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COMMUNITY BOARDS EMBRACE SOCIAL MEDIA OUTREACH Twitter chats on the UWS, Facebook livestreams on the UES: leaders push to engage a younger demographic

BY ELISSA SANCI

Mayor Bill de Blasio holds a press conference on the F train in Park Slope, Brooklyn, on Sunday, July 23. Photo: Ed Reed / Mayoral Photo Office, via ďŹ&#x201A;ickr

CITY HALL FARCE, ALBANY FOLLY SUMMER WOES Or how the chartering of a transportation corporation 64 years ago became an excuse to dodge blame and poison politics amid the subway free fall

BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN

So, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s see if we have this right: A crippled subway system routinely tortures 6 million riders a day. It is beset by track ďŹ res, power outages, derailments, breakdowns, signal failures and airless cars.

Yet the debate now raging is not about how to end the agony. Or even how to lessen suffering amid a brutal summer heat wave. Amazingly, it is about the incorporation of a transit

bureaucracy in 1953.

Some New Yorkers have already lost jobs in 2017. Busted switches and chronic train delays have made it tough to get to work on time. But this is what passes for leadership in City Hall and Albany these days: Pols talking in legalisms â&#x20AC;&#x201D; unmoored from the real world underground â&#x20AC;&#x201D; about an era when Vincent R. Impellitteri was mayor, Thomas E. Dewey was governor and Dwight D. Eisenhower was president. Hello?

Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the context. On June 5, trapped riders endured 48 sweltering minutes on an F train with no air, power or lights. On June 27, an A train derailed in Harlem, injuring 39 people, after a worker improperly left rail detritus on the tracks. By July 21, when a Q train derailed in Brooklyn in the morning rush, the near-calamity was barely noticed.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Summer of Hell is turning into the Summer of Fear,â&#x20AC;? said Nick Sifuentes, deputy director of the Riders Alliance, an advocacy group.

Indeed, there are three things to fear, and the imperiling of passengers is No. 1 on any list. But there are social and economic costs, too â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the â&#x20AC;&#x153;human costs of subway delays,â&#x20AC;? city Comptroller Scott Stringer called them in a July 8 survey of 1,227 straphangers at 143 stations over a two-week period.

How bad is it? Among respondents, two percent said they were fired as a result of subway delays, while 22 percent said they were late for job interviews, his auditors found. Among employed respondents, 18 percent were reprimanded, and 13 percent lost wages on account of delays.

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Keeping up to date with all the local Upper West and East Side going-ons has never been easier than it is now. As technology develops rapidly, Manhattanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s community boards have embraced social media as tools they can use to their advantage to reach a broader range of community members. Now, New Yorkers can stay updated, ask questions and even follow along with meetings in real time without ever leaving the comfort of their homes.

Social media is useful for both the board and the community members alike. While these outlets can give community members a way to reach the board in a way that feels more immediate than emailing, it can also be a useful tool for board members to check in with the community and post updates.

On the Upper West Side, Roberta Semer has been actively utilizing Community Board 7â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s social media accounts. In particular, the community board leader has been hosting live Twitter chats every two weeks as a way to reach more members of the Upper West Side community.

CB7â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ rst live chat on June 27 fell ďŹ&#x201A;at: only two community members reached out to Semer, who was tweeting from her personal handle @rss205nyc. This lack of participation didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep Semer and the rest of CB7 from soldiering on in Downtowner

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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.

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Community Board 7 Chairwoman Roberta Semer during the July 11 CB7 Twitter chat. Photo courtesy of CB7 their quest to utilize social media, however. As promised, exactly two weeks later on July 11, Semer was back on Twitter, ready to answer questions. This time, after using the hashtag #CB7Chat to generate traffic to the chat, more of the community participated, asking about new retail options, protected bicycle lanes and affordable housing.

One Upper West Sider who participated in the live chat, Ellen Jovin, tweeted from her handle @EllenJovin: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I vote thumbs up on a vibrant retail scene. I have seen more new stores on UWS ... looking forward to more. #cb7chat.â&#x20AC;?

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THE STORIED DAYS OF THE BUCHANAN HISTORY Myths and history of an East Side apartment building

BY CAROL ANN RINZLER

New York has thousands of apartment buildings. Some, like the multiple Trumps, are famous. Others hide in plain sight like the historic Buchanan, whose simple brick façade from 47th to 48th Street on Third Avenue masks a block-long interior courtyard, a private trash alley, and a secure place in New York transportation history.

In 1875, the only ways for New Yorkers to move north/south around Manhattan were horse-drawn carriages, Broadway buses, and a short New York Elevated Railroad from South Ferry to Grand Central Depot on East 42nd Street. To improve travel for a growing population, New York State told New York City’s mayor to appoint a Board of Rapid Transit Commissioners who, on September 6, proposed a Third Avenue El. In December 1891, with about five miles complete, the original contractor resigned. Two months later Thos. Crimmins & Co. stepped in, advancing both the train and The Buchanan.

Until it closed on May 12, 1955, the El had a two-level local station on East 47th Street, which Crimmins considered the perfect site for apartments.

So did Lafayette Anthony Goldstone, the architect whose designs included the 12-story S. Jarmulowsky Bank at Canal and Orchard (the first “skyscraper” on the Lower East Side) and the Montana Apartments at 375 Park Avenue (replaced by Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building in 1958).

In 1927, the Crimmins/Goldstone marriage gave birth to The Buchanan, a delivery attended by myth. Myth #1: The building was named for President James Buchanan. No, it was named for the Buchanan Farm, land the Dutch gave to British farmers in East MidTown’s Turtle Bay. Myth #2: The Queen of England still owns the land under the building. No. Myth #3: The Buchanan was built for British servants. Yes, there are several small servants’ apartments on the second floor, and some servants may have been British, but in the 1930s, The Buchanan housed socialites with names such as Iselin, Dahlgren, and Havemeyer.

Two decades later, there was Minot Frazier “Mickey” Jelke, the Good Luck Margarine heir convicted of running a house of ill repute, although not in

The Buchanan courtyard. Photo: Perry Luntz The Buchanan. In between, there were writers and politicians, and in 1952, a famous owner: Harry Helmsley, who bought the building in 1952 for $1,000,000, one third less than what it cost Crimmins and Goldstone to build it.

At one point, Helmsley tried but failed to turn the building into a co-op.

Today more than 70 rent-controlled or -stabilized tenants remain to cope with the developers who bought The Buchanan in 2016, tossed the marketrate tenants, and began to re-wire, replumb, and gut their now-empty units to add extra bedrooms. As anyone who has lived through even a small renovation — think a kitchen or bathroom — knows, this comes with noise, dust, and grime. In a large building with

multiple renovations, you can expect to add non-working elevators, newly liberated mice, stop-work orders, and the inevitable dueling landlord and tenant lawyers.

Now, with several apartments complete, the new owners are seeking new tenants at new monthly rents approaching five figures for a list of amenities such as a gym and a library.

Ninety years after the first deal was struck and 88 years after a Sunday in June when the thermometer hit 77 F, the Yankees beat the Red Sox 6-to-4, an ad in The New York Times offered a one-bedroom at an annual rent of $1,150. The ad touted The Buchanan as alluringly “COOL! And in the middle of New York. In the gentle splash of a fountain — trees — a quiet garden —

there is relief from the relentless sun and stuffy, noisy streets — at the Buchanan, 5 minutes walk from Grand Central. The garden is a pleasant place to linger and affords a delightful view from your windows. The rooms are large and light: there are big foyers, fire-places, real kitchens ... ” (New York Times, June 30, 1929) Whether the Trump World Tower, three blocks east at 48th and First, will live as long and engender such praise, is an open question.

Carol Ann Rinzler is the author of more than 20 books on health, including “Nutrition for Dummies” and “Spare Parts: In Praise of Your Appendix and Other Unappreciated Organs.”

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG DINING FRACAS

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When is the customer NOT always right? When he starts throwing stuff! At 4:15 a.m. on Tuesday, July 18, a 38-year-old male employee of the Seaport Deli at 64 Fulton Street got into a verbal dispute with a male customer. The customer then threw items at the deli worker, including his cellphone, hitting him in the face, injuring the worker slightly. The customer then fled.

A Brooklyn woman got off pretty lightly after a wallet snatching in the subway. At 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 20, a 23-year-old woman waiting for the northbound C train at the Nassau Street station felt her bag on her back being opened and sudden movements inside her bag. She turned around and saw a man in his 30s reaching inside her bag and taking her wallet.

She screamed at the pickpocket and chased him from the platform to the middle corridor of the station and then back down to the A/C platform and finally back up to the corridor, at which point she lost the guy in the crowd.

She also lost a MetroCard, IDs, a Social Security card and a €20 note.

VENDOR RENDER These are tough times for downtown food cart vendors. At 2:25 a.m. on Tuesday, July 18, a 56-year-old vendor at the southeast corner of King and Varick Streets was serving a young man at his cart when the youth told him to give him his money. The vendor refused and pulled out his cellphone to call police. The young man, said to be about 17, took the phone from the vendor’s hand and fled south on Varick before heading east on Charlton. The vendor was not injured. Police searched the area but couldn’t find the phone thief.

HARD PRESSED Sometimes it can be too much minding both your children and your belongings. At 1:45 p.m. on Thursday, July 20, a 34-year-old woman entered the Juice Press store at 83 Murray Street with her children. She took out her debit card from her wallet to pay for their food and then sat at a table, placing her wallet on a chair. Apparently distracted by her children, she left

the location with the tots, leaving her wallet on the chair. Realizing her loss, she returned to the store, where management reviewed security video revealing one of the employees taking the wallet. Further information on the sticky-fingered employee was unknown at the time of the police report. The items stolen included a Chanel flap wallet valued at $1,050, a MetroCard worth $20, $10 in cash, debit cards, and house keys. In addition, charges in the amount of $244 appeared on the woman’s American Express card account, making a total missing of $1,324.

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STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 1st precinct for Week to Date

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At 11:50 a.m. on Thursday, July 20, a 30-year-old woman entered the chain’s location at 157 Spring Street and took three pairs of sunglasses off the display rack. While the store employee was occupied otherwise, the woman then placed the glasses into a brown shopping bag and left the store without paying. Police searched the area but couldn’t locate the shady customer.

The three stolen pairs of sunglasses were valued at $1,350.

