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CARRANZA TALKS EQUITY AT UWS TOWN HALL EDUCATION Schools chancellor discusses diversity, charter schools during visit to P.S. 163 PTA activist Tom Wrocklage and his fourth-grade daughter, Georgia, outside P.S. 290 on East 82nd Street this weekend. The 9-year-old girl and her classmates have to nowhere to play but the street. Photo courtesy of Tom Wrocklage

THE SCHOOL THAT TIME FORGOT PLAY SPACES There is no place to play but the street for the children of P.S. 290 on the UES — so their parents, beset by safety concerns, have cast their gaze upon the roof BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN

There are 505 public schools in Manhattan. Virtually all of them house gymnasiums or provide other designated spaces for mandated physical education programs in their buildings or off campus. And then there is P.S. 290 on the Upper East Side. It has no standalone gym. No adequate courtyard space to hold recess. No “gymnatorium,” or converted auditorium. No indoor play space nearby. What it does have is the street, mostly closed to traffic, in front of the school, where more than 600 elementary students are forced to go for their recess, exercise and other physical activities.

That has raised safety and security concerns — and fueled a campaign by parents, politicians and school administrators to retrofit the rooftop for use as an outdoor play space or green roof or both. Advocates want to get the kids off the street and into protected space atop the building. To fund those efforts, they’ve held bake sales, raised cash through Participatory Budgeting and banked $2.25 million. But cost estimates keep skyrocketing. Initially pegged at $2.8 million, projections first doubled. By some accounts, they trebled. Hard figures aren’t easy to come by. The city’s School Construction Authority, or SCA, which builds and renovates schools, didn’t provide them by press time. Nor did the city’s Dept. of Education (DOE). Still, more than four years after the proposal first surfaced, one thing is clear: The drive to green the roof and transform it into a “safe recess space” for children appears to have stalled. At least for now.

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“Equity” has been Richard Carranza’s calling card since he took office as city schools chancellor in the spring. Carranza used the word at least a dozen times over the course of an hour during a Sept. 26 town hall meeting with students, parents and teachers at P.S. 163 on West 97th Street. He spoke of equity for students in access to resources; equity in school enrollment and admissions; equity of facilities; equity for students with disabilities. He named “ensuring equity — not yesterday, not tomorrow, right now” as one of his four areas of focus for the school year. (The other three: accelerating learning and teaching, engaging and empowering communities, developing people.) The word has salience in District 3, which includes the Upper West Side and parts of Harlem, where schools have historically been starkly divided along racial and economic lines. In June, the city Department of Education adopted a plan to increase diversity in District 3 middle schools through an overhaul of the admissions screening process. Carranza drew both criticism and praise early in his tenure for tweeting video of a tense public meeting on the plan bluntly headlined “WATCH: Wealthy white Manhattan parents angrily rant against plan to bring more black kids to their schools.”

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza fielded questions on technology in the classroom, dual-language education and other topics during a Sept. 26 town hall meeting at P.S. 163 on the Upper West Side. Photo: Michael Garofalo Carranza has not since shied away from addressing fraught issues of perceived inequity in the school system head-on, from the lack of diversity in the city’s elite specialized high schools to racial disparities in the demographic makeup of the city’s gifted programs. At the town hall, Carranza pledged to be “open and transparent” not only about the opportunities facing city schools, but also about “the challenges that vex us.” “Some folks appreciate the directness, some folks don’t,” Carranza said. “That’s just what it’s gonna be, because I think we don’t have time to waste when it comes to really impacting what happens in our schools.” Carranza addressed the middle school diversity plan, charter schools and a number of other topics during a question-and-answer period with an engaged and enthusiastic audience, which filled the P.S. 163 auditorium. Below are a selection of his responses. Downtowner

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DIVERSITY In response to a questions about the resources that the DOE Education will provide to District 3 to support the implementation of its middle school diversity plan, Carranza said that DOE is reviewing community input. He noted that in Brooklyn’s District 15, which recently adopted a similar diversity plan, the DOE granted $500,000 to fund specific requests for support. Carranza praised District 3 as “trendsetters” in pushing for diversity measures, but cautioned against promoting a pernicious narrative around funding such efforts. “We need to be very careful in terms of the enlightened conversations that we’ve had around diversity, integration and why that’s important to us in the city,” Carranza said. “We all just need to be very, very careful in terms of how we talk about the work, so that

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‘POSSIBLE HATE CRIME’ ON THE UPPER EAST SIDE RELIGION Attack by vandals seeks to mar one of the most joyous holidays on the Jewish calendar BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN

A public sukkah set up just yards away from Gracie Mansion to mark the festive Jewish holiday of Sukkot was spray painted in black with the phrase “FREE GAZA” repeated three times in a desecration the NYPD branded a “possible hate crime.” The vandals struck after midnight on Sunday on the promenade of Carl Schurz Park, where for the past three years, Chabad of the Upper East Side has erected the communal hut to shelter Jews who celebrate with feasting, dancing and praying. As the police Hate Crime Task Force began reviewing the area’s security cameras, Chabad followers quickly painted over the politically charged words, replacing them with messages of peace like “Shalom” and “The Sukkah of Unity.”

And you shall rejoice on your festivals!” Deuteronomy Undeterred by the outrage, the community came out in force in front of the Chabad on East 77th Street on Monday night for a “Simchat Torah street festival and solidarity rally,” observing the equally joyous holiday that directly follows the seven days of Sukkot — and dancing with the Torah scrolls. “The Jewish community will respond as the Jewish people have always responded to hatred, darkness and evil — by strengthening, deepening, and intensifying the light and positivity,” said Rabbi Ben Tzion Krasnianski, executive director of the Chabad. Meanwhile, reaction was swift and condemnatory: “Defacing a sukkah is unacceptable. It is an attack on our city’s values,” Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted. “If you any

information on this act of vandalism, please contact the NYPD.” There have been no arrests, and police asked anyone with information to call the Crime Stoppers’ tip line at 800-577-TIPS. In a statement, the Anti-Defamation League said it was “appalled” by the “FREE GAZA” images that were soon circulating online. “Targeting premises used for religious purposes during the Jewish holiday is simply beyond the pale,” the ADL added. The New York chapter of the Council of American-Islamic Relations also weighed in: “There is no place for this anti-Semitism in our city,” said Albert Cahn, the legal director of CAIR-NY. “It is heartbreaking to see a place of religious observance vandalized, to see a symbol of celebration transformed into an instrument of hate,” he added. “All New Yorkers must unite in our denunciation of this vile harassment.” Manhattan has one of the “lowest rates of sukkahs per-capita” among Jews worldwide, according to Rabbi Krasnianski, who cited limitations of space.

Accordingly, he said, thousands of people rely on Chabad, which organizes multiple sukkahs as a community service in order to expand the number of residents able to participate in the cherished holiday observance. There are 70,000 Jews living on the Upper East Side, the rabbi said. Sukkot commemorates the sheltering by God of the Jewish people in the wilderness during the long passage from Egypt to the Promised Land, and meals during the holiday are consumed in branchand-greenery-covered sukkahs, like the hut overlooking the East River that was defaced. Simchat Torah, the two-day holiday that started Oct. 1, celebrates the conclusion — and immediate resumption — of the annual Torahreading cycle, and it is marked by, in Chabad’s description, “utterly unbridled joy” and “dancing, singing, capering, snacking, and maybe even some (moderate) drinking.” As it is written in Torah, specifically Deuteronomy 16:14-16, “And you shall rejoice on your festivals!” invreporter@strausnews.com

The Chabad sukkah on the East River Esplanade in Carl Schurz Park after it was defaced by vandals on Oct. 1, the last day of the celebratory Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Photo: Chabad of the Upper East Side

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 1st precinct for the week ending Sep 23 Week to Date

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A 72-year-old man was arrested after he sprayed an unknown chemical agent into the face of a 46-year-old man on Vandam Street in the early afternoon of Sept. 19, causing damage to the victim’s left eye, police said. The victim was taken to New York Downtown Hospital by an EMS team. Dana Escoffier was arrested and charged with assault. The police did not say what might have incited the attack.

Officers collared two youths, one 13, the other 12, on suspicion of mugging another boy, police said. Police said the two boys pulled a 12-year-old by his backpack at Greenwich and Chambers Streets on the afternoon of Monday, Sept. 17, took the pack and $15. The two boys fled eastbound on Chambers Street to the subway station, boarding a 2 train. But the two were arrested the following day and charged with robbery. The other boy sustained no injuries.

DOG WARNS OF HOME INVASION A canine companion alerted two women to the presence of a burglar in their house, police said. At 5 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 17, an unknown burglar entered a residence at 20 King St., breaking glass and crystal cups and removing property before fleeing through one of the doors, police said. A dog belonging to a 63-year-old female acquaintance staying with the 86-year-old female resident heard the cups break and made his mistress aware that an intruder was in the house, police said. The burglar got away

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report the theft until Sept. 17. But one other would-be motorcycle thief was arrested after trying to peddle a stolen 2016 Ducati 939 to Sixth Avenue motorcycle showroom, police said. The bike had been taken from its parked location on Greenwich Street on the evening of Sept. 16. The motorcycle showroom manager, though, looked up the vehicle’s ID and concluded the $13,000 bike had been stolen and contacted police. Paul Roth was arrested on Tuesday, September 18, grand larceny charges.

