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STILL SEEKING ANSWERS IN A NINE-YEAR-OLD CASE NEWS State senator intervenes in NYPD records request

BY KYLE POPE

For nine years, Ryan Casey has been trying to figure out how he fell out of a fifth-floor window in Chelsea and nearly died. Now, a state senator has stepped forward to help him get some answers from the NYPD. The effort by Manhattan Sen. Brad Hoylman comes in response to a first-person story Casey wrote for this newspaper in November about what happened on Nov. 12, 2006. That night, Casey, then 18 years old, went

mother says, “People don’t just crawl out five-story windows.” The police tell my mother, “This is what happens to young men in Chelsea who go off and find themselves.” Casey, now an actor and model in the city, has spent recent years doubting, to himself, the official version of events. The notion that he intentionally jumped, he wrote, doesn’t make sense, raising the very scary notion that he could have been pushed.

Here’s what I know: I was far from suicidal at this moment in my life. As I said, I had just started to identify as a gay man and was exploring New York City after leaving the only town I had ever known. The last thing I wanted to do this night was die.

to a party with friends, then left for a nearby apartment along with a man he didn’t know. Casey’s next memory was of waking up at St. Vincent’s Hospital two weeks later, with injuries so extensive that he was placed in a medically induced coma for several days.

The police report at the time quoted the man he was with saying he had jumped out of the window, and his parents were told the same thing.

Casey writes in his piece: The police tell my family what happened. My brother shows the police a business card of an established lawyer based in Manhattan. The police tell my brother and father, “It’s better if you leave this alone.” The police mutter the words mafia to my father. My

Beginning in the weeks immediately after the fall, Casey has fought the NYPD to get information about his own case. The only copies of the police report he has seen, for instance, blacked out the name of the man he was with, and Casey was told in his initial visits to Chelsea’s 10th Precinct that there wasn’t much that could be done to help him. “They said it’s your word against his,” he said in an interview this week. “I didn’t puruse it after that.”

In August of last year, after he had to go back to the hospital to have pins removed from his leg as a result of the fall, he began working again to piece

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SEAPORT MUSEUM SETS SAIL AGAIN Downtown institution reopens more than three years after Hurricane Sandy’s devastation

BY EMILY TOWNER

When Hurricane Sandy pummeled the Coastal Mid-Atlantic in October 2012, lower Manhattan’s historic South Street Seaport Museum was among its casualties.

While staff and others clocked hundreds of man-hours into piling sandbags and securing the museum’s fleet of historic ships, no one expected that more than seven feet of water would eventually flood the museum’s lobby.

“There’s really nothing you can do at that point,” the museum’s executive director, Jonathan Boulware, said recently. “Our buildings flooded in the basements before the streets even flooded. The streets are so porous; this

section of Manhattan is a sponge.”

The collection, housed in storage on the third and fourth floor, was spared damage from the storm. But the hurricane exacted serious structural damage to the museum’s building and destroyed all its mechanical and electrical facets, including elevators, escalators and heating and cooling systems. The museum would remain largely inaccessible for more than three years.

A $10.4 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency last year enabled a restoration to quickly take shape and on March 17, the museum opened its first exhibition since the storm. “Street of Ships: The Port and Its People” is on display in the lobby, as refurbishment of the upper floors continues. It’s nevertheless a critical first step in the institu-

tion’s revival.

“We are still in a very much postSandy era,” Boulware said. “The larger project is still in the works.”

Boulware called the federal grant “a great start, but not a complete project.” Administrators are still looking for additional funding to get the museum fully operational, he said.

Sandy was the latest in a series of challenges. “9/11 had a multilayered impact. We had zero visitors for nearly two years,” Boulware said. “Additionally, we struggled after the economic downturn of the late 2000s and then Hurricane Sandy was a very devastating blow. But we are very much on the right track now. This is the next phase of the museum’s life.”

The reopening exhibition aims to

The South Street Seaport Museum has reopened, more than three years after Hurricane Sandy devastated the Fulton Street institution’s basement, lobby and much of its infrastructure. Photo: Emily Towner

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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.

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WHAT’S MAKING NEWS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD TRANSIT TRANSGRESSOR’S STORY BOUND FOR BIG SCREEN

Darius McCollum as pictured on a Metropolitan Transportation Authority flyer.

Darius McCollum has spent much of his life thinking about the city’s transit system but never in any official capacity. Since he was in his teens, McCollum has climbed aboard city buses, into a subway operator’s cabin or into various roles within the transit system. It’s brought him plenty of trouble, and lots of time behind bars.

McCollum, now 50 and in a Rikers Island jail cell for having appropriated a Greyhound bus from the Port Authority Bus Terminal last year, is about to have his story told through a feature film, one starring Julia Roberts as his lawyer, The New York Times reports. But the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, on several occasions the target of McCollum’s deeds, said it would act to claim any money he would make from the feature, The Times reported. The authority cited the so-called Son of Sam law, which was enacted to keep convicted serial killer David Berkowitz from making money from selling his story.

McCollum’s lawyer, Sally Butler, told The Times the M.T.A.’s would be chasing a trivial amount of money.

She would nevertheless fight the agency, she said.

“It’s not going to be such a significant amount that the M.T.A. would want to waste money on the team of lawyers they would need to pursue this,” Butler told the newspaper. “They will take it over my dead body.” Advocates for McCollum, who has Asperger’s syndrome, have long said he would be better served by treatment than punishment.

MORE FLOODING EXPECTED DOWNTOWN The Battery in Downtown has become gradually susceptible to the fallout from climate change, with one recent study suggesting that flooding there will increase, the Downtown Express reported.

The report, “Unnatural Coastal Floods: Sea level rise and the human fingerprint on U.S. floods since 1950,” by New Jersey nonprofit Climate Central, concludes that about half of the 63 “flood days” at the Battery between 1985 and 2014 were attributable to a rise in sea levels caused by human activity.

The incidence of flood days in that 30-year period was double that experienced in three previous decades, according to the study.

The study’s authors say that the “dramatic effects” of the rise in sea levels caused by humans might be

understated. The rise in sea levels along the coast has quickened since 1975, they wrote.

HUDSON YARDS 7 TRAIN STATION LEAKING The subway’s newest station, 34th Street-Hudson Yards, is leaking, DNAinfo reported. Riders have reported leaks, mold and bathroom flooding, in addition to problems with the escalators.

The news site reported that in 2010, the MTA hired Yonkers Contracting Company for waterproofing, excavating and mining work at the station. In 2012, before the station opened, the MTA became aware of the problems and Yonkers attempted to fix them, but after the station opened late last year the chronic leaks continued.

The MTA has hired a contractor that specializes in fixing leaks, Sovereign Hydroseal, and the work done will be paid for by Yonkers Contracting. Yonkers will also clean and replace tiles affected by the leaks.

“The agency looks foolish as a result of this endeavor,” DNAinfo quoted authority board Vice Chairman Fernando Ferrer as saying. The repair work will cost approximately $3 million, the news site said.

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG

MAN FILES $30 MILLION CLAIM IN CRANE COLLAPSE A man who was injured after a large construction crane collapsed in New York City last month has filed a $30 million claim against the city.

The New York Daily News reports 73-year-old Thomas O’Brien, of North Easton, Massachusetts, filed the notice of claim.

O’Brien says he was sitting in his parked car when the crane’s boom crashed down on the car’s roof Feb. 5. He alleges the city was negligent in monitoring the Manhattan construc-

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The crane fell as it was being lowered amid roughly 20 mph winds in a snow squall. The cause is still under investigation.

Wall Street worker David Wichs was killed in the collapse. Three others, including O’Brien, were injured.

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O’Brien’s claim.

VARICK VARMINT A convenience store clerk was held up just after noon on Wednesday, March 9 on Varick Street, police said. The 33-year-old clerk, from Queens, told police a man about 19 entered the store, at Varick near Grand Street, got behind the

counter, held a black handgun to his head and told the man to “Give it up, motherf-----r!” The clerk handed over $300 and the gunman then fled southbound on Varick. No arrests have been made.

CRUSTACEAN CRIME A burglar netted quite a haul from a local lobster emporium.

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Sometime after 9:40 p.m. on March 9, someone entered the Luke’s Lobster store and restaurant at 26 South William St. while the business was closed and took $8,000 from two separate cash-registerdrawer safes plus a drop safe, neither of which appeared to have been forced open. The store is secured with two locked roll-down gates, which were also intact. A Luke’s employee told police that a recently terminated employee had not turned in his key to the basement safe and also knew the combination to the drawer safe. Otherwise, the store had issued nine sets of gate keys to employees and a food delivery crew.

CANTEEN FIEND Cash and a communication device were taken from the back of a truck parked on the northwest corner of Barclay Street and Broadway while its driver was loading items on the early afternoon of March 11.

The 29-year-old employee of a New Jersey vending company told police $1,500 inside four bags and stashed within a crate were taken, as was a Motorola

handheld device worth, $1,200.

NOT SO HANDY While a young Swiss woman took to the dance floor, her bag and its contents danced away.

