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Art Versus Real Estate in SoHo

LES Residents Call Emergency Meeting Over Drug Problem Increase in illegal activity said to affect schools, housing complexes

By Daniel Fitzsimmons

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The fight at 529 Broadway pits developers against some of the neighborhood’s pioneering artists Caroline Anderson

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fight over a 77-year-old SoHo building is pitting some of the city’s highest-profile real estate investors against some of the founding artists of the

neighborhood.

The Landmarks Preservation Commission last month unanimously approved developers’ plans to demolish the building at 529 Broadway, at Spring Street, and build a new six-story commercial and retail space in its place. The developers, including Bobby Cayre of Aurora Capital Associates, Jeff Sutton of Wharton Properties, Joe Sitt of Thor Equities, and members of the Adjmi real estate family, bought the bedraggled property, which currently houses Steve Madden and Lush, from Goldstone Realty LLC for $147 million in December.

All that remains before the develop-

ers can break ground is approval from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Department of Buildings—unless the neighbors are able to appeal the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s decision.

Renowned feminist artist Mary Beth Edelson, 80, who has lived and worked in her studio adjoining 529 Broadway since 1975, said she was “blindsided” when she heard about the proposal four days before the originally scheduled community board meeting on Sep. 4, which had to be rescheduled due to the public outcry.

“How can somebody propose to build this huge thing and not even tell you?” asked Edelson, whose kitchen window overlooks the proposed site and whose art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum.

Marco Romeny, 39, who in 2005 opened his lovingly curated shop Kiosk on the second floor of 529 Broadway with his wife, Alisa Grifo, said he found out that the building had been sold on Christmas Eve of last year through a FedEx letter. Although Romeny calls the proposed demolition and development “sad,” he said he is not surprised. “It’s the ugly building in SoHo,” he said.

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wo block associations on the Lower East Side called an emergency meeting September 25 after residents reported a sharp rise in drug activity in the area.

Ayo Harrington, president of the East 4th Street Block Association and a member of Community Board 3, initiated the meeting after she heard several reports of rampant drug activity and saw deals being made herself.

“Things have just exploded,” said Harrington, “and that’s why we’re here today.”

Harrington said she’s received a number of disturbing reports from residents in the area, including a school that has to close their windows because floating marijuana clouds are making the children sick and rumors that drug dealers have keys to buildings owned by the New York City Housing Authority and are Continued on page 8

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NEIGHBORHOOD CHATTER David McWater Resigns From Community Board 3

By Daniel Fitzsimmons Longtime Community Board 3 member and former chairperson David McWater announced his resignation, effective immediately, at the board’s Sept. 24 meeting.

In a statement given to Our Town Downtown, McWater said the recent death of his father and mother-in-law as well as the friction between him and the LES Dwellers contributed to his decision.

The Dwellers are a community group that opposes CB3 granting any additional liquor licenses in a neighborhood known as Hell Square, which they say is oversaturated with late-night bars. Before his resignation, McWater sat on the CB3 board that advised the State Liquor Authority on such matters. McWater currently owns three bars: Doc Holliday’s and The Library on Avenue A and Milano’s on East Houston near Mulberry Street. “With this controversy it just didn’t seem fair to the incoming [Manhattan Borough President] Gale Brewer to put her in a

position of dealing with advocates for both sides when I wasn’t even going to re-apply anyway,� said McWater in a statement.

McWater said he decided “some time ago� he would not re-apply to CB3 in April 2014.

An article on McWater’s resignation in the weekly newspaper The Villager raised the question of whether he is a legal resident of New York, and suggested he files taxes in New Jersey. McWater maintained in that article that he lives in the city but said he does have a summer house in New Jersey.

Under city regulations a person serving on a community boards must live in New York City.

McWater did not return requests for comment on his residency status.

According to the Manhattan Borough President’s Office the matter is currently under review.

McWater did say that he’s working on a “very exciting project� in professional boxing to bring “the heavyweight championship of the world back to the United States.�

At the time of his resignation he was a chairperson of CB3’s Land Use, Zoning, Public and Private Housing Committee. He was a member of CB3 for 14 years.

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CRIME WATCH

By Jerry Danzig

Credit Collection A man carrying stolen credit cards was arrested for grand larceny. At 7:42 PM on Friday, September 20, a 37-year-old man was attempting to withdraw cash from an ATM on Broadway using someone else’s credit card.

Police stopped him, and the man was found to be in possession of seven credit or debit cards belonging to seven different owners. As he was arrested and charged with grand larceny, the man stated several times that he was a federal agent or police officer.

Picked Up from Pickup A man’s camera bag was stolen from on top of his pickup truck on Beach Street. At 10 AM on Sunday, September 15, a 43-year-old man from West Orange, NJ placed a camera bag filled with camera equipment on the hardtop over-bed of his pickup truck on Beach Street.

When he walked to the front of the truck and talked to his assistant, someone took the bag from the truck. The man did not see who had taken his bag, and there were no cameras

in the area. The items stolen were a Canon 5D Mark II digital camera valued at $2,700, a Canon 24-70 mm lens worth $2,300, two Canon 580 EX flashes, each valued at $475, a Canon 85 mm lens worth $450, a Canon battery grip valued at $275, and a camera bag worth $200. The total taken was $6,875.

Sullivan Street Attack Two men attacked and robbed a woman on Sullivan Street. At 4 AM on Saturday, September 21, a 24-year-old woman was returning to her home on Sullivan Street, when two men in their early 20s approached her from behind as she was entering her apartment building.

One man covered her mouth and pushed her to the ground. The other man forcibly took her bag, and both fled northbound to a silver sedan parked on the East side of the street.

