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An empty newsstand at the 96th Street station on the Second Avenue subway. Photo: Michael Garofalo

City Council Member Ydonis Rodriguez (left) and DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg announce plans to close Broadway to vehicle traffic on Earth Day at a press conference in Times Square April 12. Photo: Michael Garofalo

CAR-FREE ON BROADWAY FOR EARTH DAY ENVIRONMENT DOT will also convert one block of Broadway near Flatiron to full-time “shared street” BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

Heading downtown on Saturday? Make sure your cabbie knows not to take Broadway. Or better yet, says the Department of Transportation, ditch the cab altogether and celebrate Earth Day with a stroll or a bike ride down America’s most famous street, which will be temporarily car-free. The DOT announced last week that

Broadway will be closed to vehicles between Union Square and Times Square on April 22, leaving the street open to pedestrians and cyclists from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. All cross streets will remain open except 33rd Street. Plazas along the mile-and-a-halflong stretch of Broadway will host various DOT-sponsored events and activities, including musical performances, dance classes and walking tours. Citi Bike will offer free bikesharing citywide throughout the day. “Overreliance on cars causes a lot of problems: danger to pedestrians, air pollution, congestion, street noise, wasted space to make room for parking, and more,” Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer said last week

at a press conference in Times Square announcing the event. The second annual Car Free NYC is an expansion of last year’s inaugural event, during which Broadway was closed to vehicle traffic from Union Square to Madison Square. The DOT will also close a half-mile span of St. Nicholas Avenue in Washington Heights for the day. City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, who chairs the council’s transportation committee, called for a further extension of the Earth Day initiative next year. “I think that we should aim together to close Broadway from the tip of the island all the way downtown,” he said.

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NO NEWS ON SECOND AVENUE SUBWAY SUBWAYS Four months after the subway line opened, newsstands at the new stations remain vacant BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

It was a New Year’s Eve party a century in the making. One hundred years after the Second Avenue subway was first proposed, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio and other dignitaries rang in 2017 at an invitation-only soiree in the new station beneath 72nd Street, enjoying hors d’oeuvres and drinks as the Q train took its inaugural trip on the new line. Memorably, a pristine newsstand on the station’s mezzanine was repurposed into a bar, with bottles of beer from New York breweries lining the shelves in place of candy and magazines. The newsstands in the Second Avenue stations haven’t been put to use since. Downtowner

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

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Nearly four months after the turnstiles started spinning in New York’s newest subway stations, the Metropolitan Transit Authority has yet to contract a vendor to operate four newsstands on the Second Avenue line. Black kiosks branded with the MTA’s Second Avenue subway logo sit shuttered and empty on station platforms as riders wait for trains to arrive. Anyone in need of a cold drink or some reading material is out of luck. (There’s no chewing gum available either, but that’s not unique to the Second Avenue stops—subway newsstands are forbidden to sell it by the MTA.) The MTA officially broke ground on the first phase of the Second Avenue subway in 2007, but did not issue a request for proposals for the newsstands at the stations until Dec. 19 of last year, less than two weeks before the $4.5 billion line opened to the public. The RFP said the MTA would continue accepting proposals until Jan. 12, well after the subway began service.

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SPRING AND ALLERGY SEASON HAVE SPRUNG HEALTH Warmer weather triggers a surge in symptoms due to tree pollens BY SHRADHA AGARWAL, MD

As we hope for warmer weather over the next few weeks, we will also see a surge in allergy symptoms in children and adults due to pollen allergies. Allergic rhinitis is common, estimated to affect between 10 to 30 percent of the population worldwide, and the prevalence has been steadily increasing. In New York City, spring and fall are the most common seasons that people are symptomatic, due to tree and weed pollens respectively. In the spring, the common tree allergens include oak, birch, maple, and elm; in the fall, ragweed is the trigger. Typical symptoms of allergic rhinitis are nasal congestion, itchy, sneezing, runny nose, and watery/itchy eyes. This can cause difficulty concentrating at work or school, headache, fatigue, and irritability. Other symptoms that oc-

cur especially in asthmatics include cough, wheezing and/or shortness of breath. For anyone suffering with these symptoms, the ďŹ rst step is to visit an allergist who can review your history and environmental exposures, and perform a physical examination. A blood test for speciďŹ c IgE antibodies or a skin prick test can identify which environmental allergens are pertinent. Once the diagnosis is conďŹ rmed, the allergist will advise how to avoid potential allergens and recommend treatment with antihistamines, nasal sprays, saline rinses, and eye drops. Many of these medications are available over the counter, but consulting with an allergist can help determine which ones will be most effective. Approaches to reduce symptoms depend on the type of allergen and degree of exposure. For certain indoor allergens, such as roach and dust mites, the approach focuses on reducing exposure by avoidance, use of dust mite encasings, and proper cleaning. Pollen — a fine powdery substance produced by trees, grasses,

April 2017 in Central Park. Photo: Shinya Suzuki, via ickr weeds used to fertilize other plants of the same species — is more difficult to avoid, since we spend a lot of time outdoors. Tips include staying indoors, shutting the windows when pollen counts peak — usually mid-morning and when windy conditions stir pollen into the air. Rainy days reduce pollen counts in the air short term. You can plan your day by visiting websites that track the local pollen counts. Wearing sunglasses and hats outdoors helps to reduce the amount of pollen getting into the eyes and

hair. Contact-wearers may need to switch to glasses on occasion, as pollen can stick on the lens and continue to cause eye symptoms if not washed out. Wear a mask if you absolutely must do yard work. Another strategy is allergy immunotherapy given by an injection and, more recently, orally. This is a useful treatment for someone who may have year-round allergy symptoms, finds it difficult to avoid triggers, or has side effects from medications. This treatment is typically done over three

to ďŹ ve years and desensitizes you to allergens, thereby reducing allergy and asthma symptoms. The effectiveness depends on the length of time on treatment. Immunotherapy reduces the need for medications, and the effects are long-lasting when the treatment is completed. Dr. Shradha Agarwal is an Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology, at Mount Sinai Health System

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG KNIFE ATTACK

STATS FOR THE WEEK

At 12:43 a.m. on Sunday, April 9, a 45-year-old man slashed his 37-yearold male relative in the abdomen and stabbed him in the buttocks several times with a knife at the southeast corner of West Broadway and West Houston Street, police said. The victim sustained serious physical injury. The assailant fled the scene, but police found him in the area soon after and recovered his knife as well. Walter McCowen was arrested and charged with assault.

Reported crimes from the 1st precinct Week to Date

WACK HACK At 3:30 p.m. on Friday, April 7, an 18-year-old man exited a yellow cab in front of 109 Prince St. and then realized that he had left his several items, including an iPad and $500 in cash, in the vehicle. He was able to get in contact with the cabbie and asked for a return of his property. The two met in front of the Trump SoHo hotel at 246 Spring St., but the cabbie only returned the rider’s wallet, passport and Social Security card before fleeing. Together with the cash and iPad Pro, valued at $2,000, the young man is missing a Tumi bag worth $300, an Apple pencil with case valued at $100, and various immigration forms.

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STONE FLOWN More expensive merchandise walks out of another downtown boutique. Sometime between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Friday, March 24, an unknown person removed merchandise from the Stone Island clothing store

at 41 Greene St. Store personnel discovered the items were missing upon completing inventory at the end of the day. The stolen merchandise included a jacket valued at $1,215, and another priced at $958, making a total of $2,173.