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TOWN HALL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 it doesn’t become, ‘We need money to implement diversity because kids that are diverse cost us more money because they need more things.’ I know that’s not what you’re saying. I know that’s not what District 15 was saying. But I will tell you that there are segments of our community that aren’t as enlightened in terms of the conversations you’ve had, that would absolutely use that as a reason why we shouldn’t pursue an equity agenda in terms of integration.” Carranza also addressed the issue of geographic priority for high school admissions in neighboring District 2, which encompasses much of the Upper East Side, Midtown and lower Manhattan. Unlike in District 3, high schools in District 2 give preference in the admissions process to students who live within the district. Carranza described the policy as a relic of the racial politics of decades past. “It was an attempt to keep middle-class families and, quite frankly, more well-to-do families from fleeing from the school system and going to private schools,” he said.

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TECHNOLOGY IN SCHOOLS “Technology, from my perspective, will never replace a well-trained, caring teacher in the classroom,” Carranza said. “It just can’t. That doesn’t mean technology can’t help teachers do what they do even better.” Carranza related an anecdote about a teacher assigning students to create a short video with iPads to illustrate their understanding of a physics lesson as an example of technology being used to enhance — but not replace — teaching. Carranza added that the city has worked to expand computer science and science, technology, engineering, arts and math (commonly referred to as

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DUAL-LANGUAGE PROGRAMS Carranza drew extended applause from the crowd and cries of “Thank you!” and “¡Gracias!” after he took on what he called “the elephant question in the room” and announced that the dual-language education program at P.S. 87 on West 78th Street “is not going away.” “We are steadfastly committed not only to increasing the number of dual language programs that we have, but making sure that they’re high quality,” he said. Carranza also stressed the importance of continuing language studies when students get to middle school.

CHARTER SCHOOLS Carranza described a visit he recently paid to a public school “that has done everything we asked them to do in order to become an improving school,” but lacked one piece of crucial infrastructure: air conditioning. The school, Carranza said, “doesn’t have a chance, because right around the corner, there’s a brand spanking new charter school.” Carranza vowed to fight for increased funding from the state government. “Our kids are owed billions of dollars,” he said.

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SCHOOL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “I know my fourth-grade daughter will never reap the benefits of this project,” said Tom Wrocklage, an attorney, member of the executive board of the school’s PTA and father of nine-year-old Georgia. “It has been ongoing since 2014 when she was in kindergarten, and it won’t be completed by the time she leaves,” he added. “But all the other children and parents should feel safe and secure in the school as well.” State Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright and City Council Member Ben Kallos, both of whom represent the Upper East Side, have allocated state and city funds respectively for the project and are seeking to get it back on track. “No child attending New York City public schools should have to play in the street during recess,” Seawright said. “The rules of engagement have changed,” she added. “It is no longer acceptable to allow the system to place our children in harm’s way. There’s no choice between fears for their safety and safe play spaces.” P.S. 290 was built at 311 East 82nd Street in 1903, and its physical plant, largely untouched since then, is a throwback to an era when public schools had no gyms, physical education was not an imperative — and the street was the lone preferred venue for exercise needs. Now, 115 years later, the fivestory, red-brick schoolhouse between First and Second Avenues, re-launched in 1991 as the Manhattan New School, is one of only eight public schools in the borough that offers no designated space for phys-ed. The city’s Dept. of Transportation provides the main play area for P.S. 290 — giving it permission to temporarily shut down 82nd Street. A century ago, and continuing into the 1950s, “recess-inthe-street” was a common practice. But time-capsule conditions are out of whack with contemporary risks and safety standards, parents and elected officials contend. “It’s insane and absurd that our children today have nowhere to play but the street in the most densely populated city in the United States,” Wrocklage said. While the street is “technically closed” to traffic, he said, the reality is quite a bit different: Some 70 students from two separate classes, each with

roughly 35 kids, play outside during recess at any given time as vigilant school personnel watch over them. Two crossing guards, one at each avenue, are also in position, and there are a few flimsy metal dividers placed at the Second Avenue entrance to eastbound 82nd Street, he said.

WHAT EVERY PARENT FEARS It is not enough, Wrocklage added. The barriers can easily be moved, enabling cars and trucks to traverse the block all through the day — and pass alongside large groupings of third-, fourth- and five-graders who spill onto the street during recess. Adding to the anxiety of the parents are two recent catastrophic terror attacks, the Parkland school shooting in Florida, which killed 17 students and staff, and the truck-ramming spree in lower Manhattan, which killed eight tourists and ended across the street from Stuyvesant High School. “Somebody who wants to do something awful can rent a truck, move the barriers and mow down 60 kids playing in the street pretty quickly, and there’s nothing we can do to stop them,” Wrocklage said. Even before those horrors, the PTA and the school’s principal, Doreen Esposito, had been working with Kallos, Seawright and city education officials to develop a green roof or other outdoor rooftop space. Esposito, who has a first-grader in the school, even signed a petition to the SCA “urging our leaders to act now to retrofit the P.S. 290 rooftop as a play space.” She did so as a parent, not in her official capacity as principal, she told the PTA. But it’s no easy task for a city institution to convert a roof. Manhattan’s private schools, it turns out, have a much better track record than the city’s public schools at such endeavors — in part because their procurement process is usually speedier and more streamlined. On the Upper West Side, for instance, there are two on West End Avenue alone: The Calhoun School’s green roof learning center, which opened in 2005, appears to be the first eco-friendly school roof offering outdoor science and environmental studies, while a mile to the south, the Abraham Joshua Heschel School created a 16,000-square-foot landscape design with a greenhouse, organic garden and play space. Across town, Regis High

School on East 84th Street boasts a 20,000-square-foot green roof complete with biodiversity lab and astronomy observation area. Meanwhile, P.S./I.S. 217, a public school on Roosevelt Island, broke ground on a green space this summer. P.S. 290 faced a rockier road. Kallos in 2015 allocated $500,000 in discretionary capital funding; he followed up with another $520,000 in 2016; and then, after the capital project secured more votes, 802, than any other project in Participatory Budgeting, he came up with still another $500,000. Meanwhile, Seawright allocated $500,000 in early 2016, and the PTA raised $250,000 from several bake sales, movie nights and Halloween dances. Drawing on the Kallos funds, the SCA, which didn’t respond to questions, spent $347,000 on scoping for the project, including consulting, environmental, engineering and architectural fees. Somewhere during this preconstruction process, the price tag, which in 2016 had been estimated at $2.8 million, began to go, well, through the roof. At issue was whether the project would be made ADA accessible — the school has no elevators — necessitating major interior construction to build a lift from the ground floor to the roof, or whether a waiver would be granted by the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities, permitting the project to proceed without an elevator. The DOE didn’t respond to questions by deadline, so it wasn’t possible to determine the status of a waiver request, if any. “The city’s procurement process is broken,” Kallos said. “We are required to raise funds for the full expected cost of a project – before the city will do any on-site inspection to develop a more accurate cost estimate,” he added. Kallos said it was only after the P.S. 290 community had rallied for the project and won Participatory Budgeting funding, to which he added additional monies, that the city finally inspected the site — “only to find that it would cost many times the original estimate.” “Situations like these should be avoidable, so projects don’t get stuck in a multimillion dollar deficit,” Kallos said. What comes next? “We must stand with the parents of P.S. 290 — and protect their children as we would our own,” Seawright said. invreporter@strausnews.com

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PAYING TRIBUTE TO PHILIP ROTH BOOKS Friends and fellow writers remember the author at the New York Public Library BY HILLEL ITALIE

Philip Roth had it all planned. “Many years ago, I received in the mail a letter in which he outlined the instructions for his memorial service,� his close friend Joel Conarroe told a gathering of hundreds last Tuesday during a tribute at the midtown Manhattan branch of the New York Public Library. The author of “American Pastoral,� “Portnoy’s Complaint� and other celebrated novels was as precise about his death, Conarroe explained, as he had been about his life and work. Attendees included Robert Caro, Salman Rushdie, Mia Farrow and Don DeLillo and speakers ranged from Conarroe, president emeritus of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, to fellow authors such as Edna O’Brien, Norman Manea and Judith Thurman. The setting, the library’s Celeste Bartos Forum and its glass domed ceiling, was requested by Roth. So were the speakers, even though the list changed over time as such previous choices as Saul Bellow and William Styron passed away. Roth also picked out the music, Gabriel Faure’s “Elegie in C Minor,� op. 24, which ended the nearly 2 1/2-hour ceremony. Roth died in May. He was 85. According to Conarroe, Roth wanted as much laughter as tears, and guests shared memories of his wit and of the surprising tenderness for a man so direct and unsparing in his work. Thurman spoke of driving around Connecticut with Roth as he searched for a proper burial spot, what he called “A tomb with a view.� New Yorker staff writer Claudia Roth Pierpont noted that he referred to his Manhattan neighborhood, where other authors lived nearby, as “Writers’ Block.� Roth never had children, but friends remembered his rapport and sense of play with their kids, whether collaborating through email on stories with them or sitting

