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ANOTHER DOWNTOWN TEAM, ONCE AGAIN SQUEEZED FOR SPACE KIDS SPORTS Work to remove PCBs in a public school displaces girls basketball league BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS

GREENWICH VILLAGE Yet another sports league is facing a space crunch in lower Manhattan. Following an earlier report in Our Town Downtown about a successful girls’ softball team that is struggling to find a home field, the commissioner of a girls’ basketball league said his organization is facing a similar problem. After 19 years of playing in the gymnasium at P.S. 41 in Greenwich Village, the Greenwich House Girls Basketball League was told this

past summer they’d have to find a new place to play, said the league’s commissioner, Harry Malakoff. Malakoff said he was approached by a Deptartment of Education employee and told work was scheduled to

occur in P.S. 41 to remove hazardous contaminants from light fixtures in the gym, and that it would be off limits for the rest of the year. A DOE spokesperson said the work at P.S. 41 is part of the department’s light fix-

ture replacement program. According to the School Construction Authority’s website, the authority is removing caulk that is used in lighting fixtures that contain polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in city schools. The

program is part of an agreement worked out with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and is formally known as the EPA/NYC PCB Program.

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LAST STRETCH OF HIGH LINE OPENS tions: an abandoned stretch of elevated rails that’s been turned into a linear oasis of flowers, grasses and trees. The northern section of That last, half-mile section the park on an elevated finishes the 22-block walkrailroad track is now open way that over five years has for visitors helped drive the hip gentrifiBY VERENA DOBNIK cation of the Chelsea neighborhood on the West Side. CHELSEA The last stretch Luxury condos, galleries of the High Line opened and boutiques have all but Sunday, completing one of pushed out the industrial the nation’s most distinctive urban transforma- CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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A newly opened segment of the High Line, which now stretches from the Meatpacking District to West 34th Street between 10th and 12th Avenues. Photo By Iwan Baan

In Brief DE BLASIO: INCOME INEQUALITY NOT ACCEPTABLE Bill de Blasio, who was elected mayor on a promise to fight the city’s income inequality gap, said Thursday that new data indicating Manhattan is the most economically stratified place in the nation is further proof of the “crisis” that threatens his city. Manhattan’s top five percent of households earn 88 times as much as the poorest 20 percent, according to data released by the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. That gap, which translates to more than $860,000, is the largest in the nation. About 1.7 million of the city’s 8.4 million residents live below the poverty line, according to the data from 2013, the final year of exMayor Michael Bloomberg’s term. “It’s not an acceptable state of affairs,” de Blasio said after an unrelated event in the Bronx. “It’s something we have to grapple with.”

PIPE, SEWER UPGRADES BEGIN IN LOWER MANHATTAN Mayor Bill de Blasio says workers have begun upgrades to decades old pipes and sewers in four New York City neighborhoods. The Saturday announcement comes after a June report that called for improvements to the 15,000 miles of water mains and 6,300 miles of gas mains and service lines under the city’s streets. The de Blasio administration committed $300 million to the capital projects. The Department of Environmental Protection will add storm sewers where none existed in a part of St. Albans, Queens, that’s prone to flooding. Workers are replacing 91-year-old cast iron water mains. In lower Manhattan, workers are similarly replacing a 12-inch diameter cast iron water main installed in 1923.

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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS CHECK SIGHTSEEING FORBIDDEN IN WOOLWORTH BUILDING

Security at the historic Woolworth Building has issued a no-tolerance policy for tourists and sightseers looking to admire the Gothic beauty

of the skyscraper’s lobby, the Post reported. Outside the lobby entrance is a sign that in all capital letters reads “No tourists beyond this point.� Roy Suskin, manager of the building, told the New York Post “It’s a very small lobby, and we are trying to keep out trespassers, and there’s no way for us to know who is a trespasser and who is a tourist.� New Yorkers and tourists alike are disappointed with the building’s strictness. According to the Post, tourists on the travel site TripAdvisor were beyond unhappy with the management’s policy. The Woolworth Building has, however, provided tourists an opportunity to visit. People can now pay to take guided tours of the building’s famous lobby. Thirty minute tours cost $15 and 90 minute tours cost $45. New York Post

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The only way to steal a glimpse inside the iconic Woolworth Building’s lobby is to pay for a tour. Photo via Woolworth Tours Facebook

Jay Maisel, owner of the Germania Bank building on 190 Bowery, was recently convinced into selling the 116 year old real estate after years of refusal. RFR Realty bought the 37,000

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Downtown residents are having mixed emotions about the prospect of gay bar Boots N Saddle moving its location to 47 Seventh Avenue South from its current one on Christopher Street. According to the Villager, the bar’s prospective new location includes “an enclosed sidewalk cafe constructed of glass.� The city prohibits loud music and speakers to be used in a glass space, which is problematic for the bar that planned to “have entertainment-level music, a DJ

Avenue South location and that he thinks the community board hopes the bar can ďŹ nd a space in the area, but in the right location. The Villager

