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DELL WILLIAMS, FOUNDER OF EVE’S GARDEN SEX BOUTIQUE, DIES
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Multi-faceted feminist and activist started Eve’s Garden from her apartment’s kitchen BY MARY REINHOLZ
Friends of Dell Williams, the founder of the country’s first woman-owned and -run sex boutique, are remembering the petite former WAC, Hollywood actress and Fifth Avenue advertising executive as a tireless advocate for the liberation of the female libido practically up to the time she died March 11 at her Manhattan apartment. She was 92. “Dell Williams’ awareness (of) the ignorance women had about their own sexuality and her role in educating them revealed a whole new dimension to feminism and brought spice to the movement,” Jacqui Ceballos, the former president of the National Organization for Women’s New York chapter, wrote in an email from Phoenix. In 1974, during the height of secondwave feminism in New York and about a year after she organized the NOW chapter’s first sexuality conference for women, Williams sowed the seeds of Eve’s Garden, in the kitchen of her 12th floor apartment on West 57th Street, as a mail-order business. The initial catalogue had three items: the Hitachi Magic Wand — ostensibly a massage tool — the Prelude 3 vibrator and the erotic artist Betty Dodson’s book “Liberating Masturbation.” Before long, “the orders poured in and started to overflow onto my stove and countertops,” she wrote in her 2005 memoir, “Revolution in the Garden.” About a year later, she would open the retail operation, nearly next door to her apartment. An elegant destination on the opposite side of the
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A rendering of the construction project.
MORE DETAILS ON DISPUTED TWO BRIDGES PROJECT NEWS Renderings flesh out 71-story luxury towers BY PANYIN CONDUAH
Newly released details about a proposed luxury development on the east side of lower Manhattan are emboldening neighbors, who have raised concerns about noise and other disruptions from the massive construction project. Extell Development, which is building at 250 South Street, released renderings of the two 71-story luxury towers in the shadow of the working-class Two Bridges
neighborhood on the East River. Two Bridges tenant association president Trever Holland said the renderings weren’t present on the construction fence for a while. “We had to force them to get that rendering, we had to file a report with the Department of Buildings (D.O.B.) because by law all construction projects are required to have renderings on their fence,” he said. The drawings show that the Extell tower is 800 feet tall — almost two and half times taller than the Manhattan Bridge it will overlook. Holland said that unlike other developers, who present slides of their plans along with pictures to show their goals for their projects, Extell has
not been too forthcoming about the plans for 250 South Street.“Extell has been very coy with everything they do,” said Holland. That coyness, he said, has made it difficult for residents in the neighborhood to keep up with what to expect from the new addition to the area. Two Bridge residents, along with Community Board 3 District Manager Susan Scheer, met with an Extell development panel in late February to address construction updates and concerns. At that meeting, many people voiced their dissatisfaction with weekend construction, the developing cracks in
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The state of the city’s 207 public libraries is dismal. Broken heating and air conditioning systems. Leaking roofs. Book stacks in disrepair. The situation has become so untenable that the presidents of the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens library systems took the unusual step of holding a news conference outside City Hall to highlight what they call a “maintenance crisis” in the libraries and to beg City Hall for cash. Their appeal was accompanied by a report estimating that it will take $1 billion to fix the problem - this at a time when the private sector in the city is booming, and more glamorous arts institutions are brimming with cash. Not so our local libraries. Last year, the Center for an Urban Future found that libraries for years have been starved for cash, causing the maintenance crisis the city now faces. Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg repeatedly cut library budgets, leading to decreased staffing and facilities spending. “Despite public libraries’ ever more important role in keeping neighborhoods strong, city funding for libraries has not kept up, particularly for capital needs,” the report reads. Last year, Mayor Bill de Blasio kept library spending flat, which is a sort of progress, given recent cutbacks. As for next year, according to The Wall Street Journal, the mayor’s Office of Management and Budget’s capital plan includes $566.1 million for libraries, including an increase in library capital funding for fiscal 2015 to $229 million from $205 million. de Blasio also has increased annual operating funds for the city’s three public library systems by $22 million to $323 million. It’s not $1 billion. But it could be the beginning, finally, of reversing years of neglect.
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WHAT’S MAKING NEWS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD TAXI RIDER WISE TO SCAM Don’t be fooled by the familiar yellow exterior of a taxicab — some cabs have been reported to have fake drivers responsible for scamming customers’ of their credit cards. Gothamist reports that at least one customer was scammed after seeing a driver swipe his card through two different machines. The card machine in the back of the car was supposedly
not working so the victim instinctively gave his card to the driver, who swiped it twice. The second scanner is believed to be a card skimmer, a machine that copies card information from the original. The victim also noticed two missing medallions from the exterior of the cab and saw a regular license plate instead of the ones cab drivers possess. The Taxi and Limousine Commission is investigating.
DE BLASIO SIGNS VETERAN SERVICE BILLS Mayor Bill De Blasio recently signed several pieces of legislation to help increase transparency of veterans’ services and to bolster the size of the Veterans’ Advisory Board. The bills will increase the amount of veteran representatives to work with the mayor and council to better detail local veterans’ needs.
“New York City’s veterans gave selflessly to protect our nation—and we must provide these dedicated men and women transparent and simple access to the services they need,” said De Blasio. The bills were approved by the City Council on February 26. “The Veterans Advisory Board does great work and strengthens the lines of communication between city government and local vets,” Councilman Eric Ulrich, chair
of the council’s Veterans Committee, said. “This legislation will allow for greater public input that will only enhance the ability of the Board to meet the challenges facing veterans and their families in our city.”
A taxi rider was alert enough to detect a potential credit-card scam while paying his fare to what he later realized was a fake cabbie. Photo: Pete Bellis, via Flickr
A planned annex at the Andy Warhol Museum that was planned as part of of the Essex Crossing project has been scrapped, according to the Bowery Boogie website. After negotiating since 2012, The Pittsburgh-based museum decided to pull out the plans, citing an “internal study of business and other operational considerations.” Risa B. Heller, spokesperson for the Delancey Streets Association said she was surprised by the museum’s decision. The annex was set to be part of the Site 1 first phase of construction in the Essex Crossing project, the only development parcel west of Essex Street. The development
ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM ANNEX SCRAPPED FROM ESSEX CROSSING PROJECT
comprises a 14-story condo tower of 55 units, about 10 of which will be affordable, the website reports.
