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A reporter delves into newlyavailable resources for searching for clues to ancestry

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UNION SQUARE Inside the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute at the Center for Jewish History on 16th Street, an orderly calm masks the intensity of personal discovery.

Visitors use desktop computers to access databases of family names and places of origin, and microfilm readers to examine hand- and typewritten documents. Most pursue their work quietly, but sometimes, the effect of the research is clear.

“We had someone for whom we found an immigration document for her grandfather, and she was named after this person,” said Laura Leone, the director of archive and library services at the center. “Her eyes popped out of her head.”

The newly renovated institute, along with the adjoining Lillian Goldman Reference Division and Reading Room, serve as the entrance point to the physical archives of the center’s five partners: the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Altogether, the partners’ collections consist of approximately 500,000 texts and over 100 million documents and multimedia artifacts, including scholarly works, memoirs, letters, flyers, and photographs, mostly housed on eight floors on the 17th Street side of the building.

Leone said that family history searches that begin with names in the institute can lead to books and other resources in the reading room.

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A group of residents around Christopher Park gathered last week to help landscape and plant. Photo by Mary Newman

NEIGHBORS BRING VILLAGE PARK TO LIFE NEWS A group of residents has joined forces to revitalize Christopher Park

BY MARY NEWMAN

WEST VILLAGE New York has been steadily shedding its 20th century reputation as a filthy city with garbage-lined streets, an effort usually attributed to sweeping policy overhauls by past mayors. But a major, if

overlooked, reason Manhattan has remained in such good shape is because of neighborhood community groups volunteering their time to keep the borough looking beautiful.

The Village, once known as a dangerous and wild part of Manhattan, has outgrown its bad reputation.

Christopher Park, a small green space located right at the heart of the West Village, is one of the spots that has attracted people to the historic neighborhood. Many people have visited the triangular park since its creation in 1837, and

it is now the home of the only public statue commemorating the Gay Rights Movement in America.

But now, despite its surrounding neighborhood’s steady rise, the park has been slowly deteriorating since the mid 1990s, after the local group that had been maintaining it abandoned the project. Andre Becker has been living in the West Village since 1994, and after noticing that the beloved pocket of greenery was going to the weeds, he decided to start up a

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The New York City Fire Department will now have a much greater role in responding to reports of possible gas leaks, according to an order made by Mayor Bill de Blasio in response to the March explosion that leveled two East Harlem buildings and killed eight people.

The plan also calls for more efficient repairs to the city’s aging infrastructure and improved communication about potentially deadly leaks among the city’s agencies, independent utilities and the public.

Previously, residents who smelled gas were often told to call their gas utility or dial 311, the city’s information hotline. The fire department, which possesses the most suitable manpower and equipment to conduct a quick evacuation or ventilation of the area, would only be notified if the leak met certain thresholds, such as a multitude of calls or other warning signs, like a flickering of lights.

SUMMER STREETS ANNOUNCED FOR AUGUST The city announced another season of Summer Streets, a series of vehicle-free days on major stretches of NYC roads.

On three consecutive Saturdays in August, about seven miles of NYC’s streets are opened for people to play, run, walk and bike.

In 2013, more than 300,000 people took advantage of the open streets.

Held between 7 a.m. to 1 p.m,, Summer Streets extends from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park, along Park Avenue and connecting streets. All activities at Summer Streets are free of charge, and designed for people of all ages and ability levels to share the streets respectfully.

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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS CHECK C.B. 1 WANTS MORE SOLUTIONS FOR SEAPORT PROTECTION Downtown Express reported that Community Board 1 viewed potential plans for a multi-purpose levee system to protect Lower Manhattan

from storms and rising sea levels, but expressed concerns about a lack of short-term solutions for the area. The plan, presented by city officials at a meeting earlier this month, shows a project to construct a levee along the East Side of Manhattan which would eventually be able to withstand

a 19-foot increase in water level, and would take 65 years to complete.

Some committee members expressed concerns about the renderings showing high-rise buildings between the current historic area and the proposed sea walls. City officials will continue to hear public comment on the proposal, and

will hear from Community Board 3 in a meeting on July 9. Downtown Express

ARCHAEOLOGISTS TEST “ELIXIR OF LONG LIFE” DNAinfo.com reported that following a recent excavation beneath a hotel site at 150 Bowery, archaeologists of Chrysalis Archaeology discovered a 19th century recipe that supposedly fends off death. After finding the small bottle containing the “Elixir of Long Life” at the Bowery site, once home to a German beer garden, Chrysalis decided to test the elixir themselves.

After tracking down the recipe in a 19th-century medical guide, the group of archaeologists found that the recipe contained aloe and gentian root, as well as an abundance of alcohol. The president of Chrysalis has said that these concoctions were frequently served in bars throughout the 19th century, and that it is unclear whether it was the alcohol or the herbs that made people feel better. DNAinfo.com

ELDERLY PEDESTRIAN STRUCK BY SIGHTSEEING BUS A 74-year-old woman was hit by a double-decker bus as she was crossing the street in the West Village. The woman, who was rushed to Bellevue

Hospital where she was reported in critical condition, was crossing Seventh Avenue westbound at 14th Street when she was struck by a CitySightsNY tour bus. Witnesses claim the woman was dragged under the bus, and police say she suffered injuries to her head and legs, according to Gothamist. An NYPD spokesperson reported that the press office did not have any further information on the collision, and could not say whether the woman had the right of way or was jaywalking.

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WHITE POWDER SCARE AT POLICE HQ According to DNAinfo.com, NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton’s office was locked down for an hour after an envelope of white powder was mailed to him. The powder turned out to be completely harmless, however, as immediate testing showed that it was simply sugar. The sugar was sent to Bratton by a Queens woman, who had sealed the sugar inside an envelope, which was folded inside of another envelope. The woman in question believed her roommate was spiking her sugar, and so she wanted Bratton to analyze it to see if it contained any hazardous substances. DNAinfo.com

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG CABLE CAPER A thief made off with copper cable from a construction site. At 5 AM on Wednesday, June 11, a 60-year-old male employee of Con Edison was investigating a previous larceny at a construction site in front of 80 Chambers Street, when he observed a 45-year-old man removing copper cable from the site. The thief had a splicing tool he used to cut the cable before placing it into a folding cart.

When confronted, the bandit fled southbound on Broadway and west on Murray Street. The Con Ed employee managed to take a photo of the thief on his cell phone. Police searched the area but could not locate the cable robber. The stolen cable consisted of 15 pieces of 500-gauge 5-inch-thick cable totaling 5 feet in length, weighing approximately 30 pounds and valued at $1,500.

TOOL FOOL Another construction site was robbed by a tool thief. At 3 PM on Monday, June 2, a 53-year-old male employee of Miller Druck Spec Inc saw an unknown perpetrator remove property from in front of 194 Broadway. The robber fled in an unknown direction after taking property from a toolbox on the sidewalk. This box was in plain view and

not secured to the construction site.

The stolen items included a Blue Star welding machine valued at $1,500, a Knaack toolbox costing $800, 5-inch grinders priced at $600, 8-inch worm saws valued at $500, a lifting device for a hi-lo costing $400, hammer drills priced at $350, a long-handle bender valued at $300, boxes of KB-3 bolts costing $300, a plate brake bender costing $200, and a welding shield and jacket priced at $200. The total amount stolen came to $5,150.

CROSSOVER CROSS-OUT Someone stole property from a man’s crossover. At 8:30 PM on Thursday, June 12, a 44-year-old man from White Plains left his gray 2010 BMW X5 crossover in a parking lot at 1 South Street before leaving to attend an event inside Battery Gardens. When he returned at 11:15 PM, he found that his vehicle’s trunk was open, and property was missing. There was no damage to the vehicle. The items stolen were CPA books valued at $2,600, a box of clothing worth $1,500, a Coach leather bag valued at $500, a Tumi leather wallet worth $200, $200 in cash, an iPhone4 costing $200, a Nautica watch valued at $150, a Sandow watch worth $150, plus various debit and credit cards, a Massachusetts driver’s license, car and home keys, and a

medical ID card. The total haul came to $5,500.

