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Lenox Hill Hospital on the Upper East Side is one of many New York City hospitals matching international applicants for residency programs. Photo: Razi Syed State Senator Daniel Squadron at Independence Plaza North Senior Center in lower Manhattan last week, where he gathered signatures for his petition opposing funding cuts to senior programs. Photo: Madeleine Thompson

SENIOR CENTERS THREATENED BY FUNDING CUTS COMMUNITY City officials push back against state budget proposal that could hurt or close elder facilities BY MADELEINE THOMPSON

At the Independence Plaza North senior center in Lower Manhattan last Thursday, about 30 seniors listened to State Senator Daniel Squadron warn that they could lose their home. A funding cut proposed in the state budget could eliminate $17 million

This is the only senior center for miles around... There’s enough rich people around here to do something about it.” Adele Pagano

from Title XX, a provision of the Social Security Act pertaining to social services and elder justice. Squadron visited several senior centers in his district on Feb. 23 to gather signatures for a petition against the funding cuts. “What that means is as many as 65 senior centers could be threatened and closed, and more than that could have their services reduced,” Squadron said. “The cuts from this program make no sense at all. Too often the people in Albany and the lob-

HOSPITALS, RESIDENT CANDIDATES CONTEND WITH IMMIGRATION UNCERTAINTY HEALTH CARE President Trump’s executive order puts program directors in a tough spot as they rank med students for summer 2017 BY RAZI SYED

As program directors at New York City hospitals narrowed their list of candidates for each residency program or fellowship, they had an additional factor to consider for 2017: will certain foreign applicants be able to enter the

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country this summer to start their training? President Donald Trump’s January executive order temporarily banning foreign nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries has complicated residency matches for international medical students and U.S. hospitals. While it was stayed in early February by a federal judge, the administration has suggested they hope to rewrite another executive order with the same end results as the initial order. The countries included in the ex-

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In Brief MORE HELP FOR SMALL BUSINESS

The effort to help small seems to businesses in the city be gathering steam. Two city councilmembers, Robert Margaret Chin and Cornegy, have introduced create legislation that wouldSmall a new “Office of the within Business Advocate” of Small the city’s Department Business Services. Chin The new post, which have up told us she’d like to would and running this year, for serve as an ombudsman city small businesses within them clear government, helping to get through the bureaucracy things done. 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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BRIDGET EVERETT IS IN LOVE PETS How the rising star’s adopted dog, Poppy, has changed her life BY GAIL EISENBERG

Monday is date night for Bridget Everett and the love of her life. The rising star of stages and screens takes her little lady out to an intimate dinner, and then it’s back to their Upper West Side apartment to snuggle on the couch. “I can’t believe it took me this long to get a dog,” says Everett. “Poppy’s enriched my life immeasurably. She turned my life around, and has shown me how to accept love unconditionally and how to give it.” The bawdy, no-holds-barred, classically-trained singer has slowly parlayed her one-woman “alt-cabaret” act, beginning with Ars Nova’s At Least It’s Pink in 2007, into a meteoric rise. She’s performed at Carnegie Hall with Patti Lupone, HBO’s Aspen United States Comedy Arts Festival, The Adelaide International Cabaret Festival and The New York Comedy Festival. The impetus to adopt arrived as she watched three of her closest friends

grieve the loss of their dogs. “It was hard to see, but in some weird way, I wanted to feel that way, too,” she says. “I wanted to love something, someone that deeply.” Like many love stories these days, this one started online. Poppy was popping up all over the place — Petﬁnder, Social Tees, Toast Meets World on Instagram, where she was being fostered. Everett needed to meet this dog, and when she did, it was love at ﬁrst sight. “Poppy is a supermodel, no question,” says Everett. [See for yourself: @Poppy_Louise] “But her smile and sweet demeanor sold me instantly. When I went to visit her at her foster home, she greeted me at the door, smiling, and then fell asleep in my lap moments later. I came undone! Her bio said she was perfect and she is. She’s my queen.” Just like that, the purebred Pomeranian from a backyard breeder became front and center in Everett’s life. She and the eight-year-old pup, whose full name is Poppy Louise Mandrell Everett, have been an item for the last two years. Poppy, the dog’s foster name, suited her perfectly so Mom simply added Louise Mandrell, her favorite of the Mandrell Sisters. Everett has even

Poppy Louise Mandrell Everett. Photo: Bridget Everett

Everett with Poppy. Photo: Jason Eagan more inspired nicknames. “I call her everything under the sun when we’re alone. Baby-sweetiehearts-love-of-my-life-angel-love is just one,” she says. Originally from Manhattan, Kansas — aka the Little Apple — Everett made her way to the Big Apple in the mid-1990s. She worked hard at her craft while slinging hash for twentyﬁve years, and now the world is ﬁnally discovering that the 44-year-old hyphenate has got range. Everett counts among her favorite singers/performers Barry Manilow, Julie Andrews,

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Freddie Mercury, Michael Jackson, Carol Burnett, Dina Martina, Murray Hill, and Richard Pryor. The songs on her set list include the tear-jerking Gloria Steinem-inspired “I’ll Take You Home,” the explicit sing-a-long “What I Gotta Do,” and, new to her repertoire, a ditty Everett wrote for Poppy, which she often sings as an encore. Some lyrics: Sweet little sunshine Angel of mine You took my heart and broke it open wide Oh little lady

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 1st precinct Week to Date 2017 2016

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in front of 122 Fulton St. When he returned at midnight, his ride, valued at $20,000, was missing. A license plate reader later captured the car heading inbound on the Brooklyn Bridge.

FISTICUFFS LEAD TO HANDCUFFS If you wish to avoid arrest you would be well advised not to answer a police officer’s questions with violence. At 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 14, a police officer was trying to interview

a 23-year-old man, later identiﬁed as Carlos Cisne, regarding criminal mischief and harassment at 426 West Broadway when Cisne punched the cop in the head. The officer was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital for treatment. Cisne was arrested for assault on a peace officer.

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It’s pretty hard to make deliveries after someone steals your delivery bike. At 7:45 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17, a 19-yearold man locked up his bike in front of 24 King St. before entering the building to make a delivery. His red electric bike,

valued at $1,950, was missing when he returned to fetch it.

LOOTED LAPTOP If your home is your castle, you may need a dragon to guard it. Sometime between 7 a.m. on Feb. 8 and 8 a.m. on Feb. 10, property was removed from inside an apartment at 291 Broadway. The apartment door was found unlocked after the burglary. The items stolen were an HP laptop valued at $469, and $1,400 in cash, making a total haul of $1,869.