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At 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 6, a 72-year-old woman placed her shoulder bag on the floor while speaking to another individual inside the 2 train’s Chambers Street station. After she got on a northbound train she realized that she had left her bag on the platform. She returned as soon as she could, only to find her bag was missing. Other than the missing handbag, she was also out $300 in cash, sunglasses, a makeup bag, keys and other personal items.

At 10 p.m. on Saturday, April 8, a 44-year-old woman was walking at the corner of Church and Leonard Streets when an unknown man approached her and asked for a cigarette. She obligingly opened her purse and handed him one. He then asked for her phone number, which she gave him. She later received a phone call from the man, who told her, “I have your wallet” and asked for a reward. He had apparently already used her charge cards to make purchases totaling just over $200.

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‘A FORM OF MODERN-DAY SLAVERY’ CRIME ACS targets child sex trafficking in the city BY MADELEINE THOMPSON

At a press conference last Wednesday, timed to National Child Abuse Prevention Month, the city’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) announced a new effort to educate young adults about sex trafficking. In partnership with the Jewish Child Care Association (JCCA), End Child Prostitution and Trafficking (ECPAT) and Cause Vision, an organization that produces educational materials, the ACS has released a comic book called “Where Is Dylan?” to help vulnerable

children and communities prevent and identify signs of sex trafficking. The comic book will be distributed at schools around the city starting in September. “This is a form of modern-day slavery that is taking place every day in our city,” Susan Morley, senior adviser for investigations at ACS, said last week. “We have had cases as young as 12 years old.” Morley went on to describe the ways in which technology has helped and hurt the cause. Social media, she said, has both made it easier for traffickers to operate under the radar — and for law enforcement to track them down. The many ways in which traffickers can ensnare children on social media has made educating youths on spotting and avoiding predators a crucial priority. According to ECPAT’s website,

“about 25 percent of the youth in a random sample who were surveyed at Covenant House (a shelter for street youth) in New York experienced some form of trafficking victimization.” A report by the Center for Court Innovation, which studies problems in communities and government systems, found that in 2008 “almost 4,000 children in New York City were found to be sexually exploited [and] 50 percent were boys.” Nearly half of those victims were exploited in hotels. Because of the role hotels play in sex trafficking, New York assemblymember Amy Paulin recently introduced legislation that would require hotels to use organizations like ECPAT to train their employees to recognize signs of trafficking. “We know girls are being trafficked in hotels, and the more awareness we can bring, the

Ronald Richter, CEO of the Jewish Child Care Association, displays a new comic book aimed at preventing sex trafficking. Photo: Madeleine Thompson

RENT STABILIZATION TURNOVER RATES NEIGHBORHOODS New report shows where tenants are leaving (Lower Manhattan) and staying put (Upper West Side) BY MADELEINE THOMPSON

New York City’s stock of rent-stabilized apartments fluctuates every year, with a net loss of just over 8,000 in 2015 but a net gain of more than 150 in 2014 and 1,000 in 2013, according to the city’s Rent Guidelines Board. Since the rent-stabilization program began in 1974, however, roughly 150,000 units have been lost to market rates. A new report by the city’s Independent Budget Office (IBO) studied approximately 925,000 apartments that were rent-stabilized for at least two years between 2010 and 2015 to determine turnover rates by neighborhood within the highly coveted units. According to the study, the Upper West Side had one of the lowest turnover rates with only nine percent of the area’s 22,173 stabilized units changing tenants from one year to the

greater potential we have of rescuing them and preventing future victims,” Paulin told the New York Times on Sunday. Paulin has already helped pass a similar bill pertaining to hospital workers, and is drumming up support for the new one among local elected officials such as Representative Carolyn Maloney of the city’s 12th Congressional district. Resources on the ACS website explain that trafficking can be difficult to spot, but encourage people to look out for, among other things, older men accompanying young girls who refuse to make eye contact. The state Office

Average Annual Turnover Rate of Rent-Stabilized Apartments by Neighborhood, 2010-2015 11%-12%

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next. This wasn’t surprising to Sarah Stefanski, the report’s author, because the area has such a large pool of rentstabilized housing. In contrast, Lower Manhattan had one of the highest rates of turnover with 32 percent of its 5,798 stabilized units changing tenants from year to year. But 84 percent of the stabilized units in Lower Manhattan were built after 1974, while on the Upper West Side that population accounts for only 10 percent of stabilized units. The Chelsea-Clinton and Lincoln Square areas also have high turnover rates paired with large shares of post-1974 stabilized buildings, while Greenwich Village and the Upper East Side’s Carnegie Hill neighborhood are mostly comprised of buildings stabilized when the original law was passed. “There’s this separate group of apartments that were added into rent stabilization after the law took effect,” said Stefanski. “These are buildings that generally are getting some sort of property tax benefit, and in exchange for that tax break they have to rentstabilize their apartments.” The IBO report can’t pin down the exact reasons tenants leave or stay in

Susan Morley, senior adviser for investigations at ACS, announces the creation of a new comic book aimed at educating communities on child sex trafficking. Photo: Madeleine Thompson

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their rent-stabilized apartments, but some educated guesses can be made. “High turnover rates may indicate tenant mobility, changing neighbor-

hood characteristics, or landlord efforts to vacate apartments to increase the legal rent of a rent-stabilized unit,” the report states. “In contrast, low

of Children and Family Services lists red flags as, for example, children who lack proper identification, have frequent injuries, rely on someone else to speak for them and have a heightened fear of authority. Those who have information that is not an emergency can contact the NYPD’s 24-hour Organized Crime Control Bureau hotline at 646-6106610. Madeleine Thompson can be reached at newsreporter@strausnews.com

turnover rates may indicate tenant stability, or that tenants feel locked into their rent-stabilized apartments because of their below-market rents when they otherwise may have considered moving.” Low turnover rates on the Upper West Side, West Village and Carnegie Hill could make it seem as though there is less tenant harassment in those areas, but Council Member Helen Rosenthal begs to differ. “A good portion of people in family homeless shelters are there because they got evicted from their home,” Rosenthal said. She is one of several City Council members behind legislation to give tenants more agency when fighting their landlord. It’s possible to see the higher turnover rates in lower-income areas as a sign of gentrification, but Stefanski said she couldn’t speculate as to the accuracy of that assumption. “[Rentstabilized tenants] enjoy rent protections that market rate tenants don’t, so in some ways they have protections even when a neighborhood is rezoned or is changing,” Stefanski said. But even those protections, she added, can’t always prevent landlords from wanting to knock down a building to construct more expensive units. Or perhaps an avocado bar.

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Jen Oiler loves that her two daughters spend a week every summer unplugged from their phones and internet connection while visiting Camp Akita in Logan, Ohio. But she also appreciates that the camp takes full advantage of technology to help parents feel connected to their children’s experience. Each evening that her girls are away, she goes online to view photos that the camp has posted of the day’s activities. “I think not being able to communicate with them is more of a challenge for me than them,” says Oiler, of Dublin, Ohio. While kids are often unplugged at summer camp, the camps themselves are harnessing technology in new ways, for promotion and to enhance the camp experience, from posting photos and videos for parents and alumni to connecting campers in the off-season. It’s a delicate balance, keeping parents in-

formed and happy while not losing sight of camp’s purpose, said Tom Rosenberg, CEO of the American Camp Association, headquartered in Martinsville, Indiana. “I find that parents today need more communication than our parents did when we went to camp,” he said. “It’s a learning experience for us.” Many camps ban cellphones for campers but engage with parents by posting daily photos, letting parents email their children, and creating annual videos featuring campers and activities. Some camps encourage kids to stay in touch year-round by having them share phone numbers, email addresses and social media information. Many camps maintain Facebook pages and Instagram accounts for campers to connect.

