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FATAL ACCIDENT RENEWS HOSPITAL DEBATE Death of woman at former St. Vincent’s site again raises questions about the need for a trauma center
Howard Hughes Corp.’s Quiet Downtown Expansion
In Brief SELLING OFF THE GREENSPACE AT NYCHA
Howard Hughes has purchased buildings on this block
Air rights purchased on these blocks
BY ALAN KRAWITZ
The recent death of Trang-Thuy ‘Tina’ Nguyen, who was killed by a piece of flying construction debris near the intersection of W. 12th Street and Seventh Avenue, the former site of St. Vincent’s Hospital now being developed into luxury condos, has once again raised questions about the neighborhood’s need for a hospital with a level 1 trauma center. The soon-to-be-married Nguyen, 37, a real estate broker with Keller Williams, was killed around 6 p.m. on St. Patrick’s Day after she was struck by a section of plywood fencing from the Greenwich Lane project construction site as she walked. The fencing, blown loose by 40 mph winds, hit Nguyen with such force that it slammed her into a building across the street, where she reportedly hit her head against a Fire Department standpipe. Although the incident happened literally across Seventh Avenue from the barely year-old Lenox Hill HealthPlex, which has a free-standing emergency room, she was transported crosstown two miles through rush-hour traffic to Bellevue Hospital on First Avenue, where she was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. A Fire Department spokesman said responding EMTs determined at the scene that the nearby HealthPlex, which is not a Level 1 trauma center, was not sufficiently equipped to treat Nguyen’s injuries. “In general, patients are transported based on several factors including the patient’s condition, medical treatment needed and proximity to hospitals,” the spokesman, Frank Dwyer, said. “The nearest facility may not be the location a patient will be trans-
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Block believed to be site of possible new tower Site of proposed Howard Hughes tower (New Market Building)
Red line denotes Seaport Historic District
IS HOWARD HUGHES ABANDONING THEIR SEAPORT HIGH-RISE PLAN? Cautious optimism that developer will propose to move its luxury residential tower out of the historic district BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS
The main community group opposed to the Howard Hughes Corp.’s redevelopment plans for the South Street Seaport Historic District revealed that the company has acquired several pieces of property adjacent to the district, which may
eventually be proposed as an alternative location for a 42-story residential tower the developer has been trying to build on the Seaport. Save Our Seaport, a community group that describes itself as defenders of the historic district, obtained a letter Howard Hughes sent to shareholders dated March 13. The letter disclosed the company’s acquisition of at least seven properties, including a parking lot, adjacent to the historic district. The acquisitions also include hundreds of thousands of
square feet in air rights and were all made in the last six months, according to SOS. David Sheldon, a spokesperson for Save Our Seaport, said the shareholder letter indicated that the acquisitions were part of the same assemblage, but did not say whether the site would be proposed as an alternative location for the tower. Although the company hasn’t formally announced its intentions,
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Yet another story emerged this week on a similar theme: How can a city this rich be this broke? Last week it was the crisis in our public libraries. This year, the New York City Housing Authority, which, it emerges, is $100 million in the red. By 2025, that budget gap could grow to $400 million, all while a quarter million people wait for affordable-housing space to open. So what can NYCHA do about any of this? One answer: sell off its green space to developers. According to a piece in The Daily News, the agency has quietly sold 54 plots of open space to developers since 2013 to build new affordable-housing units. More than 400,000 square feet of public land, now gone. Residents are, not surprisingly, tepid on the plan. Open space and parkland are scarce in the city, in general, and in NYCHA complexes, in particular. Parents wonder where their kids will be able to stretch their legs. “This is where the kids learned to ride their bikes,” one tenant leader told the News. “If you take that, where are they going to go?” The saddest part about all of this is that NYCHA may have few other options. Demand for affordable housing is only going up; recent counts put the NYC homeless population at the highest it’s been since World War II. And while new affordable housing units desperately need to be built, the existing stock is desperately in need of repair, with elevators, lights and stairwells chronically in disrepair. The safety of residents often is at risk as a result. So, in a city where the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment goes for more than $3,500, the very neediest among us are stuck with having to choose between a place to live and a patch of grass for the kids.
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WHATâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MAKING NEWS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD COURT LETS STAND BAN ON WORSHIP IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS The Supreme Court declined to review a city ban on worship by religious groups in public schools, letting stand a lower courtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ruling that the ban is constitutional, The New York Times reported. The decision would allow the de Blasio administration to oust dozens of religious groups who have been holding services after hours in public
school buildings, the paper reported. The city officials, though, will seek ways that would still allow churches and other religious organizations from using the buildings on the same grounds as other groups, The Times reported. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While we review and revise the rules, groups currently permitted to use schools for worship will continue to be able to worship on school premises,â&#x20AC;? the paper quoted a City Hall spokesman, Wiley Norvell, as saying.
The case goes back to 1995, when a Bronx church was told it could not get a rent permit for a school building. The Bronx Household of Faith subsequently ďŹ led suit.
amendments to the zoning law were â&#x20AC;&#x153;modest changes that respect what works.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The only noticeable changes to height apply solely to buildings with affordable and senior housingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and to suggest otherwise is just untrue,â&#x20AC;? DNAinfo quoted him as saying. The city is accepting written testimony from the public until April 6, after which text of the proposed amendment will be published and another review process begins, according to the news site.
ASPECTS OF CITYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S AFFORDABLE HOUSING PLAN CRITICIZED Mayor de Blasioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s affordable housing plan was staunchly criticized at a public hearing for lack of transparency with regard to zoning changes, according to DNAinfo. Critics of the zoning changes, which would allow for the development of taller buildings so long as they include more affordable units and senior housing, said the proposal would undo residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; long-sought regulations in some neighborhoods, the report said. Opponents of the zoning changes said the administration was pushing through its plans with insufficient input from the public and without having adequately publicizing them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If not for the fact of emails ďŹ&#x201A;ying from Greenwich Village â&#x20AC;Ś to civic groups in Brooklyn, Staten Island and the Bronx, this might have been held before two people,â&#x20AC;? DNAinfo quoted Ed Jaworski, president of the MarineMadison-Homecrest Civic Association in Brooklyn, as saying during the threehour meeting last week. A spokesman for the mayor, though, deďŹ&#x201A;ected the criticism, saying that
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RESIDENTS OPPOSE PLANNED EVENT SPACE IN TRIBECA Tribeca residents are ďŹ ghting an event venue proposed for Hudson Street building already housing two catering spaces, according to the Tribeca Trib. The ďŹ rst ďŹ&#x201A;oor of the building located on 205 Hudson St., at the corner of Desbrosses Street, was recently home to American Flatbread, and owner William Reilly wants to use the opening to accommodate as many as 400 people in a new event space, the paper said. But several residents attending Community Board 1â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tribeca Committee last month loudly complained about the disruptions â&#x20AC;&#x201C; from traffic and noise â&#x20AC;&#x201C; they said were already being caused by Reillyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two existing venues, Tribeca Rooftop and Three Sixty, the Trib reported. Sensing there was little chance the committee would approve the new space, a Reilly representative said she would delay ďŹ ling for the catering license and return to the committee later this month, the Trib said.
