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OUTREACH CAMPAIGN SEEKS 9/11 VICTIMS HEALTH Officials push to identify people who were at or near ground zero and might be eligible for assistance BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

A weekend street scene outside the Westside Market on Broadway just south of 77th Street, which has been its home since 1979. The supermarket’s lease with the parent company of the Hotel Belleclaire, its landlord, expires on November 30. Photo: Douglas Feiden

FOUR OPENINGS AND A FUNERAL SHOPPING The 38-year-old Westside Market is leaving its cozy if cramped space on Broadway and 77th Street, but the grocer plans to open four new Manhattan stores BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN

The Westside Market on Broadway off West 77th Street has offered up its roasted turkey dinner with gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes and holiday pie on every Thanksgiving since it ﬁrst set up shop in 1979. That tradition ends this year. Upper West Siders will have until 10 p.m. on Thursday, November 23 to pick up the repast — and not a min-

ute more. That sentence is sure to horrify the culinary cognoscenti because for 38 years, the family-owned supermarket maintained 24-7 hours. But now, it is selling off stock, slowly emptying shelves, curtailing hours and winding down operations. A proud fixture on the ground floor of the Hotel Belleclaire since Ed Koch’s first term as mayor, the grocer will close its doors for good on November 30. That’s the day its lease expires. And since it couldn’t come to terms on a lease-renewal deal with its landlord, Triumph Hotels, which owns the Belleclaire and six other Manhattan hotel properties, the market will be vacating the premises, said Ian Joskowitz, its chief operating officer.

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Alexandra Jorge was on her way to class at Pace University on the 7 train when the first plane hit the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001. As the day’s events unfolded, Jorge, then a senior studying applied psychology, took shelter on campus with other students before making her way back to Queens via the 59th Street Bridge hours after the towers fell. When classes at Pace resumed in the weeks following the attack, things had hardly returned to normalcy. “The scene was horriﬁc,” Jorge said. “As soon as you came out of the subway station you’d see the dust and debris and what was left of the charred buildings.” Even inside school buildings, she said, “it smelled like jet fuel.” Jorge recalls students petitioning the dean at Pace to replace air ﬁlters on campus. “The air quality was just horrible after 9/11,” she said. A few years later, Jorge, then living in California and pursuing a graduate degree, visited the doctor for a routine checkup, which revealed a tumor on her lymph nodes. At 28 years old, she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. “I was pretty much devastated,” she said. Surgeries and other treatment controlled the cancer, but Jorge will have to take medication for the rest of her life. Several years after her diagnosis, Jorge received an email from a Pace alumni group detailing health ben-

efits and compensation available to people who lived, worked, volunteered or went to school near the World Trade Center in the months following the attack and later developed illnesses linked to toxins released at the site. Thyroid cancer was on the list of covered conditions. “That’s when it dawned on me,” she said. “It was like, ‘Oh my god. This is why I got sick.’” Jorge is one of roughly 80,000 enrollees in the World Trade Center Health Program, which provides health screenings and treatment to first responders and others who were at ground zero on September 11, 2001 or during the weeks and months that followed. The program, established by Congressional legislation known as the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, provides assistance to those with conditions linked to exposure to asbestos, benzene, chromium, lead and other carcinogens released into the air after the towers collapsed. Attorney Michael Barasch represented James Zadroga, the NYPD detective who worked at the site and later died of pulmonary fibrosis and for whom the federal legislation was named, as well as over 10,000 others affected by the attacks. “Most people think that the Zadroga Act is exclusively for first responders,” Barasch said, noting that though the majority of enrollees are emergency responders and cleanup workers, the program is also open to others. Along with local elected officials, union representatives and community leaders, Barasch is now participating in a new outreach push to identify students, teachers and others who lived or worked in Lower Manhattan who may qualify for federal assistance. Barasch said that over 400,000 peoDowntowner

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Alexandra Jorge, who was an undergraduate at Pace University on 9/11, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer at the age of 28. Photo: Alexandra Jorge ple in total were exposed, and urged anyone who was near ground zero to register for the health program. “You have nothing to lose,” he said. “You get free annual medical monitoring.” Word-of-mouth and social media are the most effective means for contacting eligible survivors, Barasch said, particularly to inform retired teachers and students who have left the city. “It’s a national tragedy,” he said. “It’s affected people who now live all over the country.” Jorge, now 37 and living in Los Angeles, is a cancer researcher at UCLA, studying how breast cancer patients adjust to their diagnosis and cope with depression. The World Trade Center Health Program covers the copayment for her thyroid medication. “I’m glad to share my story to raise awareness for others who have gotten sick and should be receiving some sort of treatment or assistance or be getting surveillance for symptoms,” she said.

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TWITTER, BUZZFEED JOIN FOR BREEZY ONLINE MORNING SHOW MEDIA From a studio in Manhattan, the weekday â&#x20AC;&#x153;AM to DMâ&#x20AC;? is aimed at an under-35 audience BY DAVID BAUDER

Twitter and BuzzFeed initially planned to start their new morning show, â&#x20AC;&#x153;AM to DM,â&#x20AC;? each weekday at 8 a.m. Then they considered their likely audience, and scheduled it for 10. Now thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to wake up leisurely, have coffee and fire up your smartphone. Hosts Isaac Fitzgerald and Saeed Jones, who like four-ďŹ fths of the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s audience are under age 35, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to rise at an ungodly hour. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all so civilized. Launched quietly in late September from a studio in BuzzFeedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Manhattan office, â&#x20AC;&#x153;AM to DMâ&#x20AC;? is a breezy mix of news and pop culture. Viewers can click on Twitter and watch the stream live, or catch highlights later in the day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been kind of fun,â&#x20AC;? said Shani Hilton, head of U.S. news at BuzzFeed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It feels like the early days of BuzzFeed where we were experimenting all the time and making things out of bubble gum and glue.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;AM to DMâ&#x20AC;? (DM standing for â&#x20AC;&#x153;direct The local paper for Downtown

messageâ&#x20AC;?) neatly ďŹ ts the ambitions of two young media companies. Twitter has moved aggressively into video during the past year, streaming more than 800 events during the summer months. BuzzFeed wants to make money with its news operation and be top of mind with social media companies experimenting with video. After working with BuzzFeed on an election night special, Twitter suggested the morning show. Rather than search for potential hosts with a television background, they found their team in BuzzFeedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newsroom. Fitzgerald, 34, is a former ďŹ reďŹ ghter who is BuzzFeedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books editor, and had made several appearances on the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Todayâ&#x20AC;? show to talk about the literary scene. Jones, 31, is a published poet who was executive editor of culture at the website. They make up with energy what they lack in polish. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I never in my life thought there would be a place for a gay black man to be fully involved in a morning show,â&#x20AC;? Jones said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;AM to DMâ&#x20AC;? talks about the news more than it reports it; Hilton said producers work under the assumption viewers have already checked out news headlines. The show relies heavily on the collaborating companies. For a recent show dealing with

Screenshot of â&#x20AC;&#x153;AM to DMâ&#x20AC;? on Twitter Alabama U. S. Senate candidate Roy Moore and molestation accusations, the hosts review what has been written about him on Twitter. They conducted Skype interviews with BuzzFeed White House correspondent Adrian Carrasquillo to preview

what President Donald Trump will face after his return from Asia, and national security correspondent Thomas Frank about the investigation into Russian actions during last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presidential campaign. The showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regular â&#x20AC;&#x153;ďŹ re tweetsâ&#x20AC;? seg-

ment simply involves the hosts kibitzing over random remarks made on Twitter. They laughed at one person who wrote, â&#x20AC;&#x153;no one actually tells you that an adult job is deleting 80 percent of your emails and ignoring the rest.â&#x20AC;? The show has had a mix of politicians and celebrities during its first two months, including Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, singer Audra McDonald and actress Nicole Richie. The content of â&#x20AC;&#x153;AM to DMâ&#x20AC;? is much like that on Twitter, Fitzgerald said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Twitter is not one thing and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what I love about it,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People are not one thing. People are complex and the complexity is reďŹ&#x201A;ected in the platform and I hope itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reflected on the show.â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to tell what kind of an impact it is having. Twitter said at least one million people checked out some part of each show during its first week, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deceptive; the standard used by the television industry is how many people watch in an average minute and Twitter wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t provide that ďŹ gure. The company also says â&#x20AC;&#x153;AM to DMâ&#x20AC;? is â&#x20AC;&#x153;one of the most-viewed daily showsâ&#x20AC;? live-streaming on Twitter, but wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say what show has the most viewers and how the new morning show compares.

