was a Hillary supporter, but I voted for Obama in 2008.

This is not a time to have a fit of pique.”

Karen, a young mother discretely nursing her daughter through a flap in her shirt, had just voted. She said she didn’t want to give her last name because the election was causing family tension.

“I voted for the person who has not express social prejudices,” she said. “I don’t want my daughter growing up in that environment.”

At the same time, she said she wasn’t particularly inspired by Clinton. She works in finance and actually saw one of the “secret” Wall Street talks Clinton gave that the candidate was pressured to release the transcripts of.

“I don’t think she stated more dramatic views than what she’s stated in public,” she shrugged.

Salah Murshad, manning a convenience store counter on Avenue A as oud music played behind him on Tuesday night, said Trump is dangerous — not just to Muslims, but the world.

“He’s not good dealing with people, because he’s got a big mouth — no one can deal with that.”

He said he’s not afraid of Trump’s tough talk against Muslims.

“America, they go by law,” he said. “He can’t do whatever he wants because he is the president.”

Daniel Stone was one of the last voters at P.S. 63 on E. Third St. before the poll closed for the night.

A culinary instructor, he called the election a “disaster. All my European friends...it’s so embarrassing.

“I blame Bravo television for everything!” he said. “It’s ‘Real Housewives’ — no one cares about the issues.”

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made me feel that, if they were elected, the war in the Middle East would end,” he said.

Berger has a political pedigree. Her father, Harold Stassen, was Minnesota’s governor and a perennial Republican candidate for president, unsuccessfully seeking the party’s nomination nine times.

Asked for her own feelings on the election, Berger said, “Oh, I think it’s crucial.

The country has to take a stand against all the things that divide us.”

As for her thoughts on Clinton, she said, “You know, she’s not perfect — but neither am I.” She was then off to do a second sweep of her district’s poll sites, making sure everything was functioning well — and also distributing cookies to election workers.

Glick was dressed for the occasion in a blue pantsuit and blue shoes — “a nottoo-subtle” message, she quipped. She had to wait for an hour to cast her ballot.

“I got on line at 12:30 and vote at 1:30,” she noted.

Eight years ago, when Clinton was running for president for the first time, Glick had expressed to The Villager how happy she was finally to be able to vote for a woman for president. She had voted for far too many “mediocre men” over the years, she said back then.

Reminded of that comment on Tuesday, Glick noted, “I voted for Gore [in 2000]. That was a good guy.”

Trump, on the other hand, is more than just mediocre, in her view and in the view of most of the others who were on line.

“What I find incredible is that the man is obviously unhinged and a significant portion of the country is voting for him,” she marveled. “The Republicans are the victim of their own gridlock,” she said, of how Trump came to be the G.O.P. candidate.

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also close the nearby smaller Blue Ribbon Market on Bedford St. is because it relies on the Bakery Kitchen for many of its products. Blue Ribbon’s owners did not respond to requests for comment by press time.

Blue Ribbon’s gourmet fare is hugely popular among locals, many who lamented its loss and the circumstances around it. The eatery has been a neighborhood fixture since 1998.

“I was in tears when I found out,” Market regular Sheila Haas said. “If you go there and ask regulars, they’ll tell you they’ve been such a wonderful part of the community. There’s been so much change in the neighborhood, the stability they provided was just amazing.”

The new tenants who will take over the Blue Ribbon Market space, at 14 Bedford St., applied for a tavern wine liquor license, which would allow them to serve beer and wine. They have named the business Pocket Bar, according to Community Board 2, whose S.L.A. Licensing Committee will weigh in on the application at its meeting on Thurs., Nov. 10, at the Scholastic building, 557 Broadway between Prince and Spring Sts., at 6:30 p.m. The matter will next go before the State Liquor Authority.

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applied for full liquor on-premise license, which would allow them to serve all varieties of liquor — the same license the Blue Ribbon held.

The application notes the eatery will “be casual with a California-inspired, curated menu that will highlight locally sourced ingredients,” according to the owner’s lawyer. Until this Tuesday, the application as described on the C.B. 2 agenda called for the new restaurant to include a D.J. and live music. But that sentence had been removed from the C.B. 2 site by Wednesday.

The lawyer for the applicant told The Villager that the place would have “recorded background music only.” The owner is a former business development director for a restaurant group based in

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The Bedford-Downing Block Association urged members in an e-mail on Monday to petition C.B. 2 to deny the application at the former Market space, and to make sure the owner at the former Bakery Kitchen location “agrees to seal all windows, maintain a 24/7 closeddoor policy, enforce the proposed closing times (midnight on weeknights, 1 a.m.

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The smaller Blue Ribbon Market is a favorite go-to food-and-coffee spot for locals.

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in the area, including the Blue Ribbon Bakery Kitchen. A 30-year-resident of the block, she said there are “a million restaurants” in the area and the neighborhood could use another market instead of a bar at the former Market location. Restaurants aren’t what her neighbors need, she said.

“The kinds of businesses that restaurants replaced were shoe-repair places, tailors,” Mann said. “There was a deli where the market was — the kind of stores you want in a neighborhood where people live. Every time a service business closes and a restaurant moves in, it’s not your livable neighborhood anymore, it’s a neighborhood for people who come from Uptown for lunch or brunch.”

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ville’s reassurances, the politicians pushed for more information, particularly from the state Department of Health. Local residents, meanwhile, expressed skepticism that the new hospital would adequately meet the community’s needs.

