Our Town - March 29, 2018

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A SEASON OF FAITH WORSHIP Love triumphant is celebrated on Easter, freedom ascendant is commemorated on Passover — and as the two great spring holidays overlap this weekend, Trumpism will be confronted from the pulpit Access to a two-block portion of the East River Esplanade near Gracie Mansion is blocked due to repair work on a collapsed portion of the waterfront pathway.

Photo: Douglas Feiden

ESPLANADE REPAIRS FACE DELAYS INFRASTRUCTURE Waterfront project in Carl Schurz Park will now last until “next winter” and require construction of a temporary bridge

BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

The reconstruction of a collapsed stretch of the East River Esplanade near Gracie Mansion, originally scheduled to be completed by this May, will take several months longer than anticipated because of unforeseen design work, Our Town has learned.

The repair forced the closure of part of Carl Schurz Park early last summer after a portion of the waterfront path, near East 89th Street, crumbled into the East River during a May rainstorm.

Fencing blocks access to the waterfront esplanade from roughly East

88th to East 90th Streets, as well as to a hill just north of Gracie Mansion — a popular winter destination for neighborhood sled-riders — which was selected as a staging area for construction equipment to access the esplanade.

As a result of delays relating to the hill, located near the entrance to the FDR Drive tunnel that runs under Carl Schurz Park, the project is now expected to be completed “next winter,” according to a Parks Department official.

“Due to additional design work needed to address site access and foundation issues, NYC Parks needs to build a temporary bridge over the FDR tunnel,” a Parks Department spokesperson said in an emailed statement. “The tunnel itself is not strong enough to handle the construction equipment that we must drive over it to complete the necessary work.”

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“Love wins!” said the Rev. Dr. Cathy S. Gilliard in a classic two-word encapsulation of the Easter message of hope and new life and how it can overpower pain and sorrow and even death itself.

And the senior pastor of the Park Avenue United Methodist Church on East 86th Street, the first AfricanAmerican to hold that position, quickly added a two-word coda: “Exclamation point!”

“Freedom is possible,” said Rabbi José Rolando Matalon in a synopsis of the Passover message that a people of faith, with divine guidance, can defy their oppressor and be emancipated from bondage.

And the lute-playing, Buenos Airesborn senior rabbi of B’nai Jeshurun on West 88th Street, the synagogue’s spiritual leader for the past 25 years, added a cautionary note: “But it’s not easy.”

Due to a quirk in the religious calendar, the two hallowed institutions — a temple founded in 1825, a church established in 1837 — are about to observe, at the same time but in their own very separate ways, one of the great defining holidays of their respective faiths.

Good Friday, which commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus at Calvary, falls on March 30, and this year it coincides with Passover, marking the liberation by God of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, which begins at sundown the same day with the first of the

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The Rev. Jennifer Reddall, rector of the Church of the Epiphany, an Episcopal church at York Avenue and East 74th Street. Photo courtesy of Church of the Epiphany two Seders.

For Christians, the holiday is a day of fasting and penance, and for Jews, a time to tell the story of the Exodus through stories, songs and a ritual if festive meal, which is repeated in the second Seder on March 31.

Easter Sunday, a joyous celebration of the cornerstone of Christianity — the resurrection of Jesus from the dead — falls on April 1, which is also the second full day of the week-long Passover holiday.

Theologically, the holidays would seem to have little in common. Culinarily, they both involve feasting.

But there’s more: Mortal enemies of

both faiths fall — Pharaoh’s army is obliterated, the Israelites, no longer slaves, cross the Red Sea dry-shod, Roman prefects are humiliated, Jesus prepares to ascend to heaven — and as

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MTA SHARES PLANS FOR UWS SUBWAY CLOSURES TRANSPORTATION Increased ridership at nearby stations anticipated during closure of B and C line stops; bus service to be boosted if ridership jumps more than projected

BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

During the upcoming six-month closures of three Upper West Side subway stations for renovations, MTA officials anticipate that most riders’ best option for alternative service will be to walk to nearby stations.

The 72nd Street, 86th Street and 110th Street B and C train stations along Central Park West will each close on a staggered schedule for construction work this spring. The first station to close will be the Cathedral Parkway-110th Street stop on April 9, followed by the 72nd Street station May 7 and the 86th Street station June 4. Each station is expected to reopen in under six months.

“Basically, we project that for most people the best alternative will be to walk to the adjacent station,” whether a neighboring stop on the B and C line

or a station on the Broadway line a few blocks west, Judy McClain of New York City Transit Authority’s operations planning department said at a March 26 presentation on the closures to Community Board 7.

McClain added that increased bus service on routes near the stations is not currently planned, but that it could be added based on ridership demands. “Our projections show that not many people will shift to the buses, but we are going to be having some buses available when we start the closure in case we get more riders than we think,” particularly on the M10 bus, which runs north and south along Central Park West, and the M86 crosstown bus, she said.

Andrew Albert, a co-chair of Community Board 7’s transportation committee and a non-voting member of the MTA Board, said that the stations would be “markedly better” once upgrades are complete, but expressed concerns about the challenges posed by increased ridership at stops adjacent to the closed stations. If there are additional riders at nearby stops, Albert said, “that means longer boarding times, which means longer dwell times for the trains, which means less keeping to schedule.”

A rendering of planned upgrades to the Cathedral Parkway-110th Street subway station, which will close this spring for construction. Image: MTA Several attendees requested that the MTA consider adding shuttle bus service between the 110th Street and 59th Street-Columbus Circle stations.

Albert said he plans to speak to NYCT President Andy Byford about the issue.

Platform edge work will require train diversions on weeknights and weekends, during which trains will typically run on the express track in one direction between 59th Street-Columbus Circle and 125th Street; customers with destinations between those points will be able to “back-ride” on a local train in the opposite direction. Diversions

will occur before, during and after the station closures. According to the MTA, the temporary station closures will allow for construction work to be completed more rapidly than would otherwise be possible.

The station renovations are part of the MTA’s Enhanced Station Initiative, a billion-dollar plan championed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to upgrade 33 stations citywide. The 110th Street station renovations will cost an estimated $30 million, while the 86th and 72nd Street stations are expected to cost $28 million and $25 million, respectively.

The project includes repairs to crumbling concrete ceilings, leaks and water damage and corroding steel columns, using materials and design intended to reduce future maintenance costs and requirements. The renovations also include improved lighting, platform countdown clocks, new wayfinding dashboards and redesigned station entrances.

But the top concern on the minds of many attendees were new features that won’t be included in the redesigned stations — elevators and escalators to make the stations more accessible and bring the stops into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

MTA officials said the agency’s capital program includes a separate pot of money for ADA compliance and accessibility outside of the funding dedicated to the Enhanced Station Initiative.

By the end of 2019, the MTA aims to have equipped approximately 143 of its 472 stations with elevators. Byford has directed NYCT staff to study feasibility and costs of installing elevators in every station in the system.

