Our Town Downtown - November 15, 2018

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Street at the intersection of Fifth and Broadway. I had been in that building countless times, even in the corner offices known as “point” offices. Those coveted spaces look directly uptown, right up Fifth Avenue at the Empire State Building some ten blocks away. The Flatiron was completed in 1902, and at the time was the tallest building in New York. One can only imagine the view from the “point” offices some thirty

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The traffic was lighter than I expected as I headed west on Southern State Parkway towards Queens and Brooklyn. Continuing west through Sunnyside and Long Island City, I drove up and onto the 59th Street bridge. Off the bridge and into Manhattan, I headed downtown on Second Avenue. Right on 29th Street and then left on Fifth Avenue, and there she was ... the Flatiron Building looking right at me from its perch on 23rd

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111 Eighth Ave. Google began leasing offices in 2006, then purchased the building for $1.8 billion in 2010 Chelsea Market After leasing space at the building for over 10 years, Google bought it for $2.4 billion in March 2018 85 Tenth Ave. Google has been a tenant since 2014 Pier 57 Google will be an anchor tenant at the redeveloped pier, which is expected to open in late 2019 St. John’s Terminal Google will reportedly expand to the development, which is projected to be completed in 2022

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What a place [the Chelsea Hotel] was. Artists, writers, musicians. Arthur Miller lived there. “Look Homeward Angel,” “Naked Lunch,” “2001: A Space Odyssey” ... those and so many more great works were penned within its walls.

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years later when the Empire State was being built, rising floor by floor to its eventual 102-story height. Continuing, I turned west on 21st Street and then another right on Eighth Avenue. Miraculously, I found a metered parking spot just above 23rd. But the meter gave me only an hour to walk around the neighborhood that had been a second home to me for 34 years.

Last March, after news broke that Google had acquired the Chelsea Market building — a $2.4 billion addition to the tech giant’s massive tract of office space stretching from Eighth Avenue to the Hudson River between 15th and 16th Streets — these pages reported on the “Googlification of Chelsea.” Now, less than eight months later, it appears that Manhattan’s Googlification won’t be limited to a single neighborhood. According to multiple reports, the company plans to again expand its already sizeable West Side footprint — this time along the Hudson River at Houston Street. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Google plans to lease or buy 1.3 million square feet of office space in the redeveloped St. John’s Terminal building. The former rail depot, a massive three-story structure stretching several blocks along West Street, is being overhauled and expanded into a 12-story commercial development by Oxford Properties Group.

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Harmon Rangell walking out of his former shop in Chelsea in the 1960s. The reflection in the window is of the facade of St. Vincent de Paul church directly across the street. Photo courtesy of Harmon Rangell

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In Brief MORE HELP FOR SMALL BUSINESS

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

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NOVEMBER 15-21,2018

WHAT IT MEANS TO DRINK IN MODERATION HEALTH

If you’re counting your drinks throughout the week: • No more than 14 drinks for men • No more than 7 drinks for women

After a recent study reported that alcohol doesn’t confer any health benefits, two national institutes offer some new guidelines

The amount is lower for women as they have less volume for the alcohol to be distributed because they tend to weigh less than men and have less body water per pound compared to men. Women are also at a greater risk of liver damage from drinking alcohol than men. Furthermore, it is still unclear if there is any safe amount of alcohol to drink if you already have an underlying liver disease, so you may be especially at risk of alcoholic liver injury if:

BY AMON ASGHARPOUR, MD

A few months ago, a new study was released in the British medical journal The Lancet that reported that when it comes to alcohol, no amount of drinking can improve our health. Previously the thought had been that drinking alcohol, in moderation, of course, resulted in some health beneďŹ ts, especially for heart disease, and reduced the risk of stroke and diabetes. The study suggests that these potential beneďŹ ts are outweighed by an increased risk of cancer and other health relatedharms that alcohol poses to oneself and others. So, after decades of being told that “moderateâ€? drinking was not just safe for us, but actually “healthy,â€? the ďŹ ndings in this new study bring these notions into question. But there’s no need to throw out those good bottles of wine that you’ve been saving for a special occasion quite yet. However,

Photo: Marco Verch, via ickr with the holidays approaching fast, it is time to redeďŹ ne what drinking in moderation means. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) have created some guidelines to help us by “Rethinking Drinking.â€? It deďŹ nes a standard drink as equaled to 14 grams of ethanol which can be found

in 5 ounces of wine, 12 ounces of beer or 1.5 ounces of 80 proof spirits. So how many drinks can you have?

For people with no known liver problems, this means that on any single day: • No more than 4 drinks for men • No more than 3 drinks for women

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• You have already been diagnosed with a liver disease such as iron overload or hepatitis B or C. • You are obese. • You have genetic factors that could determine the likelihood of liver injury after heavy drinking. • You have a family history of alcoholism.

And because liver disease is often silent, people may not know that they have an underlying liver disease such as Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) even though they may be drinking moderately. With this in mind, there is a New York State law that requires health care providers to offer one-time testing for all those born between 19451965. If one is found to have HCV, there are many well-tolerated, oral, and highly effective one-time treatments that can eliminate the virus and cure the disease. Alcohol consumption is common in the United Sates with 86% of all people greater than 18 years of age reporting having tried alcohol at some point in their lives. Furthermore, 56 percent of adult Americans say they drank alcohol in the last month, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. This holiday season, the “The Big Apple� may be the city that never sleeps, but let’s also try to make it the city that drinks mindfully. Dr. Amon Asgharpour is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, The Division of Liver Diseases at Mount Sinai.

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG VIOLENT MUGGING

STATS FOR THE WEEK

This sort of thing probably doesn’t happen at Disney World. At 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, a 28-year-old man from Orlando, FL was waiting for a bus on the southeast corner of Bowling Green and State Street. An unknown 26-year-old man approached him, asked for the time - and then punched the 28-year-old in the face multiple times before taking his phone. The assailant then fled southbound on State. Police searched the neighborhood but couldn’t find the perpetrator. The stolen phone was an iPhone 7 valued at $1,000.

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YOUTH CHARGED IN TWO SEPARATE INCIDENTS

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Would you like a side of jurisprudence with that order, sir? At 11:35 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, a 17-year-old male youth entered the Arpita Deli & Grocery at 179 Church St. and displayed what a 36-year-old male employee believed to be a firearm in his waistband, demanding that the employee hand over the cash register. The suspect was arrested on Nov. 1 and charged with robbery. But the young man’s crime spree continued. At 10:45 a.m. on Nov. 1, a 35-year-old woman was sitting on

a bench on the southbound A train platform in the Spring Street station when the same youth snatched her cell phone from her hand. The victim chased after the thief and grabbed his hoodie, holding onto his back. But he continued to run away, causing the victim to fall down. Police soon arrived on the scene and tracked the victim’s phone to the corner of Sixth Avenue and West 47th Street. There the victim identified the mugger, and the youth was arrested and charged, this time with grand larceny.

THIEF STEALS VISITOR’S PHONE It was quite a week for cell phone snatches. At 7:15 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 28, a 45-year-old woman from Brazil was standing in front of 1 World Trade Center taking photos on her cell phone when an unknown man approached her and forcibly took her phone before fleeing. Police searched the area but couldn’t find the assailant. The stolen phone was a Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus valued at $1,038.