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A man was arrested after a botched mugging attempt. At 1:20 p.m. on Sunday, June 15, a 45-year-old man came up behind a 36-year-old man at the corner of Beaver Street and Broadway and punched the younger man in his back. The younger man turned around and noticed that the wallet in his back right pocket was missing, as well as the backpack he had placed on the ground. The assailant then ran into the Bowling Green 4/5 station with the victim following in close pursuit. The victim saw the thief on the subway platform and tried to grab him to recover his property. Both men then fell to the floor. Police arrived on the scene and recovered the wallet and backpack from the train platform next to the mugger. Police arrested Albert Sides, the perpetrator, and charged him with grand larceny.

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and stole items without permission or authorization. The store’s cash box was found in front of 455 West Broadway, with $45 in cash missing. Video is available of the incident. Other items stolen included a LightSpeed scanner valued at $200 and an iPod worth $150, making a total of $395.

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A thief broke into and burglarized a belt store. At 8PM on Friday, June 13, a 35-year-old man forced entry through the front door of Badichi Customized Belts at 159 Prince Street

Another robber broke into and burglarized a clothing boutique. At 3 AM on Saturday, June 14, police received a radio report of a man on the premises in the Hat Club Soho at 103 Mercer

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Street. When police arrived, they found that the bottom half of the front door had been broken off and opened, with broken glass and a cash drawer on the floor inside the store. $450 in cash was missing from the drawer. Video is available of the incident. The store manager told police that he might know the perpetrator, speculating that it could have been the same man who committed a previous burglary just two days before.

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LOWER MANHATTAN Comptroller Scott Stringer held the last of his six town hall-style hearings to discuss post-Sandy recovery progress – or the lack thereof – in Manhattan last week.

“The reason we’re holding this hearing is that Build it Back was an utter failure,” said Stringer. “The city’s response [to Hurricane Sandy] was a failure.”

Build it Back, announced by the Bloomberg administration in 2013, is a city program designed to steer federal disaster relief funds to residents affected by Hurricane Sandy, which struck New York in late-October 2012 and caused billions of dollars of property damage. But since its inception, the program has been plagued by bureaucratic delays and complicated paperwork requirements. Just six homes have been rebuilt under the program, while some 20,000 homeowners languish on a waiting list for aid.

Stringer announced in April his office would be conducting an audit of Build It Back to get to the bottom of why recovery funds are bottlenecked. The recovery hearings were held to get a sense of what people were seeing and experiencing, “on the ground,” said Stringer. He previously conducted two hearings in Queens, two in Brooklyn and one in Staten Island.

Due to the high rise nature of housing in Lower Manhattan, concerns at this hearing were less about rebuilding issues and more about small businesses who are still struggling and whether Lower Manhattan is prepared should another hurricane strike.

Catherine McVay Hughes, chairperson of Community Board 1, told Stringer and the three deputy comptrollers he brought along to the hearing that at a height of

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“While great strides have been made in Lower Manhattan in terms of recovery and relief, there is still much that must be done to rebuild and revitalize what was destroyed, and protecting the area in anticipation of future extreme weather events,” said McVay Hughes.

At the top of her list are small businesses that applied for aid but were left in bureaucratic purgatory by the Dept. of Small Business Services’ Hurricane Sandy Business Loan and Grant Program.

“To our knowledge, not one application has been approved in the Seaport or Lower Manhattan affected areas,” said McVay Hughes. “Additionally, the process has been non-transparent and confusing to business owners who have had difficulty following up on the status of their applications.”

Stringer said his office is aware of the problems facing small businesses in Lower Manhattan, and is working on finding answers and providing relief.

“It’ hard to imagine none of that money has been spent in 18 months, that’s why we’re holding these hearings,” said Stringer.

Equally worrying to McVay Hughes and CB1 is the resiliency of Lower Manhattan, including public transportation infrastructure, Con Edison’s steam and gas grids, and the continued susceptibility of the area to flooding.

“Hurricane Irene struck New York City in August of 2011 and Superstorm Sandy in October of 2012,” said McVay Hughes.

“Last year we got lucky, but we cannot go on hoping that we will be lucky in the years to come.”

Aixa Torres, president of the tenants association at the Alfred E. Smith Houses - which has 1,900 units in 12 buildings adjacent to FDR Drive and the East River - said she feels the houses remain

A garage on Williams Street, days after Sandy struck Lower Manhattan.

Community Board 1 Chairperson Catherine McVay Hughes said small businesses in Lower Manhattan are still struggling well over a year after Hurricane Sandy. Photo by Daniel Fitzsimmons ill-prepared for another Sandy-caliber hurricane. “My biggest concerns are my seniors and those with disabilities on the highest floors,” said Torres, who has her eye on a hurricane that’s been forecasted for late-August/early-September.

McVay Hughes said long-term projects like the Lower Manhattan Multi-Purpose Levee will not effectively protect Lower Manhattan for several decades to come, and that the area is, “in desperate need of immediate resiliency and hardening measures.”

Trevor Holland, president of the tenants association at 82 Rutgers Slip, where the hearing was held, said he’s not at all convinced Lower Manhattan and its residential buildings – including the Rutgers buildings and others in the Two Bridges development – are ready for another Sandy.

“As of this moment, I don’t think we’re prepared, and I don’t know how we’re going to get prepared,” said Holland. “We’re heading into a second storm season and we really haven’t seen any short term resiliency projects get done.”

Holland said he has no idea where all the money went that was allocated to helping communities like his protect themselves from another major storm, and is frustrated by the lack of short term progress he’s seen.

“These are issues that we’re looking for and looking at in the audit process, and let me also assure people that part of what we’re looking at is, is there an emergency plan in place? What does that look like? Because if there is another big storm, we are woefully behind,” said Stringer.

Stringer said his newly formed Sandy Oversight Unit will be auditing Sandy recovery programs. For more information, email sandyoversight@comptroller.nyc. gov or call 212-669-2560.

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WEST VILLAGE Pride hits the streets of New York this week, and the regular schedule of rallying, marching, dancing, celebrating and parading will be updated to include the littlest LGBTQ allies. For the second time ever, Pride Week will host a Family Movie Night, with a screening of The Wizard of Oz at the Hudson River Park Pier and an evening catering to LGBTQ families. The rally and march are also advertised as â&#x20AC;&#x153;family-friendlyâ&#x20AC;? events, a designation indicative of how advocates and allies have become increasingly focused on the family and kidcentric aspects of gay rights.

Family Nightâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a relatively new addition to the Pride lineupâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;has already made an indelible mark in the LGBTQ enclave. The outer boroughs have also staked a claim; Harlem Pride encourages people of all ages to attend, and Brooklyn Pride has its own designated Kids Space, replete with bouncy houses and clown painting.

Heritage of Pride (which organizes and runs Pride Week) managing director Chris Frederick said the idea of Movie Night was originally created because he felt a family event was needed to help round out Pride Week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought it was an event that was lacking during Pride Week in the sense that there wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really a family event currently happening,â&#x20AC;? said Frederick. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t anyone catering on a larger scale to LGBT families. So in conjunction with Target we produced this event and it was a big success.â&#x20AC;?

In 2012, Pride held its first family night with a screening of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; the event was popular, but the organizers couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find funding to bring it back in 2013. Demand was palpable enough this year, however, that they decided to make it happen in 2014.

