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READY FOR THE WOMEN’S MARCH On Saturday, New Yorkers will make their way to Trump Tower to show support for a range of rights issues

BY MADELEINE THOMPSON

On January 21, as Presidentelect Donald Trump begins his first day in office, thousands of New Yorkers will march to Trump Tower to make their voices heard in support of women’s rights. They will be joined by what could be a record number of others across the country who feel there has never been a more crucial time to fight for “civil rights for every human regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, religion or creed,” according to the Women’s March on NYC mission statement.

One of an estimated 370 global sister marches, the Women’s March on NYC is a branch of the Women’s March on Washington event that took off on Facebook not long after the presidential election. The D.C. march is expected to draw as many as 200,000 people, and Katherine Siemionko, one of the New York City march organizers, is planning for 100,000.

“That’s a conservative estimate based on group registration,” she said. “We’re only assuming half of people on Facebook will actually show up.” As of Monday morning, 35,000 Facebook users had marked themselves as attending the march in New York City. The D.C. march had 196,000 Facebook attendees, and the official Women’s March on Washington website count-

Security personnel at Trump Tower in late November.

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COUNCIL WANTS DETAILS ON TRUMP SECURITY Lawmakers, police seek federal reimbursement for protection costing $500,000 a day

BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

The costs of providing increased NYPD security for President-elect Donald Trump at his Midtown residence are clearly substantial — $37.4 million from Election Day to Inauguration Day, according to recent projections — but city lawmakers say they need more detailed information from the police department to understand what the final tally will be and who will foot the bill.

At a city council hearing Tuesday on the economic impact of security for the president-elect, Vincent Grippo, the NYPD’s deputy commissioner of management and budget, said that the expenses associated with Trump’s security since Election Day are an unplanned event “not on the order of Hurricane Sandy, but as big as anything else we’ve seen in this city since 9/11.”

The unprecedented prospect of providing NYPD protection to a sitting president living in Midtown Manhattan for a significant portion of his term lies at the heart of the police department’s argument

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law, but when that didn’t work out she said, “Don’t worry, I’ll do one right here in New York City. I submitted a permit, and now here I am.” She praised the NYPD for their assistance coordinating security measures with the volunteer safety team, but emphasized that the volunteers’ priority would be to “support the marchers and make sure that their First Amendment right to assemble is not

ed 700,000 people at all 370 marches that could show up.

Siemionko is a professional project manager, and said she became the point person for the New York City march because she happened to step up. “I think that [the head organizers] started something that they didn’t recognize was so powerful,” she said. Siemionko had planned to attend the march in D.C. with her sister-in-

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violated by the police or by any city member.” Siemionko does not anticipate having any problems with what is intended to be a peaceful event.

The space she is renting to house the 1,000 volunteers as well as the stage and sound equipment are among the event’s biggest expenses. A choir will kick off the pre-march rally near the UN by singing “America the Beautiful,” and groups such as a drumline and brass band will also play. “We’re trying to keep it very upbeat,” Siemionko said. She wouldn’t disclose how much money had been raised to support the march, but a GoFundMe page with a listed goal of $20,000 has been exceeded by nearly $42,000 in donations.

About $700 in sales from a special red pantsuit pin have also contributed to the coffers.

Artist Morgan Brock created the small accessory so that people could show their support for certain values held by the pin’s inspiration, Hillary Clinton. “A lot of times my art is just what I see going on,” said Brock, who first drew the pin in watercolor before the election. After seeing the event on Facebook, Brock reached out to Siemionko, who readily partnered with her. “It is what it is and we’ve got to go forward from here,” said Brock, who will march in New York City on Saturday.

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CITY KITTIES IN THE HOT ZONE Nearly 500 shelter cats infected with the avian flu are quarantined for treatment

BY CHARMAINE P. RICE

It’s flu season in the Big Apple and this time around, it’s domestic cats who are on the forefront — with nearly 500 avian flu-infected cats quarantined in a Long Island City facility since Dec. 29.

All hands are on deck at the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals’ temporary shelter facility, where the city’s shelter cats are being cared for and monitored.

In addition to the veterinary experts, professional animal-crisis workers, and local ASPCA volunteers, other volunteers from all over the U.S. have

converged in this pocket of Queens to lend a helping hand in caring for the sick felines. Inside this hot zone, workers at the facility must wear protective gear at all times. The quarantined kitties are undergoing ongoing lab tests, conducted by veterinary experts from the Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine.

The ASPCA and Maddie’s Fund are splitting the cost of the cats’ treatment. Maddie’s Fund is a national nonprofit that supports no-kill shelters and is endowed by the founder of Workday and PeopleSoft, Dave Duffield, and his wife, Cheryl. The organization works closely with the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC Animals and is named after the family’s beloved miniature schnauzer.

Cats quarantined for fear they might have contracted avian flu undergo lab tests conducted by veterinary experts at a temporary shelter facility set up by the ASPCA in Long Island City. Photo: ASPCA

About 500 avian flu-infected cats have been quarantined in a Long Island City facility since late last month. Photo: ASPCA

Thankfully, the flu-fighting felines appear to be holding up.

“Some of the cats are showing mild flu-like symptoms such as sneezing or runny nose, but the majority of them are doing well at the temporary shelter and the University of Wisconsin is conducting ongoing tests to determine cats who are cleared of the virus,” said ASPCA spokesperson Emily Schneider.

According to the New York City Health Department, this outbreak marks the first time this low pathogen strain of H7N2 has infected a population of domestic cats. To date, it’s still unclear as to how the cats became infected, but there have been reports that the virus initially made its way into the Bronx Animal Care Center (ACC), infecting a kitten named Alfred — identified as “patient zero” — who was brought to that shelter in October, and later died on November 12. Since the virus is highly contagious among cats and they are sometimes moved from one ACC shelter to another, the virus evidently spread within the ACC’s network, but the origin of how Alfred came down with H7N2 remains a mystery. In addition to Alfred, one other cat, Mimi, from the East Harlem ACC location, has died.

The ACC operates a shelter in each of the five boroughs, and is one of the largest animal welfare organizations in the country, reportedly taking in more than 35,000 animals each year. Once

the virus was discovered, ACC suspended adoptions of cats and urged the public to refrain from dropping cats off at their shelters. A decontamination effort subsequently took place.

Other animals at the ACC shelters remain virus-free and the risk of cats-to-human transmission remain low. “The University of Wisconsin’s veterinary experts have tested other species at ACC,” said Schneider. “No other species have tested positive for H7N2 except for these cats and one human.” The Health Department reports that the infected person was “a veterinarian who was involved in obtaining respiratory specimens from sick cats at the Manhattan shelter. The illness was mild, shortlived, and has resolved.”

The odds of re-infection appear to be low. “This [re-infection] is highly unlikely, however, this is a virus that’s new in cats and we are still learning about it,” cautions Schneider. “In general, flu infection typically leads to immunity for most carriers, and that immunity can last for about a year.”

Experts urge those who adopted a cat from an ACC shelter between Nov. 12 and Dec. 15 to monitor them for signs of illness.

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), symptoms to look out for include sneezing, persistent cough, lip smacking, runny nose, fever, lack of energy and decreased appetite.

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG MAN HIT WITH HAMMER, ROBBED A man walking on West Third Street between Macdougal and Sullivan Streets late Monday, Jan. 9, was hit with a hammer and robbed, NYU’s Department of Public Safety said.

The man, who is not affiliated with NYU, was hit on the head with a hammer from behind by a man who then demanded money, a release from the department said. The robber, described as wearing a ski mask, a black hooded ski jacket and dark blue jeans, then hit his victim in the head a second time. The victim was taken to an area hospital for treatment. There was no word on his condition. City police are investigating, the release said.

ATTEMPTED MUGGING An attempted early afternoon mugging was thwarted, when a Good Samaritan stepped in and detained the would-be-mugger until officers arrived, police said. A man later identified Ronell Brown, 25, At 1:40 p.m. on Jan. 9, approached a 51-year-old woman walking near the intersection of Broadway and Beaver Street when

grabbed her bag. The woman, though, held on and was knocked to the ground and was dragged about 10 feet. An onlooker, who was not identified, intervened and held the would-bemugger until police arrived. The woman suffered a scrape on her hand during the scuffle, as did the 25-year-old.

Brown resisted but was eventually subdued. He was charged with robbery.

