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HOSPITALS, RESIDENT CANDIDATES CONTEND WITH IMMIGRATION UNCERTAINTY HEALTH CARE President Trump’s executive order puts program directors in a tough spot as they rank med students for summer 2017 Photo: Lorraine Duffy Merkl

MY NEW VIEW OF THE CITY CONSTRUCTION Amid the demolition across 86th Street, an Upper East Sider reflects on New York’s constant reinvention BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL

I have a picture window in my living room. I know, good for me. But picture this: Three four-story, attached, brick townhouses; one with a blue door, the next black, and the last red. For the past 17 years, this was my Upper East Side view. With plenty of airspace above, I also had lots of light. Then, at the beginning of the year, the demolition started. Like most New Yorkers, the minute the scaffolding went up, I thought, “Oh, no,” then “Oh, good.

Yet another sidewalk turned into an obstacle course.” It didn’t take long before a few neighbors began to complain about the noise, especially on Saturday mornings because the men work six days a week. Also, my building had the exterminator pay a special visit, because if the houses had any vermin living there, they’d be looking for a new home, and since we’re right across the street … At first, I didn’t even want to look out the window. The massive mesh screens. The huge dumpsters and even bigger trucks that haul them away. And the ugly orange and white barricades. Yuck. But I did look, and found the process as fascinating as my now 22-year-son did when he was two

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As program directors at New York City hospitals narrowed their list of candidates for each residency program or fellowship, they had an additional factor to consider for 2017: will certain foreign applicants be able to enter the country this summer to start their training? President Donald Trump’s January executive order temporarily banning foreign nationals from seven Muslimmajority countries has complicated residency matches for international medical students and U.S. hospitals. While it was stayed in early February by a federal judge, the administration has suggested they hope to rewrite another executive order with the same end results as the initial order. The countries included in the executive order are Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. There are 1,049 applicants from the affected countries for this year, said Dr. William Pinsky, president and CEO of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates. The

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Lenox Hill Hospital on the Upper East Side is one of many New York City hospitals matching international applicants for residency programs. Photo: Razi Syed ECFMG vets foreign medical graduates before they can apply for residency in the United States and ensures they possess degrees from accredited

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BRIDGET EVERETT IS IN LOVE PETS How the rising star’s adopted dog, Poppy, has changed her life BY GAIL EISENBERG

Monday is date night for Bridget Everett and the love of her life. The rising star of stages and screens takes her little lady out to an intimate dinner, and then it’s back to their Upper West Side apartment to snuggle on the couch. “I can’t believe it took me this long to get a dog,” says Everett. “Poppy’s enriched my life immeasurably. She turned my life around, and has shown me how to accept love unconditionally and how to give it.” The bawdy, no-holds-barred, classically-trained singer has slowly parlayed her one-woman “alt-cabaret” act, beginning with Ars Nova’s At Least It’s Pink in 2007, into a meteoric rise. She’s performed at Carnegie Hall with Patti Lupone, HBO’s Aspen United States Comedy Arts Festival, The Adelaide International Cabaret Festival and The New York Comedy Festival. The impetus to adopt arrived as she watched three of her closest friends

grieve the loss of their dogs. “It was hard to see, but in some weird way, I wanted to feel that way, too,” she says. “I wanted to love something, someone that deeply.” Like many love stories these days, this one started online. Poppy was popping up all over the place — Petﬁnder, Social Tees, Toast Meets World on Instagram, where she was being fostered. Everett needed to meet this dog, and when she did, it was love at ﬁrst sight. “Poppy is a supermodel, no question,” says Everett. [See for yourself: @Poppy_Louise] “But her smile and sweet demeanor sold me instantly. When I went to visit her at her foster home, she greeted me at the door, smiling, and then fell asleep in my lap moments later. I came undone! Her bio said she was perfect and she is. She’s my queen.” Just like that, the purebred Pomeranian from a backyard breeder became front and center in Everett’s life. She and the eight-year-old pup, whose full name is Poppy Louise Mandrell Everett, have been an item for the last two years. Poppy, the dog’s foster name, suited her perfectly so Mom simply added Louise Mandrell, her favorite of the Mandrell Sisters. Everett has even

Poppy Louise Mandrell Everett. Photo: Bridget Everett

Everett with Poppy. Photo: Jason Eagan more inspired nicknames. “I call her everything under the sun when we’re alone. Baby-sweetiehearts-love-of-my-life-angel-love is just one,” she says. Originally from Manhattan, Kansas — aka the Little Apple — Everett made her way to the Big Apple in the mid-1990s. She worked hard at her craft while slinging hash for twentyﬁve years, and now the world is ﬁnally discovering that the 44-year-old hyphenate has got range. Everett counts among her favorite singers/performers Barry Manilow, Julie Andrews,

Freddie Mercury, Michael Jackson, Carol Burnett, Dina Martina, Murray Hill, and Richard Pryor. The songs on her set list include the tear-jerking Gloria Steinem-inspired “I’ll Take You Home,” the explicit sing-a-long “What I Gotta Do,” and, new to her repertoire, a ditty Everett wrote for Poppy, which she often sings as an encore. Some lyrics: Sweet little sunshine Angel of mine You took my heart and broke it open wide Oh little lady

How good life can be Thank you for taking a chance on me Poppy shows her Mom the feeling is mutual. Says Everett: “She has a couple of doggie buddies at Joe’s Pub, but she’s happiest sitting next to her Mama, wherever we are.” Love is love. Catch Bridget Everett in the upcoming feature ﬁlms Patti Cake$ and Fun Mom Dinner, as a recurring character in Lady Dynamite on Netﬂix, and live on tour. www. bridgeteverett.net

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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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SCOFFLAW SCUFFLE A motorcyclist was charged with a number of offenses after he attempted to evade police and resist arrest. At 9:42 a.m. on Sunday, February 19, a 35-year-old man from Queens was driving his motorcycle with a female passenger on board when he was pulled over by a traffic officer after he ran the light at East 85th Street and Lexington Avenue. Instead of complying with the officer, however, the biker took off but was apprehended outside On East 76th Street. The biker, though refused to get off his motorcycle, and his 2007 Honda hit the curb and fell to the ground. He continued to resist arrest, scuffling with the officer, who later received

medical attention. The biker had been driving with a suspended license and had 21 outstanding charges, and his motorcycle bore a stolen license plate. He was charged with resisting arrest, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, failure to obey traffic laws, and driving the wrong way up a one-way street.

