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A BOOST FOR WOMEN IN POLITICS PARTICIPATION Kallos introduces a bill offering free child care for parents involved in local government BY CARSON KESSLER
Parents interested in participating in local government might soon receive free child care provided by the city under proposed legislation by Council Member Ben Kallos. Raised by a single mother, Kallos hopes the option of child care will eliminate barriers to participation by parents, and in turn increase women’s involvement in government. Women make up less than 25 percent of the New York City Council. “I think people feel like democracy is broken,” said Kallos, who offers free child care at his annual events. “If we want to build an inclusive democracy here in New York City, it means offering free child care when we want to hear from any New Yorker who has children.” The idea was brought to Kallos by several parents in the district, including Community Board 8 mem-
ber Sarah Chu, a new mother. “Before I became a parent, I often wondered why more parents didn’t attend our meetings,” said Chu. “Parents have a clear and present interest in the democratic process on behalf of their children. Adopting this legislation is important because it tells parents that their engagement in civic life is necessary and valued.” According to research by Rutgers University, child care is one of the top three factors women consider in running for office, more so than men. Under the legislation, this common barrier to entry among women will be eliminated. “If we want to create a future where women are fully represented, then it’s imperative that we remove the barriers that prevent active participation in civic life,” said Sonia Ossorio, President of New York’s National Organization for Women. By providing assistance to allow parents to engage with their local representatives, the legislation emphasizes the significance of inperson engagement among constituents.
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The exterior of 827-831 Broadway between 12 and 13th Streets. The buildings were constructed in 1866, and 831 was a magnet for abstract expressionist painters in the 20th century. Photo: Mihika Agarwal
WILL HISTORY TRUMP DEVELOPMENT? PRESERVATION Twin buildings with a rich past in architecture and art will now be considered for landmark designation BY MIHIKA AGARWAL
Earlier this summer, the NYC Department of Buildings filed proposals to turn the two adjacent historic iron-cast buildings from 1866, 827-831
Broadway, located between 12th and 13th streets, into 300 foot-tall corporate offices. After almost two years of campaigning by the Greenwich Village Historic Preservation Society (GVSHP), the City has finally decided to “calendar” — actively consider the landmark designation of — the buildings. GVSHP’s campaign started in 2016, when developers Quality Capital and Caerus Group filed to demolish the building. Over the last two years, the cause has been joined by preservation organizations and elected officials such as the de Kooning Foundation Downtowner
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In Brief MORE HELP FOR SMALL BUSINESS
The effort to help small seems to businesses in the city be gathering steam. 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 on the Over the past 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.” can’t come p.m. and 7 a.m., 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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and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer. The twin buildings were the craftsmanship of Griffith Thomas, “the most fashionable architect of his generation,” according to the American Institute of Architects. The construction exhibits Thomas’ mastery of the Italianate style, with its classic elements from the Renaissance including symmetrical arched windows, fluted columns, cornices and torches.
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STEP BY STEP What kinds of shoes should people wear?
HEALTH Advice for the city’s pedestrians by a Manhattan podiatrist and foot surgeon New Yorkers are big walkers, pounding the pavement of the city’s sidewalks, and treading up and down subway stairs. Dr. Andrew Glass, a podiatrist and podiatric foot surgeon in Manhattan, addresses some common concerns that pedestrians have about footwear, pain, and treatments for problems.
What do New Yorkers need to know about walking in the city? We have to be aware of our surroundings. The pavement is uneven and we can trip and fall. We have to watch out for potholes. Using the subway, we have to walk up and down stairs. Other people on the street and bike riders can crash into you. I see a lot of stress fractures, sprained ankles.
Sneakers and athletic shoes are very good. Orthotics make shoes more comfortable. [For women], wedges are better than high heels. A wider heel is better than a narrow one. Sandals today are sometimes made with arches built-in making them safer and more comfortable. Pointy-toes are very bad for your feet. They cause bunions and hammertoes and other foot problems. You can wear them but only on special occasions.
What problems should people be alert to?
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If you suddenly develop foot pain, see a podiatrist immediately. Foot pain is not normal and should be attended to before it becomes more serious. If you see a bunion or hammertoe forming, see a podiatrist. You might see a strange deformity like a collapsing arch or contraction of the toes. If caught early, bunions, hammertoes, plantar fasciitis and the like can sometimes be fixed without surgery or using an easier type of surgery.
Are women more likely than men to have foot problems? Absolutely. Women are much more likely than men to have foot problems because of high-heeled, pointy-toed shoes. In America the overwhelming majority of foot surgeries are performed on women. Many women wear fashionable but uncomfortable shoes and this is the reason. Seventy-five percent of the entire population will experience foot pain at some point in their lives. Bunions are a problem for a third of the population.
When is surgery necessary? Today there are surgeries and procedures to deal with and relieve many foot problems such as plantar fasciitis, hammertoes and bunions. These procedures often required women to be off their feet for weeks, if not months. Today’s woman is just too busy to stay off her feet that long. I have developed a new way of doing surgery with one stitch, where you’re back to wearing your normal shoes after a few days. This lessens the risk of infection and hastens recovery.
Suppose people have foot problems but don’t want surgery. Is there help for them? Yes! Today we have amniotic injections and adult stem cell injections that can heal many injuries including severe arthritis. (The stem cells are not covered by insurance.) Stem cells are harvested from the patient’s own body, treated and then injected back into the body. These stem cells can provide maximum healing and treatment benefits.
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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 1st precinct for Week to Date
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At 7:45 a.m. on Tuesday, September 19, a 15-year-old boy was walking to school when he was approached at the southwest corner of New Street and Beaver Street by an older teenage boy who asked to use his phone. He handed over his iPhone 5s, and the older youth took off with the device, police said. He managed to catch up with the thief, but who then warned him, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t touch me; I have a gun. If you touch me I will shoot!â&#x20AC;? while he simulated bearing a ďŹ rearm in his waistband. The bandit then ďŹ&#x201A;ed eastbound on Broad Street, and a search of the neighborhood failed to reveal his whereabouts.
At 10 a.m. on Saturday, September 16, a 57-year-old woman left her tablet case in the restroom inside the Pret A Manger store at 350 Hudson St. When she realized her error and returned ďŹ ve minutes later she found that her belongings were gone. She traced her iPad to the CVS pharmacy at 298 Mulberry Street, according to the account she gave police. There she used the Play a Sound feature on the app and heard sound coming from a 45-year-old manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s backpack nearby. The man then left the store, and the victim chose not to approach or follow him. The items stolen included an iPad Pro with keyboard, three Social Security cards, three birth certiďŹ cates, and a tablet carrying case making a total stolen of $2,000.
At 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 12, a 28-year-old Baltimore man had just returned to Battery Park after visiting the Statue of Liberty. As he exited the park he stopped at the southeast corner of State and South Streets to watch a group of street dancers performing. As the show ended another man came up to him and jostled his backpack, according to the police report. At this point the man realized his backpack was open and missing was Paris a $300, â&#x201A;Ź100 and a passport.
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VAN BREAK-IN A parked vehicle is not a secure place to keep your valuables! At 10 a.m. on Sunday, September 10, a 35-year-old New Jersey man parked his black 2010 Toyota Sienna minivan in front of 36 Greene St. and went to work. When he returned to his van at 8:30 p.m., one of the windows had been broken and several items missing including a backpack, $20, scented oils priced at $250. The total value of the missing items was put at $1,015.