SUBWAY FRACAS A man and a woman were arrested on assault charges following a dispute between the two that escalated to violence on the evening of Jan. 4, police said. According to the police account, Taka M Winship of Staten Island, 42, were at the Fulton Street subway station southbound platform at Broadway and John Street when Winship hit Craig Butler of Brooklyn, 54, with a sharp object, scratching his nose. She then swung and struck Butler with a “CAUTION WET FLOOR” sign. He in turn hit the woman with dress mirror, cutting Winship, a wound that required four stitches. Police at the First Precinct had no information on the cause of the dispute or who started the fight.

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A man resorted to violence when a subway rider wouldn’t give up his seat, police said. At 9:15 p.m. on Jan. 8, a 26-year-old man boarded a northbound 3 train at the Wall Street station, sat down, and fell asleep. He was awakened at the Park Place station by a man, said to be about 20, who said, “Give me that seat!” and cursed at him, according to the account he gave police. The 26-year-old refused and the younger man burnished a knife, hit him and then slashed him on the forehead before punching and kicking him in the abdomen. The victim stepped into adjacent subway and didn’t get off the train until 72nd Street, where he requested help.

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the northbound tracks leading from the Park Place station.

Late on New Year’s Day, an employee at the Duane Reade at 250 Broadway was monitoring surveillance cameras in the store when he noticed a man taking antacids and decongestants off the shelf and placing them in his jacket. The employee went downstairs and confronted the man, who then pulled a small knife and then took off, disappearing into the 2/3 train line subway tunnel heading southbound on

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50-50 CULPABILITY IN 7-ELEVEN An employee and customer got into a dustup at a Fulton Street 7-Eleven early on Jan. 2, with both subsequently arrested on assault charges. Police said customer Martin Young, 48, of Brooklyn, was inside the 7-11 store

when he confronted Noel Powell, 31, of Cheektown, N.Y. with a metal bar, and hit him in the head, body and hands, cutting Powell on his face and right hand. Powell then displayed a knife, swung and slashed Young’s face, left arm and body. It not clear what had precipitated the incident.

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MEET THE CHEF: MIGHTY QUINN’S HUGH MANGUM What’s the story behind Mighty Quinn’s Barbeque?

My stepbrother Micha has two kids, a boy and a girl. Christos, his brother-in-law, has three daughters, and I have three sons. Between the three of us, we’re like the Brady Bunch, plus two. It’s the perfect partnership. I oversee food and serve as the moral compass for the brand. Micha is from a Wall Street hedgefund background, he’s a financial guru. I call him The Matrix because he can sit under a screen of numbers and make sense of everything. Christos is a second generation restauranteur, and has a background in catering. He was one of the partners at The Venetain in New Jersey, which is the state’s largest catering hall.

He has a ton of experience in the front and the back of the house—he gets the business sense, he gets the food sense.

So there’s three brothers, Christos, Mischa, and myself. We got started at a flea market with a smoker. We decided to open up our first brick and mortar about a year later in the East Village in December of 2012, so we just had our four- year anniversary. About three months into us being open we were reviewed in the New York Times, and the levy broke. We got an insanely great review and we ended up on the “Best of List” for The Times, Zagat, and so on. So that really reaffirmed that we could open more restaurants. We’re now at nine worldwide. We just opened our first location in the Phillipines and we opened our second location in Taipei.

How did you get started cooking?

Second career. I started off in music and

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the top ten in the country, the pulled pork, which the Times said is the only pulled pork in the city, and the sweet potato casserole is a family recipe. It’s like Thanksgiving in a cup.

was a touring musicican in a rock band. I’m still a drummer, I just don’t do it professionally anymore. When my father passed away 18 years ago, he had left me a little bit of money and I decided to honor my relationship with him, which was very close and centered around food and baseball and bicycles. But food was the best way for me to still communicate with him, so to speak.

I went to culinary school, fell in love with food and it became my passion.

What are some signature items on the menu?

Brisket built the house. It had a moment three years ago. I was serving it at that market five years ago, so when it had its moment, we were already doing it and we were doing it better than anybody else.

I stand by everything on the menu, but if I had to single out a few items: the wings are my favorite thing—and are rated as being

What’s your favorite thing about New York?

I moved to New York from L.A because of food, and if there’s one thing I’ll always love about New York it will be the diversity of the food and the people. There’s something about New Yorkers: this sense of pride. When we opened our first location in the East Village, there had been six or seven failed restaurants in there within 10 years, which is like the kiss of death. So we brought in a priest, a rabbi, and a feng shui lady to bless the place. Everyone in the East Village embraced what we were doing and Mighty Quinn’s became a neighborhood place. We were doing something very genuine and the neighborhood got that.

Number one barbeque tip?

Everyone skips ahead—people will say the rub, the sauce, or how long you cook the meat. But where it all starts is with the fire.

You can take the best or worst cut of meat and make it taste really good if you know how to manage your fire. We call it a sexy fire: it’s not blaring or blazing, but it’s not dead. There’s a bed of embers, a glow, a log or two giving some smoke. You need to get familiar with the fire first—it’s like looking before you leap.

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FOOD IS MEDICINE AT NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN and doing our catering events.

At the same time I got involved with another catering venue, whose owner taught me everything he knew. I continued to work for him while I went to the Culinary Institute of America. I did an internship in Italy and had apprenticeships from the North to the South of Italy, and fell in love with traditional Italian cuisine. I worked all over: Italy, Spain, America, Korea. I was a guest chef sent from Milan to Soeul, Korea to represent Italian cuisine at a Korean-owned trattoria. When I came back, I got into corporate dining.

Ross Posmentier, tell me about your role at NewYork-Presbyterian.

My patients are my guests, and our servers give top customer service. The people staying here have butlers and private chefs, and we really just try to make this an extension of their homes. We try to make their hospital stay as positive of an experience as possible. It’s all about quality and fresh ingredients.

What kind of food do you serve?

Everything’s homemade. Our New York strip steak is very popular, as it the tomato, basil, and buffalo mozzarella appetizer.

We’ve had a lot of Middle Eastern patients, so I’ve created an international menu that is Arabic-based.

The soups are very big: they’re warming, they’re comfort food. The rigatoni and meatballs is also a very popular dish.

When you’re in a hospital you don’t want foie gras or to smell seafood. So we work to make everything look really nice and sexy with good plating, but not take it too far.

Here, you want what mom would make you when you’re sick. So if a patient isn’t interested in the menu items, I tell him to put it aside and tell me what he would want if he was at home. If we don’t have whatever it is in the house, I’ll make it my business to go

out and bring it back. I will make it. We’re healing with food here. Food is medicine as far as I’m concerned.

When did you get started in the culinary world?

I got started in the industry at 14 years old, stocking refrigerators and doing dishes at a local delicatessen at my hometown in Westchester. Everything was made from scratch, so from a young age I knew that quality really matters. Instead of buying Boar’s Head, we roasted 30-pound turkeys and sliced those for sandwiches. Next thing you know I was roasting the turkeys

What’s your number one cooking tip?

There are two parts: keep it simple, and use good, fresh ingredients. That’s the number one thing I learned working throughout Europe. If the ingredients are good, they’ll speak for themselves and you won’t have to do much to them.

The most rewarding part of your job?

When a patient or family members communicate to me what a great experience they had in a hospital setting here at New YorkPresbyterian.

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WOMEN’S MARCH CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 turing has occurred over the purpose of the women’s march movement. The four co-chairwomen of the Women’s March on Washington recently told the New York Times that they were focusing on the struggles of minority and undocumented immigrant women, and would not shy away from uncomfortable discussions about race.

This, the Times reported, has not sat well with some white women who now feel they are “unwelcome.”

Nina Olson, an arts administrator in New York, said she doesn’t think there is “a pervasive sense that white women feel they’re not welcome,” and plans to march in D.C. wearing one of several “pussy hats” her mother has knit for the occasion. The cat-ear shaped pink hats have become a symbol of female resistance and a movement of their own since the recording of Trump talking about grabbing women was revealed in October. “This is really an event to bring all people together,” she said. “It’s about unity.” Olson said she was horrified by Trump’s election and his record on women’s issues. “I see him as someone who has a history of assaulting women, which I find totally offensive,” she said.

