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CASUALTIES OF THE SHUTDOWN GOVERNMENT As venomous politics and dysfunction in Washington bring federal governance screeching to a halt, Manhattan absorbs a body slam BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN

stages of exploring a potential sale of a parcel it owns on Park Avenue between 76th and 77th Streets, Straus News has learned. A real estate play would be a gamechanger for Lenox Hill, which is under the umbrella of Northwell Health and has been evaluating the option as a means of financing an ambitious expansion paired with a rehabilitation of both its legacy holdings and other East Side properties. The hospital’s main campus, between Park and Lexington Avenues, sits on some of the most valuable land in Manhattan — a full city block running 204 feet along the avenues and 405 feet down the side streets. It is a portion of its western frontage at 855 Park Ave. — a tourniquet’s

At least four former presidents historically and inextricably linked to New York have been officially dissed. The culprit: The record-shattering federal government shutdown that’s largely the handiwork of the current president. “Grant’s Tomb is closed!” lamented City Council Member Mark Levine. “And the trash has been overflowing.” West Siders don’t typically enter the mausoleum at 122nd Street to visit the sarcophagus where the 18th president and his wife are entombed. But General Ulysses S. Grant’s permanent perch on Riverside Drive has been a worldwide magnet for tourists since it was dedicated in 1897. Or at least it was. Then last month the National Park Service was forced to shutter the site due to the abrupt cutoff in federal funding. Overnight, the visitors vanished. In turn, that spotlighted the corrosive impact the shutdown has had on the micro-economies of Manhattan: “Our local businesses are hurting,” said Levine, whose West Side district takes in the national memorial. “The tourists who commonly walk over to Broadway to shop or have lunch after visiting aren’t here anymore.” The longest government closure in U.S. history has lasted 25 days, as of press time on Jan. The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum on Fifth Avenue in a Jan. 13 15. And as the fiery standoff between President photo. The public will be barred from the landmark Carnegie Mansion until the Donald Trump and Congressional Democrats federal government reopens. Photo: Douglas Feiden over funding a southern border wall abides, the toll on New Yorkers has been intensifying. Profits have plunged for immigrant coffee vendors stationed outside federal offices in Foley Square and Hudson Square. Wall Street What did Teddy Roosevelt ever do to deserve this?” is in limbo with only a skeleton staff operating

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The Park Avenue side of Lenox Hill Hospital on 77th Street in a recent photo. A portion of the super-expensive parcel is being eyed for possible sale and redevelopment. Photo: Douglas Feiden

THE METAMORPHOSIS OF A HOSPITAL EXCLUSIVE It’s eastward ho as Lenox Hill redevelops an entire blockfront on Third Avenue, mulls a big sale on Park Avenue — and ruffles community feathers amid demands for greater transparency BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN

It was 1868 when the institution that would eventually became Lenox Hill Hospital first put down stakes on Park Avenue at East 77th Street. Now, 150 years later, the Upper East Side fixture is weighing whether it should monetize some of the pricey property at its ancestral home. The hospital is in the preliminary

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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. Perhaps even more also importantly, the ombudsman and number will tally the type small business of complaints by taken in owners, the actions policy response, and somefor ways to recommendations If done well, begin to fix things. report would the ombudsman’s give us the first quantitative with taste of what’s wrong the city, an small businesses in towards important first step fixing the problem. of for deTo really make a difference, is a mere formality will have to the work process looking to complete their advocate are the chances course, velopers precinct, but rising rents, -- thanks to a find a way to tackle business’ is being done legally of after-hours projects quickly. their own hours,” which remain many While Chin “They pick out boom in the number throughout who lives on most vexing problem. said Mildred Angelo,of the Ruppert construction permits gauge what Buildings one said it’s too early tocould have the 19th floor in The Department of the city. number three years, the Houses on 92nd Street between role the advocate She Over the past on the is handing out a record work perThird avenues. permits, there, more information of Second and an ongoing all-hours number of after-hours bad thing. of after-hours work the city’s Dept. problem can’t be a said there’s with the mits granted by nearby where according to new data jumped 30 percent, This step, combinedBorough construction project noise Buildings has data provided in workers constantly make efforts by Manhattan to mediate BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS according to DOB of Informacement from trucks. President Gale Brewer offer response to a Freedom classifies transferring they want. They knows the the rent renewal process, request. The city They 6 “They do whatever signs Every New Yorker clang, tion Act go as they please. work between some early, tangible small any construction on the weekend, can come and sound: the metal-on-metal or the piercing of progress. For many have no respect.” p.m. and 7 a.m., can’t come of these that the hollow boom, issuance reverse. owners, in business moving The increased beeps of a truck has generto a correspond and you as after-hours. soon enough. variances has led at the alarm clock The surge in permits

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‘WE TRULY ARE LIKE A FAMILY’ COMMUNITY UES restaurant raising money for medical costs of manager hurt in car crash BY JASON COHEN

Tragedy struck an Upper East Side restaurant on New Year’s Eve weekend when its general manager was injured in a severe car accident. Today, the owner of the eatery is raising money to offset the manager’s medical costs. John Philips, the owner of Mansion Restaurant on York Avenue and East 86th Street, created a GoFundMe campaign for John Drakopoulos, his friend and longtime general manager. Drakopoulos, 49, of Brooklyn, has been with the diner for 15 years. “John is very close to my family as I am his,” Philips said. “John helped me build the restaurant to where it is. When we are here, we truly are like a family.” On Dec. 30, Drakopoulos was The local paper for Downtown

on his way to work early in the morning. According to Philips, Drakopoulos took an off-ramp where there was an underpass from the Long Island Expressway to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, and as he was exiting lost control of his car. Drakopoulos hit a short embankment, then a light post. The car flipped over, the roof caved in on his head and he slid about 150 feet while trapped in the car. “He’s the most injured person I’ve ever seen,” Philips said. Drakopoulos is in an induced coma, with a traumatic brain injury. Among other problems, he suffered a fractured skull, severely injured his right eye and right eardrum, smashed bones behind his sinuses, fractured three vertebrae and had glass fragments near his brain. Philips, who visits every day, explained that Drakopoulos has not been taken out of the coma because the brain needs time to heal. Doctors have confirmed that his spinal cord is intact and also performed facial reconstruction surgery. The hope is that they can take

him out of the coma by the end of the month. “When you have traumatic brain injury you have to be as incapacitated as possible,” Philips said. An emotional Philips noted that Drakopoulos’ injury is not just affecting the diner. His wife, Magdalena, is finishing dental hygienist school soon and his son Jacob is 5 years old. With the two of them in mind, along with Drakopoulos’ rising medical bills, Philips knew how important it was to start a GoFundMe for his friend. As this paper went to press, the campaign had raised $39,313. “John made some serious sacrifices so his wife could go back to school to be a dental hygienist,” Philips said. “He’s the breadwinner of the family.” Since the accident, Philips said, the outpouring of love for Drakopoulos has been tremendous. From the NYPD to customers, people have asked how he is doing and dropped off get-well cards. Philips reminisced about his first impressions of his friend.

While the restaurant has been there since 1945, it was Drakopoulos and a few others who helped revitalize it 15 years ago. Philips said Drakopoulos knows all of the customers on a first-name basis, greets everyone with a smile and always crack jokes with the staff. Additionally, he is godfather to Philips’ son Max. “John has been an integral part of this rebirth of Mansion,” Philips emphasized. “It’s kind of beyond sad. The system has been irreparably changed in a way. We’re trying to fill the gaps. The customers definitely feel it.”

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG FOUR ON ONE

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And the new year brings new acts of violence downtown. At 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 3, a 27-year-old man was walking along Canal Street heading for the J train station when four men came up from behind him. One of the men struck him in the right side of his face before all four surrounded him. One said, “Give me everything you have!â€? The victim gave the men his cell phone and his Casio watch, then took off running westbound on Canal, ďŹ nally taking shelter in a local deli. His attackers ed and police could not ďŹ nd them in the neighborhood. The victim refused medical attention at the scene.

