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Hunter College grad student Will Zentmyer, a volunteer, helped sign in people at a recent coalition legal clinic. Photo: Stephan Russo

FOR IMMIGRANTS: SANCTUARY AND LEGAL HELP VIEWPOINT Every week, scores of people fleeing violence and economic despair in their home countries seek assistance at Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village BY STEPHAN RUSSO

They start arriving every Tuesday around 4:30 p.m., seeking help at the New Sanctuary Coalition’s pro se legal clinic in Greenwich Village. Some are newcomers who have travelled from the outer boroughs, New Jersey, and as far away as Rockland County and Long Island. Others have immigration cases that have dragged on for months and even years, and are well known to the coalition. Family members, whose loved ones have been detained solely because of their undocumented immigration status, show up desperate to find the funds to meet bail.

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A rendering of the new jail the city plans to build at 124-125 White Street in Lower Manhattan, currently the site of the Manhattan Detention Complex. Image: Perkins Eastman

DOWNTOWN JAIL PLAN: NEW DETAILS SHARED POLICY City to commence public land use review process for 450-foottall detention complex in Lower Manhattan BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio has shared new details regarding the contentious plan to build a new jail in Lower Manhattan — a crucial component of its effort to close the notorious Rikers Island jails — as it prepares to move forward with

public review of the project. The city’s proposal calls for the existing Manhattan Detention Complex at 124-125 White Street, known colloquially as the Tombs, to be demolished and replaced with a new, larger jail facility. The latest plans, detailed in a draft environmental impact statement issued March 22, contemplate a new 1.27 million square foot jail tower that would be 450 feet tall and have a capacity of 1,437 beds. Administration officials said at a March 22 press briefing that the new jail’s proposed height and capacity were reduced in response to community concerns. Earlier plans called

for a tower 45 feet taller and with 73 more beds. These changes were announced as the city prepares to initiate the extensive uniform land use review procedure, or ULURP, for the project, which has encountered significant opposition from some Chinatown residents in recent months. The proposed Manhattan jail is one of four new facilities that would replace Rikers Island, the violenceplagued and outdated East River complex that the administration has said it aims to permanently close by

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In Brief MORE HELP FOR SMALL BUSINESS

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

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KEEPING MEASLES OUT OF MANHATTAN PUBLIC HEALTH An outbreak of the infectious disease in Brooklyn sounds an alarm that shouldn’t be ignored, experts and officials say

We’re all very worried about it because these are vaccinepreventable diseases, and we’ve taken them for granted.”

BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM

In the first three months of 2019, New York City has had to confront the worst measles outbreak it has seen in decades. The number of cases has risen to over 150 in Brooklyn, and more specifically, in Orthodox Jewish enclaves in Williamsburg and Borough Park where vaccine hesitancy has made inroads in the community. The public health crisis raises questions of whether such an outbreak might be possible in Manhattan. “If you have groups of people who are not immunized and someone comes in with measles — you’re going to have an outbreak. It’s a virtual certainty,” said Stephen Morse, a professor and epidemiologist at Columbia University. Officials have traced the Brooklyn outbreak back to travelers coming from Israel and Europe, where measles had been spreading, Morse explained. But the infection spread when those infected spent time in community spaces where people were unvaccinated, particularly in the religious day schools known as yeshivas.

Stephen Morse, professor and epidemiologist at Columbia University been known as a childhood disease. Its symptoms include fever and a red blotchy skin rash all over the body, as well as a cough and runny nose. The vast majority of cases are not fatal, but the effects of a measles infection can be very serious.

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Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer would support a requirement that every child in NYC schools be vaccinated. Photo courtesy Gale A. Brewer, via flickr

Vaccination is the Answer It’s this fact that worries Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer. “I go to a lot of schools and talk to a lot of parents, and I think there are kids in Manhattan public schools who are not vaccinated,” Brewer said. While there is not an outbreak in Manhattan currently,

Brewer said, the best way to prevent one is to ensure every kid who comes to school is immunized. Although that is the case for most students, parents or guardians are able to exempt their children because of their religious beliefs, which creates a pool of susceptible children. “There is not an exemption based on personal, moral or

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secular beliefs,” Brewer said, adding that, in terms of a possible policy solution to prevent widespread measles outbreaks, she would support a requirement that every child be vaccinated.

A Dangerous Movement The anti-vaccine movement is not a new phenomenon, but Morse fears that it is growing. “We’re all very worried about it because these are vaccinepreventable diseases, and we’ve taken them for granted,” he said. “It worries me because it seems like we’re going to

see more and more of this. If there are large enough parts of the population that are not immunized we will see bigger outbreaks. I don’t think we’ll ever see several million cases again, but I do think we will see a few hundred or maybe a few thousand. That would be a very sad thing because there would be consequences to that.” Measles is one of the most contagious infections, ten times more contagious than the flu, according to Morse. It can spread from an infected person breathing, coughing and sneezing. Traditionally, it’s

Families can protect themselves from measles by getting their children immunized at the appropriate times, Morse said. For parents who have infants not yet old enough for the MMR vaccination (between 6 and 11 months old) and are worried that they may catch measles, Morse said there’s really only way to protect them: keep them away from those who might have the infection. If parents are able to do that, and the rest of the family members are immunized, the child should be safe from measles. Additionally, newborns should be protected through maternal immunity. Antibodies from the mother’s breast milk should remain in the child’s bloodstream until they are six months old.

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG ROAD RAGE ARRESTS

STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 1st precinct for the week ending Mar 17

Two men used bike locks as weapons in a road rage incident, police said. At 7:10 p.m. on Friday, Mar. 15, a 25-yearold man was driving his 2004 Ford van near the corner of Trinity Pl. and Cedar St. when a man broke the van’s rear driver-side window with a bike lock and struck the driver with the lock, injuring his left arm, the victim told police. The driver also said that a second man struck the vehicle’s rear passenger window with a bike lock, shattering the window and causing damage in excess of $250. The victim refused medical attention at the scene. Police arrested Nicholas Fonseca and Billy Gonzalez and charged them with assault.

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VIOLENT ATTACK IN BAR Police reported that a 29-year-old man inside the Macao Trading Co bar and restaurant at 311 Church St. was struck on the right side of his head with a bottle by an unknown attacker at 3:45 a.m. on Sunday, Mar. 17. The victim suffered lacerations to the right side of his head and his right ear.

COPPER CAPER The high price of copper continues to make plumbing supplies a valuable target for thieves. According to police,

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sometime between 5 p.m. on Saturday, Mar. 9 and 6 a.m. on Tuesday, Mar. 12, three men entered a construction site at 1 Beekman and removed items belonging to Demar Plumbing from the building’s storage room. The stolen items, including copper pipes, fittings

and ball valves, were valued at $6,210.

ARREST IN 2017 STOLEN CHECK CASE In Aug. 2017, the law firm of Goldstein, Rikon, Rikon and Houghton

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mailed a check in the amount of $14,088.54 payable to Oxford Health Plans. The check, mailed using a mailbox near the firm’s office on Park Ave. South, was subsequently stolen and deposited in a TD Bank account in the name of Oxford Health Plans Mngmt Inc., police said. Two withdrawals were made from that TD bank account, causing financial losses of $13,500. On Mar. 14 of this year, police arrested Destini Gray, 20, who they said was the signer on the account. Gray was charged with grand larceny.

FIVE TIMES $500 On Thursday, Mar. 14, three men entered the Philipp Plein boutique at 40 Mercer St. and removed five pair of sneakers from a store display table, before fleeing without paying, police said. The suspects got into a vehicle, possibly a gray Chevy Suburban with North Carolina plates bearing the partial number 3676, which then took off in an unknown direction. Police searched the neighborhood but couldn’t find the suspects or the vehicle. The stolen sneakers were valued at $2,515.

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A MEMORIAL FOR THE ‘TRIANGLE’ WOMEN Rosie and Katie

HISTORY More than a century after a fire killed scores of female factory workers in Greenwich Village, a plan to honor them moves forward BY EMILY MASON

Groups of men, women and children lined rows of tables, hand-sewing swatches of colorful fabric together at the Fashion Institute of Technology earlier this month. They were creating a crucial part of the long-anticipated memorial to the Triangle Shirtwaist factory ďŹ re, the 1911 disaster that killed 146 people, 123 of them women. Many of those women were Jewish immigrants from Russia, Austria, or Italy, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Their deaths were largely avoidable, and the fire led to new era in workplace safety regulations. The tragedy also called attention to the dreadful working conditions in many American factories.