LOWER MANHATTAN TO GET MILLIONS IN FLOOD-PROTECTION FUNDS Lower Manhattan will receive nearly $15 million in city and state funds to help shore up the area from future storms, the Tribeca Trib reported. The long-hoped-for-money includes $6.75 million for flood-protection planning and $8 million that will fund a floodprotection system, according to the website. “This is good news for the residents and the workers of Lower Manhattan,” the Trib quoted Community Board 1 chair Catherine McVay Hughes, an strong advocate for the resiliency funding. The announcement, made by Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office earlier this month, comes after a longtime push from CB1 and elected officials for stormprotection funds.
This is what happens when the 25,000 landlords of 1 million rent-stabilized apartments have the financial resources to make repairs and improvements. They re-invest the rent in their buildings and our neighborhoods. They provide work to small businesses and jobs to local residents – and, most importantly, they preserve existing affordable housing.
But some Albany and City Hall politicians, like Mayor Bill de Blasio, want to turn back the clock to old policies that failed in the past. They want stricter rent laws, and they want to freeze rents while raising property taxes and water and sewer rates. That would push affordable housing right back into the 1970’s and 80’s. We need to move forward, not backwards.
IT’S TIME FOR NEW SOLUTIONS TO AN OLD PROBLEM.
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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG
HOT PLATE BECOMES FOCUS OF TRAGIC HOUSE FIRE An ultra-Orthodox Jewish community shattered by the deaths of seven siblings in a house ďŹ re carried out their funerals Sunday, a day after a hot plate left on for the Sabbath is believed to have sparked the ďŹ re that killed them. The tragedy had some Jews reconsidering the practice of keeping hot plates on for the Sabbath, a common modern method of obeying tradition prohibiting use of fire on the holy day. The bodies of the children from the Sassoon family, ages 5 to 16, were to be own to Israel after the funeral for a prompt burial. Flames engulfed their two-story, brick-and-wood home in Brooklyn’s Midwood neighborhood early Saturday, likely after a hot plate left on a kitchen counter set off the ďŹ re that trapped the children and badly injured their mother and another sibling, investigators said.
The service at the Shomrei Hadas funeral home began with prayers in Hebrew, accompanied by the wailing voices of mourners. They could be heard through speakers that broadcast the rite to hundreds of people gathered outside on the streets in traditional black robes and at-brimmed hats. The blaze killed three girls and four boys _ all members of the neighborhood’s tightknit community of ultra-Orthodox Jews. Authorities identified the victims as girls Eliane, 16; Rivkah, 11; and Sara, 6; and boys David, 12; Yeshua, 10; Moshe, 8; and Yaakob, 5. Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro, who broke down at one point as he spoke about the blaze, said it was the city’s worst in recent memory. The hot plate was left on for the Sabbath, which lasts from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. Many religious Jews use one to keep food warm, obeying the traditional prohibition on use of ďŹ re on the holy day as well as work in all forms, including turning on appliances. The Sassoons’ hot plate apparently malfunctioned, setting off ames that tore up the stairs, trapping the children in
their second-oor bedrooms as they slept, investigators said. Firefighters arrived in less than four minutes and discovered the badly burned and distraught mother pleading for help, officials said. When they broke in the door, they encountered a raging ďŹ re that had spread through the kitchen, dining room, common hall, stairway leading upstairs and the rear bedrooms. City officials trying to prevent other such disasters have set up four locations in the area to hand out leaets warning residents to make sure they have smoke detectors _ and that they check the batteries. Free batteries were being handed out. AP
items stolen were a St. Laurent handbag valued at $3,790 and another priced at $1,850, making a total of $5,640. Video is available of the robbery.
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A trio of bad guys went on a shoplifting spree on March 11, police said. That afternoon, three men entered the Modells store at 150 Broadway and went straight to the women’s apparel section. As they were walking out of the store, a 27-year-old male employee saw that an entire rack of merchandise was missing from the spot where the trio had been standing. The employee also recovered security tags that had been attached to the
Shoplifters scored yet more green on Greene Street. On the afternoon of March 15, a store security guard was told by another shopper in the St. Laurent Paris shop at 80 Greene St. that two men had two pricey handbags inside their jackets and left the store. The perpetrators were last seen going north on Spring Street. Police searched the area but could not locate the thieves. The
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BARROOM HAUL Late on March 6, a 35-yearold man having a conversation with a client at the Nassau Bar located at 118 Nassau St. when he noticed his backpack, with an Apple MacBook Pro inside, had disappeared. Police, though, found the suspected perpetrator, arresting Jose Cardona about 11 days after the reported theft. Cardona, 45, was charged with grand larceny.
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STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 1st Precinct for March 9 to March 15 Week to Date
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2014
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3
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178
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Grand Larceny Auto
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100
stolen merchandise, lying on the oor. All three shoplifters were seen carrying bags, and video is available of the incident. The stolen items, 25 items of women’s Nike apparel, has a value of $1,230.
MONEY MAD A dispute over money escalated to a bike robbery and arrests on the evening of March 13th, when a 28-year-old man was approached in front of 60 Wall St. by two 15-year-old male acquaintances. One of the youths asked him, “Where’s my money?â€? before both young men struck the 28-year-old in the face with closed ďŹ sts. One
of the youths then grabbed the older man’s bike by the handlebars and took it. The victim of the assault refused medical attention. Police subsequently arrested Theodore Karakitos and Alex Franqui, charging them with robbery.
MINUS A PLUS Police said a man entered the AT&T store at 82 Wall St. on March 12 and took two iPhones from a store shelf before running out of the shop. The phones, an Apple iPhone 6 valued at $650 and an iPhone 6 Plus priced at $750, did not have their tracking devices activated.
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Dell Williams started Eve’s Garden about 40 years ago, near its current location on West 57th Street. Williams’ autobiography is on the small table. Photo courtesy of Eve’s Garden.