Just after midnight on March 4, the 22-year-old woman put her purse on a hook at the bar in The Handy Liquor Bar on Broome Street. She then repaired to the establishment’s dance floor for about 10 minutes. It was missing when she returned.

The items stolen included a blue Michael Kors bag valued at $300, a gray iPhone 6s priced at $800, a red Burberry wallet worth $500, a pair of brown Ray-Ban glasses tagged at $200, $80 in cash, and a debit card.

HAULED Two cargo bikes could now be described as “carGONE.” At 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, March 8, a 46-year-old man left the vehicles secured but unattended in front of 46 White St. While he was away, an unknown thief made off with the two-wheelers. The Yuba Mundo V4 bikes are each valued at $800.

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LONDON TERRACE’S ‘CITY WITHIN A CITY’ By 1930, a Block-Wide ‘Shabby Gentility’ had been displaced by “modern luxury”

BY RANAAN GEBERER

In New York City, the manmade landscape frequently changes. But London Terrace, a block-wide luxury apartment complex bordered by Eighth and Ninth Avenues and 23rd and 24th Streets, has been a fixture of Chelsea since the early 1930s.

Like much in Chelsea, London Terrace’s story begins with Clement Clarke Moore, a wellknown Episcopal layman, professor at the General Theological Seminary, developer and, above all, author of “The Night Before Christmas.” Starting in the 1820s, Moore began dividing his estate, known as Chelsea, into lots and building houses.

In 1845, according to Andrew Alpern’s “Luxury Apartment Houses of Manhattan,” excerpted on londonterracetowers.com, Moore erected a row of Greek Revival townhouses, which he called London Terrace, on 23rd Street. On 24th Street, he built the Chelsea Cottages, described by Alpern as “wood-framed two-story houses for working people.”

Over the years, these houses began to deteriorate. Some of them were divided into apartments or rooming houses, while others were combined into homes for institutions.

The situation was tailor-made for developer Henry Mandel, who envisioned a grand luxury development that would entice tenants back to the older areas of the city. He hired the architectural Farrar & Watmaugh to design the Tuscan-styled complex.

Little by little, Mandel gained control of all 80 houses on the block. Save, for a time, a single residence. Mrs. Tillie Hart, of 429 West 23rd St., refused to leave. In a standoff that lasted months, she barricaded her door, and threw bricks, rocks and other items at anyone who

approached. When sheriffs finally broke in and carried her out, a crowd of people outside cheered, the New York Herald Tribune of Oct. 29, 1929, reported.

Soon afterward, on Dec. 18, 1929, Clement Clarke Moore — the great-great grandson of the original Clement Clarke Moore — laid the cornerstone for Mandel’s new development.

In May, the first two buildings opened for rental. The Herald Tribune of May 11, 1930, quoted the managing agent, Charles Weingart, as saying that the development had replaced “shabby gentility” (the original houses) with “modern luxury.”

According to Alpern, the project was completed in two phases, with the 10 inner buildings finished in 1930 and the four corner buildings completed the next year.

In their massive “New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars,” Robert A.M. Stern, Gregory F. Gilmartin and Thomas Melins put it thusly: “In many ways, London Terrace qualifies as a city within a city. It incorporated not only shops and housekeeping services, but also revolutionary features that included Manhattan’s largest swimming pool and a rooftop clubhouse.

Three restaurants served the complex, the most elegant of which overlooked the grand courtyard. A separate garage was built a block away.”

Among the other amenities were maid service, a message center and a fixit shop for household appliances. True to the development’s name, the doormen were dressed as London bobbies. The swimming pool was used by New York University’s swim team as well as by residents.

The tenants also had their own newsletter, known as the “Tatler.” The issue of January 1934, which is excerpted on the “Living the High Line” website, spotlighted the “West Side cowboys” who rode on horseback in front of street-level

London Terrace in 1992. Photo: Raanan Geberer freight trains on 10th Avenue to warn pedestrians—a phenomenon that the High Line soon made obsolete.

Throughout the early ‘30s, the Herald Tribune announced prominent citizens moving into London Terrace. Among them were attorneys, engineers, corporate executives, Wall Street brokers and other high-profile types, as well as many secretaries. At the development’s 1932 Christmas party, children were treated to a special Santa Claus — New York Yankees star Babe Ruth.

By the beginning of 1934, the complex was 94 percent rented.

While the early residents of London Terrace were having a great time, Mandel, the developer, wasn’t. According to the “Daytonian in Manhattan” website, “In March of 1932, he filed voluntary bankruptcy

with liabilities of $14 million and assets of $380,000. He owed $5.5 million on London Terrace alone.” Despite the legal morass, however, London Terrace continued to be a desirable address.

In the 1940s, it was divided into two developments: London Terrace Towers (the corner buildings), which now are co-ops; and London Terrace Gardens, the center buildings, which are still rentals.

Among notable residents who have lived in London Terrace, according to Wikipedia, are former first daughter Chelsea Clinton, singer Deborah Harry of Blondie, celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, author John O’Hara, former mayoral candidate Christine Quinn, essayist Susan Sontag, Bill Hader of “Saturday Night Live” and others.

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Chapter 4: Enter Charles

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 tell a narrative of the Seaport as an original incubator for the growth of New York as the center of world trade. The exhibition showcases works of art and artifacts from the museum’s permanent collections related to the 19th century history of the Port of New York. It examines the decisive role played by the 19th century Seaport at South Street — long known as the “Street of Ships” — in securing New York’s place as America’s largest city and its rise to become the world’s busiest port by the start of the 20th century.

“We have a collection of over 30,000 artifacts that tell the story of New York as a port city.

We have paintings, drawings, models, as well as archives from

downtown businesses and historical records,” said Martina Caruso, the museum’s collections manager. “’Street of Ships’ is not only the first exhibition since the reopening, but also the first time we are showing artifacts from the permanent collections in an exhibit,” she said. “Usually all of these artifacts are in storage for scholars and creators, but not really open to the public.”

The museum has been a leader in education and public programming that go beyond the museum’s four walls. A 15-month, $13 million restoration of a wrought-iron sailing ship built in 1885, the Wavertree, is set to be complete this summer, when the ship will return to the Seaport for year-round programming, including a “living laboratory” for STEM and other education programs.

WHAT: Street of Ships: The Port and its People WHERE: South Street Seaport Museum, 12 Fulton St. WHEN: Through 2016 southstreetseaportmuseum.org/ “We want to build anticipation for the return of Wavertree, the restoration, and really just the history of the district and how important this area is to the story of New York,” said William Roka, a scholar affiliated with the museum. “Before the Revolutionary War, New York was just one of several East Coast cities, and in a period of 50 years it became one of the largest, busiest ports and cities in the world.

It came a long way, and continues to do so. A lot of that comes down to this district.”

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One day in our building Eve got into the elevator with a man who was visiting a friend on another floor. This man called himself Charles. He was not Chuck. Chas either.

Charles was going to see someone he’d known in his childhood in Brooklyn, a high school friend named Larry. There were so many Larrys once. I don’t think I’ve seen a Larry baby ever.

Charles said to Eve, “What floor are you going to?” and Eve told him six.

Charles replied that he would like to come visit. How about now? he asked, more gentle than insistent. But still.

His friend Larry was a magician, and every week on Friday he’d join a table of other magicians, in a room in a midtown restaurant. They’d all eat pastrami sandwiches and do their tricks. Larry told me that once a man pulled a rabbit out of a hat and then they all ate it. Larry earned his living as a sound person at NBC. He was a huge man, really huge.

Elevator big. Larry could bring a friend to be part of the round table audience and that’s why Charles dropped by.

He was tiny, fastidious. Even his head seemed neatly positioned on his neck, and his neck actually seemed centered between his shoulders. His face was careful, controlled, and so were his hands. The day Eve saw him first, he was dressed in a neat black overcoat, even in the 80s when the rest of the world wore jackets. His coats did not give anyone the sense that he was entirely unemployed.

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About Eve, she was a person who was visually always amazing. Besides her face, her strong, memorable, very beautiful face, she wore red velvet dresses and painted gold shoes. The 80s was an unfettered time, and although the world was as difficult as always, we were young. We were free. We were living in New York City where god knows anything at all could happen.

Charles told Eve all about Larry, the first time he sat in our apartment.

He invited her to accompany him.

“Do you like magic?” he asked, knowing her answer.

Of course she said yes.

Funny what we remember, and what we don’t.

What I remember about that day, seeing Charles and Eve sitting on our deep velvet couch, our couch with incidental springs, was that they looked as though they belonged together. Who even knows what that means.

She called me in to join them. I was in our One Other Room, probably reading a novel. Reading a novel has always been my default position. There are always two or three or four right next to my bed.

I knew they were in the living room. I’d heard them come in.

“Naomi,” yelled Eve. She didn’t have to yell. Of course I was curious.

“We are roommates,” was the first thing I said.

“Obvious,” he replied. And then he half-laughed.

“I’ll tell you about myself, so you don’t have to ask,” he began.

And we were rapt, sitting in our bright yellow room, hearing this odd stranger telling us a thing or two about himself.

