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THE DANGER OF EBOLA FEARS

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FIRST PERSON I’m not a healthcare worker, I’ve never been to West Africa, and I’m completely healthy – but I still scared a roommate away based on her fears of Ebola BY ADELLE BRODBECK

My roommate moved out because she thinks I have Ebola. As New York copes with its ﬁrst case of Ebola, nurses working at Bellevue Hospital and children from West African countries face irrational, fearfueled discrimination. As a college student from Kentucky, living in Chelsea and working two editorial internships, I never thought that irrational fear would reach me. But a threat I supposedly posed to my roommate was enough to make her pack up the middle of the night and vacate our room. Last Thursday, I attended a CMJ concert at a popular venue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn Bowl. All throughout that evening rumors were circulating that the infected New Yorker, Dr. Craig Spencer, had visited a Williamsburg bowling alley the previous night. Preoccupied with anticipation for a raucous evening, I barely paid any mind to the Ebola buzz. Before I left, I mentioned to my roommate that I was headed out to Brooklyn Bowl. “Oh,” she said, with an apprehensive look. “Isn’t that where the Ebola guy went?” “I’m not really sure,” I responded. “But you know that you can’t catch Ebola just from being in the same room as someone.” “Uh, yeah I know that,” my roommate said conﬁdently. Thinking the matter was settled, I headed out to catch the subway. Once I arrived, I overheard people spouting bits and pieces of information about Dr. Spencer, but no one seemed particularly worried about catching the disease. Band members even made jokes about it and thanked the audience for braving the Ebola storm. I quickly lost all interest in hearing

Twenty-four years ago, Kate Munger sang to her dear friend as he lay in a coma, nearing death after suffering from HIV and then AIDS. She used her love of music to comfort herself, and in turn realized she was comforting her friend as well. Over time she began gathering more volunteers, singing for people as they approached death, which evolved, into the Threshold Choir in 2000. Now there are choirs in 120

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Members of the Threshold Choir sing to a woman at Haven Hospice Specialty Care Unit at Bellevue Hospital on her 72nd birthday. Photos by Mary Newman

BRINGING THE JOY OF MUSIC TO THE HOSPICE ROOMS HEALTHCARE The Threshold Choir brings comfort to patients at the hospice unit of Bellevue Hospital through familiar songs BY MARY NEWMAN

cities across the country, including a group that sings to patients at the VNSNY Haven Hospice Specialty Care Unit at Bellevue Hospital. Under the direction of Winnie Lee, a small group of volunteers met this past Saturday to sing to patients for an hour. Along the peaceful hallways of Haven Hospice, Lee led Marcia Picciotto, Rebecca Kaplan, and Carol Mannes in warming up their voices by singing harmonies to song phrases like “may I be an instrument of peace,” and “I will not leave you alone” before singing to the patients. In an effort to keep the patients as comfortable as possible, Lee enters the ﬁrst room alone to ask patients if they would like to hear songs from the choir. Once they agree, the other three women enter quietly, greeting patient Barbara Roberts and her family with warm smiles. Roberts

happened to be celebrating her 72nd birthday; the room was ﬁlled with her family and friends. The choir began by singing “This Little Light of Mine,” which inspired Roberts to start singing and clapping along to the melody. Her face lit up as she heard the familiar song, and soon the entire room was singing together in celebration of her birthday. After a few more songs, the choir ended with several versions of the Birthday Song, leaving many in the room in tears. “These are happy tears,” a family member yelled out. “It’s just nice to be singing together.” The choir then said goodbye to Roberts and her family, leaving a joyful energy in the room and a smiling birthday girl. “When we come out of the room we sometimes need to take a moment,” Picciotto explained. “It can be so

On Thursday, Comptroller Scott M. Stringer announced that his office had commenced audits of the ﬁnancial and operating practices of four New York City charter school entities. “Nothing is more important than the education of our kids,” Stringer said. “My office is going to make sure that taxpayer dollars are being used appropriately and that proper controls are in place to ensure that all young New Yorkers are getting the quality education they deserve.” Merrick Academy in Queens, Bedford Stuyvesant New Beginnings Charter School, South Bronx Charter for International Cultures and the Arts, and Success Academy Charter Schools-NYC were selected based on objective criteria, including geography, size and publicly available ﬁnancial data.

TAYLOR SWIFT GETS A BRONX CHEER AS N.Y.C. AMBASSADOR Welcome to New York, Taylor Swift! The locals are kvetching about you already. Swift’s new gig as New York City’s global welcome ambassador is getting a Bronx cheer (not that she knows what that is) from locals who questioned her street cred and mocked the videos she made for the city’s tourism agency, NYC & Company. Even the unﬂappable anchor for the city’s 24-hour cable news station, NY1’s Pat Kiernan, expressed outrage, asking whether Swift knows who Dr. Zizmor is. (Zizmor is a dermatologist who’s advertised on the subway for years.) But NYC & Company spokesman Chris Heywood defended Swift as the perfect choice for the city’s global ambassador. “She is the No. 1 global pop star in the world right now,” he said in a phone interview.

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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS CHECK Trinity Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s property management division Trinity Real Estate plans to construct four luxury residential towers in Lower Manhattan. Photo by Dmytro Kochetov via Flickr.

TRINITY CHURCH TO ENTER RESIDENTIAL MARKET Trinity Real Estate, the property management arm of the landmarked Episcopal church in Lower Manhattan, is set to enter the residential real estate game with plans to build as many as four luxury towers on Hudson Square, Crainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New York Business reported. The church owns about 5.5 million square feet of office space in Hudson Square, including its headquarters, which will be rebuilt into a 44-story tower with luxury residences on the top ďŹ&#x201A;oors. The tower will be designed by Pelli Clark Pelli and construction is set to begin next year. Trinity Church has a total of 215 acres of space downtown, which was given to them by Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Queen Anne when it was still farmland, Crainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reported. In January, Trinity is set to select a partner to help build a 300,000 â&#x20AC;&#x201C;square-foot residential building at Sixth Avenue and Canal Street, which will include a public school on the bottom ďŹ&#x201A;oor. Trinity also has plans to build at least three more residential towers on Hudson Square, which together will total almost 1 million square feet of space. Last year the church made a concentrated push in the city council to allow zoning changes that make these projects possible, said Crainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. The changes will allow residential building

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YACHT RUNS AGROUND OFF GOVERNORâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ISLAND A yacht carrying about 100 passengers on an evening dinner cruise ran aground in New York Harbor, but there were no injuries and rescuers shuttled everyone safely back to land. WABC-TV in New York reports that the Hornblower Cruises and Events boat ran into trouble near Governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Island around 10 p.m. Saturday. A number of agencies including the ďŹ re and police departments sent vessels to remove the passengers and brought them to a Manhattan pier. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t clear what caused the yacht to run aground. WABC-TV received a statement from the cruise companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vice President and General Manager, Cameron Clark, noting that the vessel â&#x20AC;&#x153;experienced a loss of propulsionâ&#x20AC;? and that neither the passengers nor the crew members were in any danger.

