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SO MUCH TO SEE! DISCOVER LAKE ONTARIO This summer explore the shore of Lake Ontario.

Take a refreshing dip at Olcutt Beach or body surf at Hamlin Beach State Park or Fair Haven Beach State Park. Enjoy the wineries on the Niagara Wine Trail. See spectacular sunsets at Golden Hill State Park where you can stay in a lighthouse or yurts along the shore. Enjoy world-class sportfishing on Lake Ontario and its tributaries with the chance to reel in steelhead, Chinook, or walleye.

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COMMEMORATE PEACE, LOVE & MUSIC

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This summer marks the 50th Anniversary of the greatest festival of all time — the Woodstock Music and Art Festival. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, the site of the original event, will present concerts, talks and even an open-air screening of “Woodstock: The Director’s Cut” in the very field where Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, and many others made history .

TAKE A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE Head to where the wild things are: the Wild Center in the Adirondacks! This can’t-miss stop is designed to create new and exciting experiences in nature. The famous “Wild Walk,” lets you stroll on an elevated trail through the treetops and includes playful elements like a human-sized bird nest or an enormous hammock-like spider web. You’ll feel at one with nature in no time.

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SO MUCH TO LOV E! CELEBRATE PRIDE STATEWIDE This year, New York’s Pride celebrations are bigger and better than ever! For the first time, the US will host WorldPride — right here in New York City — to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic Stonewall Riots when the West Village gay community rose up against police discrimination. With monumental anniversaries and 50+ pride events throughout the state, you don’t want to miss out! .

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CATCH SOME SERIOUS SPRAY If you’re craving a wet-n-wild adventure, kick things up a notch with Whirlpool Jet Boat Tours. The fully guided tour starts on the lower Niagara River into the Niagara Gorge at 55 mph and right into the heart of Devil’s Hole level 5 rapids! It sounds risky, but don’t worry, these boats are specially designed to withstand the turbulence so that you can experience the awe-inspiring might of Niagara Falls.

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CHEER ON THE BEST Ready to try your luck? Come place your bets at the historic Saratoga Race Course, the oldest continually operating sports venue in the country. From the pounding of the horses’ hooves to the pounding of spectators’ hearts, there’s nothing like the excitement of a summer’s day at the races. Thoroughbred racing season begins July 11, so get your grandstand tickets today.

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CELEBRATE NEW YORK STATE Don’t let summer get away without attending The Great New York State Fair in Syracuse, the first and longest-running state fair in the country. It also gets bigger every year. Expect animals, fireworks, battered and deep-fried morsels, carnival rides, competitions in everything from jam-making to storytelling, and big-name music headliners — this year’s lineup includes Ice Cube, Bad Company, the Dropkick Murphys, Gavin DeGraw, and more.

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GAZE UPON THE MARVEL OF GLASS Enter a world of mind-boggling glass art at the Corning Museum of Glass. You can explore collections of glass art from the last 35 centuries, watch live glass-blowing demonstrations, and even try glassmaking for yourself with the museum’s family-friendly “Make Your Own Glass” experiences.

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It’s not summer until you’ve spent a day lounging on one of Long Island’s world-class beaches. Cooper’s Beach in the Hamptons — rated number three in the nation by esteemed beach expert, “Dr. Beach.” — is famous for its white sandy dunes and beautiful nearby mansions. Main Beach, another Dr. Beach favorite, is beautiful, clean, and quiet. Hither Hills State Park in Montauk is open to the public and home to incredible “walking dunes.”

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RECLAIMING A PROUD LEGACY

JAIL PLAN: SO WHAT’S NEW?

Fifty years after the Stonewall rebellion launched the modern LGBTQ rights movement, New York City is playing host to the World Pride celebrations.

As Pride has grown, it has also changed in nature. What began as a scrappy, community-based political protest has become a mammoth, rainbow-hued festival full of corporate sponsors.

The activists at the Reclaim Pride Coalition want to return Pride to its political roots. To that end they have organized their own Queer Liberation March, an alternative to the official NYC Pride March. Organizer Ann Northrop, a veteran activist, said the first Pride march in New York, in June 1970, “was a political event,” which has been left behind by the “corporate party” Pride has become.

A Dedicated Activist Northrop got her start in the anti-Vietnam War and women’s rights protest movements in the

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Proposals to replace Rikers with smaller borough sites have been rejected before

NEW NYC RENTAL PROTECTIONS

BY STUART MARQUES

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PRIDE 2019 Activists opposed to the role that corporations play in NYC Pride events are staging a march of their own

WEEK OF JUNE

If you think the city’s plan to get rid of Rikers Island and replace it with smaller community jails in Manhattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx and Queens — and the pitched battle against it — feels like déjà vu, you’re not hallucinating.

Back in 1978, the Koch administration hatched a plan to lease Rikers to the state for $200 million for a state prison and use the money to defray the costs of building borough jails.

Many of the arguments were the same as today’s — that Rikers was dangerous, violent and inhumane.

An October 1979 report called the Rikers Island Working Project — one of many documents about the plan housed in the Municipal Archives — said Rikers, originally built in 1932, was decrepit. It estimated the city’s capital costs for the smaller jails at $351 million.

Hearings were held, at which Herb Sturz, then the city’s criminal justice coordinator, said the lease deal would allow the city to make a “fresh start” in building a modern jail system. Then-Corrections Commissioner Ben Ward testified that the smaller jails would be easier to control. But opposition from criminal justice activists, corrections officers and residents kiboshed the plan.

Fast forward to today and the city’s new plan to shutter Rikers and replace it with four smaller jails, which critics say would cost $11 billion.

Law is a victory for tenants and housing advocates, P. 2

NOT JUST A GAME Watching the inspiring U.S. women’s World Cup team in Chelsea, P. 5

Signs at the sometimes-raucous June 11 forum that Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer hosted at Pace University. Photo: Stuart Marques

(The city says it’s too early to put a definitive price tag on it).

One of those new ones would be a 40-story jail at 125 White Street, hard on the edge of Chinatown.

There have been several community meetings about that plan, the latest of which was a sometimes-raucous June 11 forum that Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer hosted at Pace University.

A Cut in Population Speakers in the crowd of about 200 ranged from mostly Chinatown residents who said the building was “fatally flawed” and out of character with the neighborhood to criminal reform advocates and “abolitionists” who want to shut Rikers and not build any new jails.

One caveat of the new plan is that the city slashes the Rikers population from the current approximately 8,000 to 5,000. Dana Kaplan, deputy director of the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice Matters, told the crowd that several factors, like the reduced crime rate and elimination of cash bail for misdemeanors, would lower the population to closer to 4,000 by the time the new jails are finished in 2026.