“I am my mother’s only child,” was the way he began.

This is the fourth installment of our first-ever serialized novel. For past chapters, check out www.otdowntown.com. For more on the writer, including a poem a day, go to www.esthercohen.com

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Photos by William Alatriste

PROTESTS CONTINUE AGAINST GROCERY STORE CLOSING For the second straight week, residents of Chelsea and Greenwich Village joined elected officials for a demonstration against the planned closing of a local grocery store.

The group picketed outside of 18 E. 50th St, the corporate offices of Pan Am Equities, the store’s landlord.

The West 14th Street Associated Supermarket is scheduled to close in May due to a dramatic rent increase -- from $32,000 a month to more than $100,000 a month -- demanded by Pan Am Equities.

The company has not responded to attempts by elected officials to discuss the store’s future.

“Pan Am Equities is demanding a truly unreasonable rent increase, leaving the store owners no choice but to close,” said Council Member Corey Johnson. “We are asking them to come to the table and negotiate a new lease with the store owner in good faith. No one should be forced to travel long distances to buy food, particularly seniors who are living on fixed incomes.”

together what happened that night, and once again was rebuffed by the NYPD. He filed a Freedom of Information Law request for the full police report, a request that was denied. He appealed that decision, and was told that he would receive a response to the appeal by the end of November.

It was at this point that he connected with Hoylman, who had read Casey’s initial essay in this newspaper. Hoylman approached the NYPD, in hopes of prodding the department to respond to the appeal.

Hoylman also was initially ignored.

Finally, in February -- two and a half months after Casey had been promised a response to his appeal -- Hoylman sent a letter to Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, asking that he intervene to get Casey the information he wanted. Finally, two weeks later, Casey was sent the information he had been seeking for years.

Hoylman, in an interview, said he was moved by Casey’s story, prompting him to want to help.

“I thought his story was interesting because it mirrors a lot of young LGBT people. They come to New York to find a new life,” Hoylman said. “I wasn’t too different in my youth.”

But Hoylman also acknowledged that Casey’s case points to systemic problems within the NYPD when it comes to access to information, particularly when the request is coming from crime victims themselves. “Should you have to hire an attorney and go to your state senator to get records about an incident where you presumably were the victim?”

Hoylman said he is looking at regulatory or legislative changes that would make it easier for victims to gain access to their own case files.

Casey is skeptical. Time and again, he said, the police were dismissive of his efforts for more information, or were so mired in bureaucracy as to be unhelpful; one of the people at the department he had repeatedly emailed about his case wrote that the information wouldn’t be turned over because Casey, the victim, was dead. “They just sort of ghosted us and never engaged again,” he said. “If it had not been for Brad stepping in, they would never have taken me seriously.”

As for the records themselves, Casey said they don’t shed any significant new light on his case. He does now know the name of the man whose apartment he was in (the man has since moved away) but he hasn’t been able to contact him, and doesn’t know if he will.

Nor has he made a decision about whether he will ask that the case be officially reopened, which would mean a new police investigation into what happened. ”It’s essentially where I left off,” he said. “It’s this person’s word against mine. At this point, it is what it is.”

And what about the possibility of new legislation, to ensure that crime victims won’t have the same kinds of battles with police for access to their own case?

“I’m a white middle-clss male, and even I had this runaround. I would like to be more hopeful.”

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Neighborhood Scrapbook BREWER SPONSORS AGING HEALTH FORUM More than 700 seniors packed the CUNY Graduate Center’s auditorium for “Up with Aging,” an informational event focused on aging and brain health hosted by Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer.

Brewer moderated the event’s panel discussion on brain health and aging, which featured Dr. Matthew E. Fink, neurologist-in-chief at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill-Cornell Medical Hospital, Prof. Wendy A. Suzuki of New York University’s Center for Neural Science, and Dr. Scott Small, professor of Neurology and Columbia University Medical Center’s Taub Institute on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain.

A senior expo following the panel included information, services, activities, and exhibits from more than 20 presenters, including government entities, medical and research institutions, and a range of nonprofit service providers.

The “Up with Aging” event occurred during Brain Awareness Week, an international effort to raise awareness of the benefits of brain research.

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In accordance with Section 1-12 of the Concession Rules of the City of New York, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (“Parks”) is issuing, as of the date of this notice, a Request for Bids (“RFB”) for the sale of food from mobile food units at various park locations citywide.

Hard copies of the RFB can be obtained, at no cost, commencing Wednesday, March 16, 2016 through Thursday, April 7, 2016 between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., excluding weekends and holidays, at the Revenue Division of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, which is located at 830 Fifth Avenue, Room 407, New York, NY 10065. All bids submitted in response to this RFB must be submitted by no later than Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 11:00 a.m.

The RFB is also available for download, Wednesday, March 16, 2016 through Thursday, April 7, 2016 on Parks’ website. To download the RFB, visit www.nyc.gov/parks/businessopportunities, click on the link for “Concessions Opportunities at Parks” and, after logging in, click on the “download” link that appears adjacent to the RFB’s description.

For more information related to the RFB contact Zoe Piccolo (for Bronx and Staten Island Parks) at 212-360-1397 or via email:zoe.piccolo@parks.nyc.gov; Eric Weiss (for Brooklyn Parks) at 212-3601397 or via email: eric.weiss@parks.nyc.gov; Joseph Conforti (for Queens Parks) at 212-360-1397 or via email: joe.conforti@parks.nyc.gov, or Glenn Kaalund (Manhattan Parks) at 212-3601397 or via email: glenn.kaalund@parks.nyc.gov.

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In accordance with Section 1-12 of the Concession Rules of the City of New York, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (“Parks”) is issuing, as of the date of this notice, a Request for Bids for the sale of food from mobile food units at various locations at Central Park, Manhattan.

Hard copies of the RFB can be obtained, at no cost, commencing on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 through Thursday, April 7, 2016, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., excluding weekends and holidays, at the Revenue Division of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, which is located at 830 Fifth Avenue, Room 407, New York, NY 10065. All bids submitted in response to this RFB must be submitted by no later than Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 11:00 a.m.

The RFB is also available for download, commencing Wednesday, March 16, 2016 through Thursday, April 7, 2016 on Parks’ website.

To download the RFB, visit www.nyc.gov/parks/businessopportunities, click on the link for “Concessions Opportunities at Parks” and, after logging in, click on the “download” link that appears adjacent to the RFB’s description.

For more information, contact Glenn Kaalund at (212) 3601397 or VIA email at Glenn.Kaalund@parks.nyc.gov.

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Our Perspective New York’s Workers Deserve Dignity, and an Immediate Raise

By Stuart Appelbaum, President Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, RWDSU, UFCW

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here is dignity in all honest work, and all workers deserve to be treated with respect.

When people go to work each day, they deserve to be able to support themselves and to earn a decent living. That’s what it’s supposed to be about.

When people go to work each day, not be condemned to lives of poverty. And yet for far too many workers, that is exactly what is happening. They go to work each day – just like society wants them to – and they are still condemned to lives of poverty, anxiety and stress because New York’s minimum wage is inadequate. It’s wrong, it’s immoral, and it has got to change. And the way to make it change is by raising New York’s minimum wage to $15 an hour.

It’s simply a matter of fairness, decency, and good economics.

When we join together to fight for $15 an hour we are fighting for more than just a higher wage rate. We are fighting for a better future for all New Yorkers. We are fighting for a growing middle class, and more opportunity for all of us. We are fighting for a stronger tax base and a diminished gap between the wealthiest few and working people.

At the RWDSU, and at our union’s Retail Action Project, which gives assistance to non-union retail workers, we’ve seen the daily struggles that retail workers in New York face. Too many are bringing home $10 an hour, $9 an hour, and sometimes even less.

Many of these workers are forced to turn to public assistance. It’s outrageous that any hardworking person should require food stamps to provide dinner for their family.

Retail workers represent the largest percentage of New Yorkers who work at minimum wage or slightly above. And these workers desperately need – and deserve – more pay.

But retail workers are not alone.

Car wash workers, home health aides, food service workers, and many in other industries all deserve more than the terribly insufficient $9 minimum wage that New York State mandates.

Every working human being in New York deserves better than that.

Every worker is doing their part, contributing to our communities, and making profits for their bosses. We all deserve a shot at a decent life. We all deserve a chance to build stronger families and communities, and realize our dreams.

That’s why we work.

Our movement is getting stronger. It’s a movement to change the lives of three million working people.

The state legislature needs to listen to us, do what is right, and help ensure New York’s workers are guaranteed higher pay and a better quality of life.

Together, we can win a higher minimum wage, and we can make a difference in the lives of New York’s working families.

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Letters ON SENIOR SEX AND DATING Marcia Epstein’s “Graying New York” column in the March 17 issue, about sex and dating among seniors, prompted a number of letters from readers. Here’s a sample: To the Editor:

Firstly, the “fact” that (woman) friends found it awful for women of our age group...The men, no prizes themselves, were dismissive and sometimes even rude. There were no call-backs. These women soon went back to their single lives, determined to make them even better than before.....and the overall theme is they want attractiveness ... and the wish for women to cater to their desire and wishes. Needless to say, these men get my hackles up.”