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MAN DRAGGED BY GARBAGE TRUCK IN CHINATOWN HIT-AND-RUN A 59-year-old man was dragged by a garbage truck along Canal St. in a hit and run on the evening of Thursday, October 30. The man, who died from his injuries, was removed from the privately owned, unidentiďŹ ed garbage truck at Canal St. and Center St around 9:30 p.m., DNAinfo reports. The garbage truck continued moving eastbound after the victim was dislodged and was dead at the scene. No names have been released and it is unclear if the driver knew that he had struck the victim. DNAinfo.com

POLICE SEARCH FOR SUSPECT IN EAST VILLAGE STABBING Police are searching for a man who stabbed another man early in the morning on November 2. Police say that at around 1:30 a.m. the stabbing victim was standing close by the suspect and another man at 141 East 13th St. and ďŹ lming a conďŹ&#x201A;ict between them. The

suspect then stabbed the man ďŹ lming in the torso before ďŹ&#x201A;eeing the scene. The 41-year-old stabbing victim was treated at Bellevue and released. Police have released several photos of the suspect and are asking the public to contact Crime Stoppers at 800-5778477 or online at NYPDCrimeStoppers. com with any information. CBS Local

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT SLASHED AFTER ATTACKING VENDOR An 18-year-old high school student was slashed in the face after attacking a newsstand vendor, police say. Roger Jackson, a student at the Harbor School on Governors Island began an altercation by throwing candy at vendor Manuel Baquero. Baquero, a 67-year-old who has worked at the newsstand at Peal St. and Whitehall St. for a decade, stepped out of the stand and was beat up by Jackson and classmates Travis Peckoo and Raymond Campbell, both 17. During this time Baquero slashed Jackson across the face with a box-cutter, requiring Jackson to undergo surgery and 40 stitches at Bellevue. Baquero has been charged with ďŹ rst-degree felony assault and says that he acted in selfdefence, while Jackson, Peckoo and Campbell have all been charged with ďŹ rst-degree attempted gang assault and two counts of second-degree assault. DNAinfo.com

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG ZIPCAR ZAPPED

HALSTON HAUL A purse snatcher hit the jackpot in a local boutique. At 5:20 p.m. on Sunday, October 26, an unknown perpetrator removed a number of purses from the wall display inside the Halston Heritage store at 59 Greene Street and left without paying for them. At the time, there was no security or video surveillance in the store. The items stolen were a black and silver purse valued at $325, a gold purse tagged at $325, a white multipurse priced at $345, a black multi-purse costing $395, a black and silver purse valued at $295, a multi-metallic purse tagged at $295, a ﬂint purse priced at $295, a silver purse worth $295, a heather gray purse valued at $495, a syrah purse costing $495, a heather gray purse valued at $450, and another syrah purse tagged at $395. The total of the purloined purses came to $4,405.

Someone zipped off with a Zipcar. At 12:50 p.m. on Wednesday, August 13, a Cadillac ATS Zipcar was parked in the Central Parking System location at 270 Greenwich Street. The following day, Zipcar was notiﬁed of the unauthorized use of the vehicle. The GPS on the car had been disabled, and a fraudulent credit card had been used to rent the car. There was no video available in the location, and police were unable to locate the pricey sedan in the area. The car stolen was a silver 2015 Cadillac ATS with New York plates GSP7781 and a value of $38,500.

ALL IN VAN Note to thieves: if you change your mind about stealing a van, you should probably not return the vehicle to the spot where you stole it. At 6:15 a.m. on Friday, October 24, a 44-year-old male employee of the A & M Tasty Snacks company was ﬁxing the load in the back of the company’s yellow 2008 GMC van bearing New York plates 76346MC. The van was parked at the northeast corner of State Street and South Street. Just then, an unknown 45-year-old man got behind the wheel of the van and turned the key, which was still in the ignition, starting the vehicle and speeding off. The A&M driver ﬂagged down a taxi and followed the stolen van until he lost sight of it at Montgomery and Madison Streets. A while later, the robber was observed

driving the van southbound on Broadway at Vesey Street, where the police had established a checkpoint. The driver tried to avoid the checkpoint by making a left turn onto Ann Street, but he was stopped by police officers. At that point, the arresting officer arrived at the scene with the A&M driver, who identiﬁed the thief, saying, “Yes, that is the guy who stole my truck.” The defendant appeared unsteady on his feet and had slow motor coordination. He told the arresting officer that he had had a few beers early in the morning, and indeed an 18 pack of Budweiser was found on the passenger seat of the van, with 12 unopened beers remaining. The defendant further exhibited blurry eyes, and the smell of alcohol was detected on his breath. The defendant admitted that he had taken the truck to deliver to a friend at Avenue D and Tenth Street in exchange for cash. When the defendant had been unable to ﬁnd his friend at that location, he decided to return the truck to the original location. The defendant, Robert Thompson, was arrested October 24 and charged with grand larceny.

CHILD’S PLOY A young boy proved an invaluable distraction for a street thief. At 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 21, a 42-year-old woman was attending to her 5-year-old nephew when an unknown man bumped and jostled her. A few minutes later, she went to purchase an item from a street

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vendor in front of 2 Cortlandt Street when she noticed that the purse she had been carrying on her right shoulder was missing. There may be video of the theft. The victim canceled her credit cards, and no unauthorized transactions turned up. Police searched the area but were unable to locate the thief or the purse. Items stolen included a digital camera valued at $600, a Muji scarf tagged at $65, a variety of makeup worth $50, a makeup bag priced at $25, a tube of Russian red Mac lipstick valued at $17, $10 worth of medicine, and a vintage purse valued at $4. The total stolen amounted to $771.

A robber left a German tourist with an unhappy memory of her ride on the Staten Island ferry. At 4 p.m. on Sunday, October 26, a 24-year-old female tourist from Wilwerwitz, Germany exited the ferry at Broad and Water Streets when an unknown person bumped her. She then discovered that her cell phone was missing from her right front sweater pocket. She was unable to use the Find My iPhone app. The phone stolen was an iPhone 5S valued at $400.

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Year to Date

2014 2013

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2014

2013 % Change

Murder

n/a

Rape

-45.5

Robbery

-100

-33.9

Felony Assault

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Burglary

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124

154

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 about Ebola, and focused on the music. When a strange number called my phone, I ignored it. Then a series of texts came ﬂooding in. “Hi Adelle, as you have probably heard NYC has had its ﬁrst Ebola victim…” the rest of the texts, from the coordinator of my program housing, relayed a message of distress from my roommate. I was completely taken aback. Even after appearing unfazed and keeping her thoughts to herself until I left, my roommate contacted our program’s administration claiming that I was putting her and the rest of our house in danger. I scoured the news on my phone, looking to see if there were new developments or risk factors I had missed. I quickly found out that Dr. Spencer hadn’t even been to Brooklyn Bowl; he visited a nearby bowling alley called The Gutter. I passed this crucial detail along to the program coordinator, and after a couple hours with no response, assumed the situation had been resolved. By the time I dragged myself home around 2:30 a.m., all thoughts of Ebola had faded away. When I turned the corner of my hallway, however, I was jolted alert by the site of my door wide open, the lights on, and half of the room empty. My former roommate had moved out in the middle of the night, in an Ebola-fear-induced frenzy, because I had attended a concert blocks away from the alley that Dr. Spencer had visited before he was even contagious.

