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Chelsea VOLUME 11, ISSUE 16
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APRIL 18 - 24, 2019
WILLIAMS HITS Hudson Yards hard on ‘wealth focus’ Page 6
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The Public Advocate blasted Hudson Yards as “not for the majority.”
A map showing how the megaproject was dubbed a “distressed area.”
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Report: Landmarking equals healthier retail to have high retail vacancy rates. Avenue C had 23 percent vacancy, the Bowery was at 26 percent, and 14th St. had a 31 percent vacancy, the highest rate in the survey. “We were very pleased to see that in the la ndmarked parts of the East Village, retail vacancies are consistently lower than in other parts of the neighborhood,” said Andrew Berman, executive director of G.V.S.H.P. “Interestingly, it is in the parts of the neighborhood with more chain stores, like 14th St., where some of the highest retail vacancy rates can be found.” In releasing the study’s results, G.V.S.H.P. declared that its findings countered a 2018 report by the Real Estate Board of New York. That REBNY report, which compared the West Village with Hell’s Kitchen, indicated that
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report by The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation found that the East Village has lower retail vacancy rates in its landmarked areas. The results, released April 11, came from a survey of East Village retail vacancies that was done over several months last summer and fall. The survey was conducted by the East Village Community Coalition, the Cooper Square Committee, and G.V.S.H.P. The neighborhood over all was found to have a 15 percent vacancy for ground-floor storefronts. But in the three historic districts — the St. Mark’s Historic District, E. 10th St. Historic District, and East Village/Lower East Side Historic District — there was a combined rate of just 7 percent. Outside of the historic districts, the biggest avenues and streets were found
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Although Downtown definitely has its share of vacant storefronts, like this one in Greenwich Village, landmarking leads to lower vacanc y rates, at least in the East Village, according to a new study.
more landmarked properties in a neighborhood led to higher retail vacancy rates. G.V.S.H.P. disputed some of the data in REBNY’s report, and argued it was not a comprehensive study because it compared one block in Hell’s Kitchen to three streets in the West Village. This current report by G.V.S.H.P., according to the society, is the first neighborhood-wide survey to compare landmarked with nonlandmarked areas. Berman said that while no study is conclusive, their results indicated that historic districts and landmarked areas are actually thriving in the current tough retail climate in the city. “This data clearly undercuts the narrative that real estate lobbyists and others would peddle that landmarking somehow hampers or hurts small businesses,” Berman stated. “Retail spaces in the East Village’s historic districts are largely occupied by small, independent businesses, many of whom have been there for years or even decades,” he added. “This is yet another indication of how landmarked areas of New York City are among the most stable, healthy, vibrant parts of the city; and far from hurting local residents or businesses, landmark designation can help preserve and protect what New Yorkers love most about their communities.”
14-screen theater opens at Essex Crossing BY GABE HERMAN
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he Lower East Side now officially has a mainstream movie theater. A 14-screen Regal theater opened on Sat., April 6, at 129 Delancey St., at Norfolk St. The theater has reserved seating and more than 1,200 total seats, all of which are luxury recliners with footrests. The theater is in The Essex, a 26-story, mixed-use building that will also be home to the Essex Street Market and The Market Line, that latter which will be a bazaar-like marketplace. The markets will open this spring and feature nearly 150 vendors combined. The building also has 98 residences, which became available at the beginning of this year. The building is part of Essex Crossing’s nine-site, 2-million-square-foot mixed-use development on the Lower East Side. The neighborhood has long been without a mainstream cinema. And even its indie theaters have been dwindling, Schneps Media
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The new Regal theater on Delancey St. is ready for its close-up.
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with Sunshine Cinema on E. Houston St. closing early last year. That former movie theater is set to be replaced by a nine-story office and retail building. “When we began planning Essex Crossing, a movie theater was high on Lower East Side residents’ list of needed community resources,” said Andrew Katz, partner at Delancey Street Associates and principal at Prusik Group, a developer of Essex Crossing. “Regal will provide a dynamic new offering to the neighborhood and add to Essex Crossing’s wider amenities, including the adjacent Essex Street Market and Market Line.” Essex Crossing also just received an award on April 4 from the Urban Land Institute New York, for “Excellence in Mixed-Use Development.” April 18, 2019
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Meatpacking perps Police are currently searching for two men suspected in two separate muggings on Thurs., March 21, and Sun., March 24. The first robbery reportedly took place around 3:40 a.m. near W. 13th and Washington Sts. in the Meatpacking District. The pair of perps are alleged to have approached a 34-year-old man and asked to use his cell phone to make a phone call. After the guy obliged, the two are alleged to have demanded money in exchange for returning the device. The victim told cops he refused and was then punched and had his wallet stolen before the two fled the scene. The victim suffered pain and bruising but refused medical attention. Earlier that morning, around 2:30 a.m., the two had struck nearby at Little W. 12th St. and 10th Ave., police said. A 29-year-old man told police he was asked for money by two men. The victim refused but the two suspects stole his wallet, then fled. The suspects are described as black, between age 20 and 30 and last seen wearing all dark clothing. Anyone with information is asked to call the Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Tips can also be submitted on the CrimeStoppers Web site at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, on Twitter @NYPDTips or by texting to 274637 (CRIMES) and then entering TIP577.
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One of the alleged suspects in a pair of Meatpacking District muggings.
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caught by police who were responding to the scene after a phone call. Police did not find any weapons on White at the time of the arrest.
James Hotel burglary The James Hotel’s Soho location at 27 Grand St. reportedly was robbed Mon., April 8, around 3:30 a.m. According to police, a man wearing a black baseball cap, blue hoodie, blue jeans and black shoes got into the premises via the loading dock on Thompson St. He then entered an office through an unlocked door where he proceeded to take money from a safe. The man reportedly also took a smaller safe from the office and placed it in a white box before leaving the way he came in and fleeing north on Thompson St. He is believed to have made off with $12,020 in cash.
C stabbing A 58-year-old man was stabbed in the back of the leg for no apparent reason on an Uptown C train at Canal St. on Wed., April 10, around 4:45 p.m., police said. The victim reported entering the rear train car at Chambers St. about 10 minutes earlier. He found himself a stabbing victim — despite having no interaction with the stabber — when the train entered the next station. He was treated with four stitches at the Lenox Health Greenwich Village, at 12th St. and Seventh Ave., and was released shortly thereafter. The attacker, who is described only a black man, fled immediately after the incident.
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Shoplifter/robber Police have apprehended an apparent shoplifter who reportedly also robbed the Moussy boutique at 474 Broome St. in Soho on Sat., April 13. Marvin White, 57, is alleged to have walked into the store impersonating a utility worker around noon and stuffed a $95 shirt into his purse. Instead of paying for it, he then started to rob the store register. An employee reported catching the suspect taking money from the register and hiding it under his armpit. The employee demanded the money back, but the alleged thief reportedly only handed over some of the money before saying, “Shut up before I shoot you.” The robber then fled the place with $110 and the shirt, but was quickly
There was an assault inside the TAO Downtown Nightclub at 369 W. 16th St., at Ninth Ave., last Saturday, police said. On April 13, around 1 a.m., a 26-yearold female employee working as a bottle girl, said that a woman punched her with a closed fist on the left side of her face. The blow caused her substantial pain and redness. The employee was able to identify the attacker for police. An officer searched the woman and recovered a small plastic container with alleged marijuana from her purse. Kelsie Saavedra, 22, was arrested for misdemeanor assault.