MODUS OPERAN-DUMB Sometime between November 9 and December 13, a former employee of the Moda Operandi store at 24 East 64th St. stole a Color Temperature red mink coat valued at $13,200. The ex-employee, a 39-year-old Manhattan woman, later posted a photo on social

media showing her wearing the singular fur. She was arrested on February 22 and charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.

CIVIC SPIRITED AWAY At 2 p.m. on Sunday, February 19, a Queens man parked his red 1993 Honda Civic outside 45 East 81st St. When he returned at 10 p.m. his car was missing. A search of the neighborhood proved fruitless. The car was valued at $4,500.

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JEWEL CASE

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Sometime Thursday, February 22, someone entered the apartment of two East 82nd Street residents and made off with jewelry worth more than $7,000. There were no signs of forced entry. Items missing included a 24-karat gold ring valued at $2,500, a diamond ring worth $1,500, a necklace priced at $350, two diamond rings and other items.

A teenager learned the hard way to keep an eye on his belongings. At 4 p.m. on Wednesday, February 21, a 15-yearold boy was headed southbound on Lexington Ave, when he stopped outside 822 Lexington and laid his backpack on the sidewalk next to him. When he next looked for the Gladiator backpack, worth $15, it was gone, along with its contents, a MacBook Air valued at $1,000, and school books priced at $15, making a total of $1,030.

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S E I T E R R E A H T P R A N T U S F Some high-school-level summer camps are accredited to cover an entire year of high school language learning. Photo: Caleb Roenigk, via ﬂickr

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For a lot of kids, summer is a time to travel intellectually as well as literally, to dive headlong into new languages and cultures in a way that classroom learning alone doesn’t allow. For instance, every summer around 4,500 kids between the ages of 7 and 18 travel to one of dozens of “language villages” nestled in the north woods of Minnesota and run by Concordia College. The camps, which also include typical summercamp activities like swimming and crafts, offer serious cultural and linguistic immersion in 16 different languages. There is belly dancing and Middle Eastern food at Arabic language camp, for example, or traditional calligraphy, taiko drumming, karate and Japanese meals in Japanese camp. “Having a foreign language and cultural skills in your background is vitally important. Sometimes it’s a matter of heritage or ethnic background, or sometimes it’s about community demographic. Or it’s just

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Immersion in languages, along with more traditional summer camp activities, is gaining popularity. Photo: thoroughlyreviewed.com what a child seems to be passionate about,” says Christine Schulze, executive director of the program, based in Moorhead, Minnesota. “Korean pop culture, for example, seems to be a big driver of interest in Korean language and cultural studies.” For younger kids, the camps run one or two weeks, while those for high schoolers are four weeks. The longer high-school-level camps are designed (and accredited) to cover an entire year of high school language learning, Schulze says, and unlike a summer overseas, the camps offer the security and ease of remaining in the United States. Kids also can try out several of the “country” villages to find the best fit. “Children come in with the full range of language abilities, with some starting at the very beginning and others quite advanced and ready push their skills even further,” she says. “Sometimes children do a summer at a village as preparation for a program abroad the following year.” The programs cost roughly $1000 per week, with about 20 percent of the children receiving some level of financial as-

sistance. Middlebury College, in Vermont, also offers summer language programs for eighth to 12th graders, as do some other colleges and universities. For older kids, the Washington, D.C.-based Youth for Understanding offers high school study-abroad summer programs in dozens of countries. They include group travel for language teachers and their classes, and more traditional, individual home-stay programs, says Heather Deno, sales director for the organization. Youth for Understanding was started after World War II to foster peace, and is also known for high school programs lasting a semester to a year, and gap-year programs between high school and college. In its summer programs in India, Ecuador, Paraguay, South Africa and Thailand, kids stay with a host family and do community-oriented volunteer work. “Our organization started in the 1950s with the idea that it’s hard to hate or generalize about a culture once you know people personally,” says Deno. The summer programs run four to eight weeks and cost

between $5,500 and $9,000 depending on airfare; many students receive financial aid. “We give out $2 million a year in scholarships. Many Japanese companies, in particular, offer full or partial scholarships to Japan,” she said. Of course, you don’t have to leave home to get summer language study. Many bilingual and language schools across the U.S. offer their own immersive day camps. The French American School of New York, in Larchmont, offers summer camps for kids, as does the German International School in Portland, Oregon, among many others. Prices vary widely depending on the school and region. To find such a program, begin with a quick online search of local bilingual, dual immersion or international schools. For sleepaway camps, Schulze recommends checking that the program is affiliated with the American Camp Association, which sets general and safety guidelines. And for overseas programs, Deno, at Youth For Understanding, says programs should be certified by CIEST (the Council on Standards for International Education Travel).

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BUILDING HEALTH GRAYING NEW YORK BY MARCIA EPSTEIN

Various neighborhood associations have been fighting Jewish Home Lifecare for years over its plans to built a 20-story nursing home on 97th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues. For many years, The New Jewish Home (formerly The Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged) has been (and still is) located on West 106th Street. The proposed home would be built on the footprint of a West 97th Street parking lot for Park West Village tenants, and of course those tenants would like to keep it that way. However, they’re not the only ones fighting the erection of this building. Various neighborhood associations have taken Jewish Home to court and have delayed construc-

tion since 2014. Also, since it would be right next to a public school, the school has been opposing the building adamantly. The school is concerned about noise and dust, and the leaders of the opposition have claimed that soil testing shows that the ground is loaded with toxins, including lead, arsenic and other poisons. This process has gone through approvals and appeals, and recently a New York State appeals court affirmed the state Health Department’s decision to let construction commence. However, it’s not over yet. The ruling overturns a judge’s decision to stop the project because of the question of soil contamination and noise. The ruling, earlier this month, is going to be appealed. Jewish Home claims that they have been diligent in addressing health and safety issues, including noise abatement for

the school. It looks to me like the Jewish Home will prevail, and to be honest, I have mixed feelings. You see, I live smack across the street from the proposed building. John and I joke that when the time comes, we’d only have to cross the street for our ﬁnal days. Our tenants’ association has been ﬁghting this building for years on various grounds, some of which aren’t clear to me. I do understand the school’s concern, but if the problems of noise and dust are addressed, my feeling is that building is going on all over the city, on every possible lot and sliver of a lot. That’s life in New York. And I also must admit something else; my apartment faces the back. I won’t be hearing loud machines all day long. In fact, I wonder how our landlord is going to be able to rent apartments facing front, especially as terraces may be mandated to be closed off. But that’s not my problem. I don’t see this as black or white; people have legitimate concerns and no one likes their neighborhood disrupted by construction and all it implies. But as I said, we live in Manhattan.