Kaplan said the White Street jail would be “fairer, safer, and more efficient,” and that the city was “committed to not displacing anyone at the nearby Chung Pak apartments,” an 88-unit low-income senior hous-

BACH AND BLEACH A theater production showed how music can unite a violist and a cleaning lady, P. 13

FAIRWAY LAUNCHES A COOKING SCHOOL The iconic NYC grocer offers classes for food lovers, P. 14

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In Brief MORE HELP FOR SMALL BUSINESS

The effort to help small seems to businesses in the city be gathering steam.

Two city councilmembers, Robert Margaret Chin and Cornegy, have introduced create legislation that wouldSmall a new “Office of the within Business Advocate” of Small the city’s Department Business Services.

Chin The new post, which have up told us she’d like to would and running this year, for serve as an ombudsman city small businesses within them clear government, helping to get through the bureaucracy things done.

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STATE LEADERS OK RENTAL PROTECTIONS FOR NYC HOUSING New law is a victory for tenants and housing advocates

BY DAVID KLEPPER

More than one million apartment dwellers in and around New York City are getting new protections against big rent increases under a landmark tenants’ rights bill signed into law Friday.

The measure, which passed the Democrat-controlled Senate and Assembly Friday afternoon and was immediately signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, strengthens the existing rent stabilization and rent control rules that govern rental increases and evictions in many older, multiunit apartments.

It also makes the rules permanent, eliminating the need for leaders in Albany to regularly renew the law, which was set to expire Saturday.

Lawmakers voted to extend several protections throughout the state, including one prohibiting security

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deposits of more than one month’s rent. The law will also authorize cities throughout the state to opt into rent stabilization rules.

The law is a big victory for tenants, housing advocates and many progressive groups that say high rents in New York City are forcing out many lower and middle-class residents. It’s also a stunning defeat for the New York City real estate indus-

try, long one of the most politically powerful forces in the state Capitol.

“The tables have finally turned in favor of millions of tenants across New York state,” said Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal, an Upper West Side Democrat. “For far too long, big real estate pulled the strings in Albany.”

Landlords have warned that apartments may fall into disrepair if own-

ers aren’t allowed to raise the rent high enough to cover the cost of improvements. The Partnership for New York City, a leading business advocacy organization, said the changes could backfire.

“This rent reform package will inevitably lead to the same loss of decent, middle-class housing that we experienced in the 1970s and 1980s,” the group said in a statement. “It is not enough to maintain affordability if it means tenants are living in terrible conditions.”

Tenants and advocates argue that high rents are a leading cause of income inequality in the nation’s largest city, leading to the elimination of affordable housing and turning many neighborhoods into the reserve of the well-heeled.

The rent stabilization and control laws were written decades ago to preserve affordable housing amid the postwar boom. Since then, the rules have slowly been eroded and thousands of units have been taken out of stabilization.

The changes approved Friday will eliminate a landlord’s ability to take

a unit out of the system based on a tenant’s income and further restrict landlords’ abilities to justify rent increases through improvements and upgrades.

Passage was made possible last fall when Democrats took control of the state Senate, giving them a lock on power. Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Democrat from the Bronx, and Senate Leader Andrea StewartCousins worked out the deal, without much input from Cuomo, who left the negotiations to lawmakers.

“I’m confident the measure passed today is the strongest possible set of reforms that the Legislature was able to pass,” Cuomo said in a statement announcing his signature. He called the law “a major step forward for tenants across New York.”

Stewart-Cousins, who grew up in public housing and is the first African American woman to lead a legislative chamber in New York, said that after decades of siding with the landlords, Albany is now listening to the tenants.

“What we’re doing today says `we get it,’” she said.

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG WOMAN ASSAULTED ON BUS

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According to police, at 12:25 a.m. on Saturday, June 8, a 26-year-old woman was sitting on a bus at the northwest corner of Murray St. and North End Ave. when a 64-year-old woman on the bus said, “You’re a terrorist and are going to blow up the bus!” The older woman then struck the younger woman multiple times with a metal handle, police said, causing lacerations to her leg, arm and hand. The victim was transported to Lenox Hill Hospital with minor injuries, and June Choi was arrested and charged with assault.

A 17 -year-old male was assaulted and robbed inside the Battery Parking Garage at 70 Greenwich St., police said. In the incident, which took place at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, June 7, two men ambushed the teen in the staircase between the fifth and sixth floors. punching him in the head and taking his wallet. The victim refused medical attention at the scene, and a search of the neighborhood failed to turn up the assailants. The items stolen included $200 in cash, a wallet, credit and debit cards and two MetroCards.

KINGS OF CHAOS At 1:30 a.m. on Friday, June 7, two men, aged 18 and 19, were invited via social media to attend a party on Staten Island. At the southeast corner of South Street and Old Slip, neear the Staten Island Ferry Terminal, police said, the three men who invited them yelled “Kings!” and attacked the teens in an apparent gang-related assault, punching them and causing bruising and swelling. The suspects then fled with the 19-year-old’s phone, heading toward the ferry terminal. The stolen phone was an iPhone 6 Plus valued at $300.

NO FUN AT THE PLAYGROUND Things were anything but playful in a local playground recently. According to police, at 5:40 p.m. on Wednesday, June 5, five teenage boys allegedly began harassing a girl at the Imagination Playground, at the northwest corner of Front and John Sts. When the girl’s father asked the boys to stop, they became aggressive and began cursing at him, police said. The victim later told police that the boys next began throwing rocks at him, striking him on the top of his head, causing injury. The suspects then fled

east on Front St. Police searched the area but did not locate the teens.

of Charlton and Hudson Sts. When he returned at 5:50 a.m. the bike was gone. Surveillance footage showed two men wearing all black taking the bike at 5:45 a.m. and heading west on Charlton St. A search of the neighborhood failed to turn up the suspects or the stolen ride, a black 2017 Yamaha R6 with New York plates 85TM97, valued at $12,000.

A QUICK TAKE A man’s parked motorcycle was left unattended for just fifteen minutes before thieves made off with it, police said. At 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 5, a 26-year-old man parked his motorcycle at the southwest corner

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STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 1st precinct for the week ending June 9 Week to Date

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MORE THAN A GAME SPORTS As the U.S. women’s soccer team tries for another World Cup, the players inspire fans with their skill and their values

BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM

Manhattan’s foremost soccer bar, Smithfield Hall in Chelsea, was packed with fans Sunday who came to watch the U.S. Women’s National Team take on Chile in their second game of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France.

The crowd, many decked out in players’ jerseys, cheered and applauded each of the three goals the team scored to cruise past the Chilean side. It was a convincing follow up to the USWNT’s first showing in Reims, in which they beat an outmatched Thailand side 13 to zero.

