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STATUARY AGAINST SEXISM HISTORY With the She Built NYC campaign, New York City continues to address historical injustice through public monuments BY OSCAR KIM BAUMAN
A recent photo of an office tower on Seventh Avenue in Chelsea. The ordinarylooking 1920 building masks its colorful history as the hub of the city’s Fur District for more than half-a-century. Photo: Google Street View
FURRIERS, FISTICUFFS AND A FOND FAREWELL STREETSCAPES At first blush, the building seems unremarkable — but amid the hubbub of Seventh Avenue, its storied history and bloody past have been hiding in plain sight BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN
Two years from now, a littlenoticed, 21-story office building in Chelsea will mark its 100th anniversary. Don’t expect any fanfare: The old industrial loft at 333 Seventh Ave. generates no buzz, houses no galleries, attracts no tourists — and possesses zero pizzazz. It is humble, stolid, unsung, architecturally uninspiring. And every day, New Yorkers pass it by without a thought or a skyward glance. Big mistake. The mass of stone and brick on the full block between 28th and 29th Streets was once one of America’s great mercantile buildings.
Knives, scissors, clubs, fists, fingernails and sticks were employed early yesterday in an industrial misunderstanding.” New York Times article, March 15, 1930
Built in 1920 as the historic hub of the Fur District, it housed the largest assemblage of fur manufacturers under a single roof in the nation. In any other town, it would be a treasured landmark. But in Midtown South, the 248-foot-tall structure is all too easy to take for granted.
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New York City is dotted with statues, so it would be easy for a casual observer to miss the startling lack of monuments to women. However, according to a recent count by Gothamist, there are only five statues honoring female figures out of the over 1,000 across the five boroughs. To alleviate the problem, NYC first lady Chirlane McCray announced the She Built NYC project in June, to “more accurately show the diversity in the people who helped make New York City so great.” While there are only five statues honoring specific historic women throughout the city, they do not represent the totality of statues representing women. Central Park features many depictions of women in statue form, though none are named. The statues in the park instead represent fictional characters, such as Alice in Wonderland, or are nameless angels and nymphs. Another Manhattan statue of an unnamed woman is more famous: “Fearless Girl,” which was installed facing Wall Street’s iconic “Charging Bull” statue in March 2017 and was moved near the New York Stock Exchange in April 2018. Though Fearless Girl’s installation was opposed by Charging Bull artist Arturo Di Modica, among others, who argued that the newcomer twisted Charging Bull’s original intent, Fearless Girl was praised by Mayor Bill De Blasio, who said, “Men who don’t like women taking up space are exactly why we need the Fearless Girl.”
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[She Built NYC aims to] more accurately show the diversity in the people who helped make New York City so great.” First lady Chirlane McCray
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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
is the common Arbitration Man their jurist. least folks’ hero. Or at Man has For 30 years, Arbitration court office of the civil few sat in a satellite Centre St. every building at 111 New Yorkers’ weeks and absorbed dry cleaning, burned lost accountings of fender benders, lousy paint jobs, and the like. And security deposits then he’s decided. Arbitration Man, About a year ago, so to not afwho requested anonymity started docuhe fect future proceedings, two dozen of what menting about compelling cases considers his most blog. in an eponymous about it because “I decided to write the stories but in a I was interested about it not from wanted to write from view but rather lawyer’s point of said Arbitration view,” of a lay point lawyer since 1961. Man, a practicing what’s at issue He first writes about post, renders and then, in a separatehow he arrived his decision, detailing blog the to Visitors at his conclusion. their opinions. often weigh in with get a rap going. I to “I really want whether they unreally want to know and why I did it,” I did derstood what don’t know how to he said. “Most people ... I’d like my cases the judge thinks. and also my trereflect my personalitythe law.” for mendous respect 80, went into indiMan, Arbitration suc in 1985, settling vidual practice
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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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TETHERED TO THEIR PHONES CONNECTING New study shows many teens — and parents — are concerned about time spent in front of screens
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Parents lament their teenagers’ noses constantly in their phones, but they might want to take stock of their own screen time habits. A study out Wednesday from the Pew Research Center found that twothirds of parents are concerned about the amount of time their teenage children spend in front of screens, while more than a third expressed concern about their own screen time. Meanwhile, more than half of teens said they often or sometimes find their parents or caregivers to be distracted when the teens are trying to have a conversation with them. The study calls teens’ relationship with their phones at times “hyperconnected” and notes that nearly threefourths check messages or notifications as soon as they wake up. Parents do the same, but at a lower if still substantial rate — 57 percent. Big tech companies face a growing
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Photo: Tia Leggio, via flickr backlash against the addictive nature of their gadgets and apps, the endless notifications and other features created to keep people tethered to their screens. Many teens are trying to do something about it: 52 percent said they have cut back on the time they spend on their phones and 57 percent did the same with social media. Experts say parents have a big role in their kids’ screen habits and setting a good example is a big part of it. “Kids don’t always do what we say
but they do as we do,” said Donald Shifrin, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine, who was not involved in the Pew study. “Parents are the door that kids will walk through on their way to the world.” The study surveyed 743 U.S. teens and 1,058 U.S. parents of teens from March 7 to April 10. The margin of error is 4.5 percentage points. —The Associated Press
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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG COFFEE CLASH
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A man was arrested on robbery charges for refusing to pay for a cup of coffee, police said. At 1:45 p.m. on Saturday, August 18, a man entered the JN Natural store at 202 Sixth Ave. and took a cup of coffee without paying. A store employee confronted the man, later identified by police as Renaldo Tabon, outside and asked him to pay. Tabon allegedly refused, saying, “Someone else is paying for this coffee.” The employee then went back in the store to call 911, and the man followed him inside and took two umbrellas. Arriving officers found Tabon and arrested him. The two umbrellas stolen and recovered totaled $10, and the cup of coffee was priced at $2.
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BUSINESSES BURGLARIZED A pair of burglars scored quite a haul in a downtown office complex. At 1:30 a.m. on Friday, August 17, two men entered the Thompson Square Studios complex at 54 Thompson St. using a pass code known only to employees and lobby staff. They then carried a large suitcase from office to office, removing desktop and laptop computers, headphones, a camera and lens and keyboards. The value of the electronics was put at $41,171.
