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Cracking Down on Cab Drivers New legislation would yank TLC licenses of drivers who injure or kill pedestrians By Daniel Fitzsimmons

Meade’s Pub Closes After Sandy Setbacks The bar near the South Street Seaport couldn’t come back from the hurricane’s devastation, despite robust eﬀorts By Nick Martinez Since Sandy decimated many small businesses near the Seaport in October 2012, restaurants and bars have worked diligently to climb back, spending thousands of dollars to renovate and revive. Many have been able to re-open and keep their businesses afloat, but some have succumbed to the effects of a lessvibrant neighborhood and the pain of starting over again. On Sunday, February 23, Meade’s pub, at 22 Peck Slip, closed its doors for the final time, another delayed victim of the storm and a

changing city landscape. According to nearby business owners, Meade’s closing is due less to natural disasters like Sandy, and more to man-made disasters like sky-rocketing rents and slow street repairs. Nicholas Berti, owner of Acqua, an Italian restaurant and wine bar across the street, said while his business had been pretty consistent since re-opening, he was frustrated by impediments to foot traffic, like nearby construction in the street. “Those stones, they were supposed to last 15 years, already they’re re-doing them,” said Berti. “The city is doing it the cheap way, saving money on asphalt and hurting business.” “There’s less traffic than there used to be,” said Keg No. 229’s co-owner Calli Lerner. “A lot of people may not know we’re here.” But Lerner was quick to point out that January and Continued on page 5

A recent spate of pedestrian fatalities has sparked a massive push to overhaul traffic laws in the city, with leaders pushing initiatives that would hold cabbies more accountable for their driving. On the Upper West Side, where three such tragedies occurred in January, Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal submitted a legislation request that, if a subsequent bill is passed, would yank the Taxi and Limousine Commission licenses of cab drivers who, as a result of failing to yield, seriously injure or kill a pedestrian. A legislation request occurs when a council member asks the City Council to make sure that a piece of legislation they want to submit would hold up under legal scrutiny, and is typically done in anticipation of submitting the actual bill.

The would-be law calls for a subsequent investigation into such an incident and if found guilty of the failure to yield violation, the driver’s taxi license would be “automatically and permanently revoked.” According to Rosenthal’s office, the current law penalizes a taxi driver who kills or seriously injures a pedestrian due to failure to yield by adding points to their license and imposing a small fine. If the taxi driver has fewer than six points on their license, they can get back on the road immediately. “I’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback from my colleagues on the council, particularly those on the Transportation Committee,” said Rosenthal regarding her proposal. “Where I’ve gotten the most interest is from constituents, people in the district who understand what happened with Cooper Stock are a thousand percent behind this.” On Jan. 10, nine-year-old Cooper was struck and killed by a cab at 97th Street and West End Avenue. According to reports at the time, Cooper was in the crosswalk, holding his father’s hand, and the two had right-of-way. “My community is calling for this,” Continued on page 13

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NEIGHBORHOOD CHATTER Trinity Wall Street Gives $100,000 in Awards Trinity Wall Street Church has given Wildcard Awards to four innovative organizations that hold promise as agents of positive change. Each one-time, $25,000 award is given to support a social action initiative that needs seed money to get started or grow. The recipients are beyond-the-bell-curve programs that fall outside Trinity’s standard funding objectives, but are part of Trinity’s efforts to be a resource for innovators and social entrepreneurs in the wider Church. Creative Arts Workshop for Kids uses art to inspire underserved youth in Upper Manhattan. Healing Community Network forms support groups for the formerly incarcerated and their families in New York, helping the once-incarcerated readjust to society. Magdalene St. Louis provides a safe and empowering haven for women survivors of abuse, prostitution, trafficking, addiction and life on the street. A Movable Feast is a spiritual endeavor focused on reaching young adults by feeding both body and soul through a mobile campus ministry. “Our recipients represent a broad spectrum of social activism, but each in

its own way seeks to improve the human condition,” said the Rev. Dr. James H. Cooper, rector of Trinity Wall Street. “We are delighted to help these worthy organizations grow, so that they may have a transformational effect on their communities.” The nominating process began in April 2013. In January 2014, grants were conveyed to: ■ Creative Arts Workshop for Kids (New York) - To support a sustainability plan to generate program funds by developing contracts with new business partners to provide large-scale public art. ■ Healing Community Network (New York) - To support current post-prison reentry programs in Queens and Manhattan and possibly open new networks. ■ Magdalene St. Louis (St. Louis, MO) To lease or buy a residence for a community of women recovering from abuse, prostitution, sex trafficking, addiction, and homelessness. ■ A Movable Feast (Diocese of North Carolina) - To cover start-up costs, including purchasing a vehicle and food supplies, for a mobile campus ministry operated out of a bus with kitchen facilities and chapel space. Trinity Grants has provided $80 million in funding to 85 countries since 1972.

A rare win over developers in the Meatpacking District

Among those rejoicing in the decision to reconsider was Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Preservation Society for Historic Preservation. “Other developers have built quite profitably under that zoning area and built very large buildings,” he said. “We think it’s very important to defend the integrity of the zoning law and not allow it to be skirted by variances that are not based on real hardships.” Now a vacant lot, the site in question is the former home of several historic buildings that were paved away after being damaged by fire and years of neglect. Over two years ago the city’s Board of Standards and Appeals permitted another business to construct a new building across the street at a scale 24% larger than the law provided. William Gottlieb Real Estate made it clear Tuesday it will submit a revised application that calls for height and setback waivers instead of the 34% size inflation. That’s fine, says Berman, he will try to enjoy the “all too rare” favor from the BSA, and soak in the knowledge that the High Line will not be “hemmed in” by structures on all four sides in that area. At least for now.

By Jeff Stone Views from the High Line Park above the Meatpacking District are poised to remain bright and clear after a swell of community pressure may have convinced a real-estate developer to relent. The victory, a rare win for a preservation community long frustrated by the arcane world of New York City land variance, delayed approval of a glass office tower that would’ve been 34% larger than current law allows. Designs for the unique, angular building were first made public in 2012 but met with considerable blowback because of the size request. William Gottlieb Real Estate formally withdrew its application Tuesday for the extra space at 40-56 Tenth Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets. The developer argued that adhering to existing law would force the business to endure economic hardship.

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Insurance Theft Someone took a man’s credit card from his office and made unauthorized charges. At 12 noon on Wednesday, February 12, a man accidentally left his credit card on the desk of his Wall Street insurance office and went to the gym. When he returned, he discovered that the card was missing and found out that unauthorized purchases had been made in the amount of $435 at Best Buy and $3.87 at Starbucks.

Losing Lawyer Two checks lost by a lawyer were cashed by thieves. In December of 2013, a lawyer working at an office on Exchange Place accidentally dropped two checks in the street. On February 5, he discovered that the checks had been cashed at a TD bank in Midtown. The checks had been written in the amounts of $2,100 and $1,900, for a total of $4,000.

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A neighborhood newsstand was broken into and cash and merchandise stolen. Sometime between 7 PM on February 13 and 6 AM the following morning, an unknown intruder broke into a newsstand on Broadway and made off with $7,956 worth of cash and merchandise, including cartons of cigarettes and E cigarettes.

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ATM APB Three bags containing $31,000 were removed from the vehicle of an ATM service agent. At 12:20 PM on Tuesday, February 18, a 29-year-old man left his Honda Odyssey to reﬁll an ATM with cash at the NYU Law School on West Broadway. When he returned to his vehicle nine minutes later, he found that a rear passenger window had been smashed and three bank bags containing $31,000 in cash were missing from inside the van. Video is available of the incident.

Two women stole a valuable handbag from a high-end boutique. At 5:15 PM on Sunday, February 16, two women in their mid-20s entered a clothing and accessories boutique on Greene Street and shoplifted a Saint Laurent women’s handbag valued at $2,500. Video is available of the incident.

Someone broke into a man’s gym locker and removed his property. At 11:20 AM on Sunday, February 16, a 40-year-old man was working out at a chain fitness club on Broadway. When he returned to his locker 2-1/4 hours later, he discovered that his lock was broken and all his property had been removed. Items stolen included a North Face parka, boots, a wallet, a gym bag, plus various credit and debit cards. The total amount stolen came to $1,920.