My reaction is, Why? Why do these men get your hackles up? What is wrong with men - even older gentlemen - wanting attractiveness? (I’m an old lady, almost 80, and into the fifth year of my widowhood, after a beautiful half century marriage to an incredibly wonderful husband.) My mantra is ‘The older you get, the harder you have to work at your appearance.’ Today, with all the makeup and beauty care tips out there, there is no need for a ‘mature’ woman to be anything but easy to look at. After all, aren’t we hoping for/looking for a pleasant-looking man who obviously takes care of himself?

Why, in our search, would we even consider men ‘who are no prizes themselves’?

For those of us who have used the ‘dating scene, Internet or otherwise’ why do they find it awful? For the Internet, you compose your own personality profile, and if you’re honest, and consider your intended ‘audience’, then you simply have to work at projecting your ‘wonderfulness.’

An honest, humble, sensitive statement can be either an irresistible attractant or an insurmountable turn-off to a man.

And, what is so terrible or unacceptable about a man’s ‘wish for women to cater to their desire and wishes’? (I know that there are legions of widows, like myself, who would give anything to have our man back to cater to his desires and wishes.) Love and kindness and caring engender love and kindness and caring, and, if we are honest with ourselves, isn’t that what we all yearn for?

The line in ‘Graying New York’ that concerned me most, and made me saddest, was ‘....[they] soon went back to their single lives, determined to make them even better than before ...’ What does that really mean?

Do these women not want, need, yearn

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for the company, the male-female yin and yang? Men are quite different from women, and, in my honest opinion, the difference, the dynamic, the ‘sexiness’ is exciting and beautiful and life-affirming, at any age.

(My adored late husband was significantly older than I but his general ‘maleness’ was always there: from his attitudes, his quirks, his opinions and his world views, there was never any doubt that my life’s companion, was quite different and thus fascinating to me. The company of women is a wondrous thing, but the company of a man makes everything so much better.)

As for sex ... when you show love, nurturance, appreciation and kindness to even a very old partner, you receive, in turn, love, nurturance, appreciation, kindness, and, should you both be so inclined and interested, sex. (No person wants to touch, or be touched by, someone who doesn’t like or love them.)

Humans wither and die without love. We ladies are still the same inside - it’s just our ‘gift-wrap’ that is missing. Inside we are still the same wonderful, kind, nurturing, wise, caring - and yes, sexy. My response to the senior dating scene would be, ‘Take a chance, get out there, showcase your wonderfulness, make use of all the good instincts that your happy marriages - and lives - have taught you and go out there and try again ... The man you meet might not be Mr. Wonderful, but you will probably not ‘make [your years] even better than before’ by spending them in cruises to foreign ports and Book Clubs with the girls.

Lisa To the Editor:

Every man no matter what age wants an attractive woman to date. If he’s going to invest his time/money and possibly get intimate{sex}he has to be attracted to her. Now a friendship/companionship is a different story. And as far as women taking care of men ... a lot of these men came from a different time when the roles of the sexes were not as confusing as they are today. If a man had a wife who passed away and she always took care of him it would only be natural for him to want that again.

Maybe we should put an age limit on dating ... say 70. LOL. No dating after 70. But like everything else in this life, sometimes people get lucky at any age. Thank you for the article. (BTW, I’m only in my 50s and I have a lot of problems with dating, too.)

Michael

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LIVING OFF THE GRID THE 6TH BOROUGH

BY BECCA TUCKER

The lights blip and the radio cuts out. This already happened once this morning right and everything went back on. I glance up and go back to focusing on an email. I’ve got no time to be curious; I’m working from home with an infant on my lap, and my toddler outside in the snow collecting sap with my husband.

Any second now my attention will be assaulted.

I try to download an attachment and it fails. I try to send my email and that fails. That’s when I realize that my modem must be dead, because the radio and lights are still off, because the power is still out.

A power outage in inclement weather with an infant can be a bit of an ordeal. I realize it’s how most of the world lives, but when you’ve gotten all soft and civilized, it’s rough. My three-year-old was born a month before Hurricane Sandy. We lost heat and water for 14 days, not to mention the roof of our barn. We bundled the baby up in a woolen cocoon, drank from a water cooler we’d filled elsewhere, used a bucket as our toilet, and eventually took to sleeping at the house of a friend with a generator.

We finally fled, spending that final powerless weekend with a friend in Rockland whose electricity had come back on. It was definitely an adventure, but one that left us sick – since another guy who also camped out at our friend’s house that weekend had a bad cough that we all got.

Sandy’s aftermath left an impression that sank deep. It was no small part of the reason we shelled out $7,000 this winter for a wood burning stove. The stove has already become a member of the family, and one that earns its keep. The oil heat – set to kick on if the temperature in the house drops below 50 -- has only roared into action once since we had the stove installed in December, during that cold spell with single digit temperatures.

The stove is singing right now. I just tossed in another log and put a kettle on for tea and then had to strip off my sweater.

If we should run out of water before the power comes back on, we’ve got a reserve of 20 gallons of maple sap in the garage – a slightly sweet, sparklingly pure version of water – and more dripping from the trees into buckets all the time.

If I’m beginning to sound obnoxious, indulge me.

Sometimes I envy you, see, and everyone else in the overdeveloped world, who can fiddle with your phone on your way home from the airport and tell your Nest thingy to have the house heated to 68 by the time you walk in the door. Meanwhile we’re hauling logs and 50 pound bags of chicken feed, and planning months in advance to get away for a day.

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We’ve chosen this life and we wouldn’t trade it – most days, at least. But there are times Joe and I get into a funk and find ourselves asking each other: what the hell did you get me into? Whose idea was this?

So it’s gratifying to look around, two hours now without power, and see that all the lugging has amounted to something quite substantial: a sort of peasant stronghold. All systems are go. Without any outside help, the house is warm, tea is steaming, eggs are being laid in the coop, sap is dripping.

When we have to go, the composting toilet that Joe built is on the porch. (It’s my favorite place to do my business, even when the water’s working).

Our next-door neighbor calls. Is our power out too? Do we need anything? Nope, we’re good. Does she need anything? Eggs? Maple syrup? Sure, she says. She’ll stop over later. Self-reliance, baby.

With that, the power clicks back on. The fridge resumes its humming, the kitchen lights up, my internet connection comes to life. They fixed whatever was wrong. They always do. And I’m always just a little disappointed.

Becca Tucker is a former Manhattanite who now lives upstate and writes about the rural life.

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KICKING THE HABIT BEFORE IT STARTS Students document the dozens of retail outlets that make up the city’s “tobacco swamp”

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Students at Smith School on West 86th Street need to walk just a few hundred feet to get a cup of coffee at no fewer than four different outlets.

Middle Eastern delicacies, pizza, bagels, crepes and barbecue are also available within a couple block radius.

So are cigarettes.

Plenty of them.

Students at Smith recently counted about 30 outlets selling tobacco products within four blocks of the Students at Eleanor Roosevelt High School, on the Upper East Side, participate in Kick Butts Day events March 16. school and on nearCity, but the fact remains that that they face on a daily basis,” ly every corner.

On March 16, National Kick smoking among youth is still Allen said.

On National Kick Butts Day Butts Day, Smith’s roughly 50 an issue, and the proliferastudents teamed up with NYC tion of tobacco retail outlets last Wednesday, Ayo Alli, NYC Smoke-Free, an education and throughout New York City is a Smoke-Free’s youth engageadvocacy organization, to raise huge problem. New York City is ment coordinator, encouraged students to think about why awareness of tobacco prolifera- like a tobacco swamp.”

According NYC Smoke-Free, combating tobacco matters. He tion within the city’s neighborhoods. Other schools, includ- more than 10,000 city teenag- told students that 90 percent ing Eleanor Roosevelt High ers become daily smokers each of smokers started before they School on the Upper East Side year. Nearly three times that reached 18. He commended and Stuyvesant High School, many New Yorkers — 28,200 — students for working hard to combat tobacco use. die annually from tobacco use. downtown, also participated.

“The youth here feel like we This year, Smith School’s Smith, though, held one of the teachers implemented col- don’t need any more tobacco larger events.

The week before Kick Butts lege, multicultural and healthy retail outlets, they don’t need Day, representatives from NYC habits weeks to build culture, more tobacco stores and toSmoke-Free visited Smith, raise awareness and promote bacco products in their comand gave a presentation on the students to be “change-mak- munity. They need healthier negative effects of tobacco and ers” and make thoughtful options that support them in detailed the industry’s mar- decisions. Consideration of to- making the right decisions,” keting campaigns. They also bacco’s harmful effects fit right Spitzer said. “They want to see a vision for their future coordinated with students to into the curriculum.

Marissa Allen, the school generations to be tobacco-free document the neighborhood’s retail outlets selling cigarettes. guidance counselor, said NYC and I think this could only spur Students then created posters Smoke-Free campaign was the start of conversations with illustrating what they learned, particularly good timing. The them within their peers, as well but also to set down messages idea fit right into the curricu- as their families.”