CHELSEA, HELLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S KITCHEN RESIDENTS SUGGEST IMPROVEMENTS Residents pitched proposals for improvements for the Chelsea and the Hellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kitchen neighborhoods at at participatory budgeting expo, DNAinfo said. Residents suggested turning the vacant lot at 136 W. 20th St. into a public park, while others lobbied for solar powered composting and a reďŹ nished basketball court. According to news sit, this was the ďŹ rst time Community Board 3 sought participatory budgeting input from residents. The board was seeking suggestions on how to use about $1 million in capital funds. Proposals that make the cut will be voted on by residents later this month. One area resident, Patricia WhitďŹ eld, said many of the proposals were C
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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG
FOCUS SHIFTS IN EXPLOSION INQUIRY Authorities shifted their focus to what caused the Manhattan apartment building collapse and the possibility that someone may have improperly tapped a gas line serving one of the buildings, after two bodies were pulled from the rubble. The names of the two men found Sunday were not immediately released. Authorities believe they are the two men reported missing after Thursday’s explosion and fire that leveled three buildings and injured 22 people, including four critically. They were identified as Moises Lucon, 26, who worked inside a ground floor sushi restaurant, and Nicholas Figueroa, 23, a bowling alley worker who had been there on a date. A spokesman for the Figueroa
family confirmed to reporters at the city Medical Examiner’s office on Sunday that Figueroa’s body was pulled from the wreckage. “There’s reason to believe so far that there may have been inappropriate tampering with the gas lines within the building, but until we get full evidence we can’t conclude that,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said. In August, utility workers had discovered that the gas line to the restaurant had been illegally tapped, according to Consolidated Edison. The discovery led Con Edison to shut down gas service to the building for about 10 days while the building owner made repairs. Gas service was restored after the utility deemed it safe, the utility said. Inspectors from the gas and electric utility Con Ed visited that building about an hour before Thursday’s explosion and determined work to upgrade gas service didn’t pass inspection, locking the line to ensure it wouldn’t be used and then leaving, officials said. The work underway was to put in a bigger line to serve the entire building, Con Ed President Craig Ivey said. Fifteen minutes later, the su-
shi restaurant’s owner smelled gas and called the landlord, who called the general contractor, Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said. No one called police or Con Ed.
LOW-RENTS AT LAURENT’S Nearly $22,000 worth of merchandize was taken from SoHo’s Laurent store on the evening of March 20, police said. Four men and one woman took items of merchandise, walked by the cash registers and headed out the door of the store at 80 Greene St., police said. There were no store security or loss-prevention personnel on duty at the time of the occurrence, according to police. Officers searched the area but did not find the thieves or the stolen merchandise. Items stolen included a Baby Sac de Jour valued at $2,590; two Baby Cabas Monogram and two Monogram Large Tassel Satchels, each tagged at $2,190; two Fringed Suede Bucket Bags, each worth $1,990; a small floral Betty Bag priced at $1,850; a small suede Betty Bag valued at $1,550; a Nano Sac de Jour bag priced at
$1,990; and a pair of women’s Candy Heeled Sandals tagged at $1,035. The total haul came to $21,815.
PICKUP LINE One messenger picked up considerably more than he was supposed to. In the mid-afternoon of March 19, a man approached a 39-yearold male employee in the Paul Smith boutique at 142 Greene St., claiming he was a messenger and had “a pickup for Ben.” The employee then handed the expected items to the messenger. Upon leaving the premises, however, the messenger also removed items belonging to the employee. Video is available of the incident. The items stolen included a Paul Smith wool suit valued at $1,415, two Paul Smith wool shirts each tagged at $290, a Secret Empire Navy blue twopiece suit priced at $2,500, and a Secret Empire gold vest valued at $500, making a total take of $4,995.
STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 1st Precinct for March 16 to March 22 Week to Date
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9
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19
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Burglary
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5
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31
38
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Grand Larceny
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17
23.5
177
195
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Grand Larceny Auto
0
0
n/a
2
1
100
p.m. on Monday, March 16, a 23-year-old female employee of the Free People boutique at 99 Spring St. told police that on March 15, there had been four leather jackets on a store rack, each valued at $1,145. When she arrived in the store the next morning, she found only one jacket on the rack, with the other three unaccounted for. The three leather jackets have a total value of $3,435.
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Apparently, a thief decided that the Free People store also had free merchandise. At 5
Two shoplifters stole underwear in bulk. At 5:02 p.m. on Sunday, March 22,
two women working together took dozens of items from the Victoria’s Secret store at 591 Broadway, placed them in a black bag, and walked out the front door without paying. The pair were last seen fleeing on foot on Broadway. There was a security guard on duty at the time of the occurrence, and police were reviewing video of the theft. The items stolen were 144 pairs of underwear, each tagged at $12.50, and 108 pairs of underwear, each priced at $14.50, yielding a total of $3,366.
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The construction site near where Trang-Thuy ‘Tina’ Nguyen was struck by a piece of flying plywood and killed. Photo credit: Wiredny.com
FATAL ACCIDENT RENEWS HOSPITAL DEBATE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ported.” Dwyer added, “In this case, based on injuries, the patient needed the nearest trauma center — which was Bellevue Hospital.” Severe head trauma, gunshot wounds and traffic accident injuries are among the wounds that most frequently require care at trauma centers. Many in the downtown community noted the irony that Nguyen was killed at the residential luxury condo construction site, which displaced a historic hospital that treated trauma victims. Yetta Kurland, a civil-rights attorney and former city council candidate, said the tragedy left “some hard questions about our priorities as a city and a community.” In a letter to supporters, Kurland wrote “It is a scary thing for our city that we have traded a life-saving hospital and emergency room for luxury condominiums. Accidents happen, and we depend on vital, timesensitive care. Yet it would
seem that we prioritize the needs of those who can afford to pay $45 Million for a single condo over our public health.” Kurland added that the tragedy “poses questions about the value of the ‘Lenox Hill HealthPlex’ built as a sorry consolation for the loss of St. Vincent’s Hospital.” “I think the fact that the EMTs wouldn’t even take her [Nguyen] in, to [the HealthPlex] and attempt to treat her, was a red flag, that the facility isn’t sufficient for certain, serious injuries,” Kurland said in a phone interview. Online, some recounted stories of being treated at St. Vincent’s and lamented its closing in 2010. Commenting on a story about Nguyen’s death in The Villager, a person writing as @ franklanguage said “St. Vincent’s was where they took me in 1981 for a traumatic brain injury—I was DOA—and saved my life. It’s highly disturbing that there’s nowhere on the west side where such an injury can be treated, at least up to Columbus Circle or down to Beekman Street.” Sean Sweeney, director of the SoHo Alliance and also a member of Community Board 2, said that while people who live around 12th Street or 14th
Nguyen’s death has sparked a debate about access to medical trauma care in the Village. Photo credit: newyorkyimby.com Street don’t really have a viable hospital option now, it’s also “cynical of Lenox Hill to think that their HealthPlex could take the place of a Level 1 trauma center.” Online patient reviews for the 8-month-old HealthPlex were generally positive, however, with many stressing the “newness” of the facility and speedy care. In the aftermath of Nguyen’s death, the city’s Department of Buildings issued a stop-work order on the Greenwich Lane construction site, which remains in effect pending an investigation by the city.