Nine years ago, after the ďŹ re’s Centennial, the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition began plans for a permanent memorial at the site of the ďŹ re, at 29 Washington place, which is now New York University’s Brown Building. Suzanne Pred Bass is on the executive board of the coalition and is the greatniece of two women, Rosie and Katie Weiner, who were caught in the ďŹ re. Katie survived, but Rosie died. “[The memorial] is so that Rosie not be forgotten, and that there is meaning brought to this event,â€? Bass said. “That her senseless death, easily avoidable except for the greed and the negligence of the factory owners, is honored and remembered in a way that carries meaning into this century.â€?

The Tragedies Continue Coalition members hope this memorial will be a symbol to remind people that the working conditions of the Triangle Shirtwaist ďŹ re are an ongoing global issue. Events such as the 2012 Dhaka ďŹ re in Bangladesh, which killed at least 117, and the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse, also in Bangladesh, which killed 1,134, galvanized the coalition members during the long process of creating the memorial. Temma Kaplan, a retired history professor from Rutgers University, emphasized why people in the United States need to feel responsible for workers’ rights both at home and abroad. “Those of us who wear clothing from factories in Bangladesh, factories in Asia, or from very poor places in Central Europe, nobody thinks about what we owe to the people who make these things,â€? Kaplan said. “When we hear about a big ďŹ re in Bangladesh we feel bad it happened, but we don’t recognize the connection we have to that event.â€?

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Suzanne Pred Bass is the greatniece of two sisters, Rosie and Katie, who were caught in the blaze. Katie survived, Rosie did not. Photo: Emily Mason

The coalition sponsored a design competition in 2013 and chose a collaborative work by architects Richard Joon Yoo and Uri Wegman. The design entails metal bands spanning two sides of the NYU Brown building, etched with the names of the victims of the ďŹ re. At ground level, there will be an engraving telling the story of the ďŹ re, and a panel reecting the names above and the faces of visitors reading the engraving. When visitors reach the

end of the story, there will be a metal ribbon ascending above them to the ninth floor. Yoo plans for the memorial to immerse people in the experience. “This gesture of looking down to read the story and then looking up to see the height of the memorial is literally a retracing of the witnessing of the ďŹ re,â€? Yoo said. The memorial is scheduled to open next March. This desire to advocate for those who are still expected to work in dangerous conditions is why coalition members, descendants of the victims and others gathered in the John E. Reeves Great Hall at FIT. The 340-foot fabric assemblage they sewed together will become the texture for the metal ribbon stretching to the ninth floor of the memorial. The pieces of fabric and the handwritten explanations of their signiďŹ cance, will be preserved by Cornell University’s Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives. Daniel Levinson Wilk, professor of American History at FIT, joined the coalition after the Triangle centennial and recognizes the importance of bringing the project to the Institute. “These issues are going to be very important to our students when they go out into the workplace,â€? Wilk said. “They’re going to be the ones making the decisions that affect whether working conditions are safe or not. And so it’s important to us here at FIT that we involve our students and faculty with this project.â€?

Volunteers gathered at FIT to help in the creation of the Traingle ďŹ re memorial. Photo: Emily Mason

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Her Grandmother’s Lace Annie Lanzillotto is a member of the coalition and the creative mind behind many of the organization’s initiatives, including creating paper shirtwaist kites to y over the crowd as the group marched in the 2018 labor day parade. She spent the weekend sewing pieces of clothing, lace, owers, and other symbolic pieces from her grandmother and mother onto the communal fabric to be a part of the memorial. Her grandmother worked as a ďŹ nisher in the garment district after immigrating through Ellis Island from Italy. “To sit here, to work with my friends, sewing with them,â€? Lanzillotto said, “with fabrics from our grandmothers and mothers, and thread from them, thread from our aunts and grandmothers, it’s really beautiful.â€?

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YOU’RE NEVER TOO OLD TO SAVE A LIFE AGING The myths and realities of organ donation by seniors BY CAROL ANN RINZLER

You’re never too old to save a life. No, you don’t have to throw yourself in front of a speeding bullet or New York City driver. Just signing up as an organ donor will do the trick. Each of us is a veritable medicine chest stocked with eight lifesaving organs (heart, two lungs, a dividable liver, pancreas, two kidneys, and intestines), plus a plethora of healing tissues ranging from corneas to tendons, heart valves, skin and bones. In the roughly ten minutes it might take you to skim through all the headlines in this paper, another name will be added to the more than 115,000 already on the waiting list for a transplant of one of these lifesaving bits and pieces. It may be a very long wait. While 95 percent of Americans endorse donating organs, many of us shy away from putting our names and bodies on the dotted line. The Mayo Clinic says excuses in-

your organs remain clude myths like viable. As for age, the idea that if you yes, an older person agree to donate might have a condiyour organs the tion such as active hospital staff won’t cancer or a systemic work hard to save infection that rules your life or maybe out donation but you won’t really be just being older is dead when they sign NY Statewide Computer not a disqualifier. In the death certificate Registry of Potential fact, says Dr. Nabil or donating will Organ/Tissue Donors: Dagher, director make it impossible donatelife.ny.gov/register of the abdominal for your survivors National Donate Life transplant program to have an open-casRegistry: RegisterMe.org at NYU Langone’s ket funeral or you’re Note: This one ensures Transplant Instinot in the best of that your donor registration tute, “The miracle health so nobody travels with you, no matter of transplantation would want your where you live or if you move allows our organs to organs or you’re across the country. out-live us for many just too old. years, even when “It’s a misconcepdonated at an older tion that if you’re a donor doctors will not try to save age. For example, while the general your life,” says Dr. Anthony Watkins, age cut off for a living liver donor — a abdominal transplant surgeon at person who gives a part of his liver New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cor- while he is still alive — is 60, living nell Medical Center. “The reality is donors in their 80s have donated kidthat everyone’s focus is always on neys successfully.” Some day that may not be necessaving a life, donor and recipient.” And you will definitely be brain- sary. Researchers have already dead, although machines may keep 3D-printed human ears by coating your heart and lungs working so that molded forms with living cells on an

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ear-shape mold and have created and transplanted vaginas grown with a patient’s cells on a vagina-shape scaffold. Even more exciting is rheir cultivation of very small, millimeter-size human structures known as “organoids” used to study how our body parts work. The current list includes a “mini brain” similar in size to that of a 5-week old human fetus (Ohio State University), a beating “mini heart” with muscles and connective tissue grown from stem cells (University of California Berkeley), “mini lungs” (University of Michigan Medical School) and a clutch of “mini stomachs” (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center). How long until science gives us working human-size replacement parts? The best answer is, “Eventually.” For the moment, donation rules. That’s why you should register your intent to donate, designate your choice on your driver’s license, and tell your family and friends who, in some cases, must give permission for the procedure. Because, Dagher concludes, “Donating organs is the ultimate gift one human can give to another.” At any age.

Dr. Nabil Dagher, director of the abdominal transplant program at NYU Langone’s Transplant Institute. Photo courtesy of NYU Langone

FDNY SIGNS OFF ON WEST 66TH STREET TOWER VOID DEVELOPMENT Design changes to building’s controversial mechanical void space assuage Fire Department safety concerns; developer must submit new plans to DOB for review BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

Extell Development’s planned condominium tower at 36 West 66th St. is a step closer to becoming the tallest structure on the Upper West Side after receiving approval from the New York City Fire Department for the large void space in the building’s middle section. The Department of Buildings had notified the developer in January of its intent to revoke previously issued approvals for the project unless the developer could resolve objections regarding the 161-foot mechanical void on the building’s 18th floor, which the DOB noted is of a height “not customarily found in connection with residential uses.” Among the DOB’s requirements was written approval from FDNY regarding emergency access plans for the void space, which the developer has now received. “We have approved plans because alterations to their design were made to improve safety in the event the Department would

Extell Development’s proposed 775-foot tower at 36 West 66th St. includes a 161-foot mechanical void in its middle section, shown in grey in the rendering at right. Left: Snøhetta; Right: George M. Janes & Associates

need to respond to a fire,” an FDNY spokesperson said. Among the changes, the spokesperson said, were “corridors and space at every level in the void” for firefighters to operate and remove people in the event of a fire, as well as “access doors on every level in the void to assist with evacuation by elevators if necessary.” The plans approved by FDNY also include a new catwalk along the perimeter of the void’s upper level. The proposed 775-foot tower has become a flashpoint in an ongoing debate over the development practice of artificially inflating building heights through the excessive use of mechanical void spaces, which do not count toward floor area calculations that govern maximum heights in many zoning districts. The City Planning Commission is currently considering public input on a proposed zoning text amendment that would place new limits on the use of voids, but which some reformers believe does not go far enough in addressing the issue. In order to move forward with the project at 36 West 66th St., the developer will now need to submit revised building plans to the DOB reflecting these changes and satisfying DOB’s other objections to the mechanical space. According to a DOB spokesperson, the developer has yet to file amended plans.