Charlton intruder A burglar apparently got cold feet after realizing the apartment he broke into was occupied. A 17-year-old girl said a man got into her apartment at 21 Charlton St. while she was in her bedroom on Sun., April 14, around 12:15 a.m. She said the man told her, “I’m sorry,” before running out of the building. Police said the man gained entry to the building by breaking the glass on the door’s front door. The suspect is described as black, with dreadlocks, around age 25 and 6 feet tall.
An assault led to a woman being tased on the sidewalk at W. 17th St. and Tenth Ave. last week, police said. On Fri., April 12, at 3:15 a.m., two female friends, both 26, got into an argument. One then hit the other with a closed fist, causing minor cuts to the right side of her friend’s chin and substantial pain and bruising to the left eye. When police arrived, the puncher refused orders to stop fighting. Police tased her to stop the woman from hitting the victim. Renee Centrella was arrested for misdemeanor assault. She reportedly told police, “She hit me.”
Un-Welcome burglar The SUNY Welcome Center, at 33 W. 42nd St., was burglarized on Sat., March 23, around 1 p.m., cops said. A man reportedly entered the building through a side entrance. He then walked behind a reception desk and swiped a set of keys, which he used to enter several locked offices. He took a credit card, a cell phone, $25 and five MetroCards. An investigation found that at 6 p.m. that day, the man used the credit card to buy $200 worth of goods at a CVS at 500 W. 42nd St., at Tenth Ave. The suspect is described as white, in his 20s.
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Chinatown robbery Police said that on Fri., Feb. 22, at 10:42 a.m., around Allen and Division Sts., a 69-year-old male man was approached by an unidentified male who engaged him in conversation and demanded his property. The male punched the victim in the torso and removed roughly $140 from the victim before fleeing in unknown direction. The victim was not injured and refused medical attention at the scene. The suspect is described as Asian, 50 to 60, wearing a dark-blue ski cap and blue jacket. Anyone with information is asked to call the Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Tips can also be submitted on the CrimeStoppers Web site at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, on Twitter @NYPDTips or by texting to 274637 (CRIMES) and then entering TIP577.
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Public Advocate Jumaane Williams said Hudson Yards was cynically gerr ymandered into a zone for “distressed areas,” linking it to publichousing in Harlem, so that the new megadevelopment could qualify for a visa program benefitting wealthy foreigners.
Williams: Hudson Yards ‘not for the majority’ BY TEQUIL A MINSK Y
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t a press conference outside of The Shops and Restaurants at Hudson Yards, at 31st St. and 10th Ave., Jumaane Williams called out how the $25-billion Hudson Yards project focuses on the wealthy, in more ways than one. While people knew this project was “not meant for the majority, to begin with, it’s like rubbing salt in the wounds,” the new public advocate said, pointing to some of the financials behind the massive new development just south of the Javits Convention Center. “They got $6 billion in a tax supplement,” he said. Williams might have been referring to the $4.4 billion that included the extension of the No. 7 subway line, a new school, a major park and pocket parks. Crain’s New York Business recently wrote about a report by The New School university that listed a total of tax breaks of $ 1.36 billion for the megaproject. “It is quite clear that this project was not for the majority of this city,” he charged. “And you can’t even buy food to eat if you work around here because Citarella and sweetgreen behind me are cashless, making it quite clear who is welcome here and who is not.” Williams gestured to a map graphic of Manhattan and added, “Hudson Yards got $1.2 billion of a visa program that is here. It’s stunning.” He was referring to a program targeted to help immigrants. The map illustrates how the multibillion-dollar Hudson Yards technically qualifies as a “distressed urban area” under the EB-5 program, gerrymandered into a district that links it to public housing in Harlem. Under the EB-5 Green Card program, if foreigners invest $500,000 in a U.S. real estate project, they can get permanent residence for their families. However, this visa program is meant to help rural or economically distressed urban areas, according to Williams.
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A sign at the new sweetgreen at The Shops and Restaurants at Hudson Square. CNW
Foreigners can also get the visas if they invest $1 million in projects in nondistressed areas. Hudson Yards is not in a distressed urban area. But in 1990 when Congress created the EB-5 visa program, it didn’t specify how geographic boundaries should be drawn. According to the blog City Lab, “Without their knowledge, the residents of a number of public housing developments helped to make Hudson Yards possible.” “Quite literally, this project was built on the backs of people who need the most help,” Williams charged. “This is an employment zone degraded. My guess is not a lot of people [from the actual distressed areas] are employed here — and if they go to lunch they better have cash.” In response, a Hudson Yards spokesperson touted how the large-scale development project — the biggest private development in U.S. history — is an economic engine for the entire city and that a number of people from local housing projects have been hired. Williams urged Citarella, sweetgreen and other commercial tenants at Hudson Yards to rescind their cashless business practices at a matter of good faith before the City Council takes action. A bill in the City Council would force businesses to accept cash payments. He further called on New Yorkers to boycott any cashless businesses at Hudson Yards and throughout the city. And he charged that the Hudson Yards development partners, Related and Oxford Properties Group, have dragged their feet on constructing affordable units. “At least build the 10 percent affordable housing that you said you would,” he demanded. Schneps Media
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ow New Yorkers have a chance to grow their tech skills thanks to free help from Google. The Grow with Google Center opened April 8, on the ground floor of Google’s Chelsea headquarters building, at W. 16th St. and Eighth Ave. “Technology is changing the way that all businesses operate, and the skills people need to work in these businesses are changing, too,” said Congressmember Jerrold Nadler, who spoke at the center’s opening ceremony on April 8. “But that doesn’t mean that, if you didn’t get a computer science degree in college, that you should be disqualified from getting a job in this economy.” The Grow with Google Center is part of the company’s national effort to bring digital skills to everyone — but especially those most in need of basic computer literacy and tech crash courses. Small business owners without an online presence, students wanting to learn how to make a presentation and those who have been out of the workforce for years are examples of the kind of people the center is designed to help. Google was able to find participants for the center’s first hourlong class through local organizations the company already has partnerships with, such as Hudson Guild and Goodwill. The
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Par ticipants at the first class at the new Google Grow popup in Chelsea.
“I’m not really computer savvy, so I wanted to come to the computer classes to get more help,” she said. “I’m a slow learner, so the class was really at my pace.” The class was about how to build a résumé using Google templates. Kindle is trying to re-enter the workforce after years of being “a full-time mother,” so the résumé course was a logical first step. According to instructor Aisha TaylorIssah, all of the courses have a Google focus. The classes are meant to enhance
Grow with Google Center was made possible with the help of 19 other organizations. But one does not have to be part of one of the 19 organizations in partnership with the Grow with Google Center to participate. Anyone interested can walk into the Chelsea office and sign up for a course or register for a class online. Kimbery Kindle, 47, from Chelsea, participated in the center’s first-ever class immediately after the opening remarks.
people’s knowledge of what can be done with Google, and show that it’s more than just an Internet search browser. “I have Gmail on my Smartphone, but I never really used it much,” said John Breen, 28, another participant in the center’s first course. “But seeing that it’s so useful,” he said, “I could definitely use it more.” Grow with Google Centers, which are all temporary, have popped up in cities around the country since 2017 but have never stayed open for longer than a few weeks. Chelsea’s Grow with Google Center will be the longest-lived center yet and is scheduled to stay open for five months. Google representatives said they are still determining what to do with the space once the five months are up. Google has said the center is a sort of trial program, however. Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer spoke briefly at the center’s April 8 opening ceremony. “At this wonderful center, here’s an example of how people can use data to improve our neighborhoods,” enthused Brewer, who has always been a big advocate of tech. Carley Graham Garcia, Google’s head of external affairs, said the point of the center was less for people to connect with the brand and more for Google to connect with the community.