That’s life here. Doctor house calls are the next big thing. No, you won’t find a blacksuited physician with a leather bag at your door. What you can do if you don’t feel quite sick enough to brave icy streets to get to the doctor or an emergency center is use one of the many insurance companies (and some private ones) telecommunication services. Now there is Telehealth, which offers consultations about non-emergency health problems with a licensed doctor. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines Telehealth as the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support and promote long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, and public health and health administration. It’s simple to sign up. Go online and ﬁll out the required information, or via cellphone app. You can have a video appointment with a doctor right away. Some of the services communicate

EVERYDAY LIFELINES BY BETTE DEWING

A wise man, Dr. Samuel Johnson, counseled that “we often need to be reminded as well as informed.” That recalled news that should be remembered, such as the recent tragic, accidental, line-of-duty death of Miguel Angel Gonzalez. And this is to remind us of the risks doormen often take on their tenants’ behalf. And in a time of less and less face-to-face, voice-to -voice exchange, and small, often distant families, how doormen indispensably add to a building’s quality of life as well its safety. Pondering all this could also be a Lenten or pre-Passover time reﬂection. Again, although thankfully this tragic line-of-duty death received considerable media coverage but for our record, 59-year-old Miguel Angel Gonzalez was clearing ice and snow from the entrance door steps of 333 East 93rd Street when he slipped and fell

headﬁrst through a plate-glass window. Gonzalez, so beloved by his wife and family, was also an caring friend, not only to the apartment house where he’d worked for 28 years, but to those in the neighborhood. “He was just the sweetest kindest man” was the general consensus. And you know most doormen do smile and say hello — and don’t we need that, and to do likewise — a lot. But many do connect brieﬂy with their doormen as another responsible adult in their life in a time of little or no extended family and where apartment house generations don’t often interact. Resolve needed there, too. But about those risks doormen take, the everyday, most frequent kind like hailing cabs in rush hour or inclement weather and standing out in the street. Ah, but we tenants, no matter how rushed, must not let them do that or take unnecessary chances and risks – which relates to toting heavy

Miguel Angel Gonzalez. Courtesy of the Gonzalez family luggage and boxes where two people are needed to “lift that bale.” Doormen, and, it should be said, also doorwomen, should be told by others in charge not to take unnecessary risks, to be careful and take their time — take their time. So should supers and porters of course. Safety ﬁrst. And incidentally, carpeted lobby ﬂoors surely make a doorman’s life healthier, as well as an available stool or a chair. Maybe none of the above could have

saved the life of Miguel Gonzalez slipping and falling through the glass window, which clearly was not the shatter proof kind. So the story really got out there. And how we need such “caring people stories” and also about the need for safe working and living conditions like shatter-proof glass. Ironically this apartment house is a Mt. Sinai Hospital property and reportedly for physicians with residencies.

via phone or e-mail. It’s even possible that someday soon (fingers crossed here), Medicare may cover Telehealth services for chronic conditions. Depending on which service you choose, you may be able to pick a doctor on the company’s roster; others will assign a physician based on your needs. All of the doctors are board certified. Some insurance companies are including Telehealth in their beneﬁt plans. You’d have to ask your insurance company if this service is provided. Also, some Medicaid programs will reimburse for Telehealth use. The current cost of a visit usually from $35 to $50, with a possible monthly subscription fee. Some of the current Telehealth companies are: Sherpaa; Teladoc; MD Live; Doctor on Demand. There are smaller services also including: Ask the Doctor; Ring a Doc; DocTalker and First Stop Health. All of these sites provide the information you will need in order to use their services. Good stuff is on the horizon. America is great; let’s ﬁght to keep it that way.

Somehow the medical profession must also be reminded that doormen like Miguel Gonzalez, help prevent illness with their everyday caring exchanges with tenants, not to mention looking out for those who are ailing or somehow endangered, or too much alone. Doormen are often literal life savers and always a general lifeline, with again, just the day-to-day exchanges that help make it that good day we blithely wish each other. And surely related is that we learn about Gonzalez being an active member of the church in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he lived. This man lived his “love one another” faith, about which believers often need reminding. We all need reminding about caring for one another – being a good neighbor. More soon about all doormen do to make their buildings, their nabes, more of “that village it takes.” And what we can do so that Miguel Angel Gonzalez’s tragic line -of-duty death will not be in vain — his “lifeline for others” ways need to be acclaimed and adopted.

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State Senator Daniel Squadron at Independence Plaza North Senior Center in lower Manhattan last week, where he gathered signatures for his petition opposing funding cuts to senior programs. Photo: Madeleine Thompson

SENIOR CENTERS THREATENED BY FUNDING CUTS COMMUNITY City officials push back against state budget proposal that could hurt or close elder facilities BY MADELEINE THOMPSON

At the Independence Plaza North senior center in Lower Manhattan last Thursday, about 30 seniors listened to State Senator Daniel Squadron warn that they could lose their home. A funding cut proposed in the state budget could eliminate $17 million from Title XX, a provision of the Social Security Act pertaining to social services and elder justice. Squadron visited several senior centers in his district on Feb. 23 to gather signatures for a petition against the funding cuts. “What that means is as many as 65 senior centers could be threatened and closed, and more than that could have their services reduced,” Squadron said. “The cuts from this program make no sense at all. Too often the people in Albany and the lobbyists are the loudest voices.” Adele Pagano, 86, has been a resident or member of Independence Plaza North since it opened more than a decade ago. Over lunch with friends Anna Curreli, 84, and Purtia

