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READY FOR THE MARCH On Saturday, New Yorkers will make their way to Trump Tower to show support for a range of rights issues

BY MADELEINE THOMPSON

On January 21, as Presidentelect Donald Trump begins his first day in office, thousands of New Yorkers will march to Trump Tower to make their voices heard in support of women’s rights. They will be joined by what could be a record num-

ber of others across the country not long after the presidenwho feel there has never been tial election. The D.C. march is a more crucial time to fight for expected to draw as many as “civil rights for every human re- 200,000 people, and Kathergardless of gender, race, sexual ine Siemionko, one of the New orientation, ethnicity, disability, York City march organizers, is religion or creed,” according to planning for 100,000. “That’s a the Women’s March on NYC mis- conservative estimate based on group registration,” she said. sion statement.

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The costs of providing increased NYPD security for President-elect Donald Trump at his Midtown residence are clearly substantial — $37.4 million from Election Day to Inauguration Day, according to recent projections — but city lawmakers say they need more detailed information from the police department to understand what the final tally will be and who will foot the bill.

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The unprecedented prospect of providing NYPD protection to a sitting president living in Midtown Manhattan for a significant portion of his term lies at the heart of the police department’s argument for federal reimbursement. “New York City taxpayers should not ultimately be on the hook for that, considering the significant expense that it will be,” Grippo said.

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CITY KITTIES IN THE HOT ZONE Nearly 500 shelter cats infected with the avian flu are quarantined for treatment

BY CHARMAINE P. RICE

It’s flu season in the Big Apple and this time around, it’s domestic cats who are on the forefront — with nearly 500 avian flu-infected cats quarantined in a Long Island City facility since Dec. 29.

All hands are on deck at the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals’ temporary shelter facility, where the city’s shelter cats are being cared for and monitored.

In addition to the veterinary experts, professional animal-crisis workers, and local ASPCA volunteers, other volunteers from all over the U.S. have

converged in this pocket of Queens to lend a helping hand in caring for the sick felines. Inside this hot zone, workers at the facility must wear protective gear at all times. The quarantined kitties are undergoing ongoing lab tests, conducted by veterinary experts from the Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine.

The ASPCA and Maddie’s Fund are splitting the cost of the cats’ treatment. Maddie’s Fund is a national nonprofit that supports no-kill shelters and is endowed by the founder of Workday and PeopleSoft, Dave Duffield, and his wife, Cheryl. The organization works closely with the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC Animals and is named after the family’s beloved miniature schnauzer.

Cats quarantined for fear they might have contracted avian flu undergo lab tests conducted by veterinary experts at a temporary shelter facility set up by the ASPCA in Long Island City. Photo: ASPCA

About 500 avian flu-infected cats have been quarantined in a Long Island City facility since late last month. Photo: ASPCA

Thankfully, the flu-fighting felines appear to be holding up.

“Some of the cats are showing mild flu-like symptoms such as sneezing or runny nose, but the majority of them are doing well at the temporary shelter and the University of Wisconsin is conducting ongoing tests to determine cats who are cleared of the virus,” said ASPCA spokesperson Emily Schneider.

According to the New York City Health Department, this outbreak marks the first time this low pathogen strain of H7N2 has infected a population of domestic cats. To date, it’s still unclear as to how the cats became infected, but there have been reports that the virus initially made its way into the Bronx Animal Care Center (ACC), infecting a kitten named Alfred — identified as “patient zero” — who was brought to that shelter in October, and later died on November 12. Since the virus is highly contagious among cats and they are sometimes moved from one ACC shelter to another, the virus evidently spread within the ACC’s network, but the origin of how Alfred came down with H7N2 remains a mystery. In addition to Alfred, one other cat, Mimi, from the East Harlem ACC location, has died.

The ACC operates a shelter in each of the five boroughs, and is one of the largest animal welfare organizations in the country, reportedly taking in more than 35,000 animals each year. Once

the virus was discovered, ACC suspended adoptions of cats and urged the public to refrain from dropping cats off at their shelters. A decontamination effort subsequently took place.

Other animals at the ACC shelters remain virus-free and the risk of cats-to-human transmission remain low. “The University of Wisconsin’s veterinary experts have tested other species at ACC,” said Schneider. “No other species have tested positive for H7N2 except for these cats and one human.” The Health Department reports that the infected person was “a veterinarian who was involved in obtaining respiratory specimens from sick cats at the Manhattan shelter. The illness was mild, shortlived, and has resolved.”

The odds of re-infection appear to be low. “This [re-infection] is highly unlikely, however, this is a virus that’s new in cats and we are still learning about it,” cautions Schneider. “In general, flu infection typically leads to immunity for most carriers, and that immunity can last for about a year.”

Experts urge those who adopted a cat from an ACC shelter between Nov. 12 and Dec. 15 to monitor them for signs of illness.

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), symptoms to look out for include sneezing, persistent cough, lip smacking, runny nose, fever, lack of energy and decreased appetite.

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG BLOOMING FAIL

STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 19th precinct

A man was arrested when he went shoplifting for winter clothes.

At 6 p.m. the day after Christmas, a 28-year-old Queens man entered the Bloomingdale’s store on Third Avenue and took three coats and one hat from a display into a ďŹ tting room.

Loss prevention personnel noticed that he left the ďŹ tting room with only one coat, and no merchandise remained in the ďŹ tting room. He was apprehended on his way out of the store, and the missing merchandise, valued at $2,250, was discovered in his school bag. He was arrested and charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.

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BARNEY’S STORMING Bloomingdale’s wasn’t the area’s only high-end department store being plagued by shoplifters in recent weeks. At 7:44 p.m. on Dec. 29, a 22-year-old Bronx man entered Barney’s on Madison Avenue and was witnessed by security putting a scarf on display into his right jeans pocket.

On the second oor he was also seen concealing a shirt on his person and on the fourth oor a sweatshirt. Taken

together the items are worth $1,365.

He was apprehended and arrested on a charge of grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.

Then at 5:10 p.m. on New Year’s Day, a 22-year-old Bronx woman was captured on Barney’s security cameras hiding a shirt under her jacket and concealing other items in her gym bag. She too was apprehended and arrested on charges of grand larceny

and criminal possession of stolen property when she attempted to leave the store without paying. In total, the merchandize she attempted to lift was given a value of $1,097.

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for forgery. At 6:15 on Dec. 28, a 20-year-old Bronx woman entered the Chase Bank at 360 East 72nd St. and attempted to cash a check.

Bank personnel became suspicious, however, and called the account holder, who conďŹ rmed that the check was fraudulent. Police arrived and arrested the young woman, charging her with criminal possession of a forged instrument and petty larceny.

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MEET THE CHEF: MIGHTY QUINN’S HUGH MANGUM What’s the story behind Mighty Quinn’s Barbeque?

My stepbrother Micha has two kids, a boy and a girl. Christos, his brother-in-law, has three daughters, and I have three sons. Between the three of us, we’re like the Brady Bunch, plus two. It’s the perfect partnership. I oversee food and serve as the moral compass for the brand. Micha is from a Wall Street hedgefund background, he’s a financial guru. I call him The Matrix because he can sit under a screen of numbers and make sense of everything. Christos is a second generation restauranteur, and has a background in catering. He was one of the partners at The Venetain in New Jersey, which is the state’s largest catering hall.

He has a ton of experience in the front and the back of the house—he gets the business sense, he gets the food sense.

So there’s three brothers, Christos, Mischa, and myself. We got started at a flea market with a smoker. We decided to open up our first brick and mortar about a year later in the East Village in December of 2012, so we just had our four- year anniversary. About three months into us being open we were reviewed in the New York Times, and the levy broke. We got an insanely great review and we ended up on the “Best of List” for The Times, Zagat, and so on. So that really reaffirmed that we could open more restaurants. We’re now at nine worldwide. We just opened our first location in the Phillipines and we opened our second location in Taipei.

How did you get started cooking?

Second career. I started off in music and

the top ten in the country, the pulled pork, which the Times said is the only pulled pork in the city, and the sweet potato casserole is a family recipe. It’s like Thanksgiving in a cup.

was a touring musicican in a rock band. I’m still a drummer, I just don’t do it professionally anymore. When my father passed away 18 years ago, he had left me a little bit of money and I decided to honor my relationship with him, which was very close and centered around food and baseball and bicycles. But food was the best way for me to still communicate with him, so to speak.

I went to culinary school, fell in love with food and it became my passion.

What are some signature items on the menu?

Brisket built the house. It had a moment three years ago. I was serving it at that market five years ago, so when it had its moment, we were already doing it and we were doing it better than anybody else.

I stand by everything on the menu, but if I had to single out a few items: the wings are my favorite thing—and are rated as being

What’s your favorite thing about New York?

I moved to New York from L.A because of food, and if there’s one thing I’ll always love about New York it will be the diversity of the food and the people. There’s something about New Yorkers: this sense of pride. When we opened our first location in the East Village, there had been six or seven failed restaurants in there within 10 years, which is like the kiss of death. So we brought in a priest, a rabbi, and a feng shui lady to bless the place. Everyone in the East Village embraced what we were doing and Mighty Quinn’s became a neighborhood place. We were doing something very genuine and the neighborhood got that.

Number one barbeque tip?

Everyone skips ahead—people will say the rub, the sauce, or how long you cook the meat. But where it all starts is with the fire.

