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A RARE SETBACK FOR BIKE LANES NEWS Upper East Side community board rejects proposal for painted bike lanes

BY MADELEINE THOMPSON

The Upper East Side’s Community Board 8 voted 25-19 to reject a controversial proposal to install painted bike lanes in the neighborhood, a rare public rebuke to a biking expansion throughout the city.

The rejection by the full board came despite a vote earlier this month by the board’s transportation committee recommending that CB8 approve bike lanes on 70th and 71st, 77th and 78th, and 84th and 85th streets. Roughly 100 Upper East Siders attended the CB8 meeting on Wednesday, expressing both passionate opposition to and approval for the plan.

Judy Toby, who has lived at 85th Street and First Avenue for 12 years, said she feels “threatened” by bike lanes and cyclists in general. “I don’t want to be knocked down,” Toby said.

“I walk with a cane; it’s hard enough as it is. I just find this whole thing infuriating.”

Andrew, a 27-year-old Upper East Sider who rides a Citi Bike to his Bryant Park consulting gig nearly every day, said the lack of crosstown options is obvious. “There aren’t that many,” he said. “It would be nice.” He suggested that officials explore eliminating car traffic altogether on some streets, leaving them to buses and bikes exclusively. In addition to keeping bicyclists safe, the arrangement

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DOWNTOWN’S PUBLIC SCHOOL PROBLEM INVESTIGATION A building boom in lower Manhattan has outstripped the number of available school slots.

The result is overcrowding, wait lists, and frustrated parents.

BY EMILY TOWNER

Say you move into a new apartment building in lower Manhattan with your young family, joining a flood of residents to hit the area in the years since 9/11. You pay your taxes, you eat at the local restaurants, and, when the time comes, you sign your kid up for the neighborhood elementary school.

And, more likely than not, you learn that you’re out of luck.

Lower Manhattan -- for all its success in rebuilding and rebranding itself as a destination for families -is among the most-strappped neighborhoods in the city when it comes to public schools. An apartment building boom in the area has not been matched by a similar increase in elementary schools, creating a severe shortage just at the time the neighborhood is growing the fastest.

“They say ‘You know what, we’re going to put you on a waiting list in March,’” said Tricia Joyce, Education Chair for Community Board 1. “There will be some parents who can’t stand it, because they’re not willing to play roulette with their child’s education and they will just up and leave.”

Lower Manhattan’s dubious distinctions, when it comes to education, include having the borough’s most-crowded school: P.S. 150, the Tribeca Learning Center, on the corner of Greenwich and Jay streets.

According to reports by the city Department of Education, the school

Photo by Emily Towner is currently operating at 148% of its capacity, meaning it is housing nearly 50 percent more students that it is designed for.

To bring Tribca Learning and the 57 other overcrowded Manhattan students down to 100% utilization, the DOE would need to add 4,713 seats.

Yet only 3,882 have been funded in the most recent DOE capital plan, according to data compiled by Class Size Matters, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advocating for smaller class sizes.

The problem is particularly acute downtown, where three concurrent issues have exacerbated the gap between need and reality in New York City’s public schools: a planning problem, a flawed system of need estimation, and a lack of funding.

After the terrorist attacks of Sep-

tember 11, 2001, former mayors Rudy Guiliani and Michael Bloomberg set out to revitalize lower Manhattan.

Very quickly, more than 20,000 new apartments had been planned and built with no accompanying infrastructure - no school seats, little recreation space, few public gathering spots.

“What we found was that when the city plans development like this, the infrastructure is not planned concurrently,” Joyce said. “We don’t even have libraries at many of our schools in the city, Out of our nine schools downtown, only three have regulation-sized gyms.”

By the time the D.O.E. recognizes the need for a new school, it then has to go through the process of funding it, a maze that includes a review board, which puts it into a five-year

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The effort to help small seems to businesses in the city be gathering steam.

Two city councilmembers, Robert Margaret Chin and Cornegy, have introduced create legislation that wouldSmall a new “Office of the within Business Advocate” of Small the city’s Department Business Services.

Chin The new post, which have up told us she’d like to would and running this year, for serve as an ombudsman city small businesses within them clear government, helping to get through the bureaucracy things done.

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capital plan, which itself can take a decade to complete.

Council Member Margaret Chin, who represents lower Manhattan and sits on the Lower Manhattan School Overcrowding Task Force, celebrated a recent small victory with the finalization of a new elementary school location at the site of the former Syms Department Store, at 42 Trinity Place. Her communications director, Paul Leonard, said her office is constantly pushing for more schools to be built downtown.

Since 2009, three other elementary schools have opened in Lower Manhattan: the Spruce Street School and Public School 276, in Battery Park City (both opened in 2009), and the Peck Slip School, which was incubat-

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Chapter 13

EVE AND OTHERS

BY ESTHER COHEN

Mrs. Israel, organized, intrepid, moderately fashionable the way Queen Elizabeth was moderately fashionable, that is, she looked as though every single day was Easter Sunday, her boxy handbag always in sight. She looked as though she could, at any moment, put on a pill box hat a la Jackie or the Queen herself, Mrs. Israel organized a posse although posse is not a word she’d ever use, to visit the building. She made a list of what they knew, and gave xeroxed copies to everyone. Here are all the facts so far: Alyosha Zed may or may not be his name. He had lived alone in an apartment three blocks away from the detectives.

He was a dancer from another country – maybe Georgia. Maybe Uzbekistan. Maybe even Armenia.

No one knew for sure.

His dance form was flamenco, but he was reputed to know tap, too.

He was thin and handsome, and he worked part time on West 57th Street at a deli named MORTS. His super was a man named Anibal, half Dominican half Haitian. Anibal is Hannibal in Spanish.

Eve and Others, the detective team, made their first official foray, their first trip together, to the site of the vanishing, an Illustration by John S. Winkleman entirely non-descript building, on 80th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus. The building stood in front, only Naomi’s friend was neither brown nor gray, with a Albert, who had unofficially joined cavernous lobby, both dark and ap- their detective team.

“Anibal is waiting,” he greeted propriately mysterious. Fluorescent lobby lights flickered. No doorman them all. Albert, as fashionable as

We are halfway through Eve and Others, our first serial novel.

Here’s what’s happened so far. In the eighties (before cell phones, before emails, when there was no social media, when memory had no choice but to function), a building

decided, over a pot luck dinner, to work together to try to find a missing man who once lived nearby.

Maybe his name was Alyosha Zed. One of the building detectives, an agrophobic actor named Charles, said that couldn’t possibly be his

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entered the studio across the hall from Albert’s. It was mostly empty – just a boxy white room with a pullout couch, folding chair, card table and a dresser. No pictures on the wall, no give-away photographs, nothing all that personal lying around. An answering machine sat in the middle of the cardtable, and Naomi walked over to it, and pressed the Play button.

“Alysosha,” a man’s voice said, in the only message on the tape. “I’m waiting for you in our usual place.”

“How in the world can we know where that is?” said Pin Ball.

“He went to the same bar every day.

Tap a Keg. I’d see him there,” Anibal explained.

“Real Clue Number One, “ Mrs. Israel smiled.

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always, was wearing dark wool red, a memorable color for men’s daytime pants.

He looked purposeful, and distinguished. In a way, they all did – not altogether distinguished, but somewhat. “He’s prepared to give us all that he has. Whatever he knows.”