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esidents around E. 14th St. are breathing a sigh of relief that the impacts from the upcoming L-train tunnel repairs won’t be as bad as had been expected when the project called for a full shutdown of the line’s Manhattan leg for 15 months. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority recently made some announcements regarding the L-train work that is set to begin at the end of this month. Foremost for those living and working around E. 14th St. is the news that all the construction debris will no longer be extracted at a major staging area near Avenue A, as originally planned. Instead, the tunnel debris will be transported along the tracks via subway work cars to a Brooklyn rail yard. Janno Lieber, M.T.A. chief development officer, credited the new tunnel plan — which calls for 93 percent less demolition work compared to the original plan — for this development. He also said the decreased demolition led the M.T.A. to cut work hours from 16 to 12 per day on the ongoing projects to add new entrances at Avenue A for the
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First Ave. station and on the Avenue B substation. The announcements were made at the New York City Transit and Bus Committee meeting on Mon., March 25. E. 14th St. residents say they are at their “wits’ end” over dealing with the latter two construction projects the past two years — and they believe that the M.T.A. could still do more to mitigate these impacts. “That’s great news,” Penny Pennline, who lives between Avenues A and B, said of the announcements. “But I still don’t understand why they have to torture us with jackhammers and trucks beeping at 7 a.m. We’ve asked for them to start later in the day and they just ignore us.” Dale Goodson, president of the North Avenue A Neighborhood Association, echoed Pennline’s comment. He said he is in favor of shortening the work day, “even if it extends the overall repair schedule.” Also discussed at the meeting were concerns over plans for dust mitigation. The issue was highlighted after straphangers at Brooklyn’s Bedford Ave. sta-
tion recently found it covered in dust following train service resuming after a weekend closure. The Daily News reported that the silica dust level at the station that morning was 9.4 micrograms per cubic meter of air, or three times the normal level. The M.T.A. asserted that level is safe to breathe. “The OSHA limit for people working eight hours a day over the course of decades is 50 micrograms of silica per cubic meter,” said Max Young, M.T.A. chief external affairs officer. He was referring to U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. “There is absolutely no reason to suggest any health issues or concern,” Young added. “This is a federal scientific standard, and nothing outweighs science.” Lieber addressed these concerns at the meeting, too. He stated that the M.T.A. installed air monitors in the affected L stations and would make the data from them public. However, Lieber could not give specifics yet on how that data would be released, and how often. State Senator Brad Hoylman said he wants the M.T.A. to release the data CNW
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hen Alex Nuñez’s father, Patricio, returned home one evening in 1994, he asked his 12-year-old boy for an unusual favor. “Son,” he said, “cut my hair.” Patricio sat in a chair by the bathroom mirror and Alex stooped over him, gliding a pair of electric clippers over his scalp. When the buzzing stopped, Patricio looked in the mirror and smiled. Alex was a natural. News of Alex’s barbering skills spread across the Lower East Side, and soon, his tenement building on Suffolk St. became a destination for trims and shaves. “I started to do all my friends, my school friends, my church friends, the friends in the neighborhood, my family,” Alex said. “I fell in love with it at an early age.” When Alex was 14, his father helped him set up a miniature barbershop on the tenement’s top floor. “My dad bought me what I thought at the time was the coolest barber chair,” Alex said. “But it was kinda rinky-dink, really old-school. I guess one of his friends had it in the basement.” With the addition of a full-length mirror and a tool rack that Alex and his friend built themselves, Alex’s first barbershop was complete. Since then, Alex has turned his makeshift barbershop into a grooming empire. In 2010, he started Neighborhood Cut and Shave — an upscale barbershop in Greenwich Village. Two more locations, in Prospect Heights and on the Lower East Side, have since opened their doors, and plans are to expand to Downtown Brooklyn in April and to Midtown over the summer. Alex isn’t the only barber setting up shop these days. While most brick-and-mortar stores struggle to compete with online corporations, the barbering industry has been steadily growing for the last 10 years. Between 2008 and 2018, the number of licensed barbers in 19 states grew 34 percent, according to Maura Scali-Sheahan, C.E.O. of the National Association of Barber Boards of America. More notably, the number of barber schools — an indicator of job opportunity — grew 47 percent. And in New York City, barbershops have begun to crowd blocks. “There’s definitely been more people in the last few years,” said Dimitri, the owner of Royal Class, a barbershop on W. 20th St. Royal Class is one of about 15 licensed barbershops in Chelsea, where —despite the high density of tonsorial artists — business is as good as ever. So, what’s all the buzz about? Many Manhattan barbers attribute the uptick in business to today’s popular hairstyles that favor shorter, slicker dos for men — like undercuts, skin fades and well-kept beards. Others point to the influence of platforms like Instagram that pressure men to put more effort into their appearance. “It’s a social-media thing,” said Ben, who owns a barbershop called Wize Gize, about the coiffure craze. To keep up with the young and trendy clientele, many new barbershops have adopted a swankier setup. At Hell’s Kitchen Barbers, on W. 56th St., a wall of exposed brick stands behind a row of glossy barber chairs. “In the ’90s, it was just a chop shop,” said Steve, the owner of Hell’s Kitchen Barbers, which opened in 2015. “Now men want more: They have a beard; they want a facial.” Like many modern barbershops, Hell’s Kitchen Barbers has turned what could be a quick Schneps Media
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Rudy trimming a regular customer’s hair at Chelsea Gardens.
