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FIREWORKS ON THE EAST SIDE POLITICS As the Democratic Congressional primary nears, Maloney and Patel battle over their records and the future BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN
Illegally parked vehicles owned by city employees are a common sight on many Chinatown streets near City Hall and NYPD headquarters. Photo: @placardabuse, via Twitter.
COUNCIL CALLS FOR CRACKDOWN ON PARKING PERMITS STREETS Police push back on bills targeting misuse of city-issued placards BY MICHAEL GAROFALO
For most New Yorkers, parking in front of a fire hydrant, on a sidewalk or in a crosswalk, bus stop or bike lane is all but guaranteed to lead to a ticket or a towed car. But a select population routinely gets away with these violations by displaying city-issued parking permits in their front windshields. Some drivers who cheat the system don’t even have valid city permits. As documented on a near-daily basis by
the Twitter account @placardabuse, which tracks instances of so-called “placard corruption” across the city, owners of illegally parked cars often get away with violations by displaying expired or fake permits, or by simply leaving a vest bearing the insignia of a city agency on the dashboard. Though a city-issued placard does grant certain special privileges, it is not a license to park with impunity. Placards allow holders to park in loading zones or metered spots for free, but other areas, such as crosswalks, remain off-limits. Some placards are only valid in specific locations for a limited period of time.
Citing her record and the landmark laws she’s enacted, Rep. Carolyn Maloney sums up her case to the voters: “I’m not finished yet — and there’s much, much, much more that I can do to help people.” Calling for a new political order and generational change, challenger Suraj Patel boils down his pitch to the electorate like this: “I’m running for Congress because elections ought to be about the future.” Her resolve and his defiance, her quarter-century of deeds and his vow to break from the old ways, have defined the surprisingly heated Democratic primary race for the 12th Congressional District. The clash between two liberal, proimmigrant, anti-Trump Manhattan Democrats — she’s an uptowner, he’s a downtowner — has given voters an X-ray view of both candidates as they head for the polls on June 26. At stake is a prize that encompasses the Upper East Side, Sutton Place, Roosevelt Island, Midtown, Union Square, Flatiron, the East Village and parts of Brooklyn and Queens. The district, redrawn in 2010, has been Maloney’s political base since she was first elected to Congress in 1992. That political longevity has made her a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, well respected on both sides of the aisle, with the clout to author and pass 70plus bills and obtain billions of dollars for the Second Avenue Subway and other monumental projects. But it’s also provided a cudgel for
U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney speaks to constituents April 13 at the Anna Silver School on the Lower East Side. Photo: Michael Garofalo the 34-year-old, Indiana-raised Patel, an East Villager, to clobber the 72-year-old incumbent, an Upper East Sider, with his calls for “new blood,” a “new generation of leaders” and “better Democrats” who call the “status quo not good enough.” In their only televised debate of the primary campaign on NY1 on June 12, Patel posited that he “deserves a first term because I’m going to be talking about the future.” By contrast, he argued, “The congresswoman feels she’s entitled to a 14th term simply because she’s already served 13.” That set the tone for a contentious faceoff in which the heavily favored Maloney demanded of her rival, “What have you done to help people? Besides talk?” Patel shot back that he was doing “God’s work” as an attorney who has volunteered his services to help the dispossessed, and as a professor who teaches business ethics at NYU. Maloney retorted by citing an Our Town exclusive questioning his rootedness in the district where he’s running; examining how he’s switched his voter registration between the city, Indianapolis and the Hamptons; and revealing tweets indicating he may have mulled a race to “knock out” a Republican incumbent in Suf-
Suraj Patel mingles with voters at a town hall on May 24 in an East 88th Street church. Photo: Douglas Feiden folk County. Patel denied he was shopping for another district in which to run, saying that as an active Democrat who owns an East Hampton vacation home, he simply wanted to see conservative, pro-Trump Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin go down to defeat. Despite bitter differences, the candidates do have a couple of things in common: Fundraising prowess and unforgiving views of the tenant in the Oval Office. Maloney, a time-tested fundraiser, took in $1.65 million and had $793,000 in the bank as of June 6, according to federal election filings. The bigger surprise was that firsttime political aspirant Patel chalked up $1.23 million, though he’s banked only $41,000. As for Donald Trump, he runs the “most anti-woman administration of my lifetime,” Maloney says, while Patel brands him “this monster of a president.” invreporter@strausnews.com
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In Brief MORE HELP FOR SMALL BUSINESS
The effort to help small seems to businesses in the city be gathering steam. Two city councilmembers, Robert Margaret Chin and Cornegy, have introduced create legislation that wouldSmall a new “Office of the within Business Advocate” of Small the city’s Department Business Services. Chin The new post, which have up told us she’d like to would and running this year, for serve as an ombudsman city small businesses within them clear government, helping to get through the bureaucracy things done. Perhaps even more also importantly, the ombudsman and number will tally the type small business of complaints by taken in owners, the actions policy response, and somefor ways to recommendations If done well, begin to fix things. report would the ombudsman’s give us the first quantitative with taste of what’s wrong the city, an small businesses in towards important first step fixing the problem. of for deTo really make a difference, is a mere formality will have to the work process looking to complete their advocate are the chances course, velopers precinct, but rising rents, -- thanks to a find a way to tackle business’ is being done legally of after-hours projects quickly. their own hours,” which remain many While Chin “They pick out boom in the number throughout who lives on most vexing problem. said Mildred Angelo,of the Ruppert construction permits gauge what Buildings one said it’s too early tocould have the 19th floor in The Department of the city. number three years, the Houses on 92nd Street between role the advocate She Over the past on the is handing out a record work perThird avenues. permits, there, more information of Second and an ongoing all-hours number of after-hours bad thing. of after-hours work the city’s Dept. problem can’t be a said there’s with the mits granted by nearby where according to new data jumped 30 percent, This step, combinedBorough construction project noise Buildings has data provided in workers constantly make efforts by Manhattan to mediate BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS according to DOB of Informacement from trucks. President Gale Brewer offer response to a Freedom classifies transferring they want. They knows the the rent renewal process, request. The city They 6 “They do whatever signs Every New Yorker clang, tion Act go as they please. work between some early, tangible small any construction on the weekend, can come and sound: the metal-on-metal or the piercing of progress. For many have no respect.” p.m. and 7 a.m., can’t come of these that the hollow boom, issuance reverse. owners, in business moving The increased beeps of a truck has generto a correspond and you as after-hours. soon enough. variances has led at the alarm clock The surge in permits
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YOUR FATHER KEEPS WANDERING AWAY FROM HOME. BUT IT’S YOU WHO FEELS LOST.