Lessey, 68, she described the possibility of the center closing as “a tragedy.” Curreli and Lessey like going on the center’s trips to, for example, Atlantic City, and they all enjoy exercise classes, meals and friendship within its walls. “This is the only senior center for miles around,” Pagano said. “There’s enough rich people around here to do something about it.” In a letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo, Manhattan and Brooklyn borough presidents Gale Brewer and Eric Adams urged the potential cuts to be dropped. “Your budget proposal would require a set amount of federal Title XX funds to be used to support child care subsidy costs, instead of leaving the discretion to the counties on how to use the funding,” they wrote. “We understand the importance of supporting both seniors and children, and are disappointed that you would move to pit our youngest and oldest generations against one another.” Similar funding cuts were proposed in 2011, but fervent opposition changed state lawmakers’ minds. According to Brewer and Adams’ letter, theirs was one of 14,000 that have been written by 4,500 people to protest the proposed cuts. Sandy Gabin, director of the senior center at Our Lady of Pompeii in Greenwich Vil-

lage, said New York City’s senior centers need more funding, not less. “It’s a threat to people’s security,” Gabin said. She recounted a story about a woman who came to the center one day looking somewhat gray and asked Gabin to call the police because she thought she was having a heart attack. “And she was,” Gabin said. “I saw her months later on the street and she said, ‘I came because I knew I would be safe.’” Gabin’s center isn’t residential, but provides meals, music and exercise classes, tax preparation and other resources for 70-85 seniors in the area. She would like to be able to do more, and estimated that a $20,000 supplement to the center’s roughly $100,000 budget would accomplish that. If the budget is passed with the proposed cuts intact, however, simply staying open would be a relief. Comptroller Scott Stringer, who visited the seniors at Our Lady of Pompeii last Friday afternoon, called senior centers “the best investment you could make.” “They provide a vital service to the community,” he said. “Their network has to be supported. There’s money, you just have to make it a priority.” Madeleine Thompson can be reached at newsreporter@ strausnews.com

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Sat 4 CLASSIC WESTERN 96th Street Library, 112 East 86th St. 1 p.m. Free When a tough western town needs taming, a mild-mannered son of a hard-nosed sheriff gets the job done. With Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Mischa Auer. 212-289-0908. nypl.org

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Family series on classical music, introduces one and their children (ages 3 and up) to great music and composers. Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus is on Leonard Bernstein. 212-971-9500. hunter.cuny. edu

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Tue 7 HYPNOTIC SHOW Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Ave. 7 p.m. $18 The “exhibition” takes place in the mind — individual and collective; an intimate experiment in cognitive exhibition-making through art and hypnosis. 212-423-3500. guggenheim. org

‘LATIN IMPLOSION’▼ Anita Shapolsky Gallery, 152 East 65th St. 6-8 p.m. Opening reception of “Latin Implosion,” group show with Rodolfo Abularach, Mario Bencomo, Perez Celis and Augustin Fernandez. 212-452-1094. anitashapolskygallery.com

MARBLE COLLEGIATE CHURCH Sunday Worship at 11:00am Sunday Worship, led by Dr. Michael Brown, is the heart of the Marble Church community. It is where we all gather to sing, pray, and be changed by an encounter with God. Marble is known throughout the world for the practical, powerful, life-changing messages and where one can hear world class music from our choirs that make every heart sing. Busy? Live stream Sunday Worship with us at 11:00am at MarbleChurch.org.

WeWo: Wednesday Worship at 6:15pm Marble's weekly Wednesday Worship, lovingly nicknamed WeWo, is a service that blends traditional and contemporary worship styles, taking the best of both, creating a mixture that is informal and reverent, often humorous and always Spirit-ﬁlled.

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Mon 6 POETRY IN PARIS▲ Mid-Manhattan Library, 455 Fifth Ave. 6:30 p.m. Free. Pre-register. Four-week workshop examines early 20th century Paris as center of artistic experimentation, and how friendships of poets and painters helped shape the modern aesthetic. 917-275-6975. nypl.org

TRUMP, ISRAEL, PUTIN | MIDDLE EAST Chabad Upper East Side, 419 East 77th St. 7:45 p.m. $18 advance / $25 door One of Israel’s leading ﬁgures in understanding the Arab world, Dr. Mordechai Kedar, director of the Center for the Study of the Middle East and Islam, is featured speaker. 212-717-4613, x2. chabaduppereastside.com

National Academy Museum & School, 5 East 89th St. 6-8 p.m. Free Opening reception: “Drawing the Plaster Cast.” Plaster casts situated within sketching areas. Create artwork; hang it in the gallery. Materials provided. 212-369-4880. nationalacademy.org

BULGARIAN SONG/ DANCE Bulgarian Consulate General, 121 East 62nd St. 7 p.m. Free The program features Vladigerov’s “Song from Bulgarian Suite, Op. 21, for violin and piano,” and Bartok’s “Contrasts for clarinet, violin and piano.” 212-935-4646. bceny.org

Evening Prayers for Christian Unity with Cardinal Timothy Dolan Wednesday, March 29 The Marble Sanctuary (Fifth Ave at 29th Street) at 6:15pm Join us for this historic Worship when the Roman Catholic Archbishop of NY preaches in the oldest Protestant church in America!

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BIG, BOLD AND FRESH EXHIBITIONS The Armory Show breaks from the past in intriguing ways BY MARY GREGORY

It’s become so big, they’ve named a whole week after it. 2017’s Armory Week is here, bringing with it a slew of art fairs. VOLTA, the Art Dealers Association of America’s Art Show, the fledgling Independent, NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance), SCOPE, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Art On Paper, Moving Image New York, Clio Art Fair (billed as “the anti-fair for independent artists”) and the tiny Salon Zürcher (featuring only six galleries) all ride into town on the coattails of the biggest of them all, The Armory Show. The Armory Show takes its name from the audacious 1913 exhibition that first presented European modernism to New York. That exhibition so shocked the American art world that it resulted in the burning in effigy of a Matisse masterpiece that currently hangs in the Baltimore Museum of Art. Now, some of the same venerable museums that were scandalized in 1913 over Picasso and Duchamp regu-

Vik Muniz, “Metachrome (Double Scramble, after Frank Stella),” 2016, Archival pigment print, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London larly shop the new Armory Show’s aisles. But that doesn’t mean the fair has become staid or stodgy. With over 200 galleries from 30 countries spanning five continents, this year’s Armory Show ﬁlls Piers 92 and 94 with contemporary and modern art by renowned masters as well as up-and-coming artists. That’s what it’s done in all 22 of its previous installations, but this year’s show changes things up in interesting ways.

