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SCENT AND THE SUBWAY

TRANSIT

As ridership rose 25% during phase one reopening, transit officials focus on cleaning and safety

BY MICHAEL ORESKES

NYPD officers near Union Square on June 1. Photo: Eden, Janine and Jim, via flickr

REFORMING THE POLICE LAW ENFORCEMENT

NYPD disbands plainclothes anti-crime unit, City Council looks at funding cuts, Cuomo signs new measures

BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM

Weeks after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, protesters are still taking to the streets demanding police reform — with some calling for the total abolition of law enforcement.

A common refrain among protesters has called for government officials to “defund the police.” In implementation, defunding the police would taking funds away from the police budgets and reallocating them to areas such as education, housing, public health and youth services.

Some on the City Council seem to be on board with the idea.

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson said the council has identified $1 billion in cuts to the NYPD’s $6 billion budget.

He asked Mayor Bill de Blasio to sign on before the city’ budget deadline on July 1.

The mayor gave it little consideration, but said he would be open to discuss further the size of the city’s law enforcement.

“The mayor has said we’re committed to reprioritizing funding and looking for savings, but he does not believe a $1 billion cut is the way to maintain safety,” said de Blasio’s press secretary, Freddi Goldstein.

On Monday, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea unexpectedly announced that the department’s anti-crime unit would be disbanded. Made of about 600 plainclothes officers, the unit’s purpose was to

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Sarah Meyer earned a unique place this week in the annals of the New York City subways. Never before has a transit official highlighted the system’s scent to lure riders.

Scent, previously known as odor or smell, has always been a vivid part of the subway experience - high on the straphanger list of “just don’t

go there” conversation stoppers. The pandemic may not have changed everything, but it has sure changed that.

“It’s really incredible to see how our customers are coming back into the system,” said Meyer, as ridership rose 25% this week with phase one of reopening underway. “You can see a little bit of hesitation in their eyes. And when they walk into the subway car, to see the relief that they look at the shiny floors and they smell the lemon scent.”

To a life-long New Yorker, hearing the words subway car and lemon scent in the same sentence shakes a well-ordered understanding of the

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COVID AND AIDS: AN INTIMATE CONNECTION A panel at Hunter College explores the link between AIDS and the trajectory to the coronavirus crisis. p.2

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BLACK AT PRIVATE SCHOOLS

Graduates and students from Brearley, Chapin and Spence share experiences on Instagram of discrimination and racism. p. 7

‘WE HAVE TO SEND CARDS!’

New York City Transit Chief Customer Officer Sarah Meyer (left), interim President Sarah Feinberg (second from left) and MTA NYCT staff prepared on Sunday, June 7 for the the subway’s safe return reopening on Monday, June 8. Photo: MTA New York City Transit / Patrick Cashin

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universe (probably the last time such an alignment occurred was in the form, “well, that subway car was not exactly lemon-scented’).

Fostering new understanding is part of Meyer’s job. She is New York City Transit’s chief customer officer, a radical concept in itself as it recalibrates thinking about subway riders from the carload to individual customers.

But her job is way bigger now than when former Transit President Andy Byford gave it to her in 2018.

She and her transit colleagues are shouldering New

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COVID AND AIDS: AN INTIMATE CONNECTION HISTORY

A panel at Hunter College explores the link between AIDS and the four-decade trajectory to the coronavirus crisis

BY AHAD SANWARI

While New York City starts to come to grips with its deep social and systemic disparities over weeks of protests and outcry, the COVID pandemic still rages strong in our minds. Even as cases in the city start to (slowly) dwindle and people start to (quickly) shed social distancing norms, talks of a second wave and general apprehension regarding a vaccine have kept it at the forefront.

But four decades ago, a similar crisis was overtaking the United States and making itself known around the world. It was the AIDS epidemic.

And that’s the topic that Hunter College’s LGBTQ Policy Center sought to address in their June 10 Zoom panel, “Remembering the AIDS Crisis in the Time of COVID-19: How Lessons from One Epidemic can Guide the Response to Another,” at Roosevelt House.

Roosevelt House Director Harold Holzer opened the event with some words about how this being Pride month allowed for the community to reflect on the epidemic from the 80s. Remarks were also provided by Carmelyn P. Malalis, Chair and Commissioner of the New York City Commission on Human Rights. “What we ex-

perience as queer people, as people in New York city, as people grappling with antiblack racism, any of the programs that we can have that bring these issues together is much needed,” she said.

The panelists were individuals with experience in public health, HIV/AIDS research and the LGBTQ community’s struggles with the epidemic. Wafaa El-Sadr, Global Health professor at Columbia University, brought up the main difference she observed in the treatment of COVID-19 as opposed to HIV/AIDS. “The emergence of the COVID pandemic resulted in rapidly trying to identify treatments and find vaccines.

And this contrasts, unfortunately, with the early years of the HIV epidemic,” she said.

“Whereas we are all aware, it

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took a lot of battles, a lot of fighting, a lot of advocacy, particularly by gay men and their supporters, to try to move the research agenda forward.”

Lynnette Ford, a senior Vice President at the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, added to the point by talking about the attack on minority groups. “Remember the four H’s?

‘Haitians, Hemophiliacs, Homosexuals, and Heroin-users’?

Because of this stigma, many from these groups were targeted, shunned, and some even died as a result,” Ford said.