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HAIR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW An area drugstore will have to restock some hair restoration products. At 11 p.m. on Monday, September 11, a 35-year-old man took 20 packages of menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rogaine valued at $1,280, and 10 packages of womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rogaine priced at $350 off shelves inside the Duane Reade location at 200 Water St. put them into his bag, and left the store without paying, police said.
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BLIND JUSTICE IN CENTRAL PARK SAFETY Or how a disabled New York City marathon runner who is now a high-court judge in Michigan fought to make the park safer and more accessible after he was hit by a speeding bicyclist and grievously injured BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN
Richard Bernstein is what used to be called a â&#x20AC;&#x153;memorizerâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or more colloquially, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;rememberer.â&#x20AC;? The attorney, jurist and advocate for the disabled is celebrated in courthouse lore for memorizing legal briefs and case law, affidavits and arguments, pleadings and complaints. He also memorizes the contours of streetscapes and the topography of landscapes. Most notably, he has memorized the 6.1-mile Central Park Loop and possesses an innate sense and feel for all its twists and turns, peaks and valleys, slopes and crossings, bridges and bike paths. He doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do this for sport. His brief is not to entertain or amuse. He does this to cope with immeasurably steep hurdles, to function at the highest imaginable levels, to excel in both his personal and professional lives. You see, Richard Bernstein is blind and has been since birth. Blindness has informed his
life. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of his makeup. And it has shaped his world view. But it has never defined him. For Bernstein wears many, many other hats. Among them: Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a veteran New York City marathoner. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a triathlete. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s won numerous federal court cases for vulnerable clients wielding the Americans with Disabilities Act. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a national expert on that landmark 1990 civil rights law. Oh, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a sitting justice on the Michigan Supreme Court, the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highest court and its equivalent of the New York State Court of Appeals. Yes, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Michigander. So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fair to ask a question: Why should East Siders, West Siders and downtowners pay attention? Because this is a story about Central Park, our cherished backyard, and a catastrophic accident caused by a speeding bicyclist that took place on its loop drive, and the blind runner who fell victim, and how he battled the city to gain â&#x20AC;&#x153;safe, equal and reasonable accessâ&#x20AC;? to the park for the disabled. What matters is that he became a champion to a whole new class of fragile New Yorkers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a very spiritual person, and I believe that everything happens for a purpose, everything happens for a reason,â&#x20AC;? the 43-year-old Bernstein said in a recent phone interview. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And every now and then in life, you get to do something that can make a difference.â&#x20AC;? It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t at all what he set out
to do as he walked northbound in the pedestrian lane on the Outer Park Drive Loop, as it is formally named, near the Engineersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Gate, at Fifth Avenue and 90th Street, at 10 a.m. on August 13, 2012. Clad in a bright yellow t-shirt and carrying his reflective white cane, he had come from the Lotte New York Palace Hotel in midtown, where he stays when heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in town, and was limbering up for what was expected to be his ninth New York City Marathon and 18th marathon in total. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a gorgeous August morning in New York, just really beautiful, and as I was out walking, a bicyclist going at a very high rate of speed lost control and came into my lane, the pedestrian lane, and hit me from behind, directly in the back,â&#x20AC;? Bernstein recalls. Cops and witnesses estimated that the cyclist had barreled into him at around 35 miles per hour, or roughly 10 mph over what was then the parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 25 mph speed limit. His injuries and traumas were catastrophic. He had a shattered pelvis and broken hip, multiple lacerations and lost teeth. Bernstein, then 38, spent the next 10 weeks of his life at Mount Sinai Hospital. It was two years before Michigan voters would elect him to the bench, and at the time, he was an attorney in private practice with a string of court triumphs: Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d forced the City of Detroit to put wheelchair lifts on its buses, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d hammered out a settlement with Detroit Metro Airport in which it upgraded accessibility for disabled passengers under ADA. Now, he turned his attention to Central Park. Bernstein dispatched an expert ADA compliance witness to assess conditions, and on September 13, 2012, from his hospital bed, he ďŹ led a civil lawsuit against the city in U.S. District Court,
turning pedestrian safety and equal park access for the disabled into a federal case. Litigants in such cases typically seek substantial monetary damages. Not Bernstein. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t asking for a nickel or a dime from the city,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want a single cent. The sole purpose was making Central Park safer and friendlier for people with disabilities.â&#x20AC;? Bernstein says he wanted to see traffic patterns modiďŹ ed, separation of pedestrians from cyclists with barriers, well-marked lanes, a resurfacing of the loop, replacement of crosswalks and curb ramps at several locations, new trafďŹ c control signals and a lower speed limit. The city fought Bernstein in court, mostly on procedural grounds, for three years. At one point, in February 2015, it won a ruling from a U.S. district court judge dismissing the case because the plaintiff â&#x20AC;&#x153;lacked standingâ&#x20AC;? to pursue his claim. But in October 2015, a federal appeals court reversed that dismissal, ruling that â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as an injured party who alleges he â&#x20AC;&#x153;cannot safely enter Central Park on his ownâ&#x20AC;? and has been forced to â&#x20AC;&#x153;rely on the kindness of strangersâ&#x20AC;? to navigate the park â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Bernstein makes a strong case that he indeed has standing. Meanwhile, as the case worked its way through the courts, the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department of Transportation, starting in 2012, began enhancing park safety. And lo and behold, much of what it did was what Bernstein had been demanding. DOT doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t address what role if any Bernstein played in its upgrades. But it does say the agency, working with Department of Parks, NYPD and the Central Park Conservancy, â&#x20AC;&#x153;began implementing safety treatmentsâ&#x20AC;? in the park in 2012 as a result of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;increased use of the park and the rise in pedestrian and bicycle conďŹ&#x201A;icts.â&#x20AC;?
Michigan Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein in his chambers. Before he became a judge, Bernstein was hit by a speeding bicyclist in Central Park in 2012 as he limbered up for what would have been his 18th marathon. Without seeking a dime in damages, he sued the city, demanding it make the park safer for the disabled. Several safety enhancements have since been made. Photo: Douglas Elbinger Media Group LLC, via Justice Richard Bernstein Its first redesign â&#x20AC;&#x153;consisted of separating the lanes for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians, as well as creating shorter crossing distances for pedestrians,â&#x20AC;? a DOT official said. Then tragedy struck twice in 2014. In August, a cyclist fatally struck 75-year-old jogger Irving Schacter on the Loop off East 72nd Street, and in September, another cyclist hit and killed Connecticut resident Jill Tarlov on West Drive at 63rd Street. Shortly after, DOT lowered the speed limit for cars and bikes in the park to 20 mph from 25 mph and installed numerous â&#x20AC;&#x153;pedestrian crossingâ&#x20AC;? warning signs at several key locations. Over the next couple of years, the agency created a new jogging lane, shortened pedestrian crossings, refurbished crosswalks or installed new ones and began electrical upgrades to traffic signals and street lights. â&#x20AC;&#x153;During the litigation, they resurfaced, changed the speed limit and did a lot of what we
were asking for, and the case became moot,â&#x20AC;? said Bernstein. In the meantime, he began his eight-year term as a justice in 2015 and withdrew the case about a year later. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plucky and dedicated, and he succeeded in helping make a safer, more equitable park for everyone,â&#x20AC;? said Jack Brown, the former owner of HiHo Cyclery in the East Village and an activist with a group called the Coalition against Rogue Riding. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The improvements were modest, but they were constructive and commendable.â&#x20AC;? Bernstein isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t resting on his laurels. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s calling on the NYPD to step up enforcement efforts fulltime â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and not just after the latest calamity: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re either serious about it or youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not. You either have a law or you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. And if you have a law, you have to enforce it,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about Central Park,â&#x20AC;? the judge adds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a velodrome, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the Tour de France.â&#x20AC;?