Ai Weiwei, “Niao shen long shou shen,” 2015, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki

The show’s executive director, Benjamin Genocchio, a former editor-inchief at artnet News, just a little more than a year into the job, has overseen the entire production. He’s changed the physical format, the conceptual bent, and the feel of the experience. This year’s fair is no longer broken into two sections — Modern vs. Contemporary — each on its own pier. They’re interspersed on Pier 94, providing richness and variety in themes, styles and artistic voices. A “Focus” section, on Pier 92, is curated by LACMA’s Jarrett Gregory with 12 separate solo exhibitions under the theme “What Is to be Done?” International artists take on critical political and social issues of the day, enabling Genocchio to support new voices both artistic and curatorial. Meanwhile, the “Platform” initiative presents museum-like installations. Check out “Guidepost to the New World,” Yayoi Kusama’s shiny, biomorphic sculptures that resemble red and white dotted cartoon mushrooms. The iconic red-wigged Japanese art star (and recently anointed most expensive living female artist) will be the hottest ticket of the upcoming season at Washington’s Hirshhorn Museum, but you can get a jump on her work here. Also part of the Platform project is Ai Weiwei’s “Niao shen long shou shen,” presented by Helsinki’s

Galerie Forsblom. The gigantic suspended rooster-shaped bamboo and silk sculpture, timed perfectly for the Year of the Rooster, captures so many of the artist’s themes. It’s appropriating a symbol, referencing the past and challenging values, all with a wink of humor. It’s also just about the perfect selfie backdrop. A group of 31 young galleries, all less than 10 years old, are participating in “Presents” with solo and two-person shows, and “Armory Live” has talks and panels scheduled with art stars like Marilyn Minter, David Salle, Alex Katz and Shahzia Sikander. But the bread and butter of the show is, of course, the “Galleries” section, where hundreds of galleries present thousands of works. Look for James Turrell’s “Sunda Strait Diamonds,” a glowing blue window onto the artist’s consciousness at Kayne Griffin Cocoran. London’s Alison Jacques has a female artists-only booth, featuring works by Lygia Clark and Hannah Wilke. Internationally famous local twins, Doug + Mike Starn, fill Sweden’s Wetterling Gallery booth with their first U.S. solo exhibition since their rooftop installation at the Metropolitan Museum in 2010. If you’ve admired the Vik Muniz portraits in the Second Avenue Subway, here’s another chance to see his work. In “Metachrome (Double Scramble, after Frank Stella)” at Ben

Brown Fine Arts Muniz creates an homage to Stella out of intensely hued pastel sticks and then photographs the results. He unites his background in sculpture, his reverence for art history and his photographic practice to create images that are at once about the process, materials and the end result. Scattered among the contemporary artworks are jewels by Willem de Kooning, Joan Miró and Roberto Matta. The chance at a snapshot of the entire global artistic zeitgeist is worth the price of a ticket alone. But according to Genocchio, the Armory Show wants to do more than bringing buyers to the fair. “We want to play a greater intellectual role in the artistic life of New York,” he said.

IF YOU GO WHAT: The Armory Show WHERE: Piers 92 & 94 (711 12th Avenue at 55th Street) WHEN: March 2 and 3: Noon–8 p.m. March 4: Noon–7 p.m. March 5: Noon–6 p.m. www.thearmoryshow.com/

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DRAWING A CROWD MUSIC Busker Guy Daniels is a subway star BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

As Upper West Side commuters waited for the 1 train on a recent morning, the usual dreary rhythm of the subway was broken by the sound emanating from one man’s guitar. Buskers are often unceremoniously ignored by seasoned New Yorkers, but this searing solo, stretching over several minutes, seemed to have a jolting effect on many in the crowd. Books were lowered and headphones removed. A few people took out their phones to record the performance on video. When Guy Daniels is on the platform, people listen. As Daniels neared the end of his morning set at 72nd Street and Broadway, a group of schoolchildren exited a train and instinctively rushed to gather around him. Daniels, in his glory, put some extra showmanship on display for the kids, dramatically lifting the neck of his guitar skyward during the soulful climax to the blues classic “The Thrill is Gone.” Daniels has built up a fan base among subway riders with his mix of covers and extended improvisational solos over looped backing tracks that he records himself, spanning genres from pop to funk to reggae. His distinctive sound is instantly recognizable — he plays his acoustic guitar through an ampliﬁer to conjure a rich, distorted tone, combined to great effect with his nimble fretwork and expressive singing. In spite of his head-turning talent, Daniels, 47, is a relative newcomer to the busking circuit. He started playing the subways as an occasional guest performer with a more experienced friend, and enjoyed it so much that he struck out on his own in the summer of 2015. “What I immediately fell in love with was the rawness of it, he said. “That you can actually set up and just start playing.” In the subway, Daniels says, there is a special purity to the relationship between performer and audience. There’s no such thing as a captive listener. Not everyone will be into his music, but when the response is

Guy Daniels captivates an audience at 72nd Street and Broadway. Photo: Michael Garofalo enthusiastic it feels earned and sincere. “It’s so real and beautiful and honest,” he said. “You don’t mean anything to one person, but then somebody else is like, ‘I’ve missed three trains. I hope I’m not late to work.’” Donations are nice, but busking offers beneﬁts that extend beyond the monetary realm. On subway platforms, he’s met new people, gotten referrals for gigs, and found new guitar students for his teaching business. “This is the type of awesome stuff that happens, just from coming out,” Daniels said. “This is the best experience I’ve had in the city, and I grew up here,” he added. A Yorkville native, Daniels first took up guitar seriously at the age of 10. He threw himself into music during his teen years at Collegiate School, and by his twenties he was a skilled instrumentalist and a member of the acid jazz group the Abstract Truth. Despite some success, playing in the band stopped being fun along the way. “I hadn’t really cracked the code to what I wanted to do,” Daniels said recently, looking back. Marriage and children followed, and family life took precedence over his performing career. Daniels rededicated himself to performing after a difficult breakup a few years ago, turning his heartache into inspiration. He started singing seriously for the ﬁrst time, and wrote a suite of songs that forms the core of his upcoming album. “There’s life that’s