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WHOLLY UNACCEPTABLE One Whole Foods employee didn’t leave work with the whole of her belongings recently. At 4:40 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, a 35-year-old female employee of the store at 270 Greenwich St. placed her book bag on a coat rack inside the store’s office. When she returned to the room at 7 p.m., the zipper on her book bag had been opened and items of her property

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removed. She told police that the room was not locked and multiple employees had access. An unauthorized transaction in the amount of $14.69 turned up from a McDonald’s, and the victim canceled her debit card. The items stolen included an iPhone X valued at $1,200, a Yves St. Laurent wallet priced at $350, a Port Authority SmartLink card worth $42, a New Jersey driver’s license and a debit card. The total stolen came to $1,592.

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CHELSEA CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 So there I was, on the very streets, the very sidewalks, I had walked so many times before. I headed east and immediately passed the building that had housed a notorious old saloon and restaurant. “Cavanaugh’sâ€? opened in 1876 and closed its doors in 1970. I remember having lunch there a few times with a customer I evidently wanted to impress. The building was empty and uninhabited with a “For Rentâ€? sign on its façade. The asking price was $35,000 per month. Across the street and upstairs, Nick’s barber shop was no longer there. Nick was a nice guy who had a country home somewhere upstate and he and I would wax philosophic as he was cutting my hair. I knew him for many — at least 20 — years. And down the block stood the Chelsea Hotel. Completely covered by scaffolding and netting, it was undergoing a total renovation. The sign said it would be ready in October of this year. What a place that was. Artists, writers, musicians. Arthur Miller lived there. “Look Homeward Angel,â€? “Naked Lunch,â€? “2001: A Space Odysseyâ€? ... those and so many more great works were penned within its walls. Bob Dylan lived and worked there ... Leonard Cohen ... Madonna ... Joni Mitchell (remember “Chelsea Morningâ€??) ... Janis Joplin. I could go on and on. And everyone knew that Sid Vicious killed his girlfriend Nancy Spungeon in Room 207. I just stood there for a few minutes. Right in front of “El Quijote,â€? the Spanish restaurant that inhabited the Chelsea’s lobby. Also closed, the sign on the window promised to reopen within six months. I had enjoyed paella along with a pitcher of Sangria many times at those tables. And then looking directly across the street, there it was: The McBurney YMCA. The Y sold this building in 2004 and it is currently home to very costly condominium apartments, but

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Our Town|Downtowner otdowntown.com the building’s façade and the steps leading up to the lobby were the same. From 1982 through 2012, I was an everyday member. Part of what was called the “morning crew,â€? we would wait on those very steps for the doors to open at 5:30 a.m. I walked up the stairs and into the lobby which was now nothing like I remembered. But they had left the Y’s motto at the stop of the stairs. It was painted over but was still readable: “Enter here to be and ďŹ nd a friend.â€? The Y, this particular Y, was a truly unique place. Members included the likes of Jerry Orbach, Edward Albee, Al Pacino, Ed Koch, Pete Hamill, Andy Warhol and several notorious gangsters. Rado and Ragni — the characters who wrote “Hairâ€? (and by the way, wrote it on my typewriters they bought from me), both lived at the Chelsea and frequented the Y. Woody Harrelson played basketball in the morning while ďŹ lming a movie in Manhattan. The famous song by The Village People, “YMCA,â€? was written about our Y. And a piece of “Godfatherâ€? trivia: the scene when Moe Greene of Las Vegas was assassinated — remember? He looked up from a massage table and got a bullet in the eye. Well, that was ďŹ lmed at the McBurney as well. Right outside the steam room where I spent so much time. I continued my walk and crossed Seventh Avenue. Within minutes, I stood in front of 124 West 23rd Street. My old store — or even the very building it existed in — was no longer. I stood and watched people walk by, realizing sadly that probably not even one of them knew or remembered what had been on this very spot. The majority of my adult life was spent here. I was that big guy with the beard in the little yellow typewriter shop. And I looked across the street at the façade of St. Vincent de Paul, the beautiful church that has graced that very spot since 1869. Its stained glass windows have been removed and covered by plywood. I later

learned that it was sold to an international hotel chain that plans to build a 35-story hotel on that very spot. I walked away and continued eastward towards Fifth Avenue. There halfway down the block was Eisenberg’s Sandwich Shop. Their motto is that they’ve been raising NY’s cholesterol since 1929. I was a regular customer at its long and narrow black marble counter literally ďŹ fty years ago. Cold chicken on rye with lettuce and mayo was one of my favorites. It was a wonderful place, and I remember once sitting next to Buddy Hackett, the comedian, who was lunching with William B. Williams, the NY disc jockey. “Can I help you?â€? asked a young woman as I looked at the counter with nary an empty stool. “Just taking a look,â€? I responded and realized that it was probable that I frequented that place before she was even born. The hour on the parking meter was coming to an end and so I headed back to Eighth Avenue. There were ďŹ ve minutes left on my allotted time when I got back to the car. I could not help thinking about how many times I had walked those very streets, those very sidewalks. Multiple times, every day, for 34 years. Thousand and thousands of times. And I kept looking at the faces, wondering, and I guess hoping, that I would see a familiar one, or that someone would recognize me. But it was not to be. Too much time had passed. Too much time. I was an old man walking the streets of my youth and hoping to recapture some of it. Wasn’t it Thomas Wolfe, who happened to live at the Chelsea, who wrote “You Can’t Go Home Againâ€?? I guess he was right. Harmon Rangell has been married to the same good woman for 56 years. He is a father, grandfather, retired businessman, writer, part-time musician, collector of Bonsai trees and self-described “pool room junkie.â€? His novel “Jake’s Taleâ€? is available at Amazon.com.

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THE CASE OF THE VANISHING REPUBLICAN POLITICS It’s RIP for the moderate Manhattan GOP, a street-level analysis of last week’s election found. Once the party showcased names like Lindsay, Javits and Rockefeller — now, its candidates get crushed in their own backyards BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN

In the typical political shellacking, the losing candidate usually ekes out a tiny symbolic victory by winning the block on which he or she lives. Not this year: At least four Republican pols were thrashed on Election Day by margins so lopsided they didn’t even carry their own streets. Literally. They were routed by landslides in areas that include their own apartment buildings and fall within one to three square blocks of their homes, a Straus News street-level analysis of the Nov. 6 balloting found. In micro-neighborhoods on the Upper East Side, Upper West Side and Murray Hill, GOP aspirants for two Congressional seats and a state Senate and state Assembly seat garnered on average one vote for every 5.25 votes piled up by Democratic incumbents, according to a review of online New York City Board of Elections records. What happened? President Donald Trump. Sparking a great backlash in his home borough, he energized, even inflamed, Democrats seeking to repudiate his policies and personality, shattering turnout records for a midterm election and punishing those

Eliot Rabin at his upscale men’s clothing store on Lexington Avenue and East 72nd Street. A Republican challenger to longtime incumbent U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney on the Upper East Side, he lost his own block with just 18 percent of the vote -- and managed only 12.7 percent of the ballot overall. Photo: Douglas Feiden

Underdog Republican Pete Holmberg campaigning with volunteers at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 68th Street in his losing bid to oust Democratic state Sen. Liz Krueger. He lost the two square blocks near his Murray Hill home by a 6.2-to-one vote margin. Photo courtesy of Holmberg for New York who share his party affiliation. The scale of the sweep may push the once-proud moderate wing of the Manhattan Republican Party — historically, an incubator of presidential hopefuls, but a vanishing breed for decades — ever closer to extinction. To gauge the fate of its standardbearers, Our Town and The West Side Spirit examined the results in the borough’s 12 state Assembly Districts, or ADs. The papers then drilled down into individual Election Districts, or EDs, the state’s smallest political jurisdictions, which encompass an area as little as one city block or as large as two to three square blocks. There are thousands of EDs in Manhattan alone, mini-districts that in a high-turnout general election pinpoint far broader trends. Among the findings of the Straus News analysis of the returns: • Clothier and former U.S. Army Captain Eliot Rabin, who mounted an uphill Republican challenge to unseat longtime Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney in the 12th Congressional District on the Upper East Side, lost the ED in which he lives by a 5.6-to-one margin. He managed just 91 votes on the single square block bounded by 81st Street on the south, 82nd Street to the north, First Avenue to the west and York Avenue to the east — while Maloney pulled down 510 votes. Rabin was also trounced in all 103 EDs of the 76th Assembly District, his home base. It may be scant comfort, but the 18 percent of the ballot he won on his own block exceeded the 12.7 percent he claimed overall in the 12th CD. “The support I received from the Republican Party was negligible,” Rabin said. “But I did much better than expected since no one seemed to think

I’d get more than three or four percent.” Contrast that with an earlier incarnation of the same district that elected its most celebrated Republican to Congress exactly 60 years ago — John V. Lindsay, who served from 1959 to 1965 and became a two-term mayor with Liberal Party support from 1966 to 1973. Along the way, he became a Democrat in 1971, launching an abortive presidential bid in 1972.