TOUR SHIP RUNS AGROUND BY STATUE OF LIBERTY More than 100 passengers have been taken off a tall tourist ship that ran aground in low waters near the Statue of Liberty. Officials say none of the 121 passengers rescued from the 120-foot tall tourist schooner called Clipper City were injured when it ran aground at around 1:10 p.m. Saturday. Petty Officer Frank IannazzoSimmons says the U.S. Coast Guard, the police and ďŹ re departments have sent three small vessels each to ferry the passengers to lower Manhattan. He says there have been no reports of the schooner taking on water or of pollution. Manhattan by Sail owner Thomas Berton says the Clipper City is now anchored in the harbor near Liberty Island. He says a tugboat will bring the ship back to port at high tide. AP

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and six televisions.� Those for and against the move expressed their opinions regarding the bar’s impact on the area at a Community Board 2 meeting. Beth Walman, owner of the bar’s neighboring residential building, said she fears the bar’s trash will disrupt her tenants, and that its noise level, smoke and loitering will disturb the neighborhood’s atmosphere. Others were concerned with the behavior of the bar’s patrons and the increased traffic the bar would bring to the street. According to the Villager, Boots N Saddle’s attorney John Philip said disallowing bars such as Boots and Saddle in Manhattan’s village threatens the area’s fundamental aesthetic and culture. “The very character of the Village was created by these cabaret spaces. Drag performers — these are fundaments of the Village. And if you take all of these away because you say it’s too loud or too this, you’re going to destroy something ineffable in this very community.� Carter Booth, co-chairperson of the State Liquor Authority Committee, said that Boots N Saddle has since withdrawn its application for the Seventh

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG ZIP STRIP A thief zipped off with a Zipcar. At 1:21 p.m. on Wednesday, September 3, an unknown person removed a luxury rental car from the Imperial Parking Garage at 2 Gold Street using a fraudulent account. The vehicle’s last known location was Prospect Place and Utica Avenue in Brooklyn. The stolen vehicle was a 2013 Mercedes-Benz C300 with New York plates GGR2376, valued at $45,295.

PINCHED ON PRINCE A clothing boutique uncovered a store theft several days after the fact. While conducting an inventory check of the Moncler store at 90 Prince Street on September 11, a 26-year-old male employee noticed that some items were missing. It seems that at 3 p.m. on Sunday, September 7, an unknown person had removed merchandise from a display rack. Police searched the neighborhood but were unable to locate the thief or the missing items. The stolen goods included a Vids “Cherry� jacket valued at $1,240, a “Hubert� men’s jacket priced at $1,795, and designer sunglasses valued at $270, making a total of $3,305.

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A young couple should have worn garlic around their necks. At 3:45 a.m. on Saturday, September 13, a 25-yearold man and a 25-year-old woman boarded the southbound number 2 train at 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue. Then a 22-year-old man approached the couple, stating that they had stolen his cell phone. As the train was approaching the West Houston Street station, the 22-year-old attempted to grab the woman’s purse from her hand. Her male friend interceded, and the ďŹ ght spilled out onto the platform, where the thief then bit the other man on the left side of his neck. He also managed to break the chain around the man’s neck as well as the strap

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needs to reinforce its front doors. At 3:33 a.m. on Friday, September 12, a man forcefully pulled open the front doors and entered the Wink clothing boutique at 129 Prince Street. He removed a leather jacket and ďŹ ve bags and walked out of the store. Video is available of the theft. Stolen items included a Veda leather jacket valued at $895, a Campos tote bag priced at $268, a Clare Vivier tote bag priced at $365, a Laura Vela handbag tagged at $490, a Jennifer Haley handbag valued at $550, and a Rebecca Minkoff bag tagged at $195, making a total haul of $2,763.

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deliveryman’s van has now made the news. At 5:30 a.m. on Monday, September 15, a man was delivering newspapers in front of 430 Greenwich Street, leaving his van unattended with the window open. When he returned to his ride at 5:30 a.m., he discovered that his property had been removed

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 grime around the old freight route that once delivered goods to warehouses, meatpacking and manufacturing plants. “The High Line has changed the dynamics of the city,â€? says Laurance Rassin, an artist showcasing his paintings and sculptures to visitors along the three-story-high walkway. “If Picasso were alive, he’d be painting on the High Line.â€? As visitors stroll or relax on benches, actors read Shakespeare, musicians play violin and ute, and children gather for outdoor storytelling. “I get to talk to everyone from students to movie stars, and I find out about different parts of the world,â€? says Rassin, who lives in a luxury high-rise overlooking the new, northern stretch. That stretch curves around Hudson Yards, a mammoth high-rise development that by 2024 will be home to more than a dozen new skyscrapers. Sections of rusty tracks are still visible in spots, a reminder of the area’s dirty and dangerous past. Street-level freight trains that ran on Manhattan’s West Side between 1851 and 1929 caused so many accidents that Tenth Avenue was known as “Death Alley,â€? and so-called “West Side Cowboysâ€? on horses rode in front of the trains to prevent collisions with vehicles and pedestrians. That hazard led to construction of the elevated High Line in 1934, allowing freight trains to roll right up to and, in some cases, inside buildings to deliver milk, meat, produce and other goods. The rise of interstate trucking led to the railway’s demise, and the last train ran in 1980, pulling carloads of frozen turkeys. In 1999, when the weedchoked relic was under threat of demolition, a communitybased nonprofit calling itself