You can take the best or worst cut of meat and make it taste really good if you know how to manage your fire. We call it a sexy fire: it’s not blaring or blazing, but it’s not dead. There’s a bed of embers, a glow, a log or two giving some smoke. You need to get familiar with the fire first—it’s like looking before you leap.

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and doing our catering events.

At the same time I got involved with another catering venue, whose owner taught me everything he knew. I continued to work for him while I went to the Culinary Institute of America. I did an internship in Italy and had apprenticeships from the North to the South of Italy, and fell in love with traditional Italian cuisine. I worked all over: Italy, Spain, America, Korea. I was a guest chef sent from Milan to Soeul, Korea to represent Italian cuisine at a Korean-owned trattoria. When I came back, I got into corporate dining.

Ross Posmentier, tell me about your role at NewYork-Presbyterian.

My patients are my guests, and our servers give top customer service. The people staying here have butlers and private chefs, and we really just try to make this an extension of their homes. We try to make their hospital stay as positive of an experience as possible. It’s all about quality and fresh ingredients.

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What kind of food do you serve?

Everything’s homemade. Our New York strip steak is very popular, as it the tomato, basil, and buffalo mozzarella appetizer.

We’ve had a lot of Middle Eastern patients, so I’ve created an international menu that is Arabic-based.

The soups are very big: they’re warming, they’re comfort food. The rigatoni and meatballs is also a very popular dish.

When you’re in a hospital you don’t want foie gras or to smell seafood. So we work to make everything look really nice and sexy with good plating, but not take it too far.

Here, you want what mom would make you when you’re sick. So if a patient isn’t interested in the menu items, I tell him to put it aside and tell me what he would want if he was at home. If we don’t have whatever it is in the house, I’ll make it my business to go

out and bring it back. I will make it. We’re healing with food here. Food is medicine as far as I’m concerned.

When did you get started in the culinary world?

I got started in the industry at 14 years old, stocking refrigerators and doing dishes at a local delicatessen at my hometown in Westchester. Everything was made from scratch, so from a young age I knew that quality really matters. Instead of buying Boar’s Head, we roasted 30-pound turkeys and sliced those for sandwiches. Next thing you know I was roasting the turkeys

What’s your number one cooking tip?

There are two parts: keep it simple, and use good, fresh ingredients. That’s the number one thing I learned working throughout Europe. If the ingredients are good, they’ll speak for themselves and you won’t have to do much to them.

The most rewarding part of your job?

When a patient or family members communicate to me what a great experience they had in a hospital setting here at New YorkPresbyterian.

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â&#x2013;˛ HUNGARIAN CULTURE Hungarian House, 213 East 82nd St. 5:30-9 p.m. Free Revisit heritage and creativity that has animated Central European culture across centuries, through the prism of Hungarian art.

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CHARITABLE GIVING Loews Regency, 540 Park Ave. 5-7:30 p.m. eMoney Advisor hosts an educational workshop on charitable planning and collaborative technology.

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Wed 25 TRUMP AND ASIA Asia Society, 725 Park Ave. 6-8 p.m. $15 A town hall meeting examines the challenges and opportunities facing the new U.S. administration in Asia.

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MY BLOCK IS A BACKLOT Lights, camera, action: an Upper East Side neighborhood becomes a hotbed for TV and film production

BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL

I could see Mariska Hargitay from my window. I know, I sound a bit like Tina Fey as Sarah Palin saying she could see Russia from her house, but it’s true. I also spied her blonde “Law & Order: SVU” co-star Kelli Giddish.

They were chatting on the steps of a size-of-a-small-home trailer that was parked in front of my building while they shot an episode of their hit show, which is in its 18th season on NBC. About two months ago, when the weather was warmer, my 19-yearold daughter Meg and I walked down to Carl Schurz Park to watch the filming of TVLand’s “Younger”

with Sutton Foster. Yes, we were part of the crowd of lookie-loos who watched Foster ride a bike, then fall off it onto an inflatable mattress.

When we watched the episodes a few weeks later, it depicted the wellknown Broadway singer/dancer being hit by a car and doing a header off the bike.

I’m no stranger to having my Upper East Side block transformed into a backlot, with trailers, noparking cones, and crew members with walkie-talkies; East 86th Street and the surrounding area has been a hotbed of TV and film production, especially around the park, for over a decade.

About six years ago, Meg was almost apoplectic when they shot “Gossip Girl” on our street, but my favorite experience happened a

block over on First Avenue, where fire trucks abounded and a battalion of men and women clad as members of the FDNY climbed ladders and shouted orders at each other.

When I was half way down the block and away from the action, which was still semi-visible, a distraught man crossed the street, leaping (I kid you not) over the curb’s mound of snow, waving his arms at me and yelling, “Miss!”

He caught up with me and asked in all sincerity, “What’s going on?

Is it terrorism?” I tried to remain straight-faced and said nonchalantly, “They’re shooting an episode of ‘Third Watch’.” We both started to laugh nervously as he dropped his head in alarmist embarrassment.

A lot of people don’t like it when Hollywood makes itself at home on our turf. I hear some neighbors, as well as strangers who speak really loudly, complain: “They take all the parking spots;” “Some kid with a headset told me to keep moving;”

and the ever popular, “This is so disruptive.” But I don’t mind.

In fact, I like it. The lights. The cameras. The action. It’s fun to see how “movie magic” is made, as well as the stars who make it. Sutton Foster was genuinely nice, and seemed humbled by those seeking autographs. I also enjoy the break from the everyday, telling people who call: “What am I doing? Well, I’m watching Detective Olivia Benson storm into the bar around the corner. I assume she’s making an arrest.” I also, think it’s good for the city.

According to The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, filming in NYC has seen explosive growth over the past year, contributing nearly nine billion dollars and over 130,000 jobs to our economy.

As Manhattan has always been the place where artists thrive, it makes sense that NYC is seen as a thriving center of creativity for TV and film production, showing off what the

REMEMBRANCES AND RECOLLECTIONS

BY BETTE DEWING

Depending on which paper you read, Antal Kiss was either 73 or 75 years old when he suffered fatal head trauma from a fall on an icy Upper East Side sidewalk earlier this month. What does age have to do with this terribly tragic accidental loss of life? Well, if this “elderly man” had been a lot younger, his death on a slippery sidewalk would have received more than small items in the Daily News and the Post. It might even have made The Times, which rarely covers what my Pedestrians/Safe Travel First group calls vehicular “crimes of traffic.”

And so crucial to safe sidewalk conditions, if Antal Kiss had been a child, the concern about un-shoveled and icy sidewalks would be front-paged and prime-timed. Now winter storm warnings are only about making the streets and avenues passable.

Even though New York is the nation’s

most walkable city, side street walkways especially are “short shrifted” by landlords required to remove ice and snow by a certain hour. Do check this paper’s Helpful Contacts column for information and if you remember nothing else from this column, remember to keep this list of elected officials and other resource groups handy. Keep calling the electeds to remind them that government’s first constitutional duty is to protect public welfare and safety and to see that the laws that ensure that protection are strictly enforced — strictly enforced.

And to help this life and death cause, we must also remember how Upper Eastsider Antal Kiss was just out for a late Sunday morning walk – maybe to get the paper and a coffee at a nearby deli or coffee shop, or on his way to or from a Sunday worship service (lamentably, neither type public place is that nearby anymore). Consider as

Photo: Imogene Huxham, via flickr well that the snow had stopped falling and the city was wonderfully quiet — and serenely beautiful — just right for a uniquely restorative walk. Ah, but underfoot on East 73rd near Second avenue there was a patch of likely snow-covered ice that caused Antal Kiss to slip and to fall. There were witnesses to call 911 — although in vain — and one only hopes he did not suffer.

And one almost hopes Antal Kiss — he was identified by the Daily News — did not leave anyone to be devastated by his sudden accidental and preventable death. Many at that age do, of

course, but also many also live alone and getting “out of the house” and into the community can be so needed in a society so divided by age, and where loneliness is now said to be epidemic and a major health hazard.

And after the holidays existing families are often far away and this relates to what I intended to write.

The subject was Marian Robinson whom I wish President Obama had also thanked in his moving farewell address. And it wasn’t her age of 77 that made him forget to include her, but that close extended family ties

five boroughs have to offer. I really hate it when a show or movie tries to pass off a city like Toronto, or worse, a soundstage, as NYC, such as “Seinfeld” used to.

One of my favorite series of commercials is done by USA Network, promoting its “Law & Order” reruns. Tourists ask directions of New Yorkers who instruct, “Oh, the Empire State Building? Just go down this street and make a left at the empty lot where Logan and Biscoe found the dead body.”

I for one look forward to the next set of street signs alerting us that there will be no parking after midnight, as filming will commence at 6 a.m.

Hey, there’s no business, like show business—and you never know when they may need an extra.

Lorraine Duffy Merkl is the author of the novels “Back to Work She Goes” and “Fat Chick,” for which a movie version is in the works.

get short shrift in our nuclear familyoriented society. Maybe you noticed, but Robinson was sitting next to first daughter Malia (where was Sasha?) but too few knew this was the maternal grandmother who for eight years had looked after the first daughters.

Too few read that 2015 Reader’s Digest interview with the first lady which so needs a reviving — the part about being so grateful to have her mother there to care for her daughters, but also as someone to whom she could “really sound off with.”