A LOT OF PEOPLE ON THE STREET WOULD JUST FLAT OUT REFUSE TO TAKE MY CAMPAIGN LITERATURE.” Pete Holmberg, losing GOP candidate for East Side state Senate seat

• Software engineer and daughter of Soviet-Jewish refugee parents Naomi Levin, who attempted the near-impossible mission of dislodging Democratic fixture U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler in the 10th Congressional District on the Upper West Side, Chelsea and downtown, lost the ED in which she resides by a 6.1-to-one vote margin. She received just 54 votes in the two square blocks bounded by 84th Street on the south, 85th Street to the north, West End Avenue to the west and Amsterdam Avenue to the east, where Nadler locked up 330 votes. Levin also lost all 114 EDs in the West Side’s 67th Assembly District handily. By contrast, Nadler scored an 88 per-

Republican Naomi Levin campaigning at a West 96th Street subway stop in her bid to topple incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler. She lost the two square blocks near her home by a 6.1-to-one vote margin. Photo courtesy of Naomi Levin for Congress Campaign cent knockout — 378-to-51 votes — in his home ED, located west of West End Avenue between 70th and 71st Streets. Like Rabin, Levin faulted the GOP establishment for not providing her with support, thinking she had little chance of winning. It seems hard to believe, but liberal Republicans were once competitive on the Upper West Side: In 1946, a young anti-Tammany reformer named Jacob Javits was elected to what is now the Nadler seat, serving in the House until 1954 and moving up to become U.S. Senator for a quarter-century. “Though we may have come up short in this race, we’ve undoubtedly started a movement that has fundamentally changed the debate in my beloved city of New York,” Levin said. The district includes a swath of Brooklyn, and Levin noted that while she got 19 percent of the overall vote, she mustered 45 percent in more conservative Brooklyn precincts — even though, she added, “Jerry Nadler overspent me 25 times over.” • Prominent plastic surgeon Dr. Jeffrey A. Ascherman, who sought to topple Democratic state Assembly Member Dan Quart in the old Silk Stocking District to become the first medical doctor in the Legislature, lost his home ED by a 3.1-to-one margin. He received 115 votes in the three square-block area between 86th and 89th Streets and Third and Lexington Avenues, while Quart chalked up 361. Still, he appears to have outperformed fellow Republicans both with that losing tally on his home blocks and in the overall results in the 73rd Assembly District, where he won 24

percent of the ballot. “I was told that of 18 races with Republican candidates in Manhattan, I had the highest percent,” Dr. Ascherman he said. “But it’s still a long way away from winning elective office.” Citing a polarized electorate nationally and an unhealthy one-party system in the city, he told of a line he’d often heard repeated on the campaign trail: “People would tell me, ‘You’re a good candidate, but we have to vote a straight Democratic ticket so we have to vote against you,’” he said. • Licensed real estate sales agent Pete Holmberg, who tried to oust the long-serving, liberal-left Democratic state Sen. Liz Krueger in the 28th Senate District on the Upper East Side and Midtown East, lost the ED in his own backyard by a 6.2-to-one margin. He got just 48 votes in the two square-block area between 32nd and 34th Streets and Third and Lexington Avenues in Murray Hill, while Krueger nabbed 297. “It was the best experience of my life,” Holmberg said. The drubbing he took can’t be blamed on voting patterns. “I lost because I failed as a candidate,” he added. “But there’s no embarrassment in losing to Senator Krueger. She’s a very formidable opponent.” Still, the wholesale rejection of the Republican Party in Manhattan was tough to miss: “A lot of people on the street would just flat out refuse to take my campaign literature,” Holmberg said. invreporter@strausnews.com

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The turnout was stupendous. Never before had a midterm election in the city drawn so many voters. And the numbers speak for themselves: Four years ago, when U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney stood for reelection, a mere 113,501 voters showed up at the polls. In last week’s election for the 12th Congressional District on the Upper East Side and Midtown, including Trump Tower, the tally was 226,373. Yes, Maloney easily dispatched an untested Republican challenger. But the larger story was the doubling of the size of the ballot — an increase, to be precise, of 99.44 percent. To be sure, presidential election races inevitably draw larger turnouts, often doubling, or even trebling, the totals in offyear bouts. In the 2016 Hillary Clintonversus-Donald Trump matchup, 294,071 voters came out in the 12th CD, which also includes Flatiron, the East Village, Union Square and parts of Chelsea, Brooklyn and Queens. But the decrease at the polls from 2016 to 2018 — a mere 23 percent — is de minimis compared to historic plunges typically recorded between the presidential and midterm contests. Fueling the surge in turnout in the Nov. 6 election is the “Trump Bump,â€? as political cognoscenti have dubbed it: A divisive president so rankles deep-blue Manhattanites that they ock to the polls en masse, driven by a desire to reward his Democratic antagonists — and punish those who share his party affiliation, including far more moderate and mainstream Republicans. Consider the energized voters of the 10th Congressional District on the Upper West Side. They reelected U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, who will take the

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percent of the vote. Four years ago, 23,490 residents voted in her 76th Assembly District, while this year, turnover rocketed up 66.4 percent for a total of 39,084 votes. Even several losing candidates embraced the rise in voter participation. “Levels of apathy are down across the board,� said Pete Holmberg, a Murray Hill Republican who managed just 18.3 percent of the vote in his losing bid to replace incumbent Democratic state Sen. Liz Krueger in the 28th Senate District. “We’ve turned a corner when you see such a huge increase in turnout,� he added. “And everybody is more engaged and energized.� Krueger’s Upper East Side district, which also includes Midtown East, Flatiron and Union Square, generated only 57,092 votes in 2014. The number last week shot up to 104,287, a sharp increase of 82.7 percent. invreporter@strausnews.com

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SIGNS OF THE TIMES BY ARLENE KAYATT

Reading for Dogs 101 — Unless dogs learn to read, there may be some serious consequences. Take Le Pain Quotidien on 77th Street and Second Avenue, where there’s a sign posted on the door announcing a code of conduct for dogs who cross the portal. What happens if a dog breaks the code? And then barks that s/ he did or didn’t do it? Does the dog get detained? Retain a lawyer to argue that the sign’s too high, Fido couldn’t see it? Or that s/he is a companion dog? Maybe a prep school for

dogs should be added to the services offered by dog day care centers and spas. Some discipline may save Fido from a day in a detention center.