Further, several news reports said that Rudin Management, owner of the property, as well as several other contractors, including Turner Construction, have been issued nearly a dozen serious code violations since 2012, including other complaints about falling debris at the site. Sweeney noted that a few days after the accident, CB2 issued a resolution calling for greater protection of pedestrians in construction zones, similar to the de Blasio administration’s Vision Zero traffic safety plan.
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VISION ZERO’S DECADES-OLD ROOTS Traffic coursing through Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village in 1987. Photo by Greg Wass, via Flickr
Starting in the 1970s and 1980s, advocates calling for traffic safety persevered through indifference, “windshield perspective” BY RICHARD KHAVKINE
Vision Zero, the de Blasio administration’s pivotal trafficsafety initiative, has been as notable for the speed of its rollout as for what it’s managed to accomplish. In just over a year, the city has rolled out improved road designs and configurations, increased enforcement of traffic laws, installed new street signs, and lowered the speed limit to 25 m.p.h. across most of the city. That effort has been accompanied by increased activism among families of traffic victims, and a focused effort to increase the number of drivers prosecuted for causing traffic deaths. In a city long seen as more friendly to drivers than to walkers, the past year would seem to mark a dramatic — and sudden — swtich in thinking. In fact, Vision Zero’s foundational thrust can also be traced back several decades, when citizen advocates and some elected officials started calling for improvements in road engineering and trafficlaw enforcement, efforts that followed spikes in pedestrian deaths in the 1980s and 1990s. And it followed blueprints from other parts of the world, most notably Sweden, which adapted a similar pedestrian plan nearly two decades ago. That was subsequently implemented in the U.K., the Netherlands and Norway, as well as in a few American cities, Boston and San Francisco among them. For Charles Komanoff, the incident that galvanized his advocacy was the death of a maternity ward doctor, nine months pregnant herself, after she was hit while crossing York Avenue at 69th Street in October 1994. “That was six days after the birth of my first child,” said Komanoff, who had for years already been involved in the push for increased traffic safety, most notably as president of the city-based advocacy organization Transportation Alternatives. The doctor’s death, though, intensified his commitment.
“When I read about this, it just pushed me harder,” he said. For John Kaehny, the impending closure of bike lanes on East River bridges in the early 1990s spurred his involvement. Kaehny, then a researcher for a Manhattan hedge fund, joined the weekly demonstrations and helped eventually secure commitments for bike lanes over the crossings. The protests, he said, “helped hugely. It turned into a big cause.” High-profile accidents would further prompted his push for traffic safety initiatives, and he joined Transportation Alternatives as a “super volunteer,” he said. But prioritizing pedestrians’ and bicyclists’ welfare in an urban setting where motorists had long been irreproachable kings and queens of the road proved frustrating, difficult and perplexing initially, they said. “The culture of automobility that for 100 years enthralled and in some ways devoured America such that running over and killing people was just seen as the price of progress,” said Komanoff, 67, who would found the pedestrian rights group Right of Way in the 1990s. While activists stepped up their efforts in the mid-1990s, elected city officials from then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on down to community board members were either immune or indifferent to the advocates’ efforts. “Giuliani, despite being a big city mayor, was not urbanist,” said Kaehny, 50, who would go on to become executive director of Transportation Alternatives and the co-founder of the national Alliance for Bicycling and Walking. “The mayor himself said we want more cars,
because every car is a sign of economic activity.” In effect, motorists were a priority, and keeping cars moving through a dense city grid made it difficult for traffic engineers to design, much less implement, safer pedestrian streetscapes, he said. Bette Dewing, an East End Avenue resident for decades and the founder of Pedestrians First and now director of Safe Travel First, said pedestriansafety efforts were frustrated by policymakers’ apathy. “We got a lot of media attention. But nothing substantial was being done,” said Dewing, who said she started writing letters and op-eds about the issue in the early 1970s and was further galvanized when she had children and people were still getting run over and killed, by motorists and bicyclists, on nearby York Avenue. She later became a regular columnist for Our Town, where she continues to write a bi-weekly column. “Too many people are undersensitive to these things,” she said. “After I had children, I become more concerned.” Kaehny and Komanoff said other things conspired to keep pedestrian safety initiatives from being implemented, not least the fact that politicians and appointees were themselves drivers – and were consequently shaped by “windshield perspective.” The police’s institutional reluctance to enforce traffic laws also contributed, the advocates said. Officers, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s, joined the force to arrest criminals, not to chase down speeding motorists or drivers who refuse to yield to pedestrians. “They had so many other things to contend with,” Dewing said about police and those decades’ high crime rates.
“Generally speaking, it was not high on their list of priorities.” Within a few years, though, concern among business owners and politicians, including by a formerly recalcitrant Giuliani, started percolating and a consensus developed that pedestrian safety was paramount if the city was to thrive. “There was a growing urbanism in New York City and business leaders were very vocal,” said Kaehny, who lives in Morningside Heights and is now the executive director of the opengovernment group, Reinvent Albany. The change in the political headwinds led to the enacting, in 1999, of state and city “traffic calming” laws following a vociferous three-year campaign by Transportation Alternatives that had met pronounced opposition, including from the state Department of Transportation. The legislation, coupled to federal, state and city funds, gave traffic engineers green lights to redesign pedestrian crossings, widen sidewalks, construct speed bumps, institute slow speed zones, build bike lanes and introduce other safety measures. “They untied their hands legally,” Kaehny said. Traffic improvements began to reshape the city in significant ways. The year before, 183 pedestrians were killed in traffic accidents, according to the city’s Department of Transportation, the first time fewer than 200 were killed since city authorities started keeping records in 1910. The number of people killed in traffic accidents annually dipped consistently after that, reaching more than 200 only once, in 1999, when 202 were killed. Last year, 138 were killed, the
fewest ever, according to police and DOT statistics. In total, 255 people – pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists, and occupants of motor vehicles – were killed in traffic accidents last year, the second-lowest since 1910. “There’s less overall kind of chaos, and some of that translates into less crashing and less egregious driving behavior,” said Komanoff, a lower Manhattan resident and energypolicy and transport economist. “There is a declining sense of driver entitlement. I see drivers wait at a crosswalk more than before.” Still, both Komanoff and Kaehny caution that the dip in traffic fatalities, while admirable and impressive, obscures another telling statistic: serious injuries that, but for improvements in trauma care, would likely have resulted in death just a few decades ago. Citing city statistics, Transportation Alternatives says that, since about 2007, “for every eight traffic fatalities, New
Yorkers suffer 100 life-altering serious injuries.” While both Komanoff and Keahny praise and approve Vision Zero’s focus and objectives, more needs to be done, particularly with regard to vigilance and enforcement of traffic laws by police. And Komanoff said stiffer prosecutions and punishments need to be doled out by prosecutors and judges, particularly after accidents that maim or claim lives. “I still observe greater adherence, respect for pedestrians’ right-of-way than I did 20 years ago,” Komanoff said. “The biggest thing that needs to change is criminal justice.” Ultimately, though, the focus on traffic safety, however belated, is a welcome development in a city where drivers and policymakers had too long demonstrated disregard and disinterest. “If you look at New York City 30 or even 20 years ago,” Kaehny said, “it’s incredibly encouraging.”