Less than a quarter of the city’s subway stations are currently wheelchair accessible. On March 13, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York joined a lawsuit against the MTA and NYCT alleging that the transportation agencies violated the ADA by failing to install an elevator as part of a $27 million station renovation project in the Bronx.

“There is no justification for public entities to ignore the requirements of the ADA 28 years after its passage,” U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said in a statement announcing the complaint.

“The subway system is a vital part of New York City’s transportation system, and when a subway station undergoes a complete renovation, MTA and NYCTA must comply with its obligations to make such stations accessible to the maximum extent feasible.”

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 19th district for the week ending Mar. 18 Week to Date

Year to Date

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2017

% Change

Murder

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Robbery

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34

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Burglary

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Grand Larceny

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Police remind women shoppers that a shopping cart is not a secure place to keep your wallet. At 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 17, a 61-year-old woman was shopping at Zabar’s on Broadway when another woman grabbed her wallet from her cart and fled. The stolen wallet contained credit and debit cards, along with $50.

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LOCKER LOOTING Yet another gym goer learned the hard way never to bring cash or valuables when you work out. At 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 9, a 21-year-old man returned to his locker inside the New York Sports Club at 248 West 80th Street to discover that his wallet was missing from inside his locker.

The wallet contained credit cards and $400 in cash.

BEST BUY’S WORST EMPLOYEE Unfortunately, shoplifters are not the only ones stealing from chain stores these days. At 3 p.m. on Thursday, March 8, a male employee of the Best Buy store at 1880 Broadway was seen stealing some $4,000 in merchandise from the store. He was subsequently arrested and charged with grand larceny.

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The NYPD has struggled to ďŹ ll budgeted school crossing guard positions in some precincts. Photo: Thomas Altfather Good, via ickr ed corners. “A traffic agent or P.O. will go off and do something else if called to do so, because their primary job is not to be a school crossing guard,â€? Rosenthal said. “So the fallback that they have in place, in my mind’s eye anyway, is not satisfactory.â€?

At a May 2017 City Council hearing, an NYPD official said that there were then 63 school posts being covered by a traffic enforcement agent.

The NYPD received an additional $6.3 million in this year’s budget to hire an additional 100 full-time school crossing guard supervisors and 200 part-time school crossing guards. A total of 2,638 part-time crossing guard positions are funded in the current budget.

In the Upper East Side’s 19th Precinct, 12 of 23 budgeted crossing guard positions were vacant as of January 2017.

Ben Kallos, who represents the neighborhood in the City Council, said that public school principals in his district have requested that more crossing guards be budgeted and hired. “There are schools throughout the city that have safety concerns relating to school violence, but in my district, both in schools and out of schools, the top safety concern is vehicle collisions,� he said.

Kallos said that the 19th Precinct has struggled to attract applicants and retain guards once they’ve been hired, a problem he believes is related to compensation.

Most crossing guards are part-time employees, who generally work a split shift of short periods in both the morning and afternoon and are not employed over the summer. Though pay for cross-

ing guards has been increased in recent years and employees are eligible for health insurance beneďŹ ts if they work more than 20 hours per week, wages for the part-time positions are relatively low, starting at $13.50 per hour climbing to and $14.04 per hour after three years, according to the NYPD. “This needs to be a yearround job,â€? Kallos said. “These people need to be paid a living wage, with benefits, and they need to have shifts that they can live on without having a large uncompensated break during the day.â€?

Kallos believes that crossing guards could be given additional assignments beyond their current hours and over the summer to monitor intersections near after-school programming sites, youth centers and parks. “After all, this city has a commitment to Vision Zero, and having crossing guards at dangerous intersections could be helpful to more than just our public school students,� he said.

When candidates do apply for open positions, Rosenthal said, the hiring process can take months. Candidates must be able to speak and understand English, pass a background check and medical examination and complete six days of NYPD training. Rosenthal said she plans to look into hiring practices to ensure that the onboarding process is as streamlined as possible. “I’m not even sure we’re aiming for the right number of crossing guards,� Rosenthal said. “Perhaps there should be more, but we don’t have the luxury of asking that question because we can’t even fill the slots we do have.�

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City Council Member Helen Rosenthal raised the issue at a recent budget hearing, at which she referenced a lack of crossing guard coverage near a cluster of schools in her district, including the new Riverside School for Makers and Artists, which opened in September. “There’s been no crossing guard at 60th and West End Avenue, where we just opened a new public school, a private school just opened, and we have three other schools up the block on West 61st,� Rosenthal said at the hearing. “It’s been very distressing for the parents.�

Five out of nine budgeted crossing guard positions were unfilled in the Upper West Side’s 20th Precinct as of January 2017, the most recent period for which data is available. (Rosenthal said it is her understanding that the number of positions ďŹ lled has not since changed. The NYPD is required to report updated data on crossing guard vacancies to the City Council by Sept.

30, 2018.) “That means that there are ďŹ ve corners that have been determined to be critical for the safety of our children crossing the street to get to school that are not covered every day because they don’t have people to do so,â€? Rosenthal said in a later telephone interview.

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SONG AND THE CITY MUSIC The more than 200 ensembles in Manhattan ensure that choral culture thrives

BY SHOSHY CIMENT

The Mendelssohn Glee Club rehearsing this month at the Broadway Spanish Church. Photo: Shoshy Ciment

Monday evenings are usually quiet on The Upper West Side.

Unless, that is, you happen to be near the Broadway Spanish Church at 93rd Street and Amsterdam Avenue. And if you are, you will likely hear the voices of about 30 men radiate from the church’s basement windows to the otherwise still streets. They are the collective sound of the Mendelssohn Glee Club, the oldest men’s chorus in America.

For a singer hungry for performing, New York City is a smorgasbord. There are 222 active choirs and vocal ensembles peppering the Manhattan landscape, according to a choir directory run by Vocal Area Network, which catalogues and publicizes vocal ensemble concerts, auditions and general information. And that’s not counting the church-based choirs.

“Singing in New York is the

greatest,” remarked Jack Willoughby, a seasoned baritone in the Mendelssohn Glee Club who has previously sung with the New York Choral Society and the Collegiate Chorale, now known as MasterVoices.

To this day, the Mendelssohn Glee Club performs in white ties and tails to audiences that have since shed their tuxedos and gloves but have retained their fascination with this New York musical tradition.

“If you take a male chorus, they’re kind of earthy sounding,” said Gene Wisoff, the club’s director for the past 25 years. “A treble choir is different.” In four parts - tenor, second tenor, baritone and bass - the group performs a variety of traditional pieces.

Other than possessing an appreciation for quality singing, the group is an eclectic mix.

Singers include journalists, lawyers, students, doctors, dentists and engineers, some of them retired. Age-wise, the group runs the gamut as well; there are men with brown hair, men with white hair, and men with no hair at all.