But it’s more than decades of dominance in the sport that draws fan to this team. Many of the women on hand at Smithfield Hall on Sunday cited Mia Hamm and the 1999 squad, who beat China in penalty kicks to win the World Cup here at home, as women they could look up to and emulate growing up. From the current roster, they cite Megan Rapinoe; not only does she provide the best service into the box, but she provides visibility as an out member of the LGBTQ community. To them,

In the crowded Smithfield Hall in Chelsea, Katie Mathews, right, watches the U.S. Women’s National Team in their 3-0 victory over Chile.

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WHY BOB DYLAN’S ROLLING THUNDER GAMBLE PAID OFF PUBLIC EYE

CONCERNED WORDS HELP THE HEALING

BY BETTE DEWING

BY JON FRIEDMAN

In the fall of 1975, Bob Dylan launched The Rolling Thunder Revue and took one of the biggest musical risks of his six-decade musical career.

It was a resounding success.

The six-week tour of New England and other locales has been captured in a new documentary from Netflix entitled “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese.” (Previously, some of Dylan’s film work had such vague names as Dont Look Back — no apostrophe — Eat the Document and Masked and Anonymous, but Netflix liked having all of the principals in the title.

Membership indeed has its privileges!)

The rehearsals and concerts are beautifully presented in a 14-disc package from Sony/Legacy.

Looking back, Dylan took a big chance by charging into this tour.

He wanted to return to his un-corporate roots and have fun playing rock and roll tunes, after being tied for more than a decade to the oppressive label, The Voice of a Generation. Dylan, shrewdly sizing up the pitfalls of idolatry at an early age, had flatly rejected this highly inconvenient tag. He wanted to boogie with his friends.

Dylan impulsively launched The Rolling Thunder Revue, a rather rag-tag endeavor for a musical star who had triumphantly filled North America’s biggest hockey and basketball venues just the year before.

He favored playing on college campuses. He sang out of his head, with more concern for reaching the balcony than being known for precision and artistry. He wore extensive makeup.

The risks? Dylan, for the first time, went on tour without The Band backing him up. He was coming off back-to-back hits with the albums “Planet Waves” and “Blood on the Tracks,” so he had a lot of recent success to live up to. The reviews for

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his Tour ‘74 extravaganza (when tickets cost a then-astronomical $8.50 apiece) had been a critical and commercial bonanza for Dylan.

By touring in 1975, Dylan had hoped, too, to shine a light on the plight of imprisoned middleweight boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, who had been convicted of murder (Dylan had read Carter’s autobiography and met him in the New Jersey prison and came away convinced of Carter’s innocence). Dylan co-wrote and recorded the song “Hurricane,” pointedly the first song on his next album, “Desire.”

Displaying a fire that the world hadn’t heard since his 1966 world tour, Dylan sang like a demon on “Hurricane.”

But a song about injustice and a black man also represented a sizable risk for Dylan’s reputation. His 1971 song “George Jackson,” about a Black Panther leader who had been shot and killed earlier that year by prison guards, had been dismissed by fans and critics as an insincere attempt to get the public off Dylan’s back. Dylan, they alleged, hoped this “return to protest” would restore his street credibility, but it didn’t.

So, why, then, did Rolling Thunder work? Dylan’s singing is the main reason. He is completely engaged in this music. In later years, critics and fans would chide Dylan for his

wildly inconsistent performances on stage to the point of mailing it in (I’ve seen these dreary performances many times).

But in 1975, he was right there — on every song, at every stop. Maybe he felt freer, without the pressure of performing with The Band in tow.

Maybe he loved singing the new songs, which would later comprise the Desire album. Maybe he loved playing to college kids on campuses.

Maybe he loved singing again with Joan Baez and on the same bill as such musicians as Mick Ronson, Joni Mitchell, Roger McGuinn, Ronee Blakley, T-Bone Burnett, Rob Stoner and Howie Wyeth.

You’ll see all of the joy and commitment on Dylan’s face and in his voice during the Scorsese film.

My one gripe: I felt there were too many cutaways, when I just wanted to hear Dylan at one of his creative peaks. I didn’t need anything else.

Sometimes he seemed like an extra in his own film.

No matter, really. This is a film worth exploring if you love Bob Dylan’s music and want to catch him at a time when he took one of his biggest creative gambles — and made it work.

Jon Friedman is the author of “Forget About Today: Bob Dylan’s Genius for Reinvention, Shunning the Naysayers, and Creating a Personal Revolution.”

Doorman Jose told me not to write this column because I’d taken a spill from a chair and hurt my right knee.

“Take care of yourself first and foremost,” he said, “the world will survive without this one column.”

But concerned words like Jose’s do help the healing, and so I feel compelled to get this message out there how concerned words help the healing. And how we need reminding to say them — enough. And this is rather a follow up on my previouos column about how apartment house staff members are often veritable lifelines to building residents, as well as everyday friends who say “Good morning,” “Good day,” “Good evening,” and really mean it.

The Need to Be More Neighborly And again, to those who don’t have them, infinitely more must be said and done about the need to organize — such an unfriendly term —to get tenants to be more neighborly, where greeting one another with a smile at least is the rule. And remember the late Loretta Ponticelli who, when she was able-bodied, made the City and Suburban Homes complex more community-minded, But this rather fell apart when she became home-bound and ironlically could have used more community support herself.

There was no Jose there to judicially spread the word when some-

one was ill. “Bette got hurt,” he told some longtime tenants, which pompted some welcome visits, food and ice bags. And mostly it’s the presence that matters, perhaps by “reach out and touch someone,” phone calls, and of course emails, though not everyone has online options. Ever wish online had not beeninvented?

Small Businesses Create Community And speaking of communty, online shopping surely undermines the health and survival of neighborhood shops and eateries which create community. For example, as the owners of Beacon Paint & Hardware said when I called about their atruggle to survive, the problem wasn’t any mammoth rent hike, but the online shopping, with bargains so hard to resist, not to mention the convenience, which was undermining the survival of this family’s nearly halfcentury old business.

And that was another reasom I needed to write this column — to stress again how these small businesses and eateries create commuity and neighborliness. And with the population aging, they are accessible by walking and, yes, by wheelchairs and rollators. They need our all-out support. It can be done, if enough of us try.

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SOCCER CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 Alex Morgan is not just one of the best strikers in the world; she, as well as many other high profile team members, used her platform to sue U.S. Soccer for pay equity with the men’s team, whose members make more money despite having much less success.

