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CYNTHIA NIXON’S GUBERNATORIAL GAMBIT POLITICS The actor-activist and consummate Manhattanite says farewell Miranda, throws her hat in the ring. But can she take down the incumbent pol who may be the most powerful man in the state? BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN

Police seized over 200 electric bicycles in the first six weeks of 2018, often posting photos of confiscated e-bikes to social media. Photo: NYPD, via Twitter

NYPD E-BIKES CRACKDOWN CONTINUES SAFETY City’s efforts to rid streets of electric bicycles focus on seizures, fines BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

Electric bicycles — outfitted with battery-powered motors that can propel riders at sustained speeds of upwards of 20 mph — have become an increasingly familiar piece of Manhattan’s streetscape in recent years. They’ve become so common that an out-of-towner who didn’t know better could be forgiven for thinking that the motorized bikes, favored by food delivery workers

for their speed and ease of mobility, are a fully sanctioned mode of transportation in New York City. But in spite of their ubiquity, e-bikes are, in fact, illegal to ride on city streets — and the city has gone to increased lengths to stamp out their use. From Jan. 1 to Feb. 11, the most recent period for which data is available, police seized 209 e-bikes and issued 238 moving summonses to e-bike users citywide. This rate puts the city on pace to surpass the 1,007 e-bikes confiscated citywide by police last year, which itself was a significant increase over the 551 seized in 2016. The uptick in enforcement coincided with a crackdown on

e-bikes announced by Mayor Bill de Blasio last October at a press conference on the Upper West Side, during which the mayor called e-bikes “a growing safety problem” and referenced riders “going the wrong way down streets, weaving in and out of traffic, ignoring traffic signals, sometimes going up on sidewalks.” Much of the city’s enforcement efforts have been concentrated in Manhattan. The NYPD’s 20th and 24th Precincts on the Upper West Side confiscated a combined 89 e-bikes last year, while the 17th and 19th Precincts on the East Side seized a combined 103 e-bikes through mid-October of 2017.

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It is now official: Conjuring up her humble upbringing — living in a onebedroom, fifth-floor Yorville walkup with a single mom — lifelong New Yorker Cynthia Nixon declared on Monday that she was running to unseat Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary. “I love New York,” she said in a gauzy, two-minute political video statement unveiling her candidacy. “New York is my home. I’ve never wanted to live anywhere else.” As the camera portrayed her descending into a subway station, waiting on a platform, taking a train, walking purposefully down city streets, she got straight to the point. “Our leaders are letting us down,” Nixon said. She didn’t mention any names. But she briefly explored themes that have been the calling card of her No. 1 political ally and top Cuomo nemesis, Mayor Bill de Blasio, saying that the Empire State has become the “most unequal state in the entire country with both incredible wealth and extreme poverty.” And she demanded, “How did we let this happen?” Nixon’s response to her own rhetorical question: “Something has to change,” and she called on “government to work again on health care, ending mass incarceraDowntowner

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

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Cynthia Nixon in a 2-minute video statement unveiling her candidacy for New York governor. Courtesy CynthiaForNewYork.com tion, fixing our broken subways.” It wasn’t particularly subtle. “We are sick of politicians who care more about headlines and power than they do about us,” she said. “It can’t just be business as usual anymore.” Does she have a chance? Well, Nixon’s announcement came out on the same day a Siena College poll found Cuomo would trounce her by a 66-to-19 margin among registered Democrats. On the other hand, consider another series of numbers that are retro and stark and could possibly portend change in a political climate shifting toward the empowerment of women:

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‘THE MOMENTUM IS THERE’ LEGISLATION The Equal Rights Amendment Bill sponsored by Rebecca Seawright passes the New York State Assembly BY SHOSHY CIMENT

History is being made this Women’s History Month. The New York State Assembly passed the Equal Rights Amendment Bill that provides for equal rights for women and men in the New York State Constitution, on Tuesday, March 13 in a unanimous vote of 113 to zero. Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright (Upper East Side, Yorkville, and Roosevelt Island) sponsored the bill, which seeks to include the word “sex” into Section 11, Article 1 of the New York State Constitution that outlines the equality of rights based on race,

color, creed or religion. A state’s constitution can be amended either through a constitutional convention or by a proposal in the legislature. Both methods are subject to voter approval and any proposal must be approved by two consecutive legislatures before being presented for voter approval. Now that the ERA has passed through the Assembly, it will be delivered to the Senate for consideration. If it passes there, the bill will go to a vote. Pending Senate and voter approval, New York will be the 24th state to ratify the ERA in its state constitution, Seawright noted. “The momentum is there,” said Seawright, who acknowledged that the passing of this bill comes in the middle of Women’s History Month, as well as close to the 100th anniversary of the suffragist movement. Seawright’s ultimate hope is that the ERA will be ratified and put in the Federal Consti-

tution as well. The Washington, D.C.-based ERA Coalition has endorsed the legislation. “As our society embraces the #MeToo movement, it is past time to see New York’s foundational legal document updated for the 21st century,” said ERA Coalition President Jessica Neuwirth in a press release. “We thank Assemblywoman Seawright for being a champion for constitutional equality.” On the national level, the ERA passed Congress in 1972 and Nevada was the 36th state to ratify it in March of 2017. By ratifying the ERA for the State of New York, Seawright hopes to give recognition and protection for women in the state as well as momentum to get the ERA passed federally. “Women have waited more than 200 years for the equality promised to all men in the constitution,” said Seawright. “I think the timing could not be better.”

Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright. Photo: New York State Assembly Photography

PROVIDING FOR PUERTO RICAN PUPPIES PETS Camp Canine on the Upper West Side is helping find homes for some of the dogs left homeless following last year’s hurricane BY ASHAD HAJELA

Puppies tussle for a knitted toy at Camp Canine on the Upper West Side. Photo: Ashad Hajela

Choca arrived from Puerto Rico on Sunday, March 11. She prefers to be alone in her cage and tends to scurry around anxiously when she is outside of it. That may be because she was found in an abandoned house on the Caribbean island, which was battered by Hurricane Maria in September. It was not clear how long she had been there, but she now finds herself on the Upper West Side. Choca is one of 45 “satos” — street dogs — that were flown into New York through an Animal Lighthouse Rescue initiative in Puerto Rico. The goal was to take dogs from people’s houses and the streets of Humacao, on the island’s east coast, and find a home for them. For now, they are being cared for by Camp Canine on the Upper West Side. “The dogs have various reactions to being over here,” said Camp Canine’s owner, Tania Isenstein. On a recent weekday, Choca stays clear while a litter of puppies tussle over knitted toys and a visitor’s boots. Knitted toys, bags of dog food, dog carriers and sealed cardboard boxes

Veterinarian Lisa Lippman examines a recent arrival from Puerto Rico at Camp Canine on the Upper West Side. Photo: Ashad Hajela crowd a narrow corridor inside Camp Canine, “That’s what we ask for and that’s what we get,” said Esentstein of the donations from clients of Camp Canine and people from the neighborhood. Most of the dogs from the island arrived healthy, according to Lisa Lippman, the veterinarian responsible for the arriving dogs’ checkups. Leesha, the mother of seven puppies,

did arrive with heartworm, a disease carried by mosquitos that limits activity for a month. Another arrived with ehrlichia, a tick-borne disease, neither of which are contagious. While the initiative is helping the 45 dogs find companionship, there remain hundreds of thousands of dogs in Puerto Rico without a home, Isenstein said. “We do whatever we can,” she said.

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG BANK FRAUD ARREST

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Police arrested a man wanted for two recent bank fraud incidents. In the first, which occurred at 3 p.m. on October 27 of last year, a 55-year-old man, later identified by police as Patrick Kinney, presented himself as another person inside the Citibank location at One Broadway in order to open a checking account and obtain a personal loan in the other person’s name. He succeeded in getting the loan amount of $10,000 withdrawn from the account. In the second incident, which occurred at 3 p.m. on November 20, police said Kinney pulled a similar scam at the Citibank located at 120 Broadway and withdrew $12,500. Kinney was arrested on March 8 and charged with grand larceny. Both loan amounts were recovered.

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Two shoplifters paid nada at Prada for some pricey merchandise. At 5:05 p.m. on Monday, March 5, two women removed items of merchandise from the Prada store at 575 Broadway after concealing the items under their jackets. The merchandise stolen included two articles of haute couture totaling $6,550.