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block from Carnegie Hall, it featured an expanded product line, trained employees and “how-to” articles. Men initially were not allowed in: Williams wrote that she wanted “to create an environment where women could be free to explore their sexuality in privacy, and safety.” Kim Ibricevic, Eve’s Garden’s current manager, said Williams sought to create a sanctuary for customers eyeing products that, even in 2015, can still carry a stigma. “She wanted to focus on the spiritual side of sex and felt that if every woman had an orgasm, there would be peace in this world,” said Ibricevic, who knew Williams for nearly 20 years. Williams, ordained in 2001 as an interfaith minister, sold Eve’s Garden in 1998 to a Boston company but remained active in its operation. The daughter of Jewish immigrant parents, Williams was born August 5, 1922, and raised in the Bronx. Her father, Isaac Zetlin, worked in the fashion industry, her mother, the former Sarah Bronstein, won tennis tournaments in the borough. They lived well until the Great Depression. In her memoir, Williams describes several searing experiences, among them a date rape,
an agonizingly painful illegal abortion and a year-long romantic relationship with a woman who later died of breast cancer. She took the expanded surname of her husband, Ted Willms, following the annulment of their marriage in 1960. Her brother, Lorenz, died in 2004. Williams leaves no immediate family members. “She was an extraordinary woman who hung on for dear life even when her health had gone,” Ibricevic said. Elizabeth Greene-Cohen, Williams’ archivist and who was with Williams when she died, called her a “visionary, an intellectual and a revolutionary” who joined the Women’s Army Corps as an entertainer towards the end of World War II – and later worked as an actress in Los Angeles, including in 1962’s Oscar-nominated “The Cliff Dwellers.” Greene-Cohen noted that the reed-thin, always fashionably dressed Williams also was questioned by FBI agents during the McCarthy era because of her membership in the Communist Party after the war. Williams had been home only two days after “signing herself out” of the Isabella Geriatric Center following rehabilitation for a hip fracture and had contracted an infection there, Greene-Cohen said. An Isabella social worker told her that Williams had remarked of her mission: “I just wanted to empower the women.”
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TWO BRIDGES PROJECT CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 their walls and tremors in their homes due to construction, and lack of communication with the community as a whole. Anthony Abbruzzese, Extell’s overseer of construction operations, said that the contruction work runs Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. and the needed Saturday construction, which starts at 9 a.m. “If we don’t work Saturdays, you’ll be experiencing noisy activities for a long period of time,� he said. But the scale of the project, and the fact that it is nestled within a dense existing residential area, have brought a
raft of complaints. Resident Elaine Hoffman said she has felt tremors from the work done next door to her building, describing it as an earthquake. “The building is shaking like there’s no tomorrow,� she said. Laura Bush from LendLease construction, which runs the Extell project, explained how the tremors were due to the demobilizing of work mats that were frozen together. Since the February community meeting, Holland said he hasn’t felt anything as extreme as the “earthquake tremors.� “We have five years of this [construction] so I imagine that we’re going to feel it again but we haven’t felt anything like we felt before the meeting in a while,� he said. Developing cracks in the Two
Bridge Tower also has left residents questioning whether Extell will pay for the damages. Holland is currently cataloging the apartments affected by the construction until Extell decides how it will address the issue. Prior to construction, Extell tookpictures of the Two Bridges apartments, but now must compare those pictures to others taken as the project has progressed. “The cracks are signiďŹ cant but not structural, so it’s not like you immediately have to ďŹ x it,â€? Holland said. Overall, Holland says Extell has been cooperative with most things but in terms of the reported cracks in the walls, residents will have to wait and see.
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THE TRAGEDY AFTER INVESTIGATION As many as 260 pedestrians are expected to die this year on New York City streets. But almost none of the drivers involved in those cases will be prosecuted -- adding to the nightmare for the families of the victims.
see Reyes punished for Ariel’s death, now more than a year and a half ago, in June 2013. Russo said in an interview that she finds cruel irony in the fact that she teaches history to boys the same age as Reyes, who was 17 when he ran over Ariel and her grandmother in a Nissan Frontier SUV in front of the little girl’s preschool on the Upper West Side. This is why she initially sympa
sterdam Avenue in an attempt to flee from cops who had seen him driving erratically and ordered him to pull over. The chase ended with the fatal crash on 97th Street. Originally, by giving him bail and charging him as a minor, Judge Carro was giving Reyes a chance to avoid having a public criminal record. But on Sept. 3, Reyes was again stopped for driving recklessly, without a license This time in speeding
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Salon 94 Freemans, 1 Freeman Alley between Rivington and Stanton Streets URBAN COLLOQUIUM: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Whimsical sculptures made SPRING 2015 by Kessler himself as gifts are on New School, Anna-Maria and display showcasing memories and commemorated special Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, events for his close family and friends. 66 Fifth Ave. 212-539-7400, www. 7 p.m.-10 p.m., Free salon94.com Colloquium topics include contemporary urban politics, spatial justice, NEIGHBORHOOD environmentalism, and activism. MOVIE NIGHTS AT ST. http://events.newschool.edu/
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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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The most iconic pieces of the late Joseph Beuy’s collection will be on display. Check out his multiples and the significant meaning behind these pieces. 212-744-7400, www.miandn. com