The new M104 bus stop on Broadway between 88th and 89th Streets does not have a shelter or seating area. Two adjacent stops with shelters and benches were recently removed. Photo: Michael Garofalo
NEIGHBORS CRY FOUL OVER B’WAY BUS STOP SHUFFLE TRANSPORTATION
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M104 shelters, benches removed to make way for commercial loading zone BY MICHAEL GAROFALO
The recent relocation of two Broadway bus stops has rankled some Upper West Side straphangers, who say that the changes have left them out in the rain. Two bus shelters near West 90th and West 88th Streets on Broadway were recently removed and consolidated into a single stop near 89th Street, where there is neither bench nor shelter for those waiting for the southbound M104. Shane McGrail recently walked to catch the bus at her longtime stop near the southwest corner of West 88th Street and was surprised to find that it had vanished and reappeared a block north. “That extra block is really a pain in the neck to have to walk for people who have trouble getting around,” McGrail said. The new stop between 88th and 89th Streets is marked only with a signpost. “They just designed it so stupidly,” McGrail. “They don’t have a place to sit down and there’s no shelter either, so you’re just standing there in the rain.” Sharon Silberfarb said she caught the M104 at the 90th Street stop for 44 years. “Moving a bus stop is really very in-
People are upset about this, particularly elderly people who need to sit.” Carole Zabar convenient for the elderly and the handicapped,” she said. “There was no notice, it just disappeared.” Several other regular riders said they were unaware of the impending changes prior to the removal of the old shelters. “They should have notified us and put signs at the stop so we at least could have written in,” McGrail said. “People are upset about this, particularly elderly people who need to sit,” said Carole Zabar, who lives nearby on West 90th Street. The scheduled headway between M104 buses is more than ten minutes for much of the day, including scheduled wait times of up to 20 minutes in the evening hours — before accounting for delays and outof-service buses. Seniors and people with disabilities who cannot climb subway stairs rely disproportionately on bus service in New York City, where overall bus ridership has declined significantly in recent years. Ridership on the M104 dropped 35 percent from 2011 to 2016 as the route was
subjected to multiple rounds of service cuts, including the most recent bus frequency reduction in April 2018. “The old [87th Street] stop was good because it was right in front of Hot & Crusty,” said Eleanor McCabe as she stood at the new M104 stop. “You could get a cup of coffee and sit down while you waited.” In April, the city’s Department of Transportation removed the M104 bus shelter and bench near the southwest corner of Broadway and West 90th Street and installed a new stop roughly a block south, between 88th and 89th Streets. The DOT did not respond to a questions regarding the reason for the removal of the other stop or whether the agency plans to install a shelter at the new stop. According to a DOT official, the change was made at the request of the local community board to make room for a new loading zone to accommodate deliveries to the Face Values & Beyond store near the former bus stop. Face Values & Beyond formerly used a loading zone on West 90th Street for deliveries, but representatives told Community Board 7 that the space was frequently blocked by illegally parked vehicles. “The Food Emporium was there for over 20 years and it was their loading dock, and they never seemed to have a problem with it,” Zabar said. “It seems to me that the needs of the community should trump the needs of a business.”
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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG PICKPOCKET NABBED
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Police arrested a suspected pickpocket in the transit system. At 2:30 a.m. on Thursday, June 7, a police officer observed a 29-year-old woman standing over a sleeping passenger on a northbound E train. She was seen touching the outside of the victim’s pockets before opening the bag on his lap and removing items. At this point a police officer approached the woman and told her to get off the train with him at the Chambers Street/World Trade Center station, but she resisted, refusing to be handcuffed. Shareese McFadden was arrested and charged with grand larceny.
Reported crimes from the 1st district for the week ending June 10 Week to Date
BELONGINGS REMOVED FROM PARKED CAR Thieves removed items from a car that was parked and unattended for only 15 minutes. At 3 p.m. on Sunday, June 10, a 75-year-old man from Roslyn, N.Y., parked his car at the corner of Reade Street and West Broadway. When he and his 69-year-old wife returned to the vehicle just a quarter of an hour later they found a handbag valued at $1,200, an Apple iPad priced at $500 and $700 were missing from the vehicle.
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GAP TAP At 1:40 p.m. on Saturday, June 9, a woman went into the Gap store at 172 Broadway using the Maiden Lane entrance and took 30 shirts valued and 10 pairs of pants worth a total of $1,498 from a shelf before placing them in a duffel bag and leaving the location. A 25-year-old male employee told police that the perpetrator might be a resident of the Holiday Inn on Nassau Street. She was last seen fleeing eastbound on Maiden Lane
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MADE OFF WITH MAKEUP Compared to the other local shops robbed this week, a Sephora location got off fairly easily. At 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 7, a man entered the popular cosmetics store at 555 Broadway and took multiple makeup products worth $280.
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CITY TO LAUNCH ‘FAIR FARES’ PROGRAM TRANSIT Budget allocates $106 million to fund discounted MetroCards for New Yorkers in poverty BY MICHAEL GAROFALO
Beginning next January, lowincome New Yorkers will be eligible to purchase MetroCards at half-price through a transit subsidy included in the $89.2 billion city budget deal struck earlier this month by the City Council and Mayor Bill de Blasio. The so-called Fair Fares program, long championed by transit advocacy groups, will fund discounted transit trips for about 800,000 low-income residents. The budget dedicates $106 million to fund the program, which will be open to those with annual incomes at or below the federal poverty level, which is roughly $25,0000 for a family of four. The city projects annual savings of over $700 for individuals who participate in the program. Eligibility is also
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson (right) celebrated the inclusion of a transit subsidy for low-income New Yorkers in the city budget June 12 with Mayor Bill de Blasio at the Fulton Street subway station. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office
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extended to some 12,000 veterans enrolled in New York City colleges. “Fair Fares will open up this city to New Yorkers living in poverty and allow them to take advantage of professional and educational opportunities that would otherwise be closed to them,” Council Speaker Corey Johnson said in a statement on the budget agreement. “This is an investment in our friends and neighbors who struggle between paying the rent and commuting to work.” The program’s inclusion in the city budget is a significant victory for Johnson, who just completed his first go-around of budget negotiations as leader of the Council. Johnson made Fair Fares a top priority during budget talks. The 51-member City Council overwhelmingly supported funding the measure but faced resistance from de Blasio, who said he supported the program in concept but believed that funding should come from the state through a new tax on millionaires. The
mayor, who since his first term has lobbied Albany lawmakers to enact the tax to fund a variety of measures, including transit improvements and universal pre-K, vowed to continue fighting for the tax at a June 12 press conference announcing city funding for Fair Fares. Johnson said the mayor supported the idea of Fair Fares throughout negotiations but had “very rightful concerns about not wanting this to be a subsidy to the MTA, given the broader MTA picture that we’re looking at.” The budget also includes $254 million in additional city contributions to the MTA to fund improvements to the subway system. But Fair Fares, de Blasio said, is “not a subsidy to the MTA.” “We have done enough subsidies to the MTA,” the mayor said. “The people of New York City pay and pay and pay for the MTA, it’s time for the state to come up with a real solution for the MTA and that’s what we are going to fight for next.”
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ISSUES SCORECARD: MALONEY VS. PATEL The Democratic primary for the 12th Congressional District is June 26. Where incumbent Rep. Carolyn Maloney and challenger Suraj Patel stand on 10 issues ranging from immigration and health care to favorite restaurants in the district Rep. Carolyn Maloney
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HEALTH CARE MALONEY: Wants to end inflated prices, anticompetitive practices in the prescription-drug market. Seeks to curtail sub-par health coverage, better known as “junk insurance,” strengthen Medicare and Medicaid. In March, launched a Breast Cancer Awareness Commemorative Coin program. Steered passage of James Zadroga 9/11 Compensation Act to care for first responders. Boosted cancer-screening coverage, early detection of breast cancer, National Institutes of Health funding. Early Obamacare backer.
IMMIGRATION MALONEY: Says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is out of control, must be reformed or dismantled. Decries the forcible separation of children from asylum-seeking parents as “inhumane, cruel, un-American.” Cosponsor of the Reuniting Families Act to increase number of visas available to immediate family members of U.S. citizens. Early cosponsor of comprehensive bipartisan immigration reform bill to provide pathway to citizenship for Dreamers, reform visa programs, curtail separation of families.
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INFRASTRUCTURE PATEL: Calls for passage of Medicare for All Act, Bernie Sanders-backed bill to expand Medicare into a universal health insurance program. Calls for replacing the for-profit health insurance industry with a public system covering emergency surgery, prescription drugs, dental, mental health, all with no copays. Advocates for New York Health Act to institutionalize single-payer healthcare at state level, covering all medically necessary services, also with no out-of-pocket expenses.
