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We’re seeing a big spike in anxiety and panic.” Daniel Cook, licensed mental health couselor and director of Embodied Mind NYC

COUNSELING THROUGH CORONA

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New York’s mental health professionals are on the front lines of coronavirus response BY JENNIFER DOHERTY

Each year, one in five New Yorkers experiences some form of mental illness, according to data from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. That number has skyrocketed this year as residents grapple with the sudden lifestyle changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a number of mental health professionals interviewed by Straus News. Their message: Help is available, even when social distancing means logging in from your own couch. “We’re seeing a big spike in anxiety and panic, both among those who might have a propensity towards more panic states, and those who haven’t experienced that,” said

OUR NEW REALITY PUBLIC HEALTH

New York is now the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., and life in our crowded metropolis is unlike anything we have ever known before

Not long ago, New York as it is now would have been unimaginable: Times Square without tourists. Empty streets and subway cars. Previously packed bars closed for happy hour. Millions of New Yorkers holed up in their apartments, waiting out a public health crisis that has shown no sign of letting up. New York City has quickly become the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, with one-third of the country’s confirmed cases. As of Tuesday morning, some 15,000 New Yorkers have tested positive for COVID-19. That number represents nearly 60 percent of the state’s cases, which totaled 25,665 on Tuesday, with 210 dead. In Manhattan, 2,646 cases have been confirmed. All of these numbers are expected to grow. “For a disease that most of us had never heard of a few months ago, that seemed to just have the smallest presence in our city just weeks ago, it now has become the dominant reality and we’re all trying to make sense of that together,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a press conference Monday evening.

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AMERICA’S GOVERNOR STEPS UP Gov. Andrew Cuomo meets with military officials at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, where a temporary FEMA hospital is being set up. Photo: Don Pollard- Ofﬁce of Gov. Anrew M. Cuomo via Flickr

Drastic Measures

crowded.” A particular focus will be the city’s parks where larger groups continued to get together over the weekend, much to the ire of Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Any groups will be broken up and asked to disperse. If the city finds that people can’t follow the rules, the mayor said stricter rules regarding parks and playground may need to be enforced. “It really is incumbent upon all New Yorkers, to do your damnedest to live by this new reality,” de Blasio said.

The dominant reality has forced the city and state into implementing measures that have turned the most densely populated city in the country into a place where public spaces are largely vacant. The mayor is even deploying the NYPD and other city agencies to ensure that’s the case. “We’re New Yorkers: We’re used to crowds, we’re used to being close together. Not anymore,” said de Blasio. “We’re not going to allow crowds to form. We’re not going to allow lines where people are tightly packed next to each other. We’re not gonna allow any indoor space to get overcrowded. We’re not gonna allow outdoor spaces to get over-

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DEAR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS, Together we face the unparalleled and devastating challenges presented by the coronavirus crisis. At Straus News we are working hard to keep readers informed, community leaders connected, and businesses solvent. Straus News has been in the communications business since 1943. We’ve come through wars and recessions, shocks and economic upheaval – and we’ve learned a few lessons along the way. One of those lessons? This is why we exist. In uncertain times like these, readers turn to a news source they can trust – that strives to report faithfully and fairly, that provides genuine understanding and boots-on-theground local news you can’t get anywhere else. Over the past two weeks, we’ve launched a daily local coronavirus update that is hugely popular with PHOTO: LYN HUGHES

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG $22K HANDBAG HAUL A single pricey handbag proved a valuable haul for a shoplifter. Police said that at 12:16 p.m. on Thursday, Mar. 12, a man who appeared to be in his 50s entered the Boutique Delvaux at 781 Fifth Ave. between East 59th St. and East 60th St., took a handbag from a store shelf and attempted to leave without paying. According to police, when an employee tried to stop the suspect, he said, “Don’t try to stop me; I have a gun!” The suspect then left the store and was seen walking north on Fifth Ave. The stolen merchandise was a handbag valued at $21,750.

$70K HANDBAG HAUL At 11:47 p.m. on Thursday, Mar. 12, police said, two suspects broke the front door glass of the Givenchy store at 747 Madison Ave. at East 65th St. using a sledgehammer. They then entered the premises and removed multiple items of merchandise before ﬂeeing on East 65th St. in a dark sedan driven by a third suspect. The items stolen included an Eden bag and a number of Mystic and Antigona bags, totaling an eye-opening $69,800.

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BURGLARY CHARGE AT GENTLEMEN’S CLUB According to police, at 6 a.m. on Friday, Mar. 13, an employee was in her ofﬁce in the Sapphire New York gentleman’s club at 333 East 60th St. when a surveillance camera showed a man ringing the doorbell numerous times. The employee told police she ignored him because the business was closed and she did not recognize him. The man managed to force the door open, police said, and make his way to the coat check area, where he removed a coat without permission or authority. Krthik Hiremath, 34, was later arrested on a charge of burglary. The cost to replace the damaged door came to $2,000.