EARTH WORM RACE Hudson Park Library, 66 Leroy St. and Seventh Avenue South 2 p.m., Free Get in touch with nature by participating in the Hudson Park Library Earth Race. Real worms will be provided to honor the first day of spring. 212-243-6876, http://www. nypl.org/locations/hudson-park
209 Broadway and Fulton Street 7 p.m.-9p.m.m, Free Come out for a screening of the Goonies (1985) at St. Paul’s. Popcorn and snacks are included with free admission. 212-575-4545, www. MATZO MADNESS! trinitywallstreet.org/movies
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28 JOSEPH BEUYS MULTIPLES — THE REINHARD SCHLEGEL COLLECTION Mitchell-Innes & Nash gallery, 534 W. 26th St. between 10th and 11th Avenues
A PRESERVATION DETECTIVES FAMILY PROGRAM Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldridge St. at Canal Street 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Celebrate Passover early with holiday art, a family scavenger hunt and a holiday sing-along. Must reserve in advance. 212-219-0302, www. eldridgestreet.org/family/
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DOWNTOWN CHAMBER MUSIC, CONCERT #1 The New School, Theresa Lang Community Student Center, Arnold Hall, Room 1202, 55 W. 13th St. 1 p.m.-2 p.m., Free Mannes College chamber music ensemble will perform as part of the Ernest C. Stiefel series. Come enjoy an afternoon of music. 212-229-5108, events. newschool.edu/event mannes_ downtown_chamber_music_ concert_1_1026#.VQxhDFbjPwI
1 AMT VISITING ARTIST SERIES: CHERYL DUNYE PERCUSSIONIST LUKAS LIGETI ▲ The Stone, 16 Avenue C, at Second Street 8 p.m.-11 p.m., $15 Composer Lukas Ligeti will perform as party of his weeklong residency at the stone.Guest artists range from Marilyn Crispell (piano) to Susie Ibarra (percussion) and Eyal Maoz (guitar). 212-473-0043, www. thelodownny.com/calendar/ index.php?eID=9588
30 ACTIVE TODDLER TIME Seward Park Library, 192 E. Broadway 11:15 a.m., Free Get your toddlers to interact through finger plays, action stories and picture books. Toddlers 18 months to 4 years old are welcome. 212-477-6770, www.nypl.org/events/ calendar?location=67
THE FILMS OF LEE BREUER CUNY, The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave, Room 1218: Segal Theatre 10:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m., Free A McArthur Fellow, Breuer is perhaps best known for “The Gospel at Colonus” (2004), a collaboration with Bob Telson, which was nominated for several prizes, including a Pulitzer and a
Grammy. 212-817-1868, www. theSegalCenter.org
31 KELLY SAVAGE — PESTERING Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, 548 W. 28th St., Suite 333 Noon-6 p.m. Savage shows how to some the power of assertive women is often regarded as alarming, aggressive and naggy. Using wallpaper as her medium, Savage transforms this naggy perception into positivity. 212-367-8994, www. soho20gallery.com
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The New School — AnnaMaria and Stephen Keller Auditorium, 66 Fifth Ave., at 13th Street 7p.m., Free Producer, cinema artist, academic and activist Cheryl Dunye will discuss her work and the importance during her visiting artist session. 212-229-5108, www.events. newschool.edu/event/amt_ visiting_artist_series_cheryl_ dunye#.VQxsHlbjPwI
COMMUNITY BOARD 4 MEETING Roosevelt Hospital, 1000 Tenth Ave., 58th Street 6:30pm Join Community Board 4 for their monthly full board meeting. Get updated about changes and events in the community and voice your concerns. 212-736-4536, www. nyc.gov/html/mancb4/html/ contact/contact.shtml
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IN SUPPORT OF FAMILY CAREGIVERS To the Editor: It might surprise our state legislators to learn that family caregivers provide the bulk of the support that keeps their older loved ones living independently, at home, and out of costly, taxpayer-supported institutional care. As such, legislators should do everything they can to support the services family caregivers provide. The CARE Act (S676/A1323), a bill the State Senate is supporting for inclusion in the new state budget, would be a good start. There is currently no law in New York State requiring hospitals to demonstrate aftercare to family caregivers to make sure they know what they will need to do once they and their loved ones get home. The CARE Act would fix this by ensuring that hospitals offer designated family caregivers demonstrations of these types of tasks, such as changing bandages correctly or providing the right dose of medicine. This instruction could mean the difference between a full recovery and a trip back the hospital for your loved one. All of our legislators and the Governor should make sure the CARE Act is part of this year’s final state budget! Sincerely, Chris Widelo, Associate State Director AARP New York
THIS IS HOW YOU KILL A CITY BY JEREMIAH MOSS
Wherever the towers of big development rise, the rents rise with them. And as the rents hit nosebleed heights, New York vanishes. Neighborhood by neighborhood, borough by borough, this is how you kill a city. From the glitzy corridor of the High Line in Manhattan, to the Downtown Brooklyn neighborhood around the Barclays Center to Long Island City in Queens, where Mayor de Blasio’s buddy Rob Speyer is hoisting three extravagant slabs of glass into the sky, our city is dying. It is a victim of its own so-called success. People want to come to New York. Taylor Swift urges them in, singing, “It’s been waiting for you,” as if the city had nothing better to do but anticipate the arrival of newcomers. Bloomberg filled the whole town with tourists until we were bursting at the seams. Global oligarchs come to stash their dirty money in empty penthouses atop sky-high splinters, giving us nothing in return but long, dark shadows. Meanwhile, New Yorkers hurry from job to job, hustling to make enough to cover the rent. Median rent for vacant apartments is nearly 60% of median income, by one measure. If you make $100,000, a solidly middleclass sum in most places, you might qualify for low-income housing, but you’ll have to enter through a metaphorical poor door. In between all this hustling, God forbid we should need our shoes repaired or shirts cleaned. Small businesses are being decimated. Every month, we lose another thousand mom-and-pops . They’re not closing because business is bad. They’re closing because the landlords are doubling, tripling, even octupling the rents — or simply denying lease renewals. With no penalties to stop them, landlords leave the spaces vacant for months or years, waiting for a national chain, a bank or a high-end business to pay the asking price of $40,000, $60,000, $80,000 a month.
