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Shutdown Hits Downtown Vets Vendors selling souvenirs near the Statue of Liberty have suffered a loss of business been since the government shutdown By Audrey McGlinchy
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n an average day, 10,000 visitors tour the Statue of Liberty. If the vendors lining the sidewalk along nearby Battery Place and State Street are lucky, a slice of those tourists leave with a souvenir to remember their visit: a green foam Statue of Liberty crown, a pair of sunglasses or an “I Heart NY” T-shirt. But since last Tuesday, when the federal government Continued on page 19
The New Face of Downtown Corey Johnson won the September primary and is already thinking about how he will serve District 3 next year in the council By Megan Bungeroth
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orey Johnson cannot slow down. After winning the Democratic primary in the city council race for District 3, representing Chelsea and the West Village, Johnson is running virtually unopposed in the general election, but he’s even busier now than when he was actively campaigning. People in the Continued on page 19
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NEIGHBORHOOD CHATTER Downtown Hospital Merger Complete
From left to right: Steven J. Corwin, MD, Chief Executive Officer, NewYorkPresbyterian Hospital; Laura J. Forese, MD, Group Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center; Robert E. Kelly, MD, President, NewYorkPresbyterian Hospital; Sarah Nash, Trustee, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital; Michael J. Fosina, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, NewYork-Presbyterian/ Lower Manhattan Hospital.
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The merger of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital with New York Downtown Hospital was completed last week. The 180-bed community hospital, now renamed NewYork-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital, remains the only hospital south of 14th Street in Manhattan, serving a daily population of some 750,000 residents, visitors and professionals. The merger was made possible with the assistance and approval of the New York State Department of Health. In making the announcement of the merger earlier this summer, Dr. Steven J. Corwin, chief executive officer of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, highlighted the role that NewYork-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan plays in the health care of the community. “As the only acute care hospital serving lower Manhattan, this campus is vital to meeting the health care needs of many populations,� said Dr. Corwin. “We are working closely with the community, as well as with Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell physicians, to create a first-class campus that provides the highest quality, most compassionate care and service for patients and their families.�
The American Red Cross has awarded a $150,000 grant to Cooper Square Committee to support long-term recovery services for people of the Lower East Side affected by Superstorm Sandy. Cooper Square Committee will use the grant to provide housing assistance to storm-affected residents of high-rise cooperative communities by enrolling their buildings in public benefit programs and/or linking them with private contractors to perform structural repairs. “The Cooper Square Committee is excited to receive a Red Cross grant, which will allow the organization to add new staff to assist residents of low income cooperatives on the Lower East Side impacted by Superstorm Sandy, and to help them weatherize their buildings so that they are more resilient in the event of future storms,� said Steve Herrick, executive director. “We will also be outreaching to vulnerable populations, such as seniors and people with disabilities, to ensure they are well prepared for natural disasters, and informed about disaster relief and recovery services in our community.�
A rendering of what the new pedestrain plaza will look like, courtesy of Weisz + Yoes Architecture (WXY), the firm that designed the new plazas.
Astor Place & Cooper Square Reconstruction Begins This week, work will begin on a City project to reconstruct the streetscape surrounding Astor Place and Cooper Square in the East Village. Over the next two years, the Department of Design and Construction (DDC), which is managing the project on behalf of the Department of Transportation (DOT), will install permanent pedestrian plazas on Astor Place and Cooper Square to better serve the high volume of foot traffic in the area. In the course of the project, the City will also install new drainage, curbs, and sidewalks, and reconstruct several area streets, including Third Avenue/Bowery between East 4th and 9th Streets. The $16 million project also includes more than 60 new trees and a new design for Cooper Triangle Park, with improved plantings, seating, and lighting.
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CRIME WATCH Vandam Varmint A thief snatched a woman’s bag on Vandam Street. At 2 a.m. on Monday, September 30, a 31-year-old woman from Brooklyn was walking in a dark part of Vandam Street toward Sixth Avenue, when an unknown perpetrator snatched her bag off her shoulder and fled west toward Varick Street. One fraudulent charge of $300 turned up on her stolen card. Other items taken were a black Chanel classic bag valued at $3,500, a white iPhone 4S priced at $600, a black iPhone 4 costing $450, a gray Tory Burch wallet valued at $275, and an unlimited one-month Metro card costing $113. The total stolen amounted to $5,338.
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Mac Attack A man’s computer was stolen from his car at 8 p.m. on Sunday, September 29. The 24-year-old man from Pennsauken, NJ left his 2011 Chevy Impala unlocked and unattended for five minutes on Park Row. When he returned to the car, he found that his Mac Pro computer was missing from the front passenger seat. Police searched the area but could not find the computer, which also lacked tracking software. The machine was valued at $1,500.
Bad News A woman’s car was stolen while she was delivering newspapers. At 5 a.m. on Monday, September 23, a 29-year-old woman from Baltimore, MD was delivering newspapers on Broome Street, leaving her green 2005 Ford Expedition with MD plates running with the keys in the ignition. A man walked by, entered the car and drove off, heading southbound on Varick from Broome.
Citi Bike Jack A man stole a Citi Bike from a rider on Friday afternoon. At 2:05 p.m. on
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September 27, a 28-year-old man had just entered a code for a Citi Bike at the northwest corner of West Street and Chambers Street, when a man came up from behind, took the bike, and left the location. The Citi Bike ID was Y05650. Police searched the area but could not find the missing bike. There was no video of the incident. The Citi Bike was valued at $1,200.
Bomber Glommers Two men and two women shoplifted an item of clothing from a store on West Broadway. At 5:55 p.m. on Wednesday, September 11, two men walked into the clothing boutique, followed by two women. he quartet shopped around for a while until the women grabbed a blue floral bomber jacket and fled the store. The two men followed and ran south on West Broadway, before all four got into a gray Chevy Blazer with New York State plates ELM 4013. The vehicle was last seen on Grand Street. Police searched the area but could not find the car or the thieves. Video surveillance captured the entire incident. The clothing stolen was a blue Moncler bomber style jacket valued at $1,050.
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Spirit of 1976 GraďŹƒti covered for 37 years surfaces during building repair By Jim Duffy
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n Lower Manhattan, at the corner of Broad Street and South Street, is a wall about six feet high that faces out to New York Harbor. It’s part of an office complex at 125 Broad Street. The wall is being repaired, and as the white facing material is being removed, underneath is revealed a silvery, fiberglass-like building material that is covered with carvings made in 1976. On July 4, 1976, Bicentennial Day, as thousands of people crowded to watch the tall ships in the harbor, some of them, likely teenagers, took to scratching hearts, names, zodiac signs, phone numbers and messages. The carvings include “Grace + David,� “Sophia ‘N Harvey,� “Happy Birthday America,� “I Love My Mother,� “Diane ’76,� “Gerald Ford, Op Sail and Queen Liz Were Here.� It’s unclear how long the carvings were covered up. But now, probably for the first time since 1976, they’re seeing the light of day. The graffiti was first first featured in the blog “Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York.� Photographs by Amy L. Anderson. Reprinted with permission from Jeremiah Moss.
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Friday Oct. 11 Art in Odd Places Festival This wacky festival invites dozens of artists each year to create artistic riffs on a theme throughout public spaces along 14th street, from river to river. This year’s theme is “Numbers.” Maps and program guides are available online to create a selfguided tour. Free, all day through Oct. 20 number.artinoddplaces.org
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Workshops, performances and panel discussions support you in cultivating a dynamic and responsive connection to your body’s intelligence. Learn how your body-mind has the innate capacity to transform, heal and flourish. Dance New Amsterdam, 280 Broadway, entrance on Chambers, 2nd Floor All day, details at somafest.org
Sunday Oct. 13 Open House New York Center for Architecture Join Open House New York for a full weekend of family fun! Drop by the Center for Architecture with the family and try your hand at designing your own customized brownstone – professionals will be present to assist you. 536 LaGuardia Pl., 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Free landmarkwest.org
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Monday Oct. 15th Yoko Ono, Bag One Arts and Legacy Productions Present: The Art of John Lennon On view at this noteworthy SoHo exhibit will be nearly 100 limited edition drawings and songwritings that John created from 1964 to 1980. The artwork spans his days of Beatlemania in the early 1960s all the way to his untimely death in 1980. All pieces will be available for purchase. 72 Greene Street (between Spring Street and Broome Street), 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Free/$3 donation
Possibility Junkie Theater for the New City The story is based loosely on the career of the “real-life” David Ippolito, who is known to hundreds of thousands of people across the country and around the world as “That Guitar Man from Central Park.” Part singer-songwriter, part storyteller, part social-commentator and humorist, Ippolito has become famous for his simple catch phrase, “It’s just us,” and his ability to turn a large crowd of strangers into a group of friends. 155 First Ave at E 10th Street, 8 p.m.- 9:45 p.m. $25 212-254-1109|
AND MILES TO GO The Wild Project Disadvantaged students. A disheartened administration. A disintegrated infrastructure. Adele Priam has seen the very best and worst in her 50 years as a teacher in the classroom of a New York City public school. As the Board of Education considers shuttering the school, this teacher and her community will forever be changed. A play about the frailty of life, legacy, and our education system. 195 East 3rd Street, 8 p.m. $20
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Wednesday Oct. 16 Rotella Gallery Grand Opening World renowned nature photographer, Art Wolfe, has turned in a new direction and will unveil The Human Canvas. Robert Rotella’s inspiring macro-imaging will be on display as well. Both photographers will be in attendance. 468 West Broadway, 6-8 p.m. RSVP by October 9 /212-891-0230
Thursday Oct. 17 Fix Your Bike Workshop Ride your bike down to this open workshop, where the mechanics at Time’s Up! will give free tutorials on the basics of bicycle maintenance. Learn how to diagnose common problems, change tires, and other essentials; then, sign up for any number of regular community rides to take your wheels for a spin. Time’s Up! 156 Rivington Street, 6:308:30 p.m. Donation suggested. http://timesup.org/
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Why Term Limits Are Good The city will see some big and necessary - changes in the upcoming year By Tom Allon
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t’s an interesting quirk in the political world that some elected offices are term limited while the vast majority are not. In New York state politics, you can be a legislator for 40 years or more, winning your district election every two years, generally with no real opposition. The powers of incumbency are so great that more people are indicted or die in office than lose to challengers in contested elections. The same is true of Congress and the Senate, a legislative body which has come under intense criticism in recent years for its ineffective ways, most recently highlighted by the government shutdown. The maxim these days is that most people like their Congressmember but disrespect Congress, and some of that may be attributable to the crippling polarization and long tenures that we are seeing in this large legislative body. But in New York, as we are seeing this year, city officials turn over every eight years (except for the 12-year anomaly due to the overturning of term limits for a brief time in 2009). In 2014, we’ll have a new mayor, public advocate, comptroller and almost half of the city council. The fresh energy and ideas will hopefully infuse the city and build on the successes of the past few decades. There has been an incredibly strong mayor leading New York for most of the past 30 years and the city has gone from being thought of as ungovernable in the Lindsay era to a model of growth and safety and economic vitality to large cities around the world. It’s worth pausing for a second to think about the breathtaking changes the city has experienced under the steady and innovative guidance of Mike Bloomberg and his talented group of deputy mayors and commissioners. As NYU Professor Mitchell Moss eloquently wrote in a recent NY Observer article, there may be a yearning for change in some quarters of the city’s democratic party, but history will be very kind to Mike Bloomberg’s legacy.
