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SHOULD 14TH ST. BE ‘PEOPLEWAY’? L train shutdown could bring new approach

drove instead of taking the subway, it would take a highway of over 50 lanes to accommodate the amount of people the L moves every day. Earlier this summer, many elected officials, including Councilmember Corey Johnson, sent and signed a letter addressing the L Train closure. DeVito said that Johnson is one of many who support the PeopleWay concept. “Right now we’re in the information-gathering phase, where we need to explore every option to mitigate disruption caused by the shutdown,” Johnson said. “Plenty of people travel between Chelsea and Brooklyn or the East Side every single day, so we need to ensure they’re not left behind

BY DIAMOND NAGA SIU

Some transportation advocates are envisioning a carless 14th Street. Taking a lead role, the non-profit Transportation Alternatives is suggesting river-to-river limits on automobiles in the wake of the L train’s planned shutdown, set for 2019. Thomas DeVito, the director of organizing at TransAlt, said the upcoming, extended closure is one of the biggest transportation challenges the city has seen. An estimated 50,000 people every day in Manhattan alone use the L train. The organization’s proposing what it calls a “People-

Cars on 14th Street could be a rare sight if Transportation Alternatives gets its way during the L train closure. Photo: Flickr by Damian Morys Way,” limiting access for private cars and constructing bus lanes, protected bike lanes and wider sidewalks. “This requires bold solutions, so we prioritized the most efficient modes of trans-

portation,” DeVito said. “The PeopleWay came from this recognition that when the transportation system below ground isn’t working, the surface level really needs to accommodate and fit people.”

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He said that the subway and bus are the top two most efficient forms of transportation respectively, and the city simply does not have enough room for private vehicles. DeVito said that if commuters

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THEY’RE CLAD IN RED, MAKING A DIFFERENCE Ron Wolfgang, public officers keep the peace, help tourists BY GENIA GOULD

Some people are wired to serve. Take Ron Wolfgang, who retired after two decades with the NYPD on a Friday. The next Monday he was on the job again, leading the polic-

ing arm of the Downtown Alliance. The position, which he’s now had for nine and a half years: senior vice-president of operations. “We’re a presence,” he says of the division he oversees. “We’re a followup, we’re a neighborhood busybody. We report back on

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At Isamu Noguchi’s “Red Cute” sculpture on lower Broadway: Dave Harvin, assistant director for public safety; Ron Wolfgang, senior vice-president of operations; public safety officers Joseph Zapata and Darrell Joseph.

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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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The city was thrust into the international spotlight Saturday night with an explosion on West 23rd Street. The man police said was responsible, Ahmad Khan Rahami, was arrested after being wounded in an armed struggle in New Jersey, law enforcement reported Monday. The battle played out in Linden, N.J., near the accused bomber’s last known address. But it was neighborhood of Chelsea that took center stage over the weekend. The area was closed off after a device exploded at about 8:30 p.m. in front of 131 West 23rd St., injuring 29 people, who were taken to a local hospital and released. There were road closures and a subsequent subway shutdown in the aftermath, but many New Yorkers continued on with weekend plans. The Chelsea bomb was thought to be just one in a series across two states. Later that night, another device was found inside a plastic bag on West 27th Street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues; it appeared to be pressure cooker with wiring and a cellphone attached, a law enforcement official said. Earlier that day, a bomb went off went off in Seaside Park, N.J., near a charity race. Police closed in on the 28-yearold on Monday, after five more pipe bombs were found in Elizabeth, N.J. and the suspect was reported sleeping in the doorway of a bar in Linden. Reports surfacing Tuesday indicated that Rahami was suspected of being a terrorist two years ago by the FBI.

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PEDESTRIANS GIVEN MORE RIGHT OF WAY STREETWISE Legislation closes loophole, could aid in prosecutions

City striders will have a broader right of way while crossing the street, according to legislation passed last week by the City Council. The legislation, introduced last year by Public Advocate Letitia James, closes what was branded as a loophole in the city code that gave pedestrians within crosswalks the right of way only during the steady “walkâ€? phase of a traffic signal. Pedestrians will now have the right to cross even when red “don’t walkâ€? signs are ashing. Proponents of the change suggested that the revamped traffic code will bolster law enforcement in the prosecution of reckless drivers. James called the legislation “common senseâ€? and more in tune with the way “all New Yorkersâ€? behave. “Nearly every day, someone is injured or killed crossing our streets and it is past time we update our laws to adequately protect pedestrians,â€?

Legislation passed last week by the City Council gives pedestrians broader rights of way while they cross city streets. Photo: Willem van Bergen, via ickr

James said in statement following the City Council’s unanimous vote. “This common sense legislation will ensure that countdown clocks accurately portray the time pedestrians have to cross our streets and will ensure that any reckless driver is held accountable for injuring someone crossing legally. Millions of New Yorkers cross our streets everyday, and they should always feel safe doing so.â€? The legislation, Int. 997, addresses the portion of the city’s Traffic Rules that states that ashing “don’t walkâ€? signs and their equivalent, such a countdown clock, indicate to pedestrians “that there is insufficient time to cross the roadway and no pedestrian shall enter or cross the roadway.â€? Those already in the roadway “shall proceedâ€? to the closest safety island or sidewalk and motorists are to yield the right of way. James’ office said that pedestrians hit within a crosswalk when “don’t walkâ€? signs or countdown clocks had begun to ash had little legal recourse, drivers had no legal liability and police and prosecutors few options to pursue following a crash. “To accomplish Vision Zero, we must do everything we can to protect pedestrians and affirm their right

of way,â€? the chairwoman of the City Council’s Transportation Committee, Ydanis Rodriguez, said in the statement. “I’m glad to join Public Advocate Letitia James in this effort. This bill will clear up any misunderstanding about the right of way of pedestrians crossing the street with the countdown signal. It will be a valuable tool for law enforcement and prosecutors to hold reckless drivers accountable.â€? Steve Vaccaro, an attorney, said the legislation was more than reasonable given the massive number of pedestrians on city streets. “The average New Yorker is shocked to learn that at present, it is unlawful to step off the curb into the crosswalk once the pedestrian “countdownâ€? signal starts--even when there is 30 or more seconds left,â€? Vaccaro, of Vaccaro & White, said in the statement. “This critical piece of Vision Zero legislation brings the law into line with common practice, conďŹ rming that pedestrians have the right of way to cross the street--and motorists must yield to them--until the countdown ends. With this law, New York City takes a big step toward earning its reputation as a ‘walking city,’ and many traffic crashes will surely be avoided.â€?

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 1st precinct Week to Date

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Year to Date

2016 2015

% Change

2016

2015

% Change

Murder

0

0

n/a

0

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-100.0

Rape

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0

n/a

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5

60.0

Robbery

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-100.0

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Burglary

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200.0

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Grand Larceny

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21

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735

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A visitor from England might wish she had stayed on her side of the pond. At 6 p.m. on Sept. 8, a 61-year-old woman from Banbury, England, left her handbag on a chair in the Bailey Restaurant & Bar at 52 William St. while she went to pay her check. When she returned, her handbag and its contents were missing. The contents included a ring worth $1,000, another ring priced at $700 and $300 in cash.