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Apple sales may be down, but Apple thefts continue. The manager of the Apple store at 103 Prince Street told police that around 1 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 2, an unknown man broke a store window, crawled inside and took a large number of iPads and iPhones, stuffing them into a black plastic garbage bag before leaving the premises. Apparently, the store’s alarm did not go off. A black rock was found inside the store. The stolen

merchandise included 55 products with a toal value of $73,890.

GREENE STREET GETAWAY Greene Street remains a popular stop for shoplifters. According to police, a little before noon on Monday, Dec. 31, a man in his thirties entered the MCM clothing boutique at 100 Greene Street, removed property from displays by the front door and ed in a black 2018

Mitsubishi Outlander with New Jersey plates D34JAJ. The car was seen heading down Spring Street before continuing over the Manhattan Bridge to Brooklyn. Police searched but couldn’t ďŹ nd the shoplifter or the car. The value of the stolen items totaled $5,200.

shop. On Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 1, an individual entered the Diesel store at 135 Spring Street, took two women’s jackets from a rack and brought them into a dressing room. There he removed the tags from the jackets, placed the garments in a book bag and left the store without paying. The two leather jackets were valued at $5,020.

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to a visitor. On Wednesday, Jan. 2, a 39-year-old woman from Seoul, Korea was riding the southbound 5 train when she noticed that her wallet was missing from her purse. When she got off the train at Bowling Green she received a phone notiďŹ cation that an unauthorized charge had appeared on one of her credit cards. In all, the woman was out $1,000 for the unauthorized charge along with $400 in cash, the wallet and a small quantity of Korean currency.

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SHUTDOWN CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 the nerve center of the Securities and Exchange Commission on Vesey Street. Paychecks have stopped for Coast Guard recruiters at the Battery Park Maritime Building on South Street. New Yorkers can’t access passenger ship arrival records, federal court documents or naturalization records because the National Archives on Bowling Green has closed its doors. “People who want to take out loans or reďŹ nance are already running into problems,â€? said State Senator Liz Krueger, who represents the East Side and Midtown East including Trump Tower. “And worryingly, the MTA gets about $150 million from the Federal Transit Administration every month, which we know is desperately needed. Obviously, the longer the shutdown lasts, the more we will all feel the knock-on effects,â€? Krueger added. Mayor Bill de Blasio put it starkly: “There are 50,000 federal workers based in New York City, and these folks have been going through hell,â€? he said. Even recipients of federal government services who remain unaffected — Social Security beneficiaries, for instance — are facing high anxiety and fears, say staffers at Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright’s East Side office. “Between Christmas and New Year’s, we had a stream of seniors come into our district ofďŹ ce worried their Social Security checks could cut off, and even though we reassured them, the anxiety still remained,â€? said Audrey Berman Tannen, Seawright’s chief of staff. The protracted shutdown, should it continue till next week, could have a ruinous impact over the long Martin Luther King holiday weekend as hundreds of Transportation Security Administration employees, asked to work without pay, call in sick, walk off the job or quit outright at all three area airports. “New Yorkers don’t like to stay still for very long, but anyone looking to get away or come in for a long weekend will have a rough start and end to such plans,â€? said East Side City Council Member Ben Kallos, who notes his district is a mere 15 minutes away from LaGuardia Airport. He’s outraged that funding cuts could potentially imperil constituents who are food insecure and play havoc with MTA operations on the 4, 5, 6 and Q trains. He’s troubled that local

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Our Town|Downtowner otdowntown.com food safety could be impaired as the Food and Drug Administration curtails most routine inspections of fruits, vegetables and other products with a high risk of contamination. But Kallos, like legions of other Manhattanites, also has good reason to take the shutdown personally: His family is a member of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in the landmark Carnegie Mansion — and like the National Museum of the American Indian and all other Smithsonian treasures, it’s been forced to lock the public out. Kallos’ daughter is approaching her ďŹ rst birthday, and she takes great delight in Cooper Hewitt’s interactive displays, where she can go into a room to interface with digital displays and make interesting noises by pressing different buttons and ringing different bells. “It’s fun for infants like my daughter — or children at heart like me,â€? he said. “It’s a huge loss for our community to have this institution closed.â€? Among the casualties of the closure: American history itself. “The African Burial Ground is closed during the government shutdown,â€? says the website of the nation’s largest and oldest known excavated burial site for free and enslaved Africans in the U.S. Located at 290 Broad-

way, it contains remains dating from the 1630s to the 1790s. As for the presidents historically associated with New York, they’re likely rolling over in their graves. In addition to Grant, they include: • George Washington, who took the oath of office in 1789 at Federal Hall National Memorial at the corner of Wall and Broad Streets. The site, now closed, was also home to the ďŹ rst Congress and ďŹ rst Supreme Court. • Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose home, presidential library and museum in upstate Hyde Park is a national historic site. It will also stay shuttered for the duration of the shutdown. FDR’s city home on East 65th Street, now a Hunter College public policy institute, is not affected. • Theodore Roosevelt, who was born in 1858 in a townhouse at 28 East 20th St. and lived there until age 14. Like most sites run by the National Park Service, the birthplace and boyhood home of the ďŹ rst president born in New York City is also barred to the public. “Why?â€? asked Alair Buckley, a 24-year-old tourist from Montana who looked at the closed house from the sidewalk during her first visit to the city. “What did Teddy Roosevelt ever do to deserve this?â€? invreporter@strausnews.com

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LETTERS ARE WONDERFUL THINGS BY BETTE DEWING

First, a little letter-to-the-editor history. My first letter to this paper led to covering local events like 19th Pct. community council meetings. Eventually, with a big assist from then publisher’s wife and Our Town editor Arlene Kayatt, a column was granted. Wow! That letter, which, incidentally, urged New Yorkers to cover fenced tree pits with Christmas tree branches, surely did change my life. And before getting on with molto kudos for three recent letter writers, let me say how inordinately grateful I am for the privilege, and for subsequent publishers and editors letting me cntinue to sound off. And I couldn’t be more grateful for you dear read-

ers, especially those who thankfully respond. Ah. response, such a general human need — the constructive kind of course. And these communication skills need to be learned and used from pre-K on. O-o-o-p-s, just a bit of a sidetrack from a salute to three recent letters to the editor, published in the issue dated Dec. 27 — Jan. 2. They deserve to be reprinted and sent to every legislator, with a “Now see and learn this, this is what makes a safe and livable city.” I almost said “you blockheads.” But that’s the gist of Ian Alterman, Sandy Jaffe and Michael Kearney’s letters’ — total vision. And yes, they relate to two of my most basic concerns — more like crusades — which I find a great many New Yorkers share, but most,

regrettably, don’t go public about. Here’s social activst Ian Alterman’s epic response to the news piece, An End to E Bike Ban in Sight? “This has to be the most insane, bone-headed and dangerous proposal in years.” He goes on about how the city council law now banning e-bikes was not nearly strong or inclusive enough. And I add, all these years since Ian had me speak to the 23rd Pct community council about this growing city-wide danger, that his concern also applies to the habitual traffic law-breaking of regular cyclists. And do relish Ian’s 2019 epic conclusion: “...this proposal should die on the vine, and any official who supports it will be complicit in the injuries and possible deaths almost

certain to occur if it is passed.” And don’t forget the harmful stress engendered by near-misses, and being always on alert for their silent, lawbreaking habits. Keep saying it, Ian. Michael Keaney’s safe travel vision urges walkers using north and south avenues to walk so the traffic is coming toward you. That way, you face the cars as they turn into the side streets you are crossing. Indeed. whenever possible avoid crossing where they can turn into you. Failure to yield is the crime most deadly to pedestrians. Keep reminding us, Michael. And the third letter, from Sandy Jaffe, ruefully laments the killing off of the iconic Lord & Taylor department store, including its humanscale, humane architecture. It’s another people gathering place lost — along with neighborhood stores that meet everyday needs. Sandy’s concern is also for the enormous pile of Amazon merchandise in her

lobby. And think of all the additional delivery trucks on these high-density streets, potentiially dangerous traffic, congesting and air polluting. Surely, this is a city crisis unaddressed, incredibly enough, by elected officials’ lengthy newsletters, or in the mayor’s recent state of the city address. What to do!? Well we must say something, do something. For starters, repeatedly call elected officials whose numbers are found in this paper’s Useful Contacts column. Write letters to editors, of course, and keep trying, even if they’re not printed. At least they are noted by the editors. And you with computers, do send these three letters around -get them on “social media” - go viral, whatever. And help those without computers share. Heartfelt thanks again Ian, Sandy and Michael for helping to make it a total vision 2019 city. It can be done if enough of us try!