The day before, Dr. Ken Davis, the Mount Sinai Health System C.E.O., had announced Boal’s appointment as the head of Mount Sinai Downtown, the new name the health system recently gave to its facilities below 23rd St. Boal’s job will be to oversee the creation of that new network’s centerpiece, a scaled-down Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital on Second Ave. between E. 14th and 13th Sts., which is slated to be completed in four years from now. Boal will also oversee the “enhancement” of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary on the same block, plus the upgrading of two other major medical hubs the health system runs in the Downtown area — on Union Square East and on W. 15th St. — plus other scattered physician sites.

Boal, who trained in geriatric medicine, started out as an intern at Mount Sinai 25 years ago. He has two decades of experience in patient care and hospital management.

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Holding a July letter from local officials to the state Health commissioner, A ssemblymember Brian Kavanagh stressed that area politicians want full information on the process of closing down the current Beth Israel Hospital and building its replacement.

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president and chief medical officer of the larger Mount Sinai Health System.

In January, he will fully take over the new Downtown network and Somerville will step down.

Previously, Boal was chief medical officer for North Shore-LIJ Health System, now known as Northwell Health, which operates the Lenox Health Greenwich Village 24/7 stand-alone emergency department at W. 12th St. and Seventh Ave. on part of the former St. Vincent’s Hospital site.

Under the Beth Israel rebuilding plan, the eyeglasses store at the southeast corner of E. 14th St. and Second Ave. will be replaced with an open plaza that Boal described as “a giveback” to the community. However, he later noted, Mount Sinai is also proactively opening up this corner because it potentially could be the site of a Second Ave. subway entrance/exit at some point in the future — so, they might as well do it up now.

Over all, Boal said, Mount Sinai hopes the new compact full-service hospital — designed by architects Perkins Eastman, and sporting a scrim-like overhead structure to define the corner plaza — will be “sort of a gateway to the East Village.”

The walk-in entrance for its emergency room will be on E. 14th St. Whether the ambulance bay, however, will be on 14th or 13th St. still hasn’t been decided.

The new hospital will only have 70 acute-care beds. But it will be built so that, if it turns out more hospital beds are needed, two or three floors could be added atop its E. 13th St. side. But Boal said Mount Sinai feels 70 is the correct number, at least right now.

Nevertheless, Boal said, it’s good to have the possibility of adding beds.

“It is critical to be able to expand,” he stressed.

Currently, the existing Beth Israel Hospital, at E. 16th St. and First Ave., sees about 300 of its acute-care beds filled on a daily basis. (The hospital’s Bernstein Pavilion, at E. 16th St. and Perlman Place, has 150 beds for behavioral-health patients that are filled to capacity, and that number won’t change under the plan.)

Mount Sinai arrived at the number or 70 acute-care beds by factoring in expected and planned reductions. For example, 60 of the current beds at Beth Israel will no longer be needed due to advances in ambulatory treatment, according to Mount Sinai. In addition, patients needing complex care, such as kidney transplants or neurosurgery, as well as women giving birth, all who would normally fill another 100 of the hospital’s beds, will be shifted to Mount Sinai’s uptown hospitals — including Mount Sinai West (the formerly Roosevelt Hospital) and Mount Sinai St. Luke’s.

Another 40 beds will no longer be needed thanks to a new “Hospital at Home” program, for which the federal government recently gave Mount Sinai a $20 million grant, which will treat more people where they live. Finally, a 30-bed Mount Sinai Brooklyn Obstetrics Center will be created to serve Beth Israel’s current Brooklyn patients; about half of the births at Beth Israel are by Brooklyn residents.

In fact, Boal pointed out, it’s best for people just to stay out of hospitals, if they safely can, since hospitals are full of infections, among other things.

Plus, “patient satisfaction” is higher when people can be treated at home, he noted.

About one-third of the city’s acutecare hospital beds are currently empty, and this percentage increases every year, Somerville pointed out.

“The number of patients that spend time in hospitals will go down, and they’ll spend less time in hospital beds,” Boal stated.

However, not all at the meeting were convinced. During the Q & A, Sue Ellen Kennedy, an East Village resident, accused the Beth Israel plan of being based on “magic beds” that don’t exist.

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and 17th Sts. and First Ave. and Perlman Place — a.k.a. “the superblock” — will be sold, along with Gilman Hall, on the northwest corner of E. 17th St. and First Ave., plus a row of small buildings along First Ave. In short, all of the current Beth Israel property except for the Bernstein Pavilion will be sold, and all proceeds from the sale will be funneled into the $500 million Downtown plan, mostly for the construction of the mini-hospital, though more funds will likely be needed, they said.

The current hospital will keep operating until the new one opens.

As for what kind of housing will be built on the Gramercy site, they said Mount Sinai strongly supports affordable housing, but that it will be up to the developer to determine this.

However, speaking on behalf of Gale Brewer, the Manhattan borough president, Matthew Washington, the deputy borough president, told the hospital officials, “The Borough President’s Office would love to see a 100-percent affordable housing project there.”

The audience applauded its support.

“We’re certainly going to advocate for it,” Boal said of affordable housing.

Dan Sheppard, a deputy commissioner of the New York State Department of Health, explained that “certificates of need” are required for each step of closing down the current Beth Israel Hospital and opening the new smaller version. The “C.O.N.’s” will be viewable on the department’s Web site, he said.