The High Line has changed the dynamics of the city. If Picasso were alive, he’d be painting on the High Line.â€? Artist Laurance Rassin the Friends of the High Line was formed to ďŹ nd another use for it. “We wanted to create a space where people could be immersed in nature,â€? said the group’s co-founder, Robert Hammond. Today, the High Line park -built with $223 million in both government and private funds -- draws nearly 5 million visitors a year, offering an expansive view of midtown and the Hudson River. Visitors walk on concrete slabs softened by grasses, shrubs, and trees peeking from crevices and benches surrounded by blossoms. On both sides along the High Line, private day-to-day lives becomes public. One afternoon, a dog poked its head out of a brownstone window. And at night, with apartment lights on, a woman could be seen cooking in her tiny kitchen, steam rising from a pot. It’s a New York feast of old and new, rich and poor, American and foreign. “I’ve never seen anything like this, up in the air where you walk, and you can sit on benches in the sun near little gardens,â€? said Renata Buergel,

an attorney from Hanover, Germany. “It’s a highlight of New York City, something new and special, young and green.� For some, it means more money coming in. At the High Line Pizza shop just under the elevated park, employees say business has more than doubled in the past two years. But there’s a downside to the success. Some businesses in run-down brownstones have

simply been shuttered as rents rise in the now-hot neighborhood. For Auto Designs NYC, which customizes luxury cars, the nearby High Line is a nuisance. “We get nothing out of it,� said employee Peter Makar. “Our rent went up, and about 16 times a day, I get asked for directions to the High Line.� “And it’s right here,� he adds, pointing up.

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SQUEEZED FOR SPACE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The spokesperson said the department expects to have the work at P.S. 41 completed by the end of February. After calling over two dozen community organizations, schools, churches and parks facilities, Malakoff said he managed to cobble together two locations where the girls can play, but that the DOE should have done more to find a replacement home. “I think one of the problems is that priority is not given to the kids,” said Malakoff. “Some of these adult sports groups book fields and gyms, and if they’re limited, the kids get frozen out.” About 80 girls participate in the Greenwich House Girls Basketball League, ranging in age from 9 to 15. They play four games a weekend every Saturday from November to midMarch. Malakoff said going forward the league will have their games in two different locations, splitting the season between a gym at a public school on West 33rd Street in November and December and a community center in Chelsea during January, February and March. “I ran the gamut,” said Malakoff of his months-long search for a new home. “The most common response I’ve gotten is, ‘sorry, we’re booked.’”

Malakoff said he doesn’t fault the DOE for needing to do the work and displacing the girls, but said they could’ve helped the league find a new home. “I think the fault lies mostly with the DOE for not helping,” said Malakoff. “If they have a construction project that displaces youth groups they should help them find a new space. I don’t think that’s unreasonable.” Malakoff said the league just started its registration so he doesn’t know if the change in venue will effect enrollment, but he hopes not. “Obviously we have to live with it because we can’t use P.S. 41,” said Malakoff. “It’s a problem that the city has, they don’t really have enough gyms. Only because of our persistence were we able to come up with something.” According to the School Construction Authority’s website, the same work is being done at 11 other schools in Manhattan. Malakoff said he was told by a DOE employee that all weekend activities at P.S. 41 have been suspended. It’s unclear whether the same applies at the other 11 schools in Manhattan. According to documents found on the SCA’s website, as of March 2014 the DOE identified 541 of its buildings citywide that could have light fixtures containing PCBs. It’s unclear if the February deadline at P.S. 41 applies to other schools where the work

SCHOOLS AND PCB Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were legally used between 1950 and 1978 in lighting fixtures and other building materials. In 1978, the federal government banned the continued use of PCBs because of suspected links to cancer, but until recently, has provided little guidance regarding how municipalities should address PCB-containing materials in existing buildings. As of March 2014, the total number of DOE buildings in New York City potentially containing PCB ballasts is 541. What follows is a list of schools where PCB remediation work is underway.

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or the majority of retail workers, mere survival is a daily struggle. The pay is too low to pay for basic needs, and even if retailers raised wages, the root cause of the troubles retail workers face would remain.

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Protestors marching to demand action on climate change gathered on Wall Street Monday to call attention to financial element of environmental policies. Photo by Ninja Midia via Flickr

PROTESTORS FLOOD WALL STREET NEWS Following the massive march to bring attention to climate change, protestors flocked to Wall Street One day after a huge climate march uptown, about 3,000 activists on Monday flooded Wall Street to protest what they say is corporate and economic institutions’ role in the climate crisis. The protesters, dressed in blue, rallied in Battery Park before marching to the financial district in Lower Manhattan. Speakers at the rally included Canadian author-activist Naomi Klein, journalist Chris Hedges and San Francisco writer Rebecca Solnit. Organizers said in a press release that the sit-in aimed to disrupt business in the financial district by targeting “corporate polluters and those profiting from the fossil fuel industry.” “Two years ago, Superstorm Sandy literally flooded New York’s financial district but it didn’t faze Wall Street and their

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drive for the short term profits that flow from the cooking of the planet,” Klein said in a statement. “Many of us were also involved with Occupy Wall Street,” said Michael Premo, an organizer of Flood Wall Street and a Brooklyn-based artist. “Just like the financial crisis, the climate crisis is a product of an underlying political crisis. It’s the result of policies that serve the shortsighted interests of the few over the survival and well

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being of everyone.” On Sunday, tens of thousands of activists participated in the People’s Climate March through Manhattan warning that climate change is destroying the Earth. Organizers said more than 100,000 participated, including actors Mark Ruffalo and Evangeline Lilly. It was one of many demonstrations around the world urging policymakers to take quick action.