For some who associate Pride Week with writhing

semi-naked bodies dancing through the streets of the Village, the idea of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;familyfriendlyâ&#x20AC;? atmosphere could seem incongruous; after all, the march can be a rowdy and even bawdy affair.

Tish Flynn, the Media Director of NYC Pride, said that they havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t heard from any naysayers about the family programming, and that the lineup of events has attracted both neighborhood regulars and LGBTQ families alike; Pride champions a spirit of inclusivity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had really old people, really young people,â&#x20AC;? Flynn said, noting that last year there were more very young

many LGBTQ families, who proudly bring their children to participate.

Sydney King marched last year with her wife and then six-month-old daughter who, upon waking from her nap, received â&#x20AC;&#x153;lots of love from the crowd.â&#x20AC;? King felt that her family â&#x20AC;&#x153;symbolized the whole queer family thing.â&#x20AC;?

For King, and for many other LGBTQ people and their families, Pride is not just a week of fun excursion, but a microcosmic period steeped in history and intense meaning.

Gabriel Blau, the executive director of Family Equality, has marched in the past with his husband and little boy, and plans on doing so again.

Blau firmly maintains that although many people think that Prideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family-friendly spirit is just a matter of â&#x20AC;&#x153;accommodation,â&#x20AC;? it represents

A family at Pride Weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Family Night in 2012, the ďŹ rst year the event was held, for a screening of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

children than ever before.

This year Demi Lovato is a host, which is also sure to attract a younger crowdâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a kind of icing to The Wizard of Oz cake.

When asked if Pride has received any pushback for inviting children along, Flynn seemed incredulous: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not at all. This is New York Cityâ&#x20AC;Ś.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not even a question of acceptance.â&#x20AC;? Noting that Pride takes place right along Christopher Street, Flynn implied that if people had a problem with any of it, they were simply in the wrong neighborhood. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing it for the community. We really push for that.â&#x20AC;?

Flynn paints a portrait of Pride camaraderie, with many West Village bystanders joining in on the activities, or simply watching the march from behind the lines. Mostly, though, Pride Weekâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and namely the march--has become a beloved tradition for

so much more. Blau believes that Prideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s partnership with Johnson & Johnson this year in setting up a changing table for children is a real â&#x20AC;&#x153;statement;â&#x20AC;? more than just a matter of logistics, the tables are hugely symbolic, showing the support of a major American corporation that many associate with wholesome, familyoriented values and products.

As Blau points out, many children who come from LGBTQ families are discriminated against; for parents to be able to march proudly with their kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to have â&#x20AC;&#x153;others see them with their childrenâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D; has been an â&#x20AC;&#x153;unparalleled experienceâ&#x20AC;? for Blau and countless others.

With more and more LGBTQ families raising children, Prideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shift to include spaces for kids is not just pragmatic; it makes the statement, as Blau said, that â&#x20AC;&#x153;all families can be part of this community, this story.â&#x20AC;?

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MEN HAVE NEEDS TOO. People who live around Christopher Park discovered that the Parks Department is not solely responsible for its upkeep, and have formed a group to keep the park looking beautiful. Photo by Mary Newman

NEIGHBORS BRING VILLAGE PARK TO LIFE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 new group of volunteers to turn the park around.

“I really noticed over the past couple of years that the park was seeing a major decline. It wasn’t very colorful, there was a lot of brown, and it was being overtaken by weeds,” Becker explained. “Not knowing any better, I thought that keeping this park in good condition was solely up to the Parks Department, but once looking into it more I realized smaller parks are mostly maintained by a community group working with Parks.”

Late last summer Becker helped form a new group of community activists called the Christopher Park Partnership (CPP) in an effort to restore the park to its former glory.

Partnering with the City Parks Foundation Partnership for Parks, they have developed a plan for revitalization, which was approved by the Parks

Department and is now underway.

The Parks Department will cover the costs for repairs, tree pruning, and daily maintenance, but CPP needs to raise funds to cover the cost of the larger initiative project. Their main focus right now has been to get a new irrigation system in place. According to Becker, a Con Edison steam pipe burst on the edge of the park, completely frying the soil. In addition to the burst pipe, the soil has been filled with decaying plants for years and needs to be replaced.

The last renovation was in the mid 1980s, and the soil has been completely exhausted.

This past Sunday the group held a community garden day, telling their neighbors through word of mouth and their Facebook page to volunteer their time in the garden for a day to get involved with their efforts.

It was a gorgeous day filled with some old and new faces, and a successful effort to show their neighbors all the hard work they’ve been pouring into their patch of earth.

The park’s entrance was

covered with colorful flowers, and the 140-year-old wrought iron fence sported a fresh coat of paint. Ria Boemi has been involved with CPP after hearing about their efforts from a friend at a Christmas Party this past holiday season. The park is right outside her front door, and like Becker she has noticed the decline in its appearance over the past few years. Boemi said that the most rewarding part of getting involved with the park has been the positive response from fellow neighbors.

“When we are in the garden working, people are constantly stopping by to thank us,” she said. “Everyone in the neighborhood has been so supportive. Making the park look good has raised the spirit of the entire block.”

If you want to get involved, or donate to the cause, you can support the Christopher Park Partnership by visiting their website at www. christopherpark.org and liking their Facebook page to get updates on different events and fundraisers.

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Subway Riders (1950), by Ralph Fasanella, from the American Folk Art Museum collection.

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STROKES OF GENIUS AT THE AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM

Phrenological Head (c. 1850) by Asa Ames, from the American Folk Art Museum collection. Photo

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1931) meticulously crafted from tiny interlocking pieces of cherry wood (no glue, no nails), an nd a soarand ing model of a museum, Encyclopedic Palacee (c. 1950s), that was to be located in Washington, D.C., and showcase human inventive-

EXHIBITS A selection of works from rom the collection is now on n view

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LINCOLN SQUARE RE Wa l k through the modest gallery space elf-Taught Genius: housing this exhibit, Self-Taught merican Folk Art Museum Treasures from the American 14), and you’ll be surprised (through August 17, 2014), riety of the works on disat the richness and variety umber, some 100 in all. play—and the sheer number, There are portrait paintings, landscape paintings, mourning paintings, needlework, ure, furniture, decoys, quilts, pottery, sculpture, usel lion and a carnival weather vanes, a carousel banner. The show payss homage to the decorae art. Ammi Phillips’ iconic tive arts, but also to fine g (c. 1830-35) Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog opens the show, and Edward Hicks (The Peace1) Horace H Pi i (O t t able Kingdom, 1829-31), Pippin (Outpost Raid: Champagne Sector, 1931), and Grandma Moses (Dividing of the Ways, 1947) are represented.

Curiosities, and gems, abound. There’s a precious miniature bed adorned with carved animals, an artful, tripod folding chair, a tin knife grinder, and a long, unidentifiable object wrapped in colored yarn and fabric by Judith Scott (19432005), a California woman who was deaf and had Down syndrome.

There’s an eight-foot-tall model of the Empire

ness—a paean to “all the works of man in whatever field…everything from the wheel wh to the satellite,” accordiing tto creator t M i A iti an auto-body t b d meMarino Auriti, chanic, whose out-sized architectural dream was never realized.

In short, there’s something here for everyone.

Pick your medium—and your passion. Quilt lovers will revel in the kaleidoscopic quilt by New Yorker Paula Nadelstern (Kaleidoscopic XVI: More Is More, 1996), or the one made by household slaves at a Kentucky plantation, not the mistress of the house (Whig Rose and Swag Border Quilt, c. 1850). Commuters may experience a sense of

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déjà vu u upon seeing Subway Riders (1950), Ralph Fasanel Fasanella’s vivid lineup of passengers that is on loan from the Fifth Avenue/53rd Street subway station. stat The works span centuries, harking back to the 18th century and extending into the present century. In many cases the artists and craftsm craftsmen are unidentified; they are in all cases without formal training, fashioning art “in the trenche trenches of life and not in the halls of the academy,” curator cu Stacy C. Hollander writes in the cata catalog.