buzz into a luxury experience, offering clients heated towels and complimentary shots of whiskey. But, in addition to changing hairstyles and the rise of social media, there’s a third reason young men have been flocking to barbershops — namely, because of the male community they offer. Alex Nuñez cites the support system he found at his childhood barbershop as one of the reasons he was drawn to the profession. In fact, Alex met Travis, his close friend and business partner, when Travis wandered in for a haircut in 2010. According to Alex, barbers are trained to listen well and give advice when their clients are in need. “A lot of the time, you end up being lifelong friends,” he noted. By the entrance of every Neighborhood Cut and Shave, Alex hangs the iconic “I Am A Man” poster that pervaded the civil-rights marches of the 1960s. By hanging the sign, Alex hopes to foster an open, welcoming space in which men can be vulnerable. “Empower men to be themselves,” Alex said of the concept. “Doesn’t matter their walk of life. They can just come here and take off their tie — everyone’s in
the same playing field — and they can really just be themselves and connect.” Neighborhood Cut and Shave has locations at 37A Bedford St. in Greenwich Village, 250 E. Houston St. on the Lower East Side and 616 Vanderbilt Ave., in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. For more barbershops near you, check out the list below. Bishops Cuts/Color This shop, which opened its first New York City location in February, aims to bridge the gap between a high-end hair salon and the classic barbershop, delivering a fashionable haircut for a reasonable price. Specialty: Full-service styling menu open to all ages and genders Cost of basic cut: $55 Address: 10 Downing St. Chelsea Gardens Barbershop Chelsea Gardens has been a local staple since 1959. Stars like CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and celebrity chef Bobby Flay have stopped in for trims. Specialty:Offers a range of emerging styles and upto-date looks Cost of a basic cut:$22 Address: 255 W. 23rd St. Hell’s Kitchen Barbers Hell’s Kitchen Barbers gives clients slick cuts along with quality service, including a hot towel finish and complimentary drinks. Specialty: Knowledgable staff and a relaxing experience Cost of basic cut: $25 Address:667 Ninth Ave. and 410 W. 56th St. Wize Gize Barber Boutique The six-months-old Wize Gize has been serving a wide range of looks in its stylish, 14th St. shop. Specialty: Well-rounded, on-trend haircuts at a reasonable price Cost of basic cut: $30 Address:237 W. 14th St.
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D’oh, no! ‘Krusty’ comes down at La Plaza BY SAR AH FERGUSON
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n Fri., April 5, workers contracted by the Parks Department felled “Krusty,� the last of the three towering willow trees that had dominated La Plaza Cultural for more than 40 years. The beloved tree in garden at E. Ninth St. and Avenue C was dubbed Krusty after Krusty the Clown on “The Simpsons,� after it lost its feathery crown during a storm a few years back. It had also become a bit crusty due to an orange “hen of the woods� fungus that had begun infesting its bark. The fact that it needed to come down is apparent in a video, which shows a pair of workers yanking down the 3-foot-wide trunk with a single tug of a rope tied to its base. It was an ignoble end for this giant, which was planted in 1977 by legendary Green Guerilla gardener Liz Christy
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Chopping up Krust y at La Plaza Cultural on April 5.
and members of the Puerto Rican activist group CHARAS after they took over what had been a series of barren, rubble-strewn lots.
Over the years, the willows became an iconic presence in Loisaida, so their loss has been keenly felt. Reverend Billy and garden members hosted a wake for
Krusty’s more popular sibling “Cher,� the largest of the three willows, which was cut down in 2017. Like Krusty, Cher was determined to be a danger due to significant rot at its base. “Wally,� the other willow, came crashing down during Hurricane Irene in August 2011. The loss of the trio of trees marks the end of an era for La Plaza. The city is now installing a generic steel fence to replace the old chain-link one that had been encrusted with hundreds of colorful “flowers� created from recycled cans and detergent bottles. For 20 years, local artist Rolando Politi festooned the fence with these “winter flowers,� as he dubbed them because they were most visible during winter, before the honeysuckle and trumpet vines enveloped them. Now those vines, too, are gone, and the garden will likely be closed to the public through July as the city installs the new fence and new sidewalk.
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recent survey revealed that the global population on average spends close to two-and-a-half hours a day on social media. How much of that time do you find yourself in partisan scuffles on Twitter? Or getting into policy frays on Facebook? How about applying the time you spend getting steamed on social media toward volunteering instead? With National Volunteer Month upon us, this is the perfect opportunity to give the hashtags a rest once in a while, and take the time to make a real difference. Wondering how a new condo got so tall or why there are so many liquor licenses in your area? As a member of a community board you get to be immersed in these details early on and help shape the conversations. While community boards are purely advisory, they are, without question, foundations of democracy. You can also apply for public membership, which requires less of a time commitment. There are countless nonprofits looking for help. Do you work in finance and have a passion for the arts? Maybe your favorite cultural organization would welcome your business expertise. Or, perhaps, after sitting behind a desk all week, you’re ready to get your hands dirty. There are parks throughout the city where you can volunteer. Or consider joining your local community garden. Block associations help keep their communities informed on hyperlocal news, represent the residents interests at community board hearings on quality of life issues such as liquor licenses, and beautify local streets, among other activities. You can check out the Department for the Aging for ways you can help older New Yorkers. There are also nonprofits such as Visiting Neighbors, DOROT, Citymeals on Wheels and Senior Planet where you can offer your skills or simply spend some quality time with someone seeking company. How about mentoring aspiring young scribes at Girls Write Now? New York Cares has youth mentoring programs, as well, and also provides volunteer opportunities for kids 18 and under. If you want to use your volunteer time to support L.G.B.T.Q. youth, consider The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center. Or, perhaps a school in your area is looking for some help. And you can visit the NYC Service Web site for plenty of other volunteer options. So, this April, how about giving the cyber-pugilism a rest, and giving of yourself? I bet you’ll discover you won’t miss tussling with the trolls one bit. Rothstein is chairperson, Community Board 2 Arts and Institutions Committee, and an advisory board member, Cherry Lane Theatre
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he phrase “We The People” in the Constitution still has the power to wake the sleeping idealist within us. It’s a clarion call to our better nature, to get off our asses and bend the arc of history toward something better, to come together to make decisions for the general welfare. It evokes raised hands at town halls, voting booths, Athenian debating assemblies of 5,000 people, and ancient fields where men assembled and banged their shields to indicate their assent — or not — to a call to war. “We The People” conveys fairness: a political community with the right to gather and figure things out. It is why we are so enraged that the Electoral College renders our vote pointless, why newcomers to New York City are shocked to learn they cannot elect community board members, why women gathered in Washington, and why disenfranchised groups throughout history took to the streets demanding to be part of “We The People.” It is also why many New Yorkers are contemptuous of the use of the fake participatory community-planning “processes” that have become popular among city politicians. There are many types of such processes, ranging from the participatorybudgeting sideshow that even Brian Lehrer on WNYC has made fun of, to the tightly curated and controlled “working groups” set up to create the illusion of community approval for rezonings. Such groups were used for the South St. Seaport, Midtown and East Harlem, and a new one has been set up for the unneeded Soho rezoning. Now there are also micromanaged “neighborhood advisory groups” that the mayor created to thwart opponents of the expensive new tower-jails. Representative and indirect forms of democracy make sense when the geography is vast and communication difficult. Scholars think that is why our founding fathers created the Electoral College in the first place. How else to manage voting in a vast country with rough roads and no Internet? That also means that representative, indirect democracy makes little sense when the geography is as small as a neighborhood. Athens at the peak of its democracy only had 30,000 people! Even Los Angeles manages to have elected neighborhood councils, so why don’t we? Of course, city politicians will resist local democracy. We might give neighborhoods more power over managing public spaces — sidewalks, street parking, stoplights, placement of crossing guards, organization of trash pickup, street trees, bike racks, parks, public-private plazas. We could also give residents power to veto egregiously out-of-context buildings, to say no to buildings that require spot rezoning or excessive air-rights transfers. Use your imagination! Our city democracy has become too representative, taking power away from “We The People.” Community planning must begin with every resident having the right to raise their hand or bang their shield on local issues that matter. Ellsworth is chairperson, Tribeca Trust, and president, Human-Scale NYC
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Sewing link To The Editor: Re “Threads of connection to Triangle tragedy” (news article, April 11): It was an inspiring weekend. Children also participated in sewing onto the ribbon. It is appropriate that sewing, as a contribution by the public to the permanent memorial, has been incorporated into the final design. Sewing for a living is how the 146 who perished made their living at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Dianna Maeurer
Tribeca clock To The Editor: Re “Singing praises of Tin Pan Alley” (op-ed, by Corey Johnson and Sarah Carroll, April 11): Preserve Tin Pan Alley. What of New York’s own “Big Ben” — the clock atop 346 Broadway? A Rolex watch with a Swatch interior does not a Rolex make. Preserving the exterior without its mechanical interior is not really preserving that wonderful clock.