The real problem is that the retail industry has shifted away from stable jobs towards “justin-time” scheduling and part-time, on-call work. Employees are denied the opportunity to work the amount of hours that they need to earn enough to support themselves and their families. Many retail workers aren’t receiving set minimum hours and they get their schedules with little or no notice. Many want full-time work, but they are denied it by their employers. When workers are under-scheduled and hours are subject to change on a moment’s notice, they have no certainty as to how they’ll survive. Part-time work has become the new norm, but people still have full-time families and full-time responsibilities. The bottom line is that even if wages go up, part-time workers cannot provide for their families without adequate, stable and predictable hours. But that isn’t to say that it’s impossible for workers to support themselves and their families with retail work – there are retail workers in New York who prove otherwise every day. A New York Times article published earlier this month compared the lives of RWDSU members employed at Macy’s with non-union workers employed by neighboring retail store Zara. And the difference is striking. At Macy’s, workers receive their schedules weeks in advance, are guaranteed full-time hours, and aren’t sent home during their shifts on the whims of management. There’s a real sense of security for Macy’s workers, and many stay there for years and build careers. At Zara, workers are never guaranteed minimum hours, and most never receive close to full-time schedules. Unpredictable schedules can change on a moment’s notice, and make holding down a second job or going to school or arranging for child care incredibly challenging. This epidemic of insufficient hours and wildly unpredictable scheduling is faced by the vast majority of retail workers across New York, and the country. It’s troubling that so much retail work – a fast growing segment of our economy – is unable to meet workers’ needs. It’s bad for workers, and our communities. If we want to make sure that working families are able to support themselves, we need to support them in building a collective voice to address all of their concerns in the workplace, including the hours they work. Wage increases and other workplace improvements are never guaranteed without a union contract. Collective bargaining is the only vehicle for workers to achieve family-sustaining jobs.

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What’s your charitable dream? When Harry met Sarah, he was a taxi driver who “never had a nickel.” Sarah, a passenger in his cab, was a nurse who listened to patients’ stock tips and invested. They had a storybook marriage. Sarah set aside money to take care of Harry. After their deaths, the remaining money started the Sarah and Harry Rogers Fund in The New York Community Trust to maintain parks and protect the City’s air and water. We continue to make grants in their names.

DENUDED FOR TWO DANCERS Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St. at Pitt St. 8 p.m., $10 suggested donation At the US premiere of Croatian author Bruno Isaković’s “Denuded for Two Dancers,” viewers will witness an experimental dance performance where the movement of the dancers’ bodies is focused on the relationship between breath and physical tension. Part of the Queer New York International Arts Festival, the work was developed during a residency at the Abrons Arts Center in August and September 2014. www. queerny.org

27 BRIDGET EVERETT: ROCK BOTTOM Joe’s Pub at the Public Theatre, 425 Lafayette St. between Astor Place and East 4th St. 11:30 p.m., $33 The one woman alternative cabaret goddess Bridget Everett is performing at Joe’s Pub in a new show made especially for this venue. Combining Everett’s larger than life stage presence, material ranging from sentimental to taboo, and bold audience interaction with creative partners from Broadway’s “Hairspray” and Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz, this is one show not to miss. www.joespub.com

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Rogers Fund, established in 1994 with

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$712,000

Questions about your giving? We have answers.

Contact our counsel, Jane Wilton, at (212) 686-2563 or janewilton@nyct-cfi.org

SCREENING OF “THE ROOM” AND INTRODUCTION BY TOMMY WISEAU Landmark Sunshine Cinema, 143 East Houston St. between Forsyth and Eldridge Sts. 12 a.m., $15 Writer, director and star Tommy Wiseau will be on hand to present a midnight screening of this movie, once called “the worst movie ever made” and subsequently gaining cult status for its questionable acting and plot. The film follows a successful banker and the relationships in his life while asking questions about trust and betrayal. www.landmarktheatres. com

NIGHTMARE NEW YORK 107 Suffolk St. at Rivington St. Sep 26th-Nov 1st, times and

ticket prices vary Get ready for Halloween at Nightmare New York, the city’s longest running haunted house now entering its 11th season. The interactive haunted house ties in the city’s history and urban legends, including myths about alligators roaming the subways and a new kind of super rat bred by Hurricane Sandy. www.nightmarenyc.com

28 CIRCUS AMOK Tompkins Square Park, 500 East 9th St. 1 p.m., Free Come and watch as Circus Amok takes over Tompkins Square Park. The New York City-based circus theatre company has been staging lively performances since their founding in 1989, fusing classic circus elements like tight-rope walking and clowning with experimental dance, celebration

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of queer culture, puppetry, and a mission to bring public awareness to social justice issues through performance art. www.circusamok.org

LYDIA LOVELESS Webster Hall, 125 East 11th St. between 4th and 3rd Ave. 7 p.m., $10 Ohio native and critically acclaimed Lydia Loveless is touring on the heels of her recently released her third album “Somewhere Else.� Loveless grew up in a small town with a dad who owned a country bar, and boredom led her to make music, before her eventual move to Columbus and to creating music once described as “hillbilly punk with a honky-tonk heart.� www.websterhall.com

