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NEWS Neighborhood groups say they’re worried affordability problems will linger BY MADELEINE THOMPSON

A week after New York’s City Council passed the biggest, most extensive changes to New York’s housing and zoning laws since 1961, handing a major victory to Mayor Bill de Blasio, neighborhood groups across the city say they still don’t think the changes go far enough. The bill requires developers building in newly rezoned areas of the city to include below-market-rate housing, and encourages developers to build more affordable and senior housing by removing requirements like parking garages and height limits. Both elements of the plan went before all 59 New York City community boards, with only five of them voting in approval. Because of the community boards’ opposition -- and complaints by other groups -- council members made changes to de Blasio’s original proposals, which were then passed on March 22. But frustration with the policies remains. Simeon Bankoff, executive director of the Historic Districts Council, said he was “not happy with either of the proposals in their entire-

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John Holland before Sassetta’s “The Journey of the Magi” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Avenue.

EAGLE-EYED AT THE MET John Holland has found there are indeed no birds in Giovanni di Paolo’s “Paradise,” but he has otherwise noted dozens of species of feathered vertebrates in hundreds of other works within the museum’s Fifth Avenue collection BY RICHARD KHAVKINE

For more than four decades, in Europe, Asia and North America, John Holland has looked for birds. A good many of the 540 species Holland has observed, he’s spotted just blocks from his East 92nd Street home. Central Park is among the world’s

best birding spots, an oasis along the Atlantic Flyway, the migration route that birds have followed for millennia. This year, in the midst of a great urban expanse, more than 200 species will feed, breed and nest within what Holland calls “a mecca for birds.” But his most fecund birding season was the roughly 12 months he spent inside, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue. Beginning in January 2015, Holland dutifully carried binoculars, a magnifying glass, notebook and other appurtenances particular to birders into The Met. There, he peered back into time, looking for feathered vertebrates among the museum’s

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Breugels and Bosches, its Goyas and Gauguins, its vases, carvings and tapestries. “I couldn’t tell you how many birds there are in The Metropolitan Museum,” he says during a recent visit to the museum. “There are always more birds. It goes on and on and on.” On a recent morning, Holland, a short, thin, spirited man with a ready smile and an easy gait, sauntered through a few of the museum’s ground-floor galleries. He stopped first at “Marble Seated Harp Player,” a figurine from about 2800–2700 B.C. When he points out a duck’s bill

Kudos to Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer for moving to do something about the latest outrage affecting tenants, many of them low income, in New York. Responding to our story in early March about the surge in gas shutoffs, often targeting rent-stabilized tenants, Brewer has sent a letter to Con Edison, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and city and state regulators looking for answers. “Manhattan’s residents must have cooking gas to feed themselves affordably,” Brewer writes. “Hot plates are not an acceptable longterm substitute.” Brewer has asked for a report on all buildings currently without gas service, and an explanation for what’s happening to turn it back on. Our reporting, cited in Brewer’s letter, uncovered a 400 percent increase in gas shutoffs in 2015, and a disturbing continuation of the trend so far this year. It’s possible Brewer will find reasonable explanations for the increased shutoffs, including extra vigilence by ConEd in the wake of the fatal East Village gas explosion last year. We’ll see. Our fear, though, is that we’ll be forced to add gas shutoffs to the myriad other ways that an unaffordable Manhattan has made life miserable for those among us on the bottom end of the income scale. Jewish women and girls light up the world by lighting the Shabbat candles every Friday evening 18 minutes before sunset. Friday April 1 – 7:03 pm. For more information visit www.chabaduppereastside.com.

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WHAT’S MAKING NEWS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD RECORD NUMBER OF TOURISTS EXPECTED

A record number of tourists are expected to visit the city this year. Photo: Jim Pennucci, via flickr

The city, which recently reached 8.5 million inhabitants for the first time, is attracting even more people. A record number of tourists are expected to visit this year, according to The New York Times. The chief executive of New York’s tourism-marketing agency, NYC & Company, Fred Dixon, was expected this week to announce than nearly 60 million visitors would be coming to take a bit out of the Big Apple, which would be 2.4 percent more than came to New York last year. The English, Canadians and Brazilians are the top three visitors, although tourists from China will increase markedly, The Times reported. About 920,000 visitors from China are expected this year, 8.2 percent more than an earlier estimate of 850,000. The paper said Dixon the increase in overall visitors comes despite worldwide uncertainty, a weaker Chinese economy and a strong dollar. Dixon, picked to lead NYC & Company by Mayor Bill de Blasio, remains committed to encourage travel to the city from overseas. He was to make the announcement about increased tourism from Berlin, the paper noted.

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NYC & Company’s 2016 budget is about $35 million. “Tourism is an incredibly important piece of our economy,” Alicia Glen, deputy mayor for economic development, told the paper, adding that the city’s share of the budget would reach about $18 million. “When we invest in the sector, we get a really high return.”

HORSE CARRIAGE DRIVER LICENSES RENEWED Ahead of their expiration this week, the city has been renewing licenses for horse carriage drivers in spite of previous attempts to reduce the industry and confine it to Central Park, the Daily News reported. Though the city did not mail out the forms in January, causing some to worry, they have already processed 56 renewal applications, which cost $100 and last two years, out of the existing 68 licenses, the paper said. At the time, Mayor Bill de Blasio began to push legislation that would cut the number of working horses by more than half and restrict their business to Central Park but the vote on the bill was cancelled after a union involved pulled out. Austin

Finan, the mayor’s first deputy press secretary told the Daily News that the city is fulfilling its “legal obligation” to the drivers by processing the renewals but doing so has no “bearing on our continued commitment to removing horse carriages from city streets.

DONALD TRUMP TOMBSTONE LEFT IN CENTRAL PARK Someone erected a tombstone for Donald Trump and placed it in Central Park’s Sheep Meadow last weekend, reported the Gothamist. The stone, which gives him birth year 1946 but leaves the date of death blank, bore the inscription “Made America Hate Again.” While Trump has already received approval to build a private cemetery at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminister, N.J., for himself, someone nevertheless decided to create a symbolic one for him in the city. The work looks professional, with intricately carved design. “It was definitely provocative,” Annie Reiss, who tipped Gothamist, said. She called the monument’s appearance “strange for Easter morning.” The stone has since been removed, reportedly taken away by the city’s Parks Department.

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG

NEW CHARGES ADDED IN DOCTOR SEXUAL ASSAULT CASE A prominent former New York City emergency room doctor already charged with sexually assaulting two women in his care has been indicted on new charges that he sexually as-

saulted two other women he treated, prosecutors announced. David Newman, who wrote a book on the patient-doctor relationship and claims to have served in a combat hospital in Iraq, victimized three of the women at Mount Sinai Hospital on separate occasions in August, September and October as well as a fourth woman in January, according to court papers. “I would like to thank these brave women for their strength in coming forward,” said Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr., who called the woman’s abuse while under sedation by a doctor a patient’s “nightmare scenario.”

Newman, 45, now faces a total of five counts of sex abuse, four in the third degree and one in the first degree. He has pleaded not guilty to all the counts. A hospital spokeswoman says Newman no longer works at Mount Sinai and records show his medical license was suspended in February amid a state medical board investigation. Newman is the author of “Hippocrates’ Shadow: Secrets From the House of Medicine,” a book that examines “the fraying of patient-doctor relations” and advocates a “new paradigm to rebuild the bridge between physicians and their patients.”

