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BUDGET FOR A SANCTUARY CITY After de Blasio’s presentation, uncertainty over how Trump’s action will affect federal funds BY MADELEINE THOMPSON AND MICHAEL GAROFALO

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RELIGIOUS LEADERS REACT TO TRAVEL BAN President Trump’s action sparks responses from Manhattan congregations across the faith spectrum BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

“This God loves immigrants, giving them food and clothing. That means you must also love immigrants, because you were immigrants in Egypt.” “Thus says the Lord, do justice and righteousness and deliver from the hand of the oppressor she who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless and the widow.” Bible verses on the topic of the stranger, read aloud during last Sunday’s service at Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, resonated deeply in light of President Donald Trump’s executive order, issued Friday, Jan. 27, temporarily barring refugees and nationals of seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S. Trump’s order was met with a swift response from thousands of New Yorkers over the weekend, as protesters gathered at John F. Kennedy International Airport and Battery Park to voice their opposition. Demonstrations continued Monday at Tompkins

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Just a day after Bill de Blasio presented his preliminary budget for the next ﬁscal year, President Donald Trump threw what could be a major wrench in the mayor’s plans. On the afternoon of Jan. 25, Trump signed an executive action to pull funding from so-called sanctuary cities that attempt to protect undocumented immigrants, of which New York City is one. Roughly 10 percent of the city’s budget comes from federal aid, adding up to more than $8 billion in 2016 and a projected $7 billion for next year. At his budget presentation, de Blasio acknowledged the questions surrounding the new president’s administration. “Against a backdrop of a lot of uncertainty … we are still conﬁdent that with this budget we can deepen the investments we’re making in this city,” he said. “It is clear to us that while we’re waiting for the situation in Washington to develop, we’ve got to keep moving.” According to New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, it is unlikely that the entire $7 billion could be taken away. More probable is the stripping of $165 million federal dollars for security measures like surveillance cameras and other anti-terrorism protections. “This president and these Republicans have to understand that we are and will always be the number one terrorist target in the world,” Stringer

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Mayor Bill de Blasio at a Battery Park rally on Jan. 29 held to oppose President Trump’s executive order barring residents from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office said. Trump has also said that he will not pull funds from law enforcement, so it is unclear exactly how the city’s security could be affected. At an emergency rally last week, New Yorkers and several elected officials spoke out in support of the city’s immigrant population. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered in Washington Square Park on Wednesday evening to express their broad dissatisfaction with several of President Trump’s actions: the sanctuary cities order; an additional order to begin building a wall at the border between the

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U.S. and Mexico; and reports that Trump was considering an order restricting immigration from certain predominantly Muslim countries, which he signed two days later. Protesters, many wearing the pink hats that emerged as a symbol of the widespread women’s marches held the weekend before, waved signs and chanted slogans like, “No ban, no wall, New Yorkers for all.” “I came here with a completely different impression of what the United States was,” said attendee Shreyas Muzumdar, 22, who moved to New York from

his native India ﬁve years ago. “It sort of baffles me that something like this could ever happen here.” The rally, sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, attracted activists

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THE CITI BIKE EFFECT Upper East Siders meet to discuss the impact of the bikes on local business BY MADELEINE THOMPSON

Are Citi Bikes helping or hurting small businesses? The ongoing conversation about bikes in the city continued on Wednesday, Jan. 25 at a joint meeting of Community Board 8’s small business, street life and transportation committees. About 20 Upper East Siders — relatively few compared to the crowds that have shown up to bike-related meetings in the past — turned out to discuss the impact of Citi Bike on local businesses. Liz Patrick, vice president of the East 72nd Street Neighborhood Association, presented an informal survey her organization had done of several small businesses that revealed some speciﬁc complaints. “There is a gap between the sidewalk and where the docking station is … and trash, dirt and other things seem to accumulate in there,” she said. Patrick speciﬁcally mentioned Best Health Gourmet Deli, at First Avenue and 74th Street, and Primrose Flo-

rist at Third Avenue and 71st Street. The former has also had issues with delivery trucks causing gridlock because the store is located between a bus lane and an apartment building, and the delivery trucks must doublepark next to the docking station on 74th. She said the other ﬁve Citi Bike stations in her neighborhood were “nicely placed.” According to Patrick, the NYPD has issued Primrose Florist a warning for not keeping the trash-filled gap between the Citi Bike rack and the sidewalk clear. “The police ... told them that it is their responsibility to clean that gap just like it’s their responsibility to clean the sidewalk,” she said. “[The owner] said they’re nervous wrecks. It’s not uncommon to stop working with a customer, come outside and sweep up before they think the police officer might be coming by to give them a ticket.” No one from the Department of Transportation attended the meeting, and CB8 board members promised to take up the issue with DOT, as well as with the Sanitation and Consumer Affairs Departments. Following an inquiry by Our Town, a DOT spokesperson said NYC Bike Share is

Photo: Jim.henderson, via Wikimedia Commons accountable for maintaining the stations and the areas around them. “Local business owners are encouraged to contact Citi Bike customer service to report trash buildup at a particular station,” the spokesperson said. During the time reserved for public comment, some attendees just wanted to discuss their opposition to Citi Bike, and the committee chairs had to remind them to stay on the topic of bikes in relation to small businesses. Last week’s group included those who felt passionately both for and against the bike-sharing program, and the discussion remained civil despite the contentious topic. “I’m really happy about the bike lanes. It’s going to make it much easier

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to actually use the Citi Bike system,” said Maggie Subhas, who lives on East 69th Street and Second Avenue. She suggested that the trash accumulation issue could become a community project. Trisha Shimamura, a member of the transportation committee, credited Citi Bike with helping her ﬁnd the baker for her wedding cake. “I went in hating Citi Bike but was encouraged to try it out, but I have to tell you that we, personally, have [patronized] more small businesses because of it,” she said. “I do see us … saving money because now neither my ﬁance nor I buy monthly Metrocards.” But others lamented the loss of parking space and the lack of knowledge

that some bikers seem to have about basic traffic rules. “The city of New York needs to educate people if we’re going to continue in this fairly chaotic fashion of imposing bikes on the general citizenry,” another Upper East Sider said. “I think most bikers don’t realize the danger they are imposing on themselves.” By the end of 2017, there will be 12,000 Citi Bikes at 750 stations across the ﬁve boroughs. The next phase of Citi Bike’s expansion in Manhattan will take place above 110th Street into Harlem and Morningside Heights. Madeleine Thompson can be reached at newsreporter@strausnews.com

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 19th precinct Week to Date

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Police remind the public not to leave expensive belongings unattended, even in a respectable establishment. At 8:12 p.m. on Jan. 23, a 30-year-old woman left her hooded, fur-trimmed coat on a coat rack in the Atlantic Grill at 49 West 64th St. The garment, valued at $5,200, was missing when she went to retrieve it.

A man entered the Duane Reade at 2025 Broadway and made off with a quantity of cold and allergy medications valued at $1,948 on the evening of Jan. 22, police said.

As long as New Yorkers ride bicycles, even in the thick of winter, thieves will steal them. At 6 p.m. on Jan. 21, a 47-year-old man parked his Specialized Sirrus, valued at $1,200, outside 20 West 72nd St. When he came back for his ride, it was nowhere in sight.