Chains don’t seem to deter bike thieves the way they might once have. At 9 p.m. on Sept. 7, a man chained his custom-built bicycle to a street scaffolding opposite 76 Thompson St. His bike was gone was gone when he returned to fetch it shortly after midnight. The bicycle is valued at $1,200.

An area resident became the victim of an apparently random pepper spraying. At 12:30 a.m. on Sept. 10, a 36-year-old man was squirted in the face with pepper spray by an unknown man who had been following him as he made his way to his Desbrosses Street residence. He refused medical attention. He told police he had no idea why the man had pepper sprayed him and could not identify his assailant. He further revealed that he had been intoxicated at the time of the incident and thought that the assailant might have been a construction worker.

Construction sites often prove fertile grounds for thieves these days. During the time between 3:30 p.m. Aug. 25 and 6:30 a.m. on Aug. 29, electronics inside a man’s briefcase were taken. The man left the case in an unsecured room with no door at a construction site inside 99 Wall St. Multiple contracting vendors had access to the room. The items stolen were an HP Elite laptop valued at $1,800 and a Samsung Galaxy S6 cell phone priced at $650, making a total stolen of $2,450.

WHERE THERE’S A WHEEL, THERE’S AWAY It is unfortunate for bicycle owners that their two-wheeled vehicles can be wheeled away so easily. At 10 a.m. on Sept. 7, a man secured his electric bike to a rack in front of 26 Broadway. When he returned at 1 p.m., his ride was gone. He searched the area but didn’t find anything. The stolen vehicle was a black bike valued at $1,400.

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FIVE YEARS LATER, OCCUPY WALL STREET RESONATES The movement echoes on both the left and the right BY DEEPTI HAJELA AND MICHAEL BALSAMO

For a time, Occupy Wall Street was everywhere with its grassroots encampments — first in New York City, then globally — and the refrain, “We are the 99 percent!” And then it was gone. Its most famous camp in lower Manhattan was cleared out in an overnight police raid two months after it started, and other Occupy locations fizzled soon thereafter. But five years later, demonstrators gathered once again in New York City’s Zuccotti Park recently to commemorate the movement and what they said has been its lasting impact. About two dozen attended the gathering, many holding signs to demand political and banking reform. Others chanted, blew whistles and carried photo cutouts of political figures, including former Attorney General Eric Holder. As the group recounted its time occupying the park, tour groups stopped to catch a glimpse of the action. Occupy Wall Street takes some of the credit for introducing income inequality into the broader political discourse, for inspiring the fight for a $15 minimum wage and, most recently, for creating a receptive audience for the Democratic presidential campaign of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. “Everyone knows we were right,” said Caleb Maupin, who was working in the insurance industry when he first joined the movement five years ago. “We had a major campaign for president with Bernie Sanders. The campaign was like a giant Occupy Wall Street rally, talking about the 99 percent and the one percent because millions of people know we were right.” Maupin, who said he would rush to Zuccotti Park every night after work, was arrested twice during the group’s twomonth encampment. He said it helped shape the country’s political discourse. And some political observers even draw a line between the movement and the rise

Zuccotti Park on Nov. 11, 2011 during the Occupy Wall Street movement. Photo: Debra M. Gaines, via Wikimedia Commons of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who tapped into the vein of suspicion against the power of elites — the 1 percent — that Occupy made ubiquitous. “We had sort of a deep-down effect on activists all around the world,” said Kalle Lasn of the Vancouver, British Columbia-based “Adbusters” magazine, among those who put out the call for a protest of Wall Street to take place Sept. 17, 2011. “We politicized a whole generation of young people who didn’t quite know what to do with their activism and their feelings of anger.” While critics of Occupy took issue with it at the time for its lack of specific demands, a clear organizational structure or strategies for next steps, it has come to resonate politically, said Heather Gautney, a sociology professor at Fordham University. She pointed to Sanders’ campaign, saying Occupy’s injection of income inequality into the discourse paved the way for the senator’s calls to get money out of politics, rein in Wall

Street banks and provide free public college education. Nicholas Kiersey, a political science professor at Ohio University, said Trump’s political presence is part of Occupy’s impact, as well. “If Bernie Sanders represented a left-wing popular suspicion that had felt all of a sudden very legitimate in expressing its grievances, Trump, I think, represents the mirror of that from the right,” he said. “They both, in a sense, have ridden the momentum of popular dissatisfaction.” Other social movements have followed Occupy, such as the Fight for $15, a minimum-wage campaign that started with fast-food workers in New York City in 2012 and has spread, with victories in states, including New York and California. The environmental movement was also inspired by the idea that a small handful of elites were using their power to accumulate wealth at the expense of the many, said Guido Girgenti, an organizer with the group 350.org. Occupy, Girgenti said, helped

jumpstart “a new kind of climate movement” that questions the power of the fossil fuel industry. “How do we overcome that power, how do we take back our government so we can actually have solutions that work for the people, that work for the planet?” Girgenti said. Harrison Schultz, 33, of Brooklyn, said Occupy also helped educate people about the need for government and banking reform. “I learned way more about how the banking system works, how our government is supposed to work and how to take control of the banks and the government,” he said. Occupy supporter Lasn remains convinced of the movement’s importance. “I see Occupy Wall Street as being another one of those great historical moments, when something surprising happened and a whole generation got politicized,” he said. “After a generation gets politicized, then who knows what the hell they’re going to do after that?”

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SALUTING DOWNTOWN’S LUMINARIES

Public Advocate Letitia James with FDNY rescue paramedic Niall O’Shaughnessy and his sons at the Dotty Awards. Photos: Genia Gould

Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, Kathryn Wylde of the Partnership for New York City, City Councilwoman Margaret Chin, City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez, NY1’s Vivian Lee and Straus News publisher Jeanne Straus at the DOTTY Awards Sept. 14.

Restaurateurs, educators, religious leaders, artists, administrators, community leaders, ďŹ rst responders, elected officials. They’re our neighbors and associates, our acquaintances and friends, the thread from which the fabric of a neighborhood is woven. They’re also, on occasion, trailblazers, in ways that can be either apparent or inconspicuous, even both. On Sept. 14, at the New York City Fire Museum on Spring Street, Our Town Downtown hosted about 100 friends and colleagues of 13 such luminaries, all of whom have helped keep the neighborhood vibrant and inviting, despite heady challenges. On their own, they make downtown a better place to live and work; together, they make it extraordinary.

Jake Dell, an owner of Katz’s Delicatessen, and Lisa Ripperger, principal of P.S. 234 at the Dotty Awards.