In an impressively swift act, she had gathered the totality of her belongings and left (though she hadn’t bothered to empty the trashcan, brimming with her gluten-free bread bags) all because, as I later heard, she was afraid “our toothbrushes would touch.” The fact that a seemingly well-educated person would think that Ebola could magically be transmitted through all bowling alleys in the same borough, and then passed again through toothbrush contact, is sadly not an outlying behavior. While I have only had to deal with the backlash of a ﬂeeing roommate, reactions even more absurd have been occurring all over the city. Last Monday, the New York Times and other media outlets reported the senseless bullying of two Senegalese children who recently arrived in the city. The brothers, now living in the Bronx, were taunted and beaten by classmates at I.S. 318 who referred to them as “Ebola.” Senegal has not seen an Ebola victim since August, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The African Advisory Council of the Bronx described the boys’ injuries as “severe” enough to be rushed to a nearby hospital. The father of the two boys explained to NY1 that when he arrived at the school, his children were crying while their schoolmates piled on top of them, beating them. Other reports of bullying have surfaced since, including continued discrimination against citizens with African roots. Renee Stoll with ABC7 tweeted on October 27 about a woman whose salon business has

declined because patrons “don’t want to get hair done by an African woman.” An article in the New York Times from October 29 detailed the ongoing stigma Bellevue employees are facing since Dr. Spencer was diagnosed two weeks ago. Medical Director Dr. Nate Link said that a multitude of Bellevue workers, not just those who have been in contact with Dr. Spencer, are dealing with bouts of discrimination. Mayra Martinez, a new face at Bellevue, told the Times that she overheard people gossiping about Ebola on the subway and, to avoid any confrontation, tucked away her employee badge. “These [events] are obviously related to irrational fears in the community,” Dr. Link said. Mayor Bill de Blasio has taken steps to debunk these illogical reactions, starting a social media campaign to stand with Bellevue medical staff and paying a visit to the Meatball Shop location where Dr. Spencer had dined the day before he was hospitalized. De Blasio, wife Chirlane McCray and Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett sated their appetites at The Meatball Shop on the 25th. All three left their weekend brunch, unsurprisingly, Ebola-free. The city is doing all it can to reiterate that, for almost all New Yorkers, the risk of contracting Ebola is inﬁnitesimal. One suggestion for the Health Department, though -- to be added to the public service poster they’ve been circulating showing the difficulty of contracting the virus: “Ebola cannot be spread from contact with a noninfected person’s toothbrush.”

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Neighborhood Scrapbook FIGHTING TO SAVE A SENIOR CENTER IN THE VILLAGE

Seniors, elected officials and community leaders gathered to demand that a venerable senior center located in the basement of Our Lady of Pompeii Church in Greenwich Village not be evicted. Members of the community recently learned that Greenwich House, the 112-year old settlement house that operates the center, has been advised to begin looking for alternative space in which to house the center once its lease expires in June 2015. Attendees at the event included State Sen. Brad Hoylman, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, and Councilmember Margaret Chin, pictured.

PROTESTING FOR A TEACHER ON 9TH AVENUE

Ballet students in tutus and tiaras protested the dismissal of teacher Kat Wildish outside the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater on 9th Avenue over the weekend. The Ailey Extension recently ďŹ red Wildish after she was confronted by an unruly student and parent in the building lobby after class in September. The students maintain Ailey management was negligent in responding to the assault on Wildish on the property.

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MUSIC HELPS HOSPICE PATIENTS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 emotional and we don’t want to break down in front of the patients so we try to collect ourselves before singing in the next room.” All Threshold Choir volunteers are required to train for several months until they have learned the entire songbook. In training they also go over different ways to connect with the patients, and how to remain composed during such an emotional experience. “The other thing that is important for our singers is blending, we want the different voices to blend into one sound,” Lee explained. “We also have to train our singers on how to sing quietly. They have always been told to project loudly, but here it is important to sing sweet and low due to the nature of the hospice setting.” The volunteers have a range of musical experience, but all ﬁnd inspiration in offering comfort to people in their days before death. After reading about the choir in a feature article in Real Simple magazine in 2007, Lee contacted them to get involved. With no singing experience outside of grade school chorus, she has committed enough time to become a choir leader. There is an average of 12 volunteers singing at VNSNY Haven Hospice Specialty care, working around everyone’s schedules to each sing at least once a

week to patients. “As we enter each room we hope our singing can offer a little comfort, just something soothing to the patients,” Lee said. “We’re here to give them a little brief break from their day, and if we’re lucky maybe sing them to sleep. Since illness and death are so out of our control, this is one small thing we can do.” As the choir walked through the hallways singing to other rooms it became clear how they take the time to personalize the songs for each patient. Several patients felt too tired to have them in the room, so they sang quietly in the hallway to be less intrusive. For a Spanish-speaking woman, the choir sang traditional Spanish songs to inspire good memories from her childhood. Jennifer Brown, a VNSNY nurse, approached the choir in the hallway to thank them for all that they do. Her first experience with the choir was when one of her patients had a brain tumor and was unresponsive. Her medical team saw some minor progress after adjusting her medications, but Brown explains she saw the biggest difference after the Threshold Choir sang to the patient. “One of the ﬁrst signs of major response was after the choir began singing to her and I started to see her sway with the music,” Brown said. “Her family visiting began to sing along with the choir and it was such a beautiful moment, especially after a few days of this patient not talking at all. To see her engage with the music and share that with their family was incredible.”

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ANOTHER VIEW ON THE FRICK In reading the article “Defending the Frick” (10/30/14), I was disappointed twice over. In the first instance, by the Frick collection’s director. Mr. Wardropper and the Frick’s Board of Trustees are stewards of a significant landmarked ensemble. The scale of the Frick’s signiﬁcance – at the city, state and national levels – is a central issue in evaluating the appropriateness for any proposed alteration, especially one as destructive and mono-

lithic in scale as that desired by Mr. Wardropper. Meetings with preservation organizations and others are referenced, and the indication is made that the Frick wants to “get into a dialogue over it.” Well, that community is speaking: The Garden Conservancy, the Garden Club of America, the Historic Districts Council, the Friends of the Upper East Side, The Cultural Landscape Foundation, the Library of American Landscape History, Defenders of the

Upper East Side, and LANDMARK WEST! have ALL expressed their opposition to the current plan. Is Mr. Wardropper listening? Secondly, I was disappointed by the reporter’s unbalanced reporting. She fails to acknowledge in any way the tremendous groundswell of individuals and organizations who are publicly announcing their concerns. Chief among these concerns is the proposed demolition of two landmark-protected elements of

the Frick ensemble: the Reception Hall Pavillion and the Russell Pagedesigned Viewing Garden on East 70th Street. With the expansion of the Frick’s landmark designation in 1974, the Pavilion and Garden site came under the purview of the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Since then, both of these additions have been acknowledged for their successful relationship to one another and the larger Frick ensemble. The Viewing Garden designed