Tracking on the cell phone had been disabled.

The woman’s debit card had been used at an Exxon Mobil station to buy $23.59 worth of gas. Other items stolen were a Louis Vuitton handbag valued at $1,800, a black iPhone 5 worth $600, and a Fendi wallet valued at $380.

The total haul was $2,780.

Subway Assault A gang of four assaulted and robbed a man in the Spring Street subway station.

At 1:25 AM on Thursday, September 19, a 39-year-old man from Queens was sleeping on the southbound A train platform at Spring Street, when he was approached by a man who punched him in the face and took his backpack. Two accomplices -- a man and a woman -- held the victim’s hands down while a fourth accomplice, a woman, sprayed him in the face with pepper spray. The man and the woman holding the victim’s hands removed his wallet from his front pants pocket along with his cell phone. The perpetrators fled on the southbound A train. Police searched the area but could not find the gang of four. There were no cameras on the platform and no witnesses. The victim was treated at the scene by EMS. The items stolen were an iPad 2 valued at $700, Ultimate Ear headphones worth $300, Western Digital and LaCie hard drives priced at $200, $200 in cash, sunglasses worth $100, a backpack valued at $60, an HTC cell phone worth $35, and a black wallet costing $30. The total taken amounted to $1,625.

Jewelry Heist Two men shoplifted items from a boutique on Sullivan Street. At 6:40 PM on Sunday, September 22, two men entered a boutique on Sullivan Street and pretended to be interested in purchasing merchandise. They then re-

moved a number of items without permission or authorization from the store display, before exiting the store and walking northbound on Sullivan. Video surveillance of the incident is available. One of the thieves had a baseball cap with the word Vogue on it. Items stolen were a Wendy Nichol one-karat diamond ring valued at $6,000, a Wendy Nichol 14-karat gold pyramid ring costing $4,500, a Wendy Nichol 14-karat thin gold pyramid ring priced at $2,500, and a Wendy Nichol black leather shoulder bag valued at $1,000. The total amount of the items shoplifted came to $14,000.

Expensive Lunch A woman’s pocketbook was stolen from a soup store on Maiden Lane. At 1:41 PM on Wednesday, September 18, a 34-year-old woman was sitting in a fast-food soup store on Maiden Lane eating, with her pocketbook on the back of her chair. When she got up to leave, she noticed her bag was gone. There were no witnesses to the incident and no video. Items stolen were a beige Gucci bag valued at $1,000, a pink Michael Kors wallet priced at $500, a white iPhone 5 valued at $299, a white cosmetic makeup bag costing $100, a white iPhone case worth $100, a Florida State driver’s license, various credit and debit cards, a Metro Card, and an insurance card. The total amount stolen came to $1,999.

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However, some members of the public argued at the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s meeting that the building’s demolition and the new construction runs against the very history and character of the neighborhood that attracted the developers in the first place, and to which the architects’ design attempted to pay homage. Representatives of several historic preservation groups, including the Historic Districts Council, Society for the Architecture of the City, and the Modern Architecture Working Group, argued in favor of preserving the current two-story building.

Despite that, members of the Landmarks Preservation Commission all spoke in favor of the proposed construction—some effusively. Commission chair Robert B. Tierney called the presentation by the architects of BKSK Architects LLP, whom the developers hired to design the building, “the most erudite presentation� he had heard in the five years since he joined the commission.

Another commissioner noted that although “up until this moment, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has protected� the building at 529 Broadway -- which was originally built in 1853 as a six-story hotel but was cut down to two stories in 1936 -- the proposed building “will contribute to the district more than the building that currently sits there.�

He also noted that the “residents’ issues are not within our purview.�

However, several of the commissioners suggested that the

developers speak with the neighbors about their concerns.

They expressly named the Judd Foundation, which went before the commission over three years ago with its proposal to restore the work and living space of the artist Donald Judd, whom the New York Times called “one of the most important artists of the late 20th century.� The east side of the artist’s building at 101 Spring Street looks out on the proposed construction site, and representatives of the Judd Foundation, as well as the representative from the Society for the Architecture of the City, explained that the additional four stories would block the morning light and “east outlook that had a role in Donald Judd’s art.� Judd, who passed away in 1994, was one of the first artists to move into SoHo when he bought the cast iron building at 101 Spring Street in 1968.

The restoration was completed in June and cost $23 million.

Attorney Stuart A. Klein, who is representing Edelson’s co-op, said they had four months to appeal the commission’s decision.

A few hours after the Landmarks Preservation Commission meeting, Christopher Nazzaro, 32, who works at Kiosk, stood on the roof of 529 Broadway. He testified at the meeting earlier to the cultural significance of the interior of the building, especially the graffiti lining the walls of the passageway, which he said tourists regularly come to photograph.

Dwarfed by the buildings around him, he looked out on the busy commercial intersection of Broadway and Spring St. “It’s weird because people think this art aspect [of SoHo] is gone already,� he said. “It’s not—it’s here.�

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Building on East 11th Street To Be Sold? but was unsure if the sale had been finalized.

The resident also said none of the tenants have leases and feel powerless.

“I know that the new owners want us out by the end of the year,” said the resident, who did not want to be seen discussing the matter and quickly moved down the block.

In a further sign that the building is being sold, Good Old Lower East Side, a housing rights advocacy group, recently held a meeting for residents to discuss what could be done about the apparent sale.

When a reporter showed up to the meeting he was asked to leave.

“We’re talking strategy right now so I don’t think it’s a good idea for you to hang around,” said a man who appeared to be leading the meeting.

Requests for an interview from GOLES went unreturned.