PHOTOS A PRIORITY After years of reading teacher blogs and classroom newsletters, parents have grown accustomed to having a window into their child’s day. Many camps have responded by hiring a staffer to take photos and post them online every day. Camp Kanata in Wake Forest, North Carolina, for example, provides daily photos along with updates about the weather, activities and meals, said executive director Shane Brown. “We feel that it’s important for parents to have an idea of what is going on at camp,” he said.

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N U F E R R E E H S M T R M A U T S S At the computers. Photo: FRC Team 2512, via ickr Capturing the experience in photos is too important and time-consuming a task for counselors, he added: “I don’t think it can be secondary. We hire a person to be the eyes and ears for parents all day, every day.â€?

WEEKLY VIDEOS In addition to posting photos, Camp Fitch in North SpringďŹ eld, Pennsylvania, creates weekly videos for parents. The videos also allow campers to relive the fun times later, and they provide an opportunity for the camp to reach new audiences, says Matt Pose, executive director. While photos occasionally lead to a parent calling because their youngster looks “mopey,â€? they typically have a reassuring and positive effect, he said. Parents can see their kids trying new things and making new friends. “The upside is parents feel a lot more engaged in the experience and become even more evangelicalâ€? about the beneďŹ ts of camp, he said.

ONE-WAY EMAIL Tanya Hummels never sent her three children care packages or letters while they were at Camp Tecumseh, in Brookston, Indiana, but she regularly emailed them. Many camps encourage letter-writing by parents but do allow them to send emails, which are printed out and delivered to campers once a day. If kids want to write back, however, they usually must rely on pencils, paper and stamps — although some camps will scan

handwritten letters and email them to parents. Hummels liked the ease of composing a few lines each morning on email with tidbits about the family pet or updates on sports news. “The kids said they always looked forward to it,� said Hummels of West Lafayette, Indiana. “It was a little dose of home.�

STAYING CONNECTED Hummels’ daughter Abby never objected to leaving her phone at home, but did insist that her mom bring it on pickup day so she could add hew new friends’ contact information. Abby and her camp friends have arranged several reunions and visits outside of camp. The friendships would not be as close if it weren’t for technology, said Abby, who started going to sleepaway at age 8 and is now 17. After booking her week at Camp Fitch, 14-yearold Eleanor Ziance of Bexley, Ohio, shared the information on her social media channels to see who would be there at the same time. That laid the foundation for new relationships and made her look forward to camp even more, she said. Poese, Fitch’s director, said that ability to connect to fellow campers year-round solidifies friendships and the connection to camp, which is good for kids and camps. “We see a lot of kids communicating through Instagram and other platforms,â€? he said. “It deďŹ nitely intensiďŹ es the experience.â€?

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CITY SHOUTOUTS BY ARLENE KAYATT

EAST SIDE OBSERVER In praise of city service — Shoutout to the Parks Department. It all happened so quickly. Upper East Siders had questions that the Parks Dept. could answer. Phoned the department. Got Crystal Howard. Told her the question. Gave her my email — and voila, within no time had the answer. Question: which entrances are now open to the Esplanade and which are now closed? Here goes — Open: 60th Street, 63rd Street, 78th Street. Closed: 81st Street entrance is currently blocked because of reconstruction of the pedestrian bridge leading down to the Espla-

nade. Open: 82nd, 83rd, 84th Streets run into John Finley Walk, which connects to the Esplanade. Open: 85th to 89th Streets run into Carl Schurz Park, where you can access John Finley Walk and then the Esplanade. Open: 96th Street. And another shoutout to Upper East Sider Madelaine Piel who checked in with Our Town to bring back the news. From automat (think Horn & Hardart) to automated (think Eatsa) — It took awhile, not forever, and here we are — a people-less restaurant. In the late evening, as I was about to cross at the southwest corner of Lex and 43rd, I noted a new brightly lit establishment (a restaurant?, I’ll have to think about the nomenclature). It was closed. Hours are from 7 AM to 7 PM. Not open on

weekends. What I could see were a line of several iPad kiosks on the left for placing orders. At the back is a wall with glass cubicles (“cubbies”) where the food is picked up. It’s all mobile. No upfront staff. Behind the wall is a kitchen staff that prepares the food and places it in the cubbie when it’s ready. The cubbie lights up and the name of the customer appears. No human interaction between staff and customer. Eatsa’s menu is a variety of quinoa bowls with toppings that include guacamole, spaghetti squash, tomatoes, cheese egg, onions, pears, or you can order from a menu selection that includes a burrito bowl, priced at $6.95 a bowl. If you want to read the Eatsa story, check out the February 2016 Business Insider. Eatsa’s the new wave. I’ll get there, maybe. In the meantime, I’m savoring the memories of Horn & Hardhart, when automation meant depositing some coins into a slot, turning a knob, and getting food like baked beans, creamed spinach, buns from behind a dispenser. The 2nd Avenue Deli on

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75th and 1st has a wall dedicated to the relic automated dispenser. Just for display. If you want food, you have to be served sitting down at a table. The old fashioned way. Light of day, night, too — One of the consequences of safety precautions is that they can be unsightly. Scaffolding, meant to protect passersby from falling objects, makes for a blight on light and the appearance of our city streets, among other things. Lexington between 54th and 55th Street on the west side of the street is a prime example. Scaffolding covered the block for what seems like years. Now that it’s down, I found out the name of the restaurant where I stop every morning for takeout — Cafe Olympia. And the name of a smaller version next door I now know is Red Olive. The block is taking on a vibrancy that was hard to see when there was scaffolding. In the last month, BBQ Korilla takeout restaurant opened on the street. Great to finally see it all in daylight. That’s not to say the neighborhood is

scaffold-free. There’s new scaffolding right around the corner. Hopefully, not for long. Good for your health — Walk-in medical facilities, privately owned, are the new commercial kids on the block. Very much needed, they are providing a real service to communities in Manhattan. Names like City MD, Pro Health, Urgent Care, among others. They are not primary health care providers and send reports and results of tests to the primary physician. Plaudits for the new emergency-type health care providers are coming from people of all ages. From moms and dads with young kids to older and younger adults. They speak of the experience and expertise of the physicians. The immediate follow up with the patient about test results and anything that should be looked into. The facilities are clean, attractive. Staff is polite. Nice that something good is happening in health care.

LESSONS FOR WRITERS OF ALL AGES BY ALEXIS GELBER

I had a very inspiring morning recently, during a visit to P.S./I.S. 171 on East 103rd Street. The principal, Dimitres Pantelidis, had invited me to his school, of which he is very proud. The school has frequently been mentioned in lists of the city’s best elementary and middle schools (including in Our Town), and Pantelidis was an OTTY winner two years ago. What I saw blew me away. The school buzzes with energy and enthusiasm. Parents are engaged, teachers convey passion about their subjects, and the kids radiate excitement about learning. In every classroom I visited, hands

were up in the air. The environment is stimulating: there are shelves and baskets of books in every classroom, and students are given iPads for specific assignments. I remember looking at schools when my own children were young. The schools where I thought they would thrive were places I would want to spend time myself, and this school reminded me of that. As a journalist, what especially impressed me was the importance Pantelidis and his teachers place on writing. The students are encouraged to write in every subject, including math and science. And they get savvy writing lessons from

an early age. The photos on this page are from two classrooms. The poster on the left is a checklist for first-graders learning how to write opinion pieces. (At a time of concern about “fake news,” please note the last two entries on the list.) The poster on the right is in a second grade classroom. It gives students a guide for how to write a lead — the start of a story. Even experienced journalists could learn a thing or two from this chart. After my visit, I shared these images with some journalist friends. One summed it up this way: “Suddenly, the future doesn’t look so bad.”