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TWO MOTORCYCLES STOLEN ONE NIGHT Two late-model imported motorcycles disappeared the same night recently, police said. At 4 p.m. on Monday, August 13, a 48-year-old Murray Street resident parked his 2016 Ducati Scrambler in front of 315 North End Ave. after picking it up from
the tow pound at Pier 17. The bike, valued at $10,000, was gone when he returned the next morning. Later that Monday, a 36-year-old Pine Street resident parked his 2017 BMW R nineT, valued at $15,000, in front of 130 Beekman St. only for him to also find his bike on that Tuesday morning. Neither motorcycle has since been recovered.
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CHANEL HELL
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Apparently, vintage Chanel bags are just as appealing to thieves as new ones. At 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, August 18, a man said to be in his early 30s and a woman were seen browsing in the What Goes Around Comes Around store at 351 West Broadway when they took a blue leather Chanel caviar valued at $5,250 and a coffee leather Chanel Jumbo priced at $5,950 off a shelf and left the store without paying for the items. Officers searched the neighborhood but could locate the pair.
Burglars paid a weekend visit to a restaurant that has since closed. Sometime between 8 p.m. on Friday, August 3 and 10 a.m. on Monday, August 6, someone removed $9,992.04 from the store drop box at the Noon Mediterranean restaurant at 222 Broadway. The drop box had not been tampered with, and multiple employees had access to the location, according to the account given to police. The restaurant has since closed permanently.
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FAREWELL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s peel back the layers and examine its extraordinary history and the secrets it harbored and the pitched battles that were fought on its turf. But ďŹ rst, a disclosure. For 5.5 years, the newspaper you are holding in your hands, or reading online, was published at 333 Seventh Ave. Decades earlier, the bulky loft spaces had been converted, the showrooms broken up, the storage vaults and refrigeration equipment yanked out. That opened the door to a new tenant class â&#x20AC;&#x201D; nonproďŹ ts like Doctors Without Borders, small apparel and legal ďŹ rms, colleges like the Fashion Institute of Technology, and media companies like Straus News, which publishes Our Town, The West Side Spirit, The ChelseaClinton News and Our Town Downtown. From early 2013, when Straus News bought the publications, until Aug. 15, when we moved a few blocks to 505 Eighth Ave. at 35th Street, this was our home. Now, that we have settled into new quarters, it seems a ďŹ tting farewell to plumb the saga of the legacy building we left behind. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We used to say that one out of every two furs in the United States passed through 333 Seventh Ave.,â&#x20AC;? said Jed Kaplan, who worked in a 10th-ďŹ&#x201A;oor loft for Kaplan & Sons Furrier, his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ rm, from around 1955 to the late-1970s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was really the master fur market for the world because, back then, more furs were bought, sold, manufactured and worn out of 333 than in London, Russia and Montreal put together,â&#x20AC;? he said. Spiritual needs were also addressed: At least two on-site synagogues were maintained for workers and customers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; mostly traders, trappers, shippers, graders, jobbers, fabri-
cators, processors, ďŹ&#x201A;oor boys, mink-cutters and pelt brokers, Kaplan said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was really an era in which business needs, religious needs and family needs went hand in hand,â&#x20AC;? he added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all over now â&#x20AC;&#x201C; like most of the Fur District itself. But it was a remarkable place.â&#x20AC;? Indeed, it was said that no mayor, senator or governor would ever turn down an invitation to its politically inďŹ&#x201A;uential Fur Merchants Club. A simple geographical calculation led to the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s siting. As the industry boomed after World War I, the Fur Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boundaries were said to be around Sixth Avenue on the east, Eighth Avenue to the west, 26th Street to the south and 30th Street to the north. According to industry lore, Albert Herskovitz, a fur buyer and trader who doubled as a promoter and developer, drew an â&#x20AC;&#x153;Xâ&#x20AC;? through a grid map and picked the corner of Seventh Avenue and 28th Street because it was equidistant to the fur manufacturers on the perimeter of the district. It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hurt that the IRTSeventh Avenue line had come to the same intersection in 1917, in part to serve the fur marts. It was there that he built â&#x20AC;&#x153;The House of Herskovitz,â&#x20AC;? as it was initially dubbed in the early 1920s. Over the passing decades, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been variously called the Fur Trade Center Building, the Furriersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Building, the Fur Merchants Club Building and the Fur Manufacturers Building, among others. Today, far more prosaically, its name is its address. Herskovitz and his son Max, who followed his father into A. Herskovitz & Sons, the family fur business, were ambitious and expansion-minded. And they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t only want to corner the fur trade in Manhattan: To sate market demand, and secure new supplies of sable, ermine and mink to ship to midtown, they looked to Alaska
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Our Town|Downtowner otdowntown.com and the Canadian Arctic. And so it was that the Herskovitz clan â&#x20AC;&#x201D; partnering with other tenants in the building and under the auspices of the Northern Whaling & Trading Co. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; established trading posts and settlements in coastal communities across the PaciďŹ c Northwest.