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

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At 7:25 p.m. on Wednesday, November 8, a 43-year-old Brooklyn man waiting for a southbound J train in the Broad Street station was approached by an unknown man who grabbed him by the neck, threw him to the ground, and punched him several times. The bad guy then grabbed the victim’s wallet and cellphone. Police searched both the station and the area around the station but couldn’t locate the mugger. The man lost $200, a cellphone valued at $150, a wallet worth $30, and MetroCards valued at $15.

A Washington, D.C., man was arrested on charges of assaulting a traffic agent after he bumped her with his car following the agent’s traffic order, with which he failed to comply, police said. Melvin F. Sneed, 29, was arrested shortly after the November 7 incident, which happened during afternoon rush hour at the northwest corner of Watts and Varick Streets. The traffic agent, 52, was taken to New York Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital for treatment.

A man was arrested after ripping off his employer to the tune of more than $20,000. At 10 a.m. on Tuesday, October 17, a male employee of Suitsupply New York located at 453 Broome Street removed a number of items from inventory and shipped them without payment or permission. The items stolen were 28 suits valued at $20,832. Carlos Hidalgo was arrested November 7 and charged with grand larceny.

Police arrested a man wanted for a pattern of retail store burglaries in Manhattan. At 10:50 p.m. on Tuesday, November 7, a 52-year-old man entered the Frye Company store at 113 Spring Street and made off with eight Frye handbags valued at $2,704. Jessie Brandon was arrested right after and charged with burglary.

At 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, November 12, a 47-year-old woman took off her $9,000 Rolex inside the Equinox Tribeca gym at 54 Murray Street while she took a shower. She told police she left the shower stall for about ﬁve minutes, and when she returned her watch was gone.

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WESTSIDE MARKET CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 But this is not another tale of a legacy brick-and-mortar business that has succumbed to online competition in an overheated real estate marketplace. On the contrary, despite sky-high rents, slender proﬁt margins and a punishing commercial rent tax, Westside Market, which runs four other groceries in Manhattan, is in a major expansion mode. Expect to see new stores with the familiar green-and-white awning popping up all over town: “We’re taking a risk,” Joskowitz said. “But we’re betting on Manhattan.” Details are still sketchy. The local chain isn’t ready to disclose exact locations, though they’ll be announced shortly. Three leases have already been inked. One prospective deal is still being negotiated. And all told, four new outposts will bow in 2018, the grocer says. “Yes, we’re actually adding new stores!” Joskowitz confirmed. “We have something that’s unique, and thus far, wherever we go, people seem to like it. Obviously, we hope it continues. And we’re betting that it’s going to work. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be doing this.” Each store will be owned, managed and operated by the Zoitas family, along with their business partners. And the store’s founder, 72-yearold Greek immigrant Ioannis Zoitas — better known as “Big John,” who first opened shop with his wife Maria in 1977 in an old bodega on Broadway at 110th Street — is still scouting new locations. This is what is known about the sites so far: • The first to debut, by February of March of next year, will be located in the general area around Union Square and Gramercy, not that far from a Westside Market that opened in 2014 on Third Avenue at 12th Street. • The next, set for spring of 2018, will be found on the upper part of the Upper East Side, on the ﬂanks of Carnegie Hill. There was a brief debate about calling it “Westside Market East,” Joskowitz said. “But everybody knows us as Westside, so we decided to keep the original name.” • Within six months, by next summer or fall, a third entrant will move into the heart of Chelsea, not too far north of another Westside that opened in 2004 on Seventh Avenue at 15th Street. • Meanwhile, sensitive lease

The closing of a supermarket is typically a time of great trauma, as this scene in Chelsea in the spring of 2016 highlights. Residents protested the closure of one of the only affordable suppliers of fresh produce in the neighborhood after the market’s rent spiked dramatically. Photo: Madeleine Thompson negotiations are continuing over a site in a fourth Manhattan neighborhood the company isn’t ready to identify. If the deal comes to fruition, its current inventory of five markets, soon to be four with the loss of the 77th Street location, will jump to eight. • Finally, the 77th Street site itself could be replaced with another retail space nearby, which would take the tally up to nine. The senior Zoitas has been looking at vacancies on the west side of Broadway in the high 70s and low 80s, the side with the most foot traffic, and hopes to reopen as close as possible to the existing shop. But there are no firm plans as yet. The grocer says it never wanted to decamp in the first place: It sought additional adjoining space so it could enlarge its footprint. More than the rent, that proved the sticking point in lease negotiations. Executives said the store is leaving because the landlord couldn’t accommodate its needs. Triumph didn’t return calls or emails. The market’s expansion comes amid perilous times in the city’s food corridors. Roughly 100 small-scale, family-owned grocers in Manhattan shuttered between 2005 and 2015, according to data from the Strategic Research Group, a retail consultant. In a report earlier this month on the health of small businesses, City Council Member Helen Rosenthal noted that at least three Upper West Side supermarkets had closed in recent years — a Gristedes at Broadway and 96th Street, and two Food Emporiums, at Broadway and 90th Street, and Columbus Avenue and 69th Street respectively. Add to that the impending loss of the Westside Market at Broadway and 77th Street, and that’s four shutdowns in one neighborhood alone. It’s the tip of the iceberg: In barely two years, grocers have closed on Mulberry Street, West 14th Street, West 23rd Street, Lexington Avenue, Sec-

ond Avenue, East 86th Street, the list goes on and on. Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer calls the closings a “life-or-death crisis for our seniors,” who need and rely upon affordable food shops, and are often unable to walk very far to reach alternative places. Along with City Council Member Corey Johnson, whose district includes Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen and Greenwich Village, Brewer staged a City Hall rally on November 13 to champion a proposed Council bill to exempt supermarkets from the commercial rent tax, which impacts businesses south of 96th Street and has long proved burdensome. Noting that even the most successful grocers operate with razor-thin profit margins, she said eliminating the CRT, which is basically a tax on rent, would help preserve stores, jobs and access to fresh, healthy and reasonably priced food options. “The CRT has outlived its purpose — and it is now crushing many of our local businesses,” Brewer said at the rally. For decades, the Westside Market has held its own against Fairway and Citarella and other local competitors, Joskowitz said. But it has found it tougher to compete with Amazon, Fresh Direct and Instacart, he adds. Which raises the obvious question: Why, in such a brutal climate for the supermarket business, is the chain in fullexpansion mode? “In a way, it is counter-intuitive to be opening additional stores right now,” Joskowitz acknowledged. On the other hand, when you consider the void in the food market that store closings create, there is a certain logic, both mathematically and from a business perspective, in doing so, he explains. “Weaker supermarkets are closing down left and right,” Joskowitz said. “But if 10 of them close, and we open three new ones, the city is still minus seven.”

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MAPPING MANHATTAN’S SUFFRAGIST LANDMARKS The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission has documented dozens of key places that figured in the marathon battle for women to win the right to vote in New York State. That moment finally arrived in 1917. Here are a few of the sites:

250 RIVERSIDE DRIVE: The Victoria Apartments at West 97th Street was the home of Harriot Stanton Blatch, daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who founded the Equality League of SelfSupporting Women in 1907 for working-class suffragist

2 WEST 86TH STREET: The home on Central Park West of Carrie Chapman Catt, Susan B. Anthony’s hand-picked successor to run the National American Woman Suffrage Association, where she lived with another prominent suffragist, Mary Garrett Hay, from 1910 to 1917

3. 564 PARK AVENUE: The second and current home of the Colony Club at 62nd Street hosted a “suffrage experience meeting” in 1917 in which several influential, well-heeled men made presentations about why women should gain the vote

4. 505 FIFTH AVENUE: The now-demolished 42nd Street building served as the second Manhattan headquarters of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1910, when it moved back from Ohio, to 1916

120 MADISON AVENUE: The original home of the Colony Club on 30th Street, the first elite women’s social club to rival the top men’s clubs, hosted a speech by ex-President Theodore Roosevelt in 1914 in which he advocated greater participation by women in U.S. politics

6. 339 WEST 29TH STREET: The home of one of the first suffragists, Abby Hopper Gibbons, was also a stop on the Underground Railroad, called “19 Lamartine Place,” highlighting the central role of abolitionists and Quakers in the women’s rights movement

7. UNION SQUARE: The city’s historic protest park was the scene of a mass rally in 1910 capping New York’s first major suffrage parade, in which thousands of demonstrators marched down Fifth Avenue

118 WAVERLY PLACE: The Greenwich Village home near Sixth Avenue of left-wing activist and “Suffragent” Max Eastman, it doubled as the first headquarters of the Men’s League for Woman Suffrage starting in 1909

East Third Street of Polishborn Rose Schneiderman, the movement’s most spellbinding orator, who is best remembered for a 1912 speech, declaring, “The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with!”