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Programs here and abroad offer immersion in languages and cultures BY KATHERINE ROTH

For a lot of kids, summer is a time to travel intellectually as well as literally, to dive headlong into new languages and cultures in a way that classroom learning alone doesn’t allow. For instance, every summer around 4,500 kids between the ages of 7 and 18 travel to one of dozens of “language villages” nestled in the north woods of Minnesota and run by Concordia College. The camps, which also include typical summercamp activities like swimming and crafts, offer serious cultural and linguistic immersion in 16 different languages. There is belly dancing and Middle Eastern food at Arabic language camp, for example, or traditional calligraphy, taiko drumming, karate and Japanese meals in Japanese camp. “Having a foreign language and cultural skills in your background is vitally important. Sometimes it’s a matter of heritage or ethnic background, or sometimes it’s about community demographic. Or it’s just

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Immersion in languages, along with more traditional summer camp activities, is gaining popularity. Photo: thoroughlyreviewed.com what a child seems to be passionate about,” says Christine Schulze, executive director of the program, based in Moorhead, Minnesota. “Korean pop culture, for example, seems to be a big driver of interest in Korean language and cultural studies.” For younger kids, the camps run one or two weeks, while those for high schoolers are four weeks. The longer high-school-level camps are designed (and accredited) to cover an entire year of high school language learning, Schulze says, and unlike a summer overseas, the camps offer the security and ease of remaining in the United States. Kids also can try out several of the “country” villages to find the best fit. “Children come in with the full range of language abilities, with some starting at the very beginning and others quite advanced and ready push their skills even further,” she says. “Sometimes children do a summer at a village as preparation for a program abroad the following year.” The programs cost roughly $1000 per week, with about 20 percent of the children receiving some level of financial as-

sistance. Middlebury College, in Vermont, also offers summer language programs for eighth to 12th graders, as do some other colleges and universities. For older kids, the Washington, D.C.-based Youth for Understanding offers high school study-abroad summer programs in dozens of countries. They include group travel for language teachers and their classes, and more traditional, individual home-stay programs, says Heather Deno, sales director for the organization. Youth for Understanding was started after World War II to foster peace, and is also known for high school programs lasting a semester to a year, and gap-year programs between high school and college. In its summer programs in India, Ecuador, Paraguay, South Africa and Thailand, kids stay with a host family and do community-oriented volunteer work. “Our organization started in the 1950s with the idea that it’s hard to hate or generalize about a culture once you know people personally,” says Deno. The summer programs run four to eight weeks and cost

between $5,500 and $9,000 depending on airfare; many students receive financial aid. “We give out $2 million a year in scholarships. Many Japanese companies, in particular, offer full or partial scholarships to Japan,” she said. Of course, you don’t have to leave home to get summer language study. Many bilingual and language schools across the U.S. offer their own immersive day camps. The French American School of New York, in Larchmont, offers summer camps for kids, as does the German International School in Portland, Oregon, among many others. Prices vary widely depending on the school and region. To find such a program, begin with a quick online search of local bilingual, dual immersion or international schools. For sleepaway camps, Schulze recommends checking that the program is affiliated with the American Camp Association, which sets general and safety guidelines. And for overseas programs, Deno, at Youth For Understanding, says programs should be certified by CIEST (the Council on Standards for International Education Travel).

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BUILDING HEALTH GRAYING NEW YORK BY MARCIA EPSTEIN

Various neighborhood associations have been fighting Jewish Home Lifecare for years over its plans to built a 20-story nursing home on 97th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues. For many years, The New Jewish Home (formerly The Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged) has been (and still is) located on West 106th Street. The proposed home would be built on the footprint of a West 97th Street parking lot for Park West Village tenants, and of course those tenants would like to keep it that way. However, they’re not the only ones fighting the erection of this building. Various neighborhood associations have taken Jewish Home to court and have delayed construc-

tion since 2014. Also, since it would be right next to a public school, the school has been opposing the building adamantly. The school is concerned about noise and dust, and the leaders of the opposition have claimed that soil testing shows that the ground is loaded with toxins, including lead, arsenic and other poisons. This process has gone through approvals and appeals, and recently a New York State appeals court affirmed the state Health Department’s decision to let construction commence. However, it’s not over yet. The ruling overturns a judge’s decision to stop the project because of the question of soil contamination and noise. The ruling, earlier this month, is going to be appealed. Jewish Home claims that they have been diligent in addressing health and safety issues, including noise abatement for

the school. It looks to me like the Jewish Home will prevail, and to be honest, I have mixed feelings. You see, I live smack across the street from the proposed building. John and I joke that when the time comes, we’d only have to cross the street for our ﬁnal days. Our tenants’ association has been ﬁghting this building for years on various grounds, some of which aren’t clear to me. I do understand the school’s concern, but if the problems of noise and dust are addressed, my feeling is that building is going on all over the city, on every possible lot and sliver of a lot. That’s life in New York. And I also must admit something else; my apartment faces the back. I won’t be hearing loud machines all day long. In fact, I wonder how our landlord is going to be able to rent apartments facing front, especially as terraces may be mandated to be closed off. But that’s not my problem. I don’t see this as black or white; people have legitimate concerns and no one likes their neighborhood disrupted by construction and all it implies. But as I said, we live in Manhattan.

That’s life here. Doctor house calls are the next big thing. No, you won’t find a blacksuited physician with a leather bag at your door. What you can do if you don’t feel quite sick enough to brave icy streets to get to the doctor or an emergency center is use one of the many insurance companies (and some private ones) telecommunication services. Now there is Telehealth, which offers consultations about non-emergency health problems with a licensed doctor. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines Telehealth as the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support and promote long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, and public health and health administration. It’s simple to sign up. Go online and ﬁll out the required information, or via cellphone app. You can have a video appointment with a doctor right away. Some of the services communicate

EVERYDAY LIFELINES BY BETTE DEWING

A wise man, Dr. Samuel Johnson, counseled that “we often need to be reminded as well as informed.” That recalled news that should be remembered, such as the recent tragic, accidental, line-of-duty death of Miguel Angel Gonzalez. And this is to remind us of the risks doormen often take on their tenants’ behalf. And in a time of less and less face-to-face, voice-to -voice exchange, and small, often distant families, how doormen indispensably add to a building’s quality of life as well its safety. Pondering all this could also be a Lenten or pre-Passover time reﬂection. Again, although thankfully this tragic line-of-duty death received considerable media coverage but for our record, 59-year-old Miguel Angel Gonzalez was clearing ice and snow from the entrance door steps of 333 East 93rd Street when he slipped and fell

headﬁrst through a plate-glass window. Gonzalez, so beloved by his wife and family, was also an caring friend, not only to the apartment house where he’d worked for 28 years, but to those in the neighborhood. “He was just the sweetest kindest man” was the general consensus. And you know most doormen do smile and say hello — and don’t we need that, and to do likewise — a lot. But many do connect brieﬂy with their doormen as another responsible adult in their life in a time of little or no extended family and where apartment house generations don’t often interact. Resolve needed there, too. But about those risks doormen take, the everyday, most frequent kind like hailing cabs in rush hour or inclement weather and standing out in the street. Ah, but we tenants, no matter how rushed, must not let them do that or take unnecessary chances and risks – which relates to toting heavy