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COMMUNITY BOARDS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Avinoam Baral (@theaviouschoice) added, “Would be good to have +crosstown bike lanes, +affordable housing, as well as do something about the extensive retail blight on Broadway.” Semer tweeted in response: “Protected bike lanes & safe biking practices make everyone happy. Housing comm working hard to preserve affordable housing #cb7 #CB7Chat.”

Plans for the next few chats, all within two weeks of each other, are already in place.

CB7’s push to use social media as a forum hasn’t gone unnoticed within the network of community boards in Manhattan. Daniel Dornbaum, a cochair of Community Board 8’s technology committee, noticed Semer’s efforts on Twitter. Dornbaum, who is always looking to improve CB8’s web presence, said he often looks to other community boards for reference.

Dornbaum and his committee are also taking strides to become more active on the web; he noted that CB8’s website, which serves Upper East Siders, had been recently revamped. Before the makeover, Dornbaum laughingly called the site (which offered only a meeting calendar) “ancient.”

“The old website was very bare bones, so we wanted a chance to revamp,” Dornbaum said. He wanted the new website to be an easy to use, visually-pleasing source of information for both the board members and the general public. The site now offers a wealth of material that stretches beyond just the calendar, like a roster of community board members, a section dedicated to “what’s new,” and a different page for each subcommittee.

CB8 utilizes both Twitter and Facebook. Rather than use Twitter to engage with community members the way CB7 does, the board uses it more to post meeting updates. “For us, Twitter is a good way to give up-

Our Town|Downtowner otdowntown.com dates on meetings, but our board office is limited in the time they can spend,” Dornbaum explained. “We have to value our time, and the numbers that we would reach on Twitter would be a lot less than we would on other platforms.”

Dornbaum noted that CB8 has far more users engaged on Facebook, where they are more active. There, Dornbaum posts photos, relevant links and spotlights different board members to acknowledge their accomplishments. He’s even used Facebook’s livestreaming feature during monthly meetings to include members with real time updates.

In the future, Dornbaum hopes to livestream the monthly meetings directly to website, rather than rely on third-party streaming.

Both CB7’s live Twitter chats and CB8’s livestream videos are meant to target people who would otherwise remain unengaged had it not been for these social media outlets; this is especially true of the younger demographic of Upper West and East Siders who don’t normally attend board meetings to voice their concerns.

“The meetings, which are early evenings in the middle of the week, can be hard to make as a young professional,” Dornbaum said. “So we target a younger audience on Facebook.”

Semer feels similarly. “We want to reach more people,” she said.

“We want to get more people in the community involved. There may be a whole sector of people who aren’t aware of the community board and aren’t aware of what we do and the kinds of issues that we deal with.”

CB7 and CB8 are only two of the many Manhattan community boards utilizing social media. Community Board 5, which serves Midtown, has a very detailed website featuring an interactive map of the area it covers, and routinely tweets out community updates from @ ManhattanCB5. Community Board 4, serving Chelsea and Clinton, also uses Twitter to send out meeting updates and agenda changes.

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After yet another calamity amid the summer heat wave, a second subway derailment, Mayor Bill de Blasio and wife Chirlane McCray head for a press conference on board the F train in Park Slope, Brooklyn, on Sunday, July 23. Photo: Ed Reed / Mayoral Photo Office, via flickr

CITY HALL FARCE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “When New Yorkers are left stranded on the subway platform or stuck in a tunnel ... they’re losing wages and putting their jobs in jeopardy,” Stringer said. They’re also missing classes, job interviews, and doctor’s appointments, and “running late to pick up children and care for elderly relatives,” he added.

And that brings us to the third fear: that a viable and speedy solution may not be found.

That the unseemly finger-pointing between Governor Andrew Cuomo, who holds outsized control of the MTA while positing that he does not, and Mayor Bill de Blasio, who veers erratically between washing his hands of the system and posturing about how he’d like the city to helm it, will continue so long as they both hold office.

That de Blasio — swaddled in his SUV cocoon from April 19 until he finally ventured into a subway on June 14 — will now use the system as a reelection prop and vehicle to bash Cuomo, as he did on July 23 on an F train in Brooklyn when he demanded the MTA spend cash he claims it’s hoarding before turning to the city, hat in hand.

That a mayor who sanctimoniously

said on June 2 it would be “cheap symbolism” to forsake his chauffeured convoy and take public transit to his Park Slope workouts is now engaged in, well, cheap symbolism to score political points and force upon the electorate a show of empathy that hardly helps bolster subway service.

That Cuomo, whose approval ratings have fallen as transit horrors have worsened, and who rarely deigns to ride the rails himself, unless, say, he’s inaugurating a new Second Avenue Subway, will sharply escalate the juvenile blame game, abetted by MTA chairman Joseph Lhota, to undermine de Blasio at all costs, which appears a greater priority than actually fixing the trains.

And that takes us back to June 15, 1953, the day the New York City Transit Authority was created. The MTA, midwifed by Governor Nelson Rockefeller, was birthed on March 1, 1968 and became the parent of the TA. Citing the 64-year-old lease agreement between the city and the TA at the time it was chartered, and buttressed by a 1981 legislative finding, Cuomo and Lhota on July 20 said the city technically “owns” the system and leases it to the MTA — but is 100 percent responsible for its funding and capital upkeep.

“They own it, they lease it, it’s their

responsibility to fund it,” Lhota said.

It’s merely “affiliated” with the MTA, he continued.

“I’m a lawyer, look at the law,” Cuomo said. Yeah, no kidding. Tell us something we don’t know. “By the law, the city is solely responsible for funding the capital plan of the subway system.” Then in a feint at taking the high road, the governor added, “We stepped in on a moral level.”

Let’s break down these preposterous claims. An obscure 1953 lease provision allows the state to abdicate legal responsibility for 8.2 million people?

Only a “moral” obligation keeps it from abandoning the driver of its otherwise lame economy? Taxpayer funds trickle downstate only via a governor’s noblesse oblige?

Here, de Blasio actually found his footing in the F train press conference in which he branded Cuomo’s arguments “fiction,” saying the state had basically run the show since 1953.

“Just take ownership, and fix the problem,” the mayor said of the governor. The only thing wrong with that formulation: de Blasio needs to take ownership, too. Cough up more cash.

Bolster MTA efforts to fix the trains.

Reach détente with Cuomo.

Do the city a favor, Messrs. Mayor and Governor: end the dereliction of duty today.

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THINKOLIO PRESENTS: WOMEN, DESIGN, AND EMPOWERMENT Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway 7 p.m. Free A dialogue around designs created to emancipate women. It asks the listener to contemplate, from their own position, the ways in which products, garments and interfaces have, for better and sometimes for worse governed shaped, and facilitated modern and contemporary experiences.

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BY ARLENE KAYATT

Seating for locals — Thanks to the MTA for the new seating closer to the local bus stop on Second Ave between 86th and 87th Streets.

Our Town made note of the inconvenience for local riders having to sprint from seating in the Select stop to the local stop. Nice to report good MTA news.

Spectrum — successor to Time Warner in its ownership of NY1, CNN and other media — is promoting itself in the most relentless unuser friendly way. Forget the ads.

Just look at the programming. A Wednesday, about 7:30 p.m., NY1’s “Road to City Hall.” Full screen — Gerson Borrero and Curtis Sliwa’s “Political Rundown”. Curtis, on

right-hand side of screen outfitted in one of his many get-ups. One problem, we couldn’t see all of him, because Spectrum was trying out a new self-promotion. They had a miniature version of the full screen displayed smack over Curtis’s head.

And that’s in addition to NY1’s logo being displayed on the lower left side of screen, and a crawl at the bottom. All this multi-tasking in a 10-minute or so segment. Give me a break. Switching to CNN didn’t help. There was Spectrum’s NY1 miniature screen again in the upper right-hand side of the screen, making it impossible this time to see the talking head. Spectrum should be focusing on re-upping NY1’s programming. It’s not been the same since Sam Roberts was summarily taken off the air. Never thought I’d rue the day that Time Warner went bye bye. But I do. And not sure I’ll

ever get over losing Sam Roberts and Clyde Haberman on Saturday nights (or Sunday mornings if you missed it). Probably won’t.

Dear Mugger — How low can you go? Digging into post mailboxes on the street and stealing mail! For your reading pleasure? For the Social Security checks? Unbelievable.

It’s bad enough that the USPS has had to suffer the slings and arrows of FedEx, email, texting and tweeting to curtail its use. Now you’re making it so that the check won’t really be in the mail. Plus the USPS had to pay for emoji-looking stickers warning mailers not to mail after the last pick up at the particular mailbox. Mugger dear, get a life, and stay out of the US mail. Sincerely, A snail mailer.

Where’s the coffers? — Mid-morning. Take-out coffee from a cafe counter in an UES supermarket. Server pours the coffee. Customer takes out cash to pay. Asks server where’s there a place for tips. “Uh,” the served smiled sheepishly, “in my pocket.”

OK. More room on the counter.

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The seawall and the sled hill — CB8’s Parks and Recreation Committee last week unanimously adopted a resolution regarding repairs to the seawall along the East River Esplanade between 88th and 90th Streets, which are presently being made by the city Parks Department.

The work entails use of the sledding hill as the way construction equipment will access the Esplanade between 88th and 90th Streets. Issues of added traffic, noise and safety were of great concern to the committee, and the resolution included a call for a pedestrian manager to be on duly at all times that trucks access the hill at Carl Schurz Park; having ample signage of the detour route; and crossing guards at key locations, particularly at 96th St. When contacted, a Parks rep said the department had not received or reviewed the resolution, but said the site was already staffed with flaggers that direct pedestrians and cyclists away from truck traffic entering and exiting the construction

zone. And that detour signs of the ongoing construction were in place along with a route to return to the esplanade. Parks says that it is also continuing to provide access to as much of the Esplanade as possible during construction, expected to conclude a year from now.

FYI — current status of project: • Esplanade is temporarily closed between 88th and 90th Streets • Esplanade is open to the public between 90th-96th Streets — pedestrians can access the esplanade at the 96th Street entrance • Esplanade is open to the public to the south of 88th Street • The lawn area, being used as site access, will be completely restore to its existing condition and available for public access at construction’s conclusion.

CB8’s resolution also approved an air monitor and monthly status reports on Esplanade construction work. Way to go.