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The visionary public health changes -- particularly the once-controversial smoking ban in public places -- have not only extended life spans in New York but also influenced other cities around the world to adopt these lifesaving measures. The rezoning of large swaths of the city -- particularly the long-underutilized waterfront -- has led to the revitalization of many neighborhoods, particularly in Brooklyn and Queens. The increase in park space and large tracts of open space like the High Line in Chelsea has made this a better and more enjoyable city for those who live here and the ever-increasing stream of tourists. And the list goes on. But now, because we should all believe that the arc of history is constantly bending towards progress, Bloomberg’s successor gets to pick priorities and ways to make our city a better place for all. If it’s de Blasio, which seems likely with the huge 50-point recent poll lead, then we can expect more attention paid to the middle class and the poor. De Blasio will champion the rights of middle class workers and those trying to raise themselves up to the middle class. There is no doubt that while the city has improved in many ways in the past few decades, there are still way too many New Yorkers who struggle to make ends meet. Those New Yorkers will have a champion in de Blasio and it’ll be interesting to see what he can do to help them while also ensuring that sectors like Wall Street and the wealthy want to stay in the city. Change is generally good, and term limits symbolize the political equivelant of change. It’s probably time to explore term limits for our legislatures, too, whether it’s in Albany or Washington, DC. When you’re in a job that’s too secure and immune to change, sometimes it leads to bad habits and forgetting the will of the people who elected you in the first place. So when you vote in November and observe as a whole new team takes over the reigns of the city, remember that in the long term, change is good, even if there may be some initial bumps in the road. Tom Allon, the president of City and State, NY, is a former Liberal Party-backed candidate for Mayor. Question or comments? Tallon@ cityandstateny.com
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Q. In New York people are attributed so many labels. There are artists, bankers, actors, marketers. How do certain labels in life affect the way people perceive you? – Webster Schelbe, New York City, 26 years old A. Labeling is an interesting phenomenon. On the one hand, labels allow us to see ourselves clearly. We wake up each morning and function throughout the day based on the labels that we assign ourselves. If you perceive yourself to be an independent, hard working person, you might dress and carry yourself in a way that reflects that belief. If you think of yourself as a funny individual who is the life of the party, you might be sure to crack as many jokes as you can throughout the day even if you’re not in the mood, in order to live up to your self-proclaimed identifier. So, we definitely use labels that we assign ourselves to help us navigate everyday situations. But what we don’t often realize is how other people’s labels influence our behavior. Several years ago, two psychologists, Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson, were especially interested in the impact of labeling on behavior. In a now famous study called “Pgymalion in the Classroom,” the two psychologists found that a phenomenon, called a self-fulfilling prophecy, is elicited when people attribute labels to your personality. A selffulfilling prophecy is when a behavior becomes true, just because people expect it to be true. Rosenthal and Jacobs tested this phenomenon at a California elementary school where they administered a fake IQ test to students. Though they did not divulge actual scores of the exams, they randomly chose half of the students and told teachers that these students were “bloomers” based on the exam scores. They informed teachers that these “bloomers” would show more intellectual acumen and growth than the other half of the students. In reality, Rosenthal and Jacobs chose the students’ names out of a hat. The children never knew their designated labels — only the teachers were informed of the “bloomers” versus “non-bloomer” labels. Remarkably, those students who were expected to perform better actually did when tested a year later. Because the teachers expected those students to get smarter and perform better, students in turn gave into the way they were expected to act. They demonstrated intellectual growth merely because they were expected to. Expectations of perceived behavior can transform someone’s personality in a flash. You could unknowingly be significantly altering someone’s behavior, merely by assigning him or her a certain label. What’s important here is to be cautious of attributing negative labels to individuals. In Rosenthal’s study, the other half of students who were “non-bloomers” showed less intellectual growth than the other students. This has implications for how we treat people in everyday settings, whether at work, school, or your personal life. If you’re a boss at work and want to encourage your employees to perform better, treat them like they will do so. If you are providing breakup advice for a friend who just broke up with his girlfriend, treat him like he is resilient and will get through it. The biggest take away is how the process of labeling can impact behavior. You should be aware of the labels you assign to others, but also of the labels that others assign to you. If you’re aware that someone is labeling you in a way that doesn’t fit your perception of yourself, you have the ability to turn the self-fulfilling prophecy over on itself. Assign yourself a positive label and watch it come to life. You have the ability to make anything happen. By Kristine Keller, who received her Master’s in psychology from New York University.
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Why Jacques Demy Matters A legend of the French New Wave gets a complete retrospective at Film Forum By Armond White
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ne of my fondest experiences in the New York Film Critics Circle concerned the late Jacques Demy, subject of a complete Umbrellas of Cherbourg career retrospective at Film Forum history and cinema possibility, but those esthetics also came (Oct. 4 –17): out of the warmth in Varda’s tear-bright eyes. When Demy’s first two films Lola and Bay of Angels That warmth—and the moral intelligence behind it--is what were re-issued in 2001, I proposed to the Circle that the I recognized in Demy’s films from the first time I saw Lola. re-lease amounted to a re-discovery and merited a Special It was a panned-and-scanned TV print shown on Canadian Award. It was gratifying, and an exhilarating surprise, that television yet nothing could diminish the film’s exuberance. It’s the membership concurred. Back then, the Circle had not beauty and expansiveness was confirmed when I finally saw it given many special awards so this was, indeed, special. It on the big screen years later at the Alliance Francaise. recognized that the deeply expressive Lola was one of the most By the time of that 2001 Film Forum reissue, I understood accomplished debut features ever made and that the existential that Lola’s widescreen tribute to romantic faith—a deep romance Bay of Angels was more than a follow-up, but a spirituality connected to the joy that Demy found in cinema confirmation of Demy’s great talent and unique sensibility. and paid back in Lola’s tribute to both Max Ophuls and Josef It was right that the New York Film Critics Circle bestow von Sternberg—was actually an arms-open embrace. In a rare honor on Demy. Lola premiered in 1962, the year the dramatic, musical, spatial, visual terms, Lola’s expressed love Circle suspended its awards due to a newspaper strike, so and desire, through time, as the essence of CinemaScope. Demy’s deserved prize was, in a sense, long overdue. (I had Demy would also pay his debt forward through a career an additional motive in my double-Demy proposal: The 1996 making films that explored the depths of desire. His Nouvelle reissue of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg might also have won a Vague distinction always expressed desire though a selfspecial prize if not for the simultaneous reissue of that infernal conscious appreciation of storytelling styles. Demy was Vertigo.) particularly devoted to the movie-musical genre--especially And at the NYFCC awards ceremony on January 10, 2002, the American ideal represented by Gene Kelly’s maritime I was honored with the opportunity to present the Circle’s myth Anchors Away (significant for Demy, born in the port prize—expressing what those films mean in cinema history and for me personally--to Demy’s widow, the filmmaker Agnes city Nantes) and Vincente Minnelli’s Meet Me in St. Louis (significant for Demy’s modernist equating of nostalgia with Varda. It was not my first time meeting Varda but her sweet consciousness). Lola proved that Demy could make movies appreciation and ebullient gratitude were unforgettable. It with buoyancy and rhythm—films that felt like musicals was the fulfillment of a connection I had always felt with that without necessarily being musicals. (Jonathan Demme is the great film movement The French New Wave in which she and only American filmmaker with musical taste—and a humane Jacques Demy played important roles. That connection was perspective--similar to Demy’s.) based in esthetics, a new, world-changing approach to film