PATEL: Encapsulates his position in a twoword campaign slogan, “Immigrants: Welcome.” Would sponsor bill completely defunding Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, argues ICE “commits human rights atrocities every day.” Promises activist approach, like his work for the ACLU at Kennedy Airport in January 2017 as a volunteer attorney after the White House unveiled its “Muslim ban.” As a first-generation American, has pledged to fight mass deportations, expand avenues to legal immigration like the H-1B visa program, known as the “high-tech visa.”
MALONEY: Reaped $10 billion in federal funding for city capital projects: $1.3 billion for the Second Avenue Subway to 96th Street, $2.6 billion for East Side Access, $191 million for East River ferries, $355 million for post-Sandy, East Side coastal protection. Now wants billions more to run the SAS up to 125th Street, which would be one of her major challenges in the next Congress.
PATEL: Says a windfall in cash isn’t enough. Subways, buses, roads may suffer from underinvestment, but also decades of overspending. Says long-serving politicians too often waste resources on “ribbon cuttings ... rather than investing long term.” Would create a national infrastructure bank to tap private-sector investment in transit projects. Put federal representatives on MTA board, ease budget pressures, dysfunction, by having federal officials mediate city-state transit disputes.
Says racial disparities stem from enforcing current laws. Minorities and non-minorities use marijuana in roughly the same proportions. But the jails are overwhelmingly filled with people of color.
PATEL: Legalize it. End the “failed and unjust war on drugs.” And do it retroactively — expunge previous criminal convictions of nonviolent marijuana possession offenders.
MALONEY: “Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated” is the title of her 2008 book. Sponsor of the 2004 Debbie Smith Act to fund testing of old rape kits, now fighting to preserve Planned Parenthood, pass the Equal Rights Amendment, create a women’s history museum on the National Mall, safeguard reproductive freedoms, target sex traffickers and pass the Ending Secrecy About Workplace Sexual Harassment Act.
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2002 resolution authorizing military force against Iraq. “She regrets that vote and has said so for many years,” her campaign says. Opposed the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran. She felt it wasn’t strong enough, but voted 10 times to preserve it once it became law.
PATEL: “Diplomacy first,” he urges. Denounces “hawkish, misguided foreign policy decisions,” supported the Iran deal, calls the Iraq war the “greatest foreign policy blunder in modern history.”
CAMPAIGN FINANCE MALONEY: In the 1980s, authored the first campaign finance reform bill in the City Council. Now co-sponsoring the Government By-thePeople Act to curb big bucks in politics and tap public matching funds to empower small donors.
PATEL: Arguing big money has corrupted politics, he’s calling for two constitutional amendments: The first would end partisan gerrymandering, voter suppression and control of money over politics; the second would overturn the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United.
MARIJUANA MALONEY: Make it legal.
Suraj Patel
BEST RESTAURANT IN THE DISTRICT MALONEY: It’s uptown — Paolo’s, a high-end Italian eatery at 1295 Madison Avenue in Carnegie Hill.
PATEL: It’s downtown — Somtum Der, Thai nightspot at 85 Avenue A in the East Village.
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“anti-vaxxer” by her rival, she dismisses the charge. She supports vaccines, says they save lives, her kids are vaccinated, she’s voted to fund distribution, her campaign says. Still, she backed a 2013 bill to study if exposure to vaccines is linked to autism spectrum disorders, and in a 2012 congressional hearing, spoke of “verbal evidence” from parents who said their healthy children “came down with autism” after being vaccinated.
PATEL: Close the gender wage gap. Introduce transparency to salaries, require more disclosure and reporting of pay, curb requirements for job applicants to reveal salary history, require employers to provide salary ranges in ads and announcements. Attack chronic inequity legislatively: Offer tax breaks and subsidies to workplaces that provide flexible scheduling, paid family leave and access to childcare for employees, all to help reverse wage disparities.
PATEL: ESent 50,000plus mailers to voters attacking her for a “war on vaccines.” He claimed she’s long “taken the side of anti-vaxxers” in backing “unnecessary, unwarranted and wasteful studies” in 2007, 2013 and 2015 — “part of the ongoing assault on science.”
RULE OF LAW, IMPEACHMENT OF A PRESIDENT MALONEY: Would she vote to impeach Donald Trump? Says she’d have to see the anticipated Robert Mueller report first. But if Democrats recapture the House, her seat on the Government Oversight Committee would put her in position to hold the Trump administration, and Trump himself, accountable, her campaign said.
PATEL: Would he vote to impeach based on current information? “Not yet,” he said. But if Trump pardons himself, that is “automatic grounds for impeachment.” So is proof of collusion or axing Mueller. He called for throwing Paul Manafort in jail for alleged witness tampering. One week later, the ex-Trump campaign manager’s bail was revoked.
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DRIVEN TO DESPAIR BY BETTE DEWING
A week before Abdul Saleh, a 30year veteran yellow cab driver, became this year’s sixth cabby suicide victim, Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church’s minister, the Rev. Beverly Bartlett, said she always tries to take yellow cabs. She said she is sympathetic to the taxi drivers’ increasingly desperate conditions since the Uber and Lyft rideshare invasion left them battling for an ever-decreasing share of fares. And shouldn’t we all, unless it’s an emer-
gency? And remember, the big yellows take wheelchairs. Above all we need to recognize these tragic stories of desperation and discuss. And we also need to act in other ways — by, say, contacting our elected officials, and asking them to seek a remedy. Too little considered are cabbies’ grueling hours and ever more stressful traffic conditions. There are about 13,000 yellow cabs on the road, a fraction of the roughly 100,000 for-hire vehicles cruising city roads. And it’s mostly about
convenience — being able to dial a ride. How ironic convenience can do harm. Saleh, 59, had been unable to meet his lease payments. He was single with a family in Yemen with apparently no one to really share his despair. He hung himself on Friday, June 14 in his Brooklyn apartment, on Eid al-Fitr, the holiday that marks the end of Ramadan. And remember we must the other suicide victims — in May, Kenny Chow, 56, who despite having a caring family, was increasingly desperate. He left his cab near Gracie Mansion. His body was found in the East River 11 days later. In March, Nicanor Ochisor, 65, hanged himself in his garage in
Maspeth, Queens. In February, livery driver Doug Schifter shot himself to death outside City Hall. “I don’t know how else to make a difference,” a Facebook farewell read, “other than a public display of a very private affair.” But these are most public affairs which must get out and stay out there. The more media coverage the better. And wouldn’t it be good to resurrect the Taxi Dave weekly radio program. This most informative taxi and traffic-related WOR hour program folded for lack of sponsors, even though many elected officials had been grateful guests. Above all, the program offered useful information and support for cab drivers. And this traffic safety activist col-
umnist suggests that yellow and green cab drivers might do a bit more to attract riders — become known for safe driving, never speeding, always yielding to pedestrians when turning into a crosswalk. And this white-knuckle rider urges drivers to never start up until the passenger seatbelt is in place. And smile a whole lot. Smiles actually soothe the brain. Ah, there is so much we all must do to stop this epidemic of cabby despair and change the rules and regulations and whatever else is to blame. Above all, cabbies must know we care and they must share their despair — share their despair. It can be done if enough of us try. dewingbetter@aol.com
MAKING ACCURACY GREAT AGAIN BY JON FRIEDMAN
New York Times reporters Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman in front of a photo of Jack Newfield at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College on June 14. Photo: Jon Friedman
Jack Newfield would have been proud. On the evening of June 14, the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College hosted a program entitled “Reporting on Trump’s Washington: Investigative Reporting in the Jack Newfield Tradition,” featuring 2018 Pulitzer Prize recipients Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt, both of The New York Times. The setting was appropriate: as Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab wittily pointed out, the Roosevelt House was the Trump Tower of President Franklin Roosevelt’s time. Haberman and Schmidt are two of the most distinguished reporters following President Donald Trump, who has an uncanny ability to keep his name in the news on a daily basis. While Trump rails about what he likes to call “fake news,” these reporters are well known for their accuracy, depth and fairness. Haberman and Schmidt are also conspicuous presences on cable news broadcasts. In fact, after he left the Roosevelt House, the tireless Schmidt appeared on two segments of Brian Williams’ MSNBC show beginning at 11:00 p.m. On the subject of “The Fourth Estate,” the Showtime documentary series about The New York