U-STEAL Surveillance video conﬁrmed how some suspected motorcycle thieves conduct their business. Police said that on Wednesday, Mar. 11, a man returned to the spot opposite 408 East 66th St. near where he had parked his motorcycle, only to discover the vehicle was gone. A search of the neighborhood proved fruitless. Later, surveillance video showed three suspects putting the

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Police arrested a man wanted in a series of petit larceny burglaries. In the ﬁrst incident, which occurred between 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Mar. 3, and 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, Mar. 4, police said an unknown individual entered 530 East 84th St. near East End Ave., went to the basement and took 12 rolls of Bounty paper towels belonging to the building’s management. Then, at one minute after midnight on Sunday, Mar. 8, police said, the same individual tried to force his way

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into 538 East 84th St., causing damage to the door requiring repairs costing under $250. Later that morning, at 5:15 a.m., police said, a woman was monitoring surveillance video when she saw a man enter the lobby at 518 East 80th St. between York Ave. and East End Ave., take Lysol spray and Clorox wipes totaling $27 from a Staples package and leave the location with the items. Two days later, on Tuesday, Mar. 10, at 3:24 a.m., police said, the

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same suspect used a tool to damage the front door latch at 44 East End Ave. near East 82nd St. and gain entry before removing multiple packages from the building. Finally, at 1:40 a.m. on Wednesday, Mar.18, police said, the same man was recognized and arrested in front of 68 East End Ave. near 83rd St. Carlos Rosado, 48, was charged with possession of burglary tools, burglary and illegal entry and burglary. He also had four active warrants, police said.

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‘AMERICA’S GOVERNOR’ STEPS UP PUBLIC EYE

BY JON FRIEDMAN

Andrew Cuomo has become America’s Governor. Since he has begun holding daily press conferences about the coronavirus pandemic, the 62-year-old governor of New York has vaulted to a status he has never enjoyed before. In fact, it’s fair to say that not since New York mayor Rudy Giuliani managed to ease a city’s panic in the wake of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 has any politician received such widespread accolades. Left-leaning MSNBC host Joy Reid tweeted: “Just gonna say it. [Cuomo] is really good at this. His leadership ability in this coronavirus crisis, and the usefulness of these press conferences are just putting Donald Trump to shame.” On the right, Meghan McCain, the television personality and daughter of the late one-time Republican presidential candidate John McCain, tweeted that she is “incredibly impressed” with Cuomo’s performance. Even former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, a vocal supporter of President Trump and the one-time governor of South Carolina, tweeted on the morning of March 21: “Confession: I look forward to watching Gov. Cuomo’s press conference every day. I get a kick out of how he talks about govt issues and then goes into a therapy session.”

Plain Talk and Tough Talk They and many more onlookers agree that the key is Cuomo’s combination of plain-talk and tough-talk, his pragmatism as well as a healthy dose of compassion for the people who are suﬀering health and ﬁnancial

Gov. Andrew Cuomo during his March 22, 2020 press conference. Photo: Mike Groll /Ofﬁce of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo via Flickr hardships. Together, it spells empathy. Cuomo is not only talking. He’s taking actions that will help improve and even save people’s lives. “I know he’s helping out with student debt, which is helpful,” observed Julianne Mosher a local journalist and a 2016 college graduate. Cuomo “knows how scary and important this is He’s doing all the right things to maintain order.” Life has changed drastically as fear of the outbreak spreads. We now look warily at strangers on the street and maintain our distance from them. We are setting personal-best records for washing our hands. We mourn the newly dead and live in constant fear that we and our loved ones will be next. It will take a while before we return to life as usual, whatever usual will be. Meanwhile, Cuomo has become a national phenomenon. Well beyond New York State, people are noticing his integrity and strength. “Cuomo has done everything you would want a leader to do: shown empathy, worked on the quickest way to actually get results and be authoritative without being a

bully,” said Laurie Goldberg, a public relations executive in Los Angeles. “And he has taken responsibility.” He has prompted the whole nation – especially his New York constituents – watching via cable news coverage of his press brieﬁngs, to applaud his can-do spirit and resoluteness. Most amazing, journalists, perhaps with tongues stuck deep in cheeks, suggest that Cuomo’s frequent presence on television has catapulted the man with the droopy eyelids, who often seems to speak in a gravelly ﬂat voice that borders on a monotone, to the classic American pop-culture fable: the sex symbol. The New York Post opined that women were “crushing on” Cuomo. The Website Jezebel published a story with this headline: “Help! I think I’m in love with Andrew Cuomo???”

New Status Cuomo’s new exalted status comes at an opportune time for him. Just before the panic began, Cuomo was getting heat in the wake of the exit of the popular subway czar and “Train Daddy,“ Andy Byford, the president of the New York City Transit Authority from January 2018 to this past Feb. 21. In earlier times, New York state residents carped about Cuomo’s handling of the education system and contracting policies, among other factors.