The show sh trumpets creativity, the capacity o of each individual to dig deep inside and a pull out something original—to find his or her “genius” and run with wit it. Hollander resurrects an 18th century debate about the origins of artistic and literary inspirat inspiration, noting “a deepening conviction con that natural or origina original genius was truer than genius built on precedent that risked m mere imitation.”

Enligh Enlightenment theories notably re represented a movement away from fro belief in “God-given” genius (divine intervention as the spark) spar to a rationalist belief in innate genius that could be cultivated and worked. Self-education was firmly embedded in the culture of the early American republi republic. Today however, the show’s o organizers maintain, the self self-taught concept has evolved to the extent that it ttypically i ll refers to “outsider” artists, those “working outside the art historical canon and often in isolated circumstances.”

Co-curator Valérie Rousseau observes, moreover, that creativity in the artistic realm may be the byproduct of adversity, writing: “For self-taught artists…

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IF YOU GO Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum Through August 17, 2014 The American Folk Art Museum 2 Lincoln Square (Columbus Avenue at 66th Street) Closed Mondays; see www.folkartmuseum.org/ info for hours Admission is free [it] often arises at a turning point in their lives, at a moment when they need to reinvent themselves: separation, disease, loss of a loved one, an impending move, emigration, radical isolation, retirement… circumstances that lead to perceiving the world in a sharper and more sensitive way.”

The works here are characterized by a simplicity and directness, perhaps none more so than the early portrait paintings or Asa Ames’ wooden bust, Phrenological Head (c. 1850). A depiction of a young girl whose skull is colorfully sectioned to denote the different regions, or faculties, of the brain, she represents the popularity at the time of phrenology, the pseudoscientific practice of examining the bumps on the human skull, which were believed to be synced with specific mental and character traits and subject to alteration in the name of self-improvement.

Grace note: the exhibit boasts the museum’s first gift, Flag Gate (artist unidentified, c.1876), a New York farm gate in the shape of the American flag, acquired in 1962 and believed to have been crafted in honor of the nation’s centennial.

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phonetics—and found the latter in a list of Moroccan names.

“Same neighborhood,” Arden said, knowing I expected to find it on an Algerian list.

Nothing for Benayche, but Chouraqui lit up the screen.

We opened the center’s website and searched for it there, too, and found a 1968 book by André Chouraqui called “Between East and West: A History of the Jews of North Africa,” in the collection of the American Sephardi Federation.

That book, and a 2011 collection of articles entitled “Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa,” kept me occupied for the rest of the day. I didn’t know that attacks against Jews in Tetouan helped cause migration to Oran; I didn’t know that Algerian Jews gained their French citizenship via the Crémieux Decree in 1870.

As I read, I felt the knowledge of my forebears’ world warming my body. I felt closer to the beaches that my mother hasn’t visited since she left Algeria, and that I have yet to see.

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Some people want the larger context.

They want to know about the town their great-grandfather was from, the major trades, they want to know exactly what Jewish life was like.”

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“Some people come in and they want to fill out their family tree and that’s it,” she said.

“But some people want the larger context. They want to know about the town their great-grandfather was from, the major trades, they want to know exactly what Jewish life was like.”

According to Miriam Haier, the senior manager for communications and publications at the center, family history has grown more popular since the genealogy institute opened in 2000. The new space, which opened on May 12, features touchscreen computers with wireless keyboards, more room for visitors and reference staff to spread out and conduct oneon-one sessions, and sliding glass doors that comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Artwork, design, and décor help bring the purpose of the institute, reference division, and reading room into focus.

The artist Diane Samuels composed her map, “The Written World,” with pieces of dyed, handmade paper depicting letters and characters from materials within the collections; it hangs by the entrance to the reading room. The Manhattan design firm Pure and Applied made a silver-colored sculpture of a tree with archival photographs of families, couples and children arranged among its branches; it stands by the door of the institute.

Even the carpet, a repeating pattern of Tetris-like forms in

shades of gray, suggests the interlocking nature of human ancestry.

The center welcomes people of all backgrounds to do genealogical research, study archival material, or peruse exhibitions on Jewish history. Last week, near the end of a series of events marking the reopening of the institute, I walked in with my notebooks, pens, and a few names.

My mother’s family comes from Oran, a city on the Mediterranean coast of Algeria.

They moved to Paris in 1960 during the Algerian War of Independence, and she married my father, an American, near Boston in 1972. I grew up with the Red Sox, MTV, and a halfFrench identity rooted in Europe. But as an adult, mom’s occasional reminiscences of the beaches she enjoyed as a child have grown more important.

There was her father, who sold specialty foods and wine: an Eruimy. Her mother, who married him according to custom after his first wife, her older sister, died: a Benayche.

And her grandmother: a Chouraqui. Plus an additional clue: the Benayches came from Tetouan, a city in Morocco.

David Rosenberg, the reference services research coordinator in the reading room, met me for a morning appointment. He introduced me to JD Arden, a reference assistant in the institute. Together, we sat at computers and visited SephardicGen, a website devoted to the Jews of Southern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.

We looked for Eruimy, then Ruimy—names, I learned, have various spellings, and databases permit searches based on

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A human-family tree stands by the renovated genealogy institute at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. Photographs of couples, children, families, molecular matter, and, atop the trunk, Rosalind Franklin—the British Jewish scientist whose work helped Watson and Crick imagine the double helix—adorn the branches. Photo provided by the Center for Jewish History

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After your garden plants sprout, place newspaper sheets around them, then water & cover with grass clippings and leaves.

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Use shredded newspaper as animal bedding in lieu of sawdust or hay.

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27 “DIAL UP WITH PAT OATES” Gotham Comedy Club, 208 W. 23rd St, btwn Seventh & Eighth Aves.

7 p.m.; $15 Stand-up comedian Pat Oates wows audiences with his blunt honesty and acerbic wit.

18+.

THE BICYCLE FILM FESTIVAL Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave. 7 p.m.; $11 This annual festival celebrates bicycles through film, art, and music. anthologyfilmarchives.org;

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Roll a twice-folded newspaper sheet around a jar, remove the jar, & you have a biodegradable seed-starting pot that can be planted directly into the soil.

Make newspaper airplanes and have a contest in the backyard.

Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St. 11 p.m.; $18 in advance, $20 at the door This 7-piece band brings back the ‘80s, performing great hits live. 21+. lepoissonrouge.com; 212505-FISH

Uplands, South Street Seaport.

1:30 p.m.; Free This festival explores both

featuring Irish cuisine and drinks. greenespace.org; (646) 829-4000

30 JOAN RIVERS: DIARY OF A MAD DIVA Barnes & Noble, 33 E 17th St. 7 p.m.; free Comedian, author and red carpet icon Joan Rivers discusses her latest work.

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TIME PRESENT/TIME PAST—ANITA THACHER New York Public Library,

gothamcomedyclub.com; 212-369-9000

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Matthew Marks Gallery, 523 W 24th St, btwn Tenth & Eleventh Aves.