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SMOKE SIGNALS EAST SIDE OBSERVER BY ARLENE KAYATT

Unholy smokes — Complaints keep coming in about the unhealthy smoke spewing from rooftops on the UES. Despite requirements and advocacy by Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Department of Environmental Protection, not all buildings have converted to cleaner burning fuel from the old heating oil. As of the

end of 2015, all buildings that were registered in 2011 as burning Number 6 heating oil were to have converted to a cleaner fuel. However, buildings along East 82nd Street, between First and Second Avenues, are continuing offenders. Calls to 311 have had no results. Somebody has to do something. Now. Library feedback — A recent East Side Observer column noted the children’s sized seating at St. Agnes Library, making reading in a seat at the library a challenge for adults and

teens. The following response was received by Our Town from a library spokeswoman, Amy Geduldig: “The St. Agnes Library let me know about a recent column by Arlene Kayatt in [Our Town] that may have been a misunderstanding about the seats available for adults and children at the branch. The branch manager Jennifer Zarr was hoping to clarify things to avoid any future confusion: In a recent column, published by [Our Town], we learned Ms. Kayatt was disappointed in the lack of adult seating at the St. Agnes Library. It is true there are many seats for children on the first floor, as this is our children’s area. However, although

the Library is a popular destination for many in the community, there are usually seats available on the second floor for adults who wish to check out a book or read the newspaper. We do hope Ms. Kayatt will visit us again and if she (or anyone) has any trouble finding a place to read a book or enjoy our space, please us know!” Response: East Side Observer did return. And there is seating on the second floor — take the elevator to 2. The only adult seating on the main floor is either on a bench in the entrance way (where adults and teens sit while using their cell phones), or along a wall as you enter the library behind a table for flyers. Neither is conducive to — nor is

meant for — reading. Reform no more — While Council Member Ben Kallos’s use of “Reform Democrat” on his monthly constituent newsletter generated interest from readers, Kallos never commented. Feedback from Our Town readers was that Reform really meant liberal or progressive or socialist. One reader declared the Reform Movement dead. Political guru Al Handell emailed his definition: A Reformer is “A Regular who is out of office” — and that was before the Council member’s latest mailing dropped “Reform Democrat” from the newsletter. Guess Kallos takes seriously Handell’s definition of “a reformer.”

THE BEATLES: NYC’S UNWITTING ROLE IN THEIR BREAKUP PUBLIC EYE As the White Album turns 50, looking back at signs of discord during a 1968 trip to the city BY JON FRIEDMAN

There is tremendous excitement about the Beatles these days, even though the band broke up nearly five decades ago. Their fabled White Album turns 50 years old next month, and it will be re-released. Paul McCartney celebrated his first profile on “60 Minutes” the other day to commemorate the occasion. Giles Martin, the son of George Martin, who produced all of those great tracks, has remastered the original recordings, and the result, as with the refurbished “Sgt. Pepper” last year, sounds, well, fab. I attended a listening party last week at the Power Station, a recording studio on the West Side, and heard the incredible new music as well as the raw demos that John, Paul, George and Ringo created just before entering Abbey Road studios to record the great double album in May 1968. You might think you’ve heard and examined every bit of Beatles intrigue (never call it “trivia!”). But did you know about the part that our fair city played in the breakup of the greatest rock and roll band in history? (And

Giles Martin speaking at the Power Station. Photo: Jon Friedman don’t even try to change my mind about that point!) A few weeks before the four Beatles started recording what would be immortalized as “The White Album,” John Lennon and Paul McCartney visited New York City to publicize the band’s new music, retail and film

company, Apple Ltd. They appeared on “The Tonight Show” and held a press conference. What was extraordinary, as we look back, was that this marked the first time that all four members didn’t appear together for something major, like this unveiling of Apple. You might

say the breakup started to occur on this trip. As with most seismic events that happened when the Beatles were an active entity during the Sixties, John Lennon was the mover and shaker. Lennon looked very angry on the “Tonight Show” and chose to be his witty/acerbic self, instead of the moptop who had cracked wise, “Turn left at Greenland,” in “A Hard Day’s Night,” when a reporter stage-asked, “How did you find America?” Perhaps he was pissed off that Johnny Carson had slighted him and Paul by deciding to perform that evening in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and left him in the care of a clueless substitute host, Joe Garagiola and fellow guest Tallulah Bankhead, who seemed to be on another planet that night. We couldn’t know that Lennon was on the verge of breaking up his marriage to his first wife Cynthia and settling down with Yoko Ono. We couldn’t know that he had become extremely disillusioned with the Beatles’ extraordinary visit, a few months earlier, to India, where they wanted to kick back and meditate under the guidance of the Maharishi. He had become bored playing the role of Beatle John and yearned to return to his roots a rebellious art student in his native Liverpool. And, fascinated by the loud, jagged sounds that guitarists like Jimi Hendrix were creating,

he had become really disenchanted with Paul’s “granny” music. But Lennon’s unhappiness couldn’t detract from the majesty of the White Album. It sounded modern and sharp at the Power Station. Giles Martin did a wonderful job. When he talked with reporters, he acknowledged that “Happiness Is a Warm Gun” presented the greatest engineering challenge. “It’s a very relevant song,” Giles said. Giles said that Paul and Ringo, the surviving members of the Beatles, had indeed heard — and loved — the remastered double album. Since the 30-track album came out (featuring material with such questionable quality as “Revolution #9” and “Wild Honey Pie”), there has been debate about whether it was the wisest course to put out a two-record set instead of two separate albums. “They had so much material,” Giles Martin pointed out. I’m glad the Beatles released one double album. So much great music! As a kid in 1968, it was one of the highlights of my life when a Beatles single or album came out. I could revel in the brilliance of the White Album — and, now as an adult New Yorker, imagine the part that my little town played in the Beatles’ breakup. Jon Friedman’s favorite track on the White Album is “Back in the USSR.” What’s yours?

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Nevin Denham, a basement rocker, and his ex-girlfriend and an astrophysicist, Amy Leonardo, might have the key to surviving the black hole coming down straight on earth. Photo: Zack Morrison

ROCK COMEDY MUSICAL TAKES THE STAGE THEATER “The Eleventh Hour!” makes its Off-Broadway debut in TriBeCa BY CHRISTINA CARDONA

The world is ending in New Jersey. Nevin Denham, a basement rocker, and his ex-girlfriend and an astrophysicist, Amy Leonardo, might have the key to surviving the black hole coming down straight on earth. This all takes place in the basement of his home in New Brunswick. The end of the world is 12 hours away, and they must make it through a dangerous journey down the New Jersey Turnpike, with the help of the mole people who live underneath it. We follow Nevin and Amy’s failed relationship, possible reconciliation and the fight for their lives and the world. This is a sci-fi musical, “The Eleventh Hour!” Smugbug Productions presents the official Off-Broadway debut of “The Eleventh Hour!” a

new sci-fi rock comedy musical by David Seamon. The apocalyptic journey begins at Town Stages in TriBeCa on Sept. 28 and will run until Nov. 16. Seamon, 29, is the writer and composer of the 90-minute play. He studied journalism at Rutgers University and entered the field after he graduated. He’s very familiar with the New Brunswick basement rock scene, which is where he grew up and went to college. “The Eleventh Hour!” was originally created for a 48hour musical challenge in 2015. Seamon and two other partners had two days to write, rehearse and put on an original musical. The themes they were given to write about were religion and politics. They went into a basement in New Brunswick and started to spitball ideas. In their opinion, the only time religion and politics really mattered was at the end of the world. So, they decided to write an apocalypse musical. “We felt a black hole was pretty final, it was going to get the job done,” Seamon said. “There was no way to misconstrue

the world was ending. One of us picked up a guitar and just started shouting “black hole” at each other and saying really nasty things about religion and politics, and that became the first draft of our script.” Seamon said “The Eleventh Hour!” was a huge success at the final performance at the 48-hour musical. A couple of months later Dan Swern, the founding owner of Smugbug Productions, met up with Seamon and told him he thought “The Eleventh Hour!” could be something. He commissioned Seamon to make a full-length musical in August of 2015. “Dan always knew what was special about the play, and it took me a while to see it. He thought the whole basement bands aspect was the most interesting, and being from New Brunswick I couldn’t see it, I didn’t know that was cool or that anybody would think that was cool,” Seamon said. A f ter receiv i n g notes, Seamon turned in a draft to

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Raising Gun Violence Awareness Marble Church Puts Names to Numbers On Saturday, October 13, 2018, Marble Collegiate Church will unveil its new ribbon initiative, Prayers of Remembrance and Peace. This awareness project will first highlight Gun Violence. Adorned on the fence around the 5th Avenue church will be orange ribbons, the defining color of the gun violence awareness movement. Included on these ribbons will be the names and ages of victims from the deadliest mass shootings since Columbine in 1999. Marble Church will hold a ceremony at 11:30am with a few words from their Senior Minister, Dr. Michael Bos. This will be followed by guests and officials tying the names of Gun Violence Victims on the church’s fence. On Sunday, October 14, after the 11:00am service, Marble Church and its congregation will be adding green ribbons to the fence to symbolize their prayers for peace and remembrance for the victims. All are welcome to attend and participate in one or both of the services at 1 West 29th Street. The tragic loss of life from gun violence continues to wound our country. Every year on average over 12,000 people are killed by someone else with a gun and of those, over 1,600 are children or teens. This should not be viewed as normal or acceptable. Therefore, we are placing these orange and green ribbons on our fence to remember the victims and symbolize the prayers we continue to offer for the day when the senseless loss of life to gun violence will end. As followers of One called “the Prince of Peace,” we are committed that peace must be the norm, and therefore as individuals, as congregations, as community leaders, and as law-makers, together we must find a way to end gun violence. – Dr. Michael Bos Senior Minister, Marble Collegiate Church

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Preventing Falls for Older Adults

@ۃ² ‰¿ Â™Ăƒ ¿‰tĂƒĂ‰ t€‰¿ Ă˜tÂżÂ‰ÂŹÂ‰ĂƒĂƒ 9²Ă‰Â—Ä” e—™¼‰ Âżt¿‰Ä? ‰ €tÂŹ tÂĽĂƒ² be diagnosed with breast cancer. Continue reading to learn more and join us October 9 for our breast health seminar.