“Now, the President of the

United States labelled COVID as the Wuhan or Chinese virus, an invasion by an unknown enemy, creating an environment that stigmatized and, in many cases, brought violence to Chinese-Americans.”

The panel discussed a variety of topics, including ageism, the inefficiencies of the government (both past and present), the “heroes” of each period, and more. Even the bias towards the non-white population during the COVID infection and treatment cycle was called out, which Sarit Golub, a psychology professor

at Hunter College, noted wasn’t new.

“One real hook we will see between the two epidemics stems from the observation that has been made by many that activism around HIV, in part, has made tremendous strides for white gay cisgender men,” Golub said. “But at times has left out or left behind their non-white and/or transgender siblings. And at some points has even silenced them directly.”

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ing message, the panel ended on a note of hope. In an election year, that hope was just as political as it was humanitarian. Kaiser ended the event with, “I hope we can get some of those 100 million voters who did not vote last time to get to November, to change America, and change our priorities.”

And as long as that change signals a return to life and safety (and, let’s be honest, hugging), Americans might just be willing to welcome it.

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took place, Kaiser said the amount of fear he saw in today’s world reminded him of the AIDS epidemic. “I can still remember being in a gay bar at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic,” he said, “and seeing potato chips on the bar in a bowl and literally wondering if it was safe to eat one of those potato chips. That was the degree of fear that you had when we didn’t know anything about it.”

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the panel: Manoj Pardasani, Acting Associate Provost for Graduate and Professional Education, and Ruth Finkelstein, Executive Director of Hunter’s Center for Healthy Aging. Both spoke about how the pandemics registered and should be addressed more as social phenomena rather than health crises because of the varying behavioral changes and social biases they revealed.

Another panelist, David France, author and director of the documentary (which is now experiencing a boost on Netflix) “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson,” mentioned that he was working on a movie about the COVID pandemic. When being asked what a “happy ending” scenario for his movie would look like, he said, “When we get to a place finally, where we recognize that health care is a right. And that health care is something that we, as a society, as human beings owe to each and every one of us.”

Charles Kaiser, author of “The Gay Metropolis” and director of the LGBTQ Policy Center, led the discussion. In a conversation before the panel

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HEALTH COVERAGE FOR THE MOST VULNERABLE MENTAL HEALTH

BY RACHEL GERSON

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, we have seen hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers access health care coverage for the first time. This has been possible because New York has invested in the successful implementation of the NY State of Health Marketplace and Navigator organizations, which provide in-person enrollment assistance to hardto-reach communities.

But the gains in coverage are countered by rising health care prices and a complex health care system. Many people, particularly low-income communities of color, struggle to access health care, including mental health care. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the affordability crisis: thousands of New Yorkers

have lost job-based coverage, and many more cannot afford care. These New Yorkers will need help understanding their insurance options and accessing coverage and care due to financial barriers.

For New York City’s communities of color, immigrants, people who are LGBTQ+, and people with disabilities and mental health concerns or substance use problems, the pandemic has highlighted flaws in our health care system, including inadequate access to mental health services.

The mission of the Urban Justice Center Mental Health Project (MHP) is to disrupt the cycle of hospitalization, homelessness, and incarceration that traps lowincome New Yorkers with serious mental health concerns.

Access to affordable health care, including mental health care, is vital to keeping people from entering psychiatric hospitals, losing their homes or facing

MCCAP allows the Mental Health Project to work directly with clients who need access to health care. Photo courtesy of MHP

incarceration. We help hundreds of people each year who need to access mental health care or who are having problems with their coverage that prevent them from getting the care they need.

One program that makes a big difference to those who struggle to navigate the health care system is the New York City Managed Care Consumer Assistance Program (MCCAP).

MCCAP offers our clients a

place to turn so they don’t have to contend with the insurance and health care system on their own when a problem arises. Launched in 1998 by the City Council, this program helped more than 140,000 residents in all five boroughs. The program was discontinued in 2009 amid the economic downturn.

Fortunately, Speaker Corey Johnson, Finance Committee Chair Daniel

Dromm, Health Committee Chair Mark Levine and other members of City Council resuscitated MCCAP in 2019 with a grant of $500,000.

This funding has allowed an organization like ours, which works with some of the most vulnerable New Yorkers, to help people with complex coverage problems; assist people in accessing affordable mental health care; and connect people with other resources that affect overall health and wellbeing, like a source of income and safe housing. More than 80 percent of MCCAP clients are people of color and/or speak a language other than English at home.

During the pandemic, our MCCAP staff and toll-free helpline help our clients access these services remotely. Edward (not his real name), whose only income is public assistance and who is experiencing homelessness, con-

tacted our office because he could not access a doctor who accepts Medicaid to prescribe him psychiatric medicine. He was scared to see a doctor in person because of his risk of contracting COVID-19. Our staff explained about telehealth resources available to him, and we are working to find a provider who can prescribe him medication.

But the current funding for MCCAP is not enough to meet the need. As deliberations begin on an $83.9 billion municipal budget, we urge the City Council to consider increasing MCCAP funding to $700,000. Access to affordable health care has never been more urgent. We need the City Council to ensure that all those who need health care can get it.

Rachel Gerson is Director of Guardianship & Health Care Advocacy for the Urban Justice Center Mental Health Project

A JEWISH RESPONSE TO THE TRAGIC DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD VIEWPOINT

BY RABBI BEN TZION KRASNIANSKI

The Jewish people have an answer to the chaos and confusion that has gripped the nation and it is high time that we share our secret with the world.