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EASTER & PASSOVER WISHES, VIA MR. ROGERS

BY BETTE DEWING

“Won’t you be my neighbor?” Oh, how the world needs neighborliness this Easter/Passover season — between nations — above all. But close to home, in church and temple, this Holy Day season, the pulpits could sure use Mister (Fred) Rogers’s lessons. Yes, about being a good neighbor, not only on the Sabbath — like to the person next to you in the pew — and, of course, to members unable to get to the pews.

And the clergy must be most aware of the 50th anniversary celebrations since Mr. Rogers’s and his neighbors first blessed the airwaves. Sermons are needed about being that good neighbor and much more, which Fred Rogers emphasized on this multi-award-winning program.

While directed to young children,

may thought it appropriate for all generations. Perhaps it was even more than appropriate — but essential.

The program made its U.S. debut in 1968, lasting until 2001, just three years before Rogers succumbed to cancer in 2003, just shy of his 75th birthday. Those timeless programs are available to stream, of course and at music stores, if you can find those. Ah, Mr. Rogers would have something to say about losing our neighborhood stores – brick and mortar places which bring people together — all generations. These people places can go a long way to making it a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

These so universally loved programs were all about civility too, and don’t we need that. And especially in high places and in media/

entertainment which so shape customs and views. And Mr. Rogers’s music could so change the world, the song about being a neighbor, and the sentiments in the song “What do you do with the mad that you feel” are needed more than ever. The song wouldn’t be out of place in the current protests by youth against gun violence. Or perhaps when contemplate the venom that comes through social media, which is often anything but sociable. In his inimitably disarming manner, Mr. Rogers likely would have much to say about all of that.

Ah, manner of speaking has so much to do with love-one-another creeds within faith groups. Share the talk, of course, including about subjects that really matter. Fred Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister, and, again, the “prac-

ticing ordained” could do with his know-how in uniting people – of all generations – so nobody is left out.

Ah, Mr. Rogers would now be 90, and if he were still with us, he would help the world better understand the hard truths and needs of old age.

But let everyone use a Mr. Roger postage stamp — which should be a Forever and forever stamp, to get us writing letters again — via real mail, mail that vitally connects. My mother-in-law and I became best friends through our weekly letter exchanges.

Mr. Rogers would most surely applaud the essential good neighbors in multiple dwelling places, the socalled “help.” And he’d stress how mostly they live in the outer boroughs and the transit is never that easy, but the great majority made it to work despite hardships brought on by the recent nor’easters. They know how essential their presence can be and not only for those who are ill, homebound or alone. Mr.

RHONY’S RETURNING!

BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL

They’re back.

Bravo’s Real Housewives of New York City — Bethenny, Carol, Dorinda, LuAnn, Ramona, Sonja and Tinsley — return April 4 for Season 10.

Say what you will about our reality divas, like the fact that none of them are married and therefore not technically wives — house or otherwise, but after a decade, there are lessons to be learned from these Manhattan ladies.

(Please stop laughing and allow me to make my points.)

Actions speak louder than words.

Bethenny dubbed Ramona “the Apologizer,” because the bug-eyed blonde always expresses regret after one of her nasty outbursts, which seem to occur every episode. Yes, she always seeks forgiveness, until next time when she does the offending behavior again. Mea culpa is meaningless unless actions back it up.

Alcohol is no one’s friend. Slurring, stumbling and just plain falling down drunk, even if you’re swaddled in Escada, is not a good look; especially if, as with Luann, imbibing results in

battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest with violence, and two counts of corruption by threat. Pretty sobering, huh?

Tell it like it is. I don’t know when letting every piece of stupidity that pops in one’s head, fall out one’s mouth started masquerading as “honesty,” but in the world of RHNYC, that’s the definition. Being unfiltered seems to be OK only when one is dishing it out, though. When one is on the receiving end, well, being frank is called hurtful, rude and “mean girl.” In the real New York, as opposed to realty land, you don’t dish it out if you can’t take it.

Diversify. It all began with a margarita. Then Bethenny’s Skinny Girl logo showed up on wine, got slapped on salad dressing and popcorn, plus appliances like blenders. Every time we turn around Bethenny has a new gig — currently it’s house flipping, which she got Bravo to turn into a show. The entrepreneur has also been a talk show host as well as Shark Tank judge. She gives new meaning to the phrase “side hustle.” When you have more than one way to generate income, no one job can hold you financially hostage.

Rogers would gently remind people dependent on them not to take that for granted or let them take unnecessary risks.

And yes, there are thousands of essential workers who so thankfully made it through the storms, but don’t qualify as neighbors we’re now discussing. And surely more must be said about that. And more will be said about Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, in this column and elsewhere. But for now, Mr. Roger’s programs are available on CDs, or are they DVDs? Whichever it is, the program and its themes need a great revival — and don’t forget the postage stamp and real mail.

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Strike while the iron is hot. What do you do when you realize you suddenly have a following? Launch a recording career, a wine company, a clothing empire, a nail polish line, a shapewear company, jeans brand, or write a book (the “as told to” kind requiring a ghostwriter).

Ya gotta have friends. When they’re not screaming, fighting, pot-stirring, making passive/aggressive digs, talking over each other, schooling one another on appropriateness, stealing each other’s boyfriends and business ideas, and dishonoring the “girl code,” they have each other’s backs. Even Bethenny showed up to support BFFcum-enemy and former housewife Jill Zarin at her husband’s recent funeral.

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Make it nice! A paraphrase of Dorinda’s “I made it nice,” rant, but all the housewives adhere to it when it comes to entertaining. Whether it’s a house party or catered affair, each lady’s soirees are well-attended, the food and pinot flows like Tinsley’s golden curls, and they always overdress for the occasion, as in, It’s my party and I’ll wear an “I Dream Of Jeannie” high ponytail if I want to.

Don’t be all, like, uncool. The Countess

nailed this one. No explanation necessary.

Saying it makes it so. You live on the top floor of a building, refer to it as the penthouse. You go out a lot, assume the title of socialite. (The actual definition of which is “a person who is well known in fashionable society.”) And, in Sonja’s case, come up with a lot of unfeasible business ventures, pretend they exist, and represent them collectively as your “international luxury lifestyle brand.”

When life knocks you down, get back up. Carol and Dorinda lost their husbands to illness. Luann and Ramona have been cheated on. They, as well as Sonja, Bethenny and Tinsley have been embroiled in Page Six-type divorces. Some of their businesses have bitten the dust. Houses had to be moved from, and possessions sold off.

Custody battles fought. Health issues remedied. Yet, they’re all still here, every Wednesday at 9 p.m.

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

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GUN CONTROL RALLY DRAWS 200,000 PROTEST In wake of Florida high school killings, a loud call for ban on assault weapons, other provisions

BY CLARRIE FEINSTEIN

Nearly 200,000 took to city streets Saturday, intent on giving notice that gun violence has ďŹ erce opposition — and determined to make their collective voice heard by politicians.