29 READ WITH THEO THE DOG Mulberry Street Library, 10 Jersey St. at Mulberry St. 4-5 p.m., Free Children ages 5-12 are welcome to come after school and read books aloud to a registered therapy dog and handler at the Mulberry Street Library. Registration is required in advanced. 212-966-3424, www.nypl. org

Garibaldi Plaza at Washington Square Park 8:30-9:30 a.m., Free Start the day off with an early morning stress reliever by practicing Tai Chi in Washington Square Park. Hour long sessions of the ancient Chinese tradition of gentle, owing movement and stretching are led by Steven Asherman. www.nycgovparks.org

has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and the American Poetry Review Review and in April released her most recent poetry book, Like a Beggar. Simmonds, a New Orleans native, is a writer and musician who has written four books covering a wide range of topics. Wine will follow. www.mcnallyjackson.com

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Tompkins Square Park, 500 East 9th St. 3-5 p.m., Free Join the Lower East Side Ecology Center in their mission to beautify and improve the trees around Tompkins Square Park. The trees between 10th Street and 6th Street from Avenue A over to Avenue D are getting some love, including bigger tree beds that can soak up more water, tree guards to keep them safe, and lots of mulch to protect the soil below. All ages are welcome, tools are provided, and dress to get dirty! Registration is encouraged. info@lesecologycenter.org

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Pier 25, North Moore St. at the West Side Highway 2 p.m., until Oct 3rd, Free Visit the historic, refurbished Lilac Steamship oating library 82 Mercer St. between at Pier 25 and relax at the Broome and Spring Sts. outdoor reading lounge with Sep 29-Oct 5, Ticket prices books by underrepresented vary authors on the main deck, check A week of events, speakers out several ongoing art exhibits, and a general celebration of or participate in a workshop. technology and innovation Artist Beatrice Glow was the begins today. Any New Yorkers interested in building, supporting mastermind behind this project and engaging with the Big Apple and managed to get the oating library running with the help of tech world or meeting likemany volunteers and sponsors. minded potential collaborators When the oating library shuts are encouraged to attend. down on October 3rd, the books Events throughout the week on board will be given to high include a kickoff party, ďŹ lm school kids. screening, a food truck faceoff, and speakers on topics ranging 212-766-1104 from growing opportunities for women to football teams and POETRY SOCIETY technology. READING www.techweek.com McNally Jackson, 52 Prince St. between Mulberry and Lafayette Sts. 7 p.m., Free Authors Ellen Bass and Kevin Simmonds will be at the ďŹ rst Poetry Society reading event of the Fall program. Bass is TAI CHI IN THE PARK an accomplished poet who

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The Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages is an all-volunteer, grassroots group formed in 2006. Our goal is to shut down the inhumane and unsafe carriage trade, which has enjoyed many entitlements from past administrations in the way of low fees, subsidized rent, unenforced laws, and a laissez-faire attitude toward the horses’ suffering. A turnover of 71 horses a year is recorded in this business, and we believe many are laundered through the Amish on their way to the kill auctions. Countless accidents involving horse-drawn carriages have been documented, most caused by nervous, spooking horses, resulting in dead and injured horses and injured humans. It is only a matter of time before a person dies. We say enough is enough and implore Mayor deBlasio to take the action he promised: Ban horse-drawn carriages and save the horses. 8FCTJUF CBOIED PSH t #MPH DBSSJBHFIPSTFTOZD CMPHTQPU DPN t 'BDFCPPL /P 8BML JO UIF 1BSL t 5XJUUFS #BO)%$BSSJBHFT

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CROCHET 2: BEYOND THE BASICS Lion Brand Yarn Studio, 34 West 15th St., between 5th and 6th Ave. 6:30-8:30 p.m., $40 Crotchet lovers who have a knowledge of the basic stitches can come to this slightly more advanced class and learn how to add shaping through increasing and decreasing and learn the components of a stitch. Instruction in pattern reading is also available for those who are interested. www.lionbrandyarnstudio. com

SOCIAL MEDIA FUNDAMENTALS NYC Business Solutions Lower Manhattan Center, 110 Williams St. between John and Platt Sts., 4th oor 5:30-8:30 p.m., Freeregistration required Attend this social media workshop and learn how to give your business an effective online presence. Emphasis is on learning how to give a business a digital brand that works with the physical brand, understanding the components of social media, and the online skills required to build a website. www.eventbrite.com

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The Temple Emanu-El Skirball Center, 212-507-9580 www.emanuelskirballnyc.org The reimagined Temple Emanuel Skirball Center is proud to offer courses, seminars and events that inform, inspire and entertain. Our goal is to provide people of all backgrounds the platform to explore Judaism through great cultural performances, discussions, concerts and debates. Among our many events, please join us for Election 2014: With only 12 hours until the midterm election, join us for an exclusive look into national politics from true political insiders: Democratic pundit James Carville and Republican strategist, Mary Matalin. The married couple will discuss relevant issues including health care, the economy, Israel, education and immigration, analyze how the results will affect our community and weigh in on the SBDF GPS UIF 8IJUF )PVTF 5IJT IJHIMZ BOUJDJQBUFE FWFOJOH XJMM CF NPEFSBUFE CZ +Fò ;VDLFS 1SFTJEFOU $// 8PSMEXJEF &MFDUJPO /PWFNCFS 1. & UI 4USFFU (FOFSBM "ENJTTJPO 1SF FWFOU 7*1 3FDFQUJPO 40-% 065 1PTU FWFOU %FTTFSU 3FDFQUJPO XJUI TQFBLFST

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Chelsea Piers has a new addition to its ice-skating operations: a skating pro shop. Skater’s Edge features state-of-the-art skate sharpening machinery, custom fitting, blade profiling, as well as a selection of premium equipment and apparel. The shop, opened in early September, will be operated by Chelsea Piers.