going into this music that I’m sharing, and that’s why I don’t regret any minute,” he said. Playing — and busking, specifically — are therapeutic. “Being in that raw rush of people going to work — we all have challenges, we all have stuff we’re dealing with,” Daniels said. “It’s important to go out and share, no matter how you feel.” Daniels approaches busking with professional discipline, rising before dawn so that he can claim a prime location by 7:30 and start playing as the early birds start their commute. ”The location means everything,” he said. He hauls his kit wherever he goes — a guitar case and a Samsonite suitcase loaded with his amp, strings, microphone and stand, and a massive package of AA batteries — and prides himself on quickly setting up and breaking down. He’s enjoyed exploring the subway system as a performer and comparing the nuances of the crowds at different stations, from the warm folks on the Upper West Side to the artsy crowd in Union Square. The people are the reward in this business, he said. Back at 72nd Street, during a short break between songs, one stranger came over to thank Daniels for his playing and invite him to an upcoming concert. “That was special,” the man said, shaking his head in wonder. “I’m happy the train took a little too long to get here.”

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Hypnotic Show

TUESDAY, MARCH 7TH, 7PM & 9:30PM Guggenheim Museum | 1071 Fifth Ave. | 212-423-3500 | guggenheim.org Experience cognitive exhibition-making through art and hypnosis as an interactive art performance provides an imaginary ending to the exhibition Tales of Our Time. The shows repeats on Wednesday the 8th. ($18)

Breaking Barriers: The Air Force and the Future of Cyberpower

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8TH, 6PM Carnegie Council | 170 E. 64th St. | 212-838-4120 | carnegiecouncil.org Hear from the Air Force’s chief information ofﬁcer, Lt. Gen William “Bill” Bender, a Manhattan College graduate with insight into the U.S. military efforts within the digital realm. ($25)

Just Announced | This Just In: Latest Discoveries and a Tour of the Solar System

FRIDAY, MARCH 17TH, 7PM The Strand | 828 Broadway | 212-473-1452 | strandbooks.com Hearken to the news from Trappist-1! The seven new potentially life-harboring planets just revealed make the perfect inspiration for this look at the evolution of our own little corner of space. ($20)

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day evening. The photographs on display will be rotated throughout the year. Pictured left to right are Straus News Publisher Jeanne Straus, Manhattan Sideways creator Betsy

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BY THE NUMBERS: NYPD’S TRUMP PRICE TAG BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

$24 million

President Donald Trump now calls the White House home, but his former residence remains a source of anxiety for New York City officials. The cost of providing increased security at Trump Tower, the Fifth Avenue skyscraper that remains the primary residence of Trump’s wife, Melania, and 10-year-old son, Barron, came into clearer focus last week with the release of new analysis from the New York City Police Department. NYPD Commissioner James P. O’Neill provided the most detailed expense projections to date in a letter to New York City’s federal representatives. The NYPD’s latest ﬁgures fall well short of initial estimates, but the city still plans to seek federal reimbursement for the costs associated with protecting Trump and his family.

Total cost of NYPD security from Election Day to Inauguration Day

CONSTRUCTION CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 and made me stop every time he saw what in his mind was a giant version of a Tonka truck. Monday through Saturday about a dozen men show up in their neon vests and yellow hardhats. I have watched them take the top three floors apart with their hands. It has given me a new respect for the blue-collar workers of our city. People come to Manhattan to make it on Broadway, Wall Street; in publishing, advertising, medicine and law, to name a few careers. No one comes with the dream of being a construction worker or the like, even though these professionals keep the city running just as much as their more glamorous white-collar counterparts. When the demolition is done in a few weeks, the scene I will set my sights upon each day will be a huge hole. Then the vista will alter again with whatever the next crew builds in its place. This whole “down with the old, up (eventually) with the new” occurrence has served as a microcosm of what I’ve experience happen to New York, since I migrated all the way from the Bronx in 1983. I’ve seen everything from storefronts to the skyline transform (sometimes for the better, sometimes not). I must confess, more and more I ﬁnd myself nostalgic, not just for the 99-cent pizza place on 86th off First that met its demise a few years ago; or The Society Boutique on Third Avenue, whose proceeds went to Memorial Sloan Kettering, but for places like Charivari.

$7 million Federal reimbursement appropriated by Congress to date

Walking on the Upper West Side not long ago, my husband Neil and I hit 72nd Street and began what has become an ongoing conversation. “Remember,” I said, as I pointed to the southeast corner where the high-end store used to stand in the ‘80s, “when I shopped there even though I couldn’t afford it?” I have also begun sentences with the word “remember” while on the Lower East Side, in the Village, Murray Hill and, most recently, in midtown, where I gestured to the Scribner’s plaque on the Fifth Avenue building, and rather wistfully reminded Neil that the publisher of Hemingway and Fitzgerald is now a Sephora. What’s worse than pining for symbols of a long-gone New York, is coming upon a construction site and not remembering what was there, as happened a couple of weeks ago in Chinatown, when Neil and I racked our brains trying to recall what once stood on the Mott Street corner we’d passed so many times over the years. I should know by now that reinvention is simply part of the hustle and bustle that makes NYC what it is — and comes in the form of the buildings, as well as the people and businesses. And so, I will recommit to embracing my new cityscape, whether the change is across the street, across the park or across the panorama of skyscrapers. As long as I’m looking at — and living in — Manhattan, a little change may do me good. 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.

