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FIGHT CONTINUES OVER SEAPORT NEWS Latest squabble is over work in the East River BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS

The New Market Building as seen from East River Drive.

Community groups opposed to the Howard Hughes Corp.’s vision for the South Street Seaport accused the developer of exceeding the bounds of a federally issued

permit to renovate and reconstruct Pier 17 by driving piles into the East River. In issuing the permit to the South Street Seaport Limited Partnership (a subsidiary of Howard Hughes) to renovate and reconstruct the pier into an indoor mall, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers determined that an indi-

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PLAYING CATCH UP ON A HEALTH CRISIS Health department moves to combat a syphilis outbreak after closing a Chelsea clinic BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS

After the city closed an STD clinic in April, at the height of a syphilis outbreak in Chelsea, many advocacy groups and elected officials were alarmed that the Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene hadn’t provided more advance notice of their plan. But those same groups and elected officials have been working with the agency in the interim, and this week unveiled a plan to combat the outbreak and mitigate the clinic’s closure in the neighborhood. Syphilis rates in Chelsea are six times that of rest of

the city, and the Chelsea STD clinic historically has been visited more than any of the other ﬁve health department clinics in the city. Councilmember Corey Johnson, who is chair of the city council’s committee on health and spearheaded efforts on the official side, said the message he received from activist groups, and one that he agreed with, was that the clinic’s closure on 9th Avenue and 28th Street, was “disastrous.” The solution initially put forward by the health department - to transfer services to the Riverside Health Clinic on West 100th Street - was inadequate in that it forced Chelsea residents to go more than 70 blocks north for testing and

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treatment, and away from a clinic that was known for being LGBTQ-friendly, said Johnson. Johnson said the city’s plan to renovate the Chelsea STD clinic goes back to 2007. Last year, when he succeeded city council speaker Christine Quinn, Johnson said he told the health department the clinic must remain open. A n a g r e e m e nt w a s reached whereby the clinic would remain partially open during the renovation, which would be completed in stages. However, said Johnson, the extent of the building’s asbestos problem wasn’t known until recently after clinic workers ﬁled a grievance with their union over working conditions.

In April of this year, after the health department determined the clinic could not remain open during the renovation, news broke that the clinic would close for two to three years. With these circumstances as the backdrop, said Johnson, the community felt blindsided when the health department made its announcement. “I think part of it had to with their plan to keep part of the clinic open,” said Johnson of the health department’s initially faulty response. Still, he said, the agency could have handled things differently. “At that point, when they made that decision, they should have come up with a full com-

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Our Take BICKERING OVER A PLACE TO LIVE One of the most important legislative issues of the day is stuck in the grade-school bickering of our mayor and governor. The extension of the so-called 421a housing program, which gives developers a tax break in exchange for the construction of affordable housing units, expires this month, and needs renewal in Albany to stay alive. Though Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo are in sync on the philosophy behind the program -- adding more affordable housing at a time of a rent crisis in the city -- they inevitably have found details to bicker about, continuing a dysfunctional, sibling slapfighting that has infected nearly every issue they have tussled over. For news junkies, the fight is great political theater. De Blasio last week called the governor “disingenuous” for accusing him of caving to developers. Cuomo, slyly, is intimating that the mayor, who has been shuttling around the country positioning himself as a national progressive figure, actually is doing the bidding of the Real Estate Board of New York, which supports de Blasio’s approach. Cuomo, along with the unions, is demanding that some kind of prevailing wage for construction workers become part of the proposal. The betting for now is that Cuomo and de Blasio will agree on a short-term extension, extending their squabble into the summer. And as they do, another swath of New Yorkers will be priced out of the city they love, wondering why the people they elected to solve their problems can’t rise above the temper tantrums of five-year-olds.

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In Brief MORE HELP FOR SMALL BUSINESS

The effort to help small seems to businesses in the city be gathering steam. Two city councilmembers, Robert Margaret Chin and Cornegy, have introduced create legislation that wouldSmall a new “Office of the within Business Advocate” of Small the city’s Department Business Services. Chin The new post, which have up told us she’d like to would and running this year, for serve as an ombudsman city small businesses within them clear government, helping to get through the bureaucracy things done. Perhaps even more also importantly, the ombudsman and number will tally the type small business of complaints by taken in owners, the actions policy response, and somefor ways to recommendations If done well, begin to fix things. report would the ombudsman’s give us the first quantitative with taste of what’s wrong the city, an small businesses in towards important first step fixing the problem. of for deTo really make a difference, is a mere formality will have to the work process looking to complete their advocate are the chances course, velopers precinct, but rising rents, -- thanks to a find a way to tackle business’ is being done legally of after-hours projects quickly. their own hours,” which remain many While Chin “They pick out boom in the number throughout who lives on most vexing problem. said Mildred Angelo,of the Ruppert construction permits gauge what Buildings one said it’s too early tocould have the 19th floor in The Department of the city. number three years, the Houses on 92nd Street between role the advocate She Over the past on the is handing out a record work perThird avenues. permits, there, more information of Second and an ongoing all-hours number of after-hours bad thing. of after-hours work the city’s Dept. problem can’t be a said there’s with the mits granted by nearby where according to new data jumped 30 percent, This step, combinedBorough construction project noise Buildings has data provided in workers constantly make efforts by Manhattan to mediate BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS according to DOB of Informacement from trucks. President Gale Brewer offer response to a Freedom classifies transferring they want. They knows the the rent renewal process, request. The city They 6 “They do whatever signs Every New Yorker clang, tion Act go as they please. work between some early, tangible small any construction on the weekend, can come and sound: the metal-on-metal or the piercing of progress. For many have no respect.” p.m. and 7 a.m., can’t come of these that the hollow boom, issuance reverse. owners, in business moving The increased beeps of a truck has generto a correspond and you as after-hours. soon enough. variances has led at the alarm clock The surge in permits

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WHAT’S MAKING NEWS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD GUN VIOLENCE UP SHARPLY The issue of gun violence will be one of Mayor Bill De Blasio’s highest priorities over the next few months. For the ﬁrst time since the late 90’s, gun violence in New York City has been on the rise for two years straight, The New York Times reported. Of the 135 homicides reported since the year began, 98 were committed with guns. Through May, of the 135 killings citywide, 98 involved a gun, a sharp rise

from the 69 killed by a gun last year and in 2013, The Times reported. There has also been an notable increase in shootings so far this year, with the 439 reported incidents marking a 20 percent increase than through the same period in 2013, which recorded historically low violent crime numbers. But officials are nevertheless concerned since street violence tends to peak in the summer, and shootings are projected to go up in the coming

weeks and months. “We do not take this lightly,” James P. O’Neill, the New York Police Department’s highest-ranking chief said at a news conference June 1. “This is our focus.” Starting next week, the NYPD will be deploying 330 extra officers to crime-heavy neighborhoods, starting next week. For his part, Mayor Bill de Blasio said the increase in gunplay is the result of gangs. Shootings and homicides in New York are on the rise. Photo: Camille Lacroix, via Flickr.

“It’s abundantly clear; what’s happening more and more is isolated to a relatively small set of gangs and crews,” he said in a statement released last week.

UBER DRIVERS PROTEST POSSIBLE FURTHER TLC REGULATION About 50 Uber drivers protested outside the Taxi and Limousine Commission’s office on May 28 as the city agency debated stricter regulations on the driver-for-hire app, the New York Post reported. “The TLC wants to shut down Uber,” Uber driver Shahin Bhuiyan, told The Post. Proposed regulations would force drivers to use voice activated or single-touch apps to accept rides, in order to decrease driver distraction, and would require drivers to give customers a fare estimate before picking them up, according to the newspaper. Drivers would also be limited to working for two apps at a time. Many drivers currently work for multiple apps at a time. “It came as no surprise that Uber, which is allergic to regulation, is whining and crying like a spoiled child over rules that do nothing but protect consumer rights and public safety,” said Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade spokesman Michael Woloz. “The reality is, the majority of [Uber] drivers see through the scam,”

Bhairavi Desai, of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, as only 50 of the app’s 16,000 drivers protested despite companywide texts encouraging employees to attend by offering free bagels and tee shirts to those who did.

COMMUNITY BOARD 2 LOOKING TO LIMIT WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK MUSICIANS Community Board 2 is scheduled to take a look at reining in Washington Square Park’s notoriously loud musicians, The Villager reported. It is not an uncommon site to see drummers, other percussionists and trumpeters in the park during the day. CB 2 is considering regulations such as designated quiet zones within the park, further restrictions on when music can be played, and on what instruments can be played. “On the one hand, there’s nothing we treasure more than freedom of expression in Washington Square Park,” the board’s chairman, Tobi Bergman, told the Villager. “On the other hand,” he continued “when people can go into Washington Square Park and play very loud music, others playing quiet acoustic music can’t really do it because they’re drowned out.”

THE WORST THING YOU CAN DO IF YOU THINK YOU SMELL A GAS LEAK IS NOTHING. Smell gas. Act fast. Don’t assume someone else will call 911 or 1-800-75-CONED (26633). Leave the area immediately and make the call yourself. You can report a gas-related emergency anonymously, and not even be there when help arrives. For more gas safety information, visit conEd.com and take safety into your own hands.

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG

CRANEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PAYLOAD DROPS FROM MIDTOWN HIGH RISE Of the 10 people who were injured, two were construction workers while the others were pedestrians and occupants of a car passing by, de Blasio said. All were struck by debris the falling crane knocked off the building facade as it struck the edges of lower ďŹ&#x201A;oors that protrude from the tower, in a step-wise manner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thank God, this incident occurred at an hour of the day on a weekend when there were not too many people around,â&#x20AC;? de Blasio said. He said a full investigation is underway. Streets were closed in the surrounding area, and officials hoped to have them open again by Monday morningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rush hour.

A piece of mechanical equipment being lifted by a crane at a Manhattan office building broke free and fell about 28 stories to the sidewalk below, causing minor injuries to 10 people, officials said. Police said the call came in around 10:45 a.m. Officers who responded to the high-rise building in Midtown East found that a craneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s payload heading to the top of the building had broken free. It fell to the sidewalk, shearing the side of the building along the way. The building is wider at the base and narrows at the higher ďŹ&#x201A;oors. Mayor Bill de Blasio, speaking to reporters on Madison Avenue a block from the accident, called it â&#x20AC;&#x153;obviously, a very serious incident.â&#x20AC;?

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A subway rider was playing a game, but it was a thief who scored. At 6:30 p.m. on May 22, a 32-year-old woman was riding a northbound 3 train occupied by a game on her cell phone. The doors opened at the Fulton Street station, and a 15-year-old male youth snatched her cell phone from her hand before he ran off the train. The victim chased the thief, who fled to parts unknown. The stolen cell was the Samsung Galaxy S4, valued at $700.

The phrase â&#x20AC;&#x153;religious convictionâ&#x20AC;? may take on a new meaning if police can apprehend a certain shoplifter sextet. At 1:20 p.m. on May 25, six men entered the True Religion store at 513 Broadway and, working in concert, removed items of merchandise. Video is available of the theft. Police searched the area but could not find the gang of thieves. The items stolen were 2 pairs of denim shorts with a splatter design totaling $356, and 4 pairs of denim shorts with an acid waste ribbed design valued at $992, making a total of $1,348.

THE COST TO LACOSTE Where is the Lacoste alligator when you need him? Shortly before 3 p.m. on May 24, a man walked into the Lacoste store at 541 Broadway and removed more than $1,000 worth of clothig from a store shelf, put it in a plastic bag and fled the store. Video is available of the incident. Police searched the area but could not locate the thief or the stolen merchandise. The items taken were 4 pairs of pants valued at $460 plus 6 polo shirts priced at $588, making a total haul of $1,048.

following morning, three of her credit cards were missing from inside the car. Unauthorized usage turned up on the cards when she attempted to cancel them. There was no video of the robbery, nor were police able to apprehend the perpetrators in the area.

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THE JOSTLE HUSTLE Police caution transit riders to double check your bags after you have been bumped into aboard a train or bus. At 3 p.m. on May 22, a 38-year-old man entered the subway at Houston Street. He swiped his MetroCard at the turnstile and secured it in his wallet in a black duffel bag, which he then zippered. While he was standing riding a southbound 1 train, he was bumped and jostled several times. As the train pulled into the Franklin Street station, he noticed that his bag was now unzipped and his wallet was missing. Fortunately, no unauthorized charges turned up on his card. The items stolen included a Coach wallet valued at $30 and a debit card.

BUYERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S REMORSE If you are parking in New York City, the first feature of your new car you should learn is how to lock its doors! At 10:30 p.m. on May 22, a 32-year-old woman parked her car on the northwest corner of Mercer and Canal Streets before going to work. Because it was a new car and she had not figured out how to operate the electronic door locks, she left the doors unlocked. When she returned at 5 a.m. the

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KAYAKING IS BACK, THOUGH THE DOCK’S STILL AT LARGE A gift from a developer has replaced a boat dock missing since October BY KYLE POPE

While the mystery of the missing boat dock is still unsolved, free kayaking has returned to the Hudson River. Ma n hatta n Com mu n it y Boathouse kicked off its summer season over Memorial Day weekend -- a season that almost didn’t happen after someone apparently stole the group’s two-ton plastic ﬂoating dock from Pier 96, off of W. 55th Street. The plastic dock, filled with water and anchored to the riverbank, disappeared in Oc-

tober, so far without a trace. Kaitlin Petersen, president of the boathouse, has spent the months since appealing for the return of the dock, and launching a crowdfunding campaign to raise the $30,000 needed to replace the dock and ensure that it isn’t stolen again. For a time this spring, it looked like the entire program, which is run by volunteers, would be in jeopardy; the crowdfunding campaign had raised just $6,000 and the dock thieves remained at large. But interest in the lost dock, including a story earlier this year in The West Side Spirit, raised awareness of the group’s problem. And last month, TF

Cornerstone, a developer with a real estate project nearby, came up with the money to pay for a replacement. Working with the Hudson River Park Trust and West Side Councilmember Helen Rosenthal, the group received the money in time to commission the new dock and have it in place for Memorial Day. Petersen, a magazine editor who spends nearly all of her free time on the dock, said the experience has, among other things, taught her how tough it is to raise money, even if it’s for a worthy cause. “It’s weird to go to all of your friends and say I really need you to give me money,” she said.

The money raised in the online campaign will go towards insuring the dock, on the remote chance that someone snags it again. As for the culprits, Petersen said it’s as much a mystery today as the day the dock disappeared. Not only was it secured by ropes and an anchor, but the dock consists of a series of a drums, each of them ﬁlled with water and completely sealed, making it enormously heavy. “We have no idea who took it or where it went or what happened to it,” she said. “We’re just excited to be back in the park.”

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Neither rain, nor sleet, nor hail can keep New Yorkers away from their favorite public library. Earlier this week, dozens of patrons piled into the Seward Park Library downtown to rally for more funding in the city’s upcoming budget. “I know it’s raining out, and we would have held this outside otherwise,” said George Mihaltses, the New York Public Library’s vice president for government affairs. “But it’s always sunny and beautiful inside a library.” The rally, like similar ones that took place in all five boroughs on June 1, was part of the citywide “Invest in Libraries” campaign, which began on March 20. The campaign’s objective is to restore $65 million

in operating funds, as well as to secure $1.4 billion in capital funding for the next 10 years, organizers said. By Mihaltses’s account, library budgets have been cut 20 percent since 2008, leaving libraries woefully unkept and understaffed. The Seward branch’s manager, Lakisha Brown, said that the money would be used to “refresh” library infrastructure. The Seward Park branch in particular is in need of new windows and a functioning elevator, she said. It would also allow the branch to hire more staff, keep the library open longer and fund more programs. The campaign has already attracted tremendous support, advocates said. “Already, over 70,000 people have written letters to city hall, to their local council members, to the mayor, to the speaker, urging them to support libraries in this year’s budget,” Mihaltses said. Brown said libraries were no longer just a place to check out

material and bring it home, but were more akin to community hubs and that additional funding was critical to keep them vital. “A long time ago, a library was really used as a place to only read books,” she said. “However, with changing times, the library has become something more. We now offer computer classes, adult reading and writing, ESOL classes, enrichment classes for our children and safe spaces for our teens.” Despite the sharp budget cuts, library patronage increased over the past few years. By Brown’s account, the Seward Park Library serves 30,000 patrons a month. “Our line sometimes extends all the way out through the door, with children taking out 30 books at a time,” she said. On June 8, the presidents of the New York, Brooklyn and Queens Libraries will address their budget needs at a City Council hearing.

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TAKING ISSUE WITH THE OUTDOOR TOILET To The Editor: Re “On Peeing Outside,” 6th Borough column, May 28: Circumstances may sometimes force you to do #1 outdoors, but you may be fooling yourself that it does the trees any good. I’ve seen signs that say “Dog urine kills trees”, so I suspect that human #1 isn’t good for them either. Don’t flush after #1? I’ve followed that policy at night since my upstairs neighbor complained of being awakened, but if I followed it by day, somebody might figure out that it was I who was stinking up the building. As for low-flow toilets, they may be a good idea for houses, but for apartments - well, that tenant had a low-flow briefly, but she had it un-low-flowed after a tenant above her complained about the repeated flushes which she had to do to get all the paper down. The solution will come some day from “gray water” systems which use dishwater, etc., for flushing. Alan Brown

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To The Editor: Re “Table for Four (Paws)” (May 28), this is a very bad law, for the following reasons. First, this law was not “formally” requested by anyone: not by dog owners, not by any restaurant association, not by any other organization. It was the brainchild of a single state senator, some of whose constituents had simply mentioned to him that they would “like to” be able to bring their dogs into outdoor cafés. But simply because someone or some group would “like to” do something does not make it a good idea, much less one to be legislated into law. Second, from a purely legal perspective, the law protects a very limited “class” (dog owners who would like to bring their dogs into outdoor cafés) over a far larger “class” (those who do not want to have dogs in cafés, whether those people are dog owners or not). Indeed, it could be argued that the law actually gives more rights to dogs than to humans. Unless there is some truly “compelling reason” for this (and there is not), it is inappropriate and wrong-headed. Third, as your article notes, there has not been nearly enough research yet to support the (weak) contention that the health risks of having dogs in outdoor cafés are minimal. To pass a law “relaxing” the few health laws that do exist, without having solid evidence to support doing so, is also inappropriate, and potentially dangerous. Fourth, as your article also

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notes, there have already been issues, including one establishment that sought a permit, only to rescind it three months later due to issues with dogs yapping at each other (and at patrons), and vomiting from human food given to them. Many restaurant owners also realize, correctly, that the law will bring with it potential liability issues. Indeed, the ﬁrst time a server or busser trips over a dog leash, injuring themselves and/or others, not only will the restaurant have workers compensation to pay out, but civil suits are sure to follow. And that is just one of many possible scenarios. Finally, with respect to service animals (which are already permitted in outdoor cafés), it is important to note that, as defined by the ADA, a “service animal” is trained not only to do “speciﬁc tasks” (which is why “emotional support animals” are not considered “service animals” under the ADA), they are also specifically “socialized” to remain calm around other dogs, and around humans. While many “personal” animals may indeed be well-behaved, many may not be: it is essentially a crapshoot. Ultimately, although well-intentioned (and good intentions are, according to Samuel Johnson, what hell is paved with), this law was simply not well-thought-out, and there are far too many uncontrollable variables – some of which are likely to lead to harm to person or property. This law should be withdrawn in the State Assembly. Ian Alterman

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CENTRAL PARK JOGGING TRACK RESURFACED Renovated Reservoir Track Gets New Yorkers Excited About Running BY ZEENA SAIFI

OPEN DOORS, HIDDEN RATINGS As the temperature rises, restaurant inspection ratings on the Upper West Side can get tougher to find BY LAUREN ROTHMAN

Summer weather is here, and sidewalk cafes have sprung into action. That means open restaurant doors -- enabling some eateries to conceal their less-than-stellar sanitary inspection grades. The rating cards, those 8.5-by-11-inch, laminated signs, let diners know with a blue “A,” a green “B,” or a yellow “C” how the city’s Department of Health has graded the restaurant on its food sanitation practices. City law requires all restaurants to display their rating cards in a prominent, easy-tosee location, such as on a frontfacing window or outside wall. But a walk around the Upper West Side on May 27 reveals that more than a handful of neighborhood restaurants hide their grades behind a propped door, allow them to fall to the bottom of windows, or don’t display them at all. Good Enough To Eat, located on the corner of Columbus Avenue and 85th Street, has been serving comfort food such as pumpkin French toast and white cheddar mac and cheese since 1981. According to the DOH’s website, the sprawling cafe is currently assigned a “C” rating. But you wouldn’t know it by visiting: Good Enough To Eat’s “Grade Pending” sign— meaning that the restaurant has appealed its grade and is awaiting a new round of inspections—is placed near the bottom of the entryway, concealed by a propped-open front door. General Manager Christian Post denies that the sign is hard to spot—”I’m looking at it right now,” he said when reached by phone last week—and believes

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that the restaurant was rated unfairly. “There’s a lot of reasons why we were misgraded,” Post said. “There’s a lot of subjectivity in the system. If the inspector is in a particularly good mood, maybe some things get overlooked. And if he’s in a foul mood, he might grade accordingly.” Under the current system, restaurants are inspected by a DOH inspector at least once per year. These visits occur randomly and result in a letter grade that’s based on a restaurant’s violations, or lack thereof. Inspectors are trained to look primarily for kitchen issues that might pose health risks, such as pests or improperly stored food, but also examine structural issues. The more violations a restaurant accrues, the lower its letter grade drops. But restaurant owners have long complained that the system is often arbitrary. “I’ve seen plenty of disgusting greasy spoons that have an ‘A’,” Post said. “To me that seems damn near impossible.” Because the restaurant has appealed its grade, it’s allowed to display a “Grade Pending” sign, instead of its “C” rating card. Yet the manner in which that card is currently displayed would not pass muster with the DOH. “As part of the inspection process, the Health Department checks to make sure a restaurant’s letter grade is posted conspicuously, and we will also respond to complaints about missing or obscured letter grades,” a DOH spokesperson wrote by email. “Violations for obscuring a letter grade, or not posting one, carry ﬁnes of either $500 or $1000, respectively.” It’s difficult to locate Good Enough To Eat’s rating card without a little searching—but

at least it’s there. The same can’t be said for Bettola, the Italian trattoria that extends onto Amsterdam Avenue between 79th and 80th Streets. According to the DOH’s rating card lookup, the restaurant currently has a “B” rating, but the card making customers aware of that is no where to be found. On a recent weekday afternoon, a woman who identiﬁed herself as Bettola’s manager said, “It’s grade pending. When we have the door open, it’s hard to see.” The woman then disappeared into her office without offering further comment. Up the street, at Land Thai Kitchen, the “open door” explanation was in full effect. Like Good Enough To Eat, the restaurant has its “B” rating card posted in a side window, making it difficult to spot when the door is propped open. “Sorry to be unclear about posting the ‘B’ grade in the window,” Land Thai manager Vanida Bank wrote by email. “Yesterday was a nice day to open the window, and we didn’t notice that the grade was hidden. We will post the grade somewhere else to make sure that everyone can see it.” When asked about the restaurant’s experience with DOH inspections, Bank said she had no comment. No data is available to show how often the DOH cracks down on improper display of rating cards. And the DOH, for its part, strives to paint a sunny picture of the state of sanitation in city restaurants. “Fines are not issued frequently, as the majority of the approximately 24,000 restaurants in New York City both have an A and clearly post their grade,” the spokesperson wrote.

Cybelle Weisser has been jogging around the Central Park Reservoir for 15 years. Until recently, she was keeeping her feet on the ground as well as on the road ahead. Since its last restoration, the 1.6–mile crushed-stone track had deteriorated under the daily weight of hundreds of pairs of pounding feet. But a $3 million renovation project by the Central Park Conservancy started last summer set out to change all of that. “In all my years of running, I think the main issue with the track has always been the water drainage problem,” Weisser said. “But I just ran around it a few minutes ago and it seems to already be ﬁxed.” A Conservancy spokeswoman, Elizabeth Kaledin, said the

track surface was beset by serious erosion and drainage issues as a result of years of wear and tear. But so as to not completely disrupt the daily run of hundreds, the restoration took place in ﬁve phases. “Like any construction process, the Conservancy determined a need, secured community support and then secured funding,” she said. “And we were incredibly fortunate to find generous donors who wanted to contribute.” The track was christened the Stephanie and Fred Shuman Running Track in honor of the Shumans, the principal donors for the project and who also provided funding for critical long-term operations to maintain the track, according to the Conservancy. Alfred J. Shuman, who is on the Conservancy’s board, is the founder and managing member of the The Archstone Partnerships, a fund of hedge funds manager. The couple live on Park Avenue.

A frequent visitor to New York, Zeynep Koksal said the city is her favorite place to be, and Central Park is one of the perks about it that she enjoys. “When I came to New York last month and saw the changes in the park, I couldn’t wait to come back and stay for longer,” she said. “Now that I’m here for the summer and I’m seeing even more changes, I’m so excited to wake up every morning and go on my daily run.” Along with the newly surfaced and graded track, Kaledin said the Conservancy has assigned a new dedicated track crew of four who will be responsible for taking care of the track. “People seem delighted with the improvements,” she said. “Particularly the lack of puddles on the track, which used to present problems after a rainfall.” What used to be make for a good run in New York is now even better.

The resurfaced track around the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir in Central Park. Photo: Central Park Conservancy.

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A rendering of Howard Hughes’ indoor shopping mall on Pier 17, which is under construction, and their proposed residential tower on the site of the New Market Building.