Ăƒ Ă˜Â‰ “‰É ²¼Â…‰¿Ä? Ă˜Â‰Ä­ÂżÂ‰ ²Ă‰ tĂƒ ĂƒĂ‰Â‰tÂ…Ăž ² ²ĂŽÂż ’‰‰É tĂƒ Ă˜Â‰ ²Â€Â‰ Ă˜Â‰ÂżÂ‰Ä” @¼…‰¿ tÂ…ĂŽÂĽĂ‰Ăƒ t¿‰ ²¿Â‰ ¼™£‰¼Þ ɲ É¿™Ÿ tÂŹÂ… Â’tÂĽÂĽÄ? Ă˜Â—Â™Â€Â— €tÂŹ ‰ ׉¿Þ serious. Falls are one of the main causes of injury and trauma in Ÿ‰²Ÿ¼Â‰ ²Ă—‰¿ þôÄ” &²Ă˜Â‰Ă—‰¿Ä? ɗ‰¿‰ t¿‰ ‰tĂƒĂž ĂƒĂ‰Â‰ÂźĂƒ Ăž²ĂŽ €tÂŹ Ét£‰ ɲ mitigate your fall risk.

What is male breast cancer? Breast cancer in men is rare. Less than 1 out of 100 cases of breast cancer occurs in men. It develops in the small amount of breast tissue found behind the nipple. What are the symptoms? The most common symptoms of male breast cancer are painless lumps or swelling behind the nipple. Other symptoms can include discharge Â’¿² ɗ‰ ™ŸŸ¼Â‰Ä? ²¿ t ÂĽĂŽÂŤÂź ²¿ ɗ™€£‰™“ ™ ɗ‰ t¿ŸÂ™Ă‰Ä” ¼É—²ĂŽÂ“— ²ĂƒĂ‰ ‰ …™t“²ĂƒÂ‰Â… Ă˜Â™Ă‰Â— ¿‰tĂƒĂ‰ €t€‰¿ t¿‰ ²¼Â…‰¿ ɗtÂŹ þôÄ? ¿‰tĂƒĂ‰ €t€‰¿ €tÂŹ tŸŸÂ‰tÂż ™ Ăž²ĂŽÂŹÂ“‰¿ ‰Ĕ !²¿ Ă‰Â—Â™Ăƒ ¿‰tĂƒ²Ä? tÂŹĂž ¿‰tĂƒĂ‰ ÂĽĂŽÂŤÂź ™ an adult male is considered abnormal and should be checked by a doctor. How is male breast cancer diagnosed? Most male breast cancer is diagnosed with a biopsy to investigate a lump or thickening in the breast or armpit. Because there is no routine screening for breast cancer and a breast lump does not usually cause Âźt™Ä? Ăƒ²Â‰Ă‰Â™ÂŤÂ‰Ăƒ ¿‰tĂƒĂ‰ €t€‰¿ Â™ĂƒÂŹÄ­Ă‰ Â…Â™ĂƒÂ€²Ă—‰¿‰… Ώə¼ ™É —tĂƒ ĂƒŸ¿Â‰tÂ… ɲ another area of the body and is causing other symptoms. How is it treated?

All seminars are FREE and open to the public. Q‰tə“ Â™Ăƒ tĂ—t™¼t ¼‰ Â’²¿ ùôï Ÿ‰²Ÿ¼Â‰ ² t ç¿ĂƒĂ‰Ĥ€²Â‰Ä? ç¿ĂƒĂ‰ĤĂƒÂ‰ÂżĂ—Â‰Â… tĂƒÂ™ĂƒÄ” All seminars: 6:30–8 pm All seminars held at Uris Auditorium Meyer Research and Education Building Weill Cornell Medicine 1300 York Avenue (at 69th St.) American Sign Language interpretive services will be provided at all seminars. (Â’ Ăž²ĂŽ ¿‰žĂŽÂ™ÂżÂ‰ t Â…Â™Ăƒt ™¼™ÉÞĤ¿Â‰ÂĽtɉ… t€€²²Â…tə²Ä? please call 212-821-0888 and leave a message. For more information on the Health & Wellness Series please visit our website at: www.weill.cornell.edu/seminars/

V—‰ ÂŤt™ É¿‰tɍ‰É Â’²¿ ÂŤt¼‰ ¿‰tĂƒĂ‰ €t€‰¿ Â™Ăƒ ²Â…™ç‰… Âżt…™€tÂĽ ÂŤtĂƒĂ‰Â‰Â€Ă‰²ĂžÄ? Ă˜Â—Â™Â€Â— Â™Ăƒ ĂƒĂŽÂżÂ“Â‰ÂżĂž ɲ ¿‰²Ă—‰ ɗ‰ ¿‰tĂƒĂ‰ tÂŹÂ… ɗ‰ ¼ÞŸ— ²Â…Â‰Ăƒ Ώ…‰¿ ɗ‰ t¿ Ä tĂ?™¼¼t¿Þ ¼ÞŸ— ²Â…Â‰ĂƒÄĄÄ” (ÂŹ Ăƒ²Â‰ €tĂƒÂ‰ĂƒÄ? ¿‰tĂƒĂ‰Ĥ conserving surgery is possible. Chemotherapy may be used after surgery to reduce the chance of reoccurence. What causes male breast cancer? ¼É—²ĂŽÂ“— ɗ‰ ‰Ă?tۃ €tĂŽĂƒÂ‰ ²Â’ ¿‰tĂƒĂ‰ €t€‰¿ Â™Ăƒ ²Ă‰ £²Ă˜ÂŹÄ? ²ĂƒĂ‰ ‰Ă?ÂźÂ‰ÂżĂ‰Ăƒ t“¿‰‰ ɗtÉ Ăƒ²Â‰ ‰ —t׉ t “¿‰tɉ¿ ÂżÂ™ĂƒÂŁ Â’²¿ ¿‰tĂƒĂ‰ €t€‰¿ than others. VÂ—Â™ÂŹÂ“Ăƒ ɗtÉ ™€¿‰tĂƒÂ‰ t ÂŤtÂŹÄ­Ăƒ ÂżÂ™ĂƒÂŁ ²Â’ ¿‰tĂƒĂ‰ €t€‰¿ ™€¼Î…‰Ď Ĥ Mt…™tə² ‰Ă?Ÿ²ĂƒĂŽÂżÂ‰Ä” Ĥ !t™¼Þ Â—Â™ĂƒĂ‰²¿Ăž ²Â’ ¿‰tĂƒĂ‰ €t€‰¿ ™ ’‰t¼‰ ¿‰¼tĂ‰Â™Ă—Â‰ĂƒÄ” Ĥ (—‰¿™É™“ “‰‰ ÎÉtə²ĂƒÄ? ĂƒĂŽÂ€Â— tĂƒ ɗ‰ M Ăą “‰‰Ĕ Ĥ &tי“ t “‰‰É™€ Â…Â™Ăƒ²¿Â…‰¿ €t¼¼‰… 1¼™‰’‰¼É‰¿ ĂƒĂžÂŹÂ…¿²Â‰ ²¿ t ¼™×‰¿ disease (cirrhosis).