The atmosphere was thick with emotion as parents, children, grandparents, teachers — all sorts and all types — walked along Central Park West, chanting “Vote Them Out!�

The protest, March for Our Lives, was one of hundreds taking place across the nation as well as abroad, with the largest demonstration in Washington, D.C., which was said to have drawn about 800,000.

The march was in response to the killing of 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, last month. Since January 1, there have been 17 school shootings, more than one a week, according to a tally by CNN. On Saturday, thousands of young people registered to vote, hoping to pressure politicians to pass legislation that meets the demands of the anti-gun violence movement.

Among the provisions many would like to see enacted include universal background checks, bans on assault weap-

ons and the raising of minimum ages to buy a gun. “I am here to support the students, because my generation has failed them,â€? said city resident Tricia Kampton. “People who defend these acts of violence because of the Second Amendment are not justiďŹ ed.

I have friends in upstate New York who own guns and are in the Washington, D.C., march today.�

Kampton was accompanied by her son, Talia, a 10th grade student who participated in the school walkout on March 14.

In the crowd, various signs read, “Arm Teachers with Pencils, Not Guns,� “Your Guns or Our Lives?� and “Never Again.�

Young children walked with their parents, holding signs, pleading for gun reform.

Sam Hendler, a 16-year old student from Marjory Stoneman Douglas, who addressed the rally, called on people to replace apathy with action.

Hendler emphasized that thoughts and prayers following mass shootings were “not

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Speakers from the Black Lives Matter movement added that gun violence disproportionately affects people of color and that shootings in the Bronx or South Side of Chicago must receive the same kind of recognition.

Ally Margelony and Madayn Jurgensmier, high school sophomores from Connecticut, said it was high time for the passage of gun-control laws. “It’s ridiculous there has been no change,� Margelony said. “How was nothing done after Sandy Hook?� she added, referring to the Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school shooting in 2012 that killed 26, including 20 pupils.

Both students said the movement toward gun control had grown signiďŹ cant and that they want to ensure common sense laws are mandated. “It’s inspiring to be here,â€?

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Thu 29 Fri 30 Sat 31 MIDTOWN CONCERT SERIES: ‘LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH’ Immanuel Lutheran Church 122 East 88th St. 1:15 p.m. Free The Artek early music ensemble will present “Lamentations of Jeremiah,” an expressive motet by the German composer Johann Rosenmueller.

Featuring soloists Rebecca Mariman, Ryland Angel and Peter Becker, and accompanied by organ and the theorbo (a large lute with a long neck).

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Cooper Hewitt 2 East 91st St. 9 a.m. Free Individuals with cognitive and sensory processing disabilities are invited to explore the museum, engage with pre-visit materials and go on a gallery scavenger hunt. The morning includes design activities and a “take a break” space.

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The Guggenheim 1071 Fifth Ave. 1 p.m. Free with museum admission Explore the themes and materials seen in the works on view in the Guggenheim’s galleries at this weekend drop-in studio art-making program. Free with museum admission.

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Caring Kind 360 Lexington Ave. Noon. Free. Registration required Attend a special educational meeting about Alzheimer’s and dementia and learn more about caring for a loved with the disease. Topics of discussion including health care proxies, long-term care insurance, guardianship and Medicaid eligibility.

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DISCOVER ARTS: HITLER VS. PICASSO AND THE OTHERS The Beekman Theatre 1271 Second Ave. 7 p.m. $15 In 1937, there were two exhibitions in Munich, one to stigmatize “degenerate art,” and one, curated by Hitler, to glorify “classic art.” “Hitler vs Picasso” chronicles exhibitions displaying work by Botticelli, Klee, Monet, Chagall and others, plus stories from witnesses who saw the destruction and looting of art collections by the Nazi regime.

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Wed 4 ◄ ‘KOLKATA CALCUTTA’ WITH FIONN REILLY Shakespeare and Co. 939 Lexington Ave. 6:30 p.m. Free Join photographer Fionn Reilly for a presentation of his book of photographs of Calcutta, including a slideshow and anecdotes about the photographs, followed by a Q&A and book signing.

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EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL London-based artist and designer Marc Camille Chaimowicz has his first solo museum show in America at The Jewish Museum

BY VAL CASTRONOVO

He straddles the art and design worlds and revels in pleasing pastel palettes — soft blues, greens, pinks, yellows and lavender. He’s made interior spaces and the home his subject, beginning with his own homes in London, where he currently lives and works in a 12-sided building in Vauxhall.

At The Jewish Museum, former Gilded Age home of banker Felix Warburg and his family, Marc Camille Chaimowicz (b. postwar Paris) has created environments that overlook Central Park and engage with the worlds inside and outside the French Gothic mansion.

While the exhibit is housed in The Jewish Museum, the artist is not Jewish — his Polish father was Jewish and survived the Nazi occupation of France, but Chaimowicz and his siblings were raised Catholic by their French mother. The family moved to England when the boy was 8, eventually taking up residence in London.

“I have no connection with the Jewish faith whatsoever,” the artist recently told The New York Times. In a statement to us, The Jewish Museum said: “Chaimowicz’s family background reflects an aspect of the Jewish experience in the 20th century, including surviving the Nazi Occupation of France, immigration from France to England, and assimilation. The interplay of two cultures, languages, and cities resonates across Chaimowicz’s life and work, and finds its place in the Jewish Museum exhibition.... The building provides Chaimowicz with a unique interior that relates to both his Jewish and French roots.”

The multi-disciplinary show spans five galleries that are meant to conjure up a home, a library and a park (the rooms have French names, with

English translations). The contents include paintings, sculpture, drawings, collage, video, furniture, wallpaper, rugs, ceramics, textiles and curtains.

Chaimowicz merges the fine arts and the applied arts to create prettily appointed interiors showcasing patterned wallpaper, collaged lampshades, bespoke hat racks and coat hangers and the like.

“Marc Camille’s embrace of disciplines deemed outside of fine art, such as decoration and design, and his questioning of Modernist, masculinist assumptions of what art should look like and who should participate in the art world, have [particularly] contributed to his, until now, low profile in the U.S.,” curator Kelly Taxter wrote in an email about his modest reputation in the States.

One of his breakout installations in 1972, “Celebration? Realife,” featured a former ballroom at Gallery House in London strewn with masks, mirrors and a glitter ball (orange knickers and a white bra, too). The artist served tea in a nearby room and invited viewer reaction. As part of the act, he slept on the premises for the duration of the show.

The performative aspect to his art is lacking here, but the spirit reigns. The exhibit title “Your Place or Mine ... ” is another invitation for visitors to step into his space. He has embraced the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) in his installations, and draws inspiration from painters like Matisse, Bonnard and Vuillard and designers like Eileen Gray and William Morris.

But the style is all his own. According to Taxter, “He’s developed his own visual language ... which pays careful attention to color, form, and the notion of the provisional. He purposefully fends off easy description or one way to see or read his artworks; rather, he finds pleasure creating objects that might be read in at least two, more often than not three or four different ways.”