Leave your purse unattended, and you could leave yourself vulnerable to thieves. At 7 p.m. on Jan. 20, a 50-year-old woman laid her purse down near the bar in the Smith Restaurant at 1900 Broadway. When she next looked for the bag, it had disappeared. There were various credit cards in the purse, but at the time of the police report, no unauthorized charges had turned up.

Thieves of two-wheeled vehicles in the Upper West Side seem to be on a tear in the lower 70s recently. At 2 p.m. on Jan. 19, a 37-year-old man parked his Aprilia sport motorcycle outside 160 West 71st St. The bike, valued at $4,000, was gone when he went to retrieve it.

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READING ALTERNATIVES “1984,” “The Plot Against America,” other dystopian visions top bestseller lists

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In the week after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, independent bookstores in Manhattan have noticed an increase in sales of novels with totalitarian themes, among them George Orwell’s “1984,” Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here” and Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America.” Orwell’s dystopian classic sold out last week on Amazon after Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, characterized provable falsehoods as “alternative facts, while Roth’s novel, published in 2004, presents an alternative history in which FDR lost the 1940 presidential elec-

tion to anti-Semitic candidate Charles Lindberg, the famed aviator. The general manager of Shakespeare & Co., on Lexington Avenue on the Upper East Side, Kenneth Tan, said the bookshop is boosting its stocks of both books to meet demand. The store sold about 10 copies each of “1984” and “Plot Against America” recently. Four stores — Westsider Books, 192 Books, Book Book and Book Culture on Columbus Avenue — have all sold out of “1984.” Three of these stores have also sold out of “It Can’t Happen Here.” Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” and U.S. Rep. John Lewis’s memoir, “Walking with the Wind” have all been selling briskly. Lewis’s book, which documents his experiences in the Civil Rights Movement, sold out on Amazon after Trump attacked him on Twitter over Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, saying that Lewis is “all talk, no ac-

tion.” Trump’s tweet followed Lewis’ claim that Trump was not “legitimate president” given allegations of Russian meddling in the elections. While Orwell’s “1984” sits at number one on Amazon’s bestsellers list, Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here,” Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451,” about a future society where books are outlawed and burned, Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and Orwell’s “Animal Farm” have all risen on the list as well. Trump’s own “The Art of The Deal,” published 30 years ago, is number 24 on the list. In addition to the rise of political and dystopian books on Bestsellers lists, another piece of literature that has gained in popularity since the inauguration: sitting at number 37 on Amazon’s list is the U.S. Constitution.

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an outpouring of goodwill from neighbors in the days since the order was issued, Mashour said. “People bringing ﬂowers, people signing up to volunteer for our various charitable activities,” he said. “They’ve been overwhelmingly supportive.” Rabbi Robert N. Levine said that members of Congregation Rodeph Sholom on West 83rd Street are “deeply engaged” with the challenges facing refugees in light of the executive order, and that members of the synagogue’s congregation and clergy were active in the protests of last weekend. “There probably isn’t any issue that should engage the Jewish community more than this,” Levine said. “There is nothing in our tradition that is emphasized more than empathy for the stranger.” “This has a special resonance,” he added.

Congregation Rodeph Sholom is hosting an upcoming event about providing assistance to refugees and is working with other synagogues as part of a coalition on refugee issues. “We realize as a consortium there is much we will be able to do to impact legislation and engage with our representatives,” Levine said, noting that the congregation will strive to deliver both direct service and effective advocacy on a number of issues. “It’s immigrants, it’s women, it’s a lot of different areas where the values we care most about as a religious tradition will be under assault,” he said. The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, Michael B. Curry, issued a statement last week calling on Trump to “continue the powerful work of our refugee resettlement program without interruption.” Manhattan’s Episcopal parishes

have followed Curry’s lead in responding publicly to the executive order. St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Chelsea will hold a candlelight prayer vigil at 6:30 Thursday evening, Feb. 2 “to pray for our country, pray for our leaders, and pray for the people affected by them, ” said the Rev. Stephen Harding, the church’s interim pastor. Harding plans to hold similar vigils each week. “As Episcopalians, we are called to respect the dignity of every human being,” he said. At St. Michael’s Episcopal Church on West 99th Street, about 40 congregants stayed after last Sunday’s service for an impromptu gathering, during which they discussed how to respond to the refugee ban. The Rev. Katharine Flexer, the church’s rector, said that pastors like herself must strike a balance between giving people space to follow their own consciences and staying true to the church’s Christian identity. “A long time ago someone told me ‘preach the gospel, don’t preach politics,’ but a lot of times the gospel is politics,” she said. “It’s deep in our Christian DNA to welcome strangers and to care for the vulnerable, and if we’re not doing that, we’re not being good Christians,” Flexer added. St. Michael’s helped organize congregants to participate in last month’s women’s march, Flexer said, and will continue to play a role in working “not against any speciﬁc person, but against policies we perceive to be wrong.” Speciﬁcally, she said, the congregation will look for ways to connect with Muslim immigrant communities in New York. “We need to work together with people we haven’t worked with before and know our neighbors,” she said. “I think that’s one of the big messages.” Madeleine Thompson and Laura Hanrahan contributed to this story.

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THE NEW FASHION POLICE Departments are loosening restrictions on tattoos, beards and, in New York City, turbans BY COLLEEN LONG

The Joe Friday look is out. Tattoos, turbans and beards are in. Police departments, compelled by a hiring crisis and eager for a more diverse applicant pool, are relaxing traditional grooming standards and getting away from rules that used to require a uniformly clean-shaven, 1950s look. More officers are on the job with tattoos inked on their forearms, beards on their chins or religious head coverings like hijabs and turbans in place of â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or tucked beneath â&#x20AC;&#x201D; their blue caps. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My turban is a part of me,â&#x20AC;? said Mandeep Singh, among 160 Sikhs in the New York City Police Department who last month were allowed to wear navy blue turbans in place of the standard-issue police caps. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This opens a gate for other potential candidates who felt they could not be a police officer because they would have to choose either the job or their faith.â&#x20AC;? That followed a 2014 move by the St. Paul, Minnesota, police to create a special hijab for its ďŹ rst female Somali Muslim officer. Muslim NYPD officer Masood Syed, who

grows a beard for religious reasons, was suspended for its length and sued his department last year over a rule requiring beards to be trimmed to within a millimeter of the skin. As a result, the department changed the length to a half-inch and reinstated him. Syedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suit is still pending, though, because he said the length is arbitrary and it should be case by case, depending on the officerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2017,â&#x20AC;? Syed said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The police department is supposed to reďŹ&#x201A;ect the community that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s policing.â&#x20AC;? Many departments say itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tougher to attract candidates to a physically demanding job that offers low pay and is under increasingly intense public scrutiny. That has led many to make a nod to shifting fashion trends, particularly among millennials, and ease longstanding bans on beards and visible tattoos. New Orleans; Portland, Oregon; Austin, Texas; and Pinellas Park, Florida, are among the departments that look the other way if a recruit comes in with visible tattoos. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Modern practice is colliding with dress codes,â&#x20AC;? said Will Aitchison, an attorney who represents police unions during labor-related disputes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And what police departments really should be focused on is how the officer performs his or her job, as opposed to how they look.â&#x20AC;? In Kansas, state police did a public survey

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HONORING A FORGOTTEN NEIGHBORHOOD A park and art installation will pay tribute to downtown’s “Little Syria” BY RAZI SYED