11 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Free This solo exhibition features Fecteau’s abstract sculptures, made from found objects and photographs taken by Fecteau and others that the artist has collected over the last twenty years. Closes on June 28th. matthewmarks.com; 212243-0200

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traditional and contemporary Latin American and Caribbean music. rivertorivernyc.com

“DUBLINERS: A QUARTET” Greene Space, 44 Charlton St, at the corner of Varick St. 4:30 p.m.; $45, includes an Irish supper and drinks This audio play, inspired by James Joyce’s stories, includes an extended intermission

Mulberry Street Location, 10 Jersey St, btwn Lafayette & Mulberry Sts. 12-7 p.m.; Free This is the closing day of New York artist Anita Thacher’s exhibition, featuring her multimedia art. The title is drawn from the T.S. Eliot poem “Four Quartets,” which inspired the exhibition’s themes of time and place. nypl.org; 212-966-3424

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THE FED AT 100 Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall St, at William St. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. $8, $5 seniors/students “The Fed at 100” illuminates the complex workings of the nation’s central bank on its centennial anniversary and explores the pivotal role the Federal Reserve has played throughout the history of American finance. The Museum’s largest exhibition to date, “The Fed at 100” encompasses three galleries and a theater. moaf.org, 212-908-4110

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NYC PRIDE WEEK POETRY WORKSHOP Poet Doughlas Goetsch, whose work has appeared in the New Yorker and Best American Poetry, among other publications, hosts an LGBTQ-friendly poetry workshop at his Jane Street apartment, in celebration of NYC Pride Week. Goetsch, who teaches workshops from his home, is also the founder of Jane Street Press, a non-profit poetry press.

Friday, June 27 and Saturday, June 28 1 Jane St. Noon Pay what you wish To register, call 212-924-6315

“16 WORDS OR LESS” The Wild Project, 195 E. 3rd St, (b/t Avenue A and Avenue B) 8 p.m., $18, $15 students Part of the Clubbed Thumb Summerworks Festival 2014, “16 Words or Less” is about “A lone and over-helpful flower shop clerk [who] tries to contain the challenges of her customers’ lives, but can’t do the same for herself.” thewildproject.com, 212228-1195

2 BARGEMUSIC Fulton Ferry Landing, at Furman and Old Fulton Streets 7 p.m., $35, $30 senior, $15 student Moored just under the Brooklyn Bridge, Bargemusic presents great music up to five days a week, every week of the year. Walk across the gangplank of a renovated coffee barge into a “wonderfully intimate wood-paneled room with thrilling views of lower Manhattan and excellent acoustics.” Experience why critics call Bargemusic, “the perfect chamber-music hall” and why artists say it is “unlike any other place in the world to perform.” bargemusic.org, 718-6244924

“MULAN THE MUSICAL” Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa, 66 E 4th St. (b/t 2nd Avenue and 3rd Avenue) 8 p.m., $25 and up

FILM “MAKE IT NEW JOHN” For the second time in New York, the timeless Chinese folk tale of Mulan is coming to the stage courtesy of the Red Poppy Ladies’ Percussion - China’s first all-female percussion group.

Red Poppy artfully combines traditional Kung Fu with amazing drumming techniques.

Their synchronistic drumming style provides a rich and visual experience for this classic tale that has been brilliantly reinterpreted for the American audiences. mulanthemusical.com

3 JAMES COTTON BLUES BAND Jazz Standard, 116 E. 27th Street (b/t Lexington Ave and Park Ave) 7:30 p.m.; $35

In an extremely rare New York club run, “Mr. Superharp” will grace the Jazz Standard stage with his blues band to bring us America’s oldest music over Independence Day weekend.

At 78 years old, Mr. Cotton has shared the stage with B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf, and Muddy Waters. jazzstandard.com

BOWLING GREEN GREENMARKET Greenmarket, Broadway and Whitehall Street 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.; free The Bowling Green Greenmarket brings fresh offerings from local farms to Lower Manhattan’s historic Bowling Green plaza. Twice a week year-round neighbors, commuters, and visitors from around the world stop to load up on the season’s freshest fruit, crisp vegetables, beautiful plants, and freshly baked loaves of bread, quiches, and pot pies. grownyc.org/

Duncan Campbell’s documentary, “Make it New John,” about John DeLorean, the creator of the DeLorean car, and the employees of the Belfast car plant who built the iconic automobile, screens as part of the Museum of Modern Art’s annual film exhibition series, a collaboration with the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. Presented along with Campbell’s 2004 short film “Falls Burns Malone Fiddles,” about Belfast’s young working class residents, created through a series of black-andwhite photographs.

Saturday, June 28 The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53rd St. 7:30 p.m.

Tickets $12

BOOKS MAXWELL NEELYCOHEN WITH REMBERT BROWNE Author Maxwell Neely-Cohen reads from his debut novel “Echo of the Boom” a portrait of youth culture told through individual stories of hyperconnected teenagers as they grow up in Washington, D.C. He will be joined by Grantland staff entertainment writer Rembert Browne to discuss music, teen movies and pop culture.

Monday, June 30 McNally Jackson 52 Prince St. 7 p.m.

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MUSIC JENNY SCHEINMAN Brooklyn singer, violinist and composer Jenny Scheinman brings her airy, jazz-tinged, country folk to Le Poisson Rouge in support of her eighth studio record, “The Littlest Prisoner.” A frequent collaborator, Scheinman has worked with Norah Jones, Bill Frisell and many other celebrated musicians, and has arranged music for a range of artists, including Bono, Lou Reed and Lucinda Williams.

Scheinman appears with Bill Frisell and Brian Blade.

Monday, June 30 Le Poisson Rouge 158 Bleecker St. 7:30 p.m.

Tickets $25

DANCE URBAN BUSH WOMEN Urban Bush Women celebrates its 30th anniversary with a selection of repertory performances at Central Park’s SummerStage, as well as a premiere performance of “Chalabati,” a new piece choreographed by the company’s founder, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar.

Inspired by the spiritual Gnawa music of Morocco, “Chalabati” contemplates the sharing of a community’s history through ritual storytelling.

Wednesday, July 2 Central Park SummerStage Entrance at East 72nd Street 8 p.m.

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Emilie Gossiaux performing her senior thesis, “Spaghetti Night,” earlier this year. Spaghetti is served in 110 handmade ceramic bowls with 130 laser-cut wooden forks.

Performers wash the dishware in ceramic water basins and restack for reuse.

Photo courtesy of Gossiaux’s website

BLIND, DEAF ARTIST PERSEVERES PROFILE Emilie Gossiaux had been deaf since age 5; an accident that left her blind hasn’t stopped the force of her art

BY CARLOS FRIAS

It has been nearly four years since Emilie Gossiaux was run over by an 18-wheeler as she biked to the art studio where she worked in New York City.

Deaf since age 5, she was blinded and nearly killed in the accident in October 2010. Her pelvis was crushed, her left femur shattered, her jaw wired shut, her optic nerves severed.

Doctors once feared she was “gone,” her mother recalled, beyond the reach of medicine and of this world.

They asked to harvest her organs.

But last month, Gossiaux, 24, walked across the stage as a graduate of the prestigious Cooper Union, where she returned last spring after inin tense therapy for her body and her artistic soul.

She lives alone by choice in Manhattan with her guide dog, London, and continues to make inspired work that others say is only a continu-

ation of a blossoming artistic career. Art that is not impressive because it was made by a blind-deaf artist but regardless of it.

Because art is a powerful force for Emilie Gossiaux. An irresistible one.

“No one stands in the way of her art,” her mother, Susan Gossiaux, said. “It’s all she sees. It’s all she focuses on.”

Even when everything is dark, what art wants, art gets.

“Art has always been my true love,” she said. “Even if I stopped doing it for a while, it will always find its way back into my life. It’s like something that I do naturally, like breathing or eating or sleeping.”

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She also got a cochlear implant -- a sort of bionic ear -in her left ear that helped her better articulate sounds. Still, hearing for Emilie is like trying to pick out one voice in a rowdy stadium. The more sounds there are, the more the sounds distort and meld together.

On Oct. 8, 2010, she strapped on her helmet, jumped on her bike, and headed for Arsham’s studio. But as she waited for the light to change on the corner of Johnson and Varick avenues in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, an 18-wheeler turning right hopped the curb and ran her down.