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if you don’t live here,” she said. “We live two blocks from here. It’s crazy to spend $11 billion for new jails. For $11 billion, they could fix every NYCHA apartment.”

ing building at 96 Baxter St. Three Manhattan community boards have rejected the proposal and at least two in the outer boroughs have done the same. A Bronx community board has sued to try to stop the plan, which is winding its way through a long approval process that will culminate in votes in the City Planning Commission and the City Council.

Patricia Tsai, of the Ling Sing Association on Mott St., said the city has not adequately measured impacts of such “mammoth construction projects,” and she accused officials of demonizing opponents of the plan which, she said, amounts to just “shuffling detainees around” and putting four mini-Rikers Islands across the city.

Neighborhood resident Lauren Gee called the proposed White Street jail “a monstrous high-rise building,” that doesn’t belong near Chinatown. “It’s easy to be for a big new jail

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Jonathan Hollander, who lives on White Street, said the proposed new jail “is not what New York City needs.” He said it would too close to Columbus Park at Mulberry and Baxter Streets, “where people do tai chi in the morning and where children play in the afternoons.”

Many of the speakers were criminal reform advocates and “abolitionists,” who said Rikers should close and not be replaced because jails symbolize “the mass incarceration ... that targets black and brown people.”

King Downing, a lawyer and founder of the Human Rights Justice Center, said “I am an abolitionist. Shut Rikers and don’t build any new jails.” He and other speakers noted the death of inmate Layleen Polcano, whose lifeless body was found in her cell on June 7.

After the forum, Nancy Kong of Neighbors United Bellow Canal, told Our Town the plan was “fatally flawed and ill-conceived” and would destroy Chinatown’s character.

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To many fans, the team possesses the values the U.S. should represent on the world stage.

It seems to them those values are absent from the current administration and its behavior as an actor in the world. While some 45,000 people came to Paris to watch the women’s second World Cup game, less than two weeks earlier nearly twice that number, by some estimates, marched in London to protest President Trump’s state visit to England.

“It’s probably super contradictory for other countries to kind of witness,” said Rita Skiba, 30, who came to watch the game at Smithfield Hall with her fiancé, Katie Mathews. “I think that it speaks to the fact that our current administration is not representative of what the majority of America values, so I really appreciate that the team shows their values on and off the field and is able to represent something that’s not being shown on the political scene right now.”

“I don’t know if I’ve ever really felt that the U.S. government has represented women, and I feel like that’s really relatable no matter what country you’re in,” Mathews added. “To have a team that’s so public facing, that’s made up of women and that’s advocating for something that’s kind of something that’s against the U.S. government, that’s probably really relatable to a lot of different people in a lot of different countries. I think other teams respect them for that right now.”

Fighting for Equal Pay The players have put these values in action over the years. In 2016, a year after winning their third World Cup, five members of the teams filed a complaint with the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission against U.S. Soccer, in which they alleged they were paid considerably less than the men’s team.

They won more compensation in their next bargaining agreement. But in March of this year, the players filed a federal lawsuit, citing “institutional gender discrimination.” The say they are looking forward to a trial after this summer’s World Cup is over.

“I’m in the tech field and that’s a huge discrepancy,” said Mathews. “And to see a women’s team fully advocating for themselves, and going against a big organization like U.S. soccer is really hopeful,” .

Skiba and Mathews also share a love and respect or Megan Rapinoe, a player known for her creativity, dynamic style on the pitch and activism. Rapinoe, who recently told Yahoo

I think there’s a level of moral outrage around the U.S. team being really, really competitive that doesn’t exist for men.

Laura Reilley, a lifelong soccer player and fan Sports that she is a “walking protest of (the Trump) administration,” took a knee during the national anthem before two of the team’s games, in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick and his protests.

“She’s really inspirational because a lot of people struggle with this balance,” Mathews said. “Being a woman in professional sports is already hard enough to establish yourself and make money. What you do off the field could put that at risk a little bit and to choose to do the right things and stay aligned with her core moral beliefs.”

A Controversial Victory Following their lopsided victory over Thailand in their opening match, a debate ensued online about whether the U.S. should have racked up so many goals against an obviously inferior side, and especially, whether the players should have celebrated each one with so much gusto.

Laura Reilley, a lifelong soccer player who was watching at Smithfield Hall with friends, said playing to the best of your ability is about showing respect your opponent. The way teams advance in the World Cup, it matters how many goals a team scores. Tactically, Reilley said, it was smart to get as many goals as possible.

As for the celebrations, she thinks the debate stems from sexism. “In general it’s not good to smash a racquet on a tennis court, but when Serena Williams does it, it’s headline news everywhere. And when a man does it, it’s not,” Reilley said. I think there’s a level of moral outrage around the U.S. team being really, really competitive that doesn’t exist for men.”

Annie Hadley, another fan, said that whether the lopsided score line was bad for the game is debatable, but it shouldn’t affect how the world views what the team is doing on and off the field.

“I think that the World Cup is really interesting in terms of global diplomacy. The world comes together to compete, but also to interact and exchange things,” said Hadley. “The fact that they are out there being proudly feminist, a lot of them are proudly out lesbians, I think that says a lot about what the U.S. can be, and what it should be. I think that’s important for the world to see.”

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NAUMBURG 2019: A CLASSICAL SUMMER The celebrated and beloved concert series is moving indoors this season, but the music will soar as always

BY MARY GREGORY

Elkan Naumburg (1835–1924) was a contemporary of J. P. Morgan, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Carnegie.

Like them, he made a fortune in the early years of the 20th century, and like them, he was a major philanthropist. Unlike them, he was born to a Jewish family that immigrated to the United States to escape the burgeoning anti-Semitic wave spreading through Bavaria, their homeland. Naumburg was 15 years old when he arrived in Baltimore. A lover of classical music, but unable to afford tickets to concerts, he later turned his passion to a gift to others, specifically New Yorkers.

Horse-drawn buggies carried men sporting straw boaters and women in long skirts with bustles to the first Naumburg Orchestral Concerts in 1905, which were lit by gaslight. 114 years later, they’re still a highlight of the New York summer season. Over the years, Irving Berlin, the Grateful Dead, and Fidel Castro have appeared on the Naumburg stage, but the main focus has always been on classical orchestral music. Billed as “the oldest continuous free outdoor western classical music concert series in the world,” it’s a beloved part of the city’s cultural heritage.

The Perfect Temporary Home The Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park was completed in 1923, about the same time another jewel of New York was being built. Temple Emanu-El, at Fifth Avenue and 65th Street, also funded by Jewish philanthropists, is an architectural

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This summer’s Naumburg Orchestral Concerts will be performed at Temple Emanu-El. Photo: Courtesy of Temple Emanu-El

and acoustic wonder. Its soaring 103-foot high ceiling and more than 60 stained glass windows are filled with spiritual symbols. This year, as the Naumburg Bandshell undergoes repairs, the summer concert series will be held in Temple Emanu-El. When this season’s musicians take the stage, they and the audiences will, in many ways, be touching history.