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The park last weekend was the site of its first-ever full-blown equestrian event, the Central Park Horse Show Presented by Rolex. Some of the world’s top-ranked show jumpers and dressage riders competed for prizes, with the Manhattan skyline as the backdrop. Photo by David Handschuh

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DrumReef 42, made from reused plastic barrels. Paths to Pier 42 Summer Launch Celebration 2014. Photo © Hester Street Collaborative / Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

OUT IN THE OPEN ART LMCC Open Studios offers free public programming BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO

LOWER MANHATTAN From High Line Open Studios in Chelsea to Bushwick Open Studios in Brooklyn, it’s not unusual for artists, performance spaces and galleries throughout the five boroughs to invite audiences to take a glimpse at the creative process. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Open Studio Weekend, held from Sept. 26-28, extends to five different downtown locations and invites the public to experience artists’ work while they’re still creating. LMCC, an arts organization that offers resources for artists through residency programs and grants, will open up its arts studios on Governor’s Island and at its headquarters near South Street Seaport, and stage programming at St. Cornelius Chapel on Governor’s Island, Pier 42 on the East River Waterfront, and Battery Park, providing free public access to work

FIVE SITES LMCC ARTS CENTER AT GOVERNOR’S ISLAND (Building 110) Open studios with 20 artists-inresidence who work in a range of visual arts, theater and design. HIGHLIGHTS: Choreographer Rashaun Mitchell presents his latest composition, before my eyes, which is slated to premiere in April of 2015 at New York Live Arts. Dates: Sat., Sept. 27 and Sun., Sept. 28 at 4 p.m. This weekend, the gallery at the center closes Trisha Brown: Embodied Practice and Site-Specificity, an exhibition that explores the work

in various mediums, from dance and choreography to photography, sculpture and written work. “It’s an opportunity to celebrate the work the artist is doing,” said Kay Takeda, director of grants and services for LMCC. “To get up close and personal, and get [the artist] talking and see what they’re thinking about in the context where they’re working.” For artists, it’s not only an opportunity to meet other members of their fields and explore the work of their

of the postmodernist dancer and choreographer, through photography, video, costume and set pieces. Dates: Fri., Sept. 26, noon-5 p.m. Sat., Sept. 27, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun., Sept. 28, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. ST. CORNELIUS CHAPEL AT GOVERNOR’S ISLAND (Corner of Barry and Evans Roads) Rachel Tess discusses the development of her mobile dance theater, Souvenir, as she prepares to construct a larger, weatherproof theater. An exhibition of building sketches and other materials from the 2013 construction of Souvenir will be on display, and Tess workshops a previous composition in the chapel, which explores the relationship

peers, but also gauge how an audience interacts with their work while it’s still in development. Rachel Tess, a dancer and choreographer who’s developing work in St. Cornelius Chapel, isn’t a stranger to interactions with her audience. Her project, Souvenir, began in 2013. As part of her Master’s thesis at the University of Dance in Stockholm, Sweden, she built a 22-foot by 11-foot, modular dance theater made from plywood, which can be taken apart and

between the choreographer and the audience. Exhibition Dates: Fri., Sept. 26-Sun., Sept. 28 from noon-4 p.m. Performance Dates: Sat., Sept 27 and Sun., Sept. 28 at 4 p.m. PIER 42 (East River Waterway, between Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges, with entrances on Montgomery and Cherry Streets, near FDR Drive) Presented with Paths to Pier 42 and Arts East River Waterfront , this temporary public space houses frequent art installations and public events as it transitions into a

reassembled anywhere, “like an oversized Lego,” Tess said. Dancing in such a space, where separation between the audience and the performers is slight, allowed for an intimacy with viewers. Tess, who’s staged hundreds of performances in Souvenir while in Stockholm, will perform her existing choreography in the much larger space at St. Cornelius, while also developing ideas for the construction of a larger, weatherproof mobile theater for bigger productions.

permanent public park. HIGHLIGHT: Created by architecture teams Combo Colab and Stereotank, DrumReef 42 is an installation built from recycled blue plastic barrels and designed to look like an island, complete with a sandbox and sun umbrellas. A drum workshop will take place on the installation. Dates: Sat., Sept. 27 at 2:30 p.m. BATTERY PARK (entrances along Broadway and State Street) The weekend marks the last opportunity to see artist caraballofarman’s site-specific sculpture The Signs of Paradise, a fixture in Battery Park since June.

“Having the chance to rework these materials that have become so articulated through this one space, it’s a lot of letting go for me,” said Tess. “I have to really let go, not of my concept but preconceived notions of the materials. I know that through this, when I go back inside to work in Souvenir it’s going to really feed and inform that process.” All events are free and open to the public. Some require RSVP. For a full schedule of events and to RSVP, visit lmcc.net/openstudios.