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&²Â‰ Ăƒt’‰ÉÞ Â™Ăƒ ׉¿Þ ™Ÿ²¿Ă‰tÉĔ !²¿ ²¼Â…‰¿ tÂ…ĂŽÂĽĂ‰ĂƒÄ? ‰×‰¿Þ…tĂž —²ĂŽĂƒÂ‰Â—²¼Â… Â™Ă‰Â‰ÂŤĂƒ €tÂŹ ‰€²Â‰ ÂŤt¢²¿ Â’tÂĽÂĽ —tĂŁtÂżÂ…ĂƒÄ” (Ă‰Ä­Ăƒ ™Ÿ²¿Ă‰tÉ ɲ €¼‰tÂŹ ĂŽÂź €¼ÎÉɉ¿ Â’¿² ɗ‰ è²²¿ ɲ ÂŤt£‰ t €¼‰tÂż Âźtɗ Â’²¿ Ă˜t¼£™“ in your home. Remove small rugs and runners that are not secure and stow any cords or plugs that obstruct walking. Proper —²Â‰ ¼™“—É™“ Â™Ăƒ €¿™É™€tÂĽÄ? Â‰ĂƒÂźÂ‰Â€Â™tÂĽÂĽĂž tÉ ™“—ÉĔ JÂĽt€‰ ÂŹÂ™Â“Â—Ă‰ÂĽÂ™Â“Â—Ă‰Ăƒ ™ tɗ¿²²Ăƒ tÂŹÂ… —tÂĽÂĽĂ˜tĂžĂƒ ɲ ™¼¼Î™tɉ Ă˜t¼£™“ ÂźtĂ‰Â—ĂƒÄ” @ĂŽĂ‰ĂƒÂ™Â…Â‰Ä? Â‰ĂƒÂźÂ‰Â€Â™tÂĽÂĽĂž ™ :Â‰Ă˜ k²¿£ ™ÉÞÄ? Â™Ă‰Ä­Ăƒ ™Ÿ²¿Ă‰tÉ ɲ ‰ tĂ˜t¿‰ ²Â’ Ă˜Â‰Ă‰ or icy surfaces on stairs or sidewalks. In addition to home and ²ĂŽĂ‰ĂƒÂ™Â…‰ Ăƒt’‰ÉÞÄ? ¿‰“μtÂż ‰Ă?Â‰ÂżÂ€Â™ĂƒÂ‰ ɲ ™Ÿ¿²Ă—‰ ² ™¼™ÉÞ tÂŹÂ… tÂĽt€‰ is an important falls prevention tool. It is recommended that tÂ…ĂŽÂĽĂ‰Ăƒ ‰“t“‰ ™ òï ÂŤÂ™ÂŹĂŽĂ‰Â‰Ăƒ ²Â’ ²Â…‰¿tɉ Â™ÂŹĂ‰Â‰ÂŹĂƒÂ™Ă‰Ăž ‰Ă?Â‰ÂżÂ€Â™ĂƒÂ‰ ² ²ĂƒĂ‰ Â…tĂžĂƒ ²Â’ ɗ‰ Ă˜Â‰Â‰ÂŁÄ? Ă˜Â—Â™Â€Â— €tÂŹ ™€¼Î…‰ Ă˜t¼£™“Ä? ™£™“ or swimming. Talk to your medical provider about the right ‰Ă?Â‰ÂżÂ€Â™ĂƒÂ‰Ăƒ Â’²¿ Ăž²ĂŽÄ” V² ¼‰t¿ ²¿Â‰ t ²ĂŽĂ‰ Ÿ¿Â‰Ă—‰É™“ ²ĂƒĂ‰Â‰²Ÿ²¿²ĂƒÂ™Ăƒ tÂŹÂ… ²Â‰ ¼²ĂƒĂƒÄ? Ă˜Â—Â™Â€Â— t¿‰ ™Ÿ²¿Ă‰tÉ ™ ÂĽÂ‰ĂƒĂƒÂ‰ÂŹÂ™ÂŹÂ“ ɗ‰ ĂƒÂ‰Ă—Â‰ÂżÂ™Ă‰Ăž ²Â’ Â’tÂĽÂĽĂƒÄ? Ă˜Â‰ ™×™É‰ ɗ‰ community to join us October 16 for our bone health seminar.

Dr. Katherine Heilpern Joins NewYork-Presbyterian/ Weill Cornell Medical Center as Chief Operating @’瀉¿ @ÂŹ ĂŽÂ“ĂŽĂƒĂ‰ Ă°Ä? ¿Ĕ 1tɗ‰¿™‰ 3Ä” &‰™¼Ÿ‰¿ ¢²Â™ÂŹÂ‰Â… :Â‰Ă˜k²¿£ĤJÂżÂ‰Ăƒ Þɉ¿™tÂŹÄše‰™¼¼ Cornell Medical Center as senior vice president and chief operating ²Â’瀉¿Ĕ Q—‰ ¢²Â™ÂŹĂƒ ĂŽĂƒ Â’¿² ɗ‰ ²¿Ăž University School of Medicine and ²¿Ăž &‰t¼É—€t¿‰Ä? Ă˜Â—Â‰ÂżÂ‰ ĂƒÂ—Â‰ ĂƒÂ‰ÂżĂ—Â‰Â… tĂƒ €—t™¿ ²Â’ ɗ‰ ‰Ÿt¿É‰É ²Â’ ‰¿“‰€Þ Medicine and held several other key ¼‰tÂ…Â‰ÂżĂƒÂ—Â™Âź ¿²¼Â‰ĂƒÄ” (ÂŹ —‰¿ ÂŹÂ‰Ă˜ ¿²¼Â‰Ä? ¿Ĕ Heilpern will manage and direct daily operations including the delivery of Âźtə‰É €t¿‰ Â’²¿ :Â‰Ă˜k²¿£ĤJÂżÂ‰Ăƒ Þɉ¿™tÂŹÄše‰™¼¼ ²¿Â‰ÂĽÂĽ 9‰…™€tÂĽ Center.

NYSTEM Researcher Talks Diseases in a Petri Dish and Precision Medicine

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VÂ—Â™Ăƒ ɉ€—™žĂŽÂ‰ ²Â’ ĂƒÂ€ÂżÂ‰Â‰ÂŹÂ™ÂŹÂ“ ‰Ă?Â™ĂƒĂ‰Â™ÂŹÂ“ drugs using cultivated cells with certain mutations is at the forefront of Ÿ¿Â‰Â€Â™ĂƒÂ™² ‰…™€™‰Ä? …‰×‰¼²ŸÂ™ÂŹÂ“ Ét¿“‰É‰… É¿‰tĂ‰ÂŤÂ‰ÂŹĂ‰Ăƒ Â’²¿ ÂźtĂ‰Â™Â‰ÂŹĂ‰ĂƒÄ­ ™…™×™…Ît¼™ã‰… cases.

Beyond colon €t€‰¿Ä? ¿Ĕ Ă—tÂŹĂƒÄ­ ÂĽt dedicates a ĂƒÂ™Â“ÂŹÂ™ç€tÉ portion of its research to ‰Ă?Ÿ¼²¿Â™ÂŹÂ“ ɗ‰ development ²Â’ ĂƒÂźÂ‰Â€Â™ç€ cardiac cells that act as natural pacemakers. Through Â—Â™Ăƒ Ă˜²¿£Ä? ¿Ĕ Ă—tÂŹĂƒ ĂƒÂ‰Â‰ÂŁĂƒ ɲ “‰‰¿tɉ pacemaker cells from human embryonic stem cells that represent the sinoatrial node. The critical importance of the ²Â…‰Ä? t€€²¿Â…™“ ɲ ¿Ĕ Ă—tÂŹĂƒÄ? Â™Ăƒ tŸŸt¿‰É in dysfunctions that arise from aging tÂŹÂ… Â…Â™ĂƒÂ‰tĂƒÂ‰Ä? ¼‰t…™“ ɲ ɗ‰ ™Ÿ¼tÉtə² ²Â’ ²¿Â‰ ɗtÂŹ ùïïÄ?ĂŻĂŻĂŻ Âźt€‰tÂŁÂ‰ÂżĂƒ ‰t€— year. His work could eventually lead to ¼™’‰ĤĂƒtי“ €‰¼¼Î¼tÂż ɗ‰¿tÂźÂ™Â‰ĂƒÄ”

ÄŞe—tĂ‰Ä­Ăƒ ¿‰tÂĽÂĽĂž ‰Ă?€™É™“ Â™Ăƒ ɗtÉ ™’ Ăž²ĂŽÄ­ÂżÂ‰ ĂŽĂƒÂ™ÂŹÂ“ Ă‰Â—Â™Ăƒ Â’²¿tÉÄ? t¼¿‰tÂ…Ăž ĂƒÂ€ÂżÂ‰Â‰ÂŹÂ™ÂŹÂ“ ! tŸŸ¿²Ă—‰… Â…ÂżĂŽÂ“ĂƒÄ? Â™Ă‰Ä­Ăƒ ¿‰tÂ…Ăž ɲ “² ²Â’Â’ ɗ‰ ĂƒÂ—Â‰ÂĽÂ’ t’ɉ¿ Ă‰Â‰ĂƒĂ‰Â™ÂŹÂ“Ä? Ă—Â‰ÂżĂƒĂŽĂƒ ɗ‰ labor intensive process of developing ÂŹÂ‰Ă˜ Â…ÂżĂŽÂ“ĂƒÄ?ÄŤ Ăƒt™… ¿Ĕ Ă—tÂŹĂƒÄ? Ă˜Â—² Â™Ăƒ tÂĽĂƒ² ɗ‰ J‰É‰¿ ( JÂżÂ‰ĂƒĂƒÂŤtÂŹ 9 J¿²Â’Â‰ĂƒĂƒ²¿ ™ Surgery and vice chair for research and €—™‰’ ²Â’ ɗ‰ Â™Ă—Â™ĂƒÂ™² ²Â’ MÂ‰ĂƒÂ‰t¿€— ™ ɗ‰ ‰Ÿt¿É‰É ²Â’ Q¿Þ tÉ e‰™¼¼ ²¿Â‰ÂĽÂĽ

What these seemingly disparate areas of study have in common is the possibility of creating new treatments because of stem cell research – whether using the programmable cells to develop “diseases in a dish� to screen drugs (in the short term) or further develop organoids made of human tissue that could heal or replace damaged cells (in the longer term).

(ÂŹ ùïðÜÄ? ¿Ĕ V²Â…Â… Ă—tÂŹĂƒÄ? tĂƒĂƒ²Â€Â™tɉ …‰tÂŹ Â’²¿ ÂżÂ‰ĂƒÂ‰t¿€— tÉ e‰™¼¼ ²¿Â‰ÂĽÂĽ 9‰…™€™‰Ä? and his colleagues published pioneering research on their development of the ç¿ĂƒĂ‰Ĥ‰×‰¿ —΍tÂŹ Ă‰Â™ĂƒĂƒĂŽÂ‰ Ÿ¼tɒ²¿ ɲ Ă‰Â‰ĂƒĂ‰ drugs for colon cancer. Using a “disease in a Petri dishâ€? model derived from stem Â€Â‰ÂĽÂĽĂƒÄ? Â—Â™Ăƒ ɉtÂŤ ™…‰É™ç‰… t Ét¿“‰É‰… …¿Î“ É¿‰tɍ‰É Â’²¿ t €²²Ä? ™—‰¿™É‰… Â’²¿ of the disease. It also has the potential to change the future of healthcare Â’¿² ²Â‰ĤĂƒÂ™ĂŁÂ‰ĤçĂ‰ĂƒĤtÂĽÂĽ É¿‰tɍ‰É ɲ personalized treatment strategies.