THE CITY THAT NEEDS ITS SLEEP

BY BETTE DEWING

Could there be a more fit-to-print story in the paper of record last week than that on city noise? The din, the racket, the clamor and clatter so affects our everyday emotional and physical health.

And yet, ironically, noise is almost taken for granted — a given.

And as “New York Grows,” as The Times’s subhead has it, it’s the incessant jack-hammering and blasting that has made even once quiet nabes almost unlivable. 311 has more noise complaints than ever, as do elected officials, whose first duty it is to protect public welfare.

Repeat that “first duty” part. Although unprecedented construction has thankfully made noise pollution a long-overdue concern, noisy neighbors are still the most troubling and least addressed. Stay tuned about who’s often to blame.

But in general, what’s so desperately needed is public, and especially official awareness, on how drastically noise affects emotional and physical health.

Even the medical community seems

unaware how hospitals and other healing places such as nursing homes should all have quiet times and zones.

Yet, noisy roommates are what I fear most in any such vulnerable setting.

My year 2000 pneumonia might not have become life-threatening had a noisy roommate not kept me awake that first night.

Consciousness needs to be raised – an understatement and in so many areas and now what unprecedented construction noise is doing to nearby neighbors’ emotional and physical health. So please share my dream that every builder must provide Bose noise-cancelling headphones to everyone within earshot. So must individual apartment renovators.

Again neighbor noise gets more 311 complaints than any other kind and when numerous members East 79th Street Neighborhood Association lamented this misfortune, the renowned noise expert Arline Bronzaft formulated a building noise-related survey. It was delivered to dozens of Upper East Side apartment managers for distribution to their residents

but despite follow up calls only about one-quarter of the managers agreed to distribute survey.

Thankfully, the much missed Times City Section did a related wry expose, as did this paper and column.

And as noise experts like Bronzaft remind, noise doesn’t have to be loud to be harmful — just heels clicking on the bare floor above one’s apartment can be a considerable stressor. And as Bronzaft also says, it’s the rug thing — a lack of rugs, which in often is in violation of leases and condo and coop requirements.

Attention has got to be paid. But rugs wouldn’t be needed if builders installed cork underlayments beneath flooring.

Ditto for individual apartment renovations. But in the meantime, adequate rug covering must become de rigueur — a primary requirement for every multiple dwelling.

But it’s got to be talked about – a lot.

Too often afflicted residents, especially elder people living alone, suffer in silence. They don’t want to rile the neighbors. Attention must be continually paid - indeed make a big noise

Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority against undue home noise invasion, and what must be done to prevent it.

Or at least curtail it.

Again, noise pollution actually needs more concern than the dirty air kind because its adverse effects are also felt so dramatically.

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‘WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE?’ OR HOW THE MAGIC OF MANHATTAN CAN SPRINKLE ITS STARDUST ON 305,446 60-PLUSERS WHO CALL IT HOME

BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN

It’s hard to conjure up a better place for senior living than Manhattan: Crime is low. Streets are safe. Livability is high. Discounts are bountiful.

Culture is unrivaled. Central Park is heavenly. SummerStage concerts are free.

Volunteerism is a way of life: Kind hearts will escort you to doctor visits.

Deliver meals to your home. Take you to an opera or museum. Read a volume of poetry. Walk the dog. Match wits in a game of chess or Go or pinochle.

Social isolation? There are 1.56 million ways to fight it. In other words, the entire population of this very sociable island, from the doorman to the shopkeep to the next-door neighbor. Consider an old-fashioned coffee klatch, bridge club or Mah-jongg circle. Or a new-fangled Pilates class.

Infrastructure? Benches are sprouting up on avenues. Pedestrian-safety islands on streets. Countdown clocks at intersections. Crossing times on Broadway have been increased. Sidewalks extended. Crossing distances shortened.

From Dutch times to modern times, Manhattan has enthralled every age group fortunate enough to call it home. But never in that 400-year history has it ever been more user-friendly to the aging, the old and the very old than it is today.

Boarding the new Second Avenue Subway? Every station is wheelchair accessible. Touring the relatively new High Line? Five elevators whisk you up to the elevated park. Visiting the newer still Sept. 11 Museum? Service animals and mechanized scooters take you down to bedrock.

Give City Hall some credit: The de Blasio administration boosted aging services by $84 million over three years, or 59 percent, investing in geriatric mental health and caregiver programs, providing weekend meals to seniors and curbing long waitlists for homecare and other services.

Broiling in your apartment in the summer heat wave? There’s even a “Cooling Assistance Program” that provides a limited number of air conditioners to seniors with medical conditions exacerbated by heat.

“What’s not to love?” says Lydia Cohen, an 84-year-old retired teacher and widow who lives off West 79th Street and loves her occasional forays into three national treasures nearby – the New-York Historical Society, American Museum of Natural History and Children’s Museum of Manhattan.

“They’re practically on my door step,” she says over delectable-looking, house-toasted granola with dried cranberries at the Nice Matin bistro on Amsterdam Avenue. “And you can’t beat the prices.”

Gleefully, she ticks off the $17 suggested tab for seniors at the Museum of Natural History, a $5 discount. The $16 Historical Society ducat, also a $5 break. As for the $11 it costs her at the Children’s Museum, “That’s $3 less than the price I pay for my grandson!” she says.

Cohen has a daughter living in a “very nice, very sweet, very dull New Jersey suburb” who’s been urging her mother to move in. But she tells her, “rather politely,” not to hold her breath: “Like Ed Koch, I want to live and die right here in Manhattan,” she says.

The data suggests that thousands of other seniors share Cohen’s point of view.

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POPULATION “By 2040, one in every five New Yorkers will be 60 or older,” according to “AgeFriendly NYC,” a July 19 report by the city’s Department for the Aging.

Wait a minute. That day has already arrived on the Upper East Side, where 25.31 percent of the population, or 54,106 people, is aged 60 or above, and on the Upper West Side, with a 24.25 percent tally, or 45,410 seniors.

By contrast, the more youthful downtown neighborhoods — Tribeca, Wall Street, Soho, Greenwich Village — have a much smaller populace of 60-plusers, 16.83 percent, according to “Profile of Older New Yorkers,” a 2016 report by the Dept. for the Aging.

Old really does mean old: On the West Side and East Side respectively, there are 5,486 and 4,713 residents aged 85 or older, versus just 1,831 downtown. As for the census of those 75 and up, nothing comes close to the East Side’s 12,825 people. The West Side boasts 9,195.

In the city as a whole, 17.6 percent of residents are 60-plus. Brooklyn is a little younger, with 16.8 percent aged 60 or up, and Queens is a tad older, at 18.1 percent. But nothing compares to the graying of Manhattan, where 19.6 percent of the borough’s population, or 305,446 residents, are so-called oldsters.

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It’s tough to live alone, for all the delights, diversions and social services the island offers. And 125,371 borough residents aged 60 or above are by themselves, or 41 percent. Unfortunately, that’s far greater than the rate citywide, which is 29.4 percent.

Not only that, live-alone numbers are much higher in Chelsea, Clinton and midtown, 55.8 percent, and slightly higher on the Upper West Side and Upper East Side, 42.74 percent and UES 41.30 percent respectively.

Getting sick can be horrifying. The only saving grace: It’s a prescription for receiving the most skilled medical care in the U.S. Three Manhattan hospitals were listed among the “2016-2017 Best Hospitals Honor Roll,” along with 17 other top medical centers in the nation.

No. 1 in the city and No. 6 in America was the 2,381-bed NewYork-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, which ranked nationally in 15 adult and 10 pediatric specialties, according to the U.S. News & World Report rankings.

NYU Langone Medical Center ranked second in the city and No. 10 nationwide, while Mount Sinai Hospital ranked third in New York and No. 15 in the U.S. How extraordinary are these three institutions for senior care? U.S. News evaluated 4,500 hospitals in 50 states and winnowed them out as the crème de la crème. No other city boasted more than two hospitals in the top 20.

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Two great things about Manhattan: You live longer here. And life spans keep increasing at a rapid clip.

In 1980, Manhattan’s life expectancy at birth for both sexes was 71.04 years. By 2000, it had climbed to 77.8 years. As of 2014, it had hit 81.86 years, according to the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. It’s still growing.

The outer boroughs don’t come close. Brooklyn may be red-hot, but life expectancy there stands at 80.47 years, or 1.39 fewer years. Statewide, longevity is 80.36. And for the U.S. as a whole, the overall rate is 78.8.

Meanwhile, several Manhattan communities have outpaced borough-wide longevity, according to an April report on vital statistics by the city’s Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Upper East Siders — with expected life spans of 85.9 years in 2015 — outlived both the rest of Manhattan and all four outer boroughs. And downtown residents, from the village to the Battery, can be expected to live 85.8 years.

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LIVABILITY In May 2015, AARP’s Public Policy Institute engineered a “Livability Index” in which it ranked the livability of neighborhoods and cities for people 50 years and up, based on categories like engagement, transit, health, opportunity, environment and housing.

The average score was 50. Manhattan merited a 70 — and outpointed such hot spots as San Francisco, Boston, Miami and Los Angeles. It even left self-referential Brooklyn (63) in the dust.

In all of America, the No. 2 most livable neighborhood was deemed to be the Upper West Side. While it’s somewhat of a mystery that a place called Mifflin West, in Madison, Wisconsin, was ranked No. 1, hey, this is the AARP’s bread and butter, so let’s assume they know what they’re talking about.

“Great restaurants, world-class culture, easy access to gyms and Central Park jogging paths,” marveled the AARP in tipping its hat to the West Side. “Expensive housing, but a walkable neighborhood with cheap and convenient mass transit. Multigenerational community.”

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AGING, THE LAW AND YOU What important pieces should people have in place as they begin planning their estates?

Every adult resident of New York state should have a durable general power of attorney naming an agent who can act for them in financial matters. If you do not have a will in New York, the law makes a will for you, in the form of the intestacy statute, that says who will inherit and who will administer your estate. If you do not have a health care proxy, the Family Health Care Decisions Act names a series of people who can make your health care decisions for you, although with some significant limitations.

But there is no statute that automatically appoints anyone to manage your affairs if you require assistance.

That requires a guardianship proceeding. Guardianship proceedings take 28 days to complete, by law. They are often difficult, stressful, embarrassing and expensive.

You can avoid all of that by having a good power of attorney.

That is my number one recommendation: have a good power of attorney. If you’ve done nothing else, that has the gifting powers required so that if you’ve delayed and procrastinated, at least you’ve named an agent that can do it for you.