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It wasn’t a box of Jujubes that cost one moviegoer recently. At 7 p.m. on Sunday, March 20, a 35-year-old man laid down his laptop on an adjacent seat in the Loews Lincoln Square 13 theater. When he next looked for his computer, it was gone. The missing machine was an Apple MacBook Pro with Retina

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HUT GUT Perhaps a certain shoplifter was preparing for a pool party. At 12:45 p.m. on March 19, an unknown perpetrator entered the Sunglass Hut store at 2218 Broadway and stole 13 pairs of sunglasses valued at $3,555.

COSMETICS CULPRIT Police shut down a makeup thief. At 11:40 a.m. on March 11, a 43-year-old man entered the Duane Reade store at 2075 Broadway and took off with

THE ROUGH AT FAIRWAY One thief did not give a senior a fair shake in a Fairway market recently. At 1:30 p.m. on March 9, a 90-year-old woman had put her bag in a shopping cart in the Fairway market at 2131 Broadway. When she next looked for the bag it was gone, along with her credit cards, driver’s license, and $140 in cash.

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The Frick Collection, which abandoned plans for a six-story addition last June after the proposed destruction of a small garden at the E. 70th Street institution caused an uproar, announced last week a new effort to update and expand. Any new expansion will not harm the garden, designed by landscape architect Russell Page, which caused such a swell of controversy. The earlier plan earned criticism from locals as well as preservation and landscape organizations for the threats to the garden and the museum’s unique intimacy. With no architect chosen yet, the Frick will submit requests for qualifications to certain firms, and hopes to pick an architect later this year. Architecture firm Davis Brody Bond, which worked with the museum on the design of its unsuccessful addition, will receive a request for qualification along with other firms, but the museum’s media relations department said that considering a larger pool of architects can widen the conversation about the new direction. The museum hopes to see first designs in 2017. “We felt it was important to consider and assess an expanded roster of architects as we enter into this new phase, and we’re inviting approximately 20 firms to participate. We’re excited to be entering this process and look forward to the ideas and dialogue that will result. Above all, our goal is to ensure the long-term vibrancy of the Frick while preserving the intimate visitor experience that we all value,” Frick director Ian Wardropper said in a statement. Though the approach has changed, the needs for improvements to the Frick’s facili-

The staircase at the Frick Collection that leads to the second floor, which will open to the public as part of a new expansion project. Photo: Michael Bodycomb ties remain, Wardropper also noted in his statement. As with the previous plan, the Frick seeks to open second floor rooms as gallery space with this project. Once bedrooms and living spaces for the mansion’s occupants and currently offices and meeting areas, the second floor rooms have never

been open to the public. It’s unknown where the administrative functions will end up. The museum also looks to link the Frick mansion with the institution’s art reference library on E. 71st Street and add a new special exhibitions gallery within the museum, along with updated conservation fa-

cilities and improvements to visitor services. Without an architect at this point, exactly how the museum will address these needs isn’t known, nor is cost or a construction timeline for the project, though various options are on the table.

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Parishioners at Our Lady of Peace, who are appealing the East 62nd Street church’s closing last summer by the Archdiocese of New York, are cautiously optimistic following the extension of their appeal to the Vatican. Our Lady of Peace’s appeal was among 14 submitted to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy, which in the last few weeks in effect amended the closure decrees of six churches even while it upheld the closures of three churches. The amendments state that the six churches will open for their annual feast days and their anniversary dates, and, for two of

those churches, also on other occasions. That Our Lady of Peace’s appeal is among five still outstanding recourse efforts “is reason for hope,” said Janice Dooner Lynch, a longtime parishioner. “Before that, everyone got the same letter” from the Vatican, she said. “There are finally differences. I look at it as they’re taking an opportunity to very carefully look at our recourse. That means they’re taking it seriously.” A letter from the Congregation for the Clergy’s prefect, Cardinal Beniamino Stella, and addressed to Lynch and others earlier this month said the Congregation “found it necessary to seek additional information” from the Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan. The recourse was extended to April 30, the fourth time a decision on the parishioners’ appeal has been pushed back.

The Archdiocese, as it did when it shuttered and merged dozens of churches in the city and across the region July 31, cited declining attendance, shifting demographics, financial constraints and a shortage of priests for the closure of Our Lady of Peace. Lynch and others on the church’s appeals committee have sent the Congregation for the Clergy more than 10 volumes of documents, including financial records, to try and persuade the Vatican that the Archdiocese acted without merit in closing the church. Parishioners have also raised about $500,000, an amount they say would pay church expenses for 10 years. “We’ve hit our goal and we’ve exceeded it, and that’s a positive,” said Shane Dinneen, a parishioner at the church for nine years and the president of Friends of Our Lady of Peace, the nonprofit administering the fund.

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Solemn Mass at Our Lady of Peace on East 62nd Street July 30, the evening before the church was closed by the Archdiocese of New York. Church parishioners are hopeful their appeal to the Vatican will result in the church’s reopening. Photo: Richard Khavkine Dinneen, who has contributed more than $250,000 to the fund, said he was hopeful that the substance of the parishioners’ appeal would support their contention that, contrary to the Archdiocese’s claims, attendance at the church had been growing and that Our Lady of Peace was in good financial health. “Rome isn’t just deferring to the cardinal. And that was a possibility,” he said, referring to the amended decrees. “Churches are going to be handled on a case-by-case basis, which we think is good for Our Lady of Peace because we think

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we’re different.” Sister Kate Kuenstler, a canon lawyer who is representing the 14 parishes in their appeals, said “there is great hope” for the five parishes whose appeals are still before the Congregation. Kuenstler, who is based in Rhode Island, said it appeared that a newly installed group of canon lawyers were taking a closer look at parish closings since Pope Francis appointed Stella as the Congregation for the Clergy’s prefect in 2013. “Previous prefects were not interested in protecting the rights of the parishioners,” she

said. “They have been very disturbed by what’s happening.” She said the “due diligence” of Our Lady of Peace’s recourse efforts were “clearer than any of the ones already received” by the Vatican. “I think they have a very good future,” she said. “I really think they will get a better decision.” Officially, Our Lady of Peace merged with St. John the Evangelist Church, on East 55th Street, to create a brand new parish, with St. John’s designated the parish church, when the former was shuttered.

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Poem MANHATTAN city of deep personal enclaves, rabbit warrens to avoid the ever-present sheep pens; stay deep and be ever watchful. The soul is called out of hiding for special occasions.

