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THE POPE’S VISIT, SIX MONTHS LATER The last six months have been the most exhilarating -- and the most trying -- periods of Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s seven-year stint as the leader of New York’s 2.5 million Catholics. Last year’s visit by Pope Francis -- overseen at every step by Archbishop Dolan -- was an unqualiﬁed success for the city and the church. And it served as a welcome reprieve following months of controversy surrounding the diocese’s move to close parishes throughout New York. On the eve of the holiest part of the church calendar, Dolan talked to Editor in Chief Kyle Pope about Francis, income

inequality and what he was warned about before moving to New York.

years have passed that you can really appreciate the impact that a visit like this has had. For instance, the last papal visit prior to this one was in 2008, when Pope Benedict was here. And, last year and this year we have larger than normal ordination classes – young men who chose to answer God’s call to a priestly vocation, inspired, at least in part by Pope Benedict’s visit. So, we’ll have to see in ﬁve or so years what other changes might arise out of last year’s visit by Pope Francis. Some things, of course, were immediately obvious. So much of what Pope Francis talks about – caring for the poor and those on the margins, welcoming immigrants, extending a merciful

Last year’s visit to New York by Pope Francis generated great enthusiasm for the church, from Catholics and non-Catholics alike. What in your mind has been the most enduring legacy of that visit? I don’t think we’ll know the full effects of Pope Francis’ visit for some time. As you may know, New York has hosted more visits by a Pope than any other diocese in the country – the visit by Pope Francis was the ﬁfth time that a Pope has visited here – and those who have been involved in past visits have told me that it is only when you look back after a few

hand to those who feel alienated from the church – are things that the archdiocese has been doing, usually without any fanfare or publicity. Pope Francis allowed us to shine a spotlight on those efforts, helping us to better serve those in need. Another positive outcome was the impact that the Pope’s visit had on everyday New Yorkers, even those who weren’t able to attend any of the events with him. We’re getting close to six months since he was here, and everywhere I go, not just here in New York but around the country, people still can’t wait to tell me how moved they were by his visit, how wonderfully they thought everything went, how much they love this Pope.

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NYPD TRAINS CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAMS Head of Battery Park nonprofit long lobbied for police to institute mental health program BY EMILY TOWNER

In October of 1984, a team of city police officers tried to enforce an eviction order against a Bronx woman by the name of Eleanor Bumpurs. Following an altercation during which Bumpurs, 66 and with a history of mental illness, tried to slash an ofﬁcer with a knife, another officer ﬁred two rounds from his shotgun, killing her. In the decades since, and following several similar incidents nationwide, more than 2,000 municipalities and their police departments created socalled “crisis intervention teams”

to train officers to better respond to incidents involving emotionally disturbed people. New York City was not among them. Until 2015. That the city and its police force eventually came around to the notion of training its officers to recognize and then effectively handle potentially explosive situations involving people with psychological issues is largely due to the efforts of Steve Coe, CEO of Community Access, a Battery Park nonprofit dedicated to helping people with mental health problems. “If I’m good at anything, it’s organizing for advocacy,” Coe said recently. “When Mayor [Michael] Bloomberg’s term was up, and there was going to be a new mayor and police commissioner, we created the group, Communities

for Crisis Intervention Training.” The group had meetings, created a website and eventually drafted a position statement. “We found allies all over the place,” he said. Still, incidents involving police and the mentally disturbed kept happening, often escalating into full-blown confrontations, or worse. Coe recounts a couple as if he were there: A man’s wife is arrested after police think the husband is having a psychiatric breakdown when he’s in fact experiencing heart trouble; two innocent bystanders are shot in Times Square by police pursuing an emotionally disturbed man. “Next thing we knew, these individuals were at our press conferences. We

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Steve Coe, the CEO of the Battery Park nonproﬁt Community Access, on the steps of City Hall in February 2014 during a press conference in which he urged local and state legislators to help initiate crisis intervention teams within police departments. To his right, state Senator Kevin Parker, also an advocate for the teams. Downtowner

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is the common Arbitration Man their jurist. least folks’ hero. Or at Man has For 30 years, Arbitration court office of the civil few sat in a satellite Centre St. every building at 111 New Yorkers’ weeks and absorbed dry cleaning, burned lost accountings of fender benders, lousy paint jobs, and the like. And security deposits then he’s decided. Arbitration Man, About a year ago, so to not afwho requested anonymity started docuhe fect future proceedings, two dozen of what menting about compelling cases considers his most blog. in an eponymous about it because “I decided to write the stories but in a I was interested about it not from wanted to write from view but rather lawyer’s point of said Arbitration view,” of a lay point lawyer since 1961. Man, a practicing what’s at issue He ﬁrst writes about post, renders and then, in a separatehow he arrived his decision, detailing blog the to Visitors at his conclusion. their opinions. often weigh in with get a rap going. I to “I really want whether they unreally want to know and why I did it,” I did derstood what don’t know how to he said. “Most people ... I’d like my cases the judge thinks. and also my trereﬂect my personalitythe law.” for mendous respect 80, went into indiMan, Arbitration suc in 1985, settling vidual practice

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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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WHAT’S MAKING NEWS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD NYC ADDS RECORD NUMBER OF JOBS New York City has added nearly a quarter-of-a-million jobs since Mayor Bill de Blasio took office two years ago, the most in a two-year period for

50 years, according to The New York Times. Altogether, the city has a record 4.29 million jobs, a release from the mayor’s office said. The city added just over 100,000 new jobs during the 12-month period

ending in January, representing a 3 percent increase, higher than the national rate of 2.2 percent, the release said. Since December 2013, the strongest job gains were in the health care and social assistance ﬁelds, and in professional, scientiﬁc and

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technical services, it said. The positive job numbers contrast with the gloomy scenarios that emanated from the business sector as de Blasio and his liberal mayoral agenda swept to office in November 2013, succeeding Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire and pro-business mayor who served three terms. “There was deﬁnitely something in the ether,” The Times quoted Alicia Glen, a deputy mayor under de Blasio, and a former Goldman Sachs executive. “‘The lefties are taking over.’ ‘This is not a probusiness mayor.’ ‘They’re going to ruin the economy.’ I heard a lot of that myself.”’ With nearly six in 10 city residents employed, the share of New Yorkers with jobs is the highest it’s been in at least 40 years, The Times said. Wages, too, have increased, even if the cost of living remains high, the paper noted.

9/11 FIRST RESPONDERS TO GET COMPENSATION Officials said Tuesday that ﬁrst responders from Sept. 11 are ﬁnally getting needed

compensation checks for their ailments, DNAinfo Reported. The Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund was recently extended by Congress after pressure from survivors and elected officials, the publication reported. Full compensation is now on the way to more than 1,000 first responders. John Feal, a 9/11 recovery worker who has advocated for federal benefits for those with ailments from the Sept. 11 aftermath told DNAinfo, “In a perfect world, everyone would have already been paid. It’s been a slow and painful process, but at least the process is now starting to work.” Three years ago, survivors, recovery workers and first responders began to receive 10 percent of their full award, the publication reported. Now, 10,000 people are scheduled to be fully compensated by summer, and another 10,000 will begin getting payouts in September, DNAinfo reported.

DOWNTOWN GROUP COMMITS TO $15 WAGE The Alliance for Downtown

New York, the city’s largest business improvement district, announced that it is committing to a $15 minimum wage, DNAinfo reported. The organization said the increase is meant to support Governor Andrew Cuomo’s commitment to a $15 minimum for fast food workers and state employees, as well as Mayor Bill de Blasio’s $15 commitment for municipal workers, the publication reported. The organization’s security guards, sanitation workers, as well as other hourly paid staff will be making the $15 rate by the end of 2018, DNAinfo reported. The higher income will be phased over the next two years. The mayor praised the new wage and in a statement said, “Nothing does more to lift up working families, and our economy, than boosting wages. Now, the Downtown Alliance is setting an example that we hope employers across the city will follow – and that will continue to build momentum toward the State and federal action we need,” DNAinfo reported.

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG

FORMER NYPD OFFICER DIES IN TEXAS GUNFIGHT A Texas police officer who died after a gunfight had moved from New York City to the Dallas area because he wanted to be somewhere safer, his mother says. Officer David Hofer, 29, died Tuesday during surgery following a gunfight with an armed suspect in a park near a Dallas-area school. A 2008 graduate of New York University, Hofer served in the New York Police Department for five years before coming to Euless in 2014, Police Chief Mike Brown said.

The New York Post reported Hofer, the son of European immigrants, formerly worked in the 9th Precinct on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. “He was wonderful child, a wonderful police officer,” his mother, Sofija Hofer, told the newspaper. “He was working this very difficult precinct, so he had a lot of traumatic experiences. ... He decided to go to a safer place.”

SOCKED A woman didn’t have a chance to spend her income tax refund before a thief grabbed it. At noon on Feb. 24, a 44-yearold woman entered the Yip’s restaurant at 18 Beaver St. When she went to the register to pay for her meal, she reached into her jacket pocket and removed a black sock containing $3,800 in cash from her IRS refund. She placed the sock on the counter and reached further into her coat pocket to remove loose cash to pay for the food. She then left the restaurant, heading for the subway. About 20 minutes after exiting Yip’s, she realized that she had left her money at the counter. She returned to

the eatery and discovered that her cash was now missing. A police officer responding to her report viewed the restaurant surveillance footage and spotted her sock lying on the ﬂoor when an unknown woman wearing a yellow poncho picked it up, discovered the money inside, and gave it to the cashier before leaving the location. Two minutes later, a man wearing a tan jacket and blue jeans was seen approaching the cashier and receiving the money-ﬁlled sock from the cashier before he left the location. The restaurant manager told police that the man seen in the video is a daily customer and the manager would assist the police in locating him.