What steps can individuals take to prepare for the possibility that they will require long-term care?

One step, of course, is always having the basic power of attorney in place. The next step is to consider whether

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some kind of a long-term care insurance policy is a financially viable option for you.

People often say, “I’ve heard it’s so expensive.” Well, it really depends. I encourage all my clients between the ages of 50 and 70 to go out and investigate. There are a number of types of policies. One type of policy is a socalled “partnership policy,” where if you buy a certain level of benefit and you exhaust that benefit, you can qualify for Medicaid even though you do have assets. This can be an incredibly useful tool for a middle-class couple, where the concern is if one of them gets sick and the other one is healthy for 20 years, how does the healthy spouse pay the bills?

You can also buy a policy without a partnership feature and sometimes a much higher level of benefit. There are also even life insurance policies that are a hybrid of a life insurance policy and a long-term care policy, which is attractive to people because at least you know your family is going to get some money back.

There’s a lot of pressure on the Medicaid funding, and how long those options are going to be available in the current political climate is open to question. The landscape is always changing. It’s extremely important to get good advice and it’s important to incorporate that advice into your estate planning not when the crisis occurs, but to have an attorney that you work with on these planning issues periodically so that you’re educated and know that you have the mechanisms in place.

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How can people find knowledgeable and trustworthy advisers to work with?

One thing you always want to do is ask them whether they hold themselves out as an elder law attorney or not, and whether they’re a member of the elder law section.

If you’re going to the person who’s done all of your work on real estate and simple wills and powers of attorney, they may do a perfectly competent job on that but they may not have the expertise to do that additional level of planning.

You should always have a plan, and realize that having a random will or a random trust or a random insurance policy isn’t a plan. A plan is making sure that all those things work together to protect you while you’re alive, and to get money to the people you want to have it with the least amount of taxes when you die. That requires some guidance from your lawyer, your accountant, your financial adviser.

When you’re looking for someone, stick to referrals from friends, family and advisers. That’s no knock on people who advertise online, but this is very personal stuff and you should feel very comfortable that you’ve got the kind of referral where you can trust someone personally. It’s not a commodity item. You’re getting into what should be a personal relationship with an adviser that you can call on over the years.

It’s a process. People think that doing a will is just going to magically create an estate plan. It isn’t. It’s a good deal more work than that, and this is part of the total process of planning for your financial future.

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HOMES AWAY FROM HOME

Where to live next: 12 senior living residences in Manhattan and out of the city

BY GENIA GOULD

MANHATTAN Isabella House & Isabella Nursing

The New Jewish Home

515 Audubon Ave., near West 191st Street; 212-342-9200; isabella.org Facilities: 77 independent-living apartments, from studios to one-bedrooms; 705 nursing beds Fees: $2,400 to $2,800 per month Waiting list: Three months for a one-bedroom; 6 months for a studio Type: Independent Living with continuum of care

120 West 106th St.; 212-870-4715; jewishhome.org Facilities: 514 beds; they also run a Westchester campus (in Mamaroneck) and senior-housing residences in The Bronx, including independent living and assisted living Fees: A mix of private-pay, Medicare/Medicaid Type: Skilled Nursing Home & Rehab

Isabella House was originally a home built in the 1880s (at the time, deep in the woods of Manhattan) that accommodated 200 women. It was razed and rebuilt as two large tan brick buildings which went up in the ‘60s and ‘70s. In Washington Heights, a little far from the center of Manhattan, Isabella offers “really good value,” says Betty Lehman, Director of Marketing and Communications. Even well-off residents choose Isabella for the value, says Lehman, preferring to spend their money on cabs to Lincoln Center, excursions and occasional dinners out on the town.

Isabella House was rebuilt as senior housing, but changing demographics and times called for adding skilled nursing facilities, as well as a special focus on memory care. The top six floors in the 19-story primary building remain reserved for senior independent living. Apartments, many with terraces, have stunning views of the Hudson River and beyond.

There is a state-of-the-art rehab room, and a large auditorium made available for local community meetings and graduations which encourages community involvement, as well as activities such as films, dances and parties for the residents. A large outdoor landscaped garden presents an opportunity for walking and catching rays. Music and exercise programs, therapeutic massage, discussion groups, and membership to the Isabella Institute for Older Adults, features “workshops, seminars, health screenings and social events to stimulate the hearts, minds and bodies of its participants.”

Prospective residents are welcome to stay for an overnight trial stay (sometimes longer).

Amsterdam Nursing Home 1060 Amsterdam Ave.; 212-316-7700; amsterdamcares. org Facilities: 409 beds Waiting list: None Type: Skilled Nursing Home & Rehab

One of the oldest nursing homes in the city, founded 145 years ago as a home for “old men and aged couples,” Amsterdam was once located on Hudson Street, and moved up to the Upper West Side in 1872, even before St. John the Divine Cathedral was erected.

Sitting just across the street from the iconic Cathedral, with gardens that hug 112th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, the home is protected for privacy with shrubbery and plants and trees and offers a continuum of life in the Morningside neighborhood. On nice days, residents sit outdoors with an attendant or family to enjoy the fresh air.

There are lovely common rooms, one with a piano, and plush armchairs for concerts and other events. One room features a captivating live bird display and fish tank. A connecting landmark building (which at one time was built as a water pump station) is where their adult day care program is held.

While Amsterdam serves the local community and NYC, their reputation precedes them, and hospitals often recommend their patients for rehab, including those coming from abroad

The New Jewish Home CEO Audrey Weiner and resident Richard Morse prepare for NYC Pride March. Photo: Tadej Znidarcic

for surgical procedures. “We have good outcomes,” says Judith Fenster, Senior Vice President and Administrator. “We not only send them home ready to go home, we are getting info from the hospitals that the rate of return to a hospital from Amsterdam is very low.” Amsterdam has consistently received five-star ratings from Medicare/Medicaid.

One special feature, Fenster says, is a Geri-Gym, an Amsterdam House-sponsored complement to prescribed physical therapy, designed to help maintain residents’ abilities.

“You don’t want people to lose any level of function; if they’re walking even with assistance, you want them to continue and retain their abilities and their independence.”

Lott Assisted Living Residence 1261 Fifth Ave.; 212-534-6464 ext. 5149; lottchha.org Facilities: 127 studio apartments Fees: $4,500 per month Waiting list: Anywhere from 2 weeks to 6 months Type: Assisted Living

Lott Residence was built for low-income seniors in 2000, located at the northern end of museum mile and across the street from Central Park — an ideal location. The notfor-profit residence was built to offer seniors quality care in the East Harlem area. It is one of only two assisted-living facilities in New York City that accept Medicaid — 90 percent Medicaid, 10 percent private pay.

As a Medicaid recipient, Lott is required to adhere to many rules which precludes residents from having pets, or overnight guests, or wheelchairs (with some exceptions), but the upside is that the staff are vigilant, and their residents have “low fall rates.”

While they aim to target seniors in the East Harlem area, residents hail from the Bronx, Staten Island, Florida, everywhere, says CEO Nicole Atanasio.

Lott residents have the opportunity to engage in a full calendar of activities including exercise, lectures and trips and music programs. Resident jazz musician Ruben Wilson performs for the Lott community with his trio once a month.

A charming garden is anchored at the center of the building where many events take place, including BBQs and concerts. The resident dining room on the 14th floor is a daily dose of joy with a spectacular view of the Harlem Meer in Central Park.

The news for The New Jewish Home is the construction of a 20-story building at 97th Street and Columbus Avenue, next to Park West Village apartment buildings, which will feature 32 green houses. What is a green house? “Think two large Upper West Side apartments side by side,” says TNJH CEO Audrey Weiner, adding: “And, think commune meets fabulous college dormitory.”

Each green house will accommodate 12 residents, with their own room with private or shared bathroom with a shower.

Rooms will open onto a central living area; an open kitchen where staff accommodate each residents’ food choices and waking and sleep schedules and activities. Although a nurse is available 24 hours a day and the clinical-care team is nearby and visits the home to provide care, the sense is that one is receiving care in a family-type setting.

These progressive care principles are known as “residentcentered care” guided communities. Staff are consistent to the one group and trained to do many jobs, and to develop warm relationships with residents. Construction of the building is projected to begin in 2019 and completed in 2022.

A not-for-profit, The New Jewish Home has been running green houses at their Westchester campus successfully for several years on a smaller scale.

To keep pace with the development of the new building at their current location on 106th Street, the Home has been adapting the green house principles, making changes where they can within the footprint (a traditional hospital floor plan), and retraining staff. They are preparing to be fully ready when staff and residents and patients are transferred to the new location.

The present building has impressive features, including a spacious outdoor garden and a library. There is a large auditorium where many social events for the residents take place, including writing workshops, pet therapy and art classes.

Residents also regularly attend concerts, have movie nights, and go to the theater.

Recently LGBT residents were taken to the NYC Pride March.

Seniors in their wheelchairs and dozens of staff participated with two colorfully decorated vans. Dominga Marquez, the resident council president, who is not gay-identified, says she joined the outing to show her support for her fellow residents who are LGBT: “It’s important to know that people are free to express who they are.”

Carnegie East House 1844 Second Ave.; 212-410-0033; carnegieeast.org Facilities: 98 apartments, studios to two-bedrooms Fees: $5,650 to $7,300 per month Waiting list: Six months for units with East River views; two to three years for one of 21 units set aside for qualifying low-income applicants Type: Assisted Living

As an independent, not-for-profit, says Marketing Director Margaret Foley, Carnegie East “is not under pressure to increase rates by 10 percent each year.” That means they have

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a small budget when it comes to advertising and marketing, but there is added focus on the residents, an intimacy, such as knowing the names of every resident. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every resident knows me, they know my family, they know where my parents live,â&#x20AC;? says Foley. â&#x20AC;&#x153;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a much different experience living here, you definitely feel like a home. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just an apartment building. I think people really feel cared for.â&#x20AC;?

Resident Phyllis O. Silverman, 87, a retired school teacher, says that â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love my little apartment. Every morning I look out my window, and see people walking their dogs, and the traffic, I love it and I feel like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m part of the city. She adds that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy physical living, people can get around easily.â&#x20AC;?