FIGHT CONTINUES CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 vidual construction permit was not needed. But to make that determination, Friends of South Street Seaport said, the Army relied heavily on a city environmental review ruling issued by the Economic Development Corporation that said the work on Pier 17 would not involve pile driving and would not affect nearby buildings in the South Street Seaport Historic District. “The major end scope of the work that was already permitted has been greatly expanded,” said Maureen Koetz, an environmental lawyer representing Friends of South Street Seaport, in an interview. Another central argument of Friends of South Street Seaport, laid out in a recent letter to the Army Corps of Engineers, is that Pier 17 is part of the South Street Seaport Historic District, and any construction on the pier is bound to negatively affect nearby historic buildings that depend on the same infrastructure as the pier. Koetz said the Pier 17 project, and Howard Hughes’ related proposal to build a 494-foot tower on the site of the New Market Building, which is adjacent to the pier, along with other environmental factors such as traffic ﬂow, air pollution and sight lines, must be considered as a whole and undergo a single, comprehensive environmental review. “I ﬁnd it hard to believe that people don’t understand why driving piles on a pier that holds historic property might be a problem,” said Koetz. “All of these things have to be understood and taken together.” But the Army Corps of Engineers said that their permit process for work on Pier 17 ran

independent of any city review, and that their jurisdiction does not extend to buildings on land or nearby historic districts. “It appears there is confusion regarding the permit that has been issued for the construction at Pier 17,” said Army Corps of Engineer spokesperson Christopher Gardner in a statement. “The permit does authorize the driving of piles. Perhaps the confusion may be in that it authorizes mostly the driving of piles to replace previously existing piles, but to be clear the construction activities that were authorized involve the driving of piles.” In a subsequent interview, Gardner said, “basically the issuing of this permit is based upon the description of the work they provided us. And in there, there are all sorts of drawings and schematics, which include driving piles.” In a statement regarding Friends of South Street Seaport’s letter, Chris Currey, senior executive vice president of development for Howard Hughes, said Friends of South Street Seaport is simply wrong on the facts and that the New Market and Tin building are not located on the same integrated piling infrastructure. “The Howard Hughes Corporation is currently constructing its [Uniform Land Use Review Procedure] approved Pier 17 project and all of its construction activities are being conducted with the necessary permits from the appropriate governmental agencies,” said Curry. “The FOSSS letter is incorrect when it says the Pier 17 Project is co-located on integrated piling infrastructure that supports the Tin Building and the New Market Building. In fact they are not on the same structure and there is not an integrated piling infrastructure. There has been no impact on those structures from the Pier 17 work.”

When notified of the Army’s response, Koetz maintained that a full environmental review and historic preservation consultation should be carried out before construction activity continues. She also said that the group has not yet received a formal response to their letter from the Army Corps of Engineers. The letter was sent to Jo-Ellen Darcy, assistant secretary of the Army in the civil works division, and copies were sent to virtually every elected official with interests in Lower Manhattan on the local, state and federal level, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the heads of several city and state agencies. In the letter, Friends of South Street Seaport claim to represent the concerns of “many and varied community and leadership interests in Lower Manhattan.” But where these community groups see malfeasance, Howard Hughes sees a distraction. A spokesperson for the company said the letter is merely the latest in a series of toothless attempts to prevent Howard Hughes from building on the Seaport. The company has a 60-year lease on the Seaport with the NYC EDC, and has already received the necessary approvals to rebuild Pier 17 into an indoor shopping mall. However, they’re locked in a bitter land use fight with local preservation groups over what to do with the rest of the Seaport. Howard Hughes says their proposed tower on the New Market Building site will provide the necessary revenue for $300 million in community benefits, which will include a new public school and affordable housing, among other considerations. But that proposal represents the main point of contention in the community, including for elected officials and the local community board, who want the company to consider alternate locations for the tower outside of the Seaport.

munity engagement and outreach process, and that didn’t happen. Which is why we’re doing that now.” Johnson said there are still some details to be worked out, but in broad terms, the plan that will soon be put in place involves changing the signage at the closed Chelsea clinic to be more prominent and informative regarding where alternative treatment options are located; parking a health department-staffed mobile van unit – which will be capable of rapid HIV and syphilis testing - outside of the closed clinic to direct people to other sites; and the launching of three sexual behavior health sites at the Community Healthcare Network Catherine M. Abate Health Center, the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center and Mt. Sinai Hospital’s Chelsea campus, which will each be staffed by a nurse practitioner provided by the health department. “People, if they don’t want to get treatment in these mobile units, would be referred by the navigators and others where they could get free and uncompensated care that was provided at the Chelsea clinic,” said Johnson. Lastly, said Johnson, the health department is putting together a comprehensive communication plan to educate the community on alternatives to the Chelsea STD clinic. The information campaign will involve social media, flyers, online and print advertisements, and a texting service. Johnson said there’s currently a full rotation of community mobile vans outside of the closed clinic, which will continue on after the health department’s van is put in place, through the end of this summer. At that point, said Johnson, a Community Health Network mobile bus will be parked outside the clinic and will offer everything the Chelsea clinic offered. The network’s bus will work on a contract basis with the health department, and will be put in place in late-August or early-September. “I think this is a step in the right direction,” said Johnson. “I wish this plan had been put in place before the clinic closed, but there are still details that need to be worked out.” State Senator Brad Hoylman praised Johnson for his response in bringing the community groups together to come up with a solution. “Closing an STD clinic in the middle of a syphilis outbreak is a bit like shutting off a fire house in the middle of a fire,” said Hoylman. “But we’re moving forward and I think that’s the important thing.” Initially, said Johnson, health department officials were confident in their plan to transfer services to Riverside Health Center. However, evidence and data from Act Up New York and the Treatment Action Group eventually changed their minds, he said. “I think it moved them to come up with a different plan. The advocates had a lot of info around acute HIV infection, and the syphilis numbers,” said Johnson. “The goal all along was that nobody fall through the cracks. And the idea was if the clinic was closed, people would fall through the cracks.” A health department spokesperson said the agency “coordinated with community-based organizations to provide mobile HIV and STD services near the Chelsea site five days a week while the site is transformed into a world-class facility, and the department is additionally evaluating measures to increase service capacity in the neighborhood.” The spokesperson also said the agency is augmenting the availability of STD services by increasing testing capacity at the Gay Men’s Health Crisis on 33rd Street and 10th Avenue.

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SUMMER ART T COLONY DAY CAMP ► $595 a week Children’s Museum m of the Arts 103 Charlton St. June 15-Aug. 28. Daily. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. http://cmany.org Fill your kids’ summer break at the Children’s Museum of the Arts Summer Art Colony Day Camp. Professional teaching artists immerse children ages 6-15 in full-day, innovativee arts courses, including ding ceramics, painting,, drawing, clay and much more. re. Registration required. Some scholarships holarships are available. Contact Laura at lmiller@ cmany.org for details ails and information about other CMNY art camps.

SUPPORTING THE ARTS CHASHAMA’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY GALA ► Check website for ticket information Chashama 4 Times Square. 4th Floor June 8. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, dinner http://www.chashama.org Here’s a great opportunity to see innovative performances and help struggling artists at the same time. Chashama, a non-proﬁt started by Anita Durst in 1995, will host its 20th Anniversary Gala, celebrating an ongoing commitment to giving artists free or affordable space to create and present their works. All proceeds will help Chashama launch the Bronx Artist Housing Initiative, where artists will be placed in subsidized housing while taking part in community art projects for youth and seniors. Chashama, which means “to have vision” in Farsi, has revitalized more than 80 properties, providing invaluable creative space for more than 12,000 artists. The group also presents some 130 free public events across New York City.

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HIGH ART ON THE HIGHLINE PANORAMA Free Highline Art Gansvoort St. to W. 34th St. Through March 2016 http://assets.thehighline.org If you’re willing to wade through all the tourists, take a trip over to the Highline for an international outdoor exhibition about vistas and vantage points, both natural and manmade, which explore the act of seeing and understanding the spectacle of nature. Artists include Mariana Castillo Deball, Olafur Eliasson, Rayan Gander, Damian Ortega and Gabriel Sierra. Come see for yourself the “untouched nature” of these works of art.

ART IMAGINATION FIGMENT Free Governors Island June 6–7.

http://newyork.ﬁgmentproject.org/ FIGMENT, a free participatory art event- kicks off on the weekend of June 6 with mind-blowing creative projects. FIGMENT NYC’s summerlong projects include a mini-golf course, treehouse, architectural pavilion, and interactive sculpture. Figment’s philosophy hilosophy is that art is not just something ng to look at, but interact with, as well, in a collaboration between the artist and the audience.

Free 79th St. and Central Park West Daily 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. www.amnh.org An amazing way to spend a rainy day – among – or any day for that matter m the exhibits that include inclu a collection of information about the t living things that have evolved from simple cells into an awe-inspiring array of life forms over millions of years. The Science of Natural Disasters ssection looks at volcanoes, tornadoes earthquakes, volcanoe and hurricanes. And of course, there’s always the dinosaurs.

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DRAWING AND PAINTING FOR TEENS 13-17 $150 for ﬁve sessions 92nd Street Y Lexington Ave. and 92nd St. Room S 370 First session July 2, 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. www.92y.org Acclaimed instructor Jaclyn Brown will teach your budding artist the basics of line, shape, form, color, composition, and perspective. Students can experiment in charcoal, pastel, watercolor and more. This is a challenging class that encourages students to draw from life, imagination and abstract and ﬁgurative art. Sessions also include discussion of works by such artists as Georges Seurat, Frida Kahlo and Pablo Picasso.

ANDY WARHOL LIVES ANDY WARHOLS’S CAMPBELL SOUP CANS $25 Museum of Modern Art 11 W. 57th St. Daily 10:30 a.m.- 5:30 p.m. Fridays open until 8 p.m. Now through Oct. 12 www.moma.org (212) 708-9400 Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans is the signature work in his intriguing career and MoMA’s got them through Oct. 12. Done in 1962, the series of 32 paintings marked a breakthrough for the artist as part of his strategies of serial repetition and reproduction of key parts of American pop culture. The exhibition also includes drawings and illustrated books Warhol made in the 1950s. This summer MOMA also features exhibits about migration, Latin American construction and collections of contemporary art.

MIRRORSS OVER MADISONN FATA MORGANA RGANA Free Madison Square uare Park at 23rd St. between ween Fifth Ave. and Broadway adway June 1 through gh the winter of 2015-2016 16 www. madisonsquarepark.org arepark.org Madison Square uare Park Conservancyy has installed artist st Teresita Fernández’s Fata Morgana, a monumental ental outdoor sculpture project oject that will remain on view ew through the end of thee year.

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MOUNTAIN JAM Hunter. June 4-7.

The eleventh annual Mountain Jam Music Festival will take place at Hunter Mountain, in Hunter, NY from Thursday, June 4, to Sunday, June 7, 2015. Mountain Jam is a four-day, multi-stage event, featuring approximately 40 bands on 3 stages in one of the Northeast’s most pristine natural amphitheaters. This year’s lineup includes The Black Keys, Robert Plant, Alabama Shakes, Gov’t Mule, and more!

TASTE OF SYRACUSE Syracuse. June 5-6.

The biggest food and music festival in Central New York, in and around Clinton Square. Bret Michaels will headline June 5 and 6 at the 2015 Taste of Syracuse and the two-day festival features 36 different bands on three stages for continuous live music combined with great food from area restaurants.

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The Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, June 4-6, is three days of exciting thoroughbred racing action featuring the 147th running of the Belmont Stakes. Over the three days there are 17 stakes races with $10 million in purses on the line. Also, highlighting the festival is live music and entertainment, special food vendors, including area food trucks and games and contests.

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Hudson Valley 5/30-6/7, Capital Pride 5/31-6/13, Buffalo Pride 6/1-7, VCS Rockland Gay Pride 6/12-14, Queen City Pride 6/12-14, Long Island Pride 6/13, Hudson Pride 6/19-21, Central NY Pride 6/20, and Orange County Pride 6/19-21 Pride is a statewide celebration in New York, too big to be contained in one city. Communities all across the state from Long Island to Buffalo, and everywhere in between celebrate in their own inimitable style, from festivals to parades – there are almost 20 Pride celebrations in all running from May through July!

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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FESTIVAL Ticket prices vary IFC Center at 323 Sixth Ave., at Third Street. June 11-June 21. http://ff.hrw.org The Human Rights Watch Film Festival brings human rights abuses to life through storytelling in a way that challenges viewers. Among this year’s screenings are “Burden of Peace,” which follows Guatemala’s ﬁrst female attorney general on her ﬁght to jail criminals and corrupt politicians; “No Land’s Song,” about the struggle female Iranian singers face under Islamic rule, and “Trials of Spring,” which focus on the obstacles three women face trying to attain the original goals of the Arab Spring – bread, freedom and social justice. Films also screened at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater, 165 W.

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BRYANT PARK SUMMER FILM FESTIVAL Free. The Lawn at Bryant Park, Sixth Ave. between 40- 42 Sts. Mondays from June 22 – Aug. 24. 5 p.m. http://www.bryantpark.org Grab a blanket and a picnic basket and go on over to Bryant Park to watch movie classics at this year’s HBO-Bryant Park Summer Film Festival, presented by Bank of America. The lawn opens for seating at 5 p.m and the movies begin at dusk, usually between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. No chairs, tables, dogs, plastic sheets, tarps, bags, or pads are permitted on the lawn. You can park your bike for free at the Pétanque Courts (6th Ave. and 41st Street). Check website for schedule.

Great Gatsby and Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax. Seating opens at 6:30 p.m. It’s on a first-come, firstserved basis and organizers say the lawn generally fills up by 7:30, so arrive early.