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Anouk Aimee in Lola It is this unusual sensibility that was the source of Demy’s great vision, which eventually flowered in his masterpiece The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (showing at Film Forum Oct. 18-24). The visual feast of Umbrellas was unparalleled until Bertolucci’s The Conformist, yet this is an ever greater work; it elaborates on Lola’s philosophical complexity. Demy’s lifelong work constructed an analysis of desire that coheres Lola-UmbrellasModel Shop as a metaphysical/metacinema trilogy. This vision of man’s struggle with desire continued through mixed-genre films that heightened one’s appreciation of movie narrative possibility as well as the spiritual history of ardor, through nostalgic reverie or innocence-into-adulthood myths (as in The Pied Piper, Lady Oscar and Donkey Skin). Demy’s films are romances but complex romances that explicate emotional identity. Such films as Lola, Bay of Angels, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Model Shop, Une Chambre En Ville and Two Seats for the 26th are never so crude—or confused--as to be about gender. Before the idea of political correctness, Demy’s explication of desire allows a musical understanding about the spiritual identification and recognition that passes between men and women, children and adults. His films are light-hearted but more fool you if you take them lightly. Follow Armond White on Twitter at 3xchair
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o more thrilling space has opened up for unconventional performances and installations in recent years than the Park Avenue Armory in 2007. Built in 1861 to resemble Grand Central Station and other majestic 19th century railroad stations and designed as a military facility and social club, it became home to the 7th Regiment of the National Guard, a volunteer unit, its towering 55,000 square foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall ideal for marching maneuvers, its elegant period rooms, created by the likes of Louis Comfort Tiffany and Stanford White, pleasing to the club’s socialite members. Massive Attack at The Armory Now a haven for a wide ranging arts video cameras record the action on a large projects, it has featured among its many screen television. outstanding presentations, the 9,216-square“Nothing prepares you for the majesty foot action painting “Greeting Card” by of the Armory,” says scenic and costume Aaron Young, made of burned out tire marks designer Lucy Osborne. “The challenge was to produced by speeding motorcycles, the Royal create the atmosphere of a sports arena.” For Shakespeare Company performing five plays research, she visited Madison Square Garden. in a duplicate of its home theater, installations Returning to the task invigorated, she created by Ernesto Neto, Christian Boltanski and Ann a complete 360-degree environment, with Hamilton, Peter Greenaway’s multimedia raked seating, so that audiences will have an Leonardo’s Last Supper, an immersive tribute intense sense of focus and feeling like they are to Merce Cunningham, and choreographer almost falling into the chessboard. Elizabeth Streb’s acrobatic “Kiss the Air.” The match between Kasparov and Deep “Our mission is to present work that Blue always fascinated Charman, who thinks otherwise might never be done,” says of it as a boxing match. He studied the Rebecca Robertson, the Park Avenue Armory contenders’ backgrounds, more interested in president and executive producer. “The space the psychological aspects of the match than doesn’t dictate. Therefore, artists can develop in chess itself. “I applied all the basic rules their ideas anyway that they want. Every artist of storytelling,” he says, “trying to figure out surprises us.” why people do things, wanting to empathize The new season began with a compelling with their motives.” He did the same kind production of British playwright, Matt of research into the characters close to Charman’s The Machine, a depiction of them, including Kasparov’s mother and the the epic 1997 New York chess tournament members of the Deep Blue team. “Casting was between chess phenomenon Garry Kasparov tough,” he adds. “We had to build a family. We and a super computer called Deep Blue, wanted an ensemble feel. We wanted the rigor developed by IBM and mastermind Dr. of truthfulness. We got it.” Feng-Hsiung Hsu. It runs through September 18. A co commission by the Park Avenue Armory, Donmar Warehouse and Manchester International Festival in England, where it Upcoming Armory Productions: Massive had its premiere, the play is staged by Donmar Attack V Adam Curtis – Sept. 28-Oct. 4; The Warehouse artistic director Josie Rourke like Life and Death of Marina Abramovic – Dec. a sports event, with seats around a four-sided 12-21. chess board, while a giant scoreboard and
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Standards, Met and Unmet A Tchaikovsky masterpiece at the Met and a classic movie By Jay Nordlinger
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n a fall preview last month, I made a point about Valery Gergiev, the Russian conductor: He is mercurial. Sometimes he’s up, sometimes he’s down. Sometimes he’s electric, sometimes he’s blah. On a recent Thursday night at the Metropolitan Opera, he was alternately electric and blah. He was conducting a Tchaikovsky masterpiece, Eugene Onegin. He can conduct the chorus and dance in Act I so that you can barely sit in your seat— that’s how exciting it is. But on this occasion, no. It’s as though he decided to withhold the electricity. Other parts of the opera were exciting, mesmerizing or other desirable things. The music ran out of gas at the end, which is a bad time to run out of gas. Gergiev is an interesting and mysterious cat. Sitting there, I thought, “It’s hard enough being a music critic without being a shrink as well.” The Met orchestra played responsively and admirably. This was especially true of the woodwinds, to whom Tchaikovsky is so kind. Stefán Höskuldsson, the flute; Elaine Douvas, the oboe; Anthony McGill, the clarinetist— they were all first-rate. So was Joseph Anderer, the French horn. In the Letter Scene and elsewhere, he played with extraordinary accuracy. French hornists are born to stumble. They have a right to do so. If Anderer keeps this up, they’ll kick him out of the horn union. In the leading male roles were two Poles: Mariusz Kwiecien, the baritone, who sang Onegin, and Piotr Beczala, the tenor, who sang Lenski. Kwiecien was sleek and assured, as usual. His insouciance toward Tatiana was just right. But, particularly in the final scene, he lacked a certain heft, both vocally and theatrically. Beczala had a magnificent night, a supercharged night. He was booming it out there like Bjoerling. His natural likability made Lenski more likable than ever, and acutely tragic. Also, Beczala took great pleasure in his singing—and it can be quite pleasurable to hear another take pleasure in his own singing. This opera has three mezzo-sopranos, the leading one of whom sings Olga, Tatiana’s younger sister. At the Met, she was Oksana Volkova, who was adequate. Elena Zaremba and Larissa Diadkova are former Olgas, seasoned pros, who at the Met were Madame Larina and the Nurse, respectively. They were
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wise and glorious, giving lessons in Russian opera singing. Ferruccio Furlanetto, the Italian bass, once told me that Prince Gremin in Onegin is just about the best role in opera: You play golf in the afternoon; you have a nice dinner; you arrive at the opera house during the second intermission; you sing the best aria in the opera, stealing the show; you get the girl; you go home with a healthy check. Nice work if you can get it. Alexei Tanovitski got it here, and performed serviceably. The Met’s production is a new one, under the care of Deborah Warner. It replaces one of the finest productions in the Met cupboard, the 1997 Onegin by Robert Carsen. The new one is unobjectionable at worst, satisfying at best. A successful small touch, I think, is the handshake and hug that Onegin gives Lenski before the duel. Less successful, I think, is the long smooch that Tatiana plants on Onegin at the end. It’s a little gimmicky and suspends the opera, marring Tchaikovsky’s pacing. Speaking of Tatiana, she was Anna Netrebko, possibly the starriest soprano of the last ten years. I have written many thousands of words about her, and will now confine myself to a few: She has the gift of knowing— how to phrase, how to apply dynamics, how to put across a character. I have no idea what she would score on an SAT test. But, as an opera performer, she’s an Einstein. Over at Avery Fisher Hall, the New York Philharmonic did something fun: They played the soundtrack of 2001: A Space Odyssey, as the movie unspooled on a big screen overhead. Everyone knows that Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra is used in this movie. Actually, people refer to this music as “2001.” But there are also pieces by Johann Strauss the Younger, Aram Khachaturian and György Ligeti. On the night I attended, the Philharmonic, under Alan Gilbert, did not come off as a top orchestra. (There were two screenings, of which I caught the first.) They came off as a perfectly good orchestra. Entrances were okay, sound was okay (mainly), musical spirit was okay (sort of). There was some lovely unison cello playing in the Khachaturian bit from Gayane. But there was not a lot else to commend. The Danube waltz was downright uncommendable—having little grace, little beauty, little of Vienna. It was good enough for government work, maybe. But for a top orchestra? Perhaps these forces were doing their very best on this night. Perhaps not. New Yorkers are loyal to their orchestra, and the Philharmonic will probably win applause and praise no matter what. So it’s all the more incumbent on players to meet high standards, just because.