Times, the reporters said the film gave the public a good opportunity to observe the process of delivering the news. Haberman said: “Most people don’t understand what we do.” Newfield’s legacy hovered over the proceedings. A distinguished proponent of “advocacy journalism,” he chronicled New York City politics and culture for The Village Voice as well as many publications. Newfield, who died in 2004, was also a Hunter College graduate. The audience, consisting of well-informed, mostly senior citizens, hung on every word during the 90-minute program. Truth be told, Schmidt, who is so analytical and thoughtful that it would not be inaccurate to call his delivery “scholarly,” had the buzz of a double Pulitzer winner this year. But at this gathering, Haberman, modern journalism’s “It” Trumpwhisperer, personified the intellectual version of the kavorka — that sort of ineffable quality, made famous on an episode of Seinfeld, which speaks of someone who has a charisma that is impossible to resist. Beyond her terrifying work habits and natural ability, Haberman has flourished because she has an uncanny understanding of what makes Trump tick, much like “Fire and Fury” bestselling author Michael Wolff (though Haberman might not appreciate the
comparison). Haberman learned her craft in the rough and tumble New York City tabloid newspaper atmosphere that helped spawn Trump in the 1980s and 1990s. “She gets Trump in a way that we don’t,” Schmidt said admiringly. Haberman noted that Trump’s ability to dazzle a large number of voters, early on, stemmed from a force outside of politics: his glamorous turn on the television show “The Apprentice.” “I’d go to Iowa and they’d talk about ‘The Apprentice’ like it was a documentary,” Haberman said. Haberman also indicated that Trump, who has dismayed many Americans and foreign leaders by embracing dictators in North Korea and elsewhere, may be even bolder in his official proclamations. Speaking of Trump’s feelings about his command of the office, Haberman said: “He believes he has figured it out.” Haberman and Schmidt were careful not to issue any predictions about the fate of Trump’s presidency while Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III investigates Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and other issues. Schmidt stressed that the Trump press corps does its best to explain the day’s events. “The hardest part for us is the financial side,” Schmidt said. Schmidt also pointed out that work-
ing in the age of Twitter, where the media are being judged in “real time,” presents a major challenge. It was nice to see the mutual respect, even affection, shared by Haberman and Schmidt. At one point, Haberman asked him, “How do you decide what you write?” Schmidt shot back: “I call you.” With just a few well-chosen words, Haberman and Schmidt captured the essence of the underbelly of Trump’s inner circle. On the subject of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who has recently made headlines for acting as much like Trump’s attack dog as his spokesman, Schmidt pointed out that Giuliani is “having a lot of fun,” to which Haberman nodded and added, “True.” It’s fascinating to try to guess what Jack Newfield, who prided himself on keeping politicians honest, would make of the Trump presidency. But one conclusion is likely: He’d have tremendous respect for Haberman, Schmidt and any other journalist who works hard and smart and tries to get at the truth every day. Jon Friedman, who teaches journalism courses at Hunter College and Stony Brook University, wrote MarketWatch’s Jon Friedman’s Media Web column from 1999 to 2013.
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MAKING PATIENTS COMFORTABLE AGING Mount Sinaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s palliative care unit is about managing symptoms, lessening pain and offering emotional support BY MICHELE WILLENS
You could hardly call it a trend, but palliative care is a rapidly growing field in the medical world today. While many confuse it with hospice, it is not the same thing. Just spend a few hours at the Wiener Family Palliative Care Unit, on the sixth ďŹ&#x201A;oor of the Klingenstein Pavilion at Mount Sinai, and you will not feel despair, but rather gratitude and hope. Considered by many the national model, the unit is not about the end of life, most associated with hospice. On any given day, you will encounter (and want to hug) some 30 dedicated staffers, including nurses, social workers, counselors, volunteers, the occasional spiritual adviser, always a doctor or two. They will be tending to the patients and their families in the 14 private rooms, or in one of the welcoming larger spaces. The average stay for patients is ďŹ ve days, and those are ďŹ lled with receiving resources available to lessen pain, regroup, regain some control, and make a plan for yes, the future. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Palliative is about symptom management,â&#x20AC;? explains Amy Newman, Nurse Manager of the inpatient unit, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and for offering emotional support to his or her loved ones. Basically, we are discussing what needs to be done in whatever time is remaining.â&#x20AC;? Even if you are not currently in one of the private rooms, you may still be an active part of the unit. Rae Ann McLaughlin, for example, underwent ten chemo and some 35 radiation treatments at Mount Sinai. When she was done, the palliative care folks took over. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even know what palliative was,â&#x20AC;? she says now. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Like many others, I thought it meant end of life, but in fact it is about comfort care. They monitored all facets of my treatment, including getting me off painkillers. They offer a holistic means of getting you centered.â&#x20AC;?
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KEEPING IT REAL The Met Breuer’s “Like Life” looks at sculpture, the human body, art and meaning BY MARY GREGORY
When co-curators Luke Syson, The Met’s chairman of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, and Sheena Wagstaff, the museum’s chairwoman of Modern and Contemporary Art, decided to take on the history of Western polychrome (or painted) sculpture, they also chose to take on the Western canon and the definition of art itself. It’s a bold decision that’s resulted in the astonishing, thought-provoking exhibition, “Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300–Now).” They cast their nets across 700 years of artistic practice, from 14th-century European to global contemporary, to see what artists and artisans have done and used to create the verisimilitude of life and humanity. Unlikely associations emerged among the 120 works filling two floors of the Met Breuer. “These sculptures are placed in conversation with one another, speaking to the age-old conundrum of what realism can be and the different tactics that artists used to blur the distinction between the original and the copy, between art and life,” said Wagstaff. She described “the use of color to mimic skin ... casts taken from real bodies, dressing sculpted figures in clothing, the articulation of movable limbs, the construction of automated mannequins and ‘womankins’ and even the incorporation of human blood, hair, teeth and bones.” The curators selected objects of high art, like a delicate small wooden “Pandora” carved by El Greco in about 1600, or the hyper-realistic life-sized “Housepainter II” by Duane Hanson that opens the show; religious works like a “Reliquary Bust of Saint Juliana,” fashioned to look like the saint whose relics it contains; and even popular attractions, like “Sleeping Beauty” from Madame Tussauds, whose mechanized chest rises and falls to suggest breathing. “By thinking about those works we were suddenly thinking about what the canon should look like, what really constitutes a Met object in a Met show, and the boundaries between works of art that have always been embraced
IF YOU GO WHAT: “Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300–Now)” WHERE: The Met Breuer, Madison Avenue at 75th Street WHEN: Through July 22 www.metmuseum.org
as masterpieces by museums,” Syson said, “and those which had been too popular, too accessible, too easy, in some ways at least ostensibly, to be taken seriously.” Some works are so strange they have to communicate with the viewer directly, since within the history of art they are totally without precedent or kin, like the “’Auto-Icon’ of Jeremy Bentham.” The English philosopher is presented fully dressed with a frilly shirt and a straw hat to keep out the sun. Beneath it all, embedded within the wax, is Bentham’s own complete skeleton. “Shrine of the Virgin,” a gilded figure from about 1300 that opens on hinges to reveal a figure of Jesus inside the sculpture of Mary, shares a case with contemporary artist Damien Hirst’s “Virgin Exposed,” a vividly colored cutaway view of a pregnant woman, eerie, though recalling a scientific anatomical model. Jeff Koons’s porcelain “Michael Jackson and Bubbles” is placed next to a frilly, gilded Meissen work, “The Judgment of Paris.” Such juxtapositions awaken new thoughts about contemporary artists and how far back they might be reaching for inspiration, whether consciously or not. “What I found fascinating as these objects arrived here in The Met Breuer, was they started talking to each other in ways that we anticipated but also in ways that were really unexpected,” said Syson. “That kind of messiness, glorious messiness, of life and death ... and desire, and race, and gender, and sexuality, and religion are all things that now are playing potently in a rich and, to me at least, not yet digested stew that is in our show. It’s a show that is designed to begin a conversation.” Syson said he’s excited by the chance to bring work from his department, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, to contemporary art audiences.