Together they walked up the dark stairwell to the third floor, to the back apartment where Anibal lived with his very large wife Mamie, and their two young sons. They were all sitting on the couch, all four of them, when the group arrived. The couch had a see through plastic cover making them look like a family carefully placed on top of saran wrap.

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If you had to guess, would you say

he is dead or alive? In the eighties, where might he have gone? And what are the ways that he can be found? We want to hear from you this week. To catch up on past chapters, go to otdowntown.com

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG STATS FOR THE WEEK

NYPD STRIPS BADGE OF COP IN GUN INCIDENT A New York City police officer shown on video pointing his gun at a bystander who was filming a police encounter has been stripped of his gun and badge.

The incident happened at a public housing complex in Manhattan.

A video posted on Facebook shows two officers struggling with a man on the floor when one of them orders bystanders to move back. The video shows the officer then pulling out his gun and shouting, “I’m not playing.”

Police said the man had been resisting arrest after riding an illegal dirt bike and fleeing from police.

Another video shows the same officer later punching another man in the face before arresting him.

A police spokesman says internal affairs investigators are probing the incidents.

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One shoplifter had a nose for fine fragrances recently. At 8:30 p.m. on May 13, a man took $1,320 bottles of fragrance from the shelf in the Sephora store at 555 Broadway and placed them inside his jacket and left the store. Police could not locate the thief or the missing merchandise. The items stolen were two Tom Ford Portofino fragrances valued at $440, two Tom Ford Amalfi fragrances also priced at $440, and two Tom Ford Azure fragrances costing $440 as well, for a total of $1,320.

Now that people are unbundling after winter, pickpockets are having a field day. At 3:30 p.m. on May 9, someone took a 56-year-old Staten Island man’s wallet from the back left pocket of his jeans at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal. The thief later used the victim’s credit cards, but the amount of the charges was not stated.

The following evening, a perpetrator removed swiped a wallet from the jacket pocket of a 52-year-old Queens woman in the N/R line subway station at Bridge and Whitehall Streets. The victim told police that she had taken

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her wallet out of her purse and removed the transit check card. She then placed her wallet in her jacket pocket before purchasing a MetroCard from a vending machine. She next swiped her MetroCard in the turnstile and went down to the southbound platform, when she noticed that her wallet was missing. She said she had felt a bump while she was entering the turnstile.

She went back and checked the area around the turnstile but could not find her wallet. The items stolen included three transit checks valued at $200,

two MetroCards worth $30, plus the wallet.

HANDBAGS BAGGED Another shoplifter bagged two pricey handbags from an area boutique on the afternoon of May 10. Police said a man entered the Marc Jacobs store on Mercer Street and took two handbags, one in mink, the other in black, totaling $1,100.

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BY MELODY CHAN

Oliver Rosenberg will be just 45 years old in 2031. Which is why he was troubled when U.S Rep. Jerrold Nadler supported the nuclear accord prohibiting Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons for 15 years.

“As a millennial, that’s real to me. That’s going to be my life. And they’re going to have nuclear weapons. I feel it’s just one of those kicking-the-candown-the-road cases,” Rosenberg said.

It’s also became the primary motivating factor in his upstart run for Nadler’s 10th District seat in Congress.

Nadler, a staunch liberal, has not faced a primary opponent since 1998.

“I’m a Democrat but my congressman has sat there for 24 years and 20 years unchallenged,” Rosenberg said. “In a district where over 80 percent of registered voters are Democrats, we haven’t had a primary! That means we haven’t had an election in 20 years!”

For now, Rosenberg’s main goal is simple: spreading word about the June 28 primary, and about the possibility of another Democrat representing the 10th District and a sweeping constituency that extends from the Upper West Side to downtown on the west side and into the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Red Hook, Sunset Park and Bensonhurst.

First elected to represent Congress’ 8th District in 1992, Nadler has plowed through Republican opponents ever since, including following two redistricting efforts.

To first get on the primary ballot, Rosenberg needed to submit a petition with 1,250 valid signatures nominating him; he turned in 6,500.

Rosenberg, a Yeshiva University graduate, described himself as a Jew “somewhere between modern, modern Orthodox and very traditional.”

He started Or Chayim, a grassroots congregation that pro-

vides traditional Shabbat experiences to LGBTQ members of the Jewish faith. It has met on the Upper West Side since 2014.

Gay himself, Rosenberg said he was inspired to run for Congress in part because of the emergence of unconventional candidates. “This is the year of the anti-establishment candidate,” he said, clearly enthusiastic. “I decided to run a few months ago when I saw that tens of millions of people from both parties believe that the system doesn’t work for them anymore and they’re looking for radical changes for their presidential candidate.”

Nadler, however, is a formidable opponent. A solid liberal in a dependably Democratic district, he is the second-most senior member on the House Judiciary Committee and a prominent figure on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. But Nadler, who lives on Upper West Side, was the only Jewish Democrat from New York’s congressional delegation to vote in favor of the Iran nuclear deal. The criticism was thunderous.

“When the congressman made his decision, he was very sincere in putting the politics of that decision to the side. At the end of the day the decision for him was dealing with life and death matters,” Nadler’s campaign manager, Daniel Schwarz, said. “If people disagree with the congressman’s vote, the hallmark of democracy is that people are more than capable of running for office.”

Schwarz stressed that while Nadler did not take his seat or his district’s votes for granted, it would not be out of the ordinary for him to attend community boards or political club meetings, as Nadler has been doing recently. Nadler has already received endorsements from many political groups in New York, including about 50 LGBTQ Jewish activists and community leaders.

Rosenberg, though, is not daunted by Nadler’s hold on the district. He said that while Nadler’s political connections may make it harder for him to establish a voice, once voters realize they have a choice, he is confident they will vote for him.

Oliver Rosenberg is challenging U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler in the June 28 Democratic primary, the first time in 20 years Nadler is facing a primary opponent. Photo: Melody Chan “Endorsements never mean too much but this year they mean even less,” Rosenberg’s communications director, Curtis Ellis, said. “No matter which party you’re looking in, you’re seeing a tremendous skepticism for business as usual.”

A lifelong Democrat, Rosenberg’s platform leans liberal.

Just as he is staunchly proIsrael, Rosenberg is equally determined to advocate for the LGBTQ community. He’s also a supporter of legalized marijuana, which he said would open up a slew of business opportunities as well as tax revenue.

“I’m not stale, I’m fresh. I’m energetic. I’m innovative,” said Rosenberg, who founded Prealth, a beta-stage app modelled on websites such as Kayak.com that aims to lower costs in the health care sector by introducing competition.

A former analyst and associate with J.P Morgan, Rosenberg emphasizes his privatesector experience, which he said many career politicians lack. He also highlights the fact that is he is financing his own campaign and, he said, is consequently not beholden to any special interests. Rosenberg has spent about $150,000 on his campaign so far, including on five full-time paid staff members. He’s recruited an-

other 50 volunteers. He runs his campaign out of his Riverside Boulevard apartment. “I mean some of the things I’ve done, trying to fuse gay and orthodoxy, trying to come up with a private sector solution to health care. You know what?

We need to start thinking outside the box otherwise our generation is screwed. We already have so much debt in the United States; Social Security is running out of funding and we need to focus on climate change. We need fresh, innovative ideas.”

Rosenberg said his grandfather, Stanley Diller, was among his strongest inspirations.