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A PALL FALLS ON PAUL’S PRADA PREDATORS

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This is the second story in two weeks reporting a theft at Paul’s Casablanca. At 4 a.m. on Sunday, February 25, a 26-year-old woman entered the popular nightspot located at 305 Spring Street and put her purse on a bench. She stood up to talk to somebody, and when she turned back around 5 minutes later her bag was gone. Missing were Fendi purse

valued at $2,800, a cellphone priced at $1,000, a wallet tagged at $500, $300, and various credit cards.

INSIDE JOB Taking his bike into a building with him didn’t protect a bicyclist’s sweet ride. At 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, February 14, a 42-year-old man left his bike inside 129 Hudson Street.

Within 10 minutes an unknown person made off with the bike, heading in an unknown direction. A female acquaintance of the bicyclist and fellow resident at 325 North End Avenue said she saw a man in possession of what appeared to be the victim’s bike, as it was the same brand and model, and it had a bracket on the rear wheel that she and the victim had installed. The stolen ride was a Bulls bike valued at $3,399.

LION’S SNARE Saks security snagged another shoplifter. At 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 10, a 41-year-old woman was witnessed concealing a handbag on her person inside the Saks Fifth Avenue store at 225 Liberty Street before attempting to exit the location without paying for the $1,850 item, police said. Camila Lion was arrested and charged with grand larceny.

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THE SHED’S OPEN-DOOR POLICY CULTURE Manhattan’s newest arts center is an ambitious undertaking — with a lofty goal of attracting diverse audiences by engaging youth in Chelsea. BY ALIZAH SALARIO

Want people to show up for the arts? Then bring the arts to the people. That ethos is a driving force behind artistic commissions at The Shed, the new arts center currently under construction where the High Line meets Hudson Yards at West 30th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues. No matter that the futuristic structure isn’t scheduled to open for another year. Two pre-opening commissions, both of which engage youth in Chelsea, and throughout the five boroughs, in the arts are already in full swing. “We want to make sure our audience reflects the diversity of New York City. That’s something we want to aspire to — to make sure that no matter if you live in the high-rises that are being built right adjacent to us, or whether you live in Fulton Houses or ChelseaElliot, that you feel that you have ownership in our building, and that it belongs to you,” says Tamara McCaw, chief community officer at The Shed. The first of two commissions, FlexNYC, is a dance residency in partnership with Flexn dance pioneer

Regg “Roc” Gray and the D.R.E.A.M. Ring dancers. The intensive, eightmonth program is led by teaching artists-in-residence in schools and community centers throughout the five boroughs. Approximately 400 students from first-graders to high school seniors participate; a high percentage of participating schools serve subsidized lunches. With roots in Jamaican Bruk Up and reggae dance halls in Brooklyn, Flexn, at its core, is about self-expression through movement, says McCaw. “A lot of what makes Flexn unique from other street styles of dance is that it’s really based on storytelling. It’s an opportunity for students to talk about the issues that matter to [them], that matter to [their] community.” In Chelsea, participating schools include Landmark High School on West 18th Street, where about 25 students are involved in the program. Landmark principal Caron Pinkus says she’s seen an increase in confidence among student dancers not just on the stage, but in other areas of their lives as well. “Several of our dancers have stepped into leadership roles in the school. For example, three of them are currently serving as peer mentors, where they are helping to guide and assist their ninth-grade peers,” says Pinkus. “Two of our dancers joined the restorative justice advisory and are planning and facilitating circle discussions with their peers. Three of our dancers en-

Left to right: Poet and performer Najee Omar and visual artist and writer Kameelah Janan Rasheed, advisors on The Shed’s DIS OBEY pre-opening program for young artists, with The Shed’s assistant producer of partnership productions, Maria Fernanda Snellings. Photo courtesy of The Shed

A rendering of The Shed, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Rockwell Group. rolled in College Now and are taking college level classes to earn college credits.” As The Shed’s opening approaches in spring 2019, some students may have the opportunity to perform at the new art space.

Dis Obey Following in the tradition of the Persian poet Saadi, who in turn inspired Henry David Thoreau, the second commission, Dis Obey, uses poetry and interdisciplinary arts to explore how nonviolent engagement and civil disobedience can be vehicles for social change. Led by artist and educator Kameelah Janan Rasheed and poet and performer Najee Omar, the program is designed for students involved “to think about how their art can actually impact society, and how their work can raise awareness about particular issues,” said Rasheed. Though just getting off the ground — the program began March 12 — Rasheed notes that each of the three teaching artists is using their own strengths and experiences in the classroom. For the poet and teaching artist Jayson Smith, that means focusing on the radical potential of close reading the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks and others. It’s a crucial skill, says Rasheed, at a point in history when people are spending a lot of time not reading as closely as we would like them to. “For them to focus on poetry and close reading is a great extension of the skills of being aware and understanding nuance outside of reading poetry,” says Rasheed. “What are the radical potentials of thinking through who I am as a person, and how who I am as a person is a useful asset in the world?” Dis Obey may culminate in an anthology of work or a public performance, as well as participation in City Council or community board meetings, where

The Shed under construction last month. Photo: Timothy Schenck students can directly impact issues they’ve engaged with through the arts. Says Rasheed, “The main goal is that the work leaves the setting that it was originally created in and actually has a public presence so that young people can see their work being engaged with by the public, rather than by just the smaller cohort of their class.”

Public Engagement If The Shed’s eclectic inaugural commissions are any indication, the institution is trying to attract audiences where high art and pop culture intersect. In early March, The Shed’s artistic director Alex Poots announced commissions to launch in spring 2019 that include “Soundtrack to America,” a concert series conceived by Quincy Jones and Steve McQueen exploring the history of African-American music from 17th-century spirituals to modern-day hip-hop. Inspired by Euripides’ “Helen” and the life of Marilyn Monroe, the poet Anne Carson is commissioned to write a play titled “Norma Jeane Baker of Troy.” In addition to commissions, The

Shed is trying to engage community artists in various ways. In early March, the institution put out an open call for emerging artists to submit proposals for a six-month residency at The Shed. Artists who look at the urgent issues of our time are encouraged to apply. It’s part of the proactive effort the institution is making to engage the community, says McCaw. From youth commissions to engaging tenant associations at NYCHA’s Fulton and Chelsea-Elliot Houses about ticket access, local hiring and internships, The Shed is reaching out to the community long before tickets go on sale. But how these ambitions play out has yet to be seen. “We’re aware of the location we’re in, right?” notes McCraw. “We’re part of this very large-scale development, and we’re very appreciative of that. But we’re on city-owned land, we’re a nonprofit institution that has had significant public investment, and we take that very seriously. There’s a responsibility that we have to make sure all New Yorkers feel they belong to our institution, and that we belong to this neighborhood.”

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SEEN AND HEARD EAST SIDE OBSERVER BY ARLENE KAYATT

Getting what he asks for — While our mayor claims to not speak for his wife, he was loud and clear in saying he thought Chirlane McCray should be paid for what she does in her role as first lady. Before he gets what he asked for or taken up on that request, he may want to speak to an accountant, or to the city comptroller. As first lady, McCray travels the city, the state, the country, even the world. If she were paid, the cost of her travel could conceivably be imputed to her as income. Maybe it can be anyway. Don’t know. When former first lady Donna Hanover (at the time married to then-Mayor Rudy

Giuliani) wanted to be paid for her work, she went to NY’s favorite TV show employer of NY actors at the time, “Law and Order,” and was cast as a judge, and she can be seen to this day on that show’s never-ending reruns. In rebutting — maybe rebuking — her husband, McCray may be envisioning the benefits of her non-paying first ladyship — being seen and heard without having to deal with or reach out to pesky donors who can sully her good name and work as she aspires to a political career. To each her own. Not bad work if you can get it.