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Cinema d’Opie, Part II Ron Howard eats his own dust in Rush By Armond White
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fter his first career several generations ago as Hollywood’s most adorable child star, Ron Howard’s second career might be even more distinctive, though less loveable: He’s Hollywood’s reigning chameleon director-no appreciable point of view, just morphing through various impersonal styles to fit any given commercial project: from early Roger Corman yahoo fare like his 1977 race-car rebel debut Grand Theft Auto, which put him on the charts (thus on the industry’s directorial map); to his period of TV-derived, friendly comedies (Night Shift, Gung Ho, Splash, Howard’s best period); followed by his long stretch of Spielberg imitations (the dreary, gee-whiz spectacles Cocoon, Willow, Apollo 13,); then the star vehicles (Parenthood, Backdraft, Far and Away, Ransom, The Paper, How the Grinch Stole Christmas); and back to the vehicular traffic of celebrity epics (A Beautiful Mind, The Missing, Edtv, Cinderella Man, The DaVinci Code, Angels & Demons, Frost/Nixon, Howard’s worst period). By subject matter alone, Howard’s new film Rush, about the 1970s rivalry of Formula 1 race car gladiators Tom Hunt and Niki Lauda, belongs to the latter category. It is another impersonal, imitative celebrity epic but more puzzling than the others since the relatively unknown stars (beefy blond Chris Hemsworth as Hunt and anxious-eyed Chris Bruhl as Lauda) are not exactly boxoffice draws. Howard’s celebrity-worship is literalized through the film’s rather obscure protagonists--more lost to history than Howard’s Opie years but standard material for star-fucker screenwriter Peter Morgan. Morgan is as impersonal as Howard, making a career out of celebrity bio-pics from The Last King of Scotland and The Queen to Frost/ Nixon—all imitations of a kind. These films have nothing to do with politics beyond the spectacle of power which is essentially what most Hollywood films made on Howard’s
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expensive level are also, basically, exercises of power: projects that Howard and producer Brian Grazer can make happen even though they’re not worth making. If Howard was a film artist, Rush might have explored the testosterone urge of drivers who put themselves outside the safety zone of pedestrian sports. Morgan’s celeb-fixation prefers superficial “personal” anecdotes about Hunt/Lauda’s sponsorships, girl-chasing and marriages. Attempting to deepen the shallow personality clash of Frost/ Nixon (that disingenuous dialogue between propagandistic political effigies), Howard and Morgan proffer the secret antagonism/ admiration between Hunt and Lauda—which is equally disingenuous. One foul scene has Hunt assault a journalist who embarrasses Lauda at a press conference. Howard’s use of crowd-pleasing brutality proves Opie has turned into a dope. The 1970s period details (including music) are so glib the movie never catches imaginative hold and the shift to racing sequences hustle viewers into visual chaos— especially the climactic race in Japan during inclement weather. Here Howard imitates Michael Mann, going for existential blur through cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle’s confusion of film/video abstraction. This is a long way from the pellucid beauty that d.p. Mikael Salomon achieved in Far and Away and Backdraft. Rush coulda/shoulda been a kinetic thrill but if you recall the embarrassing action sequences in The DaVinci Code, the inert Apollo 13 which climaxed when white collar NASA workers stood around applauding, you know Howard has no skill for movement or montage. Instead of imitating past race car movies like Grand Prix, Bobby Deerfield or Eat My Dust, he takes the Hollywood Oscar-winner route of ersatz style. That’s what glorified hacks do. Follow Armond White on Twitter at 3xchair
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Comedian Garners Laughs and Money for a Good Cause Local stand-up comic with Crohn’s disease uses his talents to help others
Save Our Seaport Rally Residents came out to voice their disaproval of a plan to develop the historic area By Helaina Hovitz
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n Saturday, October 5th, over 150 downtown residents and politicians rallied together to help “Save the Seaport” and speak out in favor of maintaining the historic nature of the Seaport and its museum. The rally was prompted by the New York City Economic Development Corporation’s recent refusal to comply with a local reporter’s request to disclose their negotiations with the Howard Hughes Corporation regarding their plans for the Seaport’s neighboring New Market Building and the Tin Building. Earlier this year, the Howard Hughes Corporation revealed that they intend to convert the area surrounding the South Street Seaport into high-rise hotels, condos, and upscale retail stores, which residents fear will compromise its historic character. “We don’t want a huge mall-like presence to be the result of a Howard Hughes takeover,” said Save Our Seaport Spokesperson David Sheldon after the rally. “It can still promote economic development and serve as a unique public space without being turned into high-rise condos and expensive retail stores.” Saturday’s speakers included Gale Brewer, New York City Council Member and Democratic Nominee for Manhattan Borough President, Peter Stanford, Founding President of the South Street Seaport Museum, Roland Lewis, President and CEO of the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance, Jenifer Rajkumar, Democratic District Leader, and Paul Greenberg, journalist and author of the James Beard Award-winning Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food. All spoke in opposition to the city’s handover of the South Street Seaport to Howard Hughes, and
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expressed hope that the incoming administration would slow the process, giving the community an opportunity to have a say in the Seaport’s future. Several speakers pointed out the Seaport’s national significance as birthplace of the Port of New York and as the city’s original Market district. Rajkumar repeatedly—and disparagingly—referred to Howard Hughes as “the Texas developer,” and drew applause with her vision for a public market that would rival those of other cities, providing locals and tourists with a unique destination, and emerging, food-related entrepreneurs with a place to grow their businesses There has, already, existed the beginning of a food market like that: the New Amsterdam Market, a favorite of tourists, residents, and other New Yorkers, which has lived under the FDR Drive, near the Tin Market Building and New Market Building, since 2005. Its founder and president, Robert LaValva, said that the vendors, farmers, and other community members are dedicated to bringing the market, and have an “intense commitment to persevere against the many obstacles that invariably oppose a business whose mission is to heal rather than destroy.” “I have heard this confidence time and again from aspiring market vendors, chefs, and other small businesses,” he said. “It is a confidence totally unlike the slick and boastful arrogance of cheaters who get ahead with backroom deals and by hiding their intentions from the public.” Gale Brewer stepped in to praise the Seaport’s history and uniqueness, pointing to her efforts to slow the encroachment of banks and other big-box storefronts on the Upper West Side, which she currently represents. She expressed hope that instead of turning the Seaport into “just another cookiecutter mall,” the City and community could find more creative solutions. “Just as with Seward Park, a public planning process to determine the future of the Seaport is imperative,” she said. “It’s a public site. Such a planning process would ensure community needs and desires are met.”
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att Nagin, a comedian who performed at the Gotham Comedy Foundation fundraiser last week, like most stand-up comedians, can’t help cracking several jokes during regular conversation. But unlike most comedians, Nagin uses laughter as his own personal medicine. “I have Crohn’s disease, which is like, nobody really knows what that is,” he said. “God forbid you get Lou Gehrig’s disease, at least you get brand name recognition. People don’t know who Crohn is.” Nagin, 36, a Chelsea resident, is part of the Gotham Comedy Foundation. Last week, Gotham Comedy Foundation held a fundraising night, where all proceeds went to support the charity. The foundation’s creator, Bill Drewes, who is in remission from cancer, always believed in laughter therapy. He and his team of comics, including Nagin, spread laughter to places like schools, hospitals and broadcast performances to people like war veterans and Holocaust survivors. But Nagin can especially relate to Drewes’ theory of smiling away the pain. Ever since he started doing stand-up seven years ago, he noticed himself having a more positive attitude, and his chronic pain become less and less acute.
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“To me, using laughter to deal with pain boosts your mood and increases your general well-being,” said Nagin. “But I’m not going to say laughter cures any illness. If you have diabetes don’t stop taking your insulin and just watch Judd Apatow films, but maybe if you do both you’re better off.” Nagin may have joked about not knowing who Crohn is, but the illness itself is no laughing matter. Crohn’s Disease is an autoimmune disorder, where the body’s white blood cells attack the intestines as if they were a foreign agent. Nagin called it an invisible disease. He was diagnosed with the disease 23 years ago when doctors thought he had appendicitis. Nagin has struggled with pain, multiple surgeries and frequent bathroom trips throughout his life, but right now he is in remission, and is the healthiest he has ever felt. But having Crohn’s Disease does not exactly give Nagin a wealth of material for his stand-up acts. In fact, besides a performance he did for a Crohn’s fundraiser several years ago, he rarely makes jokes about the disease. “When there’s food out no one wants to hear about your intestines,” he said. “Keep it in the bathroom.” Instead, Nagin prefers to rant about relationships and make one-liners like one of his comedic influences, George Carlin. His first one-man show, “Wooly Mammoth Panic Attack” ran for the month of July at the 59th Street Theater, and sold out for a few of the nights. But Nagin doesn’t let his successful first show get to his head. “I had to swallow a pill once with a camera in it, so doctors could get a look at my insides,” he said. “That’s the most media attention I’ve ever received, the paparazzi camera going right through me.”
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here have been a multitude of ďŹ rsts, celebrated successes, groundbreaking research ďŹ ndings, and more than 4,000 lives saved – and that was just in the ďŹ rst 50 years. In October, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and The Rogosin Institute celebrates the 50th anniversary of their worldrenowned kidney transplant program. To commemorate this milestone, an anniversary celebration, “50 Years of Transplant Excellence,â€? was held on October 2, attended by some 200 members of the leadership and staff of NewYork-Presbyterian, Weill Cornell Medical College, and The Rogosin Institute; transplant recipients, donors, and family members; and partners from the community. As part of the celebration, a framed Congressional Extension of Remarks was presented from US Rep. Carolyn Maloney’s ofďŹ ce congratulating the transplant program. “We have a very simple strategy when it comes to transplantation – we consistently strive to offer the maximum number of opportunities for patients,â€? says Dr. Sandip Kapur, surgical director of the transplant program. “We’ve treated patients of all ages. Every available tool that exists, exists in this program. It’s a detail that distinguishes us from 90 percent of the programs in the country and helps position us as a national leader in what we do.â€? “This is a special occasion to acknowledge the remarkable accomplishments of the
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transplant program over the last ďŹ ve decades and honor the doctors, scientists, nurses, staff, and all members of the transplant team who have made them possible,â€? says Dr. Steven J. Corwin, CEO of NewYorkPresbyterian. “We congratulate and thank all those, past and present, who have made the program what it is today. At the same time, we celebrate the thousands of adults and children whose lives have been saved through transplantation and look forward to the next 50 years of advances so that we can continue to offer patients and families the most outstanding and compassionate transplant care, and a renewed gift of life.â€? “The transplant program exempliďŹ es translational medicine at its best,â€? says Dr. Laurie H. Glimcher, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College. “Over ďŹ ve decades of transplantation, our physician-scientists have made
research breakthroughs that have enabled patients to receive superior care before, during, and after their transplants. The Transplant Program is renowned for maximizing transplant opportunities and delivering exceptional outcomes for patients through cutting-edge laboratory research, advanced surgical techniques, personalized medical management, national kidney exchanges, and a unique multidisciplinary treatment approach. The program works in close cooperation with The Rogosin Institute, a leading research and treatment center for kidney disease and a member of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System. The kidney transplant program was the ďŹ rst of its kind in the metro area when it opened in 1963, and has performed more 4,200 transplants over the last 50 years, making it one of the highest-volume transplant centers in the nation.