Among the activities, highly noteworthy are entire operas performed live by The New York City Opera Forum once a month; as many as 15 singers perform. There are movies every night, various lectures, a Shakespeare class, a jewelry-making class, Tai Chi, chair yoga and stretching exercises. Residents can participate in a theater workshop, and put on shows several times a year in a large activities room they call â&#x20AC;&#x153;Carnegie Hall.â&#x20AC;?

The building features a spacious terrace for parties and other activities.

Carnegie East also offers affordable housing, something no other senior living community does, Foley says that if a residents spend down their money, they can be placed on a waiting list for affordable housing. When a resident meets State requirements, Carnegie East can do a conversion on the spot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A rent can go from $6,700 to $2,700 a month with the same services in place,â&#x20AC;? says Foley. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Three meals a day, housekeeping, laundry, everything.â&#x20AC;?

Atria West 86th Street 333 West 86th St., near Riverside Drive; 212-712-0200; atriaseniorliving.com Facilities: 339 apartments, from studios to a two-bedroom penthouse Fees: $7,575 to $13,555 per month Waiting list: None Type: Assisted Living (Enriched Housing)

Within the rehabbed pre-war Upper West Side building, the aroma of home-baked cookies wafts into the busy foyer of Atria West 86 Street. Soft saxophone tones is the background sound track. Food is a celebratory affair at Atria, with three options for residents: a cafe, an elegant dining hall, and a gourmet bistro restaurant with an open kitchen.

There is a communal terrace on the roof, and many rooms offer stunning views of the Hudson River. Tenants live as independently as they wish, and while they get many services, like housekeeping and meals and an option of hundreds of activities a month, they choose different levels of aid and assistance. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a wellness center and a 24-hour nurse on site; doctors visit weekly.

Resident Mary Caplan, 74, a psychotherapist who still sees patients in her downtown office, moved into the community from Brooklyn a year ago with her husband. They decided to be pro-active about needing assistance, â&#x20AC;&#x153;before anyone else suggested it to us.â&#x20AC;?

Caplan says she used to get a chuckle at the vans full of seniors that would pull up in front of Broadway theaters, but now she herself enjoys that same service â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the ease of getting to shows and returning home.

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It seems like every minute is accounted for from a Sock Hop Dance to morning walks in Riverside Park to art history lectures, to museum outings to strength and balance classes. During the school year Juilliard musicians come in to perform.

Caplan is looking forward to a hugely popular writing workshop which is overseen by a Columbia University journalism grad student. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know whether they have a special interviewing technique or whether they train the staff. This staff is both kind and very professional,â&#x20AC;? says Caplan, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I used to be nurse at one point, and now a therapist, and I watched the interaction, and people try to be kind, but really there is an extra layer.â&#x20AC;?

Tennis champ Billie Jean King is the Active Aging Ambassador for the Atria chain. The West 86th Street community is the chainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flagship location, among 190 residences located all over the U.S. King comes in from time to time to talk about healthy aging.

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The 80th Street Residence 430 East 80th St.; 212-717-8888; 80thstreetresidence.com Facilities: 65 rooms Fees: $16,000 to $19,000 per month Waiting list: None to three months Type: Enhanced Assisted Living

Privately owned, The 80th Street Residence is the only assisted living residence in NYC exclusively for individuals with varying degrees of cognitive impairment (Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and dementia). With the highest level of licensure an assisted living community can obtain by the NYS Department of Health, their designation is known as Enhanced Assisted Living, which allows them to provide aging-in-place. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s physical capabilities should become greater, if they need more assistance we allow them to stay here and increase the assistance theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re being provided,â&#x20AC;? says Assistant Executive Director Lindsey Harbison.

Many regular assisted-living facilities will not allow walkers or wheelchairs for those residents who might need more assistance with ambulation. Another licensure 80th Street has is a Special Needs Assisted Living resident certification, which allows them to do what they do best, which is the dementiaspecific care.

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Music is a major part of the programming at 80th Street.

“We realized that music is key to the soul, little by little we started bringing in different vendors,” says Executive Director, Clare Shanley, among them concerts by Juilliard students, and another group called Rhythm Break Cares, who dance with the residents. Wimbledon is “a big deal,” and programming is scheduled for the residents around the tennis event.

The fee for residents is all-inclusive; one monthly rate includes beauty parlor services, toiletries, all outings, TV and furniture, transportation to doctor visits. The one thing they don’t pay for is dry cleaning, “because that can get crazy,” Shanley says.

ArchCare at Mary Manning Walsh Home 1339 York Ave.; 212-628-2800;archcare.org Facilities: 362 nursing beds Fees: Mix of Medicare/Medicaid private and commercial insurance Waiting list: Three to six months for long term care Type: Skilled Nursing Home & Rehab

Mary Manning Walsh is a part of ArchCare, the continuingcare community of the Archdiocese of New York, and sponsored by the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm. They are a faith-based society but they welcome people of every background, and consistently receive a five-star rating from Medicare/Medicaid. Most rooms are private. A living room on the first floor features a grand piano, where families congregate and where concerts are often performed. There is also a chapel on the first floor, where daily mass is held, and which hosts regular services for people of other faiths.

The Home recently upgraded their rehabilitation gym, and is in the process of renovating patient floors, so there is a feeling of lightness and brightness.

Meals are delivered to residents’ rooms but residents have the option to dine in a common dining room, or even in a restaurant-style lounge on the seventh floor, where there is also a patio facing York Avenue. “It is nicely furnished, with a welcome breeze during the summer, where BBQs are held and families take full advantage of,” says Wanda Taylor, Director of Admissions. Her colleague Michael Monahan, Director of MMW adds, “Oftentimes after bowling or a card game or a concert, residents and families will enjoy some wine at their Emerald lounge, or a coffee at their café,” both on the concourse level.

The Home offers an excellent recreational program including music therapy and concerts every weekend from classical to jazz. There is also a bridge club, beading and art classes. Some of the residents’ jewelry goes on sale in their gift shop.

Brookdale Battery Park 455 North End Ave., near Chambers Street; 212-791-2500, Brookdale.com Facilities: 217 apartments, from studios to twobedrooms Fees: $6,780 to $10,600 per month Waiting List: High occupancy, first come first serve Type: Independent Living

“Brookdale is like a cruise ship that isn’t moving with lots of services in place,” says Gail Hochfeld, a Brookdale sales counselor. It has an impressive lobby featuring a huge arrangement of fresh flowers and beautiful common rooms.

Large oil paintings hang on the walls (many of them painted by a current resident).

Built in 2000 with seniors very much in mind, hallways are wide with built-in ledges for extra support, and apartments feature low counter tops.

Brookdale Senior Living is the largest owner and operator of senior living communities throughout the U.S., running 1,100 of them.

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Residents are given a pendant which works like a GPS so if they feel the need for assistance they will be easily identified and located. There are motion detectors in residents’ room so if they sleep in later than usual, staff will check on them.

On the premises, there is a fitness and wellness center and a walk-in clinic with a doctor and a nurse and physical therapist.

There are also two home aide agencies on the premises 24-7 that offer cluster care — what Hochfeld describes as “snippets of care ... rather than the four-hour minimum most home care agencies charge.”

Brookdale is located at Battery Park, with the opportunity to walk and enjoy the river. There’s also a small garden sanctuary within the complex.

Among the hundreds of activities organized every month, from lectures to musical events, “food-shopping trips are a big deal here,” says Hochfeld. “Many residents like to go to a Shop Rite in Jersey City ... They’re a savvy group, they know that the Shop Rite has bigger aisles, is less congested than the Whole Foods, or the supermarkets in the city, it’s a little cheaper, and they recognize the brands. For instance, in a Whole Foods, they wonder what the brands are. [At Shop Rite] they can go and not wonder, where’s the Smucker’s?”

Brookdale is one of the few senior living communities with a heated swimming pool (with a chair-lift and lifeguard).

OUT OF MANHATTAN RiverWalk by River Spring Health 5961 Palisade Ave., Riverdale, N.Y.; 718-581-1295; riverspringhealth.org Facilities: 130 independent-living apartments from studios to one-bedroom, 7 large one- and two-bedroom suites; 843 nursing beds Fees: $3,700 to $6,500 per month; suites $8,000 to $9,400 Waiting list: None to three months Type: Independent Living with continuum of care

RiverWalk features eight floors of independent living apartments, located within the 32-acre campus of the wellknown Hebrew Home at Riverdale, surrounded by sweeping lawns and views of the Hudson. This year the Home celebrates their 100th year of serving seniors. The Home is well known for its collection of art displayed in the various buildings around the campus. “It’s like walking through a museum,” says Regina Wallace, Director of RiverWalk.

In addition to the typical Independent Living features housekeeping and meals (two meals in their dining room, breakfast and dinner), transportation chauffeurs residents around Riverdale and environs to pharmacies and for shopping excursions, often to places from Bloomingdales to Stew Leonard.

Every day is filled with activities including talks on all kinds of subjects. “We call it RiverWalk University because we have fabulous people come in to present the lectures,” Wallace says. The schedule typically features about nine cultural trips a month, often to museums.

The residence has a movie theater, with plush movie seats where they stream Netflix and old movies; a beauty parlor, a fitness center, a sports lounge, with pool table, and a beauty salon and barber shop. In another pavilion they have a warm water aquatic therapy pool.

Having the various levels of need on the same campus has been very helpful for couples where one person might be aging more quickly than their spouse, says Wallace. So if one is in the skilled nursing location, the one in Independent Living can visit and dine with their partner as often as they like.

Arden Courts 800 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne, N.J.; 973-942-5600; arden-courts.com/Wayne Facilities: 56 studios

JULY 27-AUGUST 2,2017 Fees: $8,300 (single occupancy); $7,375 (double occupancy) per month Waiting list: None to three months Type: Assisted Living (Memory Care)

Arden Courts is 100 percent devoted to Alzheimer’s and dementia care, and its small size (56 beds) ensures personalized attention. Arden is a division of HDR Manor Care, one of the largest health care providers in the country, and run 56 communities around the country. Arden Courts conducted five years of research into the science of caring for Alzheimer patients to develop the best practices in their homes, such as the most comfortable atmosphere possible, explains Marketing Director Laura Garrett.

The design and layout of the building features four colorcoded wings, to aid residents. Residents are grouped in four “houses” — 14 to a wing — to create a family-like feeling.

Each wing has indoor and outdoor porches, kitchens and a dining room. The color green is a predominant design feature, says Garrett: “Green is one of the last colors that people with dementia recognize.”