Bāng Bar — If you’ve read or heard all about David Chang’s (the man behind the Momofuku empire) new Bāng Bar at Time Warner Center, and are eager to try out their Korean wraps with spit-roasted meats, bring a GPS. The reviews will tell you that it’s on the third floor. Take the escalator. If the GPS doesn’t do malls, then your work is cut out for you. There are no arrows or signage

directing patrons to Bāng Bar. There are wall plaques with the name, but that’s it. No arrow or sign leads you in the direction of the restaurant. Asking a security guard or an employee of another store on the third floor is futile. When asked, responses ranged from “It’s around the corner,” to “Never heard of it” and “Not in this building.” Finally — perhaps she was a foodie — a staffer in another restaurant told me that it was “behind the sunglasses store.” And so it was — hidden away in the dark reaches of the third floor. When I got to Bāng Bar, all I could see was the glassed-in kitchen, which looks out onto the floor. Never got inside. Lunch was over. They serve breakfast and lunch; their hours are 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. And it was closed.

Maybe an investment in signs and arrows or a tasting for building personnel will get the public to the place on time. Hype alone won’t do it.

More stories — Add assisted living to the mix of unaffordable housing in Manhattan. At least two ginormous residential buildings are coming to the East Side, one at the southwest corner of Lexington Avenue and 54th East Street, the other on the south side of York Avenue between 85th and 86th Streets. The 54th Street site has been ready for construction for at least two years. The York Avenue site — all buildings south of Arturo’s pizzeria — will be demolished. In both cases, the structures take up at least half the block. And more demolition and construc-

tion is coming to the same 86th Street neighborhood, where Gristedes once stood. The construction on that site will extend mid-block on 86th Street to First Avenue and 85th Street. Like it or not, big is in.

What would the Talmud say? — Temple Shaaray Tefila on East 79th Street has a glass frame hung on the side of the temple which displays the names of the rabbi and others associated with the synagogue, along with birth announcements, bar and bat mitzvahs and other religious and related civic activities. It was surprising to also see a quote from Hillary Clinton relating to women and their role in society. Is it impolitic to ask why?

THE NYC HISTORY OF DYLAN’S ‘BLOOD ON THE TRACKS’ BY JON FRIEDMAN

When fans of Bob Dylan — you know, the Nobel Prize winner — think of his relationship to New York City, they remember vividly the game-changing protest songs that he wrote in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s. But the city also played a key role in the creation of “Blood on the Tracks,” widely regarded as his most personal album and one that ranks high on critics’ “favorite” lists. The album is back in the news these days, marking the release this month of “More Blood, More Tracks,” the 14th offering in Dylan’s generous and revealing “Bootleg” series. This selection highlights the songs that Dylan recorded in 1974 for his landmark album, which came out in January 1975. Dylan was at one of his periodic crossroads on Sept. 16, 1974 (which happened to be Rosh Hashanah), when he arrived at the A&R Studio at 799 Seventh Avenue to record songs he had written the summer before, on his farm in Minnesota. Earlier in 1974, he had barnstormed North America with The Band, embarking on his first tour in nearly eight years, an event so momentous that Newsweek put him on the cover. He had just returned to his longtime professional home of New York-based Colum-

Bob Dylan (second from right) and The Band touring in Chicago, 1974. Photo: Jim Summaria, via Wikimedia Commons bia Records, after releasing two albums on Los Angeles-based Geffen Records. Most noteworthy, he and his wife of nine years, Sara, had separated earlier that year (and would divorce in 1977). Music critics — mostly short-sighted and stuck in the past — had by then routinely panned Dylan’s records, griping that The Bard no longer wrote and sang with the fire of “Highway 61 Revisited” and “Blonde on Blonde,” his classics from a decade before. Give the man a break!

Clearly, Dylan had a lot on his mind — and on the line — by late 1974. He rose to the occasion and recorded an album’s worth of remarkable new material in four days. The songs of lost love were alternately confessional, angry, defiant, sorrowful and revelatory. Columbia planned to release “Blood” in December, marking Dylan’s third release of the year, no small feat. The stark sound of Dylan alone on an acoustic guitar, with a quiet bass and an occasional organ sound, would

have generated splashy headlines, all by itself. Add to it the powerful songs purportedly about his failing marriage and you had the makings of a special album. Then Dylan got spooked. Prodded by his younger brother David Zimmerman, a music producer in their home state of Minnesota, Bob rerecorded five songs from the original “Blood” with a rock and roll sound. Columbia released the album in January 1975, featuring five songs from the

New York sessions and five from Minneapolis. The critics raved. In retrospect, over the years, lots of Dylan fans were left feeling unsatisfied by the popular “Blood.” Sure, “Idiot Wind,” in particular, had a sprightly, pulsating beat (didn’t that driving organ remind you a bit of “Like a Rolling Stone”?) and the brutally honest lyrics came through, even after he re-recorded some key songs in Minneapolis. But something valuable was lost in the process. Dylan sacrificed unflinching, raw emotion — as gritty as the place on West 52nd Street where he recorded those songs — in favor of a rocking sound. Did Dylan pull his punches? Did he exchange record sales for authenticity? For decades, fans have hoped to hear those original recordings. As usual, Dylan’s team has worked hard to produce something unique and worthwhile. Team Dylan puts a lot of work into these “Bootleg” packages. His management believes in putting out a new piece of product every year, a wise strategy to keep relevant a 76-year-old icon who tours all the time but writes precious few new songs. Now, Dylan lovers can hear the way the songs sounded at their birth in New York. At last.

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GIVE NEW YORK’S SUBWAYS A BREAK — LITERALLY VIEWPOINT Transit systems in most big cities pause at night for maintenance and cleaning. A case for cutting back on NYC’s 24/7 service BY TEDDY SON

A subway system can tell marvels about its city, be it good or bad. In New York’s case, it could not be worse. New Yorkers have long viewed their subway system with pride, comparing it to other less elaborate systems in nearby cities, such as Boston and Washington, DC. Fast forward to today, and the MTA’s pride and joy has lapsed into complete disarray. On-time rates have reached an all-time low of 65 percent, similar to the 1970s, and nowhere near the MTA’s projected aim of 91.9 percent. Even as the MTA’s so-called “rescue plan” (aka Fastrack) is attempting to improve the situation, on-time rates still remain depressingly low. Delays are not the only worries, given the unsanitary conditions of the trains. According to a report by Travelmath, a website that calculates travel statistics, the average handrail of a New York subway train contains two million CFU (colony forming units) of bacteria, more than five thousand times that of the second dirtiest subway in the country, the

Bay Area Rapid Transit of San Francisco. Problems are evident in the languishing infrastructure as well, with flooding being a major pain for as long as the subway has been running. Most recently, last month’s heavy storms devastated the C and E lines. New York riders took the the time to shoot images of rainwater cascading down the stairs and into the platforms and tracks; some of the video appeared on local newscasts. Likewise, the New York subway has a list of problems longer than a spoiled child’s Christmas list, and the list keeps growing as these problems remain unresolved. The Fastrack plan claims to be making progress, but apart from partial service stoppage on certain lines — such as the 23rd Street station on the F and M lines, as well as the L line — there’s little to show that change is actually being made. Yes, on weekends some platforms are completely roped off for maintenance, but at what cost? Is it worth disrupting the journeys of so many people for changes that are so intangible? Recently, tourists had little choice but to take the C train all the way up to 125th Street and take a downtown train forty blocks back if they wanted to go to the American Museum of Natural History by subway due to trains skipping certain stations. This is only one example

of countless others that involve maintenance at the cost of travelers’ time and effort. There is a solution that could put the MTA’s rescue plan in full throttle: giving up the system’s trademark 24/7 service. Few metro systems in the world operate on a 24/7 basis (chart), with New York’s immense ridership proving to be a justifying factor. However, there are other subway systems around the globe that have riderships similar to or larger than New York, such as Seoul and Tokyo, yet choose to maintain a “resting period” during night hours for sanitation work and repairs. Put simply, maintenance improvements cannot take place when trains are running day and night. Twenty-four hour service puts unnecessary pressure on improvements that are meant to be meticulous. Is it that much of a loss to simply stop the network for a few hours every night, when riderships are at their lowest? Everyone needs a breather, so why not give the subway one? Of course, it would be admittedly hard to shut down the 24-hour service on such short notice. The subway has been a crucial part of getting people where they need to go at any hour day or night, and that will always be the case. However, the fact remains that Seoul, an-

