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In Brief
OUT OF THE FIRE HOUSE AND INTO THE RING New York City Fire Department hear their firehouse alarms go off, they know exactly what to expect: they suit up and rush out to what often are unpredictable and lifethreatening situations. For the past few months, members of the FDNY Bravest Boxing Team have been training for another kind of bell, with its own kind of peril: they’ll be entering the ring in front of hundreds of people at Webster Hall to square off against members of Ireland’s Garda Boxing Club. Funds raised during the Thursday, March 6, tournament will benefit Building Homes for Heroes, an organization that builds handicap-accessible homes for military veterans wounded in combat. Unlike professional boxers, fighters from New York’s Bravest have only a short time to prepare for an opponent they know little, if anything about. They have two training sessions a week– led by club president Bobby McGuire and trainer Mike Reno – that often come after 24-hour shifts and at the expense of family time. Julio Padilla, 31, has spent six years with the FDNY and also works as a paramedic at two area hospitals. He said that boxing for the department is so appealing because of the way firefighters stick together through any situation, whether it be training for a fight or trying to put out a five-alarm fire. “As soon as you go into that ring and hear your first bell your heart is pounding,” he said. “We’re walking into that building exactly the same way, with a heart pounding and adrenaline flowing... Coming in here with all your brothers is exactly the same thing as the firehouse and going into a fire, all of your brothers want to come together.” That camaraderie can be attributed to the intense training regimen that both the boxers and average firefighters endure. It’s nearly impossible to anticipate what to expect in an opponent, just as it’s impossible to know what’s waiting on the other side of a burning door. It makes sense, then, that they try to
WEEK OF MARCH
Trash has spread throughout the city as sanitation workers have had to spend more time cleaning up snow and less time picking up garbage. The city says street cleaning seems finally to have caught up. Photo by Mary Newman
COMING DOWN, PILING UP GARBAGE Sanitation officials acknowledge the city is dirtier, as workers are diverted from garbage to snow BY MARY NEWMAN
First the snow, now the trash. According to the Department of Sanitation, through the end of last week we have already seen 58 inches of snowfall so far this winter. That’s more than twice the amount of snow we’ve received last year -and it’s resulted in what residents say is roughly twice the amount of garbage in the street. Upper East Side residents, in particular, have not been pleased with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s ability to handle the snow and resulting trash. “I see more mess,” said East side resident Emma Lang. “I really feel he wants to get back at the people who live in Manhattan.”
As New Yorkers grow more impatient, some have looked to pass off the blame elsewhere. The Department of Sanitation commissioner, John J. Doherty, has been taking the fall for the mismanagement of snow and the buildup in garbage, despite his 30 years of experience. “I keep waiting for the picture to be in the paper with goat’s horns sticking out of my head, like I’m the goat of the storm,” he told the New York Times. “We got a black eye, I think my reputation, and the reputation of the department, has been seriously tarnished.” Constantine Mitides travels from Queens and said his commute to work has almost been impossible some days. “Instead of cleaning the streets, they just shove the snow off to the sides and then there isn’t even a place for the garbage to go. It just piles up,” he said. According to the Department of Sanitation, street cleaning has caught up and is back on schedule
as of last weekend. While many of the main avenues appear to be in good shape, if you walk down any side street you are welcomed by empty coffee cups, plastic bags, thrown-out brooms, and unclaimed recycling. “Due to the recent rash of snow storms with sub-freezing temperatures and blustery winds, trash and recycling collection was delayed throughout the city,” Kathy Dawkins of the Department of Sanitation told us. “Keep in mind that the sanitation workers who normally pick up trash and recycling are the same ones who drive salt spreaders and blow snow.” The upshot: one person can’t do two jobs at once, which means the answer for all of us is to wait for the thaw, and for the garbage to, finally, disappear. For more debate on the state of our dirty city, see Voices, on p. 8.
South Street Seaport: A group of lower Manhattan officials, agencies, residents and businesses have come together to develop a plan for the South Street Seaport. The Seaport Working Group, led by Community Board 1, comes in answer to longstanding community efforts to ensure that any potential development in the South Street Seaport complements the historic character of the neighborhood, protects and maintains vital Seaport infrastructures, and reflects the increasing need for services and amenities geared toward Lower Manhattan’s growing residential population. “Community input is essential to deciding the future of the Seaport, and I look forward to working with all stakeholders in ensuring that comprehensive dialogue takes place before the project moves forward,” said Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer.
DE BLASIO BLOCKS CHARTERS City Hall: In a move that infuriated former city councilwoman and charter school juggernaut Eva Moskowitz, Mayor Bill de Blasio has blocked the co-location of three of her Success Academy charter schools, including one near City Hall. The three schools are among 42 public and charter schools that were slated to be co-located under the Bloomberg administration. In October of last year, the education department’s Panel on Educational Policy bulk-approved the colocations in a move that then-Public Advocate candidate Letitia James vowed to fight. De Blasio’s rationale for the decision, announced last week, is that the three charter schools would take resources away from public school students in the buildings that were set to be co-located. The charter that was slated for Lower Manhattan had not yet been implemented. Moskowitz has vowed to fight the decision in court.
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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS CHECK SLAIN BUS DRIVERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FAMILY WANTS STIFF PENALTY NY1: The family of bus driver William Pena, who died earlier this month when his bus was struck by a stolen truck in Greenwich Village, hopes that a maximum penalty will be uncured. Dominic Whilby, the driver of the truck, was believed to be intoxicated at the time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for is the maximum sentence, the maximum charges,â&#x20AC;? said Penaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s partner Nancy Rodriguez. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want justice. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want Williamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memory to be forgotten.â&#x20AC;? A memorial was held on the Upper West Side last week.
HAROLD RAMIS TWINKIE MEMORIAL Gothamist: In honor of writer/director/actor Harold Ramisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; death, fans left a touching memorial at the Hook and Ladder 8 ďŹ rehouse. Among the items left were: ďŹ&#x201A;owers, candles, pictures of a young Ramis and, of course, Twinkies. Hook and Ladder 8 ďŹ rehouse served as the home to the Ghostbusters, the ďŹ lm where the Twinkie reference comes from. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen [Ghostbusters] about a thousand billion jillion times,â&#x20AC;? said fan Victoria Booth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can just watch over and over again.â&#x20AC;?
ESCALATOR SHUTS DOWN HOURS AFTER UNVEILING The escalator at the East Broadway F Train is ďŹ nally repaired and working again, after over a year of being out of service.
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HOLY SCHNITZEL HOPES TO FILL KOSHER VOID IN L.E.S. The Lo-Down: Holy Schnitzel, a fast food kosher restaurant, is hoping for a storefront in the LES where Noahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ark Deli used to be. The dwindling Orthodox Jewish population in the neighborhood, combined with the criticism that Noahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ark faced in its waning years, may prove difficult. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to do this restaurant in an interesting area,â&#x20AC;? Bill Spector, co-owner of Holy Schnitzel explained, â&#x20AC;&#x153;with a rich cultural history.â&#x20AC;? Holy Schnitzel already has locations in Staten Island, Long Island and Brooklyn.
CITY BUILDS HALF OF NEEDED SCHOOL SEATS Tribeca Trib: Sticking with a Bloomberg administration plan, the city has budgeted for only one new 456-seat school below Canal Street. Despite the growing number of eligible kids, such as P.S. 276 in lower Battery Park City, where there are only 100 seats available for the 157 applying, the city was unable to increase the budget. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It means a lot less people sticking around if they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any place to send their kids to school,â&#x20AC;? said Diana Switaj, Community Board 1â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director of planning and land use.