This so appreciative daughter, whom Vice President Joe Biden recently called “probably the greatest First Lady ever,” ended that interview saying “the extended family is key.” I believe she added that the extended family was “key” to a stable society, where no one is left out — and loneliness is not epidemic when generations, familied or otherwise, are mutually supportive and sufficiently connected.

And here’s hoping the soon to be former first lady will keep pushing that message and that her mother will remain an integral part of the Obama household. And hey, maybe the incoming first lady will also pick up on that potentially uniting Rx. (We gotta have hope!) dewingbetter@aol.com

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WOMEN’S MARCH CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “We’re only assuming half of people on Facebook will actually show up.”

As of Monday morning, 35,000 Facebook users had marked themselves as attending the march in New York City.

The D.C. march had 196,000 Facebook attendees, and the official Women’s March on Washington website counted 700,000 people at all 370 marches that could show up.

Siemionko is a professional project manager, and said she became the point person for the New York City march because she happened to step up. “I think that [the head organizers] started something that they didn’t recognize was so powerful,” she said.

Siemionko had planned to attend the march in D.C. with her sister-in-law, but when that didn’t work out she said, “Don’t worry, I’ll do one right here in New York City. I submitted a permit, and now here I am.” She praised the NYPD for their assistance coordinating security measures with the volunteer safety team, but emphasized that the volunteers’ priority would be to “support the marchers and make sure that their First Amendment right to assemble is not violated by the police or by any city member.” Siemionko does not anticipate problems with what is intend to be a peaceful event.

The space she is renting to house the 1,000 volunteers as well as the stage and sound equipment are among the event’s biggest expenses. A choir will kick off the pre-march rally near the UN by singing “America the Beauti-

TRUMP CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 eration with the Secret Service, has enforced a heightened security zone around Trump Tower, the skyscraper at 56th Street and Fifth Avenue that is owned by Trump and contains his primary residence. Trump is expected to move to Washington after his inauguration, but his wife, Melania, and 10-year-old son, Barron, will reportedly continue to reside in Trump Tower until the end of the school year. The number of days Trump will choose to be in New York as president is unclear, but could severely impact the city’s budget.

At Tuesday’s hearing, NYPD officials projected that Trump’s security will cost the city $500,000 each day he is present at Trump Tower after taking office. Trump Tower will be subject to increased NYPD security levels even when Trump is not present, but the city is not currently seeking federal compensation for those costs, Grippo said.

To the frustration of some council

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Crafting signs at Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger Health Center on Bleecker Street for this week’s Women’s March on NYC. Photo: Carrie Mumah / Planned Parenthood ful,” and groups such as a drumline and brass band will also play. “We’re trying to keep it very upbeat,” Siemionko said. She wouldn’t disclose how much had been raised to support the march, but a GoFundMe page with a goal of $20,000 has been exceeded by nearly $42,000 in donations.

About $700 in sales from a special red pantsuit pin have also contributed to the coffers. Artist Morgan Brock created the accessory so people could show support for values held by the pin’s inspiration, Hillary

members, Deputy Chief James Kehoe, executive officer of the NYPD’s Patrol Borough Manhattan South, cited security concerns in repeatedly declining to discuss specifics related to the $500,000 figure.

“How does somebody take that number seriously unless we know how you arrive at it?” Councilman Daniel Garodnick asked at one point about the number of officers that would need to be deployed to arrive at the half-million-dollar figure.

“We looked at the number, we have broken down the number, but in this arena I am not able, due to the security risk of the president-elect, to give out that number,” Kehoe said.

Later, Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras-Copeland, the chairwoman of the council’s Finance Committee, asked about the security costs the city would incur when Melania and Barron Trump are present at Trump Tower but the president-elect is not.

Kehoe again would not address specifics.

“We’re going to get that figure,” Garodnick said after the hearing. “If they were not prepared or willing to offer it during the hearing, they will

Clinton. After seeing the event on Facebook, Brock reached out to Siemionko, who readily partnered with her.

“We’ve got to go forward from here,” said Brock, who will march in New York City on Saturday.

As may be anticipated for an event of this scale, some fracturing has occurred over the women’s march movement. The four co-chairwomen of the Women’s March on Washington told the New York Times that they were focusing on the struggles of minority and undocumented immigrant wom-

“We should not be losing $28 million on this operation” Councilman Daniel Garodnick have to be more forthcoming as we consider their proposed budget.”

“We want to understand what their anticipated needs will be for security for the first family since it appears they will not be seeking reimbursement for their protection,” he said. “It’s worth exploring further why they are not seeking reimbursement for their protection, and we want a handle on how this obligation is impacting not only the police department’s budget but also its operations.”

Ferreras-Copeland said during the hearing, adding that the current level of spending is “not sustainable.”

She said she was fearful that the NYPD’s budget could be “completely blown out of the water” by overtime

en, and would not shy away from uncomfortable discussions about race.

This, the Times reported, has not sat well with some white women who now feel they are “unwelcome.”

Nina Olson, an arts administrator in New York, said she doesn’t think there is “a pervasive sense that white women feel they’re not welcome,” and plans to march in D.C. wearing one of several “pussy hats” her mother knit for the occasion. The cat-ear shaped pink hats have become a symbol of female resistance and a movement

costs associated with Trump’s security.

In order to provide increased security for the president-elect, Kehoe said that NYPD reassigns officers from precincts around the city to work at Trump Tower, often on overtime deployments. Several council members expressed concern that diverting officers from high-crime precincts would have an adverse impact on crime rates in those neighborhoods, but Grippo said that the increase in officers assigned to Trump Tower has not meant a reduction in officer hours on patrol in other areas.

“The bottom line is, the NYPD ensures that the neighborhoods across the city are not adversely impacted” by having fewer uniformed officers on patrol, Grippo said. “The impact comes on the fiscal side,” he said, adding that the NYPD has incurred increased overtime costs to account for security around Trump Tower while maintaining normal precinct coverage around the city.

After the hearing, Garodnick was skeptical that the NYPD’s increased presence at Trump Tower had not impacted police operations elsewhere.

of their own since the recording of Trump talking about grabbing women was revealed in October.

Siemionko said there isn’t discord within the New York City march committee. “We do have a very diverse leadership board, but what we are promoting here, at least in New York City, is ‘human first,’” she said. Siemionko declined to name the other members of the march committee, citing threatening emails the group has received from opposing parties. .

Cait Johnson, media relations manager at Planned Parenthood in New York City, will march to help demonstrate “the number of women who are affected by policies that [Trump] is trying to put in place.” Johnson is working on a documentary about women in 1960s Chicago who provided abortions to thousands of women, and has found that many of the problems persist today. “It consistently shocks me that women now are saying the same things that they were then, about how you can’t have equality unless you have control over your reproductive health,” she said.

The Women’s March on NYC will start on Saturday at 10:45 a.m. in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza; the march itself will stagger start times to ease crowd control. Other events have already been held or are in the works to protest Trump’s inauguration, including a Writers Resist rally hosted by PEN America at the public library’s midtown branch on Sunday, Jan. 15, and a gathering of celebrities with Mayor Bill de Blasio outside Trump Tower planned for Thursday, Jan. 19.

“I heard them say it. I don’t know how it’s possible, but we will explore that in the budget process,” he said. The City Council is scheduled to hold a hearing on the NYPD’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year in March.

By January 20, Inauguration Day, the NYPD estimates that it will have spent $37.4 million on Trump’s security since his election. In December, Congress appropriated $7 million to compensate state and local law enforcement agencies for overtime costs related to the president-elect’s security during the period from Election Day to Inauguration Day. The federal funding, which was not allocated specifically to New York City, accounts for just 20 percent of the $35 million the city requested based on an earlier estimate of security costs during the transition period.

“We should not be losing $28 million on this operation,” said Garodnick, chairman of the Committee on Economic Development, which held the hearing. “We have a city to run here and a budget to balance, and we cannot allow all of our resources and opportunities to be swallowed up by this sudden obligation in Midtown.”

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MODERNISM’S MISCHIEVOUS MISFIT MoMA Presents Picabia

BY MARY GREGORY

A new year calls for new art. The Museum of Modern Art, and curator Anne Umland, present a new look at an old artist. The retrospective of close to 250 works gathered over six years in “Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction,” on view through March 19, is a revelation. Experience, they say, is what you think you have, till you’ve had more, and Picabia, for many, is an artist we think we know until we’ve seen this show.

The title, a Picabia aphorism, encapsulates the trajectory of his careening creativity. Francis Picabia (1879-1953) was peripatetic and prolific. Born of multi-cultural parents (a Cuban fa-

ther and a French mother — both quite wealthy), he lived in France, Spain, Switzerland, Cuba and New York. He was a stylistic wanderer, as well.

“The only movement is perpetual movement,” Picabia said. As an artist not confined by the necessities of making a living or paying the landlord, he was free to move among forms, materials, styles and doctrines. He lived well, threw expensive parties and ran with the Parisian in crowd when Paris was the epicenter of “in.” In the 1910s and ‘20s, in the cafes of Montmartre and at Gertrude and Leo Stein’s Saturday night salons, poets, painters, novelists, dancers and musicians mingled endlessly, infecting each other with enthusiasm and ideas. Apollinaire inspired Picasso, who competed with Matisse, who was collected by Gertrude, who was painted by Picabia.

Francis Picabia, “Dances at the Spring [II],” 1912. Oil on canvas, 8’ 3-1/8” x 8’ 2”.