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Michele Savoia had just shown his latest collection at Fashion Week when he died accidentally in the Hudson River By Mary Newman The fashion world was shocked last week when menswear designer Michele Savoia was found dead after slipping and falling into the Hudson River in the early hours of February 16. The 55-year-old designer was walking to his yacht docked at Pier 59 on 17th Street and the West Side Highway when he died. Savoia had an unmistakable syle, combining his love for rock and roll, mobsters, and vintage men’s suiting. He lived life on the edge, and many of his friends were surprised to see his life end the way it did. The designer grew up in Hoboken, what he described as “right around the corner from Sintatra’s house.” He inherited his style and ability to sew from his Sicilian father and grandfather. “Basically, my father taught me how to dress, and Popop taught me how to tailor,” he told the Daily Beast in 2011. He grew up working in his grandfather’s tailor shop, located around the corner from his childhood home. Despite his party boy reputation, he brought the same “all or nothing” attitude to his fashion career that started when he worked as a manager of a busy

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menswear shop in Manhattan at age 13. After earning a degree in menswear from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 1978, he opened his own store on Essex Street only 6 years later. Photographer and longtime friend Luigi Scorcia said, “Savoia knew how to live every day like it was his last.” They had met in Brooklyn at a barbecue in the 1980s, and partnered to open up their club The Fat Black Pussy Cat in Miami. Together, with their eccentric group of friends, they partied and dressed like they were part of Al Capone’s crew. “We hung out like a gang, Savoia was way more of a character than any of the guys in [the movie] Goodfellas,” Scorcia said. Savoia had been working on several new projects, and wasn’t even supposed to be in New York the night he died. He had planned to be in Miami to work with his friend Leanne Zaleski. She told us that his trip was cancelled due to the

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inclement weather and approaching snowstorm. He was scheduled to talk to a group of high school students attending the Design & Architecture Senior High School. Leanne was also collaborating with Savoia to design for the 100 percent hemp clothing line Hoodlamb. Since many considered him the “bad boy of fashion,” Zaleski thought Savoia was the perfect choice for this project, which is fighting for the legalization of marijuana. Friends and loved ones gathered at Pier 59 this past Sunday to share a moment of silence and remember their dear friend. His girlfriend Juli Berg shared the closure she found by seeing Savoia after the police found him near his boat on Sunday February 16th. She described him as looking very peaceful, and brought the somber crowd some comedic relief, saying “Only Savoia could look so great in death.” It looked like a scene from the Godfather; the entire crowd was dressed to the nines. Some of the men wore his beautiful custom made suits, and several women wore fur coats, since the designer was wearing a favorite fur coat of his the night he died. They remembered their friend’s fierce approach to life, sharing the many times Savoia had come close to death while living his life. “Savoia went out like a rock star. It doesn’t matter how you die, it’s how you lived your life,” said Scorcia. After a moment of silence, the crowd held hands and yelled his name out into the harbor. Following the memorial, they walked down to his yacht throwing roses and Budweiser cans into the river to honor the life that he lived so fearlessly.

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Meade’s Pub Continued from page 1

February were not good months for a litmus test of business. Last Sunday, a score of locals turned out for Meade’s last day open. The mood was mostly happy, with regulars circling the bar, waving and chatting. Still, the short conversations always devolved to a tacit frown, acknowledging that their favorite bar was closing its doors. The bar was packed and business was good, just not double-the-rent good. “It’s not right,” a patron said to Meade’s owner Lee Holin. “It may not be right, but it’s not illegal,” replied Holin. Meade’s occupies a small space. There are tables on the first floor, with more eating space on the second. Most of the first floor is the bar area, which featured a large mirror running across it, with the daily specials written in dry erase marker. Old wine bottles helped frame a picture of the New York Seaport during the late 17-century. There were modern touches too, like a TV in the corner playing college basketball and a large projection screen in the center that’s been used to show the Olympics. Jason Totolis, a regular, estimated that he spent a couple nights a week at Meade’s. His favorite drink was the Michelava. “The people here are amazing,” he said just before clinking drinks with the bartender for old time’s sake. Totolis

mentioned that the bar was great for many locals, especially during inclement weather, when people would flock to escape big snow storms. “It’s a gem in the neighborhood,” Totolis lamented. “A real throwback. Unfortunately, a dying throwback.” Totolis saw another regular, who walked over and said, “I figured I’d stop by and pay my respects.” And many did. Meade’s demographics are hard to pin down. There were young singles, older couples, and even a baby who was brought in for brunch and played with the bartender. The baby didn’t have a drink, but others did, with mimosas seeming to be the favorite. By mid-afternoon Meade’s was packed, with limited standing room. “It’s amazing,” said Holin, “A business that has this many people coming out for it, is being shut down. Progress,” he said dryly, stepping outside the pub. Meade’s first opened in 2006 and its Sandy flood line stood nearly 6-feet tall. A sign was placed near the front door, welcoming patrons with ... the message “What Is Most Important, Cannot Be Taken Away. We Love You. Thank You. Meade’s 2006-2014.”

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New York’s Review of Culture . CityArtsNYC.com

The Anti-Culture Follies Up the Razzie Awards By Armond White

Such righteous indignation is a paying customer’s entitled response to Mud, er uh, merde. A justified raspberry could be a healthy intellectual response, releasing the frustration felt when a film like Mud or Ain’t Them Bodies Saints or Identity Thief insults your intelligence; it can express feelings of skepticism and show evidence of taste—even satirical taste. That was the point of the Hasty Pudding Awards and Theatricals that were

hy do people who claim to like movies pay attention to The Razzies? Even in an era when it’s impossible for any single awards-giving group to claim any validity or legitimacy among the scores of prize-giving and awards-listing outfits, all rivaling each other, The Razzies are impossible to take seriously. Problem is, The Razzies exist to prevent people from taking movies seriously. The habit of poking fun at bad movies isa highly questionable practice for “film lovers.” Scoffing at bad films is an understandable impulse--although it probably shouldn’t go beyond in-your-seat theater derision. One of my favorite signs of life in cinema-going during 2013 occurred at a showing of Mud when the revelation scene of Matthew McConaughey’s rescue by Sam Shepherd utterly destroyed the film’s flimsy credibility: a male patron got out of his seat, headed for the Exit and issued a reverberant, lubricious Adam Sandler in Jack and Jill RAZZZZZ!

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presented at Harvard University in the spirit of burlesque. But The Razzies are something else, something less, something craven. By ignoring the bad cinema that gets life wrong, lacks esthetic standards and piles on pretentiousness, The Razzies gives the public no sense that quality even matters. To go after movies that are not popular, or that are merely popularly derided (like After Earth, Grown Ups 2) is shabby.

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This isn’t critical judgment, it’s just adolescent piling-on. The Razzies give no evidence of taste beyond the mob-mentality refusal to look at a film from a personal perspective. This craven approach helps protect the bad movies that get media acclaim and in doing so, The Razzies contribute to cinema illiteracy. It might have been interesting if The Razzie singled out the lousiness of such films as Lee Daniels’ The Butler, the Tennessee Williams

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bowdlerizing in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine. Indeed, the greatest movie award calamity of the week was not at the Oscar nominations, it was Lee Daniels’ The Butler being snubbed by The Razzies. But to announce such independent taste and standards would amount to erudition. But The Razzies have nothing to do with learning, sophistication or culture. Like Rotten Tomatoes’ Golden Tomatoes Awards, this is all about anticulture. Follow Armond White on Twitter at 3xchair

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When Graffiti Was Great Tagging gets its due at MCNY By Melissa Stern

o the names Dez, Doze, Phase 3, Dr. Revolt, Zephyr or Lady Pink sound familiar? If so you probably lived in or visited NYC during the 1970’s when these names were emblazoned on subway cars, buildings and billboards all around the five boroughs. Once considered the scrooge of urban life, graffiti art is now considered

an artistic genre worthy of museum consideration. To that end, The Museum of the City of New York has mounted a lively exhibition pulled from their permanent collection. Entitled, “City As Canvas, Graffiti Art from the Martin Wong Collection,” the exhibition is the first public showing of a massive private collection of graffiti art and ephemera donated by the late Martin Wong. The exhibition, in a tightly packed installation, showcases the famous “black books,” bound sketchbooks that young street artists used to work out their scripts and drawings before hitting the subway cars with spray paint. Martin Wong bought over 50 of these books from the artists, and the

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exhibition shows them off in referential glass cases that belie their subversive intentions. Street signs, graffiti on canvas, clothing and many wonderful documentary photos from the 1970’s and 80’s round out this show in an attempt to convey some of the gritty roots of this artwork. Pieces by Futura 2000, Ikonoklast and Sanesmith are real standouts. These artists show their terrific sense of design, creating fonts and drawings that give understanding to the ways in which graffiti writing and culture affected mainstream design. But for me, the biggest delight is how this show acts as a nexus for community engagement. On the bitterly cold Saturday that I visited the museum the galleries were packed. Young street artists showing their portfolios to whomever wanted to look, parents eagerly introducing their children to art works that they perhaps shuddered at seeing thirty years ago on a train car. Two

serious old school graffiti artists- Sharp and William Nic-One Green were in residence, chatting up gallery goers about their work and giving impromptu history lessons about life in the city in the 70’s. Rarely have I seen a museum show so abuzz with conversation and life. After a lively conversation with the gents about their views of the dubious “cred” of Keith Haring and Banksy as street artists, I turned to leave the gallery and saw a line of people waiting to get in the stretched down the length of first floor of the museum and around a corner. This is an exhibition that has really struck a chord for New Yorkers. Personally, the show made me a little nostalgic for the “bad old days” of New York, when the brilliant blurs of moving subway cars enlivened what was admittedly a more dangerous and dirty city. But a city where an authentic and totally original art form could be born and thrive, literally in the streets. “City As Canvas: Grafiti Art from the Martin Wong Collection” through August 24 at Museum of the City of New York. http://www.mcny.org/