Diller, who, like two other of Rosenberg’s grandparents, survived the Holocaust, came to America as an orphan, began making window blinds and started his own company, Rosenberg said. Rosenberg said he helped build schools and hospital emergency rooms in Los Angeles. “It was very important to him to give back to his community,” Rosenberg said when asked why he was pursuing political office rather than, say, a Wall Street gig.

“And so growing up we would hear stories about getting involved and I think that message steeped into me.”

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PUBLIC SCHOOL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ed in a makeshift school in the Tweed Courthouse for three years before opening its building last fall.

Before these schools could even open their doors, however, their seats were ďŹ lled, and a new school was already needed.

Funds for the new school were allocated in 2013 by the DOE, but it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until January of this year that the Syms School was sited. It will likely be ďŹ ve to six more years before it opens, making it nearly inevitable that demand will overwhelm it, too.

Eric Greenleaf is an NYU professor involved in forecasting school enrollments in Manhattan to help relieve school overcrowding and successfully make the case for new schools. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Downtown Manhattan has more new apartment construction and conversion than any other part of the city,â&#x20AC;? Greenleaf said.

The Syms School will likely not solve the problem, and Greenleaf believes that in order to try to stay ahead of expansion, additional school development and planning need to begin now.

While a commercial development project can go up in a year, the Department of Education cannot keep pace, and potential sites are becoming increasingly limited. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It would be a shame to see a community that canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

grow because there is simply no other place to put a school,â&#x20AC;? said Greenleaf. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The DOE needs to start searching for future sites now.â&#x20AC;?

According to state goals passed in 2007, class sizes in New York should be limited to no more than 20 students in K-3, 23 in grades 4-8, and 25 in high school. According to Leonie Haimson of Class Size Matters and the DOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own data, more than half of students are in overcrowded schools across the city. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s common to see 31 children in a ďŹ rst grade class at P.S. 276 (Battery Park City School),â&#x20AC;? said Joyce.

The only official legal regulatory measure in place regarding class sizes come from the United Federation of Teachers union, which places contractual limits on class sizes at 25 students for Kindergarten, 32 in grades 1-6, 33 in middle school, and 34 in high school.

According to Haimson, these limits are significantly above the goals intended to provide children with a quality education, have not been lowered in 50 years and are regularly violated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There were over 5,000 contractual violations in New York City last fall,â&#x20AC;? Haimson said.

Many of these violations come down to a ďŹ&#x201A;awed system of need estimation that leads to schools being forced to take on more students than they were designed for.

According to Greenleaf, whose educational needs projections have been

P.S. 150, the Tribeca Learning Center, on the corner of Greenwich and Jay streets, which according to DOE numbers is the most-crowded school in Manhattan. touted as more accurate than the D.O.E.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, the city uses a CEQR (City Environmental Quality Review) standard to determine need. Manhattanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ratio is .12, meaning that for every 100 new apartments, 12 elementary school seats are needed. For many neighborhoods where the number of new kids is booming, this is simply not enough.

Other experts note that while in some cases, the DOE seems to technically meet the numbers thresheld, other parts of the learning experience suffer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When some of the rooms we consider essential - like a principalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office or a library - are lost and turned into â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;classrooms,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;capacityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of your school increases,â&#x20AC;? said Shino Tani-

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kawa, president of Community Education Council 2. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So losing facilities leads to even more overcrowding.â&#x20AC;?

When another school absorbs a waitlist, or schools take on more students than they were designed to handle, the DOE responds that the overcrowding issue has been reduced. Yet this is really only because of the willingness of the schools to overcrowd, partially due to the increased per-pupil funding schools receive by taking on additional students.

Of the 83,000 seats the DOE has determined the city needs over the next ďŹ ve years, the departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recently released â&#x20AC;&#x153;revisedâ&#x20AC;? capital plan reveals that only 59%, or 49,000, of the new

seats will be funded by 2020. Funding to public schools was cut citywide during the ďŹ scal crisis of 2008 and 2009, and has yet to be reinstated. Tricia Joyce says that more than $900,000 was cut from her childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lower Manhattan school alone.

In addition to city funding, state funding allocated speciďŹ cally for the reduction of class size in the Contracts For Excellence/Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) resolution of 2007 was frozen as a result of the ďŹ nancial crisis, and has yet to be reinstated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are owed over $2 billion in CFE funding,â&#x20AC;? said Zakiyah Ansari of the Alliance for Quality Education. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Imagine what our children could have.â&#x20AC;?

Perhaps most startling remains the fact that the city intends to fund only half of its own determined need, which is thought by many to be underestimated altogether. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They say itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget,â&#x20AC;? Joyce said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But my question, which has gone unanswered, is that when you build what is now over 30,000 homes in lower Manhattan since 9/11 for an average selling price of $1.5 million, the tax money that is generated and the inďŹ&#x201A;ux it provided to the city of New York we estimate to be in the tens of billions of dollars. What happened to that money, and why was it not properly allocated to infrastructure? Even a tiny percentage would have been more than enough to provide for our schools and for our children.â&#x20AC;?

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BIKE LANES CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 would speed the buses. And, he said, “You would see more people use bicycles.”

Conversations about bike lanes are happening across the city, as frequent cyclists clash with those who feel bikes should not have more street space. A proposal for bike lanes on Queens Boulevard, for example, saw significant opposition and was rejected by its corresponding community board, but earlier this month Mayor Bill de Blasio said the plan would move forward anyway. Community boards can recommend courses of action, but they are not compulsory.

Tom DeVito, director of organizing at the pro-bike advocacy group Transportation Alternatives, participated in a street scan last fall to determine which streets would be best suited for bike lanes. “The Upper East Siders that we work with were very disappointed in the community board’s failure to pass the safe streets resolution on what were often very flimsy objections,” he said. “These are all concerns that have been addressed very thoroughly by the DOT … It’s not compelling to vote against something that will increase safety for thousands of Upper East Siders based on debunked theories.”

Despite DeVito’s and the DOT’s information showing how bike lanes could increase safety, Charles Warren, co-chairman of the CB8 transportation committee, was not surprised that the proposal was rejected. “Our board has generally come down in support of bikes, but I would say that there are certainly people in the community and on the board who feel that a lot of bikers just don’t obey the rules,” he said.

“Then there’s a whole group of people who believe that biking is good for the community.”

A spokesperson for the DOT said the department is determining its next steps,

Economic Inequality is Making us Sick Community Board 8 rejected a plan to add bike lanes like this one to East 70th and 71st Streets, 77th and 78th Streets, and 84th and 85th Streets. Photo: Mike, via flickr which could range from going ahead with the installment despite the board’s disapproval to proposing a third set of alternate lane pairings for the board’s consideration. Community Board 8 Chair Jim Clynes is “sure the DOT will go back to the drawing board and come up with some new options.”

Clynes said he would like to see more safety measures taken to prevent cycliston-cyclist collisions since the east-west bike lanes would intersect with northsouth bike lanes at several points. “I’m calling for the DOT to come up with safety measures such as warning signs, speed bumps, and other things of that nature,” he said.

Steven Sladkus, an Upper East Sider and attorney who has represented property owners in cases against Citi Bike, thinks speed bumps or other measures to slow bikers down would be a good idea. “My own children have expressed fear getting out of a car because they don’t want to get hit by a bicyclist,” he said. “I personally think it’s a bit of a hypocrisy that the city would help promote [biking] when no one wears helmets.”

Clynes predicted that by the board’s July meeting they will be ready to revisit the topic.