Back to creating Recreating a life

A lifelong focus Emilie wound up in New York after a childhood spent devoted to her art, first at the New Orleans Creative Center for the Arts and then, at 15, Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida. She earned a spot at Cooper Union, which only accepts 30 students a year from outside the New York area for its fully paid tuition program. In New York, she made her own art and apprenticed with renowned artists such

Gossiaux’s sculpture “Bird Sitting,” winner of the Award of Excellence from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy of Gossiaux’s website

you.”

“Oh, you love me? That’s so sweet. Thank you,” she said suddenly -- miraculously.

Emilie had been found.

What could have been left of her? Barely a hundred pounds with quiet blue eyes and a sweet whisper of voice versus a rumbling 80,000-pound diesel truck? She was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, unidentifiable for all the fractures in her face.

Her heart stopped for more than a min minute. She had a stroke slippe into a coma. Her and slipped pelvis had to be reconstructed and her left leg was held togethmeta rods and pins. Her er by metal nerv were irreparably optic nerves severed. Em Emilie was blind.

Her frien friends and family could commu not communicate with her, and so she see seemed unresponsive.

Doctors p predicted she would remain in tthis inaccessible vegsta as she lived out a etative state life in a nur nursing home.

But that’s when her then-boyfriend, Ala Alan Lundgard, came across the method Annie Sulu livan had used to communicate with Helen Keller.

He took her hand and drew letters on her palm -- an act both purpo purposeful and artistic.

He slowly spelled out, “I love

Over the next few months, doctors turned her cochlear implant back on and she began the long process of learning to walk, to talk, to use her hands again in total darkness.

She would not leave New York.

She was determined to regain abilities and continue her career as a New York artist. Her mother moved in with her and her boyfriend for a year and a half -- on leave from her job after co-workers donated their vacation time.

She was determined not to be helpless. She learned braille in seven months; it takes most people up to two years. Before the year was out, she read her first book in braille: Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises.”

Ideas for art floated in the blackness around her. But she didn’t yet have the dexterity to snatch them out of the air and make them real. (“The artist in me needed time to heal,” she said.)

But the programs for the blind in New York were not helping her achieve the inde-

pendence she sought. So in January of 2012, she moved to Minneapolis to start a program with the National Federation of the Blind that teaches people to live totally independent in their surroundings. Emilie spent 11 months learning skills like how to navigate a city, how to cook for herself, and even had to prepare and serve a full meal -- salad, baked bread, drinks, main course, side dish and dessert -- for 30 people.

“I got used to not seeing by just listening to my gut and feeling, and I got better at it,” she said.

More important she met George Wurtzel, a blind woodworking artist and cabinetmaker who teaches woodworking with tools as a way to show the recently blind what they are still capable of.

He taught her to be fearless in the dark. He taught her to use a table saw, a wood-turning lathe, even a chainsaw which she used to carve a stylized heart out of a block of ice.

“How do you teach a deafblind person to uses a chainsaw? From behind them,” Wurtzel said.

A banquet of art She returned to New York and started back at Cooper Union

in January of last year and returned to work with Arsham, all while living alone.

For her senior thesis project at Cooper, she tapped into what she’d learned in Minneapolis.

She sculpted 110 bowls out of clay, carved 130 forks out of wood and used them to serve a spaghetti dinner for her final art show earlier this month.

She served each of the morethan 300 people who so overwhelmed the art studio they had to enter in groups of 60 and even sit on the floor, Emilie feeling her way around them.

“I wanted to mesh the line between functional objects and art, so people could experience my art in more ways than one. I wanted to change the perception people have of art, by inviting them to take part in it,” she said. “The whole performance was about the act of giving, helping and sharing.”

Emilie already has a job working in education and media at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, offers from several artists to work in their studios, and is making her own art in a shared space in Brooklyn.

“I understand that nothing is really different, the world is still the same,” Emilie said, “and I am still me.”

JUNE 26, 2014 Our Town

MUSIC IN MOTION PROFILE Paul Morin takes gallery visitors on a trip through time with music and sound

LOWER EAST SIDE Artist Paul Morin finds inspiration in everyday elements that some might walk right by, or, in the case of his latest exhibition, walk into.

The 31-year-old composer, painter and pianist often fuses music with visual art, and his solo exhibition, “Static and Moving Images” at Spectrum, a performance space and multimedia gallery on Ludlow Street, features 10 of his abstract, geometric paintings alongside an interactive light machine constructed from salvaged elevator numbers, lights and stainless steel doors. The multi-colored lights and red floor numbers in “Elevator Time Machine,” respond to music and illuminate in rapid clockwise motions when the piece’s microphone picks up sound. The piece, which Morin created with the help of an electrical engineer, took three years to complete.

“It has a sort of element of moving on, in life as we do,” Morin said as he drank a cup of coffee on his couch in his East 83rd Street apartment, which he shares with his wife and their black cat, He-Man. “We have no choice but to go forward. I’ve thought a lot about that very simple concept in life…it’s steady time travel. We can’t go backwards, as much as we want to.”

Neatly dressed in dark blue jeans, a dark blue Oxford shirt and thick-framed glasses, Morin, who calls the Upper East

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Morin is a classically-trained pianist and uses music in his work, and to inspire him.

to create different landscapes, storm and rain, even before I had a piano lesson.”

A classically-trained pianist, Morin studied music at Stony Brook University in Long Island, and completed a Master’s program in piano performance at New York University, though he still recreates the sounds he hears around him. Recently, a cricket found its way into his apartment, and he wrote a piece of music that mimicked the cricket’s chirping.

Morin works from his tidy home, which also appears as a spontaneous gallery to his work and interests. His own paintings hang on the walls, and a black Yamaha piano sits underneath the living room window; on the bookshelf rests a thick collection of Artur Schnabel’s recordings of Beethoven’s sonatas, which, as of late, he listens to while painting.

Though the exhibition at Spectrum will remain up until the early fall, Morin’s planning his next project, an exploration of television static, another seemingly ordinary element, not unlike elevators, crickets and the passage of time. Along with original piano compositions that imitate the sound of static, Morin sets images of static to his music, almost like a choreographed dance of grainy lines and colors.

“You can actually capture some of the most beautiful images through television static,” he said.

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Paul Morin’s “Elevator Time Machine,” currently displayed at Spectrum on Ludlow Street Side, where he’s lived since 2007, his favorite neighborhood in the city, speaks softly and thoughtfully, even when he’s not sure if he’s using real words.

“I’ve had some visual things stuck in my head where I’ve had to put them on canvas,” said Morin about what he calls ‘eye worms,’ or visual elements that he can’t get out of his brain. “That might not even be a term. Like an ear worm, but it’s in your head.”

The Suffolk County native took to the piano at an early age, when his grandmother gave him and his siblings a Ludwig piano. The secondeldest of eight children, Morin remembers recreating sounds he heard in nature.