MEETING OF THE MINDS AT MEETUP WEST SIDE STORIES BY MEREDITH KURZ

Four years ago, my husband and I moved to the Upper West Side, shedding suburbia like a wool coat in August. Since then it’s been one long delicious film reel: Sitting at a restaurant post-Broadway, all the actors walk in en masse, some of the women holding their tossed bouquets; everyone stays past midnight. Walking home afterward, because, hey, it’s only twenty-five blocks or so. Winched into a bleacher seat, watching an open-air play at the Delacorte looking over a castle (a castle!), a nearby pond reflecting deepening shadows in purple with hints of light as the performance begins. Who wouldn’t foist off Grandma’s china and nine-foot velvet Elvis poster for this? There was one thing missing — buddies. Sure, old neighbors venture in to ooh, aah, kvetch about parking, prices and perverts, then leave, but making new connections requires trial, error, and legwork. I’ve volunteered, cam-

paigned and covered neighborhood news. Good enough. Then, last year I discovered Meetups, a free membership social calendar with 500 plus get-togethers each week. I’ll show you mine, and further down, I hope, I’ll show you yours. The author’s Meetup “Shut Up and Write” has several metropolitan-wide groups. Ed Anderson, a full-time freelance author, and group co-leader has written over 1500 articles, from a CNN report to true crime coverage to an account of Megyn Kelly’s juicy fall from grace. He introduces newbies into the fold, beta reads snippets if pressed, and reins us in when it’s time to stop socializing and, well, shut up and write. After one hour of silent writing, some of us trot over to the Flame Diner or Fluffy’s for a nosh. In our group is a screenwriter working on a Hallmark movie, a glass menagerie of playwrights working on everything from a musical to a “Me Too” thing, humor writers who are our most anxious, a graphic novelist (I love to eavesdrop when my attention wanes from my own work, watching him draw a story instead of just writ-

ing it), copywriters, travel writers, students writing resumes and their inept friends’ cover letters, a professor writing an academic piece on prisons in New York during the Civil War, children’s story writers, horror story writers (a 20-something Fordhamite explains, “I write cannibalism fiction, but it’s in New Orleans.” I guess that makes it, well, kosher.) Young Adult fiction and yes, I’ll say it, erotica. I began writing in earnest during a brief two-young-children-at-home span. I wrote a historic play for a local church, then was commissioned to write a children’s play which was performed all over the place; and yes, I earned a sweet $6 in royalties every time it was performed. I wrote a children’s musical about believing in yourself called “Casey at the Bat” which now rests in a grave in the back of my closet. I thought I was going to write a sci-fi novel until I discovered there are only three that I ever really enjoyed reading. Love the science; hate the genre, I guess. I recently was featured in a short story anthology, and short stories and essays are where I’m coziest outside of journalism. If

Shut Up and Write. Photo: Edward Anderson you’ve read what you think are the greatest books in English literature, and then attempt to write, you’re going to feel intimidated. So if you’re feeling a need to connect to more people who love what you love, or to improve or reassure yourself you’re not a total loser, try a Meetup. There are Meetups for everything; e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g. If you have an interest, there’s a Meetup. You can’t find it? Make one. You can go on a MOMA scavenger hunt or hit a bar with “Dharma Drink:” the hangout for Buddhists (“and like-minded”), or strum with a ukulele jam. People with Pomeranians

have their own meetups, and there’s a (Can’t make up my mind. Creepy? Not creepy?) “Photographing Strangers on the Street” class, (like where do you meet? In a hidden alley?) There are the Supper West Siders, the Lesbian Book Club, and if you are too smart for your own good, an Artificial Intelligence “Deep Bayesian Networks” get-together. I’d like to write an article on every single one of these. If you’ve done an annual review of your social calendar and found it sagging, do something about it! Head over to Meetup.com and change your friendship destiny.

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There are many stories in the Metropolitan Museum’s “Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection.” One of them is the story of the exhibition’s location. For the first time, New York’s great encyclopedic museum is exhibiting Native American work in the American Wing. Previously, it’s been shown in the galleries for Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. “The presentation in the American Wing of these exceptional works by indigenous artists marks a critical moment in which conventional narratives of history are being expanded to acknowledge and celebrate the contributions of cultures that have long been marginalized,” stated Max Hollein, the museum’s director. The Dikers, whose collection of Native American works of art is deep and exquisite, donated 91 of the 116 works on view. They did so with the stipulation that the works be placed within the context and galleries of American art, to reflect the work’s place in our culture. It’s an important, inclusive move for a multicultural society’s flagship museum, reversing decades of conceptual

and artistic separation. But that’s just one of the stories here. The others are within the works themselves, in the voices they carry and the lives they represent. They’ve been collected from some 50 cultures across North America and include masks and implements from the Northwest Coast, basketry from California, drawings and clothing from Plains peoples, pottery from the Southwest, and carvings and ornamental dress from the eastern Woodlands cultures. Artists from the 2nd to the 20th centuries created these humble, powerful, sacred and quotidian objects that transcend time and place, and speak to personal and universal truths. Northwest Coast and Arctic cultures were blessed with plentiful fishing and hunting. They settled in communities and created stunning, abstract images of the natural world around them, decorating spoons and spears, boats, buildings and masks that opened portals of spiritual communication. Ancestors and animal guides were invoked in rituals to heal, bless, teach and protect. Shamanic performances were enhanced by elaborate theatrical masks with moving parts. To see the layers of imagery in a Yup‘ik

An artist from the Delaware people in Kansas, ca. 1840, created this vibrantly designed beaded bag used in formal men’s attire. Photo: Adel Gorgy.