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CRIME WATCH WILEY WESTCHESTER THIEF A man was arrested for stealing a woman’s bag. At 2:45 PM on Thursday, February 20, a 26-year-old woman withdrew $250 in cash at a bank on Broadway. As she exited the bank, an 18-year-old man engaged her in conversation and accompanied her to a deli on Broadway. The pair continued their conversation until they reached Morris Street, at which point the young man grabbed the woman’s bag containing the cash, an iPad, and a black watch and attempted to flee. Fortunately, police were on the scene, and they nabbed the young perpetrator, who had prior arrests for burglary near his home in Westchester.
YOU KNOW THE DRILLS A homeless man was arrested for trying to steal tools from a construction site. At 2 AM on Thursday, February 20, a 44-year-old man entered a construction site on Beekman Street without authorization and attempted to make off with two drills, a battery charger, and a battery. He had been spotted
entering the location, however, and police arrested him as he exited the site.
SLIP AND FAIL A teenaged girl attempted but failed to steal a woman’s cell phone. At 2 PM on Monday, February 24, a 30-year-old woman was walking on the southwest corner of Broadway and Broome Street while she was texting on her cell phone. A teenaged girl approached her and attempted to snatch the phone, but fell down and dropped the device. The 30-year-old managed to recover her phone, and the teen fled in an unknown direction.
ERRANT ERRANDS Someone removed a man’s valuables from his car. At 2 PM on Sunday, February 23, a 64-yearold man returned with his son to their home on Duane Street after having driven around for some hours, doing errands. When they were getting out of the car, they noticed that items were missing from the vehicle, including an Apple laptop, a number of gift certificates, and a shoulder bag,
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UNDERWEAR OVERDOSE A woman shoplifted 105 pairs of women’s underwear. At 3:45 PM on Friday, February 21, a woman in her twenties entered a chain lingerie store on Broadway and made off with 105 pairs of underwear valued at $1,300. Video is available of the incident.
DRUNKEN CLUB ASSAULT A man was arrested after an assault on two women. At 4 AM on February 22, a 23-yearold Queens man in a state of inebriation began throwing bottles in a club on Varick Street. One of the bottles struck a 27-year-old woman in the face, causing an injury that required five stitches, while another bottle hit a 23-year-old woman in an eye socket. The first victim was taken to New York Downtown Hospital for treatment, while the woman with the injured eye socket was taken to the Hospital for Special Surgery. By Jerry Danzig
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It was an unusually deadly weekend on the subway. A man was struck and killed by an F train as it pulled into the Second Avenue station near E. Houston Street, Gothamist reported. Police are investigating whether the man jumped onto the tracks. Then on Sunday morning, just after 6 a.m., a southbound E train struck and killed a man who was in the tunnel as it pulled into the station at 23rd Street near 8th Avenue, according to the FDNY.
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FINANCIAL DISTRICT New York is full of its own microcosms – spaces where representatives of the 8 million converge and give the appearance of a true sampling of the city’s population. While the subways are packed with the elite and the downtrodden both, rarely do the various groups interact in any meaningful way. The atrium adjacent to 60 Wall Street provides an unusual exception to that rule. The cavernous public space is a giant indoor recreation area, flanked incongruously by palm trees and dotted with tables (26) and chairs (104) and benches (532 linear feet!) available for use to all who enter between the hours of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. every day. It’s a privately owned public space, operated by Deutsche Bank, occupied – at times and to various degrees – by Occupy Wall Street stragglers, homeless New Yorkers, tourists, bankers on lunch breaks, and a cadre of men who meet almost every day to pass the time playing three-minute chess and backgammon. “I was pretty surprised to see it myself,” said an NYPD officer stationed at the atrium for only the second time. “You see a lot of homeless people on one side and business people on the other.” It’s the games that bring everyone together. Tourists dangling cameras and plastic I Heart NY bags stop before descending to the 2/3 subway line to watch as a man in shirt-
sleeves on his lunch break, Todd, sits down with another man, Nick, in a pulled-low ski cap and parka. The two have been meeting up for speedy matches for 15 years. They skim pieces off the board and slap the clock, barely registering anyone else around them, mumbling the occasional mild profanity. (“You’re a bum!” “I could mate you right now!”) Their win counts are roughly even, they say. Bob, 77, ambles up to observe. “It’s a lot of fun,” Bob says. “You get a lot of play in. You think you’re ahead and then you get beat by the clock!” He, like many who come to the atrium frequently, is wary of giving out personal informa-
tion, including his last name. He does share, however, the fact that almost every single weekday, his wife heads to their community center in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and he hops on the train to meet with his buddies, usually about a dozen of them, in the Financial District. In the frigid winter, the men (all men) share the heated atrium space with those seeking shelter, sometimes planting their games in the midst of sleeping bags, garbage bags, and people making liberal use of the benches. In the summer, they move the whole operation to Zuccotti Park. Some are retired, some out of work, some just between shifts or on a break, some formerly home-
less themselves, remembering when they used to sleep in the atrium to ward off the cold. Bob won’t reveal his last name, but he wants to make sure a reporter is aware that he has an excellent memory, and can even remember the song he sang at school when he was 10 years old, “Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy’s Chowder,” and could even, right now, sing the entire song, all three verses. And he does. The men keep track of who wins their games, though they swear there’s no betting - “that would be illegal,” one man says pointedly. They joke and tease each other and roll the dice and smile. It hardly seems to matter who wins.
Bob comes to the attrium almost every day to play a few rounds of chess. Photo by Lauren Naefe
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minimize the number of factors that could go wrong. Joshua Gallo is a firefighter from Long Island City, Queens who inherited his father’s love of boxing. A four-year Army veteran, he said the only way to avoid being hurt or humiliated is to prepare. “You always have that uncertainty no matter how you try to portray it,” Gallo said. “Within seconds you could say, ‘Will this building collapse?’ or ‘Is this too hot?’ It’s the same thing as ‘Am I throwing a right hook?’ You plan for everything and nothing.” The boxing club was born in the early 1980s, when city officials tried to raise extra money by pitting five firefighters against five officers from the NYPD. That event turned into a rivalry that’s revisited every year at Madison Square Garden and has become a bit of a sore spot for the firemen, who aren’t quite over their loss on the big stage last November. “We had three years in a row where we won, then we had a draw, and then last year we lost,” said trainer Mike Reno. “We’re on a little bit of a slide but there is definitely a rivalry between the fire department and the cops.” The event with the NYPD eventually led to an international partnership between the FDNY and the Garda Club, made up of Irish National Police and Dublin Fire Brigade. The Bravest Boxing Team has helped raise over $50,000 for local veterans over the years. Much of that money has gone to Building Homes for Heroes, an organization that recently built an entirely new Staten Island home to suit the needs of a veteran who became a quadruple amputee because of injuries sustained in Iraq. The FDNY boxers admitted that it can be tough to spend all night at the fire house only to wake up the next morning and spend hours training. The department’s ties to veterans group, though, serve as an important reminder to keep everything in perspective. “You just have to train and be ready for anything and try to prepare for the worst,” said David Leonard, a father of three who works at the Tribeca firehouse where “Ghostbusters” was filmed. “These guys are giving up their lives out there so we’re hardly giving up anything compared to what they give.” Tickets are sold on a general admission, first-come first-served basis. They are available for $25.00 on www.FDNYboxing.Eventbrite.com or at the door on March 6.
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CITY’S PLAN TO CURB RECKLESS DRIVERS HALTED BY ALBANY NEWS Home rule explained as Vision Zero initiatives roadblocked by state control BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS
Anyone who’s ridden the subway recently may have noticed advertisements pushing New Yorkers to get out of the city and experience the rest of the state. One ad urges straphangers to catch a show in Buffalo, while another touts the beauty of upstate hiking trails. “There’s more to NY than NY,” read the ads. But that connection extends to more than just tourist destinations or a weekend jaunt for some fresh air. Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Vision Zero plan to reduce pedestrian fatalities has the support of the city council, agency heads, and local state legislators. But one significant impediment lies in the way of some of Vision Zero’s more impactful ideas, like lowering the city’s speed limit and installing more red light cameras; under NYS law, the city must first get permission from Albany before implementing either of those initiatives.