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Safety Advocates Want Harsher Penalties for New York’s Drivers
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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NYU CREATIVE WRITING PRESENTS: ERIN BELIEU, JILL BIALOSKY, AND CATE MARVIN
ART GALLERY TOUR IN CHELSEA
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 W. 10th St. 5 p.m., Free Erin Belieu’s most recent poetry collection “Slant Six” was published in 2014. Jill Bialosky’s new collection of poems is “The Players.” Cate Marvin’s third book of poems, “Oracle,” is forthcoming. 212-998-8816, or contact Joanna Yas at creative.writing@ nyu.edu
526 W. 26th St., between 10th and 11th Avenues 1p.m.-3 p.m., $25 A gallery tour of Chelsea’s modern galleries led by Rafael Risemberg, 212-946-1548, www. nygallerytours.com
APRIL BOOK SWAP MONTH Torly Kid, 51 Hudson St. 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Free Bring your “gently used” books and trade them with other fun adventure books and get 10% off your next purchase.
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DORRANCE DANCE COMPANY Joyce Theatre, 175 Eighth Ave., at 19th St. 2 p.m., $10-$30 Dorrace Dance Company makes their debut at Joyce Theatre with The Blues Project 212-242-0800, www.joyce. org
6 AARP TAX-AIDE: FREE TAX ASSISTANCE AND PREPARATION Chatham Square Library, 33 E. Broadway
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LOST DOG TALE, WITH A TWIST LOCAL NEWS
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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New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnold Hall, 55 West 13th St. 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Free Learn about how women have affected the way architecture has changed over the years EASTER EGG HUNT through presentations and a keynote speaker. 212-229-5108, www. Church of St. Lukes in the events.newschool.edu/event/ Fields, 487 Hudson St. feminism_and_architecture_2#. 10:30 a.m., Free VRlBclbjPwJ Following the 9:15 a.m. Easter Service, and open to all ages. 212-924-0562, www. stlukeinthefields.org/calendar/
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12:30 p.m., Free Get help with tax questions on a first-come, first-served basis. (212) 673-6344, www.nypl.org/events/ calendar?location=15
STORIES AND CRAFTS Hudson Park Library 66 Leroy St., at Seventh Avenue South 4 p.m., Free Make crafts and share fun stories with new friends. Open to ages 3-6pm 212-243-6876, www.nypl.org/events/ calendar?location=34
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7 SWEET WEET COMEDY OMEDY Slipper Room, 167 Orchard chard St., at Stanton Street 9 p.m., $7 Check out Seth Herzog’s weekly ekly standup that will keep youu entertained for hours. 212-253-7246, www. slipperroom.com pperroom.com
EVOLVING VOLVING POP-UP : OUR EARTH /OUR WORLD ORLD
homeless policymakers and experts, providers of homeless services, advocates and shelter clients. RSVP at eventbrite.com by entering “homeless policy forum.” Questions can be emailed to policy@cfhnyc.org
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural andd Educational Center, 107 Suffolk St., between Rivington ffolk St and Delancey Streets 7 p.m., $11/students and seniors, $8 Enjoy a ive avant-jazz show part of the annual Vision ▲ STEVE KEISTER USO Festival. Full artists lineup can at — 1978-1981 artsforart.org. 212-260-4080, www. Mitchell Algus Gallery
9 GRACE PALEY AND THE DISTURBANCES OF MAN: DAY 1 The New School, 55 West 13th Street Union Square, Room 10 a.m.,-7 p.m., Free Celebrate the life and work of Grace Paley, activist, poet, short story and feminist. 212-229-5108, www.events. newschool.edu/event/grace_
You Never Forget Who You Grew Up With. The rough touch of tree bark, the scent of freshly mowed grass, the gentle hum of pollinating bees as a flower blossoms — green spaces touch lives and all five senses.
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▲ HOMELESS POLICY FORUM Baruch College, 151 E. 25th St., Room 750 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Free Panels will feature leading
132 Delancey St., between Norfolk and Suffolk Streets 11 a.m., Free Check out Steve Keister’s USO: Unidentified Suspended Objects and how he uses geometrics to construct abstract sculptures hung by fishing lines. 212-242-6242, www. mitchellalgus.com
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GO GREEN: FOUND ART Hamilton Fish Park Library, 415 E. Houston Street, at Columbia Street 3:30 p.m., Free Recycle old pieces and turn into to new treasures. Open to children 12-18 years. 212-673-2290, www.nypl.org/events/ programs/2015/04/09/gogreen-found-art
Green spaces are a vital part of growing up — they enhance lives, make memories and connect people with their neighborhoods and communities. Be a part of preserving and enhancing green spaces where we live, work and play. To volunteer, to learn how to help your community and to donate, visit ProjectEverGreen.org or call toll-free (877) 758-4835.