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PICTURING THE CITY HISTORY The NYPL launches an exhibition of maps tracing the colorful history of the metropolis BY CARSON KESSLER
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Since its birth in 1625 with the establishment of Fort Amsterdam, New York City has embraced its colorful history as a burgeoning metropolis. The New York Public Library’s extensive map collection now includes a display of illustrated maps
that dynamically reveal geographic information alongside social trends throughout the Big Apple’s history. Last week a talk at the NYPL with guest-curator Katharine Harmon, author of “You Are Here — NYC Mapping the Soul of the City,” launched the exhibition, which explores the diversity of the city’s cartography across six centuries (from 1625 to a futuristic map of the 22nd century). The exhibition is open to the public until April 9, 2018 at the New York Public Library’s Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Divison.
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Heretics!: Steven Nadler and Ben Nadler
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH, 7PM McNally Jackson | 52 Prince St. | 212-274-1160 | mcnallyjackson.com Hear from the authors of the new graphic novel Heretics!, which looks at the 17th-century thinkers who risked excommunications to lead humanity forward. The book provides a concise look at an essential time when ideas were dangerous (free).
The Latest in the Middle East with Bernard Haykel
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH, 7PM Sept. 11 Museum | 180 Greenwich St. | 212-312-8800 | 911memorial.org Get yourself caught up on the latest in the Middle East with expert Bernard Haykel, who’ll look at recent shifts in Syria, ISIS, and the Saudi royal family (free).
Just Announced | TimesTalks: Anthony Bourdain and Danny Bowien
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5TH, 8PM The New School | 63 Fifth Ave. | 212-229-5108 | timestalks.com Anthony Bourdain (No Reservations) and Danny Bowien (Mission Chinese) join TimesTalks for a conversation on the pressing matter of spoiled edibles: Bourdain served as Executive Producer of the new film “WASTED! The Story of Food Waste,” which takes an in-depth look at the issue. ($50)
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A description of the towne of Mannados: or New Amsterdam as it was in September 1661. Courtesy of NYPL
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A HELPING HAND FOR LGBT YOUTH RIGHTS Chirlane McCray unveils the NYC Unity Project, a community-based approach to increase awareness and acceptance BY LIZ HARDAWAY
First lady Chirlane McCray announced a new $4.8 million initiative last Tuesday to support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth. The NYC Unity Project, which has 16 participating agencies, aims to provide a communitybased approach to address unique challenges that LGBT youth face daily, invest more in LGBT resources and create programs to increase awareness and acceptance. The NYC Department of Youth and Community Development is establishing a second 24-hour youth drop-in center in Jamaica, Queens that will open next month. The shelter, along with the seven existing youth drop-in centers, will provide specialized LGBT services. Marsha’s House, the first LGBTspecific shelter in the adult system, was opened in early 2017 and already provides LGBT services and resources. Over half of homeless and unstably housed youth in New York City identify as LGBT, according to the 2015 Youth Count Report. Even when LGBT youth age out of youth residential programs, the City is now working towards streamlining the transition process into the adult and family shelter system. This will eliminate additional screening and the intake process. “Most community-based organizations, their cutoff age is 21, 24 at best,” said Lavender, 22, a youth participant at the Hetrick-Martin Institute (HMI), an organization in downtown Manhattan that provides both social support and programming for LGBT youth. Lavender came out in high school and had first learned about HMI through youth participants at the YES Center, the youth enrichment program at the LGBT Center. She has participated in the peer education program, the expressive arts program and the Kiki Ballroom scene. HMI was first organized in 1979 by psychiatrist Dr. Emery Hetrick and New York Universi-
First Lady Chirlane McCray announces the NYC Unity Project as a citywide initiative on Tuesday, September 19th, 2017. Photo: Edwin J. Torres/Mayoral Photography Office. ty professor Dr. Damien Martin after they heard a gay homeless 15 year-old boy was beaten and thrown out of his emergency shelter because of his sexual orientation. The institute is the nation’s oldest organization to support LGBT youth, according to hmi.org. HMI takes in youth from age 13 to 24, and strives to foster a safe and supportive environment for all young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity. Each year, HMI helps more than 2,000 individuals through their programs, ranging anywhere from arts, counseling, or education. The NYC Unity Project will also train 50 health care providers to provide clinical care, such as transition care, and certify more than 500 physicians in providing culturally competent medical care to the LGBT community. “I want to see more culturally competent medical providers,” Lavender said. “I shouldn’t have to go one state over to get proper medical care.” The project will also fund seven new communal coalitions aimed to reduce alcohol and substance misuse. A public awareness campaign will be launched centered on LGBT youth and their families in order to build supportive communities, faith networks, schools, workplaces and relationships, as well as suicide prevention, since LGBT youth are almost five times more likely to attempt suicide. “We still have further to go,” said Sally Kohn, a CNN political commentator and LGBT activist, who spoke at the announce-
ment. “More importantly, the present political environment nationally and in Washington reminds us that we can always go backwards. I think it is really incumbent on us as a city, a community to not just stand still, but to move forward.” Over the last year, there has been a 60 percent uptick in reports of discrimination and harassment to the New York Commission on Human Rights, said Carmelyn Malalis, Commissioner and Chair of the commission. There has been a 30 percent increase in claims concerning gender identity and sexual orientation. As of September, 20 transgender people have been killed nationwide in 2017, with all but one being people of color, according to GLAAD. Twentyseven transgender people were killed in 2016. “With dangerous rhetoric and hateful policies coming from the White House and it’s allies,” McCray said, “LGBT New Yorkers are on constant alert ... their rights hang in the balance.” The project is also planning on having single-occupancy restrooms in every school citywide by January 2018. The NYC Department of Education is working towards incorporating age-appropriate LGBT content into their lessons. In addition, there will be more support for the Genders & Sexualities Alliance Networks (GSAs), a student-run club found in both middle and high schools, including training sessions for healthy relationships, suicide prevention and leadership.
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PROMOTING SAFE AND HEALTHY AGING BY MARCIA EPSTEIN
It’s heartening that society is beginning to focus on the needs of the elderly, and especially wonderful that many New York City organizations are working hard to make sure we seniors have a safe, productive and happy life. I’d like to tell you about an organization called Health Advocates for Older People (HAFOP). HAFOP promotes safe and healthy aging through programs that facilitate independent living, physical wellbeing and greater social interaction.