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WORDS OF WISDOM RELIGION On faith, bad news, bullies, second chances and goodness: Easter sermons from Manhattan churches BY MICHAEL GAROFALO, GENIA GOULD AND RAZI SYED

On Easter Sunday, city clergy, while reflecting on unsettled times and the anxiety borne by competing ideologies, advocated for resilience and hope. They also gave voice to eternal themes of hope and rebirth, openness and acceptance. They reminded their congregations that the holiday celebrated rebirth, that spring symbolized new beginnings. Some excerpts from their sermons:

Love and its derivatives are the only authentic positive change agents there are. Think about that. If someone is changing for the better, love is somehow at work” The Rev. Dr. Stephen Bauman

Dr. Michael B. Brown, Marble Collegiate Church “Every morning when we roll out of bed we are barraged with bad news on every hand, and it will not go away, and we will not turn away. How can people of faith ever ignore all of the issues that confront us? ... But on Easter Sunday we also acknowledge that there is an additional issue that we would like to ignore — we wish would go away but it won’t ... Is there something after this something? Easter says there is.”

The Rev. Dr. William Lupfer, Trinity Church Wall Street “ Wall Street was what marked the colonial folks and our Dutch friends, who were afraid, so they built a wall. It

didn’t really work, did it? ... We’re at the nexus — right here at Trinity, in our geography — between opening broadly to God’s love or shrinking down and worrying about who’s safe and who’s dangerous, and where we’re going to put our wall. ... We’re called not only as individuals to claim the reality of Easter, which is that nothing gets in the way of God’s love for us and for others, but also as a collective people ... that there is nothing out there that is so scary that it can take us from the love of God.”

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archdiocese of New York “The word this morning, my

dear friends, is light and life and newness and freshness and second chances and hope and mercy and goodness. It is spring, not winter, and it is a birth — a rebirth — not a funeral.”

The Rev. Beverly Dempsey, Jan Hus Presbyterian Church “In our world today, there are so many seismic shifts to our sense of normalcy; so many dramatic changes to what many of us believed was just the new baseline for a growing justice; so many previously presumed-to-be-managed conflicts rising. All of these surprising events compound our tension from age-old horrors, like piracy and terrorism and trafficking and the countless injustices against personhood like racism, homophobia, xenophobia and bigotry. It seems like we need Jesus to break through more than ever before... Like the people of all time, we need a savior today. We need a savior to break through and remind us that we are never alone. We need a table turner who’ll stand up to bullies. We need a peacemaker who knocks down every bomb. We need a healer who binds all woundedness with surgical precision. We need a friend whose wide embrace leaves no one outside the love of God. We need a savior who never fails to breaks through the pain and the suffering of the world, methodologically shifting the plates beneath us all to set the world straight.”

The Rev. Schuyler Vogel stands inside the Fourth Universalist Society at 76th Street and Central Park West. Photo: Razi Syed

At Trinity Church, the Rev. Dr. William Lupfer invited congregants to take a flower home after the last service of Easter Sunday. Photo: Trinity Church Wall Street/James Melchiorre

The Rev. Dr. Stephen Bauman, Christ Church “Love and its derivatives are the only authentic positive change agents there are. Think about that. If someone is changing for the better, love is somehow at work.”

The Rev. Schuyler Vogel, Fourth Universalist Society “As Unitarian Universalists, many of us have a deeply complicated relationship with Jesus, no matter what version of him we have encountered. Many here were raised in Christian households or exposed to a version of Christian-

It is spring, not winter, and it is a birth — a rebirth — not a funeral” Cardinal Timothy Dolan

The Rev. Beverly Dempsey during Easter Service at Jan Hus Prebyterian Church. Photo courtesy of Jan Hus Prebyterian Church

ity where Jesus was literally God himself, divine, perfect, everlasting. ... Perhaps you have been hurt by rigid and unkind interpretations of Christian doctrine, or found that you simply can’t believe in miracles and resurrections. ... We come from two different traditions, Unitarians and Universalists, both who defied the prevailing religious thinking of their day. Where others saw God and Jesus as a hardened, divine judge, Universalists saw Jesus as loving and preaching the good news that everyone could find their way to God, no matter who they were. These histories, and the diverse experiences of many of us here make Easter tricky. We honor the holiday, but do not deny its complexities. ... There is too much goodness in the story of Jesus to let theology get in the way. His life was too interesting, too poetic, and even too visionary for us nonconformists and skeptics to not admire his legacy.”

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OPEN STUDIOS New York Academy of Art, 111 Franklin St. 6-9 p.m. Free Tour over 100 art studios filled with sculpture, painting and prints at the New York Academy of Art in their historic Tribeca building. 212-966-0300. nyaa.edu

Sat 22 EARTH DAY CELEB Nuyorican Poets Cafe, 236 East Third St. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. $10. Night of high-energy, creative activities including body painting by Niazja Blessed Rios and performances by Canary Swords and Spacefunkreggae. 212-780-9386. nuyorican.org

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Sun 23 9/11 RUN/WALK► 9/11 Memorial & Museum, 180 Greenwich St. 8 a.m.-Noon $20-$45 Preregister. Fifth annual 5K Run/Walk and Community Day, held yearly “to remember and represent the resilience of our city.” 911memorial.org.

RUTGERS PERCUSSION & CHOIR Trinity Wall Street, 89 Broadway 5-8 p.m. Free A Lou Harrison centennial celebration, featuring Harrison’s “La Koro Sutro” — “a beautiful setting of the Buddhist Heart Sutra for chorus and American Gamelan.” 212-602-0800. trinitywallstreet.org

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WEAPONS OF MASS PERSUASION HISTORY A World War I poster show at the Museum of the City of New York commemorates the 100th anniversary of the U.S. declaration of war on Germany BY VAL CASTRONOVO

This year marks the centennial of the United States’ entry into World War I. The 100th anniversary of Congress’ declaration of war against Germany on April 6, 1917, was marked in the city by a sweep of events, from a performance of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” at St. John the Divine to a screening of the silent film “Wings” at the French Institute Alliance Française. The Museum of the City of New York kicked off its commemoration on April 5 with a powerful show, “Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York,” a tribute to the artists and illustrators who gave visual shape to wartime propaganda.