Going route-less — I heard a rumor some months ago that the M4 and Q32 bus routes were being terminated (they share the last stop at 32nd Street between Sixth and Sev-

enth Avenues) and that that 32nd Street block was going to be turned into a pedestrian mall of sorts. It is a shabby block, but turning it into a pedestrian-only traverse in Penn Station/Madison Square Garden country doesn’t seem like good city planning. Picky picky. Haven’t been able to confirm that bit of upset to urban planning. I cannot imagine that cutting those bus lines will make for fewer vehicles on the street or that better scheduling of buses on their routes wouldn’t make for better ridership. Taking away buses that transport people to and from Penn Station to stops through Manhattan and as far away as Queens (Q32) just doesn’t make sense. How will obliterating the routes cut down on the number of cars and taxis (Uber, Lyft, Via included) clogging traffic? Trying to track down whether or not the two bus routes were being cut was fruitless. And now comes the confirmed promise of cuts to the M104 bus route as set

forth in a letter to the new head of NYC Transit, Andrew Byford, from UWS and Hell’s Kitchen Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal. Rosenthal is calling on Byford to “drop the implementation” of scheduled cuts to the M104. While the MTA statistics show a drop in ridership on the M104, Rosenthal’s constituents, in a petition, explain that the reason for the drop in ridership is attributable to long waits and riders having to opt for more reliable (and expensive) means of transportation. Rosenthal requested a hearing so that her constituents (and others) “can address the transportation challenges they face when trying to use the M104 bus.” Stay tuned while waiting for the next bus. Be assured that they will arrive at least two or three at a time. And the MTA will attribute more cuts to lack of ridership.

Looking back — Some weeks ago The Times and this column wrote about the return of David Santiago

to his home in the new Essex Crossing housing development on the Lower East Side after 50 years. The site was razed starting in 1967 and, as one of the original tenants, Santiago had the right to come home. And he did. It just took too too long. Shortly after moving in, he died of a heart attack. His brother found him in the apartment. RIP David.

Some hope — After hearing that Yorkville’s Glaser’s Bake Shop was closing down, I found myself checking in on another old-time bakery, Moishe’s, on Second Avenue and Seventh Street. Asked if they had any plans for leaving. “No,” assured the woman behind the counter, “he owns the building.” Hmm. So did Glaser’s, I thought. Hate to be a naysayer. Moishe’s is more than just an old-timer. They have the best kosher sponge cake in town. And in the East Village. A developer’s dream. Oy.

WHY I LOVE MY UES POKER GAME BY JON FRIEDMAN

If you live long enough in Manhattan or any other part of the city, you learn to accept upheaval. Not mere change. I’m talking about a bank replacing a Gap, which replaced a Shakespeare & Co. book store, which replaced a usedrecord shop, which replaced a coffee house in the first place. And probably all of that tumult taking place in — what? — five years? That’s one of the reasons I like to hold on to what has endured, a favorite coffee shop or a bodega or a bakery. Or, for that matter, my weekly poker game. I have been playing in the same game on the Upper East Side for 23 years. Funny, in college, when my disreputable buddies played hands of tablestakes poker literally all night, I never participated — and not only because I was cheap and I knew I had no chance of making any money. I’d get back to my dorm and there would be six or seven of them going at it from dusk to dawn. Thank God, I had my work at the college paper to keep me occupied or I might have succumbed and lost my

shirt (both of them). What made me join the Monday night game in 1995, then? I could talk about peer pressure — my editor at Bloomberg had perfected the art of gentle persuasion. Many of the players were my Bloomberg colleagues so I would be among friends. And it sounded like fun. I figured I’d play for a year and then have material for my Mediocre American Novel. People like to say that you can take the measure of people’s character by confronting them on the tennis court. I disagree. I’d transfer the setting to a poker table. More is at stake. And not only money. Can someone bluff effectively? Can he or she take your last ten bucks with a smile? In poker, as in life, fear of success can be more debilitating than fear of failure. You need a killer instinct to play poker well. Sentiment is someone else’s problem. I also immediately liked the guys at the poker table. Those who weren’t Bloombergers had worked in Europe as reporters and editors. One black sheep worked in advertising. Another was a psychologist. I would have

feared his ability to read my mind but I couldn’t help but notice that he looked just like Al Goldstein, the adultmagazine king, so I laughed more than I cringed at him. My first year was a rocky one. I lost money every night. I was in way over my head and I knew it. We’ve always played a high-low game and I once was dealt a 6-5-4-3-ace hand in five-card draw — virtually unbeatable. But I was so intimidated that I insanely folded it when one of the guys raised my bet. (I’ve gotten much better over the years). My favorite all-time hand occurred about 10 years ago. We were playing a round of seven-card draw: that means you get three cards down and four cards up and you can use five of them to go high or low (or high and low). The round starts out with each player getting two cards down and one up. I was dealt three aces, a virtual statistical impossibility. Then I got a deuce and a three and a six. I raised every bet and glowed inwardly. So, the players assumed I would be going “low.” For the fourth card, which was also dealt down, I got — you guessed it! — the

fourth ace. Four aces!! A miracle. We all declared high. One guy had three queens. Ha! Another boasted a small full house! Double ha! Then, Charlie, the best and toughest-minded player at the table, fixed his death-ray look on me, and smiled: “Sorry, Jon. Four jacks.” I said, “Sorry, Charlie. Four aces.” As they had all gone high, I won the entire pot — roughly fifty bucks. It was truly one of the great moments of my life. Sadly, our game is slowing down. A few of the guys have hit the age of ninety and they don’t get around so easily. When it snows, they understandably don’t want to go outside. You probably know someone who plays in a game like this. I hope you have the good fortune to play in one. It’s like a little clubhouse. Women, of course, are welcome — as long as they bring their money — and we’ve had several competing over the years. But week after week, you’ll generally see six or seven men sitting around a cramped table, with a frayed green felt covering. It’s an eclectic group of retirees (one of whom, who shall go

Photo: Poker Photos, via flickr nameless, is a broadcasting legend), freelancers and the occasional poor sap who has to get up in the morning to go to work and frets about the reliability of the Q train. Usually, the big winner takes home north of a hundred bucks. I have — ahem — the table record from the night I pulled in $278. Honestly, I do tend to win most nights. I’d be a fool to play for the rent money. I like to match my wits against the others in what is actually a pretty serious neighborhood. I relish the opportunity to talk about sports and movies and politics for four-and-a-half hours. I like the other guys. Play to win. But considering the fun I invariably have, I never really lose. Jon Friedman, who most recently wrote about Michael Wolff and Paul Simon in these pages, teaches journalism courses at Hunter College and Stony Brook University

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Lap dances, fancy dinners, drinks. Those were some of the perks — along with payments reaching into the six-figures — five Manhattan doctors received from an Arizona pharmaceutical firm in exchange for prescribing millions of dollars worth of a potent and highly addictive fentanyl spray, a synthetic opioid, federal officials alleged last week. Gordon Freedman, 57; Jeffrey Goldstein, 48; Todd Schlifstein, 49; Dialecti Voudouris, 47; and Alexandru Burducea, 41, were arrested March 16 and charged with violating a federal anti-kickback statute, related conspiracy counts and other charges, officials from the offices of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and from the FBI’s New York Field Office said. The payments were in the form of fees for a series of bogus “educational programs,” the indictment alleges. Prosecutors said the pharmaceutical company started a “speaker’s bureau” in 2012 ostensibly to educate health practitioners about the company’s fentanyl spray, Subsys, which the firm had begun marketing in March of that year. The presentations, though, were “predominantly social affairs” where attendance was inflated by forged sign-in sheets, according to the indictment. Freedman, who specializes in pain management and anesthesiology in private practice on the Upper East Side, received $308,600 from the company in exchange for writing scripts for “large volumes” of the fentanyl spray, prosecutors said. The indictment recounts how Freedman, an associate clinical professor at Mt. Sinai Hospital, was contacted by one of the pharma company’s representatives and told he would receive additional speaker programs because the company wanted to increase prescriptions for the fentanyl spray. The rep asked Freedman to up his scrips of the spray, to which