FIGHTING THE â&#x20AC;&#x153;RED MENACEâ&#x20AC;? Meanwhile, the trade union wars of the 1920s and 1930s were raging outside the front door. The heavily unionized industry was divided between militant pro-Communist and moderate anti-Communist locals â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and they often fought bloody battles in the upstairs workplaces and on the streets and picket lines outside 333. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Expel the Reds,â&#x20AC;? was the slogan of one local. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to rid our organization for all times of Communist wreckers and disrupters,â&#x20AC;? a resolution passed in 1927 proclaimed. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that easy. After one violent clash at the street-level fur establishment of Benjamin Axel at 333, the NYPDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;radical squadâ&#x20AC;? announced mass arrests and multiple injuries. The New York Times reported the news on March 15, 1930: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Knives, scissors, clubs, ďŹ sts, ďŹ ngernails and sticks were employed early yesterday morning in an industrial misunderstanding between right-wing and left-wing members of furriersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; union,â&#x20AC;? the paper wrote. In 1938, some 15,000 fur workers went out on strike, pelting the cars of non-union scabs with jars of petroleum jelly used in the manufacturing process. In another incident, strikers abducted the night watchman at 333, drew a chain through the door handles and locked the building as â&#x20AC;&#x153;strong-arm menâ&#x20AC;? kept workers and cops at bay, The Times reported. Things had calmed down by World War II, Communistdominated locals began to wither, and in 1948, the Her-
skovitz family sold the building for $2.7 million. By 1973, it traded for around $4.5 million, and today, it has a market value of $91.7 million, according to data from PropertyShark, the real estate website. In the meantime, the Fur District went into eclipse. A growing animal-rights movement had targeted the industry, and it came into maturity with the founding of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in 1980. Amid the outraged anti-fur protests of the 1980s â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the cry, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kick the Fur District out of NYC!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; dozens of businesses at 333 shuttered or moved out, though some retail shops, in retreat from Madison Avenue and elsewhere, moved into its upstairs showrooms. Still, the die was cast, and eventually, 333 lost most of its furriers. The Fur District itself, like the Flower District with which it overlapped, began to implode, and the building was converted from light industrial to office use. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I suppose it was inevitable,â&#x20AC;? Kaplan said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still incredibly sad for those of us who loved it.â&#x20AC;? invreporter@strausnews.com
A 1923 photo of an office tower on Seventh Avenue in Chelsea, built just three years earlier, that for over half-a-century served as the hub of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fur District. Photo: New York Public Library Digital Collection / via OldNYC
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The Harriet Tubman Memorial in Harlem. Photo: denisbin, via flickr
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Eleanor Roosevelt statue in Riverside Park. Photo: Eden, Janine and Jim, via flickr
Statue of novelist Gertrude Stein in Bryant Park. Photo: Catherine Cronin, via flickr
The five city statues depicting named women are all located in Manhattan. Anna Hyatts’ statue of Joan of Arc, the French historical hero, rests in Riverside Park on the Upper West Side, and “represents the symbol of FrenchAmerican goodwill,” according to the Parks Department. Also in Riverside Park is the Eleanor Roosevelt Monument. The statue, designed by Bruce Kelly and David Varnell and sculpted by Penelope Jencks, honors the former First Lady and activist. Also in Upper Manhattan is the Harriet Tubman Memorial, installed 19 years ago in Harlem at the intersection of St. Nicholas Avenue and Frederick Douglass Boulevard. The monument to the famed abolitionist was designed by Alison Saar. The design of the statue, as well as the remodeling of the surrounding traffic island, now dubbed Harriet Tubman Triangle, received the 2004 Public Design Commission Award for Excellence in Design. The last two statues of women are in Midtown. A bust of Golda Meir, the former Israeli prime minister, designed by Beatrice Goldfine, may be found in the aptly named Golda Meir Square on Broadway and 39th Street. And a statue of the novelist Gertrude Stein designed by Jo Davidson sits in Bryant Park, near the main branch of the New York Public Library. The
Wall Street’s “Fearless Girl.” Photo: Nathan Hughes Hamilton, via flickr placement is intentional, and is meant to honor Stein’s ““significant literary contributions,” according to the Parks Department. She Built NYC’s deadline to nominate women to be featured in new statues passed on August 1. With an announcement promised in the fall, New Yorkers are waiting to learn which women will join the select group of those featured in public monuments. The city’s Department of Cultural Affairs has committed $10 million to She Built NYC’s efforts.
In 2020, the first statue in Central Park to depict real women will be installed, honoring suffragists the statue Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Designed by Meredith Bergman, the statue was not part of the She Built NYC campaign; instead, it was funded and announced by The Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Statue Fund, which began its campaign in 2017 using the hashtag #MonumentalWomen to call attention to the lack of statues of women in Central Park. The She Built NYC and #MonumentalWomen campaigns are the latest to attempt to address historical injustices through the medium of New York’s public statues. Last year, amid national discourse surrounding the issue of Confederate monuments and other depictions of racist or otherwise offensive historical figures, Mayor de Blasio created a commission to consider removing or altering any insensitive statues. Ultimately, most statues were left in place, with those of figures including Christopher Columbus and Theodore Roosevelt getting additional plaques to add historical “detail and nuance,” according to the mayor. Ultimately, only one statue was removed from its place. The statue of J. Marion Sims, a 19th century surgeon who invented techniques for gynecological surgery through experimentation on unanesthetized, nonconsenting enslaved black women, was relocated to Green-Wood Cemetery, where Sims is buried.
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THE CASE AGAINST ‘VOLUNTOURISM’ VIEWPOINT People in developing countries are capable — so why don’t our trips treat them like that? BY CORMAC THORPE
Every year, millions of Americans travel to developing countries. With our eyes set on adventure, we search for an “authentic” experience, which usually means spending anywhere from a few hours to a week or two “experiencing” poverty. For those who take issue with poverty tourism, adding in a volunteering component to a visit to an impoverished area seems to make a real impact — rather than walking through slums or donating money, we are actively attempting to help. This new form of travel, called voluntourism, is becoming increasingly popular; a study conducted in 2008 by Tourism Research and Marketing found that 1.6 million people were spending $2 billion in the industry annually, and surveys by the Center for Responsible Travel show that the number of volunteer vacationers doubled in a period of just six years. The March For Our Lives demonstrated that students across the country are actively trying to change the world, and for well-off New York City teens, volunteering abroad seems to offer the perfect way to make that impact. Now, dozens of companies are sprouting up and expanding their programs to meet the surging demand. The problem with this trend, however, is that although a well-meaning voluntourism trip may appear beneficial to both the community and the volunteers, doing temporary service work may come at the expense of the very people that should be benefiting.