A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN STREET LEVEL The benefits of living in small spaces BY BILL GUNLOCKE

Here I am. I will walk the streets as though invulnerable, and I will bless the pavement with each step, I, who seek the cosmic stream to dip my toes in --shod in lead but light on my feet-come along and fly over the sparse treetops on my gravitydefying song, sing harmony, and seek with me The Great Chord. (Disregard that car alarm.) --Art Gatti

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Here’s what I can see from my couch. A framed drawing that one of my daughters did when she was a kid. A yelloworange dog dish that my dog Corduroy, who died 20 years ago in Lakewood, Ohio, used. (Sometimes I can be in another part of town as evening comes and I think I better get home to feed the dog. I still sometimes forget and swipe toast crumbs onto the floor thinking he’ll like them.) I can see a picture of my mother and a picture of my father with his father. There’s a big early childhood photo of me in an oval frame that my parents used to have hanging in the hallway of our big house by our bedrooms. Right next to me is a wood end table that was made in my father’s furniture factory. Off to my right is a framed copy of the first issue of a paper I started in Cleveland. I can see hundreds of books and other framed things that matter to me. A color photo of my daughters in their pre-teen years on a bench by a Northern Michigan lake one summer. They each have some kind of tennis shirt on. Philip Roth’s books are on my shelf. So are Christmas cards with photos of grandchildren and nieces and nephews and their kids. That’s just some of the stuff. In a small living space like a New York apartment, all your stuff is near you. You don’t have to walk down that long ago hallway in your parents’ home to see that picture of you. You don’t have to go in your office in the basement and turn on a light to see

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your newspaper framed. All your important things are right here in a room, or two. I like that. Your life’s always within reach. Things are not put away. If you want to be in a bigger space, you go out for walk, or go in a big store, or to a museum, or sit in a park. You can go have a beer. When the weather gets nice at all, café tables show up and are filled quickly. I like the combination of inner and outer space. It’s a good balance.

You don’t have to go in your office in the basement and turn on a light to see your newspaper framed. All your important things are right here in a room, or two. I like that. Your life’s always within reach. Things are not put away. The thrift stores I go to, like you do, have good books. The people that donated them ran out of room in their apartments. If they had a house, they’d hold on to them longer, maybe till they died. “It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.” -- Annie Dillard, “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” This goes under the category ‘You Wouldn’t Think’: This hit me one day when I was sitting right here on the couch looking at the room.

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One of many things that wouldn’t surprise my mother. Photo by Bill Gunlocke I could see the stove in the kitchen from where I sat. And I thought that it looks like stoves have always looked in my lifetime. The tea kettle looked the same as tea kettles have looked in my lifetime. So did the cupboards above the stove. I thought to myself, my mother’s been dead 40 years; I wonder what she wouldn’t recognize if she were looking at what I’m looking at. Picture frames were the same when she was around. So were the light switches and the light bulbs. The electrical outlets are exactly the same.

So are the picture hooks. And the calendar. The clocks. The clock radio. Hangers. Buttondown shirts. Pillows. Bathroom sinks. Pens and pencils. You still tie your sneakers the same way. If she went in the kitchen and looked in the fridge, milk cartons and butter sticks and pickle jars are just the same. Outside, cars, traffic lights, stop signs, neon signs in windows, door knobs, snow shovels are no different really. It seems impossible that so many things are almost exactly like they were. The computer

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in the other room she’d ask about and the laptop and the iPhone. And me, of course. I wouldn’t look the same. I wish I had better light in my apartment. I need a light on to read. There are only two windows. The sun doesn’t hit them in a lively direct way. Windows are what you want in an apartment. Day in day out, you don’t care about the view. You want light to come in to make your place look its best. You want your life illuminated.

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MOVING ON TO ASSISTED LIVING GRAYING NEW YORK BY MARCIA EPSTEIN

My women’s group is in a kind of mourning because our good friend and long-time member is moving with her husband to an out-of-state assisted living facility in April. Though there are promises to visit and stay in touch, of course it won’t be the same and our group will be immeasurably changed. We will, of course, acclimate to this change, as we did upon the deaths of several valued members in the eight or so years we’ve been together. Life is change, but old age is change upon change and it doesn’t get any easier as those changes accumulate. This group is, and has been for many of us, the glue that holds our week together. As the health of some of us decline, as our grandchildren grow older and need us less, as we are no longer able to do the things we once did, the group supports us and is there to cheer us on. We will miss our friend a great deal, and while wishing her the very best, are very sorry to see her go. This is not the ďŹ rst story I’ve heard of long-time New Yorkers picking up to move to assisted living facilities. In fact, someone I knew had her second bathroom renovated to accommodate live-in help if it were someday needed. Now she is moving to assisted living, de-

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ciding that it was the best option after all. It seems there comes a time when a person, or a person’s grown child, decides that it’s no longer feasible to live alone and “age in place.â€? Undoubtedly, there are benefits to assisted living. No more shopping or cooking, lots of company and activities, and sometimes, depending on the type of community, advanced nursing care if needed. But there’s a catch, of course: money! These facilities are scarily expensive, and I myself could never end up in one. That’s where NORC’s can be life savers. NORC’s (Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities) are usually supported by a mix of public and private funding. NORC programs may include case management, health care management, recreational and education activities. NORC’s are usually exible in identifying and providing the services needed by the seniors who live there. A NORC can be a single building, a community (such as Penn South, the ďŹ rst NORC in New York) or a neighborhood. NORCs are now found in more than 25 states around the country. My hope for myself, of course, is to stay in my apartment and, if necessary, be able to ďŹ nd the help I need to do so, if and when that time comes. Bloomingdale Aging in Place (BAiP) is the community NORC I belong to, and someday I may need some of their services and will be grateful for them.

A miracle happened in my family. We all actually went away together for a long weekend. It’s hard to arrange even a day when everyone is free, so this weekend in the Poconos was special. It included my two daughters, four grandchildren, two sons-in-law and my partner. That’s the upside. The downside was that it was one of the coldest weekends of the year, and many of the activities took place in buildings away from the main lodge. The weekend consisted mainly of eating three (excellent) meals a day and following the children from the arcade to the jungle gym and back to the arcade, where they could easily have taken up residence. What can I say? There has been contention over the years with my daughters. Isn’t that the way with mothers and daughters? I think we all decided that this weekend was going to be conict-free and pleasant, and it was. It took me days to de-ice, not to mention regain my cat’s trust, but it was worth it. We have a group photo with me standing in front. I felt like my Aunt Chana, who was the matriarch of our clan when I was a child. In the photo, we look like the perfect family, but we’re far from that. Like Facebook posts, pictures can be misleading. But we are bonded by blood and love, and being all together for one whole weekend is a blessing that I truly appreciate.

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Thu 31 DINING AND SOCIAL POSITIONING FROM DELMONICO’S TO THE FOUR SEASONS Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, 421 East 61st St. 6:30-8 p.m. $40; members, $25; seniors and student members, $22; fulltime students, $10. Paul Freedman, professor of history at Yale, will discuss the way upscale restaurants in New York changed over the years, while remaining places to display status. Samples of Purée of Potatoes à la Benton, Anchovy-butter Canapés and other delicacies on offer. Reservations required: 212838-6878

AN EVENING WITH ORPHAN BLACK: CONVERSATION AND CLIPS Kaufmann Concert Hall at 92Y, 1395 Lexington Ave. 7:30 p.m. $42. Join the cast and co-creator of “Orphan Black,” a science fiction thriller TV series about a woman who assumes the identity of one of her clones, for discussion and extended sneak peaks from Season 4, which will premiere in April. Tatian Maslany, Jordan Gavaris, Kristin Bruun and Graeme Manson from the show will attend. 212-415-5500. www.92y. org.

Fri 1 ‘AGING WITH A PLAN’ Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, 331 East 70th St 1 p.m. Free Sharona Hoffman, a professor of law and bioethics, will discuss her book, subtitled “How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow.” Using an interdisciplinary approach and personal anecdotes, Hoffman develops recommendations for building sustainable social, legal, medical, and financial support systems. sharonahoffman.com/

THE SIXTH ANNUAL WINTER THAW Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave. 8 – 11 p.m. Non-members $75; members $50. Join the Young Members Circle of the Museum on Friday for an evening of music, food, dancing and cocktails inside the Museum’s Ffth Avenue landmark building. Get a private viewing of the special exhibitions including the museum’s newest shows. 212-534-1672. www.mcny. org/winterthaw.