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A new interactive story map created by the Landmarks Preservation Commission pinpoints the city’s historic suffrage sites

10. 150 NASSAU STREET: The American Tract Society Building at Spruce Street served as the headquarters of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the country’s most influential suffrage group, from 1900 until it moved to Ohio in 1902

STREET CORNERS THAT GAVE WOMEN THE VOTE

9. 57-59 SECOND AVENUE: The home off

Rose Schneiderman, a legendary and ﬁery orator on behalf of women’s rights, takes the suffrage cause to a union rally in the Garment District in the 1910s. Photo: Jewish Women’s Archive, via NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN

To see even more suffragist landmarks thoughout Manhattan, read the story online at otdowntown.com

Graphic: Christina Scotti Source: New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission

So revered are Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton that a statue of them will be erected in 2020 on the Literary Walk in the Central Park Mall to mark the centennial of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that gave women across the country the right to vote. But far less attention has been paid to another pioneering women’s rights organizer,

Stanton’s youngest daughter, inveterate Upper West Sider Harriot Stanton Blatch, who resided at 250 Riverside Drive off 97th Street — and lived through most of the 72-year struggle for suffrage. Born just eight years after the first women’s rights convention was held in Seneca Falls in 1848, Blatch followed the trail blazed by her mother — helping to marshal the great ﬁght until New York women ﬁnally got the vote on Election Day in 1917, and suffrage at last went national in 1920. Among her triumphs: In 1907, she founded the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women, which trained working-class women to campaign for suffrage and was “open to any woman who earns her

own living, from a cook to a mining engineer. Then in 1910, she organized the city’s first blockbuster suffrage parade, a march down Fifth Avenue climaxing in a giant rally in Union Square. Blatch and thousands of likeminded activists transformed virtually every nook and cranny of Manhattan — its streets, salons, townhouses, tenements, clubhouses, concert halls, vaudeville houses, boarding houses, hotels, parks, pools, auditoriums, alleyways and office buildings — into a living, breathing operational base for the suffrage movement. For roughly three-quarters of a century, they deployed the island’s built and natural infra-

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TEACHING POETRY IN A CUNY CLASSROOM BY KIMIKO HAHN

Before I became a professor, I was a tourbus guide, museum receptionist, university secretary, Chinatown reading-series curator, and so on. But all during this time, what I really was, was a poet. I write poetry no matter what I do to earn a living. Of course, being a professor is a very fortunate position for a poet — what with time for writing, health care, and, of course, scores of students who want to learn about poetry and how to write poetry, if only for an easy grade. Which it is not. I recently realized that my colleagues who are literature scholars do not understand what the creative faculty does in class. So, I’ll begin with that classroom, which is more speciﬁcally a CUNY classroom. First, we create a space, a community if you will, where the students feel comfortable writing material that will most likely

issue from a very personal depth; also, where students feel comfortable critiquing one another in a way that is productive and straightforward but not mean-spirited. This is not easy. And with our students, there seem to be more issues (“My parents don’t want me to air dirty laundry”; “I’m gay but in my conservative religious community, I can’t come out”; “I choose to wear a niqab [full covering except for eyes and hands] but I don’t think any of you understand it isn’t about modesty”; “Does it count that I’ve written poetry in Russian?”). As poetteacher in the CUNY system, we constantly listen in between the lines, so to speak. Also, as a poet-teacher in the CUNY system, there are times when obstacles are less social than concrete. Everyone here has regularly had students who cannot make class because they must drive a parent to chemo every week; a relative

has died overseas and they must go to the funeral; a partner is leaving for military service; a partner is incarcerated; he or she is homeless. Over my twenty-plus years, I am constantly learning what my students don’t know. And it is my pleasure. Another part of our classroom work begins with other writer’s words. Aside from cultural literacy, published work can give our own students permission to move deeply into their own lives. Learning the craft of poetry (line breaks, point of view, etc.) deepens the experience for readers. I once heard a student complain to the poet Marie Ponsot that she didn’t have time to write. Marie — who, aside from everything else, raised seven children on her own — replied, “Surely you have ﬁfteen minutes.” I’ll never forget those words. Here is a Marie Ponsot sonnet that I’ve used in class.

ONE IS ONE Heart, you bully, you punk, I’m wrecked, I’m shocked stiff. You? you still try to rule the world — though I’ve got you: identiﬁed, starving, locked in a cage you will not leave alive, no matter how you hate it, pound its walls, & thrill its corridors with messages. Brute. Spy. I trusted you. Now you reel & brawl in your cell but I’m deaf to your rages, your greed to go solo, your eloquent threats of worse things you (knowing me) could do. You scare me, bragging you’re a double agent since jailers are prisoners’ prisoners too. Think! Reform! Make us one. Join the rest of us, and joy may come, and make its test of us. Kimiko Hahn is distinguished professor of English at Queens College, The City University of New York, and president of the Poetry Society of America.

NOURISHING TALK BY BETTE DEWING

And ﬁrst, hear this, how inordinately grateful I am for you, dear readers, of this newspaper. You know that local news matters most to everyday life. And if politics are “talked” on these holiday or any gatherings, focus on those who “rule” everyday life — government, yes, but also those within media, civic, faith and medical institutions. Endless thanks, of course, to our advertisers and those who support them — without whom ... Those who write letters to editor and columnists also deserve kudos. But many elders still lack internet — so here’s to savvy-tech family, friends, neighbors and volunteers arranging access. Imagine — those who may need it most. Ah, but some surveys find pols are more responsive to phone calls than to emails. A lot to talk about, and not least, why some are too much alone — not only on holidays — and what “love one another” faith groups especially should do. And not only for those who might be alone is the annual Thanksgiving

Day dinner at the St. Stephen of Hungary School Auditorium on East 82nd Street, between York and First, at 1:30 p.m.. Contact St. Monica’s Parish Center for a $5 dollar ticket — soon (212288-6250). There is wheelchair access and great home cooking. And here’s to a little more community-building conversation, too. Oops, is that too many directives? OK, let’s just have another piece of pie — make it pumpkin! Incidentally, columnists sure do get weary trying to make things better and are not so not thankful for “Happiness is a Choice You Make,” the new book by John Leland based on his Times series about several “oldest/old” New Yorkers’ lives. Incidentally, 85-plussers are the city’s fastest growing age group, but Leland’s elders often laugh when they should cry over great tragedy, illness and injustice. We believe it’s sort of what society tells them to do and to say “Better not to think about those bad things.” So nothing gets changed... But needed change is what series of boomer/senior forums sponsored by state Sen. Liz Krueger have always sought — mostly by people sharing

The Central Park Mall earlier this Thanksgiving Week. Photo: subherwal, via ﬂickr hard truths about the system making getting older unaffordable and also “uncaring.” But her recent forum about what boomer/seniors must do to avoid the “uncaring” or speciﬁcally, the panel’s on loneliness, now thought as threatening to life and health as smoking. While a recent blow to my central nervous system also spiked more hearing loss, the speakers’ message was that it’s up to the senior group especially to “get out there” and take advantage of the many activities, social

and otherwise, to offset loneliness. But what about the 85-plussers whose mobility is often limited, and who may need help “getting there”? Anywhere. And speaking of “government for the people,” those invitations to various pols’ holiday parties don’t consider that either. So let’s ask and even demand that they do. But gee, I sure do get weary being so serious, which, can you imagine, some people call being “too critical.” So, it’s your turn — while I run (I wish) to get some more pumpkin pie.