Rachel Mitchell, an 11th-gradcombating tobacco advertise- lum that students and teachers ment and promoting the im- were covering within their ad- er whose poster was among those judged most effective, visory groups. portance of being smoke-free.

“We’re dealing with real teen said the event and the instruc“Right now there are about 4,000 high school students that topics that they’re interested tion and discussion that led up currently smoke in Manhattan. in and want to talk about, real to National Kick Butts Day, was So there is a lot of work to be life issues besides the curricu- instructive and sobering. “I’m done,” said Lisa Spitzer, NYC lum their learning in history, definitely more aware of the Smoke-Free’s community en- English or math. They get to effects of smoking,” Mitchell gagement coordinator. “We’ve talk about stress management, said. “I’m going to try my best made a lot of progress with our peer pressure, stereotypes, to influence my peers not to smoke-free laws in New York drugs and alcohol, and stuff smoke.”

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TO FEATURE JULIUS SHULMAN, MD & DALIA S. NAGEL, MD SUNDAY, MARCH 27th, 2016 @ 5:30pm-6:00pm on WCBS-TV. (New York, NY) Dr. Julius Shulman and Dr. Dalia S. Nagel of Eastside Eye Associates (eastsideeyes.com) to appear on the New York/New Jersey edition to discuss recent breakthrough technologies and advancements in cataract diagnosis and cataract surgery.

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By age 80, more than half of all Americans either have a cataract (a clouding of the lens in the eye that causes a loss of vision) or will soon need cataract surgery, joining the ranks of the three million Americans who have cataract surgery annually. Almost 800,000 cataract operations will be performed in people under age 65, a testament to our increasingly active lifestyle. Modern cataract surgery, pioneered by Dr. Shulman and Dr. Nagel, now takes on average 20 minutes or less, with the patient often resuming normal activity within hours. Cataract surgery, accompanied by insertion of a clear, plastic intraocular lens (IOL), is statistically the most successful operation performed on the human body. $0(5,&$1 +($/7+ )5217 ZLOO WDNH \RX LQVLGH WKH RIÂżFHV RI 'UV 6KXOPDQ DQG Nagelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eastside Eye Associates where they have examined over 20,000 cataract patients.

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A LOST GREENWICH VILLAGE Jefferson Market Library, 425 Sixth Ave. 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m. Free Vivian Gornick and Sarah Schulman, chroniclers of an ever-changing New York City, join for a conversation on writing and reading New York on the occasion of the release of Schulmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new novel, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Cosmopolitans.â&#x20AC;?

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TINY POETS TIME Poets House, 10 River Terrace 10 a.m.-Noon. Free Poetry reading for toddlers.

212-431-7920. www. poetshouse.org/programs-andevents/calendar/month

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Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia Place 8 p.m. $25-$65; NYU students, $15 Violinist Aleksey Igudesman and pianist Richard Hyung-ki Joo send-up everyone from Beethoven to Rachmaninoff.

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ART GALLERY TOUR 195 Chrystie St., at Stanton St. 1 p.m. $25 A visit of seven art galleries in the downtown center for contemporary art.

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Seward Park Library, 192 East Broadway 3:30 p.m. Free A new collection of short ďŹ lms, COMEDY OUTLIERSâ&#x2013;ź featuring multiple Academy Award nominees and a host of 18 Murray St. family favorites.

7 p.m.-9 p.m. $12; advanced, www.nypl.org/events/ $8 programs/2016/03/25/teenHosted by Brandon Collins movie-seward-park-library and Mike Brown, and featuring Comics who have appeared on MTV, Comedy Central, VH1,

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Two award-winning musicians, a vocalist and trumpeter, will put on a special Easter performance at this independent, lay-led and nondenominational Christian church. www.chelseachurch.org

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This is a live performance of the radio version of Susan Glaspell’s one-act play, which was first performed 100 years ago. www.bmcc.cuny.edu

LIFE AFTER LIFE IN PRISON: A CONVERSATION ON WOMEN’S INCARCERATION New York Law School, 185 West Broadway.

6-8 p.m.Free.

Experts discuss the experience of women in the prison system. On display will be Life After Life in Prison, a Photo Essay of formerly incarcerated women.

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Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave. 2 p.m. Tickets start at $10, available online.

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FLEMISH WUNDERKIND VAN DYCK AT THE FRICK The first major show in the U.S. of the 17th century artist’s work in over 20 years

BY VAL CASTRONOVO

Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) has been hailed as one of the greatest portraitists of all time. In 1672, biographer Giovan Pietro Bellori gushed that he “had justly acquired the greatest name that any painter had ever merited since Titian.” Add to that his reputation as one of the greatest printmakers of all time.

Born to a prosperous mercantile family in Antwerp, the Baroque master is best remembered for memorializing royals and aristocrats, famously becoming the principal painter to King Charles I of England in 1632, easing out Dutch artist Daniel Mytens, a lesser light.

No surprise, van Dyck was a child prodigy, producing the refined “Portrait of a Seventy-Year-Old Man” (1613) when he was only 14. It is his earliest dated work and kicks off the paintings on view in the Oval Room at “Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture,” the largest show in the Frick’s history and “the most comprehensive exhibit, showing him in all media,” museum Director Ian Wardropper said of the portrait oeuvre at a packed preview.

Van Dyck liked his job, and why wouldn’t he? He achieved fame by his early 20s and got to paint the cream of society — cardinals, statesmen, generals, nobles and, of course, Charles I, Queen Henrietta Maria and the royal offspring and retinue (not to mention family, friends, artists and his mistress). Add to that an early fascination with exploring his own identity in a virtuoso series of self-portraits. They are all represented here, some 100 glorious works, with special attention given to drawings and prints (the “Iconographie”), in the lower level galleries and on the first floor, respectively.

In his London years, from 1632 until his death in 1641, van Dyck worked

WHAT: “Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture” WHERE: The Frick Collection, 1 East 70th St. WHEN: Through June 5. www.frick.org. prodigiously — producing over 260 portraits — but he still managed to have plenty of fun. As guest curator Stijn Alsteens from The Met writes in the catalog, he supplied his sitters with a wealth of diversions. He quotes Bellori, who said the artist kept “servants, carriages, horses, players, musicians, and jesters, and with these entertainments he played host to all the great personages, knights and ladies, who came daily to have their portraits painted at his house.”

The Frick is a logical spot for a van Dyck celebration. The museum owns eight paintings by the artist, including two favorites of co-curator Adam Eaker, also from The Met — painter “Frans Snyders” (ca. 1620) and his wife, “Margareta de Vos” (ca. 1620), who lived in a house on Antwerp’s most fashionable street. The missus wears a gold bodice that glistens; a glass vase to her right brilliantly reflects strokes of blue and yellow paint.

On our tour, Eaker waxed eloquent about the portraits’ “introspective, melancholy quality,” betraying “rich inner lives. It is this interiority that sets van Dyck apart.”

The master was around 20 when he executed these bravura works. He took off for Italy the next year to paint its aristocrats, spending most of his time in Genoa, but traveling to Rome and half a dozen other cities as well. The recently conserved “Genoese Noblewoman” (ca. 1625-27) in the Oval Room is a towering canvas of an unidentified woman. The subject is believed to be a widow, with black sash, cuffs and plumed headpiece telegraphing her loss.

Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641). Genoese Noblewoman, ca. 1625–27. Oil on canvas. The Frick Collection; Henry Clay Frick Bequest.

Photo: Michael Bodycomb Look to the other side of the room for the crimson “Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio” (1623), on loan from Florence’s Palazzo Pitti and making only its second appearance outside Italy. Painted in Rome, the canvas owes a clear debt to Titian. Here it is paired with a preparatory drawing that “shows how much room was left for improvisation,” Alsteens said, referring to the intricate lace fringe on the cardinal’s white tunic and altered pose in the final composition. The 24-year-old van Dyck’s portrait of the cardinal “established his career in all of Europe,” the curator said, with its hallmark “evoca-

tion of inner life.”

But this is a show about the process of portraiture, and visitors are encouraged to begin at the beginning (downstairs), where the curators have amassed an impressive array of chalk and oil sketches that trace the artist’s working method. (Works by reputed rival Peter Paul Rubens, Antwerp’s other master, can also be seen here.)

Van Dyck did not prepare detailed studies of his subjects. As Alsteens writes in the catalog, “from the beginning of his career [he] seems to have used paper to work out a composition rather than to capture the details of a

likeness.” Costumes and poses were sketched on paper, but faces were typically only roughly delineated, with details painted directly from life onto the canvas.

The curators concluded our tour in the East Gallery, devoted mainly to van Dyck’s paintings of nobles and the English court. But the right-hand wall is reserved for family and friends and features portraits of three women, one unidentified, two positively identified: his wife, “Mary, Lady van Dyck, née Ruthven” (ca. 1640), and his mistress, “Margaret Lemon” (ca. 1638) — shown together here for the first time.