But local politicians at the presentation said they want a lot more notification and input than that. Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, during his remarks, brandished a letter to the state D.O.H. commissioner that 16 of the area’s elected officials jointly signed back in July soon after news of the Beth Israel rebuilding plan broke.

Their letter stated, in part, “Given our and the public’s concern over past losses of hospital services in Manhattan, it is important that D.O.H. attend a public meeting to explain the criteria and process that might be used by the department in evaluating and responding to the applications that Mount Sinai is considering for Beth Israel Hospital and Mount Sinai’s downtown services. We are hopeful that D.O.H. will provide the community with information and answer questions about the regulatory decision-making standards and process, and that any decisions your agency ultimately makes will be fully informed by the community’s input.”

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very forthcoming — but we would like to see comprehensive review [of each stage of the process]. The community has seen hospitals come and go. We’d like much more clarity. We’re looking for the Health Department to act as the ultimate arbiter of this plan and make sure it’s meeting people’s needs,” Kavanagh said, to the audience’s applause.

Added Wendi Paster, Assemblymember Richard Gottfried’s chief of staff, “Perhaps there was a communication problem because we would have liked to hear a little more. Also, we’d like to hear a little more about affordable housing.”

State Senator Liz Krueger expressed concern that no one seems to be overseeing Manhattan’s shifting healthcare landscape — much less the whole city’s — in terms of public and private hospitals, and whether this seemingly increasingly random patchwork actually all works together.

“I’m very concerned that somebody’s not looking at the big picture,” Krueger said. “This is like reorganizing the deck chairs of healthcare,” she added, riffing on the “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic” line.

However, Somerville added that Mount Sinai is, in fact, taking the time to do things correctly.

“We’ve all seen where hospitals close and it’s terrible for patients — just a hard stop,” she said. “With the Beth Israel plan, the four-year timeline affords us the opportunity to get it right.”

Boal added there would be many more meetings to keep the community informed about the plan’s progress.

Umair Khan, deputy counsel to Public Advocate Letitia James, was skeptical that Mount Sinai would have space at its uptown hospitals for Downtown women to deliver babies, since this service won’t be done at Beth Israel anymore.

“We know N.Y.U. [Langone] is filled to capacity, as is Bellevue,” he said.

But Somerville answered, “We have pockets of beds in many facilities that aren’t being used.” Plus, there will be the new Brooklyn obstetrics facility, she added.

Regarding the downsized East Village hospital’s emergency department, Boal explained, “This will be a very busy, very large emergency department.”

The E.R. won’t treat trauma patients, though, who will continue to be sent to Bellevue Hospital, as is done now, he said.

Somerville added that the new M.S.B.I. hospital will have “a surge plan,” such as would be needed during a flu epidemic, for example. Superstorm Sandy was a situation that saw a surge of patients, she noted.

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The new hospital will be built mostly on E. 13th St. on the site of a former New York Eye and Ear residential building and a small parking lot. There will be parking underneath the new hospital, Boal noted.

Responding to concerns about the future of Beth Israel’s employees, the hospital leaders said they are proud of Mount Sinai’s agreement to ensure that all unionized employees get equivalent union jobs.

“It has been an absolute priority to preserve jobs for employees,” Somerville said. “It’s not perfect, but we’re not doing layoffs.”

A West Village woman, recalling the terror blast in Chelsea two months ago, said it could have been much worse, and that the area needs a Level I trauma center, like the one St. Vincent’s Hospital had before that hospital shuttered in 2010.

“Everything is on the East Side, but we need something on the West Side,” she said of how hospitals south of 23rd St. are distributed.

“St. Vincent’s closing was a tragedy that wasn’t supposed to happen,” Boal said, sympathetically.

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asked what Mount Sinai is doing “to prepare for the crisis you don’t know about.”

“There’s Ebola, climate change, a lot of unknowns are out there,” she said.

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Boal answered that Mount Sinai has “studied projections on aging and young families” for the new hospital’s service area. The health system, in fact, creates a “likely threat list” each year, he added. noting they had just worked up a scenar-

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The audience expressed its approval as Boal added that a key to ensuring the new hospital meets the community’s needs will be for it to have “multicultural physicians and services.”

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POLICE BLOTTER Killer drivers sentenced

A driver who was high on drugs when he swerved across Second Ave. and careened into an East Village grocery store three years ago, fatally injuring a 62-year-old florist, was sentenced to 20 years to life last week.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, Jr. last Friday announced the stiff sentence against Shaun Martin, 35, in the fatal June 2013 crash at E. Fourth St. Martin, who was on PCP and meth, was reportedly going more than 80 miles per hour when his Nissan Altima flew onto the sidewalk at 6:50 a.m. and raked the store’s side, hitting Mohammed Akkas Ali. Two others were injured.

Martin also first hit a hydrant, a pay phone, a Muni-Meter and a tree.

Ali had worked 22 years at East Village Farm deli, also making fresh-squeezed juices and salads.

He was in a coma a couple of weeks, regained consciousness, but never spoke or moved again, and eventually died from his injuries.

Martin was convicted in State Supreme Court of all charges he faced, including second-degree murder, aggravated vehicular homicide, and firstdegree assault and reckless endangerment, among others.

His attorney argued Martin was self-medicating and an addict. The judge was unsympathetic.

“Shaun Martin’s drug-fueled joyride ended in tragedy,” Vance said after the sentencing. “Thanks to my office’s prosecutors and members of the Ninth Precinct, he will serve a prison sentence commensurate with his deadly conduct.”