Upstate Control At the center of this issue is the concept of “home rule,” or rather, the absence of it. Home rule is a political doctrine that grants municipalities the freedom to govern themselves in areas that would traditionally fall under the state’s purview. New York City actually has a considerable amount of home rule control over traffic laws not enjoyed by other large municipalities in the state. However, in these areas – speed limits and red light cameras – the city must be granted home rule before making any changes. In the State Senate, two Democrats have introduced bills that are a key piece of implementing Vision Zero. The bills were announced at a recent town hall forum on Vision Zero hosted by Senator Brad Hoylman (D-27), one of many such hearings to come in the next several months as city leaders make a concerted effort to make the
mayor’s initiative a reality. Hoylman is sponsoring a home rule bill that would allow the city to set a speed limit as low as 25 miles per hour. Senator Adriano Espaillat (D-31) has introduced a bill that would grant the city control over the placement and number of red light cameras. The city would also need to be granted home rule on the placement and number of speed cameras, but such a bill has not yet been authored. Hoylman is also sponsoring a bill mandating trucks that weigh in excess of 13 tons and operate in the city be equipped with plastic side guards designed to prevent cyclists and pedestrians from sliding underneath them.
Politics at Play In the Republican controlled Senate, however, there’s little motivation to grant home rule on these issues as the majority party has no incentive to cede power to a Democrat-dominated city like New York. “New York City should not have to go to Albany like a precocious child asking permission to change its traffic laws,” said Hoylman. “Those who have power don’t want to give it up, it’s as simple as that.” Hoylman cited Vision Zero statistics that being struck by a vehicle is the leading cause of injury-related death for children under 14 years old and the second most common cause for those over 15. On average, he said, a vehicle in New York seriously injures or kills a pedestrian every two hours. But Hoylman is hopeful that given the motivation that exists right now to change traffic safety laws in the city – and considering that lives are at stake – the Republicans will come around. Also, said Hoylman, another possibility is that a negotiation could take place among Senate lawmakers that grants the city home rule on these issues in exchange for something the Republicans want. He’s also confident in the work Mayor de Blasio has done in convincing lawmakers to let the city implement Vision Zero. “I think the mayor has done a tremendous job in articulating the need for home rule in his Vision Zero report,” said Hoylman. “I think it’s reso-
nating with members.” Other bills that were announced at the town hall meeting by a wide range of legislators who support Vision Zero include strengthening existing laws to punish careless drivers and those who leave the scene of an accident or drive with a suspended or revoked license. In the State Assembly, Daniel O’Donnell (D-69) is sponsoring a bill that would lower the city’s speed limit to 20 miles per hour through state legislative authority, bypassing the home rule issue altogether. However, the City Council would need to send what’s called a “home rule message” to the Assembly telling legislators that’s what they want. “At the current rate, pedestrian deaths in New York City are on pace to surpass homicides this year,” said Hoylman.
Steps by the City At the city level, agency heads have been told that implementing Vision Zero is a budgetary priority, said DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg at
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New York City should not have to go to Albany like a precocious child asking permission to change its traffic laws,” State Senator Brad Hoylman the town hall meeting. When asked how the DOT is prioritizing the many initiatives in Vision Zero, Trottenberg said input from residents is important. “Our priorities, to some degree, they come from the community,” said Trottenberg. One area of concern she’s hearing a lot about from residents, she said, come from safety concerns around the city’s arterial roads, which were not designed with pedestrians in mind. The DOT plans to implement safety engineering improvements at 50 intersections and create 25 new arterial slow zones. In addition to the DOT, City Hall, the
Taxi and Limousine Commission and the NYPD have outlined specific actions they’re planning to take in connection with Vision Zero. The mayor’s office is establishing a permanent task force focused on implementing the plan and will make crash and safety data available online for residents. The TLC plans to create a safety enforcement squad equipped with speed guns to enforce regulations. They also plan to pursue technology that will alert cabbies – and possibly reduce fares – when a taxi travels over the speed limit. The NYPD will increase enforcement on moving violations and beef up their highway unit in addition to expanding their recruiting efforts for crossing guards.
For more information, including how to download the Vision Zero report and offer feedback in your community, visit www.nyc.gov/ visionzero.
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YOUR NEWSPAPER’S NEW LOOK BY THE EDITORS
DOWNTOWN You may have noticed some changes in this week’s Our Town Downtown. While much remains the same – notably our commitment to chronicle, obsessively and block-by-block, what’s going on in your neighborhood – we’ve made some tweaks in the paper’s content and design.
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First, the look. Working with Kelly Frankeny, one of the newspaper industry’s most talented and innovative designers, we’ve overhauled the appearance of the paper, from the front page, with its new hand-drawn apple logo, all the way through to the back. We’re proud to be in print, and wanted a design that celebrated that fact. Inside, we’ve added new coverage and features to make Our Town Downtown even stronger. We’ve added new pages on food, business and real estate; we’ve refocused our arts coverage to make it even more neighborhood-specific; we’ve returned to
Voices running editorials so you’ll know where we stand. We know from experience that you’ll have opinions about what we’ve done, and we welcome the feedback: Email us at news@ strausnews.com or call the office to talk at 212-868-0190. Our Town Downtown is your newspaper, covering your neighborhood, so we care a lot what you think. Finally, if you can’t wait for the weekly print edition, you can still visit us online anytime, at www.nypress.com, or check in on Facebook and Twitter. In the meantime, we’ll see you on the block.
WHAT NEIGHBORS ARE SAYING: THE EFFECTS OF THE HIGH LINE
HIGH MARKS FOR THE HIGH LINE Re: The Downside of the High Line (February 20, 2014) I have run Moran’s, a restaurant across the avenue from the High Line, for many years. I saw first-hand a significant increase in my business when the High Line opened nearly five years ago. Foot traffic -- by both New Yorkers and visitors from around the world -- has increased, and in response we expanded the restaurant to include more café seating along Tenth Avenue to accommodate the increased number of customers. I’m proud to support the High Line and the positive changes it’s brought to Chelsea. I have seen first-hand the positive effects the High Line has had on the local community, and the beneficial economic impact it has created for businesses both old and new. The High Line has brought vitality and life to the avenues that were once isolated and dangerous. Vacant parking lots are now being filled with residents, rowdy night clubs have been replaced by apartment buildings, and at least three dozen new businesses have opened up on Tenth Avenue alone. I would have to think that all of this new development has generated an enormous amount of tax revenue for the City of New York, at a time when the city really needed it. It is really not all bad news here. Colleen Lydon, Moran’s Restaurant
NEGLECTING PUBLIC SCHOOL NEEDS Re: Public Financing for Private Schools (February 6, 2014) No doubt Mike Bloomberg saw a need in his community. His administration developed a program to meet that need. But Blooomberg’s milieu consists almost solely of those who send their children to private schools. As he said in 2011 of the rest of us -- those who send their children to public schools -- they “don’t understand the value of an education.” From his limousine, Bloomberg neither knew nor cared what “value” public schools offer, and so he neglected them. While the Department of Education bureaucracy enjoyed an large expansion of budget, schools saw their budgets cut every year. Sadly there is no Build NYC Resource Corp for the vast majority of New York City’s children. Bloomberg didn’t see the need. NYCviaFLA
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DON’T BLAME THE PARK While the High Line has heralded some changes in the area, it’s not the only factor in Chelsea’s continuing transformation BY ERIC MARCUS
WEST CHELSEA It’s both silly and naive to blame the High Line for the ongoing transformation of western Chelsea. Just as it’s silly and naive to credit the High Line with catalyzing $2 billion in new development (that number is quoted by journalists so frequently, authoritatively and reflexively that you would think it was inscribed in the Torah). If you want to take the single factor approach in searching for an answer to what’s going on in my neighborhood, let’s blame Chelsea Market or Chelsea Piers, both of which pre-date the High Line. Or reach back farther in time to blame the opening of the first art gallery twenty years ago or even farther back in time to when the first young gentrifiers arrived in the 1960s and early 1970s (many of whom were gay men, so why not
blame gay men while we’re at it!). And if the High Line had been demolished (an act of architectural barbarism called for by then mayor Rudy Giuliani and supported by the very same rapacious developers now using proximity to the High Line as a marketing tool), we’d be blaming that one factor, too. Neighborhoods are shaped by multiple forces, including hyperlocal developments like the High Line and national and international forces like the rise in income inequality. Just look at how that’s driving current real estate development across Manhattan (57th Street is a horror!). And in every neighborhood from the West Village to the Upper East Side long-time retailers are being driven out by skyrocketing rents. Eighth Avenue in Chelsea is suffering under those very same pressures and it’s hard to imagine that anyone but property owners are happy about the wave of chain stores, porn shops, and nail salons that have increasingly replaced cherished retailers.