no one while taxing our infrastructure. George Calderaro
Fight facadism To The Editor: Re “Singing praises of Tin Pan Alley” (op-ed, by Corey Johnson and Sarah Carroll, April 11): The clocktower example is the perfect symbol of a broader problem at the Landmarks Preservation Commission that affects the entire city. Buildings in historic districts are now spoken of as having “landmarked facades.” The commission protects only street fronts of buildings in these districts, and under-
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Congrats! To The Editor: Re “The Villager wins 7 NYPA contest awards” (news article, April 11): Congrats to Villager folks for keeping the prize-winning tradition alive! Keep up the great work.
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History or hotels To The Editor: Re “Singing praises of Tin Pan Alley” (op-ed, by Corey Johnson and Sarah Carroll, April 11): The five Tin Pan Alley buildings proposed for landmark designation, like many buildings in New York City designated historic districts, are full of affordable, rent-regulated apartments that would be lost if they weren’t protected. W. 28th St. between Broadway and Seventh Ave. currently has about 15 hotels. Tin Pan Alley is the cradle of American popular culture in New York City, the nation and the world. It should not be lost for another crappy chain hotel that even YIMBY detests. Affordable housing is not being forsaken when our built heritage is protected. Profiteering developers are only interested in luxury apartments and hotel rooms, which benefit
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lying land values are so high that developers will leave money on the table if they don’t demolish everything else and build a larger, modern luxury building behind a false front. It’s a “Potemkinlike sop to the landmarks law,” as The New York Times recently called facadism. What good to designate Tin Pan Alley with only its veneer preserved? It’ll be a vintage watch with a quartz movement, like 346 Broadway. L.P.C. needs to exercise its purview over the entire shell of buildings in historic districts, rather than letting the street facades simply screen bigger replacement buildings It’s great that Council Speaker Corey Johnson supports designation of Tin Pan Alley. It would be even greater if he presented a vision for an improved L.P.C. and made it part of a run for mayor!
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The New York State Cour t of Appeals recently ruled that the developers of 346 Broadway (“The Clock Tower Building”) can turn the historic clock tower into a residential penthouse. 6sqft repor ted that, “According to the judge, the [Landmarks Preservation Commission] does not have the authorit y to give access to the building and the agenc y’s plan to make the 19th-centur y clock run electronically is reasonable.”
To The Editor: Re “The Villager wins 7 NYPA contest awards” (news article, April 11): Fantastic, you guys deserve it. Keep up the good work! Jose Quiles a.k.a. Cochise E-mail letters, maximum 250 words, to news@thevillager.com or fax to 212-2292790 or mail to The Villager, Letters to the Editor, 1 MetroTech North, 10th floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Please include phone number for confirmation. The Villager reserves the right to edit letters for space, grammar, clarity and libel. Anonymous letters will not be published.
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Nor thwell officials cut the ribbon for the healthcare provider’s new Village Emergenc y Telepsychiatr y Hub. Michael Dowling, Nor thwell C.E.O. and president, is third from right. Alex Hellinger, the director of Lenox Health Greenwich Village, is third from left.
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ental-health “screening” is taking on new meaning at Northwell’s Downtown standalone emergency department. Northwell Health opened its new Emergency Telepsychiatry Hub on April 11 at Lenox Health Greenwich Village, at Seventh Ave. between W. 12th and 13th Sts. The telepsychiatry center is 770 square feet and includes nine video-equipped workstations. It will be used by a 35-person multidisciplinary team, including psychiatrists, behavioral-health clinicians and social workers. The center will provide consultations remotely through video chat any time of day. Treatment will be provided for mental-health patients who visit Northwell Health’s emergency departments throughout the city, as well as Westchester County and Long Island. The hub will connect to a total of 16 Northwell emergency departments, with Mather Hospital in Port Jefferson, Long Island, to be added later this year. Long Island Jewish Hospital in Queens will not be part of the program since it has its own on-site, around-the-clock psychiatry coverage. Northwell has been running emergency telepsy-
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As the Culinary King of Queens, I’m so very fortunate to live in the most diverse and delicious destination in all of New York City. And I’m even luckier to be a Tastemaker for the World’s Fare, a celebration of global cuisine and culture, which will be held on May 18 and 19 at Citi Field. In the weeks leading up to the Fare I’ll be profiling some of my favorite vendors from Queens and beyond. Today, a look at Kurry Qulture, Queens’ first upscale Indian eatery. The World’s Borough has long been known as a destination for Indian cuisine and culture, but until Kurry Qulture opened its doors in 2015, something was missing. That something, says the Astoria restaurant’s 40-year-old owner Sonny Solomon, was an upscale ambience. “Queens was missing a classy Indian place,” says the 40-year-old Astoria resident who worked for years in Manhattan’s white tablecloth Indian restaurants. “They have places in Queens where people go, eat, and leave. We wanted to have a place for people to eat and relax.” Solomon hails from the North Indian state of Punjab, as does the restaurant’s chef, Binder Saini. They will be showcasing a classic Indian street food from that region — samosa chaat — at the World’s Fare. While it’s tempting to think of samosa chaat as an Indian version of loaded nachos, it’s really its own thing. The fried vegetable turnovers, packed with potato and peas, are seasoned with whole cumin and coriander, topped with chickpeas, onion, and tomato, and then drizzled with a trio of sauces: mint and tamarind chutneys and a spicy yogurt. Finally, the whole lot is showered with crunchy bits of sev, a chickpea noodle. The resulting explosion of textures and flavors — cool, crunchy, spicy, sweet, sour, and minty — is as exciting as the diverse food scene of Queens itself.
to represent the borough’s diversity. “Well, it’s always been a symbol, I always pass by every time going from Grand Central to LaGuardia,” he says. “I see a lot of people playing cricket around that area, too, but I really never knew what it meant, to be honest with you.” 8Yfm\ :_\] 9`e[\i JX`e`# c\]k# Xe[ fne\i Jfeep Jfcfdfe f] Bliip Hlc$ Be sure to kli\ Xi\ j_fnZXj`e^ k_\`i [`j_ i`^_k jXdfjX Z_XXk# X ]i`\[ m\^\kXYc\ stop by Kurry Qulkliefm\i# Xk k_\ Nfic[Ëj =Xi\% ture at the Fare and try the amazing Indian “It’s a very, very popular only recently learned the street food. Keep an eye street food in North India, but history of the Unisphere, out for the spring/summer now it’s all over India,” Solo- the glittering stainless steel menu, which will include mon said. “People love it!” globe that was originally such delicacies as tandoori Even though Solomon constructed for the 1964– 65 game hen and galauti lamb has called Queens home for World’s Fair as a symbol of kebab. The latter, a specialty just over two decades, he the Space Age, but has come of Lucknow, India, is an
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amazingly tender lamb patty that Solomon says was originally made for an Indian king who didn’t have any teeth. I can’t wait to try it! Joe DiStefano is a Queens-based food writer, culinary 19 tour guide, and author of the bestselling guidebook “111 Places in Queens That You Must Not Miss.” Taste Kurry Qulture’s samosa chaat at the World’s Fare at Citi Field (123-01 Roosevelt Ave. in Queens, https://theworldsfare.nyc) on May 18 and 19 from 12 to 8 p.m. Tickets from $19 to $199 (children under 10, $5).