City officials and local activists have ﬁnalized the concept for a large-scale art installation that will be integrated into a planned park in Lower Manhattan to honor “Little Syria,” a diverse former neighborhood that existed in the early 20th century in what’s now Tribeca. On Jan. 25, the Department of Cultural Affairs convened a panel to select the proposal from four ﬁnalists. Sara Ouhaddou, a French artist of Moroccan descent, was chosen for a concept she proposed of using asphalt and stone to display text from Khalil Gibran’s “The Prophet.” Her installation will be incorporated into the design of the park, which will join two small landscaped open spaces, Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza and Trinity Plaza, and is located south of the World Trade Center. It’s expected to provide more than 20,000 square feet of park space. Preliminary plans for the park include plants and trees associated with the Mediterranean and the motif of different types of climates, like forests, desert and plains to symbolize immigration, along with Arabic elements, said Todd Fine, president of the Washington Street Historical Society, which advocates for the preservation

French artist Sara Ouhaddou during a ceremony celebrating an upcoming public art piece at the Metropolitan College of New York on Jan. 25. A design proposed by Ouhaddou was selected by a panel convened by the department of cultural affairs to be incorporated into a planned park site in lower Manhattan. Photo: Razi Syed of Little Syria’s history. “The Prophet” text will be presented in an alphabet Ouhaddou created by fusing Arabic typography and geometric shapes. “It gives you something very abstract that you can’t read if you don’t have the key,” Ouhaddou said. “But at the same time, all my work is about symbols and language. My struggle was about how to create

a universal language with symbols, to create meanings with symbols.” The symbols will be placed throughout the entire park, requiring an aerial view to see the work in its entirety, Ouhaddou said. It will be her ﬁrst installation outside of Morocco. Ouhaddou will receive a $30,000 design fee and will work with the parks department and the architect to incor-

porate her design into the park, which Fine said is slated to be completed at the end of 2018. Kendal Henry, director of Percent for Art, the city’s public arts program, said artists were asked for proposals that referenced the literary heritage of Little Syria, which formed the heart of Arab-American society in the early 20th century. At the start of the 1900s, Little Syria was a thriving community of Syrians, Lebanese, Palestinians and other immigrants who ran shops and lived in the Lower West Side of Manhattan on Washington Street, from Battery Park to around Rector Street. Little Syria developed an active journalism and literary scene, Fine said. The linotype machine was first modified for Arabic characters in Little Syria and the neighborhood was the site of the first Arabic-language periodicals. However, by the 1940s, when construction began on the BrooklynBattery Tunnel, much of the neighborhood was destroyed as buildings were razed to make way for entrances to the tunnel. Three buildings comprise the final physical vestiges of Little Syria that are still standing: the downtown community house at 105-107 Washington Street, 109 Washington Street and St. George’s Syrian Catholic Church. The church was designated a city landmark in 2009, but activists have been unsuccessful in advocating for

BUDGET CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 and local elected officials, including Stringer, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, and Council Member Helen Rosenthal. “Donald Trump, you idiot, don’t you understand economics 101?” Stringer said to cheers from the crowd. “This town can’t live and operate and function without the immigrant community.” Stringer railed against Trump again the next day. “It’s idiotic the things he says and tweets,” he said, adding that, especially as a Jewish American, he would stand with Muslims everywhere. “When they come for the Muslim community they’re coming for me, and when they come for me they’re coming for you,” he said. As de Blasio made the rounds on television last week, he doubled down on his commitment to being a sanctuary city for moral, economic and security reasons. “It’s going to make cities less safe,” he told CNN, referring to Trump’s executive order. “That is the bottom line.” Public safety was a main focus of his proposed budget, with $275 million going to the renovation of a facility in Rodman’s Neck for officers to train in. More than 10 million will go to bulletresistant window inserts for NYPD vehicles, and $4.5 million will be invested in enabling communities to reduce local gun violence and

Mayor Bill de Blasio delivers testimony on the New York City budget before members of the New York State Assembly and Senate during a joint budget hearing at the Legislative Office Building in Albany on Jan. 30. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office intervene in gang activity. Vision Zero also received a signiﬁcant commitment of $400 million to be spread out over six years, bringing the program’s total funding to $1.6 billion through 2021. This includes more street lights, traffic signals and left-turn calming measures at 100 key intersections. “We think we’re going to be able to show even greater ability to save lives and protect people

as Vision Zero deepens,” de Blasio said. Slightly more than $6 million will be devoted to hiring 200 school crossing guards and 100 supervisors, and $690,000 in safety enhancements to bike lanes Adding up to $84.67 billion, the mayor’s new budget is 14 percent higher than it was when he took office in 2014. Though inﬂation has not risen at the same rate as the budget increase,

the other two structures to be given the same protected status, Fine said. “One of the reasons we’re so focused on this art project is the difficulty of protecting these buildings in light of all of the real estate boom — there’s so much money at stake,” Fine said. “We’re fearful that these last buildings on the Lower West Side will be destroyed.” Despite ﬁnalizing plans for the homage to Little Syria just days before President Donald Trump signed an executive order limiting the ﬂow of refugees from seven countries in North Africa and the Middle East, Fine said the current political climate wasn’t relevant. “This is something that I see as beyond politics,” Fine said. “Politics are maybe four-year questions or news cycle one-day questions; the questions that these poets engaged are thousand-year questions.” Fine said he was pleased to have gotten widespread support from the city for public art to honor Little Syria. “The historians have been working on this and advocating it for a long time,” he said. “And sometimes, when it comes to something involving Arabic language or Arab-Americans, we’re told things are impossible, that they won’t happen.” “But this did happen, and it’s going to happen,” Fine said. “It’s a testament to the diversity, and just the amazing city that is New York.”

the Fiscal Policy Institute’s deputy director and chief economist James Parrott explained that the difference makes sense. De Blasio settled union agreements with nearly 70 percent of municipal workers soon after taking office, which was costly, and has prioritized responding to “real city needs” like homelessness and bad practices at Rikers Island. Parrott described the budget as “constructed to be cautious,” citing the high level of capital reserves set aside that could help absorb the effect of any potential lost federal dollars. “If the economy were weakened then, of course, city tax revenues would fall off and it would be harder for the city to make ends meet,” Parrott said. De Blasio’s plan sets aside a record $1 billion in reserves over four years. The City Council’s various committees will begin to hold hearings on the budget in March, aiming to reach an agreement with the mayor by June 30. For the moment, there is nothing much to be done in response to Trump’s executive order on sanctuary cities but wait. Madeleine Thompson can be reached at newsreporter@strausnews.com. Michael Garofalo can be reached at reporter@strausnews.com.