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LATE SUMMER IN THE CITY EAST SIDE ENCOUNTERS BY ARLENE KAYATT

Panhandler chutzpah — A shabbily dressed man ambled into an Upper East Side bagel shop. Most seats were taken and the lines indicated this was going to be a busy day in bagel heaven. The man walked over to a table where a young boy was seated and arranging the small square table for himself, his mom and dad. The man arrived at the table just as mom was putting wrapped sandwiches onto the table. Son quickly stood to take the hot drinks from dad and placed them on the table. The man walked up to mom and asked if she could get him a sandwich. Disconcerted, she looked at the sandwich in her hand and reached out to give it to him. “What’s in it?,” he wanted to know, sounding annoyed. “Uh, uh ...,” she started to respond, when the man said, “Don’t do me any favors, I like to pick my own sandwich,” as he moved along to prey

BY BETTE DEWING

As you well know, health or its absence dominated the news recently due to Hillary Clinton’s sudden departure from the 9/11 memorial service – and then the tape of her almost falling as she got into her car. We wish her a thorough recovery from what was reported to be a mild case of pneumonia. But also we know that much more attention should be paid to the fact that 70 is not the new 50. Adjustments must be paid too. This column is also about strokes, the most debilitating affliction now suffered by former Prime Israeli Minister Shimon Peres. It’s also about retirement benefits to the community. But first about 70 not being the new 50 and those needed adjustments. Like how candidates or anyone else

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We’re so accustomed to hearing that working forever is good for us. But working too much and the stress engendered is too little considered. And that relates to what’s most on my mind – the reportedly severe stroke former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres suffered Sept. 13. This 93-year-old winner of the Peace Prize and countless other awards had been still very actively concerned in government affairs when felled by this devastating stroke. Caring so much can take a toll too. Prayers and wishes for his recovery abound, but infinitely more attention must be paid to the prevention, treatment and cure of this most debilitating disease. Like Alzheimer’s, stroke attacks mostly old people. The late, greatly missed and renowned gerontologist Dr. Robert Butler said illnesses for older people need as much attention as younger people’s disorders. He would agree that what needs to get out there is the intense suffering and the often total helplessness which severe strokes inflict. A fate worse

than death kind of condition, and should I be so afflicted, my family is instructed to take me to a state where assisted suicide is legal. And what needs to get and stay out there in the public consciousness is the condition of Peres, which we passionately hope improves, but also the care that this most revered leader receives is superior to that received by most stroke victims. And heaven help them if they don’t have supportive family and friends. So this awful affliction must be continually seen and discussed – and with the population aging and many elders living longer. For all our health care facilities, there are too few gerontologists to evaluate the whole elder person’s condition. In terms of retirement, there is time to join those health battles surely, but also for civic group involvement, like police precinct community councils. They meet monthly to hear about crime- and safety-related problems. And there are other civic groups like community boards and this week, the monthly

at another table. Have it your way, sir. And try some other New York neighborhoods. Maybe SoHo, NoHo, the West Side, the Lower East Side. Maybe they’ll hand over the cash or accompany you to the counter so you can pick out your own sandwich and pay for it. And don’t forget a nice latte. Maybe panhandling will make the competitive cut as Manhattan real estate rises. Sorry, no number — One of the biggest nuisances in New York neighborhoods is the lack of building numbers on many commercial and residential buildings. It’s really a pain when you’re going somewhere and can’t find an address. Guess landlords want to make it difficult to sue them if there’s no address to easily identify the location of their building or business. There ought to be a law or some requirement making it mandatory for buildings and businesses to identify the address of the location in a certain size lettering. I seem to remember that, when Scott Stringer was Man-

BEING 70 IS NOT THE NEW 50 And let’s raise awareness about impact of strokes

hattan borough president, something was getting done about it. Don’t believe it ever happened. Hope some public official takes up the cause.

Jack Russell’s Pub’s gives the dog a bad name — I know Jack Russells terriers and its namesake pub doesn’t do it proud. The breed is known to be fierce but charming as fox hunting dogs are. I’m no fan of fox hunting but Manhattan Jack Russells don’t fox hunt. There are a few of them about town. I like them. They’re nice. So I had kind thoughts when friends wanted to meet for Happy Hour at Jack Russell’s Pub on Second Ave in the 80s, a standard avenue sports bar with a traditional pub menu, glowering televisions and thumping music. Don’t know that happy hour’s all that happy, though. At least mine wasn’t. It’s from 4 to 8 p.m. I got there at about 6:45, ordered wine, and handed the server $10 expecting there would be change since Happy Hour was underway. When I wanted to order an appetizer, the server asked for my credit card. I said that I would give her the difference from the $10 in cash. She shook her head no. The wine’s $9. “But it’s happy hour,” I shot back. No response. Does that mean that a glass of wine at the bar or with dinner is $18 when there’s no happy hour? At Jack Russell’s Pub with its grub food and house wine?

not feeling well must bound around like the proverbial billygoats to show they are not too old. Over 65, only one alcoholic drink a day, says a Mt. Sinai Medical Center bulletin. And how much less stressful if wannabees sometimes took the environmental friendly medium-speed passenger train. Let’s set an example and remind younger generations that, in general, windows are for seeing the world around you. Get the picture? But we’ve become so work-, speedand device-obsessed that retirement and also slowing up, literally and otherwise, have become almost shameful. But semi-retirement is often ideal and sharing what has been learned is so important. And I’m thinking today as Police Commissioner Bill Bratton retires and reportedly will take a private sector position. Too much reinventing the wheel occurs when such experience goes unshared.

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If I wanted to spend $18 for a glass of wine, I’d have stopped by Le Bernadin and had me a French Chablis or Riesling and not whined about being ripped off at happy hour at a pub named for a pup that deserves better. Gas not — I love the Elinor Bunim film center in Lincoln Center. Only MoMA shows the type of films I usually prefer. When an Upper East Side reader went to Elinor Bunim to see “Little Men,” he smelled exhaust fumes from the moment he walked in. His wife didn’t. Smelled to him like the odors at Port Authority. Squirming through the film, the noxious smell seemed to abate and he soldiered to the end. When leaving, he told the usher. Apparently, there’s a road under the facility and the building’s engineers may have opened a vent in the area. Problem solved. I hope the reader’s thumbs down for “Little Men” had to do with the smell and not the film which I heard is an engrossing coming-of-age tale. The film had played at MoMA weeks earlier. If he had seen the film at MoMA, the smells more likely would have been coming from the food carts selling franks on East 52nd outside MoMA. Everything’s local.

meeting of the very active, decades-old East 79th St. Neighborhood Association occurs Thursday, Sept. 22 at 6 pm at the Upper East Side Rehabilitation and Nursing Center at 211 East 79th Street, just east of 3rd Avenue. Hey, and I may just go to remind them that it’s the 10th anniversary of my “body of work” being honored by local elected officials at that 2006 September meeting. The framed plaque from Rep. Carolyn Maloney called me “perhaps New York’s foremost champion of pedestrian safety.” I guess those elected officials need reminding that I’m still not consulted on their traffic safety plans. Another award-giver, Senator Liz Krueger, also needs to be informed that, unfortunately, it’s not just “a few bad apple bicyclists” who break the laws of the road as her bicycling-related commentary recently stated. It can be done if enough of us try. Smiling sure helps. Bette Dewing can be reached at dewingbetter@aol.com