And to stress again how those holiday dinners desperately need recipes for what’s said “over the plate.” Now, we only get the kind for what’s served “on top the plate” — if ever a balance were needed — so nobody is left out. And there would be less over-eating, not to mention over-drinking, even violence, if nourishing words were the rule ... followed by related actions. Ah, that deserves columns and volumes — and we also need to hear it from you, dear readers. Dewingbetter@aol.com

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New York City residents may soon be able to register to vote online. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office.

ONLINE VOTER REGISTRATION GETS COUNCIL OK POLITICS Legislation will let city residents register by mobile app BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

Less than one quarter of registered New York City voters cast ballots in this month’s general election for municipal offices — a new low for voter turnout in the city, which has trended steadily downward in mayoral contests for the last three decades. Local elected officials hope that legislation passed Nov. 16 by the City Council will widen the pool of voters in future elections by making it easier for residents to register to vote. The bill requires the city’s Campaign Finance Board to implement and maintain a website and mobile application allowing eligible residents to

register to vote online. New York is one of 36 states that permit online voter registration in some form, but the state’s online registration program is currently only open to residents who hold DMV-issued driver licenses, learner permits, or non-driver identiﬁcation cards. This requirement acted as a barrier to online registration for many residents of New York City, where car ownership rates are lower than in the rest of the state. Council Member Ben Kallos, the bill’s author, hopes that the legislation will make it easier for the city’s residents to access the ballot. “Only about 25 percent of Manhattan households own cars,” Kallos said, citing the New York City Economic Development Corporation. “Driver licenses and other state identiﬁcation cards are not as common among people of color or low-income communities, so having an online voter regis-

tration system that anyone can use is incredibly important.” Seth Stein, a spokesman for Mayor Bill de Blasio, said that the mayor’s office is reviewing the ﬁnal legislation. “The Administration worked closely with the City Council in crafting this legislation,” he said. “We support online registration and making voting more accessible to New Yorkers.” The legislation that has an 18-month timeline for implementation, but Kallos said he hopes the online registration system will be up and running “in a matter days or weeks rather than months and months,” noting that a working demonstration of the system is available on his website. The legislation relies on an informal opinion issued by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in April 2016 advising that online registration is legal in New York State.

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“Gossip Girl” has nothing on this ‘90s Upper East Side teen drama. Based on the movie “Cruel Intentions,” (itself based on the classic French novel) spoiled and wealthy step-siblings Sebastian Valmont and Kathryn Merteuil place a diabolical bet on whether or not Sebastian can deﬂower the innocent Annette Hargrove, the incoming headmaster’s daughter. This musical is drenched in ’90s nostalgia and features hits like “Bittersweet Symphony.”

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Thu 23 Fri 24 Sat 25 VOLUNTEER AT THE BOWERY Bowery Mission 227 Bowery 8 a.m. Free On Thanksgiving Day, the Bowery serves meals to more than 7,800 men, women and children in all ﬁve boroughs. Come help prepare traditional turkey dinners in the Mission’s century-old chapel, with music and festive decorations. 212-674-3456 bowery.org/programs

GLIDE BY THE RIVER► Brookfield Place’s Winter Garden, 250 Vesey St. 10:15 a.m. $15, $5 skate rental If you have the day off, then skate right next to the water at the impressive ice rink at Brookfield Plaza. Skate off that Thanksgiving dinner, or just sit on the sidelines and drink hot cocoa. therinkatbrookfieldplace.net

CHINATOWN FOOD TOUR▲ Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre St. 1 p.m. $35, includes 5-6 food samples From tofu fa to the lamb burgers, get to know the diverse food and cooking styles of Chinese cuisine while exploring stories of the old neighborhood. Additional tour on Dec. 9. 212-619-4785 mocanyc.org

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BOBBI LLOYD’S APPLE HAND PIES Our Town’s

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Taste what Bobbi Llyod is serving up at Our Town’s Art of Food at Sotheby’s. Tickets available at artoffoodny.com. For the third consecutive year, Magnolia Bakery’s master baker Bobbi Lloyd is bringing her expertise back to the Art of Food on Saturday, February 10th. In preparation for the upcoming event (and Thanksgiving!) she’s sharing one of her favorite recipes:

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9. Split dough into two discs lightly shaped into a rectangle. 10. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour.

MAKE THE APPLE FILLING:

Apple Hand Pies Yield: 6-8 pies

FRESH APPLE FILLING: Photo by rogersmj, via Flickr

Sun 26 Mon 27 Tue 28 EVACUATION DAY TOUR Fraunces Tavern Museum 54 Pearl St. 11 a.m. $20 This is what democracy looks like: On the 25th of November, 1783, the British ﬁled onto their ships to leave the New World for good. Follow in the footsteps of General Washington and his troops as they entered New York after the War for Independence was over, and walk the path of our nation’s ﬁrst revolutionaries. 212-425-1778 frauncestavernmuseum.org

WINE CLASS: BORDEAUX, RHONE AND WARM REDS▲ Le District, 225 Liberty St. 6:30 p.m. $45 Get cozy with the red wines of the Bordeaux region and the Rhone Valley. Participants will touch on the Languedoc, Provence and Corsica regions as well with master sommelier and wine director Jacob Daugherty, who leads this palate-pleasing course. ledistrict.com/classes

‘VOICES FROM THE INSIDE’ SubCulture 45 Bleecker St. 6:30 p.m. $15, online only Writing behind bars is recognized at PEN America’s annual “Breakout: Voices from the Inside” event. Come honor the best writing submitted to the PEN Prison Writing Contest by incarcerated individuals. Winners will be read by writers Emily Bazelon, Trace DePass and others. 212-533-5470 subculturenewyork.com

Wed 29 SING YOUR HEART OUT

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1 p.m. Free 6 River Terrace Learn a mix of contemporary and classic songs, and perform at community events throughout the year with the Battery Park City chorus. Directed by Church Street School for Music and Art, the BPC chorus is open to all adults who love to sing. Every Wednesday. 212-267-9700 bpcparks.org/event

Golden Delicious Apples, peeled, cored and cut 1/2’’ pieces: 3 ea. Granny Smith Apples, peeled, cored and cut into 1/2’’ pieces: 3 ea. Sugar, granulated: 2/3 c. Butter: 4 tbsp. Cinnamon, ground: 1/2 tsp. Cornstarch: 2 tbsp.

EGG WASH: Large egg white: 1 ea. Water: 1 tsp.

GARNISH: Sugar, granulated: 2 tsp. Cinnamon, ground: 1/4 tsp.

CLASSIC PIE DOUGH: All purpose flour: 4 c. Salt: 1 tsp. Butter, cold & hard: 2 c. Ice water (no ice): 10-12 tbsp. 1. Cut butter into 1/2” cubes, place in a bowl and refrigerate to keep cold. 2. Combine flour and salt in a food processor. Pulse for 5 seconds to blend. 3. Add the butter and pulse until the butter looks like small peas. 4. Remove from food processor and place into a large bowl. 5. Slowly add ice cold water a few tablespoons at a time. 6. Gently toss together with fingers in a bowl. Do not over work, mix just until it forms dough. 7. Remove from bowl and place onto a table. 8. Fold dough in half, gently push across table with the palm of your hand, fold and do again a total of three times – gently.

1. Peel and core apples, cut into 1/2’’ cubes. 2. Toss the apples with the cinnamon and sugar. Let sit for 30 minutes. 3. Strain the liquid and set aside. 4. In a saucepan on medium heat, melt the butter and add the prepared apples. Cook a few minutes until the apples start to soften. 5. Add 2 tbsp. apple liquid. Cover and cook 1-2 minutes until the apples start to soften. 6. Mix the cornstarch with the remaining liquid that you set aside. Add to the apples. 7. Cook for about 2 minutes until the mixture starts to thicken and liquid reduces. 8. Set aside to cool. Note: apple filling can be made ahead of time and held in the refrigerator.