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TAKING IT TO OUR STREETS GRAYING NEW YORK BY BETTE DEWING

Ah, so many ﬁgurative and literal protest marches are needed locally, to save/restore the neighborhood places that meet everyday needs — not to mention safe passage — or the lack thereof because laws are not strictly enforced. And to help the cause, Antal Kiss’s wrongful death from a fall on an icy Yorkvile sidewalk must not be in vain. This tragic and preventable loss of life was reported brieﬂy in the News and the Post and then in this column which so thankfully prompted a response from the victim’s friend,

Sheri Miller. And we learn how this 75 year-old long-time Yorkville resident was such an active and valued member of the Lenox Hill Senior Center. His thoughtful involvement helped make it a true community. And don’t we need that. A memorial service was held at the center “and at least 100 people attended,” wrote his friend Sheri. And they spoke of how much “Tony” had meant to them, and how his absence is so profoundly felt. Incidentally, before hearing from Sheri, an internet search found a 2015 Toronto newspaper obituary for an Antal “Toni” Kiss, who before moving to Canada had helped save

“hundreds of Hungarians from the Hungarian Revolution.” There must be a family connection and how we need Yorkville’s Antal “Tony” Kiss’s wrongful death story to at least result in strict enforcement of laws which ensure safe passage, especially, the minimally enforced kind requiring walkways’ ice and snow removal. And how ironic, Sheri added, that after the years of Second Avenue subway construction caused precarious walking, Tony should fall after all that was finally cleared away. More than ironic is how little protest was made against those decade-long unsafe and chaotic conditions for the community at large. And while maybe city-funded senior centers can’t do protests against questionable government actions

or inactions, surely individual members can — and to save what they need most in their own backyards. But surely neighborhood social activism must get equal time with social activities in other non-city subsidized groups for elders. Except only social activities are noted in a St. Monica Church’s recently formed senior ministry group’s questionnaire. No social actions listed, not even against the Second Avenue subway caused “skyrocketing rental values,” noted by St. Monica Church’s pastor, Father Donald Baker, in the Jan. 19 Catholic New York monthly. He fears older church and community members especially will be forced out of their homes. Stores and shop fronts with longtime presences in neighborhoods have already been priced-out.

They have been going and going and going, but where was — where is — the protest? To be continued, of course, but for now please, please check this paper’s Useful Contacts column and call in your concerns to local officials listed there – and any community groups too. Although, I say, do both. Thank you, Felicia Felday, for sharing this important social action tip, And here’s to remembering “The squeaky wheel gets the grease” nononsense advice civic groups used to hear from then 19th Precinct community police officers. Equal time for social action, you bet! And it can be done if enough of us try — if enough of us try. dewingbetter@aol.com

SHALL WE SKATE? BY MELITTA ANDERMAN

Remember all those wistful childish wishes? Choices were endless; boys wanted to be ﬁremen, policemen, astronauts and cowboys, and girls wanted to be mommies, movie stars and ballerinas. I wanted to be an ice skating star. Actually, my parents named me for an international ﬁgure skater popular when I was born, Melitta Brunner, but I don’t believe the name penetrated my thought processes at the time. I did a lot of skating through the years, but the likes of Sonia Henie and Meryl Davis (a brilliant and beautiful American ice dancer) eluded me, and so I resigned myself to watching as many ice capades and competitions as possible. Here in Manhattan we have scenic Rockefeller Plaza and Wollman Rink in Central Park, as well an enclosed skating rink on Manhattan’s West Side by Hudson River. These are all wonderful places to let your feet fly over ice as you circle the rink. If you even have a bit of an ability to stay steady and feel secure, the ice will be your friend and allow you to let your body relax as you skate. It is a truly great pleasure to skate alone or hold

hands with another person. Wollman lies on a valley as you enter from Central Park South. In a few minutes you descend and the whiteness of the ice appears and then the wooden enclosures with all the amenities you need for a happy time — shoe rentals, food court, lockers and benches. It’s a little Switzerland in our Big Apple. It’s easy to forget and overlook, but it’s a hidden gem. Watching all the little eager kids make their way around and around, plopping on the ice on unsteady feet (when you are small falling is fun) as well people way over middle age in great shape traversing the ice makes me wish I had those beautiful white skates of my youth. At least I have the wonderful pleasure of watching greats perform in person or via satellite. I can turn on YouTube, where I can revisit any Olympic exhibition I missed and catch segments of skating greats, like Britain’s Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean do their 1984 rendition of “Bolero,” one of the legendary pair-skating feats. Great dramas played out on the ice, dangerous stunts which sometimes led to tragic accidents as well as world success.

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sacriﬁce, but if you feel that ﬁre, go for it and don’t give up. You may catch me in the crowd cheering.

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FOOD CARTS PROLIFERATE AFTER SUBWAY OPENING Local brick-and-mortar shops near Second Avenue stations say business has been affected BY LAURA HANRAHAN

The highly anticipated opening of the Second Avenue subway was met with relief from local business owners, hopeful they would return to their pre-construction prosperity. An inﬂux of food trucks in the areas near the new stations, however, is causing some discontent among local deli, cafe and restaurant owners. According to Community Board 8 Chairman James Clynes, the board office has received numerous complaints from restaurant owners who operate along the Second Avenue corridor. After suffering through seven years of construction-related disruptions, which forced many businesses along the avenue to move or shut down altogether, Clynes is sympathetic. “It’s not right that they’ve now set up in front of subway stops, cashing in,” he said of the food carts. Arturo Guillan, who works at Express Stop 72, a small deli on Second Avenue just north of 72nd Street, said the deli’s owners and employees have contacted a City Council liaison and the city helpline but have been sent in circles, seeing no results. “We called 311 and were sent to the police and the police sent us back to Consumer Affairs,” he said of the city department. Since the opening of the subway station, Guillan now sees three to four carts operating within one block of the deli every morning, with two to three operating throughout the day. The ﬁnancial hardship that the business hoped would be alleviated after the completion of the subway stations has continued, which he attributes to the presence of the trucks. “My boss is paying rent from his savings money thinking business was going to be better but it’s still the same,” Guillan said. No more than 10 yards from the deli, Omar Ismail operates a cart in front of the west entrance to the 72nd Street subway. He moved from his 79th

Flagging down a great rate doesn’t have be so hard. A proliferation of food carts have set up shop along Second Avenue following the completion of the subway line there. Omar Ismail’s cart, pictured, is one of four that were doing business Tuesday morning near the northwest entrance to the 72nd Street station. Photo: Richard Khavkine Street location to his current spot following the station’s opening earlier this month. Like Express Stop 72, Ismail’s cart sells coffee, juice and a variety of sandwiches. “I don’t really know who’s complaining” Ismail said. “I get a lot of police, they come to me and just talk about it but I’m really not hurting anyone. It’s competition basically, that’s just how it works.” Once a food cart vendor is granted a permit by the Department of Health, they are free to set up on any sidewalk that is at least 12 feet wide and is not on the city’s restricted list. Despite the competition, Ismail does not see his presence as taking away loyal patrons from local establishments. “I believe if they like the restaurant they’re just going to go to the restaurant, that’s just how it works,” he said. But longtime Upper East Side resident Linda Burak believes the increase of food carts near her 68th Street home are encroaching on local establishments. “There’s a wonderful neighborhood institution called

Beach Cafe, been there for 15 years, and next to him is something called Beijing Wok, which has been there forever, and suddenly there’s a food truck in front of him,” Burak said of two businesses just south of 70th Street on Second Avenue. “These are businesses that have stayed through all that construction that are neighborhood businesses. What the hell is a food truck doing there?” For Burak, not only are the carts creating competition for these longstanding restaurants, but they are causing congestion on the sidewalks, particularly early in the morning and around lunch time. “It just seems to me that there’s been such a proliferation and what it means is lines of people on their phones standing there, you can’t walk by,” she said. Clynes said the overabundance of the food trucks and carts were an unforeseen result of the subway’s opening. “The Second Avenue subway has all good intentions,” he said, “but with all good intentions comes unintended consequences.”

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The Making of an American Prophet Friday, February 24 | 7:30pm

GRAMMY award-winning singer/songwriter Marcus Hummon presents, Frederick Douglass: The Making of an American Prophet, has been captivating audiences and draws people in with the story of struggle and hope for a freer world for all. Admission is FREE.