Five Manhattan doctors together received hundreds of thousand of dollars in kickbacks from an Arizona pharmaceutical firm in exchange for prescribing millions of dollars worth of this potent and highly addictive fentanyl spray, a synthetic opioid, federal prosecutors alleged in a 75-page indictment. Freedman responded “Got it.” Prosecutors allege Freedman’s fentanyl spray prescriptions increased, subsequently netting the company more than $1 million in the final quarter of 2014 alone. Goldstein, in private practice on the Upper East Side specializing in osteopathic medicine, got about $196,000 through the speaker program. Goldstein’s prescriptions for the spray accounted for about $809,275 in the last quarter of 2014. At one point, a senior executive from the company took Schlifstein, then an attending physiatrist NYU Langone Medical Center, and Goldstein, who co-owned a private medical office on the Upper East Side, to a Manhattan strip club and spent about $4,100 on a private room, alcohol and lap dances for the two doctors, according to the indictment. In the month following that October 2013 outing and Schlifstein’s recruitment into the speaker program the doctor’s fentanyl spray prescriptions increased substantially, prosecutors said. Fentanyl is roughly 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and is often cited as the predominant reason for the fourfold spike in overdose deaths attributable to synthetic opioids in recent years. The company is not named in the 75-page indictment, but several references, including the names of two co-conspirators, make it clear the firm in question is Insys, which is

based in Chandler, Arizona. The company advertises its Subsys product as “the one and only fentanyl sublingual spray for breakthrough cancer pain.” The company’s founder, John Kapoor, is alleged to also have taken part in a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe the spray and was arrested in October on charges of conspiracy to commit racketeering and mail and wire fraud. Kapoor’s arrest followed, by about 10 months, the arrests of several other Insys executives on similar charges. The U.S. Attorney’s office here also said on March 16 that two former Insys employees, Jonathan Roper and Fernando Serrano, had pleaded guilty in connection with the bribery and kickback scheme and were now cooperating with prosecutors. The company put out a statement on March 19 saying that last week’s indictments of the New York doctors are tied to allegations involving “former employees” but that it was working with authorities. “The company continues striving to take responsibility for inappropriate actions of some former employees and has invested significant resources over the last several years to establish an effective compliance program and build an organizational culture of high ethical standards,” the statement said. The five doctors pleaded not guilty in federal court on March 16. Each was released on $200,000 bond.

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10 a.m. March begins at West 72nd St. and Central Park West 11 a.m. Rally at Columbus Circle event.marchforourlives.com On this national day of action, the March For Our Lives movement to end gun violence will call for a comprehensive bill to be immediately brought before Congress. Speakers at the Manhattan march will include a Parkland student, a founder of the Wear Orange anti-gun violence campaign, and other survivors of gun violence.

Thu 22 Fri 23 UNCHARTED CONCERT SERIES: MOLLY POPE’S ‘POLLY MOPE’ Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow St. 8 p.m. $15, includes free beer ‘Polly Mope’ is an original solo piece that marks the debut of songwriter Molly Pope about “how we get through the night,” as viewed through the specific lens of one person’s night-long ride on the “bi-polarcoaster.” 212-242-4770 greenwichhouse.org

▲ MOTORTOWN ALL-STARS: THE MUSIC AND MAGIC OF MOTOWN BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St. 8 p.m. $25-$35 Direct from Detroit, worldclass vocalists and musicians from the ranks of the Miracles, Temptations and more have joined forces for a show packed with impeccable harmonies, dazzling choreography, and timeless Motown grooves. 833-733-4232 tribecapac.org

Sat 24 FUNHOUSE: SIDESHOW EVENTS The Drawing Center 35 Wooster St. 11:30 a.m. $10 Things are not as they appear at FUNHOUSE, a new, interactive book fair presented by Desert Island and The Drawing Center. Guests will be able to make their own books in collaboration with resident cartoonists and illustration artists, and attend a series of talks, lectures and presentations, or the “Sideshow.” 212-219-2166 drawingcenter.org

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Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 CIVIC SALON: YOUTH IN ACTION

▼ PEN OUT LOUD: REIMAGINING ‘A WRINKLE IN TIME’

Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St. Noon, Free, tickets must be picked up by 11:30 a.m. Youth activists who have been working for change in their communities take center stage at a special edition of the monthly Joe’s Pub salon. High school artists, advocates and organizers will gather to sing, share readings and build community. Featuring keynote addresses from young New York activists Marlon Rajan and Aaliyha Johnson. 212-539-8778 joespub.publictheater.org

The Strand, 828 Broadway 7 p.m. $15 includes admission & store gift cards To mark the release of Ava DuVernay’s bold new adaptation of a “Wrinkle in Time,” Pen America and the Strand will celebrate unconventional literary heroes with readings from Madeleine L’Engle’s classic novel and related texts, presenting a canon of unorthodox saviors in speculative fiction and beyond. 212-473-1452 strandbooks.com

CHRISSY METZ: ‘THIS IS ME’ Barnes & Noble Union Square, 33 East 17th St. 7 p.m. Free “This is Us” star Chrissy Metz shares her personal journey in conversation with co-star Susan Kelechi Watson as they discuss Metz’s new memoir, “This is Me: Loving the Person You Are Today.” A limited number of wristbands for event access will be distributed beginning at 9 a.m. with book purchase. 212-253-0810 stores.barnesandnoble.com

Wed 28 ▲ INTERNET EXPLORERS CAVEAT, 21 A Clinton St. 9 p.m. $10 Caveat invites audiences into the World Wide Web for a night of HTML-arious laughs. Using algorithms, demonstrations, presentations and more, Upright Citizens Brigade alum Mark Vigeant will explore the lighter side of programming. 212-228-2100 caveat.nyc

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MONDAY, MARCH 26TH, 7PM The New School | 55 W. 13th St. | 212-229-5108 | newschool.edu If you’ve ever wondered about the divergences between Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton: An American Musical and the Founding Father himself, catch this panel discussion, which delves into the true story of a political and cultural legacy (free, registration required).

I Feel You: The Surprising Power of Extreme Empathy

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28TH, 7PM McNally Jackson | 52 Prince St. | 212-274-1160 | mcnallyjackson.com In her just-released new book, author Cris Beam takes on an emotion that’s simultaneously a trending buzzword and a key potential direction for progress. Along the way, she’ll talk about myths, science, and what’s going on in classrooms, court rooms, and prisons (free).

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TUESDAY, MAY 15TH, 7:30PM 92nd Street Y | 1395 Lexington Ave. | 212-415-5500 | 92y.org Ehud Barak, one of the most decorated soldiers in Israeli history, a classical pianist, and the tenth Prime Minister of Israel, will talk about the lifetime that led him to his proposal of a two-state solution. A book signing of his new memoir follows ($38).

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LowerManhattancommunitynewsletter Spring 2018

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Welcome to the NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine Lower Manhattan Community Newsletter from Dr. Judy Tung I am pleased to introduce myself to you in this inaugural issue of Weill Cornell

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Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian’s Lower Manhattan Community Newsletter. Although I have been with Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian for

With the proliferation of health information on television, social media and other communication channels, what role do Weill Cornell Medicine physicians have in Lower Manhattan and the greater community in educating NYC residents about their health?

and older. Colonoscopies and other screening tests can detect the

a dancing routine from children in the Brooklyn Chinese-American

cancer and other abnormal colorectal conditions at earlier stages

Association Headstart Program. The event was extremely well-

than ever before, meaning they often can be treated using minimally

received by both hospital employees and community members

invasive surgery.

alike, and demonstrated Lower Manhattan Hospital’s commitment to the Chinese Community Partnership for Health (CCPH) and the neighboring communities that it serves. The NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital’s CCPH was founded in 1993 with the cooperation and support of 35 member organizations, including family and fraternal associations, labor

spectrum of health. We provide acute, chronic and preventive care. Internists who serve as the focal point of outpatient care are

What should the community be on the lookout for in health trends in 2018?

for children, adults and seniors.

I think you will see the continuation of the shift from volume to value and an increase in access to technological forms of treatment, such as telemedicine. Through a €²¼¼t ²¿tə² with our hospital partner NewYork-Presbyterian, we are piloting a telehealth program that will allow patients to speak with a physician through an electronic device. It will be through these sorts of advancements that the doctorĤpatient relationship is further enforced. We see this being a potentially big development in 2018.