Warren said several board members would have preferred to vote on the proposed street pairings separately, but some procedural confusion prevented that from happening. “A number of people on the board wanted to vote separately … [on the pairs] and there was back and forth on that,” Warren said. “We got into a bit of a procedural wrangle and the end result was the package was voted on together.”

Warren chalked this up to an accident, though it seems the outcome would have been the same anyway due to considerable opposition to the pairing of 84th and 85th streets.

St. Ignatius Loyola, an elementary and middle school, is located at E. 84th Street, where a portion of the road is closed off during weekday afternoons for use as a play space. “That’s inconsistent with having a bike lane,” Warren said. Had the board voted on the street pairings individually, they might have approved 70th, 71st, 77th, and 78th streets and only rejected 84th and 85th streets.

Met Council is accepting applications for the waiting list of affordable housing rental apartments in our building located at 351 East 54th Street, NY.

Met Council is accepting applications for the waiting list of affordable housing rental apartments in our building located at 89 Carlton Avenue, Brooklyn.

These studio apartments are for one person households only. The age eligibility requirement is 62 years of age at the time of application.

These one bedroom apartments are for one or two person households only. The age eligibility requirement is 62 years of age for applicant and 55 years of age for co-applicant at the time of application.

Current Rent Range studio: $978 - $1231 Income Range: $40,712- $50,800 (1 person household) *Monthly rent includes heat, hot water and gas for cooking.

Seniors will be required to meet income guidelines and additional selection criteria to qualify. Income guidelines are subject to change.

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Please include a self-addressed envelope.

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Current Rent Range: Income Range:

$878 - $1320 $36,760 - $50,800 (1 person household) $36,760 - $58,000 (2 person household)

*Monthly rent includes heat, hot water and gas for cooking.

Seniors will be required to meet income guidelines and additional selection criteria to qualify. Income guidelines are subject to change.

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Applications may be downloaded from: www.metcouncil.org/housing or requested by mail from Met Council: Carlton Avenue Residence 120 Broadway, 7th floor New York, NY 10271.

Please include a self-addressed envelope.

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

E

conomic inequality has an even higher cost than many people realize.

Beyond lowering living standards for working Americans, a treasure trove of data compiled by the Center on Society and Health and the Urban Institute reveals that a major consequence of income inequality is poorer health and even shorter lifespans for those who earn less – poor people have an average lifespan six years shorter than the wealthy. And the greater the gap, the worse these problems become.

People with lower incomes tend to have more restricted access to medical care, are more likely to be uninsured or underinsured, and have less paid time off and flexibility in their work lives to address health issues.

Simply put, the lower one’s Simply put, income, the greater one’s likelihood of disease and the lower one’s premature death.

Mental income, the health is a casualty of lower greater one’s incomes as well. People with lower incomes live shorter likelihood of lives, and suffer a lower quality disease and of life. It’s a troubling trend in a premature society with a growing pay gap and rising economic inequality, death. where the gap between the richest Americans and everyone else keeps getting bigger.

Economic inequality is hurting the health of American families.

So what’s the prescription?

Without good jobs and benefits, the impact of economic inequality will continue to hurt the health of working families.

The best way for workers and communities to become stronger, and the best way to close the pay gap and the health gap, is through union jobs and union contracts.

It’s no secret that economic in equality is linked to a shrinking labor movement. At the exact same time union membership began to drop sharply in the 1970s, the share of income going to the richest Americans began to rise. The shared prosperity we saw with the growth of the labor movement has withered away, and while labor productivity has almost doubled since 1973, the median wage has grown only 4 percent.

It’s not only bad for our economy and weakening workers’ families, it’s bad for our health. A stronger – and healthier – America depends on a revitalization of the labor movement and better jobs for American workers.

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KILLING AN ELEPHANT STREET LEVEL

“Every hour of television that a person watches after the age of 25, the researchers concluded, potentially snips 22 minutes off of the viewer’s life span.”

-- Gretchen Reynolds, health and fitness writer, The New York Times

My new life, again, without a TV

BY BILL GUNLOCKE

On 9/11 my best friend in Cleveland, where I used to live, called me here between 8:30 and 9:00 like he often did. After a few minutes of our usual easy chatter, as he was getting off the phone to take his dog out, he said some plane just went into the World Trade Center. He was seeing it right then on his TV. When he hung up, I didn’t turn on my TV to see what was going on. I didn’t have a TV. When I watch the TV I find myself noticing my feet on the ottoman in front of me or the books and magazines on the table. But then I’ve never had a giant TV. Maybe that was my problem.

I eventually got a TV. After a few years. For sports mostly. And partly to be like everyone else. When I was a kid I got comic books to be like the other kids, even though I didn’t care about comic books.

I can’t watch Ken Burns documentaries. I don’t like that there’s music. The strong images he finds and the strong voice-overs are powerful enough. The companion book with all the great photographs doesn’t have music. The music softens it all. Makes it like a progressive church service.

This morning the cable guy came from a different company than I’d used for TV and internet and installed just the internet. No more TV other than what I can watch on my laptop from a friend’s streaming service which he gave me the password to. The cable guy said internet-only was the fastestgrowing request from their customers.

We talk about the proliferation of people with their damn iPhones. Are they/we on them 60 hours a week?

No, but we watch our televisions that much. TV is the elephant in the room.

We are addicted to its lights. We stay up late to look at all the lights we can fit in our day.

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Let’s see how life will be without the lights. Photo by Bill Gunlocke “Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don’t know any fiction writers who live in average American households. I suspect Louise Erdrich might. Actually I have never seen an average American household. Except on TV.” -- David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments” In college in the late 60s while a war was going on and revolution was being talked about and sung about, the TV lounge would fill up with guys watching “Batman.”

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You’d have thought Morley Safer had lost a leg in Vietnam the way they went on about him.

When I didn’t have a TV in my thenEast Village apartment, someone told me that the musician I could sometimes hear practicing across the courtyard was the lead guy in a legendary band called Television.

I never saw ‘The Wire’ or ‘Mad Men’ or ‘Breaking Bad’.

I tried to get into ‘Silicon Valley’ on HBO and I liked the first two episodes and I felt like one of the guys. Then it lost me.

My parents kept the little cabinet doors closed on our big console TV. They’d open them once in a while for the news or a few shows they liked. It was never just on.

Radio has always been way more important to me. To you too, maybe.

My twin grandchildren in second grade have a TV in the living room of their apartment that’s as big as a Rothko painting.

The list of that day’s televised games in the morning sports page is more exciting than the games when they actually come on. Football and English soccer the exceptions.

I look forward to the TV being dark in the room. I can sit wherever I want to now.

“TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except yours isn’t interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don’t get bogged down into nothingness, a state where nothing happens, no skit, no zany visitors, no outburst on the laugh track, nothing at all but boredom and a lost feeling, especially when you get up in the morning and the moon is still shining and men are making noisy bets on the first tee.”

-- John Updike, “Rabbit at Rest”

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Are we having fun yet? But enough about me. Let me tell you about my partner (with his complete agreement). My big, strong, completely healthyseeming partner has been monitored for a mild heart condition for 20 years. Suddenly, his echocardiogram changed and tests ensued. A cardiac catheterization, and this week an implant of a defibrillator/ pacemaker device.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now a bionic man, with a home monitor that sends signals directly to the doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office. He seems ďŹ ne â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will be ďŹ ne, I hope â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scary. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very scary. The whole hospital experience was difficult, for both of us. I was pretty anxious and until we got him out of there the next day (I told the front desk weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d had a great time but sadly had to leave), I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t breathe freely.