Lift Every Voice! The Marble Community Gospel Choir and Festival of Voices Concert

Sunday, February 26 | 3:00pm

Thu 2 ‘SMILIN’ THROUGH’ | MOVIE ▲ 96th Street Library, 112 East 96th St. 2 p.m. Free A young woman falls in love with a man whose father killed the bride of her uncle who forbids their love. 212-289-0908. nypl.org

FRENCH PLAYWRIGHT The Marble Community Gospel Choir and Festival of voices present Lift Every Voice! A tribute to African-American composers of every genre, from classical to gospel. Directed by Stacy Penson. Visit MarbleChurch.org for tickets. Event listings brought to you by Marble Collegiate Church. 1 West 29th Street / New York, New York 10001 212 686 2770 / MarbleChurch.org

The Frick Collection, 1 East 70th St. 7-8:30 p.m. $50 “The Constant Players,” a play by the French 18th-century playwright Pierre de Marivaux, the most esteemed successor to the 17th-century playwright Molière. 212-288-0700. frick.org

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Lenox Hill Hospital, 131 East 76th St. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free No-cost health screenings and the chance to speak with top healthcare specialists. Screenings include cholesterol, glucose, vascular, lung and breathing. northwell-edu/ loveyourheart.

The Dalton School, 108 East 89th St. 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. $20 Ten inspiring speakers on the theme of courage, including Minniejean Brown Trickey of the Little Rock Nine and Jeffrey Wigand, whistleblower on Big Tobacco. tedext.daltonschool-org.

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George F. Baker Jr. Houses, 75 East 93rd St. 7:30-9:30 p.m. $40 The celebrated Russian composer’s works performed include “Sonata for piano,” “Concerto for ﬂute” and “Scherzo for viola and double bass.” nonyc-org.

Rabbi Arthur Schneler Park East Day School, 164 East 68th St. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $20 The Park East Day School Grandparents Circle Presents The Maccabeats, a Super Bowl Sunday concert. 212-737-7330. parkeastdayschool.org

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Complimentary heart health screenings Join Lenox Hill Hospital for no-cost health screenings and the chance to speak with some of New York’s top healthcare specialists. Everyone is welcome.

Go Red Heart Health Fair Tomorrow – Friday, February 3 11am – 3pm Einhorn Auditorium at Lenox Hill Hospital 131 East 76th Street (between Lexington and Park Avenues)

‘REBEL NIGHT’ The Back Room, 102 Norfolk St. 8 p.m.-Midnight. No cover Monthly dance party, spinning 45s all night: 50’s, 60’s, rock ‘n roll, rockabilly, R&B, blues — jive, bop, stroll and twist and drink ‘til early morning. 212-228-5098.

TEMPLE TOUR ▲ Temple Emanu-El, 1 East 65th St. 1-2:3 p.m. $25-$29 Join NY Adventures Club for exclusive, behind-the-scenes exploration through historic Temple Emanu-El, one of the largest houses of worship in the world. nyadventureclub.com

Mon 6 ALICE AT ALICE’S Alice’s Tea Cup, 220 East 81st St. 6-10 p.m. $40 Tony Award winner Alice Ripley in an evening

MARK ROTHKO New York Society Library, 53 East 79th St. 6:30-8 p.m. $15 RSVP “From the Inside Out” is a thoughtful re-examination of the legendary artist, written by his son Chritopher Rothko. 212-288-6900. nysoclib.org

Tue 7 AUTHOR READING Barnes & Noble, 150 East 86th St. 7 p.m. Free Min Jin Lee, in conversation with Meg Wolitzer, presents her dazzling new novel, of a sweeping saga of several generations of one Korean family in Japan. 212-369-2180. barnesandnoble.com

‘SWAN LAKE’ | MOVIE The Beekman Cinema, 1271 Second Ave. 7 p.m. $20 One of the world’s best-loved ballets tells the timeless story of good and evil, love and tragedy. 212-249-0807. beekmantheatre.com

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LIVE AT ROCKEFELLER U. Rockefeller University, 1230 York Ave. 7:30-9:30 p.m. $10-$30 Part of a series of concerts; pianist Charlie Albright, critically acclaimed as “among the most gifted musicians of his generation” plays this night. 212-327-8000. rockefeller.edu

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‘I’M NOBODY! WHO ARE YOU?’ The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Ave. 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. $20 “The Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson” closely examines 24 poems in various draft states, with corresponding audio stops. Organized with Amherst College. 212-685-0008. themorgan. org

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Sotheby’s Art Preview BY MOLLY COLGAN

The worlds of fine art and cuisine are about to merge. For Our Town’s Art of Food event Saturday February 4, Sotheby’s New York curated a robust selection of original artwork, featuring some of the most sought-after contemporary artists’ pieces on the market. The artwork on display at The Art of Food was chosen from Sotheby’s March 2nd Contemporary Curated sale and the personal collection of prominent art collectors Ed Cohen and Victoria Shaw, providing ticketholders with the rare opportunity to view pieces by artists such as John Currin, Jeff Koons, Sol LeWitt, and Howard Hodgkin. All works are originals and will be available for purchase during the event, ranging in price from $6,000 to $400,000. Each piece of highlighted artwork has been assigned to a participating restaurant to inspire the chef’s cuisine for the evening. While all works are contemporary, each piece offers a unique perspective into the vastly diverse genre. Some chefs are working with sculptures and pieces dating to the 1940s; others have been assigned paintings or drawings as recent as 2016. Vaucluse’s Michael White is making a dish based on a work of art by Alexander

Calder, while Richard Sandoval of Maya is serving up delicacies that mirror a piece by Jonas Wood. Ross Postmentier of NewYork-Presbyterian is drawing inspiration from “Sun Green,” one of Yayoi Kusama’s signature pieces, an infinity net she creates with little cells of paint. “She does an accumulation of them all over her canvases,” explains Emily Kaplan, Sotheby’s head of contemporary curated sales. “She envisions this world in which the infinity nets take over everything, and does this multiplication of motif with the dots…the colors on this one are so vivid and bright— it feels like it was made yesterday, but it’s from 1957.” One particular piece of artwork to be on the lookout for during the event is Ed Ruscha’s “Broken Pencil.” “It’s a fantastic work because of its early date,” notes Kaplan. “Early works from Ruscha are really coveted and rare. It’s really remarkable in person.” At first glance, this varying and sophisticated collection of artwork seems to present a particularly daunting task to the participating chefs, all 28 of whom represent some of the most storied establishments on the Upper East Side. However, if there is one group of culinary titans that can take on the task of creating dishes inspired by fine artwork, it is this one. Many

of them are artists themselves: Joseph Capozzi of East Pole has a background in photography, Sweetcatch Poke’s Lee Anne Wong went to fashion school, Flex Mussel’s Rebecca Richards is a potter, Atlantic Grill’s Joyce Rivera, Mighty Quinn’s Barbeque’s Hugh Mangum, and 5 Napkin Burger’s Andy D’Amico are former musicians. They’re all up for the challenge, and are about to give the term culinary arts a whole new meaning.

Some artists featured include: ED RUSCHA YAYOI KUSAMA CHRISTO JONAS WOOD GERHARD RICHTER JEFF KOONS WAYNE THIEBAUD ALEXANDER CALDER SOL LEWITT ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG & MORE

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Chefs’ Takeaways from

People don’t realize how important it is to work with a sharp knife. When you go to school it’s the first thing you learn: the different cuts. It’s endlessly boring, and you’re terribly scared of cutting your fingers off, but there’s just a real difference when you prep ingredients properly with a sharp knife. Even if you’re just garnishing with cilantro or parsley—if you don’t cut it properly it bruises and doesn’t taste right.”