DIRE WIRE A rare car buyer got hacked out of a considerable amount of money. A 36-year-old downtown resident agreed on Feb. 15 to buy a car from a Las Vegas broker for $750,000, with a friend living overseas contributing $200,000 toward the purchase. The friend, based in France, contacted the buyer, advising him that his email account had been hacked and

he should contact his bank. The buyer did so but discovered that his funds had already been withdrawn. The friend informed the buyer that his funds had never made it to the broker in Las Vegas and that the broker’s account had a different number from the one in the forwarded e-mail. Authorities are investigating the matter.

OFFENDIED A stylish shoplifter helped herself to a pricey handbag. On the evening of Feb. 26, a woman entered the Kirna Zabête clothing boutique at 477 Broome St. and removed a Fendi Python handbag valued at $5,700 from the cash wrap table. A shop employee told police that the woman had visited the location many times before, always inquiring about expensive handbags. On the day of the theft, the woman was wearing a black wool poncho with fur ends and carrying a handbag and scarf with a fur stole.

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STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 1st Precinct for Feb. 22 to Feb. 28 Week to Date 2016 2015

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IS THE LUXURY MARKET SLOWING DOWN? NEWS Concerns about a glut at the very high end BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS

The Bauhouse Group’s 900foot condo project on Sutton Place is the latest luxury residential development to suffer from a lack of funding, as investors are increasingly wary of financing projects at the top end of the market due to a surplus in inventory and a tepid outlook on whether affluent buyers will materialize down the road. News of the 80-story, 260,000 square foot proposal broke last April, and sent the comparatively squat and sleepy Sutton Place neighborhood into a panic. Community Board 6 voiced its objections, and Councilmember Ben Kallos came out strongly against the building’s height and social implications. But it wasn’t just community opposition working against Bauhouse principal Joseph Beninati. Michael Stoler, a managing partner at the investment firm Madison Realty Capital, said Beninati’s background also played a role. Antares Investment Partners, the firm Beninati co-founded with a prep school classmate that at one point boasted $6 billion in assets, was accused of overleveraging investor capital. Beninati and his partner, James Cabrera, were sued for millions after the firm’s collapse, and Antares was stripped of most of its assets in the late-aughts. A representative for Beninati and the Bauhouse Group did not return a request for comment by press time. Stoler also spoke to the Real Deal newspaper last month about a noticeable decrease in high-end apartment sales, which highlighted market data that said the average number of days for-sale apartments in new developments spent on the market increased 47 percent between the end of 2014 and the end of last year. “Everyone’s a little worried,” Stoler told TRD. “With anything at $2,500 [per square

foot] or more, lenders are very cautious.” Stoler told this newspaper that Beninati’s project – dubbed Three Sutton Place - was well above that $2,500 market threshold and that the developer set his expectations too high. “In general high end luxury condo financing is currently only available [to] experienced, well capitalized borrowers,” he said. “In addition, the project on Sutton Place was for condos selling for more than $3,000 per square foot. The project might have taken place for another developer expecting lower prices per square foot.” In January the Bauhouse entity overseeing the Sutton Place project, at 426-432 East 58th Street, defaulted on a $147 million loan from Gamma Real Estate, who as a result sought last month to foreclose on the site. To forestall that action, BH Sutton Mezz LLC ﬁled for bankruptcy late last month, and the project remains in real estate purgatory pending further action from Gamma.

But Bauhouse isn’t the only developer in Manhattan struggling to finance a development. TRD pointed out others that have been put on hold pending an infusion of cash, including the condo conversion of the Park Lane Hotel on Central Park South, HFZ Capital Group’s need for $250 million in financing for a High Line condo project, and Michael Shvo and Howard Lorber’s $500 million ask for their New Valley project on Greenwich Street. Gary Barnett’s Extell Development has yet to announce financing for his Central Park Tower project at 217 West 57th Street. “There is a stall in the luxury market with too much product already,” said Phillia Kim Downs, a luxury real estate broker with Brick and Mortar. “Real sellers are slashing prices across the board to compete with all the new developments out there.” Downs said there was low inventory in the high-end market in 2013 and 2014, “but times have definitely changed.” Kallos said Beninati’s failure

to secure funding is evidence that a 64-story luxury condo tower on Sutton Place is a bad idea, and touted the community’s effort – crowned by a zoning amendment application - to stop the project. “Our opposition was pivotal,” said Kallos. “If you look at superscrapers that didn’t face community opposition they’re moving forward and their moving quickly.” He mentioned specifically 180 East 88th Street, a 521-foot residential tower currently underway at Third Avenue. “If I was able to mobilize the community at 88th Street and Third Avenue, I’m hopeful that we could’ve seen a similar result,” said Kallos, who credits the zoning application with helping to pump the brakes on Three Sutton Place. “There’s little hope they can move forward before we change the zoning,” he said. The application, introduced in January with Councilmember Dan Garodnick and endorsed by other officials like Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, would cap buildings from East 52nd Street to East 59th Street, east of First Avenue, at 260 feet. The plan awaits certification by the City Planning Commission. Kallos also acknowledged that market conditions play a part, and that the fight isn’t over. He’s focused now on getting the zoning change passed to preserve contextual zoning and affordable housing on Sutton Place, and rolling the tactic out to other parts of his district and the city. “I’m glad investors throughout the city, state, country and world acknowledged that this is not a good investment and as a result they could not move forward with the project,” he added. Still, Stoller said, the Sutton Place assemblage is an attractive enough site that a developer will eventually bite. “Someone will take over the development,” he said. “It might not be as luxury but it’s a good development site.”

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EVE, AGAIN Welcome to the second installment of our firstever serialized novel. If you missed Chapter 1, you can find it on the web, at www. otdowntown.com BY ESTHER COHEN

Eve had the kind of beauty you know you’ll remember forever. Some faces just fade, minutes after you see them, and then there are others, those faces that hold something unexpected, something you’ve just never seen before. Like wonder. Or tragedy. Or deep surprise. When I saw Eve the ﬁrst time, we were both in a college class – it could have been Milton, it

Illustration by John S. Winkleman could have been Keats – that’s how much I paid attention. She was across the room, looking out the window as though she could see something the rest of us just could not. We lived in the same mega-

dorm where people crammed into every cranny, and there, we became friends, inseparable for a while. We both had the Living in New York idea. She grew up in a small town in the south,

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Much attention has been paid to income inequality in the city, and to the effects of rising rents on those at the lower end of the income scale. Of the myriad social and economic issues we all face at the moment -- income inequality, racial tensions, global warming, etc - what is the issue that you hear about from Catholics in New York that you think is underreported or underappreciated?

It’s hard to pick out one moment. The Holy Father was here in New York only for about 36 hours or so, but his time here was incredibly fruitful. Evening Prayer at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral on Thursday evening, a visit to the United Nations and the 9/11 Memorial and Museum on Friday morning, meeting with school children, an encounter with immigrants, a motorcade through Central Park on Friday afternoon, and, of course, the Mass at Madison Square Garden Friday evening. That’s a schedule that would be taxing for a man half his age. It’s hard to put anything above the celebration of the Mass. It’s the greatest prayer we have, and to pray it with the Vicar of Christ is always extraordinarily special. But then I remember the look of happiness on the Pope’s face when he was taking selﬁes with the school kids outside Our Lady Queen of Angels school, or the mix of disbelief and joy during that raucous, exuberant, deafening reception as he made his way through Central Park, or the powerful, moving moments as we stood at the Reﬂecting Pool at the 9/11 Memorial, and greeted members of the 9/11 community, and I honestly can’t say which moment touched me the most. Nor can I forget the helicopter ride with him out to JFK airport for his departure, and his request to circle the Statue of Liberty. I will say, though, that the entire trip was slightly unreal, that a kid from Ballwin, Missouri would be escorting the Successor of Saint Peter through-

Building and sustaining affordable housing is very important for our city. We’ve been working with the mayor and his staff, and the City Council, the borough presidents, the governor, and many others to ﬁnd sites that could be used for the construction of affordable housing. The church in general, and the archdiocese in particular, have many years experience building and managing affordable housing; look, for example, at the Highbridge section of the Bronx, where the archdiocese has helped transform that neighborhood, and provided not only good apartments and private homes, but also brought the many services – like access to health care – that brings stability and a sense of community. One of my favorite responsibilities as Archbishop of New York is to visit our parishes and schools, and it’s something I try to do as often as I can. In a typical month, I get to more than a dozen parishes; it was 13 in February alone, either for Mass, a prayer service, a school visit, or celebration. While I’m there, people generally do the same things: 1. Ask if they can take a picture with me! Cameras in your smartphone means everyone wants a picture – and I’m flattered

NoWhereville, she called it. I was from the same kind of place, a New England factory town with a thin crooked river dividing the town in two. After graduation, we each found our apartment, a sixth ﬂoor walk-

up in a building where more than one of the inhabitants juggled. More people juggled then. Our apartment was small, but there was a couch, one of those deep velvet Goodwill

couches that many people had, where visitors lived for weeks on end. Eve was an only child. Her mother was a southern lady who’d call each morning and ask her the same question: How are you, honey? She meant ‘Are You Married Yet?’ After her first futile fiancé, Eve decided she’d get a job while she studied acting. One week in class she was even Blanche DuBois. Her first job was selling Lancome perfume and makeup on Bloomingdale’s first floor. The first floor is always a party, and everyone who walks through is invited. That idea suited Eve. So did the free bags and many samples. Before long we had a lifetime supply. On the perfume floor, handing out her samples, wearing a dress that made her look like Good Witch Glenda, an adult version of a tutu really, she met Contender Number Two, a man named Barry.

correct decisions, and that after a period of adjustment, people will come to realize that the archdiocese and its parishes are stronger now than they were before.