Will It Last? These days, Cuomo is likely too busy to take time to savor his press clippings, much less read or acknowledge them. His burst of popularity sparks an inevitable question: Will the good vibes last? Or will the public turn on Cuomo at some point? Will the laughing gas of adulation

eventually and inevitably wear oﬀ and will the pain return? Cuomo has been anything but a touchy-feely governor, even in good times. We seldom see his lighter side, though he did reveal a touch of it during a recent, playful interview with his brother, CNN host Chris Cuomo. Of course, being called “America’s Mayor” has not worked out well for the evercontroversial Giuliani. Cuomo, a consummate politician – whose father was the legendary New York Governor, Mario Cuomo – will seek to safeguard his public image. If he ever had aspirations to run for the presidency, he will no doubt shoot up the Democratic Party’s short list of preferred candidates. Someday, there will be a “ﬂattening of the curve” (to quote an awful public-servant phrase that has crept into our normal syntax) and then this crisis will pass into history, along with 9/11, the assassination of JFK and Pearl Harbor.

Courage and Leadership When that happens, Gov. Cuomo will become another rather mundane public oﬃcial. But New Yorkers, at the very least, will never forget his courage and leadership. Or his faith in their own courage and leadership. “America is America because we overcome adversity and challenges,“ he said during his press conference on Sunday, March 22. “That’s how we were born. That’s what we’ve done all our life. We overcome challenges and this is a period of challenge for this generation. And that’s what has always made America great and that’s what going to make this generation great. I believe that to the bottom of my soul.”

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Kudos to Mani Market at 697 Columbus Avenue and West 94 Street in Manhattan. While many people in this area who should know better line up (at profoundly too-close distances to one another) a block away from here to pick over the few chips, dips and canned corn at Trader Joe’s, or head to Whole Foods three blocks north with mixed results, Mani - a small independent grocer - has been open longer hours during the coronavirus crisis. Mani has replenished stocks of essential food products that actually can be used in cooking and sustenance to make tasty, nutritious meals. There are vegetables, fresh fruit, Italian pasta, dried fruit (wash and then steam it for delicious results), nuts, olive oil,

coffee, yogurt, eggs, cured meat and fish, fresh bread and hard cheeses for grating. I have sung Mani’s praises before, and now the market rises to the challenge again. I encourage you to help them thrive so they can help you thrive. And remember, when the crisis subsides, that you actually ate better (in terms of health and flavor) than what the big stores sell. Continue to keep Mani a part of the neighborhood fabric. Two additional requests: take a plastic bag as you enter the store and place it over the hand you will use to handle all items. Then, when you line up to pay, stay six feet behind the person in front of you and ask the person behind you to do the same. You won’t get to the cashier any quicker if you crowd together. Fred Plotkin is the author of six cookbooks and is the opera columnist for WQXR. He has lived on the Upper West Side since he was ten.

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MAKING THE MOST OF CHABAD SITUATION COVID-19: RELIGION

Upper East Side congregation closes, but online learning continues BY JENNIFER DOHERTY

The decision to close the Chabad Upper East Side was not an easy one for Rabbi Ben Krasnianski, as he told his congregation in an email titled Urgent Update: “For Jews who kept synagogues open during the worst years of the Stalinist persecution this decision was not taken lightly. With the rampant spreading of the disease, however, we can no longer safeguard the life and health of all our community members especially those who are most vulnerable,” he wrote. While many of the city’s synagogues have been on high alert since the coronavirus first appeared in New York, the situation became untenable last week. Krasnianski’s email fol-

lowed the closure Tuesday of the World Headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn for the first time in its 80-year history. The shutdown followed estimates that as much as 80 percent of Crown Heights’ Orthodox community may have been exposed to the novel coronavirus, based on self-reported data collected by a local doctor. Krasnianski, who spent part of the 1980s in the Soviet Union leading underground seders, calls the current global standstill “a Chernobyl moment,” a crisis that could lead to positive change farther down the line. Despite the closures, Chabad Upper East Side is continuing scripture and prayer classes over the internet, using WhatsApp and Zoom. “People are sitting at home, the offices are closed, this was a perfect opportunity to connect them to study ... you hear all the gloom and doom and you want to hear something

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with a little silver lining,” Krasnianski told Straus News. With the synagogue closed into April, Chabad UES will forego its popular Pesach Seder. The rabbi draws a historic parallel. “The last night before they left Egypt, every Jew was quarantined. They were told to stay indoors at home: ‘Stay with your family. Enjoy the paschal. Have a Seder with your family.’ It’s really about the family, which is really the nucleus of society.” Krasnianski hopes that more Jews will look inward and connect with their drive to create positive change. “Maimonides quoting the Talmud teaches us that we’re always obligated to view ourselves and the whole world being an equal scale, and all it takes is one good deed. That’s all, one good deed ... to tip the scales and bring redemption and transform human consciousness for the whole world,” the rabbi explained.