$4.5 million Estimated annual FDNY cost to protect Melania and Barron

$1.7 million Total cost of FDNY operations from Election Day to Inauguration Day

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$308,000 Estimated daily cost of NYPD security when Trump is present

Estimated daily cost of NYPD security when Melania and Barron are present

$127,000 to $146,000

Days Trump has spent in NY since taking office

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Business COSMOS TO RETURN TO NYC SPORTS Owner has a Columbia connection, and the team has a new home for 2017 BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

After a roller coaster offseason, the New York Cosmos are set to begin a new era in Coney Island under the leadership of new chairman Rocco B. Commisso. Soon after the team won its second consecutive North American Soccer League championship last November, reports emerged that the franchise was on the brink of folding. For several weeks, the future of the Cosmos — and the NASL as a whole — seemed to be in doubt. To the rescue came Commisso, the founder and CEO of cable television giant Mediacom, who bought a majority stake in the club and ensured its survival. “I just couldn’t see the team not playing in 2017, given what it’s meant for anyone that grew up with

the game in the ‘70s in the New York area,” Commisso said. The Cosmos became a household name in the 1970s with international stars Pelé, Giorgio Chinaglia, and Franz Beckenbauer, and helped bring professional soccer to the American mainstream. The original Cosmos franchise folded in the 1980s, but the team returned to competition in 2013 under a new ownership group. Commisso met with Cosmos players for the ﬁrst time last week during a practice at Columbia University’s soccer stadium in Inwood. The practice was a homecoming of sorts for Commisso, who starred for the Columbia Lions men’s soccer team from 1967 to 1970 and later became one of the Columbia soccer program’s most prominent donors — so prominent, in fact, that the stadium where the Cosmos practiced is named after him. Head coach Giovanni Savarese, who has helmed the club since it was reestablished, will return for the 2017 season. “We always said

that everything that we were doing was a new chapter in the book that we were writing,” Savarese said. “I think what happened in December has a whole new book by itself, because there was so much going on from the time that we finished the championship to where we are right now.” “For us to be able to be back is a fantastic feeling,” he added. Despite the Cosmos’ tumultuous recent history, Commisso is confident that he can bring stability to the franchise. “I don’t want to say I’ve got a lot of money to waste, but I do,” he said with a smile. In addition to a new owner, the Cosmos have a new home. The club will play its 2017 home games at Coney Island’s MCU Park, home of the Brooklyn Cyclones. Hofstra University’s James M. Shuart Stadium served as the Cosmos home field for the last four seasons, but the team played two games at MCU Park in 2015. “My intent from the get-go was to bring the Cosmos to New

DESIGNING DIAMONDS ENTREPRENEURS Stephanie Gottlieb’s online jewelry business focuses on pieces with a “wow factor” BY LAURA HANRAHAN

Upper East Sider Stephanie Gottlieb has found her niche helping others bring a little sparkle to their lives, or a lot. Originally from New York City, she launched her online business, Stephanie Gottlieb Fine Jewelry, in 2013, a few years after graduating from the University of Michigan. Gottlieb designs custom jewelry pieces for clients in addition to offering a curated selection from other jewelers. What initially began as an engagement ring and bridal service has grown to include fashion pieces for everyday wear, with prices ranging from $60 for earrings to $25,000 for a diamond chain necklace, And with 111,000 followers on

her Instagram page (@stephaniegottlieb), the list of clients wanting Gottlieb’s designs has gone international. Did you always plan on a career in the jewelry industry? Not at all! I wanted to be in the publishing world initially. When I graduated I just didn’t find a job right away so I took an internship at a diamond company and assumed I would just be there for a few months while I figured out my real job situation. But I ended up loving it and staying for about five years. I managed the jewelry department so I oversaw production and sales and I also took care of marketing and promotion of the line as well. What made you decide to start your own company? I just reached a threshold. It was a small company and there really wasn’t much room for growth. It was time to do something on my own and get to do exactly what I wanted. Where do you get the inspiration for your designs? A lot of stuff I design for myself first,

Gottlieb wearing her designs. Photo: Alexandra Wolf and people start asking if they can buy it so I add it to the line. What’s the process for making a piece of jewelry? My process starts by conceptualizing the design. I then work with my jeweler to discuss what diamond sizes

New York Cosmos chairman Rocco B. Commisso (left) poses with goalkeeper Jimmy Maurer following a practice session at Columbia University’s soccer stadium. Photo: Michael Garofalo York City,” Commisso said. “I liked to play at Hofstra, it was a fantastic stadium for us,” Savarese said. “The only thing, it was very difficult for people to get there. Now MCU Park gives you the possibility to take the subway and be there. So maybe some people that didn’t come come from the city will now have the possibility to be there.” After struggling with attendance at Hofstra, the Cosmos are hopeful that the Q train, which now connects Coney Island with the Upper

I want to use and we work together to come up with the end result. Most of my fashion designs are made overseas at my factory in Thailand, but all of my bridal designs are made in New York City on 47th Street. Do you have a favorite piece that you’ve created? I made a choker with a bow that dangles and it’s just something I’d been dreaming about forever. I’ve always been a super girly hearts-and-bows kind of person and when it finally came through it was really exciting to have that piece. What’s the most extravagant piece that you’ve ever sold? I did recently make a really beautiful choker for someone using four onecarat stones and diamonds all the way around. It was a remake of an old Tiffany piece and it was pretty amazing. Are you hoping to open a physical store or showroom ? Maybe one day. I think it will always be a second-ﬂoor operation. I wouldn’t want a true retail space, but that will be much further down the line. How do you choose which pieces to post on Instagram? I like to post things that have a story so people can understand the thought

East Side via the Second Avenue subway expansion, will draw new fans. Commisso said he hopes to sign Russian, Ukrainian, and Caribbean players to appeal to local immigrant communities. The Cosmos will play 16 matches in Brooklyn during the 2017 NASL regular season. The team is scheduled to play its ﬁrst game of the 2017 season March 25 in Puerto Rico, and will host its ﬁrst home game at MCU Park on April 1 against Miami FC.

process behind [them]. I also really like [to] ask questions so that the followers can get involved and put in their two cents. It’s about finding a balance between posting diamonds but also not isolating the people who just want to buy gift items or everyday pieces. Certainly there’s always the wow factor to keep in mind. Is there one piece of advice you’d give to anyone buying an engagement ring? It’s important to ﬁnd a jeweler who really understands your aesthetic because anybody can sell diamonds but every jeweler has their own take on a simple design. I’ve had people send my pictures to other jewelers to make copies of my rings and they come out totally differently and then they come back to me sort of embarrassed saying, “I had this ring made, I thought my jeweler could do it and they couldn’t, can you help me now?” What made you and your husband pick the Upper East Side to live? We moved there three years ago and felt like it was a good place to settle down and make a home. It’s a place where people are out walking strollers, and lots of dogs and families. It’s just a nice quiet escape in the city.