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A SHOT AT A SMALL BUSINESS BREAKTHROUGH Finally, a ray of hope for small businesses struggling to survive in Manhattan. Borough President Gale Brewer -- a champion of the city’s local storefronts -- has come forward with a proposal that could break the logjam between businesses squeezed by rising rents and landlords looking to cash in on a redhot retail market. Essentially, Brewer is looking to balance out a lease negotiating process that is almost completely skewed in the landlord’s favor. Under her proposal, landlords would be forced to give their tenants a 180-day head’s up if they plan on raising rents. No more four- or five-fold rent hikes with 30 days’ notice. If negotiations between the two sides stall, either party can ask for nonbinding mediation, or they can opt for a shorter, one-year lease extension with a rent increase capped at 15%, giving the business plenty of time to look for alternate space. Not surprisingly, the real estate lobby has already signaled it will fight Brewer on her plan, just as it has fought the Small Business Jobs Survival Act, a similar proposal that has been stalled for decades now. Some small business activists have been trying to rekindle interest in the Act, but there are, unfortunately, few signs that a breakthrough is possible. (It is nice to see some of our colleagues at other Manhattan weeklies finally join the cause, a full year after we started our Saving Small Business campaign. Welcome aboard.) Brewer is a veteran of these battles and knows what can pass and what can’t. When she was a council member, she managed to cap the width of retail frontages on commercial corridors on the Upper West Side, essentially blocking the expansion of big banks and national chains, who favor bigger footprints. Now, Brewer is convinced that her bill will have a better shot than its predecessor (which, among other things, includes binding arbitration, which landlords see as a nonstarter). It’s too early to game out whether Brewer’s plan has a political shot. Bill de Blasio has proven to be a surprisingly real estate-friendly mayor, notwithstanding his campaign rhetoric, and we don’t yet know the leanings of the council speaker. We do know that the Brewer plan is, right now, the smartest option on the table. Next month, the borough president will kick off a series Town Hall meetings to explain her proposal. Show up and give her some support. We’ll see you there.
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A Call for St. Stephen BY BETTE DEWING pper East Side churches and synagogues have always had a close relationship, and never a more needed example than Councilmember Ben Kallos’ support at St. Stephen of Hungary’s Town Meeting to save the church from merger with St. Monica’s. Kallos also recently spoke on behalf of saving St. Elizabeth of Peace from merger. Ah, but his impassioned concern needs to be widely heard to maybe get Protestant groups and other synagogues involved. And why not other local legislators, because these churches serve the community at large as well as the congregations? Too little is known, let alone said, and my comments are mostly about that. Councilmember Kallos opened with a prayer which related to divine intervention for the Israelites and prayed that this would happen now to keep city churches from closure or merger. His special concern with St. Stephen of Hungary stems from “his grandparents escaping anti-Semitism in Hungary and settling on the Upper East Side with many others – Germans, Czechs, Slovaks which would become Little Hungary and anchored by St. Stephen of Hungary and this parish.” And this young, newly elected city legislator has appealed to the Archdiocese and also the Vatican to save these churches, not only St. Stephen of Hungary. He had some harsh Old Testament prophet-like words to say about the “disease of worldly profit.” He also notes how “the upper East Side is slated to receive 2,000 more housing units in the next several years and where are 1000 families going to go for religious services if we close all these churches.” The area is already pretty crowded, and many of us are most concerned with preserving existing housing threatened by “the disease of worldly profit,” like, for just one example, saving 40 East End’s homes and also its Gristedes market and East End Kitchen, which meet basic community needs. But we couldn’t agree more with Councilmember Kallos that “parishes that serve the community must not give way to places of worship where nobody knows your name and there is no community.” Indeed, his entire address should be published, and again make it household knowledge how these churches serve the community. And
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not only at St. Stephen’s of course, make it known that it’s A.A. and Alanon meetings especially prevent untold human suffering and societal ills. Health-giving Overeaters Anonymous and low cost exercise groups for 65 plusers are also offered at St. Stephen. And don’t forget the annual Thanksgiving dinner for the congregation and the community pictured in the photograph. And so important, unlike St. Monica’s, indeed unlike many churches, St. Stephen has an automatic lift and elevator. It also has a large kitchen, and maybe not so all important, air conditioning. And its rectory is open six days a week for pastoral counseling and assistance as well for the aforementioned groups. Oh yes, and the church permits the Saturday Greenmarket to use its sidewalks and parking lot. Ah, if only the multitudes who flock there every Saturday would also join “the save the church” effort. Indeed if all who benefit from
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its secular groups would…and not only save this church. “Write letters to the editor,” I urged the Town Hall meeting gathering. And thank you St. Stephen’s Church Council for your tireless efforts in organizing the meeting (by the way marvelous home-made refreshments were graciously offered) and arranging for parishioners and other community people to write letters about how much they personally need this church. The letters will be “bundled up” and sent to the Vatican. Ah, they should also go to editors - to media, and don’t forget cyberspace! To be continued, not only on behalf of the St. Stephen of Hungary church, but all faith groups which do so much for the community and societyat-large. And let’s fill up those pews every Sabbath Day, not only on Easter and Passover. It can be done if enough of us try. dewingbetter@aol.com
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Howard Hughes’ revised proposal includes a 494-foot, 42-story tower on the north side of Pier 17, at the same site on the New Market building as their previous Seaport proposal.
HOWARD HUGHES CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 members of Save Our Seaport are inclined to think it will eventually be proposed as an alternative location for Howard Hughes’ residential tower. “That’s our thinking, certainly,” said Sheldon. “They haven’t indicated to us that they’re building a giant tower there. They have, however, purchased the air rights to enable them to do so.” Howard Hughes, through a spokesperson, declined to comment. All told, the recently acquired properties and air rights represent 818,000 square feet of buildable space just outside the historic district’s southeastern boundary, according to SOS. The parcel is on a square block bounded by South Street and Maiden Lane to the south and east, and Front Street and John Street to the west and north. If Howard Hughes were to build a
tower on the newly acquired assemblage site, it could wind up being taller than 1 World Trade Center, according to SOS. “The Howard Hughes Corporation has been busily assembling properties on the immediate outskirts of the South Street Seaport Historic District that may allow them to build the largest residential mixed use building in North America ‘as of right,’” said Sheldon in an SOS press release. The Texas-based developer has been seeking to build a 42-story residential building on the current New Market Building site in the Seaport Historic District since early last year. That plan has run up against strong resistance from the community and elected officials, who believe such a tower would be out of place in the historic district. Howard Hughes officials have claimed they need to build a tower on the New Market Building site in order to pay for the rehabilitation of the district as well as $300 million in community benefits they’re proposing to
build, such as a middle school and an affordable housing project. The company’s project stalled in February, despite the $300 million amenity package, after Council Member Margaret Chin and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer expressed criticism about the 494-foot luxury tower being located at the New Market Building site. Chin and Brewer came out against the plan after months of negotiation between Howard Hughes and the Seaport Working Group, a coalition of residents, community groups and elected officials with interests in the Seaport. Howard Hughes, which had representatives in the Seaport Working Group, nevertheless decided to go against one of the group’s main recommendations last spring that “alternatives to the proposed 50-story tower should be sought and any building on the New Market site should be contextual with the buildings within the South Street Historic District.”