Last month, in a separate case, another reckless speeding driver, Danny Lin, was sentenced to oneand-two-third years to five years in state prison for fatally striking Robert Perry, 57, with his BMW on the Bowery in November 2014.

Perry, who was crossing Rivington St., was thrown 140 feet through the air. Lin sped off but stopped after hitting a hydrant at Stanton St. He was convicted of manslaughter.

Vance declared, “We will continue doing our part to reduce vehicular fatalities by holding criminal drivers accountable for the harm that they inflict.”

‘Police pusher’ A woman allegedly called a police officer Donald Trump’s favorite word early Tues, Nov. 1.

Police said that at 12:30 a.m. at Sixth Ave. and W. Fourth St., a woman pushed a cop and said, “You’re a f---ing pussy!” A crowd gathered. When the officer tried to handcuff her, she reportedly kicked multiple officers and flailed her arms.

Tiesha Martin, 24, was arrested for misdemeanor resisting arrest.

‘Brother’ busted, too An officer was arresting a handcuffed prisoner in front of 163 Bleecker St. when a man tried to intervene.

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Dr. Emily Lucretia Sisley, a psychologist and writer who co-authored “The Joy of Lesbian Sex,” died Oct. 21 in New York City. She was 86.

Sisley was born May 7, 1930, in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, daughter of Frederick W. and Harriet Litman Sisley. At 21, she moved to New York City and never looked back. For the last 50 years, she lived in Greenwich Village in a tiny, eccentrically decorated apartment.

Sisley received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Long Island University. She was a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Board of Medical Psychotherapists. She served as chief psychologist at the Gramercy Park Institute. Her teaching appointments included Long Island University, Pima College, the Chiropractic Institute of New York, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.

Sisley is also the author of “The Novel Writers” (1980) and co-author of “The Vitamin C Connection” (1983). She was an avid musician, playing piano, clarinet and viola, and a longtime supporter of the Metropolitan and City operas. Her great friend and neighbor Jean Warfield, now deceased, worked as a set designer for the Metropolitan, and their Morton St. apartments were often the site of musical galas featuring noted performers of the New York stage.

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and golf, and was her family historian.

Those mourning her include her brother, Brigadier General Frederick E. Sisley (U.S. Marine Corps, retired), his wife Dinny and their children and grandchildren; cousins Mimi Alef, Maude Parkinson and Susan Wilson and their families; cousin Bruce J. Croushore and family; and devoted friends Mary “Gussie” Dimmick of Pittsburgh and Mary Phillips of New York.

“The Joy of Lesbian Sex,” praised as an “informative, sensitively written manual” when it appeared in 1978, may seem somewhat outdated today but was groundbreaking for its time. It has been translated into many languages and has been a support for women exploring their sexuality over several decades.

Contributions in Emily Sisley’s memory can be made to the Morton St. Block Association, P.O. Box 20136, West Village Station, New York, N.Y. 10014; or Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow St., New York, N.Y. 10014; or the ASCPA. Please include “in memory of Emily Sisley” on the check.

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Judge blocks building sale in gay man’s estate battle

BY PAUL SCHINDLER

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n a promising first step for a gay man fighting to keep the Village home he shared with his late partner for 53 years, a Surrogate Court judge has blocked the property’s sale by the dead man’s relatives and ordered them to show cause why Tom Doyle, as their uncle’s “surviving spouse,” should not be declared the “sole heir.”

On Nov. 1, Judge Nora Anderson issued a temporary restraining against four nieces and nephews of William Cornwell selling the 69 Horatio St. townhouse he bought in 1979. Anderson’s order gave them until Nov. 18 to “show cause.”

Cornwell and Doyle began their relationship in 1958. Cornwell bought them wedding rings after New York legalized TheVillager.com

same-sex marriage in 2011. According to Doyle, Cornwell’s declining health kept them from going to the city Marriage Bureau before Cornwell’s death in 2014.

Cornwell left Doyle the building in his will, but it had only one witness, not the required two. After entering into contract with a buyer for more than $7 million, the cousins offered to let Doyle, 85, stay there for five years and pay him $250,000 from the building’s sale.

Attorneys Arthur Z. Schwartz and Jamie L. Wolf filed suit claiming the men’s vacations in Pennsylvania made them common-law spouses there.

“The temporary restraining order by the surrogate,” Schwartz said, “indicates that, at least, based on our papers, she believes we have made a plausible legal case that they were married.”

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Lesser-evilism is as old as two-party politics in America. In the 1960s, Barry Goldwater was the liberals’ boogyman, useful for keeping the Democratic faithful docile. In recent years, that role has been played by Bob Dole, George W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney. Meanwhile, the Democratic leadership keeps moving farther and farther to the right.

True progressives need to vote for Jill Stein. Like all Green Party candidates, she receives no corporate or war machine donations. A vote for Hillary is a vote for war; a vote for Jill is a vote for peace. (Contrary to Mr. Weinberg’s lurid allegation, Stein supports a peaceful settlement in Syria by disarming all parties — not an Assad victory.) And if Stein gets just 5 percent of the total vote, the Greens will receive millions in federal funds and major-party status for 2020.

I will join Weinberg in protesting Clinton if she wins — but, unlike Weinberg, I won’t be protesting against myself.

To The Editor: Re “Downsized Beth Israel could be done in 4 years” (news article, Oct. 27): Your article on Beth Israel was excellent. Not having a hospital on the West Side for a number of miles is one of my issues.