The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Scheneerson obm, publicly pleaded 40, 50, 60 years ago for the public schools to introduce a moment of silence. He insisted that the only way to build a genuinely just society

that’s not based on power but one based on morality, truth, ethics and justice where people are able to police themselves, is to bring prayer back to the public schools in the form of a moment of silence.

Every day should start with a moment of silent meditation.

It would be the parent’s obligation to tell the child what to think during those 60 seconds.

Jewish parents could tell their children to think of the holiest Jewish prayer: Shma Yisroel.

Let the Christian and Muslim parents tell their children to pray to G-d in their way. If

you’re a die-hard atheist tell your child to think about being a kind, decent and respectful human being. We must impress on our 60 million children that there’s something far more important than math, science and physics, that there’s something that even precedes their career, the knowledge and awareness of something greater than all of us put together, a Higher Power, a Higher Being, an Eye that Sees and an Ear that Hears. Ultimately the reason we don’t commit a crime is not because we may not get away

with it, that we may get caught, but because it’s wrong.

Why? Because G-d said so.

This is our secret. Education, education, education. The Jewish people have always placed a supreme value on education.

What is education? What is the primary goal of education? The key purpose of education is to educate a child to become a civilized human being who learns to check his impulses and do the right thing.

Ultimately why don’t we murder, only because G-d said so. Why don’t we steal, only because G-d said so. Why don’t

we harm another human being only because G-d said so.

What is the solution to this tragic and sorry state of affairs that has left us all reeling in shock and disbelief?

We must rebuild society from the ground up. First, we must start with the foundation. A moment of silence in the schools is what America desperately needs today starting right now. This is the greatest gift we the Jewish people could give to America in this moment of crisis. America has been so kind to us, we owe it to our fellow Americans to share

the secret of our miraculous survival. Introducing a moment of silence to the daily life our kids would guarantee that going forward what happened to George Floyd would never happen again. Our children would grow up with a strong inner sense of right and wrong, with an internal compass, and the Derek Chauvins of the world would also grow up with the strength of character and with the tools to be able to overcome their inner demons.

Rabbi Ben Tzion Krasnianski is Director of Chabad of the Upper East Side, Manhattan

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BLACK AT PRIVATE SCHOOLS EDUCATION

Graduates and students from Brearley, Chapin and Spence share experiences on Instagram of discrimination and racism

BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM

In the midst of a national reckoning on police brutality and racial injustice, alumni and students from some of New York City’s most prestigious private schools have been sharing their experiences of what it’s like to be Black at these elite institutions, detailing accounts of discrimination and racism.

Graduates from the all-girls Brearley School, the Chapin School and the Spence School have created Instagram accounts so alums and current students could share anonymously what life was like for Black students. It began on May 31, with a Black Chapin

School graduate, Miesha Agrippa, from the class of 2016, posting a letter calling for change at Chapin — namely doing more for its Black students and committing to promoting anti-racism — to her private Instagram account.

“Chapin has not sufficiently reflected on or explicitly acknowledged its own institution’s role in perpetuating racism in all of its forms, from explicit acts of racism to manifestations of unconscious biases,” the letter reads.

“Instead of asking open-ended questions, Chapin must take this opportunity to direct its resources toward finding answers and producing solutions to problems that are pervasive in its own halls.”

The letter was subsequently signed by hundreds of alumni and students. Agrippa then shared testimony from other alums on her personal feed, eventually creating a separate account, “BlackatChapin.”

The account inspired Brearley and Spence graduate to

create similar accounts: “BlackatBrearley” and “BlackSpenceSpeaks.”

The Brearley account recounts instances of racist name-calling by white students as well as unfair treatment by teachers and faculty.

“In 5th grade, when we were talking about slavery, a white girl asked why the slaves didn’t just run away because Africans can run so fast,” one post read.

Another states, “A white student once told me the reason my skin was so dark was because I didn’t clean myself.”

Some posts claim that the college counselor discourages Black students from applying to elite universities. Another alleges that Stephanie Hull, Brearley’s first and only Black head of school, was forced to resign, which she did in 2011.

Action Items With “BlackSpenceSpeaks,” the account creators call it “an endeavor to expose subtle and overt racism and provide a space for solidarity among

Introductory post for BlackatBrearley on Instagram. Photo: Emily Higginbotham

students of color.” These graduates and students have come up with action items for the school to repair its relationship with Black students and to become an anti-racist institution. The group calls for the school to incorporate more Black history into the curricu-

lum, hire a faculty that better reflects the school and city’s demographics, create an anonymous feedback system so students can feel comfortable reporting bias incidents, among other demands.

In a report in the Wall Street Journal, the head of each

school expressed remorse and a willingness to change.

“We greatly respect and admire the courage and candor of our Black alumnae and current students who are sharing their own painful experiences of anti-Black racism at Brearley,” said Jane Foley Fried of Brearley. “The behavior they have described is unacceptable and cannot be tolerated in any part of our community.

We hear their voices, and we are deeply sorry for the pain they have experienced.”

Patricia Hayot, the head of Chapin, said that administration and staff are focused on taking action, adding that she is committed to re-examining the curricula, diversifying her staff, and creating channels for students to report incidents.

The head of Spence, Bodie Brizendine, said she would work to make the community better.

“We pledge our commitment to prioritize equity, antiracism, and strong advocacy,” she told the Journal. “We salute our students and alumnae for their strong voices; we thank them for their loyalty, for their activism and for their love of school.”