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Theater for the People Inside the Public Theater’s new public works initiative By Valerie Gladstone

t a luncheon in The Public Theater’s handsome library, artistic director, Oskar Eustis, sounded more like a preacher than an executive. “We need to reach people,” he says, “as many people as possible. Especially those who don’t think theater has anything to do with them and those who have written off theater as not a place for ideas. It should belong to everyone. We’re going to take it to the prisons, to the homeless, to half way houses. The worst thing about society today is the massive inequality. Culture has become a bauble.” The luncheon had been arranged to announce The Public Theater’s remarkable new initiative for community-based theater called Public Works, which is planned for the next two years. While the organization has always been true to its name, consistently instituting programs designed to bring theater into the lives of all New Yorkers, Public Works goes further than almost any other in its 59- year history. Its debut project amply proved its value, when only a few weeks later, in early September, a thrilling production of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” was performed three nights at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, with a cast of professional actors and 200 New Yorkers from community organizations.. “This was a love letter — to Shakespeare, certainly,” wrote New York Times critic, Claudia LaRocco, “but really to the city of New York.” Inspired by a community theatrical production of “Caliban” at New York’s City College stadium in 1916, the musical play was conceived and directed by Public Works director Lear deBessonet, whose lauded production of Brecht’s “Good Person

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of Szechwan” is now playing at The Public Theater. The cast included members of five community partner organizations: the Children’s Aid Society in Manhattan, DreamYard in the Bronx, the Fortune Society in Queens, Brownsville Recreation Center in Brooklyn, and Domestic Workers United, from all five boroughs. Among them were the elderly, domestic workers, people recently released from prison and taxi drivers. DeBessonet was a natural for the project. Growing up in Louisiana, she loved Mardi Gras, and its mix of people, and learned more from church services than from formal theater. Assisted by teaching artists, she started working at the community centers last year, initiating dance, singing, poetry and acting classes and readings. “Many of the people had never seen a play,” she says, “but there was a huge hunger to participate.” Sometimes that meant acting; other times, it meant learning stage carpentry. “It was deeply satisfying,” she says. “I felt the whole experience was a gift,” says Christine Lewis from Domestic Workers United, which has 200,000 members. “We were like the Little Engine That Could. I’ve always written poetry but this was different. Plus, I got a chance to play a significant role. I was on cloud 9.” Robyne Walker Murphy at DreamYard echoes her reaction. “Middle school children were taught how to write sonnets. Use it as wrapping paper, or fold & glue One 7th grader, Chimia pages into reusable gift bags. Hawkins, won the opportunity to read her poem on stage at The Public Theater. People’s lives were transformed. ” Add shredded

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Winter’s Tale and Invisible contrast the visual art of cinema By Armond White

inematographer Caleb Deschanel’s lighting in Winter’s Tale is only not banal when Deschanel illustrates the film’s sub-theme (that everything in life is connected by light) and shows refracted sunlight bouncing through a room off a cache of jewels fondled by arch villain Soames (Russell Crowe) who lusts to kill the star-crossed lovers Peter (Colin Farrell) and Beverly (Jessica Brown Findlay) in 1915 New York. Deschanel’s spectral rays seem realistic, without 3D effect, but they underserve the film’s suggestion of spirituality and magic. Either Deschanel (masterly imagist of The Black Stallion, The Patriot, Message in a Bottle, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter) miscalculated or first-time director Akiva Goldsman didn’t know what exactly was needed. I had dismissed Winter’s Tale until I saw Mark Romanek’s new music video for the U2 song “Invisible.” Romanek does what Deschanel was not inspired to do: Invisible celebrates light as an expression of the spiritual aspiration Bono sings lame lyrics about but that his crowd of live concert revelers exhort. It is amazing to watch Bono and his band enveloped in black-and-white chiaroscruo. Romanek finds innumerable variations on brilliance and shadow, sparkle and depth. The video is an volatile experience where the high-contrasty flashes are so sharply edited that the afterimage strobe effect

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improves on Kanye West‘s N****A in Paris: Each frame here seems stark yet lustrous with thermal body illuminations as backdrops. Accustomed to turning out Hollywood formula, Goldsman adapts the Mark Helprin novel about early 20th century lovers as a blend of gangster nostalgia and Notebookstyle rom-drama. A life/death story imitates the Twilight franchise--adding a white flying horse--and the antagonism between Farrell and Crowe distracts from the romanticism as if following Dan Brown’s fake religiosity (Will Smith’s appearance as Lucifer wearing a Jimi Hendrix t-shirt is a spoiler in itself). Goldsman’s incapable of writing on a higher level and hasn’t a clue about dealing with the expressivity of images. Deschanel’s genius is wasted. If Goldsman believed in any of Winter‘s Tale’s time-traveling story (let alone evoke Shakespeare or Rohmer’s Winter Tales), he might have thought how to represent it visually. His time-and-immortality plot mangles the ideas in On A Clear Day You Can See Forever. A shot of Farrell standing in a Queens graveyard with the New York City skyline as a backdrop ought to be astonishing, but Goldsman’s truncates it, losing the necessary awesome effect. The film’s romantic clichés are in line with contemporary Hollywood’s facile, godless, post-Oprah spirituality: “The universe loves us all equally. What if we all get to become stars?” Romanek says it better by showing it. Watching Bono and U2 step through a thousand points of light in the Invisible music video gives an awe-inspiring dimension to the call-and-response, preaching and congregation Pentecost pyrotechnics of a rock concert. Follow Armond White on Twitter at 3xchair

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said Rosenthal. “The mother of the victim wants the name of law to be ‘Cooper’s Law’ and I’m very passionate about helping to make that happen.” The same day Cooper was killed, Alexander Shear, 73, was struck and killed by a tour bus while crossing at 96th Street and Broadway. On Jan. 19, Samantha Lee, 26, was killed after being struck by an ambulance and a car at the same intersection. Rosenthal said she’s been told the council will contact her regarding the proposal shortly, and a piece of legislation could be submitted within six weeks. The move comes as Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled his wide-ranging Vision Zero initiative, a plan that aims to reduce pedestrian deaths citywide. Among the 63 initiatives in Vision Zero are provisions that would stop a taxi’s meter if the driver is speeding and place a black boxlike recording device in all city taxis that could record data leading up to an accident. The New York Taxi Workers Alliance issued a statement regarding Vision Zero saying that they don’t want to be used as a scapegoat for the city’s traffic safety issues. “Thirty-thousand taxi drivers average 60-70 hours per week behind the wheel,” said the alliance. “Statistics show that taxi drivers are the safest motorists on NYC streets. Despite these numbers, given the high visibility of taxis, we’ve also been at the center of the debate regarding enforcement.” The alliance sees the issue in terms of the rights of their drivers. “It strikes me as an affront from a civil rights and criminal justice standpoint, I don’t understand why taxi drivers have to be held to a different standard as second-class citizens,” said Bhairaivi Desai, Executive Director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance. Desai said permanently revoking a driver’s TLC license, effectively their livelihood, is heavy-handed, especially considering permanent punishment like what Rosenthal is proposing doesn’t take into account that drivers never intend to hit pedestrians. The alliance said the solution to New York’s pedestrian safety woes is to change traffic patterns and street design, install better lighting on the city’s streets, assign more traffic control agents and install more speed signs. They also called de Blasio’s proposal to install meterstopping speed technology in city cabs is drastic and unfair. “To shut off the meter in the middle of a fare is not only insane Big Brother, it’s severe, cruel, and simply unhelpful,” said the alliance. “Technology that can truly be helpful should be considered, but this would just be overboard. Drivers already have no guaranteed income, only expenses on the lease, fuel and vehicle repairs. We don’t deserve to be singled out and punished to do even better.”