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A SPECIAL FROM DIRT MAGAZINE: FUN THINGS TO DO WITH THE FAMILY We are publishing a weekly column provided by dirt Magazine to keep you entertained during this difficult time.

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FAMILY DRAWING NIGHT FAMILY

Silence your phone and inner perfectionist; just keep that crayon moving BY RAHELI HARPER

Turn off all of your electronics, gather pens, pencils and crayons, sit down together at the table and draw on paper. Voila, a family drawing night! A time for connecting with each other and allowing ourselves to unwind. Simple as that, right? Ha! What about bedtime drama, sports, homework, todo lists, emotions, life and “Really? Do we have to?” (which is more likely to be said by my husband than my son). This simple act of gathering together with pen and paper certainly needs some prep work. At the risk of making the “simple” feel compli-

Make it festive with wine and hot chocolate, or just clear the table and set a timer. Photo: Raheli Harper

cated, this part is essential. Make it festive with wine, hot chocolate and cookies. Or just clear the table and set a timer for 15 minutes. The point is to be together and move a drawing implement around on paper. No one

has to “make art” or “be creative.” We love those aspirations in our kids, but as adults? Personally, I have to remind myself that I don’t need a perfect drawing, I just need to keep moving my pen.

HERE ARE SOME GAMES OR IDEAS THAT TO HELP EASE UP AND LET THE INK FLOW: ■ Draw a repeating pattern. ■ Write topics on scraps of paper and pull them out of a bowl (turtles, trees, dinner, bugs, mittens, flower, snakes) ■ Unwind, literally. Draw squiggles and swirls. Fill the page. ■ Draw your outfit. ■ Write a word over and over in different styles. ■ Line up a collection of mugs, backpacks or shoes and draw them. ■ Crack open a new box of art supplies. ■ Draw on paper from the recycling bin. ■ Give everybody a stack of Post-It notes and a black market. ■ Make a black and white coloring page. Pass it to the left and see what it looks like after your neighbor colors it in. You will color the page passed to you. Raheli Harper homesteads on 10 acres where she raises sheep, free-range chickens and children. See her handwork at raheli.com. This week’s Dirt Jr. is brought to you by Dirt magazine. Subscribe at dirt-mag.com.

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THE LONG INTERMISSION CULTURE

How to get your Broadway ﬁx when the theaters are closed BY MICHELE WILLENS

Usually, I would be using this time to report on the latest Broadway shows. There are — or were — some 16 new ones set to open before the Tony nomination deadline in late April. Well, all that is history, of course, with this virus causing the curtains to (temporarily) come down. It’s fair to say that Broadway is New York’s defining cultural treasure. Some 14 million people paid to see a show in the past year, and the city is almost $2 billion richer because of that. You do the subtraction. Already, some 10 off-Broadway productions have made the decision not to continue their runs, even when things return to normal. These include a Manhattan Theatre Club Production (“The Perplexed”), “Endlings,” the buzzed-about new piece at NY Theater Workshop, and a lovely original musical at Playwrights Horizons (“Unknown Soldier”). On Broadway, even the successes are having to face the consequences of what could be an eight-week blackout. The lead producer of “Hadestown,” Dale Franzen, said “we are all taking a deep dive, waiting to hear from the unions and the Broadway League, and coordinating everything.” Her show won the Tony last season and is starting a national tour, so she can take a bit more comfort in future ticket sales. But there are no guarantees, and who knows if or when there will even be a Tony Awards ceremony this year? On Friday, “Hangman,“ starring Dan Stevens, was the first Broadway show to announce that it would not reopen after the shutdown. The producers told Deadline that they do not “have the economic resources” to resume performances. The good news: many companies and websites are opening up their hearts, and products, for people to enjoy via streaming. We read books these days by listening to them, so here are some ways to enjoy theater that comes to you. ■ BroadwayHD – This site seems to offer the largest number of theatrical events. (“Stream your favorite Broadway hits!”) And you can try it out with a week-long free trial. ■ L.A. Theatre Works — Founded in Los Angeles in 1984, this media powerhouse includes a long list of recorded plays, many of which travel nationally, that are available for streaming. These include a mix of original works and great classics. (Highly recommended: “The Importance of Being Earnest.”) ■ New York companies — Check out what your favorite nonprofits are offering. Rattlestick Playwrights, for example, is streaming its latest production, “Siblings Play.” Primary Stages has a whole plan in place, including master classes with well-known theatrical names. And we can venture further. Berkeley

That was then: Broadway theatergoers line up on March 4, 2020. Photo: Eden, Janine and Jim, via flickr

Rep, a highly respected company, is offering some of its shows via streaming. Likewise, the McCarter, in Princeton, has a huge trove of archives ready to be brought back to virtual life.