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HARLEM’S CANVASES FOR CHANGE COMMUNITY

Businesses take an artistic approach to protesting during a pandemic

BY AHAD SANWARI

New York City continues to inch its way towards a resurgence of life.

Well, of sorts, that is. As the city executes phase one of the reopening, there’s the semblance of hope for the return of the normal. But that hope stays buried under the feelings of anguish and rebellion that have emanated from the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd over the past few weeks. Protestors continue to take to the streets in support of Black Lives Matter and other causes.

In the midst of all this, Harlem’s 125th Street Business Improvement District (BID) has come up with a way for a more creative expression of pent up emotions. On Thursday, June 3, the 125th Street BID initiated the “Harlem Canvas For Change” project, to encourage members of the community, protestors, even people just passing through the neighborhood, to use art and painting to showcase their ideas, emotions and messages. The canvases for the artwork would be the plywood boards on all the storefronts and businesses that are closed because of the pandemic.

The project, launched under BID president Barbara Askins, initially came about as storefronts were boarded up to prevent break-ins.

“Most of downtown was already boarded up, after trying to stay open as long as we could,” says Askins.

“And then two of the businesses were broken into. One was a Blink Fitness, the other was an H&M.” As the community dove into protest

Everybody is upset about what is happening, and they should be. So we’re giving them a place to express, and ... make recommendations for what they think needs to be done as it relates to social justice.”

Barbara Askins, President of 125th Street BID

“Why don’t you just paint the wall black and just give it to the community and let them say what they have to say?” asked BID President Barbara Askins. Photo courtesy of 125th Street Business Improvement District

mode, the need arose for the businesses to fortify their storefronts with plywood boards to prevent further looting.

“So one of my property owners called me himself and said he did not like the look of 125th Street all boarded-up and that they were going to paint that wall of wood all black.” He suggested that they use some artwork or wording on the black wood so the businesses could say something to the community.

But the thought of painting them all black gave Askins a different idea.

“I suggested to him, why don’t you just paint the wall black and just give it to the community and let them say what they have to say?” she says.

“Nobody’s really interested at this particular time about what the businesses are saying. That’s just not the space we’re in. Let’s hear what the

people have to say.” And after a day of putting up the wooden boards and painting them all black, the BID issued a call-out to everyone and anyone, artists, members of the community, politicians, celebrities, to use the canvas to express themselves.

The BID partnered up with one of the local businesses in the area, Blick Art Supplies, to provide mediums to their artists. “And to make it happen, they gave us paints for about 150 people,” Askins explains. “So we put our ambassadors out there on the street with the paint. And all you have to do is just show up and write or paint or draw.”

Public Policy Statement The first two available walls, wrapping around the AMC/Magic Johnson Theatres (#PrayForAMC), filled up in a day, with a third wall filling up on the next. Response, ac-

cording to Askins, has been immediate and immense. “125th is a major transportation hub,” she says. “So we’ve got people coming from everywhere, coming up to us and going ‘can I?’ It’s not just local.” Many of the protestors have also contributed to the walls, filling it up with phrases like “BLM,” “Black Girl Magic,” and “You have a mighty voice!” The hashtag #harlemcanvasforchange already has more than 30 posts on Instagram.

“Everybody is upset about what is happening, and they should be,” Askins adds. “So we’re giving them a place to express, and not just express, but also make recommendations for what they think needs to be done as it relates to social justice.” The BID is working with Columbia University’s School of International Public Policy in order to take the suggestions that

they’re getting to craft and advocate for a public policy statement.

The BID intends to continue with the project for around 6-8 weeks as they slowly reconfigure the working of businesses in compliance with social distancing norms. At the same time, they’re also keeping in mind the protests taking place in the area.

“All of those things are making business owners too slow to just come back full force, which is why we’re giving this some time,” Askins says.

Art has been part of Harlem and 125th Street’s history for a while now, with store shutters, walls, even pillars decorated with all sorts of colorful work. And “Harlem Canvas For Change” is well on track to serve as a time capsule and memory of a particularly notable period in the history of New York City and the world at large.

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Thanking Workers Meyer mentioned the lemon scented subway cars as part of a tour she and other transit brass made around the system to thank the 3,000 workers who have been cleaning stations, cars, buses and more or less everything.

“We were just meeting with car cleaners and station cleaners,” said her boss, Sarah Feinberg, the interim Transit president, “and they are doing the work that is making riders enter the system with confidence and feel good about coming back.”

What is striking about the statements from both Feinberg and Meyer is that they never mention the words pandemic, coronavirus or COVID19. They talk about riders “approaching the system with confidence,” as Feinberg put it. “They’re ready to come back. You’ve seen people with a little bit of spring in their step. It feels like New York is starting to come back. They’re entering a system that’s as clean as it’s ever been.”

Satisfied customers agree.

“I’ve lived in NYC for 17 years and it was the cleanest, most pleasant subway experience I’ve ever had,” reported one rider, Corinne Fisher, the comic and podcaster, after her first foray underground in four months. “The markings on the ground encouraging social distancing were great because no one pushed one another. I love common courtesy, even if the impetus is fear of death.” And the D and F trains “definitely smelled clean. And citrus-y.”