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Downtown Boards Pinpoint Most Dangerous Intersections Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer asked each community board to identify the worst traﬃc spots Last week, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer released a very long list of what community members say are problematic intersections and streets for pedestrians in Manhattan. The list is compiled by each of the borough’s 12 community boards, which used their own criteria to determine what spots are most deserving of the city’s attention. Brewer released the list to the public and sent it to both NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton and Department of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, asking them to consider these communitydetermined dangerous hot spots in their work on the mayor’s Vision Zero project, aimed at eliminating pedestrian deaths in the city. Below are the downtown Manhattan community boards’ lists. Community Board 1 1. South End Avenue at Liberty, Rector, and West Thames Street 2. Battery Place and First Place (the area in front of PS 276) 3. North End Avenue between Chambers and Vesey Street and Warren Street between North End Avenue and West Street (between PS 89 and Ball Fields) 4. South End Avenue in Front of Gateway Plaza (crossing problems at turn off Liberty Street onto South End Avenue up to the turn into the Gateway complex) 5. Vesey Street (north-south crossing on the west side of the bridge) 6. Water Street - southern portion 7. Church Street at Vesey and Liberty Streets 8. Route 9A/Westside Highway at Battery Tunnel area 9. South Street at Beekman Street & Peck Slip 10. Hudson Street at Beech, Laight, and Vestry Streets near Holland Tunnel 11. Water Street and Hanover Square 12. West Street at Albany and Vesey Streets

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13. Beekman and Spruce Streets (intersection with 2 schools, Pace University, NY Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital, large construction project) 14. Fulton and Beekman Streets 15. Pearl Street, south of the Brooklyn Bridge (including where it becomes St. James Place) Community Board 2 1. West Houston Street and 6th Avenue 2. 7th Avenue South at Carmine, Varick, and Clarkson Streets 3. Downing, Bleecker Street, and 6th Avenue 4. Houston St. & 6th Ave. (Ave. of the Americas) - DOT is beginning construction work on this intersection Spring 2014, that incorporates CB2M’s input from several meetings. 5. Complex intersection of 7th Ave. S. and Christopher, Grove and W. 4th Sts. (Sheridan Square). 6. Complex intersection where 6th Ave. intersects with 8th St. and Greenwich Ave., as well as where 9th St. meets 6th Ave. and Greenwich Ave. and veers off to Christopher St. 7. 5th Ave. & 14th St., especially vehicular turns east. 8. Left turns from 5th Ave. to 8th St. (east side). 9. Ave. of the Americas (6th Ave.) & Bleecker St. 10. Houston St. / Broadway (suggestion: overwhelming numbers of pedestrians here might make “Barnes Dance” the better option, i.e., allowing pedestrian passage in multiple directions). 11. Prince St. & Crosby St. (no traffic signs for west bound vehicles on Prince, which tend to zoom from Lafayette to Broadway; also the view corridor to the east along Prince is often blocked by parked vehicles east of Crosby). 12. Broadway at Prince St. – as with Houston/Bway, suggestion given for “All Vehicle Stop” to allow pedestrian passage in multiple directions. 13. SpringSt//Broome St. - as with Houston/Bway, suggestion given for “All Stop / All Cross.” 14. Broome St. west from Lafayette St. all the way to Sixth Ave. (due to heavy bridge to tunnel vehicle traffic, all intersections - Crosby, Broadway, Mercer, Greene, Wooster, West Broadway & Thompson are pedestrian nightmares, particularly

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from 3pm to 7pm and for more of the day on weekends). 15. Canal St. at Greene St. (northbound traffic from Church St. crosses Canal and over to Greene; the crosswalks here are often perilous). 16. Right turns from Lafayette St. onto Broome St. heading west. The westbound long dog leg on Kenmare St. west from the Bowery, south to Lafayette St. and west to Broome St. (pedestrians are often at peril in these intersections, where vehicles get backed up and stop in crosswalks) (Location is in both SoHo and Petrosino Sq. area). 17. Canal St., Lafayette St. to 6th Ave. 18. Bowery at Bleecker St. and south to East 1st St. and on to East Houston (Bleecker & East 1st are not aligned so turning vehicles get backed up and then block pedestrian passage). 19. Left turns from Kenmare St. to Lafayette St. (southeast side). The westbound long dog leg on Kenmare St. west from the Bowery, south to Lafayette St. and west to Broome St. (pedestrians are often at peril in these intersections, where vehicles get backed up and stop in crosswalks) (Location is in both Petrosino Sq. area and SoHo). 20. Canal St., Bowery to Lafayette St. 21. Bowery, Canal St. to Houston St. 22. Kenmare St. / Centre Market Pl. 23. Bowery at Prince St., heading west on Prince from Bowery (in terms of competing vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians). 24. Bowery at Kenmare (One has to be hyper-vigilant as a pedestrian; there was a cyclist struck and killed at that corner in 2008). 25. Canal and Greenwich Sts. -technically the boundary b/w CB1 and CB2. 26. Canal and Hudson Sts. -- technically the boundary b/w CB1 and CB2. 27. Varick and Spring Sts. -- most treacherous during the afternoon and evening commuting hours. 28. Varick & Watts Sts. 29. Watts St. & 6th Ave. (Ave. of the Americas). 30. Canal St., 6th Ave. to Varick St./ Holland Tunnel. 31. Varick & Houston Sts. 32. 14th St. on the east side of the West Side Highway (9A/West St.).

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Scrambling to Keep the Home Fires Burning By Becca Tucker

A Sweet Spot in Chelsea Market Eleni’s Cookies started with some home baking and has become a thriving local business By Angela Barbuti Eleni’s has made a name for itself by putting virtually everything and anything on a cookie. “You name the cookie and we can make it,” owner Eleni Gianopulos said. From corporate logos to people’s faces, each unique treat is truly a work of art. The shop’s selection illustrates the thought that is behind each creation. Behind these innovative and delectable ideas is Gianopulos, who opened her store in Chelsea Market in 1997. Her bakery was one of the original businesses at that location, which has since become one of the most popular culinary meccas in Manhattan. She knew it was the perfect place for her new venture after her husband read a New York Times’ article explaining that the market was focusing on women bakers. “It felt ideal for us,” she said. Now, the brand has grown to include a corporate office in Long Island City with 50 employees, and 10 cookie experts in the store itself. You can also find her baked goods in Whole Foods, Fairway, Zabars, and Dean & Deluca. Before Gianopulos’ foray into baking, she had another creative career, working in publishing. As a side business, the “Bakerin-Chief,” as she calls herself, started making oatmeal-raisin cookies in her apartment, duplicating her mother’s recipe. “I absolutely love our cookie that we started the company with,” she gushed, when asked which of her many items is her favorite. Coming in a close second is the “Cupcake of the Week,” because it constantly changes. “We offer different cupcakes all the time, and that makes it fun,” she said. When asked about the most memorable request the store has ever received, Gianopulos was quick to respond. “Elton John’s gingerbread house is way up there,”

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she said. “That was huge for us.” Her list of celebrity clients also includes Katie Holmes and Michael J. Fox. In keeping with the Hollywood theme, “The Cookie Oscar” project must be mentioned. Each award season, the Eleni’s team works diligently to hand-ice all the nominees’ faces on sugar cookies. “We been doing it for 10 years. It’s my favorite thing,” Gianopulos said. A big moment came when Julianne Moore walked in and found her face replicated on a cookie. With her growing business, Gianopulos is no longer baking at the store. Instead, she works on the design of the products. “I love the design process at work. For me, that’s the most fun part of the job,” she said. However, the cookie guru still makes time to bake with her two young children at their Upper East Side home. “I bake with my kids all the time, just like any other mom would,” she said. It was through having children that she realized the need to provide a nut-free environment at her stores. “It’s a huge issue,” she said. The company has also begun to include gluten-free products, such as brownies. “We will be expanding the line,” she promised. When asked about the next chapter for her cookie empire, Gianopulos answered, “We’re looking for a greater national expansion with the Crisp line. And in the Color Me line, which are the cookies you can color, taking that national as well.” The future of Eleni’s is like its cookie dough, all rolled out and ready to be made into something enjoyable. Visit www.elenis.com for more information.