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lmost a year after a gas explosion rocked the East Village, killing two men and leveling three buildings, four people were indicted last Thursday for manslaughter and other charges in connection with the blast.

Maria Hrynenko, 56, who owns the building at 121 Second Ave. where the blast occurred, her son Michael Hrynenko, 30, contractor Dilber Kukic, 40, and plumb-

er Athanasios “Jerry” Ioannidis, 59, were also charged with criminally negligent homicide and assault in the second degree, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

In addition, Andrew Trombettas, 57, was charged with “renting” his master plumbing license to Ioannidis so the latter could get work on the property approved, prosecutors said.

Manhattan D.A. Cy Vance said last week that the defendants set up an elaborate ille-

gal gas line and hid the setup from inspectors, causing the explosion and subsequent fire on March 26, 2015, that claimed the lives of Moises Locón and Nicholas Figueroa and injured and displaced dozens of others.

“The seven-alarm fire that killed two people and engulfed three buildings in March 2015 was caused by a foreseeable, preventable and completely avoidable gas explosion,” Vance said.

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Negrin has the right angle To The Editor: Re “Triangle tricky business” (letter, by Howard Negrin, Nov. 3): Howard Negrin’s comments on the arrogance of the group proposing this modern street-art attachment to the famous landmarked Brown Building — site of the tragedy of the Triangle Fire of 1911 — highlight the egregious acts committed and the standard transparency protocols omitted by this ad hoc coalition. And this was all done with the assistance of our local politicians and city agencies — and the involvement of our governor, too!

There was no Community Board 2 review of any of these plans. It was a well-kept secret within a society of entitlement proponents. And, it is not acceptable to this neighborhood or the community. Have any of these high-placed educators realized that 21 Washington Place, right across the street from the Brown Building, was the birthplace of esteemed author Henry James? Perhaps they can cut out his name to fly through the air, too?

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Landmarks double-talk on Jane project was creepy

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BY MICHELE HERMAN

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went down to the Landmarks Preservation Commission hearing the other day and watched the commissioners sign off, as I suspected they would, on the revised plan for 85-89 Jane St., the Pro Piano buildings.

No doubt the new, much smaller design is an improvement on the previous in-your-face iteration. But as I listened to the exchange between the commissioners and Stephen Harris, the presenting architect, I heard many illogical and self-serving replies to straightforward questions.

Some of the discussion centered on the decision to destroy the existing stepped parapet wall on the garage, a detail that is apparently not original to the building but has been there for many decades and is arguably the property’s most distinctive and beloved feature.

Question: “What prevents you from maintaining the original profile of the parapet wall?”

Answer: “Much of the structure has to be reinvented anyway because it’s wildly out of plumb, and it seemed inauthentic to replicate it.”

Question: “How is restoring the parapet less authentic than the entirely new design you’re proposing?”

Answer: “It’s an aesthetic and judgment call. The existing parapet wall is not original to the building. We tried to perfectly restore 85 [the other building on the site].”

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A design rendering for the 85-89 Jane St. project. A previous design featured a pair of tall towers that have since been removed.

The commission seemed to accept the logic of another explanation that said, in effect, the rejiggering of the new addition that will go in behind the existing No. 85 building will make that existing building “read” like an addition and the new building “read” as if it were always there because it will be aligned with the street wall of the existing townhouses alongside it. (Keep in mind that it’s a single family asking for additional space beyond the tens of thousands of square feet already there.)

When asked about the slightly odd

window and door arrangement of the slightly odd tall segment that contains a penthouse at the western edge of No. 89, Harris pointed to photos of several old industrial buildings nearby, long since demolished, that had a similarly odd look. He praised those old buildings for their utter lack of aesthetic consideration.

The head of the commission praised the architect’s firm for its aesthetic considerations in the design, which involve manipulating the new and existing parts of the project to resemble a complex of

multiple buildings characteristic of the area, when what the firm is actually doing is taking down an actual building characteristic of the area.

My ear was particularly attuned to the fawning and double-talk because I had already half-listened through a few prior items that day, all of them involving current owners of historic structures asking for modest alterations — things like a new garage door and stucco applied atop the rear wall of a private house to provide insulation. The tone during these discussions couldn’t have been more different.

On these items, the commissioners, I thought, asked tough and practical questions of the sort that seemed like a baseline for all proposals: Will this action set a bad precedent? Who, other than the owner, will see this change? Does improved energy efficiency justify the loss of historic materials? Is this material durable and is the process reversible and, if so, how hard would it be to reverse it?

When it came to Jane St., there was only passing mention of whether the removal of the garage’s distinctive parapet would set a precedent, despite the existence of at least three similar threatened structures in the immediate vicinity. Not a word about who might have to live with the additional bulk in the rear of the new development. Not a word about the environmental impact of the design — not even when the architect said that the new elevator, whose shaft will be visible from the street, is needed strictly to convey garden equipment to the roof — a garden serving one family.

As usual, I had the slightly creepy impression that the conclusion had been reached before the discussion began and that it was tilted in favor of the developer’s desires rather than the preservation of history.

Something smells rotten about new food-cart bill

BY ROBERT LEDERMAN

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he New York City Council, under the direction of Speaker Melisa Mark-Viverito, is attempting to pass Intro No. 1303, a law that would double the number of food vending carts throughout the city. She has lined up 13 councilmembers — including Margaret Chin — plus the public advocate and the Manhattan borough president as sponsors, all of whom claim the law is solely intended to help immigrant vendors and to reform the problems with food carts.