Now, if we’re going to blame the High Line for all of Chelsea’s ills, let’s also give it some credit for bringing a priceless public amenity to the neighborhood, one that I use every morning before the crowds arrive. And don’t overlook the public programs for young and old rich and poor alike paid for and run by the High Line. I could live without the art program, but there are people who find it inspiring even if I find it confounding. And I hate that our city allows public parks to be paid for with private dollars rather than our tax dollars, but that’s the world we live in today. Don’t blame that, or all the ills of an unequal society, on the High Line. By the way, the Witch Hazel is in bloom on the High Line and that’s worth celebrating.
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You kind of have to give them a break. If it was summer, it would be a different story.” Tia Gilmartin, Upper West Side
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No, not really, the city has always been a pig sty.” Larry S., Upper West Side
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Where I’ve been living it’s been OK. The worst thing is the pot holes.” Monica Vitenson, Upper West Side
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I think the city needs help. The community should get more involved.” Robert Williams, Lower East Side
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Ask Margaret
DEAR MARGARET, On a recent cold night in the city, a friend and I called for a cab using an iPhone app. The app confirmed that a taxi was en route and would be arriving in 6 minutes. After about 2 minutes had passed, an available cab drove by and we quickly decided to flag it down and hop in, not wanting to wait longer than necessary in the frigid weather. We cancelled the other cab and were on our way. Mentioning this later to another friend, she thought we were “abusing the system” and that what we did was wrong. What do you think? RIGHTEOUS RIDER
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drivers and passengers have shifted in the past several years, in favor of the passenger, and with that comes a shift in ethics too. The understood rule used to be that one may scramble and shove and lie and overpay and generally do whatever is necessary to secure oneself a yellow cab. That’s because until recently, the cab drivers held all the power; there were few of them, and they knew it, and they would wield their power to select the best fares and had the luxury of refusing to go too near or too far or to a sketchy neighborhood (though the threat of reporting these violations to the TLC has also become more concrete with the ubiquity of cell phones). Despite the occasional attempts by passengers to rectify these injustices through reporting, or shouting, or other sorts of
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witchcraft, New Yorkers have been at the mercy of the medallion holders for decades. But all that’s beginning to change, with more yellow cabs on the streets, green cabs for the outer boroughs, and the brand new ability to hail taxis and livery cabs through services like Uber, Gett and Lyft. Now the passengers have the power, and with that comes many questions about how we should use it. Your specific situation is a perfect example of the small violation that doesn’t feel like a big deal at the time. You were freezing. The cab you summoned was still several minutes away – and who knows if that estimate was accurate? You were exercising your right as a New Yorker to get where you wanted to go as fast as possible. Presumably, the first driver saw the
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cancellation of your ride and was able to pick up another fare immediately. But maybe not – and that’s where the ethical quandary lies. Most of us don’t intend to screw over a hard-working (and generally low-paid, by the way) cab driver when we nix one car in favor of another in closer proximity. Still, that’s what we’re doing when we ask, via telephone or smartphone app or smoke signal, a driver to stop looking for fares, head in our direction, and expect to find a customer and instead leave them searching the street corners in frustration. You may think you’ve only wasted 3 minutes of their time, but the driver may have ignored several other potential passengers on his way to pick you up, and also may not get the cancellation message instantly. If wires get crossed,
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the driver could end up circling the block a few times looking for you before they give up and get on with their shift, losing valuable metered minutes. Unless there are dire circumstances – a woman in labor, an unhinged man swiftly approaching with a homemade weapon in hand, a sale at Barney’s that’s about to end – the right thing to do is wait for the cab you called. (There is a caveat, of course, if the driver still hasn’t arrived 15 minutes or so after the estimated pick-up time and attempts have been made to contact him. Most of the hailing apps include the driver’s phone number, so a quick call to find out his ETA and confirm your location is easy.) If you can’t muster up sympathy for the cab drivers – which you should – think of it as self-preservation for
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passengers. If drivers start to notice that half of the people who hail them via app are no-shows, they’ll stop showing too. Or they’ll agree to get you, and then throw you over for the person hailing them on the street one block away. No one likes to get upstreamed, and cab drivers don’t like to get stood up. The less we perpetrate these crimes against one another, the less frequent they’ll become, and we can look forward to a utopian day in the future of de Blasio’s New York when everyone is matched with their own private flying car that’s never late and never lost. Now if someone could take care of the Taxi TVs, we’d be all set. Do you have a question for Margaret? Email news@ strausnews.com with the subject line “Ask Margaret.”
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Out & About city and society. Join guide Rita Henley Jensen, founder and editor-in-chief of Women’s eNews, as she highlights pioneer writers, agitators, abolitionists, suffragists and those we now call activists, as well as three heroes who gave their lives on September 11, 2001. mas.org/tours
7 75 MORTON STREET TASK FORCE, COMMUNITY BOARD 2 CB 2 Conference Room, 3 Washington Square Village 8:45 a.m., Free A meeting to discuss the development at 75 Morton Street. nyc.gov/html/mancb2
FRAGILE BY DESIGN: THE POLITICAL ORIGINS OF BANKING CRISES AND SCARCE CREDIT Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall Street 12:30 p.m., $5 Fragile by Design is a revealing exploration of the ways that politics inevitably intrudes into bank regulation. Co-authors Charles Calomiris and Stephen Haber combine political history and economics to examine how coalitions of politicians, bankers and other interest groups form, why some endure while others are undermined and how they generate policies that determine
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BIKEMAN: A 9/11 PLAY Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers Street 12 p.m., $25+ Thomas F. Flynn is an Emmy Award-winning CBS reporter who nearly lost his life when the Twin Towers fell. bikeman911.com
THE HIDDEN IMPACT OF WOMEN ON DOWNTOWN MANHATTAN WALKING TOUR Municipal Arts Society 2 p.m., $15+ Discover the rich history of women’s influence in downtown Manhattan on this tour that traces the foundation of NYC. Developed by the award-winning non-profit news service Women’s eNews, this tour celebrates women’s contributions to our
The Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Place 12 p.m., $5+ SKY HIGH examines the recent proliferation of super-slim, ultra-luxury residential towers on the rise in Manhattan. These pencil-thin buildings-all 50 to 90+ stories-constitute a new type of skyscraper in a city where tall, slender structures have a long history. skyscraper.org/EXHIBITIONS/ SKY_HIGH/sky_high.htm
10 COMMUNITY BOARD 2 SIDEWALKS/STREET ACTIVITIES MEETING NYU Silver Building, 32 Waverly Place, Room 101 6:30 p.m., Free A meeting to discuss sidewalk and street permits in the neighborhood. nyc.gov/html/mancb2
COMMUNITY BOARD 3 ARTS TASK FORCE Theater for the New City - 155 First Avenue (btwn E 9th & 10th Sts) 6:30 p.m., Free 1. Lower East Side History Month (May 2014) (Update) 2. Lower East Side Cultural Resources Guide (Update) 3. The Arts & Economic Development On The Lower East Side (Continued Discussion) nyc.gov/html/mancb3