Isa Genzken’s “Schauspieler (Actors),” from 2013, incorporates mannequins, clothes, shoes, fabric and paper. Photo: Adel Gorgy “One of the things that Met Breuer allows is that kind of breaking down of barriers. Although we’re very, very careful to situate each piece as the product of a time and place, the timelessness of them comes to the fore in a really remarkable way.... I’m thrilled that those juxtapositions are, I hope, allowing people to reconsider the art of the past and also to reconsider which parts, which aspects of sculptural history really matter beyond the ones we’re more used to.” Wagstaff said, “What the Met has is unique, certainly in the city and well beyond. We have not just the collections, but also the expertise, the ability to be able to converse with research, and really get into deep conversations ... to think about work from our respective areas and come to a common interest, come to a common language.” What does she hope viewers might take away from “Like Life?” “I think it teaches us that every one of these sculptures is made by an artist who has a very particular relationship to the world which they are trying to express, and I hope that visitors take away some of that shared humanity with them.”
Contemporary artist Yinka Shonibare created “Girl Ballerina” in response to Degas’s beloved “The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer,” which is nearby at The Met Breuer. Photo: Adel Gorgy
Mary Sibande’s “Rubber Soul, Monument of Aspiration” from The Met Breuer’s “Like Life.” Sibande’s work refers to the history of apartheid, said curator Sheena Wagstaff, but also to “the history of artists from that region ascending and taking over the plinth.” Photo: Adel Gorgy
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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS JUN 6 - 12, 2018 The following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s website and include the most recent inspection and grade reports listed. We have included every restaurant listed during this time within the zip codes of our neighborhoods. Some reports list numbers with their explanations; these are the number of violation points a restaurant has received. To see more information on restaurant grades, visit www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/services/restaurant-inspection.shtml.
La Colombe
154 Prince St
A
Kopi Kopi
68 West 3 Street
Grade Pending (4)
Rabbit Club
124 Macdougal St
A
Minetta Tavern
113 Macdougal St
A
Mr Purple
180 Orchard St
Grade Pending (27) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. 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/ sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
127 Rivington St
Grade Pending (4)
Fresh & Co
729 Broadway
A
Jebon
15 St Marks Place
A
Chen’s Express Kitchen
223 E 14th St
Not Yet Graded (25) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Filth flies or food/refuse/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/ sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies.
Da Falafel Guys
Fuleen Seafood Restaurant 11 Division St
Grade Pending (12) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
Jes Coffee
47 Market St
A
Sherman’s
121 Division St
A
Downtown Yummy Restaurant
39 E Broadway
Not Yet Graded (38) 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. 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. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.
72 Cibao Restaurant
72 Clinton St
Grade Pending (26) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal product temperature is reduced from 140º F to 70º F or less within 2 hours, and from 70º F to 41º F or less within 4 additional hours. 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/sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies.
Roasting Plant
81 Orchard Street
A
The Fat Radish
17 Orchard Street
A
Tongkatsu
137 Rivington St
A
Black Burger / Poke Bowl / 5 Boroughs Pizza
386 Canal St
A
Maoz Vegetarian
38 Union Square East
A
Snowdays Shavery
241 E 10th St
A
Juice Generation Inc
4 Astor Pl
A
La Pizza Fresca
31 East 20 Street
Grade Pending (27) Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
Black and White
86 East 10 Street
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Craft
4347 East 19 Street
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Brazen Fox Kitchen and Bar 106 3rd Ave
A
Reservior
70 University Pl
Grade Pending (27) 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. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.
Sister Jane
349 E 13th St
Grade Pending (38) Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. 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/sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
Ray’s Candy Store
113 Avenue A
A
Anotheroom
249 West Broadway
A
Native Bean
36B Avenue A
A
Piacere
351 Broome Street
A
Molecule Water Store
259 East 10 Street
A
Bouley Botanical
35 White St
A
The Fern
166 1st Ave
A
48 Mulberry St
A
Gelarto
145 Avenue A
CLOSED (40) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
Chipilo Italian Sandwich Shop The Wing Soho
52 Mercer St
A
McDonald’s
52 Fulton Street
A
Kuu
20 John St
A
Voyager Expresso
110 William St
Not Yet Graded (35) Food contact surface improperly constructed or located. Unacceptable material used. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.
Dominique Ansel Kitchen
137 7th Ave S
A
Grounded
28 Jane Street
Grade Pending
Sant Ambroeus
259 West 4 Street
A
Dell’anima
38 8 Avenue
A
Bistro Les Amis
180 Spring Street
A
Sole Di Capri
165 Church Street
A
Champion Pizza
17 Cleveland Pl
Not Yet Graded (40) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. No facilities available to wash, rinse and sanitize utensils and/or equipment.