Apparently, New York’s been waiting for you Starbucks, Olive Garden and Applebee’s. And for you Ralph Lauren, Marc Jacobs and Michael Kors. Small businesses in New York City have no rights. You’ve been here 50 years and provide an important service? Tough luck — your space now belongs to Dunkin’ Donuts. You own a beloved, fourth-generation, centuryold business? Get out — your landlord’s putting in a combination Chuck E. Cheese and Juicy Couture. And despite de Blasio’s rhetorical fears about gentrification, his progressive pro-development push may well only hasten the trend. That’s why I started the #SaveNYC campaign. We’re collecting video testimonials from New Yorkers and out-of-towners, celebrities and small business owners, asking City Hall to preserve the cultural fabric of the greatest city on earth. First, we must pass the Small Business Jobs Survival Act. This bill, languishing for decades and quashed by Christine Quinn when she was City Council speaker, would give small businesses a fair chance to negotiate lease renewals and reasonable rent increases. It would keep our neighborhoods cohesive, helping to slow the tsunami of chain stores and put an end to landlord warehousing of
empty, blighted spaces. It is our best hope. Imagine a city filled with empty super-condos, money vaults in the sky. Our streetscapes will be sleek windows on the dead space of bank branches and real-estate offices. There will be no more bookstores, no more theaters, no more places for live music. No more places to sit on a stool and drink a beer with regular folks. When that day comes, and in some ways it is already here, what city will this be? It will be a hollow city for hol-
low men. In a poem, John Updike warned: “The essence of superrich is absence. They like to demonstrate they can afford to be elsewhere. Don’t let them in. Their riches form a kind of poverty.” He was right. It is late, but it’s not too late. Moss, who writes under a pseudonym, blogs at vanishingnewyork. blogspot.com. He runs #savenyc. nyc. This article originally appeared in The New York Daily News. It is reprinted here with permission Copyright Daily News L.P. (New York)
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MEDICARE PLAN TAKING SHAPE Proposed deal draws fire from AARP BY ALAN FRAM
A budding bipartisan deal to shelter physicians from Medicare cuts, championed by the House’s two top leaders, is drawing powerful allies including the American Medical Association and a rainbow of conservative and liberal groups. Citing the plan’s increased Medicare premiums for high earners and other increased costs for beneficiaries, AARP -the senior citizens’ lobby -- said the package “is not a balanced deal for older Americans.” With most of the measure financed with deeper federal deficits, the conservative Club for Growth urged lawmakers to vote “no” because it “falls woefully short” of being paid for. At its core, the plan would block a 21 percent cut in doctors’ Medicare fees loom-
ing April 1. It would replace a 1997 law that has threatened similar reductions for years -which Congress has repeatedly blocked -- with a new formula aimed at prodding doctors to charge Medicare patients for the quality, not quantity, of care. In a first hint of some of the measure’s fine print, Friday’s summary said it would let the government withhold 100 percent of any delinquent taxes providers owe from their Medicare reimbursements. As for winners, the agreement would prolong federal payments to hospitals that treat low-income people through 2025. It would also help major producers of durable medical goods and prosthetic devices by penalizing low-ball bidders for Medicare business. That provision comes from a Housepassed bill sponsored by Rep. Pat Tiberi, R-Ohio, whose state
is home to Invacare Corp., one of the country’s largest makers of home medical devices like wheelchairs. The one-page document provides no price tags and few specifics. But as lawmakers, congressional aides and lobbyists have said for days, it would cost roughly $210 billion over a decade, with around $140 billion financed by adding to federal deficits, aides said Friday. The remaining $70 billion would be split about evenly between Medicare providers and beneficiaries. According to the summary and aides familiar with details: * About 2 percent of the country’s highest-earning Medicare recipients would face higher premiums for doctor and prescription drug coverage. The higher premiums would apply to individuals earning between $134,000 and $214,000 and couples earning between $267,000 and $428,000.
* Starting in 2020, some people buying Medigap plans _ they insure expenses Medicare does not cover _ would pay higher out-of-pocket costs up to the Medicare deductible for doctors’ coverage, currently $147 annually. * A 3.2 percent increase in Medicare payments to hospitals in 2018 would instead be phased in over six years. * Nursing homes, hospices and home health providers would be held to a 1 percent Medicare increase in 2018. * Scheduled cuts in payments to states for hospitals treating poor patients would be delayed a year to 2018 but also extended through 2025. * Programs that help poor seniors pay Medicare deductibles and help some families keep Medicaid coverage as they move from welfare to jobs would become permanent.
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THE BIBLE, CAST IN BRONZE IF YOU GO: What: Sculptor Lynda Caspe exhibits 32 sculptures and sculptural reliefs, along with their accompanying preparatory drawings. When: April 1-30 Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Opening reception: April 2, 6-8 p.m. Where: Gallery of the Office of the Manhattan Borough president, Gale A. Brewer. Municipal Building, South Tower, 1 Centre St., 19th floor (identification required) Contact: 212-669-4448 FREE “Autobiography” (2014) bronze by Lynda Caspe. Photo: Lisa White
Artist Lynda Caspe depicts biblical scenes in her latest show
Artist Lynda Caspe in her Tribeca home. Photo: Gabrielle Alfiero
BY GABRIELLE ALFIER ALFIERO
Ask about the story of o Noah, and most think o of the flood, an ark and an animals walking two-by-two. two-by-two reArtist Lynda Caspe re calls Noah’s drunkennes drunkenness and castration. The painter, sculptor an and poet, whose latest exhibiexhib tion opens at the galler gallery of the Manhattan BorBor ough president on April Apr 1, depicts scenes from the th Old Testament in bronze bronz sculpture and reliefs, ofo ten focusing on marginal margina biblical women as well as a Caspe’s interpretations of o of lesser-known aspects o piece familiar tales. In her piec Caspe “Castration of Noah,” Casp depicts an interpretation o of which a biblical episode in whic of the violent ploy by one o the Noah’s son prevented th fathering patriarch from fatherin thereby more children, thereb prospective keeping his prospectiv inheritance intact. Caspe “Greed,” said Casp loft. from her Tribeca lof any “He didn’t want an less than a third of the th Earth.” dressed Caspe, 75, dresse and in a black fur vest an with leather pants, wit stark white hair, ap apprespears bold, a pres ence offset by her he genial demeanor and an frequent, punctuatpunctua ing laugh. A lifelong lifelon New Yorker, Caspe Casp received her M.F.A in studio art ar from the UniUn versity of Iowa, Iowa and continue continued her postgradupostgradu ate education iin apprenParis, appren the ticing with th prominent English Englis printmaker Stanley Wi Wilteaching liam Hayter. After teachin at the University of Alberta iin
Canada and the University of Chicago, her undergraduate alma mater, she landed at Borough of Manhattan Community College, where she taught studio art for 35 years. “I knew you don’t make money in art,” she said. “[Teaching was] how I supported myself.” Though much of the sculpture in her upcoming show is biblical in nature, one of her recent pieces is a self-portrait of sorts. Titled “Autobiography,” the two-foot bronze relief hangs in her studio and incorporates people from Caspe’s life. An abstract image of her father, who was a biochemist for Philip Morris, sits on the subject’s nose. A horse she rode as a child trots on her cheek. Paintings hanging on the whitewashed brick walls of the light-drenched, 3,200 square foot loft and studio space are Caspe’s own colorful landscapes done at her country home in Meredith, New York. “Except for the Picasso over there,” she said. She bought the black lithograph print in Paris for $25 as a gift for her father, she said. The apartment décor is eclectic —a red velvet couch and emerald velvet armchair, with slight tears in the fabric, look as if they were salvaged from an antique store. And her bedroom door is still plastered with magazine cutouts of ‘90s football stars from when her son Daniel, now 35, inhabited the quarters. Caspe purchased her apart-
ment in 1974 with a $7,000 grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. She knows she was smart, and a bit lucky, to buy when she did. Caspe has seen friends and fellow artists move out of the neighborhood over the years because of rising rents and landlord pressure. Caspe has retired from teaching and focuses wholly on her own work. She shows frequently, even without gallery representation, and sometimes through serendipitous meetings: she twice showed at her neighborhood bank, an opportunity that came about when she went in to open a checking account. As a member of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, she exhibits in group shows, which led her to the gallery at the borough president’s office. Last fall she exhibited in a show featuring work by the founding members of Bowery Gallery, an artists’ cooperative she helped form in 1969 that still has a gallery in Chelsea. Caspe’s interest in biblical stories began in 2007, when she curated a show for the gallery at Tribeca Synagogue. The stories appeal to her because of their commentary on human nature, and, depending on the viewer’s perspective, her interpretations reveal either a cynical or frank view of humanity. “I don’t think people have changed at all,” she said. “We’re just like we were in the cave.”