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Contact Tracing Which goes to the larger point. Clean inspires confidence, as Feinberg says, but part of the MTA’s challenge is that, no matter how much they scrub, they can’t control the most important factor in stopping the spread of the virus. That is keeping infectious people off the system, whether they are homeless or just headed for work. Tom Frieden, former NYC health commissioner and former director of the Centers for Disease Control, says the city’s essential task is identifying anyone carrying the virus, quickly tracing everyone they have had contact with and isolating all of them until the are no longer infectious. That is the most effective way to make the subways, and everything else, safe from the virus.

Both Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio say they are committed to doing this, although Feinberg and Meyer are doing a better job of inspiring confidence in transit than Cuomo and de Blasio are in showing that the contact tracing system is up and running well.

Frieden says there is a piece of data that will give

early warning if cases are slipping past the contact tracing net. That is the number of new cases that public health teams cannot trace, or link, to other previously identified cases. If the number of these unlinked cases rises, Frieden says, then alarm bells should go off that the virus is escaping the box and getting out of control again.

That kind of work, if not above Sarah Meyer’s pay grade, is certainly on someone else’s to do list.

In the meantime, Meyer and her colleagues will continue to clean, hand out masks and sanitizer, urge everyone to distance as best they can and then clean some more. Meyer, who answers her own messages on social media, said she would even look into other scents for riders who find lemon, well, too Miami.

The current transit scent is from a cleaning product called Lemon-Quat, Meyer explained. A Philadelphia manufacturer also offers Mint, Lavender, Citrus Flower and two versions of Pine, one specifically tested to stop SARSCov-2 (all versions destroy other coronaviruses, so presumably will also stop SarsCov-2, but haven’t actually been tested). Pine would be nice for the fall, one long time subway rider said to her. Or maybe the scents could be coordinated with subway lines so there are letters or numbers, color codes and distinctive scents. Lavender for the L train?

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An Upper West Side yoga instructor launches a project to send messages to nursing home residents isolated by the pandemic

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Rachel Bennett’s mom suffered from depression and PTSD, after living in D.C. during 9/11 and losing her husband in 2000. But when Bennett, who runs Rachel Bennett Yoga on the Upper West Side, visited her mom regularly from New York City, she noticed that her behavior was changing. She was leaving the milk out overnight and mailing checks that were only half-filled out. It became clear the change in her behavior was due to something new: Alzheimer’s.

Moving around the east coast and upending her life to care for her mother was taxing for Bennett, as the only child, but she had an extremely close bond with her mom. Once she realized she couldn’t do everything for her mother, she moved her into assisted living. After some time, the assisted living home informed Bennett that her mother would need around the clock care, meaning she would need to go into a nursing home. “Alzheimer’s … it’s a disease that will only get worse and it will not get better,” Bennett said she was told.

“We don’t have a cure for it.”

When the coronavirus made its way to New York, the residents of nursing homes were among of the most vulnerable of groups. “Elderly people that have preexisting medical conditions and compromised immune systems are the highest, most fragile

freespeech.center We underestimate what a small token of love can give.”

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Nursing Home Card Project founder Rachel Bennett (right) and friend make cards. Photo courtesy of Rachel Bennett

population that we are worried about that will get COVID-19,” Bennett said.

In New York state, approximately 5,300 people who died of the virus lived in nursing homes. Because of this risk, nursing homes closed all visiting access and recreational activities were canceled. Bennett explained that without having family and friends visit or activities to keep them engaged, living in a nursing home can be extremely lonely.

In cases where a resident had the virus, they would be quarantined and isolated.

Though it has been three and a half years since her mom died from Alzheimer’s, Bennett still misses her every day. Seeing what is happening to nursing homes since the shutdown makes her grateful that she was able to visit her mom as often as she could.

When she did visit, she brought bright, colorful, handmade cards with her. She hung them up all over the walls and remembers how much joy they brought to her mom. When Bennett read about the nursing homes amid the pandemic, she knew what she wanted to do, and thought, “We have to send cards! We have to send cards!”

Bennett called out to her friends on social media and sent mass emails, asking friends, family and yoga students to send handmade or store-bought cards with uplifting sentiments to nursing homes. She called it the Nursing Home Card Project.

“The response was incredi-

bly profound and powerful,” she said. “I didn’t have to work hard to corral.” Participants started by sending the cards to Rutland Nursing Home, which has now received approximately 400 cards of their 500-card goal, which would be enough for every resident to get one.

After the first six weeks, the responses to the Nursing Home Card Project quieted down, and Bennett hopes there will be a new wave of participation, since nursing homes are still unable to receive visitors or resume their regular activities. She encourages people to send cards to a nursing home that is close to their heart, or where a loved one is staying. Details for how to send them can be found on the project’s website. “We underestimate what a small token of love can give,” she said.

After the crisis is over, Bennett hopes the Nursing Home Card Project can live on.

“What I’m hoping that can happen is that communities can take this and maybe, implement this into their class plans, for instance, schools, both private and public,” she said, noting that it would also be a great practice for churches and synagogues.

“The reality is we all will get old. We will probably all get sick at some point,” Bennett said. “I think that it’s important to remember that everything we do, I think, also will be done to us. So just be the person that we’d want to be around us.”

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target violent crime, but, as the New York Times reported, it has been involved in many of the city’s police shootings.

Shea said the officers would be reassigned to other units immediately.

Advocates, though, are wary of attempts to reform the police, noting that the culture of policing institutions have long been broken.