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IMMIGRANTS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The so-called border crisis, which currently consumes so much of our political space and is manufactured to appeal to the worst of this country’s nativist instincts, is playing out on a very human level right in our own backyard. Come to the clinic, at the Judson Memorial Church office, and you can bear witness to the reality of the migrants who are escaping the violence and economic despair of their native countries and seeking a better life in the United States. These “friends” (as the individuals and families who come to the coalition seeking protection are called) come from all parts of the globe, according to Ravi Ragbir, the coalition’s executive director. “The majority are Spanish speakers from Latin America — primarily Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala,” said Ragbir. “But they also come from Africa, Haiti, Pakistan, Turkey, China and the Caribbean.” There has even been a recent influx of refugees from Venezuela, who have managed to escape the upheaval that has roiled our South American neighbor.

A History of Service Reverend Micah Bucey, the minister at Judson, sees the new sanctuary movement as an outgrowth of the “three-legged stool” of faith, justice and creativity, which has characterized the historic church since it opened in the 1890s. “From the moment Judson opened, it was a meeting place where rich and poor could come together,” Bucey said. “Edward Judson agreed to build the church on Washington Square and bring together the wealthy community to the north and the poor Italian community to the south of the church. There was always a focus on social justice. During that era, the church was the only place to get fresh water.” In 2007, the Reverend Donna Schaper, senior minister, spearheaded an effort to create a “new” sanctuary movement modeled after the church’s effort in late 1970s and early 1980s to provide refuge to those fleeing the civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala. The focus of this new action, however, was not one of providing physical sanctuary (although several faith-based groups are housing individuals ICE has threatened to immediately deport); but rather, as a way to put a human face on the issue, raise aware-

Immigrants seeking legal help meet with volunteer attorneys during a weekly session organized by the New Sanctuary Coalition. Photo: Courtesy New Sanctuary Coalition ness and advocate for legislative reform to support the millions of undocumented immigrants living in this country.

A Lifeline for the Undocumented Still, what began as a small, grassroots effort (Bucey is the coordinator of a city-wide faith-based coalition to expand the sanctuary movement) has now become the only lifeline for hundreds of undocumented friends fleeing violence, poverty and oppression. “The clinic grew out of the increasing requests for help with asylum applications,” said Bucey. “The 2016 election was also a turning point. We realized that there was little we could do legislatively, given the current political climate. But rather than despair we began to do something very concrete — provide direct help.” When I asked Ragbir to describe how the Tuesday clinic works (I volunteer at the clinic, helping people sign in) he said it was a loaded question. “The clinic doesn’t operate in isolation, it works hand in hand with the other aspects of our work – accompaniment to court hearings, community meetings, Jericho walks around 26 Federal Plaza led by faith leaders and community activists, and anti-detention efforts. All of this helps to empower individuals to advocate for themselves and fight deportation. If that’s all we did, I would consider our work a success.” To walk into the legal clinic is to experience what looks like sheer organized chaos. The clinic has outgrown the offices at Judson and uses other donated space nearby. Over 150 friends show up on a given Tuesday. The majority have come to the clinic before and have ongoing cases, but at least

a third are new cases. Word has gotten out in the immigration network that there is a place you can go for help, regardless of your circumstance. The coalition does not judge your situation. One of the main tenets of the group is “to do no harm.”

The coalition doesn’t turn anybody away. There is an overwhelming demand for our services.”

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Harriet Cohen, New Sanctuary Coaition volunteer

The clinic helps prepare “589” asylum applications, paperwork for an impending deportation hearing, protective status applications for those under 21 who have been abandoned, and significantly, bail applications for those fighting to obtain the release of loved ones who are detained. From 250 to 300 volunteers find their way to the clinic on Tuesdays. Some are old-timers who clearly know the ropes. Others are there for the first time seeking a way to plug in. All arrive with a strong desire to support someone who faces the wrath of our punitive immigration system. There is an orientation for new volunteers at 5:30 p.m.. Harriet Cohen, a long time housing activist, leads the orientation and has been coming every Tuesday for the past two years. During her talk, she impresses upon the group the need to be sensitive to the trauma many have experienced when they help the friends tell their stories and complete the required forms. “The coalition doesn’t turn anybody away,” she said. “There is an overwhelming demand for our services, and we need many more lawyers who can be trained in the intricacies of these complicated immigration cases.” Volunteer attorneys review intake forms to determine what type of application needs to be filed. Note-takers, translators and legal experts are

quickly organized into teams. Those in charge of the clinic match the friends and teams of volunteers. There is a palpable buzz from the groups — sometimes they work well into the evening — documenting histories, filing asylum applications, completing employment authorization requests and other documents under the Freedom or Information Act (FOIA) needed to help a friend’s case.

The Ultimate Grassroots Effort Siernna Neripe, who works with the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, has

been coming to the clinic for over a year. “I am a volunteer attorney who goes around the clinic and gives advice to the teams,” she explained. “I originally came here to translate in French and Haitian Creole. However, once I got here, I realized they needed more attorneys than translators. This is the ultimate grassroots effort” Neripe said she sees a lot of women coming from Honduras and El Salvador who have intense gender-based violence claims. “Every situation sticks

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NO SCANDAL HERE! IN PRAISE OF CUNY PUBLIC EYE BY JON FRIEDMAN

I have been proud to teach journalism courses at Stony Brook University and Hunter College — especially right now. And while we’re on the subject of local diamonds in the rough, good on you, too, to the likes of City College of New York (CCNY), Hunter, Pace, Lehman, LaGuardia, Brooklyn and Queens. You no doubt heard about the recent scandal, in which crooked, well-heeled parents schemed to get their undeserving children enrolled at such campuses on the hill as Yale, Stanford and the University of Southern California. Before this debacle, it might have

seemed like a bad joke to dare to mention CUNY’s (and by extension, SUNY’S) finest universities in the same breath as the alma maters of the world’s power brokers in finance and politics. There is no question that the Ivy League rules the world. “Since 1988, every single President (including our next President) has had at least one degree from an Ivy League school. Every President in that span has also had a parent or a child — sometimes both — attend an Ivy League school,” Inc. magazine noted, just before Donald Trump was sworn in as president in 2017. And as Inc. posited, only semitongue-in-cheek in that same December 2016 article: “Harvard MBAs Keep Going to Prison. So Why Do They Still Rule the World?”

Work Ethic I’ve been thinking hard about this scandal — but from a different angle. Let the Colberts, Noahs and Olivers rightfully pummel the culprits and villains. But what about the students, parents that play by the rules and the modest campuses? Especially the students. Because of them I feel like I have some skin in this game and something to say. Many students of mine hail from the neighborhoods that this publication reaches. It’s hard not to root for them to succeed. Their work ethic, alone, commands respect. Many of them maintain a full course load of 15-to18 credits per semester while holding down demanding part-time jobs that would strike most of us as being

thankless. (How would you like to be a barista at the campus Starbucks, just as a three-hour class is letting out and a horde of ravenous, caffeine-deprived students are bearing down on you? Neither would I.) They have a lot of common sense. I knew I’d make it when, in my first semester of teaching, an angry student challenged me about the B-minus I had slapped on her homework assignment, following a string of B-pluses. “Professor,” she protested, holding the paper aloft in her hand,“I deserve better!” Grabbing it, I countered, “So do I.” She smiled, possibly thinking, Hey, not bad, prof. They don’t complain, either (well, except about their grades). I wonder about the high school seniors who were rejected by the

elite institutions to make room for the children of Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin. For the record, my favorite puckish reaction to the scandal came when one of my former students sized up the irony of such rich and famous parents getting caught up in the scandal. In a world-weary commentary, my exstudent declared: “Oh no! Not Aunt Becky!” referring to Lori Loughlin’s popular character on the TV show “Full House.” I’ll leave it to you to say what does this scandal says about the sad state of the American education system, society and our collective values – that money can buy anything. Except character. Check out the students at your local CUNY or SUNY.