IF YOU GO WHAT: “Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York” WHERE: Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue (at 103rd Street) WHEN: Through October 9 www.mcny.org ton, D.C., but the visual effort was based here. “New York had artists, the ad industry, magazines, illustrators, art societies and art schools,” Jaffe said. The government’s Department of Pictorial Publicity led the visual campaign from headquarters at the Society of Illustrators, under the direction of its president, Charles Dana Gibson, creator of the “Gibson Girl.” Gibson and his team of 300 artists, illustra-

tors and ad execs designed posters, but also banners, ads, buttons and cards for store windows, all in the name of patriotism. They took their cues from Washington, and by the end of the war “had worked for almost 60 government agencies and war-related organizations, from the Navy to the Red Cross,” the wall text states. They created 2,500 designs in just over 18 months, resulting in the production of 20 million posters — weapons of mass persuasion to instill loyalty and promote sacrifice. The show boasts one of the most popular images in history, James Montgomery Flagg’s “I WANT YOU FOR U.S. ARMY” recruitment poster, with Uncle Sam’s iconic finger jab. Per Jaffe, Flagg, one of the premier commercial illustrators of the time, looked in a mirror and “sketched himself and later superimposed the beard and star-spangled hat.”

“The exhibition was originally conceived as being historic, but it turned out to be really quite timely,” Whitney Donhauser, the museum’s director, said at a preview, alluding to themes of nationalism and fears about immigrants. “As we worked through the exhibition, we saw that there was so much in it that actually resonates today.”

“The city itself became a theater of war. It was a spot for parades, and posters covered every square inch,” co-curator Donald Albrecht said at the preview, alluding to the plastering of walls, billboards, subway kiosks and department store windows with these visual forms of persuasion, seen here in vintage black-andwhite photos.

Some 65 posters from the museum’s collection of 600 are on view. As co-curator Steven Jaffe described the challenge for those spearheading the propaganda war, “How do we use artists who are very good at persuading people to buy Cream of Wheat? How do we get them to engage in similar psychological persuasion around the issue of the war?” When Americans entered the fray, the propaganda effort was based in Washing-

Graphic designer Mirko Ilic, a panelist at “Propaganda by Design,” a recent talk at the museum tied to the exhibit, singled out the poster and asked, “Why is this so powerful an image? Because [the finger] looks like a gun.” The government printed four million copies of the poster between 1917 and 1918. It was inspired, in part, by a 1914 World War I design by artist Alfred Leete, with a pointy-fingered Lord Kitchener urging men to enlist in the British army.

Herman Roeg, “Help the Red Cross,” 1918. Museum of the City of New York, gift of John W. Campbell.

One photo stands testament to the mural program set up in front of the New York Public Library on 42nd Street, “where people watched murals de-

August William Hutaf, “Treat ‘em Rough,” c. 1918. Museum of the City of New York, gift of John W. Campbell. voted to our Allies being painted. The murals were then hung along Fifth Avenue, which became the ‘Avenue of the Allies,’” Albrecht said. The photos contrast with the brilliantly colored posters that line the walls. Graphic designer Seymour Chwast, another speaker at “Propaganda by Design,” noted that posters have become “less and less important” today, but 100 years ago, “there were not a lot of interesting ways to present propaganda.” His top pick from the show: “LEND!”, the dramatic appeal to buy Liberty Bonds, with one all-caps word on a bright red background. “It’s so direct. It assumes viewers know the message.” In an age of mass immigration from Germany and elsewhere in Europe, there was great fear on the part of the

government about achieving unity in the U.S. to fight the war. The posters demonize Germans, calling them “Huns,” and imagine the Kaiser and his cohorts as devils. Some of the works reflect nationalist appeals for immigrants — GermanAmericans, Italian-Americans, IrishAmericans —to get rid of the hyphen and simply designate themselves Americans. “Are you 100% American?” one Liberty Loan poster asks, begging the questions, “What does it mean to be an American? What does it mean to be from somewhere else, and are you trustworthy if you are from somewhere else?” according to Jaffe. “It does feel very timely, like we skipped over a century,” he said.

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IS CHINATOWN THE CITY’S NEW ARTS DISTRICT?

INDIA IN FULL FRAME

HENRI CARTIERBRESSON

ART Cheaper real estate entices gallerists, but longtime residents fear rising rents BY LILY HAIGHT

Chelsea’s gallery district has reigned as the heart of the city’s contemporary art movement since the late 1990s. But could skyrocketing rents, coupled to the availability of cheaper options in other parts of the city, mean the district is losing some of its cachet with gallerists? An August 2016 report by StreetEasy found that real estate prices near the High Line had increased by nearly 50 percent since the park’s opening in 2011. Longtime Chelsea gallerists have recently made the move to the Lower East Side (Danziger Gallery and CRG), and new galleries are skipping over Chelsea altogether and setting up shop downtown (Magenta Plains, for example, which opened on Allen Street, just north of Broome Street, last year). Gallerists have also set their sights on Chinatown. Marc Straus, who has been collecting art since he was in college, opened his gallery at 299 Grand St., near Allen, in 2011. Straus is planning on tearing down three nearly 200-yearold buildings at 282-286 Grand St. he also owns and developing an 8-story luxury condominium building with an attached 6,000 square feet of gallery space on their footprint. Open air markets there closed about two years ago. “It’s going to be modern,” said Ken Tan, art director and partner at Marc Straus Gallery. “But still [will] respect and acknowledge the Lower East Side.” According to Tan, Grand Street is fast becoming the epicenter for arts on the Lower East Side. The condo and gallery space development, he suggested, could attract artists who can’t afford rents in areas like Chelsea or Midtown. “More avant-garde or fresh ideas can happen, a little bit because the local community of that area is a part of things like

Gallerist Marc Straus plans on demolishing this row of Federal-era buildings on Grand Street near Allen Street in Chinatown in favor of an 8-story condo and gallery development. Photo: Lily Haight that, but also because of practical factors like the rent is cheap versus something in Midtown where it’s too expensive to experiment,” said Tan. Earl Bateman, a real estate broker who represents galleries, including on Grand Street, agreed that Chinatown’s lower rents make the district ripe as an incubator creative district. “It’s a business but it’s more than a business,” he said of opening a gallery. “It’s an opportunity to show new art, new creativity and make a living at the same time.” Bateman, though, said the market for gallery openings in the Lower East Side/Chinatown neighborhoods “is growing ever so slowly.” Straus, though, is not a new arrival to the Lower East Side. His father, a Polish immigrant, first opened a textile goods store called Roman Cotton Goods at 299 Grand St. in 1943. Straus’ father later bought 282286 Grand St. and expanded his business in what was the original Garment District. Today, the area bustles with Chinese businesses. Marc Straus had been renting his Grand Street buildings to local business owners, but after noticing an emerging arts scene, he opened his Grand Street gallery in 2011. Despite that, Tan doesn’t actually see the condos housing artists. Instead, he said, they will most likely appeal to working adults who want to live in the Lower East Side. “I understand that there’s a certain market rate that’s going here,” he said. “I’m not sure if it’s for everybody.” And that’s a concern, particu-

larly for longtime residents of Chinatown. The Chinatown Art Brigade, an artists’ collective that organizes around tenants’ rights and other social justice issues, counted at least 100 new galleries that opened up in the Lower East Side in 2016. According to the Chinatown Art Brigade’s ManSee Kong, residents of Chinatown and the Lower East Side are concerned that the influx of galleries will gentrify the neighborhood and raise residential rents. Kong said about 250 people showed up to an October meeting and “expressed how they were feeling stressed ... as they saw all these galleries appear and replace all these small businesses.” The addition of luxury condos to the neighborhood will most likely raise additional concerns. “Chinatown is a workingclass, ethnic immigrant community. Folks depend on these kinds of immigrant enclaves as a social network of cultural and ethnic resources,” said Melanie Wang, who works as an organizer with the Chinatown Tenants Union. “When galleries come in and are displacing businesses that provide those services and those employment opportunities, it represents a significant threat to the fabric of Chinatown’s social community.” An artist herself, Kong said that it’s important for artists themselves to be involved in the community and to listen to the voices of current tenants “to be aware of the space that they’re taking up and their privileges.”