Yet, most of these same elected officials have built their political careers on harassing and persecuting vendors.

Has the City Council abruptly reversed course after more than 100 years of effort to limit or eliminate street vendors and become vendor advocates?

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and her colleagues sponsor a law that goes completely against the interests of every business improvement district, community board, resident, restaurant, store and the thousands of legal food vendors, disabled veteran vendors and street artists who oppose this bill?

Perhaps the answer is in the speaker’s intimate connection to one vending cart corporation, MOVE Systems.

MOVE is backed by Wall Street billionaires, a billionaire real estate developer, a fracked natural gas provider and a financial services corporation.

As detailed in a press release from the speaker’s office, MOVE Systems wants to initially place 500 new high-tech food carts on the streets, powered by fracked natural gas, with each cart also tethered to a sidewalk electrical outlet.

MOVE and the speaker have a significant legal obstacle to accomplishing this plan: Under New York City law you

can only own one food-cart permit.

The City Council held an eight-hour public hearing on this bill on Oct. 26.

Officials from every BID, from the Department of Consumer Affairs, the Department of Health, the Police Department, community boards, restaurants, stores and numerous vendor advocates all testified strongly against Intro No. 1303. Yet the speaker and her co-sponsors continue to promote the measure.

As expressed in the testimony, as many as 90 percent of the city’s current 8,000 food carts are black market, meaning that the person issued the permit has illegally sold or leased it to the person operating the cart. The MOVEViverito agenda would double the number of black market carts.

A Department of Health official testified that one food cart releases as much particulate pollution daily as a semi-truck driving 3,500 miles.

BID representatives said that the only way doubling the number of food carts would work is to privatize all vending spots by selling them to the highest bidder. The BIDs believe they would be entitled to a share of those fees. Once sold, those vending spots on public streets would belong to MOVE. How are immigrant vendors going to outbid a billionaire-backed vending corporation? MOVE’s corporate backers would make billions from the carts’ electronic ads, plus a cut of every sale.

An article with links supporting each of the claims in this talking point, plus a video of the City Council hearing is available at https://www.facebook. com/stopintro1303/ .

Lederman is president of A.R.T.I.S.T. (Artists’ Response To Illegal State Tactics), an advocacy group representing New York City street artists.

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The art of the game gains ground Aesthetics and oddities impress at CultureHub Con

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ith grand narratives, soaring musical scores, and top-notch voice acting among its commonplace traits, the debate over whether or not the video game is an art form has moved being a simple “yes” or “no” question, to prompting more nuanced discussions of what constitutes art within the boundaries of a constantly evolving medium.

On Oct. 28 and 29, the East Village performance complex La MaMa hosted the video game festival ArtCade Con. Presented under the auspices of its art and technology lab, CultureHub, attendees could try everything from abstract interactive storytelling to a game that the Iranian government doesn’t want people to see. The focus was on experimental and independent games made by small teams, or even just one person. However, a few of the games were commercial products available for sale through online downloads.

“Owlboy” was in development for nearly 10 years, and had become a joke among hardcore indie game fans. It launched mere days after ArtCade Con, and the con provided one of the first opportunities for people to try out this long-anticipated game. It is a labor of love by developers who were looking to show the advantages of old-fashioned 2D graphics. Aside from the graphics, “Owlboy” also drew interest from its bittersweet story of a mute boy who is unappreciated by the people of his village, no matter how many times he saves them.

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most of the world but, earlier this year, it was banned in Iran. It is set during Iran’s revolution in 1978, and players control a photographer who chronicles these events. Even though it has come to be called the “Islamic Revolution,” there were many factions vying for control of Iran at the time, and players get to shape the story through their choices. They can’t change historical events, but they can learn about the different social, political, and theological forces at work at the time. Along the way the game subtly teaches about Persian culture, which also helps players make wise choices during the story (if an interrogator offers a bev-

erage, it’s polite to accept, for instance).

Created at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts’ Game Center as the 2016 thesis project of Jose Tomas Vicuna, “Black Emperor” had virtually no story at all, but emerged as one of ArtCade Con’s biggest crowd-pleasers. Described as an “actionpaced arcade inspired by Japanese psychedelic rock and the bosozoku motorcycle culture of the ’70s,” it had no narrative — but its simple graphics and addictive challenges evoked the sense of being in an arcade in the 1980s. Even the most skilled players could only last a minute or so without crashing their motorcycle, and it drew a crowd of fans cheering each other

on. It was exactly the sort of game that players would line up to spend a quarter on 30 years ago.

“Beglitched” takes the “Match 3” gameplay of “Bejeweled” and adds in an elaborate story that resonates among geeks. In it, players stumbled across a laptop owned by a famous hacker. The game uses an interface, which looks like an older computer operating system, and is presented as though the player is looking through files on someone else’s computer. The layers of storytelling, and difficult puzzles make it a more compelARTCADE continued on p. 23 November 10, 2016

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Stump Speech: Election 2016

Picking apart the Trump cake America baked

BY MAX BURBANK

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do not know how to write this article. Clearly I’m too stupid, as I never for an instant entertained the idea I’d have to. It’s cold comfort that almost every political writer out there is in the same boat — a big, listing, boatload of stupid.