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I will never look at a thermostat impassively again. The fact that with a slide of the thumb, or the push of an index finger, one can turn a cold house hot? Now that we lug each log to our wood burning stove, that fact of modern life reveals itself to be a complete and total game changer. The Greeks endowed their gods with lightning bolts and mighty stallions that dragged the sun across the sky in a golden chariot, but never fathomed a thermostat. Maybe you say they’d never give a god such a boring superpower as keeping the house pleasant, but consider Hestia: the virgin goddess of the hearth, who presided over things like baking bread. Yes, there was a goddess devoted solely to the home fire, and her job was so all consuming that she didn’t even have time for a fling. If the home fire went out through accident or negligence, it was considered a serious breach of domestic duty and an insult to Hestia. That makes sense, since before the advent of matches it would have been a real pain to get a dead fire started again, which would have put the kibosh on cooking, and depending on where in ancient Greece you lived, could have made for a cold night. Hestia, you are not the lamest Greek God. I get you now. This fall, we bought a used wood burning stove through Craigslist. The idea was to cut down on last winter’s $2,400 oil bill, and to set ourselves up better in the event that another Sandy came along to knock out our heat and electricity and hot water for 14 days. At first, everything stove-related, from building the brick pedestal that the stove would sit on, to getting cords of wood delivered, fell under husband Joe’s purview. He clanked and grunted, and the previously underused foyer became a new, and central, room in our little house. Like a powerful magnet, the stove drew to it a rocking chair and a side table, then a Turkish floor cushion where a second person could plop down; a tea kettle. We started to use the stovetop to cook soup, re-heat leftovers and make toast. The gate that kept the baby away from the stove became a convenient place to hang wet socks and towels, which would be toasty warm in minutes. The baby liked to pull herself up on the gate and peer through the bars, declaring, “Ot, ot.” “Ot” was a

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beautiful word during the polar vortex. It wasn’t until Joe was gone for a night that I started to share in the tending of the fire. Rather, I neglected to feed the fire all afternoon, and when I tossed a couple logs in before bed, they didn’t burn. Hestia was miffed, and I wasn’t happy either to find myself up at three a.m., shivering in underwear, rearranging kindling and scrunching newspaper to coax the big stubborn log to ignite, so the baby wouldn’t freeze. Then Joe hurt his shoulder. I tromped through two-plus feet of snow to the tarp-covered woodpile, and filled the rain barrel with logs. That was the system. I had to rest after each few steps, supporting myself on the rim of the barrel while my heart’s hammering subsided. Then I spied the pink sled, a piece of junky plastic that we’d taken the baby sledding in, back when the snow was still fun. The rain barrel fit in the sled – sort of – and any pieces that toppled out, if they were on the thin side, could be placed on top of the sled’s runners and dragged to the house. Add a pair of snowshoes, and this became my patented technique. The sled system is easier on the back, but the sled topples over a lot, especially when the snow is sticky. My rule is three topples, and I abandon the sled and carry the bucket. Whichever combination of tactics I end up using, by the time I’ve managed five trips to the woodpile, my clothes are wet from the inside out and my back is yapping. I’m spent, but satisfied, too. The sight of a good pile of wood by the fire is comforting, like a full fridge. As I sit in the rocking chair by the stove at 5 a.m., typing on my laptop, I hear a whoosh. The log I just put on has caught. I can see shadows from the flame’s flicker dance on the wall. Good morning, Hestia. Becca Tucker is a former Manhattanite who now lives upstate and writes about the rural life.

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Patrick Quagliano

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Brown Harris Stevens

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108 Chambers Street

Stage Door Deli

26 Vesey Street

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8 Cortlandt Street

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Blue Bottle Coffee Co

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20 Pine St.

#1606

$1,075,000

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Bee’s Knees Baking Co

113 West 10 Street

A Flatiron

88 Greenwich St.

#1401

$625,000

Corcoran

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#5C

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Corcoran

Creative Juice

100 10 Avenue

Gym Sports Bar

167 8 Avenue

16 W 16 St.

#2Ss

$600,000

Sotheby’s International

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Silom Thai

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Five Guys Burgers & Fries

56 West 14 Street

21 E 22 St.

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$1,225,000

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#8G

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Zagara Wine Bar

216 7 Avenue

Fulton/Seaport

99 John St.

#1401

$970,000

Gramercy Park

242 E 19 St.

#12H

$729,466

4 Lexington Ave.

#2J

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Spire Group

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Cafe Beyond

620 6 Avenue

Carry On Tea & Sympathy

110 Greenwich Avenue

Larchmont Hotel

27 West 11 Street

25 5 Ave.

#9E

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Webster Hall Studio

125 East 11 Street

23 E 10 St.

#5B

$725,000

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60 East 8 Street

180 Thompson St.

#3F

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221 1 Avenue

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#16

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325 East 5 Street

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#10

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#6A

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85 Stanton St.

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#2B

$752,000

Sotheby’s International

78 Ridge St.

#5B

$580,000

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SENIOR LIVING

Make Long-Term Care Plans Before They Are Needed Anyone over 50 should consider long-term needs The best time to make decisions regarding long-term care is well before itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needed. An unexpected illness or injury may force you or a loved one into making hasty decisions. Long-term care is a set of services and supports for people who are unable to perform Activities of Daily Living (ADLs). ADLs are self-care activities, such as getting in and out of bed, walking, bathing, dressing, eating, and bowel and bladder management.

Housing Those who would prefer to stay at home for as long as possible should make a plan to do so, and consider making modifications as needed. Home modifications are often intended to allow maximum self-care, and to help avoid a fall. Avoiding a fall can help delay

or avoid the need for long-term care. Ideally, your residence should maximize your ability to continue performing ADLs, and help you avoid a fall.

Family Care Unpaid family members are the most common source of long-term care help. But,

they may not be able to provide all the care you need, or be there every hour of the day. If you intend to rely on family members for long-term care services be sure to involve them in your long-term care planning. Make sure they are willing and able to be caregivers for you.

Paid Care As part of your long-term care plan, look into caregiving services in your area, including in-home care providers and elder daycare centers. Find out about elder shuttles, meals on wheels and other low-cost services offered in your community. Several types of housing come with support services for people who cannot fully take care of themselves due to aging and/or disability. Take the time to familiarize yourself with the different types of facilities available in your area. Ask family and friends for any recommendations they may have and take advantage of information available on the Internet. Visit www.longtermcare.gov to find out more information about each type of facility and costs associated with long-term care. Your local Area Agency on Aging office also offers a list of resources available to the elderly in your area.

Staying In Charge An important part of long-term care planning is outlining how you would like things to be handled. Expressing preferences clearly about how any declines in ADLs should be handled, what financial resources are available, and who should provide needed care is a good way to retain control. All adults over age 18 should execute legal documents that appoint one or more individuals to make health care and financial decisions for them in the event they become unable to make decisions for themselves.

ISABELLA GERIATRIC CENTER Since 1875, Isabella Geriatric Center, a non-profit, non-sectarian organization, has pioneered in the care of the elderly of New York. Located in northern Manhattan, Isabella Geriatric Center has grown from a traditional nursing home into a progressive provider of state-of-the-art care for all - on its own campus and in the community. Isabella Geriatric Center offers a continuum of care to those in need - from the family requiring childcare to those seeking sensitive support for an aging loved one.

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Having Fun While Doing Good Teens who want to get involved in something more meaningful than straight recreational activities are a fast expanding cohort. Today’s teens are more enthusiastic about volunteering for worthy causes than ever before. Here are some ideas about how and where to use vacation time to do good, make new friends, and have some real fun in the process. For starters, click on www. DoSomething.org, the nation’s largest not-for-profit organization for young people. You can register to become one of Do Something’s current 2,439,780 members who, as its website states, “kick ass” on causes they really care about. Young volunteers aged 13 to 25 can help in the fight against bullying, animal cruelty, homelessness or in raising funds for cancer research, among other worthy causes. Those interested in doing good while still being able to enjoy the great outdoors should check out www.Green.Teens@parks. nyc.gov for ways to volunteer their services at New York’s parks while learning about the ecology, local wildlife and new ways to recycle. Passionate about animals? Many local shelters and animal welfare groups--such as Bidawee or the North Shore Animal League, welcome help from people of all ages. “Teens may

start volunteering at Bidawee as part of their high school’s community service requirement, but often continue through the summer,” says Kim Keith, Volunteer and Events Manager at Bidawee. “Under adult supervision these young volunteers enjoy special one-on-time with the animals during socialization time and exercise walks, and help by washing feed bowls and utensils, doing laundry and even making fun ‘Kong’ treats the animals love.” Keith added that teens also take part in fundraisers such as Movie Nights, Bideawee’s annual ‘Love on a Leash’ event and fun Mother/Son and Father/Daughter activities that get whole families involved. For more information, contact Bidawee in Manhattan at (212) 532-6395 or the North Shore Animal League in Port Washington, NY at www.animalleague.org/. Qualified teens can even use their own past camping experience to work with younger children suffering from cancer or chronic illnesses, or who come from underprivileged homes. At non-profit sleep-away camps, day camps, or city learning centers volunteers donate time as a counselor, tutor, instructor in arts and crafts or even basic kitchen help. Visit www. A-B-C.org/volunteer-opportunities or www. campgooddays.com to learn more about ways to make a real difference to a deserving child.

Whatever choices your teens makes, putting some “vocation” into vacation may inspire a tradition of caring that can last a lifetime.