HAFOP was founded in 1985 by a coalition of individuals and non-profit agencies to support healthy aging. In 2003, the Healthy Aging Program was developed to promote this goal through wellness programs and home safety assessments. This initiative encourages physical and mental health through exercise classes, health seminars and other support programs such as art workshops, health seminars and book discussions so that the elderly can remain involved in the world and independent. Activities are free and offered
52 weeks a year around the city. One major focus is fall prevention through home safety. They also have forums on such subjects as adapting the home for independent living. HAFOP has an equipment recycling program where slightly used equipment such as wheelchairs and walkers are donated and given to people in need at no cost. There are other services such as escorting seniors to appointments and friendly visiting. HAFOP’s Healthy Aging Program helps seniors manage tasks of daily living and follow goals that promote the ability to stay in one’s own home
as long as possible. Their Home Safety Assessments provide visits to ensure that the environment is safe and easy to negotiate. Wellness classes focus on arthritis exercise, Tai-chi, chair yoga, the Alexander technique and Reiki. HAFOP holds weekly health seminars given by various organizations in conjunction with Mt. Sinai Hospital, Brooklyn Center for Aging and others. There are also travelogues, movies, holiday luncheons ballroom dancing, and other activities. The Healthy Aging Program provides materials to help plan for crises. This year, HAFOP has conducted more than 100 free home safety visits and assessments to help elders live in a safe environment. Volunteers do much for the organization,
RICH AND ANXIOUS BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL
“The rich are different from you and me,” said F. Scott Fitzgerald. Author Rachel Sherman explains it’s because they have anxiety about having money. When I first heard about her book “Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence,” my LOL reaction was, “Really? A book about how wealth makes rich people uncomfortable?” I imagine plenty of low-income people would “manage” to live with that stress. But as I read reviews, it was clear that, via Q&As with fifty monied New Yorkers (UES, UWS, all around the town and Westchester), the book was dead serious about how economic inequality affects even the “haves.” Affluent people don’t want to not have money; they want to not be reduced to the unflattering stereotype that prevails in our society of what privilege looks like — the famously, morally bankrupt Gordon Gekko. People such as those interviewed for the book want to distance themselves from the caricatures, mostly by speaking endlessly about their chari-
table giving and how hard they work — even if their jobs are volunteer. For this group, the show is put on, not when a purchase is made at Bergdorf’s, but when a bargain is snagged at Target. The meals that are talked up are family dinners cooked themselves, clarifying they’re not out every night at four-star restaurants. Some even deny altogether being part of the upper class, emphasizing they don’t fly private or own a second home. The book made me realize that there are people I’ve misunderstood. Other mothers at my child’s former school were abuzz about this really wealthy new family. When the mom was pointed out to me, I repeated, “The one in the T-shirt and sweatpants?” to make sure I’d heard correctly. I figured maybe she was a stay-at-home mother/freelancer as I was or just plain unfashionable. It never occurred to me that anyone in her social position would dress down purposely as to not call attention to herself. Sherman’s research also showed that, to a somewhat
lesser degree, I could actually relate to what was reported. The book triggered a memory from the
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including escorting seniors to doctors’ appointments and grocery shopping, and handling clerical duties. HAFOP collaborates with Visiting Nurse Service of New York in Chinatown, the Hartley House in Hell’s Kitchen and the Volunteer Referral Center. Also available is a guide to Senior Housing Opportunities in Manhattan. Introduced this year is a new and very successful program; weekly harmonica classes to improve lung capacity and breathing. Harmonica therapy is a joyful way to improve one’s lung capacity and is a popular program. HAFOP’s telephone number is 212-9801700 and web address is www.hafop.org
petitive salary. My husband, Neil, was a senior associate at a white-shoe law firm and much more successful in his career. I was teamed with a woman who from the get-go put herself in competition with me. At first, I thought it was because I was a few years younger with a trendy wardrobe. Then I realized that it was because her husband too was an attorney, but struggling in private practice. My colleague decided to present herself as my polar opposite, dressing like Melissa Gilbert on Little House on the Prairie and playing the mom card, as I was still child-free. Most prominent in her agenda was to present her family as poor as church mice, even though unlike me, she had a car and a weekend home. I had never spoken to any of my other co-workers about my personal finances, yet they knew all about Neil’s job thanks to inside info of salaries, perks and benefits provided by “Laura Ingalls” from when her spouse once worked at a similar type firm. She’d compliment my belongings loudly — in the hallway — in front of people, so everyone knew that I had “yet another” acquisition. After a while, her rep was as the down-to-earth one and my situation was per-
ceived as what would be today’s equivalent of Ivanka and Jared. When I would confront her, she’d turn things around and say I should be proud of having a nice life. Eventually, like those interviewed in Sherman’s book, I became uneasy as well as defensive, making sure people knew that whatever I had wasn’t inherited, but the product of Neil’s minimum 80-hour work weeks. (Earned vs. inherited money is a major theme in the book.) I also threw around the words “on sale” a lot. Sherman doesn’t really offer an answer as to how affluent people should deal with their anxieties. Instead she poses questions: Should it be OK to be a millionaire as long as you are also hardworking and generous? Or should we strive for a society where extreme economic inequality is unacceptable? I don’t have an answer either, just an observation: in a country that is so far behind many others in math skills, most everyone rich and poor seems to be very proficient at counting other people’s money. Lorraine Duffy Merkl is the author of the novels “Back To Work She Goes” and “Fat Chick,” for which a movie is in the works.
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PUBLIC PRESSURE MOUNTS OVER USE OF DAMROSCH PARK FOR CIRCUS PARKS Community Board 7 signals “strong concerns” in letter to Parks Department BY MICHAEL GAROFALO
The Parks Department and Lincoln Center face community pressure over a controversial deal permitting the Big Apple Circus, recently reconstituted as a for-profit business, to occupy much of Damrosch Park for months at a time over the next decade. City Council Member Helen Rosenthal, Community Board 7, neighbors and parks advocacy groups have publicly expressed concern about the deal in recent weeks, as the Big Apple Circus nears the date of its first scheduled performance at the park on Oct. 27. Damrosch Park, a 2.4-acre plaza adjacent to Lincoln Center, is a city-owned public park that is operated and managed by Lincoln Center pursuant to a license agreement with the Parks Department. The current license agreement is set to expire in 2020. Lincoln Center hosts programming in the park throughout the year and occasionally enters into sublicense agreements permitting other organizations to hold events. Damrosch Park hosted the Big Apple Circus for decades until last year, when the circus, which had long operated as a non-profit, declared bankruptcy and cancelled its scheduled shows at the venue. The bankrupt circus was subsequently bought at auction by a Floridabased investment firm and relaunched as a for-profit business. In March, the reconstituted Big Apple Circus signed a new contract with Lincoln Center permitting the circus to pitch its tents in Damrosch Park from October 8 to February 1 for the next 10 years. Community Board 7 chair Roberta Semer and Klari Neuwelt, chair of the community board’s parks and environment committee, sent a letter to the Parks Department on September 12 to “express strong concerns” about the new agreement with the reconstituted circus, citing “policy concerns about the lack of public process and transparency surrounding the sublicense to this new entity.” Central among the concerns outlined in the letter is the lack of consultation with the community board before the new
New trees and shrubs were planted last year in Damrosch Park, on West 62nd Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues, a consequence of a 2014 legal settlement between residents and the city and Lincoln Center. Use of the park by the Big Apple Circus has become a point of contention. Photo: Melody Chan agreement was signed. According to the community board’s letter, “the transition from the old Big Apple Circus to the new for-profit entity was done without public input and without transparency.” The financial terms of Lincoln Center’s agreement with Big Apple Circus were redacted in the copy of the contract provided to the Parks Department, leaving it unclear how much revenue the arts venue would earn for the use of the space. “We see no justification for this lack of transparency regarding those revenues,” the community board’s letter states. Since Lincoln Center is required to report its park-related revenue to the Parks Department each year, the letter states, it “seems incongruous” that the financial terms of the circus agreement should be kept secret from the Parks Department and public. (Under Lincoln Center’s agreement with the Parks Department, such revenue is required to be dedicated to maintaining Damrosch Park and the surrounding public spaces owned by Lincoln Center.) Representatives of Lincoln Center and the Parks Department have said that circuses, regardless of their for-profit or non-profit status, are an appropriate use of public park land. Critics have countered that the Big Apple Circus will occupy nearly all of Damrosch Park for several months, distinguishing this case, they say, from examples of other for-profit events that might use a small fraction of a larger park. In its letter, the community board acknowledged that some for-profit entities, such as food concessions, are permitted to operate in public parks, but noted that “such operations do
not take up the entire space of a park, or anything like it.” Additionally, the plaintiffs in a lawsuit that led to a 2014 legal settlement regarding the use of Damrosch Park allege that Lincoln Center and the Parks Department have failed to fulfill the terms of the agreement. The lawsuit was filed by community groups and parks advocates in response to the use of Damrosch Park for Fashion Week, which was held in the park for several years, and which they claimed was an inappropriate non-park use of the space and violated the state’s Public Trust Doctrine, a common-law standard that holds that parkland exists for the benefit of the public at large, not just for some. The lawsuit was eventually settled and Fashion Week was relocated. Lincoln Center and the city stated in the settlement agreement their intention “to further expand public access to the Park by not entering into agreements for commercial events substantially similar in nature, size and duration to Fashion Week and for which access is not generally available to the public.” On September 19, the plaintiffs sent a letter to the city and Lincoln Center stating their belief that “the new Big Apple Circus operation in the Park is inconsistent with that goal and that recognition.” The plaintiffs asked that Lincoln Center disclose the redacted financial terms and schedule a meeting with the community board, among other requests. Helen Rosenthal, the city council representative whose district includes the park, has vowed to use her role as chair of the council’s contracts committee to see if the terms of the settlement are being met.