FAME AFTER THE FILMORE Last week, the city commemorated a well-known music venue; many gay activists remember the building’s history as The Saint nightclub BY MARK DE SOLLA PRICE

For me the address 105 Second Avenue at 6th Street will always be The Saint Discotheque. On Wednesday, October 29, I attended the unveiling of a historic plaque commemorating the same address as the site of the Filmore East, the famed music venue that ran from 1968 to 1971. Although the Fillmore East was before my time, I knew how important and ground-breaking it had been, and yet as an out gay man, I was angry and disappointed that there was no mention that this was also the site of The Saint from 1980 to 1998, a gay discotheque that occupied the same space (for three times as long) and had been so important both to me personally as well as to the whole gay movement. The Saint was arguably the greatest dance club (gay or straight) ever built and it had a profound impact on the history of the gay community and

LGBTQ equality. newall Riots that Before the Stonewall 8, 1969, it was illebegan on June 28, gal for two men to dance together. ermitted this were Nightclubs that permitted ce and the patrons raided by the police thing changed in arrested. Everything the 1970s, when folks became out e danced together and proud and we in the newly legal gay bars. nt opened in 1980, When The Saint ad changed. The the zeitgeist had Saint’s owner, Bruce Mailman, he provocative sexcommissioned the apher Robert Mapcharged photographer te the original poster plethorpe to create or the club. advertisements for But the 1980s were an in-between period, when not everybody could be gay in public. The Saint was a private, members-only gay club that created a safe space for gay men to dance and celebrate their sexuality without cameras lurking around. The building’s design was a marvel of architecture and technology, built at a then-unheard-of cost of $4.5 million, with a circular 4,800-squarefoot dance ﬂoor under a 76-foot wide

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dome that was larger than the Hayden Planetarium. Performers at The Saint included a who’s who of 1980s disco: Chaka Khan, Khan Chita Rivera, Rivera Debbie Harry, Eartha Kitt, Patti LuPone, Pet Shop Boys, RuPaul, and Tina Turner, to name a few. By the late 1980s, everything changed again. HIV/AIDS had taken away the innocence of those early carefree days of sexual pride and abandon. When The Saint closed on May 2, 1988, it did so with a 42-hour non-stop party with eight perform-

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ing stars, eleven DJs and ﬁve lighting artists. A few thousand revelers cherished their last dance under the dome of The Saint. Saint Of course, one can’t have a brass plaque for everything, but I like the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s view of a richer history. Their website entry for 105 Second Avenue puts the space into a larger historical perspective: “It opened in 1926 as a Yiddish theater, soon becoming the Loew’s Commodore movie house, followed by the

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by Russell Page, regarded by many as the greatest garden designer of the 20th century, is a work of art. For an institution in the business of managing and celebrating an artistic collection, it is unacceptable that their esteem fails to carry beyond the mansion walls to its landscapes. Thank you for your time. Unite to Save the Frick www.unitetosavethefrick.org

Village Theater. Theat In the 1980s it was wa the trendsetting gay nightclub The Saint, becoming Emigrant Emi Bank in 1995 1995, and Apple Bank in 2013. While the facade fa retains much of its original Medieval Med Revival style, th the rear of the building,w building, which housed the auditoriaud um, was demol demolished and replaced b by the Fillmore apart apartment building in 1997 1997.” At the ceremony, cerem I learned that tha the building was also al the home of “East V Village Other” (1965(1965-72) a leading undergr underground desc newspaper described by The New York Times as “so cou countercultural that it made V The Village Voice churc cirlook like a church cular.” Perhaps the city’s brass plaques sshould have those bar codes linking them th to Historic Society websites, so the they can be kept up-to-date and complete, comple as the history of a site is more fully ful understood. It is the diversity that makes New York’s history so amazing, and that is especially true in Greenwich Village, the neighborhood my husband and I are proud to call our home for the last twenty plus years. Mark de Solla Price is an HIV/AIDS and marriage equality activist.

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Out & About 7 PROGRAMS IN A BOX: THE INDIAN SITAR Seward Park Library, 192 East Broadway at Henry St. 3:30-4:30 p.m., Free Best for ages 6-10 and reservations can be made in advance in person or on the phone. Children are invited to learn about another part of the world and expand their cultural horizons through constructing a sitar from India. www.nypl.org

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10 a.m., Free Librarian Lauren will be hanging out close to the entrance of Washington Market Park reading reading stories and singing songs about farming and planting. 212-275-6595

Isle of Klezbos playing their indeﬁnable tunes, ranging from Yiddish swing to folk. www.citywinery.com

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MOCAREADS: CHINESE 430 West 25th St. at 10th YANKEE BY RUTHANNE Ave. 11 a.m.-1 p.m., NYC Parks LUM MCCUNN and Rec Membership Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Center St. at Chambers St. 2:30-4 p.m., $10/adults, $7 students/seniors, Free/ members Ruthanne Lum McCunn discusses her book “Chinese Yankee,” a work about Thomas Sylvanus (Ah Yee Way, who

Required Children with physical disabilities are invited to this new sports program to learn wheelchair basketball with the New York Rollin’ Fury. Open to ages 6-21 and sports

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CUPCAKE 101 Butter Lane, 123 East 7th St. at Ave. A 5-7 p.m., $75 A fun, informal group baking class that guides students through the basics of producing delicious cupcakes. Great for bridal showers and birthday parties. 212-677-2880

8 STORY TIME AT TRIBECA SATURDAY GREENMARKET Washington Market Park between Chambers St. and Duane St.

fought for freedom from slavery and battled for his rights until he died in 1981. www.mocanyc.org

9 KLEZMER BRUNCH: ISLE OF KLEZBOS City Winery, 155 Varick St. at Spring St. 10 a.m.-2p.m., $10 plus cost of food The weekly Klezmer Brunch at City Winery pairs lox, bagels and other delicious treats with unique live music from accomplished musicians. This week will feature the all-female, NYC-based sextet

Epiphany Library, 228 East 23rd St. between 2nd and 3rd Ave. 1 p.m., Free Make Monday a little more enjoyable by indulging in some drama with a two episode screening from season 4 of PBS’s Downton Abbey. www.nypl.org

ASSAF GAVRON + JOHN WRAY The Strand, 828 Broadway at East 12th St. 7-8 p.m., Purchase of “The Hilltop” or a $15 Strand giftcard “The Hilltop” by Assaf Gavron has been called “the great Israeli novel” by Time Out Tel Aviv. Gavron will discuss his novel

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that looks at a long conﬂict with New York Times Magazine’s John Wray. www.strandbooks.com

based Adventure Film Festival celebrates its second New York showing to support the Sierra Club’s efforts to engage urban youth in the outdoors. Films will focus on adventurers, activists and athletes sharing stories and intermission snacks will be provided by Whole Foods. www. landmarktheatres. com

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TICO TALES The Player’s Theatre, 115 Macdougal St at Carmine St. 11 a.m., $25-$45 Six actors and two musicians take audience members on a magical journey to Costa RIca with storytelling, dance and music. 212-475-1449

IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave. at West 3rd St. 8-10 p.m., $14 adult, $10 senior, $9 member Based on Anne Beattie’s novel and directed by Joan Micklin Silver follows a brokenhearted protagonist as he deals with the end of an affair. Silver and producer/co-star Griffin Dunne will be present for a Q+A after the ﬁlm. www.ifccenter.com

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Blue Note Jazz Club, 131 West 3rd St. between Macdougal St. and Sixth Avenue Doors at 6 p.m., Show at 8 p.m., $30 for bar, $45 for table A jazz musician who has had a varied and exciting career since the mid-1950s as a tenor saxophone player, Barbieri has played everything from free jazz to latin music. www.bluenote.net

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A family hopes that Upper West Siders will help bring their Cavalier King Charles Spaniel back home Upper West Side For the past week, Eva Zaghari and her three children from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, have been papering the Upper West Side with over 1,300 ﬂyers asking for information on their beloved dog Cooper. ?We are devastated, please return our dog,? the sign implores. The catch though, is that Cooper didn?t technically get lost, or even stolen. He was given away. When she explains the story, sitting at Irving Farm coffee shop on West 79th Street before heading out to post more ﬂyers around the neighborhood, Eva and her kids are visibly distraught. About a month ago, on September 5th, her husband Ray had arranged to give the dog away, via a Craigslist ad. He mistakenly thought that removing a source of stress from his wife and kids ? walking and feeding and caring for a dog, tasks which had fallen mostly to Eva ? would make everyone happier

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A CENTURY OF SEX TALK ON THE EAST SIDE MILESTONES Shirley Zussman, who recently celebrated her 100th birthday, worked with Masters and Johnson, and still sees patients as a sex therapist BY KYLE POPE

UPPER EAST SIDE Some people’s life stories write themselves, and Shirley Zussman, the 100-year-old sex therapist of the Upper East Side, is one of those people. She was born in 1914 at the start of World War I (less than a month after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand), lived in Berlin at the height of the Cabaret era, became a protege of the original Masters and Johnson, and, now into her second century, continues to see patients in an office in the ground ﬂoor of her apartment building on E. 79th Street. Last month, more than 50 people crowded Yefsi restaurant, a Greek place

GEORGE HIROSE: MAGIC GARDENS Ottendorfer Public Library, 135 Second Ave. between St. Mark’s Pl. and East 9th St. 12-7 p.m., Free This exhibit shows selections from a large body of work showing the Lower East Side and the East Village’s community gardens at night. George Hirose, an adjunct professor at Pratt and a photographer, moved to the area in the 1970s and tried to capture the unique beauty of the different community gardens in the area as the sun went down. www.nypl.org

diabetes in this fundraiser where 100% of the proﬁts support the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. This event is 21+. Even if you cannot attend you can still make a donation.

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SOUP BURG CLOSED AFTER RENT INCREASE SAVING SMALL BUSINESS Venerable Upper East Side restaurant to be replaced by a TD Bank branch BY CATHERINE ELLSBERG

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Landmark Sunshine Cinema, 143 East Houston St. between Eldridge and Forsyth St. 6-9 p.m., $15 advance, $22 at the door, $55-60 VIP The Boulder, Colorado-

The Parkside Lounge, 317 East Houston St. at Attorney St. 7-11 p.m., $10-$150 Poets, writers, comedian and actors engage with the topic of

Soup Burg has served up its last bowl. The restaurant, which had called its Lexington Ave. and 77th Street location home for the past 10 years, was ﬁnally forced to call it quits June 29 after the building’s landlord tried to raise the rent exponentially. Unable to pay the higher rent, Soup Burg’s owner, Jimmy Gouvakis, had to make the difficult decision to close the restaurant—a family-owned business since 1963—to make way for the building’s new tenant, TD Bank. Gouvakis has had the difficult news hanging over him since April; since then, his customers have showered him with support -- as well as a healthy dose of outrage. Many neighborhood fans and long-time customers see the closing of Soup Burg as part of a sad and larger epi “How far can we go with this? Are we just been equal parts levelheaded and nostal

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“Flatiron Building” (2011) ©Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao. Courtesy Museum of the City of New York

“Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade” (2012) ©Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao. Courtesy Museum of the City of New York

SHOOTING NEW YORK, FROM EVERY POSSIBLE ANGLE EXHIBITIONS Photographer Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao’s multilayered pictures at the Museum of the City of New York BY VAL CASTRONOVO

Enter the world of artist Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, a Taiwanese native who lives in Jackson Heights, Queens, and enter a world that is at once fantastic and intensely real. Liao has spent the last 10 years photographing slices of the city, all five boroughs in living color. Now through February 15, 2015, the Museum of the City of New York is showcasing the fruits of his labor in an exhibit of some 40 panoramic works, sweeping composite views that range from the tip of Manhattan to the Grand Concourse, from Coney Island to Willets Point, Queens. Liao came to the city in 1999 when he was 22.

He trained at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, where his commute from Queens on the #7 train was the inspiration for his master’s thesis, “Habitat 7,” a photographic survey of the communities that lined his route to school. The New York Times Magazine rewarded his efforts in 2005 by naming him the winner of its “Capture the Times” contest, publishing six pages of his photos and putting his name on the map. He followed the #7 project with a study of the Grand Concourse for the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2008, and then chronicled the last year of Shea Stadium and construction of Citi Field in Queens. In summer 2010, he took on Coney Island, segueing to Staten Island the following year to take pictures for an exhibit about the borough at MCNY. For the last two years, he has made Manhattan his focus. Step off the elevator on the third ﬂoor and the wow factor kicks in almost immediately. A selection of photos representing the ﬁve boroughs

acts as a kind of prelude to the main show, which is introduced by the spectacular “New York Harbor during Fleet Week” (2012), Liao’s personal favorite from a technical standpoint. Open the doors to the main gallery and what follows is a series of skylines and “social landscapes,” a kaleidoscopic array of people livin’ in the city and navigating its architecture, from the crowds converging on Bethesda Fountain in Central Park to the crowds coursing through Duffy Square in Times Square and outside the 72nd Street subway station on Broadway. Liao typically spends a day gathering the raw material for his multi-faceted works. He shoots dozens of exposures of a place and then, after winnowing, “stitches them together” to create a single, summary photo. “I always say this is what I do,” he remarks about the painstaking process of building his images, which in some cases takes months. “There’s a lot of editing,” he adds with obvious understatement. He started with a large-format 8-by-10-inch ﬁlm camera and

graduated to digital technology in 2010, which allows him to capture and manipulate many more frames for that final, assembled picture. Cast about the room and eye-popping works cover the walls. “Flatiron Building” (2011) is a mesmerizing mix of the iconic landmark and pedestrians, with the architecture in fuzzy focus and the people in sharp focus. The photo was an experiment in “selective focusing,” in which Liao was “playing with the memory of New Yorkers.” Because most of them are familiar with the building, he explains, he felt he could let the structure recede in the background via a blurry focus and highlight the people and traffic on the street with a clear focus. “Most New Yorkers have an image of the Flatiron Building, so it’s not necessary to see the same thing over and over again,” he says about his fade-out view. One of his most ambitious projects resulted in not one single image, but four separate “assembled realities.” “View from One57 Midtown: North, East, South and West” (2012) aspires to create a 360-degree picture of Manhattan from the 88th floor of the ultra-luxury skyscraper on West 57th Street. The four photos pointing in four directions offer crystalline scenes of urban grandeur. Less lofty views are plentiful, too. “Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park” (2011) depicts a panoply of figures congregating in protest in Lower Manhattan, with the focus, as in “Flatiron Building” and others, on the vitality of the people on the street, occupying the foreground. A huge catalog accompanies this retrospective, a big book for big-picture shots of the Big Apple. It’s the perfect gift for the holidays. But take a moment to enjoy Thanksgiving first and see Liao’s take on the Macy’s parade as it floats past The Dakota at 72nd Street. Get ready.