WHAT I DID LAST SUMMER SIGNATURE THEATRE AT PERSHING SQUARE $25 480 W. 42nd St. www.signaturetheatre.org If Broadway ticket prices get you down, drop on over to the Signature Theatre for playwright A.R. Gurney’s tale of a woman desperately trying to keep her family together with her husband overseas at the end of WWII. Expecting a quiet summer on Lake Eire, she encounters anything but.

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Free Friends of Hudson River Park Pier 63 at W. 23rd St. Wednesdays from July 7 – Aug. 19. 8:30 p.m. www.hudsonriverpark.org Come on over to Chelsea’s Pier 63 on Wednesday evenings to see some your favorite ﬁlms from last year on the big screen by the river – and get some free popcorn. Among the ﬁlms slated for Big Hit Wednesdays this year are “The Imitation Game” on July 8; “Selma” on July 22 and Bill Murray as an unorthodox baby sitter in “St. Vincent.” Bring blankets and a picnic basket. Popcorn is free; drinks and other snacks for sale.

Free The Intrepid. Pier 86 W 46th St and 12th Ave. www.intrepidmuseum.org (212) 245-0072 Bring your lawn chairs, blankets and picnic baskets filled with food, snacks and non-alcoholic beverages and enjoy movies with a hero theme. Doors open at 7:30pm, film begins at sunset, weather permitting. Space is limited. Seating is on a first come first serve basis, and there is no admission after 8:30pm. Films on tap this summer include “October Sky” on July 9, “Moon” on July 16 and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” on July 23.

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THE BARD IN THE PARK SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK Free The Public Theater. The Delacorte Theater in Central Park http://www.publictheater.org The Public Theater presents the Shakespeare classic fairytale “Cymbeline”, in which Princess Imogen’s ﬁdelity is put to the royal test when her disapproving father banishes her soul mate. Cross-dressing girls and cross-dressing boys, poisons, swordﬁghts and dastardly villains all take the stage in this enchanting romp about the conquering power of love.

MOVIES AT RIVERSIDE SUMMER ON THE HUDSON PICTURE SHOW ► Free NYC Parks Department Pier 1 Riverside Park South July 1-Aug. 13 Every Wednesday at 8 p.m. www.nycgovparks.org Bring the kids, the dog, a blanket and a picnic basket for these weekly movies at dusk in Riverside Park through the summer. This year’s schedule includes Jurassic Park, Edward Scissorhands, The Natural, Moonrise Kingdom,

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W. 14th St. and Ninth Ave. Opens 8 a.m. Monday thru Friday, 10 a.m. weekends. Closes anywhere from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m., depending on the day http://www.thedinernyc.com (212) 627-2230 Retro diners are everywhere, but one of our favorites is The Diner, in the Meatpacking District/Chelsea, near the Hudson River, the Highline and terriﬁc stores. It’s nostalgic without being hokey and can’t be beat when you’re in the mood for comfort food like burgers, mac and cheese, Southern fried chicken, milkshakes and desserts like apple pie, cheesecake and chocolate banana pudding. It’s usually packed, so service can be slow, but it’s worth the wait.

CALLE OCHO 45 W 81st St. in the Excelsior Hotel Dinner every day at 6 p.m., 5 p.m. on weekends. Brunch sat and Sunday http://www.calleochonyc.com Phone: (212) 873-5025 New York, New York 10024 If you’re into Latin food – including Cuban, Peruvian, Dominican, Spanish, Venezuelan and Costa Rican - this is the place for you. Their renowned chefs are known for using bold ﬂavors to spice up everything from ceviches, tapas and empanadas to steaks, duck breast and paella. Great cocktail list includes

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PEOPLE-WATCHING AND PASTA FRESCO BY SCOTTO Check website for menu 34 East 52nd St. (212) 935-3434 http://www.frescobyscotto.com This popular Tuscan restaurant, owned by the Scotto family, is a favorite lunch and dinner place for many power brokers and celebrities looking for great food and ambience. Their menu includes lasagna, beef meatballs alla Toscana, poached Branzino, Fresco

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126 Rivington St. Open 7 days a week. Check website for hours www.sugarsweetsunshne.com (212) 995-1960 In a town where a dozen cupcake shops claim to be the best, this little gem on Rivington St. strives for cupcake perfection. Among the delectable delights are the pistachio cupcake, the ‘ooey, gooey,’ the sassy red velvet and the sexy red velvet and the Sunshine, which is – well – yellow

$400 a ticket Bethesda Fountain, Central Park June 12. 7 p.m. – 11 p.m. http://www.centralparknyc.gov The annual Taste of Summer event allows 900 guests to dine under the stars and help keep Central Park beautiful. Restaurants like ‘21’ Club, Boqueria, Gallagher’s Steakhouse, Murray’s Cheese Bar, Tavern on the Green and Thalassa, offer tastings, a high-end silent auction and music by one of the city’s hottest DJs. All proceeds go to the Central Park Conservancy’s efforts to restore and maintain Central Park.

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BROADWAY BITES ► Greeley Square at 33rd St. and Broadway June 1- July 26 http://www.urbanspacenyc.com If you’re tired of grabbing fast food or one of those cookie-cutter salads for lunch in Midtown, Broadway Bites is the place for you. A joint venture of UrbanSpace and the 34th St. Partnership, this culinary pop-market brings together popular chefs, small culinary businesses and foodies-onthe-run for a couple of months in the summer – and again in the fall. You can enjoy some rolls from the Red Hook Lobster Pound without going to Brooklyn, or the meats from Mayhem and Stout, Mexican food from La Sonrisa empanadas or desserts from

a variety of sangrias and a dessert list to die for. Enjoy complimentary sangria during your brunch meal. You’ll also ﬁnd a bustling atmosphere and some hilarious house rules.

FINNEGAN’S WAKE Burgers start at $9 1361 First Ave., at 73rd St. Check website for hours http://www.centralparknyc.gov Lots of places claim to have the best burger in New York, but one of our favorites is at this Upper East Side pub with great bartenders and waitresses and a nice homey feel. Their burgers are 8-ounce sirloin, served on a roll and guaranteed to ﬁll you up. The menu also includes traditional Irish fare like Shepherds’ Pie and Bangers and Mash.

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OUTDOOR DANCING AT LINCOLN CENTER MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SWING Single tickets $17. Packages available Lincoln Center June 23-July 11. Dance ﬂoor opens 6 p.m. Group Dance Lesson 6:30–7:15 Live sets at 7:30–8:30 and 9:00–10:00 unless otherwise noted http://midsummernightswing.org/ Dance to the best in swing, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll, big band music, salsa, tango and disco at New York’s hottest outdoor party. Performers include Jonathan Stout’s All-Star Orchestra, the Harlem Renaissance Orchestra, Cachao’s Mambo All-Stars and Dr. K’s Motown Revue. Check the website for schedule and package prices. Lincoln Center strongly recommends leaving your bags at home, but if you need to bring them, you must use

SYLEENA JOHNSON AT THE HIGHLINE BALLROOM $25 to $45; dinner menu available. Highline Ballroom 431 W. 16th St. Aug. 28. 8 p.m. http://highlineballroom.com Grammy nominated R&B singer Syleena Johnson, who has several hits to her credit and has worked with stars like Kanye West and R. Kelly, brings her “Couples Therapy” tour to Chelsea. Her songs run the gamut from powerful ballads like “Little Things” to club bangers like the ﬁrst single, “A Boss.” Check the Highline Ballroom’s website for a complete list of summer performances.

OPERA IN THE PARK METROPOLITAN OPERA SUMMER RECITAL SERIES Free Central Park SummerStage June 15. 8 p.m. http://www.metopera.org For the seventh year, the Metropolitan Summer Recital Series will once again bring free outdoor recitals starring leading Met artists and rising young stars of the opera world with six performances across all ﬁve boroughs. The June 15 kickoff event in Central Park will star soprano Janai Brugger, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, and baritone Nathan Gunn, joined by pianist Dan Saunders.

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SIPPING AT THE SEAPORT AMBROSE HALL 18 Fulton St. , at the South Street Seaport Daily 11 a.m. to 3 a.m. www.ambrosehall.theluregroup.com 212-785-0018 This rustic beer hall on the cobblestone corner of Fulton and Front Streets. Is a popular gathering spot for downtown professionals for lunch and after work. It features artisanal beers, as well as select whiskies, scotch and bourbon and craft red and white wines. Hungry drinkers can enjoy deviled eggs, beer cheese potato chips and a wide variety of baguette sliders, bratwurst and sausage platters or sandwiches.

DRINKS ON THE ROOF GALLOW GREEN 542 W. 27th St. Monday – Thursday 5 p.m – 11 p.m. Friday – Saturday 5 p.m. – 1 a.m. Sunday 11:30 a.m. – 11 p.m. www.mckittrickhotel.com (212) 564-1662 Nice, garden-like feel atop the McKittrick Hotel near the Highline in Chelsea, this cozy spot is mostly for drinking, with bowls of punch starting at $60 and a dazzling array of cocktails and wines. They serve nice food – including a Sunday brunch – but booze with a view is this place’s forte.

beers, all brewed in the U.S.A., and mostly served in 14-ounce glasses. The only bottled brews they serve are Bud and Bud Light. There’s also a full bar and wines by the glass. The food menu includes turkey and black bean chili, grilled cheese, sloppy duck sliders, pulled pork sandwiches and sirloin burgers.

BEHIND THE RED DOOR GUTHRIE’S 1259 Park, Ave. Sunday and Monday 5 p.m --12 a.m. Tuesday – Saturday 5 p.m. – 2 a.m. (212) 423-9900 Small, cozy, charming holein-the-wall that’s so tiny you’ll miss it if you blink. Look for the bright door, which lets you in to a place to go when you’re looking for good company, ﬁne drinks and great music. Usually packed on weekends with a hipster-Spanish Harlem crowd, its shelves are packed with great rums and whiskies and the drinks have names like the Martinez, the Last Word and Sharpie Moustache. Salud!

WEST SIDE CUBANO AG KITCHEN 269 Columbus Ave., between 72nd and 73rd Sts. Monday – Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 11p.m. Friday 11:30 to Midnight. Saturday-Sunday 10 a.m. to Midnight www.agkitchen.com (212) 873-9400 Cuban-born chef Alex Garcia whips up Latin favorites at this popular West Side restaurant and watering hole. The drink menu features the 1940 Sparkling Mojito, Mango Mayhem, the Upper Westie and the Thai Me Down. Latin food favorites include Brazilian - style roasted chicken, Manhattan Latin burgers and a variety of surf and turf specials guaranteed to add a kick to your meal.

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SHARK SPEEDBOAT THRILL RIDE ► $28 for adults; $19 for children. Circle Line Tours Daily June 1- Sept. 1 Departs hourly from Noon through 5 p.m. Pier 16, South Street Seaport. 89 South St. www.nywt.com (212) 742-1969 Get ready for a heart-pounding, white-knuckle 30-minute thrill ride that roars around New York Harbor every day, all summer long. Enjoy exciting music and great views of the Statue of Liberty and other sites in the harbor while taking a roller coaster trip in the Hudson. Passengers must be 40” tall to ride and children must be able to sit in their own seat. Riders deﬁnitely will get wet, so dress accordingly.

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PLAY LIKE AN EGYPTIAN ▲ THE ANCIENT PLAYGROUND FREE Central Park Conservancy E. 85th St and Central Park Normal park hours www.centralparknyc.org Despite its name, Ancient Playground – located north of the Metropolitan Museum of Art -- is

one of the park’s most recently rebuilt playgrounds, redone in 2009. Inspired by the museum’s Egyptian Art collection, it has climbing pyramids, obelisk and a sundial. In addition to slides and tunnels, the park has two water-play areas, including one with a waterfall effect. Its fabled Osborn Gates were restored and reinstalled after being kept in storage for 30 years due to vandalism.

$399 for a seven-week program Saturdays 9 a.m. or 10 a.m. The Golf Club at Chelsea Piers www.chelseapiers.com (212) 336-6444 Let your kids, ages 5-14, get in the swing of things with hour-long golf lessons in these 7-week programs. Experienced instructors introduce and develop the elements of grip, stance, posture, and swing technique. All activities are designed for early learners at all levels. Check the website for program start dates. The Golf Club also offers lessons on driving the ball, Friday Night Swings socials with a cash bar and special Ladies’ Night Out.

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popular Mornings on The Farm allows kids over the age of 1 a fun-ﬁlled two hours on Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. to feed and snuggle with the farm’s animals, which include bunnies, chinchillas, guinea pigs, and even an occasional pig or goat. The Art Farm has a variety of programs designed to teach kids about responsibility through caring, loving and being in the company of animals. They also offer a summer camp, preschool, various classes and space for birthday parties. Check the website for more information and about programs and fees.

WEDNESDAYS IN THE PARK WEDNESDAYS AT TEARDROP Free Battery Park City Conservatory Warren St. Wednesdays 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. All summer long. www.bpcparks.org Afternoons of supervised fun, including energetic lawn games, clay collage and painting projects for kids ages 5 and up. All supplies are provided at these fun-ﬁlled, high-energy events that will keep the kids busy and entertained and allow them to make new friends.