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Assessing Northwell’s stand-alone E.D. BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
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t’s been five years since Northwell’s stand-alone emergency department opened in the wake of the closing of St. Vincent’s Hospital in April 2010. Now known as Lenox Health Greenwich Village, the E.D. is on Seventh Ave. between W. 12 and W. 13th Sts. The Social Services Committee of Community Board 2 will hold a meeting on Mon., April 29, to discuss “how the community is engaging with” the free-standing E.D. — meaning without on-site hospital beds — the first of its kind in Manhattan and only the second in New York City. The meeting, led by the committee’s chairperson, Susanna Aaron, will be at Little Red School House, 272 Sixth Ave., at Bleecker St. in the auditorium, starting at 6:30 p.m. Participants will include representatives from Lenox Health Greenwich Village, the Fire Department — which runs the city’s E.M.S. ambulance service — and Say-Ah.org, a nonprofit specializing in teaching healthcare literacy. “The hospital system seems to be undergoing so many changes,” Aaron said. “Maybe the stand-alone E.R. is a good, efficient model that meets our needs. Maybe people have had fantastic service. Or maybe people are unhappy with it. Maybe there are some kinks to be worked out for it to serve patients better. Maybe people have questions about costs, or when to choose the E.R. versus a primary-care doctor ver-
sus urgent care, or what gets set in motion when one calls 911. “We hope to get a strong turnout, so that we can get useful feedback on how community members are engaging with their healthcare options and with this model of emergency care.” While the community hoped to retain a full-service hospital, obviously, that didn’t happen. “We are not going to bemoan the closing of St. Vincent’s,” Aaron said of the meeting’s agenda. “We’ve already covered that ground and the community expressed our desires and concerns clearly.”
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Lenox Health Greenwich Village, on Seventh Ave. bet ween 12th and 13th Sts., offers a 24/7 emergenc y depar tment, imaging ser vices and more.
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tate politicians recently gathered on the steps of City Hall to drum up support for a new bill that bans religious exemptions from vaccinations for any child who attends school in New York State. “Just a few decades ago, we assumed measles was defeated, but now it’s roaring back,” said state Senator Brad Hoylman. The push for the bill comes after Rockland County Executive Ed Day last month declared a state of emergency in his Upstate county following an outbreak of measles on Staten Island. As of April 16, Rockland County had 186 confirmed measles cases. According to the New York City government Department of Health page, as of April 3, there had been 259 confirmed cases of measles in Brooklyn and Queens. The outbreak is linked to ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities. The bill, first introduced in 2014, is currently being sponsored by Hoylman in the Senate and Assemblymember Jeffrey Dinowitz. The legislation would repeal all nonmedical exemptions from vaccination requirements for children. “I represent Rockland County and the numbers there do not lie,” said state Senator David Carlucci at the April 4 City Hall steps press conference. “We have an emergency, with one of the largest measles outbreaks in the state.” Measles has been labeled as one of the 10 largest threats to global health in 2019 by the World Health Organization. Prior to the development of a measles vaccine in 1963, there were 2.6 million deaths from the disease worldwide annually, according to WHO.
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From left, a guitar used by John Lennon, Ringo Starr’s drum kit and George Harrison’s first electric guitar.
Met jams with rock greats’ instruments BY GABE HERMAN
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he Met museum’s new “Play It Loud” exhibit is an impressive collection of memorabilia from rock-and-roll history. It’s like walking into a giant shrine to the history of rock music, and is worth a visit for hardcore or even casual fans. The show, which opened April 8, is chock-full of guitars and other instruments that were not only used by the greats, but during their prime years. The exhibit is co-organized with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and features about 130 instruments, mostly guitars. In fact, the exhibit is so good and so comprehensive, that after a while, it almost becomes numbing how many great items there are around every corner. Oh, look, it’s Keith Richards’s Gibson electric guitar from the late ’60s, which he hand-painted himself. And there’s Muddy Waters’s Telecaster electric guitar that he used from 1958 until his death in 1983. There’s the guitar Chuck Berry used to record “Johnny B. Goode.” And Jerry Lee Lewis’s home piano for decades. There’s a John Lennon Rickenbacker electric guitar that he used on the Beatles’ 1964 North American tour and for recording “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Beatles For Sale.” Ringo Starr’s drum kit is there, along with multiple George Harrison guitars, including his first electric guitar from 1959. The list of legendary musicians represented here is seemingly endless: Eric Clapton, Buddy Holly, Bo Diddley, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, The Who, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Page, Jerry Garcia, Prince, Joan Jett, Metallica and more. It goes all the way up to modern artists like The Roots and Lady Gaga.
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A guitar at the Met show that was smashed by Kur t Cobain.
Each room just features more amazing items. “This exhibit is incredible,” a man was overheard saying near the end of the exhibit. “I can’t believe how much stuff they have.” If smashed instruments are your thing, there’s a few of those, too. Such as a mangled Fender electric guitar, totaled by Kurt Cobain during a 1993 show in Inglewood, California. He destroyed the bridge pickup by using a technician’s drill, allegedly to imTVG
press Eddie Van Halen, who was at the show. And there’s a Gibson guitar smashed by Pete Townshend around 1973. And — talk about a great Jimi Hendrix item — a fragment of the Stratocaster the “Purple Haze” great destroyed at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival in a ritualized sacrifice. Then you enter the next space and there’s Hendrix’s white Woodstock electric guitar casually standing upright in a glass case in the center of the room. There are also a few costumes, including a “dragon” suit worn by Jimmy Page during Led Zeppelin live performances from 1975-77. The exhibit’s many excellent posters are not to be overlooked. Along with some great psychedelic artwork, there are posters for some truly momentous moments in rock history. There’s ones for Woodstock and the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, where Dylan went electric. There’s the poster for the Beatles at Shea Stadium, and the only known one for The Quarrymen, the earlier group with John, Paul and George. In a sad piece of history, there’s a Jan. 30, 1959, poster for the Winter Dance Party Tour in Fort Dodge, Iowa. It is the only surviving poster for the show, which featured Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson. Four days after the show, all three artists died in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. There aren’t too many Bob Dylan or Greenwich Village folk-related items, but there is a poster for a 1963 Dylan Town Hall show in Midtown. The poster said tickets could be purchased at the Folklore Center, at 110 MacDougal, the famous Village shop whose founder Izzy Young recently died. All the items in this staggering show couldn’t be listed here, but the full, awesome collection can be seen at The Met until Oct. 1. April 18, 2019
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An ar t work by Maria de Los Angeles.
grated to Miami from Quito, Ecuador, and eventually made his way up to New York when he studied art at Purchase College, SUNY. Donoso’s displayed work features abstract paintings and murals along with a mixed-media installation of clouds turning into landscapes. This latter piece symbolizes how life transforms after a person leaves one home for another. Although stylistically their work is very different, both artists’ intent is to challenge xenophobic, racist and classist notions of what it means to be an undocumented immigrant. The way in which the pair are helping DACA recipients is twofold. Not only are they creating space within a larger conversation about how undocumented Americans are perceived, but they have given space to other fellow artists that have received DACA status. “I really want to do my work and inspire others to do the same,” said de los Angeles. Three other artists, Odlyis Burgoa, Josselyn Vasquez and Carlos Vargas, also have pieces exhibited within the gallery. For more information about the Chashama exhibits, visit www.chashama.org. The work of de los Angeles and Donoso will be up until Thurs., April 18.