DIGITAL MEDIA ACADEMY

Ranked one of the ten best summer camps in the world and the World’s Best Tech Camp by Worth.com, Digital Media Academy turns tinkerers into creators! At DMA, teens build a portfolio for college admissions while getting a pre-collegiate experience at prestigious universities like NYU, Marymount Manhattan and Concordia College. Kids develop STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) skills while learning teamwork and getting a life-changing experience. The possibilities are limitless: Students make apps and design video games; program in C++, learn Java and create apps and games for iOS and Android; make movies, build robots and more in this hands-on, world-class summer camp. Weeklong day & overnight camps are held at top universities, and DMA features a low student-to-teacher ratio and separate staffs to provide course instruction and lead recreational activities. Give your teen a head start on achieving their creative dreams, this summer at DMA! For ages 6-17. Visit www.DigitalMediaAcademy.org, call 1.866.656.3342 or email info@DigitalMediaAcademy.org for more information

For Girls, 11 to 16 years old: In the Adirondack Mountains of NY BLDC; June 28th - July 29th is a professionally instructed Dance Program for girls who love to dance, love having fun at camp and want to have it both in one place. Founded 1980 BLSA July 31st - August 15th is a professionally run 2-week resident summer program for motivated, sports-loving girls. Founded 2010 BLSA and BLDC are owned and operated by Brant Lake Camp - one of the finest boys camps in the USA, with over 95 years of one family. With this same experienced leadership, our programs address the strong growth of athletics and competitive sports among girls, and Professional Dance Instruction in a caring fun Camp environment. Both on their own girls’ campus. For more information about the programs, experience and dedicated leadership at BLSA and BLDC see www.brantlakedancecamp.com www.brantlakesportsacademy.com email: Office@brantlake.com

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Making Summer Count By Deb Guarino

When it comes to your child getting into the college or university of their choice, it takes far more than great SAT scores, perfect GPAs or even how many high school clubs or sports they join. Most professionals working in the Admissions Offices of prestigious institutions are also looking at what teens do when they’re not in the classroom, especially during the long summer months. This view is why many teens attend a facility like Interlochen Arts Camp, located in northwest Michigan, where comprehensive programs provide students with hands-on opportunities to learn and experience visual arts, theatre, film, dance, music and creative writing alongside leading artists and instructors in those fields. Other specialized camps include the Brant Lake Dance Camp and the Brant Lake Sports Academy for Girls in New York state’s own Adirondack region, where each emphasizes programs devoted to the physical and professional development of girls from 11-16 in their respective fields of creative dance and competitive sports. Of course, Deans of Admissions are looking for more than just well-rounded campers. Summer internships at colleges, volunteer work and even a local summer job can also go a long way in impressing the person reading your child’s application. Teens interested in earning money and experience this summer might be interested in applying for full-time summer jobs with the Central Park Conservancy; currently there are approximately 25 spots open for high school students within the horticultural, visitor services and public programs departments. More information about these opportunities is available at www.centralpark.gov By now it should be obvious that what Deans of Admissions are looking for within a successful college application is evidence of someone who shows initiative, passion, interest and determination as well as a resume of good grades, extracurricular activities and basic intellect. Remember what these professionals have to say as you help your teen plan their summer activities, and read between the lines for inspiration about how they can distinguish themselves when filling out their next application…and aiming for the college of their dreams. PAGE 20

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“It’s wonderful if a student has the capability of spending time in another country or doing a volunteer program of interest, but ideally, it’s not any particular activity or program that is going to win favor with any admissions office; it’s always been my thinking that a student should follow their interests, passions and responsibilities during the summer, and that might actually involve a summer job.[Even]if that means bagging groceries in a grocery store where a student learns about working with people from different backgrounds, which in turn could result in a great essay, it’s really about how a student uses their time so that they themselves are growing as an individual.” Martha Merrill Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Connecticut College

“We encourage students to engage in activities in the summer that may be outside their comfort zone and provide opportunities for growth. There is no one preferred way to do this – it can be accomplished through a specialized summer camp, volunteer work, travel, outdoor leadership programs or the responsibilities of a full-time summer job.” Mary Lou Bates Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Skidmore College www.nypress.com

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"At Bates, we see a wide array of interests and engagement with regard to how students spend their summer break. Summer is a fantastic way to supplement one's academic year studies. Overall, what's important is that students stay true to themselves and their interests when choosing their summer commitments. Here are just some examples of what various students included in their applications, all of which we value and appreciate highly: Had summer job while training for a fall sport; Participated in a local theater troupe while babysitting; Was a Counselor-in-training at the same camp in Maine they’d attended since age 10; Took a summer course at a college/ university; Job-shadowed a local doctor while visiting colleges on the side; Volunteered in NYC teaching English to new immigrants; Traveled to Central America to build clean stoves. Read the books that piled up over the course of the academic year (for pleasure!) while spending their afternoons biking and/or hiking." Leigh A. Weisenburger Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Bates College

“Many colleges and universities will pay close attention to how a student spends his or her summers, particularly the summer before one's junior year and senior year. Admission officers tend to be very curious about how that time is spent and why. That said, there is no magic recipe for how one should spend his or her summer. For some, working full-time is a necessity, as many students use summer earnings to help pay for college. That work experience can be compelling in the admission process. For others, spending time

on a college or university campus taking a course or two may show a level of intellectual curiosity, especially if that coursework is related to what one may study in college. The bottom line is that yes, summer matters, but how you spend your time can't be dictated by a college or university or its admission process.” Shawn L. Abbott Assistant Vice President and Dean of Admissions Oﬃce of Undergraduate Admissions New York University

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Arts Camps in the City New York oďŹ&#x20AC;ers its own fun experiences close to home Those teens lucky enough to call New York City home have a real advantage over their suburban peers this summer. Because what Manhattan may lack in rural charm and country vistas it more than makes up for in the plethora of cultural delights and the ease with which anyone can reach them. Translation: Who needs a car when mass transit can take teens anywhere they want to go in the Big Apple in a fraction of the time? A legendary center for the arts, the 92nd Street Y is now offering teens between 9th and 12th grades its annual Passport NYC 92 Y experience, â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;Śan amazing three-week sleep away camp that celebrates creativity, social responsibility and Jewish values.â&#x20AC;? Featuring five exciting specialties, campers can focus on Film; the

Music Industry; Musical Theatre, the Culinary Arts and Fashion. Dates for the 2014 summer session are from Sunday, June 29th to Sunday, July 20th and from Sunday, July 27th to Sunday, August 17th. For more information, please visit www.92Y.org/Passport-NYC. The familiar sight of crews using local neighborhoods as film locations has inspired many New York teens to want a career in the exciting field of movie making, and what better way to gain hands-on experience than in the New York Film Academyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s variety of intensive summer programs for high school students from age 14 to 17? These include instruction in 16mm filmmaking, digital filmmaking, acting, 3D animation, screenwriting, music videos, broadcast journalism and musical theatre â&#x20AC;&#x153;tailored specifically to the needs of high school students.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;In New York Film Academy camps, teens learn their chosen craft in hands-on intensive programs that are designed to challenge them

to achieve at the highest level -- as filmmakers, actors, animators, screenwriters, photographers, game designers, or musical theatre performers.â&#x20AC;? says Michael Young, NYFA Provost. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a chance for a teenager to experience a visual and performing arts conservatory in a supportive environment where they will practice their craft every day, learning from industry professionals. As they move forward in their careers, whichever path they ultimately chose, the experience will be invaluable to them.â&#x20AC;? If your teen loves to make people laugh and wants to hone their humor into a real comedy act, look no further than one of the funniest-and most fun--summer camps ever created. Created expressly for helping naturally funny students reach their comic potential, Kids â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;N Comedy Camp takes training young comics very seriously. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This camp has been around for 10 years for teens who are quirky and just naturally funny,â&#x20AC;? says Jo Ann Grossman, Kids â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;N

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Comedy Director. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The professional comedians on our staff help each camper channel his or her unique view of the world and develop their humor, through writing and performance, into real stand-up routines.â&#x20AC;? But campers here learn more than just jokes, Grossman stresses, adding, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hear later from parents that their children have become very confident after attending our camp; they go out for auditions, perform in plays and when they speak in front of a class or any audience, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re able to add humor to their presentation to make it more

entertaining.â&#x20AC;? Finally, for those teens with artistic leanings, the Metropolitan Museum of Art invites you to participate in their â&#x20AC;&#x153;Experimentâ&#x20AC;? program for students between 15 and 18 and other teen-focused events at this magnificent archive of historic and contemporary art. Participants will â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;Śbe inspired by the Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s masterpieces as you create your ownâ&#x20AC;Śduring classes in the galleries and studios.â&#x20AC;? For more information, please visit www. metmuseum.org.

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SUMMER ARTS CAMP June - August Young artists from around the world gather at Interlochen each summer to learn, create and perform alongside leading artists and instructors. Programs are offered to students in grades three through twelve.