GARDENING FOR KIDS YOUNG SPROUTS GARDENING Free Battery Park City Conservatory Childrens Garden at Nelson Rockefeller Park Tuesdays, 3:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. www.bcparks.org This popular program gives kids 3 to 5 years of age an introduction to organic gardening. They will plants seeds, water plants and work on nature projects to get a feel for working with nature in the middle of the big city. Space is limited, so arrive early.

A CASTLE IN THE PARK BELVEDERE CASTLE ▲ Free Mid- Central Park at 79th St. Daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. http://www.centralparknyc.org What a place for a castle – and what a castle it is. Named for the Italian meaning “beautiful view,” Central Park’s Belvedere Castle offers park goers exactly what its name implies. It has two balconies that provide wonderful panoramic views of such landmarks as the Delacorte Theater, the Great Lawn and the Ramble. It was originally designed in 1865 as a Victorian Folly, but since 1919 the National Weather Service has taken daily measurements from the castle’s tower with scientiﬁc instruments that determine wind speed and direction. Inside, visitors will ﬁnd a vast collection of natural history artifacts, such as skeletons and paper mâché birds.

MAKING MAGIC FANTASMA MAGIC SHOP Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

421 Seventhh Ave., diagonally across cross from Madison Square uare Garden www.fantasmamagic.com smamagic.com (212) 244-3633 3633 Okay, so Penn enn and Teller say there’s ere’s really no suchh thing as magic, gic, but don’t let that stop you from taking the kids to Fantasma Magic Store and thee free Houdini Museum. Thee store offers its ts products for sale from anywhere ere from $1 to $200. 200. Those products cts include books, DVDs and videos on everything from card and coin tricks to stage magic and illusions. The Houdini Museum features exhibits of some of Houdini’s props, as well as a video of the greatest escape artist who ever lived.

INDOOR FARMS ◄ THE ART FARM IN THE CITY $20 drop-in fee. Classes, camps, programs available. 419 E. 91st St. (between York & 1st aves.) www.

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SARATOGA RACE TRACK ▼ General admission $5. Clubhouse admission $8. New York Racing Association 267 Union Ave., Saratoga Springs, NY July 24-Sept. 7 www.saratogaracetrack.com (518) 584-6200 Watch horse racing at its best, just a two-hour drive up Interstate 87 to beautiful, quaint, Saratoga Springs. You can shop and eat before or after the races, which are held every day but Tuesday. Check the website for a full schedule of big money races featuring some of the fastest horses in the world.

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MINING FOR MINERALS MINERAL COLLECTING AT STERLING HILL ZINC MINE $5, plus $1.50 a pound for any minerals taken. Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ Sunday, June 28. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. www.sterlinghillminimgmuseum.org Contact: 973-209-MINE Pack up the family and take a drive out to the Sterling Hill Mining Museum, in Ogdensburg, N.J., about an hour’s drive from New York City for a

day mineral collecting on the Mine Run dump and in the Passaic pit and “saddle” areas of the old Sterling Hill zinc mine. Bring sturdy footwear, a strong hammer (carpenter’s claw hammers not allowed), and eye protection. A dark room with a shortwave ultraviolet light is provided on-site for inspection of ﬂuorescent minerals. You can also sign up for an underground mine tour, fantastic displays of “glow-in-the-dark” ﬂuorescent minerals, extensive outdoor displays of mining machinery, and exhibit halls. Age Requirements: 7 years & up on the Mine Run dump; 13 & up elsewhere.

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Adults: $13. Children: $9. Seniors $9. Children 23 months and under: Free Zoological Society of New Jersey 560 Northﬁeld Avenue, West Orange, NJ. Daily, 10 a.m. to 4:40 p.m. Sundays 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. www.turtlebackzoo.com (973) 731-5801 Situated on 18 acres of land just 19 miles outside the city, the Turtle Back Zoo was originally a showcase for animals indigenous to New Jersey, but it now holds featured species from every continent except Antarctica. You can hike through a natural area of oak, hickory and maple trees and meet such New Jersey natives as the bobcat, porcupine, falcon, turkey vulture, and bald eagle. You can also see penguins, wolves, alligators, bears, monkeys, reptiles, otters and animals of the Great Plains.

Tours: $4 for adults; $3 for seniors and students; under 12, free 84 Liberty St., Newburgh, NY http://www.nysparks.com (845) – 562-1195 Visit the nation’s ﬁrst publicly owned historic site and tour the rooms where American history was made, just 71 miles north of New York City. General George Washington spent only a few months at Newburgh, but it was there that he made some of his most important contributions to shaping the American republic – rejecting the idea that he should be king after the war, ending the Newburgh conspiracy and preventing military control of the government.

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$195 per person 70 Airport Rd. Pittstown NJ Open daily. http://www.skydivejersey.com Tap that inner daredevil in you and get ready for the time of your life with a day of tandem skydiving, billed as the safest, most exciting, and easiest way for you to experience the rush of freefall. You go through a one-hour training to learn the necessary skills to participate in this ride of a lifetime. The day includes a 20-minute plane ride over the scenic views of the Delaware river, Spruce Run lake, Round Valley lake and the Manhattan and Philadelphia skylines. Then you attach to the front of your instructor’s harness and experience a 5- to 6-minute parachute ride, including 40 seconds of free fall at over 120 mph and a gentle landing.

The Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Tour $19.99 for a two-hour walking tour with a guide 430 N. Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY Saturdays and Sundays in June from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. http://www.sleepyhollowcemetery.org (914) 631-008 The Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is the spot identiﬁed in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as the resting place of the headless horseman. Pick up a map or take a guided tour of the 90 - acre grounds at the cemetery where the most famous resident of the town, Washington Irving, is laid to rest. Other notables buried there include Revolutionary War veterans, Andrew Carnegie, Walter Chrysler, William Rockefeller, and Elizabeth Arden. The pace of the walk can be challenging, with stairs, unpaved roads, and hills, so make sure you’re in decent shape before setting out on this intriguing journey.

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BACK TO THE COLONIAL DAYS THE MULFORD FARM HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FESTIVAL Admission: $4 adults / $3 those over 65 / $2 students 10 James Lane, East Hampton. LI Farm open daily. http://www.easthamptonhistory.org (631) 324-6850 It doesn’t have to be a beach day to trek out to East Hampton for a visit to the Mulford Farm, considered one of America’s most signiﬁcant, intact, English Colonial farmsteads. The farm is of interest not merely because of its importance to the history of East Hampton, but because of its antiquity. Built in 1680 – and largely unchanged since 1750 - the house has much to tell us about the origins of Colonial New England society and the changes that still affect our lives today. The Mulford Barn, constructed in 1721, is one of the most intact early-18th-century English-plan barn forms in New York State and is recognized as an outstanding example of early-18th-century construction methods and materials.

$45 2425 Lincoln Highway East, Lancaster, Pa. June 20 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. www.amtshows.com (800) 648-4102 This summer’s all-new Doo Wop Cavalcade features a terriﬁc line-up of some of your favorite groups from the days of street corner singing. Scheduled acts include Jimmy Beaumont & The Skyliners, Charlie Thomas’ Drifters, The Tymes, The Original Chantels, Emil Stucchio & The Classics, The Marcels, the Knockouts, and Danny & The Juniors featuring Joe Terry

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GET GOING A SPA IN THE COUNTRY

MOHONK MOUNTAIN HOUSE ▼ Check website for rates and special packages 1000 Mountain Rest Rd., New Paltz, NY www.mohonk.com (855) 590-9829 Relax and unwind in a Victorian castle above Lake Mohonk, surrounded by landscaped gardens and pristine wilderness. The hotel features extensive woodwork, fireplaces made from Shawangunk stone and breathtaking views. Just 90 miles north of New York City, Mohonk Mountain House offers accommodations in charming guestrooms from Victorian to classic. Nightly rates include breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well as tea and cookies in the afternoons. Many activities are free for overnight guests with the exception of rock climbing, fly fishing, horseback riding, carriage rides, mountain biking, golf and spa treatments.

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COMEDY CENTRAL UGHS MONTREAL’S JUST FOR LAUGHS FESTIVAL ► $99.99 to $215 Presented by Videotron and Loto Quebec ebec July 8 to July 28 www.hahaha.com (514) 845-2322, If you love to laugh – and don’t minding ﬂying, training or driving way up north – Montreal’s Just for Laughs Festival should not be missed. Comedian an Bill Burr, JFL’s Stand-Up Comedian of the Year, returns to Montreal for two likely sell-out performances at the Olympia Theatre on July 22 and July 23. The hilarious Sebastian Maniscalco, who knocked them dead On the “Tonight Show,” will do his “Aren’t n’t You Embarrassed” 11 solo-show run. And Margaret Cho, the self-styled Agent nt Provocateur of stand-up, will do a one-night-only show at the Olympia on Julyy 24

ART, MUSIC AND M MEMORIES WOODSTOCK 90 miles north of New York City www.info@ woodstockchamber. com c This quaint village, which unabashedly bills w itself as “the most famous itsel small town in the world,” sma is a hive h of music, theater, arts, yoga and ﬁne dining all arts summer long. Best known sum for the t famous Woodstock music festival – which mus actually took place a few actu towns away – the village town reinvented itself as a sort reinv of utopian artists’ colony in uto 1902 and hasn’t looked back since. Check the Chamber of Commerce website for a listing Comm

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of places to stay, eat and play just 90 miles north of the city.

SADDLE UP PARDNER ROCKING HORSE RANCH Summer packages start at $299 per adult; $79 per child, but check website for specials 600 Route 44/55, Highland, NY Seven days a week 90 miles north of New York City www.rockinghorseranch.com The name doesn’t quite say it all. This resort, opened in 1958, certainly offers trail riding for ages 7 and up, but the all-inclusive package includes three hearty meals a day and a wide range of activities, including banana boat rides, kayaking, paddle boating, an outdoor heated pool with two water slides and live nightly entertainment include music, comedy, magic shows and more. While the kids are riding and swimming, you can relax with an array of massages, starting at about $60 each.

HIKING, BIKING AND FISHING BEAR MOUNTAIN INN AND OVERLOOK LODGE Rates run from about $160 a night to upward of $250 3020 Seven Lakes Drive, Bear Mountain, NY www.visitbearmountain.com (845) 786-2731 Bear Mountain offers great outdoor adventures on the west bank of the Hudson River – hiking, biking and climbing the four mountain peaks – as well as ﬁshing in the lakes and river. Then you can unwind at the Bear Mountain Inn and Overlook Lodge, which was built 100 years ago and has played host to presidents, celebrities and avid sportsmen and sportswomen. The Inn has 15 luxury guest rooms, plus a spa and restaurant, and the Overlook lodge boasts 24 standard guestrooms. Both include breakfast and complementary Wi-Fi.

HUDSON ON THE HUDSON HISTORIC HUDSON, NY www.gotohudson.net Just a two-hour train

ride – or about two-and-half hours by car – city dwellers have been ﬂocking to this little urban gem in Columbia County. Much of the town has been beautifully preserved in every architectural style since the early 1800s and in the summer it’s hopping with art fairs and music. The website boasts that Hudson has 300 historic buildings, 10 B&Bs in old but roomy houses, 24 restaurants, 51 antique shops, 18 art galleries and three museums. There’s also a great farmer’s market with fresh fruit, veggies and sumptuous desserts at what seem like bargain prices to dyed-in-the wool New Yorkers.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST The local paper for the Upper East Side

LUXURY MEGA-TOWER COMING TO SUTTON PLACE EXCLUSIVE East Side officials already gearing up to fight the project

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Plans have been drawn up for a luxury 900-foot condo tower in Sutton Place, which, if completed as planned, would rank as one of the tallest buildings in Manhattan. The 268,000-squarefoot tower will become the second-tallest on the Upper East Side, behind the in-progress 432 Park Avenue at 1,400 feet, and one of the tallest in the city. Construction permits

TIMBERLOCK RESORT Weekly rates from $987 to $1,321 per person. Kids from $567 to $964 160 Farrington Way, Sabael, NY www.timberlock.com (518) 648-5494 Pack up the car and head up to this 116-yearold family resort on Indian Lake, a 4½-hour drive from New York City. Their “basic, but comfortable” cabins lie along the pristine shoreline and all have a lake view. Activities include canoeing, kayaking, sailing archery, tennis, basketball, hiking, cruises and campﬁres.

BASEBALL HEROES NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME ▼ $12 to $23 25 Main St. Cooperstown, NY Open 7 days a week. Summer hours 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. http://www.baseballhalloffame.com (607) 547-2044 Located on Main Street in the heart of picturesque Cooperstown, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is one of the country’s most popular destinations. First opened in 1939, the museum is the deﬁnitive repository of the game’s treasures from Abner Doubelday to the recent stars we know and love. View the plaques and historic photos and videos of players like Hank Aaron, Yogi Berra, Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson and stars from the Old Negro Leagues and the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, depicted in the hit movie “A League of Their Own.” Summer S Su mmer highlights include Hall of Fame weekend with this year’s honorees, and other activities.

degree views of Midtown, Downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan, Central Park and the East River.” The 268,000 square feet of buildable space and air rights, which includes 58,000 square feet of inclusionary housing rights, have already been delivered. It’s unclear if the affordable housing will be offered on- or offsite, or how many units of affordable housing will be included. Representatives for The Bauhouse Group, which owns the site, declined to field questions about the Sutton Place Development, but a representative of the company provided a press release to Our Town that said the

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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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JUNE 4-10,2015

SKATING THE YEARS AWAY ◄SKATE DANCING IN CENTRAL PARK Free. Memberships $26 and up. Central Park Dance Skaters Association Skate Circle in Central Park. Northeast Corner of Sheep Meadow at 69th St. Most weekends. 2:45 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. www.cpdsa.org Bring your skates and roll on up to the “Skate Circle” at the northeast end of Sheep Meadow for open-air skating with live DJ music in a guaranteed fun time for all. Age is no barrier to lacing up a pair of skates and dancing the afternoons away on most weekends. The CPDSA manages the free roller skating sessions in partnership with the city Parks Department, the NYPD and the Central Park Conservancy.