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ALONE IN TRIPTYCH PREVIEW HERE Theater, 145 6th Avenue 8:30 p.m., Free Concrete Temple Theatre presents the World Premiere of Alone in Triptych, written by Renee Philippi and co-directed by Eric Nightengale and Renee Philippi. Alone in Triptych runs from March 13 – 30, 2014. The cast includes Vera Beren, Catherine Porter and Michael Tomlinson. 212-352-3101
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CLASSICAL MUSIC, CAFE-STYLE CABARET CLASSICAL Tiny Caffe Vivaldi in the West Village offers crowdsourced classical concerts BY PHILIPPE THEISE
WEST VILLAGE This month and next, little Caffe Vivaldi in the West Village will join the ranks of institutions like Carnegie Hall as a place to hear great classical music. Why? Because a husband and wife team likes to throw intimate birthday parties and celebrations for composers such as Franz Schubert, Johann Sebastian Bach, and most recently, Frédéric Chopin. This past Saturday afternoon, pianist Emir Gamsizoglu performed a slew of pieces by the Polish-French composer, who was born on February 22 or March 1, 1810—the correct date eludes critics and fans. “He was clever to get more gifts,” joked Gamsizoglu, who played sprightly waltzes and darker mazurkas, fleeting preludes and elegant études before an audience of about 15 in the cozy space. Between pieces, the musician talked about the composer’s oeuvre and shared stories of his era. Jazz musicians dig Chopin for his “improvisation-like” style, Gamsizoglu said; after the composer died in France in 1849, his sister removed his heart and brought it back to Poland, where he was born. Gamsizoglu wasn’t the only performer of the afternoon. Joe Wilamowski, an amateur pianist who lives on the Upper East Side, played Chopin’s Barcarolle, a longer piece he introduced as “a gondola song.” “It’s like you’re rowing through water, at least for me,” he said, before executing the work with vigor and sensitivity. Altogether, the program conveyed a vivid, fun sense of a composer’s life and work,
something that Gamsizoglu and his wife, the actress and playwright Ege Maltepe, seek to achieve with their project, Classical 4 All. By staging events in casual, inexpensive venues, they hope to appeal to listeners who may feel put off by the tradition of tuxedoclad musicians performing in large concert halls. “[To] the ordinary audience,” Gamsizoglu said, “classical musicians, we look ice cold, unreachable, far away.” “Actually, classical musicians are really fun to be around,” he said, wearing an informal sport coat over a Knicks t-shirt and dark jeans. “They’re humorous, they’re pretty sharp.” Ticket prices at places like Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center can represent another barrier for some fans of classical music. Maltepe, who watched her husband and Wilamowski perform from a red-cushioned chair at the bar, guessed that patrons might pay between fifty and two hundred dollars—“his fingers are this big,” she said, gesturing to describe the view of a pianist from afar—at a major venue. On Saturday, a silver champagne bucket served as a jar for the suggested donation of twenty dollars. A waitress passed it around after the last piece, a Polonaise, while some listeners ate slices of strawberry birthday cake. Wilamowski said he enjoyed performing in the Jones Street café. “I like the way it’s kind of a community feel,” he said. “People were respectful and quiet.” He was right. During the early going, most audience members sat motionless, their eyes on Gamsizoglu, while salad and sandwich plates sat temporarily untouched and a weekend street scene occurred through the windows.
Plates clinked, an espresso machine steamed and burbled, and the music continued into the early evening. Classical 4 All has scheduled more performances at Caffe Vivaldi for March and April. Beginning on March 16, Gamsizoglu and guest singers and instrumentalists will play the music of Schubert on six consecutive Sundays. On March 29 and April 5, Gamsizoglu will join the New Yorker Trio to celebrate the birthdays of J.S. Bach and Sergei Rachmaninoff. But first, Maltepe will stage what she calls a “concert-drama,” “Talking to Schubert,” on March 11 at The Fourth Universalist Society on Central Park West. In the piece, Maltepe plays a musicologist who, through a bit of magic, communicates with the early
Joe Wilamowski, an amateur pianist, plays Frédéric Chopin’s Barcarolle during a celebration of the composer’s birthday last Saturday at Caffe Vivaldi in the West Village. Photo by Philippe Theise
nineteenth-century composer via Skype. The characters’ discussion covers how classical music has become “so institutionalized,” Maltepe said, sitting with Gamsizoglu after darkness fell. For she and her husband, the relaxed, accessible setting of a café offers an echo of European classical music scenes during the Romantic era, when composers frequented them and salons. So far, the turnout at Caffe Vivaldi has encouraged them. “We can see that this thing has an audience, and that’s a good sign,” Maltepe said. “We are not the only ones who love classical music.”
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L.E.S. POET REMEMBERS BYGONE GALLERY SCENE ART Greg Masters has published a book of interviews and essays about the Lower East Side art scene in the 1970s BY TOM NEWBURG
Capturing an Era in Print To that end, Masters has published For the Artists: Critical Writings, Volume 1 (322 pp., Crony Books), the first installment of a two-volume collection of essays, reviews and artist interviews from his
years as a writer and critic for Arts Magazine and Cover, two erstwhile publications devoted to the Manhattan arts scene. The book, to be sure, is true to its title: it is a collection of writings for the artists, and if anything is clearer than Masters’ admiration for his subjects’ efforts, it is his fealty to the collaborative quality of the community they fostered. The artists interviewed in the book’s first third include the filmmaker/photographer Rudy Burkhardt, the painters Sam Messer, Jean Holabird, Elizabeth Murray and Larry Rivers, among others. Strictly speaking, these weren’t all “East Village artists” but it’s immediately apparent how close-knit the community was, and how intertwined the literary and art worlds really were. It’s not all a big collaborative love fest. Masters draws out the edges in some of these edgy characters. “I like poets as long as I don’t have to go their readings,” says Holabird. Murray rails against Ronald Reagan and Georgia O’Keefe. Rivers, for his part, is grumpy about a number of things, and doesn’t think much of Murray’s work. Masters includes two previously unpublished essays in the book, one each on Jean-Michel Basquiat and Joseph Beuys, both fascinating characters who, in very different ways, were major influences on the period. The latter half of the book includes selected reviews of individual and group shows and galleries, mostly published in Cover and Arts Magazine between 1984 and 1991. What little actual criticism appears in the volume is reserved for a disparate group of politicians and art critics of the era—from Presidents Reagan and George H. W. Bush to the art critic Hilton Kramer and other familiar names from the political and art establishments of the period. In his introduction to his interview with Larry Rivers, Masters writes, “it was surprising to find his manner more like a grown-up street kid from the Bronx than an established, world-class artist.” But Rivers is hardly the only one among his subjects whom Masters depicts as a bit
Masters interviewed many of his contemporaries for the book, pairing the pieces with photos of the artists and their work.
A Changed Scene, a Changed Neighborhood His glass of wine almost empty, Masters looks out the café window across Avenue A, recalling the East Village as he first met it. “It was a working class, immigrant neighborhood, and a lot of artists moved in because it was poor and affordable. You look at photographs from that era and you can see entire blocks had been decimated.” Then, as if working through the chronology for a documentary, he says, “Patty Astor had the Fun Gallery on East 10th Street. They showed graffiti artists, Fab 5 Freddy, and JeanMichel Basquiat. As I recall, she was one of the first, and it was a very exciting scene that brought a whole new community to this neighborhood.”
THE BOOK For the Artists: Critical Writing, Volume 1 By Greg Masters, Photos by Barry Kornbluh Paperback; 322 pp. Crony Books, 2014 His eyes light up. “These young artists,” he continues, “these graffiti guys who had been painting trains were given gallery exposure and a whole new legitimacy.” He drains the last few drops from his glass, as a new track begins to thump from the state-of-the art sound system overhead. “And then the limos started showing up.”