Residents are free to come and go as they please in the facility’s back yard, where they have a couple of acres of landscaped area to explore, with gazebos and raised flower beds.

Arden Courts specializes in “behavioral dementia cases” and typically those behaviors go away, once the resident is at Arden, says Garrett. “We meet them at their level, not just activities and care level but also emotional needs. We’re not the source of their frustrations, we’re the calming force that alleviates them.

That all comes down to staff training.”

A good example, is “if a resident is talking about a loved one who has passed, we will not inform the resident of this reality, as it causes the resident to re-experience the trauma of loss over and over again, only to forget a short time later,” says Garrett.

The state of New Jersey has a special recognition for privatepay assisted living known as Advanced Standing, which Arden Courts has received in the last two years.

Crane’s Mill 459 Passaic Ave., West Caldwell, NJ; 973-276-6700; cranesmill.org Facilities: 281 independent-living apartments; 48 assisted-living studios; 66 nursing beds Fees: Starting $140,000 upfront and $3,000 per month Waiting list: None to 6 months Type: Independent Living with continuum of care

Crane’s Mill is a continuing care retirement community which provides independent living with higher levels of care available should a resident need it. Additional levels of care include assisted living, skilled nursing and memory support.

Accommodations include a range of apartments from studios to two-bedroom, to cottages that feature two-bed/two baths with den, private outdoor space and attached garages.

Independent living is luxurious at Crane’s Mill, which has been home to Hall of Fame baseball players, prominent politicians and sports writers. The community sits on a sprawling 48 acres of protected land and is certified as a wildlife habitat.

There is beautiful pond in the back, and among the activities for residents are weekly trail walks and bird-watching. The Audubon society conducts some of their guided tours.

Live musical entertainment takes place in their auditorium; an education program brings professors from local universities to lecture on a variety of subjects. Once a month there are outings to a Broadway show or museums, and there are more than 200 activities every month on the calendar. Says Marketing Communications Manager Tom Ragusa: “A resident can do as much or as little as they choose.”

A formal dining room is open every evening, and serves up to five courses. One can bring one’s own wine or liquor to dinner; a cafe is open for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Says Ragusa: “If one doesn’t want to be served a five-course meal, one can get the same food, a la carte.”

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CARING FOR CAREGIVERS How to address the stress of taking care of older relatives and friends

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Unfortunately, caregivers state that they often receive inadequate support from

BY RON ADELMAN, MD health professionals, and frequently feel Family caregivers play an essential abandoned and unrecognized by the role in supporting the well-being of health care system. older people. Family caregivers, also Sometimes, performing caregiver tasks known as informal caregivers, are the leaves little time for the caregiver to tend adult relatives and friends who provide to his or her own needs. Over time, this essential but unpaid care. In the U.S., can have negative effects on the caregiver: family caregivers provide most of the socially, psychologically and physically. hands-on care, often for years without This is known as “caregiver burden.” break, without pay, vacation, recognition, Risk factors for caregiver burden include: back-up or help. The number of Americans female sex, low educational attainment, 85 and older — who are at the most risk of residing with the care recipient, frailty — is projected to double between depression, social isolation, financial 2000 to 2030, and stress, and higher then double again number of hours IN 2010 THE RATIO OF by 2050. In 2010 the spent caregiving. ratio of potential POTENTIAL CAREGIVERS FOR In recent years, caregivers for each EACH PERSON OLDER THAN doctors, social person older than workers, nurses 80 WAS 7:1. THIS RATIO IS 80 was 7:1; this and other family EXPECTED TO DECLINE TO 4:1 ratio is expected members have IN 2030. to decline to 4:1 become more aware in 2030 — only 13 of caregiver burden years away! and ways to address it.

Caregiving includes assistance with the Often, caregiver stress is a difficult topic activities of daily living (eating, using a to bring up, whether you are the caregiver bathroom, bathing) and medical support or have a friend or family member in (medication management, scheduling that role. Questions that can be asked doctor appointments, accompanying of a caregiver to start the conversation care recipients to medical visits). Equally include: important, the caregiver provides How would describe your quality of life? emotional support and comfort to the What do you do for fun? care recipient. The economic value of How often do you get out of the house? this informal caregiving dramatically Are there times you feel like you really need surpasses spending for formal home help but don’t ask for it? health care and nursing home care in Are there specific tasks, such as getting groAmerica. For example, the cost of informal ceries or paying bills, that you need help with? dementia caregiving is $56,290 annually Who gives you help when you need it? per patient.

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Being a primary caregiver for someone Does your doctor know about your caregiver can be a rewarding experience. If the role? person being cared for is a close friend or family member, often the bonds of If the answers to any of these questions friendship and family are strengthened, raise concern, there are ways to help. You and costs and resources are saved. may be able to help directly, or you can However, being a full-time caregiver call on other family members, friends, or can also be difficult, a 24-hour job neighbors. It is also a good idea to tell the without a break. In most cases, the caregiver’s doctor about your concerns. caregiver is a friend or family member Some online resources for caregivers and therefore does not have formal are: training in caregiving and often feels US Centers for Disease Controland ill-prepared to take on certain tasks. This Prevention: www.cdc.gov/aging/ is especially true for those who provide caregiving/resources.htm medically-skilled caregiving, such as AARP Caregiving Resource Center: changing catheter bags, providing wound www.aarp.org/home-family/caregiving care, overseeing complex medication The Caregiver Action Network: management and tube feedings. Spousal caregiveraction.org caregivers (as compared to an adult Family Caregiver Alliance: www. child assisting a parent) face greater caregiver.org challenges: they are likely to live with Dr. Ron Adelman is Co-Chief of the Division of Geriatrics the care recipient, have little choice and Palliative Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian in taking on a caregiving role and are Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical Center. often more vulnerable because of their

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AGING IN PLACE: A RESOURCE GUIDE SERVICES TO HELP YOU GET AROUND TOWN, RECEIVE MEALS, FIND HEALTH AIDES, AND REPAIR YOUR HOME

BY BRYSE CIALLELLA, ESTELLE PYPER AND ELISSA SANCI

Transportation Manhattan’s bustling streets and crowded subway platforms can be a challenge for seniors and those with disabilities. Fortunately, the city offers a variety of options to facilitate trips to the hospital, grocery stores and cultural events.

1. ACCESS-A-RIDE The New York City Department for the Aging and MTA offer a public ride-sharing shuttle service called AccessA-Ride (AAR) for those unable to use the subway or public buses. This door-to-door service will transport patrons to a desired destination 24/7, whether it be for a medical appointment or personal errand.

Registration is required to obtain an AAR MetroCard — a process that can take up to a month — and costs the same as riding public transit (currently $2.75, but $1.35 with a senior citizen discount). Traveling with Access-ARide requires a reservation at least one day in advance, for which you set a desired pick-up or arrival time and location. However, as the MTA site warns, “Since AAR is a shared-ride service, you may be offered a pickup time that is up to an hour earlier or later than the time requested.”

The shuttle operates throughout New York City and into Westchester and Nassau counties. All buses are wheelchair accessible, and if you travel with a personal care attendant, that person can ride for free. To learn more, visit web.mta.info/nyct/paratran/guide.htm.

2. DOROT For those who live in upper Manhattan, there’s DOROT — a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing a range of services to the elderly. Their escorting program offers assistance to medical appointments, errands, or just to enable a short getaway outside the home. Travel assistants accompany patrons door-to-door, providing a helping hand and emotional support when needed. The service is available Monday through Friday and is free of charge; however, a five-dollar donation is encouraged.

The door-to-door service only applies to those living on the Upper West Side from 59th Street to 125th Street and the East Side from 50th Street to 96th Street, but patrons can be accompanied anywhere in Manhattan. An appointment is also required, and reserving two weeks in advance is highly recommended.

DOROT also has a “Hand-in-Hand” program, connecting seniors with volunteers to explore the vast arts and cultural scene of New York. They can attend an event of their choice, or one organized by DOROT. In July, DOROT provided free transportation and companionship to cemeteries throughout the city to visit loved ones.

Visit their website, dorotusa.org, for more information on travel companions and other services.

Access-a-Ride in the city. Photo: Chris Sampson, via flickr

3. C.A.R.T The New York Foundation for Senior Citizens hosts a Community Arranged Resident Transportation program, also known as CART. This van service offers rides throughout Manhattan for senior citizens directly from their doorstep for a suggested donation of one dollar.

Five vans operate on various routes: Midtown West from Chambers Street More information can be to 45th Street, Midtown East from 10th Street to 59th Street, Lower East from found at nyfsc.org.

Delancey Street to 37th Street, Upper West from 63rd to 110th Street, and Upper East from 63rd Street to 102nd Street. Service operates from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, and reserving one week in advance is preferred.

The shuttles transport seniors to and from medical appointments, hospitals, scheduled activities at senior centers, visits to relatives, and other necessary engagements. CART will also deliver meals to seniors residing in midManhattan, and a private car service is available for emergencies.

4. MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING JITNEY For those in need of health care services at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the hospital provides a free shuttle service for patients between its main Memorial Hospital on York Avenue to its other Manhattan locations. The jitney operates frequently from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., ensuring that their elderly patients get to their various appointments in a timely manner.

See mskcc.org for more information.

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Home Caregivers and Health Aides

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For seniors who live at home but are ill or too infirm to care for themselves, home caregivers or home health aides can be a helpful option. Businesses that provide these services include:

Preparing meals in New York City requires a lot of time, travel and energy — from getting to a supermarket to being jostled in busy stores to shlepping home heavy bags. Meal and grocery home-delivery services can help alleviate the challenges of dining at home.

1.LEANONWE LeanOnWe is a Manhattan-based business that connects persons in need of home care with prospective caregivers. Ron Gold, a former Wall Street executive, founded the company after a serious biking accident left him paralyzed from the waist down.

As Gold recovered, he realized the high cost of paying for home care out of pocket. In an interview with Forbes magazine Gold said, “In any other sector, any service, you have reviews; so much information. Yet when you try to find a caregiver for your parent, you know less to prepare for this decision than if you were shopping for a flat-screen TV.” The first consultation with LeanOnWe is free. You’re connected with a “Care Advisor” who assesses the client’s needs and then recommends a list of caregivers in the LeanOnWe network.

LeanOnWe maintains that all of their caregivers go through a rigorous vetting process: “We speak personally to at least two to three families the caregiver has worked with recently.”

