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A SIT-IN AT CITY HALL PARK NEWS Black Lives Matter stages Occupystyle protest BY ASIA HORNE

The Black Lives Matter Movement has made its presence felt in City Hall park. Since August 1, hundreds of supporters have banded together to be part of what is being called the “Millions March at Abolition Square.” The protest, reminiscent of the Oc-

cupy Wall Street movement nearby, has called for an end to the so-called “broken windows” style of policing by the NYPD; reparations for victims of police crimes; and the re-investment of much of the NYPD’s $5.5 billion annual budget into communities of color in New York. The movement was invigorated on its ﬁrst day by the announcement by NYPD Police Commissioner William Bratton that he planned to step down. Though Bratton said his decision had nothing to do with the protests, the fact that his resignation was a central plank of the City Hall sit-in prompted

cheers in the crowd. “The idea of the movement is to build a society without police and without belief in caging people up in institutions such as prison,” said Vienna Rye, one of the organizers of the protests. “We are bred in a society with cages to trap people, but that’s not the way that people should be living.” Rye has camped out at City Hall park for one week and said that on average at least two dozen people camp out a night. She called the movement peaceful, but said she feared of violence if police become aggressive with the protestors.

ON THE ROAD WITH A GLOBETROTTER BY DAVID WILLIAMS

A former teacher for children with learning disabilities, Sue Korn is a longtime New Yorker. As former chair of the alumni association of Cornell, she remains active in its activities. Always on the move, she has been on the board of the Central Synagogue where she has chaired a number of committees. Her work with the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) is legendary. And ongoing. Mileage covered: .54 miles Sunny, 81 degrees It was ever thus: when meeting someone in Manhattan for the first time, the conversation starter is, often enough, real estate. And so it is as I meet Sue Korn at her carriage house on a sunny morning, ZIP code 10128, environs Lennox Hill. Before we set out on her rounds, a tuto-

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rial on its history is called for. “My husband wanted a carriage house because it would be large enough for his office on the ground ﬂoor,” she tells me. “The most important thing was it had to be a block from the subway. It couldn’t have any steps because he was an orthopedist. So the day this came on the market he put in his offer and we had never been inside. When we got inside we discovered that the plumbing was wooden. Downstairs still had stalls for the horses.” So, over there are the gears that were used to haul up the hay. And back there, that was the hayloft. The Korns live across the street from a classic UES white-brick mega-building, Imperial House. Sue is nursing a banged-up knee (long story: sailing on the Sound, too swift a tack and to protect her granddaughter ...) “Because of my knee, when we can’t do this building anymore we’re moving across the street and my daughter and son-in-law and my grandchildren are moving in here. We feel like we’re caretakers of the building and we want to keep it in the family.” The house’s docent continues, “This Downtowner

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FOR HIM, SETTLING SMALL CLAIMS IS A BIG DEAL presided over Arbitration Man has three decades. for informal hearings about it He’s now blogging BY RICHARD KHAVKINE

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In Brief MORE HELP FOR SMALL BUSINESS

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

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building was owned by the Diamond family who lived next door. They bought the entire block and wanted to knock it down and put up a high-rise here. The neighborhood went into absolute craziness and they brought in the Landmark Commission and they made the entire block landmarked. The day we put in our bid for this house ... every house on the block went up for sale.” We turn our conversation to the Laugh for Life beneﬁt Sue created for the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. I’d attended several over the years, including the most recent one in February. As is so often the case with a nonproﬁt, this cause was a personal one. “(When) my sister Carol (Goldschien) was diagnosed, it was devastating because it was a disease we’d never heard of. Actually my husband diagnosed it. She’d been in a bike accident and he looked at her X-rays and sent her immediately to an oncologist. We didn’t know how serious it was in the beginning.” The foundation, about as gold stan-

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Chapter 24

EVE AND OTHERS BY ESTHER COHEN

Previously: After trying for weeks to ﬁnd a disappeared neighbor, a mustachioed gay man who could dance the tango named Alyosha, a team of neighbors who formed a peculiar posse decided to go to their local precinct. Detective Bruce said he’d take on the case. He found a picture instantly, and a different kind of search began. Meeting Two: The Precinct, 120 West 82nd Street For the second meeting with Detective Bruce, a week after the ﬁrst, the entire team decided to come. None of them had ever been inside the precinct before. “Law & Order” hadn’t started yet – it was the mid 80s – and there was an exotic fascination with what the police actually do. Every single one of them dressed for the occasion, especially Pin Ball, the requisite Drag Queen, who chose, for his

ﬁrst ever police visit, to become Cher. He had one of those black wigs where hair looks nothing like hair. His false eyelashes extended outwards into the universe. When he saw Detective Bruce, a large can-do man who had been a Black Panther once, when Detective Bruce saw him, they both smiled a certain smile. Maybe after the case was solved. They were all in a room the police called The Lounge. The Lounge was a green that isn’t really green. Fluroescent lights buzzed loudly. The chairs and couches were a plastic that didn’t even pretend to be leather and the only decoration was a What To Do If Someone Chokes poster. Three machines filled with potato chips and Cokes were side by side along one wall. They looked well used. “We’re not going to do this forever,” Detective Bruce began. Charles, wearing a polka-dot bow tie he’d found on the street – he believed it had never been worn – Charles spontaneously stood up and clapped. “We’ve made some progress over here,” he said. “Here’s a poster we xeroxed for you all to put everywhere you can in this neighborhood. Our sources tell us he didn’t go far.” “Can you share your sources with us?” Mrs. Israel, dressed again in her official navy suit, hoped she looked a

Illustration by John S. Winkleman little like a police officer herself. She was carrying a clip board, and now, she’d attached her pen to the top with a string. Sometimes she thought of herself as clever. “In case we do this again,” she added. “Never, and never,” said Detective Bruce. “Can you tell us why not?” Naomi asked. “We’re in the precinct to learn from you how finding missing persons happens. Who knows. Maybe we can be of some real assistance.”

“Don’t flatter yourselves,” Bruce replied, but he looked at them with more kindness than his words indicated. “You’ve got an assignment for today. I’m going to give you each a stack of twenty of these ﬂyers. I put Naomi and Eve’s phone number on the ﬂyer. Blanket the neighborhood. Use the good Scotch tape. I’m giving you each a roll. You don’t want them to fall off the walls. Go to the laundromats. Go to the liquor stores. Go to everyplace you can. Someone’s seen

him. He isn’t far away. With missing people, everyone wants to help. Get started,” he said. “We’re not going to do this forever. “We will meet in a week. Any questions?” he asked. “Yes. How do you feel about Tina Turner?” Pin Ball asked, smiling. Esther Cohen posts a poem a day at esthercohen.com.

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG

PLEA DEAL IN CLUB STABBING IN JEOPARDY Prosecutors say a new arrest has put at risk a New York City man’s plea deal in the stabbing of a professional basketball player last year outside a nightclub. Shevoy Bleary had pleaded guilty in June to two counts of assault in the April 2015 stabbing of former Indiana Pacers forward Chris Copeland and a woman. The New York Daily News reports prosecutors had agreed in exchange to allow him to serve a handful of weekends in jail. But after his June arrest in Brooklyn for possessing forged credit cards, Manhattan prosecutors say the deal is no longer on the table. The paper says Assistant District Attorney Courtney Groves told a judge that Bleary violated the terms of his “promised sentence.” The case was adjourned to Sept. 7.

KO’D That same evening, another downtown store was burgled of $5,000 in cash and $25,000 merchandise. Police said a gang of six men and women in their 20s broke into the sneaker and sportswear store Michael K at 39 Lispenard St., getting away on foot eastbound on Lispenard towards Broadway, carrying the stolen loot in a suitcase. Police said a search of the area proved fruitless. The items stolen included clothing and footwear. Tony Webster, via ﬂickr

BALANCING ACT

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A construction company should consider replacing their business van with an armored vehicle. At 1 p.m. on Monday, August 1, a 27-year-old man working for J & S Precision Balancing of Bohemia, N.Y., parked his brown 2003 GMC Safari work van at the northeast corner of Warren and Greenwich Streets. He had locked all the doors of the van, but when he returned at 3 p.m., he found they had been jimmied and numerous pieces of valuable equipment absconded with, including a laser alignment tool valued at $25,000, a portable balancer priced at $15,000, a ratchet hoist worth $500, The total loss was valued at $43,280.

A downtown boutique might want to reinforce their front door. At 5:10 p.m. on Friday, July 29, two men broke through the entrance of Céline, a French, high-end clothing shop at 67 Wooster St., grabbed more than $53,000 worth of luxury merchandise before ﬂeeing the premises. Police searched but could not ﬁnd the perpetrating pair. Among the haul were two Coulisse leather handbags valued at $4,700, three Trotter leather handbags priced at $6,050, a necklace pendant valued at $510, and an extra thin bracelet tagged at $590,

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

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Murder

n/a

Rape

n/a

125.0

Robbery

200.0

15.6

Felony Assault

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Burglary

n/a

2.6

Grand Larceny

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Grand Larceny Auto

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TALLMAN TALE

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The Big Apple was pretty rotten to an upstate couple. At 10 p.m. on Saturday, July 30, a man from Tallman, N.Y., and a woman from Corgens, N.Y., parked a blue 2005 Toyota Camry in front of 69 Thompson St. When they returned at 4:40 a.m. the following morning, one of the car windows had been smashed and two computer laptops, an iPhone and a business credit card were taken from inside the car. The losses totalled $18,649.