Resident says new owners want tenants out by end of year

By Daniel Fitzsimmons

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n apartment building on East 11th Street appears to be in the process of changing hands despite no official record of a transaction and no word on who the new owner will be.

According to city records, the building, at 504-508 East 11th Street, has been owned by Gotham City International Ltd. since at least 2005. It has an estimated market value of $2.7 million, according to its latest tax bill, and is in tax class 2, meaning it has more than 10 residential units. New York State records indicate the owner of Gotham City International Ltd is Joel Wetzberger of Brooklyn. A number for Wetzberger could not be found.

“It’s a big rumor,” said a man working in the building’s basement when recently asked by a reporter. He identified himself as the build-

ing’s superintendent and said he lived there. “I haven’t been evicted, nobody’s been evicted. I have no interest in talking to you, there’s only rumors.”

However, another resident who declined

to give a name said the building is being sold.

The resident also declined to say whether they had been sent an eviction notice.

Another resident who asked not to be identified confirmed that the building is being sold

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setting up shop in lobbies and vestibules.

The East 3rd Street Block Association reported a resident was recently mugged in the lobby of her building and had her wallet and cell phone stolen, a crime that other residents attributed to drug activity.

“If we don’t really do something to stem the tide it’s just going to get crazy, because if some people are doing this then people like them are going to come and feel comfortable doing it as well,” said Harrington.

About 35 people showed up to the meeting. Residents were advised by Linda JonesJennah, a community affairs coordinator with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, not to give their names to the media as many of the reports they were making could

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involve potentially dangerous criminals.

Our Town Downtown has agreed not to use the names of residents who made reports to the police and the DA’s representative.

One resident said she feels the community is moving backwards in terms of drug activity, a sentiment that was echoed by another resident, who said she feels like it’s 1985.

“I’ve got two kids, my kids are scared to walk through there, and they’re 10 and 12, they’re not tiny kids,” said the resident, speaking of the corridor on 5th Street between Avenue C and Avenue D. Other residents at the meeting said the Henry Street Settlement, a nearby homeless shelter for women, sometimes contributes to drug activity when those who stay there loiter or smoke marijuana in the neighborhood.

Harrington was quick to say that she and others in the community are not opposed to the shelters and drug treatment programs in the area, and called them necessary ways for people to get help, but that they can exacerbate the drug problem.

“If people use drugs, we want them to have someplace to get help, if someone’s homeless we want them to have someplace to live, if somebody is mentally challenged it’s really not their fault,” said Harrington.

“We want them to have a place where they can get the services they need to have a good quality of life.”

However, Harrington said, the services that are offered in the community often don’t have daytime programs so those who use them sometimes loiter in the neighborhood and are used as cover for drug deals.

Harrington also pointed to community gardens as a source of drug activity.

“There is a huge amount of drug activity, I’m told, that is going on in that garden,” said Harrington, speaking of El Jardin Paraiso, a community garden on East 4th and 5th Street between Avenue C and Avenue D. Harrington said El Jardin is owned by the city and under the jurisdiction of the Parks Department. “They have been informed that that is a huge cesspool of drug activity,” she said. “Nobody really wants to close a community garden that people have put so much work into, but at the same time, your 12-year-old child should be able to walk up the street without wondering whether or not he or she is going to be confronted by someone who wants to sell drugs or is high.”

Harrington urged those at the meeting to make reports of illegal activity to 311 and 911 and said the more reports that are filed the more the police will pay attention to illegal activity in the area.

This strategy was seconded by Officer Givens of the 9th Precinct Crime Prevention Office, who said the police need to know specific areas where drug activity is taking place.

“The problem we have here is that if no one is calling us and telling us that something’s up, we can’t be everywhere all the time,” said Givens. “Understandably you say the problem is getting worse, but even if you call us up and it’s anonymous, you don’t have to give your name.” Harrington drove the point home and said, “Every single call is going to make a difference in terms of personnel that they put in this community to deal with this issue.”

Harrington said the Manhattan DA’s office has plans to schedule a meeting to get some Lower East Side buildings that are suspected of being involved in drug activity enrolled in the DA offices’ Trespass Affidavit and Narcotics Eviction Program, which combats loitering and targets drug dealers for eviction using state law.

In an interview last week, Harrington said the geographic spread and amount of people that showed up to the meeting is proof enough that something needs to be done.

“This started out as an East 4th Street Block Association meeting, and people came from 3rd Street…and from 5th Street,” said Harrington. “Obviously the issue is of concern to a growing and wider number of people and the need to gather and do something about it resonated with people, and that’s a good thing.”

Have you noticed increased drug activity in your neighborhood? Email us at editor.otdt@ strausnews.com and let us know what’s happening on your block.

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ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

MY STORY

A New Direction for Education How the city’s education landscape would shift in a de Blasio administration

It Happened To Me: Harassment at a New York Street Festival

By Tom Allon

W

ith only three months left in the Bloomberg era, the folks at the Tweed Building who work for the Department of Education are probably dusting off their resumes and thinking about their next gigs.

The conventional wisdom (which in politics is sometimes not correct) is that Bill de Blasio will be New York’s next mayor and he will put his own stamp on the future of public education in New York. (All bets are off if Lhota wins, because he is likely to continue a lot of Bloomberg’s policies, but that’s a topic for another column).

Looking at de Blasio’s campaign promises and policy pronouncements, it’s easy to glean that his administration will make a very sharp break from the Bloomberg-Klein-Walcott era and we should expect to see a steep reversal of course in 2014.

First of all, de Blasio’s main emphasis during the campaign was on the importance of universal pre-k; he said we should fund that through a tax on those making more than $500,000 annually.