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SAT 30 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;OUTSIDE PADUCAH: THE WARS AT HOMEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; The Wild Project, 195 East Third St. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. $25 Former Air Force C-130 pilot and English professor at the United States Air Force Academy J. A. Moad II ampliďŹ es the voices of American veterans in this searing play. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Outside Paducah: The Wars at Homeâ&#x20AC;? chronicles the toll of war on different generations: a seven year-old boy who hears his father screaming in the night after returning from Afghanistan, a ďŹ fty year-old man wrestling with the memory of his Marine son who returned from Iraq disillusioned and broken, and a soldier who experiences a pivotal midnight encounter at a rust-belt bar. Before coming to New York, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Outside Paducahâ&#x20AC;? debuted in Minneapolis at the Bloomington Center for the Arts in 2016. Moad, whose work has appeared in numerous literary journals, is dedicated to bringing veteranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voices to the mainstream. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Outside Paducahâ&#x20AC;? is part of the Poetic Theaterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Veteran Voices 2017 series. In connection with the production, veterans will read poetry and other work prior to each performance. Veteran Hayley Johnson, who has worked with Bedlam Outreach, a program designed to help veterans overcome the traumas of war through Shakespeare and acting, will read on Sept. 30th. Veteran art will also be on display during the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s run, through Oct. 15.
Thu 28 BLACK CREATIVITY IN CONTEMPORARY OPERAâ&#x2013;ş The Greene Space, 44 Charlton St. 7 p.m. $20 Join composers Toshi Reagon and Daniel Bernard Roumain, Apollo Theater executive producer Kamilah Forbes, and vocalist and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Helgaâ&#x20AC;? performing arts podcast host Helga Davis for an evening of performance and conversation about the contributions of black artists to contemporary opera. 646-829-4000. thegreenespace.org/events
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Duyvil presents poets Richard Blevins, Janet Hamill, Karen Corinne Herceg, t thilleman and Jeffrey Cyphers. With music by Sam Bandes. Q&A to follow. 212-989-9319. corneliastreetcafe.com
district. The tour covers lower Manhattan, then continues across the Brooklyn Bridge and ends in Brooklyn Heights. Wear comfortable shoes. 347-561-1023. nylocaltours. com
Sat 30 Sun 1 WALK A WONDER OF THE WORLD Meet at Thomas Paine Park, corner of Worth St. and Lafayette St. 1 p.m. $25 See old New York through fresh eyes on this inter-borough walking tour of the Five Points
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KURDISH PESMERGA ON FILM ▲ Museum of Jewish Heritage, Edmond J. Safra Plaza, 36 Battery Pl. 7 p.m. Free Accompanied by a team of cameramen, director BernardHenri Lévy traveled along the frontline separating Iraqi Kurdistan from Islamic State troops to chronicle the sturggle of the Kurdish Pesmerga fighters. Lévy will be in attendance to discuss this extraordinary film. 646-437-4202. mjhnyc.org/ events
Tue 3 BRADFORD MORROW’S PRAGUE SONATA► The Strand, 828 Broadway 7 p.m. $27 grants admission & signed copy of the book, $5 admission & gift card If you’ve ever wrestled with a creative project, this author talk is for you. Award-winning author Bradford Morrow took over a decade to pen his magnum opus
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City Winery, 155 Varick St. 6 p.m. $75.00+ For nearly 40 years, the awardwining Garrison Keillor hosted the popular variety show “A Prairie Home Companion” for some 3.5 million listeners on stations coast to coast on Minnesota Public Radio. Come see the face behind the charismatic voice, along with singer-songwriters Robin & Linda Williams. 212-608-0555. citywinery. com/newyork
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TAKING OFF THE MASK Modigliani’s early drawings are the centerpiece of an exquisite new show at the Jewish Museum BY VAL CASTRONOVO
It’s been more than a decade since the Jewish Museum played host to a Modigliani exhibit. In 2004, “Modigliani: Beyond the Myth” showcased the later paintings and other items by the early 20th century Italian artist, a Sephardic Jew, and sought to transcend the myth of a boozing, drug addled, skirt-chasing artiste and focus on the work. Today, the museum goes back in time to his early career, between 1906 and 1914, when the focus was mainly on drawing and sculpture. The show highlights the collection of Modigliani’s first patron and treasured friend, Dr. Paul Alexandre, who amassed some 450 drawings, which remained unpublished until 1993. A generous helping from this vast trove is on view for the first time in the U.S., along with drawings, paintings and sculpture gathered from institutions and private collectors around the world. Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) was born in Livorno, in Tuscany, and raised in an intellectual environment by a family that claimed to be descended from Spinoza, the 17th century Dutch philosopher. He moved to Paris in 1906 and joined the Circle of Montparnasse, a community of Jewish émigré artists that included Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz and Chaim Soutine. But he arrived in Paris when France was still feeling the effects of the Dreyfus affair and anti-Semitism and xenophobia were rife. His Latin appearance and fluency in French (his mother was born in Marseilles) enabled him to “pass” as gentile, senior curator Mason Klein said at a preview, but Modigliani chose instead to embrace his Jewishness and the role of outsider, a decision
Installation view of the exhibition “Modigliani Unmasked.” On view through February 4, 2018. The Jewish Museum, New York. that informs the art. “Even within his [Jewish émigré] group, Modigliani was an anomaly. He didn’t come from a ghetto in Eastern Europe, he had never been ostracized for being Jewish,” Klein said. “It was the very invisibility of his outsider status that often compelled him to introduce himself with the words: ‘I’m Modigliani. I’m Jewish.’ As a form of protest, he refused to assimilate, declaring himself ‘other.’ ... He unmasked his Jewishness, assuming the role of pariah.” The artist’s daughter, Jeanne, whose pregnant mother, Jeanne Hébuterne, jumped out a window the night after Modigliani died at 35 of tubercular meningitis, wrote in a biography of her father: “Just remember: Amedeo Modigliani was a Sephardic Jew.” Hence the preoccupation with noses, especially in the sculpture. He was a modern artist, who depicted his subjects subjectively, but he was never closely aligned with a particular movement within the avant-garde, like cubism or expressionism. Portraiture was his exclusive domain — he is
believed to have produced only four landscapes and no still lifes — more evidence of his singularity. “He doubled down on the human face and form,” Klein said, which was his way of promoting his egalitarian vision. His embrace of difference led him to borrow from a wide range of sources, Western and non-Western alike. One of his lovers, the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, recalled his obsessive desire to roam the Egyptian rooms of the Louvre: “At the Louvre, he showed me the Egyptian collection and told me there was no point in my looking at anything else.” He borrowed liberally from African tribal art, Cycladic art, classical Greek art, Asian art, Byzantine icons, Picasso’s Blue Period, the Symbolists and more. African masks and tiny sculptures of Egyptian royals and Buddhist deities are exhibited alongside the oeuvre to illustrate “respectful” appropriation. The works on paper are testament to Modigliani’s endless fascination with physiognomy and the “universal con-