NEW RULES TO GET THINGS DONE BY BETTE DEWING

We’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore! Ha! Maybe if the East 79th Street Neighborhood Association meeting notice put it that way (Of course, with ”heck” instead of “hell.”) attendance would really spike at this week’s meeting. The city majority is indeed stressed by two major problems on the agenda. One is traffic law-breaking and the e-bike invasion, as well as regular cyclists’ habitual aversion to the rules of the road. The other is the city-wide crisis of losing our neighborhood stores and eateries that meet everyday needs.

Go to the Meeting Now don’t sigh and say “There’s a lot of talk but so little gets done.” I agree, but first, much has been done over these 30-plus years. The problem is only a relative few of us show up to demand that our elected officials and police take the all-out remedial action their constituent majority needs,

Yes, safe travel — above all, stop the most deadly failure-to-yield traffic crime. And now there’s the e-bike and scooter invasion, All traffic lawbreaking biking has got to go. So does kamikaze walking. And our neighborhood stores and diners have to stay, be restored and find affordable space in any new high-rise building. Incidentally, while the East 79th St. Neighborhood Association officially encompasses the area between East 72nd and East 79th streets, all concerned New Yorkers are urged to attend. The same problems are shared,and numbers matter. This month’s meeting is Thursday, March 28th starting at 6 p.m. The location is Temple Shaaray Tefila, on the corner of 79th and Second Avenue. And most thankfully, its indefatigable co-founder and leader, Betty Cooper Wallerstein, believes in monthly meetings.

Speak Up As for meeting format, more might get done if the public spoke both before and after the elected officials and 19th

precinct police officers gave their reports. Everyone needs to speak and all must be brief, get to the point. And use the mic! Remember, the population is aging and especially in Manhattan. Ah, and long overdue is an escort service to enable disabled New Yorkers’ participation . Naturally, able-bodied civic group members would be in the vanguard of this so needed enabling. Incidentally, I know several once-key members of the association who now need help to be seen and heard at the meetings. This need is city-wide and beyond — way beyond.

Pick Up the Phone And more will get done when we repeatedly phone our elected officials about our concerns and ideas. Officials’ numbers are conveniently located in this paper’s Helpful Contacts column. Although surveys find calls are more effective than emails, when possible, let us do both. Oh, and, so supercritical, you with the internet access, please get social media involved. And civic leader Wallerstein must finally

E-bikes confiscated by police. Photo: NYPD, via Twitter get on the internet. Repeat that too. Also meeting attendees could use some other homework, like on the way home, and in general, speak out when drivers fail to yield or speed, not to mention when cyclists break every law on the books. Kamikaze walkers sure need a reproof.

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STUYVESANT STUDENTS SPEAK UP EDUCATION News that just seven out of 895 spots in New York’s most elite high school went to black students drew a reaction from teens who already attend BY BRIAN DEMO

Lower Manhattan was sunny and cold on March 19 as students from Stuyvesant High School emerged from the Tribeca Bridge tunnel — which they cross to get in and out of school — to grab lunch between classes. Some walked calmly out of the tunnel, others looked exhausted. Still others came out excited, like Andy Dufresne escaping Shawshank, to dart for a food truck or the nearby Chipotle. Most were white or AsianAmerican. The day before, the New York Times had published an article titled, “Only 7 Black Students Got Into Stuyvesant, N.Y.’s Most Selective High School, Out of 895 Spots.” With the exception of Fiorella H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, admission to New York City’s prestigious specialized high schools (SHS), including Stuyvesant, is based solely on how well a student does on the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT). According to 2017-2018 data from the NYC Department of Education (DOE), Stuyvesant’s student population was 73.5 percent Asian-American, 17.8 percent white, 2.8 percent Hispanic and 0.7 percent black.

Caught in a Controversy Some of those students responded to the controversial news about their school in sidewalk interviews last week. One of them, a ninth grader, said he was born in the United States to a father from the Dominican Republic and an AfricanAmerican mother. He made the point that different students have different preferences in schools, and the schools don’t control those choices. “If a lot of Asian-American students want to come to Stuyvesant, they can come,” he said “If a lot of African-American students want to go to Brooklyn Tech, they can go to Brooklyn Tech.” According to the DOE data, black students made up 6.4 percent of the student body at Brooklyn Technical High School, another SHS

Photo: Brian Demo A Stuyvesant tenth grader, with a mother from Poland and father from the United Kingdom, echoed that opinion. She said that her little sister, currently in eighth grade, preferred the High School of American Studies at Lehman College over Stuyvesant. “Just because Stuy is the most selective, doesn’t mean that everyone wants to go there. It’s not the school for everyone.” An eleventh grader from downtown Manhattan said that people have to remember that lower income households exist throughout different ethnic groups. The student said her mother came to the U.S. from Vietnam and her father was born in New York City. Some Asians, she said, have parents who “had to escape from wars,” including her mother. Many Asian parents, she added, emphasize the importance of working hard in school to have a better life, and send their kids to special courses to prepare them the SHSAT and SAT. She also said she suspects that some Asian parents actually choose to eat less in order to help fund their children’s ambitious study schedules. Another Stuyvesant tenth grader, who was born in the U.S. to Polish immigrants and lives in Queens, emphasized how hard some students prep for the SHSAT, and shared his own experiences. He believes there should be some baseline metric, rather than a greater focus on diversity. “The lack of diversity, it’s just something that we don’t agree with, especially because we spend years studying for this test. I spent two years probably, and my summer too. So I have a personal connection with the test.”

Concerns About a Mayor’s Plan Mayor de Blasio and DOE Chancellor Richard A. Carranza announced a plan in June 2018 to boost diversity in the

SHSs through the Discovery program and by eliminating “the use of the single-admissions test over three years,” according to the DOE website. The Discovery program targets students whose SHSAT scores fall just short of the cutoff score and involves setting aside 20 percent of seats at each SHS, which the website said would almost double the number of black and Latino students receiving admissions offers. According to the plan, after the SHSAT is phased out, the SHSs would “reserve seats for top performers at each New York City middle school.” City models project increases in female students and additional increases among black and Latino students. The plan to eliminate the test, however, would require New York State legislation. A Stuyvesant ninth grader, born in the U.S. to Bangladeshi immigrants, is no fan of the planned changes. “I think de Blasio’s method isn’t really that moral or fair, because he’s too focused on getting certain races into high schools,” he said. The eleventh-grader from downtown Manhattan was hesitant to suggest policy solutions. “I’m really young,” she said. “I don’t want to say something when I don’t fully understand what each group is going through.” She supports diversity overall, and said that being among a diverse group of people makes individuals more aware. The Queens tenth-grader said he supports any student working to be their best, but expressed concern about Stuyvesant’s reputation for academic rigor, should the SHSAT be altered or eliminated from the admissions process. “The entire point of Stuyvesant is that it’s supposed to be super selective ... If you get rid of this exam, I guess it just becomes like a regular high school.”