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...now his heart is kept healthy (we hope) by wires and devices and remote monitoring, plus lots of doctorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; visits... â&#x20AC;&#x153; per West Sider that venturing to a new neighborhood is like taking a trip. And I get to go home to my own bed. There are so many neighborhoods to explore in Manhattan, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m putting that on my to-do list.

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New York Law School, 185 West Broadway.

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CityLaw honors four public servants with exceptional careers at New York Law Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second annual Civic Fame Awards. NY-1â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Errol Louis hosts.

212-431-2115. www. citylandnyc.org/

FIRST PRECINCT COMMUNITY MEETING 16 Ericsson Place 6:30 p.m.

The precinct community council meetings are held on the last Thursday of each month except July and August where there are no meetings.

212-334-0640

McNally-Jackson Books, 52 Prince St. 6-7 p.m.

Oswaldo Zavala, an associate Professor of contemporary Latin American literature at the CUNY Graduate Center and at the College of Staten Island, discusses. Roberto Bolano and the limits of contemporary Latin American literature.

212-274-1160. www. mcnallyjackson.com/event

READING SEMINAR WITH SILVIA FEDERICI The Kitchen, 512 West 19th St 2 p.m.

Silvia Federici will discuss the recent work of women in indigenous struggles for land, resources, and political recognition, and against corporate and patriarchal forms of domination. registratin required: publicprograms.isp.2016@gmail. com.

212-255-5793. www. thekitchen.org/

Meet at 526 West 26th St. 1 p.m. $25 Visit seven galleries in the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s center for contemporary art to catch exhibit in painting, sculpture, electronic media and photography.

917-250-0052. www. nygallerytours.com

1940S-STYLE SWING DANCING EVENT Pier 86, Maritime Entertainment District 7:30 p.m. Starting at $35 Celebrate the music, dancing and style of the swing era with a spectacular lineup of over 90 performers. There will be a vintage fashion show and contest, a dance contest, swing dance performances and free dance lessons.

212-627-2020. www. hudsonriverpark.org/

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Scherezade Ga Garcia creates contemporary contempo allegories of history, histo politics, colonization, and co which whi take shape in vivid colors and a energetic, dream-like combinations.

212-8541633.

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WEEKEND MUSIC FESTIVAL Broadway and 86th Street 1-5 p.m.

Twenty four tenors and sopranos will taken part in the 16th Annual Mario Lanza and Elaine Malbin vocal competitions will be judged by a panel of experts, including Malbin. The competitions are the largest outdoor competitions tions in the country.

212-764-6330.

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LES BALLETS S JAZZ DE MONTRÉAL The Joyce Theater, ater, 175 Eighth Ave. 2 p.m. Starting at $10 One of Canada’s ’s most popular dance companies, mpanies, captivating audiences ences with sexy, explosive, and nd original performances.

212-691-9740.

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MANHATTAN CHAMBER PLAYERS

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Engelman Recital Hall, Baruch College, 55 Lexington Ave, 7 p.m. $20; students and children, free A program of works by Johannes Brahms and Antonín Dvořák. www.baruch.cuny.edu/

Wed 1 16TH STREET BOOK CLUB Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th St. 7 p.m. Free A discussion of “The Seven Good Years,” by Etgar Keret. Bring your books or e-reading devices with you. RSVP recommended via email, at mhaier@cjh.org 212-294-8301. cjh.org/ bookclub.

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FINDING ARTISTRY IN A SWAN EXHIBITION Local artist highlights the beauty of an invasive species

BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO

When artist Hilary Robin McCarthy started volunteering at the Wild Bird Fund a few years ago, her tasks were less than glamorous, and included cleaning pigeon feces from cages.

But when the Upper West Side resident started working with a mute swan named Vanessa, she inadvertently found the newest subjects for her oil paintings.

“I would just take photographs of the swan swimming in the tank,” said McCarthy, 41. “I was just like, ‘Oh my God, this is a painting waiting to happen.”

Not only did her volunteer work inspire her show “Songs of the Mute Swan,” it provided a venue: her collection of six oil paintings on canvas are on view in the window of the Wild Bird Fund Gallery on Columbus Avenue near 87th Street through June 11.

The wildlife rehabilitation organization, located next door, will eventually expand its operations into the small, temporary gallery space, adding a larger operating room, x-ray area and a flight room for song birds. Fifty percent of McCarthy’s sales benefit the non-profit.

Though an ideal pairing, McCarthy started work on the paintings before the space was converted into a gallery. McCarthy, a nearby resident who lives in the same building as the organization’s director, Rita McMahon, was walking by the window one day

Hilary Robin McCarthy’s oil painting “Eternity” is on view at the Wild Bird Fund Gallery through June 11. Photo: Hilary Robin McCarthy.

and noticed a crowd had gathered at a show opening. She approached the gallery director, a fellow volunteer, about her swan paintings, she said.

The paintings aren’t McCarthy’s first to include animals. A former dog walker, McCarthy is also commissioned for pet portraits. But she was hesitant to incorporate the birds into her work at first.

“Like, oh no my career is going downhill, I’m painting swans. It’s like painting flowers in a still life,” she said. “But it’s just really how you do it. It can be as cheesy or as beautiful as you want.

I just said, ‘Forget it. I don’t care what people think. I’m just going to do it.’”

McCarthy, who has a master’s of fine arts from New York Academy of Art and is currently working on a bachelor’s degree in art history at Columbia University, was inspired by artist John Singer Sargent’s use of white in his portraits, especially in the garments worn by his female subjects. He incorporated different colors like pink and gray in the white attire, she said, an approach she took when painting the birds’ white feathers. She also experimented with the iridescent effects of gold and copper leaf in her paintings’ grasses and floating leaves.

McCarthy said she stays away from political themes in her work, but she learned during her research about efforts by the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation to control the population of the mute swan, an invasive, non-native species in New York. McMahon, whose organization receives about 4,000 birds and other wildlife each year, said the state does not allow reintroduction of the animals anywhere north of Westchester, though most mute swans she cares for come from Massapequa and the city’s animal care shelters.

“They’re not allowed to put them back, even if they rehab them,” said McMahon. “So what does the rehabber do? It’s awful in that regard.”

McCarthy’s compositions mostly show the birds gliding in water, their long necks curved and their heads bowed, and she references the birds’ signature grace in the gallery’s window display with a pair of pale pink ballet slippers and scattered white feathers.

She realizes, though, that her work, in the window next to the Wild Bird Fund, sometimes has some stiff competition. Recently, she said, a pair of peacocks on view next door drew attention.

“Walking down the street I think, ‘Oh they’re looking at my window,” she said. “No. They’re looking at the peacocks.

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Hilary Robin McCarthy’s oil painting “Sleeping Swan” is on view at the Wild Bird Fund Gallery through June 11. Photo: Hilary Robin McCarthy.

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POP-UP DESIGN AT THE SEAPORT TO DO

IF YOU GO GABRIELLE ALFIERO

Design show creators Odile Hainaut and Claire Pijoulat, who launched their annual design exhibitions under the name WantedDesign and now have a store in Brooklyn’s Industry City space, bring their expertise to the South Street Seaport. The pair curated popup store Design Market, which remains open to the public through June. They shared their hopes for the project and highlighted some of the designers represented in the store.

This interview was edited for length and clarity.