Miguel Angel Gonzalez. Courtesy of the Gonzalez family luggage and boxes where two people are needed to “lift that bale.” Doormen, and, it should be said, also doorwomen, should be told by others in charge not to take unnecessary risks, to be careful and take their time — take their time. So should supers and porters of course. Safety ﬁrst. And incidentally, carpeted lobby ﬂoors surely make a doorman’s life healthier, as well as an available stool or a chair. Maybe none of the above could have

saved the life of Miguel Gonzalez slipping and falling through the glass window, which clearly was not the shatter proof kind. So the story really got out there. And how we need such “caring people stories” and also about the need for safe working and living conditions like shatter-proof glass. Ironically this apartment house is a Mt. Sinai Hospital property and reportedly for physicians with residencies.

via phone or e-mail. It’s even possible that someday soon (fingers crossed here), Medicare may cover Telehealth services for chronic conditions. Depending on which service you choose, you may be able to pick a doctor on the company’s roster; others will assign a physician based on your needs. All of the doctors are board certified. Some insurance companies are including Telehealth in their beneﬁt plans. You’d have to ask your insurance company if this service is provided. Also, some Medicaid programs will reimburse for Telehealth use. The current cost of a visit usually from $35 to $50, with a possible monthly subscription fee. Some of the current Telehealth companies are: Sherpaa; Teladoc; MD Live; Doctor on Demand. There are smaller services also including: Ask the Doctor; Ring a Doc; DocTalker and First Stop Health. All of these sites provide the information you will need in order to use their services. Good stuff is on the horizon. America is great; let’s ﬁght to keep it that way.

Somehow the medical profession must also be reminded that doormen like Miguel Gonzalez, help prevent illness with their everyday caring exchanges with tenants, not to mention looking out for those who are ailing or somehow endangered, or too much alone. Doormen are often literal life savers and always a general lifeline, with again, just the day-to-day exchanges that help make it that good day we blithely wish each other. And surely related is that we learn about Gonzalez being an active member of the church in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he lived. This man lived his “love one another” faith, about which believers often need reminding. We all need reminding about caring for one another – being a good neighbor. More soon about all doormen do to make their buildings, their nabes, more of “that village it takes.” And what we can do so that Miguel Angel Gonzalez’s tragic line -of-duty death will not be in vain — his “lifeline for others” ways need to be acclaimed and adopted.

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BY THE NUMBERS: NYPD’S TRUMP PRICE TAG BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

$24 million

President Donald Trump now calls the White House home, but his former residence remains a source of anxiety for New York City officials. The cost of providing increased security at Trump Tower, the Fifth Avenue skyscraper that remains the primary residence of Trump’s wife, Melania, and 10-year-old son, Barron, came into clearer focus last week with the release of new analysis from the New York City Police Department. NYPD Commissioner James P. O’Neill provided the most detailed expense projections to date in a letter to New York City’s federal representatives. The NYPD’s latest ﬁgures fall well short of initial estimates, but the city still plans to seek federal reimbursement for the costs associated with protecting Trump and his family.

Total cost of NYPD security from Election Day to Inauguration Day

SENIORS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 byists are the loudest voices.” Adele Pagano, 86, has been a resident or member of Independence Plaza North since it opened more than a decade ago. Over lunch with friends Anna Curreli, 84, and Purtia Lessey, 68, she described the possibility of the center closing as “a tragedy.” Curreli and Lessey like going on the center’s trips to, for example, Atlantic City, and they all enjoy exercise classes, meals and friendship within its walls. “This is the only senior center for miles around,” Pagano said. “There’s enough rich people around here to do something about it.” In a letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo, Manhattan and Brooklyn borough presidents Gale Brewer and Eric Adams urged the potential cuts to be dropped. “Your budget proposal would require a set amount of federal Title XX funds to be used to support child care subsidy costs, instead of leaving the discretion to the counties on how to use the funding,” they wrote. “We understand the importance of supporting both seniors and children, and are disappointed that you would move to pit our youngest and oldest generations against one another.” Similar funding cuts were proposed in 2011, but fervent opposition changed state lawmakers’ minds. According to Brewer and Adams’ letter, theirs was one of 14,000 that have

$7 million Federal reimbursement appropriated by Congress to date

been written by 4,500 people to protest the proposed cuts. Sandy Gabin, director of the senior center at Our Lady of Pompeii in Greenwich Village, said New York City’s senior centers need more funding, not less. “It’s a threat to people’s security,” Gabin said. She recounted a story about a woman who came to the center one day looking somewhat gray and asked Gabin to call the police because she thought she was having a heart attack. “And she was,” Gabin said. “I saw her months later on the street and she said, ‘I came because I knew I would be safe.’” Gabin’s center isn’t residential, but provides meals, music and exercise classes, tax preparation and other resources for 70-85 seniors in the area. She would like to be able to do more, and estimated that a $20,000 supplement to the center’s roughly $100,000 budget would accomplish that. If the budget is passed with the proposed cuts intact, however, simply staying open would be a relief. Comptroller Scott Stringer, who visited the seniors at Our Lady of Pompeii last Friday afternoon, called senior centers “the best investment you could make.” “They provide a vital service to the community,” he said. “Their network has to be supported. There’s money, you just have to make it a priority.” Madeleine Thompson can be reached at newsreporter@strausnews.com

$4.5 million Estimated annual FDNY cost to protect Melania and Barron

$1.7 million Total cost of FDNY operations from Election Day to Inauguration Day

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$308,000 Estimated daily cost of NYPD security when Trump is present

Estimated daily cost of NYPD security when Melania and Barron are present

$127,000 to $146,000

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9/11 Memorial & Museum, 180 Greenwich St. 7 p.m. Free. RSVP. “The Sept. 11th Initiative” — StoryCorps with 9/11 Museum reﬂect on how important it has been to record stories of people killed in 2001 and 1993 attacks. 212-227-7931. storycorps.org

Salomon Arts Gallery, 83 Leonard St. 7 p.m. Opening reception — Curators Victoria Latysheva, Charlotte Hamson and Melissa McCaigWelles present international exhibition. Topic: Donald Trump. 212-966-1997. mccaigwelles. com

apexart, 291 Church St. 2 p.m. Free “Animals in Contemporary Art: Objectiﬁcation, Creativity and Collaboration” evaluates challenges in human/animal relations in contemporary art. 212-431-5270. apexart.org

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Cinema Village Theater, 22 East 12th St. 8-11:30 p.m. $0-$20 Winter Film Festival double feature, indie horror ﬁlms: “Dead Awake,” and “Be Afraid.” (Festival ends March 4 with awards ceremony and afterparty.) winterﬁlmawards.com

‘UNDO LIST’ FARMERS MARKET City Hall Greenmarket, Broadway & Chambers Street. 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays & Fridays, through Dec. 23. 212-788-7900. grownyc.org

Drawing Center, 35 Wooster St. 3 p.m. $5 In tandem with artist Mateo López, a series of performances with choreographer and dancer Lee Serle. 212-219-2166. drawing center. org

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MARBLE COLLEGIATE CHURCH Sunday Worship at 11:00am Sunday Worship, led by Dr. Michael Brown, is the heart of the Marble Church community. It is where we all gather to sing, pray, and be changed by an encounter with God. Marble is known throughout the world for the practical, powerful, life-changing messages and where one can hear world class music from our choirs that make every heart sing. Busy? Live stream Sunday Worship with us at 11:00am at MarbleChurch.org.