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THE FLYING BLIND SKETCH SHOW

Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Ave 7:30 p.m. Free Each year, 40 million visitors descend on the Mojave Desert to have an encounter with chance and a timeworn narrative of excess, with the assurance that whatever they do there will disappear into oblivion. This film cannibalizes the sheen of the city’s voracious capacity for spectacle: from the 1950s, when atomic explosion tests became another tourist attraction, to the present, when a male stripper turns police brutality into the sensual fantasy of a bachelorette. anthologyfilmarchives.org 212-505-518

UCB Hell’s Kitchen 555 West 42nd St 10:30 p.m. $9 Flying Blind is a sketch show where the actors don’t see their scripts until the moment they’re on stage. Every show is rehearsal one and opening night! Even the audience isn’t safe and could be directed to scream, stomp, cheer, boo, or even be part of the show! ucbtheatre.com 212-366-9176

ROAST OF HISTORY: NEW YORK’S BEST COMEDIANS ROAST HISTORY’S MOST NOTORIOUS FIGURES Caveat 21 A Clinton St 9:00 p.m $12 Throughout history there have been many figures and movements deserving of mockery, yet they somehow escaped unscathed. Comedian Matt Strickland aims to rectify that situation. No historical figure will be safe as everyone from Rasputin to the Beat Generation to the 1968 Democratic Convention become targets of New York’s best and meanest comedians. caveat.nyc 212-228-2100

The Cooper Union | 41 Cooper Sq. | 212-353-4100 | cooper.edu Map reading is fast becoming a lost art. Hear from one of the minds responsible: aerospace engineer and executive Richard Schwartz, who pioneered the first GPS. He’s just been awarded the 2019 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, aka “the Nobel Prize for engineers” (free).

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Wed 3 ▲ KNITTING CIRCLE Hudson Park Library 66 Leroy St Noon Free Join us and explore your crafty self! All created items will benefit a local charity. Some experience required. nypl.org 212-243-6876

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MARCH 28-APRIL 3,2019

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Spring 2019

Free Health & Wellness ee Spring 2019 Seminar Series April

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Elder Abuse 101: What Everyone Should 1²Ă˜ É—²Ăž Ä” M²ĂƒÂ‰ÂŹÄ? 9 Leslie Mantrone, LMSW Alyssa Elman, LMSW Mental Health: [ÂŹÂ…Â‰ÂżĂƒĂ‰t…™“ ɗ‰ (ÂŤÂźtÂ€Ă‰Ăƒ ²Â’ QĂ‰ÂżÂ‰ĂƒĂƒ tÂŹÂ… e—tÉ Ăž²ĂŽ tÂŹ ² About It "ĂŽĂž 9tÞÉtÂĽÄ? 9 :™t¼™ 0tĂžtĂƒÂ™ÂŹÂ“Â—Â‰Ä? J— Love Your Heart: [ÂŹÂ…Â‰ÂżĂƒĂ‰t…™“ tÂŹÂ… J¿‰×‰É™“ &‰t¿É Â™ĂƒÂ‰tĂƒÂ‰ :™×‰‰ JÄ” ™Ä? 9 9t¿™t 1tÂżtĂƒÄ? 9 3Σ‰ 1™Ä? 9

& Diabetes Care: Meals, 30 Pre-Diabetes Monitoring, Medication & More !‰¼™€™t 9Â‰ÂŹÂ…Â‰ÂĽĂƒ²Â—ÂŹ ĂŽÂżtÂŹt¢Ä? 9 0t‰ 0‰’’¿™‰ Q‰¼‰ÞÄ? :J Mt€—‰¼ QÉt—¼Ä? M

All seminars are FREE and open to the public. Q‰tə“ Â™Ăƒ tĂ—t™¼t ¼‰ Â’²¿ ùôï Ÿ‰²Ÿ¼Â‰ ² t ç¿ĂƒĂ‰Ĥ€²Â‰Ä? ç¿ĂƒĂ‰ĤĂƒÂ‰ÂżĂ—Â‰Â… tĂƒÂ™ĂƒÄ” All seminars: 6:30–8 pm All seminars held at Uris Auditorium 9‰Þ‰¿ MÂ‰ĂƒÂ‰t¿€— tÂŹÂ… …΀tə² Ι¼…™“ Weill Cornell Medicine ðòïï k²¿£ ׉Î‰ Ä tÉ þøɗ QÉĔĥ American Sign Language interpretive services will be provided at all seminars. If you require a disability-related accommodation, please call 212-821-0888 and leave a message.

The Helpline for Concerned Persons and Upcoming Elder Abuse 101 Seminar on April 2

As the Population Ages, Preparing Doctors for a “Silver Tsunami�

Millions of elders are abused - and there are millions of non-abusing family, friends and neighbors valiantly seeking to protect them.

Geriatricians have been saying it for

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The Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute Celebrates Heart Month

Save The Date - Domestic Workers Health Event

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intended to dispel stereotypes and offer fresh perspectives about seniors. There’s also the Longitudinal Experience to Advance Patient Care (LEAP) Ÿ¿²Â“ÂżtÂŤÄ? Ă˜Â—Â™Â€Â— ÂźtÂ™ÂżĂƒ ĂƒĂ‰ĂŽÂ…Â‰ÂŹĂ‰Ăƒ Ă˜Â™Ă‰Â— ²¼Â…‰¿ ÂźtĂ‰Â™Â‰ÂŹĂ‰Ăƒ Ă˜Â—² ɗ‰Þ Â’²¼¼²Ă˜ ɗ¿²ĂŽÂ“—²ĂŽĂ‰ their four years of medical school. Trainees at all levels participate in the "3 &²ĂŽĂƒÂ‰ tÂĽÂĽ J¿²Â“ÂżtÂŤÄ? Ă˜Â—Â™Â€Â— ÂĽÂ‰Ă‰Ăƒ ɗ‰ leave the classroom and hospital and visit an elderly patient’s home. Through Ă‰Â—Â‰ĂƒÂ‰ ‰’’²¿Ă‰ĂƒÄ? Ă˜Â‰ —²ŸÂ‰ ²ĂŽÂż ’ÎÉο‰ €tÂżÂ‰Â“Â™Ă—Â‰ÂżĂƒ Ă˜Â™ÂĽÂĽ ɿμÞ “‰É ɲ £²Ă˜ ²¼Â…‰¿ ÂźtĂ‰Â™Â‰ÂŹĂ‰Ăƒ tÂŹÂ… ¼‰t¿ ç¿ĂƒĂ‰Â—tÂŹÂ… t ²ĂŽĂ‰ ɗ‰ …™’çÂ€ĂŽÂĽĂ‰Â™Â‰Ăƒ ɗ‰Þ Â’t€‰Ĕ MÂ‰ĂƒÂ‰t¿€— Â™Ăƒ ‰žĂŽtÂĽÂĽĂž important, and Congress has recognized this, infusing the National Institute on “™“ Ă˜Â™Ă‰Â— ™€¿‰tĂƒÂ‰Â… ’Ώ…™“ Â’²¿ Ă‰Â—Â™Ăƒ çĂƒÂ€tÂĽ މt¿Ĕ e™É— t Ă˜Â™Â…Â‰ Ÿ²¿Ă‰Â’²¼Â™² ²Â’ ‰€— and translational research in geriatrics and age related diseases, Weill Cornell 9‰…™€™‰ ¿‰èÂ‰Â€Ă‰Ăƒ Ă‰Â—Â™Ăƒ €²Â™Ă‰ÂŤÂ‰ÂŹĂ‰Ä” ÂĽÂĽ of these initiatives mentioned, and many ²Ă‰Â—Â‰ÂżĂƒÄ? ¿‰è‰€É ɗ‰ ¿‰t…É— ²Â’ —²Ă˜ Ă˜Â‰ t¿‰ addressing the “Silver Tsunami.â€? They are a moral imperative of our mission to provide the farthest-reaching, most €²ŸtĂƒĂƒÂ™²tɉ €t¿‰ Ă˜Â‰ €tÂŹ Â’²¿ ²ĂŽÂż oldest patients.