IF YOU GO “Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao’s New York: Assembled Realities” The Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Ave. at 103rd St. Now through February 15, 2015 http://www.mcny.org/

DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER The protests surrounding the Metropolitan Opera’s production of composer John Adams’ 1991 opera about the hijacking of a cruise ship by Palestinian terrorists and the shooting death of Jewish American passenger Leon Klinghoffer have been center stage, but the powerful performances of the cast and orchestra (led by conductor David Robertson) deserve top billing. Through Nov. 15 Metropolitan Opera Lincoln Center Plaza, between West 63rd and West 64th Streets Assorted show times Tickets $25-$415

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Using a range of artifacts, including family photographs, government-issued identiﬁcation cards and an activist newspaper from 1883 (from which the exhibit takes its title) this new show at New-York Historical Society explores the centuries-long legacy of immigration from China to the United States. Through April 2015 New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West, at 77th Street Museum Hours: Tuesday-Thursday and Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission $19

Cello is anything but traditional for Break of Reality, a four-person string and percussion outﬁt that, in addition to original compositions, performs songs by Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead and Bach, as well as popular television theme songs; the group’s cover of the Game of Thrones theme has garnered more than ﬁve million YouTube views. Saturday, Nov. 8 SubCulture 45 Bleecker St., near Lafayette Street 7:30 p.m. Tickets $25

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Composer Henry Mollicone’s one act operas, The Face on the Barroom Floor, a time-bending love story based on a poem by Hugh Antoine D’Arcy, and Emperor Norton (in a New York premiere) kick off Chelsea Opera’s new season, with Mollicone conducting the orchestra. Nov. 7 and 8 St. Peter’s Chelsea Episcopal Church 346 West 20th St., between Eighth and Ninth Avenues Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 8 at 4 p.m. Tickets $30-$45

of Bondage, was published in New York in 1967 and included many images shot surreptitiously with a hidden camera. The images on display in this exhibition are accompanied by the book’s original captions. Through Dec. 6 Grey Art Gallery at New York University 100 Washington Square East, near Washington Place Gallery hours: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Wednesday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Suggested admission $3

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GALLERIES ERNEST COLE PHOTOGRAPHER As one of South Africa’s ﬁrst black photojournalists, Ernest Cole documented the everyday experiences of those living under the harsh segregation of apartheid. His book of photographs, House

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Food & Drink

< EAST VILLAGE CHEF PUBLISHES FIRST COOKBOOK There are at least two reasons why “Prune” the cookbook, by chef Gabrielle Hamilton, who owns the East Village restaurant of the same name, is hotly anticipated. For starters, it’s the ﬁrst from Hamilton, who opened her eatery 15 years ago to immediate acclaim and inﬂuence, and still draws lines down the street for week-

end brunch—no reservations, no exceptions. Second, Hamilton’s literary debut two years ago, the vivid, almost criminally entertaining memoir ``Blood, Bones, & Butter,’’ was a huge hit—just as her braised rabbit legs, pigeon with parsley vinaigrette, grilled branzino or monkﬁsh liver might be at Prune. The cook-

book contains more than 250 recipes, including some of Hamilton’s most popular recipes from her restaurant, like head-on shrimp with anchovy butter and ten different versions of her brunch time Bloody Mary, and real notes she addressed to her own line cooks, which she saves in binders in Prune’s prep kitchen.

FINER FOOD COURTS DINING The rise of the urban food court BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO

As a kid in the suburbs, the food court in the local mall was where I grabbed smoothies with a gaggle of friends. It was a lunchtime stopgap and a teenager’s hangout, not a location for the latest sampling of locavore cuisine. Not so anymore, as urban food halls proliferate throughout the city, from Gotham West Market in Hell’s Kitchen to Hudson Eats in Battery Park City. The latest iteration, Gansevoort Market, opened in October on cobblestoned Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District, just a few blocks south of crowded Chelsea Market, one of the early adopters of the food hall model. “My generation and younger, we all grew up with the food court as a concept, whether at a baseball stadium or a mall,” said Eric Demby, co-founder of popular outdoor food market Smorgasburg and cafeteria-style bar and

restaurant Berg’n, both in Brooklyn. “The idea of multiple food options in a single space is something that’s really part of our culinary culture.” Like other dining halls before it, Gansevoort Market features haute cuisine served in a snap, with mini-outposts from an eclectic mix of purveyors, including East Village coal oven pizzeria Luzzo’s, Sushi Dojo and Elizabeth Street Mexican spot Tacombi, which serves tacos at the market from a vintage Volkswagon bus. The dining area, with a large skylight and rambling vine installation by designer Charlie Baker, offers open seating at mismatched wooden tables and chairs that look as though they were salvaged from a ﬂea market. “It ﬁts in with the rise of things like food trucks and pop-ups,” said David Sax, a journalist whose recent book The Tastemakers explores the evolution of food trends. “Eating is now sort of social entertainment. It’s what tourists do.” Susan Fine, a developer who converted Grand Central Terminal into a food and retail hub in the mid-1990s, is planning an underground dining and

Gansevoort Market houses a small dining area with a vine installation by artist Charlie Baker.

Gansevoort Market in the Meatpacking District includes an outpost of Greenpoint cafe Champion Coffee. retail destination at Columbus Circle. The project, called TurnStyle, will introduce 34 food and retail vendors to the busy subway station come fall of next year, and will include a 4,000 square foot dining hall. Fine said variety is part of the urban food court’s appeal. “People have always liked choice,” said Fine. “The reason [Grand Central Terminal] worked is, it’s lunch hour and you’re with your friends and one person wants a hamburger, and the other really wants a salad because they’re dieting, but you can all go to the same place, and then compare. It makes food an event.” In order for these urban dining halls to remain sought-after destination dining spots, Sax said, they have to offer quality food, and vendors that haven’t yet become ubiquitous. For Fine, vendor selection is critical. “We found a vendor who makes really good grilled cheeses who we really liked, so we asked ourselves, ‘what should we put next to the grilled cheese?’” she said. “It’s kind of like

doing seating for a dinner party. We come up with a list of prospects who are best in class…and we approach them.” Fine has already secured 20 vendors for TurnStyle, including artisanal grilled cheese shop MeltKraft and Ignazio’s Pizza, both Brooklyn shops. For a developer, the food hall, with its multiple vendors and leases, can be a challenging model, she said, but can act as a center of activity in busy areas like Columbus Circle. “Columbus Circle can use a neighborhood hub,” she said. “What’s the neighborhood hub now? Whole Foods?” Indeed, location seems critical in the rise of urban food halls. Hudson Eats, a 600-seat food court in Brookfield Place (the former World Financial Center), opened in June with 14 different eateries, and food options for those in the busy business area will only increase in 2015 when Brookfield Place opens its French-inspired marketplace, Le District. Gotham West Market on Eleventh Avenue is at the ground floor of a