WeWo: Wednesday Worship at 6:15pm Marble's weekly Wednesday Worship, lovingly nicknamed WeWo, is a service that blends traditional and contemporary worship styles, taking the best of both, creating a mixture that is informal and reverent, often humorous and always Spirit-ﬁlled.

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7-8:30 p.m. $40 Artist and ﬁlmmaker Julian Schnabel in conversation with Jeff Koons. 212-220-1460. tribecapac.org

‘MY NAME IS ...’ Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $7, $10, $12 Children & teens who survived concentration camps, forced labor, life in hiding, devastating loss of family, faced great uncertainty after liberation. 646-437-4202. mjhnyc.org

DANCE SYMPOSIUM▼ Gibney Dance, 280 Broadway. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. $125. Preregister. Forum to share info and innovation, to stimulate awareness, interest and ongoing engagement in dance: panel discussions, workshops, networking lunch. dance-nyc.

Mon 6 BRIDESMAID TRIVIA▲ M1-5 Lounge, 52 Walker St. 8 p.m. Free. RSVP. “A wild trivia ride down the road to matrimony. Five rounds full of drunken plane rides, puppies in berets and telepathic dolphins.” 212-965-1701. m1-5.com

SCHNABEL-KOONS BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St.

Tue 7 CLEAR LIONHEART Parkside Lounge, 317 East Houston St. 7-8 p.m. Clear LionHeart performing at Inspired Word’s Tuesday night event, original and covers, followed by “amazing music, poetry, and comedy” open mic. 212-673-6270. parksidelounge.nyc

SAILORS NYC Tribeca Tap House, 363 Greenwich St. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Meet Sailors NYC’s staff and members and hear about 2017 plans for sailing the East Coast and other seas; have a drink and

Wed 8 ELECTRONIC MUSIC Nothing Changes, 131 Chrystie St. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Martial Canterel, “avantgarde and pop and inﬂuences of ﬁrst wave of unknown minimal electronic bands from northern Europe and industrial noise bands.” 609-393-2203. kwhen.com

RISE^LOVE^RESIST Washington Square Park 4-8 p.m. RSVP. “International Women’s Day: rise in solidarity with women worldwide, unveil the violence that groups of women face. Take the energy, direct it locally.” 310-827-4320. codepink.org/ international_women_s_day_ strike_nyc

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Evening Prayers for Christian Unity with Cardinal Timothy Dolan Wednesday, March 29 The Marble Sanctuary (Fifth Ave at 29th Street) at 6:15pm Join us for this historic Worship when the Roman Catholic Archbishop of NY preaches in the oldest Protestant church in America!

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BIG, BOLD AND FRESH EXHIBITIONS The Armory Show breaks from the past in intriguing ways BY MARY GREGORY

It’s become so big, they’ve named a whole week after it. 2017’s Armory Week is here, bringing with it a slew of art fairs. VOLTA, the Art Dealers Association of America’s Art Show, the fledgling Independent, NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance), SCOPE, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Art On Paper, Moving Image New York, Clio Art Fair (billed as “the anti-fair for independent artists”) and the tiny Salon Zürcher (featuring only six galleries) all ride into town on the coattails of the biggest of them all, The Armory Show. The Armory Show takes its name from the audacious 1913 exhibition that first presented European modernism to New York. That exhibition so shocked the American art world that it resulted in the burning in effigy of a Matisse masterpiece that currently hangs in the Baltimore Museum of Art. Now, some of the same venerable museums that were scandalized in 1913 over Picasso and Duchamp regu-

Vik Muniz, “Metachrome (Double Scramble, after Frank Stella),” 2016, Archival pigment print, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London larly shop the new Armory Show’s aisles. But that doesn’t mean the fair has become staid or stodgy. With over 200 galleries from 30 countries spanning five continents, this year’s Armory Show ﬁlls Piers 92 and 94 with contemporary and modern art by renowned masters as well as up-and-coming artists. That’s what it’s done in all 22 of its previous installations, but this year’s show changes things up in interesting ways.

Ai Weiwei, “Niao shen long shou shen,” 2015, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki

The show’s executive director, Benjamin Genocchio, a former editor-inchief at artnet News, just a little more than a year into the job, has overseen the entire production. He’s changed the physical format, the conceptual bent, and the feel of the experience. This year’s fair is no longer broken into two sections — Modern vs. Contemporary — each on its own pier. They’re interspersed on Pier 94, providing richness and variety in themes, styles and artistic voices. A “Focus” section, on Pier 92, is curated by LACMA’s Jarrett Gregory with 12 separate solo exhibitions under the theme “What Is to be Done?” International artists take on critical political and social issues of the day, enabling Genocchio to support new voices both artistic and curatorial. Meanwhile, the “Platform” initiative presents museum-like installations. Check out “Guidepost to the New World,” Yayoi Kusama’s shiny, biomorphic sculptures that resemble red and white dotted cartoon mushrooms. The iconic red-wigged Japanese art star (and recently anointed most expensive living female artist) will be the hottest ticket of the upcoming season at Washington’s Hirshhorn Museum, but you can get a jump on her work here. Also part of the Platform project is Ai Weiwei’s “Niao shen long shou shen,” presented by Helsinki’s

Galerie Forsblom. The gigantic suspended rooster-shaped bamboo and silk sculpture, timed perfectly for the Year of the Rooster, captures so many of the artist’s themes. It’s appropriating a symbol, referencing the past and challenging values, all with a wink of humor. It’s also just about the perfect selfie backdrop. A group of 31 young galleries, all less than 10 years old, are participating in “Presents” with solo and two-person shows, and “Armory Live” has talks and panels scheduled with art stars like Marilyn Minter, David Salle, Alex Katz and Shahzia Sikander. But the bread and butter of the show is, of course, the “Galleries” section, where hundreds of galleries present thousands of works. Look for James Turrell’s “Sunda Strait Diamonds,” a glowing blue window onto the artist’s consciousness at Kayne Griffin Cocoran. London’s Alison Jacques has a female artists-only booth, featuring works by Lygia Clark and Hannah Wilke. Internationally famous local twins, Doug + Mike Starn, fill Sweden’s Wetterling Gallery booth with their first U.S. solo exhibition since their rooftop installation at the Metropolitan Museum in 2010. If you’ve admired the Vik Muniz portraits in the Second Avenue Subway, here’s another chance to see his work. In “Metachrome (Double Scramble, after Frank Stella)” at Ben

Brown Fine Arts Muniz creates an homage to Stella out of intensely hued pastel sticks and then photographs the results. He unites his background in sculpture, his reverence for art history and his photographic practice to create images that are at once about the process, materials and the end result. Scattered among the contemporary artworks are jewels by Willem de Kooning, Joan Miró and Roberto Matta. The chance at a snapshot of the entire global artistic zeitgeist is worth the price of a ticket alone. But according to Genocchio, the Armory Show wants to do more than bringing buyers to the fair. “We want to play a greater intellectual role in the artistic life of New York,” he said.