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SENIORS DANCE THERAPY

DANCE THERAPY FOR PEOPLE WITH MOVEMENT DISORDERS From $145 for 10-session course 92nd Street Y Lexington Ave. and 92nd St. First session, June 24, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. www.92y.org These classes are tailored to the needs of the participants, including seniors and people with Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, stroke and other movement disorders. Caters to men and women who are ambulatory or need to be seated. Each class is developed through improvisation and shared leadership. All ages and stages welcome.

SENIOR MONDAYS THE RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART Free. 150 W. 17th St. Monday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. www.rubinmuseum.org The Rubin Museum of Art offers free admission to seniors on the ﬁrst Monday of every month. Museum-goers can view the museum’s collection of Himalayan art, artifacts and treasures in this museum in the heart of Chelsea. The museum has a diverse array of thought-provoking exhibitions and programs to spark new ways of seeing the world. The collection is especially poignant in the wake of the devastating earthquake that shook the region in April.

SUMMER ON THE HUDSON Why not spend them traversing the eastern towns of Dutchess County along rural routes and bucolic back roads? Enjoy a combination of sightseeing, outdoor exploration, shopping, and dining, at places like Madava Farms in Dover Plains, Cascade Winery in Amenia, and Gilmor Glass in Millerton. Only one hour from NYC by car, bus or train.

PLAN IT! Plan your visit with the “Harlem Valley Sweep” itinerary at DutchessTourism.com/travel-itineraries!

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TAI CHI CLASSES FOR ADULTS Free Riverside Park Conservancy Soldiers and Sailors Monument Riverside Park and W. 89th St. Sunday 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. www.nycparks.gov Join instructor Silvana Pizutti to learn and practice Tai Chi, a slow-moving martial art form of

defense training with health beneﬁts for all ages and ﬁtness levels. A graceful form of exercise, its practitioners say it’s like meditation in motion – a great stress reliever and a way to achieve focus and mental clarity.

FROM THE 19TH CENTURY AND BEYOND THE PUBLIC EYE: 175 YEARS OF SHARING PHOTOGRAPHY Free New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Fifth Ave. at 42nd St. Free public tours of the exhibition at 12:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday; 3:30 p.m. on Sunday. www.nypl.org (917)275-6975 Photography enthusiasts can come on over to the main Public Library to view this landmark exhibition of hundreds of photographs drawn entirely from the library’s collections, which offers a ﬁrst-ever retrospective survey of photography organized by NYPL that explores the ways photography has been shared and made public from the mid-19th Century.

OUTDOOR YOGA BRYANT PARK YOGA▼ Free Bryant Park, sponsored by Athleta Tuesdays 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., Upper Terrace Thursdays 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Lawn. www.bryantpark.org Bring your mat and your best downward facing dog pose to Bryant Park for these twice weekly yoga sessions guaranteed to improve your posture, reduce stress and calm your mind in the heart of Midtown. Courses are geared to all age and ﬁtness levels, but yoga is an especially good form of exercise to those of us who don’t want to pound the pavement or hit the gym for exercise in the warm summer months.

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A WEEK OF DANCING AND FITNESS NYC DANCE WEEK Free and discounted classes available Various times and locations across the city June 18 to June 27 www.nycdanceweek.org NYC Dance Week is a project by Tendu Inc, organized for charitable and educational purposes, to promote diversity of dance in New York City. The organization provides free dance, fitness and wellness classes by partnering with some 40 local dance and fitness studios for the 10-day fitness fest. during NYC Dance Week and offers performance/showcase opportunities for emerging dance entities helping them gain exposure in the community through its NYC10 project. The program demonstrates how all dance genres benefit mind, body and spirit. Registration required.

OUTDOOR ADVENTURES A DAY IN THE PARK ▲ Free NYC Parks and Backpacker Magazine Central Park Bandshell Saturday, June 20. 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. www.nycgovparks.org Get ready to hike, bike, climb and paddle as NYC Parks and Backpacker magazine sponsor a day long outdoor adventure in the heart of Central Park. Activities include log rolling, rock climbing, wheelchair basketball, biking, outdoor gear exhibits, stand-up paddleboarding and ﬁtness classes. This year’s event will feature the 30th Anniversary of the Stihl Timbersports Competition! Certain activities will require a waiver, which will be provided at the event for participants to sign. Participants under the age of 18 must have a legal guardian present to sign the waiver. Children must be at least 5 years of age to participate in kayaking and at least 8 years of age to participate in stand-up paddleboarding.

FUN ON THE WATER KAYAKING ON THE HUDSON Free or expert lessons Various locations on piers from Tribeca to the Upper West Side. Pier 26 at N. Moore St., Pier 40 at W. Houston St., Pier 66 at W. 26th St. Pier 84 at W. 44th St., and Pier 96 at W. 55th St.

Saturdays and Sundays from June 6 through September. Weather permitting. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. www.hudsonriverpark.org You can enjoy the pleasures of the Hudson River with walkup kayaking programs for all ages and abilities. Kayaks, paddles, life jackets and instructions provided. All participants must sign a liability waiver and know how to swim. Participants under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult; paddlers under 16 must share a boat with an adult.

EXERCISE BEFORE SUNSET PILATES IN THE PARK Free The Plaza at 66th St. (Riverside Park South) Tuesdays from June 2- Aug. 25 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

HEALTH & FITNESS

Riverside Park Conservancy zhen. heinemann@ parks.nyc.gov Instructor Melissa Ricci, CPT, PMA from Base Fitness® leads an hour-long multilevel Pilates class that will tone and balance your muscles, align your body, strengthen your core, and give you renewed energy! Bring your own mats.

SHAPE UP NYC GET IN SHAPE FOR SUMMER▼ Free Various times and locations. Shaping up has never been this easy! Shape Up NYC offers free fitness classes every week at dozens of locations across Manhattan – and the other four boroughs, too! Expert fitness instructors lead the classes and know how to make fitness fun. Class offerings are varied and include aerobics, yoga, Pilates and Zumba. Shape Up NYC is a free program and you do not need to be a member of a recreation center to attend a class, but you should bring a lock.

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BEYOND THE POLE

HEALTH AND RACE WALKING WALK, DON’T RUN

BODY AND POLE Classes start at $25 for ﬁrst visit. Packages available. 115 W. 27th St. http://bodyandpole.com 212-334-6900 Body & Pole is the largest Pole Fitness and Aerial Dance studio in NYC, with over 9000 square feet of Poles, Aerial Fabric, Aerial Hoop and more. It boasts the largest Pole Fitness and Aerial Dance studio in NYC. This is an introduction to pole dance and all the basics. For clothing, make sure you can have the back of your knees exposed.

DANCING IN THE PARK BRYANT PARK MOVES Free Limon Dance Company Bryant Park Lawn in Bryant Park 40th St, between 5th and 6th Aves. Saturdays from June 6 through Sept. 26 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. www.limon.org 212-768-4242 Enjoy the joy of movement and the artistry of dance at these modern dance classes led by performers from the renowned Limon Dance Company, which is acclaimed for its dramatic expression, technical mastery and expansive, yet nuanced movement. The highly popular Bryant Park Moves program is in its ﬁfth year, but the dances and styles are ever-changing and lots of fun. So bring your dancing shoes and gym clothes. Open to all levels and ages. No experience required. In New York City alone, the Limón Institute reaches close to 5,000 students annually through education programs (including Limón4Kids), classes and workshops.

Free Central Park Conservancy North Meadow Recreation Center, mid-Park at 97th St. Saturday mornings. 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. http://www.centralparknyc.org 212-348-4867. Moderate to brisk walks led by the NY Walkers Club for people 18 years and older of all abilities. It’s a low-impact ﬁtness program and is perfect for those who want to get in shape, build muscle tone, strength and increase cardiovascular health while enjoying Central Park’s beautiful landscapes. No pre-registration required.

FRIDAY NIGHT SWINGS THE GOLF CLUB AT CHELSEA PIERS $40 Pier 59 – 18th St. and Hudson River Place DATE. TIME www.chelseapiers.com (212) 336-6400 Grab a glass and a golf club for a night at the driving range. Meet new golfers and mingle. A top teaching pro will be on hand to help you with your swing. You can RSVP at the website and check back later for future dates.

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FAIRS & FESTIVALS FREE ARTS FESTIVAL ◄ RIVER TO RIVER FESTIVAL Free More than two dozen locations in Lower Manhattan June 18-June 28 http://lmcc.net/program/river-to-river/ The River to River Festival has become a cornerstone of Lower Manhattan culture, with intimate and provocative performances and cultural

events, including dance, ﬁlm, poetry, music and visual arts. Events will be held at more than 25 indoor and outdoor locations in Downtown New York — from Chambers Street to Battery Park and the Hudson River to the East River and on Governor’s Island. Highlights include performances by the Twyla Tharp dancers, the Trisha Brown Dance Company, Eiko Otake, Roomful of Teeth, Benyoro, the annual Bang-on-a-Can Marathon at the Winter Garden and opportunities to visit studios and galleries.

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‘cue, presented by the most talented pit masters in the country. The event features all the elements of real pit barbecue – from the heady smells of smoked meat and the rollicking sounds of the South.

ART AT ITS BEST LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL Prices vary Lincoln Center July 6 to August 2 www.lincolncenter.org Enjoy a season of extraordinary opera, music, dance, and theater showcasing contemporary artistic viewpoints in and around Lincoln Center. Check the website for speciﬁc performance information, including

ASIAN FOOD EVENTS TASTE ASIA ▲ Free entry. Times Square at Broadway and 42nd St. June 26 and June 27. www.tasteasia.org Taste Asia is New York’s premier outdoor food festival. Chefs from New York and around the world showcase their abilities using Taste Asia’s trademark fully equipped outdoor kitchens. They will focus on ingredients and recipes that span many Asian countries and cultures. A host of Asian and Asian-inspired restaurants will be onsite to provide tastings, and there will be live stage cultural performances. Taste Asia labels itself as the largest Asian food festival in North America and the only live-cooking event in Times Square.

DANCIN’ IN THE STREETS THE STREET MUSIC FESTIVAL Free Various locations June 21 www.makemusicnewyork.org Make Music New York is a live, free musical celebration held every June 21, the longest day of the year. It features more than 1,300 ad hoc concerts on streets, sidewalks, and parks across the ﬁve boroughs. Check the website for some of the scheduled events and locations.

NATIVE NEW YORK DRUMS ALONG THE HUDSON Free Inwood Hill Park Sunday, June 14. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (rain or shine) www.drumsalongthehudson.org Enjoy a trip back in time to precolonial Manhattan at the 13th Annual Drums along the Hudson: A Native American Festival and Multicultural Celebration, presented by Lotus Music & Dance with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. Hosted by Sandra Bookman, weekend anchor for WABC-TV and host of “Here and Now.” Also on hand will be pop culture expert Patrick Riley and Mara Schiavocampo, a correspondent for “Good Morning America.”

A MILE OF ART AND CULTURE MUSEUM MILE FESTIVAL Free From E. 82nd St. to E. 105th St. Starts at Cooper Hewitt, 2 E. 91 St. Times Square at Broadway and 42nd St. June 9. 5:45 p.m. to 9 p.m. http://museummilefestival.org/ (212) 606-2296 Begun to spur development during the ﬁscal crisis of the 1970s, a consortium of Museums that share upper Fifth Ave., -- from the Museum

Lady Gaga. Check the website for the complete schedule and ticket prices.

MAKIN’ MUSIC SUMMERSTAGE FESTIVAL ▼ FREE (except for some benefit performances) Central Park Conservancy Rumsey Playfield, Central Park Throughout the summer www.cityparksfoundation.org SummerStage is the largest free performing arts festival in New York City – and for its 30th anniversary, it has extended its season to October, with more than 20 free shows in Central Park and 14 neighborhood parks across the city. Shows are rain or shine, but may be cancelled in the event of dangerous lightning. Admission is first-come, first served. Scheduled artists this year include Ingrid Michaelson, Dr. John and the Nite Trippers, Bombino, Jellybean Benitez and Yiddish Soul. Admission closes once capacity is reached. No-nos

of Metropolitan Art to Museo del Barrio - hosts a festival that exposes New Yorkers and out-of-towners to an incredible collection of New York’s artistic riches. There will be an opening ceremony at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum at 5:45 and then participants can take in the art at such institutions as the Museum of the City of New York, the Jewish Museum and the Guggenheim, while enjoying musical entertainment.