residential high rise, conveniently offering Blue Bottle Coffee and bowls of mazemen from Ivan Ramen to tenants of the building’s luxury apartments. And Gansevoort Market opened less than a block from the entrance to the High Line and the Whitney Museum of American Art’s new building. Michael Bagley, co-owner of The Bruffin, a bakery featuring briochestyle pastries ﬁlled with ingredients both savory and sweet, got his start in the New York food scene eight months ago with a booth at Smorgasburg, and now has a location at Gansevoort Market and a new café on Delancey Street. He found that occupying space at Smorgasburg and Gansevoort Market has awarded him a strong connection to his customers. “There’s an excitement to discovering,” he said. “People love a story. They love to know how you came up with The Bruffin. They take partial ownership of the relationship they’re establishing, and it’s a very personal thing. I don’t think that’s the kind of opportunity you would get in a restaurant.”

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS OCTOBER 27 - 31, 2014

Hi Thai

123 Ludlow Street

Grade Pending (38) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Filth flies or food/ refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/ refuse/sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.

East Broadway Restaurant

94 East Broadway

Grade Pending (27) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked ﬁsh and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Tobacco use, eating, or drinking from open container in food preparation, food storage or dishwashing area observed. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.

88 Palace Restaurant

88 East Broadway

Closed by Health Department (111) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked ﬁsh and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Food worker does not wash hands thoroughly after using the toilet, coughing, sneezing, smoking, eating, preparing raw foods or otherwise contaminating hands. Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Sewage disposal system improper or unapproved. Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

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101 Rivington Street

The following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s website and include the most recent inspection and grade reports listed. We have included every restaurant listed during this time within the zip codes of our neighborhoods. Some reports list numbers with their explanations; these are the number of violation points a restaurant has received. To see more information on restaurant grades, visit www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/services/restaurant-inspection.shtml. Cafe Duke

545 Broadway

Grade Pending (19) Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Georgetown Cupcake Soho

111 Mercer Street

Juice Press 7

156 Prince Street

Vic’s

31 Great Jones St

Douma Pizza

11 Stanton Street

Grade Pending (26) Appropriately scaled metal stem-type thermometer or thermocouple not provided or used to evaluate temperatures of potentially hazardous foods during cooking, cooling, reheating and holding. Evidence of rats or live rats present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Tobacco use, eating, or drinking from open container in food preparation, food storage or dishwashing area observed.

El Maguey Y La Tuna

321 East Houston Street

Good Taste Fuzhou Cuisine

118 Eldridge Street

Good Good Taste

13 Market Street

Mikey’s

134 Ludlow Street

Cheese Grille

188 Allen Street

Golden Bowl Restaurant

51 Division Street

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< NEW OWNERSHIP FOR CITI BIKE New York City’s bike-sharing program is getting new owners who will improve service and double the system’s size within three years, officials announced last week. An annual membership in the program, Citi Bike, will rise from $95 to $145 but officials said better service will justify the higher costs.

In Brief L.E.S. RIVER CONSERVANCY MOVING FORWARD A neighborhood coalition on the Lower East Side is moving ahead with plans to form a conservancy for the East River. Our Town Downtown first reported in September that the coalition, organized by the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council, had hired a consultant and were holding pilot meetings to determine the way forward. Organizers have since dubbed the effort the “South Street Initiative.” Victor Papa of Two Bridges Neighborhood Council announced to shareholders last week that he and the consultant, Gina Pollara, had met with the chairs of community boards one and three. “The purpose of the meeting was achieved in that both chairs understood the importance of this initiative and agreed to place the matter on the agendas of the respective community board committees specifically dealing with waterfront and land use issues, probably sometime in January,” said Papa. “As well, both chairs agreed to officially designate community board members to participate in our future group meetings.” In September about two dozen stakeholders gathered at Rutgers Slip to discuss what kind of organization they wanted to be and determined that the next step was to pull community boards further into the discussion. Papa said after meeting with the board chairs, the next step will be to notify public officials for inclusion, namely Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, but also council members Margaret Chin and Rosie Mendez, State Senator Daniel Squadron, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez. While much remains to be determined, the impetus for the South Street Initiative’s formation is to retain a certain measure of community control over waterfront programming in an area that will soon see an influx of residents and development. The South Street Initiative will next meet on Nov. 18 to discuss a proposal from students at the Pratt Institute, who were pulled in to conduct a ministudio and develop “a comprehensive, economically viable and implementable plan for the East River Waterfront that integrates existing disparate proposals, current development efforts, and the concerns and needs of the diverse stakeholders in the area.”

BRINGING THE CLOTHES TO THE KIDS RETAIL Children’s boutique clothing store RUUM streamlines the shopping process for little ones BY MICHAELA ROSS

Ezra Dabah is a New York City retailer at heart. And now, as founder of the upscale children’s retail chain RUUM American Kid’s Wear, he is back where it all started. “This is where we grew up,” Dabah said in a recent interview. “This is where we worked throughout our lifetime. We design our clothes here in Union Square.” Dabah began as a stock boy at a ﬁveand-dime store on 14th Street before opening a family retail business nearby. He began specializing in children’s clothes as an owner of Gitano, the clothing manufacturer, and later was CEO of the prominent New Jerseybased national chain The Children’s Place. He left in 2013 to launch RUUM, which is pronounced “room” and is now in two dozen locations in 11 states. This fall Dabah pivoted away from what has been RUUM’s typical mallstore setting to open two boutiques in Manhattan, one on the Upper East Side at 1153 Madison Ave. and the oth-

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Citi Bike started in May 2013 and has been plagued by problems such as docking stations not working and bicycles not being available where they are needed. The system has been managed by a subsidiary of Portland, Oregon-based Alta Bicycle Share. Under the new agreement, a private

RUUM founder and owner Ezra Dabah at the store’s Tribeca location. Photo by Michaela Ross

investor group headed by Jeff Blau, the CEO of real estate ﬁrm Related, is buying Alta Bicycle Share and will move its headquarters to New York City, with Walder in charge. In New York, Citibank will increase its commitment to Citi Bike by $70.5 million and extend it sponsorship through 2024.