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Late last month, Mayor de Blasio signed into law two bills that take important strides toward supporting both paid caregivers and unpaid family caregivers in an aging New York City. That’s great news, and it can’t come soon enough. Across the state, nearly 2.6 million unpaid family caregivers help make it possible for older adults and loved ones to live independently at home — and at a much lower cost to taxpayers than if they had to move to institutional care settings. It is estimated that the care provided by these unpaid family caregivers is valued at over $31.3 billion annually.

over expect to provide care to a loved one within five years. As the senior population expands — and particularly as we prepare to manage the needs of this growing and aging group — we will need to make sure to offer caregivers the types of supports that will enable them to continue to care for their loved ones. Family caregivers deserve this support. Every day, this silent army of Americans performs a great labor of love by helping their parents, grandparents, spouses, siblings and children remain at home. They help their loved ones with medications and medical care, meals, bathing and dressing, chores and much more. And

The two new laws help do that: they require the Department for the Aging (DFTA) to identify the needs of unpaid caregivers and develop a comprehensive plan to address those needs, and to establish a new Division of Paid Care within the Office of Labor Standards. With these laws, the city is building on its track record of supporting caregivers. Last year, at the urging of AARPNY, the City Council took the important step of making caregivers a protected class to prevent discrimination in the workplace. But we still have a lot of work to do in New York City. The next step is to adequately fund services that enable New

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Unfortunately, as our population continues to rapidly age, we face a looming caregiver shortage in New York City. By 2030, New York City’s current pool of 1.1 million seniors is expected to balloon to 1.35 million, representing 16 percent of the city’s total population. Between now and 2040, the city’s 65+ population is expected to grow by an astonishing 40 percent. An AARP-NY survey conducted in 2014 found that 52 percent of those age 50 and

they do all this while often putting their own needs last, ignoring their physical, emotional and mental health care needs and while juggling other responsibilities and full- or part-time jobs. New Yorkers want increased attention paid to this often unnoticed group; an AARP-commissioned survey found eight of every 10 city voters 50 and older felt strongly that elected officials should make support for family caregivers a priority.

Yorkers to age independently at home — where they want to be — helping support both our seniors and their caregivers. These services continue to be underfunded, despite the fact that it makes fiscal sense to keep aging New Yorkers out of institutional settings. On multiple levels, funding senior services is the right thing to do. Beth Finkel is the state director of AARP New York.

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VISUAL HAIKUS AT THE WHITNEY The new Carmen Herrera retrospective features 50 works by the 101-year-old abstract painter BY VAL CASTRONOVO

This is a story about the ultimate outsider who becomes the ultimate insider. Carmen Herrera (1915- ) arrived in New York from Havana in 1939 — a woman, a Cuban and an abstract, minimalist painter at a time when the city’s art community was lauding abstract expressionism. She painted for seven decades in relative obscurity, while her male contemporaries (Robert Rauschenberg, Barnett Newman, Stuart Davis, Frank Stella et al.) garnered all the attention. “It was only in the 21st century that she received widespread recognition. She was discriminated against as a woman and an immigrant,” Dana Miller, the show’s curator, said at last week’s preview. “She was too much for any gallery or museum. In 2004, she began being included in [non-Latin American] galleries and started being collected. Collectors were ahead of the museums.” The Whitney included. Despite its long history with abstraction, the museum didn’t purchase a Herrera, “Blanco y Verde” (1959), until 2014, part of “an aggressive rethinking of American art history,” chief curator Scott Rothkopf said at the preview. The green-and-white picture debuted last year at the new downtown Whitney’s inaugural exhibit, “America is Hard to See” — and is now the centerpiece, along with eight other paintings from the green-and-white series, of a four-room show. “Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight” is only the sixth museum presentation of the 101-yearold artist’s work. “It’s like being in a chapel,” the Whitney’s director, Adam Weinberg, said about the central gallery, a showcase for the seminal Blanco y Verde paintings (1959-1971), each featuring spikey green triangles on crisp white backgrounds. The exhibit focuses on Herrera’s early career, from 1948 to 1978, when she forged her trademark no-frills

style. As she said about her emphasis on form and color to the exclusion of everything else: “I had to forget about trimmings and go to the core of things.” Miller said that Herrera thinks of her works as visual haikus. “Less is more is Carmen’s mantra,” she said, quickly adding that she does “more with less.” The curator was dispatched by the museum a few years ago to add an early Herrera to its collection. Why early? To show that Herrera was innovating at the same time that her male counterparts were — but not getting the credit. Her quest led to the present solo show, the first in the city in almost 20 years (Herrera’s black-and-white geometrics were the subject of a rare museum display at El Museo del Barrio in 1998). The current exhibit is organized chronologically, beginning with the painter’s 1948 move to Paris with her husband, Jesse Loewenthal, a teacher at Stuyvesant High School. It was in postwar Paris where she thrillingly came in contact with Russian Suprematism, Josef Albers and Bauhaus, Miller said, and experimented with different types of abstraction. The works in the first room are abstract and busy, some looking like several paintings in one — and one, “A City” (1948), showing vestiges of representation in the form of a church steeple. Herrera would slowly strip away the non-essential until she reached her hard-edge style, a pure distillation of color and shapes, with straight lines. Two of her eye-popping black-andwhite striped paintings from 1952, when she was still in Paris, are featured in the second gallery and telegraph her later devotion to line and a two-color palette. “Line is important, she loses her contours,” Miller said of her steady stylistic evolution. These rigorous geometric pictures have painted frames, too. Frames and edges became compositional elements. “The edge of the canvas is another way of making a line,” the curator noted. As she writes in the catalog about the artist, who briefly trained as an architect in Havana: “Herrera was thinking about the ‘objectness’ of her painting and using panel divisions and the

Carmen Herrera, “Blanco y Verde,” 1966-1967. Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 70 in. (101.6 x 177.8 cm). Private Collection © Carmen Herrera

Carmen Herrera, “Amarillo ‘Dos,’” 1971. Acrylic on wood, 40 x 70 x 3 1/4 in. (101.6 x 177.8 x 8.3 cm). Maria Graciela and Luis Alfonso Oberto Collection © Carmen Herrera edges of her canvases simultaneously with artists who have previously been heralded for such developments.” Her works have a sculptural quality and, like sculptures, need to be seen in person. You have to walk around them to fully experience them. “Blanco y Verde” from 1967, considered one of her finest efforts, features the tip of a slender green triangle wrapping around the left edge of the painting, while the other three edges are painted green — making for a “green halo effect” against the museum’s pristine white wall. “Herrera was considering the total environment of her work — not just the canvas but the impact of

it on the wall where it would hang,” Miller writes. Her colors were taken directly from the tube or can, and she used masking tape and draftsmen’s tools to achieve precision. The last gallery is a showcase for four rare, wooden sculptures (“estructuras”) from the late 1960s-early 1970s, proof that Herrera “thinks about things in the round,” Miller said, pointing out correspondences

between the 3D-works and the paintings in an adjacent room (e.g., “Amarillo ‘Dos’,” 1971, and “Blanco y Verde,” 1966-1967, respectively). For this centenarian, art was a vocation, like the ministry. Miller was succinct: “She was never in it for the money or the fame. She just did it without that.” And she’s still doing it, nearly every day.