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Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, 126 Crosby St. 7 p.m. $6 Mic.com correspondent Serena Daniari has been writing and speaking about trans issues since she launched the multimedia reporting project “Walking While Trans” in 2017. Join Daniari and a panel of guests for a special live edition of Transplaining, her weekly advice column on gender identity. 212-966-0466 housingworks.org

BAR TALK: BUSTING MYTHS ABOUT THE FEMALE ORGASM Subject Cocktail Bar 188 Suffolk St. 7 p.m. $15 Get some clarity in a world where candid information about female sexuality is often suppressed, distorted, or manipulated. Sex researcher and NYU professor of human sexuality Dr. Zhana Vrangalova will debunk seven common myths about sex that prevent women from living their most fulfilling sexual lives. 646-422-7898 subject-les.com

Wed 21 ◄ ‘HEAVEN ON EARTH’ WITH T.J. CLARK AND WENDY LESSER McNally Jackson 52 Prince St. 7 p.m. Free Believers and non-believers alike say that the day will come when the pain and confusion of mortal life will give way to a transfigured community. In his book “Heaven on Earth,” art historian T.J. Clark sets out to investigate how God’s kingdom has been represented in paintings throughout history. 212-274-1160 mcnallyjackson.com

Culinary historian Sarah Lohman looks at America’s legacy of caffeinated drinks while Jonathan Soma breaks down the science of coffee and tea, weighing costs and benefits ($10 adv., $12 door).

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TINTORETTO IN FOCUS The Met Fifth Avenue and The Morgan join commemorations of the Venetian artist’s 500th birthday BY VAL CASTRONOVO

Jacopo Tintoretto (c. 1518-1594) was the son of a fabric dyer, hence the name (“the little dyer”). He was one of a triumvirate of great 16th century Renaissance painters from Venice, along with Titian and Veronese. This year marks the 500th anniversary of his birth, which is being celebrated with a flurry of exhibits in Venice, New York and, come spring, Washington. At The Morgan, curators have cast a spotlight on the artist’s drawings and those of his contemporaries and followers, including his talented son, Domenico (1560-1635), who trained in the father’s workshop and became his artistic collaborator and heir. Some 70 works are on view, including a smattering of drawings tantalizingly attributed to a young El Greco when he lived in Italy.

Another unknown sitter. Curator Andrea Bayer theorizes he is a patron of the artist, not the artist himself. Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti), (Italian, Venice 1518/19–1594 Venice), Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?), 1550s, Oil on canvas, Private collection

On a recent Friday morning, we gathered at The Met’s Robert Lehman Wing for a chat about the master, part of the museum’s in-gallery series “Conversations with...” featuring the experts. Curator Andrea Bayer commenced a deep dive into “Tintoretto the portrait painter,” focusing on a small group of head and bust studies culled from the holdings of The Met and other museums and private collectors. She made a beeline for the exhibit’s centerpiece, two closely related paintings of an unknown sitter — one, “Portrait of a Man,” belonging to The Met; the other, “Head of a Man (Portrait Study),” belonging to the Royal Collection of the Queen of England and kept in Prince Charles’s residence in the Cotswolds when not on loan. Bayer described standing on a sofa of the heir to the throne and examining the expressive portrait for The Met’s planned homage to Tintoretto. “He was not there, just the dogs running around,” she said to laughter. Looking at the painting, she knew from the subject’s hair, clean shave and facial scar that the sitter in the picture belonging to the royals matched that of the more formal portrait in The Met’s collection. “Everyone thinks about Tintoretto as a painter on a monumental scale, with huge narratives with dozens of characters, or of the interesting but routine portraits of the old men who ran Venice. What people do not know is that he was such an incredible observer of individuals and was looking to explore personality in small sketches. I found this group of them and decided to bring them together.” Both studies were produced in the 1550s and are a departure from the idealized portraits of the period. “In the Renaissance, portraiture is mostly about showing your status, about capturing you at your best moment for posterity...it’s the opposite of warts and all,” she said. Especially in the Royal Collection sketch, reality trumps perfection and

An expressive portrait from Prince Charles’s home in the Cotswolds, now on loan to The Met. Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) (Italian, Venice 1518/19–1594 Venice) Head of a Man (Portrait Study) Probably 1550s, Oil on canvas laid on panel, Royal Collection/ HM Queen Elizabeth II

IF YOU GO What: “Celebrating Tintoretto: Portrait Paintings & Studio Drawings” Where: The Met Fifth Avenue, 1000 Fifth Ave. When: through Jan. 27 www.metmuseum.org

A more formal, newly restored portrait from the collection of The Met. Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) (Italian, Venice 1518/19–1594 Venice). Portrait of a Man. 1550s. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941 thoughts of legacy: “Tintoretto has turned that [Renaissance idea] on its head. He has given us that man as he saw him, sitting in front of him. Look at the red nose. Look at the wrinkled brow and the quizzical expression. His eyes are rheumy. He looks like he’s getting over a cold. This is a portrait of that man, at that moment, totally unprettified up.” Such an intimate portrayal, suggesting a special rapport between painter and sitter, has led scholars like Bayer to conclude that the subject must have belonged to Tintoretto’s social circle. He was not a doge (a ruler of Venice) or a patrician. He was more likely a patron from the large community of German and Flemish merchants living in Venice at the time, which would account for his odd-man-out look — the bangs, the longish hair, the lack of a beard.

The larger companion piece from The Met’s holdings has undergone a lengthy restoration for the removal of degraded varnish and now sparkles. Adjacent to the star attractions hangs the solemn “Portrait of a Man (SelfPortrait?)” (1550s). Bayer quickly dismissed the idea that it’s a portrait of the artist, arguing that she compared it to two self-portraits currently on view in Venice: “I took a careful look at the three digitally and am not convinced that we are looking at the same man.” The eureka moment came when she compared the portrait here to a head in the crowd of a larger painting Tintoretto produced in 1561, “Wedding Feast at Cana.” She held up a reproduction of the biblical scene and points to a figure with “the same aquiline nose, arched brows, same tousled hair, same shape of the beard. It may

What: “Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice” Where: The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Ave. When: through Jan. 6 www.themorgan.org

really, really be the same man.” Again, we don’t know the individual’s identity, but, given how close Tintoretto must have been to him to create such a penetrating likeness, we can surmise that the two overlapped socially and that the man is “an important patron,” Bayer said, part of the moneyed class that purchased major artworks. “It’s so unusual and so startlingly modern, that when this painting first emerged from a private collection and was sold into another private collection, the experts looking at it said, ‘Are we looking at Tintoretto? Are we looking at something from the 17th century? Or are we looking at something from the 19th century?’ It has that quality to it that makes it leap out of its time.”

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS Balzem

202 Mott St

A

Gato

324 Lafayette St

A

ZZ Clam Bar

169 Thompson St

A

The Village Lantern

167 Bleecker Street

A

Favela Cubana

543 La Guardia Place

A

Dumpling Kingdom

227 Sullivan St

CLOSED (48) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. 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.