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IF YOU GO What: Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection Where: American Wing, The Met Fifth Avenue, 1000 5th Ave, New York When: Through October 6, 2019 www.metmuseum.org

artist’s mask from Alaska (c. 1900) with a bent branch representing the borders of the universe, a kayak filled with images of seals, birds and fish surrounded by reaching hands, is to feel the power of the hunt. To picture these parts shaking as a dancer moved in flickering firelight is to conjure a sublime experience. Stories can be found in the materials utilized as well. Forests provided wood for Northwest Coast and Eastern Woodlands communities. Nomadic hunting peoples of the Plains and Plateau regions made spectacular domiciles, drums, garments, and accoutrements from leather. A cradleboard to welcome and protect a new member of the Ute community in Colorado or Utah around 1890 was like a stiff-walled backpack. It could be worn by a mother on horseback or propped against the sloping walls of a tipi. A hood of thin wooden rods that shielded the baby’s eyes from the sun also functioned as an awning, protecting her face if the cradleboard tipped forwards. The attention to functional details attests to the care expressed by these artists for the newborn; the extraordinary beauty of the buttery yellow background, decorated with bright curvilinear forms and intricate beadwork, speaks of their joy in new life. Another story comes through in beadwork. An Anishinaabe shoulder bag from 1780 is decorated with dyed, flattened woven porcupine quills. A Nez Perce War Shirt, circa 1850, made use of both quills and glass beads, which, by then, had been made available through trading with settlers. Ledger drawings made by Plains artists around the 1860s present complex histories and imagery. With pencils and sheets of paper from ledger books, often captured from the U.S. military, these artists depicted their victories on their adversary’s own materials. From stunning monochromatic abstraction on pottery from pueblos in New Mexico, created over a thousand years ago, to baskets made by the 20th century master Louisa Keyser, known also as Datsolalee, the works in the show tell stories that are ancient, re-

A Chilkat Tlingit woman wove this tunic and pants from softened cedar bark and mountain goat wool in an arduous process that was both spiritually and artistically driven. Photo: Adel Gorgy. cent and evolving. “Our ancestors must have had an inner strength. As Native peoples seemed to reach the nadir of their existence, they did not die off or disappear into the larger American society. Instead, they experienced a renewed sense of creativity,” states a wall text by Emma I. Hansen, a Pawnee scholar and curator. “Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection” is a quiet blockbuster that challenges and changes history by presenting vividly voiced works by great American artists, whether known and documented or lost to history.

A cradleboard by Ute artists, from around 1890, expresses exquisite functional and artistic precision, detail and elegance. Photo: Adel Gorgy.

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LET’S DO THE MATH REAL ESTATE Buyers fear high maintenance costs — which sometimes can lead to a better deal BY FREDERICK W. PETERS

How much does it cost each year to live in New York? For apartment owners, that answer contains two elements: what you pay to buy the place and what you pay each month to carry it. These two factors, in theory, exist on a sliding scale to one another relative to other comparable properties. In other words, if your maintenance is higher than that of everyone else who lives in a property the same size, then your price should be lower. And vice versa. Of course, the advent of the ultra-luxury condo, with high monthly costs but extraordinary amenities, has thrown an additional data point into the equation. What is the monthly value of access to an in-house dining room, or maid service, or a screening room, or a pool? It varies of course from buyer to buyer, with some for whom it adds nothing and others for whom these amenities are critical to

their well-being and happiness in the property they buy. At the most basic level, the trade off between price and maintenance is easy to figure. These days we calculate the average maintenance on an upper end co-op to be between $2.00 and and $2.50 per square foot. On a higher floor, you may be looking at a bit more, on a lower floor, a bit less (maintenance always goes up by floor, although the percentage of increase varies from building to building.) Another issue: the bigger the apartments in the building, the higher the maintenance on a per square foot basis. Why? Simply because certain fixed costs, like labor, are divided between fewer units in the building. A 12 unit building of full-floor apartments still needs three shifts of doormen, just as a 25 unit building does. But there are a lot fewer people between whom to divide that cost. Here’s an example: let’s look at a big (5500) square foot, high floor apartment. I am thinking of Warburg’s listing at 4 Sutton Place; it’s one of the most beautiful river view duplex apartments, designed by Rosario Candela, that I have ever seen. Since the apartment occupies two full floors in

the building, the maintenance seems high at $20,000 per month, or $3.65 per month per foot. At $2.50 per foot, the maintenance would be $13,750 per month or $6,250 less. That $6,250, annualized, equals $75,000. How much would a buyer need to invest at 4 percent (liberal in today’s environment) to earn that $75,000? Answer: $1,875,000. So buying this exquisitely renovated 5 bedroom unit in the mid-$9 million range (it is priced at $9,995,000) has an equivalent value to buying a similarly sized apartment, with the more typical $13,750 monthly cost, for a little over $11 million. Just try finding that anywhere else! Here’s the interesting point — buyers fear high maintenance costs. They rarely stop to make the calculation which enables them understand that sometimes these maintenances can lead to a better deal, in terms of the overall cost of money, than paying a lot more up front for an apartment with a lower maintenance. We all just have to remember to do the math. Frederick W. Peters is Chief Executive Officer of Warburg Realty Partnership.

LANDMARK ON THE MARKET SKYLINE Abu Dhabi fund, developer seek to sell Chrysler Building

The owners of New York City’s Chrysler Building are putting the landmark Art Deco skyscraper on the market. The building’s owners, the Abu Dhabi Investment Council and New York developer Tishman Speyer, have hired commercial real estate firm CBRE Group Inc. to market the office tower, CBRE spokesman Aaron Richardson confirmed Wednesday. The 77-story skyscraper was built between 1928 and 1930 and was the world’s tallest building until the Empire State Building claimed the title in 1931. Originally the headquarters of

the Chrysler Corp., the midtown Manhattan tower with its distinctive tiered crown has long been a favorite with architecture critics and the public. It is familiar to viewers of many films including “Independence Day” and “SpiderMan.” But the nearly 90-year-old Chrysler Building is competing for tenants with new skyscrapers that boast large floor plates and modern amenities like sweeping outdoor terraces. The Abu Dhabi Investment Council paid $800 million for a 90 percent stake in the Chrysler Building in 2008, shortly before the financial crisis sent real estate prices plunging. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the planned sale of the building, said estimates of the property’s current value vary widely. —The Associated Press

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Healthy Manhattan otdowntown.com BY DAVID NOONAN

It’s January, a time for reflection and resolution, with 12 unsullied months ahead of us to work on improving our lives and outlooks. Naturally, health is a hot topic at this time of year. People are thinking about it, talking about it, and some are even doing something about it. At the government level, city elected officials recently announced a trio of initiatives that could have a significant impact on the health of New Yorkers. The de Blasio administration released plans to guarantee health care for every New Yorker, including the undocumented among us. One of the goals of the $100 million proposal, which targets the 600,00 New Yorkers who lack health insurance, is to take the pressure off city ERs by encouraging preventive care. Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and Council Member Mark Treyger, chairman of the council education committee, are pushing new legislation to improve nutritional edu-

cation in the city’s public schools. The idea is that the more our 1.1 million students learn about healthy eating, the better off they will be for the rest of their lives. And some of the city’s kindergartners and first graders will be seeing more clearly thanks to a joint project from the Education department, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and Warby Parker, the eyeglass company. The effort, an expansion of an existing program, is expected to involve over new 140,000 eye exams and new glasses for 33,000 young students. At the local level, the graphics in this section, based on 2018 data from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, offer a snapshot of the city’s health on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis. At the personal level, there’s something for everyone in this year’s Healthy Manhattan, including the 10 best foods to eat in 2019. Enjoy.

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YOU AND YOUR THYROID: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW HORMONES A small organ in the neck plays a big role in health BY STEPHANIE BEHRINGER-MASSERA, MD