Siemionko said there isn’t discord within the New York City march committee. “We do have a very diverse leadership board, but what we are promoting here, at least in New York City, is ‘human first,’” she said. “None

TRUMP CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 for federal reimbursement. “New York City taxpayers should not ultimately be on the hook for that, considering the significant expense that it will be,” Grippo said.

Since Election Day, the NYPD, in cooperation with the Secret Service, has enforced a heightened security zone around Trump Tower, the skyscraper at 56th Street and Fifth Avenue that is owned by Trump and contains his primary residence.

Trump is expected to move to Washington after his inauguration, but his wife, Melania, and 10-year-old son, Barron, will reportedly continue to reside in Trump Tower until the current school year is finished. The number of days Trump will choose to be in New York as president is unclear, but could severely impact the city’s budget.

At Tuesday’s hearing, NYPD officials projected that Trump’s security will cost the city $500,000 each day he is present at Trump Tower after taking office. Trump Tower will be subject to increased NYPD security

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Crafting signs at Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger Health Center on Bleecker Street for this week’s Women’s March on NYC. Photo: Carrie Mumah / Planned Parenthood of our committee members want to be looked at by their skin color or their race or their ethnicity. We are human before we are anything else, and we have a very diverse board of humans.”

Siemionko declined to name the other members of the march committee, citing threatening emails the group has received from opposing parties.

levels even when Trump is not present, but the city is not currently seeking federal compensation for those costs, Grippo said.

To the frustration of some council members, Deputy Chief James Kehoe, executive officer of the NYPD’s Patrol Borough Manhattan South, cited security concerns in repeatedly declining to discuss specifics related to the $500,000 figure.

“How does somebody take that number seriously unless we know how you arrive at it?” Councilman Daniel Garodnick asked at one point about the number of officers that would need to be deployed to arrive at the half-million-dollar figure.

“We looked at the number, we have broken down the number, but in this arena I am not able, due to the security risk of the president-elect, to give out that number,” Kehoe said.

Later, Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras-Copeland, the chairwoman of the council’s Finance Committee, asked about the security costs the city would incur when Melania and Barron Trump are present at Trump Tower but the president-elect is not.

Kehoe again would not address specifics.

“There are certain individuals that may not support this, so we’re trying to focus on equality and not focus so much on the committee and the organization,” she said.

The leaders of the Women’s March on Washington have a detailed mission statement on their website that lists disability rights, reproductive

“We’re going to get that figure,” Garodnick said after the hearing. “If they were not prepared or willing to offer it during the hearing, they will have to be more forthcoming as we consider their proposed budget.”

“We want to understand what their anticipated needs will be for security for the first family since it appears they will not be seeking reimbursement for their protection,” he said.

“It’s worth exploring further why they are not seeking reimbursement for their protection, and we want a handle on how this obligation is impacting not only the police department’s budget but also its operations.”

“We have to have some idea of how much this is going to cost, because right now we’re kind of just spending on unlimited credit, really, and just hoping that maybe the federal government will pay,” Ferreras-Copeland said during the hearing, adding that the current level of spending is “not sustainable.”

Ferreras-Copeland said she was fearful that the NYPD’s budget could be “completely blown out of the water” by overtime costs associated with Trump’s security. “We haven’t

rights, environmental rights and LGBTQIA rights among their top priorities. President-elect Trump’s name is noticeably absent from any of the national march documents. “We are not going to give the next president that much focus,” Linda Sarsour, a national march organizer and executive director of the Arab American Association

been doing too great with our overtime issues, period, before the president-elect,” she said.

In order to provide increased security for the president-elect, Kehoe said that NYPD reassigns officers from precincts around the city to work at Trump Tower, often on overtime deployments. Several council members expressed concern that diverting officers from high-crime precincts would have an adverse impact on crime rates in those neighborhoods, but Grippo said that the increase in officers assigned to Trump Tower has not resulted in a reduction in officer hours on patrol in other areas.

“The bottom line is, the NYPD ensures that the neighborhoods across the city are not adversely impacted” by having fewer uniformed officers on patrol, Grippo said. “The impact comes on the fiscal side,” he said, adding that the NYPD has incurred increased overtime costs to account for security around Trump Tower while maintaining normal precinct coverage around the city.

After the hearing, Garodnick was skeptical that the NYPD’s increased presence at Trump Tower had not impacted police operations elsewhere.

of New York, told PBS NewsHour last week. “What we want from him is to see us in focus.”

Cait Johnson, media relations manager at Planned Parenthood in New York City, will march because she wants to help demonstrate “the number of women who are affected by policies that [Trump] is trying to put in place.” Johnson is working on a documentary about a group of women in 1960s Chicago who provided abortions to thousands of women, and has found that many of the same problems persist today. “It consistently shocks me that women now are saying the same things that they were then, about how you can’t have equality unless you have control over your reproductive health,” she said. “I’m marching to try to help that process.”

The Women’s March on NYC will start on Saturday at 10:45 a.m. in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza with a rally, followed by the march itself, which will stagger start times in order to ease crowd control. Several similar events have already been held or are in the works in New York City to protest Trump’s inauguration, including a Writers Resist rally that was hosted

by PEN America at the public library’s midtown branch on Sunday, Jan. 15, and a gathering of celebrities along with Mayor Bill de Blasio outside Trump Tower planned for Thursday, Jan. 19. These are not the first nor, surely, the last acts of opposition the city will see over the next four years.

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“I heard them say it. I don’t know how it’s possible, but we will explore that in the budget process,” he said. The City Council is scheduled to hold a hearing on the NYPD’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year in March.

By January 20, Inauguration Day, the NYPD estimates that it will have spent $37.4 million on Trump’s security since his election. In December, Congress appropriated $7 million to compensate state and local law enforcement agencies for overtime costs related to the president-elect’s security during the period from Election Day to Inauguration Day. The federal funding, which was not allocated specifically to New York City, accounts for just 20 percent of the $35 million the city requested based on an earlier estimate of security costs during the transition period.

“We should not be losing $28 million on this operation,” said Garodnick, chairman of the Committee on Economic Development, which held the hearing. “We have a city to run here and a budget to balance, and we cannot allow all of our resources and opportunities to be swallowed up by this sudden obligation in Midtown.”

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‘DREAM OF YOUR TONGUE’ Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, 250 Broome St. 6-8 p.m.

Opening of “If you dream of your tongue, beware,” — first solo exhibition by Surinamese artist Xavier Robles de Medina.

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MY BLOCK IS A BACKLOT Lights, camera, action: an Upper East Side neighborhood becomes a hotbed for TV and film production

BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL

I could see Mariska Hargitay from my window. I know, I sound a bit like Tina Fey as Sarah Palin saying she could see Russia from her house, but it’s true. I also spied her blonde “Law & Order: SVU” co-star Kelli Giddish.

They were chatting on the steps of a size-of-a-small-home trailer that was parked in front of my building while they shot an episode of their hit show, which is in its 18th season on NBC. About two months ago, when the weather was warmer, my 19-yearold daughter Meg and I walked down to Carl Schurz Park to watch the filming of TVLand’s “Younger”

with Sutton Foster. Yes, we were part of the crowd of lookie-loos who watched Foster ride a bike, then fall off it onto an inflatable mattress.

When we watched the episodes a few weeks later, it depicted the wellknown Broadway singer/dancer being hit by a car and doing a header off the bike.

I’m no stranger to having my Upper East Side block transformed into a backlot, with trailers, noparking cones, and crew members with walkie-talkies; East 86th Street and the surrounding area has been a hotbed of TV and film production, especially around the park, for over a decade.

About six years ago, Meg was almost apoplectic when they shot “Gossip Girl” on our street, but my favorite experience happened a

block over on First Avenue, where fire trucks abounded and a battalion of men and women clad as members of the FDNY climbed ladders and shouted orders at each other.

When I was half way down the block and away from the action, which was still semi-visible, a distraught man crossed the street, leaping (I kid you not) over the curb’s mound of snow, waving his arms at me and yelling, “Miss!”

He caught up with me and asked in all sincerity, “What’s going on?

Is it terrorism?” I tried to remain straight-faced and said nonchalantly, “They’re shooting an episode of ‘Third Watch’.” We both started to laugh nervously as he dropped his head in alarmist embarrassment.

A lot of people don’t like it when Hollywood makes itself at home on our turf. I hear some neighbors, as well as strangers who speak really loudly, complain: “They take all the parking spots;” “Some kid with a headset told me to keep moving;”

and the ever popular, “This is so disruptive.” But I don’t mind.