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A screening of the beloved Stanley Kubrick film will be followed by a panel discussion looking at the vilification of Russia by Hollywood. (Free)

Play distills the real life events that brought a woman to death row, and the story that followed

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English philosopher Simon Critchley leads a series of walks through Gods and Mortals at Olympus: Ancient Dion, City of Zeus, discussing contemporary topics with surprise guests. (Free) Note: the listing for Country of Dreams in the 3/10-16 issue of Our Town/Downtowner (p. 13) had an incorrect Japan Society address (333 E. 47th St. is correct). Thought Gallery regrets the error.

In Eduardo Ivan Lopez’s play “Natural Life” a woman sits on death row for killing her husband, having led a life filled with abuse from a young age.

Lopez, along with director Jake Turner, discuss the real case on which the play is based, and how Lopez came to the story through the journalist who covered it.

This interview was edited for length and clarity.

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THE CHARACTERS Jake Turner: The reporter first hooks into this story almost as a mercenary, as just a reporter getting a good scoop and saving her career — and it’s held against her, she’s an aging reporter in a world of youth coming up in the media.

So she just walks into this story as someone who is going to use her professional ethics but as a mercenary to get a good scoop. But she’s drawn to this woman because her story is so fascinating and in a way it’s frightening. And I don’t think that you can listen to this story without feeling that this, where she ended up in committing the crime of murdering her husband, is she guilty? The play doesn’t tell you whether or not she is, it just asks you the question: where do you stand?

So in a way, [the prisoner] is retried in front of you. And that’s why the cast sits back there [on stage] the entire time almost as a jury, and faces you, the audience, who are also a jury.

THE SCRIPT Eduardo Ivan Lopez: I met [journalist] Carol Marin at a journalistic award ceremony in Pittsburgh. We sat down to

Anna Holbrook as Rita, the TV reporter, and Holly Heiser as Claire, the convict, in Eduardo Ivan Lopez’s play “Natural Life,” directed by Jake Turner, running through April 2nd. Photo by Jonathan Slaff. eat dinner afterwards and she told me the story and I liked the story and I wanted to learn more about it. So I asked her to contact the prisoner. And she said she wouldn’t speak to me because she only spoke to [Marin]. And I said, ‘well try to reach out again.’ So she did and two weeks later I got a call from the woman. And she wanted to meet me first before she’d give me the story. She said, ‘okay well I’ll want you to come up here and meet me and after I see you I can tell you. I have a sense about people. I can see whether I can trust you or not.’ So I went there. And we spent a couple hours together.

And she gave me the story after that meeting. And we had conversations over the phone.

We had conversations over four years. And I accumulated all the knowledge and did all the research on it and I got all the transcripts, articles that were published, and brushed up on it, and when I thought I was ready for it I sat down and

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THE SET Jake Turner: We hear every day about the justice system being askew, and people being wrongly convicted, spending 40 years in jail. The whole concept was society, the justice system, and there are scenes with the governor, is all offkilter. There’s something off about it, and the injustice that happens as a result of that. So we have a very expressionistic, angular, askew set.

IF YOU GO What: “Natural Life” by Eduardo Ivan Lopez, directed by Jake Turner Now through April 2 Where: T. Schreiber Theatre, 151 West 26th St., 7th floor 8 p.m., with a 2 p.m. show on March 30 Tickets: $20. To purchase, call 212-352-3101 or visit www.tschreiber.org

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS MAR 4 - 18, 2016

Margaux

5 W. 8Th Street

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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.

The Cottage

120 East 16 Street

Closed by Health Department (61) 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 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.

Live roaches 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.

Alta

64 West 10 Street

Grade Pending (30) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation.

Appropriately scaled metal stem-type thermometer or thermocouple not provided or used to evaluate temperatures of potentially hazardous foods during cooking, cooling, reheating and holding.

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.

Subway

244246 West 14 Street

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Wood And Ales

234 W 14Th St

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Basta Pasta Restaurant

37 West 17 Street

Grade Pending (21) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared.

The Park

118122 10 Avenue

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Aldea Restaurant

31 West 17 Street

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Drunken Horse

225 10 Avenue

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Fika

555 6Th Ave

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El Temerario

198 8Th Ave

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Bowery Eats (Bowery Kitchen Appliance)

460 West 16 Street

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The W Hotel Banquets

201 Park Avenue South

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Huertas

107 1St Ave

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II Forno Pizza And Pasta Restaurant

343 2Nd Ave

Grade Pending (31) 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.

Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Oaxaca Mexican Grill

245 Park Avenue

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Bait & Hook

231 2 Avenue

Grade Pending (21) 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.

Vspot Organic

12 Saint Marks Pl

Grade Pending (45) Hot food item that has been cooked and refrigerated is being held for service without first being reheated to 1 65º F or above within 2 hours.

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 Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations.

Evidence of rats or live rats 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.

Tarallucci E Vino

163 1 Avenue

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Peridance Capezio Center Cafe

126 East 13 Street

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.

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

Ngam

99 3 Avenue

A

Intelligentsia Coffee

180 10 Avenue

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Lafayette

380 Lafayette Street

Grade Pending (19) 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.

Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared.

Cata

245 Bowery St

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Rabbit House

76 Forsyth St

Not Yet Graded (2)

Zafi’s Luncheonette

500 Grand Street

A

Thelma On Clinton

29 Clinton Street

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Jadis Restaurant

42 Rivington Street

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Grade Pending (38) 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.

No facilities available to wash, rinse and sanitize utensils and/or equipment.

C & L Dumpling House

77 Christie St

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Two-Bits Retro Arcade

153 Essex Street

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Beverly’s

21 Essex Street

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Vivi Bubble Tea

226 E 14Th St

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250 Park Avenue

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Dunkin’ Donuts, Baskin Robbins

201 Madison Street

Devon & Blakely Kanoyama

175 2 Avenue

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Aaa Ichiban Sushi

283 Broome St

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The Cock

93 2 Avenue

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Tijuana Picnic

151 Essex St

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Gotham Pizza

144 9 Avenue

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Wassail

162 Orchard St

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Bar Suzette Creperie

425 West 15 Street

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Lucky Stars Bakery

280 Grand St

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Juice Press

122 Greenwich Avenue

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Triple Shot World Atlas

3739 Clinton Street

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Mezetto

205 Allen Street

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1 Delancey Street

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Charrua

131 Essex St

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Dunkin Donuts & Baskin Robbins

395 Hudson St

Not Yet Graded (32) 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.

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.

Blue Ribbon

33 Downing Street

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Mcdonald’s

208 Varick Street

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Joy Burger Bar

361 6Th Ave

Grade Pending (48) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

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

Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

Grom

233 Bleecker Street

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Bar Pitti

268 6 Avenue

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Aperitivo Di Palma

30 Cornelia St

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King Wok

222 Varick St

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Mighty Quinn’s Bbq

75 Greenwich Ave

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Otto’s Tacos

131 7Th Ave S

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Aux Merveilleux De Fred

37 8Th Ave

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Feast On Us

645 Hudson St

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Gloo

78 Carmine St

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Juicepress

375 Hudson St

Not Yet Graded (24) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation.

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.

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355 West 14 Street

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228 West 10 Street

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28 8 Avenue

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Po Restaurant

31 Cornelia Street

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226 Varick Street

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Dumpling Kingdom

227 Sullivan St

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Dojo Restaurant

10 West 4 Street

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Mother’s Ruin

18 Spring Street

Grade Pending (25) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. 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.

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87 Macdougal Street

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398 W Broadway

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194 Elizabeth Street

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CITYWIDE FERRY COMMISSION AWARDED TO HORNBLOWER Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the selection of Hornblower Inc. as the operator of his Citywide Ferry Service, which is slated to launch in the summer of 2017. The ferry will connect Manhattan to the other four boroughs via several ports on either side of the East River.

Ferry rides will cost the same as a subway ride

In Brief NYCHA UNDER FEDERAL INVESTIGATION The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) has turned over more than 400 million documents to government officials as part of a federal investigation into health and safety conditions of the organization’s over 400,000 tenants. The investigation became public last Friday after “the office of Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, obtained a court order compelling the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to produce information about cases of elevated blood lead levels among public housing residents and complaints of ‘unsafe, unsanitary and unhealthful conditions’ in housing projects,” according to the New York Times.

NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye told the Times she did not know what had prompted the inquiry, but several outlets report that the U.S. attorney’s office is looking into whether NYCHA falsified information when requesting federal funding to fix unhealthy conditions in housing projects and city-run shelters. Mayor de Blasio said last week that his administration would cooperate fully with the investigation.

TRUMP PROTESTERS PEPPER SPRAYED BY NYPD Protests against the presidential candidacy of Donald J. Trump escalated last Saturday when New York Police Department officers pepper sprayed those who tried to stray outside the barricades keeping them on the sidewalk.

According to CBS, the protest was endorsed by activist groups such as International Women’s Day Coalition, Millions March NYC and Revolutionaries Against Gendered Oppression Everywhere. Attendees carried signs with anti-Trump messages opposing his views on immigration and business, among other things.