Photo: Adel Gorgy

It was a remarkable, fertile moment, and Picabia, independently wealthy, extraordinarily talented, with his nose pressed against the incubator of Modernism, refused to pick sides.

A proto-merry prankster, part provocateur, part pilferer, Picabia was a writer, composed music (of sorts) and painted. The extent of his artistic output, as seen in the exhibition, is astonishing, and the breadth of styles in which he not only dabbled but excelled is extraordinary.

The first gallery shows a group of Picabia’s Impressionistic landscapes.

They made his name and garnered critical praise, even while subverting the tenets of the style. Rather than capturing impressions of nature en plein air, it’s believed he painted them from photographs, a practice Camille Pissarro called “shocking.” They’ll never outshine the work they mimic, but we get the sense they weren’t meant to. Throughout his career, Picabia courted controversy and joked and jabbed at those he admired.

Picabia riffed on trends of the 1910s, ‘20s, 30’s, ‘40s and ‘50, and at times the results are spectacular. If you love gorgeous, lushly hued, sweeping, larger-than-life abstractions, they’re here, including one that rocked the 1913 Armory Show and brought Modernism to New York. Prefer nerdy, wordy, intellectual Dadaism? Picabia’s been there and done that, admirably well.

Surrealism? Check. High art/low art, found objects, appropriation, mythology, portraiture and a premonition of the pictures generation are also all here.

Introducing a section on abstractions from 1912-14 is group of exquisite watercolors based on or titled “New York.” They’re sensuous yet serious.

Complex geometries are filled with delicate colors. They’re like architectural renderings of tender blossoms.

In two huge canvases, “The Spring” and “Dances at the Spring II,” arcing lines and non-representational forms in gray, black, terracotta, cherry, peach and chocolate create atmospheres we can almost enter. Spatial rules and gravity are dispensed with.

“Comic Wedlock” seems to channel Klee’s whimsical little creatures, Duchamp’s staircase, the fluid squiggles with which Picasso could compose a portrait, and Eastern philosophy, with a prominent yin-yang (about the only form that’s clearly decipherable) all at once, while remaining undeniable Picabia’s. It’s unique and stunning.

The advent of World War I required cutting back on everything, including the size of paintings. And by then, the

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Francis Picabia, “Comic Wedlock,” 1914. Oil on canvas, 6’ 5-3/8” x 6’ 6-3/4”. Photo: Adel Gorgy artist Umland, the curator, referred to as a shape-shifter with “an obsession with self-reinvention” and “a will to self-erasure” had moved to other things.

In the following galleries, Dada themes play out, and machines and manifestos rule. There are folios, magazines and pictures of contraptions that defy any kind of use, hinting at the fascination with machinery that pervaded an era where light bulbs and telephones entered middle-class homes and factories spat out everything from spats to spaghetti. Here, Picabia’s droning, three-note music can be heard, but it’s more enjoyable to tune in to works by Ravel, Debussy and Stravinsky, and experience the soundtrack of Modernism via MoMA’s innovative collaboration with WQXR and selections by Terrance McKnight.

In a series of “Collages and Monsters,” created in the mid 1920’s, brash colors predominate as Picabia introduced lowly materials. Macaroni becomes the trunks of palm trees, and wit and a confident artist’s touch turn matchsticks and hairpins into a charming portrait.

Another section presents the artist’s “Transparencies,” in which he created layered palimpsests of epochs,

societies, mythologies and artworks.

Picabia painted an image, varnished it, and then painted one or more images over top of it. In “Salome,” a face appropriated from a religious painting by Boticelli is superimposed over a figure lifted from widely circulated nude photograph of a famous dancer.

Classical columns flank a patch of blue sky, and leaves and lotuses float across the bottom. The effect is complex and rich, both visually and intellectually.

Towards the end of the show, we come through selections of iconoclastic experimentations and photo-based paintings, before Picabia returned, in his last years, seen in the final gallery, to the same kind of elegant, buoyant abstractions that started his journey.

Art imitating life, after traveling the world, the artist died in the house in which he was born. In “Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction,” Umland has composed a compelling picture of a surprising and surprisingly influential artist. The exhibition feels almost like a group show of masters of 20th century, leaving us to wonder whether Francis Picabia, for whom challenge and change were critical, was more parrot or chameleon.

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Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney Welcomes the 2nd Avenue Subway!

Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12) is thrilled to celebrate the opening of the Second Avenue Subway!

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LITTLE VINCENT'S PIZZA 1399 2nd Ave. 212-249-0120

KOLORBAR 1398 2nd Ave. 212-744-2800

THE UPS STORE 1397 2nd Ave. 212-585-4195

SZECHUAN GOURMET

1395 2nd Ave. 212-737-1838

RANGOLI

Donations accepted at all locations.

1393 2nd Ave. 212-628-3800

EXPRESS STOP 72 STORE & DELI 1391 2nd Ave. 212-734-1018

SEW RIGHT CLEANERS 1391 2nd Ave. 212-734-6336

72nd St. SHARKEY'S CUTS FOR KIDS

ARTISTIC EAST SHOE SERVICES

YNC NAILS

MARTIN PAUL REALTY ASSOCIATES INC.

1359 2nd Ave. 646-559-2150

1375 2nd Ave. 212-249-1309

MILLESIMA

1355 2nd Ave. 212-639-9463

SEGDBURY CLEANERS

1353 2nd Ave. 212-737-1330

1351 2nd Ave. 212-734-7174

1349A 2nd Ave. 212-517-7710

MANHATTAN CABINETS 1349 2nd Ave. 212-548-2436

Open 24/7/365 Tel 212.832.8417 Parkeastanimalhospital.com 1390 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10021

PARK EAST ANIMAL WO'S TAILORING HOSPITAL 1386 2nd Ave. 1390 2nd Ave. 212-852-8417

FR QUIJADA INC. 1390 2nd Ave. 2120744-4242

212-988-9889

THE WINDSOR FLORIST II 1382 2nd Ave. 212-734-4521

SHANGHAI CHINESE FANCY CLEANERS 1384 2nd Ave. RESTAURANT 1388 2nd Ave. 212-288-8066

212-794-9273

1388 2nd Ave. 212-535-3692

212-570-0900

FEI'S LAUNDRY

1382 2nd Ave. 212-628-0888

ROSE NAILS VEKI'S HAIRSTYLING 1384 2nd Ave.

1386 2nd Ave. 212-288-8885

TREND DINER

71st St. PER LEI RISTORANTE ITALIANO

JEAN CLAUDE FRENCH BISTRO

AFGHAN KEBAB HOUSE

PINK LEMON PARK NAIL STUDIO

Z(ED) SALON

BOTTEGA RESTAURANT

1347 2nd Ave. 212-439-9200

1345 2nd Ave. 212-517-2776 1345 2nd Ave. 212-396-3200

1343 2nd Ave. 212-249-3400

WALGREENS 1328 2nd Ave. 212-734-6076

1341 2ns Ave. 212-570-0770

1331 2nd Ave. 212-288-5282

KO SUSHI

1329 2nd Ave. 212-439-1678

70th St. 5 NAPKIN BURGER

Specializing in: Kitchens r Baths r Full Renovations r Built-ins

212 r 548 r 2436 Visit Our Show Room at 4FDPOE "WFOVF r XXX NBOIBUUBODBCJOFUT DPN

1325 2nd Ave. 212-249-0777

CRUSTY & TASTY DELI 1323 2nd Ave. 646-478-7217

WHISKEY & WINE OFF 69 1321 2nd Ave. 212-585-0005

OITA SUSHI

1317A 2nd Ave. 212-535-0002

CLOUD 69 CIGAR & SMOKE SHOP 1317 2nd Ave. 347-714-1391

BEACH CAFÃ&#x2030; 1326 2nd Ave. 212-988-7299

BEJING WOK

1324 2nd Ave. #2 212-639-9418

ALICE HAIR 1324 2nd Ave. 212-639-0875

69th St.

PETER'S SHOE REPAIR

1322 2nd Ave. #2 212-439-6092

CREST CLEANERS INC 1320 2nd Ave. 212-717-6030

JANUARY 19-25,2017 VALUE PRICE PHARMACY

MARIANNE VERA SALON

PICK A BAGEL

EQUINOX CLEANERS

1475 2nd Ave. # 1 212-535-4710

1475 2nd Ave. 212-717-4668

COPPER KETTLE KITCHEN

1467 2nd Ave. 212-472-7200

1465A 2nd Ave. 212-517-2582

TD BANK

THE MEATBALL SHOP 1462 2nd Ave. 212-257-6121

BOQUERIA

1471 2nd Ave. 212-744-1100

1465 2nd Ave. 646-476-7137

1460 2nd Ave. 212-343-2227

SHISHI BOUTIQUE

U & ME NAIL

1458 2nd Ave. 212-396-2626

1467 2nd Ave. 212-256-0861

1465 2nd Ave. 212-535- 0414

USA LOCKSMITH SERVICES 1463 2nd Ave. 212-744-3915

Grace’s Marketplace

1470 2nd Ave. 212-737-4890

CAFE NOI

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77th St.

#1 FARMERS MARKET

is excited to welcome the 2nd Avenue Subway to the ‘new neighbors club.’

Cheers to our community partnership in bringing safe, smooth travels and good eats to 2nd Ave.