ÄŞe—‰ Ăž²ĂŽÄ­ÂżÂ‰ Ă˜²¿£Â™ÂŹÂ“ ™ ɗ‰ ĂƒĂ‰Â‰ÂŤ €‰¼¼ 牼…Ä? ™É Â™ÂŹĂ‰Â‰ÂżĂƒÂ‰Â€Ă‰Ăƒ Ă˜Â™Ă‰Â— ‰×‰¿Þ tĂƒÂźÂ‰Â€Ă‰ ²Â’ —΍tÂŹ Â…Â™ĂƒÂ‰tĂƒÂ‰Ä?ÄŤ Ăƒt™… ¿Ĕ Ă—tÂŹĂƒÄ” ÄŞe™É— t ¼™Éɼ‰ ™t“™tə²Ä? Ăž²ĂŽ €tÂŹ ĂƒÂ‰Â‰ ɗtÉ any investment in stem cell biology has tremendous impact on biomedical ÂżÂ‰ĂƒÂ‰t¿€— tÂŹÂ… ɗ‰ Ÿ²Ă‰Â‰ÂŹĂ‰Â™tÂĽ ɲ çÂ… ÂŹÂ‰Ă˜ therapies.â€? ¿Ĕ Ă—tÂŹĂƒÄ­ ÂĽt —tĂƒ ‰‰ Âźt¿É¼Þ ’Ώ…‰… by New York State through the Stem Cell Science (NYSTEM) program. Since ùïïáÄ? :kQV 9 “¿tÂŹĂ‰Ăƒ —t׉ €¿‰tɉ… t network of stem cell researchers where ɗ‰¿‰ Ÿ¿Â‰Ă—™²ĂŽĂƒÂĽĂž Ă˜tĂƒ ²Â‰Ä? Â’t€™¼™Étə“ tÂŤ ™É™²ĂŽĂƒÄ? —™“—Ĥ¿Â‰Ă˜t¿… ÂżÂ‰ĂƒÂ‰t¿€—Ĕ “NYSTEM allowed us to do research in areas we never would have been able to Â…² ²Ă‰Â—Â‰ÂżĂ˜Â™ĂƒÂ‰Ä?ÄŤ ¿Ĕ Ă—tÂŹĂƒ Ăƒt™…Ĕ The program has also helped his lab “¿²Ă˜ tÂŹÂ… €¿‰tɉ ÂŹÂ‰Ă˜ ¢² ĂƒÄ? Ă˜Â™Ă‰Â— “¿tÂŹĂ‰Ăƒ funding salaries for about a third of his staff. “NYSTEM has been critically important ɲ ²ĂŽÂż Ă˜²¿£Ä?ÄŤ —‰ Ăƒt™…Ĕ ÄŞ(Ă‰Ä­Ăƒ ‰t ¼‰… ĂŽĂƒ ɲ be more productive and competitive in Ă‰Â—Â™Ăƒ 牼… ²Â’ ÂżÂ‰ĂƒÂ‰t¿€—Ä? Ă˜Â—Â™Â€Â— —tĂƒ “¿²Ă˜ÂŹ tremendously since the program was launched.â€? (É‰¿tə²tÂĽ Qɉ ‰¼¼ tĂžÄ? Ă˜Â—Â™Â€Â— Â™Ăƒ @ۃ² ‰¿ Ă°ĂŻÄ? tÂ™ÂŤĂƒ ɲ ¿™“ tĂ˜tÂżÂ‰ÂŹÂ‰ĂƒĂƒ ɲ the importance of stem cell research.

2018 Third Avenue Fair (ÂŹ t ¢²Â™ÂŹĂ‰ ‰’’²¿Ă‰Ä? ²¿Â‰ ɗtÂŹ ùïï e‰™¼¼ ²¿Â‰ÂĽÂĽ 9‰…™€™‰ tÂŹÂ… :Â‰Ă˜k²¿£ĤJÂżÂ‰Ăƒ Þɉ¿™tÂŹ Â’t€Î¼ÉÞÄ? ĂƒĂ‰ĂŽÂ…Â‰ÂŹĂ‰Ăƒ tÂŹÂ… ĂƒĂ‰tÂ’Â’ €²Ă—‰¿‰… ²Ă‰Â— ĂƒÂ™Â…Â‰Ăƒ ²Â’ V—™¿… ׉Î‰ Â‰Ă‰Ă˜Â‰Â‰ÂŹ þáɗ tÂŹÂ… þøɗ QĂ‰ÂżÂ‰Â‰Ă‰ĂƒÄ? Ÿ¿²Ă—™…™“ ’¿‰‰ —‰t¼É— ĂƒÂ€ÂżÂ‰Â‰ÂŹÂ™ÂŹÂ“ĂƒÄ? “tÂŤÂ‰Ăƒ tÂŹÂ… ²Ă‰Â—‰¿ ™É‰¿t€É™×‰ tÂ€Ă‰Â™Ă—Â™Ă‰Â™Â‰ĂƒÄ? ™’²¿tə²Ä? tÂŹÂ… “™×‰tĂ˜tĂžĂƒ …“ ɗ‰ ùïðá V—™¿… ׉Î‰ !t™¿ ² Q‰ŸÉ‰ ‰¿ øÄ” V—‰ V—™¿… ׉Î‰ !t™¿Ä? ÂŤtÂŹt“‰… Ăž ɗ‰ 9t—tÉÉtÂŹ —tÂŤ ‰¿ ²Â’ ²Â‰ÂżÂ€Â‰Ä? ÉtÂŁÂ‰Ăƒ Ÿ¼t€‰ ‰t€— Q‰ŸÉ‰ ‰¿ Â‰Ă‰Ă˜Â‰Â‰ÂŹ þþɗ tÂŹÂ… áþɗ QĂ‰ÂżÂ‰Â‰Ă‰ĂƒÄ”

She will also be responsible for the development of clinical ĂƒÂ‰ÂżĂ—Â™Â€Â‰Ăƒ tÂŹÂ… ²Ă‰Â—‰¿ ĂƒĂ‰Âżtɉ“™€ ™™É™tĂ‰Â™Ă—Â‰ĂƒÄ” ¿Ĕ &‰™¼Ÿ‰¿ Â™Ăƒ ɗ¿™¼¼‰… ɲ ¢²Â™ÂŹ ɗ‰ ɉtÂŤ tÉ :Â‰Ă˜k²¿£ĤJÂżÂ‰Ăƒ Þɉ¿™tÂŹÄše‰™¼¼ ²¿Â‰ÂĽÂĽ 9‰…™€tÂĽ Center and become part of the wonderful community on 9t—tÉÉtÂŹÄ­Ăƒ tĂƒĂ‰ Q™…‰Ĕ

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DECODING DELACROIX The Met Fifth Avenue stages the first full-scale retrospective in North America of the works of the 19th century French painter BY VAL CASTRONOVO

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) was one of the most famous Romantic painters of his day. He’s a giant of Western art. But while he may be a household name, “he continues to be little understood,” Asher Miller, associate curator at The Met, said at a preview of the new mega-show in 12 galleries on the second floor. A collaboration of The Met and the Louvre, which loaned 17 paintings, including the iconic harem scene “Women of Algiers in Their Apartment” (1834), the exhibit showcases more than 150 oils, watercolors, drawings, prints, diaries and notebooks from dozens of lenders in Europe and North America. The poet-critic Baudelaire called Delacroix “a volcanic crater artistically concealed beneath bouquets of flowers,” alluding to his polished yet emotionally charged works that anticipated the moderns — Cézanne, Picasso, Matisse and Van Gogh, who said about his predecessor, “That bastard. He’s really good.” As The Met’s new director, Max Hollein, put it: “Delacroix is one of the great colorists in art history. If you look carefully at the brushstrokes ... they make the paintings vibrate in a very special way. It’s this radiant palette and unconventional, untraditional raw treatment [of subjects] that astonish us still today and certainly astonished people at the time.” As a 19th century Romantic who looked up to Rubens and the Venetian painters, Delacroix created works imbued with feeling and passion, color and movement. The art establishment considered him out of control, but he nonetheless won acceptance by the state-sponsored Salon, which hosted shows of contemporary artists at the Louvre and made him famous with the exhibition of “The Barque of Dante” (1822) and other works when he was a young man. Delacroix’s ambition is writ large here. He thought big and painted big, populating broad canvases with subjects drawn from literature, Greek mythology, religion, history, politics, travel and the animal kingdom. The subjects had gravitas, from the Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire in the 1820s and Christ’s Passion and Crucifixion to Medea’s revenge on her sons and the lions and other big cats at a Paris menagerie. (See “Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi,” 1826; “Christ in the Garden of Olives,” 1824-26; “Medea About to Kill Her Children,” 1838; and “Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother,” 1830.) In “The Death of Sardanapa-