THE BEGINNING Odile Hainaut: We started WantedDesign in Manhattan six years ago. We were both French New York-

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WHAT: Design Market WHERE: Seaport Studios 19 Fulton St., between Front and Water Streets WHEN: Now through June 30 Open daily 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

For more information, visit southstreetseaport.com/ events The main goal for WantedDesign, and especially since we started Brooklyn, was bring design to the public and bring design awareness. So retail was the best way to do this, and to have smaller objects that are easier to relate to, easier to understand and easier to acquire is also a way to get people interested in design or get curious about design, to find out who’s

port some designers and makers that don’t have necessarily a large production and large visibility to the public. It’s great for us to support designers that are based at Industry City or in Brooklyn that we know well, and we know all the investment and all the time and all the talent they have. And it’s great for us to be able to sell the products of people we know and we appreciate and we think are good designers. It’s really again this balance between iconic pieces like an Alessi piece and a studio that we know very well and that we love and we want other people to love it, too.

THE DESIGNERS Pijoulat: There are two brands that we work with for WantedDesign and in the store that we know maybe a little better. A studio like Fort Makers for example, which is based in Brooklyn and

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1ST, 8PM NYU Skirball Center | 566 LaGuardia Pl. | 212-998-4941 | worldsciencefestival.com A multi-media memory piece of music, image, and language pays tribute to the late author. ($45)

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Caring for someone with Alzheimer’s or Dementia is relentless, exhausting work. And yet, in the absence of an effective therapy or cure, effective care remains the best therapy.

That is why, for over thirty years, CaringKind, The Heart of Alzheimer’s Caregiving (formerly known as the Alzheimer’s Association, New York City Chapter) has focused on developing and delivering programs and services that ease the burden of a dementia caregiver, which benefits the caregiver – either family or professional, the person with the disease and their family.

CaringKind staff see people, not a disease. Education and training programs and social work services help ease the emotional, physical, psychological and financial burden of managing the disease, while treating each individual and family with dignity and compassion.

Design Market at Seaport Studios remains open through June 30. Photo: Ikonphoto ers, both in the design world in New York for years, and we realized that we didn’t really have a design week strong in New York as we have in other cities in the world, and that New York was not on the map in design week and we thought that something was missing.

We really wanted to bring more people in town and talk about design. And we thought that we could create a new kind of trade show more like a design forum, design platform, more human scale, curated with established brands, up and coming, and also strong highlights on American designers and manufacturers.

THE CONCEPT Claire Pijoulat:

the designer, where the piece is made. So all these things we’ve been putting together doing WantedDesign elements tell the story and tell the process, is now live at the store.

THE OBJECTS Pijoulat: We were looking for a nice range of objects, things that we would like to have at home and going from a beautiful Alessi teapot that was designed in 1985 but then have next to it soap from Japan next to a candle that’s made in Brooklyn. It doesn’t have to be one style. It’s more about being good design and being well made.

Hainaut: Another component which is very important to us is to sup-

does a lot of different things from wood to textiles, from art installation to products.

This kind of studio, we’re very happy to present them because they don’t have a lot of exposure to the mass market. It’s very niche, so it’s nice to have them in the store. But then we have a studio that now is getting more and more attention like Juniper, who’s the lighting [company]. They are represented in other stores, but we have them there because they actually announced at WantedDesign in our event. So it’s also a collaboration. It’s very personal and it’s based on a lot of the relationships we have.

CaringKind’s programs include social work services, education programs, caregiver workshops, caregiver support groups, culturally sensitive outreach initiatives, cultural arts programs, training programs for medical professionals and home health aides, specialized programs for individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and earlystage dementia and the MedicAlert NYC program provides resources to protect those who wander.

CaringKind is a community of people, not just a network of resources. Over the past three decades, CaringKind has developed extraordinary long-term relationships with their community partners in the five boroughs including medical centers, researchers, long-term care facilities, home health services, the clergy, government officials, and the philanthropic community.

Most important, CaringKind is creating a world where the stigma of an Alzheimer’s or dementia diagnosis no longer forces families to retreat, but helps them to reach out and ask for help. It’s never too early – or too late – to talk about Alzheimer’s support. Trained staff can help you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Call 646-744-2900 and, like so many others, you will be glad you did. Visit www.caringkindnyc.org for additional information.

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In Brief STATE COULD CHANGE LIQUOR LAWS A panel recommended that the state relax its liquor laws, a move that could permit bars and restaurants to serve alcohol earlier on Sundays, the Daily News reported. Thanks to the 1934 Blue Laws, restaurants cannot sell boozy beverages before noon on Sundays. The panel, which was organized in November by Governor Andrew Cuomo, suggested that either the sale of alcohol should be permitted after 8 a.m. on Sundays, or permits should be issued that let certain businesses serve before 12 p.m. Melissa Fleischut, president of the New York Restaurant Association, told the Daily News such a change would benefit sports fans that want to watch soccer, or NFL games held in London that air earlier than noon locally. The Cuomo administration hopes to draft legislation by June, the Daily News reported.

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NEW RESTAURANT IN FOUR SEASONS SPACE WILL LOOK AT RESTAURANT’S HISTORY The partners of Major Food Group, who are set to occupy the Four Seasons space, will look to reference the restaurant’s history in their approaches, the New York Times reported. Chef Mario Carbone, in developing the menu for the restaurant’s Grill Room, wants to reimagine items found on the Four Seasons’ menus in the 1960s. In the Pool Room, chef and partner Rich Torrisi seeks a more modern experience with a vegetable and seafoodheavy menu. Despite slight changes to decor, the restaurant group does not plan to edit the design of the landmark spaces, the Times reported.

FOODIE WHIZ KID BOOTED FROM DORM ROOM Columbia student’s private dinners attract huge following, attention from Colbert

BY VERENA DOBNIK

Photo by D_M_D via flickr

NEW OMAKASE RESTAURANT OPENS Sushi Ginza Onodera, which already operates in Paris and other cities, opened a Manhattan space at 461 Fifth Avenue on May 20, Eater reported. Located near the New York Public Library and Bryant Park, the restaurant features $300 omakase menus with 20 courses, and offers mostly wild fish from Japan. The eatery’s chef Masaki Saito will then serve up $200 menus and lunch dishes sometime this year, Eater noted

As a student at Columbia University, Jonah Reider wowed foodies and rankled city health officials by opening an exclusive supper club in his dorm.

His culinary chutzpah, and the long waiting list for a seat at one of his unorthodox dinners, earned him write-ups in newspapers and magazines and even an appearance on “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert.

But after graduating this week, the 22-year-old whiz chef from Newton, Massachusetts, is facing the same reality as a lot of other new college grads.

He’s looking for a place to live and a way to make a living.

Four months after leaving his dorm, Reider is being booted from the Columbia-owned apartment where he hosted the latest incarnation of his supper club. His eviction

comes amid pressure from the university and city health officials, who said he was operating a restaurant under the radar of food inspectors.

“I don’t mind if I live in a squalid little New York apartment,” Reider says, adding that he has just one requirement: “a nice kitchen.”

His goal is to earn a living staging “wild, crazy events” for companies including, perhaps, fashion houses and hotels.

A few gigs already have started to materialize.

This week, a day before he graduated, the economics and sociology major cooked up his “experimental cuisine” for 90 guests who gathered at a Fifth Avenue mansion for an evening of music with Grammynominated conductor Andrew Cyr and the Metropolis Ensemble. His dishes included whipped bone marrow with watermelon radish and fennel, and raw scallops with pink lemon, charred ramp oil, rhubarb and black salt.