Sat 2 MOBILES FOR SPRING Museum of the City of New York, 1220 5th Ave 11a.m. – 2p.m. Free with museum admission. Learn about the flowers blooming now in the Central Park

Conservator Garden and make a mobile to take home inspired by the fun facts and plants you’ll see. 212-534-1672. www.mycny. org/calendar-and-events.

DRAMATIC READING OF ‘OH BOY!’ ▲ Albertine, 972 5th Ave. 2:30 p.m. Free with RSVP. Oh Boy! is the touching story of a group of siblings that unexpectedly land in the care of an unprepared young man. Written by Marie-Aude Murail and adapted for the stage by Catherine Verlaguet and Olivier Leteller, the event will feature Matthew Brown who reads the story on stage in English. 212-461-3670. www.albertine. com.

Sun 3 OPEN STUDIO FOR FAMILIES Studio Art Lab at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue. 1 – 4 p.m. Free with museum admission. Discover and try out themes and materials seen in the work hanging at the museum at this drop-in, art-making family program at the Guggenheim. For children ages 5 and up. 212-433-3500. www. guggenheim.org.

2ND ANNUAL DANCE EDUCATORS COLLECTIVE CONCERT Buttenwieser Hall at 92Y, 1395 Lexington Ave.

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Retire in style. 3 p.m. $10. Artists and educators from the New York City Department of Education work with the 92Y Harkness Dance Center to present this showcase of various pieces. 212.415.5500. www.92y.org.

Mon 4 AT THE EXISTENTIALIST CAFÉ Albertine, 972 Fifth Ave. 7 p.m. Author of How to Live Sarah Bakewell and New Yorker journalist Kathryn Schulz discuss Bakewell’s new book. At the Extentialist’s CafÊ, an account of the 20th century’s intellectual movements and thinkers Jean-Paul Satre, Simone de Beauvoir and others and how their ideas shaped history. 212-461-3670. www. albertine.com.

JAMES MCBRIDE AND and Challenges of a Social THE LEGEND OF JAMES Entrepreneurâ€? Paul Polizzotto, founder and president of CBS BROWN â–˛ Kaufmann Concert Hall at 92Y, 1395 Lexington Ave. 8 p.m. $24. Author James McBride, winner of the National Book Award, discusses his new work of nonďŹ ction Kill ‘Em and Leave in which he travels the country tracking the legend of James Brown. McBride also wrote the classic memoir The Color of Water and has received critical acclaim for both. 212-415-5500. www.92y. org.

Tue 5 CREATING IMPACT: Marymount Manhattan College, The Theresa Lang Theatre, 221 East 71st St. 10–11 a.m. Subtitled “The Successes

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FOCUS ON FRENCH CINEMA FESTIVAL: CLOSING NIGHT AND AFTER PARTY Florence Gould Hall at the French Institute (FIAF), 55 East 59th St. 7 p.m. $35; members, $25 A screening of “La Volante,â€? (The Assistant), about a young man who unwittingly becomes totally dependent on the grieving mother of a young man he hit and killed in a car accident nine years ago. Actress Nathalie Baye will participate in a postscreening Q & A, to be followed by wine and hors d’œuvres.

Wed 6 ‘HAIRSPRAY’ Julia Richman Auditorium, 317 East 67th St. Wed at 3:30 and 7 p.m. and Thu and Fri 4 and 7:30 p.m. Presale, $10; general, $12. Juniors and seniors at Talent Unlimited High School put on the the play, set in 1960s Baltimore and based on the John Walters ďŹ lm. email tuhstix@gmail.com for reservations

KILL YOUR TV READING GROUP 1575 York Avenue 7 p.m. The group reads and discusses Ron Chernow’s ’Hamilton,� the basis for the Broadway phenomenon. www.logosbookstorenyc. com/

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BEYOND BALLERINAS MoMA explores the dark (and light) side of Degas BY MARY GREGORY

Everyone knows Degas’ pastel dancers, all frothy and soft and suffused with light, and MoMA could have put together a kind of greatest hits exhibition and brought in smiling crowds, but curator Jodi Hauptman and conservator Karl Buchberg, along with Heidi Hirschl, a curatorial assistant, and Richard Kendall, an independent curator, decided to focus the exhibition instead on a man, a moment and a medium. The final decades of the 19th century, the period covered in the exhibition, brought tremendous changes. The machine age joined the Gilded Age, the Victorian era and France’s Belle Époque. The FrancoPrussian war had ended, as had our Civil War. Peace and prosperity, along with advancing technology, were altering the landscape. The light bulb, the phonograph and the telephone were all invented within a few years of each other. Jules Verne was kindling dreams with fantastical stories promising the impossible. All these advances — cities lit up at night, speed and frenetic energy, the broadening of what could be imagined — led to the birth of modernism. The advent of the camera had made it possible to freeze the moment. Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas was among the first to try to capture that moment with all the velocity and energy it contained. Academically trained and reluctant to be labeled, Degas was an artist whose work focused largely on the figure. Though he created and exhibited alongside the Impressionists,

“Ingres,” said Jodi Hauptman, “was his big influence above all. But this is about defying Ingres.” Radically opposing Ingres’ cool precision and perfection are Degas’ monotypes. “We believe that this is where Degas is at his most modern,” Hauptman said of the monotypes. “His work is at its most radical, most willing to defy convention and break the rules because he’s reaching for something new — new means and new subjects. He was thinking ‘Paris is changing. How do I depict it? What am I going to use?’ And monotype really served his purpose.” Monotype is not the most familiar art form. The exhibition includes a short video that makes wonderfully clear what it is and how it’s done. There’s a “dark field” and “light field” style. Both entail laying ink on a metal plate, and that was the crucial element for Degas. Whether by inking an entire surface and then pulling, scratching or brushing color away to create areas of light, or starting with a blank sheet and then applying shadows and lines, monotypes allowed Degas to crystallize a fleeting moment. “There are certain technical things that he gets from monotype. One is a looseness and ability to express gesture,” Hauptman explained. “If you think about the plate being a slick surface and the ink being viscous, when you draw across it, you can really move ... . Other kinds of drawing have a resist.” Blurry faces, hazy gaslights, an uncertain separation of dark and light, flatness and more than just hints at abstraction can be seen across the roughly 120 monotypes and 60 related works in the exhibition.

Edgar Degas, “The Two Connoisseurs,” c. 1880. Monotype on paper mounted on board, The Art Institute of Chicago. Photo: Adel Gorgy.

WHAT: “Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty” WHERE: Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd St. WHEN: Through July 24 www.moma. org

Edgar Degas, “Frieze of Dancers,” c. 1895. Oil on canvas, The Cleveland Museum of Art. Photo: Adel Gorgy.

In several, including “Woman in a Bathtub,” after the first inked or painted metal sheet was rolled through the press onto a damp, absorptive sheet of paper, Degas would run a second page. That piece would be fainter, since much of the ink had previously been transferred. Degas would then go over that second impression with pastels. “It gave him a kind of tonal map to work with” Hauptman said, “so the pastel almost sits

on top. It served his purpose to forward what he was making and also to explore ideas about repetition and transformation which is one of the themes in this exhibition ... Something that’s both the same and different, and that fueled the idea that art was not about finish. It was about iteration. It was about making another, and another, and another, without hierarchy, and they’re all equally valid, and all equally interesting.”