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“ON THE NATURE OF THINGS” Choreographer Karole Armitage created the site-specific “On the Nature of Things,” which confronts climate change, for performance in front of the American Museum of Natural History’s dioramas. The piece was influenced by the work of biologist Paul Ehrlich, who acts as the program’s narrator. “On the Nature of Things” March 25-27 American Museum of Natural History Milstein Hall of Ocean Life Entrance at 79th Street and Central Park West 8 p.m. Tickets $25-$35 To purchase tickets, visit http://www.amnh.org/calendar or call 212-769-5250
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TAKE DANCE PREMIERES “THERE AND HERE” Life, death and the afterlife are weighty themes. Dancer and choreographer Takehiro Ueyama explores them all in “There and Here,” an eveninglength production. The Tokyo native, who founded contemporary dance company TAKE (the dancer’s nickname) in 2005, collaborated with composer Hideki Kato on the new work, and invited Miki Orihara from Martha Graham’s company to join his ensemble for the performance. Take Dance Premieres “There and Here” March 26-28 Michael Schimmel Center for Arts at Pace University 3 Spruce St., between Gold Street and Park Row 7:30 p.m. Tickets $29 To purchase tickets, visit http://schimmel. pace.edu/ or call 212-346-1715
MUSIC SWEET PLANTAIN QUARTET With members from the Bronx, Venezuela and Buenos Aires, Sweet Plantain Quartet fuses traditional chamber music with jazz, hip-hop and Latin techniques, making their original compositions fresh, surprising and percussive. Sweet Plantain March 27-28 Metropolitan Museum of Art Balcony Bar 1000 Fifth Ave., at 82nd Street 5 p.m. FREE with museum admission
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FILM “LISTEN TO ME MARLON” In “Listen to Me Marlon,” director Stevan Riley explores the life and persona of Marlon Brando. Riley, whose past documentary work includes “Everything or Nothing” about the enduring James Bond franchise, plumbed personal audio recordings made by Brando himself, including the actor’s self-hypnosis tapes, to assemble a story, in the actor’s own words, of one of Hollywood’s most inscrutable stars. “Listen to Me Marlon” March 27-28 Film Society of Lincoln Center Walter Reade Theater (March 27), 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, near Amsterdam Avenue MoMA Titus 1 Theater (March 28), 11 W. 53 St., between Fifth and Sixth Avenues 6:30 p.m. (March 27) and 1 p.m. (March 28) Tickets $16 To purchase tickets, visit http://www. newdirectors.org/film/listen-to-me-marlon or call the box office at 212-875-5668
Stonehenge, though certainly the most wellknown, is not the world’s only free-standing prehistoric stone structure, nor its oldest. For ten years, photographer Barbara Yoshida traveled to far-flung sites that all predate Stonehenge, starting with the Ring of Brodgar in Scotland, and photographed the stones at night. The extended exposures give the black and white images a haunting appearance, and show the skies streaked with starlight, evidence of the earth’s rotation. “Megaliths by Moonlight” April 2-25 Umbrella Arts 317 E. 9th St. #2, between First and Second Avenues Gallery hours: 1 p.m.-6 p.m., ThursdaySaturday FREE For more information, visit http://www. umbrellaarts.com/ or call 212-505-7196
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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS MAR 17 - 20, 2015
Kamboat Bakery & Cafe
111 Bowery
Grade Pending (38) Food not cooked to required minimum temperature. 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. 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. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.
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. The Mercury Lounge
217 East Houston Street
A
Essex
120 Essex Street
A
Casa Bella
127 Mulberry Street
A
Apizz Restaurant
217 Eldridge Street
A
Ken’s Asian Taste
40 Bowery
A
Skal Restaurant
37 Canal Street
A
Silk Road Cafe
30 Mott Street
A
People
163 Allen Street
A
A
Clandestino Cafe And Bar
35 Canal Street
A
Cha Cha’s Backyard Garden 113 Mulberry Street Bar & Cafe
Gentleman Farmer
40 Rivington Street
A
Chiu Hong Bakery
161 Mott Street
Grade Pending (6) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
Inhabit
39 Eldridge Street
A
Takahachi Tribeca
145 Duane Street
A
Hawa Smoothies
181 East Broadway
A
Lucky’s Famous Burgers
147 East Houston Street
A
Amazing 66 Restaurant
66 Mott Street
J J Noodle
19 Henry Street
Grade Pending (29) 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. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
Grade Pending (48) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations. Insufficient or no refrigerated or hot holding equipment to keep potentially hazardous foods at required temperatures.