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Weill Cornell Medicine Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Education Events

In addition to community tÂŹÂ… ‰…΀tə²tÂĽ Â‰Ă—Â‰ÂŹĂ‰ĂƒÄ? ɗ‰ M²tÂĽÂ… @Ä” J‰¿‰¼tÂŹ &‰t¿É (ÂŹĂƒĂ‰Â™Ă‰ĂŽĂ‰Â‰ Ÿ¿²Ă—Â™Â…Â‰Ăƒ ÂźtĂ‰Â™Â‰ÂŹĂ‰Ăƒ Ă˜Â™Ă‰Â— tÂ…Ă—t€‰… €t¿…™t€ €t¿‰ Ĥ Â’¿² ÂŹÂ‰Ă˜ ™™tÂĽÂĽĂž ™×tĂƒÂ™Ă—Â‰ Ÿ¿²Â€Â‰Â…ĂŽÂżÂ‰Ăƒ tÂŹÂ… ‰…™€tə²Ăƒ ɲ specialized approaches - to prevent and treat heart disease ™ ‰ tÂŹÂ… Ă˜²Â‰ÂŹÄ”

T—‰ e‰™¼¼ ²¿Â‰ÂĽÂĽ 9‰…™€™‰ Â™Ă—Â™ĂƒÂ™² ²Â’ "²Ă—‰¿Â‰ÂŹĂ‰ Ĺ? ²ĂŽÂŹÂ™Ă‰Ăž Â’Â’tÂ™ÂżĂƒ Ă˜²¿£Ăƒ Ă˜Â™Ă‰Â— t Þ¿™tÂ… ²Â’ ÂźtÂżĂ‰ÂŹÂ‰ÂżĂƒ ɲ ‰€²ĂŽÂżt“‰ Ăž²ĂŽÂŹÂ“ :Â‰Ă˜ k²¿£Â‰ÂżĂƒ ɲ pursue STEM-related education and careers, facilitating meaningful ™É‰¿t€É™²Ăƒ Ă˜Â™Ă‰Â— Ÿ²Ă‰Â‰ÂŹĂ‰Â™tÂĽ ‰É²¿Ăƒ ™ Ăƒt’‰Ä? ĂƒĂŽŸŸ²¿Ă‰Â™Ă—‰ ‰×™¿²Â‰ÂŹĂ‰ĂƒÄ” V—¿²ĂŽÂ“— —tÂŹÂ…ĂƒĤ² €²ĂŽÂŹÂ™Ă‰Ăž Ă˜²¿£ĂƒÂ—²ŸĂƒÄ? Ă˜Â‰ —t׉ ‰Ÿ²Ă˜Â‰ÂżÂ‰Â… ²¿Â‰ ɗtÂŹ áïï ĂƒĂ‰ĂŽÂ…Â‰ÂŹĂ‰Ăƒ t€¿²ĂƒĂƒ tÂĽÂĽ ç׉ ²¿²ĂŽÂ“Â—Ăƒ ɲ ÂźĂŽÂżĂƒĂŽÂ‰ QV 9 ‰…΀tə² tÂŹÂ… ɗ‰ €tÂżÂ‰Â‰ÂżĂƒ ²Â’ ɗ‰™¿ …¿‰tÂŤĂƒÄ” e‰™¼¼ ²¿Â‰ÂĽÂĽ 9‰…™€™‰ —‰¼… Ă‰Ă˜² ™“ M‰… QV 9 tĂžĂƒ ĂƒÂ™ÂŹÂ€Â‰ Â’tÂĽÂĽ ùïðáÄ” V² ¼‰t¿ ²¿Â‰ t ²ĂŽĂ‰ ™“ M‰… QV 9 tĂž ²¿ Government & Community Affairs’ other STEM education and Health and eÂ‰ÂĽÂĽÂŹÂ‰ĂƒĂƒ Â‰Ă—Â‰ÂŹĂ‰ĂƒÄ? Ÿ¼Â‰tĂƒÂ‰ Ă—Â™ĂƒÂ™Ă‰ “€tÄ”Ă˜Â‰Â™ÂĽÂĽÄ”Â€²¿Â‰ÂĽÂĽÄ”‰…ÎĔ

V—‰ M²tÂĽÂ… @Ä” J‰¿‰¼tÂŹ &‰t¿É (ÂŹĂƒĂ‰Â™Ă‰ĂŽĂ‰Â‰Ä­Ăƒ ÂŤÂ™ĂƒĂƒÂ™² Â™Ăƒ ɲ ĂƒÂ‰ÂżĂ—Â‰ ɗ‰ €²ĂŽÂŹÂ™Ă‰ĂžÄ” dÂ™ĂƒÂ™Ă‰ :kJÄ”²¿Â“Äš Ă—Â‰ÂŹĂ‰Ăƒ ɲ çÂ… ²ĂŽĂ‰ t ²ĂŽĂ‰ Ο€²Â™ÂŹÂ“ ‰…΀tə²tÂĽ Â‰Ă—Â‰ÂŹĂ‰ĂƒÄ? Ă˜Â—Â™Â€Â— t¿‰ —‰¼… މt¿Ĥ¿²ĂŽÂŹÂ… tÉ the Perelman Heart Institute. ²Ă‰tۃ ‰€øïþøĹ?ÞŸĔ²¿Â“ ɲ ĂƒÂ‰Ă‰ ĂŽÂź t ¼‰€Éο‰Ä? &tÂŹÂ…Ăƒ@ÂŹÂĽĂž JM É¿t™™“ ²¿ €²²£Â™ÂŹÂ“ …‰²ĂƒĂ‰Âżtə²Ä”

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MIRROR IMAGES Self-portraits, most done by German and Austrian artists in the first half of the 20th century, capture souls — and a world — in turmoil BY VAL CASTRONOVO

Ronald S. Lauder, president of the Neue Galerie, has been collecting art for more than 50 years. He confesses to a particular fascination with selfportraits, a genre originating with Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), the German Renaissance artist who turned the spotlight on himself with the moody “Self-Portrait” (1498), followed by the Christ-like “Self-Portrait in Fur Cloak” (1500). Rembrandt took notice in the 17th century and became famous for his self-portrayals, producing more than 80 during the course of his long career. As Lauder writes in the catalog for “The Self-Portrait: From Schiele to Beckmann,” “In the self-portrait, the artist doesn’t just give us another wonderful work of art. He opens his soul to us.”

“Self-Portrait in front of Red Curtain” Max Beckmann (1923) Oil on canvas. Private Collection © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG BildKunst, Bonn

IF YOU GO WHAT: “The Self-Portrait: From Schiele to Beckmann” WHERE: Neue Galerie New York, 1048 Fifth Ave (86th St) WHEN: Through June 24. neuegalerie.org

Referencing the roughly 70 works presented in the exhibit, most by German and Austrian artists from 1900 to 1945, Lauder observes that while other paintings reveal their makers’ intellect, self-portraits delve deeper: “We see their longing and their aspiration. And we see their anger.” Anger at a turbulent world, roiled by two World Wars and the horrors of the Holocaust. The more than 30 artists represented include big names and lesser names — Egon Schiele, Max Beckmann, Oskar Kokoschka, Richard Gerstl, Otto Dix, Felix Nussbaum, Käthe Kollwitz and Paula Modersohn-Becker. The first room pays tribute to the artists’ forebears, notably with a string of etchings by Dutch master Rembrandt, seen in a variety of guises. They share space with one of the show’s star attractions, Austrian-born Egon Schiele (1890-1918), who was obsessed with self-presentation and created more than 240 self-referential paintings and drawings, the show’s curator, Tobias Natter, has calculated.

Shattered Taboos Schiele was a tragic figure. He died at 28 during the 1918 flu pandemic. His radical legacy-artworks are a window into his angsty inner world, more so than a comment on the tumultuous outer world that informed the art of so many of this cohort. For him, self-portraiture need not be confined to a single image — there could be two, even three Schieles in a given work (e.g., “Triple Self-Portrait,” 1913). Nor did it mean he couldn’t share the stage with another individual, like the woman lying next to him in “Man and Woman I (Lovers I)” (1914). Here, Schiele shatters taboos and provocatively combines the theme of the nude and the theme of the selfportrait, which Natter pronounces “so modern, so groundbreaking” on the show’s audio-guide. Schiele’s hyperextended naked body is dark gray, contrasting with the pale gray of his partner, whose face is buried in the sheets. He looks out from the canvas menacingly, raising a long arm with a claw-like hand, a pose one critic likened to a scorpion about to strike. Nicely coinciding with Women’s History Month, the second room offers a first look at this venue of German painter Paula Modersohn-Becker’s

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“Self-Portrait with Jewish Identity Card” Felix Nussbaum (ca. 1943) Oil on canvas Felix-Nussbaum-Haus Osnabrück, loan from the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung Photo: Museumsquartier Osnabrück, Felix-Nussbaum-Haus Osnabrück © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York color-saturated “Self-Portrait with Two Flowers in Her Raised Left Hand” (1907), a joint acquisition of Neue Galerie and The Museum of Modern Art. Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) drew inspiration for the piece from Egyptian mummy portraits at the Louvre, riffing the wide eyes and tight, vertical format of ancient funerary pictures. A hand placed over her tummy signals her pregnancy, arguably foreshadowed in a revolutionary work from the year before, “Self-Portrait on Her Sixth Wedding Anniversary” (May 25, 1906), also here. In the latter, she paints herself half-nude and pregnant — maybe the first artist to do so — even though her marriage was on the rocks and she was not expecting. Her marriage rebounded, and she became pregnant some months later. But she died of a pulmonary embolism weeks after the birth. Her final words: “What a pity.”