You serve a huge and diverse group of people. What are the threads of commonality that have surprised you about Catholics in New York?

and happy to oblige. 2. Tell me how much they love Pope Francis. Not a surprise. 3. Bring up something personal or about their local situation – for instance, can I make an exception and allow their pastor to stay beyond the normal 12-year term limit, or can I bless their rosary for them. Rare is the time when someone will bring up an “issue” that they want to discuss.

We continue to hear from parishioners working to save churches targeted for closure by the diocese. Is this an issue you consider still open for review? The goal has always been to make sure that our parishes are located where they are needed, that our parishes are as strong and vibrant communities of faith as possible, and that our parishes become as sustainable as possible. We knew two things when we started. The ﬁrst was something needed to be done. In some parts of the archdiocese we had more parishes than were needed, and keeping them all open was not a good use of our resources, including the resource of our priests; in other parts of the archdio-

cese, we needed to expand and grow, as population changes over the past 100 years meant that areas which were once sparsely populated were now thriving communities. The status quo just wasn’t going to work. Second, we knew that no matter what we did, no matter how much local input we received, no matter how much consultation and discussion we held, there would be people who would be upset with the decisions that were reached. It’s understandable that some people are upset that their parish has had to merge with another parish, and that the church building which they loved would no longer be available to them. But, more importantly, I would hope that people would see that the Church is not about a building, our parishes are not museums, and that the archdiocese is as committed as it ever has been to meeting the pastoral, spiritual, and religious needs of our people, even if it is in a new conﬁguration. The decisions we made were painful, both for the people and for me personally, but I believe that they were the

I’m from the midwest, as you know. I was born and grew up in the suburbs of Saint Louis, and immediately prior to coming to New York I was the Archbishop of Milwaukee for nearly seven happy years. When news of my appointment to New York was announced, many of my well-meaning friends called to warn me: New York, they said, is a cold, impersonal, secular, big city, where religion and faith are exiled. Well, I arrived in April of 2009, and I’ve quickly found that nothing could be farther from the truth. I’ve been impressed by the thriving faith of so many here – Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Protestant, Evangelical. Faith is very much alive here. And the people are as warm and gracious and welcoming as anywhere I’ve ever lived. The same is true of the Catholic people in New York. They’re really no different than the Catholics I knew in St. Louis, Milwaukee, or Rome, or anywhere else I’ve lived and served. Sure, Catholics here root for the Yankees or Mets, not the Cardinals or Brewers, but we all believe the same things, we celebrate the same Mass, and love and support the same Pope in Rome. It’s one of the reasons that I instantly felt at home here.

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CRISIS INTERVENTION CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 gained a lot of traction that way,” Coe said. Their efforts paid off and during his first year in office, Mayor Bill de Blasio set up a task force to look at the mental health and criminal justice system in the city. Last June, the police department started training their first class of officers in crisis intervention. “A weeklong training with thousands of officers really changes the culture of the squad room and the precinct,” Coe said. “A 911 call is often the first point of intervention for someone with a mental illness.”

TRAINING IS A ‘CRUCIAL’ ASPECT Eugene O’Donnell, a former city police officer and prosecutor and now a lecturer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said cops deal with mentally ill people as a matter of course. Any training toward that end

is therefore imperative. “The reality is that anything that allows you to compose yourself and get a thought in before you act is wonderful. When I was on the job, we had a very minimal amount of information,” O’Donnell said, adding that police work has been “in the dark ages” about mental illness. “It’s hard to find a more important area of police work,” he said, particularly since “a high percentage of police killings involve the mentally ill.” A so-called illness model is and should be a large component of policing, he said. “You calibrate your approach completely different to someone is having an illness beyond their control. The challenge for the cops is, they are law enforcers not caregivers, but they have to wear both hats. Some can only wear the enforcer hat well, and not the caregiver. The more you know the more balanced you are as a cop, and you can put on the caregiver hat when you need.” Michael Woody, the president

of CIT International, a nonprofit that facilitates the implementation of crisis intervention programs, said training is crucial since police are usually ﬁrst on the scene of an incident involving the mentally ill. “Law enforcement are often the first responders to a mental health crises, because we don’t have many institutions anymore, and they are all underfunded,” said Woody, whose organization is based in Memphis, one of the ﬁrst cities to create a crisis intervention team within its police department, and from which New York would eventually borrow expertise. “The average policeman is the gatekeeper. They could take the person to jail and charge them with a small crime, or they can take them to get the help they really need, because mental illness is a medical issue, not a criminal one.” Coe said that injuries involving police and people with mental health issues “drops dramatically” following the implementation of crisis inter-

vention programs. “These individuals’ outcomes improve as we divert them away from the criminal justice system,” he said. “Do these people belong in a courtroom? Should they be charged for a crime? Or can we have them go into a treatment program and report back to a judge.” Crisis intervention, he said, saves money and saves lives. “When [de Blasio and police Commissioner Bill Bratton] came in, we made sure they had the information in their hands based on what works,” Coe said. The next phase is to create diversion centers, staffed by peers and professionals, where police officers could take nonviolent individuals suffering from psychiatric conditions rather than ferrying them off to hospitals or jails. “I think that an interdisciplinary team is essential. We can’t expect the police to do this on their own,” said Emily Goldmann, an assistant professor at New York University’s College of Global Public Health.

“It’s not necessarily that police are trying to act in an aggressive way,” said Goldmann, a former epidemiologist with the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. “It is a lack of knowledge in what to do and how to de-escalate the situation. You can’t talk someone out of a [psychiatric episode] in the same way as someone who doesn’t have mental illness.”

COE HONORED Under Coe’s leadership, Community Access became one of the first city agencies to embrace mental health consumers — known as “peers” — as members of its workforce, more than 20 years ago. The agency’s goal is that 51 percent of staff should be mental health consumers. “In the peer-training program, we think of a mental health history as an advantage. We build on their understanding, teach them how to write case notes, conduct interviews, and prepare them to work in the ﬁeld,” Coe said. “We want to take the experience of being

in the mental health system and make it a qualification.” Community Access has a mission is to expand opportunities for people living with mental health concerns to recover from trauma and discrimination through affordable housing, training, advocacy and healing-focused services. Each year, Community Access programs help over 10,000 New Yorkers who connect with the organization. Coe was honored for this advocacy work this week at the National Council Conference in Las Vegas, where he was be presented with the Council’s Behavioral Health’s Individual Achievement in Advocacy award. He will be given $10,000 to donate to the nonprofit organization of his choice. Coe said he would give his prize money to Community Access as a way to acknowledge and express gratitude to his colleagues at the nonprofit. “I share this recognition with all of them,” he said.

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THE TRAIN SERVING ‘LADIES MILE’ The 6th Avenue El attracted both artists and controversy

MAYOR TO MARCH IN ST. PAT’S PARADE NEWS Participation ends a two-year boycott BY JONATHAN LEMIRE

Mayor Bill de Blasio is ending a two-year boycott of the nation’s largest St. Patrick’s Day parade now that it has fully dropped its longstanding ban on allowing gay and lesbian groups to march under their own banners. De Blasio, a ﬁrst-term Democrat, told The Associated Press that for the first time he will take part in the parade along Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17. He skipped the parade in 2014, when no gay groups were allowed to openly march, and he skipped again last year, when only one small lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender group was permitted. “The St. Patrick’s Day Parade is a New York City tradition, but for years Irish LGBT New Yorkers could not show their pride,” de Blasio told the AP. “Finally, they can celebrate their heritage by marching in a parade that now represents progress and equality.” This year, more than 300 people will march under the banner of the Lavender and Green Alliance, an Irish LGBT group that had worked for 25 years to reverse the ban and, when those efforts stalled, founded a competing parade, called St. Patrick’s For All, which marches every year in Queens and allows all groups to participate. “Our hearts will be dancing,”

said Brendan Fay, the head of the group. Fay gave credit to de Blasio, who was the first mayor in more than 20 years to refuse to participate in the Manhattan parade, saying his boycott put pressure on the parade’s organizers to change their policies. A year ago, organizers allowed OUT(at)NBCUniversal, a gay organization at NBC, which televises the festivities, to participate, but de Blasio and several other elected officials said that wasn’t enough and continued to abstain from participating in the 255-year-old march. “It wasn’t truly inclusive until it included an Irish gay group,” sa id Cou ncilma n Da n iel Dromm, a Democratic member of the City Council’s Irish and LGBT caucuses. “This allows us to express, in full, who we really are. When you’ve been excluded for something for so long, when you ﬁnally realize your dream is coming true, it’s very emotional.” Dromm will be joined by several members of the City Council, including its speaker, Melissa Mark-Viverito, a Democrat who also boycotted the last two years. Aides to de Blasio said he would march in the ﬁrst portion of the parade with police officers, firefighters and other members of the city’s uniformed services and then spend some of the parade under the Lavendar and Green Alliance’s banner. It’s customary for the groups marching, some of whom have been participating for decades, to proceed in the same order, with new groups relegated to

the end. But parade organizers said the new gay group would not be placed at the end of the lineup. “We want this to be our most inclusive parade ever,” said John Lahey, chairman of the parade. “We hope that it will bring New Yorkers from all backgrounds together in a way that maybe our previous parades didn’t.” Lahey, who also is the president of Quinnipiac University, said that no groups dropped out this year after the decision to include the gay organizations, though some had complained the previous year when OUT(at)NBCUniversal was allowed. But some longtime parade participants condemned the changes. “The mayor is a disgrace who bullied everyone to having the type of parade that he wanted,” said Bill Donohue, of the Catholic League, who stopped marching a year ago over the decision to allow LGBT banners. “They are making this just an Irish parade, not a Catholic parade. It’s contemptible.” This year’s parade, which will mark the 100th anniversary of an insurrection that led to Ireland’s independence, will feature former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell as grand marshal. Mitchell, a Democrat and a primary architect of 1998’s Good Friday peace agreement in Northern Ireland, had told organizers he would not participate if LGBT groups were not permitted.