He is absolutely correct in pushing for universal pre-k; the achievement gap in our city between minority and non-minority kids is at one grade level by kindergarten, and universal pre-k should help alleviate most of that disparity.

What de Blasio will not likely get is the tax increase he’s been trumpeting, since that requires the approval of the State Legislature and 2014 is an election year in Albany. It’s highly unlikely that Governor Cuomo and the legislature will push a tax increase on anyone as they prepare to face the voters in November for re-election.

Another area de Blasio is likely to reverse course on is the use of high-stakes testing in determining student progress and curriculums. So much of public school learning is now geared to drive up student test scores that it’ll be challenging for de Blasio and his new Chancellor to undo this.

This will certainly take time and it’s not clear that with all the other priorities facing a new administration that he’ll be able to do this

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seamlessly in a first term.

During the campaign, de Blasio often spoke about the need to bring parents back into the education system and in decision-making and to stop the top-down management by the DOE leaders at Tweed. This is one of those “mom and apple pie” ideas, hard to argue with, but also hard to envision exactly how it’s executed. In principle, de Blasio is absolutely correct; the only way education succeeds is when there is a three-way partnership between student-parent-teacher, working together to ensure that classroom and home are working in tandem to ensure children succeed.

There is also the question of how de Blasio will handle the teachers in this city, a group like all other public sector unions that has gone without a raise for almost four years. It is very likely that de Blasio will be fair and perhaps even generous with the teachers and their union; as a progressive leader who has strong ties to the labor movement, it is safe to predict that de Blasio will work hard to give city workers as much as the city budget allows.

Let’s hope that in addition to pay increases, de Blasio focuses on intense teacher training, both before they get into the classroom and then relentlessly when they are full-fledged teachers. Professional development and mentoring of our teachers is the single greatest way we will improve our city’s education system in the short term. Everything else is a very distant second to this incredibly urgent need.

For the sake of our kids and for the future of our city, I hope that de Blasio succeeds if he wins in November. Like public safety, education is one of the key components to ensuring that New York stays the capital of the world.

Tom Allon, the president of City & State newspaper, is a former English teacher at Stuyvesant High School and a former Liberal Party-backed candidate for Mayor.

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hile attending a street fair, the worst feeling you expect to come home with is a stomachache from consuming too many zeppoles and fried snickers bars. You don’t expect to leave a crowded, family-friendly street fair with a sense of shame and disgust. But it happened to me.

The day before a popular New York City festival was set to kick off this year, I was navigating the already-closed streets, trying to get to an interview for a story I was working on. The streets were packed with workers and vendors setting up their booths for the throng of tourists and locals that would descend upon the festival in just 24 hours. As I was hurriedly trying to find my next interview subject, I suddenly heard a peal of hearty laughter.

“Wow, look at that one, what I wouldn’t do to that one!” More laughter. I whipped my head around. It was obvious that the workers at the nearest corner were talking to me. Or rather, talking at me.

“Damn, honey, are you coming home to me?” At this point, all I could do was keep my head down, and while my face flushed, I pretended I didn’t hear, and walked away.

The comments continued on for another half a minute, but I tried to tune them out.

Unfortunately, this is not the first or last time that, as a woman, I will experience street harassment. But curiously enough, this type of incident has happened numerous times to me at street fairs. Last year, at the same festival, a male worker running one of the carnival games not only tried to get me to play his game of chance but also tried to get my phone number, even after numerous attempts to ignore him.

Surprised? Emily May, the executive director of Hollaback!, a group that aims to end street harassment, is not. Hollaback! just launched an app this year that allows women

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to report incidents like this.

“The employees of this street fair are the same as anyone else because they’ve grown up in this country where this behavior is okay,” said May. “But no, this is not okay or acceptable. It makes me feel scared and crappy, it makes me not want to go to this fun, friend dough-filled part of my day.”

The day after the incident, I contacted the board of directors who run the fair. They apologized profusely for my experience, and said that an anti-harassing reminder will be put into the guidelines for vendors next year.

I also contacted the production company that runs the festival, as well as other famous street fairs throughout New York. The owner told me that in all his 30 years of business, there have only been 3 “incidents” with his vendors- and none of them came close to incidents of sexual harassment.

“That’s comical,” May said. “Maybe because there’s no clear authority at these street fairs. And sexual harassment on the street is underreported anyway. Verbal harassment isn’t even illegal.”

This weekend, despite my negative experience, I am nevertheless planning on attending a street fair. Veronica Cassidy, a Hunter College professor who experienced a terrifying sexual assault last year while on vacation, gave me a few tips for this weekend and beyond. Never engage with your verbal assailant, and keep walking. Talk to someone, walk into a store, call the police.

Even if the police cannot respond quickly enough, you can still write about your experience, or send it in to Hollaback!

“The line is clear and it isn’t blurred,” said Professor Cassidy. “People love to say it is, but that’s a way of forgiving the action.”

Joanna Fantozzi is a reporter for Our Town Downtown Have you experienced harassment at a New York City street fair? Email us with your story at news@strausnews.com

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cityArts

Edited by Armond White

New York’s Review of Culture . CityArtsNYC.com

Mission to Nowhere Cuaron’s juvenile sci-fi lacks gravitas

By Armond White

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he opalescent object Planet Earth that opens Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity belongs to Kubrick’s 2001. It’s a shorthand image--evoking intellectual contemplation and wonder that Cuaron doesn’t earn. Cuaron borrows it without (pardon the expression) gravitas. The phenomenon of creation dresses up a tale of survival written by Cuaron with his brother, Jonas, about a team of American astronauts (Sandra Bullock as Medical Engineer Ryan, George Clooney as Capt. Kowalski) trying to repair a space station when an intergalactic storm destroys their vehicle, leaving them stranded, floating adrift in the cosmos.