A local motorcyclist had a rude awakening recently. At 9 p.m. on Friday, July 29, a downtown resident parked his a green 2012 Triumph Scrambler in front of his building at 145 Spring St. It was gone when he returned the next morning. The bike is valued at $10,000.

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By 12:30 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, there was already a line snaking down the hall of the New York Historical Society even though the show didn’t start for another half hour. Was there a celebrity in the house? Sort of, but not a living one. Alexander Hamilton, played by Eben Kuhns, was scheduled to make an appearance in the 1 p.m. reenactment of his 1804 duel with rival Aaron Burr. And a crowd of people representing every single age group couldn’t wait to see it. The reenactment itself, lasting fewer than 30 minutes, was bare bones, but nearly all of the 500 seats in the Robert H. Smith Auditorium were occupied. The four actors playing Hamilton, Burr (John Zak), Burr’s friend and second William P. Van Ness (David Holland) and Hamilton’s friend and second Nathaniel Pendleton (Carl Smith) stood at the front of the stage and read through several letters exchanged by Hamilton and Burr. The two duelers then met back-to-back, took 10 paces and ﬁred at each other while Pendleton and Van Ness read out the rules of dueling and the report that was filed after Hamilton’s death. Finally, the lights dimmed and the ghostly voice of Eliza Hamilton (Kim Hanley) read Hamilton’s ﬁnal letter to her, his “best of wives and best of women.” Hanley, the executive director of the American Historical Theatre in Philadelphia, said the choice to focus on the written words that led to the duel and then comforted the mourners afterward was intentional. “The integrity of the word is there,” Hanley said, adding that the actors were limited by less than a month of rehearsal time. “The way that these were coming to these men was in the written form, so it sort of reminds the audience, too, that this wasn’t a face-to-face argument. A lot of this argument was on paper. ... The written word matters.” The language

Aaron Burr (John Zack) prepares for The Duel at the New York Historical Society. Photo: Don Pollard of the Hamilton/Burr letters was likely lost on the audience’s younger set, even after Hanley cut the verbiage by half. “We cut and simpliﬁed, we changed words,” she said. “Hamilton was a master equivocator ... but Burr was also indeﬁnite.” The k id enter ta in ment had come earlier, during the family-friendly tour of the museum’s Hamilton exhibit. Kids in the tour were paired up and talked through their own mini-duel reenactments. Backto-back with a partner, they decided how they would start their “duel” — at the drop of a handkerchief or at the shout of a moderator — and how they would decide who took which position. The Hamilton exhibit itself is small, but it contains treasures, including the actual pistols used in the duel and George Washington’s inaugural armchair. In 2004, the Historical Society beat even Hamilton’s biographer Ron Chernow to the punch and put together a more comprehensive exhibit on the Founding Father, wrapping the front of their building in a huge $10 bill. Jennifer Schantz, the museum’s executive vice president and chief operating

officer, likes to think the Historical Society is “on the edge of what’s going to be a big hit.” “We’re actually kind of proud of the fact that we had the exhibit before he became so mainstream,” she said. “We’ve always thought he was a really important figure. His story is really quite remarkable because he was an immigrant, he had nothing, and he made himself into something. It’s the true, ultimate New York story.” The museum ﬁrst performed the duel over July 4 weekend, and it attracted so many visitors that they scheduled two more showings this past weekend. “We had people call and ask if they could see it, so we decided to bring it back,” Schantz said. Throughout the museum’s “Summer of Hamilton,” they have hosted lectures, singalongs and movie showings that honor the Founding Father’s life. They also have numerous artifacts and documents on display from Passion for Hamilton’s story and legacy were palpable among attendees of the duel reenactment, several of whom were sporting T-shirts with lyrics from “Hamilton” the musical. Susan Frising, a for-

mer American history major who works for the Bank of New York (founded, incidentally, by Hamilton) had driven down from Westchester to see the show. “The clock for the dedication [of the Bank of New York] is stunning, the pistols, the reproduction, amazing,” she said. Frising is still trying to get tickets to the musical, but praised the shows she has seen at the Historical Society. “I almost don’t need to get to Broadway,” she said. For Nicole Scholet, vice president of the 6-year-old Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society, it has been an exciting year. Scholet’s organization helped connect the American Historical Theater with actors for the reenactment, and has found itself very much in demand since a certain Lin Mañuel-Miranda’s musical hit Broadway. “If people can’t understand how our country was founded, it’s easy for politicians today to just either make up things about the past or cherry pick,” Scholet said. “It’s great to see more people getting involved in history and feeling connected to it.”

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GLOBETROTTER CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 dard a nonprofit as you can find – or fund, defines multiple myeloma as “a form of blood cancer that develops in the bone marrow. The monoclonal protein produced by myeloma cells, interferes with normal blood cell production.” “We tried to figure out what could we do to try to bring some hope and some fun to this thing. They are the most amazing organization “They said, ‘Well you could stuff envelopes for us” (Me: that’s nonprofit code for “We have no idea how you can help ...”) “If you have any contacts maybe you could find a florist to make arrangements. “They didn’t know who they were dealing with!” Sue and her family were told, finally, that the foundation had never been able to get traction for a benefit in the city. “They’re located in Connecticut,” Sue says. “They didn’t understand that New York has a million charities. That if you wanted to you could go to a charity event every night of the week. So we tried to think of things we could do. We realized that laughter was the best thing. It would be fun for us and we were trying to bring happiness back in. “So my sister, Carol, and Cindy, my sister-in-law just kind of pulled this together and the first year we did it in a tiny club where they had maximum seating for 100. We brought our own food. We found our own comedians. We printed the invitations ourselves. Within a week we were sold out. Standing room for 20.” There’d be stopovers at Carolines, B.B. King’s, the Hammerstein Ballroom. And then, a sweet spot: Pier 60 at Chelsea Piers. “Now we attract 700 people every year.” And the headliners? “Mario Cantone, Joyce Behar, Jim Gaffigan ... We had him for three years. He’s amazing.” “Kathy Giusti (a multiple myeloma patient and founder, in

Our Town|Downtowner otdowntown.com 1998, of MMRF) is nationally recognized ... and has totally changed the way cancer research is really being done. Because she was a pharma executive before she was diagnosed herself she really understood business. There have been ten new drugs approved by the FDA in a short amount of time. “Being diagnosed now is so different from when my sister was diagnosed.” And on that hopeful note, we muster. At Lex, we hang a right, heading into some of the loveliest, most cinematic and hardfought for landmarked real estate in Manhattan. The Ur-UES. Walking and talking … or, rather, gimping and talking, Sue points out some of the landmarks in her village: There’s Neil’s Coffee shop at East 70th: “Been here forever and it’s the best place for breakfast in our neighborhood.” And Cognac East restaurant, across 70th: “It’s had lots of names. And we always love it.” “It’s a restaurant that a movie set designer would use to telegraph ‘New York restaurant’,” I remark. Like thousands of New Yorkers who love/hate/but-mostlylove seeing their neighborhood aspic-ed on celluloid, Sue proudly recalls Cognac’s star turn in “Sex and the City.” “When they used a restaurant, they used this restaurant.” We pause to mourn the loss of the Lennox Hill Bookstore, corner of 71st Street, one of the rising-rent casualties ﬂipping tenancies up and down the avenue. Before we visit another of her mercantile mainstays on Lex, Mary Arnold’s, a toy store and, therefore, one of Sue’s money pits — she has grandchildren, you know ... — we duck into her shoemakers to ask George to work his surgical skills on a pair of pumps “he has “done 150 times.” We cross to the west side of Lex to visit the Mary Arnold’s. Mission possible: lanyards in pink and purple. With directions. “This toy store started out about two blocks down and

when my daughter was growing up I used to come here. It’s breaking my heart that they’re moving to the 80s. So it’s not going to be in my hood,” Sue sighs. Spirits lifted, thanks to the lucky find of The Perfect Set of Lanyards, we step into what is probably Sue’s most important retail shrine in her village: the designer clothing shop just a few doors down from 74th: Dannielle B. Sue asks me, “Did you happened to notice the dress I was wearing at Laugh for Life? That blue and black? From here! Anytime I look good it’s in something from here.” The small shop is confidently, and comfortably, presided over by, well … one Dannielle Bluysen. Sue begins what will be, I can easily imagine, a successful search for something “white on white” for the Cornell reunion Sue has on her calendar. Dannielle B., like all the shops we visit is in one of New York’s great retail chain-free zones. There is only ONE Marilyn’s. Only ONE Dannielle B.’s. Unlike on Third Avenue one block to the east, these shopkeepers are like all shopkeepers in the great cities of the world: in places where everybody knows your name. Dannielle B., though is extra special thanks to the namesake’s generosity to Sue’s corestrength cause: the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. “Danniele always gives us a very generous donation,” she says as we head back to “her landmark”. “She has become like a friend. The nicest, nicest woman,” Sue tells me, flashing her big, wide smile. Back at her doorstep it’s time for me to peel off, and head back to my own village. “You know when you live in New York it’s all about your neighborhood. 80th Street (where Marilyn’s is headed) is not my neighborhood. My neighborhood’s from Bloomingdale’s to 79th Street. But, she smiles, “I DO play bridge on 87th and Third.” Sue Korn: globetrotter.