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Evaluating the New Mid-Year Report Card This year, when your child brings home their mid-year report card, be sure to read it carefully. According to Eileen Huntington of Huntington Learning Centers, report cards may look significantly different this year due to the Common Core State Standards currently going into effect. The Common Core State Standards were created to ensure that all students graduating from high school are capable of succeeding in collegelevel classes and in their future careers. This is why itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so important to understand all the details of your childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s report card as you read through it.

ACTEEN Got talent? ACTeen, the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ rst on-camera acting program for teens offers professional ďŹ lm and television acting training (involving the intimacy of the camera) with 14+ electives in theater technique and discipline. Theater, Film Acting, Speech & Voice, Movement, Meisner, Improvisation, Shakespeare, Musical Theater, Commercials & Voiceovers, Directing, Script Writing, Auditioning, Monologues, and Modern Drama. Distinguished graduates in TV series, ďŹ lm, on Broadway and in the most competitive theater conservatories. Rigorous training and industry showcases. Staffed entirely by working professionals, guest actors, & casting directors. Intimate class sizes (8-12 students max ) provide individualized instruction, career guidance, and showcases for the focused actor. Ages 13-15, 16-20: June 23-July 2, July 7-31, August 4-15, or 6 wk Summer Saturday programs. ACTeen Juniors (for ages 10-12) has two 5-day day camps in late June or early August. Audition/application required. Apply now for early tuition discounts! Also Fall, Winter, Spring Programs.

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For over thirty years, ActionQuest has consistently delivered high-quality adventure summer programs for teenagers. Through hands-on experiential learning throughout the world, AQ has successfully ignited the inherent leadership skills within thousands of young adults. The AQ path offers action-packed adventures that focus on sailing, scuba diving, marine biology, and global exploration. Programs, which are grouped by grade level, take place in the British Virgin Islands, Leeward Islands, Tahiti, the Galapagos and Australia. Each program is based on a live-aboard sailing yacht, and is complemented by a committed, professional staff whose main goal is to support their shipmatesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; discovery.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;The report card format may change as states roll out report cards aligned to the Common Core State Standards,â&#x20AC;? says Huntington. One major change of the new format is a greater emphasis on critical thinking skills. These changes wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just assess a studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s content of knowledge, but will also evaluate their ability to show an understanding of higher-level concepts. Parents can expect report cardsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;particularly in the elementary gradesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to measure studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; growth over the course of the entire school year, not just the term for which they are being evaluated. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to have a full

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understanding of what the different progress indicators and any numeric codes used actually mean, since theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll reflect your childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s achievement of grade-by-grade benchmarks. Of course, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always recommended that you contact your childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teacher with specific questions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The great thing about Common Core is that...teachers will now be assessing how students have been developed with the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;bigpictureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; goal in mind,â&#x20AC;? says Huntington. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This new report card format creates a perfect opportunity to keep track of your childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strengths and progress, while also keeping an eye on areas to work on.â&#x20AC;?

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Writerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Retreat Are you a young woman with a story to tell? Whether your passion is creative writing, poetry, social media, or food writing, Writerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Retreat will give you an understanding of your writing skills and how they can be used.

Spanish Immersion Immerse yourself in living and learning Spanish this summer. Our intensive, focused program is designed for girls looking to improve their Spanish language skills. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life like in a â&#x20AC;&#x153;girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world?â&#x20AC;? Girls are the builders, engineers, artists, and so much more! Through a blend of hands-on trade skill instruction, arts projects, and activities examining the roles girls and women play in the world, girls will be encouraged to explore who they are and the many things they can be. Emma Willard is a global community, and girls attend from all across the world to live and learn together on our historic campus in upstate NY.

Lifeworks International is a summer program offering adventure-based community service programs to participants aged 14 through 19. These programs take place in Costa Rica, the British Virgin Islands, Thailand, China, the Galapagos, India and Peru. Lifeworksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 3 week programs are designed to give participants hands-on, experiential learning while introducing them to the value of making a difference and developing compassion for the underprivileged. Upon completion of a Lifeworks program, most students earn an impressive 100 hours of community service and are awarded the Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Volunteer Service Award, in addition to the positive impact resulting from their contribution.

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Cushing Academyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 5-week Summer Session will run June 29 to August 1, 2014. We offer programs for students ages 12-18: Prep for Success, Studio Art, College Prep, Critical Skills Across the Curriculum, College Advising Workshop, and English as a Second Language. Afternoons offer a variety of programs such as music production, video and ďŹ lmmaking, drama, jewelry making, soccer, basketball, and tennis. Located one hour west of Boston, Cushing offers weekly all-school excursions, exciting weekend activities, educational class trips, International Dinner and Performances, an unforgettable talent show, Summer Fling, a cruise in Boston Harbor, an art show, and graduation dinner.

Interlochen Arts Camp is the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premier summer arts program for aspiring artists in grades 3 through 12. Located in northwest Michigan, the Camp attracts students, faculty and staff from all 50 U.S. states and more than 40 countries. These 3,000 artists ďŹ ll Interlochenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s northwoods campus with an explosion of creativity. Studentartists learn from world-class instructors and produce hundreds of presentations each summer in music, theatre, creative writing, dance, ďŹ lm and visual arts. Those interested in learning more about Interlochen can visit interlochen.org, call 800.681.5912 or email admission@interlochen.org.

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Most parents have now become more familiar with the tops of their teensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; heads than their faces as their sons or daughters perpetually bend over iPhones, absorbed in texting, tweeting, checking out Facebook or sharing photos on Instagram every few minutes. Since we use these same devices and apps ourselves, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also painfully aware of just how much inappropriate material is available online, and how easily teens can access it. So, how can you get back some control and allay your fears,

especially if your teen is being secretive, evasive or defiant about following the rules you set up to protect him or her? One way is to download every app currently on their iphone to discuss and evaluate them together; anotherâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;if your teen resists being censored and you feel their safety is truly at riskâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; is to intervene through technological means. The experts at www.chillopedia.com recommend the installation of an iPhone monitoring app. This is a very simple procedure, provided you can covertly gain access to your son

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This summer Saint Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College of Maine is providing the experience of a lifetime for rising high school juniors and seniors at its 430-acre campus on Sebago Lake. Students can select from an array of hands-on, professional experiences, ranging from classroom-based courses in Creative iPhoneography, Digital Photography, Science of the Mind & Human Behavior, and Ethics & the Good Society, to experiential adventures in STEM education including sea kayaking in the Gulf of Maine and the one-week adventure Science Island Extreme - a collaborative, real-life survival camp that includes a rescue from a mock shipwreck and lessons in survival tactics. These experiences - ranging from one to two weeks long - provide students with college-level lessons in liberal studies and STEM education, including college credit! Saint Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Summer Experiences is the advancement opportunity high school students will carry with them as they begin their college and professional careers. Advance into summer at sjcme.edu/experiences.

Alfred University offers quality summer programs in Astronomy, Art Portfolio, Creative Writing, Chemistry, Computers, Ceramic & Glass Engineering, Robotics, Polymers & Metals Science, Theater, Equestrian and Swimming taught by faculty who make learning fun! Our campus is located in a peaceful village in western New York State, where summer days are warm and nights are cool and comfortable. Surrounded by rolling hills, beautiful meadows and valleys, this is the perfect place to learn more about a favorite academic subject, improve your skills in swimming or riding, and meet other students who share your interests.

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Are you looking for a unique camp experience for your TEEN or TWEEN? Are you looking for the best alternative to sleep-away camp? If you answered YES to either of these questions, then cross the bridge to THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF CAMP RAMAQUOIS. A day camp as complete as sleep-away camp. Situated on 44 acres in nearby Rockland County, we are only 30 minutes from the George Washington Bridge. Boys & Girls experience a traditional camp program ďŹ lled with a variety of stimulating activities, including swimming, boating, cultural and art activities. Facilities include group bunks, a 5-acre crystalline lake, 8 heated swimming pools, tennis, basketball & volleyball courts, hockey rinks, ball ďŹ elds, soccer ďŹ elds, and much more. Special Teen Events â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Evening Dinner/Dance, Sports Clinics & Leagues, Co-ed Activities and Pizza Parties. Good group sizes. Optional Trail Blazers Trip Program. Day trips planned for grades 3-10; Overnight trips planned for grades 5-10. Lots of Spirit and Bonding. 10th Grade Leadership Program. Optional Equestrian Program.

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Relativity Workshops is the ďŹ rst and only summer program of its kind created with a major Hollywood Studio. We feature three-week cross-disciplinary programs in Acting, Commercial Dance, Musical Theatre, Film Production and Electronic Music. Designed for teens 13-17 and Adults 18+, our campuses include Upper West Side, Los Angeles and Maui. The immersive curriculum fosters creative innovations and collaborations between students, industry Hollywood mentors and faculty. We offer both day student and residential options. To learn more about our three-week Summer programs visit relativityworkshops.org or call 310/622.4136.