dition of both sameness and otherness among people,” Klein said. In the many stylized drawings that are part of the Alexandre collection and that link to the sculpture, we see him hashing out ideas — hairstyles, eyes, eye-brows, noses, lips and ears — in a succession of sketches that explore ethnicity. Among the later painted portraits sprinkled throughout the show is the image of Spanish landscape artist, Manuel Humbert (1916). Per the exhibit text, “he renders the sitter’s head as masklike, with a narrow, triangular face and stylized arched brows connected to a thin, straight nose. But he distinguishes personal features as well — pursed lips, parted hair — constantly altering the counterpoise of individuality and formal abstraction.” He slowly distilled facial features and developed more abstract, depersonalized visages that became his trademark, while at the same time leaving room for individual traits, which he was known to exaggerate. In 1911, he added the caryatid to his quiver, adopting the motif from ancient Greek architecture. Caryatids were col-
umns bearing weight that were shaped like female figures, though in Modigliani’s universe they are male, female and androgynous, and, according to Klein, they are not burdened. “His caryatids are not victims, downtrodden or crushed, nor are they beholden to classical European aesthetics,” the curator said, alluding to decorative add-ons derived from nonWestern cultures, like tattoos and jewelry. “Commensurate with their multicultural and Asian sources, they are depicted as ascendant, generous and gracious — graceful as well.” The reinvented motif, which he sculpted, sketched and painted in red, blue and brown, “speaks to a new paradigm of freedom, to be what one wants to be.”
IF YOU GO WHAT: “Modigliani Unmasked” WHERE: The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave. (at 92nd Street) WHEN: through February 4 thejewishmuseum.org/
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES EXHIBITIONS The latest at the Whitney is a bittersweet look at how social progress of the past could also be ripped from today’s headlines BY ALIZAH SALARIO
The exhibition “An Incomplete History of Protest” currently on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art might leave viewers with a touch of vertigo. Culled from the Whitney’s archives, the exhibition explores how artists have confronted Japanese internment, the Vietnam war, the AIDS crisis, racism, gender inequality and other political and social issues of their day from the 1940s onward. “An Incomplete History” reflects on past events, but the questions it raises — of belonging, the dignity of basic health care, the rights to challenge the status quo and political dissent — are most certainly of our time. In fact, viewers may have the sense they’ve fallen through the looking glass. “Bandaged Hands,” an iconic 1966 Gordon Parks photograph capturing Mohammad Ali sitting on a locker room bench, head hung long, is part of the “Resistance and Refusal” section of the exhibit, devoted mostly to antiwar demonstrations in the 1940s and 1960s. Ali, “the fighter who wouldn’t
fight,” famously refused the Vietnam draft. “Ali was sentenced to jail time, and we are today, literally right now, seeing professional athletes similarly being threatened with all sorts of punishments for exercising their constitutional rights,” says Rujeko Hockley, exhibition assistant curator. Surprisingly, the exhibition’s timeliness is quite incidental. It was originally proposed over a year ago by David Breslin, DeMartini Family Curator and director of the collection, in response to the 1960s antiwar posters that had come into the museum’s collection. Not unexpectedly, the exhibition leans heavily on art that critiques or calls out New York City’s politics and institutions. Carl Pope’s visually arresting “Some of the Greatest Hits of the New York City Police Department” drew on the NYPD’s record of violent interactions with black and brown residents. In 1993, Pope purchased trophies from businesses that made them specifically for law enforcement. He inscribed each trophy with both the names of the person killed or brutalized by police, as well as the officer who committed the acts. The trophies, which when viewed together have the effect of tombstones or memorials, cover five decades of violence. Though “Greatest Hits” was first displayed at the
The Whitney recently acquired a significant collection of posters related to the antiwar movement, a selection of which is presented in the “An Incomplete History of Protest” exhibition’s “Stop the War” gallery. Photo: Ron Amstutz Whitney in the 1994 exhibition “Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art,” it has new relevance in an age of Black Lives Matter and disturbing video footage of police brutality against black Americans. The protest art of the past also informs the aesthetics of the present. A massive wall covered with protest posters from the Vietnam ear — “End the Draft,” “Stop the War,” “Resist” — is reminiscent of the barrage of memes and hashtagged terms in the endless scroll of social media.
“In terms of political discourse, you could see there’s a corollary there between the appeal of that mode of address,” says Hockley, who notes that protest posters were made to be reproduced cheaply and shared easily. “[It’s about] being able to get the word out, get your opinions out to the public directly to whoever you
see your audience is without spending a lot of money, or going through other people to meditate that message.” The exhibition is meant to demonstrate the artist’s capacity to transform their time and shape the future, but one could easily draw the opposition conclusion: art is not a powerful engine of social change,
given that similar issues have plagued our nation for decades. But perhaps expecting art to change world is too lofty a goal. The exhibit is simply a way of making “an argument in space,” says Hockley, helping us think differently about power and inequality. If viewers look and listen closely, it just might show the way forward.
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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS SEP 12 - 18, 2017 The following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s website and include the most recent inspection and grade reports listed. We have included every restaurant listed during this time within the zip codes of our neighborhoods. Some reports list numbers with their explanations; these are the number of violation points a restaurant has received. To see more information on restaurant grades, visit www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/services/restaurant-inspection.shtml.
Ducks Eatery
351 East 12 Street
A
Daryl Roth Theatre
101 East 15th Street
A
Veniero’s Bakery
340-342 E 11th St
A
The Standard East Village
25 Cooper Square
A
Be Juice
121 University Pl
Grade Pending (21) Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations. Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.
Sarita’s Mac & Cheese
197 1st Ave
Grade Pending (20) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies or food/refuse/sewageassociated (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.
The Fern
166 1st Ave
Not Yet Graded (68) Food contact surface improperly constructed or located. Unacceptable material used. No facilities available to wash, rinse and sanitize utensils and/or equipment. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.