Rooms of largely black and white images of singers under stage lights, laundresses at ironing boards, women in brothels and men in top hats hint at Parisian life in the late 1800s. A gallery filled with highly stylized landscapes that look decades more modern than their Impressionist contemporaries and another filled with starkly lit interiors recalling Rembrandt’s etchings describe how broad Degas’ vision was.

The final gallery is the dessert: a dazzling array of dancers in pink and blue, tangerine and white. Here, after the monotypes and having witnessed what Degas’s friend, the poet Stéphane Mallarmé, described as “a strange new beauty,” are the artist’s ballerinas in all their delicacy and poise in pastel and paint. But we come to them after understanding that Degas admitted that choosing dancers was just “a pretext for rendering movement.” “It’s good to show a different side of an artist that we know,” said Hauptman, who last teamed up with Buchberg on MoMA’s Matisse Cut-Outs show. “At every moment, that’s what the avant-garde is about — saying no to the past and reaching for something new, and that’s what Degas is trying to do here.”

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Sun Ra: Solar Ethics by Huey Copeland

MONDAY, APRIL 4TH, 6:30PM Guggenheim Museum | 1071 Fifth Ave. | 212-423-3500 | guggenheim.org Learn more about jazz innovator Sun Ra, “an intergalactic prophet hailing from Saturn by way of ancient Egypt,” and the ways his forays into space-time continue to influence contemporary artists. (For the record, Sun Ra was born Herman Blount in Birmingham, Alabama.) (Free)

James McBride: Tracking the Legend of James Brown

MONDAY, APRIL 4TH, 8PM 92nd Street Y | 1395 Lexington Ave. | 212-415-5500 | 92y.org The Color of Water author James McBride seeks out James Brown in his latest work of nonfiction, Kill ‘Em and Leave. Catch him at the Y as he describes his discovery of a story that crosses over music, race, the South and the America of today. ($24)

Just Announced | Benjamin Franklin: American Democracy and Innovation “BLDZR: The Gospel According to Moses,” a new rock musical about Robert Moses written by Daniel Scot Kadin and Peter Galperin, receives its first public performance on Thursday, April 7. Photo: David Arcos

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When songwriter and Seattle native Peter Galperin entered a songwriting contest sponsored by the city’s Parks Department, he said, he wound up with an eight-minute tune about Robert Moses. It was too long for the competition, but the song led him to create “BLDZR: The Gospel According to Moses,” a rock musical about the controversial builder. The show receives its first public reading at the Triad Theater on April 7. This interview was edited for length and clarity.

THE BEGINNING One of the reasons I moved to New York in the first place was I didn’t want to spend my life in a car, and I felt it was one of the few places you could use mass transit. So I came to New York and the subways were just kind of disgusting and scary, and I found out about “The Power Broker” by Robert Caro. It’s a huge, 1,300-page book but I read it and it was like an epiphany for me. I was like ‘Oh, this is why it’s such a mess here,’ because [Moses] spent 45 years building roads and bridges

BLDZR: The Gospel According to Moses Thursday, April 7 Triad Theater 158 W. 72nd St., near Amsterdam Avenue 7 p.m. Tickets $15 in advance; $20 at the door For tickets, visit triadnyc. com or bldzr.nyc and not putting any money into mass transit from the 1920s to the late 1960s. And so I thought, this is a great story. I’m sure someone will make a movie out of it someday. I kept waiting for that movie to happen, and it never did.

THE PROCESS I was reading these books, and then I’d write a song. I had this one song to start with and then I’d go, ‘this episode, this scene, this could be a good song.’ I was feeding all these kind of anecdotal stories to [cowriter] Daniel [Scot Kadin], and he would write up a scene and we’d kind of store it, and then I’d feed him another story, another scene. There was an incident—Moses tore down a

building because it belonged to a rival of Governor Smith— and I’d say to Daniel, I think that’s a scene. So we generated all these vignettes, and at the same time I was trying to figure out the timeline. I had to sketch out this long timeline from 1922 to 1968. Jones Beach opens 1929, Triborough Bridge completed 1936, things like that.

THE CHARACTER He was a creature of his time and the automobile was the disruptive technology of its time, just like the Internet and the computer are today. If you’re a young person today, you can’t imagine doing anything without your phone or your computer, and so Moses as a young person in the 1920s saw the car as the future. I think there’s a parallel here for our world today in that we don’t know the downside of the technology that we’re embracing. That takes years. In the 1920s nobody imagined that the car would contribute to 50,000 highway deaths a year and pollution and suburban sprawl and the death of the inner cities. It was just looked at as this wonderful new technology that solved a lot of problems immediately. That’s how I kind of viewed this whole concept. The musical is about the disruptive technology of that era. I think it’s a pretty honest portrayal of who he is, as someone who is an idealist at the start, who rallied against the entrenched political and business interests of the time.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11TH, 6:30PM N-Y Historical Society | 170 Central Park West | 212-873-3400 | nyhistory.org Best-selling biographer Walter Isaacson speaks about Benjamin Franklin, and how Franklin’s pursuit of innovation went on to influence America’s national character. ($44)

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BILL PASSES CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ty.” While the council primarily focuses on preserving buildings, rather than making them more affordable, Bankoff feels that the Mandatory Inclusionary Housing part of the bill is a step in the right direction. But he takes issue with its basis in upzoning, a term used when buildings are rezoned for more intensive purposes, like when residential buildings are upzoned for commercial use. “[MIH] doesn’t work without upzoning,” Bankoff said. “And we’re not totally satisfied or thrilled with that as a policy decision to try to cure the affordability crisis.” The historic council’s main concern, however, is with the other part of the bill, called Zoning for Quality and Affordability. Bankoff particularly dislikes the way the new zoning policy endangers the character of many New York neighborhoods by countering measures--like height limits--that various community groups have fought for in order to preserve that same character. He described it as “top-down, really messy and indiscriminate,” and worries that it will put pressure on the Landmarks Preservation Commission to approve more development in historic districts. “The basic concern is what we see to be an inherent conflict in public policy,” he said. “The fact that the city has now gone on record saying ‘our policy is to encourage development’ now puts additional pressure on the historic districts and on the Landmarks Commission itself to approve bigger buildings. (The LPC) doesn’t want to be seen as standing in the way of city policy.” According to Bankoff, his group was involved in countering the legislation -- meeting with city councilmembers, making presentations at community meetings and sending letters -- from the start. “To their credit, city planning listened a little bit and City Council responded better and kept a lot of the height limits in place,” he said. “But it’s still, at the end of the day, a plan that’s being imposed across the

city to encourage higher, denser developments in areas that had fought very hard to not have that kind of development.” Maritza Silva-Farrell, campaign director of Real Affordability for All, also conceded that changes represent steps forward, despite there being much more to accomplish. RAFA, a community coalition with a variety of campaigns, was formed once it became clear that affordable housing would be a main focus of de Blasio’s administration. “We came out with a report about a year and a half ago identifying about 700,000 people who needed affordable housing and did not get it,” Silva-Farrell said. One of her key issues with MIH is that it does not include provisions for the creation of jobs to go along with all the new construction the policy will supposedly encourage. “What kind of jobs are going to be created?” she asks. Hopefully, she said, ones that pay more and that employ local workers so that they will be able to afford the new housing being built in their neighborhoods. Emily Goldstein, senior campaign organizer at the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development, said her organization was most concerned with the fact that the original proposal’s lowest Area Median Income (AMI) required by MIH was 60 percent, or roughly $51,000 per year for a family of three. ANHD pushed to change the proposal and helped get it lowered to 40 percent AMI, adding about half a million households to those eligible, though the group was hoping for 30 percent. “We think that it is far from perfect, but we also think it is a very strong policy,” Goldstein said. “That said, it’s still not enough.” She is particularly concerned, like Bankoff, about the likely increase in upzonings that will result from the new policies. “Displacement is another huge issue,” she said, referring to residents who will be suddenly priced out as their once-affordable neighborhoods are upzoned. “You can’t build your way out of this mess,” Bankoff said.