The show is a variation of a 2016

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presentation at London’s Serpentine Galleries in Hyde Park. The iteration at The Jewish Museum, across the street from Central Park, includes several newly commissioned works — the wallpaper “Vasque” (2018) in The Salon gallery; and curtains, “A New Curtain for KT” (2018), and mirrored doors, “end game” (2018), in The Public Garden galleries that face the park at the exhibit’s finale.

The two garden rooms make playful reference to the museum’s natural surroundings. The objects are arranged on curvilinear platforms meant to suggest the winding pathways of Central Park. Print parasols are scattered about, the kind you would take on a leisurely stroll through the park if you were living in a bygone era.

Horticultural references are rife.

The curtains have a green leafy motif that speaks to the trees outside (albeit bare now). A series of painted panels, “In a Public Garden in Paris (The Tree)” (1985), hang in the first room, which an exhibit guide explains is “a panel piece that climbs up and down the wall [and] suggests the exuberant verticality of a tree in bloom.” A tulip vase with paper flowers is set beneath the panels.

The arrangements are quite deliberate, like stage sets. We are meant to “pass through, linger, double back, continue on, and finally to remember from where we came,” the guide states. We are transported back and forth in time, encouraged to dwell on objects that trigger memories and provoke our imagination.

In “end game,” the mirrored doors are colored green. Per the guide: “Visitors catch fleeting glimpses of themselves and one another, moving along together or alone, for a short time in Chaimowicz’s world.”

Before, in their imagination, passing through the doors to “somewhere else.”

Marc Camille Chaimowicz, “Tulip Vase and Paper Bouquet,” 2017. Photo: Val Castronovo

Marc Camille Chaimowicz, “BadenBaden (Parasol No. 3),” 2009; “Rope Vase,” 2014. Photo: Val Castronovo

Marc Camille Chaimowicz, “Bespoke Coat Hanger for Decorated Items,” 2011.

Photo: Val Castronovo

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La Esquina

1402 2nd Ave

Grade Pending (25) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies or food/ refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/ or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies.

Lexington Bar And Books

1020 Lexington Ave

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Tanoshi Bento

1372 York Ave

Not Yet Graded (30) Food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment.

Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

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960 Madison Avenue

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Bareburger

1370 1 Avenue

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Heidelberg Restaurant

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Food Passion

1200 Lexington Ave

Grade Pending (18) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation.

Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

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300 East 89 Street

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1797 1st Ave

Not Yet Graded (38) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room. Hot and cold running water at adequate pressure to enable cleanliness of employees not provided at facility. Soap and an acceptable hand-drying device not provided.

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The Broadway at 92Y Chorus’s spring concert in June 2017. Photo: Jennifer Taylor

SONG AND THE CITY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 But what once was regarded as a highfalutin, Upper Manhattan social club has somewhat declined in status since its founding in 1866. Entry to the club is not nearly as competitive as it once was; most current members were brought into the club by their friends.

“We’ve come down a bit in the world but maybe for the better,” said Ben Rinzler, a bass singer and treasurer of the club. “It’s become more democratic.”

For the Mendelssohn Glee Club, remaining a sentimental anchor in the ever-evolving New York choral landscape is a defining feature. Other choral groups, however, occupy different niches. The Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus, founded in 1922, has a repertoire composed entirely of Yiddish songs while the Lance Hayward Singers have been performing predominantly jazz-oriented arrangements since 1984.

In another vein, the Broadway at 92Y Chorus, an arm of the 92Y School of Music, describes itself as the only ensemble in New York devoted to

performing songs exclusively from the American musical theater songbook, boasting a sing-along portion in many of its concerts.

“To sing and conduct this style of music is like riding a huge energy wave,” said Yana Stotland, the director of the 92Y School of Music. “There’s musically nothing like it!”

Evidently, for many New York musicians, sticking to the oldies doesn’t quite cut it.

Rejecting any restrictive form of old-school ensemble singing, conductor Vince Peterson took choral performance to the next level when he founded Choral Chameleon in 2008.

“I discovered that there is a fair amount of elitism out there,” said Peterson, a graduate of the Mannes School of Music who was saddened by what he saw as a tendency to reject “vernacular” music of the world as substantial musical compositions.

“A composer from 500 years ago might be saying the same fundamental thing about life and living as a pop music composer of today,” he reasoned.

Hungry for new, meaningful music, Peterson began experimenting with genre-blending and performance-infused work, neglecting the one-sided

nature of traditional choral showcase.

With 12 members in its original ensemble, Choral Chameleon pushes the limits of musical experience for its singers and audiences. In its performances, the group has incorporated body movement, aspects of traditional Japanese puppet theater, shadow puppetry and food.

In addition to its regular showcases, Choral Chameleon is the vocal ensemble-inresidence at National Sawdust, a new music venue in the city.

The group also runs a yearly institute, an eight-day Brooklynbased think tank where composers and conductors from all over the world flock to study and experiment with new music, using Choral Chameleon as a lab choir.

For Peterson, making meaningful art is his impetus to conduct. “It is very much an act of humility,” said Peterson. “It’s not about me.”

While styles and genres evolve over time, the thrill of making music appears to be everlasting. For Wisoff of the historic Mendelssohn Glee Club, the feeling is no different.

“There’s a lot of satisfaction in this,” he said. “And it’s a lot of fun!”

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A popular sledding hill near Gracie Mansion may be closed for a second consecutive winter as a result of construction delays in repairs to the nearby East River Esplanade. Photo: Douglas Feiden

The Parks Department began design work on the esplanade reinforcement project in 2015, but the design process was not complete when construction began sooner than expected last year following the collapse.

The Parks Department became aware of the issues with using the hill as an access point when construction started, the spokesperson said, which required the department to do additional design work and change orders to the construction contract. The temporary bridge will be located within Carl Schurz Park near East 89th Street and will span the area where the FDR Drive tunnel runs under the park, the spokesperson said.

A spokesperson for City Council Member Ben Kallos, whose district includes Carl Schurz Park, said that his office had

not been made aware of the delay in the project timeline. The spokesperson said Kallos was planning to ask “tough questions” of Parks officials on the matter at an upcoming budget hearing.

When construction began at the site last July, Parks Department officials projected the work would take less than a year to complete. Soon after work started, Crystal Howard, a spokesperson for the Parks Department, told Our Town that the hill would be used because “it was the best option for safe access to the esplanade during construction.”

The work is part of the $15 million first phase of a city initiative to reinforce esplanade sea walls on the East Side.

“Built into the budget are contingency funds for issues such as these that come up during the execution of a project, so the budget, at this time, has not changed,” the Parks spokesperson said. “That said, once the change orders are approved, we will check the totals again.”