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WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE PARK THE CONSERVATORY GARDENS Have you noticed the lily pond that is now in full bloom in the “Secret Garden” pool? The water lilies in the pond bloom from June to October. The pool is dedicated to the memory of Frances Hodgson Burnett and contains a sculpture by Bessie Potter Vonnoh. It is located in the Conservatory Garden, off Fifth Avenue at 105th street and is open daily from 8 a.m. until dusk. The Conservatory Garden is the only formal garden found in Central Park. For more information on Central Park and tours of this area, visit www.centralpark.com

A FAVORITE FOR KIDS OF ALL AGES The Delacorte Music Clock, located near the Children’s Zoo and Wildlife Center, is a great attraction for kids. Each day between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., the clock — now digitally programmed — plays one of 32 nursery rhyme tunes

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Q&A on the hour. On the half-hour, the mechanical performance is a bit shorter. The animals rotate on a track around the clock and each also turns on an axis. More information is at www.centralpark.com

COMING UP THIS WEEK GAY HISTORY WALKING TOUR Garner a fresh and unexpected appreciation of worldfamous park statuary and landmarks once you hear the little-known stories that reveal their historic significance to the gay and lesbian community. When: Saturdays in August Time: 1-2:30 p.m. Location: Tour meets at East 72nd Street and Fifth Avenue, in front of the statue of Samuel Morse. More info visit is at www.

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Retiree Lon Wilson has completed more than 100 marathons BY GAIL EISENBERG

NEW YORK LAWN BOWLING CLUB: OPEN HOUSE Non-members are welcome to visit the green to receive free lessons and demonstrations of lawn bowling. Wear footwear with flat soles. No appointment necessary. This is a great way to learn the sport from experienced players, coaches and champions. When: Mondays in August Time: 5 -7 p.m. Location: Just northwest of Sheep Meadow For more information visit www.centralpark.com/ events

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WHERE IN CENTRAL PARK?

Staying ﬁt and giving back is a walk in the park for Lon Wilson, a 69-year-old retired Xerox employee. Wilson has been putting one foot in front of the other for more than four decades—as a runner, racewalker, ﬁtness instructor, and volunteer. You’ve completed 107 marathons—running 10 and race walking 97. That’s amazing. Why did you switch from running to racewalking? I was looking for something for my mother, and I came across Howard Jacobson, who was giving racewalking classes in Central Park. It was 1979—I was in my 30s then, so I wasn’t thinking about walking—but I was one of those guys who was always nursing something at the start of the marathon, you know. We starting talking, and I made the switch. For me, running a marathon is like losing a boxing match. Racewalking a marathon is like losing a dance competition—you’re tired but you’re not all beat up.

When and why did you stop racing? I stopped competing when I turned 60. A lot of people don’t know when to stop, even if they’re not walking too good, like their posture’s not right or they need hip replacements or knee replacements. I wanted to stop before I was stopped.

Do you know where in Central Park this photo was taken? To submit your answer, visit: centralpark.com/where-incentral-park. The answers and names of the people who guess right will appear in the paper and online in two weeks.

What do you do at the New York Road Runner’s Club?

LAST WEEK’S ANSWER: The Point is a peninsula in the area known as the Ramble that juts out into the Lake. The Point offers visitors a beautiful view of Bethesda Terrace directly ahead, and Bow Bridge to the west. It is a favorite spot for photographers and

bird watchers alike. The area has undergone a number of restorations during the last 30 years. These have included rebuilding the shoreline from beneath and replanting an array of shrubs and trees. The easiest access to the Point is via a path behind and west of the Boathouse. Congratulations to Henry Bottjer, Ravi Rozdon, Joe Ornstein, Catarina Novelli Pigatto and Gregory Holman for their correct answer.

I work part-time as a coach for the Striders, a community service program we run in dozens of senior centers. And I’m also a part-time ﬁtness instructor at the Concourse Plaza Wellness Center, as well as for the City Parks Foundation’s Senior Fitness Program.

And you also run intergenerational programs, which is so important to not only help bridge any disconnect between kids and adults, but also to combat the sedentary lifestyle that comes with today’s technology. Yes, an active lifestyle, doing anything—hopefully some-

walk over the Brooklyn Bridge and go to Junior’s. We’ve walked from Columbus Circle down to Pier 81 for Lobster. Everything revolves around lunch! We might go do a walk in Cold Springs or the Botanical Gardens. We get around.

thing you like so you keep doing it—is the key to a sound mind and a sound body and a sound community. I run the intergenerational program every Thursday throughout the summer. I teach proper techniques to all ages that result in maximum benefits and flexibility. We also use weighted hulahoops—from one pound to five pounds— for our dynamic warm-up.

Membership is $20 a year. You get free coaching and a 25% discount to Urban Athletics.

What happens when school is back in session?

Let’s talk about “The Wall” and “The Stick.”

Then I’m a PSAL track and field official. We have high school meets all over the city and I officiate them. Been doing that for almost 40 years now. All the schools come to the meets to compete in running and racewalking. The NYRR also has a program called Mighty Milers.

I was volunteering the year P. Diddy ran the marathon, and had The Stick, a massage baton. He was cramping at about mile 19 going into 20, which we call “The Wall.” He didn’t look too good, so I used it on him. We decided to continue to have massage available to help participants ﬁnish the race.

I didn’t realize there was racewalking in high schools.

Is there an experience or a person that stands out in all your years of participating in racing?

There is for girls, but the boys’ program stopped about 15 years ago. The USAT&F and other local track clubs are fighting hard to bring it back because colleges are offering racewalking scholarships now.

Tell me about the New York Walkers Club. We started in 1979, and about a decade ago we became part of the Central Park Conservancy. We meet every Saturday morning in the park—8:30 a.m. in July and August, 9:30 a.m. the other months—as a free public service. You can attend as many times as you want for free instruction, and take a walk. The other days of the week we have members-only outings. Recently, a group walked the Manhattan Bridge and ended up at Roberta’s. Sometimes we meet at City Hall Park and race-

Is there a fee?

Hartwig Gauder, who walked the NYC Marathon in 3 hours and 6 minutes and was a 50k gold medalist in the Moscow Olympics. In 1996, Gauder received a heart transplant. Eight months later he wanted to walk the NYC marathon again, so the NYRR asked me to walk with him. I had run with the top race walkers as a judge, so I knew Hartwig well. It was a week to remember, hanging out with a World Champion, visiting the German House—great beer!— and many parties. A German movie crew was with us all week filming the movie “Second Chance.” On race day, Gauder was disqualified for finishing too fast. His “disabled” classification due to his transplant required him to finish after 5 hours and 15 minutes; he walked it in 4 hours and 55 mins.

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Letter A GOOD NUMBER To The Editor: I am old. I am not old. I am 90. My son tells me it’s only a number. I see men stumbling down the street behind walkers or holding tightly to the arm of a caregiver. I go to the gym regularly to do my thing on the treadmill, ride on a bicycle, lift weights, relax in the sauna. People in the subway offer me a seat. I forget that my white hair is a signal of ineptitude. I tell myself my legs are strong. I can stand on my own two feet. My wife tells me I’m foolish not to accept the offer. “Encourage thoughtfulness and good manners,” she says. At the gym, young men and women run on the treadmill. I walk at a steady rate. I watch the athletes on television playing basketball running and jumping at an unreal pace. I shoot a basketball and barely reach the rim. Yet I try and I tell myself I am not old. My peers, my old friends are dying, from a stroke, from Parkinson’s. My neighbors die. The numbers dwindle. Their ranks grow smaller every year. I take walks and play with my grandchildren. I show them magic tricks and they laugh. I have had stents, melanoma, prostate cancer and I ignore them all. I am old but I’m not like the men I see, shoulders hunched forward, heads tucked in as though retreating into a turtle shell. I hear about my college basketball buddies retired in Florida meeting monthly to reminisce about their basketball playing days. Until this year I went to the school I helped establish and to work with student teachers. When I was there I went up and down the stairways without difficulty. In the school in honor of my role in founding the school, there is a plaque over a room designated as a professional development area dedicated to me with my name on it. I have a wife, a son, a daughter and three wonderful grandchildren and I love them. I like a glass of wine at night. I take Lipitor, Cozaar, Flomax and low-dose aspirin. A while ago I saw “Amour,” a film about the love and dedication of two old people approaching the end of life. It’s hard to watch a film about the deterioration of life. I do the laundry in washing machines located in the basement. I drive my car everywhere. I look at clouds, enjoy the feeling of sunshine, like to laugh. I take my grandchildren to the City College campus to see my name inscribed on a plaque in the Athletic Hall of Fame located in a corridor next to the regulation professional-size gymnasium. It reads: Basketball. 1943-44. New York City Unanimous Selection for All Metropolitan Team. High scorer of the city. Sometimes I get tired and I take a nap. But I deny my age. I resist my numbers. I remember things. I practice manipulating figures in my head. 42 times 91: multiply 42 by 10, you get 420; multiply 420 by 9, you get 3,780; add another 42 and the answer is 3,822. My grandson in his innocence says I’m getting old and he doesn’t want me to die. I look at the obituary columns in the daily newspapers and note people with numbers smaller than mine. My wife and I celebrate 54 years of marriage. We take strolls in the park, share morning coffee, talk, go to the movies and babysit for our grandchildren. The years go by like the blink of an eye, the tick of a clock. Old is a state of mind but it is also a state of body. The sun is shining today and I want to see it, to feel its warmth. I think about what it means to get old. I can’t run the way I did hour after hour on the basketball court. What else can’t I do? I can think. I can write. I can lead discussions. I can empathize. I can read. I am 90. I am old. I am not old. Sidney Trubowitz