LE REVE HAIR SALON 1456 2nd Ave. 212-879-9867

EASTMORE CLEANERS 1456 2nd Ave. 212-861-4550

76th St. PBTEEN

1451 2nd Ave. 212-879-2513

STARBUCKS

1449 2nd Ave. 212-472-0653

CHENILLE ORGANIC CLEANERS

1443 2nd Ave. 212-988-9111

SPRUCE & BOND

THE STUMBLE INN

MEL'S BURGER BAR

1454 2nd Ave. 212-650-0561

1450 2nd Ave. 212-452-1304

IGGY'S

HANABI JAPANESE CUISINE

1452 2nd Ave. 212-327-3043

1450 2nd Ave.

VOILA 76 COUNTRY 212-570-1228 KITCHEN GRISTEDE'S 1452 2nd Ave. 212-288-2533

1446 2nd Ave. 212-535-4925

1441 2nd Ave. 212-366-6060

75th St. LEONARD'S MARKET 1437 2nd Ave. 212-744-2600

ZUCCHERO E POMODORI 1435 2nd Ave. #1 212-585-2100

DUNKIN' DONUTS 1433 2nd Ave. 646-707-0392

BOOK YOUR VACATION TODAY

RIPPED FITNESS NYC 1432 2nd Ave. 212-774-1990

74 MARKET INC

1422 2nd Ave. Frnt 1 212-288-6640

KIDS IN SPORTS 1420 2nd Ave. 212-744-4900

Liberty Travel 74th St. & 2nd Ave

212.535.1200

EQUINOX EAST 74TH STREET

1429 2nd Ave. 212-249-3917

LIBERTY TRAVE.L 1427 2nd Ave. 212-535-1200

RICKY'S NYC 1425 2nd Ave. 212-988-2291

74th St. A LA TURKA RESTAURANT

1417 2nd Ave. 212-744-2424

BLUE 9 BURGER 1415 2nd Ave. 212-988-8171

SIX HAPPINESS

1413 2nd Ave. 212-988-8002

UP THAI

1411 2nd Ave. 212-256-1188

MEDI - SPA W

1409 2nd Ave. 212-772-1451

PERSEPOLIS RESTAURANT 1407 2nd Ave. 212-535-1100

SMOKE ZONE N USKUDAR TURKISH VAPE RESTAURANT 1411 2nd Ave. 646-918-6306

1405 2nd Ave. 212-988-2641

THOMAS TAFT SALON 1418 2nd Ave. 212-879-1706

COZY'S CUTS FOR KIDS 1416 2nd Ave. 212-585-2699

DANIEL'S WATCH AND JEWELRY REPAIR 1414 2nd Ave. 212-288-9080

KIDS AT ART 1412 2nd Ave. 646-832-4886

73rd St.

Lisa’s on Second

Specializing In: t 5PZT &EVDBUJPOBM 5PZT t #BMMPPOT 1BSUZ (PPET t (JGUT $BSET

212-423-0100

1751 SECOND AVENUE CORNER OF 91ST STREET

16 82nd St. INSOMNIA COOKIES

AMURA JAPANESE CUISINE

PINKBERRY

AGORA TURKISH RESTAURANT

1579 2nd Ave. 877-632-6654 1577 2nd Ave. 212-861-0574

BURGERFI

1571 2nd Ave. 646-684-3172

16 HANDLES 1569 2nd Ave. 646-863-2522

1567 2nd Ave. 212-772-1688

1565 2nd Ave. 212-717-1220

BLOCKHEADS 1563 2nd Ave. 212-879-1999

THE GILROY 1561 2nd Ave. 212-734-8800

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Y.C. DELI GOURMET BEACH BUM TANNNING & MARKET 1576 2nd Ave. AIRBRUSH SALON 212-737-5977

MEI JIN RAMEN

1568 2nd Ave. 212-996-8261

PRIME BUTCHER BAKER

1568 2nd Ave. 212-861-9386

1574 2nd Ave. 212-327-2800

1572 2nd Ave. 212-616-1502

ELEGANT NAIL & SPA 1570 2nd Ave. 212-988-2589

BUDAPEST CAFÃ&#x2030; & RESTAURANT 1631 2nd Ave. 212-327-1105

ETHYL'S

1629 2nd Ave. 212-300-4132

THE COMIC STRIP LIVE

DISCOUNT DEPOT 1627 2nd Ave. 212-570-6400

MURE SALON

PARK EAST KOSHER

1566 2nd Ave. 212-628-5393

1623 2nd Ave. 212-737-9800

TREAT HOUSE

ELIO'S

1566 2nd Ave. 212-799-7779

1621 2nd Ave. 212-772-2242

CHINA TASTE

1559 2nd Ave. 212-861-2434

YUKA JAPANESE RESTAURANT

1551 2nd Ave. 212-734-7441

LAUNDROMAT 1549 2nd Ave.

1557 2nd Ave. ANIA RYBKA SALON 212-772-9675 1547 2nd Ave. 212-734-3900 SISTINA 1555 2nd Ave. WINE EMPORIUM 212-861-7660 1545 2nd Ave. 212-517-9463 ATTUNE HOLISTIC

FITNESS

1560 2nd Ave. 212-517-9888

TWO BOOTS PIZZA

CASCABEL TAQUERIA

1617 2nd Ave. 212-734-0317

PIERMONT CLEANERS

THE BEST CHINESE QI GONG TUI-NA

1556 2nd Ave. 212-717-7800

1548 2nd Ave. 212-861-7915

ABBEY LOCKSMITHS INC 1558 2nd Ave. 212-535-2289

1615 2nd Ave. 646-678-5493

1523 2nd Ave. 212-929-1400

1534 2nd Ave. 212-734-9292

DUANE READE 1524 2nd Ave. 646-422-1023

ENESLOW THE FOOT FLEUR DE LIS DRY COMFORT CENTER CLEANING 1504 2nd Ave. 212-249-3800

1500 2nd Ave. 212-772-1916

METROPOLITAN GRAPHIC ART GALLERY

BOND NEW YORK REAL ESTATE

1504 2nd Ave. 347- 201-6367

KLEIN KITCHEN & BATH 1504 2nd Ave. 212-717-1726

1500 2nd Ave. 212-584-4220

JEFFREY STEIN SALON 1498 2nd Ave. 212-772-7717

1491 2nd Ave. 212-734-7777

CALEXICO

1491 2nd Ave. 347- 967-5955

SABLE'S SMOKED FISH

1485 2nd Ave. 646-678-4200

VERO

1483 2nd Ave. 212-452-3354

LENWICH

1481 2nd Ave. 212-288-5288

1489 2nd Ave. ROSE NAILS & SPA 212-249-6177 1491 2nd Ave. 212-327-1005 WOODY WINE &

LIQUOR

1487 2nd Ave. 212-734-2906

MELA EAST 1496 2nd Ave. 212-249-1010

LUSARDI'S

1494 2nd Ave. 212-249-2020

MIGHTY QUINN'S BARBEQUE 1492 2nd Ave. 646-484-5691

DOC WATSON'S 1490 2nd Ave. 212-988-5300

77th St.

1613 2nd Ave. 212-988-8108

HUMMUS KITCHEN

VITAHEALTH APOTHECARY 1609 2nd Ave. 212-772-1110

1632 2nd Ave. 212-249-3622

SERENDIPITY NAILS & SPA 1630 2nd Ave. 212-327-2401

LA PULPERIA 1626 2nd Ave. 212-933-0757

84 CORNER DELI & GROCERY 1624 2nd Ave. 212-535-7800

POOKIE AND SEBASTIAN

1488 2nd Ave. 212-861-0550

UVA

1486 2nd Ave. 212-472-4552

VELLA WINE BAR & KITCHEN 1480 2nd Ave. 212-335-0456

AL FORNO PIZZERIA 1484 2nd Ave. 212-249-5103

DORRIAN'S 1616 2nd Ave. 212-772-6660

CALEDONIA BAR 1609 2nd Ave. 212-734-4300

ASIAN 83 RESTAURANT 1605A 2nd Ave. 212-288-0633

BLONDIS NAIL & SPA 1605 2nd Ave. 212-249-0041

VINNIE'S PIZZERIA 1603 2nd Ave. 212-585-0400

MOCHA BURGER EXPRESS 1603 2nd Ave. 646-838-9698

ABALEH

1611 2nd Ave. 212-772-1611

83rd St. COPYLAND CENTER

VA BENE

1597 2nd Ave. 212-452-2906

1589 2nd Ave. 212-517-4448

PICK A PRETTY COLOR

CROWN WINE & LIQUOR

1595 2nd Ave. 212-717-7308

1587 2nd Ave. 212-472-8610

AMAZING STORE & BONJOUR CREPES SMOKE SHOP & WINE

78th St. ZIGGY'S

SUBWAY

1613 2nd Ave. 212-988-0090

79th St.

LEVEL TWO BARBER SHOP

PICTURE FRAMING OUTLET II

1615 2nd Ave. 917-302-5355

80th St. 1535 2nd Ave. 212-327-4757

1615 2nd Ave. 212-535-5047

L`MOSHALIZ HAIR SALON

LESTER'S

IVORY CLEANERS

84th St.

CHIRPING CHICKEN

1551 2nd Ave. 212-288-0920

RITE AID TOWN REAL ESTATE

1632 2nd Ave. 212-717-6363

1619 2nd Ave. 212-249-3888

81st St. H&H MIDTOWN BAGELS EAST

SUPERCUTS

LEE CHI

1570 2nd Ave. 212-650-0189

SAN MATTEO PIZZERIA E CUCINA

JANUARY 19-25,2017 85th St.