I’ve scrapped six or seven approaches since around 2 a.m. Wednesday morning. I thought about framing it as an obituary. You know, “After a protracted battle with xenophobia, white identity and churlishness, America died on November 9, 2016, at the age of 238.” That’s crap though. Clinton won the popular vote — so it’s not that dead. Coughing up blood? Maybe. But it’s not plug-pulling time yet.

Let’s not be alarmist; at least not until the entire family has gathered at her bedside and figures out if the damage is irreversible. Look, the midterm elections are in just two years. Surely, until then, we can feed America pudding through a tube and hope for the best.

I thought about playing against tension; doing a goofy, elated, edge-of-hysteria thing: “Well, I was 100 percent wrong when I said a Trump victory was demographically impossible, wronger when I wrote that America was better than this, and most wrongerest of all when I said a human-shaped, orange leather bag of weasel bile would never be elected president because this wasn’t Bizarro America, so there’s a really good possibility I’ve been wrong on everything! Trump IS going to make America great again! ISIS WILL be defeated on January 21!! We WILL build the biggest, most beautiful wall, and not only will Mexico pay for it, they WILL include a 20 percent gratuity!!!” I crumpled that draft and missed the wastebasket, and I am not ashamed to say it was because I could barely SEE IT through my tears of RAGE, HEARTBREAK, and TERROR! Also because, as my middle school gym teacher told my parents, I am so bad at sports it may be diagnosis-related.

I avoided writing this column by turning to Facebook, because I’m co-dependent, but like my friends at a comfortable electronic distance. An old student of mine had written “Oh my God. The White House Interior Decoration.” I found that funny, heartening and brave. I responded, “If you can make jokes, I can at least get out of bed and make coffee.” Then I went into the kitchen to fi nd my coffee machine had died during the night and was not so much making coffee as spitting occasional gobs of mostly steam at the grounds. Now I’m not superstitious; I don’t believe in signs and omens. But when Mr. Coffee speaks directly to you by committing suicide?

It’s hard to write this column because I am sad.

I am very, very sad, and you should feel sad for me because as a middle-aged white man, while I did not vote for Trump, I do know this election was all about me and my delicate feelings. I’m uncomfort-

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able about America right now, and if this election taught us anything, it’s that you need to be focused with laser-like intensity on my needs. Sure, those needs are, at the moment, diametrically opposed to the majority of my cohort, but screw that! A MIDDLE-AGED WHITE GUY IS SPEAKING HERE! IN CAPS! I’m so sad and scared for women and Muslims and undocumented immigrants and the disabled and the LGBTQ community and Jews and anyone whose skin does not fall in the day-glo orange to lily-white range.

I’m worried for Trump’s political opponents; for Republicans whose support was a mite too tepid; for everyone relying on Obamacare; for journalists — from the dogged investigators all the way down to crappy little joke-boy pundits like me. And I’m really, really sad for Hillary — and if you aren’t, screw you. Whatever you think about her, you know she worked hard as hell for longer than many of you have been alive. She worked harder in a week than most of us will in our lives. All those times I was laying on the couch in my bathrobe (okay, underwear) watching “The Flash” on the CW? That woman was working, and it really looked like she’d be the first female President of the United States, and instead it’s that guy who bragged about grabbing women by the pussy to impress Billy Bush.

You think you’re bummed out today? You don’t know from bummed out.

I blame the cake.

You know the one I’m talking about.

That damn Trump cake made for his victory party. You saw it. That was not a cake sculpture of a winner. That was a cake sculpture of a paunchy, slack-faced dude for whom it was just sinking in what a ginormous loser he truly was; a man who’d bitten off several Trump Steaks more than he could safely chew; a snake oil salesman moments away from being tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. It was a cake sculpture of the man we expected to see. Shame on that cake sculpture Trump. And more shame on me for believing a cake sculpture. That is the true message of this election.

Never, never put your faith in a cake sculpture.

So I’m sad. Many of us are. But that’s today.

Tomorrow we pick ourselves up and begin to fight.

We abandon our foolish talk of fleeing to Canada or Ireland or wherever, because who the hell wants an American on their couch right now? Seriously, they’d be worried we’d drink the liquor, steal the silver, and leave the dog in a family way, and THEIR CONCERNS WOULD BE LEGITIMATE! Silver linings? Well, the likelihood that I get to keep writing my little joke-boy “political satire” has gone up. At least until they work their way down to sticking small-time wannabees like me in Trump Re-education Camp #1138. I wonder, will they let me bring my laptop? Do you think they’ll have Wi-Fi?

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Subterranean homesick blues Documentary explores the life of a New Yorker obsessed with the subways

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arius McCollum, the man at the center of Adam Irving’s documentary “Off the Rails,” is a complex character. Obsessed with the MTA’s subway and buses, he knows the system better than many actual transit employees. The MTA turned him down for a job when he was 17; had they hired him, the course of his life probably would’ve been much happier. Instead, he spends his days prowling the subway, looking for opportunities to don his MTA uniform and hijack a train or bus. His intent is benign — he’s never hurt anyone — and he’s always delivered passengers to their destination safely. Nevertheless, this compulsion has led to 19 years in jail.

Darius is in prison right now, awaiting sentencing on his latest crime.

Darius’ case raises larger issues about mental health and the way prison is so often used to treat it.

He was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, which accounts for his high intelligence, his inability to connect with people (while he was once married, his ex-wife Nelly Rodriguez seems to be the only woman with whom he’s had a serious adult relationship), and his tendency to focus narrowly and relentlessly on things.