Weill Music Institute Kelly Kruse
LOWER EAST SIDE When Greg Masters first came to the Lower East Side as a young poet in 1975, the community was known as much for its burning buildings, squatter communities and junkyards as it was for its recent past as a hot spot for the Beat generation. Over the next decade a new generation of young artists, attracted by low rents and a burgeoning art scene, descended on the East Village. Thirty years on, the rents aren’t quite so low and a typical resident is more likely to work with an iPad than a brush or pen and paper. The galleries are almost all gone, replaced with hip cafés and haute restaurants. And while the neighborhood is thriving—and still exciting, if in a different way—Masters looks back on his early years in the city with some wistfulness. “This whole neighborhood was fabulous for collaboration,” he says, sipping a glass of red wine at a corner café on East 12th Street, a few doors down from the building where he still lives. “It was a kind of refuge for dancers, filmmakers, musicians, poets. We all collaborated. We all knew each other. We all worked with each other. We were in each other’s films, performances. It was a very nurturing, artistic community.” Ma sters spor ts da rkrimmed glasses, has graying, wavy black hair, and a goatee that belies his soft-spoken, gentle manner. It’s not hard to see the poet in him. But it is hard to hear him over the hiphop soundtrack at his corner café. But if Masters is somehow
suddenly out of place, he either doesn’t know it or doesn’t show it. This is his chosen ‘hood, for better or worse, and it’s where he belongs. If there’s some longing for an era gone by, it’s less about nostalgia than a powerful impulse to preserve the memories and sensibilities of a very special time and place—a poet’s desire to capture a singular moment.
surly, angry, combative, perhaps even a little paranoid— exactly the sorts of characters one would expect to find at the heart of a burgeoning art scene.
Free
Nathaniel Olson
Neig hbor hood Conc ert
Nathaniel Olson, Baritone Kevin Murphy, Piano Saturday, March 15 at 5 PM Nathaniel Olson’s burly baritone is perfectly suited for dramatic stage work and the classic song repertoire, and he’s partnered with a master of every vocal genre, pianist Kevin Murphy. Program to include songs by Schubert and Copland. Lead funding for Vienna: City of Dreams is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This concert is part of the Marilyn Horne legacy at Carnegie Hall. Thanks to The Honorable Gale Brewer for making this concert possible.
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Advent Lutheran Church 2504 Broadway (at 93rd Street) Manhattan | adventnyc.org | 212-903-9670 1 2 3 | Bus: M104 Part of the Vienna: City of Dreams festival.
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Our Town March 6, 2014
Food Buzz
< RATS DINE ON THE U.E.S.
UPPER EAST SIDE The ongoing construction of the Second Avenue Subway project has created a serious health concern among Upper East Side residents. The New York Post reported a study by a Harvard graduate showing that 77 out of 154 restaurants located in the 10128 Zip code had citations for rodent infestation.
In Brief WALLFLOWER IN THE SPOTLIGHT The inconspicuous downtown restaurant Wallflower received a rave review in the New York Times last week. The restaurant is located on Greenwich Avenue in the West Village, and was transformed from “a periodpiece oyster-and-absinthe bar to a worthy restaurant” by Xavier Herit. Noted dishes include their oysters, served fresh and without any added seasoning. The house made duck sausage, which is served in a stew of tarbais beans, and the chicken, which is beautifully decorated, “hardly resembles the robust stew of yore, with carrots and turnips still retaining crunch and brussels sprout leaves lying upturned like fallen petals.” This quaint eatery is hard to find due to its dimly lit sign, and is described as the perfect place to enjoy flavorful food under the radar.
RESTAURANT COMING TO UNION SQUARE PARK Plans are afoot to reopen a seasonal restaurant within the neo-Classical arch and colonnade in Union Square Park. After years of legal trouble, the restaurant’s operator Simon Oren plans to be open in June of this year. The restaurant, which will be named the Pavilion, was delayed because of a lawsuit against Oren when the city issued him a lease in 2006. Those against the restaurant’s opening thought that it was a misuse of public parkland. Last week, however, the New York State Court of Appeals ruled that Oren and his team could move forward with their construction. Since it will operate as a seasonal restaurant, it will be open from spring to the end of October. There will be a basement kitchen, serving locally sourced food to the 200 seats both inside and outside the pavilion.
PER SE SLAMMED BY HEALTH DEPT The famed upscale dining haven Per Se was pushed down to earth with the rest of the grubby population by a Health Department inspection from February 19, Eater NY reports. The restaurant received 42 points, which would earn it a C grade, though the grade is officially pending and can change after a second inspection, once the place has a chance to clean up its act. The violations included five categorized as “critical,” and the restaurant was cited for not having hand washing facilities in or near the food preparation area and bathroom. “Soap and an acceptable hand-drying device not provided.”
ITALIAN RESTAURANT/HOTEL TO OPEN IN HUDSON SQUARE Beverly Hills architect Marcello Pozzi is bringing some of his Hollywood glamour to a new hotel and restaurant opening in Hudson Square. DNAinfo. com reports that the new 20-story boutique hotel, named Hotel Hugo, will open on April 1st at 525 Greenwich Street. There will be a rooftop bar, and the Italian restaurant will offer outdoor seating. Pozzi oversaw the details of designing a 14-foot tall glass entrance, blue marble floors, and vertical gardens throughout the building. The restaurant will serve handmade pastas, fresh seafood, and a Mediterranean inspired cocktail menu.
Higher percentages occurred uptown, compared to most neighborhoods below 14th street didn’t go over 30%. Areas like the Financial District (11% showing evidence of infestation), and Tribeca (7%) proved to have much cleaner kitchens.
Upper East Side residents were hardly shocked when informed the high percentages that are tainting their neighborhood. Adam Li told the New York Post, “I know I’m taking a risk anytime I eat,” he said. “It’s sort of like, what you don’t know won’t hurt you.”
TASTE OF GREENWICH HOUSE FOOD FEST More than 30 restaurants plan to participate in fundraiser BY OMAR CRESPO
GREENWICH VILLAGE It’s foodie heaven for downtowners, thanks to the Taste of Greenwich House fundraiser, now in its twelfth year. The event takes place Monday, March 10, at the Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street (between Sixth and Seventh Avenues), at 7:30 pm. Greenwich House – a community service and education center founded in 1902 – once again brings together some of the area’s top chefs, representing 30 participating restaurants. BarBacon will be debuting with a pulled pork slider and pineapple slaw. Hundred Acres
ON THE MENU Some participating restaurants and their planned dishes BarBacon: Pulled pork slider with pineapple slaw Commerce: Winter vegetable fricassee Hundred Acres: Smoked arctic char rillette sliders L’Artusi: Hazelnut chocolate torta with praline crunch Left Bank: Shrimp dumplings with cantonese chili sauce Lavo: Meatballs with sheep’s milk ricotta and sausage ragu
will be offering a smoked arctic char rillettes slider, and L’Artusi will be filling dessert with a hazelnut chocolate torta with praline crunch. “The majority of our restaurants are based in the West Village,” said Parisa Esmaili, a Greenwich House spokeswoman. But the event is “opened up to anyone who is interested,” she added, which explains why The V Spot, a Brooklyn based, Latin-vegan-kosher restaurant will be joining this year’s festivities. “It’s exciting to have someone not from the Village,” said Esmaili. Along with BarBacon, which opened around three months ago, The Clam (a month ago) and Press Tea (last summer) are newly established eateries. The annual taste event started as an initiative to raise funding for children’s
safety, part of a Greenwich House program that provides support and therapy for children who have been physically and sexually abused. For the first five years, the event raised funding strictly targeted at the children’s program, ultimately expanding to other areas, such as recreational efforts for children and adults to learn and practice their pottery and musical techniques; a chemical dependency program which aids New Yorkers in overcoming substance abuse problems, including a methadone initiative to help opioid dependent individuals; and a senior center which provides not only entertainment opportunities for elders but health and financial aid as well. The tasting event will also offer a live volunteer band, which will jazzify Top 40 pop
hits, and an auction. Mimi Sheraton, former food critic of the New York Times, and the honorary co-chair for the event this year, became acquainted with Greenwich House through the auction. “She saw the ad that we placed and suggested to auction off a dinner with her and her husband,” said Esmaili. The 12th annual Taste of Greenwich House will take place on Monday, March 10, 2014 at Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street (between Sixth and Seventh Avenues), at 7:30 pm. Tickets will be available online until Sunday, March 9, 2014 at 4:00 pm.