ASSEMBLY: 1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. 2. Roll a disc of dough into a 9” x 12” rectangle about a 1/4’’ thick. Cut into 3” squares. 3. Place half of the dough squares on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper. If dough has gotten too warm, place back in the refrigerator before filling. 4. Mix egg white and water with a fork. Lightly brush the dough edges with egg wash. 5. Place a scant 1/4 cup filling in the center of the dough square. 6. Cover with another 3” square, and crimp all around with a fork. 7. Using a paring knife, score the top of the pocket with two to three lines. 8. If the dough has softened and is warm, place the sheet pan in the freezer for 10 minutes or the refrigerator for 1/2 hour. 9. Brush with egg white wash, dust with cinnamon sugar. 10. Bake for 12-15 minutes. Check at 12 minutes to see if crust is golden. Filling should be bubbling out of the cuts. 11. Cool completely on a wire rack. NOTE: Hand pies can be made up to point 8 and frozen. Do not thaw before baking. You may need to add a minute or two in the final bake time.

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CONTEMPLATING THE DIVINE At The Met Fifth Avenue, a historic showcase of drawings by Michelangelo BY VAL CASTRONOVO

“It’s humbling to be in the presence of genius,” curator Carmen Bambach gushes in a video about Michelangelo’s red chalk studies for the Libyan Sibyl. The female prophet, modeled after a young male, inhabits the north end of the Sistine Chapel’s frescoed ceiling, reproduced here in a photograph, one-quarter the size of the real thing but still massive. Look up and be humbled. The feeling stays with you as you tour the galleries at The Met Fifth Avenue’s sprawling new exhibit, “Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer,” which is being billed as unprecedented. “This is a once in a lifetime opportunity,” Daniel Weiss, president and CEO of The Met, said at a preview. “It is the largest and most comprehensive gathering of drawings by Michelangelo in history.” It features more than 200 rare items, including 133 drawings, three sculptures and the earliest surviving painting by the Renaissance master, “The

IF YOU GO WHAT: “Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer”

WHERE: The Met Fifth Avenue, 1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street) WHEN: through February 12. www.metmuseum.org

Torment of Saint Anthony” (1487-88), made when he was about 13 and an apprentice in the workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio. It is a small, radiant jewel presented alongside his earliest surviving drawing from around 1492, a copy of two ﬁgures from a fresco by Giotto. His earliest known sculpture, “Young Archer” (1496-97), is displayed nearby. The works by the hand of the precocious Michelangelo — and his teachers, pupils, friends, associates, collaborators and wannabes — are drawn from some 50 public and private collections, including many from The Royal Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle and The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, Caprese 1475–1564 Rome). “Tityos (recto); Sketches for a Resurrection of Christ (verso).” Drawing. Ca. 1530–32. Black chalk; sheet: 7 1/2 x 13 in. Lent by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (RCIN 12771). ROYAL COLLECTION TRUST/© HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II 2017. www. royalcollection.org.uk”www.royalcollection.org.uk

Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, Caprese 1475–1564 Rome). “Archers Shooting at a Herm.” 1530–33. Drawing, red chalk; 8 5/8 x 12 11/16 in. ROYAL COLLECTION TRUST/© HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II 2017. www.royalcollection.org.uk”www. royalcollection.org.uk It was biographer Giorgio Vasari who dubbed Michelangelo “the divine draftsman and designer” in 1568 in his famous “Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.” He extolled the artist’s mastery of “disegno” — drawing and concept design — a gift that accounted for his extraordinary skill in the arts. As Bambach said at the preview, “His drawings themselves were often called ‘divine works’ by his contemporaries.” Born in Caprese, southeast of Florence, Michelangelo Buonarroti (14751564) had an uncanny adeptness with pen-and-ink, a challenging medium in the hands of lesser talents because it did not allow for erasures. But he also used red chalk, black chalk, wash and gouache — white gouache highlights especially. Il Divino (“the divine one”), as he came to be known, set a high bar for himself. His competitive nature “made him ‘a lover of difficulty’ ... intent on conquering all manner of challenges in his art, physical and creative, and on outdoing all others, past and present,” Bambach writes in the catalog, noting his rivalry with contemporaries Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael. His drawings are a force, renowned for their sculptural and expressive qualities and anatomical precision. He

drew inspiration from classical sculpture and past masters of Italian art like Giotto, Masaccio and Donatello. The exhibit is a dizzying, somewhat overwhelming showcase, best experienced in small takes so the individual works can be savored. A vast, airy gallery houses the replica of the Sistine ceiling at the Vatican Palace (1508-12), with a selection of chalk studies for the frescoes at ground level. The labels for the drawings include tiny diagrams of the ceiling so you can relate the sketches on paper to the heavenly paintings above. It’s a climactic juncture, but then Michelangelo lived an extremely long life — he died at 88 — and there were more masterpieces to come. The section devoted to the ﬁgural studies for the “Last Judgment” (1533-41), a fresco behind the altar of the Sistine Chapel, is a sobering reminder. He achieved both fame and fortune in his lifetime. In the course of his career, he was commissioned to design a multitude of public projects, including a marble tomb for Pope Julius II that took 40 years to ﬁnish. He spent roughly two decades on the drawings; a sampling is on view here. But some of the most arresting items in the show are the private works he created for friends and benefactors, so-called gift drawings.

When he was 57, he befriended Tommaso de’ Cavalieri, a much younger gentleman from Rome with a taste for antiquities. Beguiled by the young man’s learnedness, Michelangelo offered tokens of affection in the form of poetry and drawings based on myths from Ovid’s “Metamorphoses.” One black chalk sheet from Queen Elizabeth II’s Royal Collection, “Punishment of Tityos,” depicts the giant Tityos, nude and recumbent in the underworld, on the verge of having his liver bitten by a vulture for eternity, retribution for attempting to rape the goddess Leto. Michelangelo’s fondness for attractive young men with noble pedigrees was “an open secret,” the wall text states. Moreover, Vasari wrote that he “abhorred making a resemblance true to life, unless [the subject] was of extraordinary beauty,” an allusion to his dislike of portraiture. Andrea Quaratesi, 37 years younger than the master, made the cut though and is the subject of an enigmatic portrait from 1531-34. The aristocrat’s “remote gaze” and “three-quarter pose” call to mind the “Mona Lisa,” Bambach writes. “Leonardo pioneered this type of portrait, in which subtle tensions in the pose suggest a complex psychological presence.” Divine indeed.

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‘TIS THE SEASON HOLIDAYS A look, and a few tastes, at the shops in Bryant Park, Union Square and Grand Central BY LIZ HARDAWAY AND CARSON KESSLER

Most of the holiday shops are up and running, some since even before Halloween. We perused dozens, in Bryant Park, Union Square and Grand Central, to distil the best of the best. Here’s a guide to the gift spots, food and unique stores in the winter wonderlands.

BRYANT PARK Best Gifts — Hella Cocktail For some, the best way to get through the holidays is with a little booze. Mix in some cheer with your festivities by having a fresh-squeezed Bloody Mary mix. “It’s a way to bring craft drinks into the home,” Fabiana Santana said. Hella Cocktail has margarita and Bloody Mary mixes for $10, or you can get a full kit for those crafty mixologists in the family so they can make their own bitters from scratch.

Best Food — Cheesesteak by Truffleist Steak, caramelized onions, Swiss cheese, oh my! Truffleists’ cheesesteaks make any mouth water around the Bryant Park Winter Village. With melted, bubbling cheese, truffle oil and a secret sauce, these are the talk of the town. One can even opt out from meat with the delicious truffle cheese fries.

Best Niche — Boneyard Pets by 32 Square Want a pet that doesn’t bark? Using PVC plastic and recycled milk jugs, Eric Winston created a dinosaur-skeleton puzzle that is great for stimulating young paleontologists. From miniature T. rexes to jumbo-sized triceratopses, these vibrant bones will brighten any room in the home.

UNION SQUARE Best Gifts — Beekman’s Copa Soaps Soap is always a safe bet. These coldprocessed, all natural soaps make the perfect gift for everyone. From honey oatmeal to avocado, Beekman’s Copa Soaps use herbs and essential oils to leave skin soft and moisturized.

Best Food — Dulcinea Churros The Union Square Christmas Market is the best place to try this year’s Vendy Award winner for best dessert. Whether you get your cinnamon-crusted churro plain or prefer it smothered in chocolate, a Dulcinea churro in hand is a must as you stroll among the park’s shops.