In fact, I like it. The lights. The cameras. The action. It’s fun to see how “movie magic” is made, as well as the stars who make it. Sutton Foster was genuinely nice, and seemed humbled by those seeking autographs. I also enjoy the break from the everyday, telling people who call: “What am I doing? Well, I’m watching Detective Olivia Benson storm into the bar around the corner. I assume she’s making an arrest.” I also, think it’s good for the city.

According to The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, filming in NYC has seen explosive growth over the past year, contributing nearly nine billion dollars and over 130,000 jobs to our economy.

As Manhattan has always been the place where artists thrive, it makes sense that NYC is seen as a thriving center of creativity for TV and film production, showing off what the

REMEMBRANCES AND RECOLLECTIONS

BY BETTE DEWING

Depending on which paper you read, Antal Kiss was either 73 or 75 years old when he suffered fatal head trauma from a fall on an icy Upper East Side sidewalk earlier this month. What does age have to do with this terribly tragic accidental loss of life? Well, if this “elderly man” had been a lot younger, his death on a slippery sidewalk would have received more than small items in the Daily News and the Post. It might even have made The Times, which rarely covers what my Pedestrians/Safe Travel First group calls vehicular “crimes of traffic.”

And so crucial to safe sidewalk conditions, if Antal Kiss had been a child, the concern about un-shoveled and icy sidewalks would be front-paged and prime-timed. Now winter storm warnings are only about making the streets and avenues passable.

Even though New York is the nation’s

most walkable city, side street walkways especially are “short shrifted” by landlords required to remove ice and snow by a certain hour. Do check this paper’s Helpful Contacts column for information and if you remember nothing else from this column, remember to keep this list of elected officials and other resource groups handy. Keep calling the electeds to remind them that government’s first constitutional duty is to protect public welfare and safety and to see that the laws that ensure that protection are strictly enforced — strictly enforced.

And to help this life and death cause, we must also remember how Upper Eastsider Antal Kiss was just out for a late Sunday morning walk – maybe to get the paper and a coffee at a nearby deli or coffee shop, or on his way to or from a Sunday worship service (lamentably, neither type public place is that nearby anymore). Consider as

Photo: Imogene Huxham, via flickr well that the snow had stopped falling and the city was wonderfully quiet — and serenely beautiful — just right for a uniquely restorative walk. Ah, but underfoot on East 73rd near Second avenue there was a patch of likely snow-covered ice that caused Antal Kiss to slip and to fall. There were witnesses to call 911 — although in vain — and one only hopes he did not suffer.

And one almost hopes Antal Kiss — he was identified by the Daily News — did not leave anyone to be devastated by his sudden accidental and preventable death. Many at that age do, of

course, but also many also live alone and getting “out of the house” and into the community can be so needed in a society so divided by age, and where loneliness is now said to be epidemic and a major health hazard.

And after the holidays existing families are often far away and this relates to what I intended to write.

The subject was Marian Robinson whom I wish President Obama had also thanked in his moving farewell address. And it wasn’t her age of 77 that made him forget to include her, but that close extended family ties

five boroughs have to offer. I really hate it when a show or movie tries to pass off a city like Toronto, or worse, a soundstage, as NYC, such as “Seinfeld” used to.

One of my favorite series of commercials is done by USA Network, promoting its “Law & Order” reruns. Tourists ask directions of New Yorkers who instruct, “Oh, the Empire State Building? Just go down this street and make a left at the empty lot where Logan and Biscoe found the dead body.”

I for one look forward to the next set of street signs alerting us that there will be no parking after midnight, as filming will commence at 6 a.m.

Hey, there’s no business, like show business—and you never know when they may need an extra.

Lorraine Duffy Merkl is the author of the novels “Back to Work She Goes” and “Fat Chick,” for which a movie version is in the works.

get short shrift in our nuclear familyoriented society. Maybe you noticed, but Robinson was sitting next to first daughter Malia (where was Sasha?) but too few knew this was the maternal grandmother who for eight years had looked after the first daughters.

Too few read that 2015 Reader’s Digest interview with the first lady which so needs a reviving — the part about being so grateful to have her mother there to care for her daughters, but also as someone to whom she could “really sound off with.”

This so appreciative daughter, whom Vice President Joe Biden recently called “probably the greatest First Lady ever,” ended that interview saying “the extended family is key.” I believe she added that the extended family was “key” to a stable society, where no one is left out — and loneliness is not epidemic when generations, familied or otherwise, are mutually supportive and sufficiently connected.

And here’s hoping the soon to be former first lady will keep pushing that message and that her mother will remain an integral part of the Obama household. And hey, maybe the incoming first lady will also pick up on that potentially uniting Rx. (We gotta have hope!) dewingbetter@aol.com

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NYC BY THE NUMBERS How the city fared in 2016 with crime, deaths, housing and tourism

BY MADELEINE THOMPSON

As each new year begins, many find themselves looking back on the year beore and adding up the good and the bad. New York City is no exception, as various statistics and records are released every January in what amounts to a citywide report card. The good: 2016 saw fewer deaths by shootings, subways and vehicles. The bad: more than 60,000 New Yorkers sleep in homeless shelters every night, and the rent is still too damn high. Still more numbers are yet to come out. A final tourist count isn’t expected until the spring, and other measurements are taken by fiscal year. We collected some of the recent data, but you can decide what grade to give 2016.

A rendering of the entrance to the proposed Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation from Theodore Roosevelt Park.

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PUTTING THE STARS ON DISPLAY Natural history museum reveals more details about the controversial Gilder Center

BY MADELEINE THOMPSON

The American Museum of Natural History put its brightest stars on display last week to talk up its planned Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation.

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium, hosted a panel discussion with experts and scientists who have been involved in the planning process — and touched on how important the museum was to him as a kid growing up in the city. It was the first update on the Gilder Center after several relatively quiet months.

More than a year of contentious public meetings ended in disappointment for community opposition groups when Community Board 7 and the Landmarks Preservation Commission overwhelmingly approved the Gilder Center plans in October. But on Jan. 11, the museum presented more details about the expansion that reveal its intended exhibits and educational components.

“When [scientific] knowledge is presented in the way that we do at this institution, it can become wisdom,” Tyson said in praise of the museum and the Gilder Center project.

“Wisdom for how to treat your environment, how to think about the future of this

planet that has sustained our species for so many millions of years.”

The key exhibits that will be housed in the Gilder Center include a 21,000 squarefoot Collections Core display of 3.9 million specimens, an insectarium and butterfly vivarium, and an immersive “Invisible Worlds” theater using state-of-the-art technology to explore human perceptions of space and time. There will be three new classrooms for middle schoolers, and six classrooms for elementary students will be renovated in the museum complex connected to the Gilder Center. The existing Research Library and Learning Center will be more accessible to the public, and will have new space for hosting programs and for adult learning. Lisa Guggenheim, a senior vice president at the museum, described the Gilder Center as an “opportunity for learners of all ages to see science.” “What’s really amazing about the Gilder Center is that while everyone might not be able to meet [our scientists], they’ll be able to discover their own practice of science, of critical thinking,” Guggenheim said. “For the first time we’re going to have spaces that are specially meant to support learners across their lifespan.”

The museum has now raised more than $277 million of the $340 million projected cost of the Gilder Center, with $81 million from public sources.

“We are extremely gratified

by this support, which signals a commitment by city and state officials, individuals, corporations and foundations, to meeting the need for new and more sophisticated education and exhibition facilities,” said museum president Ellen Futter.

The use of public funds has been a sticking point for community groups opposed to the Gilder Center since the beginning, and they have not given up the fight despite the project’s smooth approval process so far. In early December, Community United to Protect Theodore Roosevelt Park held a meeting to announce their newly hired attorney Michael Hiller.

“What you have to do is stand and fight,” Hiller said at the time, indicating that a legal battle may yet ensue. Neighborhood concerns about the Gilder Center began with plans for it to encroach on a quarter-acre of Theodore Roosevelt Park, but include sustainability, increased traffic congestion and the design of the new building.

The Gilder Center is expected to open in 2020, in conjunction with the museum’s 150th anniversary. The next phase of the process, completion and review of the Environmental Impact Statement, is tentatively scheduled for this spring.