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Business
< FOR DOWNTOWN RENTS, SOME RECORD HIGHS DOWNTOWN More data for the real-estate obsessed: Zumper.com, a listings web site, has tallied up median rents throughout Manhattan, and come up with some surprising findings. For downtown residents -- regardless of whether you live in Battery Park, FiDi, Tribeca
EAST VILLAGE BUSINESSES JOIN FORCES
BOBBY FLAY’S NEW JOINT Celeb chef Bobby Flay is set to open a new Mediterranean eatery, named Gato, on Lafayette Street later this month. He told the New York Post, “I am pretty focused on Gato right now. We are going to have some great grilled dishes there. We’ll do a charred steak with cabarales blue cheese, a grilled chicken with tarragon, and goat cheese potatoes.” Flay will also be filming his new Food Network show called “Beat Bobby Flay” where he will challenge various chefs around the city to see who can produce the best grilled dishes. The show will air on March 6th.
Park City and $3,595 in the West Village. For a two-bedroom, Tribeca median rents are also the city’s most expensive, at $6,659. While none of this will come as a surprise to renters, it’s a boost to landlords -- and a sign of how much downtown has displaced uptown when it comes to fancy real estate.
CHUMLEY’S NEIGHBORS SPEAK OUT IN FAVOR OF REOPENING
In Brief East Village businesses have formed a merchants association, following several small-business closures, in an effort to survive in a business climate with rising rents and competition from chain stores. The East Village Independent Merchants Association was formed under the auspices of the East Village Community Coalition, and received funding from the city’s Dept. of Small Business Services and the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce. The association had its inaugural meeting on Feb. 24 and now plans to conduct a neighborhood-wide business survey to determine priorities and hold committee meetings to develop their offerings. According to their website, the association will act as a resource for growth in the community’s businesses and will work to promote small business visibility in the neighborhood. Sara Romanoski, managing director of the East Village Community Coalition, told DNAinfo.com that she formed the new group to preserve the character of the neighborhood. “From a community character and quality-of-life standpoint, we believe in a diversity of businesses and services in the East Village,” she said. “It really makes the neighborhood ideal.” For more information on the association and how to join, email amy@evccnyc.org.
or the West Village -- the news is not good, if you’re a renter: Those neighborhoods are by far the most expensive in the city, Zumper says. Tribeca leads the priciest list, with the median price of a one bedroom hitting $4,000. That’s followed closely by $3,600 in Battery
BARS Despite a lawsuit from a group of residents trying to prevent the bar re-opening, others living nearby support the historic bar BY MARY NEWMAN
The historic West Village speakeasy Chumley’s, shuttered since 2007, has been making headlines lately, as owner Jim Miller has been working to reopen its doors in 2014. While that news may be welcome for fans of cozy pubs and nostalgia, a group of 48 village residents has filed a lawsuit against the State Liquor Association after the prohibition-era pub renewed their liquor license last October. Despite the outcry from that group, however, there are many neighbors who support Chumley’s progress toward reopening. Eric Rasmussen has lived across the street from the bar since 2000 and told us that he was never bothered by street noise before it closed in 2007. “There are some neighbors, I believe it’s by far the minority, who think that it shouldn’t be reopened because they don’t want to live next to a bar,” Rasmussen told us. “Most of them are people who have moved here since
Chumley’s has closed.” Located at 86 Bedford Street, the building is now surrounded by the designer boutiques and million-dollar real estate that has transformed the neighborhood from its former gritty, revolutionist energy. The underground bar had been operating for 85 years, serving the likes of Ernest Hemingway, E.E. Cummings, and countless members of the Lost Generation. The former interior was designed in keeping with its original purpose as an underground speakeasy. The walls were filled with black and white photographs of the famous playwrights, poets, journalists, and activist that once shared drinks together beneath Bedford Street. The spot is still a stopping point for various literary tours. Rasmussen pointed out that it was never the kind of bar that would appeal to disrespectful patrons. “The fact of the matter is, Chumley’s did not attract a noisy clientele; it’s people who are interested in going to a bar because great literary legends went there.” Owner Jim Miller has worked tirelessly to reopen the pub since its closing 7 years ago, repairing its aging infrastructure, and has fought city agencies to gain the necessary permits and licenses to reopen. Miller told the New York Post, “We’re not going to be operating a club – this isn’t Varick Street.” It didn’t take long for more neighbors to share their support for the bar. “I wish they would have opened already,” said filmmaker Ken Kimmelman, who lives directly across the street. Kimmelman
has lived in the area for 40 years, but told us he doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about. A girl walking by spontaneously shouted, “I want it to reopen, it was the best bar in the ‘hood!” Another longtime resident praised Chumley’s but asked to remain anonymous. “I remember the place having been here, and it’s underground so I don’t buy the whole noise complaint [issue],” he said. “I think its one of those things that relates to how a neighborhood changes,
and now this is a place for rich people and their babies.” It seems the voices opposing the revival of Chumley’s are being heard much more than the majority of its neighbors who welcome it back with open arms. “It is a place that has so much history, and is such a part of the fabric of this neighborhood,” Rasmussen said. “If there is one bar in the West Village that should be allowed to do its business in peace, it’s Chumley’s.”
The interior of the now-closed Chumley’s, where many literary figures used to congregate for drinks and conversation.
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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS FEBRUARY 19 - 25, 2014 The following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s website and include the most recent inspection and grade reports listed. We have included every restaurant listed during this time within the zip codes of our neighborhoods. Some reports list numbers with their explanations; these are the number of violation points a restaurant has received. To see more information on restaurant grades, visit www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/services/restaurant-inspection.shtml.
Legend Bar & Restaurant
88 7 Avenue
Bateaux New York
Pier 62 West 23 A Street - Chelsea Pier
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. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
Subway
100 Maiden Lane
A
Pierre Loti Cafe & Wine Bar
258 West 15 Street
A
Just Salad
98 Maiden Lane
A
Momofuku Noodle Bar
171 1 Avenue
Bon Chon Chicken
104 John Street
A
Financier Patisserie
90 Nassau Street
A
121 Fulton Street
121 Fulton Street
A
Grade Pending (23) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal product temperature is reduced from 140º F to 70º F or less within 2 hours, and from 70º F to 41º F or less within 4 additional hours.
A.I.G.\Chartis
175 Water Street
A
The Scratcher Cafe
209 East 5 Street
A
Hop Shing Restaurant (NY)
9 Chatham Square
Grade Pending (2)
Khyber Pass
34 St Marks Place
A
Benares
45 Murray Street
A
Patsy’s Pizzeria
67 University Place
A
J R Sushi 2 Inc
86A West Broadway
A
Burp Castle
41 East 7 Street
A
Bunga’s Den
137 West 14 Street
A
Vic & Anthony’s Steakhouse
Le Pain Quotidien (Kiosk)
Nka 9Th Ave
A
Burger Joint
33 West 8 Street
A
Cafe Riazor
245 West 16 Street
A
The Red Cat
227 10 Avenue
A
233 Park Avenue Grade Pending (22) Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, crossSouth contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. 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. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies.