CCPH is a community-based initiative that has revolutionized the

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patients are hospitalists. Internists who pursue subspecialty training

Michael S. Virk, MD, PhD

span the ďŹ elds of cardiology, pulmonary, hematology-oncology, nephrology, infectious diseases, endocrinology, gastroenterology and rheumatology. All of these internal medicine doctors are found within the Department of Medicine at Lower Manhattan HospitalÄ” :Â‰Ă˜k²¿£ĤJ¿‰ Þɉ¿™tÂŹ 3²Ă˜Â‰Âż 9t—tÉÉtÂŹ &²ŸĂƒÂ™Ă‰tÂĽ represents, for me, the best of both worlds. Its remarkable history and loyalty to the community in which it serves creates an intimate and personal environment that is immediately palpable. Its relationship with NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center uptown allows for

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leaders, a traditional lion dance, roast pig carving ceremony, and

Weill Cornell Medicine plays an active role in educating the community beyond standard appointment times. Whether it is a wellness seminar held at one of our locations or a presentation at a community based organization, we strive to create a forum at which attendees not only hear about a particular health area of interest, but also provide a communicative atmosphere allowing for dialogue with our physicians. This communicative element is instrumental in exposing common questions, misconceptions or concerns from the community. As a physician, we can learn a lot about the Lower Manhattan community through these interactions.

16 years, I was proud to join the Lower

Daniel A. Barone, MD

That is absolutely right; the Lower Manhattan community is resilient, growing and very diverse. These are all important factors taken into consideration when a doctor treats a patient and is critical to an effective doctor-patient relationship. In order to be a physician afďŹ liated with Weill Cornell Medicine, one must be dedicated to excellence. What that means for patients is a reassurance you are getting the best, most compassionate care directly in your community.

NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital and Chinese Community Partnership for Health—Annual Lunar New Year Celebration

unions, garment manufacturers, community service organization, public schools, government agencies, physicians, and Lower Manhattan businesses and corporations. Developed with funds from a seed grant from the Starr Foundation, the William B. Butz Memorial Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, CCPH now depends solely on contributions and charitable foundations. The hospital provides medical support for CCPH with excellent medical services

delivery of healthcare to New York’s Chinese community. Its success in detecting and preventing chronic disease in many of the most vulnerable members of our community has allowed it to become a model program that —tĂƒ been replicated by other agencies. CCPH has served more than 207,360 people where they live and work. Some services that the partnership provides to the community include spirometry screening, breast and cervical cancer education and screening, postpartum visits by registered nurses, preventative diabetes education, an annual Lower Manhattan Wellness Day at the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, health education

seamless access to a wide variety of tertiary and highly specialized

workshops, u vaccinations and Hepatitis B and C screenings.

clinical services. I would like to invite our neighbors in downtown

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Manhattan and Brooklyn to take advantage of the world-class care

CCPH is driven by its mission statement: to broaden health care

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access, focus on preventive medicine, and provide educational opportunities and services to the Chinese population in the

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Weill Cornell Medicine Physicians Serving the Lower Manhattan Community at 156 William Street: A Conversation with Dr. Adam R. Stracher

community with a professional health team in a culturally sensitive fashion. Its objective is to meet the unmet healthcare needs of the Chinese community throughout New York City with respect for Chinese culture, traditions and heritage.

2012. Since then, the institution’s presence in has slowly grown to meet and pediatrics. Now, under the leadership of recently named President and CEO Dr. Robert Min, Weill Cornell Medicine’s Physician’s Organization is uniquely positioned to continue to grow to serve the dynamic needs of the Lower Manhattan community. We had a moment

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done. They may fear pain during the procedure itself, ďŹ nd the bowel prep daunting, or have anxiety over what the doctor will ďŹ nd. The American Cancer Society recommends that men and women at average risk for developing colorectal cancer should be screened every 10 years, starting at age 50. In addition to colonoscopy, some other screening methods include: sigmoidoscopy, fecal occult blood test (FOBT) and fecal immunochemical test (FIT), Virtual colonoscopy, or Stool DNA test. Although the majority of colorectal cancer cases occur after age 60, the number of people diagnosed in this age group is on the decline, thanks to the national screening recommendation that people of average risk begin screening at age 50. Recently, however, there has been an alarming increase in colon and rectal cancer cases among younger adults. The reasons for the uptick in this younger population are still a matter for debate. Currently, screening is not routinely offered to those under 50. The lack of awareness about

Colorectal Cancer: Early Detection Can Save Your Life

stool, weight loss, anemia, abdominal pain, and a change in bowel

In February 2000, President Bill Clinton ofďŹ cially dedicated March as

may not seek medical attention when they should. Lastly, genetics

National Colon Cancer Awareness Month. Since then, it has grown

and family history may predispose a younger person to develop the

to be a rallying point to raise awareness about the disease and the

disease at an earlier age.

importance of early screening to help prevent it. Colon cancer is

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one of the most curable cancers, yet it remains the #2 cancer killer in

simple things you can do to help decrease the risk of developing

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colorectal cancer. These include regular screenings; maintaining a

important to remember, early screenings are critical. Colorectal

healthy weight; engaging in regular physical activity, eating a diet

cancer develops in the colon or the rectum. The colon and rectum

rich in fresh fruits, whole grains and lean meats; drinking alcohol in

together form the large intestines. The disease affects people in all

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INSIDE THE BOX Joseph Cornell’s assemblages at The Met BY MARY GREGORY

Juan Gris’s Cubist masterpiece “The Man at the Café” started a 13-year artistic journey for Joseph Cornell. Photo: Adel Gorgy Joseph Cornell’s Surrealist tricks and tendencies are on display in “Untitled (Le Soir),” part of the exhibit “Birds of a Feather: Joseph Cornell’s Homage to Juan Gris,” at The Met Fifth Avenue through April 15. Photo: Adel Gorgy

Joseph Cornell, “Grand Hotel Bon Port” (late 1950s). Photo: Adel Gorgy

Joseph Cornell’s “Untitled (Juan Gris Series, Black Cockatoo Silhouette).” Photo: Adel Gorgy

On October 21, 1953, New York artist Joseph Cornell was out visiting galleries. He stopped into the Sidney Janis Gallery on West 57th Street and encountered Cubist painter Juan Gris’s 1914 collage “The Man at the Café.” It was a painting that he would never forget and one that would deeply affect his own work. Over the course of 13 years, Cornell created a series that expressed the echoes pinging his artistic consciousness from that first encounter. Both the Gris painting and several of Cornell’s responses are joined together in The Met Fifth Avenue’s thoughtful exhibition, “Birds of a Feather: Joseph Cornell’s Homage to Juan Gris” on view through April 15. Gris’s painting is a symphony of space — positive and negative, crammed and empty. It’s populated by the shadow of a figure who never appears. Painted in brown, blue and gray, incorporating newspapers and paintings of newspapers, fractured forms and repeated motifs, it’s a portrait of a mystery, a Cubist conundrum. An absent man is hidden behind a newspaper. The shadow of his hat is seen from multiple perspectives. His knuckles grip the edges of a page from Le Matin containing an article titled “The Bertillon Method / One will no longer be able to make fake works of art.” Bertillon was a forensic expert and proponent of fingerprinting. The whole painting reads like a delightful art pun as seen through a detective film noir. That same kind of mystery suffuses Cornell’s work. His Surrealist shadow boxes, filled with found objects, carefully collected and curated, laid the foundations for generations of assemblage and installation artists. Cornell’s complex miniature dream-like tableaux fit inside roughly cigar-box sized cases. Full of birds and maps, they present both constraints and freedom at once, as was fitting for the artist. Cornell, a recluse who lived in Queens in a small house with his mother and his disabled brother, possessed expansive

knowledge joined with insatiable curiosity and an exquisite artistic sensibility. So admired was Cornell’s vision that, though he never left New York, the art world came to him. He was friends with Duchamp, Motherwell, Rothko, de Kooning and Warhol. He had a chaste but long-term love affair with Japanese avant-garde artist, Yayoi Kusama, whose dots and infinities mirrored Cornell’s obsessive nature. Eventually, though, she withdrew from his intensity. Ultimately, Cornell lived in his imagination and his work. Within his diminutive cases, constellations and stars, classical literature, magazines, movie stars, works of art, random or studied things that appealed to the artist’s imagination were captured and then frozen behind glass in time and space. The boxes he based on Gris’s work, presented in the exhibition, feature a great white-crested cockatoo from an image he found in a 19th century print. He photocopied it, cut and pasted it or its shadow onto wooden forms or directly to the boxes and then filled them with other objects. In works like “Untitled (Le Soir)” from 1953–54, Cornell plays with reality and illusion, a favorite Surrealist trick. Rather than introducing pictorial elements like lines, circles or spheres, he inserts a birdcage bar, a ring and a ball, blurring the divide between art and life. The work also includes mirrors, a twist that brings the outside in and allows snippets of the viewer to become part of the scene. Curated by Mary Clare McKinley, “Birds of a Feather” inaugurates the museum’s planned series of exhibitions delving into Cubism. It’s designed to welcome and engage audiences with the extraordinary Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection, from which Gris’s exquisite painting is a promised gift. The exhibition offers a rare in-depth glimpse into the mind of a quiet New York artist who never achieved global fame but profoundly influenced the course of art. Self-taught, compulsive, an outsider who ran with the in-crowd, Joseph Cornell produced boxes filled with mystery and magic. They draw you close, entice you to enter, captivate with their secrets, and maybe, if you look carefully, allow you to enter their artist-made worlds.