Voluntourism takes jobs from people who need them, objectifies those who are supposedly being helped and is intended to make volunteers feel better about themselves rather than providing anything meaningful to the community. Building a library in a Ugandan village may seem impactful, but imagine how much quicker it could have been built if local bricklayers were paid to construct it. Noelle Sullivan, an anthropologist studying Tanzanian health facilities, finds that, by participating in surgeries or delivering babies, unqualified volunteers routinely displace Tanzanian health professionals. Rich foreigners aren’t experts on solving the world’s issues, and most of the work voluntourists do could be done much more easily — and with a greater benefit to the local economy — by locals. Voluntourism trips do fulfill their promise of service, but playing with kids for three hours won’t change anything about their poverty, even though it checks off the empathy box on a trip to Haiti. The people “served” become objects of pity rather than the capable people they are. People in poverty have struggles, but inexperienced and misdirected help isn’t going to “save” them. In some cases, voluntourism can even harm local communities. A scientific paper written by Linda Richter and Amy Norman shows that, in South Africa, excessive numbers of tourists offering time as temporary caregivers resulted in attachment disorders and other longterm problems among orphans. Voluntourists see the world as a poverty-stricken place that needs the benevolent help we can offer — that’s at least how I saw it when I volunteered in Costa Rica — and our work reflects that pity. This view is condescending, but on the other side, it feels heartless
Cormac Thorpe speaking at the School for Ethics and Global Leadership in Washington, DC. Photo courtesy of Cormac Thorpe to say that the world’s poor should be responsible for themselves. After all, we have the resources and the urge to help. What should we do, then? Volunteering is not a bad thing. Although you would probably have the greatest impact by donating to organizations that are already fighting for issues you care about, global organizations and local NGOs rely on volunteers for much of their work, and volunteering offers a feeling of accomplishment that can drive people to donate more time and money. If you really want to help, here are three tips: 1) Invest in and volunteer directly
with organizations rather than travel companies. Your time and money are valuable, so don’t waste them on travel agencies that will only give a fraction of your money back to the community. 2) Ensure you are qualified and prepared for the work you will be doing and the environment you will be doing it in. Choose something you have experience with, research the place you will be working and treat the work as something you can learn from, not something you can “fix.” 3) Your work should be in tandem with — not supplanting — local efforts. Volunteer with places that employ locals and foster community
development with existing resources. Your mindset must focus on collaboration and cultural exchange, not humanitarian aid to the “helpless.” All of this international aid work sounds compelling, but if you are looking for something more convenient, it is almost always easier — and more impactful — to get involved in issues locally. Cormac Thorpe lives on the Upper West Side and is a senior at Fieldston. He spent his spring semester at the School for Ethics and Global Leadership in Washington, DC and has personal experience with volunteering abroad.
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SPEAK UP! BY BETTE DEWING
See something, say something — on the spot. And we salute a New Yorker who did just that. This is about everyday city threats that really stress us out. Patricia Dale wrote a letter to the editor of this paper which reminds me not to give up trying to quell what are euphemistically called “qualityof-life lawbreakers.” Patricia is a third-generation New Yorker who is now distressed that the city is no longer a great walking city. She notes the countless cellphone users unaware
of those around them and she speaks out on the spot. She’s also concerned about bikes on the sidewalk and she told a mother of a little boy who was racing by that’s “it’s illegal to use the sidewalk.” The mother replied “Why don’t you stop being a grumpy old lady as my son is learning to ride his bike.” And she spoke to a young girl walking backward on a crowded sidewalk barely missing Patricia’s post-surgical knee. The mother chastised her, saying “Don’t speak to my daughter.” Also one Sunday morning, she told a truck driver who was blaring his radio, “Just remember its Sunday morning and people are resting.” To which he replied: “Pay me some money and I’ll turn down the sound.” Sometimes it’s risky to speak out,
and most of us stay silent. If enough of us did say something, things would change. But we need to be encouraged to speak out at civic meetings and I remember some years ago at a 79th Street Association meeting, two officers from the 19th precinct urged us to remember that the “squeaky wheel gets the grease.” And of course, bring these stressful concerns to the paper as Patricia did. And at those same meetings, a bicyclist, Roger Herz, had a seven-point message to curb the heedless bicyclists. The only one I remember has to do with speaking out. If you see a red light running bicyclist, yell “Red light.” If you see a wrong-way bicyclist, shout “Wrong way.” And if you see a sidewalk bicyclist, yell “Off the
sidewalk.” And some of us did and still do but only a few. Of course we use also yell at motorists failing to yield to pedestrians ... the most dangerous traffic infraction, howl “Yield.” Of course you could be nice and smile while you yell. We really need to speak up to set an example even if people look at you strangely. It is they who are dangerously remiss. And do check out the Useful Contacts found in this paper to call elected officials and community boards about lawlessness and lack of consideration. And now some city councilman is urging legislation to legalize electric scooters. State Senator Liz Krueger is one official very concerned about the issue. Somehow the city is only looking out for travel
modes but not about how bike lanes are hurting small businesses. The primary duty of government is to protect public welfare and doesn’t that mean looking out for the common good. Perhaps we’ve gone rather off topic of “speaking out on the spot” but remember bicyclist Roger Herz urged us to do just that. And Patricia Dale is such a model New Yorker for doing just that and also for bringing her concerns to this paper. If more of us did this and spoke out, this could be a great safe walking city again. We need a real movement to speak out ... to not be silent and bring it to the elected officials and to this paper. It can be done if enough of us try. dewingbetter@aol.com
RELIVING THE JAZZ AGE BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL
After spending last Saturday in 1922, I returned to 2018 on the Upper East Side. I always believed I was born too late. My favorite decade is the roaring twenties, which I fell in love with when I was nine and saw the movie “Thoroughly Modern Millie” with Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler Moore. How I wished women still dressed and accessorized as they did. When I was old enough and realized the styles could be gotten if one looked hard enough, I got into vintage jewelry and bought myself a cloche. Over the years, my favorite works of fiction became the classics by F. Scott Fitzgerald, with “Rules of Civility” by Amor Towles at the top of my list of modern fiction. My non-fiction favorite (one of many) is Calvin Tomkins’s “Living Well is the Best Revenge,” about when the Mark Cross heir Gerald Murphy and his wife Sara hosted the Fitzgeralds, Cole Porter, Picasso, Hemingway and other expats in Antibes. I’ve also seen the movie “Mrs. Parker and Her Vicious Circle” more times than anyone should be allowed to re-watch a film. So, it’s about time that I forked over the clams to attend the Jazz Age Lawn Party — now in its 13th year — on Gov-
ernors Island. Every summer I read about it after the fact and said, “Next year.” This season, I made a point to be one of the people who everyone else was reading about. Hosted and conceived by musician/ crooner/bandleader/impresario, Michael Arenella, the event started as a small gathering of fans and friends who, like him, wanted to revel in the raucous, party-loving decade, when the world had just emerged from the grip of World War I, and everyone was ready to have a good time. This period in history became known as the “Jazz Age,” a term that many believe was coined by F. Scott, but he just made it popular and familiar by using it in his books. My husband Neil and I took the 6 train to Bowling Green and then the ferry to Governors Island. Once there, we followed some flappers showing off their gams in fringed dresses and dapper dandies in straw hats and suspenders. Neil and I weren’t mistaken for a couple of swells — we didn’t dress up. I figured most people, even though embracing the spirit of the event, would show up in regular clothes, with a handful dressed in costume. Boy, was I wrong. A lot of people came in modern day designs created to look like antique fashions and styled up so there’d be no