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A CHEESECAKE WORTH THE MEMORIES EAST SIDE ENCOUNTERS BY ARLENE KAYATT

Smart, smarter, smarting.... bus time, UES. Local stops. Late afternoon. Getting busy. Hurried pace. Riders paying fares with coins, cards. Suddenly driver halts oncoming passengers and calls out for “that lady” - the one hurrying to the back of the bus who didn’t pay her fare. Several shout outs to no avail. The bus at a standstill; there was a rider intervention and the lady came forward. Driver told her she didn’t pay her fare. Saying nothing, she waved her hands. Driver said she’d have to leave the bus if she didn’t pay. As the back and forth raged on, passengers started shouting to get the bus moving. Whereupon the driver took to the wheel shaking his head as the nonpaying lady, wearing a wink and a tee shirt emblazoned with WORLD SAVVY, made her way to the back of the bus. Guess you have to read the large print. The price ain’t right: Early Saturday evening, CVS, 91st/3rd.

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Candy section shelves tagged with bright yellow 99 cent sale tags. Original prices $1.67 and $1.99. Good time to buy. When I got to the self-serve check-out only the original price rang up. Pushed the button for assistance. Along came the manager. After explaining what happened, she said, “Oh no, the machine is right. The sale signs were for the next day but the staff was told to put up the signs on Saturday because they would be too busy to do it on Sunday.” Oh. So the customer’s the last to know. And what about if the sign says that’s the price, isn’t that the price? Guess not at CVS. Weird, very weird. For the good times - trips down memory lane: Miss Grimble’s Cheesecake. To die for. More than 20 years ago there was a bakery shop on Madison Ave on the UES called Miss Grimble’s where Sylvia Balser Hirsch’s marbled cheesecakes were the rage. Light but creamy. Hadn’t seen the name in years until having dinner at Frankie & Johnnie’s newly opened steakhouse on West 46th Street’s Res-

taurant Row. Owner Peter Chimos told us that he’s had Miss Grimble’s marble and regular cheesecakes on the menu for 40 years and includes the Miss Grimble’s name because it’s the gold standard for quality...next came Hopjes, those hard little coffee (koffie) candies from Holland wrapped in white wrappers with brown logo. Irresistible. Found them at Yogurt & Candy World on Lexington Ave. in the 60s just north of Bloomingdale’s. They’re tiny and sold by the pound. Fond memories of grandma bringing them every Friday in a brown paper bag. Now they come in a clear plastic bag. Glad that hopjes are still around but not sure I’m ready to abandon a U.S. version, Nips, which are wrapped individually in plastic and sold in a box. I get them at CVS, Duane Reade. Hopjes have a more intense flavor... And last but not least: seated at a flip-top desk at a lecture in a college venue, I flipped the desk top and voila, gum on the underside. We don’t always get to choose our memories, do we? It was all good. And I’m thankful

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for them. Purina takes a page from the Kardashians - or how to seduce your pet’s palate: Purina has taken a page from the sex sells domain of the Kardashian family in marketing their new gourmet food product, Fancy Feast Classic Broth. The broth and by-product free ingredients are packaged in glossy envelope packets with bluish or pinkish lettering describing the offerings - from Tuna & Vegetables to Wild Salmon & Vegetables to Chicken, Vegetables & Whiteﬁsh to Mackarel & Vegetables. And writ along with the ingredients is the sales pitch that the gourmet blending is swimming “In a Decadent Silky Broth.” To think that my three cats, Betty Boop, Gracie Allen or Molly McGee, could be seduced by decadence in their diet is more than I can fathom. Me? I sure don’t want my kits ostracized. So I bought one packet of each and watched them go at it. Not a slurp, but it was all gone in a NY minute. And I could swear I saw baby Molly smiling.

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Dear Sam, I thought we were in this together, but apparently I was wrong. You’ve been ignoring me for a while. We don’t go for walks as often as we used to. You barely eat anything green anymore. And you don’t realize the daily pressure you put me under. It’s just too much.

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Out & About Your Guide to Spiritual Happiness

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We are Happy Science! A Global Movement and Happiness Revolution working to make YOU a happier person and THE WORLD a happier place. We have the motto, EXPLORING THE RIGHT MIND. This means to explore and activate our divine nature by putting into practice the Four Principles of Happiness, which are LOVE - to give love to others, instead of taking, WISDOM - to study spiritual Truth to gain higher perspective in life and live in the Truth, SELF-REFLECTION - to examine our thoughts and purify our minds by removing the ego, and PROGRESS - to share happiness and keep improving ourselves while improving the world. Creating a HAPPIER family, HAPPIER society and HAPPIER world starts from each one of us.

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Merchant’s House Museum, 29 East Fourth St. 6:30–8 p.m. $8–$13, free for members A guided tour of the Merchant’s House Museum gardens, aka the “secret” gardens. merchantshouse.org/ calendar/

Pier 45, Christopher Street at Hudson River 7 p.m. Free Sway to the musical styling of special guests, Shanti Starr And the Afro-Regge All-Stars. Have a fun night out over the Hudson while supporting local NYC talent. www.hudsonriverpark.org/

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The Strand, 828 Broadway, at 12th Street 7:30 p.m. Free Join Vulture Books editor Boris Kachka and author Tony Tulathimutte as they talk about Tulathimutte’s newest novel, “Private Citizens.” www.strandbooks.com/

Chatham Squaree Library, 33 East Broadway 10 a.m.–noon. Free ree For technical help, p, look no further thann Chatham Square Library, offering a hands-on IPad basics sics class. The class willll be offered in both English glish and Chinese. Basic Internet ernet knowledge base required. quired. www.nypl.org/ node/361266

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‘NEW FAMILIES, NEW TRADITIONS’ SERIES PUPPET SHOW Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place 10:30 a.m. Free Bring infants and children up to age 4 to see Yellow Sneaker, a puppet show troupe as they share Jewish life traditions and facilitate a program geared towards bringing families together. www.mjhnyc. www.mjhnyc org/

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FREE KAYAKING CLASS â&#x2013;ş Pier 96 in Clinton Cove 6:30 p.m. Free. This weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s class focuses on paddling efficiency and improving kayaking form. Hudsonriverpark.org

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Merchantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House Museum, 29 East Fourth St. 12:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1:30 p.m. $10, free for members Journey back in time to the 19th century during this historic walking tour of Noho. merchantshouse.org/ calendar/

Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Park, 20 Battery Place 6:30 p.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8:30 p.m. Free In association with the Battery Park City Authority, dance troupes from across the globe will ďŹ&#x201A;ock to perform free dance routines for all who wish to attend. batterydance.org/

China Institute, 40 Rector Street 6 p.m. $10 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $35 The president of the LVMH Group, Andrew Wu, will lead a discuss on retail luxury brands in the China Market. www.chinainstitute.org/ business-programs/

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IN CYLINDER SVA Flatiron Gallery 133 West 21st St 9 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 p.m. Free The work on view in In Cylinder, deriving its title from Samuel Beckettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s short story â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Lost Ones,â&#x20AC;? confronts different forms of identity and the challenges of the present moment. Sva.edu/events/

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FALL ARTS PREVIEW BY ISIDRO CAMACHO