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eeping the community and the needs of families on campus in mind, Weill Cornell Medical College has opened a child care center for children of its faculty, students and staff. After 18 months of planning and more than ďŹ ve months of renovations, the new 5,000-square-foot child care center at 409 East 60th Street, between First and York Avenues, admitted its ďŹ rst students in September. The center provides services for infants, toddlers and preschoolers. In addition to providing such services for its faculty and staff, it is the medical college’s hope that this center will alleviate some of the pressure on existing centers in the neighborhood. The center is operated by Bright Horizons Family Solutions. The company operates child care centers and schools across the United States, Canada and Europe, including several in New York City.
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ecognizing that medicine is not one size ďŹ ts all, Weill Cornell Medical College and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital recently established a new translational research hub that explores the new frontier of precision medicine. The Institute for Precision Medicine at Weill Cornell and NewYork-Presbyterian/ Weill Cornell Medical Center offers optimal targeted, individualized treatment based on each patient’s genetic proďŹ le. The Institute’s new genomic research discoveries will help develop novel, personalized medical therapies to be tested in clinical trials, while also building a comprehensive biobank to improve research and patient care. The Institute is directed by Dr. Mark Rubin, a renowned pathologist and prostate cancer expert at Weill Cornell and pathologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/ Weill Cornell who uses whole genomic sequencing in his laboratory to investigate DNA mutations that lead to disease, particularly prostate cancer. “This Institute will revolutionize the way we treat disease, linking cuttingedge research and next-generation sequencing in the laboratory to the patient’s bedside,â€? said Dr. Rubin, also vice chair for experimental pathology
and the Homer T. Hirst III Professor of Oncology at Weill Cornell. “We use advanced technology and the collective wealth of knowledge from our clinicians, basic scientists, pathologists, molecular biologists and computational biologists to pinpoint the molecular underpinnings of disease – information that will spur the discovery of novel treatments and therapies.â€? Dr. Rubin and his team are looking to replace the traditional one-size-ďŹ ts-all medicine paradigm with one that focuses on targeted, individualized patient care using a patient’s own genetic proďŹ le and medical history. Physician-scientists at the Institute plan to precisely identify the genetic inuencers of a patient’s speciďŹ c illness – such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative disease and others – and use this genetic information to design a more effective course of treatment that targets those speciďŹ c contributing factors. Also, genomic analyses of tumor tissue enable researchers to help patients with advanced disease and no current treatment options, as well as to isolate the causes of drug resistance in patients who stop responding to treatments, redirecting them to more successful therapies.
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Dr. Mark Rubin leads new Institute for Precision Medicine.
Preventive precision medicine also is a key initiative at the Institute, allowing physician-scientists to help identify a patient’s risk of diseases and take necessary steps to aid in its prevention through medical treatment, lifestyle modiďŹ cation or both. In addition, the Institute will leverage an arsenal of genomic sequencing, biobanking and bioinformatics technology to transform the existing paradigm for diagnosing and treating patients. The Institute will be headquartered in the Belfer Research Building, set to open in January.
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ewYork-Presbyterian Hospital announced in July that New York Downtown Hospital has become its sixth campus, the result of a merger between the two hospitals. The 180-bed community hospital, now renamed NewYork-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital, remains the only hospital south of 14th Street in Manhattan, serving a daily population of some 750,000 residents, visitors and professionals. The merger was made possible with the assistance and approval of the New York State Department of Health. Dr. Steven J. Corwin, chief executive ofďŹ cer of NewYorkPresbyterian Hospital, highlighted the important role that NewYorkPresbyterian/Lower Manhattan plays in the health care of the community. “As the only acute care hospital serving lower Manhattan, this campus is vital to meeting the health care needs of many populations,â€? said Dr. Corwin. “We are working closely with the community, as well as with Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell physicians, to create a ďŹ rst class campus that provides the highest quality, most compassionate care and service for patients and their families.â€?
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Forty percent do not call 911: Survival rates show every minute matters
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recent New England Journal of Medicine study reviewed the records of about 97,000 patients with severe heart attacks who were admitted to 5151 hospitals between 2005 and 2009. Although many hospitals improved the time between when patients arrived at the emergency room and underwent intervention, the survival rate did not improve. Researchers then looked at what happens before a heart patient arrives in the emergency room. They found that 40 percent of patients with severe heart attack don’t call 911, causing significant treatment delays. The American Heart Association launched its Lifeline program to teach the public to recognize heart attack symptoms and act quickly. Fast action saves lives. A heart attack occurs when blood flow to
the heart is blocked, preventing oxygen-rich blood from reaching a section of the heart. If the blocked artery is not reopened quickly, the part of the heart normally nourished by that artery begins to die. Michele Hooper, manager in the AHA National CPR/ Emergency Cardiovascular Care programs, said the heart muscle will no longer be able to pump efficiently, a life-threatening event that requires immediate medical care.
What it looks like Symptoms of a heart attack may be immediate and may include intense discomfort, pressure or pain in the chest or other areas of the upper body. There is often shortness of breath, cold sweats, and/ or nausea/vomiting. More often, though, symptoms start slowly and persist for hours, days or weeks before a heart attack. Women are somewhat more likely than men to experience shortness of breath, nausea/ vomiting, and back, neck or jaw pain. The heart usually does not stop beating during a heart attack. The victim is often aware and alert but in distress. The longer the person goes without treatment, the greater the
damage to the heart which can result in death or permanent damage to the heart’s function (heart failure).
What you can do If some or all symptoms are present, even if you’re not sure it’s a heart attack, call 9-1 or your emergency response number. Every minute matters. It’s best to call EMS to get to the emergency room right away. Emergency medical services staff can begin treatment when they arrive — up to an hour sooner than if someone gets to the hospital by car. “Calling 911 activates the local emergency response system,� Hooper said. “Patients with chest pain who arrive by ambulance usually receive faster treatment at the hospital, too.� Most heart attacks do not lead to cardiac arrest — when the heart stops beating. But when cardiac arrest occurs, heart attack is a common cause. The American Heart Association also encourages everyone to be prepared in a cardiac arrest emergency and learn Hands Only CPR by watching a oneminute video at www.heart.org/handsonlycpr. Visit www.heart.org/heartattack to learn more about how to recognize heart attacks.
Heart Attack Signs in Women • Uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness or pain in the center of your chest. It lasts more than a few minutes, or goes away and comes back. • Pain or discomfort in one or both arms, the back, neck, jaw or stomach. • Shortness of breath with or without chest discomfort. • Other signs such as breaking out in a cold sweat, nausea or lightheadedness. • As with men, women’s most common heart attack symptom is chest pain or discomfort. But women are somewhat more likely than men to experience some of the other common symptoms, particularly shortness of breath, nausea/ vomiting and back or jaw pain. • If you have any of these signs, don’t wait more than five minutes before calling for help. Call 911 and get to a hospital right away.
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Eating whole fruits found to lower diabetes risk
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ating more whole fruits, particularly blueberries, grapes, and apples, was significantly associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a new study led by Harvard School of Public Health researchers. Greater consumption of fruit juices was associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes. The study is the first to look at the effects of individual fruits on diabetes risk. “While fruits are recommended as a measure for diabetes prevention, previous studies have found mixed results for total fruit consumption,” said senior author Qi Sun, assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition at HSPH and assistant professor at the Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Our findings provide novel evidence suggesting that certain fruits may be especially beneficial for lowering diabetes risk.” The researchers looked at overall fruit consumption, as well as consumption of individual fruits: grapes or raisins; peaches, plums, or apricots; prunes; bananas; cantaloupe; apples or pears; oranges; grapefruit; strawberries; and blueberries. They also looked at consumption of apple, orange, grapefruit, and “other” fruit juices. People who ate at least two servings each week of certain whole fruits — particularly blueberries, grapes, and apples — reduced their risk for type 2 diabetes by as much as 23 percent in comparison to those who ate less than one serving per month. Conversely, those who consumed one or more servings
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of fruit juice each day increased their risk of developing type 2 diabetes by as much as 21 percent. The researchers found that swapping three servings of juice per week for whole fruits would result in a 7 percent reduction in diabetes risk. The fruits’ glycemic index (a measure of how rapidly carbohydrates in a food boost blood sugar) did not prove to be a significant factor in determining a fruit’s association with type 2 diabetes risk. However, the high glycemic index of fruit juice — which passes through the digestive system more rapidly than fiber-rich fruit — may explain the positive link between juice consumption and increased diabetes risk. The researchers theorize that the beneficial effects of certain individual fruits could be the result of a particular component. Previous studies have linked anthocyanins found in berries and grapes to lowered heart attack risk, for example. But more research is necessary to determine which components in the more
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Lipsticks with the most lead More than half of 33 brand-name lipsticks tested (61 percent) contained detectable levels of lead, with levels ranging from 0.3 to 0.65 parts per million (ppm). One-third of the tested lipsticks exceeded the FDA’s 0.1 ppm limit for lead in candy — a standard established to protect children from directly ingesting lead. Among the top brands testing positive for lead were: L’Oreal Colour Riche “True Red” — 0.65 ppm L’Oreal Colour Riche “Classic Wine” — 0.58 ppm Cover Girl Incredifull Lipcolor “Maximum Red” — 0.56 ppm Christian Dior Addict “Positive Red” — 0.21 ppm
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atrics and public health at Boston University and the medical director of Boston’s Lead Poisoning Prevention Program. “Pregnant women are particularly vulnerable to lead exposure, because lead easily crosses the placenta and enters the fetal brain where it can interfere with normal development.” The FDA study of 400 lipsticks was quietly posted on the agency’s website in December. The most contaminated brand in the study, Maybelline Color Sensation by L’Oreal USA, contained more than 275 times the amount of lead found in the least contaminated, and least expensive, brand, Wet and Wild Mega Mixers Lip Balm — demonstrating that price is not an indicator of good manufacturing practices. “How many millions of women have applied and reapplied lead-containing lipsticks since we first raised concerns about this problem five years ago? How many kids have played with their mom’s lipstick?” said Janet Nudelman, interim director of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and policy director at the Breast Cancer Fund. “It’s time for L’Oreal to get the lead out of its products, and for FDA to set a safety standard for lead in lipstick.” The FDA said it is currently evaluating whether to recommend an upper limit for lead in lipstick. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is urging FDA to set a maximum limit for lead in lipstick based on the lowest lead levels cosmetic manufacturers can feasibly achieve. U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer, John Kerry and Dianne Feinstein have also urged FDA to take action to reduce lead in lipstick. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is also calling on L’Oreal to make a public commitment to reformulate its lipsticks to ensure the lowest possible levels of lead. L’Oreal makes five of the 10 most lead-contaminated brands in the FDA study. Online US Food and Drug Administraton: fda.gov The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics: safecosmetics.org US Centers for Disease Control: cdc.gov