Cuaron loves the drifty part. Gravity extends Ryan’s terrified effort to apprehend a space module and return to safety. Kubrick didn’t use 3D technology but Cuaron, exhibiting the fan boy naivete that technological progress is equal to intellectual advance, exults in it. Still obsessed with the facile elongation of the steadicam and CGI “motion,” Cuaron hurls Ryan across the screen in repetitive arcs and thrusts. She’s trapped in a seemingly unending limbo of weightlessness and nothingness that is outer space--the void in which Kubrick‘s shimmering orb is suspended.

This continuous motion recalls the sauntering camera in Cuaron’s Children of Men, the quite silly speculation on the terrors of revolution and mankind’s dysfunction. That glib cynicism made Cuaron seem a hipster visionary and some of that same sentimentality remains in his Gravity conceit: He holds on to the cynical part of Kubrick’s vision--the easy part--without the corresponding astonishment.

Yet, Gravity (which runs a concise 90 minutes and is certainly Cuaron’s most efficient piece of filmmaking) is less cynical than it is banal. It isn’t cerebral enough to access 2001’s ambiguity-Kubrick’s spiritual/intellectual leeway. When Ryan strips down (like Ripley in the penultimate climax of Alien), she reposes, hovering in a fetal position that’ll impress 12-year-olds as profound.

But reverting to infancy contradicts her fashionable though unlikely regret that she doesn’t know how to pray for herself (“No one taught me,” she says, although both Russian and Asian spacecraft contain Orthodox and Buddhist relics). That’s Cuaron’s sop to the hipster market.

Cuaron is a new brand of stylish hack, inclined to satisfy an audience whose discontent has been inculcated over the past decade of sarcasm and nihilism. Clooney appears as the bluff, hearty symbol of this manipulation; his glib, masculine reassurance is a chimera--it has a patriarchical aspect (recently lamented by critic Thelma Adams) but it’s a spiritual wet blanket that’s meant to counter always likable Bullock’s agnostic wimpiness.

Too bad Gravity’s fanboy audience is conveniently ignorant of richer space dramas like Walter Hill’s Supernova and Brian DePalma’s Mission to Mars which entertainingly combined psychological and visionary pondering with sci-fi agape. Hill advanced the genre with tense, erotic, metaphysical characterizations. Nothing in Gravity compares to Mission to Mars’ extraordinary orchestration of passion and dread among a team of astronauts attempting to forge a lifeline in outer space. DePalma created an unforgettable, breathtaking sequence of love and loss. His great tragic humanism was more powerful than Cuaron’s tepid “hope.”

Cuaron plays with philosophy in a shallow, juvenile way, the same as he misuses technology— he even throws in a 3D teardrop. His teasing, tormenting style is just green-screen action; though set in space, Cuaron’s Earth-bound “Esperanza” could be anywhere, nowhere.

Bullock in Gravity

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Thrilling to the Met’s merge of painting and music

By Judy Gelman Myers

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y pairing Pachelbel’s Canon in D with images of men and women struggling up a foggy mountainside in The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser, Werner Herzog created an unforgettable portrait of the eternity of human suffering. Its effectiveness drew from the interplay between music and image: the music supplied the eternity, transforming individual circumstance into universal condition, while the image conveyed the humanity behind the suffering. On September 17 and 18, a similar reverberation between sound and image was had on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Grand Tour, which paired four live miniconcerts of early music with paintings from the same era.

Audiences traveled among the reinstalled New European Paintings Galleries to hear Quicksilver, Tenet, Dark Horse Consort, and Jory Vinikour play madrigals and motets beside the great canvases of Tintoretto and Vermeer. The result offered not just esthetic but also visceral insight into both the music and the art.

For example, in the gallery of 16th-century Venetian paintings, where Venus clings to her mythological lover in Titian’s Venus and Adonis, the luscious play of muscle beneath

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the goddess’s back seemed to throb in human, not metaphorical, response to the amorous lament “Sweet nightingale, you call to your dear companion singing ‘Come to me my love’” in Monteverdi’s Dolcissimo Uscignolo.

In gallery 634, among the Dutch paintings collected by New York department store magnate Benjamin Altman, sackbuts and cornettos rang out a soundtrack of the lives portrayed on the walls. “Do you understand me now?” Rembrandt’s stern self-portrait seemed to be saying. (“Yes, I do!” I wanted to shout back.)

Special mention should be made of the Quicksilver ensemble, who played in the gallery displaying huge canvases of the Italian Baroque. Their evocation of the stile moderno, music “with no agenda but the imagination of the composer—and no standard form but the passionate give-and-take of friends in conversation,” in the words of co-director Robert Mealy, resounded with singular fervor, as if the players had found the music of their souls.

On their website, the Met describes the Grand Tour as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We hope not. The living presence of the musicians vivified the works of the great painters, while the paintings’ physicality concretized the music’s transitoriness. Both sound and image profited, but not nearly as much as the lucky audience who took the Grand Tour.

Hopefully, the Met will provide this wonderful opportunity for more Grand Tourists to come.

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FILM CITYARTS

Enough Said

Bitch-Slapstick Nichole Holofcener’s latest humane insight in Enough Said

By Armond White

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ost independent filmmakers demonstrate a desire for attention and recognition more than to express sincere or original feelings. Because so many of them come from the same class of hustlers and achievers and go through conventional production procedures (conveniently known as Sundance), their films look alike, reflecting the same ideas about storytelling and character. Because fake sensitivity and glib “complexity” don’t communicate fresh truths, the majority of indies end up elite vanity productions that belong to a category of middle-class narcissism.