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WOLFGANG CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 things.â€? A former NYPD police sergeant with the First Precinct, Wolfgang turned down a police department promotion to take instead his alliance job. Wolfgang, 50, is not alone; many of the alliance managers are former NYPD cops, including Dave Harvin, the assistant director for public safety. By the same token, many public safety officers work their way up to becoming city police officers. Operations officers can be seen at work on city streets. Take Tahany Abdullah, a public safety officer who stands at Park Place and Broadway in Lower Manhattan. She’s amidst the fast-paced chaos of tourists, workers, residents and traffic — movement in every direction. She’s quietly surveying the area, as if working under the radar, and looks a bit like a high-end hotel doorman. IdentiďŹ able by her uniform, the white shirt and red pocket aps and red hat, Abdullah was hired and trained by the alliance. She points her ďŹ nger and arm towards Broadway and says she’d been eyeing unusual numbers of speeding cyclists. Now she’s evaluating whether it was a group that could potentially become unruly. Then she holds her walkie-talkie pinned to her chest and mimes the call about the homeless she just made to her superiors. She’s paying attention. And then she relaxes again. Soon Abdullah will patrol the rest of the area she is assigned to, along with the sixty-four of her fellow public safety, men and women officers, or “red coats.â€? They are spread out throughout the area, below Chambers Street, armed with radios, some with tablets, but all with ďŹ nely tuned eyes and ears. It’s a 24-hour, 7-day operation. These officers report suspicious packages and behaviors, car accidents and shed light on events that lead to arrests. They learn about counterterrorism from the police and, on the lighter side, they even get training to know about the many local tourist attractions. That’s key because they’re often approached for information on the street, and even asked by tourists for recommendations on what to see. Officers are used to being busy, with a graffiti

14TH STREET CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 during the necessary construction work.� Johnson said that at such an early stage, officials are exploring all their options and having a public discourse about the merits of each one. Although Manhattan Borough President Gayle Brewer also endorsed the PeopleWay, she said that there needs to be more discussion before any decisions are made. Throughout her discussions about the L Train shutdown, Brewer said that she has been focusing on Manhattan and the people in Manhattan who are concerned about this issue. “One of the issues is once you get to Manhattan, how do you get to your place to visit or for leisure or for school?� Brewer said. “I think the idea would be very innovative about working with 14th Street. Working with the businesses is incredibly important, working with people who live there, working with the

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Our Town|Downtowner otdowntown.com hit here or a crime condition over there. Sometimes during school dismissals, kids are ďŹ ghting. Public safety officers see it all. A few days earlier, an officer was approached by panicked parents, separated from their child when subway doors closed quickly. The officer radioed another ofďŹ cer who was closer to the next station, then ran fast and met the train in time to locate the child, leading to a reunion. Wolfgang says of those on his team: “They’re there to do what they can.â€? He outlines the role they play. “They’re diplomats,â€? he says. “They’re our ambassadors on the street. And in terms the law enforcement end of things, they’re our eyes and ears.â€? The color red was not arbitrary, and it’s used on vehicles and buses too. Wolfgang says that Mike O’Connor, ďŹ rst head of the alliance when it started back in 1999, “didn’t want the public safety officers to look like police, pretend to be police, but wanted them to be readily identiďŹ ed as this other agency, a presence in the district.â€? The idea, according to Wolfgang, was “to say, ‘You can ask me a question and I’m going to be eyes and ears if you’re doing something wrong.’â€? The alliance’s officers work with, and share information with, the police on a daily basis, Wolfgang says. Partners include the NYPD’s First Precinct, the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative, The World Trade Center campus, as well as with other local groups, including Bowery Residents Committee. The alliance actually shares its sub-station at 65 Broadway with an NYPD scooter unit. When it comes to the difference between his current job and his last, Wolfgang says, “You can’t compare the two sets of responsibilities. When you work for the police department, it’s a tremendous amount of responsibility. You walk out the door every day and you don’t know what you’re going to get involved in.â€? Still, he says the day-to-day operations between the two agencies really are not that different. “So much of the way Downtown Alliance is set up mirrors how the police department functions, but without enforcement power,â€? he says. “We don’t do the arrests. We don’t carry guns. But most police work is done without guns. It’s about talking to people.â€?

community board. We’ll come up with something that makes sense.â€? The MTA announced on Sept. 14 that it would evaluate and consider the PeopleWay as an alternative to the L Train. Brewer said that she is impressed with the work that the MTA is doing on the case. She also said exploring the notion of making 14th Street bigger for longer than just the 18 month-shutdown is also an option. Brewer attended a Manhattan forum to discuss the issue and was excited that many people showed up. “We have met with different agencies, we have met with the different advocates and we’re going to work with the different officials in the community board to host lots of meetings to try to ďŹ gure out what will happen when people get to Manhattan,â€? Brewer said. “The fact is that there’s a group of people who are interested in the L train and its future. When they come together it is most exciting.â€?

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Gardenia

404 8Th Ave

A

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 http://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/services/restaurant-grades.page

Pushcart Coffee

401 W 25Th St

Grade Pending (4)

Cafe Rustico Ii

25 West 35 Street

A

Subway

173 West 26 Street

A

Abiko Curry

2 West 32 Street

A

Cafe Nunez

240 West 35 Street

Grade Pending (24) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room. Hot and cold running water at adequate pressure to enable cleanliness of employees not provided at facility. Soap and an acceptable hand-drying device not provided. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Ovest Pizzoteca

513 West 27 Street

A

The Liberty

29 West 35 Street

A

Mcdonalds

335 8Th Ave

A

Bravo Pizza

360 7Th Ave

Grade Pending (16) 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.

The Blarney Stone Pub & Restaurant

410 8 Avenue

A

Hoops Cabaret And Sports Bar

48 W 33Rd St

Not Yet Graded (2)

Grace Street

17 W 32 Street

A

Hanamichi

28 W 32Nd St

A

Subway

455 West 34 Street

A

Bally Total Fitness Juice Bar

139 W 32Nd St

A

Riko

409 8Th Ave

Not Yet Graded (18) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Taco Bandito

325 8Th Ave

A

Starbucks

227 West 27 Street

A

Shanghai Mong

30 W 32Nd St

Not Yet Graded (40) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. 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. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

Lady M Confections

1178 Broadway

Not Yet Graded (30) Toilet facility not provided for employees or for patrons when required.