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Population 2016 ---> 8,500,500 2015 ---> 8,491,071 2014 ---> 8,405,837

Subway Deaths 2016 ---> 48 2015 ---> 50 2014 ---> 58 NYC Marathon Finishers

2016 ---> 51,388 2015 ---> 49,595 2014 ---> 50,530

Tourism 2016 ---> 60.3 million 2015 ---> 58.5 million 2014 ---> 56.5 million

Shootings 2016 ---> 998 2015 ---> 1,138 2014 ---> 1,162 Pedestrian Deaths

2016 ---> 139 2015 ---> 144 2014 ---> 132 Number of People Sleeping in Shelters

2016 ---> 60,400 2015 ---> 60,670 2014 ---> 53,615

Average Rent 2016 ---> $3,064 2015 ---> $3,102 2014 ---> $2,953

Sources: New York Times, New York City Marathon, NYC and Company, Rent Jungle, Coalition for the Homeless, DNAinfo, and worldpopulationreview.com

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MODERNISM’S MISCHIEVOUS MISFIT MoMA Presents Picabia

BY MARY GREGORY

A new year calls for new art. The Museum of Modern Art, and curator Anne Umland, present a new look at an old artist. The retrospective of close to 250 works gathered over six years in “Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction,” on view through March 19, is a revelation. Experience, they say, is what you think you have, till you’ve had more, and Picabia, for many, is an artist we think we know until we’ve seen this show.

The title, a Picabia aphorism, encapsulates the trajectory of his careening creativity. Francis Picabia (1879-1953) was peripatetic and prolific. Born of multi-cultural parents (a Cuban fa-

ther and a French mother — both quite wealthy), he lived in France, Spain, Switzerland, Cuba and New York. He was a stylistic wanderer, as well.

“The only movement is perpetual movement,” Picabia said. As an artist not confined by the necessities of making a living or paying the landlord, he was free to move among forms, materials, styles and doctrines. He lived well, threw expensive parties and ran with the Parisian in crowd when Paris was the epicenter of “in.” In the 1910s and ‘20s, in the cafes of Montmartre and at Gertrude and Leo Stein’s Saturday night salons, poets, painters, novelists, dancers and musicians mingled endlessly, infecting each other with enthusiasm and ideas. Apollinaire inspired Picasso, who competed with Matisse, who was collected by Gertrude, who was painted by Picabia.

Francis Picabia, “Dances at the Spring [II],” 1912. Oil on canvas, 8’ 3-1/8” x 8’ 2”.

Photo: Adel Gorgy

It was a remarkable, fertile moment, and Picabia, independently wealthy, extraordinarily talented, with his nose pressed against the incubator of Modernism, refused to pick sides.

A proto-merry prankster, part provocateur, part pilferer, Picabia was a writer, composed music (of sorts) and painted. The extent of his artistic output, as seen in the exhibition, is astonishing, and the breadth of styles in which he not only dabbled but excelled is extraordinary.

The first gallery shows a group of Picabia’s Impressionistic landscapes.

They made his name and garnered critical praise, even while subverting the tenets of the style. Rather than capturing impressions of nature en plein air, it’s believed he painted them from photographs, a practice Camille Pissarro called “shocking.” They’ll never outshine the work they mimic, but we get the sense they weren’t meant to. Throughout his career, Picabia courted controversy and joked and jabbed at those he admired.

Picabia riffed on trends of the 1910s, ‘20s, 30’s, ‘40s and ‘50, and at times the results are spectacular. If you love gorgeous, lushly hued, sweeping, larger-than-life abstractions, they’re here, including one that rocked the 1913 Armory Show and brought Modernism to New York. Prefer nerdy, wordy, intellectual Dadaism? Picabia’s been there and done that, admirably well.

Surrealism? Check. High art/low art, found objects, appropriation, mythology, portraiture and a premonition of the pictures generation are also all here.

Introducing a section on abstractions from 1912-14 is group of exquisite watercolors based on or titled “New York.” They’re sensuous yet serious.

Complex geometries are filled with delicate colors. They’re like architectural renderings of tender blossoms.

In two huge canvases, “The Spring” and “Dances at the Spring II,” arcing lines and non-representational forms in gray, black, terracotta, cherry, peach and chocolate create atmospheres we can almost enter. Spatial rules and gravity are dispensed with.

“Comic Wedlock” seems to channel Klee’s whimsical little creatures, Duchamp’s staircase, the fluid squiggles with which Picasso could compose a portrait, and Eastern philosophy, with a prominent yin-yang (about the only form that’s clearly decipherable) all at once, while remaining undeniable Picabia’s. It’s unique and stunning.

The advent of World War I required cutting back on everything, including the size of paintings. And by then, the

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Francis Picabia, “Comic Wedlock,” 1914. Oil on canvas, 6’ 5-3/8” x 6’ 6-3/4”. Photo: Adel Gorgy artist Umland, the curator, referred to as a shape-shifter with “an obsession with self-reinvention” and “a will to self-erasure” had moved to other things.

In the following galleries, Dada themes play out, and machines and manifestos rule. There are folios, magazines and pictures of contraptions that defy any kind of use, hinting at the fascination with machinery that pervaded an era where light bulbs and telephones entered middle-class homes and factories spat out everything from spats to spaghetti. Here, Picabia’s droning, three-note music can be heard, but it’s more enjoyable to tune in to works by Ravel, Debussy and Stravinsky, and experience the soundtrack of Modernism via MoMA’s innovative collaboration with WQXR and selections by Terrance McKnight.

In a series of “Collages and Monsters,” created in the mid 1920’s, brash colors predominate as Picabia introduced lowly materials. Macaroni becomes the trunks of palm trees, and wit and a confident artist’s touch turn matchsticks and hairpins into a charming portrait.

Another section presents the artist’s “Transparencies,” in which he created layered palimpsests of epochs,

societies, mythologies and artworks.

Picabia painted an image, varnished it, and then painted one or more images over top of it. In “Salome,” a face appropriated from a religious painting by Boticelli is superimposed over a figure lifted from widely circulated nude photograph of a famous dancer.

Classical columns flank a patch of blue sky, and leaves and lotuses float across the bottom. The effect is complex and rich, both visually and intellectually.

Towards the end of the show, we come through selections of iconoclastic experimentations and photo-based paintings, before Picabia returned, in his last years, seen in the final gallery, to the same kind of elegant, buoyant abstractions that started his journey.

Art imitating life, after traveling the world, the artist died in the house in which he was born. In “Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction,” Umland has composed a compelling picture of a surprising and surprisingly influential artist. The exhibition feels almost like a group show of masters of 20th century, leaving us to wonder whether Francis Picabia, for whom challenge and change were critical, was more parrot or chameleon.

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SEE-THROUGH DESIGN Pierre Chareau’s singular modernism on view at The Jewish Museum

BY KATHERINE ROTH

More than a decade before Philip Johnson designed his iconic Glass House, French designer and architect Pierre Chareau designed the Maison de Verre in 1932 in Paris. It featured one of the world’s first glass-brick exterior walls — three stories high.

Chareau’s work straddles industrial aesthetics and traditional fine craftsmanship, clean spare lines and playful 1920s whimsy. He made futuristic gadgets like folding staircases, a pivoting bidet and sliding walls. His furniture, with elegant woods and handwrought iron, was made for the few and the wealthy. Many pieces fold or have multiple uses, designed for small but chic Paris apartments.

It was a gem-like world soon to be violently dismantled with the start of World War II, and Chareau, despite moving to New York to flee the war, has remained little known in the United States.

An exhibit, “Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design,” billed as the first in the U.S. to focus on him, is on view at The Jewish Museum through March 26. It was organized by guest curator Esther da Costa Meyer, professor of the history of modern architecture at Princeton University, in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou in Paris. It will not travel beyond New York.

The show is accompanied by a hefty and richly illustrated book with essays by a half-dozen leading scholars.

“Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design,” was published in 2016 by The Jewish Museum and Yale University Press.

“Chareau is the most invisible of the great designers, because outside of France, there are less than a dozen pieces by him on view in museums anywhere in the world.

It’s all in private collections,” said da Costa Meyer. “And the most

famous masterpiece he did, the Maison de Verre, has always been in private hands and is not visible from the street. He is really known by designers.”

Chareau worked in “the golden age of French design before the Depression, and he was trained in that grand tradition,” she said. “He was one of the leaders of the early trend to modernize. He was also known in his day as a patron of the arts, so we reunited here some of his (collection).”