Greenwich Treehouse
46 Greenwich Avenue
A
Analogue
19 W 8th St
A
Momofuku
232 8th Ave
A
Kosaka
220 W 13th St
A
Ipanema Bar
252 West 14 Street
Grade Pending (2)
Murray’s Bagels
500 Avenue Of The Americas
A
Mansions Cater
80 5 Avenue
A
Chelsea Papaya
171 West 23 Street
A
The Best $1.00 Pizza
171 West 23 Street
A
Hane Sushi
346 1st Avenue
A
Lotus Blue Dongtian Kitchen Bar
15 Union Sq W
Not Yet Graded (71) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies or food/refuse/sewageassociated (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. Toilet facility not provided for employees or for patrons when required. No facilities available to wash, rinse and sanitize utensils and/or equipment.
Rocky’s
304 W 14th St
Mark
33 St Marks Place
A
Ravagh Persian Grill
125 1St Ave #127
A
Grade Pending (39) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/ sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared. Food 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.
Wendy’s
20 E 14th St
A
Jane Street Hotel
113 Jane St
Yo Sushi
208 3rd Ave
Grade Pending (8) Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.
Caffe Bene
816 Broadway
A
Not Yet Graded (37) 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. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.
The Alchemist’s Kitchen
21 E 1St St
Grade Pending (42) 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. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
Brodo
496 Hudson St
A
Luzzo’s (In Gansevoort Market)
353 W 14th St
Grade Pending (61) Food contact surface improperly constructed or located. Unacceptable material used. No facilities available to wash, rinse and sanitize utensils and/or equipment. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.
Barrow Street Ale House
15 Barrow St
A
Casita
681 Washington St
Not Yet Graded (29) Food from unapproved or unknown source or home canned. Reduced oxygen packaged (ROP) fish not frozen before processing; or ROP foods prepared on premises transported to another site. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or nonfood 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. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.
Duane Park
308 Bowery
A
Pasta Wiz Express
126 Macdougal St
Grade Pending (3)
Insomnia Cookies
116 Macdougal St
A
Dojo Restaurant
10 West 4 Street
Grade Pending (18) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies or food/refuse/sewageassociated (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.
Cucina Di Pesce
87 East 4 Street
A
Ennju
20 East 17 Street
A
The Kitchen Sink
88 2 Avenue
A
Potbelly Sandwich Shop
22 East 17 Street
A
Resobox
91 E 3rd St
Not Yet Graded (71) Insufficient or no refrigerated or hot holding equipment to keep potentially hazardous foods at required temperatures. No facilities available to wash, rinse and sanitize utensils and/or equipment. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.
Ono Bowls
33 E 8th St
Not Yet Graded (10) 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.
Cafe Orlin
41 St Marks Place
Grade Pending (9) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
Mermaid Inn
96 2 Avenue
A
Argotea
239 Greene Street
A
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DEVELOPMENT CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 It was Pierre Lorillard III, the grandson of the first maker of tobacco in America, who hired Thomas to build the structure. In the post-Civil War period of industrial expansion in New York, Lorillard had the structure built as a mixed space for retail, office and manufacturing. The buildings went on to host the New York offices for the manufacturing company Wheeler & Wilson. In 1958, the top floor of 831 Broadway was rented by the Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist William de Kooning and his wife Elaine. De Kooning used the studio to cre-
KALLOS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “Now more than ever it is crucial for the public to engage with its civic leaders,” said Deborah Alexander, copresident of Community Education Council 30 for Long Island City. “Not only would providing this assistance allow parents to attend meetings with their representatives, but it would serve as a wonderful model for the children themselves.” Com mu n it y Educat ion Council 2 for Manhattan al-
ate the iconic “Rosy-Fingered Dawn at Louse Point,” his first painting to be acquired by a European museum, and “Door to the River,” currently housed in the Whitney Museum. His studio attracted other artists from the movement to the building, including Larry Poons, Paul Jenkins, and Jules Olitski. The building served as the point of confluence for some of the major figures of abstract expressionism. The previously proposed plan by the NYC Department of Buildings for the demolishment of the building is part of a larger initiative by Mayor de Blasio to turn the area between Astor Place and Union Square into “a giant ‘Tech Hub’ nearby on 14th Street that would serve
as an anchor for a ‘Silicon Alley,’” according to a recent report by GVSHP. Broadway, University Place, Thirds and Fourth Avenues, previously the heart of books and art in the city, are under threat of overdevelopment by the finance, retail and tech industries. On September 19th, the NYC Landmarks Commission voted to calendar the buildings and set preliminary protections against their demolition or alteration. In an optimistic note, Executive Director of GVSHP Andrew Berman says, “We are almost there, but take nothing for granted; we intend to work very hard to ensure that the City takes the final step and approves these buildings for landmark designation.”
ready offers free child care at their public meetings. Shino Tanikawa, parent leader on the council, described the child care addition as “an important step toward democracy.” Upon request at least five days prior to local government agency hearings, child care would be provided by Administration for Children’s Services (ACS). Non-mayoral parts of city government such as the City Council and community boards would also be able to follow the same process to request child care at all public events.
The legislation would cover parents, grandparents, and legal guardians of children 13 and under. Single mothers lead one-third of family households in New York City, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The bill will be introduced on September 27th. With very little time remaining in the current session, Kallos believes the bill will more likely be reintroduced in January, February, or March. With enough support from the community at the hearing, he hopes to see the bill pass into law.
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MAKING VEGGIES EXTRAORDINARY Nix in the West Village can be your guide to healthy eating in the city BY SUSAN MARQUE
New York City has an abundance of restaurants, but if you want quality, comfort, a great vibe, and a place that doesn’t break your budget, things get a little tricky. Especially when you eat healthy. Nix is the fix. I get pretty excited about food that is inventive, maybe a tad decadent, but that also works for me. I was one of the original food restriction folks. (No dairy, no sugar, no chemicals ... you’d be surprised how much that cuts out.) If you have ever wondered how to make veggies shine, Chef John Fraser can be your guide. I happen to think he deserves more than just one Michelin Star, but those are rare, and he got one last November for his seriously great vegetarian fare at this downtown spot. The kale and sea veggie Caesar Fraser created for Nix is genius. It’s unlike any other healthy version of a Caesar, with a light lemony note instead of being overrun by garlic. There’s no fishy taste or smell if you are new to
eating seaweed. You do get a powerful dose of minerals in every delectable bite. Fraser’s smoky eggplant spread makes me supremely happy, and the combination of velvety pea filling in the dumplings with spicy gingery sauce makes me want to eat here daily. Fraser starts with produce and his team gets as much locally as they can. Nix partners with a consortium of Hudson Valley farms, and they fill in with trips to the green market in Union Square. In winter they rely on produce from warmer climates. For a restaurant that’s only been open since February 29, 2016, Nix has become a popular spot in the area. “We always set out to be a neighborhood restaurant, and we are happy and grateful that our neighborhood has embraced us, becoming our core clientele,” said owner James Truman, former editorial director of Conde Nast. “As we anticipated, perhaps 65 percent of our guests are women. Women are at the vanguard of the new movement of wellness and healthy eating.” That’s probably true, but there are plenty of dishes at Nix to satisfy anyone. The signature cauliflower buns
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Fried cauliflower. Photo: Susan Marque are one of those orders. The cruciferous bulbs are fried tempura-style, then coated in a spicy red sauce and paired with pickles that give you all kinds of crunch to put inside of freshly made, soft steamed buns. Truman is deservedly proud of his place. I asked him how he created a space that is the cozy side of elegant and he told me that when he was at Conde Nast, he helped to redesign some of the interiors of their building. He said he liked that even more than being an editor. He definitely pays attention to details and understands how an environment plays an important role in how diners feel. Fraser became a vegetarian a few years ago, but Truman has been one
since the eighties. The two met at that time when Truman was the food and beverage director for Standard Hotels, and they became friends. “Back in the 80s, when I moved to New York from London, I found it almost impossible to live as a vegetarian. There was usually one entrée on a restaurant menu — typically pasta primavera — that was there for vegetarians, otherwise you were just out of luck,” said Truman. The timing for his collaboration with Fraser couldn’t be better. They are not just on trend but seem to have learned from the mistakes of other restaurants. Truman scrunched up his nose when describing foods that try to mimic other foods. “At Nix, we strive to extract the
maximum flavor from every vegetable through any number of technical processes, but we always want them to taste like vegetables,” said Truman. “We don’t do the “fake meat” trick of processing tofu or tempeh or seitan so that it starts to replicate meat or fish in texture or flavor.” If you’re like me and have to be careful about what goes into your food, this place has a system that works. Each server can quickly look up the ingredients of every dish on an iPad, or search a single item that will pull up all the dishes that have that in it. It’s an easy and kind way to steer each person towards choices that work for them. If you want to be healthy in the city, Nix is one topnotch way to go.