Best Niche — Cork Buds Always wanted to create an indoor garden? These cute (and practical) succulents are the perfect addition to a small cubicle or office space. All cork buds are made from upcycled corks and hardy airplants and succulents. Whether or not you’re considering purchasing or not, Cork Buds is deﬁnitely the cutest cubby in the place.

GRAND CENTRAL HOLIDAY FAIR Best Gifts — Kent Stetson In this pristine boutique, clutches sporting margaritas or sushi or with the Manhattan skyline printed on the front deﬁnitely make a statement worth stopping for. Starting off as an artist, Kent Stetson decided 15 years ago to cut up his paintings, and use purses as a framing device. Now, his art can be used as a wardrobe staple. “The likelihood you are going to have fun is enhanced by what I make,” Stetson said.

Freddy Rojas preparing a cheesesteak at Truffleist in Bryant Park. Photo: Liz Hardaway

Best Food — Brownsville Roasters Sip the taste of Brooklyn while browsing the festivities. Next to the holiday fair lies the Great Northern Food Hall, where the most delicate and delicious marshmallows are stored next to a very robust organic coffee. Brownsville Roasters is a quick and tasty option whether when waiting for a train or buying your in-laws that last minute gift they’ve been wanting.

Best Niche — Raw Design Does that meat need seasoning? Do it in style with the best functional kitchen art Grand Central has to offer. At ﬁrst glance, these handmade, wood salt and pepper shakers look like interesting wall decorations, but actually end up being useful and in the saucepan. One customer and friend of the owner, Isabelle Segal-Roges, said she has had hers for over 15 years. With the wood being dyed such bright colors, instead of being painted, the shaker won’t soon lose its striking look.

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS NOV 7-14, 2017 The following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s website and include the most recent inspection and grade reports listed. We have included every restaurant listed during this time within the zip codes of our neighborhoods. Some reports list numbers with their explanations; these are the number of violation points a restaurant has received. To see more information on restaurant grades, visit www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/services/restaurant-inspection.shtml.

7B Bar

108 Avenue B

The Roost

222 Avenue B

Good Beer

422 East 9 Street

La Bergamote

177 9 Avenue

Starbucks Coffee

74 7Th Ave

China Wok Kitchen

63 Avenue D

Resobox

203 W 20Th St

Tea Drunk

123 East 7Th Street

Sports Center Cafe

0 Chelsea Piers

Grade Pending

Carma

507 E 6Th St

Morimoto Ny

88 10 Avenue

Sticky’s Finger Joint #1

31 West 8 Street

New York University Lipton Hall

33 Washington Square West

Grade Pending (39) 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. 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.

Grade Pending (32) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/ sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

Pecorino

197 7Th Ave

Grade Pending (30) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Food Protection Certiﬁcate not held by supervisor of food operations. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

El Camion Cantina

194 Avenue A

Tompkins Square Bagels

165 Avenue A

Kavasutra

261 E 10Th St

Loverboy

127 Avenue C

Not Yet Graded (15) Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewageassociated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Balade

208 1 Avenue

Grade Pending (2)

Esperanto Restaurant Bar And Jugo

145 Avenue C

Grade Pending (13) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Jupioca

200 W 14Th St

Casa La Femme

140 Charles Street

Merriweather

428 Hudson St

Grade Pending (15) Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewageassociated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

James Perse Enterprises

368 Bleecker St Manhattan

Arthur’s Tavern

57 Grove Street

Grade Pending (17) Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewageassociated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Taverna Kyclades

228 1St Ave

Grade Pending (27) 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. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Blenheim

283 West 12 Sttreet

Fonda

40 Avenue B

Houston Hall

222 West Houston Street

Ahimsa Garden

265 E 10Th St

Five Tacos

Karaoke Boho

186 West 4 Street

119 Saint Marks Place Grade Pending (9) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Pret A Manger

350 Hudson Street

The Tang

120 1St Ave

Grade Pending (15)

Berimbau

43 Carmine Street

Casa Adela Restaurant

66 Avenue C

Grade Pending (2)

Dominique Bistro / Akashi

14 Christopher St

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VOTE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 structure to advance their cause. And now, for the first time ever, the geography of those places that make up the suffragist landmarks of New York have been painstakingly mapped by a team of researchers at the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission. With little fanfare, no public events and only a press release issued on November 2, the LPC posted an interactive story map online — “NYC Landmarks and the Vote at 100” — that looks back at the attainment of women’s suffrage, commemorating the centennial anniversary of the vote in New York through the lens of the city’s landmarks. The map documents dozens of LPC-designated landmarks and other historic sites to recount the tales of the places where suffragists lived, worked, huddled, organized, marched, rallied, campaigned, fundraised, demonstrated and created institutions that changed the face of the city and the nation, the agency says. It is accompanied by text, photos, maps and videos. “These spaces — residential, institutional and commercial buildings — are the treasures of our city and a part of the shared heritage that binds us together,” said Meenakshi Srinivasan, chair of the landmarks agency. “They tell a story that’s vitally important today as we continue to honor and further the legacy of the great suffragists.” The site will enable visitors to honor the “magnificent women, and the Hefor-She activists, who helped shape the suffrage movement” in New York, which was the “birthplace of the women’s rights movement,” said First Lady Chirlane McCray in a statement. Consider the case of Blatch, who was born in 1856 and died in 1940, a Vassar graduate with a degree in mathematics who was never quite as celebrated as her mother, but who was viewed as an extraordinary and inspirational force in the marathon battle for the franchise. In effect, the Manhattan streetscape was her office: She would mount her soap box, literally, at the corner of Wall Street and Broad Street to exhort passers-by in the financial district to support a woman’s right to vote. And she would rally her supporters beneath the towering bronze equestrian statue of George Washington in Union Square. Blatch didn’t only work the island’s outdoor street corners. She gave rous-

Sarah Smith Garnet, who lived in Greenwich Village, was the city’s first black female public school principal and an advocate for the right of AfricanAmerican women to vote. Photo: New York Public Library, via NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission ing speeches at Cooper Union in 1907 and Carnegie Hall in 1909, the grand institutions that hosted hundreds of movement events, and she was a regular at the women-only Martha Washington Hotel, which served as headquarters for a council representing 18 separate suffrage societies. For retreat, relaxation and retooling her speeches, there was always the Victoria Apartments, the nine-story, George Pelham-designed, 1902 Renaissance Revival building where she made her home. “Most of the great and wondrous ideas of the suffrage movement were either New York-born or New Yorkborne creations,” said New York University journalism professor Brooke Kroeger, the author of “The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote.” From strategic and tactical approaches, to pageantry and parades, from extravaganzas to regimental campaign operations, and even including one “fairly disastrous attempt at a vaudeville sketch” that was staged at the Hammerstein Ballroom on West 34th Street, Kroeger cites the flurry of Manhattan-based creativity that helped define the movement. As for the so-called suffragents, pioneers of men’s engagement with women’s rights, Kroeger describes Max Eastman as a “charming, dashingly handsome new denizen of Greenwich Village,” who became secretary in 1909 of the Men’s League for Woman Suffrage, founded in his apartment. Now turn back to the LPC’s “Vote at

100” to pinpoint the peregrinations of Eastman: The left-wing activist and radical socialist, who published then-subversive magazines like The Masses and The Liberator, first lived at 118 Waverly Place near Sixth Avenue, which served as the early headquarters of the Men’s League, the interactive site says. By 1917, he had moved to 6 East 8th Street, off Fifth Avenue, where he continued his agitation for women’s rights, and in 1920, he decamped to 11 St. Luke’s Place, off Seventh Avenue South. Eastman moved to the Soviet Union in 1922 — and returned to the Village two years later as a fierce antiCommunist who denounced the Soviet state until his death in 1969. Another focus of an eight-person LPC research team — led by Srinivasan and Michael Caratzas, the agency’s senior researcher — was the Polishborn Rose Schneiderman, 1882-1972, who worked in a Garment District cap factory and was one of the organizers of the United Cloth and Cap Makers’ Union in 1904. From her leadership of striking immigrant female garment workers, she moved into the top ranks of Blatch’s Equality League of Self-Supporting Women and won fame as the movement’s most spellbinding orator. Schneiderman, who sometimes clashed with wealthier suffragists, lived with her family at 57-59 Second Avenue off East Third Street starting in 1905. During a Cooper Union debate in 1912 between suffrage proponents and opponents, she famously took umbrage when a state senator said that voting would “rob women of their delicacy.” Schneiderman’s response: The working women of her acquaintance would not “lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round.” It was also Schneiderman, a friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, who summed up what the woman’s civil rights movement was all about in her 1912 speech to a gathering of moneyed suffragists, which is often quoted to this day and for which she is best remembered: “What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist — the right to life, and the sun, and music, and art,” she exclaimed. “The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.” That moment finally arrived in New York on November 6, 2017.