He’s also lined up to film a web series, appear at a Chicago cooking

conference and prepare a series of meals at a Manhattan art gallery, with visitors helping to choose and mix ingredients amid artful ceramics and furniture.

“I’m going to figure out how to make it all work,” he insists.

Reider’s cooking career started when he and his friends at Newton South High School formed a grilling club. He had no formal training in cooking last September when he started his Columbia dorm supper club, which he called Pith, for the white outer part of an orange or lemon.

With a mere four seats around one table and reservations available only online, Pith had no choice but to start small. But after one news outlet dubbed it “New York’s hottest new restaurant,” the waiting list quickly grew to thousands of wannabe guests.

For his last semester, Reider moved into a Columbia-owned apartment. He had a lease through August, but recently got a letter terminating his lease at the end of this

month. Reider contended he made no money from the supper club, asking diners only to chip in about $15 toward groceries. Columbia officials declined to comment.

Others haven’t hesitated to heap praise.

“That is fantastic,” exclaimed Colbert last year on “The Late Show” after biting into a honey-filled phyllo dough dessert infused with black truffle. “That is delicious, unexpected.”

Famed food critic Ruth Reichl, who attended one of Reider’s meals at a mutual friend’s house, later blogged that she found his fare “impossible to stop eating.” And The New York Times named him one of its “30 under 30” creative achievers.

As for what the future holds, Reider says he has no regrets about breaking from most of his Ivy League classmates and choosing an unconventional path.

“I don’t really care,” he says. “I’m so excited about the cooking and the people I’m meeting.”

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Dozens of new trees and plantings are taking root in Damrosch Park, on West 62nd Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues, one consequence of a legal settlement between residents and the city and Lincoln Center. Photo: Melody Chan

COLOR RETURNS TO DAMROSCH PARK The Lincoln Center sanctuary, subject of legal skirmish between city and residents, has new greenery installed

BY MELODY CHAN

On Tuesday afternoon, Damrosch park was welcoming, inclusive and green.

In other words, much like a group nearby residents had sought during a five-year skirmish over the park’s purpose.

Tuesday’s festivities — many of the residents brought toffee, nuts and apple cider to the park — in part greeted 38 new trees and dozens of plantings taking root in the 2.4-acre space, which adjoins Lincoln Center on West 62nd Street. The trees — crape myrtles, green vase zelcovas and shamrock lindens — went some way to replace dozens of London lanes chopped down about six years ago in preparation for Fashion Week’s initial appearance in the park. It was then that a coalition of Upper West Siders battled with the city and center over access to the park.

But letter writing, Freedom of Information requests and direct petitioning led only to frustration. In 2013, Cleo Dana, who can see the park and Lincoln Center from her apartment, joined with Geoffrey Croft of NYC Park Advocates; Olive Freud, the president of Committee for Environmentally Sound Development; and neighborhood plaintiffs, and sued. They alleged that the Parks Department and Lincoln Center were violating the public trust by allowing Lincoln Center to put on private,

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money-generating events, and in the process cutting off public access. The parties settled in December 2014 and Tuesday’s events marked a symbolic burying of the hatchet.

In addition to the plantings, which are one aspect of the settlement, a new plaque was commissioned to honor the Damrosch family, longtime patrons of the arts, including the Julliard School.

On Tuesday, Freud, who was joined by representatives from

Other groups in the city should take heart and protect their precious public amenities; no one else will!”

Olive Freud, the president of Committee for Environmentally Sound Development Lincoln Center and the Parks Department, spoke about the impact the group’s actions had on the community.

“The Public Trust Doctrine has teeth and is to be taken seriously,” she said from a glass podium. “Other groups in the city should take heart and protect their precious public amenities; no one else will!”

Lincoln Center invested about $500,000 to reinvigorate the park. Planters are now filled with hardy plants, capable of enduring both the city’s sweltering summers and its frigid

winters. The center is also in charge of most upkeep and maintenance of the park, including snow removal, security and event planning.

Lincoln Center will continue to provide public programming in the park. That will include the Big Apple Circus, a nonprofit, which has set up its winter show at Damrosch Park since the early 1980s. “The circus set up will not interfere with the trees,” a spokesperson for Lincoln Center, Mary Caraccioli, said an email.

She said numerous concerts and events that the Center are being planned for the summer, all of which will be free or lowcost, she said.

“The programs give us the opportunity to bring the world to Lincoln Center. It’s important the people understand that they are welcome here,” Caraccioli said. “There’s great art for all. If people come to the public programs, suddenly they belong and going to the opera or the ballet seems less intimidating.”

Residents are also looking forward. “The most important thing was to give people in the city the heart to fight,” Freud said.

She and Dana hope that their actions will inspire concerned residents like them to speak out against any problems concerning their public spaces. Freud’s group praises a San Francisco’s so-called “Sunlight Ordinance,” which prohibits highrises and towers from casting shadows onto public parks and spaces, a law Freud hopes will one day take hold in New York’s open spaces.

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS APR 26 - MAY 20, 2016 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 http://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/services/restaurant-grades.page La Sonrisa Empanadas

Nka Highline Park, West 15Th St

A

Brooklyn Sodaworks

West 15Th Street

A

Filaga

75 9Th Ave

Not Yet Graded (30) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. 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.

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

The Joyce Theater

175 Eighth Avenue

A

Thai Rice And Noodle

165 W 23Rd St

Not Yet Graded (30) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation.

Food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment.

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

Beans & Greens Kosher

121 W 19Th St

A

Berlin Currywurst

75 9Th Ave

A

Lasagna Restaurant

196 8 Avenue

A

Umami Shoppu

513 Avenue Of The Americas

Grade Pending (42) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation.

Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations.

Live roaches 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.

Chelsea Deli And Bakery

254 8Th Ave

Grade Pending (23) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/ or non-food areas. Tobacco use, eating, or drinking from open container in food preparation, food storage or dishwashing area observed.

Just Salad

140 8Th Ave

A

Le Grainne Cafe

183 9 Avenue

A

Pierre Loti Cafe & Wine Bar 258 West 15 Street

A

Vivi Bubble Tea

170 West 23 Street

A

The Meatball Shop

200 9Th Ave

A

Hu Kitchen

78 5 Avenue

Grade Pending (17) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

Virgola

28 Greenwich Ave

A

The Red Cat

227 10 Avenue

A

Underline Coffee

511 W. 20Th Street

A

Rocking Horse Cafe

182 8 Avenue

A

Starbucks

76 9 Avenue

A

Potbelly Sandwich Works

41 West 14 Street

A

Thai Sliders

150 8Th Ave

Not Yet Graded (29) 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.

Murray’s Bagels

500 Avenue Of The Americas

A

Gottino

52 Greenwich Avenue

A

Phd

355 West 16 Street

A

Greenwich Project

47 West 8 Street

A

Limon Jungle

197 7Th Ave

A

Atlantica

Pier 62 Chelsea Piers

A

Pastai

186 9 Avenue

A

Sushi 21

174 7 Ave

A

Manhattan Elite

Pier 62 Chelsea Piers

A

Vivi Bubble Tea

65 W 8Th St

A

Liquiteria

63 W 8Th St

A

U Way

74 5 Avenue

A

O Cafe

482 6 Avenue

A

Equinox @ 17Th Street

100 10Th Ave

A

Dos Toros Taqueria

137 4 Avenue

A

Kuku Canteen

289 Mercer Street

A

Bar Primi

325 Bowery

A

Numero 28 Pizzeria

176 2Nd Ave

A

Mi Garba

129 4Th Ave

A

Knickerbocker Bar & Grill

33 University Place

A

Cozy Soup & Burger

739 Broadway

A

Empellon Cocina

105 1 Avenue

Grade Pending (2)

Headless Horseman

119 East 15 Street

Grade Pending (21) 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. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewageassociated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies.