In November, the company presented a revised plan with a tower on the same site that was just 10 stories shorter, which prompted the criticism from Chin and Brewer and left the project in a sort of limbo for the last five months. According to SOS, Howard Hughes began buying up property and air rights in October of last year, one month before revealing the Seaport tower proposal with ten fewer stories. Michael Kramer, a member of Save Our Seaport and the now-disbanded Seaport Working Group, said the community asked Howard Hughes to find an alternative site, and that it seems the company “certainly took on this task with Texas-sized enthusiasm, assembling properties that were merely adjacent to the low-rise 19th Century Seaport buildings.” Sheldon stopped just short of calling this latest development a victory for the community, and said much remains to be seen as to what Howard
Hughes will propose to do with their massive assemblage. “I think it’s really too soon to say if this is a win for the community,” said Sheldon. “We haven’t seen the shape of this tower yet…and we don’t know what the load on the community infrastructure will be as opposed to what it will offer.” As for the Seaport, the only way a tower on Howard Hughes’ new assemblage site will infringe on the historic district is in the form shadows it will cast. “Would it be something of a win? Certainly it’s a win for the Seaport, it’s a win for the waterfront,” said Sheldon. “But if the tower is being relocated it raises other questions.” Sheldon added that the community is now waiting to see how this latest development “impacts the rest of the plans for the Seaport.”
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CORPORATE LOGOS — AND “HUMAN” CIGARS Paul Rand, design guru, at the Museum of the City of New York BY VAL CASTRONOVO
Paul Rand (1914-1996), the legendary graphics designer and advertising art director, started small. Born Peretz Rosenbaum to Orthodox Jewish parents in Brownsville, Brooklyn, he began his career at age 3, copying images from Palmolive ads that he spied in his parents’ grocery store. By the end of his 60-year career, he had earned the moniker “the Picasso of graphic design” and was showered with accolades for his trailblazing corporate logos and designs for books, magazines and ads. Think of him as a branding genius. The Museum of the City of New York pays tribute to this native son with the colorful exhibit, “Everything is Design: The Work of Paul Rand,” now through July 19. A video at the show’s entrance introduces us to the designer and his core beliefs, among them: “Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”
The 150 graphic elements here—magazine covers, book covers, a movie billboard, ad posters and corporate signage—are both, actually. Rand found inspiration in European modernism—Dutch De Stijl, the German Bauhaus, Russian Constructivism, Le Corbusier. His talent ran the gamut, from highbrow philosophical treatises about the principles of design (e.g., “Thoughts on Design,” 1947) to children’s books. He was schooled in art in New York, first at Pratt Institute, where he took night classes, and then at The Art Students League and Parsons School of Design. He later taught briefly at Pratt in 1946. But he made a virtual second career out of teaching at Yale, where he preached what he practiced for nearly 40 years, adding educator to his distinguished résumé. In 1941, Rand parlayed his early work designing magazine covers and layouts into a job as art director at the first “Jewish” ad agency, William H. Weintraub & Co.—but not
Paul Rand. El Producto ad (c. 1955). Courtesy of Steven Heller.
before rebranding himself and reluctantly changing his name to obscure his Jewish roots (he found the name a hindrance when he was looking for work in the early part of his career). He is best known for developing iconic logos for corporate giants such as IBM, ABC, UPS, Westinghouse and Enron, some of which are still in use. His long tenure as a consultant to IBM from 1956 to 1991 defined his career, and the show pays ample tribute to his efforts to transform the company’s visual identity and mark its entry into electronic computing. The walls are filled with photos of the modern logo—the plain version and the striped version—that he created to adorn buildings, office interiors and advertisements. Glass cases contain booklets, boxes and business cards boasting the new look—a system-wide graphics makeover that was simple, elegant and surprisingly playful. Rand’s colleague Louis Danziger summed up his legacy when he stated that Rand “almost single-handedly convinced the business world that design was an effective tool.” One of his most famous clients, Steve Jobs, embraced the philosophy, hiring Rand to create a logo for NeXT, the educational computer company he started in 1985 after he left Apple. The assignment posed a particular challenge for Rand because the product was hush-hush. As exhibit co-chair Steven Heller explains in his monograph, “Paul Rand,” the designer used a black cube to evoke the computer’s case, with the company name sporting a lowercase “e” to suggest education. Earlier campaigns for El
Paul Rand. Coronet Brandy ad with Coronet Brandy Man (1946). Private collection. Producto cigars and Coronet brandy conjure up mid-century America, when smoking and cocktail drinking were pervasive. Rand whimsically fashioned the cigars as human characters, with a cigar Santa giving a snowman a light in one classic ad on display here. He also developed the Coronet Brandy Man, whose head was comically shaped like a snifter. Humor was important to Rand. He silenced non-believers with the observation that “In short, the notion that the humorous approach to visual communica-
tion is undignified or belittling is sheer nonsense.” His innovative approach to advertising stemmed from his belief that the image should trump the text, a concept that seems obvious now but was revolutionary at the time. The show gives equal treatment to Rand’s career in publishing, with display cases containing vintage copies of covers he designed for art monographs and for works by the likes of Thomas Mann, H.L. Mencken, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Strongly influenced by
Europe’s avant-garde artists— e.g., Cézanne, Klee, Mondrian, Duchamp—he created covers with bold abstract forms, stylized figures, silhouettes and, in some cases, just large lettering. Rand was a visionary who raised the bar and set the standard for the profession. As famed adman George Lois said in a speech when the design guru was alive: “Every art director and graphic designer in the world should kiss (as they say in Paul Rand’s native Brooklyn) his ass.”