Through over 180 rarely seen works from public and private collections in the U.S. and Europe, the exhibit brings Chareau’s world of Paris luxe to life.

Furniture displays are enhanced by an enormous white screen behind them on which shadow-like silhouettes of imagined residents come and go, complete with shadow cigarette smoke and the enthusiastic tail wags of a passing shadow dog.

In another gallery, rustling leaves and glinting sunlight, visible through virtual reality goggles, bring visitors into Chareau’s Paris tors to study, an apartment he designed, and a salon and courtyard of the elegant Maison de Verre, designed with Dutch architect Bernard Bijvoet.

Those elements add context and movement to the furniture.

The exhibit employs a large-scale digital installation that lets you experience different sections of the Maison de Verre as if moving through it. Film footage of actors strolling through the house using Chareau-designed gadgets adds to the experience. Floor plans are projected onto walls, making the space appear continually spliced, deconstructed, revealed and then reconstructed.

“Chareau has almost no surviving interiors, since most of them were destroyed. And the furniture feels a bit orphaned in and of itself,” explains Liz Diller, founding partner of Diller Scofidio and Renfro, the firm that designed the exhibit. “So we brought back the domestic life and the feel of the furniture in situ.”

When the Maison de Verre was built, she says, “it was very radical. ... The exposed steel columns could be a beautiful contemporary loft.”

La Religieuse floor lamp, 1923, designed by Pierre Chareau, alabaster and hammered brass, 67 3/8 × 17 × 21 5/8 in. Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre de Creation Industrielle. Paris. Purchase funded in part by Scaler Foundation in 1995.

Photograph by Georges Meguerditchian, image provided by CNAC / MNAM Dist.

RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, New York.

Pierre Chareau (French, 1883-1950) and Bernard Bijvoet (Dutch, 1889-1979), Maison de Verre, 1928-1932. Photograph © Mark Lyon Chareau rose to prominence in early 1920s Paris with interior designs that were both elegant and functional. The pieces featured rare woods, alabaster (for lamps), and exotic elements like touches of ivory or sharkskin. Many of his designs featured leopard-skin rugs, with expanses of silk or velvet curtains as wall coverings.

Chareau’s works were custom-made, not mass-produced, and made use of France’s artisanal traditions of metal, woodwork and tapestry-making.

He designed for a cultured urban elite, and many of his clients, including painters, sculptors and composers, were Jewish. Although Chareau was raised Catholic, his mother came from a Sephardic Jewish family and his wife Dollie, also a designer, was Jewish. With the German occupation of Paris in 1940, the couple, like many of their clients, fled to the United States.

The show explores the enduring consequences of that flight from persecution, including the dispersal of many of his works during the war; his own collection of art, including works by Mondrian and Modigliani; and his attempts to rebuild his career in New York in the 1940s.

By then, the world of European luxe to which he catered had vanished. In New York, he lacked the pool of skilled French artisans with whom he was used to working. And aside from an East Hampton, Long Island, house that he designed for artist Robert

Motherwell in 1947 — and which was later destroyed — he obtained few commissions here.

“He basically did odd jobs, and he and his wife had no children, so once

they had died, everything was gone.

We have tried to put some of it together again here,” da Costa Meyer said.

“He was truly a designer’s designer.”

Table and bookcase (MB960), c. 1930, designed by Pierre Chareau, walnut and black patinated wrought iron; bookcase: 36 ½ × 45 × 8 in.; table: 23 ½ in. high, 33 in. in diameter. Vallois, Paris. Photograph by Ken Collins, image provided by Gallery Vallois America, LLC

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THE NEW NORMAL IN EDUCATION Supporting nontraditional students on the path to a degree

BY CHRISTIAN GONZÁLEZ-RIVERA, CENTER FOR AN URBAN FUTURE

More New Yorkers than ever are enrolling in universities and community colleges, driven by seismic changes in the economy that have made postsecondary credentials nearly indispensable for today’s workforce. But on college campuses across the state, the makeup of the student body has changed. College is no longer just for “traditional” students who graduate high school at age 18, enroll directly in college, and are financially supported by family. Today, much of the growth is occurring among nontraditional students — people who are over the age of 25, enrolling parttime, have a full-time job while attending school, or are raising children In New York, part-time students comprise 43 percent of all those enrolled in public community colleges statewide — an increase from 32 percent in 1980. Overall, 139,501 students are enrolled on a part-time basis at community colleges operated by the State University of New York or the City University of New York. Part-time students outnumber full-timers at 13 of the state’s 37 public community colleges, including Onondaga Community College, Orange County Community College, Schenectady Community College, and Dutchess County Community College.

In New York City, 27 percent of community college students are age 25 and older; half have a paying job, with 52 percent of working students employed more than 20 hours a week; and 16 percent have children whom they are supporting financially.

“The nontraditional is now the traditional,” says Lisette Nieves, a commissioner of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics and founding partner at Lingo Ventures.

But while part-timers, older students, students with jobs, and students who are caring for children have become the new normal in community colleges from the Bronx to Buffalo, New York has been slow to develop a support system for helping nontraditional students succeed.

While the state has one of the most generous tuition assistance programs in the country, few nontraditional students can take advantage of it. Although New York is home to some of the most innovative programs in the nation to increase graduation rates at community colleges — including the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs initiative at CUNY — the programs are primarily geared toward full-time students.

Community colleges and education agencies in other states have experimented with new models to support nontraditional students, but in New York education officials and academic leaders have mainly watched from the sidelines.

The need for new approaches is clear. In today’s economy, community colleges are one of the

most important platforms for elevating low-income New Yorkers into the middle class and enabling out-of-work New Yorkers to develop new skills for the new economy. But far too many of the New Yorkers who are enrolling in these institutions are dropping out without a degree — and much of the problem stems from alarmingly low success rates for nontraditional students.

By implementing strategies that help more nontraditional students earn a postsecondary degree or credential, New York’s institutions of higher education can provide a path to sustainable employment for millions of under-credentialed New Yorkers. A postsecondary education is now an essential prerequisite for middle-income jobs in New York. Of the 25 fastest-growing occupations in New York State with a median wage of $40,000 or more, 22 require a postsecondary degree or credential.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of jobs nationwide will require some level of postsecondary education, compared with just 28 percent in 1973. Currently one out of every five New Yorkers works in a job that pays below the level required to keep a family of four out of poverty. And poverty is more prevalent among the least educated families; among working families in New York that earn wages at less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line, more than half lack an adult with any postsecondary education.

Accelerating the completion of postsecondary education for nontraditional students will require the state’s public colleges and other state officials to adopt a set of coordinated interventions and reforms designed specifically to help nontraditional students progress more quickly and balance college with other serious responsibilities. This could include interventions such as block scheduling and year-round scheduling, guided pathways, awarding credits for prior learning, and expanding wraparound services and nonacademic supports. Meanwhile, state legislators should consider reforms to the state’s Tuition Assistance Program, which effectively bars part-time students from receiving aid.

Nontraditional students are more likely to blend work and school, but postsecondary institutions still treat holding down a job as an ancillary activity — a distraction from the ideal of full-time academic pursuits. “It’s a survival penalty,” says Nieves. “Because you have to work, you are trading off on school. We have a generation of students that really believes both school and work are valuable but we force them to choose one over the other.”

A policy brief — funded by the Working Poor Families Project and based on numerous interviews with community college presidents, education experts, and policymakers and available online at www.nycfuture.org/ — presents a menu of options for New York education officials and community college leaders designed to speed the progress of nontraditional students toward a degree.

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HIGH SCHOOLERS: GET OUT OF YOUR BUBBLE Global Glimpse, a new NYC nonprofit, takes students to developing countries for learning and leadership skills Lots of New York City parents would like to get their teenagers out of the dreaded “high school bubble.” But it’s hard to know how.

Global Glimpse, a popular San Francisco-based non-profit, has been quietly expanding its reach to teachers and families in New York City. The highly selective program takes high schoolers from private academies like Horace Mann and public schools from affluent areas like Greenwich, Connecticut as well as top students from schools that serve a more diverse group of New York City families, including the High School of Economics and Finance and the School of the Future, both in Manhattan.

Through the Global Glimpse program, carefully chosen students work together to build leadership skills and travel together to places like Ni-

caragua, the Dominican Republic and Ecuador during their summer break.