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

99 Cent Fresh Pizza

71 2Nd Ave

A

Semsom

740 Broadway

Grade Pending (22) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Fancy Juice

69 1St Ave

A

Coyote Ugly

153 First Avenue

Grade Pending (24) Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.

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Great News for the Downtown Community!

Mount Sinai Announces $500 Million Investment to Create “Mount Sinai Downtown” Network New Mount Sinai Downtown Beth Israel Hospital on 14 th St. with inpatient beds & brand New Emergency Department Expanded & Upgraded Outpatient Services Convenient to Home & Work NEW YORK (May 25, 2016) – The Mount Sinai Health System today announced a plan for the sweeping transformation of Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital, by investing over $500 million to create the new “Mount Sinai Downtown,” an expanded and unified network of state-of-the-art facilities stretching from the East River to the Hudson River below 34th Street.

The Mount Sinai Downtown network will include a new Mount Sinai Downtown Beth Israel Hospital on 14th Street with inpatient beds plus a brand new state-of-the-art Emergency Department. The new ED will have observation beds and will be equipped to treat patients with heart attacks and strokes. An expanded and upgraded network of outpatient services, including expanded behavioral and mental health services, and physician practices will also be part of the Downtown network. Mount Sinai Beth Israel’s Emergency Department will remain open until the new ED is up and running.

The current Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital will remain open during this transformation and all services will be available throughout the Mount Sinai Health System. Patients will be able to continue to see the doctors they know and trust.

For additional updates and information, please visit our website: www.mountsinai.org/downtown

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MARKING A GRADUATION AT TECHNION AND CORNELL Tech:NYC Executive Director Julie Samuels, Israeli Consul General Ido Aharoni and others gathered to celebrate the inaugural graduating class of the Joan & Irwin Jacobs TechnionCornell Institute, the ďŹ rst time an international university has ever granted an accredited degree for studies on U.S. soil. Graduates will receive two degrees, one from the Technion and one from Cornell.

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LAWYER FOR GOOD WORKS General counsel at Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens sees great purpose in her work

BY ANGELA BARBUTI

When Emmie Glynn Ryan was in college in Ireland, she aspired to become a social worker. Her professor steered her away from that career path. “He told me I was too soft and would be bringing home everybody and wouldn’t be able to draw the line,” she explained. She would go on to study law, and as fate would have it, now uses that expertise to help people in need.

Her introduction to Catholic Charities Brooklyn Queens came after her husband — broadcaster Jim Ryan of Fox 5 Good Day NY — was being honored as Brehon of the Year at the Great Irish Fair in Coney Island. When the position of general counsel became available, she applied. She’s been with the nonprofit for nearly 20 years. “I was so drawn to Catholic Charities and have grown into it and feel like it’s part of my family, not just a job to go to every day.”

The organization administers and offers more than 160 programs, from Head Start centers for young children and food delivery to the elderly to mental health services and affordable housing placement.

On June 29, Catholic Charities will hold its annual Humanitarian Award Dinner. The proceeds will benefit services they provide on a daily basis. Because of an overwhelming response, the event had to be moved to the Grand Ballroom at the Waldorf Astoria to accommodate their guests. Throughout the evening, clients give their touching accounts of how the organization has helped them in their time of need.

“It’s what brings me to work every day, just remembering their stories,” Ryan said.

How can you explain the mission of the organization? What are some of the things it does that you’re most proud of?

I love Catholic Charities for the variety of services they provide to everybody regardless of where they come from and what their qualifications are. No matter who comes in the door, they can always be assisted or directed in some way. We have a fabu-

lous integration of services here. They start off with daycare and Head Start programs. The Head Start programs, to me, are so important because they teach children from such an early age and it gives them a great start. And we help people with mental and behavioral health issues. It’s such an area that’s so misunderstood. A lot of people are afraid of mentally ill people. And we help them so much. And then we have, of course, our seniors. They are the salt of the earth. We look after them.

Some of them have no families. For some of them, the only communication they have is with Catholic Charities and the various centers that we have where we deliver meals to them.

I’m really so proud of the dedication of our staff. Through thick and thin and through (Hurricane) Sandy and all the snowstorms and bad winters we’ve had, their first priority is always to make sure our clients are served.

And, of course, that comes from the top down.

What is your business background?

I was a lawyer in Ireland. I worked in London for three years as an attorney and requalified there. We all have to pay rent, so I went into the corporate world for a while. And then when (Communist head of state Nicolae) Ceausescu was in Romania and was brought down, they needed some volunteer workers. I stayed in Romania for six months. I was a nurse, painter, teacher, anything they needed as a volunteer I did. And I absolutely loved it.

When did you come to the U.S.? How did your job at Catholic Charities come about?

While I was in Romania, my Donnelly Visa came through that I had applied for. So I had to get together all my paperwork and tests and arrived in the United States with one day to spare on that visa. And like all immigrants, I had a few jobs. I worked in law firms summarizing depositions, I worked in a bookstore, did a bit of waitressing. And then I got a job in a law firm and stayed with them for about three years. And I went to Coney Island one year with my husband, he was being made Brehon of the Year for the Irish Fair they have out there. And that was when I was introduced to Catholic Charities and all the great work that they do. And I said to myself, ‘I’m going to try and work for a not-for-prof-

Emmie Glynn Ryan, the general counsel at Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens. Photo: Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens it.’ So I kept my eyes and ears to the ground and when a vacancy came up here — my predecessor had adopted two children and then adopted a third so decided she wanted to stay at home.

So I applied for the job and after several months of interviewing, I got it and have been here since.

How did you meet your husband?

My brother Michael Glynn, who has since died, had an establishment on 57th Street called Kennedy’s. It was an Irish bar. So my brother was very good friends with my husband. Michael told him, “I want to introduce you to my family.” We were introduced and Jim took a big shine to me and the rest is history, really.

What does your job entail? What is a typical day like for you?

There is no typical day. I’m the legal advisor to our CEO and the corpora-

tion. Of course we have several affiliates, so I’m also general counsel to all of them. Our housing portfolio is one of the largest faith-based developers of affordable housing, including senior housing, in the country. I never know what’s going to be on my desk. I deal with so many issues from the Behavioral Health Clinic, Daycare Center, Head Start Center, and we have a large number of 1,500 to 2,000 employees.

and feel so glad you are part of an organization that directly helps people.

You can see it. When you donate to cancer research, which is fantastic, you don’t always see the results. This is so gratifying, to be able to see the smile that we can put on somebody’s face by giving them a home or helping them out when they were down on their luck with rent. It’s just unbelievable.

Give us a glimpse into the Bishop’s Humanitarian Dinner.

To learn more, visit www.ccbq.org

In past years, they explain the history of the charity and how we spend people’s donations. We get little accounts from either the programs directly, or clients themselves telling their stories. That is heartbreaking and so beautiful to listen to. When you as a worker for Catholic Charities listen to them, you can only be moved

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