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From online services to seder meals delivered to your door: how to celebrate safely BY JENNIFER DOHERTY
“Of all the Jewish holidays, Passover is a time that people associate with family,” Cantor Benny Rogosnitzky of Park East Synagogue told Straus News, “and the guidance that we’re getting from the CDC is to separate ourselves, social distancing. It’s the very opposite.” Concerns over spreading coronavirus will prevent many Manhattanites from joining family and friends for traditional seder meals and prayer services this year, but that’s no reason to skip the holiday, according to Rogosnitzky. With a little imagination and the
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Mayor Bill de Blasio welcomes USNS Comfort to New York City on Monday, March 30, 2020. The U.S. Navy hospital ship will help alleviate the strain on local hospitals due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
HELP FOR NYC AT HAND PUBLIC HEALTH
A Navy hospital ship arrives, a field hospital opens in Central Park and Cuomo asks for more health care workers to come to New York BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM
The most important thing is that you keep [Passover] in whatever way, that you observe it.” Cantor Benny Rogosnitzky, Park East Synagogue
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The coronavirus pandemic has brought New York City hospitals to the brink of their capacity, forcing the government find and create new facilities to treat patients. On Monday, a Navy hospital ship arrived in New York Harbor and will provide 1,000 needed beds. Aboard the USNS Comfort, which is docked at Pier 90 off West 50th Street in Manhattan, there are 12 operating rooms and a medical laboratory. More than 1,000 Navy accompanied the ship to provide their services.
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The ship will house patients who are not suffering from coronavirus, in order to free up hospital beds to those who are. Mayor Bill de Blasio said that about 750 of the ship’s beds would be put to use immediately. “This is like adding another hospital here in New York City,” said de Blasio. “It’s such a boost to see the military arrive to help us out.”
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Chris Cuomo Tests Positive Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that an additional 332 people had died in New York State as of Tuesday morning, bringing the death toll to 1,550. In New York City, 900 people have died. During his press briefing Tuesday, the governor said his brother, Chris Cuomo, an anchor at CNN, tested positive for the virus.
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Jewish women and girls light up the world by lighting the Shabbat and Holiday candles. Wed. April 8, Passover eve. 7:10 pm. Thursday, April 9, 2nd night of Passover, after 8:11 pm from a preexisting flame Friday, April 10, 7:13 pm from a preexisting flame. For more information visit www.chabbaduppereastside.com
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FINGERS AND FACES HEALTH
Why it’s so hard to keep one from the other BY CAROL ANN RINZLER
Because respiratory viruses such as COVID-19 enter your body through the mucous tissues at eyes, nose and mouth, right now touching your face can be problematic. Actually, not just problematic. A problem because touching your face is a normal reaction to stress, so seemingly instinctive that you did it even before you were born. It is also a way to deliver social signals, and most intriguing of all, an act that connects to the parts of our brain that enable thinking and memory. First things first. In 2014, a group of British researchers
at Durham University’s Department of Psychology used ultra-sound to scan the activity of 15 healthy male and female fetuses as they developed in utero. What they saw surprised them. When the mothers were stressed, the fetuses touched a hand to face. The greater the stress, the more frequent the touch – and always with the left hand. Because being right-handed is more prevalent among humans, the scientists expected that the hand movement would switch to the right as the fetuses grew. It didn’t. Nor did it predict who would be left-handed at birth. (Fetuses of mothers who smoked also seemed to touch hand to face more frequently.)
Chemo-Signaling Now to social signaling. Back in the 1970s, a study of ground squirrels showed that
a male will wipe his hand – okay, paw – across his face and then over his body before going into battle with another male. What he’s doing, of course, is spreading scent from facial glands to signal strength, warning his opponent to back off. This is called chemo-signaling, and humans do it, too. Researchers at the University of Bern in Switzerland have found that men are definitely attracted to certain female body odors, most particularly those that change to indicate when a woman is most fertile. As for hand-to-face chemosignaling, in 2015, when scientists at the Weitzman Institute in Israel observed what happened when humans met and shook hands, it turned out that after a handshake people often sniff the hand they used to shake, a
What the NFW How often per hour students touched Hair Eye Ear Nose Cheek Mouth Neck Chin
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Hand and Brain Finally, there’s the link between hand and brain. Six years ago, brain researchers at the University of Leipzig who analyzed electrical activity in the brains of volunteers shortly before and after spontaneous facial self-touch gestures (sFSTG) saw changes in areas linked to thinking, emo-
tion, and memory. They concluded that the “self-stimulation” touch helps humans balance how they process information and manage emotion. (Apes also exhibit sFSTG, but as yet no one actually knows why.) All of which explains why it is so hard to stop touching your face. Even doctors have a hard time controlling the impulse. A very small study of 26 medical students at the University of New South
Wales who had just completed classes explaining why it is vital for doctors working in hospitals to protect themselves and their patients by not touching the face showed the students putting finger to face on average 23 times in one hour. Which is no reason to give up. Try harder. Carol Ann Rinzler the author of more than 20 books on health, including “Nutrition for Dummies.”