Cafe Grumpy

177 Mott St

A

Oatmeals

120 W 3rd St

A

Turkiss

104 Macdougal St

CLOSED (81) 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. 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. 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. Sewage disposal system improper or unapproved. Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Merriweather

428 Hudson St

A

Baby Brasa

173 7th Ave S

A

Wallse Restaruant

342344 West 11 St

Grade Pending (18) Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, crosscontaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/ sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies.

Village Vanguard

178 7 Avenue South

A

STK

28 Little West 12 St

A

Chumley’s

86 Bedford St

A

Codino

62 Carmine St

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Hakata Ton Ton

61 Grove Street

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Hudson Clearwater

447 Hudson Street

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Malaparte

753 Washington St

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Bar Nana

63 Gansevoort

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Chester

18 9th Ave

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Not Yet Graded (27) Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, crosscontaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewageassociated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies.

King Wok

222 Varick St

A

A

Tacos Cuautla Morales

438 E 9th St

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OCT 31 - NOV 6, 2018 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. Group M

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Just Baked

88 W Broadway

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Jupioca

136 Church St

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Irving Farm Coffee Roasters

200 Broadway

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Wasabi Sushi & Bento

200 Broadway

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Voyager Espresso

110 William St

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Brooklyn Chop House

150 Nassau St

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Apotheke / Chemist

9 Doyers Street

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August Gatherings

266 Canal St

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Aunt Jake’s

149 Mulberry St

Grade Pending (24) Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, crosscontaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Sweets Bakery

135 Walker St

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Landmark Coffee Shop

158 Grand Street

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Hideaway

185 Duane Street

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Capri Ristorante Pizzeria Bar

145 Mulberry Street

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Pepe Rosso Social

173 Mott St

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Maman

239 Centre St

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10 Below Ice Cream

10 Mott St

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Ciccio Cafe

192 6th Ave

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88 Lan Zhou Handmade Noodle & Dumpling

40 Bowery

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Copper and Oak

157 Allen St

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Max Fish

120 Orchard St

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95 Fusion Tea Room & Kitchen Bar

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Greens & Grains

115 Essex St

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17 Division St

56 Spring St

Not Yet Graded (23) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

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Tokyo

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New York

2,699,536,300 (2017)

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Seoul

2,628,000,000 (2014)

Mostly 5 am - 12 am

London

1,379,000,000 (2017)

Mostly 5 am - 12 am (24 hour service on some lines)

Washington DC

229,595,700 (2017)

Sun: 8 am - 11 pm Mon-Thu: 5 am - 11:30 pm Fri: 5 am - 1 am Sat: 7 am - 1 am

Boston

167,167,900 (2017)

Mostly 5 am- 1 am Sun: 6 am - 1 am

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SUBWAYS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 other city with a bustling crowd when the sun is down, has taken a drastic step in maintaining that midnight break in order to keep its system up and running as needed. Other cities, such as Munich, do not have as long a break in between running hours, but still give their network a much-needed breather. The result is a system that is reliable, efficient and clean. Sacrifice may be necessary to bring about drastic changes. In order

to actually see the MTA go forward in terms of improvements, installing a night break would be a difficult, yet healthy pill to swallow. Shutting down the 24-hour service, at least on some lines, is a more tangible idea than one may think. As a part of his “Fast Forward” initiative to make sweeping changes to the city’s transit systems, New York City Transit president Andy Byford has proposed closing subway lines for hours at night while making signal upgrades, though that is a temporary measure.

Imagine walking into a New York subway station and not getting bombarded by pungent odors and visually unappealing platforms. Imagine the trains being clean and on time, not changing routes every couple of days. All of that could become a reality if New Yorkers are just ready to accept that slight turn of events. The future of the New York subway system may be one that no one could dare to think of now. Yet it may not be as unachievable as expected, as long as the city is willing to give that difficult pill a chance.

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A BAN ON FLAVORED E-CIGARETTES? VAPING New York eyes plan to be the first state to try to tackle an “epidemic of addiction” among young people BY CHRIS CAROLA

New York state is taking steps to ban the sale of flavored electronic cigarettes in the hopes of curbing a sharp rise in the use of vaping products by young people, the Cuomo administration said Friday. “As the governor previously said, he’s very concerned about the rise in youth e-cigarette use and this administration is looking to do everything it can to curb this emerg-

ing public health issue,” Richard Azzopardi, a spokesman for Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, said in an email. The state Department of Health published its proposals for banning ecigarettes in the New York State Registry on Wednesday. The agency later withdrew them to allow more time for legal review. The regulations will be republished soon, the agency said. They could then be adopted after a 60-day period of public comment. The Cuomo administration’s plans come as the federal government plans to require strict limits on the retail sale of most flavored e-cigarettes. Citing recent data regarding young people using e-cigarettes, Food and

Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in September that there’s an “epidemic of addiction” among youth, mainly driven by flavored products. New York state health officials began tracking e-cigarette use in New York in 2014. Since then, use by high school youths increased from 10.5 percent to 27.4 percent in 2018, the health department said. “Swift interventions are needed to protect our youth from a lifetime addiction to nicotine,” the agency said in its proposed rules for banning the sale of flavored vaping products. Tony Abboud, executive director of the Vapor Technology Association, a vaping trade group, called New York’s proposal short-sighted and

GOOGLE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The jump to St. John’s Terminal would represent a new southward tack for Google, which has become a dominant presence in Chelsea over the last decade. Since Google began leasing in the former Port Authority building at 111 Eighth Ave. in 2006 (it later purchased the property, one of the buildings in New York City, for roughly $1.8 billion in 2010) the company has steadily expanded westward to the Hudson River, first at the neighboring Chelsea Market building, where it began leasing in 2008, and later at 85 Tenth Avenue. Google will complete its march to the riverfront late next year, when it will begin leasing 320,000 square feet of office space at Pier 57 upon completion of redevelopment work. A Google spokesperson declined to comment on the company’s expansion plans, but noted that the company employs roughly 7,000 people in New York. The St. John’s Terminal space would give Google room for upwards of 8,500 new employees, according to the Wall Street Journal. News of Google’s latest expansion came soon after word leaked that Amazon would name Long Island City as one of two locations where the ecommerce behemoth plans to build new corporate offices. On Oct. 13, Amazon made its choice official. Amazon could bring as many as 25,000 new jobs to New York City, but public response to the news has focused in no small part on potential

Google will reportedly expand to the redeveloped St. John’s Terminal, at West and Houston Streets. Rendering: COOKFOX Architects drawbacks to the deal, including the strain it would place on the city’s transit system and housing market and the hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks Amazon could be poised to reap from the state. Google’s methodical expansion on the West Side has been a lower-key affair than Amazon’s national real estate search, but it too has been met with skepticism from some longtime Chelsea residents and business owners for contributing to rising rents and displacement. Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, said that the St. John’s Terminal site would be a major development and bring change to the neighborhood regardless of Google’s involvement. But the presence of the massive Internet company on the

edges of Greenwich Village could serve as a magnet for additional tech firms with appetites for unique office space outside the customary Midtown milieu. Facebook already has offices at 770 Broadway, near Astor Place, and a planned tech hub on Union Square could serve to attract more tech companies to Greenwich Village and the East Village — neighborhoods without extensive history as corporate hotbeds. “It’s introduced a kind of development pressure those neighborhoods have never experienced before,” Berman said. “I don’t want to pin this on Google specifically, but the fact that we’re seeing tech companies interested in areas that weren’t traditionally office districts has real implications for these residential and mixed-use