We all know the holidays can be exhausting. Between stressful office parties, hosting in-laws, and keeping the kids entertained, this time of year can be particularly tiring. But if you are still dragging after the New Year revelry has ended, it may be time to check your thyroid. The thyroid gland is a butterfly shaped organ found in the front of your neck, below the Adam’s apple. It produces thyroid hormone, which is vital for the regulation of your metabolism. It is important that your thyroid hormone level is neither too high nor too low. That level is controlled by the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland in your brain, which monitor the thyroid hormone n your blood and can tell your thyroid gland to make more or less, as necessary. When your thyroid gland is underactive and unable to produce sufficient amounts of thyroid hormone, the condition is called hypothyroidism. Although hypothyroidism may be congenital, it is usually acquired in life. The most common cause in adults is Hashimoto’s disease, an autoimmune disorder that causes chronic inflammation of the thyroid gland. Women be-

gain tween the ages 30-50 are most common• Weight g Problems with memory and mental ly affected. An estimated 14 million • Proble people in the U.S. have the disease, sease, health making it one of the most common mmon • Dry sskin Heart disease thyroid disorders. • Hea Other common causes of hypoypo• Infertility Infe • Com Complications of pregnancy thyroidism are radiation therapy rapy to the head and neck, thyroid surFortunately, hypothyroidism gery with removal of a large porFor tions of the thyroid gland, certain ain can be easily detected with blood tests. Always let you doctor medications and treatment know if you are taking any with radioactive iodine. supplements and what ingreLess common causes of hydients they contain, as they pothyroidism are recent can skew the results of your child birth (postpartum Stephanie Behringer-Massera, MD blood work. thyroiditis), pituitary gland Photo: Courtesy of Mt. Sinai When diagnosed, hypodisorders and iodine defithyroidism is treated with ciency. People over the age tablets of synthetic thyroid of 60, tend to develop mild hormone (levothyroxine) forms of hypothyroidism as which is identical to the horwell, without those causes. You should have your thyroid mone made by your thyroid Initial symptoms of hypohormone levels checked at gland. Treatment starts thyroidism, such as a lack of with a low dose, which is energy, are often subtle and least once a year.” gradually increased as needcan be mistaken for the efStephanie Behringer-Massera, MD ed. Most people require lifefects of aging or a sedentary long replacement of thyroid lifestyle. However, because your thyroid function affects almost every organ hormone, with occasional dose adjustments. The in the body, a lack of thyroid hormone may pro- medication should always be taken in the mornduce a variety of health problems. These include: ing on an empty stomach with some water, a halfhour before breakfast and other medications. • Fatigue

THE REAL COST OF SMOKING IN NEW YORK STATE The health costs of smoking are well known, the links to disease and death have been established beyond all doubt by decades of scientific research and epidemiological data. Now, the personal finance website WalletHub.com has done a thorough analysis of the potential financial impact of smoking on individual, pack-a-day smokers in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The bad news is, New York state smokers have the second highest total annual and lifetime costs in the United States. Only Connecticut smokers have higher total costs. So, the next time you see someone puffing away outside of a Manhattan restaurant or office buildings, picture them burning cash instead of tobacco. Complete report at WalletHub .com

PER YEAR $55,911 TOTAL COST PER SMOKER $42,056 FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITY COST $5,021 INCOME LOSS PER SMOKER $4,725 HEALTH CARE COST PER SMOKER $3,822 OUT OF POCKET COST $287

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LIFETIME* $2,851,475 TOTAL COST PER SMOKER $2,144,875 FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITY COST $256,081 INCOME LOSS PER SMOKER $240,981 HEALTH CARE COST PER SMOKER $194,899 OUT OF POCKET COST $14,638 OTHER COSTS PER SMOKER *Age 18 to age 69, the average age at which a smoker dies SOURCE: Personal finance website WalletHub.com • INFOGRAPHIC: Caitlin Ryther

Age, weight, pregnancy, breastfeeding and other health conditions influence the amount of thyroid hormone needed. But the good news is that your overall well-being should improve within just a few days of starting the medication. When they receive proper treatment, people with hypothyroidism can lead completely normal, healthy lives. If you have Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, there is a slightly increased risk of developing a rare form of thyroid cancer known as primary thyroid lymphoma. Other, more common forms of thyroid cancer are not associated with hypothyroidism. Patients may note an enlarging mass in their neck or a nodule may incidentally be detected on CT scan or ultrasound. A biopsy will usually confirm this diagnosis. You should have your endocrinologist or primary care physician check your thyroid hormone levels at least once a year, especially if you have been diagnosed with hypothyroidism, if your thyroid hormone levels have been close to abnormal before, or if you’re feeling particularly fatigued and cannot seem to recover from things like holiday celebrations. Dr. Stephanie Behringer-Massera is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, The Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. She is accepting new patients at the Thyroid Center in Union Square.

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10 FOODS TO EAT IN 2019 NUTRITION This year’s magical, medical, very good foods BY CAROL ANN RINZLER

Once upon a time, Hippocrates (430–427 B.C.E.) urged the people of Athens to “Let food be thy medicine ...” and each year since then sees a new and improved list of magical medical dishes. Bonnie Taub-Dix, author of “Read It Before You Eat It,” a guide to food labels, says “plant-based eating” is a really hot trend right now, so it’s no surprise that most very good foods for 2019 are fruits and veggies. But look closely: One fish has made the grade. Carol Ann Rinzler is the author of “Nutrition for Dummies (6th edition).”

AVOCADO. This crea my si n g leseeded berry, aka the alligator pear, is practically an entire alphabet of good nutrition from the B vi-tamins (B6, folate, niacin, panan tothenic acid, riboflavin), through C, E, and K, plus minerals (magnesium and potassium), lutein (a pigment that protections your vision), 6 to 7 grams of dietary fiber per fruit and heart healthy omega-3 fatty acids. Avocado toast, anyone?

CELERY. Hate kale? Loathe lettuce? Try celery. Like other leafy greens, it has naturally occurring inorganic nitrate, a substance that scientists at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden say reduces the th buildup of fat in the livers of lab mice — thus preventing nonalcoholic liver disease, a condition that in humans is a major cause of chronic liver disease with no approved treatments. Crunch. CHEESE. Bring on the Brie: New data from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston finds zero “signifi ficant evidence” evidence that dairy fats are linked to heart disease and nd stroke. In fact, says ys the study’s correesponding author M a rc i a O t to, heptadecanoic fatty acid, one off several found in dairy foods including uding full-fat cheeses, “may lower the risk of death from cardiovascular disease, particularly stroke.”

DITCH THE STEAK KNIVES: RED MEAT STILL CAN’T CUT IT At the very end of 2018, the Cleveland Clinic released data showing that bodies belonging to people who eat a diet rich in red meat have three times more trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), a chemical linked to heart disease, than is found in bodies of those who eat only white meat (think chicken or turkey breast and fish) or mostly plant-based proteins.

ORANGE JUICE. In November, scienBANANAS. Melatonin is a natural hormone that promotes healthy sleep. A 2017 report in the “Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry” showed a 180 percent jump in body melatonin levels among volunteers eating one banana at bedtime. That’s a sweet dream for the one-inthree Americans who suffer from insomnia at some point.

BUTTER. It’s baaaaaack. Butter boasts fat soluble vitamins including the little known K2 which is intimately involved in calcium metabolism. It’s also got butyrate, an anti-inflammatory fatty acid produced when good gut bacteria digest dietary fiber. Those may be two reasons r Clinic’s Carwhy the Cleveland Clinic diovascular Medicine chair Steven Nissen ssays it’s “not a sin to use a bit of butter to flavo flavor your foods.”

COFFEE. Everyone knows that caffeine fires up neurotransmitters that help you think faster. Now, some studies suggest that coffee might also protect against Parkinson’s disease. Caffeine alone doesn’t do the trick, but when researchers at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Institute for Neurological Therapeutics fed lab mice caffeine and eicosanoyl-5-hydroxytryptamide (EHT), a fatty acid found in the waxy coating of coffee beans, the combination seemed to reduce the buildup of proteins in the brain linked to Parkinson’s. Will this good news prove rove to be good? Right now, your guess is as good as any nutrition expert’s, s, but for the moment, java’s ’s jake.

tists at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health reported that men who drank orange juice every day were 47 percent less likely to develop poor thinking skills than the men who drank less than one serving per month. The research says this shows a relationship but not definite proof of a link. Good enough.

PEARS. Apples are more popular, but pears are more nutritious. True, one average 5-ounce fresh pear has 9 more calories than an average 5-ounce apple, but the pear has 25 percent more protein, 40 percent more iron, and 30 percent more dietary fiber including those tiny gritty particles that crunch unch when you chew the pear. ear. Time to say, “As American rican as Mom and perfect erfect pear pie.”