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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 19th precinct for the week ending Mar 22 Week to Date 2020
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KOCH BRIDGE MUGGING Police said that at 12:20 a.m. on Friday, Mar. 20, a 19year-old man was riding an ebike from Manhattan to Queens on the Ed Koch Bridge when he stopped to relieve himself. According to police, he was approached by three men walking from Queens to Manhattan who punched and kicked him, demanded money and stole his property before continuing on to Manhattan. Police later dialed the victim’s stolen phone, and one of the suspects answered, revealing the phone’s location at the 7 train station at 90th St. and Roosevelt Ave. A subsequent search of the station proved fruitless. The items stolen included a North Face bag valued at $50, an ebike worth $2,000, and an iPhone and Tommy wallet of no stated value.
THE RED BICYCLE THIEF According to police, at 9:01 a.m. on Friday, Mar. 20, a man
entered the Duane Reade store at 1191 Second Ave. at East 63rd St., removed property from a display and left the location without paying. The suspect was last seen heading west on East 63rd St. on a red bicycle. The items stolen included multiple L’Oréal, Neutrogena, Cicatricure and Milani cosmetics totaling $1,535.
PURSE SNATCHING SUSPECT ARRESTED Police said a Good Samaritan helped them arrest a suspected purse snatcher. At 11:50 a.m. on Sunday, Mar. 22, police said, a woman was about to enter 233 East 77th St. when a man grabbed her handbag and fled east on East 77th St. According to police, a passerby stopped the suspect, who was then identified by the victim and arrested. The items recovered included $17 in cash, an ALDO handbag valued at $40 and a wallet worth $125, making a total of $182. Leonardo Teo, 45, was charged with grand larceny.
PACKAGE THEFT SUSPECT ARRESTED Police said they arrested a man suspected in two recent package thefts. In the first incident, which occurred at 2:09 p.m. on Sunday, Mar. 15, police said that a man inside 450 East 84th St. saw the suspect removing packages without permission or authority. The items stolen included six pantry items totaling $17.15. According to police, at 9:40 a.m. on Tuesday, Mar. 24, the same suspect was found inside 1614 Second Ave. at East 84th St. in possession of two packages that did not belong to him. The 27-yearold man to whom the packages did belong said that the suspect did not have permission to retrieve the packages. The packages contained Cliff bars valued at $20 and potting soil worth $5, making a total of $25. Jorge Arroyo, 43, was arrested and charged with burglary.
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First food responder - No sooner did Uncle Paul’s Pizza owners Dino Redzic, Paul Nicaj and Leo Krkuti learn of the COVID crisis, than they sprang into action and reached out to see how to get food to hospital staff, police, and firefighters. I reached out to CB8’s Barbara Rudder who put me in contact with Metropolitan Hospital and voila, Uncle Paul’s Pizza was able to deliver boxes of pizzas to the hospital. Not to be outdone, Slice Company pizza owner Ilia Sala learned about Dino’s donation, and Slice had its pies delivered to the hospital the next day. (Sounds like a “domino effect” without a Domino’s pizza.) Free meals for police, hospital staff, firefighters can be picked up at Uncle Paul’s Pizza’s Grand Central location at 70 Vanderbilt Ave (45th-46th Sts.) between 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. for the next two weeks. And special thanks to Upper East Side Assembly Members Dan Quart and Rebecca Seawright for their cooperation in reaching out to hospitals in the area.