Reflections of Nazi Horrors The show is laced with grim reminders of human suffering and tragedy.

Two paintings by Felix Nussbaum (1904-1944) confront the reality of Nazi oppression head on. “Self-Portrait in Camp” (1940) shows the artist, a German Jew, in a tattered shirt in a French detention center, with bones, barbed wire and a man defecating in the background. He escaped and went into hiding in Brussels, the setting for “Self-Portrait with Jewish Identity Card” (ca. 1943), in which Nussbaum cowers behind a wall as he flashes the symbols of his persecution — his identity card, branding him “Juif-Jood” (Jew, in French and Dutch), and the yellow Star of David emblazoned on his coat. He was deported in 1944 to Auschwitz, where he was murdered. As scholar Uwe M. Schneede states in an essay written for the exhibit, “[In] their self-portraits modern artists turned themselves into personifications of the doubt about the world.” Germany’s Max Beckmann (1884-1950), with more than 80 selfportraits to his credit, initially seemed to buck the trend, with suave pictures

“Self-Portrait with Two Flowers in Her Raised Left Hand” Paula ModersohnBecker (1907) Oil on canvas. Jointly owned by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of Debra and Leon Black, and The Neue Galerie New York, Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder of himself in tuxedo or bowler hat and scarf that exude confidence and calm. He reveled in role-play and self-exploration. Things changed after the Nazis declared his art “degenerate” in 1937. He went into exile in Amsterdam, where he completed the somber “Self-Portrait with Horn” (1938), an iconic work. He wears a striped gown and holds a horn near his ear, as if he were trying to pick up (send?) a warning signal about the Nazi menace. These works are layered. For some, they’re personal mirrors; for others, mirrors of the artists’ relationship to seismic events unfolding on the world stage. For still more, all of the above.

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS MAR 13 - 19, 2018 The following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s website and include the most recent inspection and grade reports listed. We have included every restaurant listed during this time within the zip codes of our neighborhoods. Some reports list numbers with their explanations; these are the number of violation points a restaurant has received. To see more information on restaurant grades, visit www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/services/restaurant-inspection.shtml. Wendy’s

20 E 14th St

A

New Mizu Sushi

350 E 9th St

A

Red House

203 E 14th St

Not Yet Graded (32) 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. Filth flies or food/refuse/sewageassociated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

11 Street Cafe

327 West 11 Street

A

Cotenna

21 Bedford St

A

Delice & Sarrasin

20 Christopher St

A

Mission Ceviche

353 W 14th St

A

Ad Hoc Collective

13 Christopher St

A

Rocky’s

304 310 W 14th St

A

The Otheroom

143 Perry Street

A

Perry Street

176 Perry Street

A

Gran Gelato

335 Bleecker St

Not Yet Graded (17) 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.

Sanpanino

494 Hudson Street

A

The Four Faced Liar

165 West 4 Street

A

Ready to Eat

525 Hudson Street

A

Squarespace

225 Varick St

A

Taco Mahal

73 7th Ave S

Grade Pending (25) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal product temperature is reduced from 140º F to 70º F or less within 2 hours, and from 70º F to 41º F or less within 4 additional hours. Tobacco use, eating, or drinking from open container in food preparation, food storage or dishwashing area observed. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

Good Stock

31 Carmine St

Grade Pending (20) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Attraversa

1416 Bedford Street

Not Yet Graded (56) 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. 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. 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. Toilet facility not provided for employees or for patrons when required.

Souen

326 E 6th St

A

Momofuku Ko

8 Extra Pl

A

Emojo Burger

261 1st Ave

A

The Bean

31 3rd Ave

A

12th St Ale House

192 2nd Ave

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Love Mama

174 2nd Ave

Grade Pending (11) Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

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770 Broadway

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Gem Bing Shop

9 Saint Marks Pl

Not Yet Graded (33) 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. 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.

The Players

16 Gramercy Park South

Grade Pending (54) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Food 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. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.

Hudson Cafe

628 Hudson St

Not Yet Graded (29) Food worker does not wash hands thoroughly after using the toilet, coughing, sneezing, smoking, eating, preparing raw foods or otherwise contaminating hands. Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

Von

3 Bleecker Street

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ABC Cocina / ABCV

38 East 19 Street

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111 Avenue A

A

New York University Snow Dining

40 Washington Square South

A

Yuca Bar & Restaurant

New Chinatown Restaurant 11-13 Avenue D

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Luxor Lounge

118 Macdougal Street

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Post

42 Avenue B

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No Ho Juice Bar & Deli

208 Mercer Street

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El Rinconcito Restaurant

408 East 10 Street

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The Dutch

131 Sullivan Street

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Revision

219 Avenue B

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The Little Prince

199 Prince Street

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Secchu Yokota

199 East 3 Street

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Pomodoro Ristorante

51 Spring Street

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Eastern Bloc / Club Cumming

505 East 6 Street

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Starbucks

78 Spring Street

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Opposition to the project has centered on concerns with the new jail’s impact on pub-

lic safety, traffic, parking and property values, among other issues. Local groups have also questioned how demolition and construction at the work site will impact residents of a senior housing building adjacent to the Manhattan Detention Complex. Council Member Margaret Chin, whose district includes Chinatown and the site of the proposed facility, wrote on Twitter that she will not make a decision on whether to support the project until public concerns have been aired. “While my commitment to criminal justice reform remains unbroken, my first priority is the well-being, health and safety of the residents of our community,” she wrote, continuing, “In particular, we must have assurances that seniors living next door to the proposed project will be protected.” Dana Kaplan, deputy director of the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, said, “We want to make sure that we are responding to the neighborhood and community concerns that will continue to come up, and we take those very seriously, but I think it’s important to note that there is also broad support for this project at every level.” Critics of the mayor’s Manhattan jail proposal have also focused on the site selection process, which they claim

lacked transparency. The de Blasio administration initially announced last summer that the new facility would be built at 80 Centre Street, and held a public scoping meeting in September to formally collect public comments. But in November the administration abruptly scrapped its plans for 80 Centre Street, announcing that the new facility would instead be built at the Manhattan Detention Complex site nearby. Controversially, the administration chose to proceed without resetting the scoping process to collect public comments on the new site, as some local activists and elected officials had requested. “We believe that because the site was so close in proximity, and a number of other factors, that there was not a need for a new scope of work,” Kaplan said. “There are going to be multiple opportunities for public comment on 124-125 White Street throughout the ULURP process.” The ULURP application to close Rikers and build four new borough-based jails will be subject to public input as it is reviewed by the applicable community boards and borough presidents, before heading to the City Planning Commission and then the City Council for a binding vote.

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access to the court system which will allow your story to be told.”

close to you. Not only the more severe cases, but also those of the student activists who now have to flee.” The clinic has a very special meaning for Ragbir. He doesn’t mince words in describing its importance. “The clinic has become the resource for those who have no other place to turn,” he said. “If we have 2500 friends (the recent total of those who have availed themselves of the coalition’s services), then that means that we have saved 2500 people from being deported. That’s not an exaggeration. If people don’t have an application, they will be deported. If we have done an application, they are somewhat protected. You now have

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ter life for themselves in this country. “It is in the interest of the powers to be right now to keep friends too scared to think that there is a network out there that can help them, and to keep us thinking that there is not way to plug in and give a gift,” Bucey said. “On the contrary, the coalition provides a concrete way to combat this feeling of powerlessness and to make a difference in someone’s life.” For more information of how to get involved with the Coalition, email Micah Bucey micah@judson.com or visit the New Sanctuary Coalition website www.newsanctuarynyc.org.