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Harriot Stanton Blatch, the suffragist daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, addresses a crowd on Wall Street near Broad Street from a soap box in 1915 as she campaigns for a woman’s right to vote. Photo: Library of Congress, via NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

The former Martha Washington Hotel on East 29th Street, for women only, hosted scores of suffrage events in the early 1900s and was home to 18 suffrage societies and dozens of suffragists. Photo: NYPL Gilder Lehrman Collection, via NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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Business DNA FOR THE HOLIDAYS Gifts made of or related to life’s building blocks have multiplied as interest in genealogy rises. A double helix shopping list: BY LEANNE ITALIE

Stumped about holiday gifts? Reach for the stuff of life itself. Gifts made of or merely related to DNA have multiplied over the last several years as interest in genealogy has picked up. You’ve got your basics, like coffee mugs and T-shirts with ye old double helix on them, but there are other things to order, wrap up and hand over as gifts. Some ideas:

HUMAN DNA KITS Yes, we’re talking saliva for the holidays. Oprah Winfrey was taken by one kit in particular, the Ancestry kit from a company called 23andMe . She put the kit on her 2017 list of her favorite things. According to some reviews, the kit has a good number of features, as does one from Ancestry.com, which boasts the world’s largest DNA network to reveal ancestors and where they came from. The 23andMe company, named for the 23 chromosomes in human DNA, also has a health kit to identify genetic risks and whether a person is a carrier of certain inherited conditions.

The process of saliva collection is painless and straightforward at 23andMe, starting at buying the kit for $99. A gift recipient would then register at the company’s website, spit into a tube provided and return the sample with a prepaid label and box.

DOG DNA KITS Because who doesn’t want to know the genetic makeup of man’s best friend. For $199, a company called Embark makes a dog DNA test that generates a report it says will identify everything from geographic origin to personality traits through the tracking of more than 200,000 genetic markers. Another company, Orivet Genetic Pet Care, will do the same, including disease screening, breed identification and purebred proﬁles, including parentage conﬁrmation, for $85.

DNA WALL ART The company DNA11 has been around since 2005. It produces via a mouth swab method of DNA collection colorful framed canvas art for hanging and smaller versions for desk display based on the samples. Several size options are available, as are a range of color schemes. Prices range from $199 to $649.

The DNA of several people can be combined into one canvas or split into two screens for couples. The company delivers to 29 countries.

DNA FOR THE NECK Who doesn’t need a scarf crafted around one’s genetic code? A London company, Dotone.io, will help a gifter out , partnering with another company, Helix, to provide a testing kit and instructions on how a gift recipient can get it done in colorful yarns. Everything is on Helix.com. The DNA kit is $80 and the one-of-a-kind knitted scarf is $149.99. Colors can be selected to represent each of four DNA bases: adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine. The machine washable scarves are a mix of Italian wool and acrylics. Each scarf comes with a card detailing 33 genetic traits based on the saliva sample submitted for analysis. It also comes with a booklet that explains the basics of DNA and how the subject’s DNA was translated to create the pattern on the scarf.

COFFEE MUG WINNER Key chains, double helix lamps, jewelry and wall prints — the DNA gift options are endless. One black coffee mug with a green, blue and red double helix design says it all: “Stop Copying Me!” Available on Amazon for $17.95.

Who doesn’t want to know the genetic makeup of man’s best friend? Photo: Steven Strasser

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BABY CASTLES GALLERY 137 WEST 14TH STREET Babycastles, randomly named in honor of a Japanese pastry, is a gallery and community venue for video game designers. However, according to Todd Anderson, one of the members of the Babycastles collective, Babycastles is about more than just gaming. It is an “incubator” of fresh artistic thought, a place to go with unconventional ideas to be welcomed by individuals who can see those concepts into fruition without red tape and hefty price tags. For more photos and side streets, go to sideways.nyc

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UWS SCHOOL REZONING BY THE NUMBERS EDUCATION Results of controversial plan difficult to parse in early data BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

As part of a school rezoning plan approved last year, P.S. 191 moved to a new facility in the Riverside Center development. Photo: Richard Khavkine

Preliminary Department of Education data shows the ﬁrst results of a controversial rezoning plan intended to reduce overcrowding and increase economic and racial diversity at three Upper West Side School elementary schools. The District 3 rezoning plan approved last year redrew boundaries for elementary schools throughout the Upper West Side, but most signiﬁcantly impacted three schools: P.S. 191, P.S. 199 and P.S. 452. P.S. 191, which formerly served residents of the Amsterdam Houses public housing complex and was designated by the state as “persistently danger-

ous” in 2015, was relocated to a brand new facility in a residential tower in the Riverside Center development at West End Avenue and 61st Street, a half-block west of its former site at 210 West 61st Street. The old P.S. 191 building was taken over by P.S. 452, which moved nearly a mile south from its old location on West 77th Street. The rezoning plan also aimed to reduce class sizes at the severely overcrowded P.S. 199 on West 70th Street by rezoning some families whose children would formerly have attended P.S. 199 to the P.S. 191 zone. The rezoning, which was approved by the District 3 Community Education Council in November 2016, took effect with this year’s kindergarten classes; students enrolled in the schools prior to the plan’s approval were not affected. Proponents of the plan said it would result in each school enrolling stu-

dents from a wider range of racial and economic backgrounds, while critics claimed that the process was not inclusive and did not go far enough to address longstanding issues of segregation in the district, among other complaints. The plan’s effect in its ﬁrst year is difﬁcult to evaluate using unofficial data showing kindergarten enrollment at the three schools for the 2017-2018 school year, in part because the Department of Education does not report percentages representing fewer than ten students. The percentage of P.S. 191 students in poverty declined over the previous year, while overall enrollment increased. At P.S. 199, the kindergarten class was smaller, but the percentage of white students increased. P.S. 452 saw the percentage of white kindergartners drop from 68 percent last year to 51 percent this year.

GILDER CENTER REVIEW NEARS END PARKS Final environmental impact statement released for AMNH expansion BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

The city is nearing completion of its environmental review process for the American Museum of Natural History’s controversial 200,000-squarefoot expansion project, a portion of which would occupy what is now public parkland. The Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation, which museum officials hope to ﬁnish by 2020, would include new exhibition and learning spaces to the museum, improve visitor circulation routes within the complex, and create a new entrance facing Columbus Avenue. The expansion would occupy approximately a quarter-acre of what is now Theodore Roosevelt Park and would require the removal of seven canopy trees and three existing buildings. The Parks Department, the lead agency responsible for the city’s environmental review of the project, issued the ﬁnal environmental impact

statement for the proposed expansion on Nov. 15. The Parks Department and other involved city agencies must allow at least 10 calendar days from the document’s release before issuing formal ﬁndings on the project’s potential impact and then making determinations on whether to grant approval for the project. The ﬁnal impact statement includes over 150 responses to public comments on a draft of the document released in May. The museum’s plan has faced consistent opposition from some community groups and neighbors, whose comments cited a wide assortment of concerns with the project, including the loss of public parkland, the use of public funds (roughly $90 million in government funding has been appropriated for the $340 million project, according to the impact statement), increased pedestrian and vehicle traffic, noise and disruption during construction, and the potential release of toxins from the soil during construction. But environmental impact statement deflects many of those concerns. In part, it reads that the project as proposed “would have no known risks with respect to hazardous materials that cannot be controlled through the use of well-established

The American Museum of Natural History’s proposed Gilder Center expansion would occupy a quarter-acre of what is now Theodore Roosevelt Park. Rendering: AMNH measures.” It also identiﬁes a number of steps intended to offset adverse impacts that could occur as a result of the expansion — including traffic mitigation measures such as signal retiming and a plan to enlarge the publicly accessible portion of nearby Margaret Mead Green. But some residents still harbor concerns. Changes made since the draft statement include plans for additional measures to reduce construction noise and a new commitment by the

museum to commit $100,000 per year for at least 10 years for the management and maintenance of Theodore Roosevelt Park. “Dedicating more money to the park doesn’t change the adverse impact on the community in the present as well as in all the years to come,” said Laura Messersmith, co-president of Community United to Protect Theodore Roosevelt Park, one of the groups opposing the expansion. “It doesn’t change the central is-

sue for us, which is that the museum has put its ﬁnancial needs above the needs of the community,” she said. Messersmith said that the group is currently reviewing the final document and will confer with its lawyer, Michael Hiller, regarding its next steps. “We will be taking decisive action to halt this project in its tracks in any way that we can, and we feel that we have a very strong case,” she said.