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community are clamoring to get their issues onto his radar before he even wins and takes office. Before he dashed off to a community board meeting, Johnson stopped for a BLT and a chat with Our Town Downtown last week to talk about his priorities come January, when the lower West Side will have a new representative in the council for the first time in 12 years. You’ve served on Community Board 4 for eight and a half years and have been the chair for the past two and a half. How have you seen the neighborhoods change over that time? You don’t spend eight and a half years on a community board because it’s sexy or full of praise and adulation; you spend eight and a half years on a community board because you care about the community. I think the best training that I could ask for is spending time on the board working on all of the issues from the bottom up at the grassroots level. This district has seen an enormous amount of change over the past five to 10 years, from the defeat of the West Side stadium to Hudson Yards rising out of its ashes, to re-envisioning the Javits Center, to rezoning 11th Avenue up in Hell’s Kitchen for residential use, to hopefully creating a world class train station at Moynihan Station, to doing a huge amount of affordable housing, to preserving the High Line, to expanding Hudson River Park –I think the district is going to see even more change in the next five to 10 years. A lot of your ideas about affordable housing would require action from the state legislature in Albany. As a council member, how would you work on these issues and secure state cooperation? I’m a huge proponent of rent regulation and rent stabilization, and I hope we strengthen it in 2015 [when it’s up for renewal] but that’s not up to the city council, that’s up to Albany, so I plan on going up to Albany and lobbying members of the legislature on behalf of tenants in New York City. But some things the city council can do is – there is a huge amount of the affordable housing stock that was built in the 1970s and 1980s, many of those build were built with taxpayer dollars. We have a $78 billion budget, the largest municipal budget in the U.S. and our budget is our list of priorities. We should appropriate funds out of our budget to actually build affordable housing. You’ve mentioned working with developers and strengthening requirements for building lower income and middle income housing in new developments. Not all development is bad. The issues is that in New York City, many times developers are allowed to build significant projects that have a huge amount of density and there isn’t
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real community giveback. Other cities like San Francisco and Seattle require people, whether it’s as-of-right or not as-of-right, to do mandatory set asides. They require people to do x amount of affordable housing, x amount of public open space, x amount in classroom seats, x amount in community facility space – New York doesn’t do that. And the only way to change that is to modify and revise and our city charter to include those type of things. It’s projected that in the next 10 years, New York’s going to add another 800,000 people to our population. We’ll be nearing 9 million people. Now where are they going to live, and what’s that going to do to essential services? We need to keep up with it. Your district has the highest number of new cases of HIV and AIDS in the city. You’ve also been open about being HIV positive yourself. Is this going to become a more prominent issue, regarding rights and healthcare for people living with HIV? I hope so. It is an incredibly personal issue and it’s an issue that doesn’t get enough press attention and discussion, and I think part of the reason why it’s so important to talk openly about HIV is that it’s a vicious cycle of stigmatization which silences people. And the more we talk about how we can prevent HIV, it’s deeply important. Comprehensive sex education, condom distribution, needle exchange, all of these things are part of that, and then on the other side is taking care of people who have HIV and who are not getting the treatment they need, who don’t have access to affordable healthcare or don’t have access to medicine or who are struggling to get housing. It’s a dual pronged conversation on the prevention level and the treatment level. What will be your top priorities when you start your first term? The first order of business is coming together as a council and enacting significant council reform and rules reform that relates to the discretionary member item process, how bills get drafted, budget allocations, how committees can operate, empowering individual council members, making it easier for bills to be heard by committees and by the council. The way the council is set up currently, the speaker has almost total control over everything. I think that there is a movement afoot from the progressive caucus to make the council more democratic. For my district, the three most important issues are protecting existing affordable housing and tenants, working to build more truly affordable housing, for mixed incomes; getting more good public schools for the district - we have severe overcrowding, and having 32, 33 third graders in a classroom is not acceptable; and third, continuing the fight, partnering with the community, for a full service hospital for the lower west side of Manhattan.
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shutdown closed all national parks, including the Statue of Liberty, vendors in the area said they are seeing fewer sales. And in New York City, where many of non-food vendors are disabled veterans, the financial hit could be coming from two sides. “I probably won’t be able to pay some of my bills,” said Vincent Mack, 48, who sells New York City-themed clothing, like T-shirts and sweatshirts, on State Street across from the National Museum of the American Indian, also closed due to the federal government’s shutdown. “A lot of the vendors didn’t even come out,” said Mack, who also served in the U.S. Marines for two years. Mack set up shop, he said, because his financial situation required showing up. “I’ve got to try. I’m living paycheck to paycheck, day to day,” he said. But for those vendors, like Mack, who tried to sell their wares on Wednesday, the payout wasn’t looking good by midday. Robin Riddick, 53, set up her table of sunglasses, $5 a pair, on Battery Place at 10 a.m. At noon, she counted $60 in her pocket. On a similar day last year, Riddick said, she would have walked home with $125. The first day of the statue’s shutdown, she said, she made only $36. “What can $36 do? $36 is coffee in New York City,” said Riddick. “If it’s going to be like this for the entire month, I can’t pay my rent.” Riddick, who said she received honorable discharge from the U.S. Army after six years of service, is among the nearly 3,000 licensed non-food street vendors in the city, and among the nearly 2,000 of those who are disabled veterans. According to state law, veterans in a city of more than one million residents are given preference over non-veterans when being issued vendor licenses. The vendors also risk losing veteran benefits if the shutdown drags on. A memo on the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs website stated that the federal agency has enough funds to provide compensation to its veterans through October. But if the federal shutdown that persists beyond Oct. 31, the site warned, funds could be suspended. Mack has a scar several vertical inches long on his left knee, a reminder of the injury that led to his honorable discharge in 1992. He receives $200 a month as veteran’s compensation. By 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Mack had only made $5 – one man purchased a hat from the top of a double-decker tour bus. On an average day, Mack said, he pulls in $400. Despite the lagging sales, he and his fellow salesmen attended to customers. “I’m desperate,” Mack said. “I want to keep my apartment.”
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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS
September 21—October 3, 2013
Chipotle Mexican Grill
200 Varick street
Grade pending (16) - cold food item held above 41º f except during necessary preparation; tobacco use, eating, or drinking from open container in food preparation, food storage or dishwashing area observed.
Chocolate Bar
19 8 Avenue
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Murray's Cheese Bar
264 Bleecker street
A
Recette
328 West 12 street
A
Vin Sur Vingt
201 West 11 street
A
Burrito Loco
166 West 4 street
A
Better Being
55B Leroy street
Grade pending (44) - hot food item not held at or above 140º f; food worker does not wash hands thoroughly after using the toilet, coughing, sneezing, smoking, eating, preparing raw foods or otherwise contaminating hands; evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas.
Bosie Tea Parlor
10 Morton street
Grade pending (19) - cold food item held above 41º except during necessary preparation; food not cooled by an approved method; evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas.
The malt house
206 Thompson street
A
Noho Star Restaurant
330 Lafayette street
A
Nagomi
179 Prince street
A
Macdougal Street Ale House
122 Macdougal street
A
Cafe Select
212 Lafayette street
Grade pending (43) - hot food item not held at or above 140º f; filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (frsa) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas; personal cleanliness inadequate; food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
Dominique Ansel Bakery
189 Spring street
Grade pending (21) - 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; hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room.
Forcella
334 Bowery
Grade pending (40) - cold food item held above 41º f except during necessary preparation; personal cleanliness inadequate; tobacco use, eating, or drinking from open container in food preparation, food storage or dishwashing area observed.
Georgetown Cupcake Soho
111 Mercer street
Grade pending (23) - filth flies or food/refuse/sewageassociated (frsa) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas; personal cleanliness inadequate; food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.
Tastee Curritos
99 Macdougal A street
Restaurant Grades The following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s website on October 4, 2013 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. 10011 W. Village/ chelsea Le Grainne Café
183 9 Avenue
Grade pending (26) - cold food item held above 41º f except during necessary preparation; evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas.
Murray's bagels
500 Avenue of the
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Cola's
148 8 Avenue
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Monster Sushi
158 West 23 street
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Hale & Hearty Soups
75 9 Avenue
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Village Den
225 West 12 street
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Golden Crepes
262A west 15
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Miyagi Japanese Home Cooking
220 West 13 street
Grade pending (27) - cold food item held above 41º f except during necessary preparation; live roaches present in facility's food and/or non-food areas; wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.
10012 Soho
Subway (store #18733)
47 West 14 street
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Xes Lounge
157 West 24 street
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City Cakes
251 West 18 street
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Steel Gym
146 West 23 street
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7 Carmine street
Closed (65) - evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas; live roaches present in facility's food and/or non-food areas; hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room; personal cleanliness inadequate; food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
10014 W. Village Famous Joe's Pizza
Casa
72 Bedford street
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Yerba Buena
57 Greenwich avenue
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Starbucks Coffee (store #07261)
93 Greenwich avenue
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Grounded
28 Jane street
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Dunkin' Donuts
395 Hudson street
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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS Happy Taco Burrito
235 Sullivan street
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Just Salad
53 East 8 street
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Madame X
94 West A houston street
Cozy Cafe
43 East 1 street
Hirohisa
73 Thompson street
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Grade pending (14) - cold food item held above 41º f; raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with haccp plan.