A step back to BC - before COVID-19) - While this is not
the time to be a critic or naysayer, old habits die hard. So a couple of kvetches, and a kudo:
Niki Krkuti, Dino Redzic and Leo Krkuti of Uncle Paul’s Pizza delivering pizzas to Metropolitan Hospital on March 28, 2020. Photo courtesy of Uncle Paul’s Pizza
Makes no census - Census time is upon us and Julie Menin has done a masterful job in getting out the message of the importance of filling out the form. Can be done online, by phone, or by the U.S. mail. However, filling out the form when it arrives and mailing it is not encouraged. Volunteer texters with NYC’s Census “Get Out The Count” campaign advise to call or go online. If you reply that you’ll fill out the form and mail it, you’re texted that, by doing it by phone or online, “you can avoid a Census Bureau employee knock on your door.” Not so. If you fill out and mail the form, no one’s knocking on your door. If you can vote by mail, you can fill out the census form by mail. No
need for texters to mislead and make people wary, especially now. Truth to tell, the U.S. mail is one of the public services that can be relied on these days. Oh those buses - It’s amazing that, in these days of light traffic and even lighter ridership, the MTA is running Limited buses. At least two or three Limited buses in succession pass by as riders wait at local bus stops. Oh to be in la la land. NY’s Mensch-in-Chief - In these dark days, it’s reassuring and a blessing to have Gov. Cuomo at the helm of our state informing us, cheering us and letting us know that we have a leader who is leading us.
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MY 10 WAYS OF KEEPING BUSY WHILE SHELTERING IN PLACE PUBLIC EYE
BY JON FRIEDMAN
Are you going stir crazy? Are you helping to “flatten the curve?” Are you “sheltering” yourself wisely? Yes, COVID-19 has turned everyone’s life upside down. We all wish that we could wake up from this bad dream and have our normal lives restored. But since we can’t, we will have to make the best, somehow, of the upheaval. Since we are New Yorkers, we are naturally resilient. We have a gene for resilience, like possessing an innate ability to find the best slice of pizza on the block. I’m doing my best to keep busy, too. Here are my 10 Ways of Keeping Busy during the crisis: 1) Re-watch, for the umpteenth times, the full-series episodes of my favorite HBO TV comedies: “The Larry Sanders Show,“ “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Entourage.” Comedies are a great way to take your mind off your troubles and imagine a simpler world. 2) Re-read John Updike’s Rabbit series. I cherish these books and I, as an aspiring novelist (keep reading this), find inspiration in Updike’s alter ego through the years, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. 3) Read those books on my shelves that I have always meant to get to, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Tender is the Night” and Nick
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Hornby’s “A Long Way Down.” I’m not sure I will actually do this, but I really, really mean to. 4) Tape and watch later Yankees Classics on YES, in which the cable station broadcasts memorable Yankees games since the team’s championship run commenced in 1996. This is the one show on TV that ALWAYS has a happy ending. 5) Challenge myself to wash my hands with soap and water a little bit longer each time out - I’m now up to 47 seconds, if you’re keeping score at home 6) Listen to Revolution #9 all the way through - and make sense of it, though I am pretty sure it makes no sense, anyway. 7) Listen to those Paul McCartney and George Harrison solo albums on Spotify, which I had never before taken the time to appreciate. I must listen to more than “All Things Must Pass,“ “The Concert for Bangladesh,“
“Ram” and “Band on the Run.” There must be some great songs in there. 8) Finish cleaning up my closets and drawers - and get ready for spring, whenever Mayor de Blasio says it will arrive. I have started an ambitious project to toss out any and all non-essential stuff from my files. A class roster from a course I taught in 2014 counts as non-essential, somehow. 9) ACTUALLY, SERIOUSLY, REALISTICALLY MAKE PROGRESS on my work-in-progress of the past year, my version of The Great American Novel. If anybody wants to read what I have written so far, I’D BE HAPPY TO SEND ALL 12,000 WORDS TO YOU. 10) Last and most definitely not least: Keep up with family and friends everyday. We all n need to stay present and remain resolute and strong. You can’t call someone too often to say you care.