LeanOnWe states their caregivers have a minimum of two to three years of relevant caregiving experience, adding that they “verify all health care licenses and education credentials. We conduct an FBI fingerprint background check.”

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2. RENEWAL CARE PARTNERS Renewal Care Partners was founded by Joe Fisher and Patrick O’Brien, who both had experiences with being the primary caregivers for loved ones. In Fisher’s case, he was living in New York City when he “unexpectedly became the primary caregiver of an uncle living with a neurocognitive disorder.” Eventually, Fisher’s uncle needed home health care. As Fisher searched for an agency, he also wanted to find a place that would “show sensitivity to his uncle’s identity” as a gay man. O’Brien cared for his mother from an early age. When he was older, he volunteered as a health aide for an elderly adult. O’Brien’s volunteer experience led him to a “calling to work in long-term care.”

Fisher and O’Brien met through a mutual friend and started Renewal Care Partners.

The company prides itself on being “the first long-term care services provider founded with a special mission to serve the LGBT community,” as stated on the company’s website.

Renewal Care Partners offers home health care, social, and companion care services that “focus on each person’s unique needs.” On the health care end, the company has a team of dedicated registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and certified home health aides.

Renewal Care Partners is based in midtown Manhattan and its services are available to clients in all of New York City’s boroughs.

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3. ALVITA HOME CARE Services provided by Alvita Home Care include in-home personal care, Alzheimer’s and dementia care, hospice and palliative home care, and geriatric care management.

Alvita Home Care provides a “Home Care Needs Assessment Quiz” on their website to help prospective clients “objectively assess your situation by considering your ability to perform important activities on an independent basis.” Here is a link to the assessment quiz: https://alvitacare.com/homecare-needs-assessment/.

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1. MEALS ON WHEELS AND THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT FOR THE AGING New York City’s Department for the Aging funds this service, which provides eligible seniors with a daily delivery of hot meals or twice-a-week delivery of frozen meals. In order to be eligible for meal delivery, seniors must be 60 years of age or older and “have difficulty preparing meals” for themselves. All eligibility is determined by local case management agencies.

Use the following web address to locate the contact information for the case management agency nearest to you: https:// a125-egovt.nyc.gov/egovt/ services/service_query.cfm Phone: 311

2. INSTACART This company does all the shopping for you and often delivers purchases on the same day that you order them. In New York City, you can shop for items from Fairway Market, Costco Wholesale, The Food Emporium, Murray’s Cheese, Whole Foods, or Petco. There is a $5.99 delivery charge, and for each store, there is usually a minimum amount you must purchase. When you go to Instacart’s webpage, you’ll immediately be prompted to create an account. After you add all desired items to the virtual cart, you then schedule a delivery time.

Website: www.instacart.com Phone: 888-246-7822

3. SILVER CUISINE BY BISTROMD Silver Cuisine by bistroMD states that it was founded by a bariatric physician named Dr. Caroline Cederquist, who understands “the unique nutritional needs that seniors and adults over age 50 require ... and her expertise informs the creation of each of the meals we offer.”

Silver Cuisine by bistroMD’s website offers many breakfast, lunch, and dinner microwavable meal options. There are also special diet meals available which include heart-healthy, gluten-free, low sodium, and diabetic diet meal options. Orders for meals can be placed either online or by telephone and are shipped to customers’ residence via FedEx. Cost: Breakfast meals range from $5.95 to $8.95; lunch and dinner meals from $8.95 to $12.95.

Shipping costs $9.95, and expedited shipping is $29.95.

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Elder Activities There is never a shortage of things to do in New York City — including programs designed specifically for older New Yorkers. Whether you’re a senior searching for a ceramics class, a new exercise routine or an English literature course, you don’t have to look far to find something to engage your mind or meet new people with similar interests.

1. MAKING ART WORK This art-based program for seniors is hosted in the Carter Burden/Leonard Covello Center in East Harlem. It’s part of the Carter Burden Network, an agency of centers, programs and services that assists Manhattan’s older residents. Making Art Work offers a variety of arts classes seven days a week; there are classes for sewing (which includes embroidery, clothing construction, quilting and doll-making), ceramics, mixed-media art and painting. Liz Curtin, a Making Art Work teaching artist, says she finds that the ceramics and sewing classes are most popular among seniors. The Carter Burden/Leonard Covello Center also hosts their own annual fashion shows, where

seniors model the clothing and jewelry they’ve made in Making Art Work classes. “They love it,” Curtin says. “They’re such hams; they really work that runway.”

Aside from learning new techniques and creating art, Curtin says that Making Art Work helps seniors by giving them a place to socialize. “They’re making connections and friendships here, so it gets people out their homes and reduces isolation and depression.”

Making Art Work is free; to register, a senior with a valid form of identification can visit the center in East Harlem to fill out a form.

Liz Curtin, Teaching Artist: 212-423-9665 Website: http://www.carterburdennetwork.org/2-making-art-work/ 2. C.V. STARR ADULT DAY SERVICES The C.V. Starr Adult Day Services, also part of the Carter Burden Network, is an adult day program geared towards Manhattan seniors ages 60 and older who are affected by Alzheimer’s, dementia or physical frailty. The program, headed by director Kathleen Eannone, follows a structured schedule that keeps seniors engaged from the moment they arrive to the moment they leave. Along with a series of activities that keep them mentally engaged (like political discussions, poetry writing and discussing the artistic process behind their arts and crafts), seniors are also provided breakfast and lunch.

“I have very strong feelings about preserving the dignity of the senior,” Eannone says.

“Especially the senior who might not be as aware of what’s going on.”

C.V. Starr Adult Day Services is open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; the fee is $80 a day, and Eannone says that the program is covered by certain Medicaid Managed Long Term Care programs for those who may not be able to afford the fee. To get involved with C.V. Starr, which is located on East 99th Street, seniors must apply and interview with Eannone.

Kathleen Eannone: 646-504-5900 ext. 607 Website: http://www.carterburdennetwork.org/2-carter-burden-metro-east99th-street-cv-starr-adult-day-program Students in Liz Curtin’s Mixed Media Class. Photo: Beatrice Hunt for Carter Burden Network

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FANTASTIC BEASTS, FEMMES FATALES The Guggenheim exhibits the Salons de la Rose+Croix

BY MARY GREGORY

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy — “Hamlet” When Shakespeare wrote those words in about 1600 he was saying something timeless, but also of the moment. Spiritual fervor was taking hold of Europe. Secret societies emerged that promised esoteric knowledge gleaned from the past or from contact with other parts of the world. Rosicrucianism was particularly popular, and some scholars tie

symbols in the bard’s work to that movement focused on alchemy, astrology and religious ritual.

Fast forward to another fin de siècle. At the end of the 19th century in Paris, the Salon de la Rose+Croix was born. It was a series of art exhibitions organized by Joséphin Péladan, the founder of the Mystic Order of the Rose+Croix, a Rosicrucian sect that embraced both occult elements and French Catholicism. Péladan, wearing long, velvet robes, a curious pointed hat and a bushy two-pronged beard, proclaimed himself a mage, bestowed upon himself the title of High Priest of Sar, and drew a cult of followers.

It wasn’t hard to do at the time. The machine age had rolled into people’s

Orpheus, this time in Hades, by Pierre Amédée Marcel-Béronneau, was included in the final Rose+Croix salon. Photo: Adel Gorgy

Ferdinand Hodler’s “The Disappointed Souls” from 1892, like many Rose+Croix selections, presages later developments in art.

Photo: Adel Gorgy lives, and many sought an antidote.

Rasputin would gather some highlevel followers in Russia a few years later, and here in New York, séances and ectoplasm were all the rage.

“Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892-1897,” on view at the Guggenheim through October 4, is the first museum exhibition to explore these salons, their art and their influences. Curator Vivien Greene brings together some 40 that aren’t just symbolic of the Symbolism preferred by Péladan. Each work at the Guggenheim actually hung in one of the Rose+Croix shows.

“Artist, you are a priest,” Péladan told painters, sculptors and musicians (men only). “Art is the great mystery and, if your effort results in a masterpiece, a ray of divinity will descend as on an altar.” Incense and music filled the air, stange, exotic paintings hung on the walls, and crowds flocked to the Belle Epoque equivalents of 1960’s happenings.

“Their subject matter was allegorical, literary, mythical, or religious, replete with arcane symbols, ethereal women, androgynous beings, and monstrous creatures,” Greene explains in the wall text. “They gravitated to themes such as the Greek mythological poet Orpheus, the art and precepts of the early Italian Renaissance, New Testament narratives, and female stereotypes from the threatening femme fatale to the untainted femme fragile.”

She notes, “Chimeras, and incubi were the norm, as were sinuous lines, attenuated figures, and anti-naturalistic forms.”

Such subjects, along with blood-red

IF YOU GO WHAT: Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892–1897 WHERE: Guggenheim Museum, Fifth Avenue and 88th Street WHEN: Through October 4 www.guggenheim.org/ walls and velvet settees, announce a departure from the Guggenheim’s typical fare. Music by Wagner, Erik Satie and Beethoven (as could be heard in the original salons) plays softly. Among the paintings on view, nimbuses and halos can be spotted on lovely young maidens, doe-eyed women gaze vacuously, Péladan poses as an artistic potentate, and figures from mythology abound.

Jean Delville’s “The Death of Orpheus” hung in the third Salon de la Rose+Croix in 1894. In it, a beautiful, androgynous, disembodied head rests on a lyre, engulfed in a sea of blue-green dotted with reflected starlight. It’s one of several appearances of Orpheus, who was, Greene points out, “a popular paradigm for the artist as enchanter, seer, and martyr whose creations transcend death. In one myth, after Orpheus is dismembered by wild female followers of Dionysus — the god of wine, fertility, and madness — his head floats downriver, still singing, and becomes an oracle.”

The works in the exhibition are arresting, wildly misogynistic, evocative of a time past and suggestive of a mindset few of us can imagine. It’s a chance to see and learn about a movement that hasn’t received much at-

tention. But it’s the stories the Rose + Croix salons foretell that are, perhaps, most interesting.

The spiritual power of paintings was a core belief of later modernists Kandinsky and Mondrian. Jan Toorop’s “The New Generation” is painted with tiny, swirling brushstrokes in contrasting colors that create a kind of hallucinatory flower-power buzz.