The crowd gathered in Columbus Circle by the Trump International Hotel and Tower and marched along Central Park South to Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue. The New York Post reported that several protesters were arrested for disorderly conduct and others engaged in anti-cop messages, though the rest of the protest proceeded peaceful. The conflict on Saturday follows recent violence at Trump rallies in various cities, though Trump said as recently as Monday in an interview with the Washington Post’s editorial board that he does not condone such aggression.

and will merge with the existing East River Ferry, lowering the cost of commuting for its 4,000 daily riders, according to a press release from the mayor’s office.

“Tens-of-thousands of New Yorkers are going to have a new public transit option linking them to jobs, education and opportunities

across the city,” de Blasio said. “It’s going to be a commute like no other: fresh air, harbor views and a fast ride on the open water.”

Other bidders for the operating contract included New York Water Taxi, New Jerseybased NY Waterway and BillyBey Ferry, according to POLITICO New York. Earlier this

month, New York Water Taxi sent a memo to its employees warning that they would have to shut down in October if not selected to run the Citywide Ferry.

BACKED BY UNIONS, CUOMO PUSHES FOR MINIMUM WAGE NEWS Travel, campaign ads paid for by health-care union

BY DAVID KLEPPER

Andrew Cuomo may be driving the push for a $15 minimum wage in New York, but organized labor paid for the bus.

The Democratic governor has traveled the state in a unionowned recreational vehicle to galvanize support for his proposal to enact a $15 minimum wage. He’s featured in slick TV advertisements pushing the wage that look a lot like campaign ads. This past week he delivered yet another speech before thousands of workers gathered outside the Capitol, many of them bused in by unions.

Bankrolled by the unions, Cuomo’s campaign not only cements his ties to organized labor, but also burnishes his progressive political bona fides amid a national debate over the minimum wage and income inequality.

Cuomo characterizes the proposal as an alternative to what is being offered by Republican presidential candidates such as Donald Trump, who he says has sought to capitalize on public anxiety over the economy. By being the first state to raise the minimum wage to $15, the governor said, New York can show the nation a more hopeful path. :People are angry. They’re as angry in New York as they are in any other state,” Cuomo said, following the Albany rally. “It’s working families, the middle class, who are fundamentally frustrated with their economic

circumstance. There is an economic insecurity that eats at the table with people every night.”

It’s a sharp pivot from just last year, when Cuomo’s administration dismissed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s suggested $13 minimum wage as a “nonstarter” with lawmakers. But this year an even bigger increase is his top priority in the Legislature, where it faces a critical test in coming weeks as lawmakers negotiate a state budget, a grand political deal that the governor hopes will include his wage hike.

In a sign of its importance to Cuomo, he named the campaign for the wage hike after his father, the late Gov. Mario Cuomo.

The proposal would gradually raise the wage from $9 an hour to $15 by the end of 2018 in New York City and by 2021 in the rest of the state. He has proposed $300 million in small business tax cuts to help businesses absorb the higher

labor costs, a number that critics say is far too low.

To the Republicans and small business owners who warn of devastating effects from such a sharp wage hike, Cuomo is seeking to capitalize on the national debate over the wage to endear himself to organized labor and liberal voters in New York and around the country.

“He had problems with $12, $13, but now $15 is a great idea,” said Greg Biryla, executive director of the group Unshackle Upstate, adding that he believes supporters settled on $15 because of how “Fight for $15” rolls off the tongue.

“It’s a political number, and anyone who thinks otherwise really isn’t looking at the facts,” said state Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, a Syracuse Republican. “It’s a political goal to garner support from the people that think this is a good

idea.”

The Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice, the nonprofit created by labor unions to lobby for the $15 wage, is housed in the Manhattan headquarters of 1199 SEIU, the Service Employees International Union, the largest health care union in the nation.

A financial disclosure filed with the state indicates that so far the campaign has spent $1.7 million on expenses including Cuomo’s RV tour and advertisements.

Cuomo has received more than $250,000 in campaign contributions from SEIU and the other unions supporting the Campaign for Economic Justice since 2008.

The increase is popular with New York voters, two thirds of whom support Cuomo’s plan, according to a Siena College poll released last month. Eighty percent of Democrats back the increase; 36 percent of Republicans do.

Polls show similarly broad backing for Cuomo’s other big priority of the year, a family leave proposal that would let workers take up to 12 weeks of paid time off to care for a new child or sick loved one.

Cuomo may be hoping the wage fight helps him in two years when he’s up for a third term or even in a possible White House run in 2020, according to Fordham University political scientist Christina Greer.

Cuomo has long been socially progressive but fiscally centrist, focusing much of his early tenure as governor reining in state spending, imposing a property tax cap and cutting taxes. Liberal dissatisfaction with Cuomo prompted a surprisingly competitive primary challenge in 2014 from law professor Zephyr Teachout.

“I’m not sure how deep those progressive roots are with the governor,” Greer said. “It could be about 2018, or 2020. But in some ways it doesn’t matter if his interest in this is genuine. Thousands and thousands of families are going to benefit if this passes.”

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NEW WORRIES ABOUT TRUCK TRAFFIC ON EAST SIDE NEWS Pedestrian death reinforces concerns tied to M.T.S.

BY MADELEINE THOMPSON

Jodi McGrath was crossing First Avenue at E. 92nd Street when she was struck by a garbage truck taking a left turn onto the avenue, a stone’s throw from her home at the Holmes Towers.

According to a report from the office of the Deputy Commissioner for Public Information, McGrath was taken by emergency responders to New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she died. McGrath, who was 55, was hit by an unidentified male driving a private sanitation vehicle; the driver has been issued a summons for failure to yield and, according to the DCPI, the incident is under ongoing investigation by the New York Police Department’s Collision Investigation Squad.

Her death is cause for mourning as well as a cause of concern in the community, highlighting the dangers posed by garbage trucks related to the Marine Transfer Station, now under construction on 91st Street and the East River. While residents and public officials in the neighborhood have been concerned about the concentration of garbage on the East Side related to

the MTS, the bigger concern is the amount of truck traffic that will accompany the project -- a concern that McGrath’s death has reinforced.

“It’s imperative that the city re-examine what this traffic will mean,” said Maggy Siegel, executive director of Asphalt Green, the sports complex that is adjacent to the road trucks will take to the transfer station.

Asphalt Green last year successfully led a fight to shift that route one block north, to 92nd Street, which will dramatically decrease the number of turns that garbage trucks will be taking to the MTS. However, there still will be a three- to four-year period that the 91st Street entrance will be in use.

Greg Morris, executive director of the Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center, is particularly concerned about the fact that such tragedies may become more common in the area due to an increasing number of garbage trucks coming and going “essentially in (residents’) backyard ... I think the tragic circumstance of this woman who was killed by a garbage truck, literally within walking distance of this complex, is scary,” Morris said. “And it perhaps foretells a lot of what folks have been saying, which is, the build out of the marine transfer station is going to endanger children, families and seniors who live in

this community.”

City Councilmember Ben Kallos said the death of McGrath points to the biggest danger of the trash station. “Garbage trucks are one of the most dangerous vehicles on the road,” Kallos said. “I think if the city forces a private hauler, or a garbage truck or 300 of them to drive through a residential neighborhood with hundreds of thousands of people, it’s the city that’s culpable.”

Upper East Side residents have been fighting the station since it was first slated to be reopened as part of the 2006 Solid Waste Management Plan. Pledge 2 Protect, a group that has opposed the project, co-hosted a candlelight vigil on Tuesday night at the intersection of First Avenue and E. 92nd St. to honor McGrath’s life. Milagros Velasquez, vice president of the Holmes Towers residential board, was asked to serve as spokesperson for McGrath’s family and helped plan the vigil. “Jodi was a fixture in the community,” Velasquez said. “She didn’t have much in the way of family, so everybody was kind of like her family. She was a big animal person, she loved pets.”

Velasquez has also long been involved in protesting the marine transfer station. “It was horrible the way she had to die,” she said. “It’s kind of

An aerial view of the site of the East 91st Street Marine Transfer Station, which is being constructed next to Asphalt Green’s athletic fields. frustrating because it’s kind of like the whole development got together and tried to fight this with, and they went ahead and did it anyway.”

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Kelly Nimmo-Guenther, president of Pledge 2 Protect, said the group is continuing to fight the project. “Mayor de Blasio ... made a commitment to that community that he would do

everything power to protect that community,” NimmoGuenther said. “We’ve always said it’s not if an accident will happen, it’s when. Unfortunately, the when is now.”

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A NEW DAY, A NEW OPPONENT IN MUSEUM FIGHT NEWS As AMNH moves forward, opposition groups proliferate

BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO

As the American Museum of Natural History moves ahead with a contested expansion plan, another group opposing the museum’s project has sprouted.

Last summer, Defenders of Teddy Roosevelt Park sprang into action after residents learned that the proposed expansion on the Columbus Avenue side of the museum campus meant cutting into a section of Theodore Roosevelt Park, which surrounds the institution.

After the museum’s initial design for the project revealed that 80 percent of the new structure would sit within current museum space and 11,600 square feet of park area would be consumed by the new building, Defenders shifted its main focus to park redesign and minimizing the impact of construction on the public space, rather than fighting the project.