motif pattern on the instrument’s neck, it’s quickly evident that Holland, 83, has a pliable, discerning eye. The bill’s jut is organic, of the piece. Unless, perhaps, you are looking for it. But if Holland is circumspect about the duck bill — “we think it is; we’re making it into one” — he also appeals to evidence: “Ducks existed, ducks were heard,” he says of the Cycladic period, when the work was carved. And, of course, about the harp player and the duck’s call: “There’s some association with music.” Turning away from the glass-enclosed display, he says, “It could be a swan.” In a nearby gallery, he stops before a black terracotta plate. Dating from about 500 B.C. it depicts a young man in a toga and headdress astride a rooster — or, as Holland notes in the newsletter, he “rides a Cock.” To Holland, the subject matter, whatever its larger meaning, is nearly unambiguous. In latest edition of Linnaean Newsletter, the publication of a “strongly bird oriented” natural history group, he describes the painting as “this erotic scene.” “It’s not unlikely my conjecture is accurate,” he says. Holland has so far noted, without counting mythical beasts, 87 species of birds within The Met’s Fifth Avenue collection, a good portion of them documented in the newsletter. Each work of art in which he has spotted a bird has an entry in “Metropolitan Birds (Part 1).” Most are simple descriptions, some no more than the work’s title or what it denotes. “Facsimile Painting of Egyptian Geese for the Tomb of Neffermaat and Itet,” for a work by Charles Wilkinson dating from 1920-21, is one. “Cockatoo,” for a mid-18th century German hard-paste porcelain bird, is another. Other entries are lengthier and erudite, accompanied by literary citations Holland has culled from, among others, Wallace Stevens, Keats, Shakespeare, even the famously abstruse German Enlightenment philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Born in England, Holland spent his formative years in Ireland, returning to England at 14, where he completed his schooling. He served two years in the British Army in the early 1950s, posted in Cyprus, Egypt, Jordan and in the Suez Canal Zone. To his chagrin, Holland didn’t take up birding until his early 40s, a development he calls “stupid.” “Just imagine, I was in the desert. I saw some good birds,” he said. It wasn’t until he came to New York in the late 1950s that he became a birder, mostly by visits to Central Park. It remains a passion, he said. “It became a great interest, and extreme interest,” he said. “It takes you out in wonderful places.”

He also met his is wife, Elizabeth, now w retired as an associate ciate managing editor tor at the Modern rn La nguage Asssociation, here. e. The two have e been married d since 1962. She is an occasional birder.

AN INNATE PURRSUIT Holland has a few collaborators, among ng them Marie Winn, the he journalist and author, or, who is a friend and fellow birder. “It’s just an enrichment kind of thing. And it’s fun, it’s fascinating,” she says of her excursions with Holland. Winn, who lives in the West 90s near Riverside Park, likes to bird by ear, listening for and identifying birds by their calls. Winn, who wrote “Red-Tails in Love” and “Central Park After Dark,” suggests that the quest to identify is something of an innate pursuit, but all the more interesting when enjoyed for its own sake. “It’s a sort of a part of human nature, really. Not everybody feels it but a big bunch of people do and birders are among them,” she says. “So here is a little narrower example of it.” But being also an art lover, she said the pleasure of looking at The Met’s collection is increased when perusing it for birds. “It’s always fun to have a sort of narrow goal if you go to a museum,” she says. “At the same time you are focusing your own interests.” Holland is, plainly, a polymath. A retired editor of college textbooks, he has an affinity for early Italian Renaissance painting, its allusions and, given his dense thicket of a project, its occasional elusiveness. “Just as in the field, you see birds you don’t recognize,” he says. “I would welcome people who make corrections, because I can’t always be right. In New York we have some of the world’s best birders.” Holland, it turns out, has company. Dale Tucker, a publications editor at the museum and a self-described “casual birder,” started “birding” in the museum after hearing about a similar effort discussed at Audubon New York. Tucker did not go to Holland’s lengths to, for instance, catalogue his findings, but he pitched the idea of birding The Met to colleagues who were developing “Connections,” the museum’s audio blog feature, in which staff members talk about the art by way of a personal passion or interest. Tucker framed his talk around what he called “teaching moments.” “It wasn’t about the species per se, it was about the practice of birding,” he says. “It’s a great idea. Anybody can do it.”

MARCH 31-APRIL 6,2016 Ma Marble seated harp player. pla Late Early Cycladic I–Early Cycladic Cy II 2 2800–2700 B.C. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A duck’s bill - or possibly a swan’s - is atop the instrument. Like Winn, he suggested that honing in g on o a particular interest e or theme can increase the appreciac tion of the art. “It’s a t just ju different access to art ar that cuts all genres, all cultures, cultur all time periods,” he says in concluding his blog piece.

CHALLENGES On the museum’s second floor, in a gallery of 15th century works from Venice and northern Italy, Holland stops before Carpaccio’s “The Meditation on the Passion,” painted about 1490. Christ’s dead body, dressed only in a loincloth, sits on an ornate but damaged stone block. A crown of thorns is at his feet. Saint Jerome is to Christ’s right, Job to his left. Both are pensive figures within a rocky outpost. Within a more idyllic scene in the far background, turbaned figures, some on horseback, go about their day. Above the head of Christ, a bird, which Holland identifies as possibly a crag martin, a type of swallow, soars into blue sky, symbolic of the resurrection. On the ground, to Christ’s left, sits a red parrot. Holland, though, has identified a third bird. It takes effort to finally discern what he calls “an overlarge Goldfinch” that is nearly concealed by the dark, rocky background. The goldfinch, near ubiquitous in Renaissance painting, symbolizes, by turns, the soul, resurrection and even death. Legend has it, Holland says, that the bird’s red face came about after it plucked a thorn from Jesus’ crown and was splashed with blood. “It helps to know these traditions,” he says. “There’s so much history involved in all this.” This specimen, too, has a place in Holland’s menagerie. “It took some finding,” he says. “It’s nice to be challenged like that.” If Holland has so far identified more than five dozen species in the collection, he’s found them among hundreds if not thousands of works of art. With the Fifth Avenue Met catalogued, Holland is now combing through the Cloisters. For a few weeks he’s been looking at the Unicorn Tapestries, a series of seven hangings of wool and silk crafted about 1500 in what is now Belgium. “It’s a big job. It’s much smaller, but there’s so much to see,” Holland says of the Cloisters. “You just keep looking and looking and looking and hope you find something.”