IF YOU GO WHAT: The Armory Show WHERE: Piers 92 & 94 (711 12th Avenue at 55th Street) WHEN: March 2 and 3: Noon–8 p.m. March 4: Noon–7 p.m. March 5: Noon–6 p.m. www.thearmoryshow.com/

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BLACK HISTORY IN CHELSEA CULTURE The neighborhood was home to a significant African-American community until about 1910 BY LILY HAIGHT

Black history is not conﬁned to one month, or, for that matter, to any single neighborhood or even region. In Chelsea, for instance, it’s in just about every nook and cranny of that district’s architecture — if you know where to look. “There’s a lot of people who do not know that this northern part of Chelsea, from 23rd Street and even into the lower 30s, an area that used to be known as the Tenderloin, was also one of the major African-American quarters of the city before Harlem,” said Laurence Frommer, co-president of the preservation group Save Chelsea, which organized a recent tour of the neighborhood’s African-American touchstones. “There was a huge inﬂux of AfricanAmericans into New York from the South, but from all over the country,”

Frommer said. “In about 1870 or so, there were no more than about 20,000 African-Americans in New York City. By 1900, there were 60,000.” In that short period, a black community in Chelsea thrived, making history in the city’s art, music and theater movements. A century or so later, the impacts of the black community can still be found. What is now Selis Manor, a rehabilitation center for the blind on 23rd Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, used to be Proctor’s Theater, an impressive brick-clad structure built by impresario Frederick Francis Proctor. While Proctor started out showing plays, and at one point exhibited the state-of-the-art phonograph, his theater also hosted a performance by the Memphis Students, said to have been one of the ﬁrst modern jazz bands, in 1905. Neither students nor from Memphis, the Memphis Students was composed of 17 talented musicians, making up what historian James Weldon Johnson called “a playing-singing-dancing orchestra” who used banjos, mandolins, guitars, saxophones and drums

in combination. “When I talk about these things and read about these things I can imagine it as it’s happening. This is like watching seeds grow,” said Cher Carden, a board member of Save Chelsea and a jazz singer herself. “It was like the beginning of bringing jazz into the world. ... To know and to get close to that beginning is just amazing.” Chelsea also played a part in preludes to the Civil Rights Movement. Just down the street from where Proctor’s Theater used to stand is St. Vincent de Paul Church. In the 1850s the church’s pastor, the Rev. Annet Lafont, an abolitionist and major supporter of African-American rights, sought to teach black children at the parish school. This displeased white parents, who began to pull their children out of classes. Lafont was not deterred. Instead, with ﬁnancial help from philanthropist Pierre Toussaint, he started teaching the children in his own home. While the church still stands, it was shuttered by the Archdiocese of New York in 2013 and sold to hotelier Jeffrey Dagowitz.

Cher Carden, a board member of Save Chelsea, highlighting touchstones of the neighborhood’s African-American community, which thrived during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Photo: Lily Haight “The issue these days ... is that a lot of religious organizations are cash poor and property rich. So they have two choices. They either sell it all outright and move on or they sell their air rights,” Frommer said. Throughout the tour a similar theme cropped up: the constantly changing nature of the city’s neighborhoods. As fast as the African-American community in Chelsea grew, it diminished just a few decades later. When building started on Penn Station in 1910, at least 10,000 Chelsea residents were displaced. The city had started to advertise apartment buildings as having only

DRAWING A CROWD MUSIC Busker Guy Daniels is a subway star BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

As Upper West Side commuters waited for the 1 train on a recent morning, the usual dreary rhythm of the subway was broken by the sound emanating from one man’s guitar. Buskers are often unceremoniously ignored by seasoned New Yorkers, but this searing solo, stretching over several minutes, seemed to have a jolting effect on many in the crowd. Books were lowered and headphones removed. A few people took out their phones to record the performance on video. When Guy Daniels is on the platform, people listen. As Daniels neared the end of his morning set at 72nd Street and Broadway, a group of schoolchildren exited a train and instinctively rushed to gather around him. Daniels, in his glory, put some extra showmanship on display for the kids, dramatically lifting the neck of his guitar skyward during the soulful climax to the blues classic “The Thrill is Gone.” Daniels has built up a fan base

among subway riders with his mix of covers and extended improvisational solos over looped backing tracks that he records himself, spanning genres from pop to funk to reggae. His distinctive sound is instantly recognizable — he plays his acoustic guitar through an ampliﬁer to conjure a rich, distorted tone, combined to great effect with his nimble fretwork and expressive singing. In spite of his head-turning talent, Daniels, 47, is a relative newcomer to the busking circuit. He started playing the subways as an occasional guest performer with a more experienced friend, and enjoyed it so much that he struck out on his own in the summer of 2015. “What I immediately fell in love with was the rawness of it, he said. “That you can actually set up and just start playing.” In the subway, Daniels says, there is a special purity to the relationship between performer and audience. There’s no such thing as a captive listener. Not everyone will be into his music, but when the response is enthusiastic it feels earned and sincere. “It’s so real and beautiful and honest,” he said. “You don’t mean anything to one person, but then somebody else is like, ‘I’ve missed three trains. I hope I’m not late to

Guy Daniels captivates an audience at 72nd Street and Broadway. Photo: Michael Garofalo and by his twenties he was a skilled work.’” Donations are nice, but busking instrumentalist and a member of the offers benefits that extend beyond acid jazz group the Abstract Truth. the monetary realm. On subway Despite some success, playing in platforms, he’s met new people, got- the band stopped being fun along ten referrals for gigs, and found new the way. “I hadn’t really cracked the guitar students for his teaching busi- code to what I wanted to do,” Daniels ness. “This is the type of awesome said recently, looking back. Marriage stuff that happens, just from coming and children followed, and family life took precedence over his performing out,” Daniels said. “This is the best experience I’ve career. Daniels rededicated himself to perhad in the city, and I grew up here,” forming after a difficult breakup a he added. A Yorkville native, Daniels ﬁrst took few years ago, turning his heartache up guitar seriously at the age of 10. into inspiration. He started singing He threw himself into music during seriously for the ﬁrst time, and wrote his teen years at Collegiate School, a suite of songs that forms the core

white tenants, slowly pushing out the African-American community. By that time, Harlem was growing as a black community, and the Harlem Renaissance, the great flowering of African-American culture, was nearing full bloom. In Chelsea, traces of the AfricanAmerican community from around the start of the 20th century time period are difficult to ﬁnd without a tour guide, and could become harder as new development takes hold. But if Save Chelsea has a say, the neighborhood’s history will continue to have a voice, if not a physical presence.

of his upcoming album. “There’s life that’s going into this music that I’m sharing, and that’s why I don’t regret any minute,” he said. Playing — and busking, speciﬁcally — are therapeutic. “Being in that raw rush of people going to work — we all have challenges, we all have stuff we’re dealing with,” Daniels said. “It’s important to go out and share, no matter how you feel.” Daniels approaches busking with professional discipline, rising before dawn so that he can claim a prime location by 7:30 and start playing as the early birds start their commute. ”The location means everything,” he said. He hauls his kit wherever he goes — a guitar case and a Samsonite suitcase loaded with his amp, strings, microphone and stand, and a massive package of AA batteries — and prides himself on quickly setting up and breaking down. He’s enjoyed exploring the subway system as a performer and comparing the nuances of the crowds at different stations, from the warm folks on the Upper West Side to the artsy crowd in Union Square. The people are the reward in this business, he said. Back at 72nd Street, during a short break between songs, one stranger came over to thank Daniels for his playing and invite him to an upcoming concert. “That was special,” the man said, shaking his head in wonder. “I’m happy the train took a little too long to get here.”