Sun In Bloom
165 Church St
A
Grom
185 Greenwich St
A
185 Greenwich St
A
The Crosby Street Hotel
79 Crosby Street
A
Devon & Blakely
Saigon Shack
114 Macdougal Street
A
Harryand Ids Luncheonette 11 Park Pl
A
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PARKING CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 But in practice, reform advocates say, enforcement is lacking and holders use permits (legitimately issued or otherwise) on a much wider basis, often without repercussion. “People who use fake parking placards, or who use their legitimate placards to try to get away with parking where they are not supposed to, are in effect stealing city resources and unfairly taking advantage of the system at the expense of everyone else who follows the rules,” said Ydanis Rodriguez, chair of the City Council’s transportation committee, at a recent hearing on five bills aimed at reining in placard abuse. “Too often these individuals also pose a safety hazard, such as when they block fire hydrants and crosswalks, or interfere with pedestrian flow when they block sidewalks, not to mention the impact on congestion,” Rodriguez said. “And we all know that enforcement is too often lacking, with drivers who put items as simple, and as unofficial, as vests and hats on their dashboards sometimes being allowed to park wherever they want without fear of any consequences.” Roughly 114,000 city employees enjoy special parking privileges conferred by cityissued placards, which are not administered by a single entity, but rather issued separately by several agencies. One bill would task the Department of Transportation with developing a comprehensive plan for the issuance and distribution of permits, including an assessment of the number of permits necessary. The NYPD, which issues roughly 45,000 permits, pushed back against the bill at the June 12 hearing, arguing that the police department alone should determine how many placards its officers require. Police officials also voiced concerns with legislation introduced by Council Member Margaret Chin under which individuals found to have misused permits more than three times in a year would immediately have their privileges revoked. The bill would also prohibit those who have had a permit revoked from receiving one the future, and permanently bar anyone found to have used a fraudulent placard even once. “While the department embraces increased enforcement and accountability for those
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who abuse the parking permit system, the revocation of a permit is best left to the agencies’ internal disciplinary process,” said Oleg Chernyavsky, the NYPD’s director of legislative affairs. Chernyavsky said that the NYPD does not currently have the capability to provide regular reports to the Council with basic information on instances of placard misuse, as would be required under a bill sponsored by Rodriguez. In the last year, police have towed 89 vehicles for placard offenses. According to NYPD officials, vehicles found to have fraudulent placards are automatically towed. “Every day, in every corner of our city, we see someone using an illegal placard,” Rodriguez said, adding, “To see only 89 should alert us that we need to address this issue seriously.” “I don’t know that it’s necessarily a low number,” NYPD Deputy Chief Michael Pilecki responded. “All of our agents are encouraged to take enforcement against vehicles that are abusing their permits,” he said. The NYPD launched a special enforcement unit in 2017 to combat placard abuse, and has issued 52,000 summonses for placard violations in the last twelve months, as compared to 29,400 in the prior year. The @placardabuse Twitter account has contributed to increased attention on the issue by posting photos of permit misuse on a daily basis. Its tweets have even caught the eye of some Council members, and the account was referenced in the transportation committee’s report on the legislation. According to an individual who responded to a message to @placardabuse, the account is operated by a “loosely organized” online group that preserves its members’ ano-
nymity. “Even among our core group we don’t even all know each other’s identities,” the person, who declined to share any identifying information, wrote in an email. In spite of police testimony to the contrary, the @placardabuse representative believes “the NYPD has no intention of ending placard corruption practices.” “The fact is that there are existing laws that cover the violations and crimes involved with placard corruption, but they are not enforced,” the individual wrote. “What would be most significant and is missing from the proposed legislation is a change to make enforcement of violations with placards non-discretionary. Currently, the NYPD has a lot of room to hide behind the fact the law does not compel officers to write tickets, but leaves it to their discretion.” The problem of placard abuse is particularly acute in Lower Manhattan, where narrow streets around the civic center and police headquarters are often clogged with illegally parked vehicles. “My district is overrun by placard parking,” said Chin, who represents the area in the City Council. “Residents and workers, they see this abuse every day,” Chin said. “We’ve got to do something.” A 2014 study conducted by the Chinatown Partnership found over 700 vehicles parked with placards within the business improvement district, which borders the civic center. Wellington Chen, the group’s executive director, said Chinatown residents and business owners need relief from excessive placard parking and questioned the NYPD’s willingness to cut out abuse within its own ranks. “A rookie will never give a sergeant a ticket,” he said.
Arthur Rubinoff’s Barber Museum on Columbus Avenue opened last week. Photo: Sushmita Roy
SCISSORS AND RAZORS, BRUSHES AND CHAIRS HISTORY Tools of barbering trade, and a proper cut, at a new museum on Columbus Avenue BY SUSHMITA ROY
A routine grooming visit for men amounts to little more than a shave and a swift cut. But at Arthur Rubinoff’s Barber Museum on Columbus Avenue, a cut with a pair of diamond-studded gold scissors isn’t the only thing that screams extravagant. If you aren’t already impressed by the six gold-plated chandeliers, the celebrity clientele or the Marilyn Monroe obsession, maybe being surrounded by antiques valued at $1.5 million could help. The museum, just south of 69th Street, opened on June 15. The public is free to peruse its barbering tools, vintage chairs and other trade ephemera, but grooming services, available by appointment, will set you back some. On the priming menu is a cut costing $118. It includes complementary Champagne and black caviar “When I started this journey, I was not sure if it was pos-
sible, if it would be done, but I am standing here in front of you and it’s done,” Rubinoff said during an opening ceremony that featured dancers grooving to songs in English and Uzbek, a vintage Mercedes and the merely curious. Rubinoff, 43, is a fourthgeneration barber who grew up in what he said was the first wash-and-cut shop in Uzbekistan. He immigrated to the United States when he was 14, settling with his family in Forest Hills, Queens. He would drop out of high school to help his father around his dad’s barber shop and bridge the gap between his mother tongue and the foreign one his father was attempting to learn. “I have been cutting since I was 14. My father opened his first shop in the neighborhood around 1993 and I have been [on the Upper West Side] since 1999. A lot of people know me here. There’s a lot of barbershops around here but thank God, it’s the customer who decides,” he said. The idea of the museum came from his father, who started collecting antiques and artifacts in 1991. “He had jokingly mentioned that he might one day open a museum and then passed away in 2003,” said Rubinoff,
whose own dark brown hair was neatly gelled and parted for the occasion. “My wife and daughter grew tired of the amount of artifacts we held around the house and that is how this came about.” Rubinoff and his staff swear by the “scissor-over comb” technique, which he considers a lost art. Younger barbers, he said, “take the buzzer and the number and boom, boom, boom — seven minutes a haircut.” Barbering, he said, is in fact an art and needs to be cultivated and preserved. Both his sons have learned how to cut. “The trade, or barberia as it was called, was started by Italians but their kids have gone out to be doctors and lawyers. Some may have picked up the trade, but I just don’t see them anymore and so they are gone” Rubinoff said. He hopes the museum can do its part to renew an appreciation for the craft. A woman in her mid 30s who spent a good 10 minutes inside enjoyed the collectibles and the curios, but had a taste for something else. “There’s a whole lot of stuff in there,” she said. “If I could, I would go only for the caviar.”
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NYC Pride parade, 2017. Photo: Jordan Dea, via flickr
PRIDE AND PARTNERSHIPS Businesses join forces with LGBTQ organizations for Pride Month BY NATASHA ROY
New York City businesses are proud to participate in Pride Month this year. NYC Pride has over 100 corporate, promotional and community sponsors. Several businesses are offering specials whose proceeds go toward an LGBTQ-friendly organization. The London-based restaurant wagamama, which has two Manhattan locations (East Village and NoMad/ Flatiron), is partnering with the Trevor Project, an organization that provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ youth. The chain created a special juice blend called “proud” with Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy, and its NYC restaurants will only offer the drink during Pride Month. “We knew that Gus was a fan of wagamama so we reached out to see if he’d be interested in partnering,” said Faye O’Brien, the company’s U.S. marketing director. “He was excited
to collaborate to raise money for the organization of his choice, The Trevor Project, tied to Pride. We are thrilled to be working with him to raise money for such an important cause.” NYU Langone Health, New York University’s medical center, is coming in as a sponsor of NYC Pride for the first time this year, but it has previously participated in Pride, Chief Patient Experience Officer Joan Kelly said. Kelly also said the community’s response to NYU Langone’s support of NYC Pride has been positive. “It’s been tremendous,” Kelly said. “We hadn’t expected it at the level that it is, but the community is so embracing anyway — particularly when they feel heard and supported. They’re helping us as we’ve grown and opened our Transgender Center of Excellence and whatnot. It’s hand in hand to say, ‘Oh, what are your needs? How are we making sure that we’re in the community where you are to support what you need?’” Like NYU Langone, the fast-casual food joint Just Salad is sponsoring NYC Pride this year. It’s Just Salad’s third
year in a row supporting the organization through its Big Gay Garden Salad, which features colorful vegetables laid out to resemble the rainbow Pride flag. Just Salad will donate $1 for each Big Gay Garden Salad sold to NYC Pride and is also offering Pride-themed T-shirts for sale. “It started with consumer research where we found a lot of our customers were LGBT and also have a lot of LGBT teammates from our stores to our corporate office, and they are just a very big part of our organization, so we thought this would be a great way to show our support for them,” said Stephen Swartz, Just Salad’s marketing director. Swartz and 50 Just Salad employees are expected to march in the city’s Pride parade as well. In a press release, NYC Pride Managing Director Chris Frederick said that the organization is thrilled to partner with the restaurant again and that Just Salad’s contributions help make NYC Pride events possible.