STELLA SHOW EXTENDED, BASELITZ OPENS The Gagosian galleries are two of the most revered spaces in Chelsea and their tastes in modern and contemporary art always seem to be on the cutting edge of the international art world. Most recently the galleries featured the work of Richard Serra, whose exhibit at 24th Street has been extended until Oct. 22. Visitors came in droves to venture inside his colossal steel blocks. Serra’s pieces echoed the solemn tranquility of aged metal, ushering in stillness with their hard, weathered exteriors. This fall the 21st Street Gagosian space will switch its focus to the human form with the work of Georg Baselitz. Well respected in Europe, the work of this Germanborn contemporary artist has almost always focused on new visualizations of the human body. Baselitz has often been frustrated by the tendency of viewers to directly relate his work to real life. To combat this, in the 1960’s he began painting his figures upside down to distance them from reality. This theme — placing the human body in a context different from reality — is still central to his work. “Jumping Over My Shadow,” a collection of the artist’s most recent works, features canvases whose figures are misted with a fine layer of paint, hiding them from easy observation. In addition to his tableaus, the Gagosian will also showcase his recent works of sculpture. His sculptures, dubbed by the gallery’s official press release as “monumental,” are strikingly expressive and cubic. Often constructed from wood or bronze, his interpretations of the human body, most often his version of a head, are textured with marks that resemble slashes or hack marks. These large works will ﬁll the huge space on 21st Street until late October. Georg Baselitz: Jumping Over My Shadow Gagosian Galleries Opens, with a reception, Sept. 20 and runs until Oct. 29

SPACES SO ENVELOPING VIEWERS FEEL TRANSPORTED Filling the 18,000 square feet of the Whitney’s fifth-floor gallery, “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016” promises to be the museum’s most technologically progressive show to date. Highlighting the advances, both stylistic and technologic, in cinema during the last century, the exhibit will feature animation, 3-D visuals, and installations that use realtime data feeds from the internet. Cinema, in comparison to other art forms, is a unique and relatively new vehicle of artistic expression. Since its inception by the Lumière brothers nearly 100 years ago, filmmaking has evolved to new technologic heights. When the two French brothers premiered their first short film in 1895 audiences jumped out of their seats and ran for the exits, convinced that a train that appeared on screen was going to slam into the theater. Audiences today are still attracted to the silver screen because of its ability to temporarily bend reality. The Whitney’s exhibit, which opens Oct. 28, will draw upon the transcendent power of cinema. The name of the project, “Dreamlands,” alludes to a fantasy world imagined by the culthorror author H.P Lovecraft that one can only enter while sleeping. The exhibit’s curators — Chrissie Iles, Anne Ehrenkranz and Joel Ehrenkranz — hope to reinterpret Lovecraft’s world by creating spaces so enveloping that viewers feel like they are being transported to a different period in history. Visitors will have the chance to explore early projects that laid the groundwork for modern cinema as well more contemporary pieces. The Whitney is an artistic institution predominately focusing on American Art but “Dreamlands” will also feature certain early European cinematic works that served as inspirations for pioneer American filmmakers. Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 Whitney Museum of American Art (99 Gansevoort St.) Oct. 28 through Feb. 5

Hito Steyerl (b. 1966), Installation view of Factory of the Sun, 2015 (German Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, 2015). Video, color, sound; 21 min., looped; with environment, dimensions variable. Collection of the artist; courtesy Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York. Photograph by Manuel Reinartz; image courtesy the artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

FLOOD WATERS AS ART In 2012 the basement of the Westbeth Gallery in Greenwich Village was completely ﬂooded during Hurricane Sandy. Few would have anticipated the Hudson River to reach such recordsetting water levels that day, but now most understand the severity of the storm was related to global warming. Starting Sept. 16, the basement of the Westbeth will again be flooded to create a new gallery experience featuring the photos of Anne De Carbuccia. Visitors can use walkways to explore photos taken by Carbuccia during her adventures abroad. All of Carbuccia’s shots feature skulls, a symbol of decimated species, and hourglasses, a literal symbol of time running out to save them. Carbuccia work places these two symbols in different contexts, such as a coral reef or the African savannah, to show how the ﬁght to reverse climate change is a global plight. The effects of climate change will be apparent by the water constantly underfoot while the visitor moves from photo to photo.

Part of the gallery will also be visible to people passing on the street. The Westbeth resides in a meatpackingstyle building that was once attached to the same rail track as the Highline. The artist plans to plant a small forest of trees inside this portion of the building to further the exhibits connection with the environment. Images of Carbuccia’s work will be projected onto the arches of the building and the trees themselves. “One Planet One Future” is the collaborative efforts of the Westbeth gallery and Carbuccia’s Time Shrine Foundation. Admission to the exhibit is free and all the proceeds from Carbuccia’s work will be donated to NGOs dedicated to ﬁghting climate change. One Planet One Future: A series of photographs by Anne de Carbuccia Wesbeth Gallery (55 Bethune St.) Opens Sept. 16 and runs until Nov. 21

A LARGE-SCALE TWELFTH NIGHT IN THE PARK Shakespeare’s gender-bender comedy Twelfth

Night, a Public Works initiative (community participatory theatre), reprises the stage at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park, Labor Day weekend. The large-scale musical adaptation features the music and lyrics of the critically acclaimed singer and songwriter Shaina Taub (who also performs as the character Feste in the play), along with Tony winner Nikki M. James (Les Miserables) as Viola and Jose Llana (The King and I) as Orsino. The production is directed by Kwame Kwei-Arma, award-winning British playwright, director, actor, and broadcaster. The play centers on twins Viola and Sebastian who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola disguises herself as a man to work for Duke Orsino, and is sent on Orsino’s behalf to win the love of the Countess Olivia for him. But Olivia falls in love with Viola’s alter ego instead, and comedy ensues. In 2014, Taub, won the Jonathan Larson Grant, and in 2012 was Ars Nova’s composer in residence. Kwei-Armah’s plays include Seize the Day, A Bitter Herb, Blues Brother Soul Sister, Big Nose, and his triptych of plays chronicling the struggles of the British African-Caribbean community in London — Elmina’s Kitchen, Fix up, and Statement of Regret — which each premiered at the National Theatre between 2003- 2007. As with each year’s Public Works productions,

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ACTIVITIES FOR THE FERTILE MIND

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The Bowery Boys Book Talk

TUESDAY, AUGUST 16TH, 6:30PM The Skyscraper Museum | 39 Battery Pl. | 212-968-1961 | skyscraper.org Take out your headphones and catch podcast hosts The Bowery Boys in person as they discuss their new book, a detailed romp through Manhattan history that unveils city secrets neighborhood by neighborhood. (Free)

Mae West: New Yorker, Vaudevillian, Upstart, and Jailbird—A Birthday Celebration!

Photo by Matt J Carbone via ﬂickr Twelfth Night features over 200 actors and community members alongside equity actors. Cameo group performances include COBU, Harlem Dance Club, Jambalaya Brass Band, The Love Show, New York Deaf Theatre, Ziranmen Kungfu Wushu Training Center, and United States Postal Carrier. The Public Works community partner organizations include Brownsville Recreation Center, Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education, Center for Family Life in Sunset Park, DreamYard Project, Fortune Society and Military Resilience Project, along with alumni partners Children’s Aid Society and Domestic Workers United. Twelfth Night Delacorte Theater (81 Central Park West) Sept. 2-5. Free

STEAL THIS ART When visiting a museum, there is often a childlike urge to reach out and touch the items on display, but obviously this is suppressed to preserve the works and natural order of museums. However, in this new exhibition from the Jewish Museum, you can do more than touch the artwork — you can actually take it home. Take Me (I’m Yours), opening on Sept. 16, will feature pieces from over 40 eclectic, global artists that encourage viewer participation. Many of the works presented will be new and site-specific, and will attempt to include the viewer in the ownership of the artwork through alternative modes of interaction, including allowing visitors to take some of the pieces. The experiential exhibit is meant to comment on the art world’s nuances of consumerism, value and hierarchy. Initially presented in 1995 at the Serpentine Galleries in London, Take Me (I’m Yours) was created by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and artist Christian Boltanski. It featured the work of a dozen artists and maintained a similar intention to the upcoming New York exhibition, which will be the first to cross to this side of the pond. The current iteration is also the first in a collecting museum, challenging traditional notions of museums by distributing the artwork for free. It will feature a number of prominent artists, ranging from the world-renowned multimedia artist Yoko Ono to the viral Instagram performance artist Amalia Ulman. The exhibition is curated by Jens Hoffmann and Kelly Taxer of the Jewish Museum in collaboration with Hans Ulrich Obrist, one of the original exhibition’s creators. Take Me (I’m Yours) Jewish Museum (1109 5th Avenue) Sept. 16 through Feb. 5