“We were all very intrigued by creating sounds and just banging on this thing,” Morin said. “I remember just wanting

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Food & Drink

< FAMED RESTAURATEUR TO OPEN FOOD HALL IN GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL Claus Meyer, founder of Copenhagen’s Noma, widely considered one of the finest restaurants in the world, plans to open a Scandinavian-style food hall in Grand Central Terminal, the New York Times reported. Plans for the 16,000 square foot space within Vanderbilt Hall include casual eat-

In Brief CHELSEA HOTELS ACQUIRES EL QUIJOTE

Three markets are bringing fresh meat and produce to downtown neighborhoods

U.E.S. RESTAURANT ROUGE TOMATE TO MOVE DOWNTOWN Upper East Side restaurant Rouge Tomate, noted for its sustainable and health conscious offerings, will close its East 60th Street restaurant this August, in favor of an undisclosed downtown location, Eater reports. According to the restaurant’s Facebook page, plans are in the works to open downtown by the end of the year, with service ending at the Upper East Side space on August 9. The Michelin-starred restaurant, which also operates a food truck at 64th Street and 5th Avenue, near the entrance to the Central Park Zoo, remains dedicated to sustainable restaurant practices; executive chef Jeremy Bearman, along with pastry chef James Distefano, work with a culinary nutritionist to craft the restaurant’s menu items. The restaurant also boasts Pascaline Lepeltier, one of only 20 women to achieve the distinguished title of master sommelier. Rouge Tomate is located at 10 East 60th Street, and is open for lunch at noon and dinner at 5:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday.

mance to convert the landmarked terminal— which cannot be altered, but can house unattached structures—into a dining hall over the next two years. Rent for the space is $1.8 million dollars for the first year, and will increase annually. Parts of Vanderbilt Hall will stay vacant for private events and the holiday market .

NEW FOOD MARKETS DOWNTOWN LOCAL FOOD

Chelsea Hotels, the company that owns the historic Hotel Chelsea on West 23rd Street (along with the recently renamed McCarren Hotel & Pool in North Williamsburg, formerly known as King & Grove), has just acquired legendary restaurant El Quijote, the 84-year-old Spanish eatery on the first floor of the Hotel Chelsea, Eater reported.

The newly formed company, which purchased the Chelsea Hotel in 2011, doesn’t plan to touch the décor of the restaurant, Eater reports, and will also retain the existing menu and staff, including the restaurant’s well-loved proprietor, Manny Ramirez. Though the Hotel Chelsea is currently closed for renovations, with an expected opening date sometime in 2015, El Quijote is serving up its famed lobster in green sauce and the rest of its menu at 226 West 23rd Street, with daily service starting at noon.

eries and retail food shops, along with a café and 100-seat fine dining restaurant. Though not yet approved by the MTA, which runs the space, spokespeople for the group expect the plans to pass a full board vote in the coming days. Meyer is working with New York-based restaurant development firm Heyer Perfor-

As the residential population downtown continues to swell, the community demand for fresh local food is higher than ever. Here are three markets coming this summer in the downtown area:

Night Market on Water Street Thursday, July 19th 4 - 8 p.m.

2 Coenties Slip The Downtown Alliance and GrowNYC will host the second of two special Night Markets as part of summer long effort to enliven Water Street. Visitors will enjoy the rare chance to shop at a downtown nighttime Greenmarket farmers market, while eating

seasonally inspired dishes sold by neighborhood restaurants, and sipping on beer, wine and hard cider. Music will provided by The Jazz Foundation. Food, music and family activities will make the Water Street Night Market a great event for New Yorkers of all ages. www.downtownny.com

Andaz Wall Street Farmers’ Market Thursdays 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

75 Wall Street Beginning June 26th, every Thursday, Andaz Wall Street’s hotel plaza will host its outdoor farmers’ market. The farmers’ market suppliers will also provide the hotel’s outlets with fresh produce to be featured on all menus. From basil, beans and beets, to rosemary, rhubarb and rutabaga, the freshest batches will be presented each week by an array of rotating local farmers.

For the 2014 season, the hotel’s

principle farmer will be David Zaback from Z Food Farms. Andaz Wall Street’s Executive Sous Chef, Victor Cruz, along with the Hotel’s Purchasing Manager, Joel Patraker, have been working together for nearly a year to revive

the hotel’s weekly Farmers’ Market. The Andaz Wall Street Farmers’ Market will continue through mid November. newyork.wallstreet.andaz. hyatt.com

New Amsterdam Market on South Street Saturday July 26 11 a.m.

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Sunday Aug. 24 11 a.m.

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Sunday Sept. 28 11 a.m.

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New Amsterdam Market is held on South Street between Beekman Street and Peck Slip in the Fulton Market District of Lower Manhattan. Vendors include the Wild Food Gatherers Guild of Vermont, Big City Fish Share, Lancaster Farm Fresh Collective, Long Island City-based Free Bread, Hudson Valley’s Edgwick Farm, meats from Brooklyn Cured, Catskills Provisions, and dozens of other regional and local purveyors. newamsterdammarket.org

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Property

< BRUCE RATNER TO CHAIR MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE Former Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau is stepping down as chairman of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and turning over the reins to real estate developer Bruce Ratner.

Ratner is the chairman of Forest City Ratner Companies, a real estate development com-

pany, and previously served as the city’s commissioner of consumer affairs under former Mayor Ed Koch.

The 95-year-old Morgenthau was the founding chairman of the museum. It opened in 1997 in Battery Park City to memorialize the Holocaust and celebrate Jewish culture.

Ratner joined the board in 1996. He told the Wall Street Journal that he did not plan any significant changes to its business model.

Morgenthau will stay on as chairman emeritus. He retired as district attorney five years ago.

TENANTS WON’T BE MOVED REAL ESTATE Elderly residents on the U.W.S. protest Salvation Army plan to move them to East Harlem

BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS

UPPER WEST SIDE Elected officials and residents of The Williams on the Upper West Side came out en masse to protest the Salvation Army’s plan to move them to East Harlem.

“We’re all surprised, taken aback, and disappointed that the Salvation Army wants to move these tenants out of this location, and has decided to sell this building,” said Council Member Helen Rosenthal. “It’s going to be a great loss to our community to lose this senior housing.”

The Williams is a senior residence run by the Salvation Army that, while not subsidized in any way, nonetheless provides affordable housing for over 200 seniors. The building, at 95th Street and West End Avenue, has 352 units, but the Salvation Army has not been filling units as they become vacant, according to Major James Betts, a regional official for the organization.

The Salvation Army is in the midst of finalizing a deal to sell the building for $108 million to Brack Capital.

According to Betts, they’re selling for financial reasons in order to continue their operations in Upper Manhattan.

Their plan is to move residents of The Williams to another facility that they’ll build in East Harlem at 125th Street and 3rd Avenue.

Rosenthal, Borough President Gale Brewer, and Public Advocate Letitia James want the Salvation Army to consider a financing proposal between the city’s Dept. of Housing Preservation and Development and a NYC-based non-profit that’s interested in operating the home, at least two of which have expressed interest.

Rosenthal said Goddard Riverside and the West Side Federation are interested in buying the property through a

financing deal with HPD. “Not for $108 million, but that’s not what being a non-profit is about,” said Rosenthal. “This is the Salvation Army.

Whose mission it is to take care of those most in need who are now selling this residence to the highest bidder.”

A crowd of residents bearing picket signs gathered in front of The Williams last Thursday to voice their opposition to the Salvation Army’s plan.

“I speak for all the people who live here; we do not want to move,” said Jean Polshuck, a tenant leader at The Williams. “Many of us living here are infirmed and have limited mobility.”

But Betts said his organization has no choice, and that needed renovations to The Williams would cost somewhere north of $20 million, money that the Salvation Army does not have. Under the terms of the deal, residents can stay at The Williams until the East Harlem facility is built, which will take at least two years, according to Betts. There is currently a two-story Salvation Army ered by the Salvation Army, said Betts. facility at the property, which would “We’re committed and invested in be demolished and replaced with a 250- serving the community, and we’ve been here 50 years,” he said.

But for residents and leaders in the community, the move amounts to a business decision that harms seniors on the Upper West Side and is in stark “I speak for all the people contravention to the Salvation Army’s stated purpose. who live here; we do not “The mission of a non-profit like the want to move. Many of us Salvation Army is to support, in this living here are infirmed and case, senior affordable housing and not have limited mobility.” to sell the building to an owner who is Jean Polshuck, a tenant leader at going to put in luxury housing,” said The Williams Brewer. “If the Salvation Army wants to sell this building, they should sell it to another non-profit who will continue unit, 10-story building for residents of the mission of this building.”