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS

Risotteria Melotti

309 East 5 Street

FEB 17 - 22, 2017

The Grey Dog’s Coffee

90 University Place

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 www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/services/restaurantinspection.shtml.

Barnes & Noble Cafe

33 East 17 Street

The Smith

55 3 Avenue

Spot

13 St Marks Place

Ray’s Pizza Bagel Cafe 2 Saint Marks Pl

Highline Ballroom

431 West 16 Street

Maison Kayser

841 Broadway

Hot N Juicy Crawﬁsh

243 W 14Th St

Not Yet Graded (40) No facilities available to wash, rinse and sanitize utensils and/or equipment. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Shu Han Ju Restaurant Ii

58 3Rd Ave

La Panineria

1 W 8Th St

Grade Pending (26) 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 contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Matchabar

256 W 15Th St

Patsy’s Pizzeria

67 University Place

Ootoya Japanese Restaurant

8 West 18 Street

Tarallucci E Vino

15 East 18 Street

Curry Ya

214 East 10 Street

Rosemary’s

1820 Greenwich Avenue

Strip House

13 East 12 Street

Good Stuff Diner

109 West 14 Street

Empellon Cocina

105 1 Avenue

Cappone’s

75 9Th Ave

Grade Pending (55) 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. No facilities available to wash, rinse and sanitize utensils and/or equipment. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Subway

153 3 Avenue

Eastville Comedy Club

85 East 4 Street

Edo Sushi Teriyaki Noodle

9 East 17 Street

Ootoya

41 E 11Th St

Spot Shoppe

5 Saint Marks Pl

Tac N Roll

124 E 4Th St

S’mac

345 East 12 Street

Grade Pending (23) 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, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Ikinari Steak

90 E 10Th St

Not Yet Graded (11) Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Casa Neta

40 E 20Th St

Vinny Vincenz

231 1 Avenue

Laut

15 East 17 Street

Liquiteria

145 4Th Ave

Ihop

235237 East 14 Street

Checkers

225 1St Ave

San Marzano

117 2 Avenue

Le Cafe Coffee

145 4Th Ave

Zen 6 Ramen & Gyoza House

328 East 6 Street

Mcdonald’s

724 Broadway

Mamani Pizza

151 Avenue A

Oren’s Daily Roast

29 Waverly Pl

Carma

507 E 6Th St

Taqueria Diana

129 2 Ave

Ichiba Ramen

125 University Pl

Huertas

107 1St Ave

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Sidewalk Bar & Restaurant

94 Avenue A

Death & Co

433 East 6 Street

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Fonda

40 Avenue B

Avant Garden

130 E 7Th St

Bua

126 St Marks Place

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Mini Thai Cafe

105 Avenue A

Juice Press

897 Broadway

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Tim Ho Wan

85 4Th Ave

Chawlas2

216 3Rd Ave

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212 East 9 Street

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HOSPITALS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ecutive order are Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. There are 1,049 applicants from the affected countries for this year, said Dr. William Pinsky, president and CEO of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates. The ECFMG vets foreign medical graduates before they can apply for residency in the United States and ensures they possess degrees from accredited institutions. Since many residency spots, especially for primary care, are unfilled by U.S. medical graduates, foreign students often take up the slack and in many cases go on to be physicians in underserved areas, Pinsky said. Nationally, around 25 percent of all physicians are foreign medical graduates. As the Feb. 22 deadline for ranking applicants occurred at a time while the immigration situation was still in flux, Pinsky expects applicants from the seven affected countries will probably be ranked lower than they might otherwise have been. “I think in one way or another it will affect the match — undoubtedly, it will,” Pinsky said. “The concern among the program directors is if the there’s a risk that they won’t be able to come into the country to fulfill their obligation.”

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The acquisition of these jobs is very tightly controlled and we don’t have the flexibility to just hire someone else, and nor should we, frankly, because we want the system to have some integrity” Dr. Ethan Fried

Most residency programs and fellowships start on July 1. Residency programs are scheduled very tightly with little ﬂexibility to reschedule residents in the event that a candidate is unable to join with the crop of residents, said Dr. Ethan Fried, internal medicine program director at Lenox Hill Hospital on the Upper East Side. “Every position needs to be ﬁlled,” Fried said. “When one person is missing, that puts a tre-

mendous burden on the program. If a program matches someone and if that person can’t show up, that program will go thought a lot of stress. And that devalue the training for everyone else.” Fried said he believes the applicant rankings were likely affected by the order. “I am quite sure that programs have taken the travel ban into account since they know they need to have a full complement,” he said. Fried pointed out that because of the strict regulations in place for medical residencies and fellowships, programs often have their hands tied in the event that a resident is unable to join on time. “When a resident signs with with a program, that is considered a contract,” Fried said. “If a program does not receive its complement of residents, we cannot simply hire someone else. We have to go back to the [National Resident Matching Program] and seek a waiver of that contract.” “The acquisition of these jobs is very tightly controlled and we don’t have the ﬂexibility to just hire someone else, and nor should we, frankly, because we want the system to have some integrity,” he added. “We want a match that can’t be overturned on a whim.” Foreign graduates generally arrive on J-1 visas, which require the visa holder to return home after their residency. However, the Conrad 30 program allows each state to sponsor up to 30 international graduates annually for a waiver if they can secure a position at a facility in an un-

derserved rural or urban area. “The United states is a net importer of physicians,” Pinsky said. “We rely on international physicians to meet our medical access.” In addition to this year’s applicants, the 318 current residents from the seven countries on J-1 visas are also affected as they may not be able to visit family back home for fear of not being allowed back in the country upon their return, Pinsky said. “There’s no indication of whether these visas will be revoked,” he said. “They could have families, spouses, in other countries — many families have been disrupted because of this.” Susan Grossman, an internal medicine program director with NYC Health + Hospitals, said, “It’s obvious that we should make our decision based on who is the best candidate, not what country is the person coming from. I ranked my candidates solely based on who would make the best resident, which included several from the seven countries.” Grossman said she acknowledged the uncertainty but was optimistic that residents would be able to start on July 1. Pinsky said the blanket immigration ban in the executive order is misguided. “We clearly understand the need for security in the country,” he said. “But we believe the screening and vetting we do does keep the country safe and adds to the security of the country by contributing to a strong health care workforce.”