Nam Cafe
75 Baxter Street
A
Mini Express
1418 Elizabeth Street
Grade Pending (29) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room. Hot and cold running water at adequate pressure to enable cleanliness of employees not provided at facility. Soap and an acceptable hand-drying device not provided.
Popeye’s Chicken & Biscuits
125 Canal Street
A
World Pizza Champion
51 Columbia Street
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Zest
249 Broome Street
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Prohibition Bakery
9 Clinton Street
A
Barzinho
48 Hester Street
A
Starbucks Coffee
95 West Broadway
A
Misson Chinese Food
171 East Broadway
Not Graded Yet (26) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
Ellen Deli & Grocery
289 Hudson Street
A
Papa John’s
21 Maiden Lane
A
Plaza Deli
127 John Street
Grade Pending (26) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
Yi Mei Yum Gourmet
51 Division Street
A
22 Thai Cuisine
22 Maiden Lane
A
East Broadway Restaurant
94 East Broadway
Grade Pending (21) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
Red Mango
111 Fulton Street
A
Vivi Bubble Tea
2 East Broadway
A
Fields Good Chicken
101 Maiden Lane
A
Quynh’s Vietnamese Sandwiches
99 Nassau Street
Grade Pending (17) 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.
Pizza Shack
525 Grand Street
A
28 Mr. Ming’s Caffe
28 Canal Street
A
Wanted Pizza
104 Fulton Street
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Ost Cafe
511 Grand St
A A
Fairfield Inn & Suites New York Manhattan
161 Front Street
Hua Ji Pork Chop Fast Food 7 Allen Street
Not Graded Yet (38) Hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room. Hot and cold running water at adequate pressure to enable cleanliness of employees not provided at facility. Soap and an acceptable hand-drying device not provided.
Great Taste Bakery
3335 Catherine Street Grade Pending (36) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room. Hot and cold running water at adequate pressure to enable cleanliness of employees not provided at facility. Soap and an acceptable hand-drying device not provided.
Tribeca’s Cornerstone
327 Greenwich Street A
Church Street Kitchen
178 Church Street
A
Biny
393 Canal Street
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Go Catering
58 Lispenard St
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Tutto Il Giorno
114 Franklin St
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< CON ED: COLD WINTER DIDN’T MEAN HIGHER BILLS Lower cost attributed to cheaper natural gas Despite an unusually frigid winter, Con Edison said winter bills were lower and demand for natural gas was higher than during last year’s winter heating season. The average monthly gas-heating residential bill was $216, or 23 percent lower than the $279 during the winter of 2013-14.
In Brief MANHATTAN GIRL SCOUT BROWNIE AMONG TOP COOKIE SELLERS The results are in: New York City’s top three Girl Scout Cookie sellers hail from three different boroughs, and Stuyvesant Town’s own Maddie Noveck is the city’s third top seller of Girl Scout Cookies. Noveck, an 8-year-old Brownie, sold 1,728 boxes - up from 1,403 last year. Reigning cookie-selling champion, eighth-grader Najah Lorde, of Queens, held on to top spot, selling 1,816 boxes of cookies this year. Last year, 10-year-old Danielle Bioh from Brooklyn sold 70 boxes. This year, she sold 1,782 boxes, coming in second. Noveck said she bases her cookie sales strategy on the understanding that “cookies make people smile.” The competition this year was fierce, and a total of 18 girls managed to reach the 1,000-box-mark or go beyond - five more than last year. This year’s roundup also included a surprising number of very young cookie sale champions: of the 18 top sellers, 12 were under age 9. It was the first time in the nearly 100-year history of the Girl Scout Cookie Program that Girl Scouts got to sell cookies online, through their own digital stores, in addition to the traditional person-to-person and booth sale activities girls have always relied on for sales. And early adopters made the program work for them: the three top sellers all had considerably higher-than-average digital cookie sales. Last year, New York City Girl Scouts sold a total of 998,580 boxes of cookies; this year, they sold 1,084,526 boxes, with some of the increase attributable to the Girl Scouts’ new online sales tools. Samoas edged out Thin Mints in popularity in the city this year, chosen by 24.1 percent of customers over 22.7 percent for Thin Mints.
The average monthly electric bill from November through February for a New York City residence using 300 kilowatt hours was $95.42, compared with $102.95 during the same period last winter. That’s a decline of 7 percent. The good news for customers was due to natural gas prices being lower this winter. Gas prices spiked last winter when the Polar Vortex
put the freeze on the Northeast. Con Edison also provided record amounts of natural gas to its customers this winter. The company sent out 1.68 million dekatherms, an all-time high for one day, on Jan. 13. The seven highest days in company history occurred this winter. The company set a monthly record in January, providing 44.29 million dekatherms, beating a record set in February 2014. All that gas went to customers and toward the generation of electricity and steam.
IN SEARCH OF A SMALL BUSINESS SOLUTION NEWS Gale Brewer is proposing legislation to delay evictions BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer is seeking to introduce legislation that would prevent small businesses from being summarily evicted after a rent hike from landlords. According to Brewer’s office, landlords would be required to give small business tenants in storefront spaces notice of their intentions 180 days in advance of the end of a lease, followed by a negotiation period in which either party can request nonbinding mediation to assist with negotiations. The legislation would also provide the option of a oneyear lease extension with no more than a 15 percent rent increase to give businesses the opportunity to transition to new space smoothly when necessary. “The law would state you have to sit down with a mediator, and if there was no possibility of coming to terms, our proposal would be that you as a small business would have a year and you wouldn’t have to leave right away,” Brewer said in an interview. She’s partnering on the legislation with City Councilmember Robert Cornegy, chair of the council’s committee on small business. Brewer said she’s not anticipating pushback from the
real estate industry, which has traditionally resisted any initiative aimed at beefing up negotiating powers for commercial tenants. “When we called around to the chambers of commerce, business improvement districts and the Real Estate Board of New York, they wanted to talk, they’re not opposed to it,” said Brewer. “I think they want to see small businesses survive, they live in New York, too. We didn’t get a lot of pushback.” So what’s in it for landlords? “The incentive to negotiate down from the rent increase is that you’re going to have to work with this person for
another year,” said Brewer, of the legislation’s rule that if an agreement could not be reached, a business could stay in a given location for another 12 months and pay no more than 15 percent of the rent they were paying prior to their lease’s expiration. Brewer also said that the 15 percent rule could be negotiated. “We can play with that number, but that’s what we’re thinking,” she said. Brewer’s office will be convening a series of roundtable discussions around Manhattan to discuss her small business proposals with neighborhood business owners and residents. The first is
slated for May 6, during National Small Business Week. Other pillars of her small business survival initiative include modernizing policies governing street vending, helping small businesses buy their space as a commercial condominium, and the creation of “low-intensity commercial districts.” “In certain neighborhoods experiencing rapid storefront rent increases, creation of new low-intensity commercial districts on quieter streets can act as a safety valve, reducing competition for rental space on hightraffic commercial streets,” said Brewer’s office in a press release.