1595 2nd Ave. 212-988-0400

1585 2nd Ave. 212-535-3140

OM REAL INDIAN BABA CONENIENCE FOOD STORE 1593 2nd Ave. 212-628-4500

NEW YORK PAINT & HARDWARE

1585 2nd Ave. 212-396-1171

DUKE'S

THE PENROSE

GRAIN BOWL

WA JEAL SICHUAN CHILI HOUSE

1596 2nd Ave. 212-717-2020 1594 2nd Ave.

MC HAIR SALON & SPA 1592 2nd Ave. 212-988-5252

PROMISES FULFILLED

1592 2nd Ave. 212-472-1600

BRADY'S

1583 2nd Ave. 212-861-6070

1593 2nd Ave. 212-734-6900 BROOKLYN ROBOT

JACK RUSSELL'S PUB 1591 2nd Ave. 212-472-2800

FOUNDRY

1595 2nd Ave. 347- 762-6840

82nd St.

1590 2nd Ave. 212-203-2751 1588 2nd Ave. 212-396-3339

BANGKOK CUISINE 1586 2nd Ave. 212-988-1112

SUSHI REN

1584 2nd Ave. 212-710-8888

JANUARY 19-25,2017 90th St. FABIO'S HAIR & COLOR STUDIO

MAT LAUNDROMAT

HOUSING WORKS THRIFT SHOP

SAN MATTEO PIZZA ESPRESSO BAR

IL SALUMAIO

AMAZING STORE & SMOKE SHOP

1739 2nd Ave. 212-410-2005

1739 2nd Ave. 212-426-6943

STYLE CLEANER & LAUNDRY 1737 2nd Ave. 212-369-2894

TAB GROCERY INC. DELI 1737 2nd Ave. 212-828-5612

MÓLE

1735 2nd Ave. 212-289-8226

1733 2nd Ave. 212-722-2100

1731 2nd Ave. 646-852-6876

1730 2nd Ave. 212-722-8306

VIVID NAIL SALON

1728 2nd Ave. 212-876-0400

TC CLEANERS

1728 2nd Ave. 212-426-3970

&HAIR LOUNGE

1726 2nd Ave. 917-475-1290

1731 2nd Ave. 212-722-0100

1729 2nd Ave. #1 212-876-1088

1727 2nd Ave. 212-722-6702

LIBERTADOR 1725 2nd Ave. 212-348-6222

BASILE PIZZA VAPE KINGZ NOCHE DE MARGARITAS 1726 2nd Ave. 212-289-5195

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OAXACA TAQUERIA

1715 2nd Ave. 212-860-2320

1709 2nd Ave. 212-722-7272

SAFETY LOCKSMITH

BROWN CUP

1713 2nd Ave. 212-860-2219

DAVIDA SALON

1707 2nd Ave. #1 212-369-3949

NAIL & SPA SAKURA

1711 2nd Ave. 212-722-5900

1709 2nd Ave. #2 212-722-1334

PYE BOAT NOODLE

THE WRITING ROOM

1711 2nd Ave. 212-427-3077

1703 2nd Ave. 212-335-0075

INFIRMARY NYC THAI'S NEW YORK 1718 2nd Ave. 212-289-8889

HIGH POINT DELI 1716 2nd Ave. 212-269-3812

FINE CLEANERS 1691 2nd Ave. 212-427-5598

GNC

1645 2nd Ave. 212-734-0333

LAKE TOBA 1643 2nd Ave. 212-717-6688

THE DAISY

1641 2nd Ave. 646-964-5756

VINUS & MARC 1825 2nd Ave. 646-692-9105

1704 2nd Ave. 212-831-1830

SYNERGY FITTNESS CLUB

RATHBONES PUB

1781 2nd Ave. 212-426-0909

VIETNAAM

1769 2nd Ave. 212-860-1903

1702 2nd Ave. 212-369-7361

ICHIRO SUSHI

UNITED TAEKWONDO CENTER

1690 2nd Ave. 212-722-2201

1690 2nd Ave. 212-722-6722

1834 2nd Ave. #1 212-876-1994

FIVE LUCK CHINESE RESTAURANT 1834 2nd Ave. 212-831-4477

NICK'S PIZZA 1814 2nd Ave. 212-987-5700

MANNY'S ON SECOND 1770 2nd Ave. 212-410-3300

ANNIE & COMPANY NEEDLEPOINT & KNITTING 1763 2nd Ave. 212-360-7266

LISA'S ON SECOND 1751 2nd Ave. 212-423-0100

DELIZIA

1762 2nd Ave. 212-996-3720

ALL ADVANCED DENTISTRY, P.C. 1760 2nd Ave. 212-348-8061

VINTAGE ON SECOND 1752 2nd Ave. 212-828-8839

ANGELA'S MONTANA TABLE

DUNKIN' DONUTS

1750 2nd Ave. 646-912-9507

THE MILTON

1750 2nd Ave. 917-388-3897

1760 2nd Ave. 212-876-3312

LE VIÊT CAFÉ

1754 2nd Ave. 212-369-1900

1692 2nd Ave. #1 212-987-3206

91st St. DTUT HEIDELBERG 1648 2nd Ave. 212-628-2332

GOTHIC CABINET SCHALLER & WEBER CRAFT 1654 2nd Ave. #1 212-879-3047

1646 2nd Ave. 212-472-7359

TWO LITTLE RED HENS

FIVE MILE STONE

85th St.

NORMANDIE WINES

92nd St. DANNY'S CYCLES

1652 2nd Ave. 212-452-0476

1838 2nd Ave. 212-289-2929

KEY FOOD

SHOGA SUSHI & OYSTER BAR

300 E 86th St 212-879-9425

GO CUPS

93rd St.

GOODWILL

GRACIE'S ON 2ND DINER

1812 2nd Ave. 212-876-2445

1812 2nd Ave. 212-876-1410

1708 2nd Ave. #1 212-348-5500

EAST SIDE LAUNDROMAT & DRY CLEANER

YO YO NAIL & SPA

ASTOR TERRACE CLEANERS

GENESIS

86th St. 1647 2nd Ave. 646-861-3585

1827 2nd Ave. 212-348-3955

1825 2nd Ave. 212-595-6257

1801 2nd Ave. 212-427-4839

87th St.

THE SUPPLY HOUSE

FAMOUS ORIGINAL RAY'S PIZZA

K9 LOCKSMITH HARDWARE HOUSEWARES

CHASE BANK

1712 2nd Ave. 212-722-4242

MFORU NAILS 1691 2nd Ave. 212-828-8576

1829 2nd Ave. # A 212-987-5562

94th St.

SELENA ROSA

1694 2nd Ave. 212-369-6300

1693 2nd Ave. #1 212-369-1822

LAUNDRY BOY

1817 2nd Ave. 212-828-8996

TENZAN 89

EAST 87TH STREET LIQUORS

1840 2nd Ave. 212-831-7696

95th St.

A-JIAO SICHUAN CUISINE

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS JAN 6 - 13 , 2017 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 http://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/services/restaurant-grades.page

Laduree Paris

864 Madison Ave

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Flora Bar

945 Madison Ave

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Candle Cafe

1307 3rd Ave

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Yia Yia

404 E 69th St

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PJ Bernstein Deli & Restaurant

1215 Third Avenue

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Voila 76

1452 2 Avenue

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Finnegan’s Wake Pub

1361 First Avenue

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Murphy’s Law

417 East 70 Street

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Le Charlot

19 East 69 Street

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2nd Ave Blue 9 Burger

1415 2 Avenue

Grade Pending (5) Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

JG Melon Restaurant

1291 3 Avenue

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Gina La Fornarina

1016 Lexington Ave

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Amura Japanese Restaurant

1567 2nd Ave

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Morini Ristorante

1167 Madison Avenue

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Bar Prima

331 E 81st St

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Hummus Kitchen

1613 2nd Ave

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Hu Kitchen

1536 3rd Ave

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Vinnie’s Pizzeria

1603 2nd Ave

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Food Passion

1200 Lexington Ave

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Taco Today

1659 1st Ave

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Aba Sushi

1588 York Ave

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Ryan’s Daughter Cafe

350 East 85 Street

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Gracie’s Cafe

1530 York Avenue

Grade Pending (26) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Food, food preparation area, food storage area, area used by employees or patrons, contaminated by sewage or liquid waste. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Two Boots

1617 2 Avenue

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Gracie-Mews Restaurant

1550 1 Avenue

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Guzan Japanese Cuisine & Bar

1534 3 Avenue

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Noglu New York

1266 Madison Ave

Grade Pending (31) Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations. Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.

Dig Inn

1297 Lexington Ave

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Riverside Park, pictured near the 79th Street Boat Basin, forms part of the Hudson River Valley Greenway and would be incorporated into a 750-mile multi-use trail reaching to Canada, according to a recent proposal

by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Photo: Riverside Park Conservancy

750-MILE STATE GREENWAY PROPOSED Existing trails, when completed and connected, would span from Manhattan to Canada

BY MARY ESCH

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing to complete and connect two greenway trails crisscrossing the state from Manhattan to Canada and from Albany to Buffalo to create a 750-mile paved biking and hiking route that will be marketed as a national tourist destination.

“We want to build the largest multi-use trail in the nation,” Cuomo said during a state of the state speech Jan. 10 in Westchester County. Cuomo proposed spending $200 million over three years to pave 350 miles of gaps in the existing greenways and connect them to create what he calls the Empire State Trail.