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A look back on the iconic film’s 35th anniversary BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL
“Good goin’, stranger.” If those words ring a bell, it means that in 1985 you saw Susan Seidelman’s “Desperately Seeking Susan,” a film ahead of its time because it was executive-produced, directed and written by women. Immediately, I gravitated to Madonna’s character — a free spirit who hung on the Lower East Side (home of graffiti art and punk music) and lived on the edge as well as hand to mouth. The reality: I was more like Rosanna Arquette’s character Roberta. No, I was not a bored, Jersey homeowner married to a hot tub salesman. I worked in an ad agency, had a boy-
friend, and a midtown, single gal studio apartment in a doorman building. I was as out and about in NYC as any other 20-something but had only a nodding acquaintance with the downtown scene; my existence — like Roberta’s — was pretty safe. To feed my denial about this as well as the fantasy that I was bohemian, I did things like wearing lots of black and shopping in a now-defunct store called The Antique Boutique for a jacket similar to Susan’s sans the giant gold pyramid on the back, which Roberta eventually ended up owning. (FYI: I still have mine; my daughter Meg has borrowed it.) In celebration of the film’s 35th Anniversary on March 29th, I re-watched it to see if the movie, as well as my feelings about it, still held up. For those who have never had the pleasure, or simply don’t recall the details: Rob-
erta spends her days obsessing over the romance between “Susan and Jim,” who each enjoy peripatetic lifestyles and orchestrate their NYC hook-ups via the personal ads which the suburbanite reads voraciously. When being a voyeur is no longer enough, she crosses the bridge to trail her idol and meet up. A bump on the head leads to amnesia which has the housewife believing she is Susan. Living this false identity helps Roberta at last find her true one. I grew increasingly nostalgic during the hour and fortyfive-minute viewing. First and foremost, for the New York of my youth. The city in the 80s was emerging from nearbankruptcy, bursting with creativity on every front, and full of contradictions a la hightone restaurants feet away from squatter-filled abandoned buildings (think “Rent.”) It was scary and scan-
dalous, inspired and amazing; the place to be. I found my smile watching an on-the-verge-of-fame and still-amusing Madonna, before she became a parody of herself, as well as the talented and eclectic Rosanna Arquette, before Harvey Weinstein torpedoed her career.
Steady Paycheck Best of all, I realized I had no regrets about that period of my life. Even though the seemingly carefree way that Susan glided through her days looked glamorous and fun, exciting even, the actuality is that living out of a suitcase as she did, trading her belongings or herself for different possessions or a meal held no interest for me. Nor did couch surfing or working the occasional odd job. I liked having a steady paycheck, a place to live and a relationship, as conventional as that may have been during such an innova-
Poster of Rosanna Arquette and Madonna. Photo: Emily Smith, via flickr
tive time. I also didn’t like downtown as much as I pretended, at least not enough to live there. A rather radical former colleague used to say, “There’s no life above 23rd Street.” I secretly always disagreed. In fact, for the very brief time I lived on West 4th, I felt dis-
connected and always wondered what I was missing above 59th. My place was on the Upper East Side, with the occasional visit below 14th Street for shopping and the cachet of finding something unattainable uptown, and dining somewhere deemed “cool.” (Same went for the Upper West Side.) This time ‘round I actually saw less of myself in Roberta. I was never as meek and unself-assured. I also never had house-fever or would have married a man who didn’t share my dream of living in Manhattan. Whenever we’re presented with opposites, there seems to be this need to choose. In the ‘60s one was either a Jackie or a Marilyn; more recently, a Carrie, a Miranda, a Charlotte or a Samantha. I was actually neither of the characters in “Desperately Seeking Susan,” but perhaps a tiny bit of both; just enough to have made the most of the decade in my own way. Lorraine Duffy Merkl is the author of the novels “Fat Chick” and “Back to Work She Goes.”
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ShopRite’s parent company came out the victor in an auction for Fairway Market’s Upper West Side flagship store and three other Manhattan locations last week. For $76 million, Village Supermarket, which owns ShopRite, bought four Manhattan stores, the Pelham Manor locations and Fairway’s distribution center in the chain’s bankruptcy auction. Fairway also announced that Key Food purchased the Georgetowne, Brooklyn store for approximately $5 million and that Amazon would be taking over to real estate
leases in Paramus and Woodland Park in New Jersey for $1.5 million. Amazon had originally bid on two additional stores, including the Pelham and Red Hook locations. “We are pleased with the outcome of the auction and are grateful for our dedicated and hard-working employees, suppliers and distributors during this process which has taken place in these unprecedented times,” said Abel Porter, Chief Executive Officer at Fairway Market, in a statement. Fairway plans to continue operating all of its stores, including those that were not sold in auction, according to a release, and plans to do so for the foreseeable future in order to accommodate the public during the pandemic. “Serving our community has always been our top pri-
ority and we remain committed to providing quality items and a safe shopping environment for our customers and our employees during this global health crisis,” said Porter. Seven of Fairway’s stores did not receive successful bids, according to the New York Post. These stores include the Chelsea location in Manhattan, the Douglaston store in Queens and the Red Hook store in Brooklyn, as well as stores in Westbury and Plainview in New York and Stamford, Conn. The Post also reported that Village Supermarket purchased only yjr parking lot of the Harlem location for $100,000. The Sumas family will operate the Manhattan markets in addition to its 30 ShopRite stores in New Jersey and three Gourmet Garage stores in Manhattan.