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For Girls, 11 to 16 years old: In the Adirondack Mountains of NY BLDC; June 28th - July 29th is a professionally instructed Dance Program for girls who love to dance, love having fun at camp and want to have it both in one place. Founded 1980 BLSA July 31st - August 15th is a professionally run 2-week resident summer program for motivated, sports-loving girls. Founded 2010 BLSA and BLDC are owned and operated by Brant Lake Camp one of the ďŹ nest boys camps in the USA, with over 95 years of one family. With this same experienced leadership, our programs address the strong growth of athletics and competitive sports among girls, and Professional Dance Instruction in a caring fun Camp environment. Both on their own girlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; campus. For more information about the programs, experience and dedicated leadership at BLSA and BLDC see www.brantlakedancecamp.com www.brantlakesportsacademy.com email: OfďŹ ce@brantlake.com

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World’s first plus-size supermodel promotes healthy media At six-feet tall, a size 12-14, and a competitive rower with an athletic, curvy build, Emme didn’t believe she fit the model type. “I didn’t really wear a lot of makeup,” says the Upper East Side native, who now has an office in SoHo. “I wasn’t a foofy kind of girl.” Her ideology changed at 26, however, when she saw an advertisement looking for “girls of all sizes” to show off clothes and her life was forever changed. It was 1994 when Emme was voted one of People magazine’s 50 most beautiful people in the world for the first time, an honor that started a whirlwind career that took her around the world. As a plus-size model, “I found that I was speaking on behalf of millions and millions of women,” she says Nearly two decades later, the world’s first plus-size supermodel is shocked

at how little America’s view of plussized women has changed. “That’s the most frustrating thing, for me,” Emme says, noting that she can count the number of women who have done well as plus-size models on one hand. “There should be so many.” She says the problem lies with the media and its “almost propagandalike” portrayal of women. Once, the stick-thin model type was relegated strictly to high-fashion runways. Slowly, that figure made its way off the runway and went everywhere, according to Emme, creating an unusual and unrealistic ideal of beauty. When larger-size people began to reemerge on television sets across America, they were relegated to defamatory roles. This unrealistic portrayal of women has led to major problems with girls and young women, Emme advises.

“A realistic size, but a really beautiful woman.” Emme, on her definition of a plus-size model.

Suicide rates have gone up, girls that don’t fit the mold are asking to be homeschooled, and the mindset that skinny equals healthy has pervaded American culture because “it’s hard to go against the mainstream.” A person that is skinny, but sedentary, is not healthy, Emme says. A larger-framed woman who exercises will always be healthier.

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Positive inﬂuences, promoting change

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“Why should the fall guy always be the fat person?” Emme on the media’s defamatory typecast of bigger people. site can also view the most frequently asked questions posed to Emme, find insider tips on the modeling industry, and get advice on body image issues. Also on the horizon is the first-ever Emme hosted cruise to Bermuda, designed to provide relaxation for “women who put themselves last on the list.” More info can be found at www.emmecruise.com.

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After beating stage-two Hodgkin’s lymphoma and suffering the depression of a divorce, Emme is back in the spotlight and realizes the task she has ahead of her. She now supports several organizations working to support change in the industry, including the Girl Scout’s Healthy MEdia Campaign and the Model Alliance. “We help keep the media on their toes.” Full-figured women like Melissa McCarthy and Camryn Manheim are now getting movie roles they wouldn’t have gotten in the past, she says. Groups like the Model Alliance are also working to start a union for modeling professionals, which will help stop the problem at its source by introducing safety standards for the profession. “You can’t push women to be something that is unnatural for them,” Emme says. Through these types of promotions, corporations are being forced to recognize their role in the problem. Certain companies and advertisers are beginning to showcase women of diverse ethnic backgrounds and sizes. Magazines like Glamour, Seventeen, Essence and Oprah succeed in promoting women of all shapes, sizes and colors. For more Emme, including tips on healthy living, self-empowerment, and spiritual wellbeing, visit www.emmenation.com or follow @Emmenation on Twitter. Visitors to the

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Clean Eating for a Better Life Amie Valpone of The Healthy Apple teaches fellow New Yorkers how to cook themselves healthy By Angela Barbuti Not everyone can make eliminating gluten, dairy, soy, and sugar from their diet seem fun. But if you speak to Amie Valpone, you will find that her passion for healthy eating is infectious. A personal chef and nutritionist, the Upper East Side resident dedicates her life to educating people on their food choices. At just 26, she was diagnosed with heavy metal accumulation in her body, and suffered from excessive swelling in her legs every day. After being told she had 24 hours to live, she decided to focus on what was important in her life. She quit her job, enrolled in school to study nutrition, and learned to consume only organic foods. Now 31, Valpone can be found cooking in celebrities’ houses, working on her upcoming book, or buying kale at a local farmers market. You only eat organic. What are some brands that you like? Earthbound Farm is an organic, prepackaged salad line. They’re everywhere and are pre-washed. That’s what makes eating organic so easy. That literally saved my life. Another great brand that I love is Applegate, their packaged organic turkey and chicken are sold everywhere. Whole Foods Market has every offering you can even imagine. And now

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they’re opening two more locations in the city. It’s incredible and the prices are actually cheaper than other food stores. It used to be that their products were really expensive. Now, it’s cheaper than going to a regular food store. Besides Whole Foods, you also frequent farmers markets on the Upper West Side and in Union Square. How do you suggest people shop outdoors? Stick to simple things like collard greens, kale, Swiss chard, apples, and Brussels sprouts. You don’t have to make anything crazy. Just chop them up, put them in a steamer bath for five minutes until they’re wilted, add sea salt, pepper, olive oil, and lemon juice, and you’re done. Explain the illnesses that you had. I was 95 pounds, and my legs started swelling up to 40 pounds of water weight every day. I was working at Vogue magazine and had to go on disability. I had everything from C-diff Colitis, where they gave me 24 hours to live, to having bacteria overgrowth in my gut. I had candida, hypothyroidism, and polycystic ovarian

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syndrome. I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease six months ago after 10 years of false negatives. My hormones were all messed up. I was on $500 worth of really high quality antiinflammatory vitamins every month. What kind of changes did you make in your lifestyle? I had heavy metal accumulation in my body, so I had to get my mercury fillings removed. Then I detoxed everything, my food, my cleaning supplies, my beauty products. I was using Giorgio Armani lipstick for years and it’s all full of lead. I had to get all organic makeup, and all organic cleaning products in my apartment. I cannot eat anything out of a box, literally. Not out of a can either, because of the metal. If I do, my body swells up. I eat like a caveman, oneingredient foods. After quitting your job, you decided to study nutrition. I was on disability for a year, and ended up quitting after the hospital gave me 24 hours to live. I said, “Life’s too short.” I’m not a registered dietician, I’m a celebrity chef and culinary nutritionist. I have a column in Glamour Magazine, on the Food Network, and in The Huffington Post. In January, you started hosting clean dinner parties downtown. What do they entail? Daphne Cheng and I just started them and they’ve been amazing. It’s all clean eating. Everything is gluten-free, dairy-free, soyfree, vegan, and vegetarian. It’s a six course meal. KitchenAid is nice enough to give us their products, so we raffle them off. I work with a lot of food brands, so I do gift bags for everybody filled with fun things. Anybody can come and it’s always a new group of people. What are some dishes served at these parties? We’ll make gluten-free pasta, which, actually, does not taste like cardboard. Last time, we made Black Rice Tortillas from Food For Life, and filled them with roasted vegetables with a quinoa dish. For dessert, coconut milk ice cream, almond milk ice

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cream, vegan chocolate chips, these great macaroons. That’s another great brand, Emmy’s. They make organic macaroons and are sold everywhere. They’re gluten-free, soy-free, dairy-free, and vegan. And they’re clean, with like five ingredients, and come in a million flavors. I read on your website that you’re not a vegetarian. No, I’m not. I was for a little while when I had colitis and couldn’t digest meat. I have a hard time with grains sometimes, so I have organic chicken or turkey. And tons of healthy fats. People don’t eat enough good fats, like avocado and nuts. They don’t realize that eating a peanut is not the same as eating a walnut or an almond. Peanuts are actually legumes, so they can be inflammatory. Almonds are high in so many nutrients and walnuts are high in omega-3s which are anti-inflammatory. You need fats for your hormones and to keep your body working. Another fact I learned is that you’re a big tea drinker. Oh my gosh, I drink so much tea, I keep tea brands in business. My favorites are Numi Organic and Organic India Tea. I buy seven boxes a week! Join Amie at her next Clean Eating Cooking Class on March 31st. Visit www.thehealthyapple.com for more information. Follow her on Twitter: @TheHealthyApple

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