BY RAANAN GEBERER

The Sixth Avenue El was constructed in the late 1870s by the Gilbert Elevated Railway, which was soon reorganized as the Metropolitan Elevated Railway. By 1878, it was running from Rector Street to 58th Street. Soon, it, along with the other three Manhattan “els,” was taken over by the Manhattan Railway Company. The company then built a connection by which it turned west on 53rd Street, then merged with the 9th Avenue El—paralleling the present-day route of the 6th Avenue subway. The 58th Street station was kept as a “stub” terminal, In 1903, the els were acquired by Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT), which was then building the city’s ﬁrst subway, according to the Encyclopedia of New York City. During its existence, the Sixth Avenue El served the “Ladies Mile” shops (including the Siegel-Cooper emporium, whose building now houses Bed, Bath and Beyond), the Jefferson Market Courthouse (now a library), the 42nd Street Library a block away on Fifth Avenue, Gimbels and Central Park. Because the el served highproﬁle locations, it attracted the attention of artists. The most famous of these was probably John French Sloan, whose 1928 “The Sixth Avenue El at Third Street” is at the Whitney. On its website, the museum says of the painting: “John Sloan encapsulates the excitement and energy of New York City nightlife in the late 1920s. He focuses primary on a group of young women scattering before an on-coming car as the elevated train lumbers over their heads … Their bobbed hair and kneelength skirts—the latest in fashion—convey new-found freedoms for women.”

Sixth Avenue El at West 25th Street & 6th Avenue. Photo courtesy New York Transit Museum While the el may have conveyed a sense of excitement, it was sometimes dangerous to ride. It used 19th century wooden cars with open platforms, enclosed by gates, at each end. A look at issues of the New York Times from the first few decades of the 20th century shows a fair number of rear-end collisions, de-railings and fires. The old cars were eventually electrified, and some were retrofitted with sliding doors and enclosed vestibules, but they weren’t replaced. The 1870sera el structure couldn’t take the weight of the newer steel subway cars. Fairly early, prominent voices began clamoring for the el’s demolition. George McAneny, a progressive reformer who served at head of the state’s Transit Commission, told the Times in November 1923, “[A group of businessmen] complained that 6th Avenue, situated as it is near an important thoroughfare such as 5th Avenue, is handicapped in business and in traffic, and its realty development held back by the elevated road.”

Among the groups seeking the el’s removal were the 6th Avenue Association, the 34th Street Midtown Association, the 5th Avenue Association and even the 8th Avenue Association. In 1924, opponents succeeded in having the IRT tear down the short spur to 58th Street, and nearby residents and businesses celebrated with a giant block party. The campaign against the 6th Avenue el reached a crescendo in 1929-31. The IRT fought the movement, contending that the el still turned a proﬁt and that nearby building owners would have to pay part of the cost of removal in the form of higher taxes. The Transit Commission ﬁnally decided in 1931 to postpone demolition until the planned 6th Avenue Subway was completed. Later in the decade, however, experts determined that the el had to be removed to expedite subway construction. In 1938, the city bought the el for $12.5 million (of which the city recovered the majority in back taxes and interest). Demolition began in December of that year.

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CUT PLASTIC BAG USE OP-ED City Council bill would impose a 10-cent surcharge — and act as an incentive

lution. Plastic bags clog storm drains, exacerbating flooding and sewage discharge, and cause urban blight when they wind up in trees and wash up on beaches.

What We Can Do BY JACQUELYN A. OTTMAN

THE NEIGHBOR NEXT DOOR BY MELITTA ANDERMAN

Love Thy Neighbor? It’s said that you can’t choose your family, only friends. But what about picking neighbors? The question of who lives next to you seems to have slipped through the donut hole and landed in a no man’s land of discarded humans who have given up the ﬁght (or right) to get rid of beastly neighbors. Apartment living is a dicey scale of ups and downs. What’s the most important decision to be made when selecting an apartment? Of course, it’s location, size of rooms, layout and affordability. How many of us check our neighbors as part of the package? If possible, I’d like to interview the people living above me and next door. I would arrange a little soirée, send out invitations, titled “Getting to Know You.” The person invited should bring a personal resume citing their mental stability, prior arrests and all odds and ends of their lives. Watch for professional musicians who practice at home, toddlers who don’t sleep and parents who are walking zombies, people who don’t follow house rules and believe that leaving bikes, shoes, umbrellas outside the door is a territorial right (this is dangerous as it can lead to internal warfare). One of the worst offenders are the hoarders. They are secretive , never open their door and if you ring the bell, a head pops out. They don’t want anyone to see inside. Should you catch a peek, you may regret it as a permanent nasal congestion (due to odor) could be your fate. What is one to do? I love the apartment I’m investigating. But my fear of who lives to my right, left and above is casting a shadow . Can I take a chance that I will survive my neighbors? Is there any help for me? Anyone?

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Every time I see a plastic shopping bag blowing down a sidewalk, I make the effort to pick it up and bring it to the trash or recycling. That’s because here in New York City, plastic bags can wind up in a river, and eventually, the ocean where they can kill ﬁsh, birds, turtles. This horriﬁes me. And the numbers do, too. Each year, New Yorkers use 5.2 billion plastic carry-out bags, and many of them end up as pol-

If this horriﬁes you too, you can now do something about it. Go to bagitnyc.org and let the mayor and our city councilmembers know you support Intro 2092014, legislation that would impose a 10-cent fee on supermarket bags among other things, to get New Yorkers to think twice about taking a bag. It will incentivize shoppers to bring their own reusable bags and can raise consumer awareness about other mindful shopping habits. In

Washington, D.C., where a similar law is on the books, plastic bag usage dropped 60 percent. In San Jose, California, plastic bag litter was cut by a whopping 89 percent, and the average number of plastic shopping bags decreased from 3 bags to 0.3 bags per visit.

Opportunity to Make a Difference Think of the difference it would make if we could reduce plastic bag usage in New York! In addition to the environmental beneﬁts, it would take a big bite out of the $12 million the city spends annually to dispose of bags in landﬁlls. As the largest city in the world with a fee on plastic bags, it would set an example for many

other cities as well.

Let’s Get This Bill Passed by Earth Day We missed our opportunity last year, but we can still make it happen in 2016. Contact your council member — via bagitnyc.org/contact-your-council-member/ — to voice your support for Intro 209 to impose a 10-cent fee on plastic shopping bags! Make a telephone call, send an email from this website or send a letter or personal email. Jacquelyn A. Ottman is a green marketing pioneer and author, zero waste advocate and founder of WeHateToWaste.com

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A RENAISSANCE AT LINCOLN SQUARE A rebuilt stage at the West Side neighborhood center will inaugurate new arts programming BY MELODY CHAN

The stage in the auditorium of Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center, a multigenerational cultural hub on West 65th Street, will again hold performances after more than two years of languishing in a state of disrepair. The community center, which mostly serves tenants of the nearby Amsterdam Houses public housing complex, received a $50,000 donation from Lowe’s to restore a moldy and unstable platform into a new black hardwood ﬂoor of professional performance venue quality. With a working stage once again in place, the center hopes to begin a community arts program that will bring artists and shows to the neighborhood for free. “This is a neighborhood where lots of artists live but they don’t have a place to perform, so this could become an incredible gathering place for the arts,” said Susan MatloffNieves, executive director of Lincoln Square. She’s hoping to turn the auditorium into a performance venue that showcases different types of art, music and dance for a community that would often be hard pressed to pay for shows at even neighboring Lincoln Center, just two blocks away and home to the Metropolitan Opera, LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and The Juilliard School. “Lincoln Center is a hub of music and theater and activity and there’s a tremendous economic divide between those that go to Lincoln Center and right across the street, where the median income is $25,000 and below,” said Stephan Russo, director of the Goddard Riverside Center, the parent company of Lincoln Square. “So the goal would be able to bring quality arts program into the center and make them available and accessible.” What makes the venue unique

Kathleen Matos, the vice president of the Amsterdam Addition Tenant Association; Patricia Ryan, the association’s president; and Janice Sweeting, of the Lincoln Square Board of Directors, on the restored stage at the Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center on West 65th Street. Photo: Melody Chan

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Proposed Second Avenue Subway Phase 1 Service Plan The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) proposes restoration of W service and revisions to N and Q service in connection with the opening of Phase I of the Second Avenue Subway, expected to be completed in late 2016. The new line will run under 2nd Avenue from 96th Street to 72nd Street, serving new stations at 96th Street, 86th Street and 72nd Street. South of 72nd Street, the line will curve west, connecting to the existing 63rd Street line and serving Lexington Av/63 St Station, where a cross-platform transfer to the F will be possible. West of the Lexington Av/63 St Station, the new service would connect to the Broadway line express tracks at the 57 St-7 Av Station and continue south. The proposal would provide service on the new Second Avenue line via a rerouted Q service. W service between Queens and lower Manhattan, which was eliminated as part of the 2010 Service Reductions, would be restored to replace Q service in Astoria; the W would operate local in Manhattan, terminating at Whitehall St. N service would operate express in Manhattan between Canal St and 34 St-Herald Sq. Further descriptions of the proposed changes are outlined below:

N Astoria/Broadway Express/ Fourth Avenue Express/Sea Beach N service would continue to operate between Astoria-Ditmars Blvd and Coney IslandStillwell Av at all times. However, during rush hours, middays, and evenings, N service would operate on the express tracks rather than the local tracks in Manhattan south of 42 St-Times Sq. During these times, the N would make the following stops in Manhattan: Lexington Av/59 St, 5 Av/59 St, 57 St-7 Av, 49 St, Times Sq-42 St, 34 St-Herald Sq, 14 StUnion Sq, and Canal St. Late nights and weekends, N service would remain unchanged from current service patterns.