If I can play armchair psychiatrist, he also seems to have a whopping case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. While his obsessions are potentially harmful, they haven’t played out that way so far in more than 30 years of unauthorized subway conducting and bus driving.

His crimes have been victimless, yet he’s served more jail time than some killers or rapists.

Irving tells Darius’ story mostly through his subject’s own words (in interviews filmed against a dark background, possibly in jail), interviews with lawyers, social workers, and psychiatrists who’ve worked with him, reenactments, and cuts to “Superman” cartoons. (There’s also a bit of original animation.) The “Superman” references aren’t intended to be taken literally, but to convey Darius’ inner life. Composers Duncan Thum and Steve Gernes’ pulsing electronic score recalls some of the first synthesizerdriven movie soundtracks by Wendy TheVillager.com

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Carlos, Brian Eno, and Tangerine Dream.

Director John Crowley is on board to direct a narrative version of Darius’ story, with Julia Roberts set to play his lawyer. I’m not sure who will play Darius, but I’d like to suggest Michael K. Williams, who played Omar on “The Wire,” given Williams’ recent frankness about his struggle with addiction. While that film may turn out well, there’s something absurd

about making a Hollywood version of a life story that’s mostly brought torment and misery to the people who’ve participated in it. Movies about con artists tend to romanticize them. “Off the Rails” suggests their short-term pleasure is rooted in real pathology and leads to long-term struggles.

I have to admit, though, that there’s something fascinating about Darius’ story, as much as it may be driven by mental illness, and Crowley isn’t the

first person to see fictional potential in it. Irving also interviews the playwright of “Boy Steals Train,” which is based on his life as well. There’s triumph amidst the pathos here, and it’s frustrating to try and figure out how Darius’ life could have been filled with more of those victories.

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ling experience than its casual cousins like “Candy Crush.”

The “Beglitched” idea of playing a hacker, and the jokes about operating systems and Internet culture highlight a recurring pattern at ArtCade Con. The games often formed an insular bubble where the players were just as geeky as the designers themselves. Some of the other games even had esoteric references to the process of game design, which could only be appreciated by others in the industry (much like a novel about a writer with writer’s block, or a movie about life in Hollywood).

Other games at ArtCade Con had little commercial potential, yet clearly delighted players. The designer of “Morning Makeup Madness” describes it as a prototype, but players enjoyed it as much as the more elaborate projects. People had a mere 10 seconds to apply five different kinds virtual cosmetics to a woman’s face. Those who frantically accomplished this would “beat” the game, but ruin their makeup.

ArtCade Con also showed some of the problems that game designers will face now that games have become accepted as art — a label self-proclaimed “artists” can hide behind. Games like “Mu Cartographer” and “Islands” were so abstract that players often fiddled with the controls for a few seconds before walking away confused. The objectives, and how the controls affect the onscreen action, left players questioning what they were supposed to do, or if they were

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Worth the wait? “Owlboy” was in development for a decade.

supposed to do anything at all. The designers of these projects now have the choice of redesigning their interface, or claiming that the players “just didn’t get it.”

Prolific designer Robert Yang spoke on an Artist Talk panel about his work, much of which was centered on creating virtual penises. He boasted that it took 1,000 lines of code to make a virtual toilet flush in his urination simulator “The Tea Room.”

His games will no doubt face the same skepticism as when Marcel Duchamp autographed a toilet and proclaimed it “art.”

For more info on CultureHub and ArtCade Con, visit culturehub.org and lamama.org/artcade_2016.

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e finally have an idea of what the inside of the 15 0 , 0 0 0 - s q u a r e - f o o t Market Line semi-subterranean bazaar in the Essex Crossing megadevelopment will look like. The developers behind the $1.1 billion project released new renderings of Market Line that show shoppers picking up produce at its farmers market and enjoying a beer hall.

Market Line will run east to west between three Essex Crossing buildings along Broome St. from Essex St. to Clinton St. It will have 40-foot-tall glass walls to let in light to its lower level, where its market, food hall and beer hall are planned.

There will be retail at the ground floor of the three buildings and the Essex Street Market will be located at the corner of the Essex St. building near its current home, which will be demolished to make way for part of the development.

The new Essex Street Market will be 30,000 square feet — double the existing market’s current size.

It will have 45 vendor stalls and connect to the rest of the Market Line, which will have more than 100 vendor stalls. Essex Crossing’s development collective, Delancey Street Associates, will pay for the current Essex Street Market tenants to move, and tenants will pay the same per-square-foot rent as they currently pay, a representative for the group said.

There are spots for around 150 shops in Market Line, with spaces ranging from 100 to 1,500 square feet. The market’s first portion will open in 2018 at Site No. 2, between Norfolk and Essex Sts., and will consist of food businesses, according to the Lo-Down. Essex Cross-

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The city’s Economic Development Corporation announced last month that popular supermarket chain Trader Joe’s plans to open a location in Essex Crossing at 146 Clinton St. at the corner of Broome St. also in 2018.

Other committed tenants include a Planet Fitness gym, a Regal Cinemas movie theater, a Splitsville Luxury Lanes bowling alley, and

New York University Langone Medical Center’s Joan H. and Preston Robert Tisch Medical Center.

There will be 1,000 residential rental units in towers above Essex Crossing’s nine sites. Half of those will be designated for low-, moderate- and middle-income families.

Essex Crossing in total will include 1.9 million square feet between residential, commercial and community space. Delancey Street Associates expect to complete construction by 2024.

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