A Fabulous Lineup The Knights, a New York based orchestra, opened the season on June 18th with a program broadcast on WQXR, including works by Felix Mendelssohn, Benjamin Britten, Lisa Bielawa, and poetry by Walt Whitman set to music. Upcoming concerts include the Venice Baroque Orchestra, joining the Naumburg series for the first time on July 10th.

They’ll perform a mostly Italian program with works by Antonio Vivaldi, George Frideric Handel, Tomaso Albinoni, Benedetto Marcello, and Francesco Geminiani.

Boston-based, Grammy awardnominated A Far Cry performs July 18th, bringing a contemporary spin with two works composed within the last decade, along with Georg Muffat’s “Concerto Grosso No. 12” and Tchaikovsky’s “Serenade in C

The Naumburg Orchestral Concerts have been a part of New York summers since 1905. Photo: Courtesy of Naumburg Orchestral Concerts

Major, Op. 48.”

On July 30th, New York’s Orchestra of St. Luke’s will focus on 20th and 21st century music, giving equal billing to male and female composers. Works by Anna Clyne, Florence Price, Samuel Barber and Aaron Copland will be performed, with soprano Jasmine Muhammad. The finale of the season will be on August 6th, when Orpheus Chamber

Orchestra, also based in New York, presents “Pasión: A Concert of Spanish and South American Music.”

An Ongoing Treat for New Yorkers All the concerts are free, but all require tickets, (available online).

If there are seats still available, it might be possible to score a lastminute ticket at the door. Temple Emanu-El opens at 6:15 for each of

the 7 p.m. concerts, and suggests allowing extra time for security checks. These renowned musicians and sumptuous programs are, as was inscribed by Elkan Naumburg on the Central Park bandshell, “presented to the City Of New York and its music lovers” from a kindred spirit, almost a century gone, but still reaching and enriching lives in the city.

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Go Sushi

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Not Graded Yet (10) Hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room. Hot and cold running water at adequate pressure to enable cleanliness of employees not provided at facility. Soap and an acceptable hand-drying device not provided.

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Not Graded Yet (43) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Food from unapproved or unknown source or home canned. Reduced oxygen packaged (ROP) fish not frozen before processing; or ROP foods prepared on premises transported to another site. Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

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Evidence of rats or live rats present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewageassociated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

JUNE 5 - 11, 2019 The following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s website and include the most recent inspection and grade reports listed. We have included every restaurant listed during this time within the zip codes of our neighborhoods. Some reports list numbers with their explanations; these are the number of violation points a restaurant has received. To see more information Glaze Teriyaki Grill

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Grade Pending (30) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Bob Bar

235 Eldridge Street

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Bluestone Lane

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Yue Lai Bakery

137 East Broadway

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14 Christopher St

Hua Xia Restaurant

49 Division St

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Petite Boucherie / Omakase Room

New Territories

190 Orchard St

Grade Pending (26) Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations.

Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.

Grade Pending (17) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/ sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies.

Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Van Leeuwen Ice Cream

152 W 10th St

Not Graded Yet (43) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation.

Appropriately scaled metal stem-type thermometer or thermocouple not provided or used to evaluate temperatures of potentially hazardous foods during cooking, cooling, reheating and holding.Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Insufficient or no refrigerated or hot holding equipment to keep potentially hazardous foods at required temperatures. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Roasting Plant

81 Orchard Street

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Happy Express Cafe

4 Allen St

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Hong Man

27 Eldridge St

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Serafina Ludlow

98 Rivington St

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‘BACH AND BLEACH’ THEATER A new production showed how classical music can bring together a musician and a cleaning lady

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For the average person, classical music can appear inaccessible. Even for someone who loves hearing classical music in films or listening to it at home, the concert hall and its stuffiness can be intimidating. People often decide to just stay at home instead of exploring the unfamiliarity of the classical music world.

This inaccessibility motivated world-renowned Dutch violist Esther Apituley to create her new work, “Bach & Bleach,” which had its American premiere at LaMaMa Experimental Theatre Lab earlier this month. Written by Ko Van den Bosch and performed and conceived by Apituley, “Bach & Bleach” is a play with music about a violist (Apituley) who has a chance encounter with a cleaning lady (played by Broadway actress Jenny Sterlin) right before her concert.

At the play’s beginning, the two women find themselves at a stalemate: the violist wants to start her concert immediately, but the cleaning lady wants to finish her task. Eventually, the violist starts playing Bach’s Chaconne, and the music “unlocks” the cleaning lady’s “imagination, helping her to realize that she is more than what she believes herself to be,” Apituley explains. Music brings the two women together, and its unifying power ultimately makes these two women better people.

“The idea is to find a concept which is accessible [for those who] love classical music but have never been to a concert,” says Apituley. “I thought, ‘how can I change things and make them more accessible for the public?’” Apituely thought that putting a regular cleaning lady onstage with an elitist violist would not only make classical music more approachable

News of Your Neighborhood Violist Esther Apituley (left) and actress Jenny Sterlin in “Bach & Bleach.” Photo: Erwin Maas

for the general public, but would also display a class tension between the characters, which would be the basis for an interesting story.

“Eighty percent of the people don’t see a cleaning lady as a person,” notes Apituley. “The cleaning lady has a personality, has a history; you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover ... If you look at her, she has a whole history, and that is what’s happening onstage.” Throughout the play, “we are getting closer together,” Apituley says, “because there are parallels in her job and in mine.” Although “there are two totally different worlds meeting each other on stage ... we will meet and understand each other ... Because I understand her story and she understands my story.”

Apituley’s experiment has worked. She has performed “Bach & Bleach” over 50 times in the Netherlands and in Spain. The play’s unique mix of an onstage choir, live orchestra and a compelling script has the ability to make audiences cry, feel, and experience classical music in a totally new way.

And this production’s diverse cast reflected the richness and multiculturalism of New York: a British actress, a German violinist, a Puerto Rican pianist, a French cellist, and of course, a Dutch violist made up the New York production’s cast. All of these combined elements make “Bach & Bleach” a special theatrical experience.

Apituely has enjoyed her first foray in the theater. She has marveled at the relationship between music and text,

how what she describes as the “concrete” and “straightforward” nature of text complements the more abstract art of music, which “goes directly to your soul.” Text “helps you explain or tell a story,” she notes, but “music gives it an atmosphere, which adds affects.”

She explains that instead of merely comprehending the cleaning lady’s story, music allows you to “feel you can understand the story because you listen to the music.” This combination of text and music “adds to each other; it makes them stronger ... It’s total theater” she says.