said it would be “devastating” to adult smokers trying to quit traditional cigarettes through use of flavored vapor products. Although vaping is generally considered a less dangerous alternative to smoking traditional tobacco products, health officials have warned nicotine in e-cigarettes is harmful to developing brains. Health advocates have worried about the popularity of vaping products among kids, especially ecigarettes with mint, fruit, chocolate or any number of other flavorings sold online and at convenience stores, gas stations and vape shops. The minimum age to buy tobacco or e-cigarettes in New York state is 18. The state health department said

neighborhoods,” Berman said, noting the potential for the loss of old buildings, out-of-scale development and “changes in the character of the businesses and the people who can afford to live there.” If the tech industry’s ascendance in New York has come to seem inevitable in recent years, it wasn’t so long ago that news of their expansion in Manhattan was seen more as a curiosity than a signal of impending dominance. As recently as 2004, the title of a New York Times real estate article seemed to convey mild surprise that Internet companies were still around in the wake of the tech bubble bust: “Some Dot-Coms Are Alive, and Even Expanding.” The story devoted a single sentence to the growth of Google’s New York offices, then in Times Square. For Google, new offices at St. John’s Terminal would reflect another case of the company utilizing buildings with history in the West Side’s bygone days as a center for industry and shipping. 111 Eighth Ave., the former Port Authority Commerce Building now owned by Google, originally served as an inland freight terminal for goods heading to and from the piers and railroads. Oreo cookies were once baked in the Nabisco factory now known as Chelsea Market. St. John’s Terminal, built for New York Central Railroad in 1934 at a cost of $19 million, was originally the southern terminus of the High Line, 75 years before it became a manicured mecca for camera-toting tourists and lunching workers. The terminal’s remaining railroad tracks will be in-

banning flavored e-cigarettes would mostly impact retail businesses whose main focus is selling vaping products. According to the New York State Vapor Association, there are at least 700 vape shops employing a total of 2,700 people across the state. Michael Frennier, president of the New York State Vapor Association, said the problem isn’t vape shops but convenience stores that sell the Juul, an e-cigarette device resembling a thumb drive that’s popular with teens. He said teens like the Juul because it’s easy to conceal and packs a high nicotine punch, not because it’s flavored. “The flavors are getting a bad rap,” Frennier said. “The kids don’t care about the flavors, they really don’t.”

corporated into the design of the overhauled building. A century ago, the West Side’s proximity to New York Harbor and the freight rail network made it desirable real estate for industry; in 2006, the location of 111 Eighth Ave. along a key fiber-optic cable corridor was a selling point for Google. Kenneth T. Jackson, a history professor at Columbia University and the editor of “The Encyclopedia of New York City,” said that the West Side’s transformation shows the city’s continuing adaptivity in the face of economic change. New York City is already home to more technology workers than anywhere other than Silicon Valley — many of them employed by the startups and midsized firms that have long been the backbone of the city’s “Silicon Alley” — a number that is poised to continue growing as blue-chip companies expand. “The more hightech jobs there are in the city, the more employers will be attracted,” he said. Rapid growth of the likes of Amazon certainly poses challenges for the city, according to Jackson — “You can’t move 25,000 people anywhere and not be disruptive,” he said — but “New York can absorb this better than just about any place.” Accommodating growth is a relatively good problem for the city to have, in Jackson’s view, and certainly better than the opposite, as when the city was forced to cope in the 1960s with the closure of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which employed 75,000 workers at its peak. “New York City has also experienced the reverse, and the reverse is worse than what we’re going to see,” Jackson said.

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SOWING THE SEEDS OF DIVERSITY, ABOVE AND BELOW GROUND ENVIRONMENT The Musical Seeds Project gives New Yorkers a chance share their collective knowledge of the earth though dance, music and storytelling BY ALIZAH SALARIO

The one day Americans take pause and express gratitude for the food on their plates is rapidly approaching. The other 364 days of the year, however, the origins of our abundance and the rituals surrounding that which sustains us are not necessarily top of mind. Not so for Dr. Pamela Proscia, an adjunct assistant professor at Hunter College/CUNY and the director of the Musical Seeds Project: Intersections of Ecology, Music, and Dance. Since 2015, Proscia has spearheaded an annual autumn harvest gathering, where participants with origins from across the globe come to celebrate the ethnic and horticultural diversity of our city, and the earth beneath it. This year’s gathering took place on Nov. 3 at the Corpus Christi School on West 121 Street (the Sakura Park location was rained out) and was, in part, a lesson in the myriad ways people celebrate the sacred acts of planting and harvesting. Though some New Yorkers might think of “horticultural diversity” as the ability to access various vegetarian cuisines all within a few block radius, Proscia’s definition extends further, both in time and space. The Musical Seeds Project was inspired by her dissertation research on the teaching and learning of Mexican folkloric music and dance in preconquest Mexico. “I started to look at, and then piece together, that so many cultures at planting time and harvest time have different celebrations [that] brought people together through music and dance,” says Proscia. Around the same time, a conversation with a friend about concern for the environment got Proscia thinking about the fact that despite the “regreening” of parts of the earth, many people aren’t really in tune with the origins of their food, or aware of the ancestral knowledge about planting and harvesting passed down for generations. “Even in the work I’ve done over the years with children, they didn’t know where food came from ... it was just something you went to the store and bought,” says Proscia. “We talked about how we can really bring back [horticultural] diversity in general, and how important it is to care for life on the planet in general. Musical Seeds came out of those concerns.” The first harvest gathering, held in Battery Park, showcased cross-cul-

Harvest festival participants learn an Israeli folk dance for planting wheat at Battery Park. Photo: David Eber tural parallels. Participants from the Jewish community attended, including an agronomist who planted wheat — one of two grains on the biblical list of the seven species, and a crucial part of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, celebrating the gathering of the harvest. The wheat was then transferred and planted in Battery Park, and accompanied by an Israeli folk dance. Members of the Ramapough Lenape Nation brought sassafras, participants with Scots Gaelic heritage brought heather plants and members of the Tibetan community contributed sage and mint. From across the globe, plants that were “essential for the lineage and survival” of different peoples were rooted in Manhattan. The 75-100 participants, many of them children, danced, played music and planted with the Statue of Liberty in view. “We’ve worked now with hundreds of children who have been allowed to come into a space where there are diverse people sharing their cultural knowledge of music and dance, sharing the cultural practices of planting and harvesting. We’re looking to

expand our work with schools that would like to integrate some of these themes into their curriculum, especially related to diversity and stainability,” says Proscia. Festivals have also been held at the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, and at Dyckman Park in Northern Manhattan. Come next year, Musical Seeds is discussing a collaboration with the Riverside Park Conservancy. They’ve also partnered with Project Drawdown, an approach to reversing global warming that offers solutions to climate change from 195 nations around the globe. Taking action steps, and not just talking about ecology, is particularly urgent in this day and age. Says Proscia, “I think it’s exceedingly important to deal with climate reality, no matter what the administration’s position is. At a grassroots level, people have to deal with the fact that there are extremes going on, and there are rising sea levels. These are things we have documented, it’s not stuff that we’ve made up.”