Q Second Avenue/Broadway Express/ Brighton Local Q service would be rerouted from the Astoria line to the 63rd Street line (via existing tracks under Central Park that connect to the Broadway express tracks and that are not currently used for passenger service) and the new Second Avenue line, terminating at 96 St and Second Avenue in Manhattan. Q service would operate between 96 St and Coney IslandStillwell Av at all times. In Manhattan, Q service would operate on the Second Avenue, 63rd Street, and Broadway express lines (except late nights), stopping at 96 St, 86 St, 72 St, Lexington Av/63 St, 57 St-7 Av, Times Sq-42 St, 34 St-Herald Sq, 14 St-Union Sq, and Canal St. Late nights, the Q would run local between 96 St and Coney Island-Stillwell Av via the Manhattan Bridge. Q service in Brooklyn would remain unchanged.

W Astoria/Broadway Local

To replace weekday Q service in Queens, W service would be restored between Whitehall St and Astoria-Ditmars Blvd, operating on the Astoria and Broadway local lines, making all stops.

R Queens Boulevard Local/Broadway Local/ Fourth Avenue Local The restored stage at the Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center on West 65th Street. Photo: Melody Chan is the versatility of the space: there are two openings to the stage, one into an auditorium, and the other to the outside. In that way, the house will be able to host both indoor and outdoor performances. Last June, Lincoln Square merged with Goddard Riverside, a community center on Columbus Avenue, in an effort to continue getting the resources and funding needed to run its programs. Goddard Riverside has a much larger budget and community base than Lincoln Square so the merger was able to provide the smaller center with the support needed to continue and build upon its existing programs. Lincoln Square has been serving residents in the community for about 60 years and is used regularly by about 1,000 residents. Programs there are for participants under 25 years of age or over 65 and include a senior center that provides a daily hot

lunch, a daycare program and a series of afterschool extracurricular classes, all for little to no cost. Many in the community have lived at the complex for decades, helping to establish strong connections among neighbors and fellow tenants. Patricia Ryan, president of the tenant association at the Amsterdam Addition, has lived at the development her whole life and knows almost everybody who lives in the development. She’s watched Lincoln Square grow and support her fellow seniors with free programs and a gathering space. She’s looking forward to the center’s newest addition. “It’s been a long time coming,” she said of the new stage and what it promises. “What I’d like to do personally is just get up there and say ‘Ahhh’, just feel the ﬂoor, I need to do that to know that we are back, it’s back,” she said.

R service would remain unchanged.

Date, Time and Place of the Hearing Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 2 Broadway 20th Floor Hearing begins at 5 p.m. Registration is from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Directions By Subway: Take the 4 5 to Bowling Green, R to Whitehall St, or 1 to South Ferry or R to Rector Street. By Bus: Take the M5, M15 (local or SBS), M20, X1 or X10. By Staten Island Ferry: Take the Staten Island Ferry to Whitehall Terminal. Those wishing to be heard must register in advance either by telephone, by calling (646) 252-6777, on the MTA website at www.mta.info, or in person at the hearing. Hearing impaired customers should call 711 for relay services and then ask to be connected to the telephone number listed above to speak with an agent. Verbal presentations will be limited to three (3) minutes. You may present verbal testimony or submit written statements in lieu of, or to supplement, oral testimony concerning the proposed service plan. Email comments will be accepted and information is provided on the MTA website at www.mta.info. All written statements must be submitted by April 14, 2016. Comments received after that date and time will not be considered.

Accessibility And Interpreter Services The hearing has been scheduled at a location that is accessible to people with mobility impairment. Sign language and/or foreign language interpreters will be available upon request by calling (646) 252-6777 no later than March 31, 2016.

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Thu 10 Fri 11 Downtowner NOTICE TO PERSONS WHO MAY HAVE SUFFERED FROM INADEQUATE ACCESSIBLE FEATURES AT LIBERTY PLAZA AND OTHER RENTAL BUILDINGS

ORGAN CONCERT

CIRCLE OF DANCE

Marble Collegiate Church, 1 West 29th St. 7:30 p.m. $20; students/ seniors, $15 Richard Elliott, principal organist of The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, one of the nation’s most renowned musical institutions, gives a concert celebrating the recent installation in the church’s sanctuary of a new pipe organ. www.marblechurch.org

The National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Circle of Dance is a ﬁve-year exhibition that presents Native dance as a vibrant, meaningful, and diverse form of cultural expression www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/ circleofdance

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Mar 12 ‘THE CAT IN THE HAT’ BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St. 1:20 p.m.-2:30 p.m. $25 With some tricks (and a ﬁsh) and Thing Two and Thing One, with the Cat in The Hat, the fun’s never done! Ages 3 and up. 212-220-1460. www. tribecapac.org/the-cat-in-thehat-family-mar-12/

On February 11, 2016, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a consent decree resolving a lawsuit brought by the United States Department of Justice against certain builders and developers alleging that they failed to include certain accessible features for persons with disabilities required by the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. § 3604(f)(3)(c), in the design and construction of Liberty Plaza. Under this consent decree, a person may be entitled to receive monetary relief if, in relation to any of the properties identified below, he or she: E WAS DISCOURAGED FROM LIVING AT THAT PROPERTY BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF ACCESSIBLE FEATURES; E HAS BEEN HURT IN ANY WAY BY THE LACK OF ACCESSIBLE FEATURES AT THAT PROPERTY; E PAID TO HAVE AN APARTMENT AT THAT PROPERTY MADE MORE ACCESSIBLE TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES; OR E WAS OTHERWISE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST ON THE BASIS OF DISABILITY AT THAT PROPERTY. The properties relevant to this notice are:

E LIBERTY PLAZA

E THE GRAND TIER

E BRITTANY

E BARCLAY TOWER

E PARAMOUNT TOWER

E EMERALD GREEN

If you wish to make a claim for discrimination on the basis of disability, or if you have any information about persons who may have such a claim, please contact the United States Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York at 212-637-2800. You may also fax us at 212-637-2702 or write to: United States Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York Attn: Civil Rights Unit 86 Chambers Street New York, New York 10007 NOTE: You must call or write no later than February 11, 2019.

‘WOLF IN THE RIVER’

JAYME STONE’S LOMAX PROJECT

ANA GASTEYER: I’M HIP ▲

The Flea Theater, 41 White St. 7 p.m. $20-$80 Adam Rapp explores love and neglect, the challenges of poverty, the dangerous cost of shiftlessness, the simple notion of leaving a place behind, and the value of a girl. www.theﬂea.org

BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St. 8 p.m.-9:30 p.m. $15 Two-time Juno-winning banjoist, composer and instigator Jayme Stone makes music inspired by sounds from around the world, bridging folk, jazz and chamber music. 212-220-1460. www.

Pace University, 1 Pace Plaza 7:30 p.m.-11:59 p.m. $29$55 When Ana Gasteyer steps up to the mic, she evokes the swagger of an era when a lady ruled a nightclub and an audience knew they were in for good time. 212-346-1715. www.

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A DIALOGUE ACROSS CENTURIES The Met Breuer displays dazzling unfinished thoughts BY MARY GREGORY

The world just got more beautiful, at least the world around Madison Avenue and 75th Street. The Met Breuer opens to members March 8 through the 13, and to the public on the 18th. Two exhibitions inaugurate the space; one is filled with understated elegance, the other with jaw-dropping masterpieces. Each is extraordinary, and together they mark the first step in a new journey for the museum, which hopes to offer audiences a longer, wider view of modern and contemporary art. Just as The Cloisters specializes in presenting medieval art in its unique space, the Metropolitan Museum has leased the building that once housed the Whitney to start a dialogue about art of the 20th and 21st centuries and how examples from each relate to the art of the non-Western world and the past. “Especially for a younger audience,” said Thomas Campbell, the Met’s director and CEO, “when they see historical work, they see the fact that it’s historical before they actually see the work. I think seeing the work in this Brutalist, modern setting gives a whole new freshness and resonance.” Nasreen Mohamedi (1937–1990), whose solo exhibition fills the second floor, is relatively unknown to Ameri-

can audiences. Her work is spare and graceful. With a limited palette and visual vocabulary, her paintings, drawings and photographs capture a timeless quality through the lens of modernism. Across the 130 works, one senses stillness — the slow progression of a shadow across a wall, the rhythm of a shuttle’s slide back and forth to weave a carpet. “Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible” is a sweeping look at a question all artists face. When is it time to call it done, and is it ever done? Some 190 works spanning more than 550 years, in various states of completion, offer a fascinating glimpse of how artworks evolve. The same questions that plagued Titian in the 16th century may have haunted Alice Neel in the 20th. The same restless energy that propelled Leonardo da Vinci to a new page may have inspired Jean-Michel Basquiat’s impassioned poetic painting. Two floors are filled with works presented roughly chronologically. The earliest work in the show, “St. Barbara” by Jan Van Eyck (1437), is glorious. Its unfinished or intentionally skeletal state (nobody’s sure) reveals intense delicacy and complexity that might have been obscured by even thin washes of color. The exhibition ends on the floor above with a suite of six Cy Twombly works never before exhibited. The presentation is focused on