April 21–September 4, 2017 THE RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART 150 WEST 17TH STREET NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10011 RUBINMUSEUM.ORG

This exhibition is organized by the Rubin Museum of Art in collaboration with Magnum Photos and the Henri CartierBresson Foundation. Generous support is provided by The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, David Solo, an anonymous donor, and contributors to the 2017 Exhibitions Fund.

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Kathakali Actors Being Made up for a Performance from the Mahabharata Cheruthuruthi, Kerala, India, 1950 ©Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS APR 5 - 12, 2017

Klong

7 Saint Marks Pl

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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 www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/services/restaurant-inspection.shtml.

Le Gigot

18 Cornelia St

A

Boucherie

99 7Th Ave S

Not Yet Graded (30) 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. 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. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

Tavo

615 Hudson St

A

The Cornelia Street Cafe

29 Cornelia Street

Grade Pending (5) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Restaurant Annisa

13 Barrow Street

A

L’aile Ou La Cuisse (L’a.O.C)

314 Bleecker St

Grade Pending (5) Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or nonfood areas.

Bumble And Bumble

415 West 13 Street

A

Injera Restaurant

11 Abingdon Sq

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Bagatelle

1 Little West 12 Street A

Te Company

163 W 10Th St

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Carmine Street Beer

52 Carmine St

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Getting Hungry

225 Varick St

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Wogies

39 Greenwich Avenue

Closed By Health Department (41) 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.

Kawa Sushi 8 Avenue

24 8 Avenue

Grade Pending (16) ) 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.

Bar Six

502 6 Avenue

A

The Tippler

75 9 Avenue

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Google Laplace

111 8Th Ave

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Donut Pub

203 West 14 Street

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Westside Tavern

360 West 23 Street

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Elmo

156 7 Avenue

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Socarrat (Paella Bar And Wine Bar)

259 West 19 Street

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Raines Law Room

48 West 17 Street

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Carry On Tea & Sympathy

110 Greenwich Avenue A

El Quijote

226 W 23Rd St

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Dessert Club, Chikalicious

204 East 10 Street

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No.1 Kitchen

265 1 Avenue

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Numero 28 Pizzeria

176 2Nd Ave

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Chop’t

24 East 17 Street

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Elsewhere Espresso

335 East 6 Street

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Wayside

139 E 12Th St

Grade Pending (26) Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. 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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Hala Haddad and Ellianna Schwab won NSF fellowships to pursue graduate research. Photos: CUNY

Pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers will share the road on the block of Broadway between 24th and 25th Streets, under a DOT plan recently approved by Community Board 5. Graphic: NYC DOT

NO CARS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The DOT won a victory in its efforts to improve pedestrian safety and access on Broadway last week, when Community Board 5 approved the department’s proposal to convert a single block of Broadway near Madison Square into the city’s first full-time “shared street.” Under the shared streets concept, which is in use in Seattle and Pittsburgh and was piloted by the DOT on several downtown blocks last summer, pedestri-

SUBWAY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 An MTA spokesperson said the agency would award a contract “soon,” and expects the newsstands to open “in a few months.” The RFP offered four newsstands in total — one each at the three new Second Avenue stations at 72nd, 86th and 96th Streets, and another at the expanded station at 63rd Street and Lexington Avenue. The four stands were offered as a package to a single vendor for a five-year license term. The MTA’s Real Estate Department

ans and cyclists share the road alongside slow-moving vehicles, without designated lanes or crosswalks. The DOT’s plan will redirect traffic on Broadway between 24th and 25th Streets to flow northbound (so that vehicles can only enter from Fifth Avenue), lower the speed limit to five miles per hour, narrow traffic from two lanes to one and change the color of the asphalt. The location was chosen due to its heavy foot traffic — a DOT study found that pedestrians outnumbered cars 18 to one on the block during peak hours. The DOT plans to implement the changes this summer.

“We’re going to improve pedestrian circulation, we’re going to provide more public space for the public to enjoy, and still provide vehicular access to the buildings and continued traffic flow,” DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg said at the press conference. Asked whether car-free Earth Day and the shared block in the Flatiron District could be a preview of more expansive traffic changes to come on Broadway, Trottenberg declined to address specifics. “I’d say we’re starting the journey,” she said. “I don’t know if we’re going to get there immediately, but I think we’re taking some exciting steps this year.”

is responsible for leasing agencyowned spaces such as newsstands to retailers, advertisers, parking lot operators and other tenants through a competitive RFP process. The department’s objective in awarding leases is “to maximize MTA Agency revenues while choosing qualified tenants who will meet their obligations and improve the appearance of MTA facilities and the quality of the amenities offered to the public at such facilities,” per its policies and procedures. A 2009 audit of the MTA’s real estate portfolio by the state comptroller found that 600 rental units were vacant at the time of the audit, “many”

of which “had not been actively marketed by the Real Estate Department, even though some of the units had been vacant for years.” MTA officials responded that some of the units were scheduled to be offered while others were not marketable at the time. The comptroller’s audit also found that the rent charged by the MTA “may not always be as high as it could be.” Last month, the MTA board voted to award a $7.3 million contract to begin outreach services for the second phase of the Second Avenue subway, which would add three new stations expanding the line to 125th Street and is currently in preliminary planning stages.

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CUNY UNDERGRADS WIN NSF FELLOWSHIPS SCIENCE Students plan to pursue neuroscience and astrophysics research BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

Two current undergraduates in the City University of New York system are among the winners of this year’s prestigious National Science Foundation graduate research fellowships. Hala Haddad, a senior at Hunter College, thought it was unlikely that she’d be selected for the highly selective fellowship, but awoke one morning to a text message from her program coordinator telling her she had won. “I texted her back, hazy-eyed and sleepy, and said, ‘No, I didn’t.’ And then she was like, ‘No, go check the results,’” Haddad remembers with a laugh. “It took me half an hour to sit there in disbelief and look at my name in the list of winners, and then I texted her back saying, ‘Hey, I won!’” Haddad, a psychology major, developed a passion for neuroscience research working in the laboratory of Hunter professor Dr. Amber Alliger. Under Alliger, she studied environmental enrichment, examining the effects of physical and social stimuli on animal behavior and brain morphology. In the fall, Haddad will begin her doctoral studies at Brown University, where she plans to focus on the

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role environmental enrichment plays in motor development and apply her research in the context of diseases like ALS. “My project touches a lot of bases, so I can kind of apply it to different areas within the realm of neuroscience,” she said. Ellianna Schwab, a physics major at Macaulay Honors College at the City College of New York, received an NSF fellowship for her research proposal to study gravitational waves in close binary stars. Last year, she won a national award from the American Astronomical Society for her research on brown dwarfs, celestial bodies between the size of a large planet and a small star. She hasn’t yet decided where she will attend graduate school after completing her undergraduate degree at Macaulay this spring. NSF graduate research fellowships support students pursuing advanced degrees who have shown potential for significant research achievements in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or in education in those fields. The three-year fellowships are worth $138,000 and are funded by the NSF, a federal agency. The NSF selected the 2,000 students who received this year’s fellowships from a pool of more than 13,000 applicants. Along with Haddad and Schwab, ten other students affiliated with CUNY — nine recent alumni of CUNY undergraduate programs and one current Ph.D. student at the CUNY Graduate Center — also won graduate research fellowships.