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Business COSMOS TO RETURN TO NYC SPORTS Owner has a Columbia connection, and the team has a new home for 2017 BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

After a roller coaster offseason, the New York Cosmos are set to begin a new era in Coney Island under the leadership of new chairman Rocco B. Commisso. Soon after the team won its second consecutive North American Soccer League championship last November, reports emerged that the franchise was on the brink of folding. For several weeks, the future of the Cosmos — and the NASL as a whole — seemed to be in doubt. To the rescue came Commisso, the founder and CEO of cable television giant Mediacom, who bought a majority stake in the club and ensured its survival. “I just couldn’t see the team not playing in 2017, given what it’s meant for anyone that grew up with

the game in the ‘70s in the New York area,” Commisso said. The Cosmos became a household name in the 1970s with international stars Pelé, Giorgio Chinaglia, and Franz Beckenbauer, and helped bring professional soccer to the American mainstream. The original Cosmos franchise folded in the 1980s, but the team returned to competition in 2013 under a new ownership group. Commisso met with Cosmos players for the ﬁrst time last week during a practice at Columbia University’s soccer stadium in Inwood. The practice was a homecoming of sorts for Commisso, who starred for the Columbia Lions men’s soccer team from 1967 to 1970 and later became one of the Columbia soccer program’s most prominent donors — so prominent, in fact, that the stadium where the Cosmos practiced is named after him. Head coach Giovanni Savarese, who has helmed the club since it was reestablished, will return for the 2017 season. “We always said

that everything that we were doing was a new chapter in the book that we were writing,” Savarese said. “I think what happened in December has a whole new book by itself, because there was so much going on from the time that we finished the championship to where we are right now.” “For us to be able to be back is a fantastic feeling,” he added. Despite the Cosmos’ tumultuous recent history, Commisso is confident that he can bring stability to the franchise. “I don’t want to say I’ve got a lot of money to waste, but I do,” he said with a smile. In addition to a new owner, the Cosmos have a new home. The club will play its 2017 home games at Coney Island’s MCU Park, home of the Brooklyn Cyclones. Hofstra University’s James M. Shuart Stadium served as the Cosmos home field for the last four seasons, but the team played two games at MCU Park in 2015. “My intent from the get-go was to bring the Cosmos to New

DESIGNING DIAMONDS ENTREPRENEURS Stephanie Gottlieb’s online jewelry business focuses on pieces with a “wow factor” BY LAURA HANRAHAN

Upper East Sider Stephanie Gottlieb has found her niche helping others bring a little sparkle to their lives, or a lot. Originally from New York City, she launched her online business, Stephanie Gottlieb Fine Jewelry, in 2013, a few years after graduating from the University of Michigan. Gottlieb designs custom jewelry pieces for clients in addition to offering a curated selection from other jewelers. What initially began as an engagement ring and bridal service has grown to include fashion pieces for everyday wear, with prices ranging from $60 for earrings to $25,000 for a diamond chain necklace, And with 111,000 followers on

her Instagram page (@stephaniegottlieb), the list of clients wanting Gottlieb’s designs has gone international. Did you always plan on a career in the jewelry industry? Not at all! I wanted to be in the publishing world initially. When I graduated I just didn’t find a job right away so I took an internship at a diamond company and assumed I would just be there for a few months while I figured out my real job situation. But I ended up loving it and staying for about five years. I managed the jewelry department so I oversaw production and sales and I also took care of marketing and promotion of the line as well. What made you decide to start your own company? I just reached a threshold. It was a small company and there really wasn’t much room for growth. It was time to do something on my own and get to do exactly what I wanted. Where do you get the inspiration for your designs? A lot of stuff I design for myself first,

Gottlieb wearing her designs. Photo: Alexandra Wolf and people start asking if they can buy it so I add it to the line. What’s the process for making a piece of jewelry? My process starts by conceptualizing the design. I then work with my jeweler to discuss what diamond sizes

New York Cosmos chairman Rocco B. Commisso (left) poses with goalkeeper Jimmy Maurer following a practice session at Columbia University’s soccer stadium. Photo: Michael Garofalo York City,” Commisso said. “I liked to play at Hofstra, it was a fantastic stadium for us,” Savarese said. “The only thing, it was very difficult for people to get there. Now MCU Park gives you the possibility to take the subway and be there. So maybe some people that didn’t come come from the city will now have the possibility to be there.” After struggling with attendance at Hofstra, the Cosmos are hopeful that the Q train, which now connects Coney Island with the Upper

I want to use and we work together to come up with the end result. Most of my fashion designs are made overseas at my factory in Thailand, but all of my bridal designs are made in New York City on 47th Street. Do you have a favorite piece that you’ve created? I made a choker with a bow that dangles and it’s just something I’d been dreaming about forever. I’ve always been a super girly hearts-and-bows kind of person and when it finally came through it was really exciting to have that piece. What’s the most extravagant piece that you’ve ever sold? I did recently make a really beautiful choker for someone using four onecarat stones and diamonds all the way around. It was a remake of an old Tiffany piece and it was pretty amazing. Are you hoping to open a physical store or showroom ? Maybe one day. I think it will always be a second-ﬂoor operation. I wouldn’t want a true retail space, but that will be much further down the line. How do you choose which pieces to post on Instagram? I like to post things that have a story so people can understand the thought

East Side via the Second Avenue subway expansion, will draw new fans. Commisso said he hopes to sign Russian, Ukrainian, and Caribbean players to appeal to local immigrant communities. The Cosmos will play 16 matches in Brooklyn during the 2017 NASL regular season. The team is scheduled to play its ﬁrst game of the 2017 season March 25 in Puerto Rico, and will host its ﬁrst home game at MCU Park on April 1 against Miami FC.

process behind [them]. I also really like [to] ask questions so that the followers can get involved and put in their two cents. It’s about finding a balance between posting diamonds but also not isolating the people who just want to buy gift items or everyday pieces. Certainly there’s always the wow factor to keep in mind. Is there one piece of advice you’d give to anyone buying an engagement ring? It’s important to ﬁnd a jeweler who really understands your aesthetic because anybody can sell diamonds but every jeweler has their own take on a simple design. I’ve had people send my pictures to other jewelers to make copies of my rings and they come out totally differently and then they come back to me sort of embarrassed saying, “I had this ring made, I thought my jeweler could do it and they couldn’t, can you help me now?” What made you and your husband pick the Upper East Side to live? We moved there three years ago and felt like it was a good place to settle down and make a home. It’s a place where people are out walking strollers, and lots of dogs and families. It’s just a nice quiet escape in the city.