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The Hairy Lemon

28 Avenue B

Not Yet Graded (31) Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.

The Lost Lady

171 Avenue C

Not Yet Graded (20) 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. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

MAR 7 - 13, 2018 The following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s website and include the most recent inspection and grade reports listed. We have included every restaurant listed during this time within the zip codes of our neighborhoods. Some reports list numbers with their explanations; these are the number of violation points a restaurant has received. To see more information on restaurant grades, visit www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/services/restaurant-inspection.shtml. The Gray Mare

61 2 Avenue

A

Paul & Jimmy’s Restaurant 123 East 18 Street

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Beecher’s Handmade Cheese

Grade Pending (26) 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. Tobacco use, eating, or drinking from open container in food preparation, food storage or dishwashing area observed. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream

181 Waverly Pl

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Starbucks

93 Greenwich Avenue

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The Otheroom

143 Perry Street

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900 Broadway

The Standard East Village

25 Cooper Square

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Waverly Restaurant

385 6 Avenue

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Be Juice

121 University Pl

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Bobo Restaurant

181 West 10 Street

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Coffee Project Ny

239 E 5th St

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Wild

535 Hudson Street

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Cheers Cut

36 Saint Marks Pl

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Clover Grocery

A

Tableside Italian Cook Shoppe

345 E 6th St

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259 Avenue Of Americas

Burrito Loco

166 West 4 Street

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The Kitchen Sink

88 2 Avenue

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Sanpanino

494 Hudson Street

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Regal Union Square Stadium 14

850 Broadway

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Le Pain Quotidien

550 Hudson Street

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Davidstea

275 Bleecker Street

City Gourmet

238 East 14 Street

A

Risotteria Melotti

309 East 5 Street

A

Grade Pending (18) Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Wendy’s

20 E 14th St

A

Carma Asian Tapas

38 Carmine St

Sarita’s Mac & Cheese

197 1st Ave

A

Bowery Electric

327 Bowery

A

Grade Pending (8) Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Nicoletta

160 2 Avenue

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Jekyll And Hyde

91 7th Ave S

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The Library

7 Avenue A

A

Fairfax

234 W 4th St

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Double Wide Bar

503 East 12 Street

Grade Pending (33) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/ or non-food areas.

Good Stock

31 Carmine St

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Popbar

5 Carmine Street

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El Toro Blanco

10 Downing Street

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The Spring Lounge

48 Spring Street

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Sweet & Vicious

5 Spring Street

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Percy’s Pizza

190 Bleeker Street

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Tacombi At Fonda Nolita

267 Elizabeth Street

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Cafe Integral

149 Elizabeth St

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Two Boots

42 Avenue A

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Michelle Restaurant

125 Avenue D

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Giano

126 East 7 Street

Grade Pending (19) 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.

Tompkins Square Bar

110 Avenue A

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Nom Wah

10 Kenmare St

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Zadie’s Oyster Room

413 East 12 Street

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Milk Bar Nolita

246 Mott St

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Dunkin’ Donuts

266 1 Avenue

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Villa Mosconi Restaurant

69 Macdougal Street

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Quintessence Restaurant

263 E 10th St

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Slainte

304 Bowery

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Ichibantei

401 E 13th St

Grade Pending (22) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/ or non-food areas.

Hecho En Dumbo

354 Bowery

Grade Pending (20) 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.

The Little Prince

199 Prince Street

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Surya Indian Cuisine

154 Bleecker St

Grade Pending (26) 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. Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.

Goa Taco

101 Macdougal St

Grade Pending (2)

Gelarto

145 Avenue A

Grade Pending (17) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Sugar Sketch

172 E 2nd St

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Dun-Well Doughnuts

102 Saint Marks Pl

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Cafe Cluny

284 West 12 Street

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NIXON CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

Police seized over 200 electric bicycles in the first six weeks of 2018, including these two by officers from the Upper West Side’s 24th Precinct. Photo: NYPD, via Twitter

E-BIKES CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 A number of precincts have used social media to publicize seizures in recent months, posting photos of impounded e-bikes online. “Illegal #EBikes for as far as the eyes can see,” read one caption accompanying images posted to Twitter by the NYPD’s 19th Precinct in January. “All confiscated from the #UpperEastSide streets & sidewalks.” The city issued nearly 1,800 summonses related to e-bike use in 2017, as compared to roughly 1,200 in 2016. Due to e-bikes’ status under the law — illegal to operate on city streets, but legal to own — riders who have been subjected to confiscations are able to recover their e-bikes in short order after paying a fine of up to $500 — or, alternatively, can opt to outfit a new bike with a motor kit, some of which can be purchased for less than the cost of the fine. Critics claim that fining riders does little to keep e-bikes permanently off the street and unfairly punishes delivery workers, who make up a significant portion of the city’s e-bike ridership. In hopes of reducing the number of delivery workers using e-bikes, the de Blasio administration instituted a new policy at the beginning of the year that targets businesses that employ e-bike riders. As of 2018, businesses that use e-bikes or allow employees to use them are now subject to fines of $100 for the first offense and $200 for each subsequent

offense. Though riders can still be subjected to fines and confiscation, the mayor said that the policy would help hold accountable “those at the top of the food chain.” “We did not want them to bear the brunt for an illegality that was actually being created by the stores and the restaurants they were working for,” de Blasio said of delivery riders at a January town hall meeting on the Upper East Side. “You will see more and more NYPD activity to make sure there are not e-bikes creating a safety problem in this city,” he added. Though the administration has cast the crackdown as a safety issue, data on the hazards caused by ebike use is limited. The city does not track e-bike collisions or injuries as a distinct category, and some police precincts that have communicated data have reported few incidents involving e-bikes. Of the 58 bicycle collisions recorded last year by the Upper West Side’s 20th Precinct, for example, only one involved an e-bike. One bill currently before the City Council, introduced by Brooklyn Council Member Brad Lander, would assemble an interagency e-bike task force comprised of representatives from the city’s Transportation, City Planning and Parks Departments, as well as other transportation and bicycle use experts appointed by the mayor and council, charged with the goal of developing safety and legislative recommendations regarding e-bike use. Michael Garofalo: reporter@strausnews. com

Starting with George Clinton in 1777 and continuing all the way up to Cuomo, New York has had 56 governors in 241 years — and not a single one has been a woman. More than 2,000 governors have held office across the U.S. since the founding of the republic – and all but 39 have been men, according to data provided by the Center for American Women and Politics. And today? Nearly a century after women got the vote nationwide, the 50 statehouses boast only six women governors — two Democrats and four Republicans, or 12 percent — down from a peak of nine in 2007. Expect that tally to rise, perhaps dramatically, in November, fueled by the #MeToo movement, a surge in political fundraising for women and the drive to fix, or supplant, a broken maledominated system. Indeed, 80 female candidates have either filed to run in the 2018 gubernatorial elections or are likely to do so – and if that number holds, it will shatter the record of 34 women who filed in 1994, CAWP says. Enter Cynthia Nixon, a longtime Upper West Sider, one of the most gifted Broadway performers of her generation, part of a quartet that rocketed to global fame with “Sex and the City,” and perhaps the only candidate whose theatrical portrait adorns the wall of Sardi’s. The 51-year-old public school advocate, LGBT activist, left-of-center progressive — and longtime friend and supporter of de Blasio – will face enormous hurdles in her insurgent challenge to Cuomo. A two-term incumbent who has made no secret of his quest to lock up a third term by a landslide margin, Cuomo has amassed a bloated $30.5 million campaign account to do just that, so he won’t be easy to topple.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and first lady Chirlane McCray visit backstage with Cynthia Nixon after watching the actor in a performance of“The Little Foxes” at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater in Midtown Manhattan on May 12, 2017. Nixon announced Monday that she is bidding for the Democratic nomination in the New York governor’s race. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office Her private life also evolved. In 2003, she had broken up with boyfriend Danny Mozes after a 15-year relationship that produced two children, including daughter Samantha, who was bat mitzvahed at B’nai Jeshurun Synagogue on West 88th Street. By 2004, she had fallen in love with a woman who she met at a rally to support public education, Christine Marinoni, then the director of the Alliance for Quality Education, a union-backed advocacy group that’s long blasted Cuomo for his support of charter schools. And in very theatrical fashion, Nixon trumpeted their engagement on a street corner, Sixth Avenue and 45th Street, during the “Love, Peace and Marriage Equality Rally” in May 2009 to support same-sex marriage, which had yet to be legalized. Two years later, the couple had a son, and in 2012, they wed. “It’s the perfect personal and professional resume,” said Lisa Wagner, a paralegal and actor active in gay politics in Chelsea who said she found inspiration both in Nixon’s life story and that of the fictional Miranda. “I’d vote for her if she ran for borough president or mayor or governor or president or anything else you can think of,” Wagner added.