■ Industry sites like Broadway World and Theatermania offer up-to- date news and

streaming suggestions. Broadway Licensing has hundreds of shows available geared to younger viewers. ■ PBS — Yes, the supposedly old-fashioned network is more Broadway-attuned than ever before. “Great Performances” is filled with what feels like live entertainment. You will be surprised how many productions are there awaiting your click (including “Hamilton’s America”). At pbs.org

■ Watch a movie about, or based on, plays — “All About Eve,” “A Chorus Line,” “Bird-

man,” “Chicago,” and “My Fair Lady” — there are obviously countless choices. Since you are not going to see the reimagined, controversial “West Side Story” on Broadway anytime soon, watch the original movie and cheer Jerome Robbins’ unforgettable (and inimitable) choreography. The best books about theater run the gamut from Moss Hart’s “Act One” to Alexandra Jacobs’ recent biography of Elaine Stritch. Both make you feel you are right there with those who gave us some great work on stages large and small. Do I lament not going to theaters four times a week? Well, perhaps not at this moment, when I hear only the sounds of silence and the sounds of sirens. But I surely miss the feeling of anticipation when the lights go down, the curtain goes up, and I am ready to travel to some mysterious place with a lot of strangers. Hopefully, a month or two from now, the 30plus suspended shows will be back where they belong, and this dreadful intermission will be behind us. Michele Willens’ “Stage Right ... or Not” airs weekly on the NPR afﬁliate, Robinhoodradio.

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RECONNECT WITH YOUR INNER ARTIST CREATIVITY

The museums and galleries are closed, but art knows no boundaries, especially in this digital age BY MARY GREGORY

“The spirit of delight comes in small ways.” - Robert Louis Stevenson Every day is new, and every day brings challenges and rewards. Because of COVID-19 we’ve all embarked on an unprecedented journey, but there’s no reason for it not to include art and beauty. Museums may be shut temporarily, but creativity is open and unending. In the weeks to come, we’ll be bringing you lots of ways to fill your days with art from home. For tens of thousands of years, people created their own art. From petroglyphs carved in rock, to grandma’s embroidery, art has suffused every culture and every age. This age should be no different. We’re all artists from birth – just give a toddler some crayons, and you’ll have proof. Most of us just haven’t been practicing. Staying in place may give time to explore our

From Album of one hundred beauties, 1909, Domestic Scene, Kangetsu Shitomi. Image; Courtesy of DigitaVaticana Color wheel and torn paper collage by Luna Paucar. Photo: Courtesy of Parrish Art Museum

own creative spirits, and our beloved museums and institutions are offering help. The Met, MoMA, The Frick Collection, The Morgan Library, the Whitney, and museums around the world have countless resources for viewing, studying and experiencing their collections online. Their websites will guide you to them.

Quality Time with Hilma Many offer lesson plans for educators. Why not take up the offer, for yourself or your now home-schooled kids? Last year’s extraordinary Hilma af Klint exhibition at The Guggenheim introduced an astonishing, underappreciated artist with a wide range of interests and a unique

voice. The museum’s website has a downloadable pdf file with lots to learn about her and her work, as well as creative prompts. Af Klint practiced automatic drawing and writing. One of the plan’s suggestions is to take an old book or magazine and black out all except every tenth word. Continue this until there are twenty words left, and use them to create a poem.

A World of Coloring Books

Color Our Collections, an online compendium presented by the New York Academy of Medicine, shares the work of hundreds of museums and libraries who’ve turned some of their treasures into coloring books. All invite you to play with art and see what you come up with. They’ve got

everything from botanical studies to medieval manuscript illustrations to Kewpie dolls. I found a Durer woodcut from the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile and am curious to see if color will add or detract. The Vatican Museum’s two coloring books offer sketches by Bernini, Japanese woodblock prints, an engraving of the Trevi Fountain, and more. Who’s to say your version won’t be better than Bernini’s? Whatever you produce, the result will be a new creation, and you’re encouraged to take a picture and share it with the hashtag #colorourcollections. Then, take your artwork beyond the page as a starting point to find out more about traditional Japanese dress, Roman fountains, and Renaissance art. You’ll emerge wiser and with a new artwork, and you can boast that you collaborated with Bernini.

Drawing and Collage

Brant, Sebastian, and Dürer, Albrecht, Illustrator, “Salutifera Nauis: Narragonice Profectionis Nun qua Satis Laudata Nauis.” Image: Courtesy of the Memoria Chilena, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile

American Ballet Theater JKO School Children’s Division. Photo: Richard Corman.

A website called Drawspace provides online drawing lessons – some free. If you can make squiggly little circles (and you can), which they call “squirkles” they’ll guide you through drawing your own forest of spruce trees. It’s a new path to explore, and one that may take you to unexpected places. The Parrish Art Museum in the Hamptons suggests home print making, or my favorite, learning to make a collage. Great artists like Romare Bearden, Robert Rauschen-

berg and Hannah Höch took bits of found material from magazines, newspapers, advertising, and packaging and recombined them into powerful, often provocative works of art. A downloadable pdf leads you through gathering snippets of paper, organizing them into a color wheel, finding a work in their collection (or anywhere) that speaks to you, and reproducing it as a collage.