While they have lots of adventures, form lasting friendships with smart kids from other schools and have plenty of fun, there is a strong emphasis on learning, too. While abroad, students who travel with Global Glimpse meet with community leaders, industry experts and policymakers to help them understand the complexities of life in a developing country.

“This is the most valuable program for high school students,” said David Kuang, father of a recent Glimpser.

“It not only gives our children the opportunity to learn how to be more independent, better decision-makers and manage their time, but also allows them to see another world and understand different cultures.”

High school teachers in New York City who want to get out of their own bubble can bring this program to their school and travel each summer with a group of highly motivated young people eager to see the world. Stu-

Photo courtesy of Global Glimpse dents whose high schools don’t have a program can also apply to Global Glimpse independently. Scholarships are available.

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A HELPING HAND WITH THE COLLEGE PROCESS OneGoal gives motivated students an opportunity to boost scores and put together strong applications Getting a college degree is the ticket for getting and staying the middle class. But for many motivated students, preparing, applying and enrolling can be a challenge. Students who attend public high schools that serve a broad range of pupils often do not get the kind

of college preparatory curriculum, SAT/ACT prep and college advising that they need.

OneGoal, a non-profit organization being incubated in the Edwin Gould Foundation Accelerator in lower Manhattan, is trying to fix that. The program, which trains high school teachers to serve as college advisors and mentors during school and through a student’s freshman year in college, is spreading though high schools in New York City.

The program started in 2007 as an afterschool program at Dunbar High School in Chicago and gradually developed into a three-year program of guidance and support — starting in a student’s junior year of high school. The program has grown fast. This year, there will be 9300 One Goal “Fellows” in Chicago, Massachusetts, Atlanta, Houston and New York City. The program, which is free to students whose GPA is in the B and

C range, helps them select the right classes in their final two years of high school, boost their college admission scores, identify appropriate affordable college options and put together a strong essay and application. In addition, the teachers who run the program help recent high school graduates figure out how to manage that often-confusing first year of college.

“Being a part of OneGoal helps me focus

and use my time wisely,” said Shania Peterson who attends the School for Global Studies in Brooklyn. “Now I understand the steps I need to take to get into college.”

The program helps: 82 percent of those who attend OneGoal end up enrolling in college. http://www.onegoalgraduation.org/about/

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS JAN 6 - 13 , 2017 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 on restaurant grades, visit http://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/services/restaurant-grades.page Liquiteria

Padthai Noodle Lounge

63 W 8Th St

114 8 Avenue

Intermezzo

202 8 Avenue

Grade Pending (21) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Filaga

75 9Th Ave

Grade Pending (18) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. 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.

Coffeed

590 Avenue Of The Americas

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Beans & Greens

121 W 19Th St

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Swerve Fitness

30 West 18Th Street

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Ocafe

482 Avenue Of The Americas

Not Yet Graded (29) 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. Toilet facility not provided for employees or for patrons when required. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Semsom

1000 S 8Th Ave

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The City Bakery

3 West 18 Street

Grade Pending (30) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. 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.

Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.

Intermezzo

202 8 Avenue

Grade Pending (21) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Filaga

75 9Th Ave

Grade Pending (18) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. 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.

Coffeed

590 Avenue Of The Americas

A

Beans & Greens

121 W 19Th St

A

Not Yet Graded (48) 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.

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.

Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

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.

Cacio E Vino

80 2 Avenue

A

Klimat

77 East 7 Street

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Miso-Ya

129 2 Avenue

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Momofuku Noodle Bar

171 1 Avenue

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Bull Mccabes

29 St Marks Place

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Kanoyama

175 2 Avenue

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Grade Pending (27) 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. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

Grade Pending (31) Food not cooked to required minimum temperature. 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. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Meatball Obsession

510 Avenue Of The Americas

A

Caffe Bene

4 W 14Th St

Grade Pending (19) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. 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.

Peloton Lounge

140 W 23Rd St

A

Green Cafe

599 6Th Ave

Grade Pending (41) Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or nonfood areas. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Muscle Maker Grill

70 7Th Ave

A

Cafe Water

519 6Th Ave

Grade Pending (45) 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.

Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, crosscontaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.

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.

The Big Slice

146 5Th Ave

William Barnacle

80 St Marks Place

A

Semsom

1000 S 8Th Ave

A

The Eddy

342 E 6Th St

A

Friedman’s Lunch

75 9 Avenue

A

K’ook

324 E 6Th St

A

Original Sandwiches

58A Greenwich Avenue

A

Jp Street

52 E 8Th St

Grade Pending (18) Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or nonfood areas.

The City Bakery

3 West 18 Street

Grade Pending (30) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. 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.

Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.

Madman Espresso

54 University Pl

Not Yet Graded (34) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Live animals other than fish in tank or service animal present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

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

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Business 19TH PRECINCT CRACKS DOWN ON ELECTRIC BIKES Confiscations follow community complaints about the contraptions

BY MADELEINE THOMPSON

The NYPD’s 19th Precinct on the Upper East Side has recently stepped up their enforcement on electric bicycles, or e-bikes, which have long been a source of resident complaints. Several Twitter posts since the New Year show approximately 50 confiscated e-bikes at the 19th Precinct, as well as two trucks loaded with e-bikes being carted away.

Regular bicycles can be easily converted into e-bikes with the help of kits available for a few hundred dollars online. They are a favorite of bike messengers and delivery people, as they enable faster transportation. The kits themselves are

legal, but e-bikes are not. According to state motor vehicle law, an electric bike “doesn’t qualify for a registration as a motorcycle, moped or ATV and doesn’t have the same equipment.” Since it can’t be registered, it’s against the law.

Valerie Mason, president of the East 72nd Street Neighborhood Association, is one of many Upper East Siders who feel their community is plagued by e-bikes. Mason’s organization put together a report card in December ranking restaurants by their messengers’ adherence to cycling law that nearly half of the restaurants failed. Restaurants who delivery people were seen using ebikes got an automatic F. “[The 19th Precinct] knows all about what we’ve been doing on the survey,” Mason said. “But they have been, independent of anything

Officers from the 19th Precinct have been confiscating illegal electric bikes. This photo was posted Jan. 12 on the precinct’s Twitter feed.

that we’ve been doing, picking up a lot of e-bikes within the area. Even without our survey the police have been working really hard to address the problem.” The neighborhood association hasn’t had any formal conversations with the 19th Precinct, she said, since they are in the process of finalizing the report.

Councilmen Ben Kallos and Dan Garodnick have assisted them, and are hosting a workshop on commercial bike safety at the end of the month that the neighborhood association will sponsor.

Mason would like for the focus on ebike enforcement to be permanent, but understands that the police

have other priorities. “Commercial cycling and electric bike use isn’t considered one of the seven major crimes,” she said. “They’ve got a lot on their plate.”

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STRINGER TOUTS IMMIGRANT ECONOMY Comptroller says incoming administration’s proposed funding cuts to sanctuary cities could be devastating to New York

BY VICTORIA EDWARDS

Immigrants in New York City earn about $100 billion in total income — or about one-third of the city’s total earnings, according to a recent report from city Comptroller Scott Stringer’s office.

Stringer highlighted as much during a community forum last week, juxtaposing that earning power to President-elect Donald Trump’s suggestion that his administration would cut billions in federal funding to New York because of its status as a so-called “sanctuary city” — one that does not use city resources to enforce or prosecute people who are in the country without authorization.

“Without the immigrant population of New York there wouldn’t be an economy to speak of,” Stringer said at the meeting, held at the Youth Hostel on Amsterdam Avenue on Jan. 11 and attended by about 100 people.

“As Democrats, we need to talk about the practical impact people of diverse backgrounds have on New York City — at the end of the day, diversity produces better economic results.”

According to the report, the city is home to more than 3.3 million immigrants from more than 150 countries.

Together, they own 83,000 businesses, and comprise 51 percent of city business owners.

Stringer said he tweeted the report’s results to Trump. At the forum, Stringer said “we should be tearing down the walls and letting in as many people in — because that’s what builds the economy.”

He also cautioned that if the Trump administration does withhold federal funds to the city, the resulting shortfall would fray the city’s safety net, as well as cut into affordable housing initiatives and increase homelessness.

“If they strategically cut those dollars then we have to somehow piece together half of a city agency,” he said.

Stringer said that could add up to the most severe financial crisis since the 1970s when the city went nearly bankrupt. Given those stakes, Stringer said,

“It’s important that New York City and New York State stop arguing and start strategizing.”