Olive Tree Cafe & Comedy Cellar
117 Mac Dougal street
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Plump Dumpling
174 2 Avenue
The Half Pint
234 Thompson street
Grade pending (30) - cold food item held above 41º f; food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.
New York University - Law School Café
245 Sullivan street
Grade pending (17) - raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with haccp plan.
Grade pending (39) - hot food item not held at or above 140º f; cold food item held above 41º f; raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with haccp planp; filth flies or food/refuse/sewageassociated (frsa) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas; tobacco use, eating, or drinking from open container in food preparation, food storage or dishwashing area observed.
Grand Sichuan
Salud Soho
107 Thompson street
Grade pending (2) - non-food contact surface improperly constructed. Unacceptable material used.
19-23 St marks place
Grade pending (33) - cold food item held above 41º f; live roaches present in facility's food and/or non-food areas; personal cleanliness inadequate.
Piccolo Cafe
157 3 Avenue
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Subway
1 Irving place
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10003 Union square/noho Chipotle mexican grill
55 East 8 street
Grade pending (24) - hot food item not held at or above 140º f; hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room; food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.
Bite
211 East 14 street
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Tarallucci e Vino
15 East 18 street
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Manna Kitchen
28 East 18 street
Grade pending (24) - food not cooled by an approved method; 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.
Beecher's 900 Broadway A Handmade Cheese Tarallucci e Vino
163 1 Avenue
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Starbucks Coffee
145 3 Avenue
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Ponty Bistro
218 3 Avenue
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Spice
77 4 Avenue
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Tu-Lu's GlutenFree Bakery
338 East 11 street
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Atlas Cafe
73 2 Avenue
Grade pending (4) - non-food contact surface improperly constructed. Unacceptable material used.
Daily Juice
331 East 14 street
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Peridance Capezio Center Café
126 East 13 street
A
Paradis To Go
114 4 Avenue
A
10009 E. Village
Panna II Garden Indian Restaurant
93 1 Avenue
A
Yuca Bar
111 Avenue A
Sao Mai Vietnamese Cuisine
203 1 Avenue
Closed (17) - cold food item held above 41º ; evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or nonfood areas.
The W Hotel Banquets
201 Park avenue south
A
Grade pending (21) - evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas; live roaches 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; food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.
Kingston hall
149 2 Avenue
Grade pending (18) - 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.
Fat Sal's Pizza
201 Avenue A
Grade pending (22) - food not cooled by an approved method; evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas.
Croissanteria
68 Avenue A
A
Alphabet Cafe
600 East 14 street
Closed (76) - cold food item held above 41º f; food not cooled by an approved method; 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; insufficient or no refrigerated or hot holding equipment to keep potentially hazardous foods at required temperatures.
TD 129 Second Ave Llc
129 2 Avenue
A
Kenka
25 St marks place
Grade pending (17) - cold food item held above 41º; food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.
Vinny Vincenz
231 1 Avenue
Grade pending (17) - evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas; live roaches 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.
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103 Avenue A
184 1 Avenue
Grade pending (20) - raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with haccp plan; food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.
NEIGHBORHOOD REAL ESTATE SALES Reported September 27 - October 4, 2013 Neighborhood
Address
Battery Park
Grade pending (25) - hot food item not held at or above 140º f; cold food item held above 41º f; appropriately scaled metal stem-type thermometer or thermocouple not provided or used to evaluate temperatures of potentially hazardous foods during cooking, cooling, reheating and holding.
Apt.
Sale Price
BR BA Listing Brokerage
300 Albany St.
#6I
$1,025,000
2
2
Nestseekers
99 Battery Place
#22C
$900,000
2
2
Djk Residential
225 Rector Place
#5O
$747,930
1
1
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225 Rector Place
#5T
$737,492
1
1
Related Sales
1 River Terrace
#11F
$3,169,683
3
3
Charles Rutenberg
70 Little W St.
#22C
$2,250,000
2
2
The Marketing Directors
225 Rector Place
#6C
$759,617
1
1
Related Sales
10013 Tribeca
333 Rector Place
#904
$2,545,625
4
3
Corcoran
Edward's
377 Rector Place
#6H
$625,000
1
1
Douglas Elliman
Roc Restaurant
Cafe Amore's Restaurant
The Harrison
Red Egg
New Hon Wong Restaurant Wo Hop City Inc.
Pellegrino's
136 West broadway
A Chelsea
144 W 18 St.
#200E
$4,600,000
4
3
Halstead Property
310 W 18 St.
#3A
$410,000
1
1
Douglas Elliman
110 W 17 St.
#6
$2,475,000
261 W 22 St.
#5
$415,000
1
1
Citi Habitats
323-A greenwich street
A
14751 Chambers street
Grade pending (25) - hot food item not held at or above 140º f; food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment.
154 W 15 St.
#1B
$1,075,000
1
2
Corcoran
125 W 22 St.
#2A
$1,295,000
1
1
Level Group
170 W 23 St.
#6F
$760,000
1
1
Re/Max Midtown
355 Greenwich street
A
85 8 Ave.
#4F
$605,000
1
1
Halstead Property
655 6 Ave.
#3A
$1,600,000
1
1
Douglas Elliman
252 W 17 St.
#9A
$1,823,000
2
2
Corcoran
202 Centre street
Grade pending (19) - hot food item not held at or above 140º f; food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment; personal cleanliness inadequate.
132 W 22 St.
#5
$5,125,000
4
3
Douglas Elliman
300 W 23 St.
#Res
$1,300,000
345 W 14 St.
#8D
$3,436,593
2
2
Corcoran
161 W 16 St.
#12E
$475,000
0
1
Nestseekers
Grade pending (17) - hot food item not held at or above 140º f; live roaches present in facility's food and/or nonfood areas.
360 W 22 St.
#2P
$433,000
0
1
David Tower Realty
244 Canal street 15 Mott street
Chinatown
30 Orchard St.
#5W
$804,417
1
1
Ogi Management
E Village
35 E 1 St.
#4
$533,500
0
1
Corcoran
228 E 13 St.
#18
$485,000
1
1
Douglas Elliman
111 4 Ave.
#5D
$971,500
1
1
Halstead Property
235 E 11 St.
#5G
$1,300,000
70 E 10 St.
#6W
$900,000
1
1
Corcoran
628 E 14 St.
#17
$390,000
1
1
Spark Properties
205 E 10 St.
#5E
$603,000
1
1
Brown Harris Stevens
77 E 12 St.
#3D
$675,000
1
1
Corcoran
115 4 Ave.
#2D
$975,000
0
1
Owner
333 E 14 St.
#14H
$385,000
0
1
Heller Organization
327 E 3 St.
#2D
$330,000
1
1
Corcoran
228 E 13 St.
#2728
$967,500
425 E 13 St.
#1B
$560,000
0
1
Corcoran
Grade pending (25) - raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with haccp plan; evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas; live roaches present in facility's food and/or non-food areas; filth flies or food/refuse/sewageassociated (frsa) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
138 Mulberry street
A
549 Greenwich street
A
Pho Bang Restaurant
157 Mott street
Grade pending (17) - evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas.
Da Gennaro
129 Mulberry street
A
20 Pine St.
#2310
$670,000
0
1
Kian Realty
Toarmina Ristorante
145 Mulberry street
Grade pending (27) - cold food item held above 41º f; food not cooled by an approved method; evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or nonfood areas; filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (frsa) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
67 Liberty St.
#6
$1,146,000
1
1
The Marketing Directors
Grade pending (15) - 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.
88 Greenwich St. 88 Greenwich St.
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20 W St.
#30D
$778,500
1
1
Town Residential
21-23 S William St.
#6E
$710,000
1
1
Douglas Elliman
20 Pine St.
#1815
$822,000
20 Pine St.
#518
$1,398,000
2
2
L.G. Fairmont Group
88 Greenwich St.
#2903
$554,999
0
1
Douglas Elliman
15 William St.
#16D
$768,000
0
1
Town Residential
#702
$742,500
1
1
Town Residential
#1010
$600,000
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Flatiron
Fulton/Seaport
Gramercy Park
Greenwich Vill
Lower E Side
Address
Apt.
Sale Price
BR BA Listing Brokerage
75 Wall St.
#22C
$1,445,915
2
2
Corcoran
88 Greenwich St.
#701
$620,000
0
1
Neighborhood
Address
Apt.
Sale Price
BR BA Listing Brokerage
210 E Broadway
#H1001
$680,000
2
1
Loho Realty
Douglas Elliman
210 E Broadway
#L1505
$510,000
1
1
Halstead Property
#E11b
$390,000
1
1
Halstead Property
10 W 15 St.
#1107
$769,000
1
1
Owner
530 Grand St.
254 Park Ave. S
#3M
$840,000
0
1
Brown Harris Stevens
78 Ridge St.
#5D
$567,165
1
1
Kian Realty
36 E 22 St.
#3A
$3,600,000
3
3
Town Residential
Noho
644 Broadway
#2W
$2,850,000
2
2
Charles Rutenberg
#2C
$2,965,000
2
2
Stribling
0
1
Halstead Property
2
2
Halstead Property
69 5 Ave.
#18A
$3,875,000
3
2
Corcoran
160 Wooster St.
33 E 22 St.
#4A
$725,000
1
1
Corcoran
111 Greene St.
#Phc
$5,500,000
110 Thompson St.
#2C
$365,750
43 W 21 St.
#4/5R
$997,500
5 E 22 St.
#9M
$1,690,000
2
2
Newell And Assoc.