Just Salad is offering the Big Gay Garden Salad for Pride Month, and $1 from each salad sold will go toward supporting NYC Pride. Photo courtesy of Just Salad.
“These needed funds are crucial in allowing us to continue to inspire, educate, commemorate and celebrate our diverse community,” Frederick said. Swartz said that he was initially worried about a backlash, but Just Salad’s
investors, customers and employees have only had positive remarks about the company’s support for NYC Pride. “We’re already signing up for next year’s March when it’s gonna be World Pride in New York,” Swartz said.
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FOCUS ON FLAMENCO PERFORMANCE Dance, guitar, singing and audience feedback: Ballet Hispánico presents renowned artist Nélida Tirado BY CHRISTINA CARDONA
Interested in attending an event that has the ambiance of New York City’s flamenco scene? You’re in luck. Nélida Tirado will be performing a Flamenco Tablao show at Ballet Hispánico on West 89th Street on June 23. She has focused her career on Latin dance, specifically flamenco, a Spanish dance which features guitar and can be accompanied with singing. According to Tirado, flamenco tablao is also known as Café Cantantes, or cafe of singers. It became popular during the Café Cantante period in Spain, from 1850 to 1910. “There’s something about flamenco music, flamenco guitar playing, flamenco dance that resonates with everyone, on every level. It may be because it’s about life, it’s about everyone’s struggle, everyone’s strength, everyone’s weakness. Flamenco talks about all these different types of emotions, regularly,” Tirado said. She said a traditional flamenco tablao is an intimate setting, decorated with bullfighting posters, mantones, which are shawls, and photographs of Spanish or flamenco icons. It’s cabaret style and Tirado compares the style to the spontaneity of a jazz performance. “There are certain things that are set, and there are other things that are impromptu. So, there’s lots of room for improvisation. And you’re not really sure how things will lay out,” she said. Tirado, who was raised in the Bronx, was a student at Ballet Hispánico from the age of five to 17. She was born into a family of artists, and her mom pushed her to remain close to her Puerto Rican roots through dance. She stumbled upon flamenco and fell in love with it. Tirado said she’s excited to be able to present flamenco in this way, in a space that is special to her. “I spent all of my childhood years here. I was formed there, it’s nice to go back and do this type of performance in this space, for this audience,” Tirado said.
Dancer Nélida Tirado performing. Photo: Paul Crisanti She said flamenco artists may choreograph some moments, but the majority of the performance is spontaneous. “You’re really limitless. You’re limitless with what you can do within the movement. You’re limitless with what you can do as far as sound goes, you’re limitless with what happens in the moment because you are truly in the moment, and the musicians are to follow you,” Tirado said. At a traditional dance performance, the audience usually claps at the end and it’s seen as rude to make sounds during the performance. Flamenco doesn’t follow those rules. Tirado said her favorite part about performing flamenco is the verbal feedback from the audience during the show. “It’s not frowned upon, it’s part of the culture,” she said. “It animates and gives life to what’s on stage as well. It’s a real exchange of energy.” Tirado said that for her as a woman, flamenco is passionate
and empowering. “It talks about all of these things that speaks to everyone as a human being. There’s a strength behind it because of the resilience of the people that used this as a way for expression, and it still is a way of expression for those who can relate to some of the themes within the music,” Tirado said. The show is open to the public. Wine and traditional Spanish tapas will be served, creating a genuine tablao experience.
IF YOU GO Where: Ballet Hispánico’s Penthouse Studio at 167 West 89th St. When: Saturday June 23, 2018 Time: There will be two sets, one at 8:00 p.m. and another at 9:30 p.m. Tickets: Start at $25 and go to $55
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A PARTY GIRL’S LEARNING CURVE BOOKS In Amber Brock’s historical novel set in the 1950s, a Manhattan socialite tries to change her corner of the world
The window display at Shakespeare and Co. on Lexington Avenue. Photo: Courtesy of Shakespeare and Co.
NEW CHAPTER FOR CITY’S INDIE BOOKSTORES BUSINESS A renaissance for hardbounds and paperbacks? BY SUSHMITA ROY
The scent is a mishmash of newly printed paper and freshly heated croissants. There is also the sound of footsteps, on occasion accompanied by the click-clack of walking sticks, finding their way to the back of the store, to where books by their beloved favorite writers are neatly arranged. At still other times, you can make out the rhythm of tapping fingers on keypads, arrayed as they are near the windows overlooking bustling Lexington Avenue. This is the vibe at the Shakespeare Bookstore and Café. Despite digitization and the proliferation of online booksellers, independent bookstores are on the rise around the city and part of the reason, it seems, is that fecund atmosphere. Dane Neller, CEO of Shakespeare and Co., suggests that his bookstore is as much a community center and a place to buy books. Having a café and a bookstore in one place allows him promote the space as a hangout spot. Besides, he says, a book-reading affair is more “intimate” than any digital experience. “The book in its original form, that is the physical paperback, has survived digitization,” Neller said recently. “Small neighborhood bookstores are coming up as a reaction to more defined neighborhood
borders.” When Neller took over the then-teetering Shakespeare & Co. brand a few years ago, few expected a retail renaissance for books — except maybe Neller, a former CEO with Dean & DeLuca. With what he calls the “Espresso Book Machine,” he advanced the idea that absence of a title in the store did not mean it couldn’t be had. “One day hopefully sooner or later, a consumer can walk into a bookstore and never be disappointed for not finding the book they want on the shelves,” he said. The machine prints a book store-quality paperback in under 15 minutes and is unique to Shakespeare Bookstore and Café. A similar mechanism will be in place at Shakespeare’s new location on the Upper West Side, which will open on Broadway near 70th Street in early fall. Another branch will also open in Greenwich Village. “I picked the West Side because I thought there was a loyalty to the Shakespeare brand,” said Neller. Indeed, after the closing of the original Shakespeare & Co in 1996, the Upper West Side has experienced a tremendous growth in independent bookstores, much of it in the last five years. But growth isn’t confined to New York City. According to the American Booksellers Association, there has been a 27 percent growth in independent bookstores in the last decade or so. Among those that opened in the city is Books of Wonder, the children’s bookstore, which opened its second city location, at 217 West 84th Street, last year.
“Its very much a strong community on the West Side. People are passionate about their neighborhood and care about what happens here,” said Peter Glassman, Books of Wonder’s owner. Inside, mothers are reading out to their young ones, surrounded by other children and families. It is here they experience their first bonding moments. A bookstore can be a lot of things — a place to start over, a place to pause, or even a place to find your significant other, much like Christopher Doeblin did. Doeblin, who owns the Book Culture outlets at on West 112th Street and at 450 Columbus Avenue, and his business partner at the time, Cliff Simms, both met their significant others at the bookstore. “My wife (who worked at the store then) is the kind of person who’d listen to people and sometimes I had to send patrons in to tell her to keep off the phone because all these people would call to talk,” Doeblin said. “They’d come to talk to people at the bookstore because they are lonely.” For Doeblin, it’s about the touch and feel of books, and, importantly, the personalized service, including staff recommendation tags, that separate his bookstore from an online platform. “It’s like deciding between Starbucks and a unique café,” he said. “You’d want to go to a café for its ambience, interiors and variety, which is why people come to bookstores and not just shop from Amazon.”