Blue Water Grill

31 Union Square West A

The Watering Hole

106 East 19 Street

A

Starbucks

240 Park Avenue South

A

Peridance Capezio Center Cafe

126 East 13 Street

A

Barcade

6 Saint Marks Pl

A

O'Reilly's Pub

54 West 31 Street

A

Europa Cafe

11 Penn Plaza

A

Cafe Bistro

312 West 34 Street

Grade Pending (52) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, crosscontaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewageassociated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

Miss Korea

10 West 32 Street

A

Dong Chun Hong Chinese Restaurant

312 5 Avenue

Grade Pending (23) 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 Gallery 32

11 W 32Nd St

Grade Pending (47) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/ sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. 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. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

The Kunjip

32 W 32Nd St

Grade Pending (24) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, crosscontaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Haymaker Bar & Kitchen

252 W 29Th St

A

Black Iron Burger

333 7Th Ave

A

The Paul

32 W 29Th St

Grade Pending (15) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. 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.

Pinkberry

7 W 32Nd St

A

Dunkin’ Donuts

243 9 Avenue

B

Cafe R

116 W 32Nd St

B

L’amico/The Vine

839 6Th Ave

Grade Pending (10) Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

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NAME OF THE ROSE AMENDED Upper East Side Mexican restaurant settles dispute with chain

BY ALEXANDRA ZUCCARO

In front of Selena Rosa on Second Avenue, owner Sammy Musovic and manager Armando Martado raised a Mexican flag on Sept. 16. The act, on Mexican independence day, was doubly significant: It also celebrated the restaurant’s settlement

against the Rosa Mexicano’s chain of eateries, which in a cease-and-desist letter had alleged that the restaurant’s name – at the time Selena Rosa Mexicana – constituted trademark infringement and unfair competition. After much deliberation, Musovic agreed to omit “Mexicana” from their name, and simply be called “Selena Rosa” moving forward. “We do have the Selena Rosa trademark, so fortunate for us we were allowed to keep that,” he said. “We are

raising the flag as a celebration. We feel that we won this.” Loyal customers also attended the festivities. Elliot Hurdy has been going to Selena Rosa since it opened near 89th Street 15 years ago, and was glad that a settlement had been reached. Because the establishment has so many regulars, Hurdy didn’t believe that the name change would affect business. “People come to a restaurant not for the name, but for the food. And the

Sammy Musovic (left), the owner of Selena Rosa on Second Avenue, raises a Mexican flag to commemorate that country’s independence day as well as a settlement of a dispute about the restaurant’s name. Photo: Alexandra Zuccaro food is great,” he said. Hurdy speculated that Rosa Mexicano took legal action not because of the similar names, but because they were threatened by the competition. Besides Rosa Mexicano’s flagship establishment, on First Avenue near 58th Street, the chain has four other restaurants in New York, as well as locations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Atlanta, Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., Dubai and elsewhere. “Obviously it’s the best food in New York City, because they [Rosa Mexicano] wouldn’t want to go through all this trouble for one little restaurant,” Hurdy said. “So the reason is they thought maybe they could put them

Sammy Musovic (left, with cap), the owner of Selena Rosa on Second Avenue, and Armando Martado (at mic), discuss the settlement of a dispute about the restaurant’s name. Photo: Alexandra Zuccaro

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out. And not only did they not put them out, but he’s [Musovic] getting busier and busier.” Rosa Mexicano’s corporate office could not be reached for comment. Musovic, however, suggested that the settlement ended civilly. He is pleased that Selena Rosa now has their own identity, and wished Rosa Mexicano continued success. He even proposed that its owners stop by the restaurant for margaritas. “I think we should have a drink together with the owner of Rosa Mexicano,” he said. “He should join me here for some margaritas so we can both move on and continue doing what we do best.”

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HOW ONE MAN’S MAP SHOWS EMPTY STOREFRONTS Tracking city’s evolving retail landscape BY MADELEINE THOMPSON

Once you walk the streets of Chelsea with Justin Levinson, you might never look at them the same way again. Levinson, a freelance developer, spent six months online — and on foot — mapping out the location and quantity of empty storefronts throughout Manhattan. He wound up underscoring the bleak retail landscape. “Oh, that’s new,” he said of Foragers eatery and market on Eighth Avenue and West 22nd Street. But as soon as he started pointing them out, vacant storefronts seemed to be everywhere. After attending the one-day New York City School of Data conference in 2012, Levinson learned that much

city-related information is available online, if one only knows how to access it. Having long been interested in the more blighted parts of the city, Levinson created tools that helped him sort through Department of City Planning data. He learned to pinpoint vacant storefronts and the owners of the buildings that house them. Since his map and corresponding website Vacant New York have come to people’s attention, Levinson has heard from more than 100 people with comments and corrections. “This one guy emailed me and he’s a chef,” Levinson said. “He said ‘I’ve worked my way up and I want to open my own place but I can’t find one … that I can afford with decent foot traffic.’ Which is insane because we have so much empty property.” Who’s to blame?? Levinson empha-

sized that there is no one party that is responsible. “I’m not trying to point fingers,” he said. Instead, he listed sky-high rent, gentrification, and said, “It’s very easy to construct this narrative of greedy landlords. It really is over-simplifying the issue. They’re operating within a system with a bunch of rules, a bunch of incentives.” Based on Levinson’s map, Madison Avenue is among the areas with the fewest empty storefronts. Matthew Bauer, president of the Madison Avenue BID, is not surprised to hear this. “In the first half of 2016, 18 new business opened up on Madison Avenue between 57th and 86th Street,” Bauer said. “When you look at the amount that have opened and you see the types of stores and the type of investment that’s taking place here, you see

An empty storefront on Eighth Avenue.

The retail landscape is the subject of a new map. Photo: MrTinDC via Fliickr

that there’s tremendous interest.” At the other end of the spectrum on this map: the TriBeCa/SoHo area, which is not doing as well. On Broadway between west Houston and Canal Streets, 16 storefronts are marked as empty. Mark Dicus, executive director of the SoHo Broadway Initiative, described the situation as a “fundamental shift in brick-and-mortar retail.” However, he is optimistic and mentioned several stores that were doing well in SoHo, like Stance, a luxury sock and underwear retailer, and athletic-wear stores like Lululemon and Under Armour. Nike is also planning to open a new outlet at 529 Broadway within the year. “I think you’re seeing a change in the market,” Dicus said. “People are still trying to see what works here.” Levinson is well aware that his map may have missing pieces or errors. A project like Vacant New York is by

nature a “moving target,” as he described it, because stores open and close constantly. Plus, the data itself is hard to track down for stores being rented out by owner, with just a sign and phone number in the window, as opposed to being listed on a large broker’s website. Still more storefronts are empty but don’t have a “for lease” sign on display. Levinson didn’t include those because it’s unclear what their status is. It’s not his full-time job, but Levinson plans to continue updating Vacant New York and responding to comments. “I like seeing the way the city moves,” he said. “I grew up next to the city, so I didn’t have this starry-eyed ‘oh my God, it’s New York City.’ I like to always know we’re doing what we can to make it as livable as possible.” Madeleine Thompson can be reached at newsreporter@strausnews.com