M.F.A. from Yale. “I think we have to move beyond stereotypes into a more personal narrative to move beyond hate and support each other,” she said. The new gallery provides a physical and metaphorical space in the art world to dissect the emotional toll of growing up undocumented in the U.S. and how that impacts identity. Hopefully, through the artists’ work, viewers can dissect immigration policy, as well. “We hope to use this, as well as in partnership with the New York State Leadership Council, to bring advocacy and attention to really the magic and the brilliance that our community is capable of and has been doing,” said Francisco Donoso, the second artist featured in the exhibit. Donoso, 30, immi-
A piece by Maria de Los Angeles in the exhibit at Chashama on the Upper East Side.
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oung immigrant artists are getting some much needed space in an Upper East Side apartment building. Some commercial space at the St. Tropez building on 340 E. 64th St. has officially been transformed into a new gallery by Chashama, a nonprofit organization that finds unused real estate for artist gallery and studio use. City Councilmember Ben Kallos, who funded all four of the exhibitions scheduled to occupy the gallery, has allocated a total of $80,000 to the nonprofit over the last three years. The gallery’s first exhibit, “Esperanza de Otro Mundo Posible (Hope of Another Possible World),” features the work of two artists who are also DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival) recipients. “My work is a reflection of my experiences, which are not singular,” said Maria de los Angeles, who has 60 drawings, a dress, three collages, a wall drawing and two skateboards on display. De Los Angeles, 30, immigrated to Santa Rosa, California, from Michoacán, Mexico, with her family at the age of 11. De los Angeles, came to New York to study at the Pratt Institute, where she was considered an international student because of her status. Student loans and work study were two tuition-paying options that were also off the table. Pratt eventually offered de los Angeles $20,000 in scholarship funds. “But I had to match my scholarship,” she noted. And she did, by selling pieces of her work in Santa Rosa to friends, family and community members, who, after reading an article about her educational goals in the local newspaper, wanted her to “achieve her dream.” After Pratt, de los Angeles earned an
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ob Gruen still recalls the moment vividly — and, no, it didn’t involve an event from his storied career as a rock-’n’-roll photographer. “When I got the call that there was an apartment for me in Westbeth,” he said, “it was the most exciting moment of my life.” That was in 1970, when he grabbed one of the last four spaces available in the new affordable artists’ housing complex. The 980-square-foot loft seemed bigger then, without the subsequent accumulation of 49 years of photo negatives and prints, music and memorabilia. Gruen and a friend built the sleeping loft and the darkroom and set up space in a corner to hang seamless background paper and do photo shoots. Gruen’s files include the iconic portrait of his friend John Lennon wearing a “New York City” T-shirt — with the sleeves torn off at Gruen’s suggestion to give him more edge — as well as shots of Elvis, the Sex Pistols, Elton John, the Rolling Stones, the Ramones, Johnny Thunders, Blondie, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin and, well, the list goes on. The landmarked complex, at 55 Bethune St., was a Bell Telephones Laboratory before it was renovated by a nonprofit group that hired up-and-coming architect Richard Meier to turn it into 384 units of live/work housing for artists. (Bell moved its operations to New Jersey.) The initial idea was that artists would stay for five years, establish themselves professionally, and then move on. But things haven’t exactly turned out that way. “Fame doesn’t equal fortune,” Gruen noted, adding that everyone still there from the early days is within Westbeth’s
income guidelines. Gruen mentioned a few of the place’s more notable tenants, including three no longer with us, pianist Gil Evans, photographer Diane Arbus and choreographer Merce Cunningham, who had a dance studio there. Artist Elizabeth Gregory joined Gruen at Westbeth in 1993 and they were subsequently married. The wedding was officiated by his ex-wife, Nadya. They settled into a neighborhood that was quite different from what she had been used to living on the other side of town. “Compared to the Lower East, this was the suburbs,” GregoryGruen said. “It’s much quieter over here.” The fact that all their neighbors are artists made a difference, too, since most of the tenants share a similar lifestyle. “Rush hour around here is about noon,” Gregory-Gruen noted. “And,” she added, “tenant meetings can be pretty wild!” “Everyone is an artist here, so it makes it more comfortable,” Gruen said. “Nobody looks at you like you’re crazy.” Some of his neighbors had an unexpected surprise on the Sunday afternoon John Lennon came to visit him. The former Beatle wandered along the long hallway searching for the photographer’s place. “He didn’t remember my apartment number,” Gruen recalled. “He rang every doorbell on the way to my apartment!” Things have changed in the neighborhood since 1970, for the better. The view from their sofa of the West Side Highway is completely different now. For a while, Gruen’s view — their apartment is on a lower floor — was of a collapsed el-
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evated highway. Trucks were parked underneath it with the doors open, so that people knew there was nothing inside to steal. When it got dark, they became private rooms for the men cruising the pier. “That got replaced by crack addicts,” Gruen recalled. “Before, you couldn’t see the river. But now it’s Hudson River Park, and it’s nice that they maintain it. The park totally changed the feeling of this apartment: It was a huge day when I could finally see New Jersey.” Gregory-Gruen remembers what it was like when she first came to the city in 1985. The nearby Meatpacking District was still the scene of drugs and transsexual prostitutes. “There were no rules,” she said of the area back then. “It was the last call for the hedonistic ’70s.” “It was deserted over here,” chimed in Gruen. “Nobody knew about this neighborhood. But it’s become one of the most expensive — and now the cab drivers know where it is.” The apartment is no longer set up for photo shoots as books, records, CDs and a TV now fill the space where Gruen once put seamless paper and lights. The loft is filled with memorabilia and file cabinets, which have become GregoryGruen’s domain. She left her job at Michael Kors in 2013 to PHOTO BY BOB KRASNER
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Bob Gruen and Elizabeth Gregor y-Gruen in their Westbeth apar tment, which contains Gruen’s archive of rock photos.