But for Apituley, it always comes back to the power of music and the effect it has on her audience. “Music is the strongest art going directly to your soul,” she says. When you “close your eyes and listen to the music ... you really are coming to another level of life; you can go to a lot of other worlds.” Classical music shows you, she says, that “there’s something more than not only drinking and eating and surviving.” Apituley feels driven by a higher purpose to bring her music to the public. “I’m very proud that my mission is to get people who are never going to concerts” to come to her performance, she explains. In Europe, audiences have been “so touched by the way we do it, the way the whole concert is there ... it moves people so much. My mission has succeeded in Europe, and that’s why I hope in New York, they are touched too.”

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FAIRWAY LAUNCHES A COOKING SCHOOL FOOD The iconic NYC grocer takes the next logical step and offers classes for food lovers

BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM

At Long’s Bedding on West 72nd St. (from left to right): Bob Tunison, Joel Spector, Terri Long, Bob Long and Judie Long. Photo courtesy of Terri Long

THE LONG’S GOODBYE STORES West Side bedding store to relocate to the UES in 2020

BY JASON COHEN

After more than a century as a fixture in the Upper West Side, Long’s Bedding will be closing at the end of the year and relocating to the east side.

In April, the store put a sign out front saying it will remain at 121 West 72nd Street through the end of 2019, and move to 1220 Third Avenue off the corner of East 70th Street next year.

This four generation family business began in 1911 as a small factory in Harlem by Max Long. The first retail store opened at 153 West 72nd in 1936 by Harry Long. Harry moved the store down the block to 121 in 1962, where it is today. Bob (third) generation is still on his first job since 1963. Bob’s wife, Judie, started in 1983. Their daughter, Terri (fourth generation), came into the business in 1997. Terri operates the store today, with her parents in active supporting roles.

Terri Long told the West Side Spirit

that moving from the west to the east side was one of the toughest choices she ever had to make.

“We had wanted to stay and we tried to stay” she said. “We just couldn’t come to terms with our current landlord. It wasn’t a decision that we took lightly.”

With high rent and online retail, remaining open on the West Side simply wasn’t sustainable anymore, she said. Long noted that she and her family came to this realization about a year ago.

According to Long, finding a new space was a challenge. They needed a place that was accessible, close to their clientele and large enough for all of their beds. The East Side location is all of that and it is 1,000 feet bigger.

“We wanted to stay as close to our customer base as we could,” she said. “We have always prided ourselves on showing a wide selection of beds. The East Side I hope will be a space that will be inviting and accepting to all.”

Reflecting back on the 108 years of being in business, Long credited their success to the service to the customers and accessibility. Someone from her family is always there to help customers and this has led to the majority of their sales being

done by word of mouth.

Long noted that they do not advertise or carry the three big “S” brands, Sealey’s, Serta and Simmons. Instead, Long’s Bedding offers a wide selection of beds from boutique mattress companies from throughout the country.

Over the years, Long’s has become a hotspot for celebrities as well. The wall of the store is filled with photos of famous people, including Mandy Patinkin, Paul Simon and John Lennon.

“We’ve worked hard to provide a level of service, selection and quality that I think is unmatchable in this industry,” Long remarked.

Long recalled how she used to love coming to work with her dad as a child. She wrote fake invoices and adored seeing him do his job.

She worked briefly for a couple years at a few different places, but then came home to work with her family.

“I’ve been here longer than I’ve not been here,” Long said.

While the move is eight months away, she is filled with mixed emotions.

“When I think about the actual physical move it’s overwhelming,” she said. “The East Side space will be a fresh, new, mindful, well thought out experience and space. I hope that the West Side follows us to and decides to take the journey with us.”

With the June 15 opening of The Cooking Place, Upper West Siders can now hone their culinary skills at their neighborhood grocer, Fairway Market. The West Side institution is offering over 100 classes designed

by Chef Laura Licona, accessible to both experienced and novice cooks.

“At The Cooking Place, we bring more to the table than just food. We bring the same passion, dedication and philosophy about fooding that fills every aisle in our stores,” Licona said. “We believe that food draws people together, creating memories and friendships that will last long after the last bite of dessert is gone.”

The Cooking Place will host a daily schedule of classes in the renovated second floor of the chain’s flagship store at 74th Street and Broadway.

Guests can learn the basics of baking, how to sharpen their knife skills, how to make homemade pasta. They can also try their hand

Ready for students. Photo: Mark Whitaker

at a variety of global cuisines such as Chinese takeout, Spanish tapas, Japanese sushi, Korean BBQ and Parisian Steakhouse. The school offers date-night specials and afternoon lessons for children and teens.

Prices vary between $75 and $90 per class.

Courses will be taught by Licona, the executive chef of the adjoining café. A New Mexico native, Licona has traveled the world as a food anthropologist and chef. She studied environmental and food anthropology in a doctorate program at the University of Washington and subsequently attended Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Seattle.

“My food journey started at a very young age growing, raising and cooking food in a land steeped in heritage and rooted in culture and tradition,” Licona said. “I’ve had the honor of learning from culinary pioneers on both coasts, working with chefs who helped hone my passion and art, owning my own restaurant and eventually working as the executive chef at Giorgio’s of Gramercy here in New York City.”

Customers can book their classes online at TheCookingPlace.com.

Available courses are currently scheduled through July.

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RECLAIM CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 1960s and ‘70s. Out as a lesbian since 1976, she left a job at CBS to work as an AIDS educator for New York’s Hetrick-Martin Institute for Lesbian and Gay Youth, and later as an organizer at ACT UP. In the decades since, Northrop has worked at the Williams Institute, an LGBTQ-focused think tank, the Lesbian Avengers and Queer Nation activist groups, as well as “every protest group that came along.” Since 1996, she has hosted the public access show “Gay USA” along with Andy Humm, showcasing LGBTQ issues, both domestically and internationally.

Northrop said her years on “Gay USA” have made her “continually aware” of the challenges faced by LGBTQ communities around the world. During an interview, she noted the struggles of activists in Bosnia and North Macedonia to hold the first pride marches in their nations. She also mentioned a Pride march last year in Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp by Ugandan refugees, at risk to their own lives due to the rigidly conservative environment. “That is pride to me, not TD Bank rolling down Fifth Avenue,” Northrop said.

An Unconventional Approach It was this desire to re-center rights advocacy as part of Pride which drew Northrop to Reclaim Pride. In 2017 and 2018, Northrop, along with other activists, took part in the city’s official Pride march. But after struggles in 2018 with Heritage of Pride, the organizers of the march, Reclaim Pride was founded.