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AN ALIMENTARY EXCURSION WALKING AND TALKING Covering Ground with Eli Zabar. BY DAVID WILLIAMS

Mileage covered: 1.49 miles + a bit of driving. Sunny, 79 degrees Needing little introduction, Eli Zabar is the eponymous head of one of the city’s most famous sources for pretty much anything anyone would want to eat anywhere and at almost any time. Since 1973. They used to say there was a huge kitchen under Third Avenue in the East 70s that served all the Italian restaurants on the Upper East Side. Over the years, with evolved palates, a kitchen really was built that would serve a large swath of the UES. And Eli Zabar is captain of the ship. Eager to give a soup to nuts tour of his empire, he invited me to meet him at his East 92nd Street townhouse. I am welcomed by the two Zabar Wheaten Terriers, Geo and Pippa. A dog owner myself, we are off to a fine start. “I’ve been living in that house for 25 years,” Eli tells me as we strike out on our rounds. “My wife and I lived in a house around the corner for maybe three or four years before that. So we have lived in between 91st and 9nd Streets for three decades.” We hang a left at Madison to begin our tour of the Realm of Eli. First station: Eli’s Wine Bar 91, corner of East 91st and Madison. “Everybody who ever had children in this neighborhood spent time in Jackson Hole,” he says, referring to the spot’s former tenant. In gutting and renovating, “We did a lot of historical research on this (1893/94) building. I hired an architectural historian, Christopher Gray (who wrote a column on real estate history in The New York Times for 30 years). “When this building was built, Madison had no retail. They had very fancy stoops that went up to the building. This backs up on the Carnegie Mansion and very possibly associates of Carnegie lived here.” Clearly enjoying the role of architectural docent, Eli describes how things changed forever in the ‘30s. Retail came to define what Madison Avenue would become, at least in Midtown and Carnegie Hill. The building itself was reconfigured, entrances moved, floors and basements eliminated. Enter Mr. Zabar, circa. 2015, and history marched backwards: “This parquet floor came from Paris. From a house build in 1870. The staircase came from a house in Harlem that was built in 1890.”

Like his outpost on Third and 79th Street and its white table partner up a block at Eli’s, Eli’s Wine Bar 91 wakes up as a “grab-and-go” spot for any and all matters culinary, and goes to bed at night as a wine bar and restaurant. Eli gives me a tour of the breakfast vittles, pausing at one point, his chest puffed out: “This is my famous bread pudding!” “We make everything ourselves: every pastry you see, every bread you see, every salad you see ...” We are out the door and in no more than ten steps we are in front of NOGLU, the only Eli venture without his familiar branding. I’d purchased NOGLU’s (delicious!) tarts before, so I was aware that the

cept. “For eight years I ran the farmers market out in Amagansett. I was in an operating partnership with the Taconic Land Trust. They had been gifted a piece of land. With a farm stand on it. “They were desperate for an operator. Someone on the board said why not contact Eli Zabar. He comes out here because his mother-in-law lives here. “Up until that point everything was made in the Third Avenue store. Or in the Vinegar Factory. It wasn’t until Amagansett that I blew out the ‘commissary’ ideas. Everything would be made in one place. And then distributed.”

Executive Chef Keith Eldridge (left) and Eli Zabar about to pop a batch of fresh quiches into the oven at the Vinegar Factory. Photo: David Williams

Eli Zabar’s Vinegar Factory on East 91st Street. Photo: Jim.henderson, via Wikimedia Commons gluten-free options here were a cut above. A big cut above. “With a French partner I became an investor. And the managing partner. She’s about to open another one of these with a restaurant in the 7th Arrondissement off the Rue du Bac in Paris in October. “We built a whole kitchen. There is nothing like this in New York,” he tells me. Hopping in his van in order to cover our ground efficiently, Eli nevertheless has built his foodie Ponderosa to be easily covered on foot. “I have maintained my business, with the exception of Grand Central, to be within walking distance. I think I learned that early on from my two brothers. They own Zabar’s on the West Side. My brothers Stanley and Saul. Stanley especially believed in living over the shop.” After a quick stop at his Essentials store on Lex and 87th Street, Eli tells me the origin of the “Essentials” con-

Eli’s new paradigm took off. And it evolved: they learned how to freeze the croissants at 90th Street, then bake them at the stores. Double parking, we duck into E.A.T., Madison and 80th Street. “This is my first store. All the food they serve here is made here. This has nothing to do with the commissary concept. It goes back to my original theory of food. It’s better to make one salad six times a day than to make different salads once a day. It’s better to make one thing many times than to make a million things one time a day. It gets old. “Everything here is from my original recipes.” It’s en route to Eli’s on Third Avenue that Eli tells me about his newest ventures. We pass his Essentials on Third and 79th which, “Is one of the things I’m most happy about. It’s is my son’s (Oliver’s) Nightshift. “ Thrilled, and relieved (“Whew!”), that another Zabar is in the business

— a twin son, in New Haven, is also following the family food chain with a juice bar — Eli says the model he described at 91st Street is flourishing further down in 10028. Again, the shop opens with eggs and waffles, transitions to grab-and-go lunch fare and then voilas into a millennial cocktail outpost. “It plays against everything I know in retailing. I’m always saying we don’t want any lines. Every person has to be taken care of immediately. If you’re in a rush you don’t go here!” At Eli’s I meet the honchos that steer the largest of his food emporia. Each of whom is being pressed into tutorial service later this year as Eli parlays each of the store’s department managers’ skills into a series of classes. “Were going to have our wine classes, flower arranging classes, we’re going to have our courses in breadmaking, coffee ...” Regular visitors to Eli’s will recognize some of the professors involved. There’s Joe Catalano, Professor of Fish; Nichole Fraser, Doctor of Flower Arranging; and Marc Reyes, Adjunct Professor of Meat. With details still to come, turning the sales floor into a foodie academia is just one of several of the company’s newest ventures. The final stop on our tour of the realm is what Eli calls his commissary. Above, around, across and within his Vinegar Factory, this is where his team whips together everything his customers will grab-and-go, nosh or dine on. To the visitor, it is a working

marvel, food manufacturing, Manhattan-style. And it’s where his third 2016 venture is being incubated. “We have about a quarter of an acre of greenhouses on top of the roof. And tomatoes and baby lettuces are my two most important crops,” says this urban farmer. “We have a type of strawberry that no one else has. Mara des bois. So sweet so delicious. We have a few small beds. Everywhere we have an area we’re going to plant those.” As we zig-zag through the warren of kitchens and bakeries, beyond the construction shop, we land in the small area where the company’s yetto-be-named online home delivery venture is evolving. In competing with companies like Blue Apron, the service will send a text message with a photo of the day’s options. The text-ee has until 11:00 a.m. to place that day’s order and number of servings that, unlike others in the field of easy home-cookery, is not subscription based. And it’s all fulfilled from … you guessed it, the commissary. “The only thing you need is salt, pepper and olive oil,” Eli proclaims. “Nobody can be as fresh or as quality as I am,” noting that his brick and mortar is zip-code friendly to his planned catchment area. “This is the biggest, most important new thing I’m doing.” Sort of like his grab-and-go model, only this one is more text and get!