SARDINES. A 3.5 oz/100 g serving of canned tuna in water has a few less calories than sardines and a bit more protein. The heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acid content is pretty much equal, but sardines eaten with skin and bones shine with 240 mg bone-protective calcium vs. a measly 34 for the tuna. And for the enviro record, dolphins swimming alongside tuna are sometimes “accidentally” netted and killed, but not a single one ever went to his reward to make a sardine sandwich.

SWEET POTATOES. The folks at the Harvard School of Public Health want you to know that sweet potatoes, rich in potassium and vitamins A, B6 and C, can be baked or boiled, refrigerated, and, like pumpkin (also rich in A and C), added to everything from waffles to soup even when it’s not Thanksgiving.

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BOX YOURSELF INTO FITNESS EXERCISE The new year is the time to jab at procrastination BY SCOTT STIFFLER

If your New Year’s resolution to get in shape has been swept away like so much Times Square confetti, the middle of January can be a cruel slog. But don’t get down on yourself. Resolve to exceed that goal of a healthier you, by enlisting some skilled help in your corner — and as agents of change go, learning the finer points of the sweet science is a nobrainer. Offering a full-body workout as intense as it is exhilarating, boxing has helped to win many a battle of the bulge, accrued from too many holiday season libations, cookies, and buffet plates. “My boxing experience gave me the courage to confront aspects of my past that were unnerving and traumatic,” said psychotherapist Binnie Klein, author of the 2009 memoir, “Blows To The Head: How Boxing Changed My Mind.” Klein — whose “Ten Days in Newark” (tendaysinnewark.com) is an audio memoir and about first love and radical politics of

the ’60s — is more likely to be found these days doing yoga, or on the exercise bike. But back in the heyday of her training, she recalled, “I felt stronger and had more endurance. I felt, perhaps foolishly, that if I had to defend myself in some threatening situation, that I would at least try. Boxing is such a terrific ‘all-over’ workout. You’re using all of your body and muscles.” Asked about how to really buckle down, for those who might not necessarily be on a quest for a championship belt, Klein said, “If you really want to learn to box, find a coach. Find someone who has been in the ring ... Classes are fine, I guess, but think working oneon-one with someone who knows what they’re doing, is the ideal situation.” To that end, New York City has an embarrassment of riches, when it comes to boxing gyms where seasoned pros train motivated newcomers to the Sport of Kings. Marc Sprung, co-owner of Church Street Boxing, hails their 25 Park Pl. and 52 Walker St. locations as “the safest, warmest, most welcoming gyms that you cold ever belong to.” Given Church Street’s robust population of professional and amateur competitors,

Sprung noted, “There’s a perception, ‘Oh, people are going sneer at me. These are skilled, talented fighters who are gong to make fun of me.’ ” Not at all, he assured. “Everyone who walks in the door is treated with respect. We’re unbelievably proud of the community we’ve developed, and that’s represented by our members. So many people know each other’s names, and become friends.” Church Street Boxing has also, he said, “become very well-known for our Muay Thai program, we’ve restarted our kids’ boxing program, and we offer jiu-jitsu ... These disciplines, in addition to the value they have for self-defense, are amazing ways of staying fit and being engaged in the activity, because every class you take is different than the one before.” Later this year, Church Street Boxing is coming to Chelsea, having, Sprung said, “just signed a lease on West 29th Street, between Sixth and Seventh.” Their current facilities are basement and second floor spaces, and the Chelsea addition is at ground-level. Asked if there will be future additions to the burgeoning chain, Sprung said, “We’re going to keep going in both directions, until we hit the penthouse and

Church Street Boxing will add a third location, on West 29th St., later this year. Photo courtesy of Church Street Boxing

Midtown’s EverybodyFights has high-end amenities, and a no-nonsense approach to training. Photo courtesy of EverybodyFights the center of the earth.” Visit csboxinggym.com for more info. As for new kids on the block, EverybodyFights has the right stuff. Located just steps (or a long jab) from Grand Central Terminal, the roomy, 295 Madison Ave. basement space offers circuit classes that serve as a warm-up for boxing, or a stand-alone, calorieburning destination (the better-than-bootcamp sessions presided over by General Geoff are particularly intense). Several steps beyond the traditional conveyor belt experience, Woodwaybrand treadmills, used for their “Road” classes, have a running surface that reduces friction and wear. Rowing equipment, speed bags, and two boxing rings also populate the main space. A veritable forest full of punching possibilities, the heavy bag room has 45 of them hanging in rows. Darkened lights and mu-sic are par for the course,, for some classes — and the e “BagsXBody” class has the e brilliant premise of a workkout based on famous fights, s, in which your activity mimicss the strategic combinations, s, and contrasting styles, of each competitor (video of the particular bout your class is based on plays before, and during, instruction).

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bodyFights attracts “people of all ages and all levels. They all come here because they want to learn — to box, or take a rope class, or do weights. We have endurance and a road classes. You’re training as a fighter would.” One more feature sets EverybodyFights apart. No doubt, “We’re a boxing gym,” Lozado said. “You Loz walk wal into our facility, you see two boxing rings, ring and you feel that tha atmosphere of a gritty grit gym. Then you walk wa into our bathrooms, and we give roo you yo the New York City Cit boutique atmosphere.” Visit everysp bodyfights.com for bo more mo info. Klein, the psyK chotherapist ch whose book is subw titled “How Boxing ti Changed My Mind,” C noted its benefits n extend beyond the e physical body. p “I like to encourage people who a have trouble with h self-assertion and s con f idence, to have a few boxing lessons if they can,” Klein said. “Just see what s it’s like to make a fist ... Boxing puts you into immediate contact with where you are in space and time — and where everyone else is!”

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20 East 17 Street

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2 Bros Pizza

32 St Marks Place

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Devocion

25 E 20th St

Not Yet Graded (21) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. 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.

Venchi

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861 Broadway

Not Yet Graded (57) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations. Sewage disposal system improper or unapproved. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

F & M 99 Cents Pizza

153 Avenue C

A

Gelarto

145 Avenue A

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Gnocco

337 East 10 Street

A

Horus Kabab House

93 Avenue B

A

Root & Bone

200 E 3rd St

A

Space194

194 1st Ave

Not Yet Graded (17) Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations.

Angelika Film Center

18 West Houston Street A

Il Buco Restaurant

47 Bond Street

A

Sakura Sushi and Thai

273 Mott Street

A

Oddfellows

55 E Houston St

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Dunkin’ Donuts

72 West 3 Street

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Gasoline Alley Coffee

325 Lafayette Street

A

Kopi Kopi

68 West 3 Street

A

Chobani Soho

150 Prince Street

Grade Pending (21) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Ramen-Ya

133 W 3rd St

Grade Pending (22) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

I-CE-NY

101 Macdougal St

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Tiny’s Giant Sandwich Shop

129 Rivington Street

Grade Pending (42) 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. 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.