Dressed up for a dance contest on Governors Island. Photo: Lorraine Duffy Merkl doubt they were bobbed haired jazz babies. Many though took the opportunity to appear as though they had time traveled to join the well-curated event in actual wardrobe from the era. Although there were picnic tables and food trucks (and hooch for those old enough to drink), those in the know brought blankets and picnic baskets, so they could relax on the lawn while listening to the musical stylings of the aforementioned Michael Arenella & His Dreamland Orchestra featuring Caravella’s Canarsie Wobblers and The Dreamland Follies, virtuoso piano-man and crooner Peter Mintun,
as well as Queen Esther and her Hot Five. Indeed, the joint was jumpin’ on the make-shift dance floor. There was a Charleston Dance Contest and plenty of tents selling archetypal everything. A croquet game was ongoing and the planners made sure to offer a variety of ways to remember one’s visit via a photo taken in a Model T or under the word “Bootlegger,” which had more of a mug shot quality. There was even a tintype camera/ developing system for a photo that would have you mistaken for a greatgreat grandparent. With the caricature option, the artist supplied the ep-
och outfit, in case, as Neil and myself did, you left your speakeasy glad rags at home. At the end of our Prohibition erainspired, Tin Pan Alley-filled day, we started the first leg of our journey home by taking the ferry back to Bowling Green. My only regret was that I hadn’t dressed for the occasion. “Next year,” said Neil. I’ve already begun planning my outfit. Trust me, it’ll be the bee’s knees. Lorraine Duffy Merkl is the author of the novels “Fat Chick” and “Back to Work She Goes.”
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The newsstand on the north side of the quiet residential block on East 79th Street between York and First Avenues hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even opened yet â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and already the community is up in arms. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exactly the wrong location, mere steps away from the Hopscotch Montessori School, and it will occupy space in an area where two large apartment buildings pile their trash, neighbors say. Adding insult to injury, the two city agencies with regulatory authority over newsstand siting did not issue any public notice, and the operator was not required to appear before Community Board 8, officials say. Residents first noticed the pouring of cement for the project on July 30, followed by installation of electricity on Aug. 1 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;sudden plopping down of the newsstandâ&#x20AC;? at 435 East 79th Street on Aug. 6, said Sandra Lerner, who lives next door at 425 East 79th Street. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was exactly one week from start to ďŹ nish, and my feeling is that this was done very rapidly to get it in before it could be stopped,â&#x20AC;? she said. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t immediately clear when the sidewalk newsstand will open. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the right place for it,â&#x20AC;? said Betty Cooper Wallerstein, the civic activist who has been president of the East 79th Street Neighborhood Association for the past 34 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Newsstands are usually on corners,â&#x20AC;? she added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t block the entrance to a residential building. They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t block the entrance to a school with little children. They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take up space where garbage is placed. How does something like this happen and the community isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t told?â&#x20AC;? Astonishingly, the law allows it.
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F w The iron gates are still rolled down on the soon-to-open newsstand on East 79th Street â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but the mountains of litter that already ďŹ&#x201A;ank it are one of the reasons the community is opposed to its presence. Photo: Sandra Lerner cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dept. of Consumer Affairs and its Dept. of Transportation. And although the siting criteria for a new newsstand is quite stringent, the requirements of the two agencies for the relocation of an existing newsstand has First Amendment protections and is far less rigorous. The newsstand in question, which had originally been located on the northeast corner of 79th Street at First Avenue, was forced to move from its approved location because of an Extell Development Co. project at the site. Under those circumstances, the city gives the licensee three options, according to Will Brightbill, district manager of CB8, who was briefed on the matter by DCA on Aug. 15. An operator can relocate to any other sidewalk newsstand that is currently unoccupied, apply for a new application and go through the full approval process anew â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or else relocate to a spot within 500 feet of the previously approved location in either direction that meets all established DOT and DCA criteria. The licensee chose that third option, which doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t require a new application. Since the new spot is roughly 440 to 465 feet away from the original location, the normal process of public notice and informing the community board is waived. But just because the lack of notice is permitted under regulations, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the appropriate thing to do, Brightbill said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While we respect and appreciate the newsstand operatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
situation, and their contribution to our city streets, we are disappointed in what appears to be an obvious omission of public notice in the newsstand relocation process,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As with the original application, the public deserves a chance to comment on the newsstand that will physically occupy a place on their street and in their life,â&#x20AC;? Brightbill added. And he called on the City Council and DCA to â&#x20AC;&#x153;proactively address this oversight, and apply the same procedure, with ample public notice as is required for new applications, to these relocations.â&#x20AC;? In the meantime, if the newsstand opens up next to the Montessori nursery school, the students, aged 2 to 6, and their nannies, will be subjected to increased litter from Lotto cards and candy wrappers, secondhand smoke and other unhealthy conditions, Lerner says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already very crowded with all the strollers there â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and unless this is stopped, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to get a lot worse,â&#x20AC;? she added. Is there any way to stop the newsstand? The odds are long. But in an Aug. 23 email to Lerner, a constituent service staffer for East Side City Council Member Ben Kallos held out a small ray of hope: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our office is still trying to see if there is any way DOT would consider moving the newsstand to another location that is less crowded,â&#x20AC;? he wrote. invreporter@strausnews.com
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GOLD STANDARD A spectacular mummy coffin debuts at the Met Fifth Avenue BY MARY GREGORY
In the Met Fifth Avenue’s exhibition, “Nedjemankh and His Gilded Coffin,” a door opens into a darkened space. A golden figure stands, life-sized, as if to welcome visitors. The coffin bears a likeness of the priest Nedjemankh, who lived in Egypt in about 150-50 BC. It’s burnished by spotlights, covered in precious metals and holds the viewer with a piercing gaze. After 2000 years, it’s as though not a day has passed since it was made. The Coffin of the Priest of Heryshef, Nedjemankh, was purchased by the museum in 2017. Who was Nedjemankh? What does his coffin reveal about an ancient culture?