Dissatisfied with the new tack, three board members of Defenders left the organization and formed Community United to Protect Theodore Roosevelt Park, which aims to prevent any development into the park, no matter how minimal.

Now, a third group, dubbed Alliance to Protect Theodore Roosevelt Park, adds its voice to the fight. Though consisting presently of just four members, each initially involved with Community United, Alliance to Protect has organized quickly and will host a town hall meeting on March 30, sponsored by the Committee for Environmentally Sound Development, at the West Side Institutional Synagogue on W. 76th Street.

Attorney Michael Hiller, who previously challenged development at the New York Public Library, will speak at the event, the group said.

“All three groups have a certain opposition to the current plan, and I also think all three groups would like a revision to the current plan,” said Seth Kaufman of Alliance to Protect.

“Our position is any encroachment or construction into Theodore Roosevelt Park is unacceptable.”

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fenders’ inclusion in a working group chaired by the museum to discuss the design of the park area affected by construction. Elected officials, Community Board 7 and other community groups are also involved in the conversations. Kaufman doesn’t think the groups involved “have taken the temperature of the community.”

“Our approach is to have the expertise and oppose things through the normal public process without any conflict of being in the middle of friendly discussions with the museum,” said Martha Dwyer, also of Alliance to Protect and a one-time board member of Defenders.

Dwyer and Kaufman said their group wants to acquire legal counsel and consult with experts about the environmental effects of the project.

“We’re exploring every avenue and trying to garner every resource to make our points during this approval process and to collect everything we might need for litigation,” said Kaufman.

Peter Wright, president of the non-profit group that manages the park with the city’s Parks Department and the museum, supports the expansion and lauds the museum’s responsiveness to neighborhood concerns. He said the objectives of these offshoot groups aren’t realistic.

“No one would think to muzzle them, but all this petition-gathering and whatever they’re doing, we’re beyond that,” said Wright. “They can protest up until the time the bulldozers come in. Their approach is not practical at this point.”

Members of both Community United and Alliance to Protect were vocal at a meeting of Community Board 7’s parks and environment committee on Monday night, when the committee briefly addressed the project’s environmental impact statement and the landscape design.

Kaufman asked whether the board’s participation with the landscape working group was a conflict of interest, and Community United president Claudia DiSalvo asked when the community board found out that public funds were allotted for the project. But committee members shut down a heated exchange with Cary Goodman, vice president of Community United, which grew contentious as he questioned

the board’s role on the working group. After 30 minutes of comments, the board moved on and those who came for the discussion about the park departed.

In addition to attending board meetings, Community United members are busy with community outreach and adding signatures to their petition.

Most recently, the organization scrutinized the museum’s environmental assessment statement submitted to the Parks Department, raising concerns about the project’s potential environmental hazards.

“Our organization and our community want answers,” said DiSalvo about the environmental issues.

The project requires approvals from the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission and the Parks Department, which involve public reviews starting with a scoping session to be held at the museum on April 6, allowing for public comments on environmental concerns.

“The overall process is designed to provide a thorough review of potential environmental effects. Potential environmental effects across a wide variety of technical areas will be studied during this process and presented in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS),” said Alyssa Cobb Konon, assistant commissioner for parklands and planning for NYC Parks.

Sig Gissler, who started Defenders, said that these other organizations have “good intentions,” but their demands don’t seem plausible. He also suggested that the new groups represent a small number of people, while Defenders still has wide support from many happy with the group’s approach. According to the organization’s website, Defenders has amassed around 3,000 supporters. Community United has about 250 signatures to an online petition that launched earlier this year, though DiSalvo said that number doesn’t accurately represent its support.

Combined with physical signatures, actual support reaches closer to 2,000 people, she said.

“We’re the original group, we’re the one with the large following, we’re the one with the seat at the table, and we’re the ones trying to make things happen and I think that’s an important distinction to keep in mind,” said Gissler.

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At Dizzying Heights, Prices of Luxury Apartments May Have Found Ceiling

It’s a question of supply and demand.

On a seven-block stretch of 57th Street and nearby, there are at least 300 apartments in seven buildings priced at a billionaire-friendly $5,000 a square foot either for sale or scheduled to go on the market in the next 24 months.

But despite a record $100 million sale of a penthouse last year, the volume of sales at that level topped out two years ago, at 55 transactions. In 2015, there were just 47

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BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS

Plans have been drawn up for a luxury 900-foot condo tower in Sutton Place, which, if completed as planned, would rank as one of the tallest buildings in Manhattan.

The 268,000-squarefoot tower will become the second-tallest on the Upper East Side, behind the in-progress 432 Park Avenue at 1,400 feet, and one of the tallest in the city.

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degree views of Midtown, Downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan, Central Park and the East River.”

The 268,000 square feet of buildable space and air rights, which includes 58,000 square feet of inclusionary housing rights, have already been delivered. It’s unclear if the affordable housing will be offered on- or offsite, or how many units of affordable housing will be included. Representatives for The Bauhouse Group, which owns the site, declined to field questions about the Sutton Place Development, but a representative of the company provided a press release to Our Town that said the

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To read about other people who have had their “15 Minutes” go to otdowntown.com/15 minutes William Zukof, far right, helped found vocal sextet The Western Wind.

WEST SIDE COOL Co-founder of vocal sextet The Western Wind discusses the ensemble’s origins and current repertoire

BY ANGELA BARBUTI

In 1969, William Zukof helped found The Western Wind, a vocal sextet that continues to spread an appreciation for acapella music throughout Manhattan and the world.

A New York native, he began his musical career as a child on the West Side, studying under esteemed choral director Earl Robinson at the Metropolitan Music School. Highlights on his accomplished resume include performing under Leonard Bernstein at the Vatican and having one of his ensemble’s songs nominated for a Grammy Award.

The Western Wind also holds workshops on ensemble singing for both children and

adults, which according to Zukof, participants call “life changing.” As for the future, he said his focus lies in being able to “share the joy of ensemble singing with as many people as we can.”

Originally it was a collection of young singers who were really interested in early music.

That means music of the Renaissance, early Baroque and Medieval music. We were all studying with various teachers.

cally it’s six voices, acapella.

And the repertoire that’s developed from our additional interest in Renaissance music has expanded to include early American. This is music from the time of the American Revolution and it came out in a very timely fashion in 1973, 1974, when the American Bicentennial was in the air. So we did an LP called “Early American Vocal Music” and lo and behold it was nominated for a Grammy.

We’re still performing it. We just performed it at our concert on March 12.

Explain what The Western Wind is and its purpose.

What does the name of the sextet refer to?

It’s a vocal sextet, acapella.

We generally work without instruments, but occasionally we will bring some to play with us. And one of our members plays guitar sometimes with us on certain pieces. But basi-

Well, we all lived on the West Side of Manhattan. It was 1969.

Rock groups had names like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, The Monkees, The Grateful Dead. We wanted a name that was kind of cool. The Western

How did the ensemble come about?

Wind is also a song from the 1500s and a poem. You can see the poem in a lot of poetry anthologies. It was even on the subway’s poetry series. It’s beautiful poem and a beautiful melody goes with it. It just seemed like a great name and we were also living on the West Side. And the name allowed us to expand into contemporary classical music with new works written for us by living composers as well as pop and jazz arrangements. So we do everything now from early medieval music to Billy Joel.

What have been some of your favorite pieces to perform through the years?

That’s really hard to say. You know, there’s nothing like Renaissance Italian. We also do some wonderful music by Salamone Rossi, who is a Jewish composer who lived in Mantua.

In the Renaissance, music was written by singers for singers.

All the composers were singers. So it’s just a wonderfully vocal experience. But then, my other favorite stuff is contemporary, written by living composers. We have a new piece by Meredith Monk called “Basket

Rondo” along with Eric Salzman’s “Jukebox in the Tavern of Love.”

You’re a New York native. How do you think Manhattan shapes musicians?

I’m from Manhattan. I used to live on 103rd Street and 105th Street. I still have the same ZIP code. I lived on 108th Street, off of Broadway. There’s an incredible mélange of cultures here both musical and in every other way. So we’re all exchanging cultural DNA.

How did you first get involved in music? Did you begin at a young age?

Yes, as a child. I went to music school and the choral director was a guy named Earl Robinson. He wrote “Ballad for Americans” and “The Lonesome Train” about Lincoln’s funeral.

He also wrote “The House I Live In” and Frank Sinatra sang that. He also wrote, “The ink is black. The page is white.

Together we learn to read and write,” after the 1954 desegregation decision of the Supreme Court. He was a politically active composer. And I was in his kids’ choir in the Metropolitan

Music School on 74th Street.

Tell us about the members of the ensemble. Is there an audition process?

The group ranges in age now from mid-30s to early 60s.

People tend to stay with the ensemble for a long because the singers have a lot of input and autonomy. When we needed new members, we would reach out to the singing community, mostly through personal connections. We didn’t have a mass call because what we do is fairly specialized. And New York has a wonderful community of people with great skill. There are a lot of wonderful voices and great musicians but it had to be somebody who wanted to work collaboratively who we would be comfortable with driving in a car with for five to six hours.

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