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FOR THE WEEK BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO OUR ARTS EDITOR
GALLERIES
LAUREN BACALL: THE LOOK Legendary screen actress Lauren Bacall’s passing last year grabbed headlines, as did her opulent apartment at the Dakota and the subsequent auction of her extensive art and furniture collection at Bonhams this week. Fashion Institute of Technology celebrates the actress’ elegant style with a show of her personal wardrobe and costume attire. The dozen pieces on display, including a long sleeve, black Christian Dior gown trimmed with draping ostrich feathers, were selected by FIT graduate students out of the 700 garments the actress donated to the institution. Lauren Bacall: The Look Through April 4 The Museum at FIT Seventh Avenue at 27th Street Museum hours: Tuesday-Friday, noon-8 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE For more information, visit http://www.fitnyc.edu/23400.asp or call 212-217-4558
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DANCE
MUSIC
“FLEXN”
NEW YORK SCANDIA SYMPHONY
Dancer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray snaps, glides and contorts in his performance at Park Avenue Armory. Gray is a leader in the form of street dance called flex, which grew out of clubs in Brooklyn and combines jaw-dropping movements both fluid and jerky. Gray collaborated with theater director Peter Sellers for the Armory performance, which features 21 dancers performing choreography that responds to issues of social justice that stem from the Michael Brown and Eric Garner verdicts. Through April 4 Park Avenue Armory 643 Park Ave., between E. 66th and E. 67th 8 p.m. Tickets $25-$60 To purchase tickets, visit http://www. armoryonpark.org/programs_events/detail/ flexn or call212-616-3930
The ensemble of 47 musicians known as the Scandia Symphony performs work both classical and contemporary by a range of Scandinavian composers. In celebration of the 150th birthdays of composers Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius, the group performs a program of the composers’ works. Thursday, April 9 Symphony Space Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street 8 p.m. Tickets $20 To purchase tickets, visit www. symphonyspace.org or call 212-864-5400
KIDS
“HAMLET”
National Geographic Live: Photojournalist Jodi Cobb
After directing productions of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” and “Three Sisters” for Classic Stage Company, director Austin Pendleton tackles “Hamlet” for his latest work. Peter Sarsgaard stars as the Prince of Denmark, with Tony Awardwinner Stephen Spinella as Polonius and Lisa Joyce as Ophelia. Through May 10 Classic Stage Company 136 E. 13th St., between Third and Fourth Avenues Assorted show times Tickets $66-$126 To purchase tickets, visit http://www. classicstage.org/season/productions/hamlet/
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8TH, 7:30PM
“THE SOUND OF MUSIC” The Rodgers and Hammerstein tunes from Robert Wise’s 1965 family classic are easily conjured, even for those who’ve never seen the Julie Andrews film. Screening a new, 50th anniversary restoration, Film Forum brings “The Sound Of Music” to the big screen Sunday, April 5 Film Forum 209 W. Houston St., near Varick Street 11 a.m. Tickets $7.50 To purchase tickets, visit http://filmforum. org/film/the-sound-of-music-ffjr-film, call 212727-8110 or visit the box office
THEATER
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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
TUESDAY, APRIL 7TH, 6PM Barnes & Noble | 97 Warren St. | 212-587-5389 | barnesandnoble.com Hear the Pulitzer Prize-winning story of a New Jersey town impacted by a troubled environmental legacy. (Free)
NYU Skirball Center | 566 LaGuardia Pl. | 212-998-4941 | nyuskirball.org Pioneering photographer Jodi Cobb talks about seeking out hidden societies in a career that’s spanned four decades and 65 countries. ($30)
Just Announced, Tribeca Talks Directors Series: George Lucas with Stephen Colbert
FRIDAY, APRIL 17TH, 4PM BMCC Tribeca PAC | 199 Chambers St. | 212-220-1459 | tribecapac.org Director and producer George Lucas of Star Wars fame talks about his storied career with incoming Late Show host Stephen Colbert as part of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. ($35)
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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS MAR 23 - 27, 2015
Studio Cafe 59
Chelsea Piers
Grade Pending (27) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal product temperature is reduced from 140º F to 70º F or less within 2 hours, and from 70º F to 41º F or less within 4 additional hours. 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. Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared.
Atlantica
Pier 62 Chelsea Piers
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Serai
150 West 17 Street
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El Paraiso
149 West 14 Street
Grade Pending (18) 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.
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. Sal’s Family Pizza
384 Broome Street
A
David Burke Kitchen
27 Grand St
A
Papa Poule
189 Lafayette St
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Buddha Bodai Kosher Vegetarian Restaurant
77 Mulberry St
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Felix
340 West Broadway
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Happy Bones Nyc
394 Broome Street
A
Anotheroom
249 West Broadway
A
Double Crispy Bakery
230 Grand Street
A
Cafe Noir
35 Lispenard Street
A
Fika
155 7th Ave
A
Pakistan Tea House
176 Church Street
A
Telegraphe Cafe
107 West 18 Street
A
Pings
22 Mott Street
A
Chelsea Bagel & Cafe
139 West 14 Street
A
Sichuan Hot Pot Cuisine
34 Pell Street
Grade Pending (24) 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. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
Coffeed
590 Avenue Of The Americas
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Red Spoon
201 W 14th St
Not Graded Yet (57) 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. 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 mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Toilet facility not provided for employees or for patrons when required. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.
Cafe Loup
105 West 13 Street
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1 Oak
453 West 17 Street
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Village Natural
46 Greenwich Ave
Grade Pending (17) 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.
Kabab Bites
369 Broome St
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 not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.
Lupe’s East L.A. Kitchen
110 Avenue Of The Americas
A
Famous Sichuan
10 Pell St
Grade Pending (26) Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.
The Smile Newsstand
177 Franklin St
A
Paris Sandwich
217 Grand St
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Kuu
20 John St
Not Graded Yet (38) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. 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.
Nomad
78 2 Avenue
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Sunburst Espresso Bar
206 3 Avenue
Grade Pending (21) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.
Chipotle Mexican Grill
117 East 14 Street
Grade Pending (21) 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/sewageassociated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies.
Devi
8 East 18 Street
Grade Pending (37) 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. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
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39 John Street
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101 Maiden Ln
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208 7 Avenue
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100 West 23 Street
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378 6 Avenue
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THE NEAR MISS OF MIMI THE CAT
attached five inch long piece of thread was successfully removed. By 2 a.m., Mimi was back in her hospital cage, safely recovered from anesthesia. She resumed eating the following day and was discharged from The AMC.
Protect Your Cat
A cautionary tale about the dangers of a needle and thread BY ANN E. HOHENHAUS
Cat lovers everywhere know how much their cat likes to be entertained by a piece of string, some ribbon or a ball of yarn. Cat lovers also know how easy it can be to drop one of these items silently onto the floor, where these fun toys can turn deadly if found and swallowed by their cat. Gone In One Gulp! That is exactly what happened to Mimi, a bold calico cat. Her owner noticed Mimi playing with a piece of thread, saw the glint of metal, and then in the blink of an eye both the thread and the metallic object were gone. Mimi’s family suspected the
metallic object was a sewing needle attached to the thread.
The X-ray Confirms Mimi was rushed to The Animal Medical Center where our 24/7 animal emergency service immediately took an x-ray and found the needle already lodged in her small intestine. If the needle had stayed in her stomach, it could have been easily retrieved using an endoscope. Because the needle had moved into the intestine, removal required emergency surgery, hopefully before the needle and its attached string caused any internal damage. The AMC surgeon on call started surgery at 11 p.m., and through a 1.5 inch long incision in the intestine, a 1.5 inch long needle with an
Every veterinarian can recite a list of feline patients just like Mimi who have eaten shoelaces, Christmas tree tinsel, cassette tape ribbon, and hair ribbons. Mimi was lucky that her family acted quickly. They saw her eat the thread and knew eating it could be serious. If you are a cat owner, keep all string out of reach of your cat and allow her to play with string only when supervised, to avoid a scenario like Mimi or worse. Be sure you know the phone number and address of the closest animal ER so you don’t waste time finding it when you have a critical emergency. Ann E. Hohenhaus is veterinarian at The Animal Medical Center who is Board Certified in Oncology and Small Animal Internal Medicine
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TWO-WHEELING THROUGH NEIGHBORHOODS Q&A Chris Wogas of Bike and Roll New York City helps curate a unique city experience BY ANGELA BARBUTI
Chris Wogas says the best way to explore the city is on a bicycle. “You can stop whenever you want; you can take pictures,” the president of Bike and Roll New York City says. “You can do things you can’t do on a tour bus; you can do things you can’t do on a train or in a cab. The 42-year-old, who started with the bike rental service in 2011 after answering a job posting, now manages 11 locations throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn and Liberty State Park in Jersey City. The company owns 2,000 racing, tandem and kids’ bicycles and its employees guide tours of places like Central Park, the National September 11 Memorial and the Brooklyn Bridge. Situated in many of the same areas as
Citi Bike, Bike and Roll complements its fellow bike-sharing company, Wogas explained. While Bike and Roll customers are looking to take more leisurely excursions, Citi Bikes are geared toward commuting and shorter rides. The Upper West Side resident relishes in his journey to Bike and Roll’s Chelsea office each morning. “I like to ride down Broadway from up here. It’s just a great ride that nobody does because it doesn’t attract tourists; it’s all locals,” he said. “It’s a great way to see the city waking up in the morning. You ride down Broadway and it’s all delivery trucks and you smell the bread being baked.”