Dates: Fri., Sept. 26-Sun., Sept. 28 from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. LMCC’s LOWER MANHATTAN HEADQUARTERS (125 Maiden Lane) HIGHLIGHT: Dancer Netta Yerushalmy presents a scene from her upcoming show Helga and the Three Sailors, a piece that emphasizes personal history which will premiere at Danspace Project in November. RSVP Required. Visit lmcc.net or http:// www.tfaforms.com/342424

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HARLEM STREET SINGER Blind blues guitar virtuoso Reverend Gary Davis moved from rural North Carolina, where he busked for tips on the streets and in tobacco warehouses, to Harlem in the 1940s, cultivating a circle of fellow string performers, including Woody Guthrie. Directors Trevor Laurence and Simeon Hutner’s 2013 film explores Davis’ life in music, from his rural childhood to the resurgence of folk music in the 1960s, which elevated the musician’s star status from humble street player to guitar hero. Sept. 26-Oct. 2 IFC Center 323 Sixth Avenue, at West 3rd Street Show times 6:40 p.m. and 10:45 p.m. Tickets $14

AN EVENING WITH…ETHAN HAWKE The Film Societyy of Lincoln Center honors actor, writerr and director Ethan Hawke in this year’ss installation of its ongoing tribute series. ies. During an intimate dinner, thee actor talks with Kent Jones, director irector of the New York Film Festival. Hawke’s role in thiss year’s Boyhood, a film taped ped over the course of 12 years, marks the latest test in a long-running collaboration with director Richard Linklater, which includes 2001’s Waking Life and the he Before trilogy, a series ries of films co-starringg Julie Delpy which began in 1995 with Before Sunrise andd culminated in 2013 with Before Midnight, which garnered Hawke, Linklater and Delpy Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay. Tuesday, Sept. 30th Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center 165 West 65th St. For ticketing information, call 212-875-5285

IN CONVERSATION JOHN LAHR AND TONY KUSHNER ON TENNESSEE WILLIAMS New Yorker drama critic and author John Lahr, whose 1969 work Notes on a Cowardly Lion was about his father, actor Bert Lahr, joins Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner (who also penned the screenplays for Munich and Lincoln) to discuss his latest biography, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, an investigation of the American playwright’s public and private life. Monday, Sept. 29 Kaufmann Concert Hall 92nd Street Y

Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street 8 p.m. Tickets $15-$50 $15-$

MUSIC RAVI COLT COLTRANE QUAR QUARTET Jazz saxophonist saxophonis Ravi Coltrane, who wh also independent founded indep record label labe RKM, easily claim could easil music a title as m The second royalty. Th child of lege legendary jazz musicia musician John Coltrane and pianist p Alice Coltrane, and a named for Indian sitar player Ravii Sh Shankar, the l R composer and bandleader has over two decades in the music industry. He brings his quartet for a run at downtown jazz mainstay The Village Vanguard. Sept. 30-Oct. 5 Village Vanguard 178 Seventh Ave., near West 11th Street Show times 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Tickets $25-$30

BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER PLAYS RACHMANINOFF, BRUCH AND STRAVINSKY Carnegie Hall kicks off its new season with a gala event featuring Germany’s esteemed orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor Sir Simon Rattle leads the orchestra through a program that includes Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1, performed by violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances, and the closing compositions from Stravinsky’s Firebird. Wednesday, Oct. 1 Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage 57th Street and 7th Avenue 7 p.m. Tickets $75-$250

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dementia. One of the most frequent challenges is that it can become frustrating to communicate with someone with dementia, especially when they are not clear as to what they really need or want. It is important for the caregiver to remain patient, and have a positive attitude when communicating. Helpful tips for communicating with dementia patients include: • Using clear language, with simple words and sentences • Speaking slowly and clearly in reassuring tones • Using exact names of people, places and things rather than pronouns or abbreviations Another challenge that often confronts caregivers of patients with dementia is unpredictable changes in personality or behavior with the patient. There are many ways to deal with these mood swings and behavioral changes; always trying to remember to remain flexible, patient, and compassionate when responding to a dementia patient’s frustrations or changed moods can be a big help in keeping both the caregiver and the patient at ease.

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SENIORS Tips for people caring for those with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia According to the Alzheimer’s Association, an estimated 5.4 million American’s suffer from Alzheimer’s or other dementias, which includes one in eight Americans over the age of 65 and nearly half of Americans over the age of 85. Home health aides can be a vital resource as they are trained to negotiate the challenges that a dementia patient can face, and can help to ensure that they remain calm and comfortable. Tony Walker is a home health aide with Partners in Care, a company that provides private home care health services, specializing in patients with dementia. He shared tips for caregivers and loved ones helping a dementia patient at home.

themselves? One of the challenges most often associated with caregiving for patients with dementia is that the caregiver becomes overwhelmed or fatigued, and feels as though they have no time for themselves, or is no longer providing sufficient care. It is important for caregivers to remember that taking time for themselves is vital, and will ultimately make them a better caregiver. If you as a caregiver are unable to leave your loved one with dementia unattended, it may be helpful to look for a licensed home care agency. Look for licensed agencies like Partners in Care that ensure the quality of their caregivers by going above and beyond state standards of training and certifications. Caregivers with Partners in Care are also available for long and short terms depending on your needs and can help with a variety of tasks and projects. Bringing in an outside caregiver from a licensed agency can bring a family welcome relief knowing that their loved one is being cared for by someone trained to handle the various situations that can present themselves among dementia patients.