Tricia Foley, who lives nearby on East End Avenue and walks her dogs on the esplanade every morning, said she was upset to learn of the delays. “They assured everybody it would be done by May,” she said. “I just think it’s disgraceful.”

The waterfront esplanade is a “peaceful oasis in the city” and a major amenity for the neighborhood’s residents, Foley said, that has been disrupted by construction delays in recent years, including of a pedestrian bridge near East 81st Street that opened at the end of last year, 18 months later than initially planned.

Area residents are now faced the prospect of a second winter without access to the popular sledding hill. When the project was first announced last spring, some residents expressed concern that the hill would be permanently impacted during construction, but the Parks Department committed to restoring and re-sodding the hill after completion of the project.

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Business PHASING IN NEW MANHATTAN TOLLS? TRAFFIC Cuomo “cautiously optimistic” about starting congestion pricing with fees on ride-hailing services

Heading from Brooklyn to Manhattan via Uber.

Photo: Carl, via flickr

Gov. Andrew Cuomo isn’t giving up on the idea of imposing new congestion tolls on motorists entering the busiest parts of Manhattan.

The Democratic New York governor said on WNYC radio on Friday, March 23 that he believes a budget deal being negotiated with top lawmakers will include the first

phase of congestion tolling.

A state panel recommended congestion tolls up to $11 on private vehicles as a way to address gridlock and raise funds for New York City subways and other pressing transit needs. But lawmakers so far have balked, with the Senate’s Republican leaders vowing to oppose any new tolls and the Democratic majority of the state Assembly backing much smaller surcharges and only on for-hire vehicles traveling below 96th Street in Manhattan.

The Assembly proposal would also impose a $1-per-ride fee on Uber, Lyft and other ride-hailing services statewide, a provision being fought by Uber.

Cuomo acknowledged the political challenges of approving new tolls but said decisions about how to address traffic and the city’s beleaguered mass transit system have been put off too long. He said he hopes all sides can agree on a deal that at least includes surcharges on for-hire vehicles entering the zone.

Another potential compromise would include funding to install the cashless electronic equipment in Manhattan needed to collect the tolls.

“Congestion pricing doesn’t happen in one fell swoop,” Cuomo said. “There are phases. I’m cautiously optimistic that we could start the process.”

THE GOOGLIFICATION OF CHELSEA TECH TOWN The technology giant expands its footprint in the neighborhood, and small business anticipates yet more upheaval

BY MICHAEL DESANTIS

Chelsea residents and entrepreneurs have seen massive changes to their neighborhood over the past decade, accelerated by the High Line’s creation in 2009 and Google’s purchase of the enormous former Port Authority building in 2010.

Chelsea is about to be shaken up once again.

Google last week finalized its deal to buy the 1.2 million square foot Chelsea Market building from Jamestown Properties for a reported $2.4 billion.

(Jamestown will continue to manage the ground-floor food market.)

Many small business owners who have struggled for years to pay rising rent prices are concerned the purchase could ultimately leave them priced out of the neighborhood. Some, though, are optimistic they could benefit from the tech giant’s increased presence.

Douglas Wagner, director of brokerage services at BOND New York real estate, predicts that as Google becomes Chelsea’s major employer, the neighborhood will experience yet more upheaval, and evolve yet further from a predominantly residential and artsy neighborhood to one accommodating

ever more business and entrepreneurship.

“Rather than just lifestyle support, we’ll see 24/7 business support,” Wagner said. “Some of those proprietary owned cafes and clubs, little momand-pop boutiques will move out.

We’ll see more banks, shipping support and office supplies.”

Google, in 2007, initially leased 108,000 square feet of the 1.2 millionsquare-foot Chelsea Market building, and now leases one-third of the building, according to The Real Deal.

Across the street, at 111 Eighth Ave., sits its 2.9 million square-foot headquarters, purchased in 2010.

The tech behemoth also reportedly intends to lease 250,000 square feet of the Pier 57 development and another 120,000 square feet in the area for office space, and cultural and educational activities, Crain’s New York reported.

The assumption is that more office space will mean more employees.

Google and Chelsea Market did not respond to a request for comment.

New Google employees earn between $115,000 and $140,000, plus any bonuses, according to data on GlassDoor. And Wagner said many of those pay packages would likely double after a few years. Chelsea median income for people aged 25-44 is nearly $95,000, according to Point2Homes.

Wagner predicted Chelsea will become even more expensive, with rents continuing to climb, ultimately forcing out small businesses.

Eric Marcus, who has lived in Chel-

sea for 24 years, said he’s seen entrepreneurs move out over the years. National brands that can afford the rent have taken the place of mom-and-pop shops.

“That’s one of the heartbreaks, seeing independently owned stores bought out by chain stores,” he said.

“It seems to be accelerating during this latest boom.”

Small business managers like Lorenzo Franchetti of Gelato Giusto on Ninth Avenue and Sam Moseleh of 8th Ave. Gourmet Deli said their rents increase about 3.5 percent with each new lease.

Moseleh, who has spent his whole life in Chelsea and helps his father manage the deli, has noticed the shift in the type of storefronts in the neighborhood.

“The building [across the street from 8th Ave. Gourmet Deli] used to be five stores over there,” Moseleh said. “Now it’s only one big Duane Reade.”

Gloria Rios, who works at Murphy Bed Express on Eighth Avenue, said she believes the presence of Google and big chain stores in Chelsea contributes to the store’s “extremely” high rent, which could require the store to abandon Chelsea in the next five years after a decade there.

Medium-sized retailers aren’t safe either. Jensen-Lewis, a furniture and interior design store that employs 25 people, has been priced out of its Seventh Avenue location. It is currently conducting a massive sale as it prepares to move.

Jim Ehrenthal, who holds an owner-

Google bought the block-long former Port Authority building on Eighth Avenue in 2010. Its purchase, this month, of the Chelsea Market building on Ninth Avenue gives the tech giant a sizeable footprint in Chelsea. Photo: Michael DeSantis ship interest in Jensen-Lewis, said the store plans to move a half-mile away due to an inability to renegotiate a less expensive lease.

“The high rent and commercial rent tax made the decision to find an alternative space necessary,” Ehrenthal said.

But while some smaller establishments are getting priced out of Chelsea, other small business owners said Google’s increased presence could be beneficial.

R. Marc, who owns Maison 140 on Ninth Avenue, said he believes Google’s 2010 move into Chelsea has benefitted his home goods store.

“The Google people make decent money,” said Marc, who asked that his first name not be used for personal

reasons. “They’ll probably live in the neighborhood, spend their money in the neighborhood, go on lunch breaks in the neighborhood. The Google people will come to me because they want a gift. Or they’re going to come here because they just bought a $3, $5, $10 million apartment and they need stuff for it.”

Wagner suggested the neighborhood’s ongoing Googlification will hasten its transformation into a professional business environment. Marcus agrees.

“I would say that the future of Chelsea, if the trend continues, will become less diverse over time with a less interesting mix of retail,” Marcus predicted.