New 888 China Express

88 E. Broadway

Grade Pending (23) Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, crosscontaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. 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. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

Pret A Manger

821 Broadway

A

Joe’s Pizza

150 East 14 Street

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Subway

317 1st Ave

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Otto Enoteca Pizzeria

1 5 Avenue

Grade Pending (10) Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

White Oak Tavern

21 Waverly Pl

A

The Sabieng Thai

71 1st Ave

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Mamoun’s Falafel

30 Saint Marks Pl

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Sigiri NY

91 1st Ave

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Divya’s Kitchen

25 1st Ave

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Al Horno Lean Mexican Kitchen

57 1st Ave

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Bagel Bob’s

51 University Place

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Bagel Boss

263 1 Avenue

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Little Canal

26 Canal St

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David’s Bagels

273 1 Avenue

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Gem

110 Forsyth St

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T-Swirl Crepe

247 E 14th St

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Randalls BBQ

359 Grand St

Barn Joo

35 Union Sq W

Grade Pending (22) 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. 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 contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Not Yet Graded (15) 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 contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Starbucks

80 Delancey Street

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Finest Dumpling Restaurant

25 B Henry Street

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Lee Chung Cafe

82 Madison Street

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Cafe Grumpy Les LLC

13 Essex Street

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Yue Lai Bakery

137 East Broadway

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Dimes

143 Division Street

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Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Cream

215 Bowery

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Pho Vietnam 87 Corporation

87 Chrystie St

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Da Falafel Guys

127 Rivington St

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Ost Cafe

511 Grand St

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Dim Sum Palace

Bricklane Curry House

Makiinny

59 2nd Ave

79 2nd Ave

32 E 7th St

Grade Pending (27) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution. Not Yet Graded (26) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal product temperature is reduced from 140º F to 70º F or less within 2 hours, and from 70º F to 41º F or less within 4 additional hours. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored. A

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Osborn said the site will be a home for ambulatory surgery, imaging, physician offices and other clinical CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 services. “It will not be a receiving throw from the Carlyle Hotel and the point for ambulances and emergenMet Breuer — which the hospital is cy vehicles,” she said. It won’t require special zoning now eyeing for a possible sale and redevelopment, according to sources variances and will be built as-ofright, occupying roughly 250,000 familiar with its plans. There are three hospital buildings square feet, she added. “This project reflects our commiton the site, but it wasn’t immediately clear if one or more than one could be ment to the Upper East Side, all of up for bids. It also was not yet known New York City, and to providing the if Lenox Hill, should it decide to pro- highest quality clinical care to the ceed, would partner with a private community,” she said. But Valerie Mason, president of developer in a joint venture or sell the East 72nd Street Neighborhood the land outright. If the hospital moves ahead, the Association, and Elaine Walsh, the plot could be repositioned as an co-chair of Community Board 8’s ultra-high-end residential property. Zoning and Development CommitIt would likely require a change of tee, both said Lenox Hill hadn’t been zoning — the current land use is for forthcoming — or provided such bapublic medical facilities and institu- sic details as the height and number tions — before it could take its place of stories of the project. More than five months after the among Park Avenue’s exclusive cosale, no renderings have been reops and condos. Asked what was contemplated for leased, they pointed out. “Why aren’t they sharthe western perimeter ing their plans with us?” of Lenox Hill and what Walsh asked. “Why can’t the potential developthey engage the comment timetable would be, munity? What’s the big Northwell spokesperson secret?” Barbara Osborn respondWhat’s the Mason also asked a seed with a statement: big secret?” ries of questions: “Is it go“There are no set plans ing to be 20 stories? How for our primary campus,” Elaine Walsh, tall? How will it impact she said. “We are continuco-chair of the zoning and traffic patterns? Parking? ously looking to deepen development What kind of lighting will and strengthen our netcommittee at it have? How bright will it work by investing in our Community be? It’s a real mystery.” Manhattan campus locaBoard 8 East Side Assembly tions in order to continue Member Rebecca Seawto deliver the highest right shares that frustraquality care. “We will update the community, tion: “It is long past time for our compatients, physicians and staff with more information as it becomes munity to be made fully aware of the specific plans Lenox Hill has for their available.” Meanwhile, as it expands its East Third Avenue site,” she said. “Every week we hear from interSide footprint, Lenox Hill is also developing plans for a full block it ested neighbors who say they miss controls on the east side of Third Av- the Atlantic Grill and are rightly conenue between 76th and 77th, just one cerned about what will be built in its block east of the Lexington Avenue place,” she added. Seawright said she called for “more side of its campus. It teamed up last August with the transparency and openness” with University Financing Foundation, a the public when she first met with nonprofit developer that paid $232 hospital executives back in early million for six separate, three- and November. She’s still waiting for the four-story mixed-use buildings that details. “I am calling for a full presentahoused such beloved local retailers as the Atlantic Grill and McCabe’s tion by Northwell of the programs and services they intend to provide Wines & Spirits. The buildings are all vacant after so we can clear the air on how this some tenants relocated, while others major space or spaces will be used,” were forced to leave as their leases Seawright said. The hospital hasn’t released any ran out. Lenox Hill will be leasing the site from the nonprofit, which assists more details about the Third Avenue health care institutions with financ- project since early August because it ing at below-market rates, and may is still in the planning stage, Osborn said. have an option to purchase. “We remain committed to open What exactly will rise on the former low-rise site of a fish house, a li- communication throughout the quor store, a thrift shop and a cloth- planning process and will provide ing boutique? And how tall will it updates as our plans mature and soar? That’s been a huge flashpoint evolve,” she added. in the community, and answers have invreporter@strausnews.com been slow in coming,

AGENDA IN ALBANY: LEGAL POT, MANHATTAN TOLLS, SUBWAYS LEGISLATION A solidly Democratic majority doesn’t mean there is consensus on everything BY DAVID KLEPPER

Legalized marijuana, sports betting and new traffic tolls in Manhattan are just some of the measures Democrats believe they can push through the New York Legislature in a 2019 session that begins this week with their party in control of both chambers and the governor’s office for the first time in a decade. Lawmakers swept into office in a backlash against President Donald Trump’s plan to fight back against his policies on immigration, the environment and health care, while also seeking to catch up to neighbors such as Massachusetts, which has already legalized marijuana, and New Jersey, which has approved sports betting. Other items on their wish list include expanding state health care programs, codifying protections for abortion rights, reforming antiquated voting laws and eliminating cash bail for criminal defendants. “People will finally get the government they have been voting for for so many years,” predicted Senate Democratic leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, of Yonkers, the first woman to lead a legislative body in New York. First up when lawmakers convene Wednesday may be the Child Victims Act, a long-debated bill that would extend the statute of limitations for child molestation and create a one-year window for victims to sue over old abuse claims now barred by the statute of limitations. The measure has repeatedly passed the state Assembly only to be blocked by the Senate’s Republican leaders under pressure from the Roman Catholic Church. “It’s been obstructed for such a long time, but I believe it will be done within the first 30 days of the session,” said Gary Greenberg, a leading supporter of the Child Victims Act who created a political action committee to support candidates who backed the bill. But having a solidly Democratic majority doesn’t mean there is consensus on everything. While there’s broad support for legalizing marijuana, for example, lawmakers don’t yet have agreement on several thorny details, such as how many retail establishments to permit or how high the taxes on the product will be. Cuomo wants to include marijuana legalization in the state budget, due by April 1, a remarkably short time frame for such a complicated issue.

At Barnard College last week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo vowed to pass reproductive health act within the first 30 days of the legislative session. With Barnard Presidenti Sian Beilock (left) and Hillary Clinton. Photo: Gov. Andrew Cuomo, via flickr Regardless of what form legalization may take, many lawmakers want a phased-in approach similar to the one adopted in Massachusetts, where personal possession and cultivation of marijuana were legalized long before the first retail shops were allowed to open. Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and many members of his chamber want lawmakers to also consider expunging the criminal records of thousands of people who were arrested for using the drug — a proposal that could complicate legalization even further. Officials say they also want to examine the experiences of Massachusetts, California, Colorado and other states that have already legalized the drug. “I don’t support people smoking cannabis, but here’s a fact: they do and they do in big numbers,” said Buffalo Democrat Crystal Peoples-Stokes, the Assembly’s incoming majority leader and a key proponent of legalization. Approving new congestion tolls for New York City will be just as politically challenging. Supporters, including environmental groups, transit advocates and even local chambers of commerce, argue that new surcharges on vehicles entering the busiest parts of Manhattan are the best way to discourage driving while raising billions to repair and modernize the city’s subways. Gov. Andrew Cuomo supports the idea. But the details — how high will the toll be, will local commuters and small businesses get a discount? — could undermine the push. Riders and transportation advocates say Albany must find some way to fund subway repairs or else the nation’s largest city will have to live with a system that has fallen far behind its peers in other global cities. “New York City’s subways are falling apart. Service disruptions and frequent delays have become all too common, contributing to what has become a daily nightmare for many of