“Unﬁnished: Thoughts Left Visible,” gallery view. Photo: Adel Gorgy

Jean-Michel Basquiat, “Piscine Versus the Best Hotels (or Various Loin),” 1982, Schorr Family Collection. Photo: Adel Gorgy mostly European and American works from the Renaissance through today. Some may ﬁnd fault with a lack of cohesion or diversity. If you want to quibble with curators for mounting two shows, only one of which is dedicated to a non-male, non-white, non-Western artist, go right ahead. I’d rather spend my time contemplating a dazzling grouping of Michelangelo’s stunning red chalk “Studies for the Libyan Sibyl” next to the exquisite “Head of a Woman (La Scapigliata)”

done at the turn of the 16th century by Leonardo, ﬂanked by yet another da Vinci, sketches in silverpoint and ink preparing for his painting, “The Virgin of the Rocks.” The unsurpassable quality of the works and the ability to secure these loans is astonishing. “The Met can do this. I can’t imagine too many other museums can,” the museum’s president, Daniel Weiss, said. “And that’s what we’re hoping to bring – a really different perspective on the creative process and the relationship of tradition to modernism.” On the fourth floor, more recent works are on view, from a roomful of Picassos in dialogue with Cézannes, to Pollock and Warhol, to Felix GonzalezTorres’ multicolored pile of wrapped candies, to a surprisingly delicate Louise Bourgeois marble sculpture. Some of these works were never completed because the commission fell through, others because the artist died or moved on, some because the artist could never let go. Turner (a breathtaking roomful of his art is presented) was known to take a brush and keep adding strokes even when his paintings were hanging on gallery walls. Rembrandt was so focused on the drama of a moment he often didn’t bother with pesky details like hands and shoulders; everything he wanted

was captured in the crease of a brow or the glint off a shining blade. In the 20th and 21st centuries, process came to take precedence over the product. Artists observe time, rather than trying to capture it. Robert Smithson’s earthworks, even within a building, can never be completely stable. Janine Antoni’s “Lick and Lather,” two sculpted busts, one made of chocolate the other of soap, are meant to be decomposed. Was that work finished the day Antoni completed it, or the day it ceases to exist? “I hope very much visitors spend some time going through the exhibition and then revisiting it, because it opens up many questions … that you can explore the answers to,” curator Sheena Wagstaff said. “They’re there in the canvases, and they’re also in you. It’s about engaging you to ask those questions of yourself.” The Met Breuer’s inaugural exhibitions are filled with hundreds of spectacularly beautiful works seen together for the first and only time. There are things you have never seen and ones you will never forget. Don’t lose the chance to experience something remarkable and formulate your own answers to complex artistic questions.

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Julia Blauvelt discusses her play “Three,” with a script she and her collaborators Allison Taaffe and Madeline Barr assembled from diverse sources, including Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” Beth Henley’s “Crimes of the Heart” and “Keeping up with the Kardashians.” The writers and performers present a staged reading of the play about three sisters at the New York Society Library on March 13.

THE IDEA “I was interested in looking at the three daughters of “King Lear.” I was just really into that play a couple years ago for some reason, and that sort of collided with Allison [Taaffe] being really interested in “Three Sisters,” the Chekhov play. And we had coffee one day and talked about how I was interested in these women apart from the rest of the narrative of the play. And she was like, ‘that’s funny because I’m reading “Three Sisters” and I’m really interested in those women.’ And we thought, wouldn’t it be interesting to see them in the same play stripped of the rest of those plays? Then Maddie [Madeline Barr] came on board and brought with her this pop culture streak. We started looking at a bunch of different sources that had three women,

specifically three sisters in them. So then it became this big collage frenzy of culling all these different sources.”

THE MATERIAL “All of these texts, be it present day Beverly Hills, California or 1604 or Russia, all of them have certain similarities within the characters, within the texts, within the struggles, within the way they phrase things. And there are certain consistent archetypes among those sisters. I think that sort of makes each piece timeless in its own right. I never thought I would call the Kardashians timeless, but this has led me to believe that they are. That the existential despair that Kim feels in a breakdown where she’s crying over something that seems sort of trivial is actually similar rhetoric to a breakdown that Masha might have in “Three Sisters.”…And looking at “The Brady Bunch,” we have found some really morbid, existential lines coming out of Cindy’s mouth that sound like they could have been written by Chekhov. Really interesting things in the context of that very light-hearted and spirited ‘70s TV world, when it’s taken away, when it’s taken out of context, they read super dark and heavy.”

THE CHARACTERS “The plot is very simple. We’re just three sisters celebrating the youngest sister’s birthday.

IF YOU GO “Three” Sunday, March 13 New York Society Library 53 East 79th St., near Madison Avenue 3 p.m. Tickets $25 For more information, visit www.nysoclib.org/events/ three But it’s also been a year since our father died, so we’re together for the first time, sort of in remembrance but also to try to have this birthday party, and we’re baking a cake in the oldest sister’s kitchen. So the action of it is fairly straightforward. But the text is, we’ll say a line of Shakespeare, and someone will counter with a “The Brady Bunch” line, and pretty soon it becomes clear that there is conflict among these siblings. They’re undercutting each other, undermining each other, getting at a bigger point of who’s angry, who’s bitter, who’s holding on to something, and how are they going to reshape their lives in the absence of their father. So that’s the deep undertone of this play. And then the aesthetic of it is super breakneck. At times there will be a monologue from Shakespeare but then that will be undercut by a quip from a Kardashian or a snarky line from Marcia Brady.”

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In Brief THE GROWING NYC KOSHER DINING SCENE Kosher dining options have proliferated in the city, with the number of kosher restaurants growing by 50 percent in the last 20 years, according to Crain’s. With around 300 kosher eateries in the city, options abound for those who keep kosher in the city, a development that can be attributed to Rabbi Menachem Genack, who, as the CEO of Orthodox Union, a nonprofit that certifies food items as kosher, grew the number of food production operations observed by the organization from around 400 to 9,000 globally, Crain’s reported. The organization also certifies about 30 restaurants in the city, including Le Marais steak house on W. 46th Street.

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IGNORING THE SALT WARNING LABELS NEWS New Yorkers say the labels will make little difference BY VERENA DOBNIK

A lawsuit ﬁled in Suffolk County Supreme Court is going after Donald Trump’s hotel for keeping tips from catering employees, DNAinfo reported. The suit, ﬁled on Feb. 13, 2015 by a catering worker, suggests that the Trump Soho Hotel kept the 22-percent service fee that it charged catering clients, instead of distributing the earnings to catering staff members. The suit also suggests that for the hotel to hold on to the service fee that clients would believe was gratuity violates labor laws. The hotel said in a statement to DNAinfo that “The plaintiff has never been a staff member of the Trump Soho Hotel. She was contracted by a third party but was never directly employed by Trump Soho Hotel.” A similar 2012 suit against eatery Per Se resulted in a $500,000 settlement, DNAinfo reported.

As warning labels go, the small salt shaker emblems that began showing up on some New York City restaurant menus recently are fairly unobtrusive, but each is supposed to carry a powerful message. If the black and white logo appears next to a dish, it means it contains more salt, by itself, than doctors recommend that a person ingest in an entire day. Getting diners to pay attention to the logos, though, is another matter. “I haven’t had health problems, other than I’m a little overweight, so I feel I should eat what I want until I have a problem,” said Madi Boggs, a former resident of New York who now lives in Connecticut, as she tucked into a plate of crispy chicken ﬁngers at a TGI Friday’s in Manhattan. The city began requiring chain restaurants to post the warnings in December. Hundreds have voluntarily complied, even as the industry has continued to delay enforcement of the rules through a court challenge.

But customers interviewed at several city restaurants said the labels were unlikely to change what they ordered. “For someone that’s young, it really doesn’t matter, because they’re still healthy,” said Maite Acosta, a 20-year-old nurse from Birmingham, Alabama, as she dined at an Applebee’s just off Times Square. The hostess at the restaurant, Ashley Hurtado, said she thought the labeling was “a good idea,” but also said it wouldn’t change the way she ate. “I’ll eat anything, whatever I want. That’s just how I am,” she said. New York City’s regulation applies to restaurants and fast-food places with more than 15 outlets nationwide. It requires eateries to post the salt shaker emblem next to menu items that contain more than the daily recommended limit of 2,300 milligrams of salt, or about the amount found in a teaspoon. Health experts say too much salt intake over time can lead to high blood pressure and other problems. The National Restaurant Association went to court to challenge ﬁnes of up to $600 for non-compliance that were to kick in Tuesday. On Monday, an appellate judge issued

a temporary stay of enforcement while the appeal is underway. New York has, for years now, been trying to attack chronic health problems like obesity, diabetes and hypertension by warning consumers about the hidden dangers in the food they eat. The city banned the use of arterydamaging artificial trans fats in restaurant food. It tried, but failed, to impose a limit on the size of cups used to serve sugary beverages at food service establishments. Eight years ago, it began requiring chain restaurants to post calorie information on their menus, reasoning that if people knew how caloric some dishes and beverages were, they might stay away. That initiative was quickly replicated in several other big cities, but it may not have achieved its main goal, which is to change the way people eat. Researchers at the New York University School of Medicine who reviewed 31 studies on calorie labeling concluded in a Journal of Community Health article published in December 2014 that its effect on diners was “marginal.” “While there are some positive results,” they wrote, “overall these

studies show that calorie labels do not have the desired effect in reducing total calories ordered or consumed.” City health officials said they interviewed more than 8,000 restaurant patrons and found better results. They said that patrons who saw the labels purchased, on average, food containing 100 fewer calories. City health officials are optimistic that the new salt labels, if they survive the court challenge, will make a difference. “We are certain it will have an effect. It’s just too early to tell what that will be,” said Christopher Miller, a spokesman for the Department of Health & Mental Hygiene. In some ways, it has already had a limited effect. Panera Bread changed some ingredients in three menu items to lower the salt content, including its signature bread bowl. Still, at a Subway sandwich shop in midtown Manhattan, employees interviewed Tuesday said only two or three people had inquired about the salt icons after they began appearing December -- a sign of the challenge ahead in changing public opinion.

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS FEB 22 - MAR 1, 2016

Hunan Bistro

96 3Rd Ave

Not Yet Graded (60) 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 Protection Certiﬁcate not held by supervisor of food operations. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.