And then there’s Nicole Holofcener who makes that narcissism her subject.

Holofcener’s new film, daringly titled Enough Said, cites the limitations of middle-class selfabsorption and lightly but movingly traces it to the personality of Eva (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), a Los Angeles divorcee and mother who works as an independent massage therapist (perfect indie metaphor). Introduced carrying her portable massage table to assorted clients, tiny Eva’s baggage is bigger than she is.

Holofcener views Eva’s need for companionship--her single-woman frustrations and confusions--through a balanced dramatization of basic emotional involvements that lead her to Albert (James Gandolfini), her burly physical opposite but also a divorced parent. Instead of rom-com

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fluff, Holofcener keeps the courtship simple.

Their hook-up culminates in a stunning postcoital admission: “I’m tired of being funny.”

In Enough Said, Holofcener draws the line at indie self-amusement--cleverness for its own sake--through a clean, airy, open-hearted style that mixes awkwardness with humorous recognition of the quirks and weaknesses people share. (A disastrous dinner party scene trades chagrined faces.) This unusual gift has been honed through four previous films, struggling against indie narcissism, getting riskier all the time. Honestly womanly, Holofcener’s never shied away from showing her female protagonists’ bitchiness. Her roles for steady collaborator Catherine Keener have been brusque, sensitive and truthful-a kind of muse, this time presented as Marianne, another divorced mother but also a glamorous, tasteful, self-assured poetess, also seeking friendship.

Eva’s confidences with Marianne complicate her romance with Albert in devastating ways.

Holofcener reveals Eva’s insecurities without the formulaic cuteness of Nora Ephron movies (which always made the revered Ephron a Hollywood hack). Eva’s self-defeating envy of Marianne’s fabulousness is a genuine class and gender insight. Eva is the ultimate Catherine Keener role which may be why Holofcener’s assigned it elsewhere--to Louis-Dreyfus who’s up for the challenge. After so many years as funny, coarse Elaine Benes on TV’s Seinfeld, it’s surprising to see her look stricken; her face open to hurt, not hard cuteness. Through Eva’s shame (she laughs off a rough, sexist insult) and Albert’s masculine vulnerability, Holofcener attains Mike Leigh’s poignancy on her own terms. It’s a sit-com breakdown and an indie-movie breakthrough.

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than her later work. In the end, Frank (at least for the moment) chooses solitude and a renewed commitment to her work.

Philip Goes Forth is a product of Kelly’s

By Joel Lobenthal slump years of the 1930s, following his indictment of American neurosis and achel Crothers and George Kelly provincialism in hit satires of the 1920s. were two of the 20th century’s (Kelly did later return to peak form: on most important American October 21, the Mint offers a public reading of playwrights; today, however, what is perhaps his finest play, 1946’s The Fatal their work exists in a state of Weakness.) semi-obscurity, semi-rediscovery. This month Like Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister, would-be the Metropolitan Playhouse brings back playwright Philip goes forth to discover that Crothers’s 1910 A Man’s World, while the Mint he really doesn’t want, nor is he suited to, the Theater gives us Kelly’s 1931 Philip Goes Forth. rarified precincts of art. Those are spaces Both plays have something articulate to say not to be trifled with, Kelly has one of his about life, love, and art. character mouthpieces remind the brightA Man’s World seems to be steering us eyed squirt. In the end, Philip goes home to toward an existential verdict on its heroine. Is work in the family business rather than, as she or isn’t she?. . .Did she or didn’t she?: the logically indicated, going further forth onto identity-and-morality defining moment of his wider business pastures. This ending is centuries of women’s fictional representation. an accommodation to sentimentality. But Specifically, is novelist and champion-of-thethe play has a real sweetness as well, existing downtrodden Frank Ware—the fact that she’s comfortably alongside Kelly’s tart observation. got a man’s name is of course evidence that Both Mint and Metropolitan are vest-pocket she’s ready to defy convention— the biological, spaces; exactly how small their premises were unwed mother of the purportedly foster child seemed not to have entirely penetrated both she is raising? Turns out she’s not. The child casts. They were too loud during the first is instead the product of a fatal dalliance by a parts of each play. Oratory lightened up as young woman with none other than Malcolm each play proceeded, however, and there was Gaskell, the man with whom Frank’s in love. a lot of convincing, entertaining acting and Crothers’s thickening plot brings character directing on view. revelation. It may be a man’s world, but here woman is calling the shots. Frank rejects A Man’s World at Metropolitan Playhouse, Gaskell for his unrepentant callousness toward 220 East 4th St. thru Oct. 13; Philip Goes his former mistress.

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Private School Open Houses October marks the start of the season when private schools open their doors for next year’s prospective students and families. Here are some local open house dates.

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hen you think about a ballet class, usually images of the New York City Ballet, or of little girls in leotards in an afterschool class, come to mind. But in Jennifer Grambs’ class on the third floor of the East 67th Street Library, many of her students have never even danced before. And the class of mostly middle-aged and elderly women (and a couple of men), is plié-ing for posture and confidence, not a year-end recital.

The hour-long weekly class, which began just over a year ago with a handful of interested women, has quickly grown in size and popularity. During one week, they had 30 participants - ranging in age from 27 to 87. The participants are trying to move it to another location - either a bigger room in the library, or a different library completely. Most of the participants come from neighboring Upper East Side, but one woman travels all the way from Brooklyn just to attend Grambs’ class. For Grambs, it’s all about giving these older men and women back their confidence and self-assurance. ”Remember, we are dancing all the time like we are on stage,” says Grambs during a demonstration of fifth position during a Paul

McCartney song. “Show your face and be proud! We’re all beautiful.”