Learning the uses of acorn flour from a Naragansett tribal member at Union Theological Seminary, Center for Earth Ethics. Photo: Elio Bernardo

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REFLECTIONS ON THE WARHOL RETROSPECTIVE ART With the largest U.S. exhibition of Andy Warhol’s work now on display at the Whitney, nostalgia for Campbell’s soup cans and CocaCola bottles has reached its peak BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL

Remember when the Whitney was on Madison at 75th, where The Met Breuer now lives? Never have I wished for the days when I was able to mosey on over to the museum, founded in 1931 by patron of the arts Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, than this past weekend. I had to head all the way to Chelsea to see the current talk of the town exhibition: “Andy Warhol — From A to B and Back Again.” Although he was associated with the downtown art scene, the cultural icon was an Upper East Sider, residing on 89th and Lexington, then at 66th between Madison and Park Avenues. When the Pittsburgh native passed away in 1987 at age 58, he was not just one of my favorite artists, but one of my favorite New Yorkers as well. Even though we never actually met, Andy and I once ended up side-by-side on a Park Avenue corner waiting for the light to change. He and I turned simultaneously to size up who we were standing next to. I of course thought, “Oh wow, it’s Andy Warhol.” He, on the other hand, looked almost frightened over making eye contact, and I could tell he was growing anxious at the prospect that I might start speaking to him. So, I didn’t. Yes, out of respect for Mr.-Everyone-Will-BeWorld-Famous-For-15-Minutes, I chose not to share that his was the first real piece of art I ever purchased. Circa 1985, I went to a West Broadway gallery showing Warhol’s work and plunked down a chunk o’ change on a Campbell’s chicken noodle soup lithograph. My then-boyfriend (now husband) Neil began to hyperventilate that I’d spend “all that money on a poster.” Regardless, I enjoyed my soup can. It was a show piece in my single gal apartment, then in the ones I lived in after I got married. And, of course, a great conversation starter. After two decades, though, I decided it was time to let someone else appreciate it. A gallery owner friend sold it to a museum for double my initial investment, which I earmarked for my kids’ educations. (Neil finally forgave the monetary indiscretion of my youth.) The current installation at the Whitney reminded me how much of a smile could be brought to my face by Coca Cola bottles and Brillo boxes, kooky-looking bananas and dollar signs, as well as colorful portraits (the artist’s single largest body of work) of legends such as Liz, Marilyn and Aretha. It is the largest U.S. expo of Warhol’s work to date, with more than 350 works of art across all media spanning his four-decade career. The Whitney calls it a “landmark retrospective that recasts Warhol, one of America’s best-known and most prolific artists, as a vanguard of the twentieth century and a herald of the twenty-first.” The most interesting part of the event, for me, was the third-floor gallery presentation of War-

Andy Warhol (1928–1987), Campbell’s Soup Can over Coke Bottle, 1962. Graphite and watercolor on paper, 23 1/2 × 17 3/4 in. (59.7 × 45.1 cm). The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York

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RISING TO THE (TURKEY) CHALLENGE Gregory Silverman, executive director of the West Side Campaign Against Hunger, finds his dream job BY LESLIE GERSING

Chef Greg Silverman has taken a long journey to combine his love of working “on the line” in restaurant kitchens with trying to combat hunger. After graduating from the former French Culinary Institute in Manhattan, the search took him from owning restaurants in Ithaca, New York, to the Peace Corps in Mali, to nutrition education and emergency food programs in London and Washington, D.C. In January 2017, he became executive director of the West Side Campaign Against Hunger (WSCAH) at the Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew at West 86th Street near West End Avenue. Founded in 1979, WSCAH is the nation’s oldest supermarket-style food pantry. It also provides a one-stop gateway to social services and trains some clients as chefs. Silverman lives in Harlem with his wife and baby daughter. He talked to Straus News about WSCAH’s mission, and how the community pitches in to help its neighbors at Thanksgiving.

What is WSCAH doing to help its customers have a traditional Thanksgiving? Everyone is used to seeing a turkey on the table on Thanksgiving from a very young age, and understanding that some people don’t have that opportunity is a powerful message. Every year we run the “Thousand Turkey Challenge.” We ask people for $18 for a turkey. You can give us a check, you can go online and pay for a turkey, and you can text TURKEY [to 56512] and we will get money for that. Community members, various folks on the Upper West Side, long-standing religious institutions and schools, reach out to their communities. We’ll probably give out over 1,200 turkeys. People are getting bread and they’re getting potatoes and sweet potatoes and carrots, and they’re getting greens. The funding goes to all the food that we give to people during the holiday season. We want you to be able to have joy on that day, and forget about all the troubles that are happening, and enjoy a turkey and just have a great time.

One of your fundraisers showcases some of WSCAH’s future chefs, right? Our [November 13th] fundraiser is our

WSCAH’s mobile food pantry, which serves neighborhoods in northern Manhattan and the Bronx, brings enough food for 150 clients per trip. Photo: courtesy WSCAH great opportunity to have dinner to again bring the community together. Over 200 people come to a threecourse, sit-down dinner cooked by our Culinary Pathways Chef Training students. It’s been amazing to watch these students in 12 weeks learn, not just knife skills but, more so, [gain] the confidence to go after a job and get a job, whether it’s in the pastry kitchen or in the service of food or in the prep kitchen. [The program] just gives people opportunity. This year we’ll raise close to $250,000.

Do you see more demand during the holidays? Across emergency feeding [organizations] in New York City, need spikes in November and December. And partly it’s because people want to do more for their families, but people struggle. It’s seasonal employment, there’s all these issues that are happening. So we struggle to make sure we have all the food we need on the shelves for all the extra customers.

What other services does WSCAH provide?

Greg Silverman, the West Side Campaign Against Hunger’s executive director. Photo: courtesy WSCAH

We are a free grocery store. So many customers come here because we give better food and we give more food. [Our] mobile market [truck] came online this past year. We’ve grown our number of people that we see by 25 percent in less than a year, and instead of bringing people to food, we’re bringing food to people. Like any non-profit, or entity, we have to have the money to do our work. That goes to make sure that we can keep that truck rolling across the city, that we can have a free chef training program, that we can have six social service staff, in-taking every customer

WANT TO DONATE? Go to www.wscah.org/thousandturkey-challenge for more information. so that when you show up at the WSCAH, you’re not just getting food. Do you need immigration support? Do you need health insurance? [Do you have] housing issues? We want to help lift people out of food insecurity and poverty, and it takes a lot more than just food.

How did you go from being a chef, running restaurants, to running a free food pantry? I had three restaurants for many years. It wasn’t enough to cook great meals for my customers. I was spending more and more time as a board member of a soup kitchen and running a literacy program in Ithaca because it was more satisfying. I took a break to go into the Peace Corps, but ended up working there in Mali in West Africa, mostly with restaurateurs. Again I was stuck as a chef in a good way, working with local community members who were trained to advance their business interests and also who were trying to do good by their community. I worked for the City of London on nutrition education programming. I redid school feeding programs in East London. In Washington, D.C., I helped grow a program for a non-profit called Share Our Strength. I led their national nutrition education initiatives and that also allowed me to be our lead on White House engagement. I saw a lot on how to scale programs across the

country, and how to influence policy and how to do advocacy.

What’s so special about the Upper West Side and WSCAH? I’ve worked in national organizations in Washington and London, and what I’ve found is a lack of connection to the work on the ground. At the WSCAH, it’s not about trying to make that connection happen. It just simply is a community — a community of 20,000 food customers, 800 volunteers a year, 3,000 people who donate to us every year, of a myriad number of public and private schools, religious institutions, government officials and businesses all across the Upper West Side, all coming together to feed their community. Coming to the West Side Campaign Against Hunger gave me the opportunity to pull everything I’ve done into one place. This organization has innovated how to perform emergency feeding in a way no one has, building up a customer-choice model. It advocates at a city, state and federal level, and at the same time, we’re a community and a team who work together every single day. And that sort of ability to be on the ground and also functioning at a high level at the same time allows me to be all that I want to be.

Last question: what’s your favorite vegetable? Beets. The first thing my daughter ever ate was a beet puree.

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