Bricklane Curry House

99 2Nd Ave

Ogawa Cafe

36 E 4Th St

Grade Pending (15) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Num Pang

28 E 12Th St

Golden Crepes

82 2Nd Ave

Congee Restaurant

207 Bowery

Grade Pending (21) Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

New Wing Wah Bakery

246 Grand Street

New Wong Wah Bakery

83 Canal Street

Grade Pending (27) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked ﬁsh and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. 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. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Lucky’s Famous Burgers

147 East Houston 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. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.

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 www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/services/restaurant-grades.page. Spain Restaurant & Bar

113 West 13 Street

Closed by Health Department (61) 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. Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, crosscontaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewageassociated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Studio Kruat

160 8 Ave

Grade Pending (23) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked ﬁsh and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

Don Giovanni Restaurant

214 10 Avenue

Star On 18Th Diner Cafe

128 10 Avenue

Takumi Taco

75 9Th Ave

Blue Hill Restaurant

75 Washington Place

Sticky’s Finger Joint #1

31 West 8 Street

Closed by Health Department (38) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Nanking

63 W 14 Street

Grade Pending (25) 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. Food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Yi Zhang Fishball & Snacks 41 Monroe St Restaurant

Grade Pending (23) 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. Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Wang’s Great Wall

384 Grand St

Grade Pending (33) 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.

Grade Pending (17) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.

Fools Gold

145 E Houston St

Grade Pending (27) Food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Galeria

43 Clinton St

Barcade

148 W 24Th St

Think Coffee

568 6Th Ave

Think Coffee

208 W 13Th St

Vivi Bubble Tea

18A W 14Th St

Raku

342 E 6Th St

Caffe Bene

24 Saint Marks Pl

Chen’s Express Kitchen

223 E 14Th St

Gong Cha

209 E 14Th St

Le Petit Parisien

32 E 7Th St

Lazy Llama

72 E 1St St

Not Yet Graded (18) 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.

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Two new studies bolster evidence that feeding babies peanuts or other allergy-inducing foods is more likely to protect them than to cause problems. One study, a follow-up to landmark research published last year, suggests that the early prevention strategy leads to persistent, long-lasting results in children at risk for food allergies. It found that allergy protection lasted at least through age 5 and didn’t wane even when kids stopped eating peanut-containing foods for a year. That means at-risk kids who don’t want to eat peanut butter on a weekly basis can safely take a break, at least for a year. The second new study suggests that the early strategy could also work with eggs, another food that can cause allergies in young children. It found that allergies to peanuts and eggs were less common in young children who started eating those foods at 3 months of age than in kids who as infants received only breast milk. The New England Journal of Medicine published both new studies online Friday, coinciding with their presentation at a medical meeting in Los Angeles. Food allergies are common, potentially serious and sometimes deadly. They’re becoming more prevalent in children in many countries, affecting up to 8 percent of kids under age 3. About 2 percent of U.S. kids have peanut allergies. The results from last year’s study prompted a sea change in experts’ approach to preventing these allergies. It was the ﬁrst “to show that early introduction of peanut can prevent the development of allergy to it,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in a statement. It also led to new draft guidance issued Friday by a panel convened by Fauci’s agency. The recommendations include giving at-risk kids peanut-containing food as early as 4- to 6-months of age. Infants at risk are those with severe skin rash-

es or egg allergies; allergy tests are recommended beforehand. The agency paid for last year’s study and follow-up, and will issue final guidelines after a 45-day comment period. The draft guidance echoes advice issued last year by the American Academy of Pediatrics and other medical groups in response to the ground-breaking study. That study involved more than 600 at-risk British infants. By age 5, peanut allergies were much less common in children who had started eating peanutbased foods before age 1, usually peanut butter or a peanutbased snack, than among children who’d been told to abstain. The follow-up involved most of those children. After a year off, an additional three kids in both groups tested positive for peanut allergies. The allergies remained much less common in the early peanut eaters _ affecting just under 5 percent of those kids versus almost 19 percent of the others. The new results suggest that early introduction of allergyinducing foods results in “true tolerance” in at-risk kids, said Dr. Stacy Dorris, an allergist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She was not involved in the research. The second study involved 1,300 study breast-fed British

children randomly assigned to get several types of allergyinducing foods or just breast milk. The strongest results were with peanut-based food and eggs but there was one hitch. About 60 percent of the early eaters didn’t stick to the program. Some may have had immature swallowing skills; some doctors don’t recommend starting solid foods until around 4 months of age. But it’s possible some parents stopped giving solid foods because they noticed allergy-like symptoms, which may have included false alarms, said Dr. Gideon Lack, a King’s College London researcher who led all three studies. The results suggest feeding these foods to at-risk infants is safe, but often not feasible in infants so young, said Dr. Gary Wong, a Hong Kong pediatrician. He wrote an editorial published online with the new studies. Still, Wong said the new studies confirm that the old approach to preventing food allergies _--avoiding certain foods early in life -- is probably obsolete. “Evidence is really building up. It appears early introduction would be better off than avoidance,” said Wong, who is also an associate editor at the journal.

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CROSSTOWN BIKE LANE PLAN COULD EXPAND CB8 to consider a resolution that would have NYCDOT look at installing the lanes through most of Upper East Side BY MICKEY KRAMER

Upper East Siders attending a Community Board 8 Transportation Committee meeting last week expected vigorous debate on a proposal to install six crosstown bike lanes. They got that, and the chance to express both support and criticism of the plan. But, following the late introduction and passage of a surprise resolution, the full board is now expected to consider a much grander scheme: To have the city Department of Transportation study the plausibility of adding crosstown bike lanes to every street in Community Board 8’s district. The resolution, introduced by committee member Jordan Wouk, was approved 10 to three with two committee members abstaining. The full board will take it up when it next meets, on March 16. For the second consecutive month, a proposal to install crosstown bike lanes on 67th, 68th, 77th, 78th, 84th and 85th Streets was the committee’s centerpiece agenda item, and an overwhelming number of residents attending the meeting in the auditorium of

the New York Blood Center on March 2 spoke out against the plan. “Unmitigated disaster,” “absolutely impossible” and “someone will get hurt” were a small sampling from the majority opinion; “thrilled to have a bike lane” and “everyone will be safer” were among the supporting sentiments. Critics cited increased traffic and what they suggested were potential dangers of the lanes to streets that include bus routes, schools, fire departments and hospitals. To try and ease those concerns, the Department of Transportation’s Manhattan Borough Commissioner, Margaret Forgione, along with two colleagues, explained that, in Manhattan alone, there are already bike lanes that pass by eight hospitals, 85 private and public schools, as well as many bike lanes that share streets with bus routes and ﬁre departments. “There have been no issues. No children injured,” Forgione said. Critics of the DOT’s plan, she said, “are making it a bigger issue than it really is.” But Mary Larkin, the principal of Saint Ignatius Loyola School disagreed, saying that a bike lane running passed the East 84th Street school would be a danger to children, parents and teachers. Sharon Pope, who sits on the transportation committee and

is also the community outreach and strategic planning manager for Bike NY, said the DOT gave ample consideration to the plan. “I realize that from the outside looking in, the process can be exceedingly frustrating, but it’s a collaborative effort between the residents, community board and the DOT, and at the end of the day, we’ll have bike lanes and that will benefit the entire community,” she said. The debate was perhaps encapsulated by residents and bicyclists Meredith Fink, who said narrow, heavily trafficked 67th Street in particular was a poor choice, and Hindy Schachter, who said that for too long cars and motorists have monopolized streets and that now was the time to further expand travel lanes for cyclists. After almost two hours of heated public discussion, Gorman Reilly, vice president of CIVITAS, a nonprofit that works to improve the urban environment, presented a detailed five-page proposal that garnered great support from most in attendance. Reilly offered three different pairs of streets for the DOT to consider: 70th-71st, 75th-76th and 80th81st. In contrasts to the streets earmarked in the DOT proposal, those pairs, he said, are “lightly trafficked.”

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ONE LAST STOP ON THE SECOND AVENUE LINE A final funding round should lead to completion in December BY BRYTNIE JONES

After years of sidewalk closings, traffic congestion, and project setbacks, Phase 1 of the Second Avenue Subway is finally set to open in December after landing an additional $66 million from the MTA. The agency’s Transit and Bus Committee approved a proposal to accelerate the work of four contracts by requesting use of the additional money out of its contingency fund. East side officials hailed the move, which will mean the completion of a project that already has cost $4.4 billion. “I am pleased that the MTA is taking the steps needed to ensure the on-time completion of Phase 1 of the Second Avenue Subway,” said Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney. “This project is incredibly important to New Yorkers, as the Lexington Avenue line is currently the most congested in the nation and is in desperate need of relief. I am very much looking forward to my first ride come December 2016.” Maloney has made building the line her top priority, and has been persistent in campaigning that Phase 1 is completed by December 2016. Phase 1 extends the Q train from its current terminal at 57th Street and 7th Avenue to the new 96th Street and 2nd Avenue Station. New subway stations will be located at 72nd St., 86th St., and 96th St., along 2nd avenue, and the Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street station will be redone. The first proposal for the Second Avenue Subway was introduced in 1929. It wasn’t until April 2007 when the groundbreaking at the 96th Street Station finally took place. The completion of the first phase is set to help alleviate overcrowding on 4,5,and 6 trains between 103rd St and 63rd St, and provide easier travel between the Upper East Side and the west side of Manhattan. Service will continue into Brooklyn via the existing Q train. “It will decrease crowding