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A SUPERTALL BATTLE REAL ESTATE Sutton Place residents submit proposal to thwart plan for 850-foot tower BY MADELEINE THOMPSON

In what has become a race to the finish, the Sutton Place community in East Midtown has officially submitted its proposal to limit development in hopes of preventing the construction of an 850-foot tower. Announced in 2015, the supertall residential building has hurdled considerable obsta-

cles from bankruptcy to intense community opposition. But, as of now, it is still in the works unless Sutton Place residents can get their rezoning plan approved first. In order to “keep the sun shining on our community,” according to the East River Fifties Alliance (ERFA) website, the rezoning plan aims to cap building heights at 260 feet. Because the area’s current zone has no height limits, developers behind the Sutton Place tower were able to move forward as of right, or without requiring public input. Rather than let it happen, the residents represented by the East River Fifties Alliance banded

A warning from the East River Fifties Alliance about how the skyline could look if the neighborhood isn’t rezoned against supertall towers. Photo courtesy of East River Fifties Alliance

The Skytop Lounge at Plaza 400 was packed on Friday morning with Sutton Place residents opposed to supertall towers, especially the one planned for 430 East 58th Street. Photo courtesy of Ed Lederman

together to devise a rezoning of their neighborhood; a rare and potentially groundbreaking move because residents generally don’t attempt such an undertaking. In addition to imposing a height limit, the community’s plan also includes provisions for more affordable housing by providing developers with some benefits in exchange for “reserving 20 percent of total units for people earning at or below 80 percent of area median income,” according to ERFA. The proposal would disallow commercial development. At a February town hall in support of the rezoning, high hopes were pinned on Marisa Lago, who began her tenure as director of the Department of City

Planning in March. Should the agency certify the community’s plan, it would then proceed to review by the community board, borough board, borough president and City Planning Commission before being given the stamp of approval by the City Council. ERFA expects the process to be completed sometime in the middle of this year. Elected officials such as Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and Council Members Dan Garodnick and Ben Kallos have already spoken out in favor of the rezoning. Madeleine Thompson can be reached at newsreporter@strausnews.com

ON THE SIDE STREETS OF NEW YORK The Silversmith — 184 ¾ West 4th Street The Silversmith may be the smallest space in the Village, but owner Ruth Kuzub’s longevity far outranks most shops on West 4th Street. She began selling her jewelry here in the 1960’s and has remained ever since. “I wouldn’t be anywhere else,” says Kuzub. “I just always wished I had a few more square feet!” To read more, visit Manhattan Sideways (sideways.nyc), created by Betsy Bober Polivy.

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OLD IS WELCOME AT THE NEW SPANIARD TAVERNS The West Village welcomes a gastropub, and its co-owner and Ruairi Curtain reflects on a life of travel, career changes, comfort food and cocktails BY MICHAEL STAHL

Downtowner NOTICE TO PERSONS WHO MAY HAVE SUFFERED FROM INADEQUATE ACCESSIBILITY AT THE VERDESIAN, THE VANGUARD CHELSEA AND THE SOLAIRE On February 13, 2017, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a consent decree resolving a lawsuit brought by the United States Department of Justice against certain builders and developers alleging that they failed to include certain accessible features for persons with disabilities required by the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. § 3604(f)(3)(c), in the design and construction of The Verdesian, The Vanguard Chelsea, and The Solaire. Under this consent decree, a person may be entitled to receive monetary relief if he or she: • WAS DISCOURAGED FROM LIVING AT THIS PROPERTY BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF ACCESSIBLE FEATURES; • HAS BEEN HURT IN ANYWAY BY THE LACK OF ACCESSIBLE FEATURES AT THIS PROPERTY; • PAID TO HAVE AN APARTMENT AT THIS PROPERTY MADE MORE ACCESSIBLE TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES; OR • WAS OTHERWISE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST ON THE BASIS OF DISABILITY AT THIS PROPERTY AS A RESULT OF THE INACESSIBLE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION. If you wish to make a claim for discrimination on the basis of disability, or if you have any information about persons who may have such a claim, please contact the United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York at 212-637-2800. You may also fax us at 212-637-2702 or write to:

United States Attorney's Office Southern District of New York Attn: Civil Rights Unit 86 Chambers Street New York, New York 10007 NOTE: You must call or write no later than February 13, 2020.

“It’s a bit confusing: A bunch of Irish guys opening an American bar called the Spaniard,” says Ruairi Curtain, co-owner of one of Greenwich Village’s newest restaurants. The Spaniard, which opened April 3 on the former site of Oliver’s City Tavern at West Fourth and Barrow Streets, is named after two of Curtain’s favorite bars in his native Ireland, both of which have decorative tributes to the legendary Spanish Armada. The Spaniard in the West Village has framed portraits of ships, as well as green leather booths reminiscent of iconic New York taverns of a bygone era and idyllic Irish pub highlights. Maybe most importantly, the bar has 100 whiskeys and scotches, an adventurous cocktail list, and a menu of American comfort food delights — such as patty melts with aged cheddar and pickles – dreamed up by chef PJ Calapa of Ai Fiori and Nobu fame. “I’m sure there’s going to be plenty of people shuffling through looking for paella and tapas, but hopefully they’ll learn quickly what we have for them,” Curtain says. The Spaniard is the 40-year-old restaurateur’s seventh offering in New York City, presented in conjunction with a handful of partners who now comprise the Bua Bar Group. The organization is also responsible for the East Village gastropubs Bua and The Wren, the Upper East Side’s The Penrose, Astoria’s Sweet Afton and The Bonnie, as well as Wilfie & Nell, also in Greenwich Village. Each spot tingles with an Old World aesthetic that has become overwhelmingly trendy, not just in restaurants and bars but also in coffee shops, ice cream parlors, boutiques and even residential building design. “Thirteen years ago everything looked like the stereotypical Irish bar in Midtown,” Curtain says, recalling 2004, the year he and his cohorts first opened the doors of Bua on St. Marks Place near Avenue A. Curtain doesn’t favor bars teeming with flatscreen TVs and deafening music. Where he comes from — Cobh, Ireland, a southern coastal town located on Great Island in Cork County — bars are meant to be the home of a different experience. In fact the Hi-B, also in Cork and Curtain’s all-time favorite bar, doesn’t permit cellphone use. “I was kicked out in my youth for laughing too loudly,” he says, “but it’s just a great local bar for conversation, heated debates and making friends. That’s really what a bar should be.” Curtain says that when he and his two fellow Irish immigrant friends Mark Gibson and David Mohally decided to pool their resources and plunge into the service industry, the concept behind Bua was to simply “build a place we’d like to go and have a beer.” They stripped the site’s interior to its bare bones, exposing original brick and bringing in