How does it still speak so engagingly to us? Diana Craig Patch, Lila Acheson Wallace Curator in Charge of the Egyptian Art Department at the Met, talked with us about the exhibition, which is designed to highlight some 70 seldom-seen works, present a remarkable civilization and introduce a new star to museum audiences. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
Who was Nedjemankh and how did this piece survive? He was a priest of Heryshef of Herakleopolis Magna ... I don’t think he was just in the ground. I think he must have been in a tomb ... He does have some water damage, but given the fact that he’s made of linen and glue and plaster it’s pretty amazing he survived ... What’s particularly impressive about the coffin in terms of manufac-
ture is the raised declaration, the volume of it. It doesn’t generally cover the entire coffin. That’s what’s quite amazing. And it’s been done quite carefully and with a lot of detail. There’s a whole series of vignettes with whole scenes, not just simple rosettes or decorative elements. Anubis embalming, the deceased being judged before Osiris — things you see in papyri is being done here in raised decoration, not just ink ... But it’s the hymn at the bottom that really makes it. It’s about gold and silver ... and the flesh and the bones of the gods. What he has done is covered the outside of the coffin in gold and the inside of the coffin in silver. So he’s actually taken the hymn and translated it into the materiality of the coffin.
Is it known who the artist was? No. The Egyptians never documented that. When I say “he,” Nedjemankh commissioned it. I assume he told the overseers of the workshops, which were quite often attached to the temples, what he wanted.
Most pharaohs we’re familiar with are buff and chiseled and looked down imperiously. He’s a bit pudgy and softly smiling. If you look at the Ptolemaic kings, they all have little bellies and the women have large round breasts which you don’t see in earlier pharaonic kings and queens. The Ptolemaic period is soft and pudgy. Sorry. They’re just softer and rounder.
The gesture of covering the head or face, as seen in the female figure here, said Patch, signifies mourning. Photo: Adel Gorgy
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IF YOU GO WHAT: Nedjemankh and His Gilded Coffin WHERE: The Met Fifth Avenue WHEN: Through April 21, 2019 very different, actually worried about the same things that we all worry about. What they did is to try to cope with that worry in their way, just as we cope with it in ours, and often those ways overlap.
What’s the magic in ancient Egyptian culture that so mesmerizes us still? Yeah [laughs]. There are a number of things ... It’s a very early civilization so that’s very fascinating. I think there are certain things that people find interesting; mummification is one of them. The Egyptians dealt with death openly, in what seems like a very tangible way. I also think people just love the architecture, the pyramids, huge temples. They’re visible. They’re still there. In many ancient cultures what’s left is not that big. I think the mixture of animals and religion people find fascinating — the animalheaded gods.
Art from many ancient societies is a little bit scary. Egyptian art is elegant. Everyone looks like a supermodel. The Egyptians didn’t do realism. The way they did their art was they communicated information very stylistically ... I think that makes it easier, especially for children, to like it and get attached to it.
What would you like audiences to remember when they leave the show?
The major takeaway for me from the show was not how distant and foreign all of this seems, but how familiar to our own lives it is. It’s a long time ago, a very different culture, lots of gold and shiny things in a language we can’t read, but it’s really about laying out people that you care for with great dignity and love. Tucking little things that may mean something to you or to them into the burial, when they go.
I would love to have the audience realize that the Egyptians were people just like us with the same worries, the same cares, the same desires in life that we all have. They just got to it in different ways and those are interesting ways to understand.
You got it. That’s what we try to do, is help people see that this culture, although visually
I think he’d say don’t forget me, because that’s what all Egyptians wanted.
If Nedjemankh could whisper to each visitor, which he looks like he’s about to do, what you think he’d say? Gilded coffin of the priest Nedjemankh, late Ptolemaic period (150-50 B.C.). Cartonnage, gold, silver, resin, glass, wood. Photo: Adel Gorgy
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THE RISE OF CELEBRITY BOOK CLUBS READING New Yorkers Jimmy Fallon and Sarah Jessica Parker are among the stars who help lift sales BY ALICIA RANCILIO
Jimmy Fallon remembers a summer a few years back when it seemed everybody was reading “Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn. “Everyone had that book. If we had people over, or went on vacation poolside, people had that book wrinkled and curled up. I read it with my wife and we read every chapter together and we’d be like, ‘(Gasps) This is great!’ It was the world’s smallest book club,” he laughed. This summer, Fallon decided to expand his book club of two to include his late-night audience. In June, he launched “Tonight Show Summer Reads.” Fallon presented five book options on his show and instructed viewers to go online and vote for their favorite. The results exceeded his expectations with 140,000 votes. The winner was “Children of Blood and Bone” by Tomi Adeyemi. “Any way to engage the audience and to do stuff with them is always more fun,” said Fallon. He also enthusiastically tracked how the books performed on Amazon after a mention on his show. The company confirms he had an impact. “When a celebrity decides to get behind a book, we generally see a lift in sales,” said Chris Schluep, an editor at Amazon. “For instance, ‘Children of Blood and Bone’ has been selling well this year. But the week after Jimmy Fallon selected it as the first ‘Tonight Show’ book club selection, it sold nearly three times the number of print, Kindle and Audible books that it had sold in the previous week at Amazon.” Fallon isn’t the only celebrity
Tomi Adeyemi, author of “Children of Blood and Bone,” the first selection of “Tonight Show Summer Reads,” with host Jimmy Fallon on July 24. Photo: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC to follow in Oprah Winfrey’s footsteps with a book club. Reese Witherspoon has made such a success of her monthly literary picks that publishers are now putting Reese stickers on her selections. “It’s fantastic and we have a great experience,” said Witherspoon, who has bought the rights to many of her picks to adapt for film or television. One of her selections, “Little Fires Everywhere” by Celeste Ng will be a limited series on Hulu starring Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. The Oscar winner has also partnered with the audio producer-distributor Audible on audio recordings of her selections. Emma Roberts has turned her lifelong love of reading
into a pet project she calls Belletrist. A website and social media for Belletrist celebrate all things books. Each month they feature a new book to read and even an independent book store to check out. “Belletrist is my baby,” said Roberts, who runs the site with her partner, Karah Preiss. She says there is “no criteria” for books she features because her personal taste is so varied, but she does tend to learn toward highlighting female authors. She wants to create a community for Belletrist followers to share thoughts and ideas about what they read. Sarah Jessica Parker is so committed to reading that she’s partnered with the American Library Association to
share her own suggestions. The goal, she says, is to not only get people to read but to also support their own local libraries. When Parker was approached by publishing house Hogarth to start her own imprint, her respect for writing initially made
her think it wasn’t a good idea. “I didn’t think I had the experience and had too much respect for people who’ve been in publishing for a long time,” she said. But Parker then thought it could be a way to help champion works in the literary fic-
tion space which isn’t always as commercial. The first novel printed by SJP for Hogarth, “A Place for Us” by Fatima Farheen Mirza, is a New York Times best-seller. Parker said she also enjoys posting about books on social media because it’s a safe topic. Books are the “one thing I can talk about on Instagram that’s not controversial,” she said. “Everybody wants to talk about their favorite books or their feelings about books and share title recommendations. I mean, it’s a huge exchange of information and enthusiasm and it’s really the easiest part of my relationship with social media certainly.” Like Witherspoon, Roberts and Parker are open to the idea of giving a book they recommend the Hollywood treatment. “One of the most exciting things about reading is thinking about how to bring it to life. I’m always imagining the show or the movie. We’re in an exciting time,” said Roberts. Parker stresses her goal first and foremost is to help the author. “I’m in it really for the genuinely purest of intentions — to introduce new authors to readers. And if the opportunity exists for there to be a discussion about any television or film rights, I would certainly enter in to those conversations. But that isn’t in any way my incentive.”