“Within a Police Department, culture eats policy for breakfast,” said J. Scott Thomson, who served as the police chief in Camden, NJ, from 2008 to 2019, at a panel on police reform conducted by the New York Times. (In 2013, Camden dissolved and rebuilt its police department and saw a drop in crime.) “You can have a perfectly worded policy, but it’s meaningless if it just exists on paper.”

Many of like mind point to the death of Eric Garner as an example. The NYPD had long banned the use of a chokehold by its officers when Garner died as a result of just such a chokehold in 2014. And only now, six years after Garner’s death, is it being criminalized.

Those skeptical of police being able to successfully change the culture have called for law enforcement to effec-

Criminalizing Chokeholds

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by April 1. These plans would need to include guidelines for the use of force against citizens. The order is expected to be codified following consultation with local communities.

One of the four measures made into law on Friday included the criminalization of police chokeholds. Notably, Eric Garner, died after police put him in a chokehold during an arrest in 2014. At that time, the NYPD had already outlawed the use of chokeholds, but the law

signed Friday says using a “chokehold or similar restraint” that causes injury or death is now a Class C felony, punishable up to 15 years in prison.

Another policy put in place following the death of Garner was also made law Friday. The attorney general will now work as an independent prosecutor for matters relating to the deaths of unarmed civilians caused by police.

Cuomo also finalized the repeal of the statute known as Section 50-a of the New York State Civil Rights Law. It has

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amended the stature, which prevented disciplinary records for police officers, firefighters or corrections officers to be released without their written consent. The law had been on the books since 1976.

In addition to reforms to police, the state legislature also made it a crime to make false race-related 911 calls. The new law was in response to a video of Amy Cooper, a white woman, calling the police on a black man in Central Park after he told her that she needed to put a leash on her dog. The video

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Last week, New York State began implementing a slew of reforms, including the repeal of a long-vexed stature that kept police disciplinary records from public scrutiny.

“The truth is this police reform is long overdue and Mr. Floyd’s murder is just the most recent murder,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Friday. “It’s not just about Mr. Floyd’s murder, it’s about being here before many, many times.”

On Friday, Cuomo signed into law four bills put forward by the state legislature, with six other pieces of legislation awaiting his signature. In addition, Cuomo signed an executive order that makes state funding to police contingent upon the departments creat-

tively be dismantled, and their duties be redistributed to other agencies. For example, some municipalities have already started to employ social workers and counselors to calls relating to the homeless and those with mental illness.

Advocates have also criticized the governor, saying Cuomo did not understand the point of reform after he told protesters to go home now that the reform bills were signed.

“People are still out protesting. You don’t need to protest.

You won. You accomplished your goal,” Cuomo said Friday.

Jumaane Williams, the city’s public advocate, said that the meaning of the protests was lost on the governor.

“This explains thoroughly why @nycgovcuomo has been and will continue to be part of the problem,” Williams wrote on Instagram Monday. “He believes #blacklivesmatter is simply a hashtag … an annoyance he simply has to outwait or outmaneuver to he can return to his regularly scheduled program.”

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One of these women, Lily Tuck, is my neighbor: the other, Elisabeth Thomas, is the daughter of a member of a former writers’ group. Maybe it is my wrenching emotions of late - time and years thrown to the wind - but something about the “bookends” of these two womens’ careers touched me.

Both acknowledge that they were looking forward to some form of well-deserved attention. “So much of writing is internal,” says Thomas, whose debut novel, “Catherine House,” just made the New York Times’ Editors Choice list. “So of course, I was looking forward to celebrating with friends and family, and being able to talk about the book in person with people.” The plus side, if any?

“Well, people like my grandparents could not have gone out for events, but they can watch them on Zoom.”

Thomas has had a few bookstore-arranged conversations.

Lily Tuck was able to have one - a sold-out conversation with Molly Haskell - at the Corner Bookstore on Madison, before all shut down. Her new book is called “Heathcliff Redux and Other Stories.” Why the “Heathcliff” reference? Turns out, she always had a thing for the bad boy of “Wuthering

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Elisabeth Thomas’s debut novel, “Catherine House,” just made the New York Times’ Editors Choice list. Photo: Nina Subin

Heights.” “Yes, I wanted to write about Heathcliff in some way, wondering what became of him,” she says. In the new book, the contemporary version is named Cliff.

In fact, one thing the two writers share is a fondness for Gothic-ish tales of old. “Catherine House” has been labeled such, but Thomas insists she aims to mix and match styles.

Her novel spurred a bidding war - always a good sign - but she went with Harper Collins.

“They believed in it from the beginning and really got what I was doing,” she says. “So much of the book is ambiguous and crosses a lot of genres.”

“Moody and Evocative” Her novel was written long before COVID struck, but it turns out to fairly flexible in branding possibilities. It deals with a young woman who enters a prestigious educational facility where weird things happen, and no one dare leave or disobey. “So much of the story is about being trapped in one place,” Thomas notes, “claustrophobia with dark forces out there.” While the Washington Post called it “moody and evocative,” Goodreads comments are more varied. But Bolo Books wrote, “Elisabeth Thomas has a vital perspective to impart on the literary world – not simply because she brings much needed diversity to the forefront, but also because she comes at everything from a fresh and exciting angle.”

Lily Tuck’s tenth book is “Heathcliff Redux and Other Stories.” Photo: Julie Thayer

Tuck’s voice, spare but searing, has had its fans and detractors over the years. The high point was “News From Paraguay,” which won the National Book Award in 2004.