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In his second novel, Douglas Brunt gives us a behind-the-scenes look at a political campaign

One thing that I found interesting, on a positive side, was that the people who work in the business of politics, who have chosen this as their career, are less partisan than the rest of the country. I don’t mean the politicians, but the people who are senior in working on campaigns, they recognize in each other, across the aisle, that they’re both trying to pay the bills, and there’s a mutual respect. It’s very much like a few Yankees and a few Red Sox shaking hands after the game and getting a few drinks.

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In 2010, Douglas Brunt decided to leave his job as a CEO to become a fulltime writer. His epiphany came in Central Park, after a moment of soul searching with his wife, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly. At that time, he had already completed a draft of his bestselling inaugural novel, Ghosts of Manhattan, which he wrote in airports and on planes while traveling for work. His writing process for his second novel, The Means, which explores what it takes to run and win a presidential campaign, differed from the first, since he was able to fully devote himself to research. He conducted countless interviews with insiders who have worked in the White House and on Capitol Hill to set the scene for the political thriller and make it as accurate a portrayal as possible.

Why did you choose to write about politics? I have two books out now, the first one is about Wall Street and this is about politics. In both cases, these are subjects where there’s a public perception and, in particular in politics and journalism, there’s a produced image of what the public takes in. And I wanted to go behind that and look at the world that most people don’t get access to and have a chance to see. Politics, of course, is just a fascinating thing. I think over the last 10 years in particular, everyone’s interested in it. The Obama campaigns in both ’08 and ’12 were great with social media and did it better than anybody and engaged a lot of people.

You do a good job in making that clear. The main characters are from different political parties, but you don’t favor one over the other. how they talk to each other when they’re not in front of the camera.

You met with a lot of political insiders. How did those interviews come about? Did you reach out to them? I had access to a few. A friend of mine from school is a congressman now and he pulled together a dinner of seven congressmen in a private room at Bobby Vans in D.C. The wine and bourbon were going, so lots of great scoops. I also did a lot of one-on-one interviews with people who have run national campaigns for presidents. Joe Trippi is one, he ran Howard Dean’s campaign. And people who have been working for the media and embedded in traveling with the campaigns. They have fascinating stories. Also those who have worked in the White House before different administrations and people who worked on Capitol Hill or super PACS. They all have different perspectives and you start triangulating in all of them and you come up with

Yeah, it’s not meant to be a partisan book in any way. It’s just an inside look at politics. I feel that if it had any partisan stripes to it at all, it would be much less credible. And much less likable too. I’m not that political, even though I’ve written this book about politics. Of course, my wife covers a lot of politics for the news.

You’re married to Megyn Kelly, an anchor on Fox News. In your book, you also go behind-the scenes of a newsroom. All the folks who work on her show and the news anchors around the network and at other networks, I’m very friendly with. So I’ve had a lot of exposure to it.

Did you base your characters on anyone in particular? No, no one in the book is more than a composite of many people. But they are all sort of rounded in reality

Explain the title of the book. It pulls from “the ends justify the means.” Everyone gets to see the ends, that’s what in the news, who wins the elections. But fewer people get to see the means to those ends, what life is like on the campaign trail, in the governor’s mansion, the Oval Office, or Capitol Hill. And what the congressmen are really saying when they have a smaller private client meeting and

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through many relationships and experiences that I’ve had.

If the book was made into a movie, who would you want to play the three leads? Gosh, amazingly, I have not fully thought that through. So I’m going to have to do this kind of on the fly. The Mitchell Mason character would be a little older, a little more gravely, maybe an Alec Baldwin type could do that. The younger, Tom Pauley character, would be someone like Bradley Cooper or Ryan Gosling. And Samantha Davis would be Rachel McAdams or Jessica Biel.

You’re from Philly. I went to Villanova and was happy to see the reference to the Main Line in the novel. That’s right where I grew up. In fact, my parents’ first home was in Villanova. I pick places where I’ve been or lived. It’s easier to drop in physical places that you know and make it seem real.

You went to Duke. What did you study there? Poli-sci. I never

acted on it professionally in any way. There was a time when I thought maybe law school.

You were the CEO at an internet company before you made the decision to pursue writing full time. How did that come about? I had been running a security company that was based in Florida, but living and starting a family in New York. So I was doing a lot of travel and was dissatisfied with the job. With all that travel, I had been writing just as a hobby, on planes or in airport terminals. I finished a draft of a book that needed work, but my wife read it and liked it. And she was noticing that I was not happy with work. And so we were walking in Central Park one day, just talking about what kind of changes could be made within the context of what we could do at work to make it better. And then it morphed into, “What if we completely flipped this and you didn’t do this for your work anymore and did something different?”

Who are your favorite authors? I love Nelson DeMille. He’s become a friend and mentor. The last book I read before I wrote my first book was The Gold Coast. John Irving is one of my favorite writers. Philip Roth. I’ve also read a lot of nonfiction lately too. T.J. Styles wrote The First Tycoon, about Cornelius Vanderbilt. That was very good. And some of the David McCullough stuff. He did one on the Brooklyn Bridge. Brunt will be at Barnes and Noble on the Upper West Side on September 29th at 7 p.m. for a reading and signing

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