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I did not learn how to cook from my mother. Instead she often asks me for cooking advice, though she doesn’t usually like my recipes because they are too fussy and time-consuming. But there is one recipe that she has passed down to me, and I will save it on an index card forever. Ok, I might be on my second copy of that card, and my mom gave me a photocopy for safe keeping, so I guess I should be asking her for advice on keeping organized. When my older son was about 18 months old, she gave me her recipe for playdough. I remember it from my childhood – it was always green or orange, and it was so salty but I just had to give it a lit-
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tle taste anyway. Three kids would be occupied at the dining table, happily shaping, squeezing and sculpting. And now I have my own little one working away, and the younger one trying to eat it. This recipe makes a huge pile (about a quart) of playdough, more satisfying to dig your hands into than the ½ cup portions that you get from the store. When I first started making it, I would portion it out into three balls and mix different colors into each. My kid didn’t care and it was too fussy keeping the colors separate, so now I just make it all one color and every one enjoys playtime a bit more. - Raheli Harper homesteads on 10 acres where she raises sheep, free-range chickens and children. See her handwork at raheli.com. This week’s Dirt Jr. is brought to you by Dirt magazine. Subscribe at dirt-mag.com.
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THE MEASURE OF THE UNFATHOMABLE PAINTING
Gerhard Richter, the 88-year-old German master, understands trauma, as an exhibit closed by a global pandemic reveals BY VAL CASTRONOVO
As New Yorkers hunker down and heed Governor Cuomo’s directive to stay home, one realizes that the new normal is a strange burden, but also an opportunity to brush up your Shakespeare, your Rembrandt – or, in this case, your Gerhard Richter. For art lovers missing weekly museum runs to catch the latest shows, lectures and immersive experiences (remember “First Fridays” at The Frick?), shuttered art institutions across the city have migrated their
offerings online, with virtual gallery tours, book clubs, instructional videos and more. One of the many casualties of the blanket shutdown was the Gerhard Richter show at The Met Breuer, “Painting After All,” the museum’s final show before it was scheduled to vacate Marcel Breuer’s Brutalist monument on Madison later this year. We had a first-hand peek at the remarkable display shortly before the museum’s stunning, albeit temporary, closure on Friday, March 13, courtesy a preview presided over by The Met’s director, Max Hollein, and the curators. For those interested in a digital experience of Richter’s oeuvre, The Met’s website is replete with images, video, the “Primer” and the artist’s own words. metmuseum.org/exhibitions/objects?exhib
Gerhard Richter. “Betty,“ 1977. Oil on wood. Museum Ludwig, Cologne (Loan from private collection, 2007). © Gerhard Richter 2019 (08102019)
itionId=9ccc34b0-6296-4279-947774401faebaff&pkgids=635 and metmuseum.org/primer/gerhardrichter#intro-why-pain So let’s get started. Gerhard Richter (b. 1932, Dresden) is a major figure in the art world, “one of the most important and renowned artists of our time,” Hollein said. After training as a mural painter in the Social Realist tradition, he defected to West Germany in 1961 and reinvented himself, embracing both figurative art and abstract art, sometimes at the same time. As Hollein explained, “He has been testing, has been questioning and has been expanding the possibilities of painting from his early photographic-based paintings to the iconic portraits and to the deeply moving, complex, large-scale abstract series.” He added that the works on loan to The Met reveal Richter’s “dual fascination with representation and abstraction, and the oscillation between the two, both as an artistic practice [and] as a means of human perception.”
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Gerhard Richter. “Townscape Paris,“ 1968. Oil on canvas. Froehlich Collection, Stuttgart. © Gerhard Richter 2019 (08102019)
Gerhard Richter. “Cage 4,“ 2006. Oil on canvas. Tate: Lent from a private collection, 2007. © Gerhard Richter 2019 (08102019)
Over the last six decades, the artist has experimented with photography, painting, drawing and glass sculpture. A bundle of contradictions, he is known for his photo-realist style, blurry images, minimalist aesthetic and the use of a large squeegee to produce densely layered abstract paintings, especially in his later years (e.g., the “Forest” series, 2005; the “Cage” series, 2006, a tribute to composer John Cage). In hindsight, it seems eerily prophetic that the first image we encountered at the preview was the artist’s visualization of 9/11, “September” (2005) – another trauma, another time when the city stood still. Based on pictures in the news media, the painting depicts the fiery moment when a hijacked plane rammed into the second of the Twin Towers. Streaks of paint are lashed across the surface of the canvas, as if the artist was trying to erase the horror at the same time that he was intent on fixing it in memory. Trauma figures early on in Richter’s work as he grappled with the painful legacy of Germany’s Nazi past and ways to address it as an artist. In the 1960s, his breakout years, he painted from photographs culled from newspapers, magazines and family albums. These fuzzy “photographic paintings,” in shades of gray, are some of the most distinctive parts of the oeuvre.