Stringer said it was important that heads of the city’s social agencies work closely with congressional delegates to figure out what money can be allocated from where to close any resulting financial gaps.

He also encouraged those in attendance to help rebuild the Democratic party by, in part, doing a better job of communicating why liberal ideals were in the best interest of the nation.

For example, he said, a pro-immigrant stance is also a economically sound one, as demonstrated by the report’s determinations.

Cynthia Doty, president of Three Parks Independent Democrats, which hosted Stringer’s discussion, said she appreciated Stringer’s viewpoint and the report’s conclusions.

“It didn’t surprise me, but it was good to see the numbers. It’s important to have the facts,” Doty said. “The new administration doesn’t seem to care about facts — if they read them at all. It’s important for us to read it and spread the word about it.”

City Comptroller Scott Stringer, then the Manhattan borough president, speaking in 2011. Photo: Thomas Good / NLN, via Wikimedia

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750-MILE STATE GREENWAY PROPOSED Existing trails, when completed and connected, would span from Manhattan to Canada

BY MARY ESCH

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing to complete and connect two greenway trails crisscrossing the state from Manhattan to Canada and from Albany to Buffalo to create a 750-mile paved biking and hiking route that will be marketed as a national tourist destination.

“We want to build the largest multiuse trail in the nation,” Cuomo said during a state of the state speech Jan. 10 in Westchester County. Cuomo proposed spending $200 million over three years to pave 350 miles of gaps in the existing greenways and connect them to create what he calls the Empire State Trail.

Legislative leaders had no comment on the proposal, which would need legislative approval in the state budget starting with $53 million this year.

The trail will incorporate the existing Erie Canalway and the Hudson River Valley Greenway. State Bike Route 9 that runs along Lake Champlain to Canada would complete the trail from Manhattan. It is expected to bring millions of dollars in revenue to the surrounding communities each year.

The Erie Canalway is nearly 80 percent complete; the Hudson River Greenway nearly 50 percent. The state already owns most of the land needed to complete the project.

“The trail is great as it is, but closing those gaps will make it so much better,” said Erie Canalway spokeswoman Jean Mckay, who has cycled the trail end-to-end three times. “If you’re riding with your kids across the state,

it feels a little scary when you have to go on the road for a couple of miles.”

The Hudson Valley segment of the trail starts at New York Harbor and skirts the Adirondack Mountains. It features historic sites such as Olana, the home and studio of Hudson River School painter Frederic Church; the popular Walkway Over the Hudson, an old Poughkeepsie railroad bridge transformed into a pedestrian and bike path; the Martin Van Buren National Historic Site in Kinderhook; the Saratoga National Battlefield and Fort Ticonderoga.

The western leg of the trail follows the Erie Canal and Mohawk River through cities, villages and farmland, and features Buffalo Harbor State Park; the Salt Museum on Onondaga Lake; the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge; and the Fort Stanwix National Monument in Rome. Parks and Trails New York, a nonprofit advocacy group, said the Erie Canalway Trail attracts more than 1.6 million visitors annually.

“I think greenways are absolutely wonderful, whether you’re a runner, walker, biker or pushing a baby carriage,” said Dick Beamish of Saranac Lake, who has bicycled with his wife on rail trails and greenways in San Francisco, Virginia, Vermont and Albany. “They’re a great way to promote health and well-being as well as help local economies.”

Beamish, a retired news magazine publisher, is an advocate for a new 34-mile rail-trail the state is creating in the Adirondacks between Tupper Lake and Lake Placid.

Cuomo’s office said the Erie Canalway Trail has an economic impact of $253 million from visitor spending and the Hudson River Greenway generates more than $21 million annually.

Riverside Park, pictured near the 79th Street Boat Basin, forms part of the Hudson River Valley Greenway and would be incorporated into a 750-mile multi-use trail reaching to Canada, according to a recent proposal by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Photo: Riverside Park Conservancy

The Hudson River Greenway along the Manhattan Cruise Terminal on 12th Avenue at 50th Street. The Greenway would be incorporated in 750-mile hiking and biking trail reaching to Canada. Photo: Jim.henderson, via Wikimedia

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CAPTURING THE MAYOR Director of Photography Michael Appleton has been behind the scenes with de Blasio, from Winter Storm Jonas to the Chelsea bombing

BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

On September 17, 2016, Michael Appleton was enjoying a Saturday evening dinner party on a friend’s West Village roof deck when he saw emergency vehicles racing past on the street below.

He soon learned that there had been an explosion in Chelsea and that Mayor Bill de Blasio was on his way to the scene. Appleton, the mayor’s director of photography, knew immediately that his quiet night off had come to an end.

Appleton rushed north to West 23rd Street with his camera, arriving at roughly the same time as the mayor.

“It was tense. We didn’t know what had happened,” Appleton recalled recently.

Inside the security perimeter, amid investigators and paramedics, his adrenaline pumping, Appleton got to work. One striking image captured

by Appleton conveys the profound urgency and uncertainty of the moment: de Blasio, midstride, approaching the scene, framed by the flashing lights of police vehicles and fire trucks, intently surveying the area.

Appleton, who covered Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, and the 2004 Haitian coup as a photojournalist, was no stranger to crisis situations, but his

role on the mayor’s staff afforded him a new perspective. “This was different because I’m kind of in the bubble with the mayor, behind the scenes,” he said.

“I had covered similar things, but I’d never been on the inside like that, so that was pretty intense.”

The next day, Appleton returned to the scene and photographed de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo examining the twisted remains of the dumpster where a suspect allegedly placed a bomb that exploded and injured over 30 people.

Appleton, 39, tall and bearded, joined the mayor’s office in 2015 after stints as a freelance photographer for the New York Times, Associated Press, and other outlets, and four years as a staff photographer with the New York Daily News.

Though he’s no longer a journalist, the Maine native views his new task as fundamentally similar. “We’re not really censored or anything like that,” Appleton said. “It’s all about communicating what the city is doing, and what the mayor is doing, and what the mayor’s office is doing, and doing that in a compelling way so people tune in.”

Appleton and the two other photographers on the mayor’s staff, at least one of whom is usually on call for unexpected assignments like the Chelsea bombing, are also responsible for photographing the first lady and documenting city initiatives, but their work centers largely on one man.

Appleton said de Blasio makes for a good subject from a photographer’s

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sept. 18 at the site of an explosion in Chelsea the night before. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office.

perspective.

“The biggest advantage to photographing the mayor is that he’s really tall,” he said. “This helps a ton, because in a crowd, he stands out. It makes my job a lot easier.”

“He’s not known for being a retail politician, but I feel like he’s very comfortable in front of the camera and being around people and interacting, so that helps,” Appleton continued. “He’s natural with people. I’ve been around politicians that aren’t so comfortable.”

Appleton took some of his favorite shots of the mayor last January during Winter Storm Jonas. One photo, which the Mayoral Photography Office included in its online “Pictures of the Year 2016” collection, shows de Blasio standing on a temporary sand berm at Coney Island, snow falling from a white sky onto a stark landscape. “It kind of had all the elements I look for in a photo,” Appleton said, adding, “The mayor actually said he liked it as well.”

Later that evening, Appleton accompanied de Blasio to the West Side Highway to meet with members of the NYPD Highway Patrol. “It was at night, it was super windy, so it was hard shooting conditions and the light wasn’t great, but with the lights on the cars I was able to capture it,”

Mayor Bill de Blasio stands with the director of the Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency, Daniel Zarrilli, on a temporary sand berm which built to protect against storm surge flooding on the beach at Coney Island during a major snowstorm in January 2016. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office he said. “It was freezing. It was on the West Side Highway, so of course it’s just screaming wind. I’m worried my camera is going to break because it’s so wet. And the photo kind of captures the reality of what that was, and the fact that the mayor went out there and greeted the Highway Patrol guys.

It was pretty cool.”

For Appleton, documenting the life of the city has meant photographing everything from children on the first

day of school to a shot of the skyline from a Navy helicopter high above New York Harbor during Fleet Week.

He and the other mayoral photographers, Ed Reed and Edwin Torres, often work long hours on nights and weekends, but each assignment brings with it new challenges and opportunities.

“There’s never a dull moment,” Appleton said. “Things keep coming.”

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James O’Neill near the site of an explosion on 23rd Street on Sept. 17, 2016. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office.

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