Legislative leaders had no comment on the proposal, which would need legislative approval in the state budget starting with $53 million this year.

The trail will incorporate the existing Erie Canalway and the Hudson River Valley Greenway.

State Bike Route 9 that runs along Lake Champlain to Canada would complete the trail from Manhattan. It is expected to bring millions of dollars in revenue to the surrounding communities each year.

The Erie Canalway is nearly 80 percent complete; the Hud-

I think greenways are absolutely wonderful, whether you’re a runner, walker, biker or pushing a baby carriage, They’re a great way to promote health and well-being as well as help local economies.”

Dick Beamish

son River Greenway nearly 50 percent. The state already owns most of the land needed to complete the project.

“The trail is great as it is, but closing those gaps will make it so much better,” said Erie Canalway spokeswoman Jean Mckay, who has cycled the trail end-to-end three times. “If you’re riding with your kids across the state, it feels a little scary when you have to go on the road for a couple of miles.”

The Hudson Valley segment of the trail starts at New York Harbor and skirts the Adirondack Mountains. It features historic sites such as Olana, the home and studio of Hudson River School painter Frederic Church; the popular Walkway Over the Hudson, an old Poughkeepsie railroad bridge

transformed into a pedestrian and bike path; the Martin Van Buren National Historic Site in Kinderhook; the Saratoga National Battlefield and Fort Ticonderoga.

The western leg of the trail follows the Erie Canal and Mohawk River through cities, villages and farmland, and features Buffalo Harbor State Park; the Salt Museum on Onondaga Lake; the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge; and the Fort Stanwix National Monument in Rome. Parks and Trails New York, a nonprofit advocacy group, said the Erie Canalway Trail attracts more than 1.6 million visitors annually.

“I think greenways are absolutely wonderful, whether you’re a runner, walker, biker or pushing a baby carriage,” said Dick Beamish of Saranac Lake, who has bicycled with his wife on rail trails and greenways in San Francisco, Virginia, Vermont and Albany.

“They’re a great way to promote health and well-being as well as help local economies.”

Beamish, a retired news magazine publisher, is an advocate for a new 34-mile rail-trail the state is creating in the Adirondacks between Tupper Lake and Lake Placid.

Cuomo’s office said the Erie Canalway Trail has an economic impact of $253 million from visitor spending and the Hudson River Greenway generates more than $21 million annually.

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THE NEW NORMAL IN EDUCATION Supporting nontraditional students on the path to a degree

BY CHRISTIAN GONZÁLEZ-RIVERA, CENTER FOR AN URBAN FUTURE

More New Yorkers than ever are enrolling in universities and community colleges, driven by seismic changes in the economy that have made postsecondary credentials nearly indispensable for today’s workforce. But on college campuses across the state, the makeup of the student body has changed. College is no longer just for “traditional” students who graduate high school at age 18, enroll directly in college, and are financially supported by family. Today, much of the growth is occurring among nontraditional students — people who are over the age of 25, enrolling part-time, have a fulltime job while attending school, or are raising children In New York, part-time students comprise 43 percent of all those enrolled in public com-

munity colleges statewide — an increase from 32 percent in 1980. Overall, 139,501 students are enrolled on a part-time basis at community colleges operated by the State University of New York or the City University of New York. Part-time students outnumber full-timers at 13 of the state’s 37 public community colleges, including Onondaga Community College, Orange County Community College, Schenectady Community College, and Dutchess County Community College.

In New York City, 27 percent of community college students are age 25 and older; half have a paying job, with 52 percent of working students employed more than 20 hours a week; and 16 percent have children whom they are supporting financially.

“The nontraditional is now the traditional,” says Lisette Nieves, a commissioner of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics and founding partner at Lingo Ventures.

But while part-timers, older students, students with jobs, and students who are caring for children have become the new normal in community colleges from the Bronx to Buffalo, New York has been slow to develop a support system for helping nontraditional students succeed. While the state has one of the most generous tuition assistance programs in the country, few nontraditional students can take advantage of it. Although New York is home to some of the most innovative programs in the nation to increase graduation rates at community colleges — including the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs initiative at CUNY — the programs are primarily geared toward full-time students. Community colleges and education agencies in other states have experimented with new models to support nontraditional students, but in New York education officials and academic leaders have mainly watched from the sidelines.

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EDUCATION CONTINUED FROM PAGE 20 The need for new approaches is clear. In today’s economy, community colleges are one of the most important platforms for elevating low-income New Yorkers into the middle class and enabling out-of-work New Yorkers to develop new skills for the new economy. But far too many of the New Yorkers who are enrolling in these institutions are dropping out without a degree — and much of the problem stems from alarmingly low success rates for nontraditional students.

By implementing strategies that help more nontraditional students earn a postsecondary degree or credential, New York’s institutions of higher education can provide a path to sustainable employment for millions of under-credentialed New Yorkers. A postsecondary education is now an essential prerequisite for middle-income jobs in New York. Of the 25 fastest-growing occupations in New York State with a median wage of $40,000 or more, 22 require a postsecondary degree or credential.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of jobs nationwide will require some level of postsecondary education, compared with just 28 percent in 1973. Currently one out of every five New Yorkers works in a job that pays below the level required to keep a family of four out of poverty. And poverty is more prevalent among the least educated families; among working families in New York that earn wages at less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line, more than half lack an adult with any postsecondary education.

Accelerating the completion of postsecondary education for nontraditional students will require the state’s public colleges and other state officials to adopt a set of coordinated interventions and reforms designed specifically to help nontraditional students progress more quickly and balance college with other serious responsibilities. This could include interventions such as block scheduling and year-round scheduling, guided pathways, awarding credits for prior learning, and expanding wraparound services and nonacademic supports. Meanwhile, state legislators should consider reforms to the state’s Tuition Assistance Program, which effectively bars part-time students from receiving aid.

Nontraditional students are more likely to blend work and school, but postsecondary institutions still treat holding down a job as an ancillary activity — a distraction from the ideal of full-time academic pursuits. “It’s a survival penalty,” says Nieves. “Because you have to work, you are trading off on school. We have a generation of students that really believes both school and work are valuable but we force them to choose one over the other.”

A policy brief — funded by the Working Poor Families Project and based on numerous interviews with community college presidents, education experts, and policymakers and available online at www.nycfuture.org/ — presents a menu of options for New York education officials and community college leaders designed to speed the progress of nontraditional students toward a degree.

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HIGH SCHOOLERS: GET OUT OF YOUR BUBBLE Global Glimpse, a new NYC nonprofit, takes students to developing countries for learning and leadership skills Lots of New York City parents would like to get their teenagers out of the dreaded “high school bubble.” But it’s hard to know how.

Global Glimpse, a popular San Francisco-based non-profit, has been quietly expanding its reach to teachers and families in New York City. The highly selective program takes high schoolers from private academies like Horace Mann and public schools from affluent areas like Greenwich, Connecticut as well as top students from schools that serve a more diverse group of New York City families, including the High School of Economics and Finance and the School of the Future, both in Manhattan.

Through the Global Glimpse program, carefully chosen students work together to build leadership skills and travel together to places like Ni-

caragua, the Dominican Republic and Ecuador during their summer break.

While they have lots of adventures, form lasting friendships with smart kids from other schools and have plenty of fun, there is a strong emphasis on learning, too. While abroad, students who travel with Global Glimpse meet with community leaders, industry experts and policymakers to help them understand the complexities of life in a developing country.

“This is the most valuable program for high school students,” said David Kuang, father of a recent Glimpser.

“It not only gives our children the opportunity to learn how to be more independent, better decision-makers and manage their time, but also allows them to see another world and understand different cultures.”

High school teachers in New York City who want to get out of their own bubble can bring this program to their school and travel each summer with a group of highly motivated young people eager to see the world. Stu-

Photo courtesy of Global Glimpse dents whose high schools don’t have a program can also apply to Global Glimpse independently. Scholarships are available.

Global Glimpse has its New York City headquarters in the Edwin Gould Foundation Accelerator, a non-profit incubator in the Financial District in

Lower Manhattan. Those interested in Global Glimpse can contact them through their website: https://globalglimpse.org/

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A HELPING HAND WITH THE COLLEGE PROCESS OneGoal gives motivated students an opportunity to boost scores and put together strong applications Getting a college degree is the ticket for getting and staying the middle class. But for many motivated students, preparing, applying and enrolling can be a challenge. Students who attend public high schools that serve a broad range of pupils often do not get the kind

of college preparatory curriculum, SAT/ACT prep and college advising that they need.

OneGoal, a non-profit organization being incubated in the Edwin Gould Foundation Accelerator in lower Manhattan, is trying to fix that. The program, which trains high school teachers to serve as college advisors and mentors during school and through a student’s freshman year in college, is spreading though high schools in New York City.

The program started in 2007 as an afterschool program at Dunbar High School in Chicago and gradually developed into a three-year program of guidance and support — starting in a student’s junior year of high school. The program has grown fast. This year, there will be 9300 One Goal “Fellows” in Chicago, Massachusetts, Atlanta, Houston and New York City. The program, which is free to students whose GPA is in the B and

C range, helps them select the right classes in their final two years of high school, boost their college admission scores, identify appropriate affordable college options and put together a strong essay and application. In addition, the teachers who run the program help recent high school graduates figure out how to manage that often-confusing first year of college.