Go Ahead and Dance

After sitting at your easel, desk, or kitchen table for hours as artists do, it’s good to take a break to stretch and move. The American Ballet Theatre’s got your back. Literally. People can tune to ABT’s Instagram site for daily lessons in ballet movement given by dancers and teachers from the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School. Says ABT’s Delia Brengel, “The classes are free and open to everyone. While geared towards children ages 2-8 and their parents or caregivers, we encourage all who are interested to tune in and enjoy.” While our horizons might be somewhat limited for a while, it’s a perfect time to expand your spirit and mind. Surprise and discover yourself by nurturing your inner artist. Then just enjoy it or post and share it with the world.

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NEW REALITY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 this new reality. Shortages of home and pantry staples such as bread, pasta, eggs and toilet paper have been rampant across the city’s grocery stores. But also, the necessary errand can make some feel vulnerable to contracting the virus. After reading about fistfights breaking out at supermarkets across the country, Jon Friedman, who lives in Stuyvesant Town, prepared for battle on a recent grocery haul. “I entered my local Gristedesturned-D’Agostino’s on First Avenue at East 21st St. with trepidation and the sound of the Rolling Stones’ “Street Fighting Man” playing in my head,” said Friedman. But, luckily, he found a much different scene. “Everyone was well behaved (even me) and respectful of one another,” he said. “I felt compassion for the checkout clerks, overburdened in normal times in this bustling store. Now, they had to worry about their health, on top of everything else. I tried to make stupid small talk and they seemed to appreciate the effort. I really appreciate them.” One Upper West Side resident has become wary of his fellow Fairway

It really is incumbent upon all New Yorkers, to do your damnedest to live by this new reality.” Mayor Bill de Blasio shoppers, particularly those wearing masks. “I’ve started waiting to shop until late in the day, usually around 8 o’clock or so. These days, it’s not very crowded at that time, but there’s still a problem: Shoppers with Masks,” he said. “Weirdly, I’ve discovered that people wearing surgical masks seem to be more likely to commit other no-no’s of social distancing while shopping.” He’s seen mask-wearing shopping distracted by their cell phones, loitering in the middle of aisles while they scan the shelves, and bumping into others as they rush to leave the store. Very few opt to wear vinyl gloves. “Perhaps this admittedly anecdotal evidence of selfishness isn’t surprising, given the good argument that at this point asymptomatic people with access to masks should be

NYPD Auxiliary ofﬁcers on duty outside Zabar’s on Friday night, March 20, 2020. Photo: Courtesy of NYPD 20th Precinct via Flickr

donating them to undersupplied medical professionals,” he said. “But it’s made me start to think about my daily trip to Fairway the way I’ve always felt about driving a car in New

York City. I now refer to it as ‘defensive shopping.’” On Monday, the mayor said the coming week would be a decisive one in how the city proceeds with

social distancing rules. He said his administration will be monitoring how successful the current restrictions are and whether it will be the best way to move forward.

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS

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MARCH 5 - 11, 2020 The following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s website and include the most recent inspection and grade reports listed. We have included every restaurant listed during this time within the zip codes 10021, 10022, 10028, 10128, 10029. Some reports list numbers with their explanations; these are the number of violation points a restaurant has received. Bagels & Co

500 E. 76th St

Bohemian Spirit Restaurant

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Comic Strip Live

1568 2nd Ave

Not Yet Graded (19) Pesticide use not in accordance with label or applicable laws. Prohibited chemical used/stored. Open bait station used. Evidence of rats or live rats present in facility’s food and/or nonfood areas. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Facility not vermin proof. Harborage or conditions conducive to attracting vermin to the premises and/or allowing vermin to exist.

Gourmet Park

119 E. 60th St

Green Bean Cafe

1413 York Ave

Not Yet Graded (38) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Non-food contact surface improperly constructed. Unacceptable material used. Non-food contact surface or equipment improperly maintained and/or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the unit. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred. Facility not vermin proof. Harborage or conditions conducive to attracting vermin to the premises and/or allowing vermin to exist. Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked ﬁsh and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Food Protection Certiﬁcate not held by supervisor of food operations.