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PIERRE LOTI 258 WEST 15TH STREET Wine bars were a relatively new trend in the early 2000s when Orhan Cakir and Burak Argun met at language school after emigrating from Istanbul. With a third partner, they opened one of the city’s first wine bars, Turks and Frogs in the West Village, then Pierre Loti in Chelsea, Midtown and Union Square. Pierre Loti, a fictional character created by French novelist Louis Marie-Julien Viaud, was a French naval officer who traveled to Istanbul and fell in love with the culture. Burak says the character exemplifies the cultural mix of French wine and Turkish cuisine in his bar. For more photos and side streets, go to sideways.nyc.
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THE FACES OF RARE DISEASE Portrait photographer Karen Haberberg depicts the lives of children with genetic conditions BY ANGELA BARBUTI
Karen Haberberg was so determined to tell the story of children with rare genetic diseases that she brought her camera into some of their homes to capture their everyday lives. Her young subjects are afflicted with conditions such as Tay-Sachs disease, Marfan Syndrome and Polymicrogyria, which although they sound uncommon, affect one in 10 Americans altogether. Her photo book, “An Ordinary Day: Kids With Rare Genetic Conditions,” which benefits genetic research, will be released on October 17th. It takes us into 27 homes and through poignant photos with accompanying narrative text, illustrates not only the plight of the children, whose symptoms often include the inability to walk, talk or eat, but the struggles of their parents and siblings. Through their sick children, however, the families learn to appreciate each day and never take anything for granted, including simple accomplishments like getting their child on a school bus or into a McDonald’s. Haberberg, who lives in Chelsea, said she now has 27 more families in her life through this project. She would like to make a documentary to shed light on the topic. In addition, she has been approached by other organizations, such as Epilepsy Awareness Day, to create similar books for them.
Photographer Karen Haberberg. Photo: Ari Haberberg
You were inspired by your parents’ loss of your brother from Tay-Sachs disease. But how did the idea for the book actually come about? More recently, my best friend had a child diagnosed with Angelman Syndrome, which is also a rare disease. And I just wanted to do something to give back to that community because I really felt like they were kind of ignored in the media. And these families felt really isolated and not really welcomed in places. I was hearing these stories from my best friend. Ethan, her son, can’t go to services at his temple because the temple is afraid that he’s going to be too disruptive at the kids’ service. So I contacted the National Tay-Sachs & Allied Disease Association because we’ve been affiliated with them for years because of my parents. And I offered to volunteer, but realized that wasn’t really where I was going to get what I needed out into the world, so came up with this idea. And they sent an email around to some families who have kids with Tay-Sachs and one of them agreed to do the shoot and that’s where it started.
How did you find the other children featured in the book? I contacted a few organizations. One of them that was very helpful was Global Genes, where they just sent out a blog post on it. But what ended up happening was I really got a lot from word of mouth. A lot of the families basically socialize with other families who have kids with similar issues, but maybe not the same genetic condition.
Brian’s body systems will deteriorate and/or fail as he gets older. Photo: Karen Haberberg
You launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds. What was your experience like with that? After I shot Mackenzie, who has Tay-
Darus feels more comfortable in small spaces. Photo: Karen Haberberg Sachs, I realized, “This is what I want to do and I need to somehow get it done one way or another.” So I started a Kickstarter, and I was very apprehensive about asking the community for money, but really did feel like it was a good cause. Also I had decided that the profits were going to go to rare genetic disease research, so it became a little easier to ask for help. And then I just stressed out for the month while the Kickstarter was running and, fortunately, made my goal, and used that money to travel to families and get the book designed.
You tell the stories of the parents as well. As caregivers, what did they all have in common? Some of them were challenged getting the diagnosis. Some of them got an incorrect diagnosis initially. Basically, the doctors really don’t know that much. So I think the struggle to get the diagnosis was very similar across the families. I think [of] their frustration in not having any kind of real cure for them. The devastation of once you get the diagnosis, of what your child’s future is going to hold. And then feeling, oftentimes, [of being] socially excluded and judged.
You also write about the siblings. What did you take away from them and their interactions? The siblings are incredibly sensitive to their siblings and kind, loving and warm. For the most part, I really did not get the impression that they’re jealous that their sibling gets more attention, which often happens just
because they’re much needier. What I found is that the siblings are very accepting and have become more sensitive and empathetic individuals.
Tell us about one of the families you worked with. All of the families are so unique that it’s difficult to choose one to talk about. Mackenzie was probably one of the most difficult shoots I have ever done. Since I had a brother who died of Tay-Sachs disease, in the back of my mind, I was thinking about my parents and what they must have gone through. It was my first shoot and I was just blown away by the care, calmness and patience her parents demonstrated. Mackenzie requires full-time care with feeding tubes, physical therapy and respiratory care. It was an eye-opening day. I learned how incredibly resilient we can be, children especially. I also witnessed what real patience looks like and the experience gave me a greater sense of perspective and real priorities. These themes were carried out though all the families I photographed.
What has the feedback been like so far? The feedback has been genuinely positive. I’ve been approached by other organizations to do books like this for them. I think the people who have seen it think it’s unique. The design came out lovely. The photos are sensitive and authentic.
I read an interview you did where you said you now have 27 new families to worry about. So you’re still in touch with all of them? Yeah, in one way or another. Through Facebook or email. I’m having an opening on October 25th [in New York] and the ones who are local are coming. I’m having six families there.
The proceeds from this book benefit Global Genes. Explain what the organization does. It’s one of the biggest organizations dedicated to rare genetic diseases. So I wanted to pick an organization to donate to that represented not just one specific condition, but all of them.
Did you always know you wanted to be a professional photographer? I loved photography and got a camera when I was 13 for my bat mitzvah. But I wasn’t that brave as I was growing up to become a photographer because it’s a difficult profession, so I used to work in kids’ television and media. And one day, I just decided I was going to follow my dream and try and be a photographer. So I went to art school and here I am. www.karenhaberberg.com
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