Her sentences are crisp and often unsettling, and tend to stay with you. (“I also found out that he and Sally were sleeping together. I should have guessed that too.”)

Both women have been well educated: Tuck at Radcliffe and the Sorbonne, Thomas at Yale. Tuck is a widow living on the Upper East Side, Thomas, is single and grew up in Brooklyn. She was an art history major and works at MOMA, at least for now. “Catherine House” has been optioned by a production company and she is working on her next book, which will also, she says, “mix realism with the paranormal.”

Neither woman has joined the protests going on around their neighborhoods: Tuck a bit frail, and Thomas also claims she has health concerns. “I feel connected, of course,” she says, “especially having lived with insidious, if subtle, racism my whole life.

It’s a long time coming, and the most surprising thing is that institutions seem to finally be paying a lot of attention.”

Lily Tuck is realistic about her publishing prospects, but continues to write, if even just for herself. “What would I do all day if I didn’t?” she wonders. The ambition of her early years is tempered: that torch has been passed to others, well, like Elisabeth Thomas.

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LIVING COLOR PAINTINGS

Alma Woodsey Thomas became a role model for black artists, women artists and mature artists

BY MARY GREGORY

Art is a language, written without words, sending urgent messages or soothing reassurances. One artistic voice that has called out to me lately is that of Alma Woodsey Thomas. A much respected, yet under-recognized African American woman artist, Thomas was the first graduate of Howard University’s art department in 1924, and in 1972 she was the first black woman to be given a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her work is delicate yet strong, like the flowers and plants that inspired her. It’s not always easy to find her work in museums, where under 2% of the works on walls were made by black women. But search it out and you’ll be richly rewarded.

The first time I saw a painting by Alma Thomas was in the Brooklyn Museum many years ago. “Wind, Sunshine and Flowers” stopped me in my tracks. A joyful explosion of

Alma Thomas, “Mars Dust,” 1972 (acrylic on canvas). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Purchase 1972.58. © artist or artist’s estate via Whitney Museum

her compositions. “Mars Dust” with Alma Thomas, “Cherry Blossom Symphony,” 1972, Acrylic on canvas, 175.3 x 137.8 cm, Collection of halley k harrisburg and Michael Rosenfeld, New York, Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, NY. Alma Thomas at the opening of her Whitney Museum show in 1972. Photo: Courtesy Wikimedia Commons

color can do that. But closer looking revealed so much more.

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma quotes Isaac Stern as saying that “music happens between the notes.” In “Wind, Sunshine and Flowers” Thomas’s daubs of cascading color give the sense of a vertical rainbow, captured between panes of glass. But by stepping back a few feet, a pattern emerges in the empty spaces between the brushstrokes. They give the impression of curling clouds or breezes passing through blossoming branches. Immense skill was necessary to create such lyrical silences within the ebullient composition.

Remarkably, Thomas evokes something as indescribable as a gentle gust of wind through the use of negative space inside pure abstraction.

Her works call to mind many things – Byzantine mosaics, Pointillism, Minimalism, Color Field painting, Impressionism – but they resemble nothing else, a mark of a true artist. Thomas’s signature style, arrived at late in life, combines brick-like blocks of hues placed on of a background of modulated tones of a different color.

In “Cherry Blossom Symphony,” included in the Guggenheim’s “The Fullness of Color: 1960s Painting,” which will still be on view when it reopens, patches of rose pink, tinged

Alma W. Thomas (American, 1895-1978). “Wind, Sunshine and Flowers,” 1968.

Acrylic on canvas, 71 3/4 x 51 7/8 in. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David K. Anderson, 76.120. © artist or artist’s estate. Photo: Brooklyn Museum

with lavender and cantaloupe, skim over a field of blue-green, turquoise and navy. Her colors don’t float on top of each other or mingle. They often don’t harmonize, but they coexist perfectly. Each gives the other energy. Each strengthens the other.

“Color, for me, is life,” Thomas stated.

Space Exploration The eldest of four daughters, Alma Thomas was born in Georgia in 1891. Her father, realizing that Jim Crow laws offered little opportunity for his children, moved the family to Washington, DC, in 1907. She spent 38 years teaching art in DC’s public schools. When she retired, in 1960, she turned to painting full time, and, in 1966, was offered a retrospective exhibition at Howard University.

Though her early work had been representational, she decided the opportunity called for something new. After studying painting relentlessly her entire life, at age 75, she debuted her abstract paintings to great acclaim, becoming a role model for black artists, women artists, and mature artists.

In her lifetime, she watched the Wright brothers fly, lived through both world wars, the Great Depression and the civil rights movement, and witnessed the moon landing. “I was born at the end of the 19th century, horse-and-buggy days, and experienced the phenomenal changes of the 20th century machine and space age,” she said. Space exploration was a major inspiration, and she often imagined distant planets and looking down on earth from above in

patches of red-orange on a field of blue was included in “America is Hard to See” the inaugural exhibition when the Whitney opened in its new downtown space. The Metropolitan Museum owns Thomas’s “Rose Red Sonata.”

When the Museum of Modern Art re-hung its entire collection last fall and reopened, seeing Thomas’s “Fiery Sunset’’ was one of my favorite moments. It hangs in a to-die-for location, adjacent to Henri Matisse’s “The Red Studio,” one of the most loved and visited paintings in MoMA’s collection. “Fiery Sunset” more than holds its own. It sings.