LIFE AFTER MIRANDA But Nixon — Hunter College High School, class of 1984, Barnard College, class of 1988 — is the classic New York success story, the overachieving child actor who made her TV debut in 1976 as a 9-year-old imposter on “To Tell the Truth,” and any uphill, upstart campaign she undertakes cannot be so easily dismissed. Best known for inhabiting the role of Miranda Hobbes, the long-single, later-married, working attorney-mom she created for HBO’s “Sex and the City” from 1998 to 2004, she changed course almost from the moment the series came to an end, embarking on a very personal de-Hobbesification process. First, Nixon returned to her first love, the theater, not that she’d ever really left it, winning two Tony Awards, for “Rabbit Hole” in 2006 and “The Little Foxes” in 2017, and a third Tony nomination. Along the way, she scooped up two Emmys and a Grammy.

POLITICAL PATRON AT CITY HALL Of course, Nixon will need big-time help mastering the nuts-and-bolts of a maiden campaign as she plunges into the fray. In addition to multi-million dollar fundraising, she’ll have to circulate nominating petitions, collect 15,000 legitimate signatures statewide in a five-week window between June 5 and July 12 and meet numerous state Board of Election filing deadlines. And that’s where the de Blasio connection comes in: “The view of the statehouse is that she’s a creature of the mayor,” said George Arzt, the Democratic political strategist who served as Mayor Ed Koch’s third-term press secretary. In fact, Nixon has lined up Bill Hyers, the manager of de Blasio’s 2013 campaign, and Rebecca Katz, a longtime aide, both of Brooklyn-based Hilltop Public Solutions, and was recently spotted with an associate of Hyers and

a camera crew filming on the streets of SoHo. Shortly before she declared her candidacy, Katz said it was “premature” to discuss any political endeavors and referred calls to a Rebecca Capellan, a Nixon publicist who has worked on Tony and Emmy campaigns. Capellan didn’t return messages. Will de Blasio go to the mat for Nixon, who has campaigned for him, contributed to his races, huddled with him at City Hall and took the stage at his inaugurations in 2014 and 2018? “The mayor will not be front and center, but he’ll operate behind the scenes and through surrogates,” Arzt said. “He doesn’t want more of an allout war with the governor than he already has.” If Nixon hopes to vie in the September 13 primary, she’ll need to find a rationale for dislodging the incumbent: “You need a stellar argument, lots of money, plenty of experience, and huge numbers of people who will turn out for you,” said Democratic political consultant Hank Sheinkopf, who has worked on the campaigns of Bill Clinton and Mike Bloomberg and helped derail Cuomo in his failed gubernatorial bid in 2002. “The rationale for running against him from the left is hard to find when he’s passed gay marriage, stopped fracking and enacted the toughest gun laws in the country,” he added. “It can’t just be that de Blasio wants to give the governor a headache.” How will the New York electorate cotton to an actor-turned-politicianand-would-be-dragon slayer as she morphs into a serious candidate? “California has a tradition of going to the stage or the screen to pick its leaders – think Ronald Reagan, George Murphy, Sonny Bono, Clint Eastwood, even a body-builder like Arnold Schwarzenegger,” said Mitchell Moss, professor of urban policy and planning at New York University and an occasional adviser to the Cuomo family. “In New York, we tend to pick people from the real world, not the fantasy world,” Moss added. “We pick doers, not performers.” Douglas Feiden: invreporter@strausnews. com

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We live in apartment #1D, which in our building is actually the second floor above the lobby level apartments. Our listing has lingered on the market for months without much activity with our current broker. We interviewed several new brokers to take over the listing and they all agree that it’s priced right and it is in wonderful move-in condition. One said that first floor apartment tend to have a stigma as buyers oftentimes eliminate seeing them as they assume that they have bars on the windows or look out onto the street or the back of the building. Are there any strategies we can employ? I’ve been down this road before and a little ingenuity goes along way. When I met with my seller, who was in a similar position, I discussed the challenges that this presented and we decided to remove any reference to the apartment number in our marketing efforts. Whenever we received an inquiry, we were able to elaborate on this at length. For open houses, we posted a sign in the lobby indicating the apartment number. Our strategy paid off when we were presented with a healthy offer! Andrew Kramer is a licensed associate real estate broker with Brown Harris Stevens Residential Sales

Healthy eating in the city can seem like a challenge, especially when we’re always on the go. For better or worse, convenience foods and fast-food stops certainly make our busy lives easier. Luckily, New York is full of “good junk foods” to grab before a meeting, after a gym class or on the way to the next adventure. Good fast food in the city runs the gamut from dishes with wholesome plant bases, to open markets with a variety of fresh and fun selections, to quick-moving salad joints tailored to your tastes. A look at some of the best fast foods in the city:

Blossom du Jour Blossom du Jour is the perfect culinary combination — delicious fried food that is one hundred percent vegan. With locations in Chelsea, Midtown West, and the Upper West Side, there’s no place in town where they aren’t accessible. The menu includes smash

hits like buffalo cauliflower bites (with Caesar dressing) and butterfinger milkshakes. From mac n’ cheese to Philly fries to Sloppy Jack (BBQ jackfruit sandwich), everything on the menu is plantbased, making this grab-and-go junk food with a conscience. And they have much more than fried food. If you’re looking for something fresh and fast, the menu includes a good selection of grain bowls and salads. For dessert, don’t forget to pick up a chocolate chip cookie or date-based brownie. Blossom du Jour is a one-stopshop for plant-based goodies on the run.

Gansevoort Market The Meatpacking District is a cultural hub in the city. It’s packed with museums, galleries, restaurants and the stunning High Line, which is perfect for a sunny stroll — if you have the time. But if you work in the Meatpacking District, you’re likely to be constantly on the move, running from place to place for meetings or conferences or classes or events. You probably don’t have time to sit in one of the many beautiful restaurants in the area and order a full meal. Thankfully, there’s the Gansevoort Market to the rescue. Think of the Gan-

sevoort Market like a food court, but unlike your hometown mall, the choices are diverse and all of the ingredients are fresh. Lunch options include Burger, Inc. burgers, Gotham Poke, Luzzo’s Neapolitan Pizza and Mission Ceviche. Talk about variety: each choice is packed with flavorful, nutritious cuisine that you can take on the road with you. And don’t forget to stop by Dana’s Bakery on your way out for “not your ordinary” macarons.

Sweetgreen Fast casual isn’t just for Chipotle anymore. Sweetgreen is slowly taking over the city, and for good reason. With an overwhelming eighteen locations sprinkled throughout the city (and two in Brooklyn!), Sweetgreen is a fast and fresh place for salads. Their menu is seasonal and boasts recommended combinations like the classic Kale Caesar salad, Guacamole Greens (mesclun, avocado, chicken, red onion, tomato, tortilla chips, lime cilantro jalapeno vinaigrette), Rad Thai (arugula, mesclun, bean sprouts, cabbage, spicy sunflower seeds, carrots, cucumbers, basil, citrus shrimp, spicy cashew dressing) and more. They have a wide variety of warm grain bowls if you aren’t in the

mood for salad. And you can always build your own bowl or salad, for the perfectly tailored lunch on the go. The only real criticism of Sweetgreen is that they don’t take cash in any of their locations, which could come across as a smidge elitist, but hey, who carries cash anymore?