139 Wooster St.
#5B+
$2,500,000
143 Sullivan St.
#1A
$475,000
168 Duane St.
Multi
$4,400,000
#7
$2,750,000
240 Park Ave. S
#2B
$3,950,000
3
3
Corcoran
22 W 15 St.
#9G
$1,150,000
1
1
Halstead Property
Tribeca
99 John St.
#802
$549,855
0
1
Nestseekers
14 Jay St.
99 John St.
#916
$707,683
0
1
Nestseekers
200 Chambers St.
#6G
$1,175,000
1
1
Corcoran
Custom Brokers Nyc
200 Chambers St.
#6S
$935,000
1
1
Douglas Elliman
6 Varick St.
#4B
$1,495,000
Corcoran
142 Duane St.
#4A
$2,900,000
1
2
Sothebyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
161 Hudson St.
#3A
$1,515,000 0
1
Dg Neary Realty
0
1
Brown Harris Stevens
138 Nassau St.
#10B
$1,325,000
99 John St.
#205
$1,293,177
71 Nassau St.
#11A
$1,300,000
2 2
2 2
48 Gramercy Park
#1A
$405,000
0
1
Town Residential
145 E 15 St.
#9U
$1,490,000
2
2
Brown Harris Stevens
81 Irving Place
#5C
$425,000
201 E 17 St.
#11J
$710,000
1
1
376 Broadway
#2G
$605,000
W Chelsea
451 W 22 St.
#1R
$340,000
444 W 19 St.
#802+
$2,350,000
W Village
165 Christopher St.
#Lb
$358,000
Corcoran
210 E 15 St.
#6H
$565,000
0
1
Citi Habitats
210 E 15 St.
#1L
$630,000
1
1
Platinum Properties
28 Perry St.
#Bw
$525,000
1
1
Brown Harris Stevens
#1N
$2,800,000
2
2
Douglas Elliman
61 Irving Place
#7D
$1,620,000
2
2
Owner
84 Bedford St.
301 E 22 St.
#11M
$332,250
0
1
Corcoran
350 Bleecker St.
#6Cdef
$6,000,000
3
3
Yael Dunsky Real Estate
Zeckendorf Marketing
83 Perry St.
#1
$2,305,000
3
2
Douglas Elliman
7 Charles St.
#5F
$619,000
1
1
Corcoran
237 W 11 St.
#3B
$835,000
3
1
Brown Harris Stevens
#3G
$850,000
1
1
Halstead Property
1
1
Corcoran
0
1
Douglas Elliman
1
1
Citi Habitats
85 Irving Place
#12
$13,701,318 4
202 E 22Nd St.
#8N
$380,000
130 E 18 St.
#16A
$725,000
1
5 1
Aj Clarke
226 E 18 St.
#4A
$220,000
61 Jane St.
142 E 16 St.
19A/20A
$1,850,000
25 Leroy St.
#16
$475,000
85 Barrow St.
#B6n
$634,000
340 E 23Rd St.
#11D
$1,580,000
2
2
Citi Habitats
130 E 18 St.
#4C
$503,000
720 Greenwich St.
#4K/4L
$150,000
#M2n
$1,025,000
148 E 19Th St.
#3B
$650,000
0
1
Next Stop Ny
65 Morton St.
130 E 18 St.
#2U
$650,000
1
1
Djk Residential
15 Jones St.
#4G
$540,000
Halstead Property
20 Bethune St.
#2B
$470,000
102 E 22 St.
#2E
$575,000
1
1
305 2 Ave.
#335
$925,000
22 Perry St.
#Phf
$1,195,000
350 W 14 St.
#3B
$790,000
105 Morton St.
#Gb
$319,583
101 W 12 St.
#14K
$390,000
520 La Guardia Pl
#3N
$2,200,000
3
2
Corcoran
184 Thompson St.
#6G
$952,000
1
1
Luxor Homes
24 5 Ave.
#504
$395,219
24 5 Ave.
#1225
$350,000
49 E 12 St.
#4H
$720,000
1
1
Halstead Property
14 W 11 St.
#2
$2,300,000
1
2
Douglas Elliman
45 W 10 St.
#2J
$402,500
0
1
Douglas Elliman
49 E 12 St.
#4E
$565,000
1
1
Coldwell Banker
101 W 12 St.
#18P
$540,000
0
1
Halstead Property
77 Bleecker St.
#507W
$845,000
82 University Place
#6A
$1,650,000
60 E 9 St.
#3
$565,000
77 Bleecker St.
#314
$929,000
64 W 3 St.
#2
$1,810,000
575 Grand St.
#E1405
$875,000
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The Meat of the Lower East Fifth-generation owner Jake Dell dishes on what makes his deli so special By Angela Barbuti
K
atz’s Delicatessen can serve anywhere from 400 to 4,000 customers a day. That’s a lot of pastrami. But a deli doesn’t survive for 125 years on the meat alone. At 2 p.m., the lunch rush is in full swing, and I find Jake Dell at a table, eating a knoblewurst sandwich. Although sampling the food is a delicious perk, Dell, 26, whose grandfather Marty bought the deli in 1988, thinks the best part of his job is hearing the stories of customers’ personal attachment to the restaurant. “There’s this deep emotional connection,” he said. Since there was no cohesive history yet written down, the book Katz’s Autobiography of a Delicatessen was created to commemorate their milestone anniversary. Released on October 1st, the photo/history book captures the essence of the customers, staff, and food that make the deli what it was in the late 1800s
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and still is today. With the landscape of Manhattan always changing, Katz’s reminds us of our flavorful past. Dell acknowledges that by saying, “Change is inevitable in New York. But this doesn’t need to be the place that changes.”
Your grandfather wanted you to join the business, because at one time you were applying to medical school. I thought I wanted to be a doctor; I realized that was stupid. [Laughs] I love this place; I really do. This place has fed me for howevermany years - it’s sent me to school, it literally saw me become a man at my Bar Mitzvah. This place is so integral to my life that, of course, I was going to give a year back and let my dad take some time to relax. That’s how it started. There were these creeping doubts, like I needed to make sure I really didn’t want to be at Katz’s and really did want to be a doctor. At the end of the year, I said, “What am I thinking?”
In the book it says you work 70 hours a week. What’s a typical day like for you? I work a lot, yeah. Now I work less because I’m going to school. Probably 10 of those hours are spent at school now. I’m getting my MBA from NYU. I go part time, nights and weekends. In the morning, I come in and do what needs to be done in the office. I address issues that may have come up, call people back. I like to be on the floor once the lunch rush hits and usually am here till the rush dies down at 3 or 4. Then go back to emails or calls, or do interviews. If I have class, I leave. Otherwise, I stay through dinner. We do shipping sometimes overnight and I’ve stayed until 6 in the morning.
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This neighborhood has changed drastically over the last 10 to 15 years. Now it’s a hotspot and Ludlow and Orchard is a destination. They close off the streets to traffic. Two summers ago we recognized this. It’s been great. It has its own set of headaches, but it’s a lot of fun. There are a lot of people I run into outside of here who say, “I know that place, I’ve been there at 3 in the morning.” They have this attachment to it, and that’s what I care about.
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How did this book come about? Beth Daugherty [of Bauer and Dean Publishers] approached me with the idea. It was a little more general. It was basically saying that we needed a snapshot in time of Katz’s. This was last year and we were approaching our 125th anniversary. I thought it was important, before it’s too late, to get all this in writing. I can talk about what’s happening right now, but why write it when we can show it through the photography?
In the book, each employee’s picture is featured from cashiers, to cutters, to security. Honestly, without them, there’d be no store. Half these guys - their families have worked here before them. Everyone is equally important. My busboys - without them the restaurant looks like a mess. Without the guys in the kitchen, there’s no matzo ball soup or latkes coming out.
Adam Richman writes the book’s foreword and says you have “arguably the best pastrami on planet Earth.” How did your exposure on the Food Network change your business? That was one of many factors. My father and my uncle did a wonderful job of adapting with the times, and that meant being on TV. I think this place naturally films well; we’re very lucky. A lot of our regulars included guys like Adam Richman, Emeril Lagasse, Mario Batali. Daniel Boulud made a bone marrow dish at DBGB’s that had a little piece of Katz’s pastrami on it.
I thought it was interesting that your mom came up with the idea to make Katz’s a stop on tours. Tour groups come in here. A lot of people want to say “only tourists go there,” and I get that. A lot of the times that has to do with the time of the day that you come. Quite frankly, a lot of New Yorkers just take their food to go because they’re on the run.
Where’s the farthest you’ve shipped to? We’ve shipped the meats to every city imaginable in the country. Internationally, we started shipping our salamis during World War II. Our slogan is, “Send a Salami to Your Boy in the Army.” We’ve sent to Afghanistan,
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Iraq, Iran, anywhere there are U.S. soldiers. That’s only the salami, anything else would go bad. We are going to start a program where if you don’t know the solider, you can donate a salami.
What happened here during Hurricane Sandy last year? We were open. We had to shut down for a day. I had to buy dry ice to preserve all the meat. We were giving away thousands of pounds to shelters and giving the volunteers food. There was one tourist couple who came in - I’ll never forget this - and said, “So are you guys serving today?” They made the trek from the Upper West Side on Wednesday, when there was no power down here. They were that committed. To learn more about Katz’s, visit www.katzsdelicatessen.com On October 22nd, Katz’s is launching The Space, a pop-up gallery and apparel shop filled with local artists’ deli-themed creations.
The Stats on Katz’s (served per week) Pounds of pastrami: 6,000 to 16,000 Pounds of corned beef: 4,000 to 9,000 Number of hot dogs: 2,000 to 5,000 Number of pickles: 8,000 to 15,000
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