“Being a part of OneGoal helps me focus

and use my time wisely,” said Shania Peterson who attends the School for Global Studies in Brooklyn. “Now I understand the steps I need to take to get into college.”

The program helps: 82 percent of those who attend OneGoal end up enrolling in college. http://www.onegoalgraduation.org/about/

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Business 19TH PRECINCT CRACKS DOWN ON E-BIKES Confiscations follow community complaints about the contraptions

By Madeleine Thompson The NYPD’s 19th Precinct on the Upper East Side has recently stepped up their enforcement on electric bicycles, or e-bikes, which have long been a source of resident complaints. Several Twitter posts since the New Year show approximately 50 confiscated e-bikes at the 19th Precinct, as well as two trucks loaded with e-bikes being carted away.

Regular bicycles can be easily converted into e-bikes with the help of kits available for a few hundred dollars online. They are a favorite of bike messengers and delivery people, as they enable faster transportation. The kits themselves are

legal, but e-bikes are not. According to state motor vehicle law, an electric bike “doesn’t qualify for a registration as a motorcycle, moped or ATV and doesn’t have the same equipment.” Since it can’t be registered, it’s against the law.

Valerie Mason, president of the East 72nd Street Neighborhood Association, is one of many Upper East Siders who feel their community is plagued by e-bikes. Mason’s organization put together a report card in December ranking restaurants by their messengers’ adherence to cycling law that nearly half of the restaurants failed. Restaurants who delivery people were seen using ebikes got an automatic F. “[The 19th Precinct] knows all about what we’ve been doing on the survey,” Mason said. “But they have been, independent of anything

Officers from the 19th Precinct have been confiscating illegal electric bikes. This photo was posted Jan. 12 on the precinct’s Twitter feed. that we’ve been doing, picking up a lot of e-bikes within the area. Even without our survey the police have been working really hard to address the problem.” The neighborhood association hasn’t had any formal conversations with the 19th Precinct, she said, since they are in the process of finalizing the report.

Councilmen Ben Kallos and Dan Garodnick have assisted them, and are hosting a workshop on commercial bike safety at the end of the month that the neighborhood association will sponsor.

Mason would like for the focus on ebike enforcement to be permanent, but understands that the police

have other priorities. “Commercial cycling and electric bike use isn’t considered one of the seven major crimes,” she said. “They’ve got a lot on their plate.”

Madeleine Thompson can be reached at newsreporter@strausnews.com

STRINGER TOUTS IMMIGRANT ECONOMY City comptroller says incoming administration’s proposed funding cuts to sanctuary cities could be devastating to New York

BY VICTORIA EDWARDS

Immigrants in New York City earn about $100 billion in total income — or about one-third of the city’s total earnings, according to a recent report from city Comptroller Scott Stringer’s office.

Stringer highlighted as much during a community forum last week, juxtaposing that earning power to President-elect Donald Trump’s suggestion that his administration would cut billions in federal funding to New York because of its status as a so-called “sanctuary city” — one that does not use city resources to enforce or prosecute people who are in the country without authorization.

“Without the immigrant population of New York there wouldn’t be an economy to speak of,” Stringer said at the meeting, held at the Youth Hostel on Amsterdam Avenue on Jan. 11 and attended by about 100 people.

“As Democrats, we need to talk about the practical impact people of diverse backgrounds have on New York City — at the end of the day, diversity produces better economic results.”

According to the report, the city is home to more than 3.3 million immigrants from more than 150 countries.

Together, they own 83,000 businesses, and comprise 51 percent of city business owners.

Stringer said he tweeted the report’s results to Trump. At the forum, Stringer said “we should be tearing down the walls and letting in as many people in — because that’s what builds the economy.”

He also cautioned that if the Trump administration does withhold federal funds to the city, the resulting shortfall would fray the city’s safety net, as well as cut into affordable housing initiatives and increase homelessness.

“If they strategically cut those dollars then we have to somehow piece together half of a city agency,” he said.

Stringer said that could add up to the most severe financial crisis since the 1970s when the city went nearly bankrupt. Given those stakes, Stringer said, “It’s important that New York City and

New York State stop arguing and start strategizing.”

Stringer said it was important that heads of the city’s social agencies work closely with congressional delegates to figure out what money can be allocated from where to close any resulting financial gaps.

He also encouraged those in attendance to help rebuild the Democratic party by, in part, doing a better job of communicating why liberal ideals were in the best interest of the nation.

For example, he said, a pro-immigrant stance is also a economically sound one, as demonstrated by the report’s determinations.

Cynthia Doty, president of Three Parks Independent Democrats, which hosted Stringer’s discussion, said she appreciated Stringer’s viewpoint and the report’s conclusions.

“It didn’t surprise me, but it was good to see the numbers. It’s important to have the facts,” Doty said. “The new administration doesn’t seem to care about facts — if they read them at all. It’s important for us to read it and spread the word about it.”

City Comptroller Scott Stringer, then the Manhattan borough president, speaking in 2011. Photo: Thomas Good / NLN, via Wikimedia

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CAPTURING THE MAYOR Director of Photography Michael Appleton has been behind the scenes with de Blasio, from Winter Storm Jonas to the Chelsea bombing

BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

On September 17, 2016, Michael Appleton was enjoying a Saturday evening dinner party on a friend’s West Village roof deck when he saw emergency vehicles racing past on the street below.

He soon learned that there had been an explosion in Chelsea and that Mayor Bill de Blasio was on his way to the scene. Appleton, the mayor’s director of photography, knew immediately that his quiet night off had come to an end.

Appleton rushed north to West 23rd Street with his camera, arriving at roughly the same time as the mayor.

“It was tense. We didn’t know what had happened,” Appleton recalled recently.

Inside the security perimeter, amid investigators and paramedics, his adrenaline pumping, Appleton got to work. One striking image captured

by Appleton conveys the profound urgency and uncertainty of the moment: de Blasio, midstride, approaching the scene, framed by the flashing lights of police vehicles and fire trucks, intently surveying the area.

Appleton, who covered Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, and the 2004 Haitian coup as a photojournalist, was no stranger to crisis situations, but his

role on the mayor’s staff afforded him a new perspective. “This was different because I’m kind of in the bubble with the mayor, behind the scenes,” he said.

“I had covered similar things, but I’d never been on the inside like that, so that was pretty intense.”

The next day, Appleton returned to the scene and photographed de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo examining the twisted remains of the dumpster where a suspect allegedly placed a bomb that exploded and injured over 30 people.

Appleton, 39, tall and bearded, joined the mayor’s office in 2015 after stints as a freelance photographer for the New York Times, Associated Press, and other outlets, and four years as a staff photographer with the New York Daily News.

Though he’s no longer a journalist, the Maine native views his new task as fundamentally similar. “We’re not really censored or anything like that,” Appleton said. “It’s all about communicating what the city is doing, and what the mayor is doing, and what the mayor’s office is doing, and doing that in a compelling way so people tune in.”

Appleton and the two other photographers on the mayor’s staff, at least one of whom is usually on call for unexpected assignments like the Chelsea bombing, are also responsible for photographing the first lady and documenting city initiatives, but their work centers largely on one man.

Appleton said de Blasio makes for a good subject from a photographer’s

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sept. 18 at the site of an explosion in Chelsea the night before. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office.

perspective.

“The biggest advantage to photographing the mayor is that he’s really tall,” he said. “This helps a ton, because in a crowd, he stands out. It makes my job a lot easier.”

“He’s not known for being a retail politician, but I feel like he’s very comfortable in front of the camera and being around people and interacting, so that helps,” Appleton continued. “He’s natural with people. I’ve been around politicians that aren’t so comfortable.”

Appleton took some of his favorite shots of the mayor last January during Winter Storm Jonas. One photo, which the Mayoral Photography Office included in its online “Pictures of the Year 2016” collection, shows de Blasio standing on a temporary sand berm at Coney Island, snow falling from a white sky onto a stark landscape. “It kind of had all the elements I look for in a photo,” Appleton said, adding, “The mayor actually said he liked it as well.”

Later that evening, Appleton accompanied de Blasio to the West Side Highway to meet with members of the NYPD Highway Patrol. “It was at night, it was super windy, so it was hard shooting conditions and the light wasn’t great, but with the lights on the cars I was able to capture it,”

Mayor Bill de Blasio stands with the director of the Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency, Daniel Zarrilli, on a temporary sand berm which built to protect against storm surge flooding on the beach at Coney Island during a major snowstorm in January 2016. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office he said. “It was freezing. It was on the West Side Highway, so of course it’s just screaming wind. I’m worried my camera is going to break because it’s so wet. And the photo kind of captures the reality of what that was, and the fact that the mayor went out there and greeted the Highway Patrol guys.

It was pretty cool.”

For Appleton, documenting the life of the city has meant photographing everything from children on the first

day of school to a shot of the skyline from a Navy helicopter high above New York Harbor during Fleet Week.

He and the other mayoral photographers, Ed Reed and Edwin Torres, often work long hours on nights and weekends, but each assignment brings with it new challenges and opportunities.

“There’s never a dull moment,” Appleton said. “Things keep coming.”

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James O’Neill near the site of an explosion on 23rd Street on Sept. 17, 2016. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office.

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attorney fees and out of pocket expenses incurred by CitiMortgage, Inc., and the undersigned, with respect to the foreclosure proceedings. Failure to cure the default prior to the sale will result in the termination of the proprietary lease.

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