CULTURE FROM AFAR ARAB-AMERICAN AND NORTH AFRICAN CULTURAL STREET FAIR Free Network of Arab-American Professionals Great Jones St. between Broadway and Lafayette Saturday, June 13. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Enjoy seven hours of fun, food, culture and music at the 13th annual Arab-American & North African Cultural Street Festival. You can listen to great music, eat delicious food, do a little shopping and meet new people!

BBQ BLOCK PARTY BIG APPLE BARBECUE BLOCK PARTY Free Madison Square Park June 13 and June 14. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. http://www.bigapplebbq.org The Big Apple Barbecue Block Party is a celebration of the craftsmanship of

show times, ticket prices and venues.

ALL THAT JAZZ BLUE NOTE JAZZ FESTIVAL ▲ Ticket prices vary. Various locations across the city June 1- June 30 www.bluenotejazzfestival.com Get ready to tap your feet as the Blue Note Jazz Festival celebrates its Fifth Anniversary, June 1-30, at such venues as The Blue Note Jazz Club, the B.B. King Blues Club & Grill and Chelsea’s Highline Ballroom with wellknown artists including Natalie Cole, Buddy Guy, the Manhattan Transfer, Darlene Love, Ginger Baker, Savion Glover, and many more. The Highline Ballroom, located at 431 W. 16th St, is a state-of-the-art venue located in the heart of Chelsea, and has hosted marquee artists from Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and Carlos Santana to

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Future of CHELSEA

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Monday, June 8 6-8pm The Rubin Museum | 150 West 17th St. Featured speakers include: Few neighborhoods have changed as quickly, or as dramatically, as Chelsea. This community forum will bring together artists, gallery owners, elected ofďŹ cials and industry leaders to dissect what has happened to Chelsea and outline the very delicate balance it now needs to strike: Can it continue to grow as a leading-edge art center while retaining the feel of a neighborhood? What can be done to keep the artists who helped put it on the map? How will the arrival of the Whitney Museum and, soon, the Hudson Yards project transform the neighborhood?

Patrick Sears Executive Director Rubin Museum of Art

Stephen Haller Art Dealer Stux + Haller Gallery

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Corey Johnson City Council Member District 3

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TACKLING THE FLEAS AND TICKS OF SUMMER PETS Sizing up the options for your pet BY ANN E. HOHENHAUS

When I started my career as a veterinarian, the options for flea and tick control were limited, smelly and messy. Thirty years later, the options for pet owners to prevent ectoparasite infestations are infinitely better and way more numerous. Better flea and tick control has resulted in healthier pets. No longer do I see dogs and cats crawling with fleas from head to tail. This decreases the occurrence of flea allergic dermatitis and superficial skin infections. While we still see allergies in pets, they are much more comfortable, thanks to these new products. The big revolution in flea and tick prevention started when top spot products were introduced. These are the little tubes of liquid that come in

multipacks for monthly application to the nape of your pet’s neck. The product then distributes throughout the haircoat and kills fleas and ticks when they come in contact with the medicine on your pet’s hair. Oral products can be active against only fleas or prevent multiple species of ticks as well. Most oral products come as tasty chew treats and are administered monthly; although longer lasting products are also available. Unlike the early flea collars, today’s models last for months at a time. Depending on which collar your veterinarian prescribes, some modern flea collars prevent one species of tick, while others are effective against multiple species of ticks AND fleas as well. When selecting from this array of products, consider the following criteria: 1. Talk with your veterinarian about the types of parasites in your area. Selecting a product with a profile that fits your area’s parasite population is

critical. 2. Top spot products often repel as well as kill fleas and ticks. If you live in a geographic locale with high numbers of fleas and ticks, you might want this added protection. 3. Certain collars and oral preventatives last for months at a time. If you are busy and forgetful, one of these products might be a good choice. 4. Not all top spot preparations and collars are waterproof. If your dog is a swimmer, choose a waterproof product or consider an oral flea and tick preventative. 5. If you have a puppy or kitten, make sure the product you select is safe for the newest family member. Some products are not labeled for pets less than 6-12 weeks of age. 6. Use dog products for dogs and cat products for cats. Never switch, or you may need a trip to the animal ER. Ann E. Hohenhaus, DVM, is board certified in oncology and small animal internal medicine

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AL HIRSCHFELD, THE 20TH CENTURY’S LINE KING

Self portrait, 1985. Ink on boardCollection of Harvard University© The Al Hirschfeld Foundationwww. AlHirschfeldFoundation.org

Ella Fitzgerald, 1993Ink on boardCollection of Harvard University© The Al Hirschfeld Foundation www.AlHirschfeldFoundation.org

More than 100 original works of the legendary caricaturist on view at the New-York Historical Society BY VAL CASTRONOVO

He’s been variously dubbed Mr. Broadway, the Line King and just plain Al. But the bearded draftsman who produced 10,000 drawings in an 82-year career — most from the seat of a barber’s chair — is being lauded as an artist, too, at a new show at the New-York Historical Society. “The Hirschfeld Century: The Art of Al Hirschfeld” is a tribute to creative genius but also to hard work. The 20th century’s master lineman practiced his art every day, from 10 to 5, with breaks for lunch and tea, guest curator and Hirschfeld archivist David Leopold said during a spirited tour of

the exhibit. As Leopold writes in his new book, The Hirschfeld Century: Portrait of an Artist and His Age, Hirschfeld regarded talent as “’a drug on the market’ ... it was discipline that mattered.” The fruits of his labors, more than 100 original works, are on parade at the Society, with drawings that deﬁned pop culture in the last century organized by decade. Leopold emphasized that the man renowned for his caricatures of theater, ﬁlm and dance personalities preferred the term “characterist” to caricaturist — the former denoting an artist in search of the signature gesture or movement that captured a subject’s essence. His works in the early years were used by Hollywood film studios to promote their productions and later graced the

pages of The New York Times, among other publications, for nearly 75 years. Unlike artists whose careers waxed and waned, Hirschfeld never saw a decline in the quality or quantity of his output. He worked until the day before he died in 2003 at 99, and the work just got better and better, the curator marveled as he pointed to the 2001 drawing, “Ted Shawn at Jacob’s Pillow,” with the dancer’s pose mirroring the arc of a row of trees. Despite his Broadway bona fides, Hirschfeld was born in St. Louis in 1903. A “sickness for drawing” at an early age prompted a move to New York with his family when he was 11 to hone his art skills. In 1924, he befriended Mexican caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias, who became his roommate and exerted a profound inﬂuence

on his decision to pursue caricature, along with illustrator John Held Jr. Hirschfeld famously said that he had little interest in anatomical drawing — what he derisively referred to as “eye, ear, nose, and throat portraits” — preferring exaggerated portrayals of his subjects that revealed their true character and personality. But he became convinced that line drawing, not painting, was his true métier after a trip to Bali in 1932. There he saw the sun bleach out ﬁgures and reduce them to “pure line.” And shadow puppets, which “revealed how much character one could articulate through a simple outline,” Leopold writes. The Society’s show is a mix of iconic works and less familiar ones, some on exhibit for the ﬁrst time. It opens with Laurel and Hardy in bed (“Laurel and Hardy,” 1928), with a patchwork quilt fashioned from scraps of wallpaper covering the grinning duo. It moves to a wild and woolly collage fabricated in 1935 to promote the Marx Brothers’ “A Night at the Opera,” featuring Harpo with cotton-ball hair, Chico with Brillo-pad hair, and Groucho with fur hair jutting out from both sides of his head in the shape of triangles. As Leopold tells it, Hirschfeld knew he was hitting the mark when his subjects “started to look like the drawing, rather than the other way around.”

Some greatest hits in a show of greatest hits include a 1993 portrait of Ella Fitzgerald, which cartoonist Jules Feiffer pronounced Hirschfeld’s best work, the curator said. “Nina’s Revenge” (1966) is a charming portrait of the artist’s daughter as a young woman. People of a certain age will recall spending Sunday mornings searching for the “NINAs” hidden in Hirschfeld’s drawings for The Times’ arts section. Born in 1945 to Al and his second wife, Dolly Haas, Nina was Hirschfeld’s only child. He started surreptitiously embedding her name in his drawings shortly after her birth, adding an Arabic numeral next to his signature in 1960 to denote the number of concealed names — a response to a request from Times publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger by way of a reader who did not know when to stop hunting. “Nina’s Revenge” boasts no NINAs at all — just the names of her loving parents, Al and Dolly, in her hair curls and clothing. By the end of his life, Hirschfeld was named a “Living Landmark” by The New York Landmarks Conservancy and had a Broadway theater named after him. As his third wife and the show’s organizer, Louise Kerz Hirschfeld, quoted Al at a preview of the exhibit: “If you live long enough, everything happens to you.”

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ACTIVITIES FOR THE FERTILE MIND

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Time Inside Us

THURSDAY, JUNE 4TH, 7:30PM 14th Street Y | 344 E. 14th St. | 646-395-4310 | 14streety.org Time and mind: opera, poetry and learning come together with an agenda that includes a mashup of food and narrative, and a study of time’s passage as read in ancient Jewish texts. ($20)

We’re Still Here Ya Bastards: How The People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10TH, 6:30PM The New School | 55 W. 13th St. | 212-229-5108 | newschool.edu As the ten-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, a panel discusses the resilience of New Orleans, moderated by Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil author John Berendt. (Free) The staging area and construction yard for a renovation project at Gracie Mansion, which will keep a pedestrian path to the Carl Schurz Park promenade closed until about November.

GRACIE MANSION GETS MAKEOVER A nearly $4 million renovation will include a new roof, reconstruction of chimneys BY RICHARD KHAVKINE

The mayor’s mansion is getting a makeover, to the tune of nearly $4 million. According to permits filed with the city’s Department of Buildings, Gracie Mansion will get a new roof, and its decorative railings, skylights and chimneys will be rebuilt this summer. The project, in the works since 2010, will be paid through mayoral funding. Two-thirds of the projected $3.78 million cost of the renovations was budgeted by the Bloomberg administration, with the remaining amount by the de Blasio administration, according to Jonathan Mellon, a senior architectural conservator with the Historic House Trust, a not-for-proﬁt that works with the city Parks & Recreation Department to preserve and promote 22 historic house museums in the city. The trust is project’s de facto general contractor. “We’re running a tight shop on this and should be able to keep costs down,” he said. Before the renovations can

begin, asbestos material found in the roof membrane and elsewhere will be removed. According to the Parks & Recreation Department, which owns the mansion, the asbestos is among the more benign types. That work will begin later this month and last about four weeks. Roof work begin after the remediation. The renovation will also include the installation of copper-lined gutters; reconstruction of the mansion’s four brick chimneys; restoration of decorative wood railings; and replacement of skylights and roof hatches, according to the Parks Department. The project is scheduled for completion in early November 2015. The mayor and his family are expected to stay at Gracie for the duration of the project. In approving the renovations, staff at the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission said that the work would “mitigate potentially unstable conditions.” It noted that the new asphalt shingle rooﬁng would return the mansion “closer to its original appearance.” The mansion’s roof was last replaced about 30 years ago, Mellon said. The renovations will be done by Nicholson & Galloway, which has restored roofs and

done other renovation work on dozens of city landmarks, including the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the main branch of the New York Public Library. Although the Gracie Mansion Conservancy runs the house and the grounds, large capital projects are undertaken by the city, which owns the mansion. The mansion, built in 1799 by merchant Archibald Gracie. Although owned by the city, it’s operated by the Gracie Mansion Conservancy, which was established by Mayor Ed Koch in 1981. The city bought the house and the parcel on which it sat in 1891 as it was assembling what would become Carl Schurz Park. For 40 years, it would function variously as an ice cream parlor, tool shed and even public “comfort station,” according to a 1975 history of the mansion compiled by the state Division for Historic Preservation. Following a restoration, it housed the Museum of the City of New York for about ﬁve years until 1932. On recommendation from Robert Moses, it became the mayor’s official residence in 1943. Fiorello LaGuardia was the ﬁrst chief executive to live there.

Just Announced: The Great Depression, the Great Recession & the (Mis)Uses of History

THURSDAY, JULY 16TH, 12PM 92nd Street Y | 1395 Lexington Ave. | 212-415-5500 | 92y.org Credit booms, global instability and sketchy banking predicated two major economic collapses; hear how our partial ﬁxes might lead to a third. ($24)

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Food & Drink < DOH SAYS NO TO DOGS AT RESTAURANTS The city’s Department of Health announced opposition to legislation that would allow dogs into outdoor dining areas in the city’s restaurants, the New York Daily News reported. The bill will allow for restaurant operators to choose to allow dogs into outdoor seating

TOP TO ROOT: GOOD TO THE LAST DROP It’s estimated that as much as 40 percent of foodstuffs end up in the garbage. There are delicious ways to put those “scraps” to use BY LIZ NEUMARK

Waste was one of those black and white topics in my upbringing. You finished everything on your plate as the world was filled with starving children. My Grandma Nellie, who came to this country between the world wars, never threw anything out. It was simply not in her DNA. Today, it is a commonly accepted fact that 40 percent of U.S. food production — from farm ﬁelds to processing facilities to wholesale/retail outlets and homes — ends up in the trash. From imperfect fruits and veggies, to scraps, trimmings and other remaining edible food bits and leftovers, we excel at creating waste. All this happens without an uproar. Food waste falls into two broad categories: the things we look at as unusable remnants, like carrot tops, and the leftovers that we don’t know how to transform, like old bread or overripe brown bananas. Fortunately, a vigorous conversation about waste is inspiring chefs everywhere — from food movement leader Dan Barber to home cooks like us — to reconsider what belongs in our garbage and what might end up on our plates instead.