The Williams and others, he said.

In addition, Rosenthal said her office Residents have six months from when could not get a guarantee from the Salthe deal is finalized with the State At- vation Army that residents who move torney General’s Office to decide if to East Harlem in accordance with their they want to remain at The Williams plan will not see a rent increase after and eventually move to East Harlem, 18 months. “That’s a disgrace, it can’t or have the Salvation Army try to find be part of their mission, they need to them alternate housing in their net- change their minds,” said Rosenthal, work. The cost of moving will be cov- who is fearful that her former constitu-

Residents rallied with Upper West Side Council Member Helen Rosenthal outside the Williams building last week.

Photo by Daniel Fitzsimmons

ents’ rent would increase after a year and a half in East Harlem.

Betts’ response to calls urging the Salvation Army to make a deal with a non-profit and the HPD is that doing so would equate to his organization subsidizing another non-profit.

“We have to consider the future of the Salvation Army,” said Betts. “For us to take whatever that discount is and give that to another agency, I think our own donors would question that at some point. Why would we take dollars that we’ve been given for our mission and through this deal, essentially give it to another non-profit or to the city? It doesn’t make sense.”

The deal must still be approved by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office in accordance with laws governing real estate transactions by non-profit organizations. According to Public Advocate Letitia James, the Salvation Army must demonstrate to the state that the deal is in the best interest of their organization and is in keeping with their mission.

“And that is where I believe they’ll run

into a problem,” said James.

Betts responded later by saying that the Salvation Army is not at all concerned with the legal hurdles faced by his organization because the deal is necessary for them to continue operating in Upper Manhattan.

Still, for elderly residents of The Williams, many of whom have called the Upper West Side home for decades, the possibility of having to move is daunting. “The prospect of leaving the Williams is catastrophic and inconceivable,” said Poleshuck. “Moving shortens life spans, and this is a matter of life and death.”

Rosenthal and other elected officials, along with local activists like the SRO Law Project’s Marti Weithman, said they will continue to pressure the Salvation Army to make a deal with HPD and a local non-profit.

Residents, too, remained defiant, concluding the rally with a rendition of the popular protest song, “We Will Not Be Moved.”

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YOUR FIFTEEN MINUTES TES

A SCOOP OF HISTORY ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE When I grew up in New York, you were just always on guard -- you learned how to walk and how to try to look tough.

Q&A Bestselling author Susan Jane Gilman on Frank McCourt, Italian immigrants, and the Upper West Side

BY ANGELA BARBUTI

Susan Jane Gilman has skillfully combined ice cream, New York, and history all into one novel. In “The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street,” readers follow a young Russian immigrant who moves to the Lower East Side with her family, only to get crippled by an ices peddler shortly after her arrival. The man, who is an Italian immigrant, takes in the girl out of guilt, and teaches her his trade.

Set in 1913, the novel takes us on a 70-year journey through history, reminding us of all the hardships New Yorkers overcame in that period. Telling the story through an underlying theme of ice cream was an easy choice for the author. Although a seemingly simple subject, ice cream has a rich and complex history, one that Gilman embraced. “I was interested in it intellectually and then I just love to eat it,” she said.

On your website, you describe yourself as “made, born and raised in Manhattan.” Which neighborhood did you grow up in?

I grew up on the Upper West Side before it was the neighborhood as we know it to be today.

I watched a lot of it get built -the high rises, the luxury condos. But then, it was still pretty rough and tumble and dangerous. I was made in Lincoln Towers on 69th Street and West End Avenue. When I was born, we lived on 96th between Amsterdam and Columbus. I used to take the subway to school when I was in junior high and high school and you really had to plan what streets you walked down to get to Broadway or to a friend you were going to visit. My friend’s parents would make her call when she got to my house, and she just lived a block and a half away. It was really dicey. My brother used to get beaten up, our neighbor was shot.

You dedicated this book to Frank McCourt, who was your teacher at Stuyvesant. That’s so cool.

It’s really cool. I miss him. He was not just my teacher, but he really influenced me. He was the person who encouraged me to be a writer; he told me to send a piece I’d written to the Village Voice. And I was 16 years old and I did and they published me. And it was the first time I was ever published. And that was Frank McCourt. I promised myself that whenever I wrote a novel, I would dedicate it to Frank McCourt; this was before he wrote Angela’s Ashes. I thought, “I’ll dedicate it to my teacher so he’s remembered too.” [Laughs] And he and I stayed friends until the day he died. When my second book made the New York Times bestseller list, he was the first person I called.

What was your first publishedd piece on?

It was called “Scenes from m Stuyvesant verhead conHigh,” it was excerpts of overhead bout drugs, versations, kids talking about ock and roll. parents, grades, sex, and rock me of it was Some of it was funny and some d, with phopoignant. They did a spread, tographs. And they gave me 200 doley. lars, which was a lot of money.

So the West Side Spirit was the he first paper you wrote for out of college? lege?

The West Side Spirit is my y hometown n er that pubpub bpaper. You’re the first paper lished me when I was out of college. So wed by you. I it’s an honor to be interviewed was really excited.

My father came to New York from Italy, so I was happy that you wrote about bout Italian immigrants. Why did you make that choice?

I chose that for several reasons. The reason that Italians feature so prominently is because, in my mind, Italian immigrants at the turn of the last century were like the prophets of ice cream. Especially the Sicilians and the Neapolitans. They brought recipes with them. They started the ices trade.

There’s a guy, Italo Marchiony, who was credited with creating the precursor to the ice cream cone.

And that was a big business. Also, Italians were the ones who were sharing the Lower East Side with the Jews. And as a novelist, I wanted my protagonist to grow up in a family that was unlike her own. Also, I always have an impulse as a writer to explode stereotypes.

I didn’t want to write a nice, sweet ice cream woman. I wanted to write a really complicated, sort of nasty female antihero because women aren’t portrayed like that. Also, Italians, I think, sometimes get a raw deal in the media, with either “The Sopranos,” with the Mafia or everyone slapping each other upside the head and yelling, “Mom, make the sauce.” Italian Americans disproportionately served in both wars, World War I and II, they built huge infrastructure, they gained so much, and nobody writes about that.

How did the ice cream idea come about?

Because I just love ice cream. If you’re going to write a novel, even with my nonfiction, it’s like asking it to move in with you for several years. And you’re not gonna love it every moment, sometimes you’re going to hate it and hate yourself. It’s like living with a lover. So you have to make sure that you really in love with it.

So in moments where you hate it and hate yourself, it will really sustain you.

What are some historical facts you can tell us about it?

Prohibition was great for ice cream because all these taverns and bars had to turn themselves into ice cream parlors to make money. In World War II, the U.S. government became the largest ice cream manufacturer in the world because they were supplying ice creams to the troops.

I read that part of your research for the book involved you working at a Carvel on Long Island.

Yes, I was very much inspired by Tom Carvel’s story. That’s why I originally got the idea. I learned that his real name was Tom Carvelas; he was a Greek immigrant.

And he came over to the States with nothing. I loved Carvel as a kid. So I contacted the Carvel corporation and I told them I was writing a novel, and asked if there was a Carvel somewhere near New York City where I could go and visit. And they hooked me up with this owner named Zaya Givargidze, out in Massapequa Park. I said, “Could I work here for a day or two?” and he said, “Sure.” And he taught me the trade and I got to make a Fudgie the Whale cake.

For more about Susan and her books, visit www. susanjanegilman.com.

Best-selling nonfiction author Susan Jane Gilman has published her first novel, set on the Lower East Side beginning in 1913.

Photo by Francois Bourru Gilman’s novel spans a 70-year period following the life of a young Russian immigrant who becomes a titan of the ice cream industry.

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