I worked in French restaurants all of my life. The basics of cooking, I believe, come from French cooking. It provides this great base of knowledge, and from there, you can move into any genre.” – Jason Kallert

– Andy D’Amico

I’ve always had such a hard time just naming things. You can create something and make it look any which way you want it to. But what do you call it at the end of the day? I feel like everyone just has this need to name it, type it into something, put it into a box, so they can relate to it and put it in their mouth and understand it more. I want to bend those rules. And we do that with our dishes—sometimes you don’t really know what it is that you’re eating, but it tastes amazing and looks great too. Our style here is very eclectic, but there’s still something for everyone.” – Joyce Rivera

People don’t use enough healthy fats: things like olive oil and nut oils. They’re so important for developing flavor and for your own health. I think people shy away from using things like avocado and olive oil, but they’re just great for you.” – Diego Moya

Cook what you like to eat.” – Philippe Roussel

Everything is vegan and organic. Most of our customers, about 80% of them, aren’t vegan. They just like to try out different things.” – Angel Ramos

My number one tip is to have fun in the kitchen. You don’t necessarily need to follow a recipe to the T. Taste as you go, and so long as you know what each ingredient is going to add, you can always end up with something that is going to be delicious. ” – Todd Mitgang

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What we do is farm-to-table style food. I call it ‘elevated home cooking,’ which is basic, simple recipes cooked on a higher level. I’ve started creating my own style and throwing in my influences from my travels as well. When I did a pop up in Israel, I picked up a couple of cool dishes, such as the schwarma which is on the menu at the Eastfields.”

Most things are going to need lemon, and salt reduces heat. Most people think that you would add sugar to take the spice away, but it’s really salt.”

What Barney’s does in clothes, we do in food. We bring in the best ingredients, we do a lot of local, farm-to-table here.” – Mark Strausman

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We aim to be a local pub pleasantly surprising people with the quality of the food. We have the authenticity of a real pub-not a typical New York bar or a gastropub or whatever. There is so much history in this particular location: it used to be a foundry where they made manhole covers, and it’s located where Central Park was supposed to be.”

When cooking Italian use three ingredients — maximum four, and don’t go over. Keep it simple, and straight to the point. This way, you don’t confuse the flavors and you don’t confuse the customers.” – Claudio Meneghini

Read your recipe thoroughly from beginning to end and set up ingredients before you start baking. Preheat your oven! There are details in a recipe for a reason; patience is a virtue when it comes to baking.” – Bobbie Lloyd

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My vision with Maya was to achieve ‘Modern Mexican’ which is what I like to describe as simply old ways in new hands. Elevating Mexican food has been my goal from the start. When I began my career, I wanted to overcome the perception that Mexican food was just ‘Tex-Mex’ cuisine: smothered burritos, chimichangas, and so on.” – Richard Sandoval

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.”

We weren’t sure what kind of restaurant we wanted to open, but I knew I wanted to serve the type of food I wanted to eat; something customers could relate to. And I wanted it to be a place where we could have fun at work. Meatballs kind of lend themselves to that.” – Daniel Holzman

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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.” – Ross Posmentier

When it comes down to baking, there is something about it that is even more spiritual than cooking. You’re creating a living item: the yeast, and the dough, and the starters. Mixing is an art. Handling bread in and out of the oven, that is an art form. The right angle at which the baguette is scored.” – Keith Cohen

As you explore the menu region by region, you’re going to find some dishes from cavatelli with broccoli and sausage, traditional Roman Jewish artichokes and the bucatini.” – Stefano Marracino

Don’t overcook your proteins. It’s the most important thing to me. No matter what you season with, if it’s overcooked, it’s not going to be good.” – Nick Testa

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The golden rule: cook everything as it is for a loved one.” – Alberto Andrei

Always keep the kitchen clean. I’m always cooking, prepping, and cleaning at the same time. I like to keep the kitchen spotless.”

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One part of our menu that changes in every single location is our frozen custard. We always create concretes that are locally inspired by the neighborhood. We like to hold up a mirror to that neighborhood and reflect back some of their history and culinary heritage through the voice and style of Shake Shack.”

The goal was to bring something authentic and better to what the mainland had been introduced to as ‘poke.’ I think my motivation was to create the real deal and use a higher quality fish than what is currently being served at other poke shops. I felt this was a great opportunity to introduce true Hawaiian style poke to my old hometown of NYC.“

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We have great steaks. We’ve been here for almost 22 years, and there are a lot of other menu items that have always stuck around, like our banana parfait and tuna tartar. We have a really great pork chop on the menu.” – Ben Zwicker

it’s a brasserie-plus plus. So what that means is you can get a great white label burger there, or you can get something classic: a beef bourguignonne or a veal chop, great steak frites. It’s very classic French.” – Michael White

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FROM THE TECH WORLD TO BROADWAY Ron Simons, a former Microsoft executive, is helping shape black theater BY MARK WHITAKER

Just weeks into a two-month run, the Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of August Wilson’s “Jitney” is getting rave reviews as a triumph of ensemble theater. The play about the camaraderie and conflicts between gypsy cab drivers in Pittsburgh is also winning attention as the last of Wilson’s “Century Cycle” — his 10 plays depicting life in Pittsburgh’s Hill District over 10 decades — to make it to Broadway, following the memorable runs of such hits as “Fences” and “The Piano Lesson.” Yet ironically, “Jitney” was the ﬁrst play that Wilson wrote about the Hill District, in the late 1970s when he was still a struggling poet and only beginning to try his hand at writing for the stage. Like the play itself, the tale of how “Jitney” ﬁnally made it to Broadway is an ensemble story. One of its most interesting characters is Ron Simons, 56, a black New York-based theater and film producer who less than two decades ago was working as a computer executive for Microsoft in Seattle. The son of a Detroit autoworker, Simons grew up with visions of becoming either a software engineer or an actor. As an undergraduate at Columbia University, he double majored in programming and English, with a focus on theater. He applied to the Yale Drama School, but by the time he heard back he had taken a job at Hewlett-Packard. Only 19 years later, after stints at IBM and Microsoft, did he summon the courage to pursue his other dream and enroll in acting school at the University of Washington.