So, it’s time to think creatively and to have fun in the kitchen. These are perfect moments to extend the conversation and challenge other adults and, even better, children. How can we utilize our food resources more creatively? For example, this past weekend I bought the season’s ﬁrst baby beets in the Greenmarket, with vibrant beet tops and perfect stems. A few possibilities came to mind: 1. Pickle the stems in quickpickle brine and enjoy in a pasta dish or salad. 2. Sauté the beet greens in a splash of olive oil, sea salt and garlic. 3. Roast the beets roots. 4. Make beet-green pesto. 5. Combine all three parts of the beet in a fun, citrus-infused dish (recipe below), which is what I did. It was delicious. Carrots are another vegetable that can be used top to root — the peelings too. There is nothing as fragrant and rich as fresh carrot tops and I often offer to take a bag full of discarded tops from farmers who dutifully remove them for many of their customers. In noodling around the internet on the subject of using vegetable scraps, I discovered carrotmuseum.com (www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/ carrotops.html) and a British recipe from World War II for carrot top and potato soup — a nod to the scarcity and value of fresh food. The site has a wealth of carrot-top uses acknowl-

edging their earthiness when cooked (though bitter raw.) Who knew? When I am doing lots of cooking, I save all my vegetable scraps; from carrot peels and tops, pepper tops/ribs/seeds, onion skins, leeks, celery bottoms or leafy stalks, garlic scraps, herbs stems, corn cobs (exclude broccoli, cabbage or other members of the Brassica

family.) I put them in a big pot with cold water to cover (and sometimes add a few other items like extra carrots or whatever might round out the ﬂavor) and simmer for two hours. I then strain and season and am left with a delicious vegetable stock or refreshing cold drink. I asked our chefs at Great Performances to share some of their “rescue recipes.” Pastry Chef Rob Valencia thrives on creative thriftiness and he came up with “Veggie Crackers” made from leftover

areas, a change from the current law. DOH spokesperson Christopher Miller said this change will create health and safety hazards for restaurant patrons and employees, the Daily News noted, though the legislation was approved by the state Senate and has

pulp. “I use a juice extractor for making the juice for our sorbets and our sweet vellies (paté de fruits). When making kale, carrot or beet vellies you are left with tons of pulp. I take that pulp and blend it with chia seeds, flax seeds and rice flour to make veggie crackers for hors d’oeuvres.” 3 cups pulp vegetable/fruit pulp from juicer ¼ cup chia seeds ½ cup rice flour 1 cup water Blend together in a food processor until smooth. Spread onto a Silpat and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes until crispy. “For baking at home my bruised bananas and dark

garnered support from assembly member Linda Rosenthal, the sponsor of the bill who represents the Upper West Side. Assembly member Richard Gottfried, the chair of the assembly’s health committee, also supports the bill.

experience in ‘the secret basket,’ just look in fridge, freezer and pantry. Use what you see. The leftovers and staples that you have may surprise you.” Mark’s Chicken Mole, reinvented: “There were two pieces of chicken thighs in my freezer and a big ol’ dark chocolate bar in the fridge. Roast the chicken, but the mole sauce makes this leftover dish a special meal. Slowly melt the chocolate. If you do not have dried chilies any seasoning from your spice rack will work; salt, sugar, allspice, cumin, cinnamon, hot sauce. Use water if you do not have stock. Blend all with melted chocolate over low heat. Thicken sauce with bread, tortillas, or even graham crackers.”

< Basil Fried Rice with Chicken is an easy, and delicious, option for leftovers. Photo: Alpha, via Flickr.

avocados become AVOCANNA Bread — the California Avocado Board offers some great recipes!” Production Chef Mark Greico shared his creative approach in making magic with leftovers. “A great tip on how to think about what you are going to make for dinner is not to think. If you stress and randomly think of dishes you will ﬁnd that you are missing ingredients for completion. Chefs, with their

Executive Chef Tim Sullivan reports in on rescue tactics from Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola: “Used to make stocks: Lobster bodies and shrimp shells are used to make bisque; chicken bones are used to make chicken stock; corn cobs are used to make corn velouté; veg ends used for veggie stocks” “Breads from the prior evening: Brioche burger rolls are great for spoon breads; dinner rolls are sliced and baked into crostini for our preservation plate; cornbread is transformed

into cornbread pudding. “With the exception of leftovers gone rotten, there are innumerable ways to reuse food, many reflecting different culinary cultures and traditions: Bread pudding is a delicious invention created for the purpose of using up all bread and ailing fruit. Fried rice is the perfect dish to transform leftover rice, along with odds and end of veggies, fish or meats, into a hearty meal. Lasagnas make great use of leftover veggies (already roasted or freshly sautéed for layering between the pasta and cheese). Leftover hamburgers are reincarnated in a bolognese sauce over pasta or can be used for a delicious taco filling.” That’s the way to think about food — always making lemonade from extra lemons. And listen for your grandmother’s voice whispering in your ear, “What? That’s garbage? Are you nuts?” Beets; Roots & All 1 bunch market fresh beets with healthy looking tops 1 sliced onion 2 minced cloves garlic 3 Tb olive oil 3 Tb fresh orange juice 1 Tb balsamic vinegar Grated skin of half the orange Wash the beet well; separate the roots, red stems and the green tops. Roast beets in oven, wrapped in foil with drizzle of oil, for about an hour. (When done you can slip them out of their skins, but if the beets are young and fresh, leave the skins on.) Sauté the onion in olive oil till translucent then add stems, salt, and minced garlic about 3 minutes till soft. Add beet tops and both liquids, cook another 4 minutes. Add the roasted beet roots. Top with zest before serving. Liz Neumark is the CEO of Great Performances catering and the author of the cookbook Sylvia’s Table.

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS MAY 26 - 29, 2015

Big Smoke Burger

70 7 Avenue

Grade Pending (20) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared. Tobacco use, eating, or drinking from open container in food preparation, food storage or dishwashing area observed.

Pier 60

And West Side Highway

Grade Pending (18) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. 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. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Avenue

116 10 Avenue

Cafe Pick Me Up

145147 Avenue A

Grade Pending (20) 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.

Eastern Bloc

505 East 6 Street

Ten Degrees

121 St Marks Place

Mcdonald’s

102 1 Avenue

No Malice Palace

197 East 3 Street

Whitman’s

406 East 9 Street

Subway

223 Avenue B

The Wayland

700 East 9 Street

Michelle Restaurant

125 Avenue D

Not Graded Yet (36) 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. Live roaches 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.

Tree

190 1 Avenue

Grade Pending (31) Food not cooked to required minimum temperature. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. 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. A

Flatiron Lounge

37 West 19 Street

10Th Avenue Cookshop

156 10 Avenue

Famiglia Of Chelsea Piers

0 Chelsea Piers/ Pier 61

Flex Mussels

154 West 13 Street

Chinese Fast Wok

230 7 Avenue

Grade Pending (21) 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. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Go Go Curry Chelsea

Blossom Du Jour

144 West 19 Street

259 West 23Rd St

Grade Pending (17) 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. 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.

The Taco Truck

Nka @ West 15Th Street

Rosa’s Pizza

2 W 14Th St

Grade Pending (20) 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.

Roccos

162 7Th Ave

Not Graded Yet (25) 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. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Ciao For Now

107 West 10 Street

Co Ba Restaurant

110 9Th Ave

Grade Pending (24) 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. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.

Chelsea Deli And Bakery

254 8Th Ave

Grade Pending (29) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked ﬁsh and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, crosscontaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. 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.

Sushi Seki

208 West 23 Street

La Carbornara

202 West 14 Street

Grade Pending (19) 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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A TWIST TO HAPPILY EVER AFTER Q&A First-time author Eliza Kennedy on her dad promoting her book, the home office she shares with her husband and the actress who could star in a movie adaptation BY ANGELA BARBUTI

In her debut novel, attorney-turnedwriter Eliza Kennedy made her protagonist a lawyer because she knew she “could make it real, vivid and fun.” She not only succeeded in that, but Kennedy, who attended Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, proved she has a unique voice that can entertain while bringing to light some of life’s poignant questions. In “I Take You,” which was released on May 5, her fearless heroine — or antiheroine, depending on your stance — is set to marry a man she considers pretty close to perfect. But in the week leading up to the nuptials, she ﬁnds she can’t shake her attraction to other men and inﬁdelity ensues. The book’s backdrop is Key West, which was the tropical setting to Kennedy’s wedding to author Joshua Ferris. Although Kennedy did have some mishaps at her own ceremony, “Ours were far more the traditional kind,” she said. “You know, the bridesmaid missed her plane and a reader had to go to the hospital and missed the ceremony.”

A few days ago, I was on the E train and a woman was reading your book. I told her I was interviewing you, and she said she was really enjoying it. This all happened because of the bright jacket cover. You had some say in that design, right? Awesome. I hope everyone around you was listening. The publishing company, I think they had a lot of internal possibilities. This is the one that they showed me and I really loved. I had a little bit of say in minor changes to it – to the ﬁgure and the shape of it and stuff like that – which they took. Probably, if I completely hated it, they would have taken that into account, but fortunately I really loved what they did.

Was making Lily a lawyer something you always wanted to do? Not really. I was actually thinking about this yesterday because I’m trying to write an essay about being a lawyer and how it affected me as a writer. I made Lily a lawyer because that’s what I know. She could have been anything, as long as it mattered to her. Because I wanted her job to be the aspect of her identity that made her a little bit more of this hot mess, loose woman who doesn’t have any thoughts in her head. I wanted her to be confused and often do the wrong thing, but also have this side to her. So it could have been anything; I just settled on the law because I thought I could do it in a fun way.

Lawyer and novelist Eliza Kennedy. Photo: Lauren Vo

If this becomes a movie, who would you want to play Lily? We actually argue a lot about that in my household because my husband has very deﬁnite opinions. Actually, we had family over to dinner and everybody loves to talk about it. It’s tricky because there are a ton of people who could do it. I think the interesting thing is that people read the book and they start having an idea of what she looks like. And because I don’t really describe her ever, some people think that she’s completely beautiful, and others don’t. I’m on the side of someone who’s not necessarily ﬂat-out beautiful, but she’s able to do what she does because she’s super charismatic. The one I currently would love is Anna Kendrick. I think she would be perfect. She’s also very funny.

How did you meet your husband? We actually met in college, at the University of Iowa, many years ago. But we didn’t start dating until 10 years later when we were both living in Chicago. I read that you both write in your apartment, and now you’re typing in different rooms. [Laughs] Apparently I’m a little loud. We have our desks set up where he’s got the living room and I’ve got the dining room. And it works pretty well. We’re actually on slightly different schedules. I get up really early and work, and he stays up a few hours later and works. It’s nice because we each have our own total silent time where nobody’s awake or bothering us. And then the rest of time it’s nice because you have someone to have lunch with and all that stuff.

Is it true that you are both each others’ ﬁrst readers? Absolutely. It’s really great. Josh went to an MFA program, so he’s a wonderful reader for me, especially since I didn’t have any formal training in writing. It’s nice to have someone who can really read something and identify what’s wrong with it and how to ﬁx it. I’ve been reading for him for as long as he’s been writing, so I think I’ve gotten pretty good at it too.

You also showed your dad a draft of the novel, right? Yes, I did. I probably showed him once I knew I was on my way, so maybe like 50 or 80 pages in. Other than my husband, he was the only person who read it before I submitted it to agents. And it was a little weird. [Laughs] He’s a huge reader … and he was so enthusiastic. And he lives in Naples, Florida, and has been ﬂogging

The cover of Kennedy’s debut novel. the book to death there among all his friends and golﬁng buddies. So a lot of people down there might be surprised that this is the particular book that he’s selling. [Laughs]

You’re working on a second novel, about a women who discovers her husband is having an affair. What are the challenges to writing infidelity into the plots of both your books? I think the main challenge is how readers come to the whole topic with their own pasts and beliefs. And so many people have very black-andwhite opinions, that infidelity is wrong and that’s it. I find it such an interesting topic and not to be blackand-white at all. The biggest challenge that I find is to try to figure out how to write in such a way that presents the nuances of it to people who might come to it totally unwilling to see that. Like, you want the cheater to be the bad guy, and sometimes that person is. But I think sometimes it’s a lot more complicated. The challenge is figuring out how to keep it interesting and nuanced, but at the same time, I’m not necessarily trying to make an argument; I’m just presenting the broader situation. Kennedy will be in conversation with author Jane Green and sign copies of her book at Book Culture, 450 Columbus Ave., at 82nd Street, at 7 p.m. on June 9. Follow her on Twitter @ElizacatKennedy. To learn more about the novel, visit www. lilywilder.com

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