GOLDLINK AND FRIENDS TAKE THE SUMMERSTAGE Throughout the summer, the City Parks Foundation has continued their long-running SummerStage series of mostly free concerts throughout New York City. SummerStage is notable for its immense range of artists, spanning all genres, ages, and corners of the globe. On Aug. 28, GoldLink, Brasstracks, and DJ Spicoli will take the Rumsey Playﬁeld stage in Central Park,

bringing a gumbo of hip-hop, jazz, electronic dance music, and rhythm and blues. GoldLink is a Washington, DC rapper whose has dubbed his sound “future bounce,” a unique brand of smooth, up-tempo hip-hop strongly inﬂuenced by house music. His stock has steadily risen over the past few years as he has gained millions of listeners on Soundcloud, and he released his most recent album, And After That We Didn’t Talk, in late 2015. He also caught the attention of Def Jam founder Rick Rubin, who he went on to collaborate with. Brasstracks is a Brooklyn duo featuring a drummer and trumpet player, who create genre-bending brass music that blends jazz, soul, funk and hip-hop. They worked on Chance The Rapper’s hit “No Problems” and have also collaborated with artists including Anderson.Paak and Gallant. DJ Spicola is a Los Angelino by way of Washington, DC, DJ who similarly combines multiple genres. Known for an exhilarating live show, he has performed across the country, including a set at Trillectro Music Festival. GoldLink / Brasstracks / DJ Spicoli Central Park – SummerStage (E. 72nd & 5th Ave.) Aug. 28, Free

RENOWNED POETS AND AUTHORS READ THEIR WORKS As a part of the 92nd Street Y’s ongoing reading series at the historic Unterberg Poetry Center, a medley of poets and authors will read excerpts from their respective works. Running weekly beginning on Sept. 19, this series will allow audiences the opportunity to listen to illustrious writers live in person. In the Center’s season opener on Sept. 19, Ian “Ian Macabre” McEwan will read from his new novel “Nutshell,” a story of death and deception. McEwan, who Claire Messud wrote “forces his readers to turn the pages with greater dread and anticipation than does perhaps any other ‘literary’ writer working in English today,” is known for books such as “Atonement,” which was later adapted into an Oscar-nominated film. Signed copies of his yet-to-be released book will also be available. Another highlight is on Oct. 27, featuring Martha Collins and Tyehimba Jess, two idiosyncratic poets reflecting on issues of race. Martha Collins will be reading from her new anthology, “Admit One: An American Scrapbook.” The books traces the lineage of science-based racism in the United States over the last century, using documentary sources to reinforce her ideas. The Washington Post called it “a strikingly original collection that combines brilliant storytelling and compelling commentary.” Tyehimba Jess will read from “Olio,” his recent book that combines sonnet, song and narrative to explore the experiences of largely unrecorded black performers. Nikki Finney wrote that it is a “21st-century hymnal of black revolutionary poetry, a theatrical melange of miraculous meta-memory. Inventive, prophetic, wondrous, he writes unflinchingly into the historical clefs of blackface, black sound and human sensibility.” Christopher Lightfoot Walker Reading Series Unterberg Poetry Center – 92nd Street Y (1395 Lexington Ave.) Weekly, beginning Sept. 19

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17TH, 6PM Jefferson Market Library | 425 Ave. of the Americas | 212-243-4334 | nypl.org Catch a talk and slideshow by Greenwich Village historian LindaAnn Loschiavo featuring rare photos of Mae West as a young variety artist, held in the very building West did time in. (Free)

Just Announced | James Gleick on Time Travel

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18TH, 8PM 92nd Street Y | 1395 Lexington Ave. | 212-415-5500 | 92y.org The telegraph, railroad, and archeology all contributed to the change in human understanding when H.G. Wells hatched his time machine. Author James Gleick takes a look at the device’s path through pop culture and contemporary physics, joined by Brain Pickings’ Maria Popova. ($32)

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WATTEAU AND WAR’S SMALL PLEASURES A summer show at The Frick Collection highlights the 18th century artist’s military works

BY VAL CASTRONOVO

Catherine the Great had one. So did Cardinal Silvio Valenti Gonzaga, a prominent collector. They were as famous as his amorous fête galante paintings in the 18th century, but little known today. Now they are the focus of a small show at The Frick Collection, “Watteau’s Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France,” the ﬁrst exhibit of its kind. Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was one of the period’s most renowned Rococo artists. These early paintings and drawings of common soldiers, dating from 1709 to 1715, feature men in tricorn hats and uniforms, wielding muskets and marching in line. But don’t misunderstand: these are war works minus the blood and gore. They are set on the sidelines, apart from the action. Executed for the most part during the War of the Spanish Succession (17011714) when Louis XIV strove to put his grandson, Philip, Duke of Anjou, on the Spanish throne, the four paintings and some dozen related drawings are quiet scenes, capturing downtime, not battle. There are seven surviving military paintings in all; the remaining three are in Russia. As the exhibit’s curator, Aaron Wile, writes in a catalog essay, “Watteau and the Inner Life of War”: “Nothing in [the pictures] hints at a speciﬁc location or event ... little suggests the suffering a soldier would experience in war. Although marked in some ways by the War of the Spanish Succession,

these are generalized images that give a mostly pleasant taste of a soldier’s routine.” The resemblance to 17th century Dutch and Flemish genre paintings is palpable. Think of these works as military genre scenes that highlight the ordinary activities of soldiers between military engagements — soldiers at leisure pictured sleeping, daydreaming, smoking, playing cards, conversing and even eyeing the opposite sex, because women (wives, mistresses, prostitutes) were present in the camps. Actual fighting is only hinted at in a very few paintings (e.g., “The Line of March,” ca. 1710), with a flash of light or billowing smoke in the distance. It is the subjects’ humanity, instead, that interested Watteau, who was clearly influenced by the writers and philosophers of the period who were charting psychological territory. “Watteau shows a specific side of war,” Wile said at a preview of the exhibit. “He goes for the depiction of the individual with an inner life.” He added: “They are outside battle, on their own time. The intimacy between the soldiers is new.” But all is not as it seems. Close inspection reveals some stilted encounters between the individuals, the curator says. There is a lack of connection — gazes that don’t quite meet — that stems from the artist’s peculiar working method. He eschewed preliminary compositional studies and the depiction of a harmonious whole. He preferred sketching individual soldiers from life without an end goal. Watteau kept notebooks with red chalk drawings of figures in motion and figures at rest — individual studies of military men in a wide variety of poses. They stand, sit, kneel, lie on

Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721). “The Portal of Valencienne,” ca. 1710–11. Oil on canvas. 12 3/4 x 16 inches.The Frick Collection; purchased with funds from the bequest of Arthemise Redpath, 1991. Photo: Michael Bodycomb their bellies and lie on their backs. They are seen from the front, from behind and sideways. Some hold muskets, others drums. Some preen, others retreat into themselves. He plucked these isolated figures from his notebooks and dropped them into his paintings, creating new conﬁgurations and narratives but a sense of mystery and ambiguity, too, as the people don’t always “relate.” “Nothing quite coheres,” Wile said, using “The Supply Train” (ca. 1715), a recently rediscovered work, to illustrate the point. The subjects — sol-

diers, women, a baby, a horse and a dog — are sprawled across the panel in a haphazard way, perhaps a comment on the “aimlessness of camp life,” according to the exhibit text, but, unlike works by Goya in the 19th century or Picasso in the 20th, conveying no moral opinion about war. The works were created to please viewers, not provoke. “The Portal of Valenciennes” (ca. 1710-11), acquired by The Frick in 1991, is a rare guard picture and the show’s enigmatic centerpiece (note: title aside, it is unclear whether the scene is actually rooted in Valenciennes,

Watteau’s hometown). Bathed in a soft light, the small painting depicts two sets of soldiers conversing; two other ﬁgures are seated, while a third sleeps on his stomach. The curator said that the scene is “less resolved than it seems. The expressions are impossible to read.” Boredom is a distinct possibility. In a key observation, Wile links the fêtes galantes and the military works, courtly love and military life: “War and love ... are not so dissimilar in Watteau’s universe, for if love joins people together, so does war — not only for companionship but, more fundamentally, for survival,” he writes. “In this sense, both the military works and the fêtes galantes offer a vision of coexistence within a community, but it is a fragile coexistence.” Watteau’s genius, the curator concludes, is in capturing these fragile connections and offering “the essentially modern insight that society is held together by only the thinnest of threads.”

IF YOU GO WHAT: “Watteau’s Soldiers: Scenes

Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721). “Three Views of a Soldier, One from Behind,” ca. 1713–15. Red chalk, with black ink framing. 6 3/4 × 8 5/8 inches. Muse´e du Louvre, Paris (RF 51752). Photo: © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY

Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721). “Three Studies of Resting Soldiers” (recto), ca. 1713–14. Red chalk. 6 7/8 × 8 1/2 inches.E´cole nationale supe´rieure des BeauxArts, Paris (1608). Photo: © Beaux-Arts de Paris, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY

of Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France” WHERE: The Frick Collection, 1 East 70th St. WHEN: through October 2. www.frick.org

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS AUG 1 - 5, 2016

Paul & Jimmy’s Restaurant 123 East 18 Street

Finnerty’s

221 2 Avenue

Grade Pending (22) Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Bergen Hill

26 Astor Place

The following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s website and include the most recent inspection and grade reports listed. We have included every restaurant listed during this time within the zip codes of our neighborhoods. Some reports list numbers with their explanations; these are the number of violation points a restaurant has received. To see more information on restaurant grades, visit www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/services/restaurant-inspection.shtml. Sports Center Cafe

0 Chelsea Piers

85 10th Ave

Veniero’s Pasticceria & Cafe

338342 East 11 Street

Highline Cafe Matchabar

256 W 15th St

Baker’s Pizza

201 Avenue A

Google Panorama

111 8th Ave

Asuka Sushi

300 W 23rd St

Not Yet Graded (18) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked ﬁsh and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Bar Truman

75 9th Ave

Cafe Loup

105 West 13 Street

Grade Pending (39) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Grade Pending (31) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Evidence of rats or live rats present in facility’s food and/ or non-food areas. Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/ refuse/sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. 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.