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NEW YORK’S QUINTESSENTIAL FEMINIST Gloria Steinem on her start in the city, magazine culture and bookstores BY ANGELA BARBUTI

There is no limit to the amount of subjects you can cover in an interview with Gloria Steinem. The breadth of her life and career is so rich the conversation could be limitless. For this interview, the focus was on her life in the city and how it shaped her work as a journalist and feminist. Although New York did influence her, she also played a major role in affecting its politics. Her activism spread continues to spark change. An Ohio native, Steinem moved the city in 1960 as a budding journalist. She quickly became frustrated by the fluff pieces she was assigned and longed to write and report articles of substance. When Clay Felker founded New York Magazine in 1968, he brought her on as a writer. There, she was finally able to cover politics and begin to make a name for herself as an emerging feminist leader. She was the only female on staff. In 1971, she went on to launch Ms. Magazine, which was the first publication to be owned and operated by women. They called themselves the Thank-God-it’s-Monday Club as a testament to the atmosphere of support in that office. One of the women in that club, Suzanne Levine, will be interviewing her coworker-turnedlifelong-friend, Steinem, at the Milford Readers and Writers Festival this month. There, she will speak about her first book in 20 years, “My Life on the Road,” a New York Times bestseller.

What was it like for you when you arrived here? Where did you first settle in the city? At first, I was living with friends, sleeping on the floors of friend’s apartments. [Laughs] And then, finally, I had my own apartment which was on West 81st Street in a brownstone. It was right across from the planetarium, however, at the time, the block west of us was supposed to be the most dangerous block in New York City. It was a somewhat different neighborhood at that time. If you look at that block, between Central Park and Columbus, there are big, tall buildings and then there’s a long, dark hole, and then there’s a little brownstone, and I had a room in that brownstone. But I was so happy to have an apartment of my own. It was a first. I’d always had dormitory rooms or had been traveling. So no matter how small, it was heaven.

In your HBO documentary, you said that landlords at that time didn’t think that

single women could afford rent. Yes, they thought you were going to get married and skip out or if you could afford the rent, perhaps you were doing something illegal to afford it. [Laughs] I don’t mean to overgeneralize, but you ran into some of those. It was a problem.

And because I had been unable to get political assignments, I gave myself a political column [Laughs] called “The City Politic.” There, I could do a wide variety of things. I went to Queens to the hospital where Vietnam vets were being brought back direct from the battlefield on a plane. I wrote about

I’ll tell you a conversation with a cab driver that happened right after I finished the book. [Laughs] And I regretted that I couldn’t put it in. I got into a taxi near my house and we were going towards the West 40s and I saw a big sign advertising one of the television serials about the phenomenon of vam-

Company and a couple of others that were closer to me, have closed. But I do believe that the small, personal bookstores have staying power. It seems to be mostly the chains that are closing. I think the idea of having a personal connection to books you might not otherwise know about and being able to have a cup of coffee and stop, means that the individual, personal bookstores will survive. There are many around the country.

I saw the video of you being interviewed by Emma Watson. Who are some young women you feel are emerging leaders in the movement? Oh there’s so many. I mean Emma Watson because she was known because of her acting career, has created a very substantial and wise book club that introduces women around the world. There’s also Everyday Sexism. Laura Bates, a young English woman, started just recording her own experiences in the street and then, other women began to do it too. And it’s very helpful because an individual experience of harassment on the street seems minor, but when it’s collective and constant, it isn’t minor. And out of that has come books and also women in countries around the world talking about harassment in the streets.

Who are some men you credit with supporting your career and causes over the years?

Gloria Steinem in her apartment. Photo: Annie Leibovitz

Tell us about your path to New York Magazine. First, I was freelancing for many different magazines. For Glamour, Show Magazine, which no longer exists, but was a big arts magazine, Esquire, the Herald Tribune Magazine, The New York Times. A variety of places. And then, Clay Felker, who was the editor of the New York Magazine that was part of the Herald Tribune, decided, after the Herald Tribune closed, to start what was really the first city magazine. So with a lot of other writers, Jimmy Breslin, Tom Wolfe, Dick Schaap, and many others, we tap danced to raise money. [Laughs] That’s what we used to call it. And that took quite a long time, but ultimately, Clay was able to start New York Magazine.

The column you wrote there was a political one. What are some stories you covered that were memorable? First, we all helped to name the department and shape the magazine.

Kwashiorkor, which is a protein deficiency disease that was thought only to be in Africa, but it was in the Bronx. Many different things.

What was the atmosphere like at the Ms. Magazine office? It was a combination of an office, a movement headquarters and a dormitory all in one. [Laughs] The ThankGod-it’s-Monday Club was especially true for women with kids. And people could bring their children to the office; we had a room with toys. We had the Sisterhood Pile where we all brought the clothes that we were not using to see if other people could use them. It was quite a casual office. And it was in a space that had been a textile manufacturing floor, so the spaces were very atypical. Of course, we couldn’t afford to remodel them, so we just left them the way they were.

There’s a chapter in your book called, “Why I Don’t Drive.” Tell us about a conversation with a cab driver that resonated with you.

pires. I‘ve forgotten what the name of the series was. So while we were stopped at the red light, I said to the taxi driver, “You know, I think I understand many things, but I do not understand the appeal of vampires and why fiction with this theme got started.” It turned out that he, the taxi driver, was from Transylvania. [Laughs] He told me that some distance from the villages where his family lived, there was a very well-to-do family that for hundreds of years had lived in a castle on elevated ground. They treated people very badly, so they were greatly hated. And legend grew up about their being vampires. So I said to the driver, “What are the odds that I would get into a taxi in New York City and have a driver from Transylvania?” [Laughs]

In another part of the book, you said that if you could pick a place to hang out, it would be a bookstore. What have been your favorite bookstores in Manhattan? I’m sure some of them have closed. Yes, I’m sorry to say that Books and

There are so many. Frank Thomas made the Ford Foundation a place of social justice for movements in this country and around the world. And it still is. Darren Walker, who is now the president of the Ford Foundation, is a great advocate and activist. Clay Felker, as an editor, was supportive and always interested in new ideas.

With your busy schedule, why is it important for you to participate in the Readers and Writers Festival? Like most things in life, we follow the bonds of friendship and Suzanne and Bob Levine are among my oldest and best friends. So that’s how I knew about it and probably why I was invited. And it sounded like a very positive event because it’s a two-way street. It’s not just authors talking at people, there’s also listening. For more information: gloriasteinem.com milfordreadersandwriters.com

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