Grambs, who is a theatrical costume designer and writer, said that even though she has taught exercise classes at the library in the past, she approached Jill Rothstein, the director of the 67th Street Library, last year with her true passion: teaching adult ballet.

She believes that there are no classes like theirs throughout the city.

After every class, several of the ballerinas and danseurs (male ballet dancers) stick around to discuss the class, what they learned and to get to know one another. Besides confidence, many of the women noted a change in their physicality.

“I got this attitude from this class because we have to stand up straight and hold out stomachs,” said Elaine Russo. “Whenever I think of it, I sit up straight!” Another woman, Ana Martinez, said that the class has helped her with balance, which can become a problem for seniors as they age.

But the class is not perfect. Not only do they lack space with 28 dancers crammed into a small mirror-less room, but they also lack a barre. Instead, the dancers have been using chairs and tables to balance themselves.

Grambs pleaded that if any Upper East Sider knows where they can find a relatively-cheap barre, that they can contact her via the class website at ourballetclub.weebly.com. Even with a lack of equipment, Grambs stays positive, and reminds her students that we can look great at any age.

“Ballet takes us back to being lovely women and handsome gentlemen,” says Grambs. “We have to learn to love our bodies, no matter what age.”

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NEIGHBORHOOD REAL ESTATE SALES Continued from page 15

Neighborhood

Address

Apt.

Sale Price

BR BA Listing Brokerage

Financial Dist

88 Greenwich St.

#609

$1,290,000

2

2

Town Residential

20 W St.

#16A

$455,000

0

1

New York Residence

67 Liberty St.

#5

$1,426,250

15 William St.

#28G

$873,996

55 Wall St.

#726

$963,870

1

1

Corcoran

40 Broad St.

#28G

$825,000

1

1

Synergy Nyc

7 E 14 St.

#1416

$645,000

10 W 15 St.

#1109

$700,000

1

1

Coldwell Banker

Flatiron

Fulton/Seaport

Gramercy Park

Greenwich Vill.

Lower E Side

Nolita

Multi

$1,500,000

7 E 14 St.

Multi

$369,000

15 Union Square W

#8

$493,000

24 E 22 St.

#Res6

$3,450,000

7 E 14 St.

#1419

$805,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

16 W 16 St.

#9Ls

$576,000

0.5

1

Akam Sales & Brokerage

7 E 14 St.

#1228

$700,500

1

1

Charles Rutenberg

99 John St.

#618

$580,000

0

1

Nestseekers

99 John St.

#1411

$820,000

99 John St.

Multi

$786,598

211 E 18 St.

#4J

$555,000

1

1

Corcoran

205 3 Ave.

#6A

$520,000

0

1

Owner

201 E 21 St.

#5E

$720,000

1

1

Town Residential

105 E 19 St.

#1C

$681,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

102 E 22 St.

Multi

$645,000

30 5 Ave.

#11K

$1,975,000

2

2

Halstead Property

23 E 10 St.

Multi

$886,100

50 E 10 St.

#Pha

$1,600,000

2

1

Halstead Property

23 E 10 St.

#1003

$950,000

1

1

Corcoran

12 E 12 St.

#1C

$2,200,000

Multi

$2,200,000

#912

$700,000

54 E 8 St.

#2J

$550,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

36 E 14Th St.

#6B

$2,100,000

2

2

Douglas Elliman

126 W 11 St.

#33

$1,250,000

2

1

Brown Harris Stevens

0

1

Halstead Property

0

1

Douglas Elliman

3

3

Sotheby's International

250 Mercer St.

#B804

$599,000

141 Mac Dougal St.

#1

$1,879,000

67 E 11 St.

#725

$360,000

16 E 11 St.

Multi

$1,530,000

290 6 Ave.

#4F

$760,000

59 W 12 St.

#7E+

$4,760,154

210 E Broadway

Multi

$680,000

115 Allen St.

#2

$2,025,000

2

2

Core

417 Grand St.

#F107

$675,000

2

1

Loho Realty

575 Grand St.

#F505

$569,000

2

1

Loho Realty

417 Grand St.

Multi

$606,000

210 E Broadway

Multi

$359,000

105 Norfolk St.

#Twr15

$2,385,000

#B1706

$835,000 $353,000

250 Bowery

Multi

$941,881

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Sale Price

Nolita

250 Bowery

#Pha

$3,379,443

Soho

210 Lafayette St.

Multi

$2,075,000

349 W Broadway

#21

$318,000

0

1

Carol Quatrone

2 Charlton St.

#16E

$2,250,000

2

2

Corcoran

49 Howard St.

#5S

$1,700,000

62 Beach St.

Multi

$4,572,000

200 Chambers St.

Multi

$3,000,000

200 Chambers St.

#14F

$1,395,000

1

1

Blu Realty Group

92 Laight St.

#9A

$6,200,000

3

3

Douglas Elliman

50 Franklin St.

#Phc+

$2,000,000

101 Warren St.

Multi

$2,400,000

79 Worth St.

#5D

$1,350,000

148 Madison St.

#9B

$304,200

0

1

Halstead Property

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BR BA Listing Brokerage

W Chelsea

459 W 22 St.

#A

$2,325,000

3

2

Corcoran

W Village

442 Hudson St.

#5C

$960,000

2

1

Citi Habitats

1 Morton Square

Multi

$5,460,000

9 Barrow St.

#7N

$625,000

0

1

Douglas Elliman

720 Greenwich St.

#1M

$769,000

0

1

Corcoran

$13,000,000

3

5

Sotheby's International

196 W Houston St.

77 Bleecker St.

#L1502

Apt.