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SAUTEED BRUSSELS SPROUTS AND BUTTERNUT SQUASH SKILLET Our Town’s

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La Esquina’s Chef Fabian The Art of Food returns to Sotheby’s for its third year February 10th, and for the ﬁrst time ever, trendy Mexican eatery La Esquina is stepping up to the plate. Each year, over 25 of the best chefs on the UES are paired with a piece of artwork, and are challenged to prepare a dish inspired by it. In preparation for the upcoming event, La Equina’s head chef Fabian Gallardo is sharing one of his favorite fall recipes.

Sauteed Brussels Sprouts and Butternut Squash Yields: 4 servings

INGREDIENTS Olive oil: 1 tbsp. Eggs: 4 ea. Brussels Sprouts, sliced: 4 ea. Butternut Squash, cubed into 1/2’’ pieces: 4 c. Crumbled Queso Fresco: 1/2 c. Pepper: 3/4 tsp. Garlic Powder; 1 tsp. Thyme: 3 sprigs Pickled Fresno Pepper, sliced: 1 Lemon Wedges: 4 Cilantro for garnish 1. Add olive oil and butternut squash to saute pan. Cook for 5 minutes, or until butternut squash is cooked through. 2. Add brussels sprouts. Season with pepper and garlic powder. Stir well. 3. In separate pan, fry eggs. 3. Remove squash and brussels sprouts from heat. Add thyme. 4. Plate into 4 servings. Top each with crumbled queso fresco and garnish with pickled pepper and cilantro. 5. Add fried egg on top of each serving.

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A PRE-THANKSGIVING CELEBRATION FOR OLDER NEW YORKERS SENIORS DOROT hosts its annual banquet and meal delivery On Sunday, November 19, DOROT hosted its 36th annual Thanksgiving banquet and meal delivery. Over the course of a the day, more than

300 volunteers ensured that seniors across the city could enjoy a Thanksgiving meal in good company. The banquet, held at Congregation Rodeph Sholom, welcomed 300 older adults for singing, dancing, and of course, eating. Guests celebrated with old and new friends alike while enjoying

the festivities. Those too frail to attend the banquet received hot meals delivered to their homes by over 200 volunteers who stayed for an extended visit. Said one senior, “I’ve been to 27 banquets, and each one gets better. Best day of the year.”

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A BRIGHT LIGHT ON THE STAGE Soprano Nadine Sierra takes us on her musical journey inside the iconic Metropolitan Opera House BY ANGELA BARBUTI

“The lights are very powerful, but when I looked out, it was just pitch dark ... and when I started singing and the way the voice was carrying in the house, it’s like singing into inﬁnity,” Nadine Sierra said about one of her initial moments singing on the Metropolitan Opera’s stage. She was just 19 years old at the time, competing in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, held to discover and promote new talent. To date, she still is the youngest person ever honored as its winner. In 2006, she moved to New York to attend the Mannes School of Music, and her Met debut came in December of 2015 when she sang the role of Gilda in “Rigoletto.” Next month, she will be starring in “Le Nozze di Figaro” as Susanna, the longest soprano role in the Mozart repertoire.

The Florida native knew opera was her destiny at the early age of 10. Her mother had introduced her to the genre by way of a library copy of a VHS tape of “La Bohème,” which Sierra said she watched every day for a week. “My voice at that time, even though I was a kid, was slightly operatic in a way. It was strange because it was just developing at a very rapid rate, even though I was so young,” she said. This year, she received the Richard Tucker Award, given annually to “an American singer poised on the edge of a major national and international career,” and will perform at the Richard Tucker Music Foundation Gala at Carnegie Hall on December 10.

What do you remember about the ﬁrst time you sang onstage at the Met? The first time was actually when I was 20 because I did the Met National Council Auditions.... I got to sing on the Met stage twice then. So the ﬁrst time was with piano on the stage and that was pretty surreal. I would say surreal enough to the point where I don’t really even remember, because

Nadine Sierra as Gilda in Verdi’s “Rigoletto” at the Opéra Bastille in Paris earlier this year. Photo: Charles Duprat I was just trying to focus on what I had to do and didn’t want to think about the fact that I was on the Met stage. But the second time I sang on the stage, which was for the ﬁnal ﬁnals, I remember very well. The orchestra is in the pit and we are left onstage, alone. There’s nothing around us. So I remember coming on the stage and seeing nothing. It’s a very cool feeling because you can’t see any walls; you can’t see the ceiling; you can’t see people. So it just feels like you’re singing into space. That was something very enjoyable for a singer, to hear your own voice coming back to you, and just feeling like you’re singing up

to Heaven or something.

Tell us about your role as Susanna in “Le Nozze di Figaro.” This production has already premiered, so this is another run. And actually, this is my debut of Susanna. I have sung in this opera, but sang Contessa, and they’re very different roles in the sense that Susanna is much lower and Contessa sings a bit higher. Over the years, when I was learning how to sing opera, I was mostly focusing on all of the Mozart arias for sopranos and also mezzos. So Susanna was one of the Mozart heroines that I went to in my early teens.

What is the atmosphere like backstage at the Met? How can you describe the community there? It’s the best. It’s so professional because of the Met’s history; you can’t get away from that. Everyone is very nice, which is good. Even though it’s the Met, at least from my side, I haven’t felt too much pressure from people. People are pretty easygoing going into the rehearsals and even into the performances. They are there to make you feel relaxed because they understand what we’re doing and how many seats, or people we’re singing for per show. And also now with the Live in HDs, that also adds a certain amount of pressure too because you want to be your best when you’re giving a live performance for the cinema as well. You almost see the same people all of them time. It feels like a little family, which is fantastic, because as an opera singer, or I’d even say as a musician, it’s the best family to be part of.

able to accomplish something truly great singing that role, it really is a testament to all of the training one has done over the years. And there’s something very satisfying about that. Of course, Gilda is the role I’ve sung the most, because I started singing Gilda when I was 23. Gilda has a special place in my heart, and Lucia has a special place in my soul.

What’s one you’d like to sing one day? The role that I would love to sing one day, that is very different from Lucia and Gilda, is Mimi from “La Bohème.” Mostly because it was the opera that really struck a chord in me when I ﬁrst saw it, especially because of the story of Mimi and of Rodolfo. It had a very big impact on me as a kid. And I would love to reenact this feeling for myself because it just left such a big impression on me. But I have to wait many years before Mimi, because it’s heavier. It’s Puccini and the role needs a certain kind of sound. It needs a certain kind of heft in the voice.

And as far as songs, what do you consider your go-to? “O Mio Babbino Caro” from “Gianni Schicchi,” because when I was 13 I learned this aria. It was probably one of the ﬁrst opera arias I learned. And everybody knows it, not even just in the opera industry, but around the world. And I love that reaction from people who don’t really, let’s say, invest their time into opera, because it just shows that there are some opera stand-outs despite not really being interested in the opera itself. And I love that; it’s refreshing.

What has your favorite role been so far?

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My favorite role so far, for sure, is Lucia [from “Lucia di Lammermoor”]. I love singing Lucia. I love the story; the story’s incredible. I love the history that this particular opera has, especially for sopranos. And I love the challenge that Lucia gives. It’s a very challenging role to sing. And to be

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