Northrop explained that in Reclaim Pride, “nobody has official titles, we’re just organizers. Everyone’s on equal footing,” This unconventional approach reflects Reclaim Pride’s focus on accessibility and community. Unlike the NYC Pride parade, which requires permits to join, the Queer Liberation March welcomes participants at any point along the four-mile route, which begins at Sheridan Square at 9:30 A.M. on June 30th and concludes with a rally at Central Park’s Great Lawn.

The rally will feature a plethora of guests, “both political and entertaining.” Among them will be poets Staceyann Chin and Pamela Sneed, performance artists Justin Vivian Bond, Taylor Mac, and Alok Vaid-Menon, and activists Lydia X. Z. Brown, Edafe Okporo, and Amir Ashour, along with members of the Gay Liberation Front and ACT UP. Also featured will be nightlife personalities Jose Xtravaganza and Kevin Aviance, journalist Masha Gessen, and actor John Cameron Mitchell.

No Corporations, Campaigners or Cops in Uniform Northrop emphasized that politicians are welcome to join the rally, “just not in campaign mode.” Centering on the LGBTQ community itself over any outside figures or organizations is central to Reclaim Pride’s efforts.

As part of its political focus, Reclaim Pride also bars the presence of corporations and the NYPD, both of which are fixtures of NYC Pride.

Northrop explained that while some corporations have helped advocate for certain LGBTQ causes, they should not be the focus of Pride at the expense of the community the event is meant to celebrate. “If they want to support

us, they can stand on the sidelines,” she said, “or give money to the community.”

As for the NYPD, Northrop said they “make the most marginalized feel unsafe,” and pointed to the department’s history of entrapping gay men and numerous incidents of brutality.

She also noted its failure to apologize for the 1969 raid on the Stonewall Inn. (A few days after the interview, Police Commissioner James O’Neill finally offered that long-awaited apology. “The actions taken by the NYPD were wrong — plain and simple,” he said.)

Northrop said that she has had friends with and worked with the Gay Officers Action League (GOAL) on efforts to reduce homophobia within the NYPD. She said members of GOAL, as well as any other NYPD officers, are free to participate in the Queer Liberation March, as long as they march out of uniform, representing themselves rather than the institution whose historical practices Reclaim Pride objects to.

Northrop explained that Pride should be a time for “celebrating our victories, mourning our losses,” and looking ahead to the next fronts in the continuing struggle for LGBTQ rights. The Queer Liberation March is part of what she described as “a much bigger stream of progressive values,” which seek to galvanize Pride into a community-based political event once more.

Rights and Safety for Transgender People Northrop said two issues are particularly important today: transgender rights, and the ongoing attempts to include sexuality and gender identity as protected groups under federal non-discrimination laws.

“Trans communities are under attack,” she said. “Black trans women are being murdered.” Two such women, 26-year-old Chynal Lindsey and 23-year-old Muhlaysia Booker were both killed in Dallas, Texas in the last month alone, she noted.

The Human Rights Foundation documented at least 26 murders of transgender people in the United States last year. Black transgender women are particularly vulnerable to such violence, as they face the compounded issues of racism, transphobia, and misogyny.

As for the issue of non-discrimination laws, while New York includes gender identity and sexual orientation in both its employment discrimination and hate crime laws, only 20 other states do so with regard to employment, and only 18 do so for hate crimes.

Northrop and other activists seek to expand those protections nationwide, an uphill battle against the Trump administration, which Northrop described as “relentless and shameless in rolling back protections.” Just last month, she pointed out, the Department of Health and Human Services rescinded an Obama-era guideline which protected transgender people from discrimination by health care providers.

All of this — the Queer Liberation March and the ongoing struggle to create a safe and fair world for LGBTQ people — Northrop said, is all part of Reclaim Pride’s goal to “bring back that spirit of Stonewall.”

The Reclaim Pride Coalition objects to the role of corporations in New York’s annual Pride March. This Chipotle float was part of the 2013 parade. Photo: brklyn is over, via Flckr

GAY PRIDE, ALL YEAR LONG PRIDE 2019 A bookstore, a museum, a cafe and three other spots where you can show your support and have a good time

BY NICOLE ROSENTHAL

Pride Month has always been associated with The Stonewall Inn, from the historic Stonewall Uprising in 1969, which paved the way for the modern gay rights movement, to the parades and parties that have transformed every June since into a non-stop celebration. But members and supporters of the LGBTQ community can show their colors the other eleven months as well. Here are six locations around New York City that celebrate LGBTQ Pride 365 days a year.

Big Gay Ice Cream Multiple Location biggayicecream.com The brainchild of Manhattanites Bryan Petroff and Douglas Quint, Big Gay Ice Cream first opened in the East Village in 2011 after its whirlwind success as an ice cream truck since 2009. After opening a West Village location in 2012, the duo launched a Philadelphia satellite store as well as pint-sized tubs available in stores nationwide. The original East Village store retains the quaint mom-and-pop atmosphere of a local ice cream parlour with an added element of extravagant colors and decadent, original flavors.

Leslie-Lohman Museum of LGBTQ Art 26 Wooster Street, $9 (suggested admission) leslielohman.org/about The collective traces its roots back to 1969, when Charles Leslie and Fritz Lohman held an exhibit featuring gay artists in a Soho loft.

After collecting items throughout the 1970s and 80s, Leslie and Lohman created the Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation in 1987 to preserve LGBT history. The museum, officially accredited in 2016, boasts a collection of over 30,000 objects and hosts multiple events and exhibitions throughout the year.

Housing Works Bookstore Cafe 126 Crosby St, Free housingworks.org

The downtown-based bookstore and cafe has been serving locals for over a decade, serving additionally as an event space for book sales, thrift swaps and even tarot readings. As Housing Works doubles as a non-profit organization, the establishment assists LGBT individuals living with HIV/AIDS with primary care, dental care and substance use treatment.

During the day, one can stop by for a range of coffee, tea, beer, wine and seltzers with a bite to eat, with partial proceeds going towards the non-profit.

Pyramid Club 101 Avenue A (Age 21+) thepyramidclub.com While bands such as Nirvana and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are known to have gotten their New York City start at the famous East Village nightclub, many may be unaware of the impact “The Pyramid” had on the New York City drag scene. The downtown hot spot is where the likes of RuPaul got her start in 1982, as well as Lypsinka and Lady Bunny.

New York City AIDS Memorial St. Vincent’s Triangle Greenwich Ave & West 12th St. Free nycaidsmemorial.org While you may have passed this architectural monument on Greenwich Avenue before, the memorial debuted its new instillation “Visual Impact: On Art, AIDS, and Activism” on June 1. Located across from the Memorial Park, the new project showcases eight artistic pieces that represent the “visual identity of the AIDS resistance from the mid-1980s through today.”