Delacroix drew inspiration from works of literature such as “Hamlet.” Eugène Delacroix, (French, 1798– 1863). “Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard,” 1835. Oil on canvas. 39 × 31 11/16 in. Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main. Photo: Städel Museum - ARTOTHEK

A self-portrait by Eugène Delacroix, with the painter exuding calm and confidence, is among more than 150 oils, watercolors, drawings, prints and other objects on view at The Met Fifth Avenue through January 6. Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863). “Self-Portrait in a Green Vest,” ca. 1837. Oil on canvas, 25 9/16 x 21 7/16 in. Musée du Louvre, Paris. © RMN — Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre)/Michel Urtado lus” (1845-46), a smaller version of the notorious Salon painting from 1827-28, the Assyrian king chooses suicide over surrender to his foes. Delacroix used live models, and later in this career relied on memory, to create compositions brimming with figures and dramatic tension. He not only didn’t shy away from conflict, he met it head-on. There is a room devoted to works from his trip to North Africa in 1832. After the French invasion of Algeria, he accompanied a diplomatic mission to Morocco and visited Tangier, Meknes and Algiers. The experience provided the grist for celebrated genre works — “Street in Meknes,” from 1832, among them — but also a string of action paintings that portray Arab fighters on horseback engaged in military exercises. They lead calvary charges and fire their weapons; horses rear up in reaction to the gunfire; and soldiers and animals collide. It’s messy and chaotic. But scenes of violence and mayhem are just one facet of the master’s oeuvre, which includes more than 800 paintings and 8,000 drawings execut-

ed over four decades. Delacroix was as adept at producing battle tableaux as he was at painting flowers or portraits. The Met’s “Basket of Flowers” (1848-49) underwent a thorough restoration for the removal of ugly varnish and now shines brilliantly. As Miller said: “In the 50 years it has been here, it has been a decidedly unloved painting, until the past year-and-a-half [when] Charlotte Hale and her Department of Paintings Conservation brought it back to life. It’s the first time you will see the painting as Delacroix’s contemporaries saw it.” One of the show’s many wonders is a portrait of the artist himself, “Self-Portrait in a Green Vest” (ca. 1937), completed when he was almost 40. From a young age, Delacroix aspired to become an artist. “His ambition was to achieve the ideal of the artist as the equal of statesmen, scientists ... poets,” the curator said. The picture here, with the painter exuding calm and confidence, signals he’s “made it.” As Miller wrote in an email about the dynamo’s versatility: “Delacroix’s genius was complex and

The size of this painting surprised visitors. It was as big as paintings of historical subjects. One critic wrote, “This unusual artist has never painted a man who looks like a man in the way his tiger looks like a tiger.” Eugène Delacroix, (French, 1798–1863). “Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother,”1830. Oil on canvas. 130 x 195 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris. © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre) / Franck Raux varied. There’s no single masterpiece that encompasses all the rest. Every visitor to the exhibition has to find his or her own way in — and that might take more than one visit. Compare the surging, roiling crowds reacting to the action in ‘Murder of the Bishop of Liège,’ with its movement and dramatic use of light, to the monumental, placid ‘Women of Algiers,’ with its far more developed sense of surface and color. Or take the two versions of ‘The Death of Sardanapalus,’ on the one hand, and ‘Medea About to Kill Her Children,’ on the other: How does one account for the shift in the way Delacroix depicts reason — or the absence of reason?”

IF YOU GO WHAT: “Delacroix” WHERE: The Met Fifth Avenue 1000 Fifth Ave. (at 82nd Street) WHEN: through January 6 www.metmuseum.org

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MUSICAL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 Swern in 2017 and they sent out festival applications. They got into NY Winterfest, which was in January 2018 at the Hudson Guild Theater in Chelsea. They put on three sold out shows and won Best Singer, Best Choreography, Best Lighting Design, Best Directing, Best Score, Most Creative Play and Best Overall Production. He said they were able to entice someone who saw the show to make a generous donation to the production, Swern was able to turn that into a budget for two runs of the show. There will be 16 shows at Town Stages and there are 99 seats in the theater. The stage is set up so that there will be two platforms and a 17 to 20-footlong runway in the middle. One platform will signify New Jersey and the other will signify New York. Seamon said it was very important for him and the team to work with a female director, and then they found Jessica Fichter. “I’m just in awe of what Jess is doing, it’s surprising and deep and a really different show all together, and we’re really excited and love what she’s done. I wrote

Meet Anderson Simon At NY Winterfest 2018, “The Eleventh Hour!” won seven awards, including most creative play. Photo: Zack Morrison a show about the end of the world in a basement band and there’s a medieval knight who comes and sings a song, there’s mole people who sings songs, it’s kind of a high sci-fi universe,” Seamon said. “Jess is taking it very serious, she’s putting her whole self into this show.” Fichter has been directing for 10 years (her work has included children’s theater, comedies and dramas), and she has a special place in her heart for musicals. She is most excited for the audience interaction

during the show. “If you’re an audience member you may get like a trinket, you may get a glow stick, a kazoo, a blow-up sword, there’s a lot of encouraging audience members to play along and clap along,” said Fichter. “There’s a lot of fun little things that bring the audience into the show.”

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Amazon is expanding its physical presence again, this time opening a 4,000-square-foot store that sells a wide range of products, including shower curtains, Hallmark cards and baby bottles. The store, called Amazon 4-star,

opened last Thursday in New York’s SoHo neighborhood and will only offer Amazon.com’s best-selling items or those that get four or more star ratings on its website. The products it sells can be changed out weekly, based on changing customer reviews or what is or isn’t selling well, said Cameron Janes, who oversees Amazon’s physical stores. The new store is another sign that Amazon is serious about expanding its brick-and-mortar presence. It already has more than a dozen bookstores around the country, recently opened four cashier-less convenience stores and bought the Whole Foods

grocery chain a year ago. “It seems interesting,” said Edward Niestat, a management consultant in New York who walked into the store shortly after it opened Thursday morning. “If you know what you want, you order it from Amazon. But if you wanted to go to a store and look around and maybe get some ideas, this is not a bad idea.” Like at its bookstores, 4-star doesn’t accept cash. Shoppers can pay with the Amazon app, an Amazon gift card or a debit or credit card. Prime members will pay the same price as it is on Amazon.com; non-members will pay the list price. Digital price

tags will display both prices and will be updated in real time, Janes said. Items can’t be ordered online and picked up at the store, but 4-star will take some returns for items bought on Amazon.com. The store also sells toys, books and many of Amazon’s own goods, like its Echo voice-activated devices, AmazonBasics skillets and throws from Rivet, its homegoods and furniture line. Amazon said the store is permanent, but Janes wouldn’t say if more stores are on the way. “You’re going to have to stay tuned for what comes next,” he said.

CITY’S PUBLIC HOUSING RESIDENTS TESTIFY IN LAWSUIT LIVING Process is part of a proposed $2 billion settlement with NYCHA BY LARRY NEUMEISTER

Dozens of the 400,000 residents of the nation’s largest public housing system emotionally told a judge last week what it’s like to live with rats and cockroaches and mold in buildings where elevators, heat and running water are unreliable. “We cannot live safety and healthily in these terrible conditions,” said Monica Underwood, one of the residents. The voices were added to 700 others who described their lives in letters before U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III heard comment on a proposed $2 billion settlement of lawsuits aimed at holding the New York City Housing Authority, known as NYCHA, responsible for decades of neglect. Lawyers for the city, the federal government and NYCHA urged Pauley, a Manhattan jurist, to approve the deal, which includes the appointment of a monitor. An organization representing tenants urged its rejection, saying more money and expertise should be part of the settlement. The judge did not immediately rule whether the deal was fair, reasonable and adequate, though he cautioned that “problems of this magnitude cannot be fixed overnight.” According to a consent decree, the

The New York City Housing Authority’s Washington Houses in East Harlem. Dozens of residents told a judge of wide-ranging problems in city public housing. Their testimony is part of a proposed lawsuit settlement with the authority. Photo: Jim.henderson, via WikimediaCommons city agreed to pay $1 billion over four years and an additional $200 million annually for the following six years. The litigation came after investigators learned that widespread mis-

management at NYCHA had failed to respond properly to thousands of annual complaints by residents about lead paint, broken elevators and locks, insufficient heat, mold and an infesta-

tion of rats, cockroaches and bedbugs. Various speakers on Sept. 26 recalled deceptive practices within the housing authority that prevented inspectors from finding dangerous or

unsanitary conditions and enabled NYCHA employees to dodge ensuring that problems were fixed. Nicole Gueron, a lawyer for At-Risk Community Services Inc., urged Pauley to reject the settlement, saying it would leave in place managers and employees who’d lied to authorities before. “The consent decree is just not enough,” she said. “It is doomed to fail.” Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Yalen said scrapping the deal would create uncertainty and possibly litigation with no settlement. “We believe this is the best deal we could have negotiated,” he said. Even the judge suggested at one point that placing NYCHA in receivership might be a possibility. Yalen said the federal government believed that was not the right course. “This is ultimately an institution that has to stand on its own two feet,” he said. Attorney Debo Adegbile, speaking for NYCHA, said creating a receivership would be like having the federal government “taking over a city and running the whole city.” “There is no easy path, only difficult paths,” he said. At the outset of the hearing, Pauley seemed to acknowledge as much, citing “decades-long failures at all levels of government to provide safe, sanitary and decent housing.” “Problems of this magnitude cannot be fixed overnight,” he said.