Merchants NY
112 7 Avenue
Grade Pending (19) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
La Cerveceria
65 2 Avenue
A
Prima French Bistro
58 East 1 Street
Grade Pending (23) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment.
Buddakan
75 9 Avenue
A
Lenny’s
66 West 9 Street
A
Pour George
35 West 8 Street
A
Papaya King
3 St Marks Place
A
Google-Truck Pit
111 8 Avenue
A
Jimmy’s On 7Th Street
43 East 7 Street
A
Flavors
100 West 23 Street
A
Dok Suni Restaurant
119 1 Avenue
Joe Coffee
131 West 21 Street
A
Toro
85 10 Avenue
A
Francisco’s Centro Vasco
159 West 23 Street
Grade Pending (22) Live roaches 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. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.
Grade Pending (30) Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.
Souen Noodle
326 East 6 Street
A
Hale And Hearty Soups
11 East 17 Street
A
Potbelly Sandwich Shop
22 East 17 Street
A
Dirty Bird To-Go
204 West 14 Street
Grade Pending (20) 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. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/ sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies.
Real Estate Sales Neighborhd
Price
Bed Bath Agent
Battery Park City 300 Rector Place
$508,000
1
1
Ccg Real Estate
56 Pine St.
$721,500
1
1
Douglas Elliman
21 South End Ave.
$735,000
1
2
Brown Harris Stevens
3 Hanover Square
$940,000
1
1
Douglas Elliman
Lower E Side
10 W St.
$7,550,000
4 W 21 St.
$1,767,000 2
2
Corcoran
1
New Bedford
Chelsea
Civic Center E Village
Address
Financial District 123 Washington St.
Flatiron
$1,300,305
Greenwich Village 101 W 12 St.
0
1
Brown Harris Stevens
23 Waverly Place
$535,000
0
1
Corcoran
229 Chrystie St.
$1,000,000
Nolita
259 Elizabeth St.
$805,000
1
1
Clickit Realty
Soho
14 Wooster St.
$5,100,000
Tribeca
8 Jay St.
$2,300,000 2
2
Douglas Elliman
134 Duane St.
$2,400,000 2
2
Town Residential
1
Corcoran
100 W 18 St.
$1,658,250 1
1
Heller Organization
30 E 22 St.
$316,000
224 W 18 St.
$1,210,000 1
1
City Connections Realty
23 E 22 St.
$11,709,875
170 Park Row
$575,000
1
1
Charles Rutenberg
201 E 21 St.
$116,000
142 E 16 St.
$600,000
1
1
Douglas Elliman
366 Broadway
$1,900,000 2
2
1
Big City Management
81 Irving Place
$840,000
1
1
Town Residential
66 Leonard St.
$3,800,000
1 Irving Place
$3,050,000
258 Broadway
$1,175,000
0
1
Douglas Elliman
305 2 Ave.
$1,362,318 2
1 Ave. B
$785,000
160 E 3 St.
$675,000
21 E 1 St.
$10
70 E 10 St.
$1,775,000 2
2
Charles Rutenberg
Financial District 123 Washington St.
$1,257,538 1
1
Douglas Elliman
123 Washington St.
$1,247,356 1
1
W New York Downtown
Gramercy Park
Greenwich Village 116 W 14 St. 101 W 12 St.
0
$650,500
1
Cantor And Pecorella
W Village
1 Morton Square
$3,900,000 3
3
Weichert Realtors
Upper W Side
300 W 108 St.
$595,000
1
Corcoran
320 Riverside Drive
$232,500
$5,200,000 4
3
Brown Harris Stevens
$419,000
1
Brown Harris Stevens
0
1
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Our Town March 6, 2014
YOUR FIFTEEN MINUTES
DANCING THROUGH THE REAL ESTATE MARKET Q&A A former star ballet dancer has found a new calling in selling residential real estate
stage at Lincoln Center.
Year.
Do you watch “Dancing with the Stars”?
You’ve handled the casts of several Broadway shows.
I love “Dancing with the Stars”! I actually just chatted with Apollo Ohno, the Olympic skater who has done “Dancing with the Stars” for two seasons. And he and I got to chat about how he had to train and use his body for the show. It was fun to converse about how hard it is to learn and remember choreography and how our bodies could be trained so differently for each medium.
When did you decide to go into real estate? When I finished my dancing career I started writing for Dance Magazine. I realized I had to reinvent myself and decide what I wanted to do with my next career. I knew that a job sitting at a desk was not for me. I needed to keep moving. I fell into real estate and it just felt like another stage to me. Every space is a different set, with its own energy and movement, encompassing people’s lives, interior design and architecture.
BY OMAR CRESPO
Heather Stein, realtor. At right and below, she was a ballet dancer in a previous life, including stints at Lincoln Center.
Heather Stein has found a most unusual niche: the native New Yorker is a professional ballerina turned real estate star. Stein, who recently won the Real Estate Board of New York’s 2013 Deal of the Year award for a complicated apartment transaction, works for Brown Harris Stevens and has become a go-to agent for actors, dancers and celebs looking for housing. She lives on the Upper West Side, and talked to us last week about her transition from tutus to black suits.
When did you first get into dancing? My mother taught ballet, and I would follow her in the studio. She saw my interest and my talent and thought I should study under the best. I auditioned for the School of American Ballet and was accepted at age eight and stayed for ten years, from beginning to end. I juggled two schools at the same time in order to achieve my academic credits and graduate from high school. I could have never done any of this without the support of both my parents.
Did you have a favorite ballet? Well, I would say the Nutcracker was always fun. I received my first paycheck at the age of nine. I was dancing in the nutcracker at Lincoln Center for many years. I got to perform candy cane, and soldier roles and was carried away by big mice and I danced amongst legends. I was fortunate over the years to dance so many beautiful works. I also had a wonderful experience in performing at Lincoln Center with Ray Charles. A few of us were selected to perform while he played the piano and sang and that was fun. I was privileged to be with George Balanchine, Lincoln Kirsten and Mayor Koch on
You won last year’s Deal of the Year for a very complicated and difficult deal after Hurricane Sandy. What made it so difficult? It was five transactions in one. And it was basically a sale and a lease, a buy and a lease, and a lease. And it was one of my most rewarding deals. All the pieces and hurdles had to come together to make it work, like a deck of cards. If one piece didn’t fall into place, everyone was in jeopardy. We made it work. I’m so proud! The transactions started by me listing an apartment in lower Manhattan, the week right after Sandy, so we certainly had our hurdles, from selling a flooded lower Manhattan to meeting sellers’ specific needs. Basically timing and luck and a lot of hard work really made it come together. It took a lot of time and patience but everybody is settled and thrilled. I am so honored to have been chosen for the Deal of the
Coming from the entertainment business, I have an affinity and love for housing artists. I did the housing for Mamma Mia and Thoroughly Modern Millie and Annie Get Your Gun and many others. I relocated entire casts, set designers, producers, directors and others. For privacy’s sake, and because I respect and honor the artists I work with, their names are something I cannot disclose. I appreciate all of their business and trust in me.
Do you plan to do real estate for the rest of your life? Where do you see yourself going or doing in the future? Oh my gosh, if I had a crystal ball to tell me of my life, I think we’d all be set. I would say, day by day, I’m not sure where life would take me. I never knew I would land here today or win deal of the year. I’m recently single and I’m looking forward to falling in love again and having a family and one day living out in the country with a garden and maybe sell homes down the road. I won’t miss board packages!
Any thoughts about the state of New York real estate? We have so little supply in the city currently and with interest rates so low it’s really kept our market flowing. I’m not sure of any bubble to come, as you know we are certainly an island that carries its own markets and needs. I mean you’ve got to love New York. That’s what I think. Currently, I’m working with a well-known NYCB ballet dancer, selling her fabulous two-bedroom condo steps from Lincoln Center. Working with artists that I know and being able to handle their properties is a joy. If anyone is out here and wants to work with me, let’s move.
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