JAIL PLAN CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 2027. The three other new jails would be built in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. These borough-based jails would be built to modern design standards to increase safety and offer improved access to social services, re-entry programs and other resources. The new facilities, located near courthouses, would house individuals closer to their families and communities as they await trial, reducing the isolation, case delays and transportation costs associated with Rikers. “We view this, as an administration, as a moral imperative,” said Elizabeth Glazer, the director of the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice. The new Manhattan jail would connect to the adjacent New York County Criminal Court and would also feature 125 below-grade parking spaces and storefronts at street level. “There is room for retail, and that’s a very important part of the design of the jails to ensure that they integrate into the neighborhoods,” Glazer said.

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And there are real life stories behind the coalition’s statistics — a brother who recently crossed the border and is detained in Arizona; a father who escaped several attempts on his life and is now trying to get his son out of detention; a mother who is now free after escaping the abuse she experienced in her homeland. The role of Judson in spearheading this herculean, if somewhat underground, effort, seems consistent with the church’s historical purpose of bridging the cultural and economic divides. You see it in the coming together of the eager volunteers and those seeking to create a bet-

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“This is awesome, this is awesome, this is really good,” John Sierp said, excitedly pointing at the menu in front of him. The menu is his own creation for the relaunch of his restaurant, Home Base, formerly Raise, in Murray Hill. He and his co-owner, Serge Zborovsky, who met as fraternity brothers at the University of Delaware, are looking to make Home Base,at 416 Third Ave., the go-to hang out for the neighborhood. The partners plan to cater to every entertainment need, serving up brunch, lunch and dinner, while providing cocktails, music and widescreen viewing for games. Sierp sits at a table greeting customers as they enter. Behind him, the expansive space is filled with people and lit by the glow of massive screens and venue lighting. Overhead, Air Jordan’s, Yeezy’s, and vintage Converse are swinging from the ceiling to remind patrons of old-school Brooklyn. When Sierp isn’t dreaming up flavor combinations, he’s working as a lieutenant for the FDNY in Tribeca, or looking after his two young children on Staten Island.

First of all, how do you balance the restaurant and your work as a firefighter? I’m not here all the time — thank god. I create the menu and all of the recipes and I train the staff and they execute, they produce the food. I was here mostly for the creative part, but day-to-day my staff takes care of things. I have two little kids at home, I have my job in Tribeca, and I have this, so it’s almost impossible to do.

What were you thinking about when you designed the menu? It’s an eclectic menu. We have everything from Italian to Asian, burgers, wings, all kinds of fusion things, like a French onion grilled cheese or braised pork belly tacos. I try to make it so that there’s something for everybody, like Cuban egg rolls ... fusing a Cuban sandwich inside of an egg roll.

Vintage Jordan’s and other old-school basketball shoes dangle from the ceiling of Home Base. Photo: Emily Mason or this could be great if you add that.’ There’s always something you could add or mix or do or change or tweak.

What’s your favorite thing to make?

Have you ever been excited about a dish and then people don’t like it?

I’ve been cooking for a long time and I don’t like to make just Italian dishes or just Asian dishes. I kind of like making everything, and when you make all different kinds of things you kind of get ideas to [combine] one thing with another. So I kind of got ideas to fuse different ideas to make things a little more funky, a little more interesting, than just having a taco on the menu.

It’s definitely happened. Everyone’s got different tastes. Some people don’t like peppers, don’t like spicy, I don’t like mayonnaise, so I don’t put mayonnaise in anything.

How has the transition been, from Raise to Home Base?

What’s that experimenting process like? It’s kind of like playing. You’re in the kitchen kind of just tasting things, whoever is here ... you have them try them, say yes, no, maybe tweak this, tweak that. Nothing ever comes out where people are like ‘Wow!’ It’s always ‘This could be good if you do this,

John Sierp (right) and his partner, Serge Zborovsky, hope to make their restaurant the go-to place in the Murray Hill neighborhood. Photo: Emily Mason

It’s been insane. Just creating this, it’s so hard because we didn’t really close. Usually when you create a new menu, you close the place down when you work in the kitchen and just create. But, you know, we have bills, so we have to have the place open and the crowd come in. It’s hard to do that and to get everything done. We still want to add more.

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THE FORCE IS WITH RABBI KASS At 83, the chief chaplain of the NYPD counsels cops and teaches at John Jay College. “When you’re working with young people,” he says, “you stay young.” BY CHRISTOPHER MOORE

Clearly the force is with him — maybe because he’s been with them for so long. Rabbi Alvin Kass, the chief chaplain of the New York Police Department, has offered spiritual counsel to cops and their families for 53 years. At 83, he’s the city’s longest-serving police chaplain ever. “To do this kind of work you really have to love people,” Kass says. “And you have to love cops. What’s ironic is that I never knew a cop until I came onto this job.” Kass is a father of three who led his own synagogue in Brooklyn for 36 years and currently teaches two classes at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is the third Jewish chaplain in NYPD history. He spoke in January at a special dinner in his honor a block from Lincoln Center at Congregation Habonim, a temple he enjoyed discovering and visiting with his late wife. Days later, Kass sat down in his Riverside Boulevard living room to talk with Straus News about his commitment to cops, and how the team of about 12 chaplains serves those who protect and serve.

How did you see the police department change over the years? Well, I’m really a living a history because there are very few people around who go back as far as I do. I came in in 1966. That was the time of the Knapp Commission hearings ... so I was appointed during the administra-

tion of Mayor John Lindsay. As a result of the Knapp commission hearings it was felt that the problem was systemic and really had to be totally redone and Mayor Lindsay brought in a new police commissioner by the name of Pat Murphy. Among the things he did was to create a police department ethics board. The police department ethics board was designed to help police officers obtain advice about how to handle themselves.

So they’re getting real-time advice during a situation or closer to it? Yes. Commissioner Murphy appointed me to be the chair of the chaplain’s unit. Little did I know it was going to be a lifetime sentence. I am the only original surviving member of the police department ethics board, which is still operating. We still do the same sort of thing. We respond to queries and we deliberate and we publish our findings. But the purpose of it is to give police officers advice about how to handle themselves in touchy situations. And if they follow the advice of the police department ethics board, they’ll be fine.

What is the biggest misconception about the police department? (Long pause.) I think some people don’t really understand the mission.

Well, you know I’m going to say: what is the mission? The mission is to help people. The mission is to serve humanity, keep them safe and secure. Sometimes they see police officers in situations where they are told they are driving too fast or they’ve made a wrong turn, but that’s for their safety. What’s most important and what this administration has done with tremendous commitment and devotion is to make sure that the police department is an accurate reflection of the community.

How many hours a week does it take to be a police chaplain? It’s a lot of work. It’s a lot of time. It’s a 24-hour-a-day business. I respond to emergencies. And most emergencies occur usually during very untoward hours. It also involves a willingness to sacrifice your own personal desires.

You were the third Jewish chaplain. Catholicism was the dominant religion among police officers, and still is. What have you learned about interfaith relationships and the values that extend beyond just one religion? Rabbi Alvin Kass in his Upper West Side home. Photo: Christopher Moore

The most important thing I’ve learned in 53 years as a chaplain, which exceeds anybody else’s tenure, is that if you only know one religious

Rabbi Alvin Kass’s official NYPD portrait. Photo courtesy of the NYPD

Of you doing this for 53 years?

tradition you don’t know any. I’ve done a lot of reading of other sacred texts. They’ve given me an appreciation of who I am and of what Judaism means. All people look to their faith for the kind of strength and support they need in hours of difficulty. But when they do that, and realize how important their own religion is to them, they ought to give a thought that for other people, their religion is similarly important to them. Because of that, there’s no need to be judgmental.

I just love what I do. A person gets a certain amount of years in this world and you’d like to spend your time doing things that bring you satisfaction. Was it Henry David Thoreau who said that most people live lives of quiet desperation? I’m very thankful that I’ve been able to spend my life doing something that brings me fulfillment by helping others. That’s the crucial thing.

What is the secret?

You also teach at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. What do you get out of that?

Of what?

It keeps me young. Police officers do

that too. When you’re working with young people, you stay young. And when I teach college-age people, I’ve got to try to communicate to them in an idiom that they will understand. This interview was edited for clarity and space.

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