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on the adjacent Lexington Avenue Line by as much as 13%, or 23,500 fewer riders on an average weekday. It will also reduce travel times by up to 10 minutes or more for those on the far east side or those traveling from the east side to west midtown”, said MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz. The line stretches 8.5 miles along the Upper East Side, from 125th Street in Harlem to Hanover Square in Lower Manhattan. A total of 16 new stations will be built serving several communities including, Harlem, the Upper East Side, Lower Manhattan, East Village, amongst more. “MTA has stepped up and become involved in disseminating information to the community and is addressing issues on an ongoing bases”, said Barry Schneider, co-chair of the Second Avenue Subway Taskforce, which was created in 2004. Schneider says that the MTA publishes newsletters quarterly to update the community on the progress of the work. He also mentioned the MTA’s Second Subway Community Information Center located on 2nd Avenue, a facility offering exhibits and programming on the history and construction of the Second Avenue Subway. “This taskforce addresses all issues involving the project development and construction of the subway”, said Schneider. The taskforce has seven members, and meets approximately

four times a year to discuss new developments in the process. Other community members are welcome to attend these meeting as well. Councilmember Ben Kallos remembers being a staff member when ground broke in 2007, and he expresses an interest in not only the trouble that the subway construction has caused residents, but also the businesses that have suffered because of it. “It’s amazing that nine years later, we will have the subway. At the time we did what we could to support local businesses and finally everyone’s commute will get better and the businesses that made it through the investment will see their businesses restored”, said Kallos. After Phase 1 of the project is operational, it is anticipated that workers will be able to continue working on Phase 2 of the station, which will extend from 96th to 125th street. “Phase 2 will stretch north and west from Second Avenue and E. 96th Street to Lexington Avenue and E. 125th St., and includes three new stations at 106th Street, 116th Street, and 125th and Lexington Avenue”, said Ortiz. “Work will not stop. We fear that if we stop it will never continue again”, said Kallos. “I’m looking forward to taking the subway to work every morning and Coney Island for a weekend trip.”

HEROES TO THE RESCUE MY STORY BY BETTE DEWING

We could sure use some smiles when snarls by those who would lead our nation have never been so swarmy and hateful. To the rescue, here’s an Irving Lepselter Cityscape cartoon. A design engineer by trade, thankfully, Irv is also a social critic by nature, and his gently satirical, wryly humorous cartoons enlightened Our Town readers for 20-plus years. Critiques, they were, of how not only our policy makers were “the problem,” but yes, how you and I could be, too - mostly for being unaware or silent. Of course, we wouldn’t think of charging someone to help them board the bus, but the cartoon sparks thinking about giving an assist to someone who doesn’t yet need a ramp or wheel chair lift. Or it just sparks thinking about those who need some assistance and oh - to look up from those devices- devices-devices! Oh, Irv, please come out of retirement to critique about that! Above all, the cartoon must remind us how often bus drivers don’t pull to the curb. It’s part of their “work order,” but one too often ignored. And little is said how that makes boarding or exiting stress-

ful - and dangerous. A friend’s hip was broken when the York Avenue bus did not pull to the curb. And the pothole next to the curb where this woman was obliged to step into caused her to trip and to fall. A year later, she is still partially disabled and too often in pain. Stories, unfortunately rarely told. and bus driver infractions are rarely reported to the MTA – or to elected officials and civic and other groups concerned with citizen rights and needs. Of course, good drivers must be commended in person, and to the MTA. But unlike subway travel, the city bus kind gets little attention, except how to make it faster, which frankly, also makes the ride less safe. Elected ofﬁcials and media only seem to know about subways. Attention must be paid. And oh, how that greatest of bus drivers, Govan Brown, deserves all-out remembering. He should also be part of Black History month - this now longretired Fifth and Madison Avenue bus driver whose extraordinarily thoughtful driving was heralded, not only by the New York Times, but picked up internationally. Of course. it was covered by Our Town and yours truly, who, doggone it, now cannot ﬁnd those stories or my column with a photo of

Brown and me. And to those so against saving “hard copy” because “everything can be found online,” it just is not true. For 20 years, mind you, Govan Brown made bus riders smile while driving most carefully; he called out every bus stop and noted the special sights along the way. All who boarded the bus received a word and a smile, and I was providentially on board when Brown wished everyone “a very, very blessed New Year!” And everyone applauded and smiled - and at each other, too. Imagine! Mayor Dinkins declared a Govan Brown Day when Brown was about to retire, and I wrote (in vain) how he must stay on part-time to teach drivers how to make even a crowded bus ride tolerable. Incidentally, Brown was a deacon in his church - in Queens, I believe it was. Not surprisingly, his family life was as good as his work life, and how both must be remembered, and greatly exampled! And here’s to Irv Lepselter resuming his visual critiques, to stress how crucial now to save and restore the nabes which made the city such a great, neighborly and democratic place to live. It can be done if enough of us try. dewingbetter@aol.com

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GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS The new Manhattan Chamber of Commerce president on her past experience and future goals BY ANGELA BARBUTI

Jessica Walker has made a career out of making our city a better place. Upon graduation from college, she moved to the Bronx and quickly found a niche within the political world. As the new president of the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, she enters the role with the experience that comes with having worked for influential nonproﬁts around Manhattan such as United Neighborhood Houses, New York Academy of Medicine and Partnership for New York City. Wa lker replaces Nancy Ploeger, who served as Chamber president for 21 years. The two briefly overlapped and Walker calls her a “godsend” in helping with the transition. Although she only began her tenure on Feb. 22, Walker already has ambitious goals for the organization, including assisting young entrepreneurs in starting businesses. A believer in the importance of face-toface networking, she outlined the mission of the Chamber of Commerce, which is to advocate for, connect and educate the businesses in Manhattan. “So really the goal is to make sure that Manhattan remains a great place to start and grow a business,” she explained.

How did you begin your career in the nonprofit sector? When I first graduated from college, I actually was setting myself up for a career in public relations, but I decided I didn’t really like it very quickly. [Laughs] I was just a lot more interested in politics, so I started to move into that world. I got hired by the United Neighborhood Houses, which represents all of the community centers and settlement houses in the city. The first thing I was hired to do was to be a policy analyst, and I was working on a host of issues that were helpful to community centers.

You grew up on an Indian reser-

vation in New Mexico. Do you use any of what you saw there in your job today? My parents are hippies, I would say. I was actually born in Detroit and when I was eight years old, they had an epiphany that they wanted to move to a Native American reservation even though we’re not Native American. The Navajo people are a really beautiful people and have a certain way of viewing the world and a very positive way of seeing things and I think I deﬁnitely learned that and carry that.

You’ve been at the Chamber of Commerce for two weeks now. What’s one of the ﬁrst things you did there? We’ve done some really great events since I started. That’s a big part of what the Chamber does, bring people together for networking and educational purposes. We had some really good speakers who I was happy to see and help present, including Maisha Walker who is an Internet guru and was sharing ideas for honing your digital strategy. We had the founder of Shoptiques present to a lot of young women, which was really neat. Just to see the impact we can make has been the big lesson in my ﬁrst two weeks.

Describe what a typical day has been like for you so far. What’s your job description? It’s about four pages long. [Laughs] But essentially, a lot of it is being the spokesperson for the organization, and also trying to really come up with some innovative ways to help our members start and grow their companies. It’s really trying to think through what events would be of value and what can really help businesses. And some of it is advocacy; I’ll be testifying before the City Council on different issues and doing some lobbying. But also just really trying to meet the members and ﬁgure out what their needs are and try to help them. That’s what it’s all about.

What are some things you hope to accomplish in this role? Well I deﬁnitely want to ramp up our advocacy efforts. That’s

Jessica Walker, the new president of the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce.

one of my passions obviously, in my background. There are certain issues that we definitely want to take on, such as eliminating the commercial rent tax, which only affects businesses in Manhattan. It’s a tax on commercial rental properties below 96th Street and it’s sort of a double taxation and a hardship, essentially, for a lot of businesses in Manhattan. I also want to do a lot to help young professionals and entrepreneurs. It’s a very complex city in terms of learning the rules and regulations you have to follow to start a business. So we want to do a lot there to clarify that and make it easier for people to follow their passions.

Tell us about some of the nonproﬁts you worked for and your proudest accomplishments. If you look at my resume, it doesn’t seem clear, but it is to me in terms of the fact that the common thread is focused on making New York a better place. The nonprofits I’ve worked for are some of the biggest institutions here in the city, including United Neighborhood Houses and the New York Academy of Medicine, which is all about public health in the city and at the Partnership for New York City, which represents the city’s businesses. The ﬁrst part of my career was focused on trying to make the city a better place for its oldest residents. And I’m really proud of some of the things we did, such as shining the spotlight on social isolation, which is a huge issue, actually. We did a report that was very influential. It caused former Mayor Bloomberg to act on the issue and it garnered a lot of attention and it’s now one of the biggest issues that the AARP Foundation is focused on. I’m proud of that. I think we did a lot of good to help people, starting with that report.

At the New York Academy of Medicine, you worked on an initiative called Age-Friendly New York City. It’s sort of revolutionary in that we actually went out and talked to people about what they wanted instead of sitting

in the office and making it up. We contacted 15,000 older adults in the city and asked them what they liked, what they didn’t like and what they wanted to see change. Nothing crazy, but we got a lot of valuable information that led to 59 policy improvements in New York City.

niﬁcant importance on face-toface networking and connecting and making sure you’re getting the information from a credible source. So, making sure that we are visible and people understand that we’re a resource even though there’s all this information and other stuff happening out there.

Going forward, what do you think the challenges will be in your job?

You live in Harlem. What are some of the business you support there? How have you seen the neighborhood change?

I think, right now, it’s an interesting times for chambers in general because there’s so much networking that can happen digitally. Part of it is going to be how we are going to maximize that for people. But also, I think there is still a sig-

I’ve been here for a little over four years. It’s just a great place. I like an Italian restaurant called Babbalucci … and Chez Lucienne. There’s a lot of great restaurants in Harlem

right now and I try to frequent them as much as possible. There are a lot of changes happening. Right around the corner from where I live, there’s a Whole Foods that’s about to open. It used to be a huge vacant lot. Also just the number or bars and restaurants that have opened. It’s been a very rapid change.

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