Empellon Al Pastor

132 Saint Marks Pl

Stuyvesant Organic

536 E 14th St

Not Yet Graded (49) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Food Protection Certiﬁcate not held by supervisor of food operations. Appropriately scaled metal stem-type thermometer or thermocouple not provided or used to evaluate temperatures of potentially hazardous foods during cooking, cooling, reheating and holding. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared.

Lenz’s

514 E 20th St

Bayard’s Alehouse

533 Hudson Street

Wafels & Dinges-Landing

393 West St

Not Yet Graded (5) Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Tavern On Jane

31 8 Avenue

Dig Inn

350 Hudson Street

Juice Generation

245 Bleecker St

Not Yet Graded (5) Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Grade Pending (27) Food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared.

Elmo

156 7 Avenue

Grade Pending (27) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/ refuse/sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Tobacco use, eating, or drinking from open container in food preparation, food storage or dishwashing area observed.

Whiskey Social

35 West 8 Street

Bar Veloce

176 7 Avenue

Gym Sports Bar

167 8 Avenue

El Quinto Pino

401 West 24 Street

Colors Restaurant

417 Lafayette Street

510 Laguardia Place

La Contrada

84 E 4th St

Not Yet Graded (30) Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Le Poisson Rouge

158 Bleecker Street

Gatsby’s

53 Spring Street

Fiat Cafe

203 Mott Street

Grade Pending (21) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked ﬁsh and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. 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.

Maoz Vegetarian

59 East 8 Street

Grade Pending (18) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked ﬁsh and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/ or non-food areas.

Piccolo Cafe

157 3 Avenue

Springbone Kitchen

90 W 3rd St

Sao Mai Vietnamese Cuisine

203 1 Avenue

The Graffiti Room

184 Mott St

The Boil

17 Waverly Pl

Market Ipanema

66 Kenmare St

Veselka Restaurant

144 Second Avenue

Downtown Bakery Ii Mexican Food

69 1 Avenue

The Thirsty Scholar

155 2 Avenue

Not Yet Graded (23) Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.

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Summer’s not the only thing that’s in full swing these days; the increased mobility that many of us enjoy during the warmer months can put us at risk for slips, trips and falls. For most of us, a quick tumble or momentary loss of balance presents no serious threat — we brush ourselves off and get back in step. But for many older adults, especially those over the age of 65, a loss of balance or a tumble can be much more serious. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 700,000 people are hospitalized each year for fall-related injuries that can range from concussions to hip fractures. As a registered nurse with VNSNY CHOICE Health Plans, I often work with frail, older men and women in their 70s, 80s and even older who are at risk for falling due to decreased bone density, taking multiple medications, decreasing strength, mobility or agility, chronic conditions such as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease or vision impairment. For anyone over the age of 65, it is important to do a home assessment to minimize potential home hazards that can increase risk for falls. You can help prevent trips and falls by minimizing clutter in the home and ensuring there is a clear path for walking — especially if a walker is used. Use rug pads to secure rugs on the floor, provide proper lighting on stairs and common rooms, and use night lights or stick-on lights for darker areas. Make sure hand rails and bathroom grab bars installed, and are secure. Proper shoes are important as well. Open-heeled shoes, slippers and sandals without a strap can increase the risk for a fall. A podiatrist can help recommend the perfect shoe, and a physical therapist can work with you to improve balance and strengthen muscles. Another important strategy for staying safe on your feet this summer is getting enough Vitamin D. Even when we do

get outdoors, our exposure to the sun can be minimal. I supervise the care of several older folks who only get out in the summer sun once or twice a week. Their doctors prescribe Vitamin D supplements to ensure that they’re getting what they need. Vitamin D is especially important because it promotes calcium absorption, which strengthens bones and keeps them from becoming thin and brittle. With a healthy intake of calcium, vitamin D can prevent osteoporosis and lower body weakness. According to the National Institutes of Health, adults 50-70 years old should get 600 micrograms of vitamin D, and those over 70 should get 800 micrograms. Although vitamin D doesn’t occur naturally in most foods, many calcium-rich products are fortified with vitamin D. These foods include: Fatty ﬁsh: Salmon, tuna, sardines and mackerel are all high in vitamin D, as well as hearthealthy omega-3 fatty acids. Cod liver oil and oysters are also rich in nutrients. Certain mushrooms: Although most mushrooms are grown in the dark, mushrooms grown in ultraviolet light can produce vitamin D. They’re a healthy alternative for vegetarians who prefer plant based diets. Milk: Almost all milk produced in the U.S. is fortified with vitamin D. Milk is high in calcium and drinking 1-2 glasses a day is a great way to keep bones strong.

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Cultural Events The mural was found behind a wall that was knocked down. Photo: Silas White

WALL COMES DOWN, LANDSCAPE APPEARS Renovations at Bella Luna’s new Columbus Avenue location reveal large work thought to be from the 1920s BY SILAS WHITE

A mural depicting a landscape of trees by the water was found recently behind two walls on a property undergoing renovations. The building, at 574 Columbus Ave., will be the new site of the restaurant Bella Luna, whose current location is a few doors down at 584 Columbus. According to Angie Noll, the restaurant’s manager, the site was formerly home to a ﬂower shop, a bar and possibly even a Russian cultural center. By Noll’s guess, the mural is from the 1920s or 1930s. “We think it’s at least 75 years old, but it’s not signed or dat-

ed,” she said. Bella Luna has contacted a restoration artist that lives in the neighborhood to restore the mural, which is planned to be featured when the restaurant opens in September. Noll said that Bella Luna has also contacted the New York Historical Society to have the piece evaluated, but have yet to hear back. The restoration artist, Mark Rutkoski, estimates that the painting comes from the early 20th century, and that this is not the first restoration that has been done. “It’s suffered some damage but there seems to have been another restoration in around the ‘60s,” he said. Noll believes that the mural may have come from the bar, but right now the exact dates and history of the building is unknown. According a docu-

ment from the Landmarks Preservation Committee the building was built around 1893 or 1894 and designed by architect Jacob H. Valentine. The restoration started last week. “It’ll be a challenge but we’re looking forward to it,” Rutkoski said. Noll said originally only one wall was going to be demolished, but the building’s owner, Turgut Balikci, wanted the second wall demolished as well because he thought he saw something. His hunch turned out to be correct, as the mural was hidden behind the second wall. “Bella Luna is a neighborhood community spot, I think the mural is a cool part of the neighborhood community culture,” Noll said.

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ROSENTHAL HOSTS HYPER-LOCAL TOWN HALL NEWS Meeting focuses on concerns in the West 70s BY MADELEINE THOMPSON

Linda Rosenthal, the assemblymember representing the 67th district consisting of the Upper West Side and parts of Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen, hosted a mini-town hall for residents of the West 70’s. The meeting was the first of three that will take place this month in the West 40’s/50’s, 60’s and 80’s/90’s to address the more specific characteristics of and challenges facing each micro community. After her brief intro, the floor opened up to allow the roughly 40 attendees, mostly senior citizens, to ask questions and air their concerns. The issues raised covered a wide range, from overflowing trash to a parking dispute at the Manhattan Day School to the amount of outside income made by state representatives. “I can’t believe that this neighborhood is so filled with trash [and] filthy sidewalks,” one resident said. “Building owners are not complying with the law in keeping the sidewalks clean, and it’s very, very disturbing.” The resident described a time when she and a friend took matters into their

Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal hosted the ﬁrst of several community meetings focused on 10-block areas. Photo by Madeleine Thompson own hands and asked the Lincoln Square Business Improvement District if they could help out. Because the Lincoln Square BID doesn’t technically cover the resident’s neighborhood -they only cover Broadway between W. 60th to W. 70th Streets -- the resident wanted to know if a new BID could be formed to take responsibility for some of the territory north of that. In response, Rosenthal agreed that the trash situation had gotten out of hand and suggested they ask the sanitation department to do a “blitz.” The hour-and-a-half “hyper-local

town hall” idea is a new one for Rosenthal, though she has hosted many longer town halls and sessions on various topics throughout her career. “People have different concerns in different parts of the district … so I wanted to hear specific issues within 10-block areas,” Rosenthal said. “If you have a smaller group you can go into more detail and speak more personally with everyone.” Though she was already aware of most of the issues that were raised, hearing about them in a closer setting “intensiﬁed” her desire to help. Dee Rieber, who has been presi-

dent of the W. 75th Street Neighborhood Association since 2009, praised Rosenthal’s work for the community. “I think Linda’s terriﬁc,” she said. “I’ll deﬁnitely vote for her and I think most of my constituents will.” At the town hall last week, she raised the issue of a homelessness conditions program that once existed at the 20th Precinct to help the homeless find shelter and keep them off the streets. “I was concerned that that needs to be an integral part of the 20th Precinct and it seems to have gone by the wayside with the new leadership there,” she said. “The person that was running it left, but that shouldn’t constitute a complete throwing out of the entire program.” Though she’s not sure the problem has necessarily worsened since the police department’s program went away, Rieber thinks the community benefited greatly from it. “The woman that headed up that conditions unit knew every single homeless person on the street,” she said. “She made a point of getting to know who they were … and that made a difference.” Rosenthal said after the meeting that she would be speaking to the 20th Precinct’s captain about reinstating the homeless conditions program. Rieber was also the only person to mention Theodore Roosevelt Park and the American Museum of Natural History’s planned expansion, which

is perhaps surprising given the vehement outcry from Upper West Side residents against the project. “I really feel in my heart they’re not going to be satisﬁed until [the museum] takes that entire plot of land,” she said. “Certainly to lose any [green] space is just unconscionable.” As of this year, Rosenthal has been representing the 67th district for a decade. In that time, she has passed 65 laws and fought for her constituents in Albany. Though the issues pressing on the minds of Upper West Siders have changed in those ten years, several main themes have remained constant. “I think what people are concerned about is overdevelopment,” she said. “I get a lot of emails on the noise, the construction, the quality of life disruption that people on the West Side feel.” Rosenthal herself was inspired to get into politics after she and her grandmother were threatened with eviction years ago. “Something I’m very proud of here in the district is that we have not had one eviction,” she said. “Of all the constituents who come here about to be evicted, we’ve stopped them all.” Rosenthal is up for re-election this year and plans to keep standing up for her community. Her next mini-town hall for the W. 80’s/90’s will be held Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Goddard Riverside Community Center.

THE LIFE-CHANGING HISTORY OF A/C LECTURE BY MADELEINE THOMPSON

The Upper East Side’s Museum of the City of New York will host the second lecture in its “Fast, Cool, and Convenient” series on the city’s relationship with several energy-consuming necessities. Stan Cox, a research coordinator and senior scientist at the Land Institute in Kansas, will speak on Thursday, Aug, 11 at 6:30 p.m. at the New York Academy of Medicine about air conditioning. Cox’s most recent book “How the World Breaks: Life in Catastrophe’s Path, From the Caribbean to Siberia,” co-written with his son Paul, addresses the dangerous weather events climate change has caused so far, including Superstorm Sandy. His lecture will be followed by a Q&A session moderated by Cecil Mark-Corbin, deputy director and director of policy initiatives at WE ACT for Environmental Justice.

What will you be talking about on Thursday? Considering the way the summer has

gone so far you can’t start a talk like this without talking about heat waves. It’s too bad because in the middle of a heat wave, or just after one, it’s probably the worst time to try to discuss the impact of air conditioning because people don’t want to think about life without it. What I’m going to try to say is that certainly there’s no doubt that as air conditioning became more widely available over the last two decades, death rates in large northern cities have gone down, including in New York.

Could air conditioning almost be considered a measure of socioeconomic status? [During] the terrible Chicago heat wave of 1995, when 700 people died, there weren’t any deaths up on the Gold Coast and the more affluent neighborhoods. They all occurred on the South Side and other economically distressed areas. There are other factors besides the lack or presence of air conditioning. In that heat wave, there was a big power outage caused by people running air conditioning too much. Having air conditioning is very much correlated with having higher

ﬁcient in an engineering sense than central air, that if room units are used just to cool occupied areas we’d be using a lot less energy for air conditioning if we were relying on room units.

In your book you address the impact of climate change on various cities. How well do you think New York City responded to Superstorm Sandy and what should we be concerned about in the future? Photo: Richard Khavkine income [and] larger, newer houses, better pumping, higher education levels.

What is the history of air conditioning in New York City speciﬁcally? Air conditioning actually got started in New York City when Willis Carrier installed a system in the Sackett & Wilhems Lithography Company in 1902. The building is still there in Brooklyn but the system he put in isn’t anymore. At the time, they did it … to make an industrial process more efﬁcient. In this case, to reduce the humidity so the paper would go through the rollers. That same year, the trading floor of the New York Stock Ex-

change was air conditioned, and that was the ﬁrst case of air conditioning for human comfort rather than for an industrial process.

How do window units, which are used by many New Yorkers, compare to central air conditioning as far as energy consumption? Overall,it’s a pretty small portion of the total electricity used for air conditioning that goes to room units, at least around the country, because central air is much more common. In New York I imagine the majority of the energy would be used by these room units. However, I argued in my book that even though they may be less ef-

When [co-author Paul Cox and I] were deciding which post-disaster stories to tell, Sandy was one of the first ones that we decided that we should. Regarding resilience, we kind of contrasted the two post-Sandy approaches that were taken in lower Manhattan and Staten Island. Paul talked to people on the Lower East Side, for example, that [future storms] would lead to intense gentriﬁcation. A lot of people who had lived there for a long time wouldn’t be able to anymore. So we have to think about not only resilience to disasters but resilience of the communities that are living with disaster living. *This interview has been edited and condensed.

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In her new web series, “The Other F Word,” Caytha Jentis celebrates the highs and lows women experience after turning 40 in a fun and fearless way. The Upper West Side ﬁlmmaker felt this demographic was underserved on screen and decided to focus on what she calls a “rebranding of aging.” Taking a cue from shows like “Girls” and “Sex and the City,” she wrote a pilot about four women who are all tackling different issues that come with entering this new stage of life. After meeting with resistance from Hollywood, she employed a more grassroots campaign. The result is a true New York collaboration, with Jentis casting local actors whom she refers to as “diamonds in the rough” and ﬁlming in her apartment as well as Central Park. With the help of many of her neighbors, including Steve Guttenberg and comedian Judy Gold, she created eight episodes, which will be released in September.

I read that Hollywood wasn’t interested in it. Why do you think that was the case? I had done three features and wanted to tell this story. It felt episodic, these kind of coming-of-age journeys. I kind of used, not so much “Sex and the City,” but “Girls” as the model. Just to give the backstory, I thought “Girls” is 20 year olds trying to come of age and ﬁgure out who they are. And when you’re a mother, all of the sudden, you’re in this sort of child-centric life and all the sudden they get older and it’s like, ‘It’s me time again,’ and you have this window before you feel like you’re really getting old. I saw people getting divorced, selling their houses, starting new careers, and I’m like, ‘Wow, this is a really vibrant story.’ So I wrote it as a pilot because I didn’t want to close this story. I did run into people saying that this is a tough demographic, women 40 and up. Women ﬁnd parts in television, but to do a story very much about this, I ran into a lot of ageist roadblocks. It just didn’t make sense to me since women watch so much television and control a lot of money.

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I got a lot of feedback from Los Angeles saying, ‘This is a story; somebody should tell it. You definitely have a good script here. Figure out of a way.’ I had been an independent ﬁlmmaker and had spent the year learning about web series, which seemed to be the new frontier. I partnered with Kath-

leen McDonough, who was somebody I had worked with. As a non-mother herself, she said she connected with the characters and their stories. One is not married. Three are mothers with older children and one I wanted to be the New York person who put all her energy into her career and then has that whole experience when you wake up and you’re like, ‘I’ve dated; I’ve had boyfriends, but wait, I’m not married.’ And I spent a lot of time in this grassroots phase of connecting with all these bloggers and online magazines. I found there were a lot of people in the digital space talking about this time of life. And I just was like, ‘I know how to produce things in an inexpensive way in high quality. I just need to know how we are going to get the word out, because obviously we are not going to have the budget.’ I was fortunate because a lot of people have connected with the content and we were able to get the ball rolling with people who said, ‘We want to help you. We believe in what you’re doing.’

Where did the ﬁlming take place? We shot a lot of it at Fairleigh Dickinson. A professor there, David Landau, is a fan of my writing and said the school would sponsor the project and have a student crew and equipment. So we shot it during spring break. The rest was on the Upper West Side. We had scenes in Central Park. The park is very easy to work with; they’re very helpful. And I used a lot of my friends. There’s a scene where she moves in

with her golden retriever and they have a scene with the dogs in the morning and how you make friends through your dogs. My dog friends from the Upper West Side were in the scene. We also shot a little bit in my apartment. My editor, whom I met through New York Women in Film, lives on the Upper West Side so we ended up shooting a little bit in her apartment.

What do you want viewers to come away with? My goal is to create a show that tells boots on the ground honest, relatable and entertaining stories about an age group overlooked by Hollywood. My hope is that if people who are watching like it, they will share it. I think as women, we feel so invisible during so many stages of life, but we can change that. And this was part of it. I want to show an entertaining, edgy, truthful, dramatic and funny story about women over 40 that people will enjoy. Hopefully the show will have a life beyond season one and people will want more and somebody will want to come on board and fund the project for future episodes. For more information, visit www.theotherfwordseries.com

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