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MIXING COMMERCE AND CHARITY NY-based online socks seller Bombas got its start to help the homeless with their most-requested clothing item BY ANNE D’INNOCENZIO
David Heath co-founded online socks company Bombas not because of an overwhelming desire to make a comfortable sock, but after realizing that they were the No. 1 clothing item requested by the homeless. Heath, the CEO, and his partner Randy Goldberg spent two years developing socks with features like blister tabs and arch support. Then they teamed up with shelters and nonprofit groups, and the company donates a pair for every pair it sells. Those socks focus on darker colors, and get reinforced seams and an anti-microbial treatment. Incorporating charity into the business from the get-go has turned out to be successful. So far, the New Yorkbased company has sold almost 9 million pairs, and they’re not cheap. A 12-pack of women’s ankle socks sell for $130. Bombas, started in 2013, had its first profit in 2016 and generated
nearly $50 million in sales last year. Bombas, derived from the Latin for bumble bee, is one of several startups based on a business model pioneered by Toms Shoes in 2006. Tom’s started out donating a pair of shoes for every pair it sells, and has expanded to Tshirts and sunglasses. Warby Parker, launched in 2010, does the same for eyewear. Heath says he’s looking at branching out to basic clothing items, embracing the same model. Bombas recently began selling to select Nordstrom and Dick’s Sporting Goods stores. Heath spoke with The Associated Press about the inspiration for Bombas, how he looks at competition and his future growth plans. The questions and answers have been edited for clarity and length.
Q. How did you come up with the (socks) idea? A. The lightbulb moment was, I saw this quote — “Socks were the most requested (clothing) item for the homeless.” And then I saw what Toms was doing and Warby Parker just launched. This one-for-one thing is super-interesting and people seem to really reso-
nate with it. I thought maybe we can do this for socks, donating socks as part of the business. But in order to donate our socks, we have to sell a lot of socks, so what is going to be our edge? We looked at the landscape. And took a business school mentality to figuring out where the opportunity was.
Q. What sort of opportunity did you see? A. There was a massive gap between the commodity bulk buying and then there was the sub-category of ultrapremium individual pairs. You got a running sock for $15 ... a hiking sock ... a basketball sock. Socks that were marketed toward endemic categories. We started buying all these socks. What separates an $18 sock from a $2 sock?
Q. So, what’s the difference? A. There was a ton of innovation happening. Seamless toes, arch supports, incredible fabric designs. Conformed fits. And so the next “aha” moment? Why don’t we take all the technology ... and bring it to the mass market? And not just market to runners but market to anybody who is on their feet all day?
Q. How do you view competition? A. We look at other her companies that are all digital brands. ds. We stick together. We are very close se with the people at Warby. We are very close to the people at Bonobos.. We share insights with Casper per on our marketing. We e try to collaborate. We are all trying to dissrupt against the big ig main players in the e industry.
Q. What’s next? A. We’re launching other product categories. We just launched at wholesa le. On the roadmap for 2020: small footprint stores.
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SKATING STARS The Sky Rink All Stars, NYC’s most established children’s ensemble skating troupe, won the silver medal at the prestigious United States Figure Skating National Showcase in Brighton, Michigan on August 5th. With over 32 teams, the girls performed to the song “Money, Money, Money” from the movie “Mamma Mia,” executing synchronized axels, chair spins in unison and a showstopping Fosse-esque dance with boas of fake $100 bills. With their home base at Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers, the All Stars are now USFS National
Showcase Medalists for six years in a row — one of the most decorated teams in the country. “The team is successful,” says coach Marni Halasa, “because they have all the right ingredients: teamwork, dedication, the ability to selfedit and critically think, take risks, problem-solve and always support each other. We run the team very democratically, where each skater has an equal say in the choreography and process, under my watchful eye of ‘is this spectacular enough?’ The chemistry works.”
The skaters, from neighborhoods all over NYC, appreciate the performance opportunities they have had. “We’ve performed all over the tri-state area from Rockefeller Center to the Standard Hotel to even Johnny Weir’s birthday party, where we performed for celebrities, skating on synthetic ice. And we had our own segment on NY1,” says team captain Jennie Berlin. “But what is the most important are the social relationships we all have with each other — that of course, is priceless.”