er in Tribeca at 138. W. Broadway. Both shops are tailored to reflect their affluent neighborhoods and partner with their communities. So far, reviews from families have been positive. “I think it’s organized, and simple, especially for a mom. It’s not fussy. I love it,” said Yani Beach, an Upper East Sider who was shopping at RUUM the other day with her son, Clark. “For the Upper East Side, it’s urban enough. It’s not your cookie-cutter store.” At RUUM, things work a little differently than in the typical kids’ clothing store. A clerk brings out each piece of clothing in the child’s size while families can sit or browse in the showroom. No pawing through racks or shelves looking for the right color or size. Dabah said the store, which offers boy’s and girl’s clothing for sizes 2-14, as well as shoes, is the first retailer in the city with this personal-service model in the kid’s market. “Unlike many retail stores that you go into where you would find the merchandise kind of piled up with each other or squeezed into fixtures, here we show only one piece of each,” Dabah said. He said RUUM is a play on the phrases “room to grow” and “room for style.” Dabah said he knows from being a parent and a grandparent that it can be tough to drag kids to go clothes shopping. So RUUM is full of toys, paper dolls, RUUM buttons, bracelets and even a photo kiosk to help keep kids entertained. Customers said the high-end clothes are nonetheless good value because they are high quality. “I like it, I like

the prices,” said Louise Klyap who shopped with her granddaughter Addison at the Madison Avenue location. Michael Rothleutner, the store manager on Madison Avenue, said the clothes are especially popular with celebrity families, such as Sean “Diddy” Combs and his daughters, and Sarah Jessica Parker and her twins. But Rothleutner said the store has been embraced by many other local parents, too. “We definitely feel like part of the neighborhood in this location. We see a lot our regulars every week, multiple times a week when they’re walking to school, just stopping to see what’s new or taking a photo in the photo booth.” The stores are partnering with neighborhood schools through the RUUM Give Back Program. Moms with kids at participating schools can shop at a 20 percent discount, and RUUM will donate an additional 20 percent to the schools’ Parent Teacher Associations. “We’re looking do everything we can to let the community know we’re here and that we’re here for them,” said Dabah. Dabah has plans to open the RUUM boutique concept at five more New York City locations in the upcoming months. He’s also expanding an exclusive line of New York City clothing for the newest RUUM stores. “We are making some very special things just for the New York stores,” he said, pointing to a colorfully-patched jean and jacket set that has already been released in Tribeca. “So you’re going to see more and more of that.”

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YOUR FIFTEEN MINUTES

WRITER MAKES MAGIC OF NEW YORK LIFE Q&A Author and playwright finds inspiration from the streets - and therapy couches - of Manhattan BY MICKEY KRAMER

Long-time Upper East resident Eve Lederman is on quite a roll. On September 30, her book Letters From My Sister: On Life, Love, and Hair Removal, co-written with her sister Faye, was released by Skyhorse Publishing, while her play, Let it Come Down, is scheduled for its ﬁrst production on November 17 at Dixon Place downtown. Lederman and I live on the same block and met, like so many in New York, while walking our dogs, Stella and Tilly, both rescues. In between rehearsals, book promotions, and a full-time job with a multimedia company, Lederman and I discussed this exciting time in her career.

Tell us a bit about how Letters From My Sister came about. The book began with emails between me and Faye while she approached college graduation in Chicago and I was trying to establish a career in New York. I lamented my terrible writing jobs (including a newsletter called Healthy Feet), she regaled me with tales about her jock itch, and we both shared stories about our search for the ultimate man (a big, buff, stupid, kind, sensitive, feminist) and the perfect hair removal method. Those letters formed the book’s structure, supplemented by family stories and childhood memories to capture the trajectory of our relationship.

There are some very funny anecdotes, from dating disasters to navigating the streets of NYC on a bicycle. What are some of your favorite moments living on the Upper East Side? Once I was walking up First Avenue and this ancient, rabbinical looking man approached me from behind and announced, “You have schmutz on your tuchos.” When I got home I looked in the mirror and had to bend over in order to spot remnants of the cleaning powder I had used on my tub, clinging to my black spandex in wedgie territory. What kind of bionic vision did this man have?

I had a memorable moment recently outside Fairway. I offered a Luna Bar to a homeless man nearby, and he replied, “No thanks; that’s for women,” looking down at his chest like it would make him grow boobs. “What?” I said, befuddled. “It’s a protein bar.” “I can’t eat that; it’s for women,” he repeats, pointing to the tiny text on the wrapper: “Sports bar for women.” We paw through my shopping bag and he exchanges it for a Kind bar. Apparently GMOs were ﬁne.

Speaking of bicycling, I saw your fold-up bike locked on our block long before we formally met. The lawless bicyclist is one of my least favorite elements of New York City. How has biking in the city changed over the past 20 years? It should be a new era with the advent of the bike lanes, but I’m not a fan—they’re ﬁlled with people on their phones, pushing strollers, and crossing against the light to their little pedestrian islands on First Avenue. Throw in the delivery guys on electric bikes and city cycling is more of a circus than ever. There’s a lot of talk about ticketing but it hasn’t come to pass. I’ve deserved a thousand, but only gotten one, recently blowing through a red light (though I only grazed that 80 year-old woman with a cane). I tried to employ the international language of cleavage to get off with a warning, but no such luck!

Sadly, you lost your younger brother to cancer last year, and your mother just a few months ago. How have these loses inﬂuenced your latest work? Neil Simon wrote an essay I love in which he describes himself as a two-headed beast—the human involved in interactions, and the writer-monster who’s simultaneously observing and taking notes. That aptly describes my process. I write what I know—I ﬁnd that when my heart gets crushed and says oh god, this is devastating, while my head yells at me to take notes because this experience is a gold mine, that’s the sweet spot where I find the most compelling

material. I ﬁnished a draft of a new play based on these losses, which was a process of grieving and writing along with a dollop of celebrating—capturing the humor in their lives in addition to the horror. As Hemingway said, “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

Speaking of family, you dedicate the book to your Bubby. I inherited my gallows humor from my Bubby (Yiddish for grandmother) who, at 85, laughed at the plumber offering her a 10-year warranty on a new faucet. “I’ll take one year parts and labor; I’m not planning on washing dishes for another decade,” she scoffed. Nobody escaped a good kick in the tuchos and I try to carry on her tradition by lovingly ridiculing everyone in my path.

Do people scream like Marlon Brando when they hear your dog’s name is Stella? My life is completely different since I adopted Tilly; have you had a similar experience? Literary New Yorkers get the reference. Others think I named her after the beer. I just nod politely.

One of my great joys is watching Stella chase a ball in Central Park. In her younger days she’d pirouette through the air like the dog child of Mikhail Baryshnikov and Michael Jordan. At 14 she’s still got game, though occasionally an “oy vey, my back” look passes across her face. Stella also has a penchant for Bloomingdales. She struts the aisles like a fashionista and leg hugs the salespeople until they offer me 10% off. And of course she tells me my butt looks good in everything. Stella turns every walk into a memorable story.

While Letters has a mostly light tone, your play doesn’t. Tell us about it. The play is inspired by deposition transcripts from a malpractice case against a therapist. I think the dynamics of therapy are fascinating in that only two people in the whole world know what goes on behind that closed door. Take that intimate relationship and toss in betrayal and deceit, and it’s as powerful and volatile as any romance. The story forces viewers to debate the case and unravel the truth, like in the play Oleanna, I hope it incites ﬁstﬁghts among the audience on November 17!

SEE EVE’S WORK Let It Down Written and produced by Eve Lederman Monday, Nov. 17 Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street 7:30 p.m.; $12 advance, $15 at the door

www.dixonplace.org Find Eve’s book at Barnes & Noble

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