Caffe Cino 31 Cordelia St. nyclgbtsites.org/site/caffe-cino/ This Greenwich Village establishment held poetry readings and theater productions in its golden years in the 1950s and 60s, hosted the likes of William M. Hoffman and Robin Miller.

In what some consider to be the birthplace of Off-Broadway theater, the quaint coffeehouse housed groundbreaking playwrights that dared to write about topics such as homosexuality, which was banned from the stage at the time.

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WALT WHITMAN WOULD BE PLEASED CULTURE Award-winning poets, poetry lovers and actor Bill Murray gather to celebrate New York City and the work of Poet’s House

BY JADEN SATENSTEIN

Due to unfortunate weather circumstances, the Poet’s House 24th annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge featured a lot less walking than usual, but still treated guests to a wealth of powerful, New York-inspired poetry on Monday, June 10.

The Poetry Walk is an annual benefit for the non-profit organization Poet’s House, which serves the New York community through it’s free, extensive poetry library downtown at 10 River Terrace. The event typically features a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge at sunset, during which renowned poets read famous works about New York City, many of which center on the bridge itself.

Though the poems and the poets reading them change every year, the walk always concludes with a reading of Walt Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” in front of Jane’s Carousel in Brooklyn Bridge Park, followed by a celebratory dinner in Brooklyn, during which participating poets read their own work.

However, Poet’s House had to break from tradition this year due to heavy rain, cancelling the walk itself and hosting the event in its entirety at an indoor space in DUMBO.

A Change in the Weather “This is one of the few times we’ve had to move to the rain plan,” Poet’s House executive director Lee Briccetti said, “We’ve had really good luck in almost 25 years.”

Still, poets and attendees alike agreed that the event derives its magic from the poetry itself, which was read throughout the dinner. In addition to Whitman’s piece, which was read by all five participating poets, each reading a section, much of the poetry evoked the spirit of the Brooklyn Bridge, even though it could not be read whilst walking across it.

In addition to reading his own poem, “Shirt,” former Poet Laureate of the United States Robert Pinsky decided to share early 20th century poet Hart Crane’s “To Brooklyn Bridge.”

“It was my first time participating,” Pinsky said. “I’ve heard a lot about it over the years. I know it’s been a wonderful occasion. And, though I was

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over, economic backgrounds, people with or without education that can be offered this space.”

Poetry and the People All five poets praised the work of Poet’s House, which strives to provide the public with opportunities to experience the world of poetry through programs such as workshops, fellowships and free readings. “A lot of people are maybe afraid and they don’t think they are going to like poetry, but once they experience it they are expanded and they find something that they can take for their life’s journey,” Briccetti said. “If you make it possible for people to bump into it and have pleasure, they really do like it.

So a lot of our work is about trying to create initiatives that will help people bump into poetry with pleasure and understanding.”

A Star-Studded Evening

Bill Murray. Photo: Jaden Satenstein

disappointed we couldn’t walk over the bridge, it was great to celebrate Hart Crane and Walt Whitman.”

Sounds of the City Briccetti noted the importance of the poetry being inspired by New York, as it attracts a wide range of people who appreciate the sentiments of the work even if they don’t always connect to poetry.

“The bridge walk has just grown in size,” Briccetti said. “It’s an event that people know because it’s so city centric. I think people who may not self-identify as being poetry lovers love this event because it’s the places of New York that they love and the words that celebrate them.”

The 2017 Walt Whitman Awardwinning poet and Brooklyn resident Jenny Xie knew exactly what poems she wanted to share when she was invited to participate in the event.

In addition to Audre Lorde’s “Bridge Through My Window,” Xie read her original piece “Chinatown Diptych,” which is about the neighborhood she first lived in when she moved to New York City. Xie was excited to read the poem due to the influence that the city itself has had on her work and because she actually wrote it at Poet’s House.

“I love the diversity and the energy of the city,” Xie said. “Just walking the sidewalk any time of day you just soak in so many sounds and voices and languages. And as a poet, because language and sound and rhythm figure so heavily into my work, that’s something that really energizes me and inspires me as a

writer.”

The inspiration Xie takes from the “sounds and voices and languages” of New York was evident when she read “Chinatown Diptych,” which includes the line, “Perched above these streets with whom I share verbs and adjectives.”

A Poetry Sanctuary Poet and Brooklyn College professor Rosamond S. King, who also read at the event, emphasized the impact that the variety of cultures and experiences in New York has had on her poetry. “New York City affects my work in part because it’s a city of immigrants,” King said. “I’m a child of immigrants, and so I experience New York both as an American but also as someone who has connections to other places and who can have connections to places that I’ve never even been ... It’s as though you can travel a bit and learn about so many different cultures while you’re in the city, and I think that that inflects your work.”

This exposure to culture is something that Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gregory Pardlo, who read work

by James Schuyler at the dinner, said is embodied by Poet’s House’s library.

He expressed gratitude to the organization for providing him the opportunity to explore different types of writing from around the world.

“Poet’s House is a community,” Pardlo said. “We heard the word ‘sanctuary’ over and over again tonight, and I think it’s a sanctuary in the sense that, it’s been said already too, so many different kinds of poetry can coexist in one place… There is no sense of priori-

tizing any kind of poetry over another.

I think that was a really important condition in my own development as a poet.”

Honoring Service Acclaimed poet Anne Waldman, who co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics along with famous beat-poet Allen Ginsberg, received the Elizabeth Kray Award. Poet’s House bestows the award, named for the late co-founder of the organization, biennially to poets who embody her spirit and service to poetry.

“It means a lot,” Waldman said about receiving the award, expressing her appreciation for Poet’s House and other organizations that “...build community and create these spaces that are available for poets of all kinds from all

The evening concluded with a surprise visit from Golden Globe-winning actor and longtime Poet’s House patron Bill Murray, who has participated in the walk in years past. Murray read a variety of works, including Ted Berrigan’s “Whitman in Black,” which offered a satisfying ending to an evening that opened with a reading of Whitman’s work.

To Briccetti, who has served as Poet’s House Executive Director for 30 years and overseen every Poetry Walk, the power of poets reading Whitman’s words every year transcends time and, especially this year due to the last minute location change, space.

“It’s really about poets communicating and generations communicating through time and space,” Briccetti said. “That’s where the mysterious, mystical center of the bridge walk is.

Hearing Walt Whitman say, ‘People of the future I am with you,’ and feeling that you have traveled through time and you’re meeting him in some way.

That is the thing that stays the same.”

Robert Pinsky, former Poet Laureate of the United States. Photo: Jaden Satenstein

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