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CITY: CYCLING AND SWEETS ACTIVITIES These bikers prove that riding can be more than exercise BY ARIANA GIULIA REICHLER

The last group of cyclists, clad in glow sticks and brightly colored biking gear, coasts into the Doughnut Plant in Chelsea and is greeted with cheering and, yes, fresh donuts. It’s almost 2 a.m. and they have just concluded a nearly 40-mile ride that began hours earlier in daylight. As enticing as this ďŹ nish line may sound, the donuts are not the only feature that distinguishes this bike ride from a more typical one. More notably, one-ďŹ fth of the participants are blind, visually impaired or otherwise disabled. This year, more than 50 cyclists, including 11 tandem teams, participated in the fourth annual Donut Ride on Sept. 29. Tandem and independent riders alike pedaled their way through four boroughs, stopping for coffee and donuts in each one. They started in Brooklyn, riding from McCarren Park to Peter Pan Donut & Pastry Shop in Greenpoint, traveled up to Alpha Donuts in Sunnyside, Queens, continued north to the Crown Diner just outside Yankee Stadium, and ďŹ nished at the Doughnut Plant on West 23rd Street. “We’re going to the best donut shops in the city,â€? program co-founder Mark Carhart said prior to the ride’s start. Smiling, he added: “That would accept 50 sweaty cyclists.â€? The aptly named Late Night Donut Ride is run by InTandem, a not-for-profit organization that allows anyone who is otherwise unable to safely bicycle alone to ride on a tandem bike. The more able-bodied riders at the front are designated as “captainsâ€? and their disabled partners at the rear are called “stokers.â€? InTandem’s precursor, a similar program operated by Achilles International, enabled people with disabilities to participate in running events. It was created by Artie Elefant, an avid cyclist who lost his vision due to retinitis pigmentosa at age 47. When Achilles shut down the tandem program in

Cyclists at Peter Pan Donut & Pastry Shop in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the ďŹ rst stop during InTandem’s Sept. 29 Late Night Donut Ride. Photo: Ariana Giulia Reichler 2013, Elefant decided to bring it back as its own entity, InTandem. Elefant passed away from lymphocytic leukemia just prior to InTandem’s 2013 opening, but his friends stepped in to make it a reality. As one such friend, Carhart, who is also the InTandem board’s chairman, has seen InTandem grow immensely since its launch. “We originally had 8-10 stokers, and it was only for the visually impaired,â€? he said. “Now we have several hundred and are serving people with different kinds of disabilities.â€? InTandem’s executive director, Matthew Nidek, said the rides serve a couple of purposes. “It gets people out that normally wouldn’t be able to get out onto a bicycle,â€? Nidek said. “It’s a lot of socialization, it’s a lot of exercise. When you combine those two things, I feel like there’s just a lot of goodness that comes from that.â€? The Donut Ride likewise ďŹ nds its inspiration in Elefant, with whom Carhart used to ride a nighttime shift during a 24hour tandem relay through the city. “Artie loved donuts,â€? Carhart said. “We’d be in the middle of nowhere and he’d say, ‘Let’s get a donut.’ And we’d find donut shops and build them into our ride. So, when he passed away, I said, ‘We have to have a ride with donuts. And it has to be at night.’â€? The combined attraction of cycling and donuts was enough to bring riders into Brooklyn from as far as New Jersey. Some were riding with InTandem for the first time, while others were regulars in the organization’s Thursday and weekend rides in Central

Park, as well as frequent special events like the Donut Ride. Pedro Liz is one such veteran stoker. “I couldn’t ride anymore, and then I heard about InTandem,â€? said Liz, who joined InTandem three years ago. “It’s great exercise. I love it.â€? In addition to the Donut Ride, of which this marked his third, Liz often participates in InTandem’s special rides, such as the TD Five Boro Bike Tour. He and his captain, Wassim Mir, often partner on weekend rides, but the Donut Ride was their ďŹ rst long-distance event together. InTandem is always welcoming new volunteers, who undergo captain training in disability awareness, tandem techniques and bike safety with the organization’s director of operations, Jonathon Epstein. “I train people until they’re safe. If they’re not ready, I train them until they are,â€? said Epstein, for whom InTandem is the perfect merging of two passions. “I work in disability services and my father owns [a chain of bike stores], so I thought, ‘This is something I can do.’â€? What makes InTandem special is the symbiotic relationship that develops between partners, Nidek said. “Stokers and captains both beneďŹ t,â€? he said. “I think that’s unique in nonproďŹ ts. It levels the playing ďŹ eld.â€? Bradley Hall, a captain, echoed the sentiment: “I consider myself the beneďŹ ciary.â€? “Volunteering at its best is making friends,â€? Hall continued. “Something about this group tells me that we’re going to have that –– the best time with the best people. And that’s what it’s all about. That’s why I’m here.â€?

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RADIO CLINIC CHRONICLES Jen Rubin’s family history of a stalwart UWS small business BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

For 80 years, Radio Clinic was a fixture at the corner of 98th Street and Broadway. Generations of Upper West Siders knew the store, and its sister location on 83rd Street, as a trusted local merchant for air conditioners, televisions, stereos and all manner of electronic appliances. Jen Rubin’s new book explores decades of neighborhood and family history through the lens of the humble storefront. Rubin’s immigrant grandfather founded Radio Clinic (also known as RCI Appliances) in 1934 in the midst of the Depression; her father, Alan Rubin, guided

the store through the looting of the July 1977 blackout and its aftermath. The book draws its title from the defiant message Alan Rubin posted in the window the day after the blackout: “We Are Staying”.

How did the blackout and its aftermath affect your dad? Part of why my dad stayed in 1977 had to do with his own personality and his loyalty to his dad. At that moment when he’s watching all the glass breaking and decides he’s going to stay, I don’t think he was thinking he would stay because he was going to help this neighborhood. It was more visceral and more personal than that. But I think what did happen that had an enormous impact on him going forward was when people in the

neighborhood were coming in crying and hugging him and saying, “If you’re staying, we’re staying.” There was this moment where he realized the impact Radio Clinic had on the neighborhood. He realized, this is my community and I want to do what I can to help it, and then he got involved in Symphony Space and in the fight for commercial rent control. I think everybody coming in and giving him that kind of feedback really had a huge impact on him.

What are your memories of the Upper West Side as a kid in the late 1970s? I grew up right outside the city, but I spent most of my Saturdays and a lot of my summer days in the neighborhood. There was a store on 98th Street and a store on 83rd Street, so I spent a lot of time walking up and down Broadway, because there were alBr ways wa things that needed to be delivered between stores and it was liv always cheaper to send the kid who alw wasn’t really doing anything imwa portant around the store anyway. po At A that point in time, there were a lot l of people who had been deinstitutionalized who were living in sti the th SROs. There were a lot of people who wh would be pushing their shopping pi carts, and to me, it was all so much more interesting than the m suburbs where I grew up. But I su didn’t have a whole lot of context di word at the time for what was hapw pening or why it was happening. pe

H did you approach the research How for the book? fo I think of it as sort of like an archaeological dig. When my a grandfather first started it, you g could tell from whatever sort of co stuff he found there that before s it was Radio Clinic it had been an ice ic cream shop. So I feel like you can c peel away the layers of any of o those gorgeous buildings that line li Broadway and learn the whole story of the city. s

T story of Radio Clinic has a The nnumber of interesting resonances w with the present day, from battles oover commercial rent control that yyour dad was involved in and that ccontinue to this day to the fact that tthe former Radio Clinic storefront iis still vacant today, like so many oothers along Broadway. Did you find that there was a quality of “the m more things change, the more they stay the same” to the story as you wrote it?

Jen Rubin’s new book explores eight decades of Upper West Side history through the lens of her family’s small business. Image courtesy Jen Rubin

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Jen Rubin and her father Alan in front of Radio Clinic on Broadway and 98th Street. Photo courtesy Jen Rubin

Looters broke into Radio Clinic during the 1977 blackout and stole much of the store’s merchandise. Photo courtesy Jen Rubin the Upper West Side, that was really when the turn away from small businesses began to happen and all of the mom and pops started going under. And that’s when [former City Council Member and Borough President] Ruth Messinger started her fight for commercial rent control.

thumb on the scale to help keep small businesses. I am not by any means an economist. I’m just someone who sees the value of small businesses in our community in big and small ways.

As small businesses continue to disappear, what do we lose?

Over the course of writing this book my dad and I had a great time. We’ve gone back to the Upper West Side once or twice a year during the writing of this. My dad had me interview a lot of people. I mostly interviewed everyone in the Metro Diner on Broadway. It’s been fun to revisit the Upper West Side these last six years. Even today, people are still like, “Oh, Mr. RCI!” when they see my dad even though it’s been a long time since he’s been there.

My dad had this quote in an old article that sort of perfectly encapsulates what I think. When small businesses were starting to get pushed out in the mid-80s, he said, “[I]f an RCI that’s been around 50 years disappears from your neighborhood, some chain comes in. If it’s at all uneconomical, they’ll pull out. Whereas a business that only has one, two stores, they’ll stay during the tough times.” There’s a value to the people who made their roots here and built up a customer base. I don’t understand why cities don’t feel like it’s in the city’s public interest to have small businesses. I don’t know exactly what the right thing is for cities to do, but I don’t know why they don’t put their

You now live in Madison, Wisconsin, so what was it like returning to the Upper West Side as you worked on the book?

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