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New Affordable Condominiums for Sale 200 East 95th Street 95th and Third LLC, is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for 21 newly constructed Condominium units at 200 East 95th Street, New York, NY, 10128 Upper East Side Amenities: Lobby attendant, on-site resident manager, on-site laundry, childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playroom, outdoor courtyard, resident lounge, grand salon, bike room, fitness room*, pool*, music room*, dog spa*, stroller valet* (*additional fees apply) Transit: Trains - Q, 4, 5, 6 and Buses â&#x20AC;&#x201C; M15, M15-SBS, M96, M98, M101, M102, M103 & BXM1 No applLFDWLRQ IHH Â&#x2021; 1R EURNHUÂśV IHH Â&#x2021; 2ZQHU 2FFXSDQF\ 5HTXLUHG Â&#x2021; More information: www.housingpartnership.com This building is being constructed through the 421-A Program of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development and the New York State Affordable Housing Corporation.

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CULTIVATING NATURE PLEIN AIR A bouquet of Parisian gardens at The Met

BY LEIDA SNOW

Francophile alert! Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Paris to Provence in New York, no passport required. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Public Parks and Private Gardensâ&#x20AC;? exhibit at The Met Fifth Avenue radiates a ďŹ&#x201A;owering of the masters from Camille Corot to Henri Matisse.

Visitors can feast on treasures by van Gogh, Monet, Manet, Seurat, Degas and even the occasional woman, like Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt.

The show, on view through July 29, traces the reshaping of Franceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s landscape, a shift in garden design, as it moved from the rigorous formal style for royal palaces like Versailles and the Tuileries to a more naturalist aesthetic, inďŹ&#x201A;uenced by English parks. Floral still lifes blossomed. Artists, painters particularly, reďŹ&#x201A;ected a period in which flowers and plants became central to ceremonies and festivities.

Paris itself was transformed into tree-lined boulevards with hundreds of public parks and green spaces. Thousands of new gas street lamps created the City of Light. In the second half of the 19th century, the largest city in Europe throbbed with ďŹ nance, commerce, fashion and the arts.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so hard to pick favorites from The Metâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sublime splendor. I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take my eyes off Monetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Garden at SainteAdresse.â&#x20AC;? I was mesmerized by Seuratâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Study for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;A Sunday on La Grande Jatte,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? which got me thinking about the Stephen Sondheim musical, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sunday In

Claude Monet (French, 1840â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1926). â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Parc Monceau,â&#x20AC;? 1878. Oil on canvas. 28 5/8 x 21 3/8 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson Jr. Purchase Fund, 1959 the Park With George.â&#x20AC;?

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the thing about this exhibition. You see Degasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Woman Seated Beside a Vase of Flowersâ&#x20AC;? and you are reminded of Degasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dancers and horses.

Or you start comparing how the different masters generated gardens or trees or ďŹ&#x201A;owers.

You can feel tension leaving your shoulders as you immerse yourself in an excess of beauty.

Many of the artists represented were gardeners, and their work reďŹ&#x201A;ects a depth of knowledge. Gardening became an avocation, and Monet called his garden at Giverny his â&#x20AC;&#x153;greatest masterpiece.â&#x20AC;?

Look for documentary materials, horticultural books, journals and period ephemera, and watch the two historical ďŹ lm clips.

By the way, The Metâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;backyard,â&#x20AC;? Central Park, was inspired by the Parisian parks of the same period.

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been to Paris, then you know how small and large gardens are revealed around almost every corner and how they humanize the city. The Metâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exhibit made me yearn for the City of Light, and as soon as I returned home, I reserved a ďŹ&#x201A;ight for my next visit.

I plan to amble, to stroll with no destination planned, to do what the French call flâner. I want to wander around that great city, resting occasionally in one of its hundreds of parks and gardens. Thank you Metropolitan Museum of Art, for gathering this bouquet.

Come meet me and my friends!

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FAITH CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 miracles unfold and good vanquishes evil, the redemptive power of God reigns supreme. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As people of faith, we live with hope and not despair â&#x20AC;&#x201D; hope for our personal life, but also for our world,â&#x20AC;? the Rev. Gilliard said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We move from death to life, from darkness and despair to light, as we take our place amongst those who live in the world and try to do the things that Christ would have us do,â&#x20AC;? she added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The message of the cross is that the love God is displaying wins out over all the other stuff we see in the world!â&#x20AC;?

PLAGUES FROM THE OVAL OFFICE That world can be a pretty oppressive place in the Trump era, say at least a dozen ministers, priests and rabbis interviewed by Straus News.

Though few mentioned the president by name, most alluded to issues on his watch they found troubling, many of which will be incorporated into the holiday messaging. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We live in very challenging, some would say dark, times,â&#x20AC;? said Rabbi Matalon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are in danger of the erosion of some of our liberties.â&#x20AC;?

He cited an â&#x20AC;&#x153;assault on truth, an assault on science, an assault on the legal system itself,â&#x20AC;? as well as â&#x20AC;&#x153;racism, sexism and homophobia.â&#x20AC;?

Recounting how Moses, acting upon the instructions of God, defied the tyranny of Pharaoh with the words, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let my people go,â&#x20AC;? the rabbi said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oppressive structures have to be defied and removed.â&#x20AC;? And he added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Freedom is an act of faith, an act of deďŹ ance and an act of courage.â&#x20AC;?

It was 3,500 years ago when Moses parted the Red Sea

The Rev. Dr. Cathy S. Gilliard, senior pastor of the Park Avenue United Methodist Church on East 86th Street, the ďŹ rst AfricanAmerican to hold the post. Photo courtesy of Park Avenue United Methodist Church to usher the Israelites out of Egypt, and the Passover holiday has remained largely unchanged over the passing millennia. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is great comfort in the consistency of that ritual,â&#x20AC;? said Rabbi Diana Fersko, associate rabbi at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue on West 68th Street, which was the ďŹ rst shul in the city to install a female rabbi. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But this year, it might feel a bit more charged because of how fragile our freedoms seem right now,â&#x20AC;? she said. In a time in which the Jewish people â&#x20AC;&#x153;rejoice in our freedoms, we are also thinking about control over information, control over privacy, control over our bodies, and suddenly, our freedoms seem in real jeopardy,â&#x20AC;? the rabbi added.

Rabbi Alvin Kass, the chief chaplain of the NYPD and a 52year veteran of the department who once helmed the New York Board of Rabbis, has his own take on â&#x20AC;&#x153;the edge and the bitternessâ&#x20AC;? he observes today. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seen this in a

very long time, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very disturbing,â&#x20AC;? said the rabbi, an Upper West Sider who serves as spiritual director of the NYPD Shomrim Society, made up of 3,000 active and retired Jewish cops. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to understand, on this holiday of freedom, how easily freedom can be lost all over the world â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and to know that the spirit of totalitarianism must be resisted,â&#x20AC;? he added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In this country, which is so diverse, we need to forge a bond of togetherness and join with those with whom we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t share common ancestry.â&#x20AC;?