Gyu-Kaku

805 3th Ave

Not Yet Graded (37) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Thawing procedures improper. Tobacco use, eating, or drinking from open container in food preparation, food storage or dishwashing area observed. Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Facility not vermin proof. Harborage or conditions conducive to attracting vermin to the premises and/or allowing vermin to exist. Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Food contact surface not properly maintained. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Heartbeat Juliano’s Espresso Bar

541 Lexington Ave 1378 Lexington Ave

A Not Yet Graded (22) Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Facility not vermin proof. Harborage or conditions conducive to attracting vermin to the premises and/or allowing vermin to exist. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Macaron Cafe

44 E. 59th St

Parnell’s Pub

350 E. 53rd St

The Hunterian

413 E. 70th St

Photo: Courtesy of Eli Zabar

A LETTER FROM ELI ZABAR Manhattan residents, waitstaff and bartenders were hit hard by Mayor Bill de Blasio’s order last week to close the city’s restaurants by Tuesday morning, March 17. The move allowed takeout and delivery services, but no dining, in an effort to promote social distancing. Through notices on stores windows, social media posts and emails, restaurateurs let their customers know that they were still there for them. One such communication, from Eli Zabar, owner of East Side shops and eateries, spoke for the sense of community that the coronavirus crisis has instilled throughout Manhattan. “The COVID-19 Crisis has put our business and community into uncharted territory,“ he wrote in an email. “We are charged with the essential responsibility

of maintaining an environment that is safe for both our employees and our customers ... “For over 40 years, I have worked to build a loyal customer base that understands and values the no-compromise approach I take when it comes to food quality ... We believe that our commitment to health and safety combined with our focus on quality ensures further protection against contamination. “As New York’s neighborhood grocer, I want to stay open so that you have access to food and ingredients that you have confidence in.” Zabar noted that grocery and prepared food orders can be placed for daily delivery: (212) 423-0192, (212) 423-0129 or homeshop@elizabar.com.

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COUNSELING CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Daniel Cook, a licensed mental health counselor and director of Embodied Mind NYC in lower Manhattan. “With the disruption of people’s day-to-day lives, their routines, their resources, let alone the potential of becoming sick and what that might also be bringing up for folks.” Cook made the decision last week to move all sessions at his practice to remote platforms, a choice that allows him and his colleagues to continue their work without spreading coronavirus. “The technical piece I think was a little bit harried,” Cook added. “Fortunately, legislation really got pushed quickly to ensure that clients were able to receive health insurance coverage for telehealth services, which hasn’t always been the case.” New York is one of 22 states that require Medicaid and private insurers to cover telehealth services — services provided by clinicians remotely, often online — thanks to the New York Health Parity Law, which went into effect on January 1, 2016. The state expanded the number of long-distance services eligible for Medicaid coverage in February 2019.

Going Remote Straus News reached out to the Mayor’s Office for details on how the city is working to address mental health care needs in response to the pandemic. In response, ThriveNYC Director of Communications Joshua Goodman gave the following statement: “During a stressful time, it’s common to feel anxious or scared. New Yorkers

Our Town|Eastsider ourtownny.com should stay connected to friends and family, check in on one another by phone, text, or email, and, if needed, reach out to NYC Well, the City’s free, confidential, 24/7 helpline, at 888-NYC-WELL.” On March 17, the Trump administration expanded access to telemedicine for the United States’s 62 million Medicare beneficiaries in a bid to maintain standard health care services without sending patients into hospitals or clinics where they might risk infection. At the same time, stringent confidentiality requirements imposed by the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) have constrained how therapists may communicate with patients, eliminating most commercially available video conferencing apps. As therapists pivoted en masse to HIPAA-compliant video apps last week, “People were scrambling and there was talk of price gouging,” said Kayla Schwartz, LCSW, a counselor with Mindful NYC in Midtown. That frenzy died down after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that it would allow providers to contact patients through commercial programs like FaceTime and Skype without risking fines or penalties. (Public-facing applications like Facebook LIVE and TikTok are still no-gos, HHS noted in its memo.)

Loss of Control While administrative questions like which app to use may seem quibbling in an atmosphere of extreme upheaval, eliminating insurance red tape allows mental health professionals to provide uninterrupted care when their pa-

tients most need it, though not everyone is happy with the shift. “It’s a loss, you know, but of course everybody is experiencing a loss of control in general,” said Randy Faerber, a psychoanalyst on Central Park West, “so this is just one more loss of control. Their routine is broken.” Faerber compares some of the behaviors New Yorkers have exhibited lately to a need to re-establish order in their lives. “People go out and say, ‘Oh, OK, if I have a lot of toilet paper, I’m safe,’ or ‘If I have a lot of bread and peanut butter and jelly, I’m safe’ … We’re trying to control what we can’t,” she explained. Every mental health professional stressed the importance of establishing new, home-based routines for regaining composure. “Many of us are trying to start a new routine or sort of morph an old routine into the new circumstances,” Schwartz said. “Like if you used to go to the gym, maybe you want to take time to go running, maybe at the same time ... Or maybe you’re used to getting your coffee at Starbucks every day on your way to work, and that’s your organize-your-brain time, maybe you to choose to make your coffee and bring it out onto the stoop or bring it to a certain place in your home that feels like it’s different.” The key, Schwartz advised, is to structure your time without focusing too rigidly on recreating normalcy before social distancing.