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ARTFUL WORKOUT FITNESS Within the Met Fifth Avenue’s galleries, an exercise session to a disco and Motown soundtrack BY VERENA DOBNIK

World-class art, meet sweaty aerobics. New York City’s cavernous Metropolitan Museum of Art has been holding lively morning workout sessions this winter amid its prized masterpieces. The 45-minute “Museum Workout” sends people in exercise attire chugging through 35 galleries, past paintings, sculptures, armor and other treasures, before the venerable Fifth Avenue institution opens to the public. On a recent morning, an overnight snowstorm didn’t deter any of the 15 people who’d signed up for the session. It started with a warmup: calf stretches in the museum’s grand limestone entrance and an easy jog out to the Bee Gees’ hit “Stayin’ Alive.” Then came the speedy trek through the galleries and up the preserved ornate staircase of the 19th century Chicago

stock exchange. There were squats in front of John Singer Sargent’s “Portrait of Madame X,” balancing on one leg before Henry VIII’s rigid armor, a yoga pose before a bronze nude of the Roman hunting goddess Diana, and jumping jacks inbetween, all to a soundtrack of disco and Motown hits. Why bother traveling to a Manhattan museum — some did, from Pennsylvania, Kentucky and even California — just to exercise? “This offers you amazing moments,” said participant Oliver Ryan, who runs a New York corporate wellness company. “We did our ﬁrst stretch, and there in the vast gallery was Perseus holding the head of Medusa. What hit me was this was the TV of ancient times, a frozen moment from a story everyone knew.” The Met commissioned the innovative Monica Bill Barnes Dance Company for the project. It was choreographed by the two women leading the workout — Monica Bill Barnes herself and her dance partner, Anna Bass — along with Robert Saenz de Viteri, the company’s creative producing director. Bass said the team worked “obses-

The Met commissioned the Monica Bill Barnes Dance Company to lead morning workouts at the museum. Photo: Paula Lobo sively” calculating how to keep a safe distance from the artworks. That means no wild swinging of arms or legs, and exercising a minimum of 3 feet or so from any treasure. Leading scantily clad, pumped up

bodies around the artworks “really runs against the culture of being in a museum, being quiet and being still and walking slowly,” said Barnes. “We’re in the business of making strange things,” she added with a

A 45-minute “Museum Workout” sends people in exercise attire chugging through 35 of the Met Fifth Avenue’s galleries. Photo: Paula Lobo

wry smile, “bringing dance where it doesn’t belong.” De Viteri helped guide the workout session in a vintage tuxedo and sneakers, holding a laptop attached to a speaker that channeled music and recorded narration by artist and author Maira Kalman, who selected the art and gallery route. “Something very physical happens to me when I’m in a museum. I get this rush of excitement, this kind of tingle of mad, passionate arousal,” Kalman’s recorded voice said as the group did side-stretches in front of a stern-looking bust of American founding father Benjamin Franklin. The workout ends with everyone lying on their back, eyes closed, on the ﬂoor of the Met’s luminous American wing. This yoga pose, called savasana, is meant to release tension from mind and body while absorbing the beneﬁts of the dynamic exercises. Rising over the human stillness is Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ ancient goddess — the resplendent, gilded Diana, about to release her arrow. The first sessions, from Jan. 19 through Feb. 12, were sold out months ago. The interest was so intense that more were added, through March 9, and they’re also sold out. Participants, both men and women, have ranged in age from 13 to 85. Museum officials say there are no immediate plans for a future staging of what is essentially a “performance piece” that took three years to create, with each participant movement matching music and visuals moment by moment. “The Museum Workout” was commissioned by the museum’s MetLiveArts performance series and partly funded by the Jerome Robbins Foundation and One World Fund.

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ART IS IN HIS DNA Philippe Hoerle-Guggenheim’s Chelsea gallery has exhibited graffiti art and the Stones’ guitars BY ANGELA BARBUTI

Philippe Hoerle-Guggenheim bought his first piece of art, a Picasso sketch, at just 12 years old. A native of Germany, he grew up in a family of collectors and artists and was always very intrigued by the art world. Still, he never thought he could make a career out of collecting. Hoerle-Guggenheim went on to work as a financial analyst in New York with positions at Ernst & Young and The Hyatt Corporation. “After working in finance, I learned a lot, but I understood it wasn’t for me. And then I fell, almost by chance, into an art deal,” he explained. The inaugural piece Hoerle-Guggenheim advised on was a Warhol, which ultimately served as the impetus and inspiration he needed to launch his own gallery. In 2014, the HG Contemporary Gallery opened on 23rd Street and 11th Avenue, a stone’s throw away from the High Line. When asked why he chose Chelsea for his gallery, he said, “I liked the paradox almost of having more edgy and different artwork in maybe a more conservative environment. Chelsea is the heart of the art world, really, and there are a lot of galleries that are moving to the Lower East Side and even to Brooklyn. And I liked being in a more traditional environment with more out-of-the-box artwork.” The gallery has hosted everything

Photo: Daniel Mart from graffiti by a street artist to the Rolling Stones’ hand-painted guitars. Now 35, Hoerle-Guggenheim, who has plans to open galleries in Los Angeles as well as overseas, is so committed to the artists he works with, that his home in the West Village is ﬁlled with their creations. “I actually like to collect every artist I represent. With every show that I do, I always like to buy one or two pieces for my own collection,” he said. Although Hoerle-Guggenheim shares a name and a propensity for collecting with a noted, art world family, he has but a distant connection to the Guggenheims of museum fame.

Explain your family’s connection to art. On my mother’s side, my grandmother was a very signiﬁcant collector. Her family was actually one of the biggest collectors of mostly antiques and a lot of art. At a very early stage, I was always surrounded by art. It really helped me to build an eye for it and get a sense of what looks good and a feel

for artwork in general. We also always had a lot of artists in our family. On the German side, Heinrich Hoerle, who’s fantastic painter. It was always somewhere in the DNA and our bloodline.

What have you found are the challenges of operating a gallery? You do get very passionate about a lot of artists. And I think that’s where you have to make sure you use your time and resources most efficiently. You can’t represent too many artists at the same time. It’s not fair to the artists and doesn’t work for you. I think there’s a challenge of not signing too many artists. Initially, there were some natural challenges, like in any other business, to really identify what your position in the market is and ﬁnd what’s best for you. Who do I tailor to best? What do I present them? I don’t really believe in competition within the gallery world. I believe in doing what’s best for my market and creating loyalty that way.

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There are a lot of very known collectors and also athletes, musicians. It varies. A lot of new collectors. I think there’s a whole new group of collectors that surfaced. That’s something that I’ve been focusing on a lot, but I try to advise whoever it is best, from established to new clients.

I saw you did a show on the Rolling Stones. What was it comprised of?

What have been some of your favorite or most successful exhibitions there? I had an exhibition with an artist by the name of RETNA, a famous street artist. That was very important because it was in the initial state of opening the gallery, so that really helped to make myself known. I had a great show that was probably one of the most talked-about shows called “Wall Street” by the artist Nelson Saiers. On CNBC, there was just something that came out about the show. The Observer called it “The Warhol of Wall Street.” So, it was a very successful show and someone that I picked up very early on as well. He had just

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That was a great show as well. It was a very signiﬁcant collection; I want to say one of the biggest memorabilia collections out there that’s in private hands. That really gets a lot of people excited. There were a lot of paintings by Ronnie Wood, the longtime guitarist of the Rolling Stones, painted on guitars, handwritten lyrics, set lists. The very famous Rolling Stones’ logo is the tongue, so we had one made of Coke cans. Also vintage posters, but mostly original work. To learn more, visit www.hgcontemporary. com

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