Jean Delville’s “The Idol of Perversity” looks like a 1950s B-movie poster. And the atmosphere created by joining music with paintings prefigures collaborations between choreographers, musicians and visual artists seen throughout the 20th century, as well as contemporary multimedia installations and performance art.

Serious artists of the day took note.

Claude Debussy and Satie were associated with the movement (Satie was the official composer and chapel-master of the Rosicrucian Order). Writers Paul Valéry, André Gide, André Breton and Guillaume Apollinaire read Péladan’s tracts.

That much attention must have had countless ripple effects, some of which can be traced, while others can be wondered about. The central figure in Ferdinand Hodler’s “The Disappointed Souls,” which hung in the salon of 1892 and now hangs in the Guggenheim, is gaunt, downward looking and marked by a pale angularity. It reminded me immediately of Picasso’s “The Old Guitarist.” Though the young painter didn’t arrive in Paris till 1901, four years after the final Rose+Croix exhibition, Picasso was friends with and collaborated with Apollinaire, Breton, Gide and Satie.

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INSIDE THE HEMINGWAY GALLERY The Second Avenue showrooms exhibit antique and contemporary works from Africa

BY BRYSE CIALLELLA

Of all the places it could have happened, it took place on a Central Park tennis court in the 1970s. That’s where a mustachioed South African man named Brian Gaisford met Gregory Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway’s youngest son.

The two became friends and in 1975, when Hemingway was looking for a location to host the publisher’s party for the book he had written about his father, “Papa: A Personal Memoir.”

Gaisford remembered that the place now known as The Manhattan Art and Antiques Center was vacant and he approached Gary Jacobs, the property manager at the time. He asked if they could use the space for the book launch. Jacobs obliged.

Gregory Hemingway’s book launch drew a bevy of literati, Norman Mailer included.

Gaisford decorated the event space with African art and by the end of the evening all of the art had sold. He recalls proposing the idea and name for an art gallery to Gregory Hemingway this way: “Hey, Hemingway African Gallery?

And [Gregory] said, ‘Well, so long as you don’t start a massage parlor.’”

It’s been 42 years since that soiree and the Hemingway African Gallery, like its owner and curator, Brian Gaisford, is vernal as ever. In fact, the gallery now occupies two showrooms in The Manhattan Art and Antiques

The Hemingway African Gallery within The Manhattan Art and Antiques Center on Second Avenue exhibits antique and contemporary works from the continent.

Center, which comprises 100 galleries on Second Avenue in Midtown.

Gaisford’s daughter, Logan, works in Gallery 60, on the middle concourse.

Of the two galleries, it’s the one filled with more contemporary, modern to high modern African art.

As you enter, you are surrounded by an impressive array of Shona sculpture, from northern Zimbabwe, which is said to be the only region in Africa with suitable stone for carving.

“You can hear the iron in here. It’s amazing, I don’t know how they do it.

With just a hammer, chisel and sandpaper,” Gaisford said.

“It’s an insane amount of work. If American artists were carving these, you wouldn’t be able to get them for under $1,000,” Logan added.

At the gallery, prices start at $250.

Wooden fish in a color array like that of a pinwheel are fixed to the wall behind Logan’s desk. They are the resultant finds Gaisford made on a trip with a colleague to track desert elephants — one of many animal conservation efforts Gaisford has made over the years.

“These fish, they are actually puppets, they’re from a tribe in Mali called the Bozo tribe, and they make these puppets.” Gaisford said. “They live on the Niger River. I found them when I was up in Timbuktu, way up toward the Algerian border. I brought back a bunch of these. Jim Henson from the Muppets used to buy them from us.”

A smaller room is adjoined to the back of Hemingway African Gallery

Hemingway African Gallery was established in 1975 as a collaboration between Brian Gaisford and Gregory Hemingway, the Amerrican novelist’s youngest son.

60. There are several collections of antique tribal art on display that are separated by collection, or by the provenance of the pieces.

When it comes to dating African artwork, Gaisford said “our expertise is to say whether the piece is real or not real. Real means they were made for use by the tribe. They are not tourist pieces, they were made for use.”

Perhaps one of the most interesting facets of Gaisford’s enterprise is that if you are intrigued, he will quite literally take you to Africa.

Gaisford, along with Logan and his son Tuck, runs an African safari operation.

“You can come with us for $2,500 up to $5,000, depending on what kind

ON THE SIDE STREETS OF NEW YORK BLENHEIM — 283 WEST 12TH STREET The farm-to-table dining movement is flourishing in Manhattan, with many chefs sourcing their ingredients from organic growers and local farmers markets. However, not many of these restaurants can say they have a farm of their own. In 2010, Morten Sohlberg and his wife Min Ye purchased the centuries-old Blenheim Farm in

the hills of the Catskills with the intention of founding a “grow to order” restaurant that would source from the farm’s plots.

The Blenheim restaurant menu exists primarily to showcase fare grown on the farm. With seasonal change and the general unpredictability of nature, the delicious menu is always in flux.

To read more, visit Manhattan Sideways (sideways.nyc), created by Betsy Bober Polivy.

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of safari you’d like. But we try to keep costs low so that young people can come. We don’t do hunting. We do game capture and educational informing. We feel that by doing the safaris, we have a captive audience to try and teach everybody what’s happening in Africa, which sadly, not many other safari companies are doing. Young people are our future conservationists. So we try very hard to keep our costs low. My son and I took 20 orphans from Greenland to Africa. They had never seen a tree before. That was amazing. We also take groups to Greenland, to show them how global warming is really happening. Right there,” Gaisford said.

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Perla Cafe

234 W 4Th St

Grade Pending (9) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

1 Pike

1 Pike St

Not Yet Graded (30) No facilities available to wash, rinse and sanitize utensils and/or equipment.

One More Drinks

1 Pike St

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Boba Guys

23 Clinton St

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Fine Bakery City Inc

303 Grand St

Grade Pending (27) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Food from unapproved or unknown source or home canned. Reduced oxygen packaged (ROP) fish not frozen before processing; or ROP foods prepared on premises transported to another site.

Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Chillhouse

149 Essex St

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Salam Cafe & Rest

104 W. 13Th St. (Unit A One)

Terroir At The Porch

Highline W 15Th Street @ 10Th Ave,

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Virgola

28 Greenwich Ave

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Underline Coffee

511 W. 20Th Street

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Il Bambino

48 W 8Th St

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Terremoto Coffee

328 W 15Th St

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Dixon Place

161 Chrystie Street

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Flight 151

151 8 Avenue

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Bonnie Vee

17 Stanton St

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Chelsea Ristorante

108 8 Avenue

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Public Roof Top

215 Chrystie St

Sushi Zo

88 W 3Rd St

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About Coffee

71 Sullivan St

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3 Sheets Saloon

134 West 3 Street

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Yn

227 Mott Street

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Not Yet Graded (64) Food contact surface improperly constructed or located. Unacceptable material used. Hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room. Hot and cold running water at adequate pressure to enable cleanliness of employees not provided at facility. Soap and an acceptable hand-drying device not provided.

Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Toms

264 Elizabeth St

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The Public New York

215 Chrystie St

Shade

241 Sullivan Street

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Gasoline Alley Coffee

325 Lafayette Street

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Pera Soho

54 Thompson Street

Grade Pending (3)

Not Yet Graded (28) 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.

Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, crosscontaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan

Chobani Soho

150 Prince Street

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Jes Coffee

47 Market St

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Morandi

15 Charles Street

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Anpanman Bakery Cafe

83 Canal 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/sewageassociated 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.

Karina Food (In Gansevoort 353 W 14Th St Market)

Not Yet Graded (80) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or nonfood areas. Food contact surface improperly constructed or located.

Unacceptable material used. No facilities available to wash, rinse and sanitize utensils and/or equipment. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

The Grey Dog

49 Carmine St

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Juice Generation

97 Greenwich Avenue

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The Magician

118 Rivington Street

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Bantam Bagels

283 Bleecker St

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81 Allen Street

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Moustache Restaurant

90 Bedford Street

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New Spring Boy Chinese Restaurant

Daddy-O

44 Bedford Street

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Dimes

143 Division Street

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Ditch Plains

29 Bedford Street

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28 Ming’s Caffe

28 Canal St

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Stk

28 Little West 12 Street

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Penguin Ice Cream

143B Hester St

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Jia Nyc

23 Essex St

Insomnia Cookies

304 W 14Th St

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Not Yet Graded (8) Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Slaughtered Lamb Pub

182 W 4Th St

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Tre

173 Ludlow Street

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The Beatrice Inn

285 W 12Th St

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New York Sushi Ko

91 Clinton Street

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Oppa

162 W 4Th St

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Papa John’s

343 Grand St

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Magnum

875 Washington St

Grade Pending (3)

Tous Les Jours

7 Division St

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A CHANGE OF CLOTHES Gladys Henriquez makes statements of social justice through her shirt designs

BY ANGELA BARBUTI

Two months ago, she added another line to her burgeoning business, the Know My Rights Clothing Co. Her inspiration for that, she explained, was a direct result of Trump administration’s travel ban, widely thought to target Muslims. Even though that company is still in its infancy, she said her Nasty Woman design is the current bestseller.

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Gladys Henriquez is taking on the injustices she sees in the world one T-shirt at a time. Early this year, she launched the Anti-Bullying Clothing Co. with her mother, Daly Perez.

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their car seats, so when they fall asleep, their head doesn’t bend forward all the way, which can be very uncomfortable for them. Because sometimes, even those som little pillows don’t comlittl pletely help. We just ple kind kin of branched out to the anti-bullying. And to be honest, I don’t remember how ... it was m just ju something that we were passionate about. T-shirts hadn’t ab been bee done, so I wanted to sspread the positive messa ge t h rou g h m them. th

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What are your future plans?

To come up with more collections.

To work with organizations and not only donate money, but also really integrate their mission into what we do.

And to be able to connect with some, possibly celebrities, because there are a lot of celebrities who have a platform that can promote our message.

Do you have any specific celebrities in mind you’d like to work with?

I don’t know if you saw Sarah Silverman and Hasan Minhaj’s Netflix specials. They both have really good quotes. One of the quotes from Hasan Minhaj is, “I was born here. I have the audacity of equality.” Also, I just recently saw Madonna’s acceptance speech at the Billboard Women in Music Awards last year and it was great. Not only did she thank God for everything that she has, but also she’s a very confident woman and stands up for what she believes in. www.antibullyclothing.com www.knowmyrightsclothing.com www.gladyshenriquez.com

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