Details on the initiative are set to be released in an upcoming report on saving small business by the borough president’s office. “Whether it’s taking some of the pressure out of lease renewals or facilitating the training or microcredit assistance a vendor needs to take the next big step, our city government needs to get creative to help small businesses survive and thrive,” said Brewer. “Small storefront businesses and vendors create jobs and add value, vibrancy, and diversity to our neighborhoods – New York would not be New York without them.”
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A TALENTED TRIO TAKES THE 20TH CENTURY We sat down with three of the ensemble actors in On the Twentieth Century to get a glimpse into the show and their journeys to Broadway BY ANGELA BARBUTI
In On the Twentieth Century, the cast takes us aboard a train headed to New York City where anything can happen and we are all along for the ride. Kristin Chenoweth, who plays a dramatic, but lovable actress, and Pete Gallagher, who is her debonair ex-director, dazzle as the leads, but the show also has an ensemble of talented actors who keep us entertained by lending their voices and kicking their feet to the upbeat musical numbers. “The show is really great in that every single person has little stand-out moments here and there, so everyone gets their time to shine,” said ensemble member Justin Bowen. After a matinee, Bowen, Ben Crawford and Andy Taylor met
at the American Airlines Theater, where the show is running until July, to talk about the comedy and their start as actors. The men, who are all Upper West Siders now, each came to New York to pursue his dream of being on Broadway. They recall standing in line in the cold for auditions that ultimately led them to such memorable experiences as transforming into Shrek, dancing the role of Charlie Chaplin and reciting jokes with Carol Burnett.
What’s the atmosphere like on set? Andy: It was good all along and then we got all these rave reviews this weekend, so we know we’re in something that’s worth watching, which helps. But it was always a good group of people. I think we always felt like, if this show was going to work, we’re gonna have a good shot at it because we had great people. We had Kristin, Scott
Crawford Ellis [director], Warren Carlyle [choreographer] and everybody. I think the atmosphere is really loose, fun and pretty cool. Justin: It’s great. It’s really close quarters back there. The show is really big for the space that it’s in, so we’re pretty tight-knit backstage. There’s a lot of respect among the cast members for every person because everyone gets to do something special or something that they’re good at. It’s a really great environment; I don’t think anyone feels underrepresented in the show. I think it helps that the show is a madcap comedy too; it’s not dark and heavy, so it lends itself to us having a good time doing it, on stage and off. Ben: Yeah, I would totally agree with these guys. I think
Taylor it’s a great atmosphere backstage and at rehearsals. Even from the beginning, we’ve just been laughing every day and having a great time. I think if we didn’t have such a great time with each other, it would probably be a little nuts back there, because it’s so cramped. But everyone has a great time, so it works out really well.
How did you all train as dancers? Ben: I think Justin is the most danciest of the three of us. Justin: There are four really dance-heavy roles in the show. I also cover those roles as well. I’ve been doing theater since I was six and went to a high school with a strong performing arts program. Then I went to college and majored in musical theater with a lot of musical training.
Bowen Andy: The stuff that I do is story choreography; it’s movement. I remember when I first came to New York, people were like, “I don’t sing” or “I don’t do soap operas.” And 20 years ago, I was like, “That’s 90 percent of all the work in New York.” I kept dancing after college just enough to keep working in the business. I’m not a great dancer, but can move around enough to do a show like this. Justin: They used to have separate choruses- a singing chorus and a dancing chorus- but now everyone has to do everything. So if you go in saying you’re just an actor or you just sing, you’re limiting yourself. The majority of our cast is made up of singers, but everyone has to kick, move and do choreography. Our choreographer would always say, “Just try it, even if you’re afraid of looking foolish, because more often than not you’ll surprise yourself.”
What’s your dream role? Ben: Billy Bigelow in Carousel. Justin: There’s a tiny show running off Broadway called The Fantasticks. I think it’s the longest running show in New York. Andy: Fifty years. Justin: Since high school, playing the Boy has been a dream role of mine. I don’t know if I’ll ever get to do it because I’m getting too old at this point. Bur I think it’s so simple and beautifully told. Ben: It is a cool story. Andy: When I was young, I always wanted to play Henrik in A Little Night Music, because it required a tenor and I’m a tenor. And the character played the cello and I’m a cellist. However, I got to finally do it at the Goodman in Chicago. I played the cello and sang, and no one in the audience knew I was playing because they thought it
was coming from the pit. So I didn’t get the payoff I wanted. Nobody cared at all. When did you know you were going to be an actor? Ben: I don’t think I really thought about it until college, when I was pre-med and lost the passion for the science part. I was in the middle of college and didn’t really know what to do. I was always in the arts in high school and had a lot of fun doing theater and music, so thought, “Maybe that’s something I can do.” I didn’t take it seriously until maybe my junior year in college. Justin: I think I always wanted to do it for as long as I can remember. When I was six, I did Singin’ in the Rain, where I was a street urchin, and since then, it’s the only thing I wanted to do. Pretty much everything I’ve done has been to get me to this point, because I’ve always wanted to live in New York. I’m from Virginia, but my parents used to bring me up every once in a while to see some shows and I was just enamored with Broadway. Andy: I was a music double major, so I was on the fence about being a cellist. When I was in conservatory in music studying both theater and cello, it became really clear to me not so much that I loved the theater more, but loved what they did and liked the atmosphere and hanging out with actors more than cellists and string players. To learn more about the show, visit roundabouttheatre.org
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