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WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE PARK

Spring Updates: If Mother Nature cooperates, the Central Park meadows, lawns and ballfields will open for the spring season on Saturday, April 2. Once open, their hours start at 11 a.m., although rain could see them closed again. To find out about permits needed for sports or the best places to hang, check our website: centralpark.com

STATUES & MONUMENTS: There are 65 statues, monuments and fountains located throughout Central

Park. The oldest monument is the Obelisk, aka Cleopatra’s Needle, which dates back over 3,500 years. It was gifted to Central Park in the 1880s by the Khedive of Egypt, and on Jan. 22, 1881, the Obelisk was erected in New York’s Central Park. To learn more about the various monuments and statues in Central Park, check out our tours at www. centralpark.com/guide/tours. html

COMING UP THIS WEEK FORAGING WITH THE “WILDMAN” Spring means weeds, and naturalist/author “Wildman”

Steve Brill will show you how to recognize them, harvest them ecologically, and use them to make delicious meals, or turn them into home remedies When: Saturday, April 2, 11:45 a.m.-3:45 p.m. Call 914-835-2153 to reserve and verify the time/ place. For more info, visit centralpark.com/events

LAST CHANCE TO ICE SKATE AT WOLLMAN RINK: The season’s last day of ice skating at Wollman Rink is Sunday, April 3. Location: Wollman Rink When: Every day between 10 a.m. and 9 p.m. Cost: Price varies based upon age and day. More info is at centralpark. com/events

Event listings and Where in Central Park? brought to you by CentralPark.com.

WHERE IN CENTRAL PARK? Do you know where in Central Park this photo was taken? To submit your answer, visit: centralpark.com/ where-in-central-park. The answers and names of the people who guess right will appear in the paper and online in two weeks.

ANSWER TO THE PREVIOUS QUIZ: The USS Maine National Monument stands at Merchant’s Gate (Columbus Circle), a park entrance named in 1862 to recognize the importance of commerce and business in New York City. The monument was dedicated on May 30, 1913, to the men killed aboard the USS Maine when the ship exploded in

Havana Harbor on Feb. 15, 1898. The monument honors the 258 American sailors who perished. Designed by Harold Van Buren Magonigle, the monument consists of a pylon

with a fountain at its base and sculptures by Attilio Piccirilli surrounding it. The sculpture group of gilded bronze figures atop the pylon represent Columbia Triumphant, her seashell chariot being drawn by three hippocampi. The bronze for this group reportedly came from metal recovered from the guns of the Maine. On the park side of the monument is fixed a memorial plaque that was cast in metal salvaged from the ship. Congratulations to Kevin Koerper, Candi George, Henry Bottjer, Joe Ornstein, Bill Ferrarini and Gregory Holman for answering correctly.

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Jacque’s Cafe

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1565 Second Avenue

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Thais New York

1718 2Nd Ave

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Dorrian’s Red Hand Restaurant

1616 2 Avenue

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Noglu New York

1266 Madison Ave

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1499 3Rd Ave

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Yuka Restaurant

1557 2Nd Ave

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Sistina Restaurant

1555 2 Avenue

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Dunkin’ Donuts, Baskin Robbins

1703 Third Avenue

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Eastend Bar & Grill

1664 1 Avenue

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Le Pain Quotidien

1643 2 Avenue

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Bocado Cafe

1297 Lexington Avenue

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Corado Bread & Pastry

1361 Lexington Ave

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Delizia Ristorante

1374 1 Avenue

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La Pulperia

1626 2Nd Ave

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Beach Cafe

1326 2 Avenue

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Bangkok Cuisine

1586 2Nd Ave

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The Allie Way Sports Bar

413 East 70 Street

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Bayards Ale House

1589 1St Ave

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Two Lizards Mexican Restaurant

1365 1St Avenue

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4Th Floor Cafe

221 East 71St Street

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Just Salad

1306 1St Ave

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Up Thai

1411 2Nd Ave

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Campagnola Restaurant

1382 1St Ave

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Come Prima

903 Madison Ave

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Hamza Pizza

1976 3Rd Ave

Not Yet Graded (9) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Megasun Restaurant

1773 Lexington Avenue

Grade Pending (39) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal product temperature is reduced from 140º F to 70º F or less within 2 hours, and from 70º F to 41º F or less within 4 additional hours. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.

Asian 83

1605 2Nd Ave

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The Simone

151 East 82 Street

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Shoga-Sushi & Oyster Bar

1698 2 Avenue

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Via Quadronno

1228 Madison Ave

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Falafel Off The Corner

1764 1St Ave

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Enthaice

1598 3 Avenue

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Vinus And Marc

1825 2Nd Ave

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Auction House

300 East 89 Street

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Mr. Good Juice Bar

1646 Madison Ave

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Libertador

1725 2 Avenue

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Crepe Cafe

1642 Lexington Ave

Kaia Wine Bar

1614 3 Avenue

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Glaser’s Bakery

1670 1 Avenue

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Domino’s

200 East 89 Street

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Parlor Steak And Fish

1600 3 Avenue

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Hughes Tavern

1682 1 Avenue

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Nocciola Ristorante

237 E 116Th St

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New Yorkers paid $2.5 billion for a splashy new subway station built deep into Manhattan’s bedrock near the edge of the Hudson River, but Mother Nature is putting a dampener on the depot’s inaugural year. Just six months removed from its grand opening, the station on the No. 7 subway line is suffering from water leaks that have discolored ceiling tiles and sent rivulets spilling down upon commuters as they ride escalator banks. During the winter, the drops hardened into long icicles. Meanwhile, a few miles downtown, more vexing water leaks have contributed to delays in

the opening of an underground shopping mall built within a $3.9 billion commuter train terminal beneath the World Trade Center complex. Civil engineers say the problems at the two sites illustrate the challenges of keeping water out of subterranean projects built below the water table. “Water is always going to seep and water is always going to seek the lowest level and it’s always going to ďŹ nd its own path,â€? said Robert Paaswell, distinguished professor of civil engineering at the City College of New York. “If there’s a tiny crack anyplace, water is going to ďŹ nd it.â€? Still, the fact that water found a way into two of the most expensive train stations in city history has drawn lots of eye rolls from passengers and frustrated officials in charge of the projects. “It shouldn’t be trial-and-

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MAYOR BACKS NURSING HOME PROJECT NEWS Opponents, including parents at a nearby school, vow to continue fighting

It’s a question of supply and demand. On a seven-block stretch of 57th Street and nearby, there are at least 300 apartments in seven buildings priced at a billionaire-friendly $5,000 a square foot either for sale or scheduled to go on the market in the next 24 months. But despite a record $100 million sale of a penthouse last year, the volume of sales at that level topped out two years ago, at 55 transactions. In 2015, there were just 47

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Residents of the Upper West Side who hope to prevent the construction of a 20-story Jewish Home Lifecare (JHL) nursing home on West 97th Street, between Amsterdam and Columbus, were disappointed last week when Mayor Bill de Blasio threw his support behind the project. For several years, locals and administrators at the adjacent P.S. 163 have been fighting the development, arguing that the construction will create hazardous and disruptive conditions.