Can a New York socialite who lives to flirt and party grow a conscience? If you’re shaking your head “no” because you’re gauging your answer on the Real Housewives, I offer a better point of reference. “Kitty Tessler,” the heroine in Amber Brock’s latest historical novel “Lady Be Good” (Crown Publishing, June 26) is the daughter of a hotel magnate who lives in a glamorous world of penthouses and nightclubs, which have her dancing ‘til dawn from New York to Miami to Havana. Her story unfolds during the holiday season of 1953 and ends in the beginning of 1954. These three life-changing months, can be attributed to this Manhattan party girl’s introduction to a down-to-earth Jewish trumpet player named Max. Because of him, Kitty learns of a New York that can’t be known from towering suites, only by boots (in her case high heels) on the ground. From Washington Square to Harlem, Chinatown to Arthur Avenue, via subway, bus and taxi, as opposed to her father’s car and driver, “She walked the streets and watched. She met people and really listened to them. She would feel lost one moment and found the next.” As her view of the city expands, Kitty begins to see what Max has always known: injustices small and large, certain groups prohibited from entering certain establishments, a loaded word tossed off carelessly to a particular type of person. “She took bits of her experiences with her and they began to reshape the map of her home in her mind. She was newly arrived in a different world.” Even though the story is set sixty-five years in the past, there is something oddly contemporary about people who have access to the world yet keep their orbit very small. I know those who live on the Upper East Side who think life begins on 57th Street and ends
on 96th; ones who live in the Village and insist that there’s no life above 23rd Street; and Upper West Siders who bristle at the idea of crossing to the other side of the park. They all act as though this is a good thing, as if stepping outside the boundaries of their area is a sign of disloyalty. I, on the other hand, always prided myself on the fact that unlike my acquaintances, I took advantage of what all Manhattan’s neighborhoods had to offer. The first thing one learns though, is that not all sections of NYC are created equal, and even within a tony area such as the Upper East Side, not every block mirrors the manicured Park Avenue. Although everyone might know that intellectually, as Kitty discovers, seeing it up close helps the fact sink in emotionally. She knew she couldn’t change the whole world, so Kitty focused on her corner of it, making it clear, after witnessing discrimination against Max and a fellow musician of Cuban decent, that that behavior would never be tolerated in one of her family’s
hotels. This scenario is apropos of a recent news event, when a now-apologetic midtown lawyer, Aaron Schlossberg, yelled racist comments at Spanishspeaking restaurant workers at Fresh Kitchen on Madison Avenue. After the video of the incident went viral, fellow attorneys at a Queens court kept their distance, politicians asked that his law license be reviewed, and Schlossberg’s office space evicted him. What happened here is easy to get behind because it’s so public. But how about when the inappropriate comments are made in private by a colleague, friend or family member, you know, people we’re more apt to make excuses for when they behave badly? Taking umbrage with intimates is a lot harder than objecting to the rants of a stranger on YouTube, but voicing offense with them is actually how to arrive, as Kitty did, in a different world. Lorraine Duffy Merkl is the author of the novel “Back to Work She Goes,” about a SAHM trying to re-enter the workforce.
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EXCAVATING THE PAST In her new memoir, Linda I. Meyers touches on family tragedy, comedy and some celebrity cameos BY ALIZAH SALARIO
Linda I. Meyers, a psychologist and author of “The Tell: A Memoir,” did not have an easy start. The only child of a troubled mother and a ladies-man father who dabbled in the Jewish mob, Meyers was often a pawn in her parent’s tumultuous marriage. She spent much of her youth with her grandmother, an Eastern European immigrant who settled in Brownsville, Brooklyn. At a young age, Meyers left an unhappy childhood for a miserable marriage. Then, when Meyers was 28 and the mother of three young boys, her mother took her own life. Meyers was devastated, conflicted — and determined not to end up the same way.
“The Tell” is a personal and family history about using tragedy as a catalyst to turn life around. It’s also deliriously funny. Meyers’ interconnected essays are written with crackling prose; in the most memorable chapters, her personal history intersects with that of New York City. She tags along with her grandmother, who runs a concession stand in the Catskills, and falls madly in love with a young Ralph Lauren (nee Lifshitz). She schelps her three red-headed sons around town on auditions to earn extra money as a single mother until one catches a big break when he’s cast as a young Alvy Singer in Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall.” Meyers, who now lives on the Upper West Side, spoke about grieving a loved one’s suicide, finding humor in tragedy and becoming a writer in her 70s.
Psychologist and author Linda I. Meyers. Photo: Dylan Patrick
What prompted you to write a memoir? Well, I wanted to write it mainly for my grandchildren so they could have it and read it at some point in their lives. I would’ve loved to have had a recording or a book written by my parents or grandparents. I’d love to know the backstory of my life. So I wanted to provide that for them.
You capture an old Jewish Brooklyn that doesn’t really exist anymore. I love so many of your descriptions of the old neighborhood: “The butcher shop had sawdust on the floor, a finger on the scale, and Esther, the chicken plucker, in the corner.” I was a little girl and I stayed with my grandmother. I lived that experience of old Jewish Brooklyn. I was little, but I remember ... I’ve not been back to that part of Brooklyn, so I’m not sure what it’s like these days but the sense of community back then was very powerful.
You wrote about your mother with a lot of empathy and understanding, but it obviously wasn’t easy growing up with her. The book started with the chapter about her suicide. It was a difficult chapter to write, but what was striking to me was that after I’d written it, there was humor in it. It’s what we call operating room humor, it was black humor, but somehow I still managed to find the humor, which sort of shocked me. I mean, woo! It was difficult growing up with her, it really was, and now I look back and I really feel very bad for her. She had such a hard
time of it. I’ve written about this because I’m also a psychologist and a psychoanalyst, and I think it’s one of the hardest deaths to grieve because the victim is also the perpetrator. So when you feel this remorse, and this sadness for the loss, you also feel this anger for the murder.
You write that your mother’s suicide was the catalyst for leaving your husband. Can you elaborate on how your mother’s death prompted you to change your life? Her death, even though she threatened [suicide] and made attempts, it was still shocking. It was incredibly shocking, and it pushed me out of my lethargy. I was unhappy, I was very unhappy, but I hadn’t really taken any steps to make a change. And what she did was so devastating that I was terrified that if I didn’t change my life I might end up in the grave next to her, I was that depressed.
It takes a lot of courage to do what you did with three kids. I don’t think of myself as brave. I think of myself as desperate in a way. I had to get out of that marriage, I had to get my education. I felt that my children were the carrot on the stick that kept me moving forward because I wanted to provide a life for them that I didn’t have. I wanted them to be able to go to the college of their choice when they were 18 years old, and to really have those experiences, so I had to figure out how I was going to make the money to do it.
And you did it. I did it! Go figure.
Tell me more about being a reluctant stage parent. It was a glamorous experience, and I didn’t want to get caught up in it to the degree that my children’s childhood would be sacrificed. And it even got more difficult when Jonathan was so successful with the film [“Annie Hall”] because there were a lot of calls for him for auditions. At that point, he had really had it. He didn’t want to do anymore, and I needed to respect that. I wanted to respect that, and so I stuck to the promise I made to myself when we started the business — that I would always put their wants and desires first. So we quit.
What did you discover about yourself in the process of writing? It gave me a cohesive and coherent narrative. I was able to see myself in a sort of arc, and that was kind of cool. That was neat, to step back and see that. I’m also finding it very exciting to discover that I’m a writer. I’ve published academic papers, but this is my first foray into creative nonfiction.
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