Two Bridges

126 Waverly Place

210 E Broadway

Address

Tribeca

254 Park Ave. South

417 Grand St.

Neighborhood

130 Barrow St.

#416

$1,075,000

1

1

Brown Harris Stevens

421 Hudson St.

#812

$3,100,000

2

3

Cantor And Pecorella

99 Jane St.

Multi

$3,300,000

366 W 11 St.

Multi

$875,000

380 W 12 St.

#7G

$2,995,000

2

2

Douglas Elliman

1

1

Douglas Elliman

0

1

Corcoran

222 W 14 St.

#11B

$1,050,000

14 Horatio St.

#11B

$487,500

31 Jane St.

#11D

$599,000

421 Hudson St.

Multi

$1,670,000

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The Civil War Revisited on the Upper West Side Historian and author Thomas Fleming captures the struggles that led to the Civil War

By Angela Barbuti

M

ore soldiers died in the Civil War than in all previous and past wars combined. This staggering fact opens Thomas Fleming’s book A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War. The Upper West Side historian and frequent guest on PBS and the History Channel devoted himself to unearthing the reasons this war really started and what led up to it. This disease he refers to is the misconception that people had at the time that blacks were not equal to whites. “The public mind is how you see the political and religious world of your time. And when these basic beliefs get scrambled in people’s heads, then you got trouble,” Fleming explained.

A Fordham alumnus, Fleming is returning to his alma mater to speak about his book on October 16th as part of its College at 60 lecture series.

What did you study at Fordham?

I studied English. I never took a course in history. I educated myself on that subject. I wanted to be a novelist more than anything else, and I have written 23 novels. I read 700 books in four years at Fordham. I kept a list.

At 17, you joined the Navy and were in the first integrated company. How did that affect your writing of this book?

This book was partly inspired by that. This was one of the greatest experiences of my life.

I slept with a black guy on this side, a black guy on that side, and a black guy in the bunk above me. And we got along great. I never saw one rotten thing said to a black guy or vice versa. One of the diseases in the public mind that caused the Civil War was this morbid fear of blacks that was in the American South.

You say one of your goals in writing this book is to forgive both sides.

New York newspapers were very influential leading up to the War.

Exactly. If we can understand that the South had this terrible fear. The trouble was that the North hated the South even before slavery. I have this great quote in the book. Lincoln says, “If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.”

The abolitionists didn’t know how to do that; they never even tried.

The New York Herald was the biggest newspaper in the country at that time and they were Democrats, so they hated Lincoln and abolitionists. The New York Tribune was run by a wild-eyed guy named Horace Greeley. He wrote a letter to Lincoln saying, ”What are we going to do? I haven’t been able to sleep for seven days and seven nights.”

Greeley ran a headline in the paper, “Onto to Richmond.” That started the Civil War.

You speak about the presidents before Lincoln and how they all discussed slavery. Washington, for one, was against it, but was scared.

Washington’s slaves owned boats! And some of them owned guns, so they’d go out hunting.

I call him, “The Forgotten Emancipator.”

Washington was really in favor of freeing them. It’s hard to grasp this now because we’ve been a united country for so long, but he knew as a general in the army, that people were splitting in all directions. And he thought, that we have to stay united above all. He saw that if they split up, America would become Europe.

Unfortunately, that made it difficult for him to do anything about slavery because he thought it would be straw that we wouldn’t be able to deal with.

You bring up the fact that Thomas Jefferson wrote, “all men are created equal,” but it took more than eight decades for that concept to become a reality.

He didn’t know it at the time, but that was the deathblow to slavery. He was, as I call it, “slavery’s unintended friend.” Because he couldn’t believe in the equality of blacks and was terrified of a race war.

There was an anti-slavery organization in New York.

Like most New Yorkers, they tended to be somewhat more moderate. They were still against slavery, but they were willing to realize they couldn’t free them all at once. So New Yorkers were willing to accept a gradual emancipation.

So the Civil War basically started in New York.

That’s a very good point. I never thought of it that way.

In your opinion, what was one of the most moving moments in the book?

There was even a rally in Union Square with 50,000 people.

Yeah, it was run by the abolitionists. They were screaming, “We have to march; we have to get them!”

In my highschool U.S. History class, I had to do a paper on the fact that Lincoln did not believe in equality for blacks. You touch upon this in your book.

He said again and again, “I’m not an abolitionist.” He didn’t go for their rather radical approach. But he learned during the war. One of the great moments in the book is when he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation and gave one of the pens he used to a guy who had written a history about blacks in the Revolution. In the Revolution, Washington recruited blacks into the army.

This is where Lincoln got the inspiration to enlist blacks in the Union Army. Two hundred thousand blacks fought in the Union Army and, believe me, this changed Lincoln’s opinion on whether they were equal or not.

Lincoln’s last speech he gave from the White House window. When I was writing that last chapter, several times, I had to stop and wipe my eyes. It was so heartbreaking. You knew he was going to get killed in about 10 days.

Here he was, saying, “We have to give the blacks who are intelligent and have an education and the men who fought in the army, the vote.” This was a real big change from the Lincoln who started the War.

You went to the New York Society Library to research this book. What’s another favorite historical place of yours in the city?

The Society Library is the oldest private library in New York, founded in 1754, believe it or not. It’s on East 79th Street, just off Madison. [I also like] Fraunces Tavern [in the Financial District] where Washington said farewell to his officers at the end of the Revolutionary War. He invited all who were left and they clinked glasses and said, “We were a band of brothers, never forget that.”

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