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we had a big tribute and a champagne toast to Lincoln Plaza Cinema,” says Levy. “Our summer run with New Plaza Cinema very much helped get them established and position them so they would be able to do this run with Symphony Space,” says Isaac Zablocki of the JCC. In the meantime, Levy reached out to the Thalia. Symphony Space executive director Kathy Landau saw a potential partnership as “a beautiful outgrowing of something that had a sad ending.” “This idea of a shared experience is more important than ever, when there is so much opportunity to be alone and staring at our own devices,”
says Landau. In the coming months, New Plaza Cinema is planning to apply for nonprofit status, and set up a board and a formal organization. For Levy, it’s a labor of love that paid off in spades. “That theater should not be lost to the world, it’s too important to the community in which I live, and to our lives, and it’s too important to the industry as well,” she said. “Independent cinema is just an extraordinary educational and cultural institution... it’s a qualitatively different event when you watch [a film] at home on your television screen....it just can’t be duplicated in any other way.”
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beyond. Talbot and her late husband Dan had a long history with the Thalia Theatre, which was born in 1931 and once served as a go-to art house theater for college students and movie buffs before its closure in 1987. For Levy and her fellow volunteers, finding a home was a process. In late June, the group put together the “New Plaza Cinema” film series at the Marlene Meyerson JCC, which received a tremendous response from the community. “It was extremely gratifying, we had very big crowds,
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A BETTY FOR ALL SEASONS In an incisive new comedy, playwright Jen Silverman explores identity and transformation via five women with the same name BY ALIZAH SALARIO
Jen Silverman doesn’t expect you to remember the full 47-word title of her latest play. A recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant and the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, among other honors, Silverman sees titles as an entry point: think of them as the first line of an invitation sent to the audience, she says. “Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties” is the shorthand title, and it captures the provocative, playful nature of the show. Boasting an all-star cast (Dana Delany, Lea DeLaria, Adina Verson, Ana Villafañe and Chaunté Wayans), “Collective Rage” premiered at the MCC Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theatre earlier this month. (For the record, the full title is “Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties; In Essence, a Queer and Occasionally Hazardous Exploration; Do You Remember When You Were In Middle School and You Read About Shackleton and How He Explored the Antarctic? Imagine the Antarctic as a P____ and It’s Sort of Like That.”) We sat down with Silverman to discuss her globe-trotting childhood, New York City’s brimming creative energy, and what Betty Boop reveals about the performance of gender.
How did you come up with the idea for a show with five leads all named Betty? The play in a nutshell is about five women named Betty, and each is very different from one another. They come from different backgrounds, they have different gender presentations, different experiences of class and race in the world. They all meet, and essentially in the form of a provocative comedy, they challenge each other to step outside of the boxes that they have been put in by the world, and also the boxes that they put each other in. The play for me is sort of an invitation to those characters, but also to us, to reimagine what we are capable of, and also what the people around us are capable of ... In my work in general, I’m really interested in cutting beneath the surface and seeing what’s underneath.
Looking at your past work, it seems like you’re really interested in questions of what’s socially constructed,
IF YOU GO WHERE: MCC Theater at The Lucille Lortel Theatre 121 Christopher St. WHEN: Tue-Wed 7 p.m., Thu-Fri 8 p.m., Sat 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Sun 3 p.m. Runs through Sept. 23. COST: $30+ CONTACT: mcctheater.org. 212-727-7722 and what’s instinctual. Can you tell me a little more about that? I was born in the U.S., in New England, and then at 15-months-old, my folks moved to Tokyo and I grew up in a bunch of different countries. I was in and out of the States, but I was also living in Europe and Asia and Scandinavia. And I think for me, that question of instinct versus what is instilled in you by society, I think that comes from — I mean, my guess — is it comes from being an outsider all the time, in so many places, including the country I was born in and came back to. If you are never really of a place, you’re always watching to see what people are doing, and why they’re doing it, and what are the rules here versus what they were in that last place, and also
how much of it is instinct, and how much is people responding to the dictates of a particular culture — which of course in my case, that culture was constantly shifting. Even now that I’ve been in the States for a long time, I really find myself questioning how much of our cultural and national ideas of ourselves — the prizing of independence, manifest destiny, entitlement — like those things, are they instinctual, or were we raised [with] that cultural milieu from the earliest stages?
Speaking of culture, do feel like a bona fide New Yorker, and a New York artist? It certainly looks that way from the outside. In the past few years, I’ve been able to say I wasn’t born in New York, but I’m from New York. And part of that, to me, is that this is a city where there’s an energy here for artists that there isn’t anywhere else, or that I have not found elsewhere, let me say that. Everyone here is trying to make something, or do something, or be something or find something, and I include people who aren’t artists in this. It’s a city, to me, that feels like a tireless striving towards something — for artist and writers, it’s particularly fueling. Yes, it can be exhausting and overwhelming as we all know, especially when the subway is broken, but there’s constant low level hum of energy that I imagine feeds me ... there’s a way in which, when I’m in New York, I can really plug into an artistic community that has really been formative for me.
You live way up in Washington Heights. Do you hang out with Lin-Manuel Miranda?
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[Laughs] I wish! I love it here. When I first moved to New York I lived in Astoria, and then I moved to Wash Heights, and I’ve been really happy here. I’m at the upper end of it. My stop is 181, so I’m a little closer to Fort Tryron. I love going to the park, I love that there’s a lot of
Playwright Jen Silverman. Photo courtesy of MCC Theater little restaurants on 181 — I love going to Cafe Buunni. There’s trees up here!
I have to ask: Is Betty slang for something, in the way that a “Becky” is shorthand for a clueless white girl? That’s a great question ... to my knowledge it’s not. When I was writing the first draft of the play, I was thinking about the character of Betty Boop. Not because the play is in any way tied to the cartoon, or even a commentary on the cartoon, but simply because Betty Boop is such iconic Americana in a way, and she’s a performance of a certain kind of femininity. That was something, when I was thinking about what it is to trouble an archetype, or to break through the surface of an image to what’s underneath it, Betty Boop was on my mind. But then of course the characters became Betties.
It’s interesting because we’re in this moment where the construction and fluidity of gender is being called into question, even for those of us may have considered it fixed. Did you intend for
this play to be provocative? I don’t know that with this particular play that’s the main thrust of it. For me, what’s being questioned is, if we see each other on the street, and we read each other’s race, class, gender presentation, that trio of things combines to give us an image of that person, [and] actually, so many of those images are false images. That’s not the whole story. Or we decide that we could never actually be friends with that person — but we could. So the play, on that front, is questioning those images ... to me, the question that’s really important is how much of gender is a performance, and how much power does that give us over ourselves when we know that.
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