THE POWER AND THE GLORY Meanwhile, at the Church of the Epiphany on York Avenue and 74th Street, the Rev. Jennifer Reddall will take her text from the Gospel of Mark, which ends with the words, â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were afraid.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get to see Jesus, who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t appear, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re left with an empty tomb, and an angel who says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been raised, but you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get to see him raised, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re left with fear,â&#x20AC;? she said.

The message? â&#x20AC;&#x153;God is challenging us to have faith â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even in the midst of fear,â&#x20AC;? the rector of the Episcopal church explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about what do we do in a time of fear, for even when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re afraid, you still have to go out and seek Jesus, because it is okay to be afraid, but it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make us immobile or paralyzed.â&#x20AC;?

Is she referencing the current political climate? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a possibility to say that ... I sometime make oblique connections.

There are so many things that people are afraid of right now.â&#x20AC;?

Yes, there are, and the Rev. Robert Brashear, pastor of the West-Park Presbyterian Church on West 86th Street since 1995, ticked off a few of them, citing, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fear of the other, fear of people who are differ-

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Will the reverend address the perceived source of those fears on Easter Sunday? â&#x20AC;&#x153;If Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m having a conversation from the pulpit, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d talk about ethics and values and principles,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m having a conversation over a beer, I would name Trump.â&#x20AC;?

Of course, there are traditionalists who steer clear of any political messages, like Father Douglas Crawford, the former priest-secretary of the late Cardinal Edward Egan, archbishop of New York. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In giving His life for us, Our Lord Jesus asks us to continue His mission by being His â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;hands and feet,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; the priest said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He asks us to share in his work of redemption. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That is why the Gospel is never simply a call to be â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;niceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to other people. There is nothing sweetly sentimental about Calvary. Life in Christ is a call to unselďŹ sh love. If we want to rise with Our Saviour at Easter, we also have to share his work of salvation on Good Friday,â&#x20AC;? he added.

More than ever, this Easter season is a time to remain true to oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s faith, said the Rev. Stephen Harding, pastor of the 180-year-old St. Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church on West 20th Street in Chelsea. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need an alternative and a moral compass because in our country, the current administration is abdicating the moral high ground,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is on us to respect the dignity of every human being and stay true to our core values of decency, honor and compassion.â&#x20AC;?

And the reverend added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have an obligation to the world because in some sense, we are all citizens of the world.â&#x20AC;? invreporter@strausnews.com

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IN THE RING AND ON THE STAGE Boxing trainer rolls with the punches for a powerful project

BY ANGELA BARBUTI

Valentine Lyashenko has taken the art of boxing to the stage. The multidisciplinary trainer/coach and massage therapist — who happens to have a degree in performing arts from City College — lent his talents to “The Wholehearted,” which is being performed at Abrons Arts Center until April 1.

The Kazakhstan native, who came to New York at 14, was asked to train show performer Suli Holum, who plays a championship boxer who marries her trainer, who then attempts to kill her. Although the character is fictitious, Holum’s character is based on the biographies of iconic female athletes.

The Midtown resident trains clients out of a facility in Chelsea and also travels for private sessions. His work varies from athletic-specific training to rehab, body awareness and injury prevention.

32-year-old As for the future, the 32 year old wants to continue learning new techniques to pass on to his students and hopes to one day own a gym of his own.

Valentine Lyashenko following a victory in a jujitsu competition. Photo: Philip Lai

When did you start boxing? What made you go into the sport?

I started boxing around 20 years of age, so about 12 years ago. It was freshman year of college when I started to participate in track and field for health reasons and for athletic purposes. I also wanted to study martial arts. arts

Tell us about your work in MMA. So four years ago, I segued. I studied another martial arts for a year called call wing chun. That was after I had finished boxing. I did some amateur ni competitions and my schedule got com busy bus and I could not commit to the boxing team anymore. So I thought box I’d try t wing chun for a year and that didn’t work out for me, personally. did And then I found a mixed martial arts gym where I started doing my work, because I do training and body work, bec or m massage therapy, if you will. I was looking for a space at the time and loo happened to find it at this dojo. And ha I started studying there first before I even moved my business there, so

Valentine Lyashenko is a boxer, and also a trainer, coach, massage therapist, and jujitsu and mixed martial arts fighter. Of late, he’s lent his expertise to a theater performer.

Photo: Masataka Suemitsu

that was my way into the mixed martial arts training. So for the last four years, I’ve been studying mixed martial arts — integrated boxing, kickboxing and grappling arts along with wrestling. And I’ve done some jujitsu competitions to build up on that.

Tell us about a standout moment from a competition.

Winning my first boxing match after having lost two. That was quite an experience. It toughens you up when you’re there and you’ve experienced the worst of it. You become a little immune to adversity in the ring or in life.

It really crosses over into your life.

At that time, I didn’t expect to win, even though I knew I probably did. It was an unbelievable thing. It was the best feeling in the world at that time.

All the hard work and training came together for me. And I got out of my brain for the first time. I’m always the hardest critic of myself and always trying to be perfect. And just realizing that life isn’t about perfection, but just trying to do better each time.

Who has been a memorable client you’ve helped?

An older gentleman who was 85 at the time. Big real estate guy, met him through another client of mine.

He was looking for a trainer and he, himself, boxed most of his life. His father was a professional boxer. He used training and therapy as a way of getting away from all the stress he was experiencing as that big real estate person and business owner. He knew that the only way to stay physically and mentally capable was to keep training and doing therapy. So we did two hours at a time sometimes, four to five to six times a week to address flexibility, mobility and strength. He had multiple injuries before we met, knee reconstruction, arthritis and had strokes. The one thing he loved was to box. We would go up to 10 rounds sometimes, exchanging body shots.

Nothing in the head, of course, because of the injury risk. But people say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but you absolutely can.

How did your involvement in “The Wholehearted” come about?

George Russell is my mentor. He’s a chiropractor and body worker. And he knew Suli and introduced me to her because he knew that I had boxing, training and body-work experience.

And he was looking for someone to work with her and help her develop the choreography for the show.

Summarize the show’s plot for us.

The show is about the journey of a female boxer, Dee Crosby. It’s been interpreted, of course, by Suli and the production team. It’s about her lifespan and what she goes through as a female boxer, being in a relationship with an abusive husband/coach. And finding her own way through that world of intensity, aggression and a lot of adversity.

What did your training with Suli entail?

Did she have any prior experience?

Well, she’s a mover, which is a big plus. She’s a dancer and performer, so it helps. She obviously was not a boxer to begin with. And we worked at least two to three hours a week for a while when she was developing that first, raw material for the show. We trained in boxing technique and, of course, the boxing choreography, as we went along with the script. I sat in on rehearsals and observed and we did a lot of feedback exchange.

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