Several lawsuits have been filed against the developers, one by the parents of P.S. 163 students and one by residents of the Park West Village complex that surrounds the lot JHL wants to build on, claiming that the environmental review conducted by JHL was not accurate. After the city’s amicus brief in support of JHL was filed to the New York State appellate court, elected officials said they were disappointed that the project now seems to be moving ahead. “I had hoped the mayor would at least agree with me that if this project went ahead at all, it needed to do so with full consideration for these problems and whatever mitigation measures are needed to ensure P.S. 163’s students have a safe and

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productive learning environment,” Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer said in a statement. “The mayor’s intentions here may be good, but his conclusion is wrong.” Marty Rosenblatt, a researcher and resident who has long been fighting the project, said he remains confident that JHL’s long-term plan to build next to P.S. 163 will not move forward. “De Blasio is doing what his political supporters want him to do, and it’s being done at the cost of the community,” Rosenblatt said. Ethan Geto, a spokesman for JHL, played down the significance of the city’s amicus brief, describing it as more broadly defending the integrity of the environmental review process, though he admitted that

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LUXURY MEGA-TOWER COMING TO SUTTON PLACE EXCLUSIVE East Side officials already gearing up to fight the project BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS

Plans have been drawn up for a luxury 900-foot condo tower in Sutton Place, which, if completed as planned, would rank as one of the tallest buildings in Manhattan. The 268,000-squarefoot tower will become the second-tallest on the Upper East Side, behind the in-progress 432 Park Avenue at 1,400 feet, and one of the tallest in the city. Construction permits

degree views of Midtown, Downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan, Central Park and the East River.” The 268,000 square feet of buildable space and air rights, which includes 58,000 square feet of inclusionary housing rights, have already been delivered. It’s unclear if the affordable housing will be offered on- or offsite, or how many units of affordable housing will be included. Representatives for The Bauhouse Group, which owns the site, declined to field questions about the Sutton Place Development, but a representative of the company provided a press release to Our Town that said the

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The site of the proposed JHL project on W. 97th Street it does help JHL’s case. “We feel optimistic that the appellate division is going to look at these issues in a more objective way than the lower court did, and find that the state and city indeed conducted the environmental review appropriately,” he said.

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Construction on the lot where JHL is supposed to go has been postponed by litigation several times since 2014, and according to Geto it is unlikely to start until 2017, pending the outcome of the lawsuits. Rene Kathawala, a P.S. 163 parent and lawyer representing his

fellow parents in their lawsuit, was reluctant to predict an outcome, but remains hopeful. “We know that we have developed a record that shows that the Department of Health failed to discharge its legal obligation,” Kathawala said. “The facts are undisputed.”

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PREPPING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE Prep for Prep alum Jessica Alcantara will use her education and training to advocate for others, including on racial justice issues

No, but I always knew I wanted to go to graduate school because I enjoy learning. While I was in the Peace Corps, one of the counterparts I worked with was an awesome female lawyer. I saw all the power that she had and thought, “Maybe this is a path to implement change.”

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Jessica Alcantara reached seemingly unattainable educational heights through her impressive work ethic as well as the guidance of Manhattanbased nonprofit Prep for Prep. The organization places New York City’s academically gifted African-American, Latino and Asian-American students in selective day and boarding schools and mentors them on their pedagogical paths. A student at The Mott Hall School in Harlem when she connected with Prep for Prep, the program placed Alcantara at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, for high school. That was the Washington Heights native’s first time out of New York and she embraced the experience. “It was a nice change, but I liked both. I liked coming home for breaks and I liked going back,” she said. That was just the beginning of her journey towards lifelong learning. She attended Dartmouth, then received a master’s at Fordham, and is currently earning a law degree at Columbia. When she graduates this spring, she will be relocating to Washington, D.C., where she will work with Advancement Project, a civil rights organization rooted in implementing policy change. Alcantara, who won the prestigious Skadden Fellowship awarded to graduating law students who will use their degrees in pursuit of public interest, will focus on black and Latino communities facing school closures.

What was your experience like growing up in Washington Heights? I enjoyed my time growing up there. Looking back, it’s hard to

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You’re graduating this year and got a fellowship to work in D.C. Prep for Prep boasts that many of its students end up in the best colleges in the country Jessica Alcantara describe because I don’t know another way of growing up. I loved getting a quarter and buying an ice cream from the ladies who would park themselves outside of school. And going to the bodega before class starts or meeting up with friends and getting Chinese food. Things that are very uniquely a New York young person’s experience. I loved that aspect of it, that there are always things to do. We could just hang out outside on the stoop or go to a park.

When did you first connect with Prep for Prep? The public school system is different now in New York, but back then, when I was going through in the 90s, it was precharter schools. I was District 6 because I’m from the Heights at a magnet school for gifted and talented students called The Mott Hall School … Mott Hall had been sending kids to Prep; they had a history. So in fifth grade, they handed out Prep applications. I remember everyone in line and getting an application. And I remember not applying because I didn’t want to not graduate. Because I had left elementary school after third grade, I didn’t get to graduate in fifth grade. [Prep for Prep places fifth- and-sixthgraders in day schools.] These are the thoughts of a 10-yearold. Prep for Prep also had another version called PREP 9 [their boarding school program]. And that’s what I ended up doing. Two years later, in seventh grade, is when I applied to PREP 9.

You left New York to attend Phillips Academy. What was that

transition like? It was a big change for many reasons. I don’t know how familiar you are with Washington Heights, but it’s predominately Dominican. If not Dominican, definitely Spanish speaking. Maybe it’s different now, but in the 90s, you could live in Washington Heights and never speak English. So the biggest change was probably, culturally, language wise, going to a suburban small town. Andover has that one main street where all the businesses are on, and that’s it. The rest is houses. But Andover was pretty diverse. I want to say it was one-third students of color when I was there. I think that’s around what it was. And they had a lot of international students.

Who were your mentors throughout high school? Prep had a mentorship component, so while we were still in the city, we were in advising groups led by older Prep alum. And then, while you’re at boarding school, Prep assigns you a placement counselor and every semester they come up and visit all of us there at Andover. We each meet with them individually; they buy us dinner one night. We still had the Prep support system as well as Andover’s own mentors and teachers.

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How did you choose Dartmouth for college? What did you study and what were your extracurricular activities there? I loved my time at Andover. I loved everything about it. And I wanted that again, essentially, for my college experience. I double-majored in geography and Latin American and Latino studies. I didn’t do much besides working. I had two jobs and worked about 20 hours a week. I worked in the school convenience store and I also interned at the medical

school like an office assistant. Towards the end of college, I helped found a Dominican student group on campus.

After college, you joined the Peace Corps as a youth development facilitator in Azerbaijan. What did your job entail? It’s the type of development and extracurricular activities that they do in a Boys & Girls Club here. I did a lot of English conversation clubs. We did an arts camp in our town over the summers.

Now you’re in law school at Columbia. Did you always want to study law?

What are your future plans? The fellowship is two years, so I’ll be at Advancement Project for that time. And hopefully, if it’s possible, I would like to stay with Advancement Project because I love the organization.

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You went back to teach at Prep. What subject did you instruct on? I taught there the summer before I started law school. I didn’t teach in Prep 9, the program I was in, I taught in Prep for Prep, the fifth-grade program. I taught a class called Invictus which was created by the founder of Prep, Gary Simons. It’s a class meant to help

The organization I’ll be working with is Advancement Project, where I interned last summer. And they have a partnership with the Journey for Justice Alliance, which is a national collation of grassroots organizations that are doing work on school closures. So with them, we’ll be deciding where, geographically, I’ll be focusing the work.

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