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Fifty-two years after the New York City landmarks law was enacted, Morningside Heights has been designated a historic district. The Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously in favor of landmarking the area and its 115 buildings, including the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, stretching from 109th to 119th Streets between Amsterdam Avenue and Riverside Drive. “The Morningside Heights Historic District reflects of a rapid period of residential development that took place in this area of Manhattan during the first decades of the 20th century,” Meenakshi Srinivasan, chairwoman of the commission, said in a statement. She added that she was proud the commission it could include and protect the 125-year-old Cathedral of St. John the Divine and its six surrounding build-

ings in the designation. The district has come before the commission before but, according to Curbed NY, a previously proposed version of the boundaries included two institutions that did not want to be part of the district: Congregation Ramath Orah at 550 West 110th Street and the Broadway Presbyterian Church at 601 West 114th St. For financial reasons, they asked that their buildings be excluded, which they were. The higher fees and the more complicated process required to do renovations or construction in a historic district can cause some building owners to protest a designation. Columbia University also — unsuccessfully — argued that a row of seven rowhouses on 114th Street be left out. Assemblymember Daniel O’Donnell, a founding member of the Morningside Heights Historic District Committee in 1996, said it was about time. “City government has historically ignored the needs of the people who live north of 96th Street,” O’Donnell said. He credited Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration with being more supportive of the push for a Morningside Heights Historic

District, though it took frequent reminders and doesn’t cover everything the community is hoping for. “We have committed to have a phase two,” O’Donnell said. “I’ve always taken the position that everything from Morningside Park to Riverside Park should be included.” Most of the area’s buildings were constructed between the late 19th century and the early 20th century. Two of O’Donnell’s favorites are 400 and 440 Riverside Drive, the latter of which once housed a Supreme Court justice. The new Mor n i n g side Heights Historic District will add to the signiﬁcant existing portion of the West Side that is landmarked. Portions of the Upper West Side from 62nd Street to 108th Street are protected, and both Riverside and Morningside Parks are designated scenic landmarks. The commission’s approval made the new district the city’s 141st landmark. Madeleine Thompson can be reached at newsreporter@ strausnews.com

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ART IS IN HIS DNA Philippe Hoerle-Guggenheim’s Chelsea gallery has exhibited graffiti art and the Stones’ guitars BY ANGELA BARBUTI

Philippe Hoerle-Guggenheim bought his first piece of art, a Picasso sketch, at just 12 years old. A native of Germany, he grew up in a family of collectors and artists and was always very intrigued by the art world. Still, he never thought he could make a career out of collecting. Hoerle-Guggenheim went on to work as a financial analyst in New York with positions at Ernst & Young and The Hyatt Corporation. “After working in finance, I learned a lot, but I understood it wasn’t for me. And then I fell, almost by chance, into an art deal,” he explained. The inaugural piece Hoerle-Guggenheim advised on was a Warhol, which ultimately served as the impetus and inspiration he needed to launch his own gallery. In 2014, the HG Contemporary Gallery opened on 23rd Street and 11th Avenue, a stone’s throw away from the High Line. When asked why he chose Chelsea for his gallery, he said, “I liked the paradox almost of having more edgy and different artwork in maybe a more conservative environment. Chelsea is the heart of the art world, really, and there are a lot of galleries that are moving to the Lower East Side and even to Brooklyn. And I liked being in a more traditional environment with more out-of-the-box artwork.” The gallery has hosted everything

Photo: Daniel Mart from graffiti by a street artist to the Rolling Stones’ hand-painted guitars. Now 35, Hoerle-Guggenheim, who has plans to open galleries in Los Angeles as well as overseas, is so committed to the artists he works with, that his home in the West Village is ﬁlled with their creations. “I actually like to collect every artist I represent. With every show that I do, I always like to buy one or two pieces for my own collection,” he said. Although Hoerle-Guggenheim shares a name and a propensity for collecting with a noted, art world family, he has but a distant connection to the Guggenheims of museum fame.

Explain your family’s connection to art. On my mother’s side, my grandmother was a very signiﬁcant collector. Her family was actually one of the biggest collectors of mostly antiques and a lot of art. At a very early stage, I was always surrounded by art. It really helped me to build an eye for it and get a sense of what looks good and a feel

for artwork in general. We also always had a lot of artists in our family. On the German side, Heinrich Hoerle, who’s fantastic painter. It was always somewhere in the DNA and our bloodline.

What have you found are the challenges of operating a gallery? You do get very passionate about a lot of artists. And I think that’s where you have to make sure you use your time and resources most efficiently. You can’t represent too many artists at the same time. It’s not fair to the artists and doesn’t work for you. I think there’s a challenge of not signing too many artists. Initially, there were some natural challenges, like in any other business, to really identify what your position in the market is and ﬁnd what’s best for you. Who do I tailor to best? What do I present them? I don’t really believe in competition within the gallery world. I believe in doing what’s best for my market and creating loyalty that way.

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started as an artist.

There are a lot of very known collectors and also athletes, musicians. It varies. A lot of new collectors. I think there’s a whole new group of collectors that surfaced. That’s something that I’ve been focusing on a lot, but I try to advise whoever it is best, from established to new clients.

I saw you did a show on the Rolling Stones. What was it comprised of?

What have been some of your favorite or most successful exhibitions there? I had an exhibition with an artist by the name of RETNA, a famous street artist. That was very important because it was in the initial state of opening the gallery, so that really helped to make myself known. I had a great show that was probably one of the most talked-about shows called “Wall Street” by the artist Nelson Saiers. On CNBC, there was just something that came out about the show. The Observer called it “The Warhol of Wall Street.” So, it was a very successful show and someone that I picked up very early on as well. He had just

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That was a great show as well. It was a very signiﬁcant collection; I want to say one of the biggest memorabilia collections out there that’s in private hands. That really gets a lot of people excited. There were a lot of paintings by Ronnie Wood, the longtime guitarist of the Rolling Stones, painted on guitars, handwritten lyrics, set lists. The very famous Rolling Stones’ logo is the tongue, so we had one made of Coke cans. Also vintage posters, but mostly original work. To learn more, visit www.hgcontemporary. com

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