Dig Inn For fast, fresh, seasonal ingredients and a well-rounded menu that provides options for everyone, Dig Inn is the place that stands out. Dig Inn has fourteen pickup locations, one delivery location and three to come in Manhattan. What’s fun about Dig Inn is that it’s easy to pick and choose what you’re looking for, whether you’re vegan, gluten-free, dairyfree, grain-free or just looking for quick and tasty roasted chicken. The foods they use to prepare their fast and friendly meals are seasonal and nutritious. Food here is sourced mindfully and conscious of the time and year. At the same time, it’s priced affordably and offers a great quick lunch. Try their grain bowls or salads, or go for the instant classic — the Farmer’s Favorite Market Bowl — where you get to skip the main and load up on any three sides you want.

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A BROADWAY FUSION LIKE NO OTHER The operatic soprano Alyson Cambridge will rock out in her Great White Way debut BY HEATHER E. STEIN

“Rocktopia,” now in previews, begins a limited six-week engagement on Broadway March 27. Created by Broadway veteran Rob Evan and conductor Randall Craig Fleischer, the rule-busting extravaganza features state-of-the art lighting and video projections. The New York Contemporary Symphony Orchestra and a choir will be performing with a rock band at the Broadway Theatre. The soprano and Upper West Sider Alyson Cambridge, who makes her Broadway debut in the extravaganza, shared some thoughts about the show.

Tell us what comes to mind when you hear “Rocktopia”? Well, first it is a unique and an original creation thanks to creators Rob Evan and Randy Fleischer. “Rocktopia” is really a classical revolution — it is the amazing fusion between the classical: Puccini, Mozart, Handel, Beethoven and rock classics: everything from Led Zeppelin to Queen to Pink Floyd to Elton John. It is the combining of these two musical worlds in a symbiotic way that’s never been done before. You can be singing an aria one moment and then can be rockin’ out to a song in the next minute ... this is my first time with the production. I had never heard anything like “Rocktopia” before. It’s a special show!

As a classically trained opera star what songs will you sing in your Broadway debut in “Rocktopia”? I sing Handel’s “Lascia ch’io pianga,” which then gets mashed up with Tony Vincent singing Elton John’s “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me.” I do Puccini’s “Nessun dorma” and “Quando men vo” with Rob Evan, “Ode to Joy,” “Something,” Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” and Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’”.... It’s quite the mix of songs!

Will you be singing R&B and rock? What other voices and music might we hear and know? I definitely get to exercise my rock chops a bit in this show, R&B not as much. My role in this show is really to be the featured operatic female voice, in contrast to the rock voices (of Chloe Lowery and Kimberly Nichole), but it’s fun when I get to use the other parts of my voice as well!

What sort of training did you have to do for this show in order to step out of classic mode? Even though the majority of my career has been operatic and classically based, I grew up loving and singing other styles. In 2016, I released a crossover/jazz/pop album called “Until Now,” and in preparing for that I coached with pianists and teachers who were based on those genres, so I have developed similar but different techniques for the different vocal styles required of me in “Rocktopia.”

How did this extravaganza come about and how did you assume the role of one of five world class vocalists in this epic concert experience? About three years ago, I worked with a wonderful conductor, composer and arranger, Kim Scharnberg. We had performed at the Ford’s Theater gala in Washington, D.C., and had a wonderful experience working together. He heard me sing an aria and I did a Beyoncé tune and he thought ... “Wait a minute, here’s a girl who is from the opera world who is actually ctua y well e versed in the pop world and d she might be a great fit for this project” ct” so then I was introduced to the rest of the team. I auditioned for them a few ew months ago and it all came to fruition on and here I am. Rob Evan, one of the creators of “Rocktopia” and I also sang ng at Kim’s wedding!

“Rocktopia” brings your voice ce to the greatest classical music fused ed with the most amazing classic rock songs ongs of the past century. What do you think hink the audience will feel and hear during uring this live experience? I think they are going to love the variety and be really lly surprised. It combines so many different genres of music, styles, composerss and bands from Puccini to o Beethoven, to Queen to Pink k Floyd. Bach, Beethoven and d Puccini were the rock starss of their day, so this is about ut translating them into the he modern times along with th the rock stars who are their ir contemporaries today and so you have passion that’s natuural in classical music and you ou still feel it in today’s popular lar and rock music and so this fusion makes sense and works orks incredibly well together. I think hink what audiences are really going to like about this show iss that there is something for everybody. ybody.

“Rocktopia” begins a limited six-week engagement on Broadway March 27. Photo courtersy of “Rocktopia” You may come in having no experience hearing an opera before or an opera aria and be surprised how you’re transported into another rock song and the fusion together is, I believe, going to blow audiences away.

With no language barriers or story line to “Rocktopia,” what do you hope the show conveys to the audience and living on the West Side and a principal artist with the Met Opera for over the course of eight g seasons do you y see this crossover show as making opera hip? “Rocktopia,” for me, is all about changing lanes. I’ve always want-

ed to sing and perform in different genres. I am thrilled, honored, loving every chance I get to change people’s perceptions of opera. I want people to see that opera and classical music are cool, sexy, fun and powerful. There are no language barriers. It’s all about the music. And I think Broadway is the perfect place for “Rocktopia” because it’s going to bring in a new audience that is hearing some of these classical tunes and arias.

What sort of voice voi warm ups will you do dif different for your performance performanc in “Rocktopia” verses verse at The Met? My w warm-up routines, I think, are quite quit similar to many man singers ... lip ttrills throughout my range to start, star then vowels in mid-range, gradually gradua progressing to scales and other exercises that easily and healthily “s “stretch” my in both full range ra directions. This show direction demands a lot of me demand vocally in several different ways, so a differe proper warm up is paramount. As for param

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food/drink pre-show — I’m unconventional in that I don’t drink tea, I actually drink lots of coffee and religiously have either a tuna and spinach sandwich on gluten-free bread or a tuna sushi roll with brown rice ... and a banana! This has been my “pre-game” ritual since college!!!

What is self-preparation for Broadway like? Practice, practice, practice. Working on Broadway is not only about crazy talent, but also about endurance. In opera, we typically have several days between performances. On Broadway, we have 8 shows a week! So, for me, it was about not only keeping my operatic range stretched and diverse, but also on a consistently high level 24/7. There is no down time.... it’s all about endurance — and sounding great!

Some advice for young aspiring opera singers? For young singers, I think there are a couple things to always keep in mind: besides working hard and practice – one should get used to hearing “no.” You will hear it more than “yes.” Perseverance is key, so stay strong. Be on time and always professional and always be a good colleague. You have to truly love what you do. If you don’t, it is hard to stay engaged and enthused.... But when you do the reward is sooooo great.

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PUBLIC AUCTION NOTICE OF SALE OF COOPERATIVE APARMENT SECURITY PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: By Virtue of a Default under Loan Security Agreement, and other Security Documents, Karen Loiacano, Auctioneer, License #DCA1435601 or Jessica L Prince-Clateman, Auctioneer, License #1097640 or Vincent DeAngelis Auctioneer, License #1127571 will sell at public auction, with reserve, on April 11, 2018, in the Rotunda of the New York County Courthouse, 60 Centre Street, New York, NY 10007, commencing at 12:45pm for the following account: Donald Weber a/k/a Donald A. Weber, as borrower, 64 shares of capital stock of 350-52-54 W. 12th Street Owners Corp. and all right, title and interest in the Proprietary Lease to 354 West 12th Street, Unit 1D, New York, NY 10014 Sale held to enforce rights of CitiBank, N.A., who reserves the right to bid. Ten percent (10%) Bank/Certified check required at sale, balance due at closing within thirty (30) days. The Cooperative Apartment will be sold “AS IS” and possession is to be obtained by the purchaser. Pursuant to Section 201 of the Lien Law you must answer within 10 days from receipt of this notice in which redemption of the above captioned premises can occur. There is presently an outstanding debt owed to CitiBank, N.A. (lender) as of the date of this notice in the amount of $340,638.75. This figure is for the outstanding balance due under UCC1, which was secured by Financing Statement in favor of CitiBank, N.A. recorded on April 26, 2007 under CRFN 2007000217862.

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