Simons moved to New York City in 2001 to try to make it as an actor, but the transition wasn’t easy. It took him two years to land a minor role on “Law and Order,” that rite of passage for so many New York actors. While his agent kept calling with uninspiring offers of bit parts in TV and commercials, Simons was meeting black and other minority writers with exciting projects that they couldn’t get off the ground. So in 2009, he decided to do something about it by becoming a producer. Simons caught an early break with an independent ﬁlm called “Night Catches Us.” The script about a Black Panther who retu rns home for his father’s funeral had been

André Holland as “Youngblood” and Carra Patterson as “Rena” in “Jitney” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Producer Ron Simons helped bring the August Wilson play to Broadway. Photo: Joan Marcus kicking around for a decade when Simons invested enoug enough money to get a credit, mostly so h he could shadow the executive produ producer. Then that producer and the director fell out, d and Simons had to step in. He got lucky again when the lead actress Kerry Washington pulled out and Ke was available — ttwo years before she shot to stardom stardo in “Scandal.” While not a box office success, ”Night Catches Us” impressed critics at the Sund Sundance Film Festival and gave Simons a crash course in being a film’s “CEO,” as a he calls it. Turning Turni to theater, Simons identified three i qualities he would quali look for in scripts: artistic artis merit, commercial merc appeal and a connection to “uncon derrepresented der communities.” com Those criteria T lled him to join production p tteams for “The Gin Game” starG ring James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson; “Hughiie,” starring Forrest Whitaker; and

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“Turn Me Loose,” about the comedian and activist Dick Gregory. Explaining how much of producing involves lining up recognizable names to give a project “pedigree,” Simons recalls that the Gregory project “couldn’t get arrested” until Joe Morton (the father in “Scandal”) agreed to star and singer John Legend came aboard as the marquee producer. Simons admits that he’s “made of bunch of mistakes” in becoming a producer, but he’s learned a few core lessons. “Networking is the absolute key” to finding great scripts and recruiting investors, he says. Almost all productions are “hurry up and wait” affairs, requiring years of patience and then the ability to act in a matter of days and even hours once the pieces come together. Most of all, Simons says, “You have to go on faith that if you bring together the right people, magic will happen.” A partner on “Turn Me Loose,” Broadway producer Eric Falkenstein, led Simons to “Jitney.” The Manhattan Theatre Club had committed to making the play part of its 2017 calendar — guaranteeing healthy ticket sales from the MTC’s “installed base” of subscribers. Falkenstein, Simons and Legend put up hundreds of thousands more in “enhancement” dollars to insure production values and marketing worthy of the superb cast. The result, Simons boasts, is a theater experience

of “nines across the board.” Through his production company, SimonSays, Simons is now part of a small but increasingly visible world of black actors using their clout and connections to get passion projects made, creating opportunities for diverse actors and other creative talent in the process. Although tight-lipped about details, Simons lists among the company’s upcoming projects a screenplay by Joe Morton; a musical about “a well-known singing group;” and a TV interview series with singers modeled on “Inside the Actors Studio.” Meanwhile, he continues to audition for acting roles and to make small investments with his own money in likely hits such as the revival of “Hello Dolly” with Bette Midler. Simons says he is also looking forward to the Oscars, and the chance to cheer on best picture and acting nominations for three ﬁlms — “Moonlight,” “Fences” and “Hidden Figures” — that would never been made without the influence of that world of black movers and shakers. “It’s happy confluence,” he says about the end of the #OscarsSoWhite drought, “but there is no guarantee t hat t h i n gs have c ha n ged permanently.” A decade and a half into his second career as black man in show business, the engineer in Ron Simons knows that it’s still up to him to make things happen.

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Festive Papas Tapas Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: 20 minutes Servings: 6 2-4 medium Wisconsin russet or gold potatoes 2 tablespoons olive oil 1/4 teaspoon pepper 1/2 teaspoon sea salt Heat grill or oven to 400 F. Thinly slice potatoes lengthwise to 1/4-inch thick, discarding ends. Toss with olive oil, salt and pepper. Place on grill or prepared baking sheet in single layer. Cook 10 minutes on each side. Add toppings.

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THE CONNECTED POET A new show at the Morgan corrects the popular myth that Emily Dickinson was a total recluse

from all over the country and world. She developed some of her most important friendships and relationships, however, through her brother, Austin, BY VAL CASTRONOVO who introduced her to his Amherst College classmate, George Gould, and whose wife, Susan, became a confiTurns out Emily Dickinson (1830dante and “number one reader” of 1886) had a wider social and profesDickinson’s poems. sional circle than we had ever imagThrough Austin and Susan, Emined. “The myth of the poet in white ily met Samuel Bowles, editor of The who never left her bedroom really is Springfield Republican a myth,” Mike Kelly, elly, head of Archives Republic newspaper and an important voice & Special Collections ions at Amherst Colvoic on the national scene. Dickinson sent lege, said at a recent ecent lecture about sen at least 250 of her nearly 1,800 poems to Susan; the new show devoted voted to the poet p Susan or Austin, from Amherst. Aust in turn, directed them to Bowles and Proclaiming it “the most other in influencers for ambitious Dickinson kinson publication. “There exhibit ever” – some ome public was an army of peo90 items, includdple — friends and ing every known admirers — who image of the ad got her poems poet from life g – Kelly kicked iinto print,” Kelly off a preview ssaid. Dickinson may tour with a look have been proat an 1840 porh trait featuring llific, but only Emily and her 110 of her poems were published siblings, Austin in her lifetime, and Lavinia. The all anonymouspainting, which ly and all probhas never before ably without left Harvard’s her consent. Houghton LiBowles pubbrary, portrays lished seven a 10-year-old in the RepubEmily in the lican. The pocompany of her et’s eccentric most imporpunctuation tant network, was altered, h e r f a m i l y. and the verses Appropriately were g iven enou g h , she titles. holds a flower Her first apand a book, the pearance in ﬂower mirroring g print, however, the surrounding g came in Februf loral wallpaper, er, c ary uncovered during ng a ar 1850 in The Indicator, the Am2013 excavation of her Indic literary bedroom and beautifully autifully herst College Co magazine. K Kelly, who said reproduced at the e Morgan. Valentine-eve The wallpaperr highthe V invitation to an unlights another key y theme Emily invita identified suitor was here: newly discovered covered Dickinson, daguerreotype, ca. 1847. Amherst College Archives & Special identi one of his favorite material about the poet. Collections. Gift of Millicent Todd Bingham, 1956. exhibit pieces, posits The exhibit is a showcase for manuscripts — letters and po- they were doing: there is a vintage that Dickinson sent it to her brother’s ems — but also for a wealth of visual photo nearby of students performing classmate George Gould. An excerpt: artifacts, such as daguerreotypes, domestic chores, a school require- “meet me at sunrise, or sunset, or the paintings, hair-locks and a herbarium ment. Dickinson’s chore: cleaning the new moon — the place is immaterial. In gold, or in purple, or sackcloth — I (album of pressed plants), the latter knives. But the written word, captured in look not upon the raiment ... I propose, begun when Emily was about 9 and letters and in poems, on stationery sir, to see you.” presented here in digital form. Earlier that month, Gould had sent The herbarium belongs to a section and on scraps of paper, rules here. As devoted to Dickinson’s year at Mount the daughter of Amherst College’s the poet a quaint invitation to a “CanHolyoke, which she attended from treasurer, Emily was socially engaged dy Pulling!!” It is unclear whether she 1847 to1848. As Kelly said about the as a young woman, taking part in the attended the event, but she revealingcollege’s 11th annual catalogue, of- life of the college through receptions, ly saved the invite, scrawling a poem fered to him by a bookseller in 2012: lectures, concerts and commence- on its back 26 years later, bemoaning “This is a thing. Before there were ments, and interacting with people the passage of time. There is no furyearbooks, before there was Facebook, [students] would make little notes next to friends’ names.” He was referring to student Sarah Tuthill, owner of the catalogue, who penned lines from Othello next to Dickinson’s name: “She is ever fair, and never proud/Hath tongue at will and yet is never loud.” Such items are important, Kelly said, because they offer insight into “the lives of women in college in the 19th century, their friendships and what these girls were reading.” And what

Otis Allen Bullard (1816–1853), Emily Elizabeth, Austin and Lavinia Dickinson. Oil on canvas, ca. 1840. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

The ﬂoral wallpaper from Emily Dickinson’s bedroom in Amherst, displayed at the Morgan. Photography by Janny Chiu. ther documentation of their relationship. Another mystery surrounds a recently discovered daguerreotype of two women (ca. 1859), one of which may, or may not, be Dickinson. It is displayed here for the ﬁrst time alongside an authenticated photo of the poet, when she was 16, for comparison. The woman on the right is probably Dickinson’s close friend, Kate Turner. Her letters to Kate (“Stay! My heart

votes for you ... ”) “can be read as a lesbian love affair, or is she just being passionate and dramatic?” Kelly asked, addressing speculation at the end of the tour about the poet’s sexuality. “She loved drama.” Even as she increasingly shunned society in the 1860s, Dickinson maintained her network of friends and professional contacts, sending them her poetry, her bridge to the outside world.