New York City’s riders,” said Jaqi Cohen, of the Stranghangers Campaign, a coalition of subway riders. National politics and the Trump administration will continue to play an outsized role in Albany. Cuomo, fresh off a convincing re-election win in November, has offered up New York and his progressive agenda for 2019 as a beacon for the rest of the nation to follow. His soaring rhetoric and decision to deliver his third inaugural address on Ellis Island have done little to squelch speculation about whether he will run for president in 2020. “It is New York’s duty, it is New York’s destiny, once again, to bring the light that leads the way through the darkness,” the 61-year-old Cuomo said during his inaugural address. “To show the nation the way forward and upward. And we will.” The six-month session is likely to test Cuomo’s certitude and the sincerity of lawmakers who now have the chance to enact policies they’ve spent years talking about. Last year’s elections sent a wave of new, liberal lawmakers from New York City to Albany, where they may butt heads with Capitol insiders and more moderate lawmakers from the suburbs and upstate. Cuomo may find himself in the middle, forced to balance the ambitions of liberals with the realities of governing a state with 20 million people and a $168 billion budget. And don’t forget the Republicans, who promise to do what they can to force the governing party to the bargaining table. That includes GOP senators still smarting from November’s defeat. “Even though Senate Republicans now make up the minority of this chamber,’’ said Sen. John Flanagan, the Republican minority leader, “Our voice on issues important to hardworking middle-class families will be more critical than ever.’’

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A MANHATTAN PIZZA WAR DISPUTES UWS pizzeria accused of stealing a recipe from Soho restaurant BY JASON COHEN

A battle over a pizza recipe is heating up in the city between two men named Frank. Frank Morano, owner of Prince Street Pizza in Soho, is alleging that his former employee and longtime chef, Frank Badali, is using the recipe for Prince Street’s renowned spicy pepperoni slice at his new job at Made In New York Pizza on Amsterdam Avenue and West 80th Street. Badali worked at Prince Street for seven years, where he developed the recipe for the Spicy Spring slice, a Sicilianstyle pizza with pepperoni,

garlic and tomato sauce. In September, he left Prince Street and a few months later joined Eytan Sugarman, who opened Made in New York Pizza in December. Morano contends that Made in New York Pizza’s Spicy Pepperoni slice is a knockoff of theirs and has hired attorney Charlie Baxley to represent him. Baxley declined to comment on the ongoing litigation. However, Sugarman disagrees with the notion that the recipe was copied. “Frank developed the recipes while he was there {at Prince Street],” Sugarman said. “Having said that, it doesn’t make it their recipes.” According to Sugarman, the recipe has been changed and now uses different sauces and a thicker crust. “I’m not sure why all of this is happening,” Sugarman said.

“I’m a great fan of theirs. It’s a great brand. I don’t have a single bad thing to say about them. If you’re a pizza aficionado you will be able to taste the difference.” Sugarman said that he has not been served any legal papers and to his knowledge, the only thing Badali received was a letter in September right after he quit telling him he could not use the recipes at other restaurants. Sugarman, who has never met Morano, feels this will blow over and people will go back to simply just enjoying pizza. “I’d like to have a good relationship with them,” he said. “It’s funny how it’s gone so super viral and it’s become such a big funny story. It’s made more people try our great wonderful pizza.”

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THE UNSUNG ART OF BEING READY Behind every great Broadway star there is another type of actor — the understudy BY MARK NIMAR

New York actor Brian Miskell is currently understudying two actors, Michael Cera and Lucas Hedges, in Kenneth Lonergan’s play “The Waverly Gallery,” on Broadway at the Golden Theatre. He has to know all of the stars’ cues and lines, and be ready to go onstage for one or the other at any time, with little or no advance notice. He talked to Our Town about what understudies do, his unforgettable chat with co-star Elaine May, and what it was like to finally go onstage for a live performance.

How did you get involved with this production? I’ve worked with Lila [director Lila Neugebauer] a number of times over the years. And when I saw this was coming up ... I thought it’d be a good fit for me ... so I asked her if she might keep me in mind. We were all hired in August, and our first day of rehearsal

was in September. So we all went into the theater at the same time, the principal actors and the understudies as well. I met Lucas as we were walking in and we were like, “Oh, It’s your Broadway debut? It’s my Broadway debut!” We were running into the theater with that giddy first day of school energy. Getting to share that at the same time was really fun. And there was this excitement of being in a Broadway theater for the first time ... in this old historic building where “Waiting for Godot” premiered on Broadway, and where Mike Nichols and Elaine May did their Broadway show 50 years ago.

at with the process. It was up to us to make sure we were prepared. The week before they opened, as soon as daytime rehearsals stopped for the principals, once a week as a group of understudies we’d meet onstage, and work with the stage manager to rehearse different parts of the play. There’s a lot of time for us to try to prepare ourselves, and be as prepared as possible. It bears mentioning that the understudies in this play are all pros. They have created roles in Tom Stoppard plays, Edward Albee plays on Broadway, and all of them are virtuosic Shakespearean actors.

What does an understudy do exactly? What are your day-to-day duties?

You recently went onstage for a performance, stepping in for Lucas Hedges. What was that experience like?

We were all asked to arrive off book [know all lines and cues]. Or to at least be close enough that by the first preview, we’d be off book. So while we were in rehearsals, the responsibility fell on us to be on top of that for ourselves. We’d meet as a group of understudies and run lines together, talk through scenes together, and occasionally we’d work with our assistant director, who’d see where we were

Because Lucas is an incredibly thoughtful and generous person, in addition to being an incredibly talented actor, he gave me some notice. When he knew he was going to be going to The Golden Globes, he pulled me into his dressing room [and told me] “you’re getting to do a show” ... which was so lovely of him. It was nice to have some warning, and that my fam-

Brian Miskell made his Broadway debut as an understudy for Lucas Hedges in Kenneth Lonergan’s “The Waverly Gallery.” Photo: J. Demetrie Photography

Brian Miskell shares the stage with Elaine May and Joan Allen. Photo: Claire Yenson

ily and friends were able to be there for the show. I had a little bit of time ... and I got to [rehearse] with the principals, David Cromer, Joan Allen, and Michael Cera, so we could feel out what the scenes would be like as a company. Elaine May, interestingly enough, she thought it’d be really exciting if we didn’t practice and went for it on the day. So instead, we sat down and talked for 20 minutes, which I will never forget for the rest of my life. She comes from this world of improv. She’s this comic genius from the past 50 years, and she had the instinct that wouldn’t it be really exciting to try it for the first time with the audience. I had felt nervous about it, and then when I sat down and started talking with her, I got kind of excited about the idea. I was like “I don’t know what’s gonna happen,” but I feel like she trusted me. On the day ... They pull up the curtain and the audience applauds her, and I could feel that energy, that they’re all rooting for her. And from that point forward, as nervous as I had been to do this, never having acted on a Broadway stage before for an audience ... I could feel where the audience was, I could feel they were on our side. I

could have a laugh line and feel them respond, I could feel them listening. I remembered, “Oh I know how to do this, it’s just a bigger theater than I’ve worked with before. But I know how to do this. I’ve been doing this a while. And it’s a play. And I know how to do plays.”

What’s the best thing about being on Broadway? What has made this experience outstanding? Every time I go to the theater, and I see how many people are lined up outside just waiting to pick up their tickets and go in, I’m reminded of the fact that people come all over the world to be here right now ... And the streets are packed, and you can barely make it down the block. I just am so aware of the fact that I am standing in the middle of the place that like everybody in the world wants to be right now ... I feel incredibly lucky.

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