How did you first get involved with Bike and Roll? I actually responded to a job posting. I had lived in the city for a while, loved the city and always biked in the city. Saw the job posting and thought it would be an interesting way to do something I really enjoy and get paid for it. It all just happened to work out. I
got the job and the rest is history.
Explain how Citi Bike differs from your company. When the city first decided that it wanted to do bike share, they really set it up right and created it so we don’t compete with each other. They’re more complementary in theory and also in price. In theory, bike share really is a ride from here to there and the longer, tourism product that we do is more about the experience. It’s a longer ride; you’re taking your time and making more stops. To really help send that message home, the city created a model for Citi Bikes where for short rides, their product is cheaper than ours, and for longer rides, our product is cheaper than theirs. You do see people taking Citi Bikes and then changing to our bikes to ride for several hours and taking Citi Bike back to their hotel. So a Citi Bike really replaces the subway or the cab or even the walk.
I read about the unauthorized vendors who bother and threaten your employees. They’re not allowed to be there; we’re the only vendors who are allowed to be there. They don’t pay taxes; they don’t have insurance; they don’t have safety equipment. They do threaten our staff and fight with the park’s employees. We’ve had restraining orders in the past against them for threatening to kill some of our staff. They fight with the police, and, for lack of a better word, attack tourists as they walking by, asking anyone if they want to rent a bike. They get verbally abusive; they fight with each other. If you saw some of the press and videos, there’s plenty of pictures and videos of them fighting. Parks Enforcement has really stepped up and helped us deal with it on a day-to-day basis, but they don’t give up. They’re there every day.
What’s your most popular tour? What we call our Central Park tour. It leaves from Tavern on the Green, which is another one of our locations. It’s a two-hour tour around Central Park, and is, by far, the most popular.
What’s a typical day like for you? It depends on what time of the year it is. If it’s the summer or the spring or fall when it’s nicer, I generally ride into work. I spend most of the day at the office, (on 30th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues) and if I can I try to get out to our locations to see what’s going on. I want to see how we look. We link a lot of things back to our brand and that brand says we want to look a certain way from our uniforms to the way our bikes are staged. I’ll go on a tour sometimes, just to see how
that goes. Depending on the day, I could be meeting with (advocacy group) Transportation Alternatives, government officials, parks officials. It’s nice because some days I spend in the office, and some days I get to spend a gorgeous 75-degree day just riding around the city.
What’s you favorite path to take on your bike? If it’s not that morning ride down Broadway through Columbus Circle, I like to go north on the bike path, which not many tourists do. A lot of locals do, though. If you head north past 96th Street, on the west side bike path, it’s just a different world. People don’t realize that you could walk right into the river. The walls disappear and it’s almost like being on a beach except it’s grass that rolls right into the river. People barbecue after work; they go out and read. It’s really a phenomenal place to be.
You have kids’ bikes too. They can bike anywhere? Sure, but we won’t let kids ride alone. They need to be with a guardian. We insist that kids wear helmets. There’s not a rule in New York City that you have to wear a helmet, but we insist that anyone under 18 wears one.
Anyone can rent your helmets, even if they don’t rent a bike, right? Yes, we’re the official helmet partner for Citi Bike. Being spread out around the city the way we are, we’re essentially the same footprint as Citi Bike, where our locations are. So if somebody does want a helmet, they can come to us and rent one for the day. They can pick it up in one spot and return it at another if they want. We sanitize them after every ride, but you wouldn’t believe how much ice cream gets in a helmet, because so many people on the helmet on the handlebars instead of wearing it. So it protects the handlebars really well if you fall down, but it’s not doing much for the head.
Tell us about an interesting person who uses your service. Our tour guide manager. He’s a retired schoolteacher from Florida. He moved back up here because he wanted to be active. Essentially, he did the reverse of what everybody else does. Everybody retires to Florida; he retired to New York City. He rides every day and is out giving tours five, six hours a day, every day. When he was younger, he rode up the West Coast, from San Francisco to L.A. He probably has more energy than I do and is almost twice my age. He’s out there every day riding -- hot, cold, it doesn’t matter. It shows that anybody can cycle in the city, it’s just a matter of
getting out there and doing it.
You also have a Learn to Ride program. We work with Bike New York to provide Learn to Ride classes. We’ve done it on our own in the past for younger kids. We use our Tavern on the Green location, which is nice because the parking lot is completely safe. There’s a way of teaching kids to ride, believe it or not, you take the pedals off. You get them used to the bike first and they work their way up to the pedals. You don’t use training wheels. It serves two purposes for us. Obviously, there’s a selfish side to it; we’re hoping to build a customer for the rest of their life. Also it brings in parents, who in New York City didn’t grow up with that suburban rite of passage.
Explain Summer Streets. It’s really a great program. For three Sundays in August, the city shuts down a significant portion of Park Avenue. It’s totally closed to cars; it’s only open to pedestrians, either walking, skateboarding, roller skating or biking. We provide free rentals for one hour at a time to anybody who walks up. Traditionally, it’s in three locations spread throughout the city. It’s phenomenally popular. We sell out very quickly and have a line of people waiting for bikes to come back. And you get to do some things that you could never do otherwise. You get to ride through the tunnel on Park Avenue that goes underneath Grand Central. You get people out in the middle of Park Avenue with lounge chairs who are tanning themselves. It’s just a really great day.
What are your future plans for the company? We’re in expansion mode right now. We’ve been around for a number of years, but I still consider us a startup. People always tell you that you can’t ride a bike in New York City because you’ll get killed. The reality is that’s not true. There are places you can ride where there are no cars. And even if you ride on the streets like I do every day, you don’t get killed. You need to have your wits about you and wear a helmet and be safe, and you won’t have any issues. We just want to help spread the word, not just through tourists, saying that this is the best way to see the city. To learn more, visit www.bikenewyorkcity. com
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