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DEDICATED TO THE JOY OF DANCE Jacques d’Amboise reflects on his storied career, from the New York City Ballet, to Hollywood and to city schools BY ANGELA BARBUTI

Jacques d’Amboise’s life reads like a fairytale. As a young boy growing up in the 1940s in Washington Heights, which he compares to “West Side Story” with its teenage gangs, his mother enrolled him in a ballet class. His talent was quickly realized and at age 15, it brought him to New York City Ballet, then in its infancy. George Balanchine, its founder, looked at d’Amboise as the son he never had, even fashioning the title role in his revival of “Apollo” with him in mind. “Balanchine said, ‘I wrote the ballet describing it as a wild, untamed youth who learns nobility through art. And you know, Jacques, that’s you,’” d’Amboise, now 82, explained about his 23-year-old self. “And it’s true. I was a street guy with gangs in Washington Heights and ended up being Apollo.” He also made a name for himself in Hollywood, starring in classic films like “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.” While ﬁlming, he had to leave the set early to return to New York to dance in the inaugural production of “The Nutcracker.” Ultimately, d’Amboise chose the ballet, and later, even found love on stage with ballerina Carolyn George, whom he married. The couple had four children, all of them following in their parents’ footsteps as dancers, two pursuing the craft professionally. After retiring from the ballet at 49, d’Amboise began giving his son and his friends dance lessons. “I was

reaching the later part of my career and realized how I had been transformed as a young boy by being involved in the arts and that dance was the doorway,” he said. Out of his first class of 11 boys, five went on to have careers as ballet dancers. It was because of these fledgling classes that d’Amboise was inspired to take the idea to the city’s public schools. This led to the creation of the National Dance Institute, a nonprofit that brings dance into schools for every student, free of charge. With NDI part of the curriculum in 41 New York City schools, 6,500 local children are dancing because of d’Amboise’s unwavering dedication.

You grew up in Washington Heights and took your ﬁrst ballet class there.

Photo: National Dance Institute

I was born in Dedham, Massachusetts, and came to New York to live in Staten Island at 5. And then at 7, we moved to Washington Heights and that’s where I started ballet. There were gangs; it was like “West Side Story.” You belonged to the Panthers or the Famwoods. But they were not gangs, mostly they’d go wilding on Halloween. It was not serious gang ﬁghting, which came later with something called a zip gun. But I got away from that, because my mother got me in a ballet class with a teacher who taught on 181st Street in Washington Heights, right off Amsterdam and St. Nicholas Avenues. My sister was also studying ballet. After a year, I was just turning 8, the teacher told my mother, “I don’t have room for your children anymore.” She handed her a piece of paper and said, “Take them to the School of American Ballet. George Balanchine. They are better teachers than I am.” And she gave up her only boy in the class.

How many boys were in your class at the School of American Ballet? Did you ever feel that you shouldn’t become a ballet dancer because it was predominantly female?

Jacques D’Amboise with New York City pupils. Photo: National Dance Institute

There were two others when I ﬁrst went. And a year or so later, a third one joined. And that was Eddie Villella, who later became a great ballet dancer. I loved being with the girls in class and the challenge of the dancing. I always thought it was temporary, but almost immediately I was doing children’s roles in the ballet. I have only one year of high school. I quit school and joined the Corps de Ballet of New York City Ballet.

had a young son. I was like his pseudo son. You know, he did a great ballet to Stravinsky music called “Apollo.” And he revived it for me. It had been done by all great male dancers. And he said, “No more golden curls and sandals. We’re gonna do it in black-and-white and put grease on your hair like an American teenager. This is going to be Apollo of today.” … And that’s the way it is today. It became universal for all-time. He wanted me to have grease in my hair, no wig curls.

Tell us about your experience in Hollywood.

I just went last night and with me were five ballerinas from New York City Ballet that are my peers. I got them tickets. We sat in the front row and watched Balanchine’s ballet, “The Four Temperaments,” one of the great Balanchine ballets. And all these girls had danced in it and I had done several roles in it. Robbie Fairchild was dancing, who, right now, is my favorite. Although there’s another, Daniel Ulbricht, who I also love in New York City Ballet. They’re great. And the orchestra is so terriﬁc. And I thought to myself, “This is not the end of always there.” Because every time you see New York City Ballet, there is Balanchine. In the way the dancers perform, in the high quality of their technique as well as their deportment and good manners on the stage. It’s a national treasure, New York City Ballet, and everybody should go to it.

What had happened was I was asked to do this movie, “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.” I turned 18 on the set and Balanchine said, “Don’t sign a 7-year contract. They’ll owe you. Have my agent make your contract.” So he made a contract for one movie a year for seven years. The shooting schedule was no more than three months because most movies were shot very quickly. So “Seven Brides” was to be finished by a certain date and the date came and they were still shooting. And I said, “I gotta leave. The ballet company is starting. Balanchine is doing his first “Nutcracker.” And I’m supposed to be in it.” And they said, “No, you can’t leave.” So I kept postponing and finally I said I was leaving on suchand-such a date, no matter what. My contract had been written so that I could do that. So in the last few scenes of “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” there’s a guy in the back in a green shirt; it’s actually the assistant director disguised as me, because I had left. [Laughs] I did several other movies. I’m so glad I did them, but I’m so glad that ballet was my Mount Everest.

Describe your relationship with Balanchine.

You retired on the recommendation of your wife.

He never had children, but I think he kind of considered me, if he had

I was about to be 50 that summer. I had married and had children and

When you joined New York City Ballet, it had just been founded the year before. Do you still go to see performances there? How does it compare?

only had a few roles that I was still doing. My wife at the time, Carolyn George, who I had met in the Corps de Ballet of New York City Ballet and fell in love with and got married, was the company photographer. And she said to me, very nervous that I’d be offended, “You shouldn’t do that role anymore.” And I said, “What do you mean? Right now, no male dancer in the company can do it better than me.” And my wife said, “Yes, that may be true. But the way you’re dancing it tonight is not as good as the memory of the way you danced it last month. Your plane is about to land. Get out while the memory of how good you were is still in people’s minds.” So the next day I went to Balanchine [Laughs] and said, “Who do you want me to teach this role to?”

Explain how the National Dance Institute came about. I started the National Dance Institute in schools because in New York City public schools when I grew up, there was a jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra, an acting group. ... All that art left the public school system. They kept sports. So I started going to principals of schools and asking them if they’d like to have a free dance class for boys. Then the girls in the schools said, “Why do the boys have it?” So it ended up being boys and girls and that’s how National Dance Institute started. To learn more, visit www.nationaldance.org

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