The Spaniard opened earlier this month at West Fourth and Barrow Streets. Photo: Courtesy of The Spaniard a surplus of reclaimed wood and other recycled materials to craft a rustic décor completely deprived of TV entertainment. The team also strictly poured craft beers and concocted an original cocktail program — which Curtain asserts was among the city’s first in such establishments. Within about three months of opening, Curtain walked into Bua on a Saturday night and for the first time failed to recognize any of the customers. “Fortunately we hit a nice nerve with the public in terms of what we were doing,” he says. With now six additional beloved gastropubs under his belt, it’s challenging to fathom that hospitality was not Curtain’s career of choice coming out of college. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business and languages from Dublin City University, and at 22 took a job with Enterprise Ireland, a government-run agency that assists Irish businesses in ventures abroad. Coming to New York wasn’t even Curtain’s choice. Still, he enjoyed helping entrepreneurs cater their business plans and sales strategies to American market expectations, and by 24 he was the youngest vice president in the history of the company. But a fire to be his own boss burned within him. “It was a great start [at Enterprise Ireland],” Curtain says, “but it wasn’t me. I wanted to make my own decisions.” Once Bua’s financials stabilized, Curtain resigned from the company. Though the Bua Bar Group has grown impressively in the 12 years since, the investors with various stakes in the several establishments that remain under the organization’s umbrella insist their seven gastropubs do not form a chain. Each place exhibits its own charm, from The Penrose’s old Irish railway station theme, paying homage to the Second Avenue Subway running underneath its grounds, to The Bonnie’s botanical air, both inside and out back in the beer garden. “We’ve just embraced the whole ‘old is good’ ideology,” Curtain says of the Bua Bar Group and their establishments, “and it works, so why not.”

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A SEED GROWS IN MIDTOWN Brothers Lee and Daniel Novick on their healthy eating concept that’s changing the area’s lunch landscape BY ANGELA BARBUTI

“What are we going to each for lunch today?” became a question that Lee and Daniel Novick almost dreaded asking every day. The brothers worked in Midtown in their father Howard’s franchise business and saw the lack of healthy, high quality options for their lunch breaks, so decided to take matters into their own hands. On March 20, they, along with two other families, opened Good Seed on 35th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. The restaurant specializes in plentiful salads and also offer what they call picnic baskets with hearty entrees like grilled salmon and herb-roasted chicken. In the month they have been in business, Lee, 28, and Daniel, 26, have already been showered with positive feedback and say they are enjoying over a 40 percent repeat customer rate. “I can’t tell you, in the first couple weeks we were open and even still, how many people came into the store and say, ‘We have been waiting for a concept like this to open,’” said Daniel.

structure like? Daniel: As things come up, we kind of just know who would be the best at it and that person just takes it and runs with it. Lee was involved very much in the lead on building the store, developing the concept and getting the store to completion. And organizing everything that goes into it, from deciding which [point of sale] system we are going to use, to the dimensions of the line. Whereas, I’m more of a numbers guy. Dayna [Greenstein], part of one of the other families, is more on the creative side. Everyone has their

pretty well. It just felt right to fill a need in a neighborhood that we feel strongly about how great it is. Key elements are just missing from it.

Take us through the menu planning. Daniel: We have a husband and wife and they’ve been in the food industry a long time. In the couple of years that we were developing this concept, they came in every so often and brought us ideas of different things they wanted to try. We knew it was going to be salads, but we didn’t always know exactly what each dish was going to look like. So they brought in all kinds of creative

To read about other people who have had their “15 Minutes” go to otdowntown.com/15 minutes ing for something to help them put on muscle mass. So we can provide people with a vegan grain-free salad or a hearty portion of grilled salmon with roasted cauliflower. We provide healthy no matter what your definition of healthy is. We also want it to be accessible to everyone, so you don’t have to each quote unquote healthy, but everything you eat here, including the pesto mac and cheese, their ingredients are high quality, not processed, and coming from the right places.

Lee: One thing that did surprise me was we’re not just salads, we have a picnic basket area, which is like a marketplace with a main and two sides. We just didn’t really know what to expect with that because we’ve been marketing ourselves as a healthy, delicious salad restaurant. And some of those picnic basket items are our most popular items and we can’t even keep them on the shelf. We’ve doubled production from the beginning to now on some of the items.

What are the pros and cons to working with your brother?

What have been your bestsellers?

Lee: I think working with Daniel is really easy because our skills complement each other very well. Like he said in the beginning, he’s more of a numbers guy and I kind of just go with my gut a lot. And in that sense, we balance each other out and combine to form a

Daniel: It’s kind of been a surprise because we didn’t know what customers were going to want. I think the biggest surprise has been our Caribbean bowl. It’s our second bestseller, which I, personally, didn’t expect at all. That’s a bowl with black and wild rice, arugula, shaved coconut, mango, jerk chicken.

How did the idea come about? Lee: The background of this company is it’s a family business. And we’ve been involved in the food business and franchising for 10 years or so. The idea came about because we’re healthy people; we live a healthy and balanced lifestyle. And we wanted to do something that we were passionate about that was more than just going to work and trying to make money. We started developing this concept almost three years ago and we kept tweaking and evolving into bigger and better and I think we ended up with something really great. Daniel: It kind of started from the question, “What are we going to eat for lunch today?” There never seemed to be a really good answer that people really enjoyed and thought was really healthy. It felt like we had to pick one or the other. We wanted to do something that had both.

Explain your dad’s history in the food business. Daniel: Our dad was in the hospitality industry for about 20 years and then he sold the business in 2003 and then a couple of years later, met his now-partner, Rich [Greenstein], and they decided to go into the Dunkin’ Donuts business together. So our business for the last 10 years has been primarily Dunkin’ Donuts. And a few years ago, we opened a handful of Smashburger franchises. There are three families involved in running the business. What is the

Lee Novick and Daniel Novick recently opened Good Seed, on 35th Street, with two other families, after working with their father, Howard Novick. Pictured left to right: Richard Greenstein, Howard Novick, Eric Portnoy, Daniel Greenstein, Ronnie Portnoy, Dayna Greenstein, Lee Novick and Daniel Novick. own role, even though it’s not formal.

What made you choose that location? Lee: We have two offices, air quotes for the word “office,” because they’re basically built-out mezzanines above our Dunkin’ Donuts locations. One is on 40th and one on 39th Street, both in that area. That’s where we are every day and where our Dunkin’ Donuts business is mainly based out of and that’s where we felt there was a big need for this type of concept. Because there are so many people working around there. We see everyone from people in suits and ties to artists to young advertising professionals to tourists. And there’s the same question every day, “Where should we go to eat?” And we think we fill that void

stuff. We didn’t know what was going to be on the menu besides salads, so we went through a lot of different ideas with them. They’re very creative people and excellent chefs. Everything that they make is delicious. Lee: We also are the market and demographic that we’re trying to serve, so it was a little easier because we knew what we were looking for and couldn’t find. We wanted salads you would find at a nice restaurant for dinner, but accessible for people for lunch at a price they could afford. And something we always come back to is that healthy means different things for different people. Some people might be looking for something under 400 calories, some people might be look-

pretty good team. Because I’ll say, “Let’s just do it.” And he’ll say, “Let’s run the numbers.” And then we do and it makes sense or it doesn’t. And sometimes numbers don’t tell the whole story and sometimes they do. Daniel: I think because growing up together, we’ve known each other, literally, our entire lives. We have that chemistry where you know who should be doing what, when to back off, when the person might be feeling agitated or frustrated. Basically, when to push and when to hold back. You kind of just know that innately, in a way that you wouldn’t know with a normal coworker.

What is something that surprised you about the business?

Our picnic baskets as a whole have sold a lot. The roasted salmon and the grilled chicken have sold extremely well. The pesto mac and cheese people keep raving about. Lee: Just to give you some context, the first day we were open, we made six trays of pesto mac and cheese. We’re making 16 now. www.goodseedsalad.com

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