while also contending with the COVID-19 crisis. “Many people are experiencing similar intensities … the mental health providers are also then taking in all of their patients’ stress and anxiety and concern and holding that for them,” said Rory Rothman, Psya.D., a psychoanalyst and faculty member at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, whose patients include a number of therapists. “I would say that while welltrained clinicians are hope-

fully adept at being with their patients and listening and taking in, and containing what the patients are expressing, right now what’s being contained is compounded by the intensity of the current situation.” “Certainly, we’re not on the front lines in the medical realm, but on some level, we’re on the front lines in the emotional realm,” Rothman observed. For some clinicians, emergency response means adapting business practices to the

new normal. Cook is already looking into expanding Embodied Mind NYC’s reducedprice counseling services to people whose livelihoods were cut off by mandatory social distancing. “It’s a health crisis, an economic crisis and a mental health crisis as well,” he said. “I want to mobilize that so we can support those who are on the front line, and I think that’s a way that we can be on the front line.”

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THE FIGHT OVER FAIRWAY STORES

A new $75 million offer from a Brooklyn-based bidder — and Amazon enters the picture BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM

Fairway Market has plenty of suitors. Last week, the Brooklynbased Bogopa Enterprises Inc. — which operates Food Bazaar supermarkets — made an offer of $75 million for Fairway’s five Manhattan locations, store in Pelham Manor, and its distribution center in the Bronx, as reported by Supermarket News. The offer tops the $70 million stalking-horse bid made by Village Super Market for the Fairway properties (which did not include the Pelham Manor store) in late January.

“We would like to extend gratitude to our employees, vendors, distributors and customers for their continued support, dedication and loyalty during this process,” Fairway Market CEO Abel Porter said in a statement. “Fairway’s store performance has generated significant interest in our stores. We look forward to a robust auction.” Additionally, Fairway said that it was evaluating competitive offers for various other stores, which may include a bid from tech-giant Amazon. The New York Post reported Thursday that Amazon is focused on four stores, including the Red Hook location in Brooklyn, two stores in New Jersey and the store in Pelham. It would not be the company’s first foray into the grocery business. In 2017, Amazon purchased Whole Foods for $13.4 billion. Currently, Fairway oper-

Fairway’s ﬂagship store at Broadway and 74th St. Photo: Alexis Gelber

Fairway’s store performance has generated significant interest in our stores. We look forward to a robust auction.” Fairway Market CEO Abel Porter

ates five stores in Manhattan (the Upper West Side flagship, Upper East Side, Harlem, Chelsea and Kips Bay), two in Brooklyn, (Georgetown and Red Hook) and one in Queens (Douglaston), two on Long Island (Westbury and Plainview), one in Pelham Manor, two in New Jersey (Paramus and Woodland Park) and one in Connecticut (Stamford).

The fight over Fairway comes weeks after it looked as though the beloved New York grocer would be closing its doors for good after years of financial struggles. After rumors of liquidation surfaced, Fairway announced that it instead would be filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Fairway has struggled since the Glickberg family, who had owned and operated the chain since it opened as a produce stand in 1933, sold their stake to a private equity firm in 2007. Since then, the company has seen losses as it has expanded outside on New York City and out to Connecticut and New Jersey. In 2016, it filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the first time, and was eventually brought out of it by another investment firm. All of Fairway’s bidders operate grocery stores in the New York region. The Sumas family owns and operates Village Super Market, a family run grocery chain that operates 30 ShopRite stores in New Jersey and one location

At Fairway, lines went out the door last week. Photo: Alexis Gelber

in the Bronx. In 2019, Village purchased three Gourmet Garage stores in Manhattan and has maintained them. Bogopa operates 26 Food Bazaar supermarkets, including 17 Food Bazaar stores in

New York City. Six are located in Brooklyn, five in the Bronx and six in Queens. The other New York stores are located in Westchester County and Long Island.

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GHOST TOWN SCENE IN NEW YORK

A photoessay of NYC landmarks in the time of coronavirus BY THOMAS HENGGE

Life in New York City has come to an abrupt halt amid the outbreak of COVID-19. Following major cities affected around the world, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that as of Friday,

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March 13th, after 5 p.m. there would be no gatherings of more than 500 people, in the hope of stopping the spread of the coronavirus. Since then, Broadway canceled all shows for the foreseeable future, businesses have closed, restaurants have switched to only offering takeout in an attempt to stay afloat, and New York’s most popular tourist attractions are now ghost towns. A look at the city in the days that followed Cuomo’s initial announcement.

A commuter sporting latex gloves passes by Rockefeller Center, March 18, 2020. Photos by Thomas Hengge

Grand Central Terminal, one of New York City’s busiest stations, during rush hour on March 17, 2020.

A construction worker passes by the 911 Memorial and Museum, closed to the public amid the COVID-19 spread, March 17, 2020.

Washington Square Park emptied amid the spread of COVID-19 in NYC, March 17, 2020.

Times Square remains virtually empty after New York implements rules to restrict gatherings of more than 500 persons, March 16, 2020.

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