Matisse once said he wanted his paintings to produce a “soothing, calming influence on the mind, something like a good armchair.”

Thomas, who eschewed figurative art and political subjects wrote, “Through color, I have sought to concentrate on beauty and happiness, rather than on man’s inhumanity to man.”

In 1972, in her eighties, Alma Thomas attended the opening of her solo show at the Whitney and later that year, had an exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington. Looking back on her life, she said, “One of the things we couldn’t do was go into museums, let alone think of hanging our pictures there.

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ASSERTING OUR BRAGGING RIGHTS CAREERS

CEO of FinePoint on reclaiming the word “brag,” her new book on selfpromotion and how to be seen and heard in quarantine

BY ANGELA BARBUTI

There is an art to bragging and Meredith Fineman has made a career out of it. The 33-year-old educates others on how to brag effectively, which she defines as speaking honestly, proudly and loudly about one’s accomplishments.

A native of Washington, D.C., Fineman founded the professional development company FinePoint, training hundreds of individuals to embrace their unique voice and elevate their personal brand. Her resume also includes penning articles and serving as a panelist on the subject at countless companies, colleges and events.

Her new book, “Brag Better: Master the Art of Fearless Self-Promotion,” out on June 16th, instructs readers on everything brag related lding a concise resume, such as building oper headshot and tailorposting a proper ect bio. Other chapters ining the perfect ar-inducing topics of how clude the fear-inducing to tactfully handle salary negotiaaster public speaking. tions and master Since the COVID-19 pandemic transformed how we do our jobs, Fineman saw the need to add a timely chapter on g better online and from how to brag home. Since we can no longer rely on ds and in-person meetings, shaking hands he advises on how to preshe sent one’s self virtually and find a way to speak effectively in Zoom meetings, c o n f e re n c e and calls emails.

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How did you decide on the word “brag” as your central focus? You said people tried to dissuade you from using it.

I use “brag” because I’m in the business of getting attention. And it’s a little bit about reclaiming the term, because bragging is just stating true facts about your work to advance your career. It’s strategically, i concisely, thoughtfully stating true facts about the work you’ve done to the correct parties in order to get what you want … As a writer, there is not a vocabulary to talk about professional accomplishment. And the problem is, there actually isn’t any other word than “brag.” I worked on this for seven-and-a-half years.

The definition of “brag” is “to talk about one’s self boastfully,” which doesn’t give you anything. And then “boastful” means “to talk about yourself with excessive pride.” And there are some more colloquialisms like “hyping yourself,” or “talking yourself up,” but there was not one word. And I think that that is somewhat emblematic of this issue, that there isn’t one that isn’t imbued with anxiety or judgment or criticism. And I didn’t want to create a new one.

You trademarked the term “Qualified Quiet.” Define it for us.

Meredith Fineman, CEO of FinePoint and author of “Brag Better.” Photo: Mariah Miranda

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That is a term that I came up with.

It’s almost as good as “Brag Better,” and I wanted it to be in the subtitle of the book, but we were worried it would confuse people. Though I don’t really think it would, because people are smarter than we give

them credit for. The Qualified Quiet are people who have done the work, but don’t know how to showcase it, and they’re not going to brag about it. And that is irrespective of gender and level of seniority. That, to some degree, is all of us. It’s the opposite of the Lackluster Loud, those who haven’t done the work. It’s much harder h d to t spend d the th time ti and d know k your stuff than it is to figure out how to brag about it.

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Many of my clients are very high up and extremely successful. None of them really come to me for ego. They either want to hone their pitch, whether they want recognition for fundraising or in the press or on television or for a speaking career.

They are part of the Qualified Quiet, and they all say to me they’d rather put their heads down than talk about it. And talking about your work is work and it’s important work.

Completely irrespective of the level of seniority, I’ve heard the same issues and fears around bragging about yourself.

What has been a memorable moment from one of your speaking events?

I was speaking on a big personal branding panel and this Latinx woman got up and asked how she can avoid being stereotyped. It ties into current events, for sure. I promoted the panel and was speaking on it, but it wasn’t until that moment that I realized that all of the panelists and the moderator were

white. People were giving h her varying tactic tactics and I said to her, he in front of a group of 2,000 people, “Listen, I can give you platitudes and tell te you varying strategies, but I ju just want to say that I do not understand the difficulties you go through as a woman of color. And I have the privilege to not have to deal with that and I’m sorry.”

And that goes along with a core tenet of “Brag Better, which is doing so for others and amplifying the voices of Black women and women wome of color. That’s made me think a lot about my weaknesses in my work. I have a lot of perspectives, but those are perspectives I don’t have and that’s why it was important for me to include a lot lo of diverse voices in all the interview interviews.

Another point you make is that we w are in charge of how people see us. u person, Now we that can’t meet in person what should one’s online persona look like?

This is just a wild time and business has sort of changed forever. Right now, I wouldn’t worry too much about breaking through. I think it’s a really good time to take stock of what’s already out there. Are you aware of how you’re presenting yourself on your social media?

Maybe you should get a new headshot, a social distance headshot.

Or maybe you can spend time on a personal website.

Since business meetings are now video chats, what is your advice for being heard on this platform?

I think asking your colleagues to help amplify you and going into it with a strategy around that. I think this is all too new, but what I will say is it’s an issue. Because people who dominate in meetings are going to dominate in Zoom calls. If there is someone who gets a lot of airtime, asking that person to help you talk too and toss it to you.

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