become Gruen’s full-time archivist and cataloguer, with an eye toward eventually dispersing different caches of history to the proper institutions. At the moment, they have no idea how many images of his they are dealing with. In addition to everything stored at home, there are four more storage spaces, two in the city and two in New Jersey. “I kept everything,” Gruen said. On weekends, the two tend to head Upstate, where they have been renting a house for the last 20 years. That’s where Gregory-Gruen gets to work on her own artwork. Using a surgeon’s scalpel, she carefully cuts layers of matboard — without templates or patterns — to create beautifully intricate three-dimensional pieces. “I don’t interfere with her work,” Gruen said. “I watch her, and I don’t know how she does it.” Her work was recently on view at Howl! Happening gallery, at 6 E. First St. Through all the decades that Gruen has lived in Westbeth, he had not met Richard Meier, the man responsible for creating the living spaces. But he finally got his chance at a recent event. The photographer introduced himself and his wife to the famous architect and proudly proclaimed that he is an original tenant of the storied building, having lived there since it opened. “You were only supposed to be there for five years!” growled Meier. For more information, visit http:// www.bobgruen.com/ and http://elizabethgregory-gruen.com/. April 18, 2019
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ARTS Funeral for a Tree: Judson Memorial Church, on Washington Square, will be hosting what is believed to be the first funeral service for a tree, and as one might imagine, this will not be your average funeral service. This will be a fundraiser for Trees.org, an organization that plants trees in areas around the world that have been devastated by deforestation and poor land management. Event organizers promise a night of music, poetry and rousing sermons by top environmentalists. The host will be actor Matthew Morrison of TV’s “Glee” and Broadway’s original cast of “Hairspray.” Thurs., April 25, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., at 55 Washington Square South. General admission $25; V.I.P. tickets $100. For more information and tickets, visit https://willobaum.splashthat.com. “Paul Swan Is Dead and Gone:” Andy Warhol muse Paul Swan, who died in 1972, is returning to New York to hold a salon in a Chelsea townhouse. Or rather, actor Tony Torn will be playing Swan, who once dubbed himself “the most famous unknown person in New York,” in an intimate, immersive play. Previews begin Thurs., April 25. Opening night is Wed., May 1. The show runs through Fri., May 19, at Torn Page, 435 W. 22nd St. Tickets range from $25 to $60. For showtimes, tickets and more information, visit http://thecivilians.org/ upcoming/paul-swanis-dead-and-gone/ or call 212-352-3101.
Mourning a life cut shor t too soon, at Judson Church.
seum, at Fifth Ave. and 103rd St. Free with museum admission, which is pay what you wish. Easter Bunny Extravaganza: The Easter Bunny will be taking over Chelsea Park, between Ninth and 10th Aves. and W. 27th and W. 28th Sts., on Sat., April 20, for a fun day filled with arts and crafts, an egg hunt and, most important, chocolate. The program runs from noon to 3 p.m. and is designed for children ages 6 to 10. For more information, call 212-255-3705 or e-mail Rich.Martinez@ parks.nyc.gov.
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COMMUNITY BOARDS Community Board 1 meets Tues., April 23, at 6 p.m., at the Blue School, 241 Water St. Community Board 3 meets Tues., April 23, at 6:30 p.m., at P.S. 20, 166 Essex St., between E. Houston and Stanton Sts.
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the first episode of his new documentary series, “The Redemption Project.” The series gives a firsthand look at “restorative justice.” The screening will be followed by a discussion with Van Jones about his hopes for transforming the U.S. criminal justice system. At N.Y.U. Law’s Vanderbilt Hall, at 40 Washington Square South. To register, visit https://bit.ly/2KIp8vL. Free.
“This Is Cuba”: Photojournalist and author David Ariosto will be in conversation with Cynthia Carris Alonso, a photographer and photo editor for publications including Newsweek, to discuss his new book “This Is Cuba.” The book documents life on the island over a nine-year period and discusses what changes are coming to the nation. The free event will take place Wed., April 24, at 6:30 p.m., in the Mid-Manhattan Library, 476 Fifth Ave., 42nd St. entrance, program room. FREE. Van Jones: The CNN host and President Obama’s former special adviser on green jobs will be at the Brennan Center at New York University School of Law on Mon., April 22, at 6 p.m., to screen
Tony Torn plays Andy Warhol muse Paul Swan at Torn Page.
KIDS Cycling Through the City: No, this is not a bike tour. It’s a chance for kids to learn about the city’s 200-year history of bicycling, at the Museum of the City of New York’s new exhibition on the bike culture of the past and present. Kids can then craft their own bracelet made of recycled bike parts. Fri., April 19, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the muTVG
COMMUNITY COUNCIL First Precinct Community Council meets Thurs., April 25, at 16 Ericsson Place, at 6:30 p.m. Fifth Precinct Community Council meets Wed., April 24, at 19 Elizabeth St., at 7 p.m. Sixth Precinct Community Council meets Wed., April 24, at Our Lady of Pompeii, 25 Carmine St., at 7:30 p.m. 10th Precinct Community Council meets Wed., April 24, at 230 W. 20th St., at 7 p.m. 20th Precinct Community Council meets Mon., April 22, at 120 W. 82nd St., at 7 p.m. April 18, 2019
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A third-floor walk-up at 111 W. 11th St. offers high ceilings and a marble fireplace.
Village Historic District is fine at 50 BY MARTHA WILKIE
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n 1969, a large segment of the Village was designated a historic district by the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission, protecting its architectural fabric from developers and city villains like Robert Moses. It’s not set in amber, but alterations and new construction must take context — materials, design, scale — into account. Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, planned a slew of events to celebrate. “The Greenwich Village Historic District is truly the jewel in the crown of historic New York,” he said. “A watershed preservation success story, the largest historic district in New York City continues to attract residents, creators and visitors from around the world. “Known for innovation and transformative thinking, as well as charming architecture and crooked streets, it’s a community united in its dedication to something precious and unique,” he said. What are the boundaries of the district? The G.V.S.H.P. Web site has a map or walk west or north from the Washington Square Arch (and note
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the brown street signs). Join G.V.S.H.P. on May 4 for a tour of seven homes in the district. (https://www.gvshp.org/_ gvshp/events/tour-main.htm) That same weekend is the Municipal Art Society’s annual “Jane’s Walk” in honor of Jane Jacobs. John Massengale will lead a tour informally titled “The Death and Life of a Historic District.” (https://www.mas.org/events/greenwich-village-historic-district-50th-anniversary/) On W. 11th St. is a third-floor studio in a co-op with tall ceilings, a marble fireplace, new windows, walnut floors, a sleek modern kitchen and a renovated bath with interesting herringbone tile work. $659,000 (https://streeteasy.com/building/111west-11-street-new_york/3fe)
On W. 10th St. is a quintessential 1826 Village townhouse. Meticulously renovated with dramatic color and detail, it has original wood-burning marble fireplaces, gleaming lacquered walls, an outdoor patio and a glamorous eat-in kitchen. A lovely mix of modern and historic. Four bedrooms, five baths. $8.98 million. ( ht t ps : //st r e ete a sy.c om / building/250-west-10-street-new_york/ house?featured=1)
On what real estate agents love to call a “charming tree-lined street” is 61 W. Ninth St., a sunny one- (or two) bedroom, two-bath apartment, with gorgeous casement windows, beamed ceilings and a wood-burning fireplace. $2.15 million. (https://streeteasy.com/building/61west-9-street-new_york/7c)
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ly being used as a two-unit rental, but could be converted to a single-family. It has an original wood-burning fireplace, a sky-lit kitchen, rear garden and terrace. Four bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths. $7,895,000. ( ht t ps : //st r e ete a sy.c om / sale/1366826) Schneps Media
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