Painful Memories He produced images of family members and loved ones (“Family at the Seaside,” 1964; “Uncle Rudi,” 1965, a Nazi soldier), anonymous individuals (“Group of People,” 1965) and notorious individuals (“Mr. Heyde,” 1965, a psychiatrist who helped organize the Nazi euthanasia program). “Aunt Marianne” (1965 oil/2018 inkjet print) was adapted from a photo his mother sent from Dresden in a shoebox. It pictures a baby Richter in the arms of Marianne Schönfelder, an aunt who was believed to be schizophrenic and was euthanized by the Nazis. The blurriness of the image seems to act as a filter, creating distance from a painful memory. Fifty years later, the artist was still haunted by the episode and made a digital copy of the portrait, “as if to emphasize
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Gerhard Richter. “Birkenau,“ 2014. Oil on canvas. Private Collection. © Gerhard Richter 2019 (08102019)
the persistence of trauma,” the exhibit label states. In the deeply moving Birkenau cycle (2014)—four abstract paintings and four digital iterations of those paintings— the artist confronts the horrors of the Holocaust head on. The works were based on four photographs secretly taken inside Auschwitz-Birkenau by a member of the Sonderkommando, mostly Jewish prisoners forced to help dispose of the bodies of gas-chamber victims. The images were presented alongside Richter’s response in a discrete gallery. After trying unsuccessfully to reproduce the photographs in representational terms, “the artist gradually veiled his original figurative drawings on the four canvases through layers of paint, in a slow and hesitant process of applying and then scouring each coat with a squeegee to produce the heavily disturbed, abstract surfaces,” the wall text states. The paintings are a reminder of the atrocities; the digital copies a reminder that they could happen again. At the preview, co-curator Sheena Wagstaff quoted Richter on art’s purpose: “For surviving this world…[Art] has the measure of all the unfathomable, senseless things, the incessant ruthlessness of this world. And art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.” Go to ourtownny.com to read this story online and access The Met museum website for more information about Gerhard Richter
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THEATER FOLK CAN’T WORK FROM HOME BROADWAY
Emergency relief agreement to provide show employees with pay and health insurance BY LEIDA SNOW
COVID-19 is educating us about more than a pandemic. The Broadway brand is not a monolith. Theater workers were independent contractors long before Lyft and Uber drivers were around. When the Broadway houses shut down, when producers couldn’t hang on until possible Tony nominations, when openings were postponed and the realization hit that some would never happen, the ripple effect shuddered through New York, the nation, and in many cities overseas. Nonprofit companies and independent Off Broadway shows have also had to recalibrate. The Tony Awards have been postponed and won’t be rescheduled until the theaters open. Producers have been laying off staff in every area of the industry. There’s some relief promised in the huge stimulus package coming from Congress. Reports are that it extends unemployment benefits for contract workers and freelancers. But theater production relies on the structure of the Broadway season and the contracts carried by live shows, so making plans remains problematic. Consider those brought on board for any one show, what goes into the two hours or so in the dark that audiences experience. There are the actors and musicians, of course, but there are dozens we don’t think about: lighting and sound technicians, electricians, stagehands, company managers, stage managers, make-up artists, hair stylists, choreographers, directors, set designers, press agents and more.
When the Lights Went Out Speaking for them is the Coalition of Broadway Unions and Guilds (COBUG), which
Keith Sherman and Angela Lansbury. Photo by Anita & Steve Shevett
during this public health emergency. At a recent press briefing, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said no one knows when the pandemic will be contained. Estimates are anywhere from four to nine months or longer. The Broadway League is considering moving the targeted reopening date of April 13 further out, depending on mandated direction from government and health authorities.
“A Roller Coaster” Coming up to what would
be Tony Award time, we won’t be seeing those ads in newspapers or on TV. Longtime theatrical press agent Keith Sherman represented the Tony Awards for 18 years. He’s seen 9/11 with its two day shutdown, a stagehand strike that closed the theaters for nineteen days, and a musicians strike that lasted for 25. “Working in the theater has always been a roller coaster,” he said. “What keeps me grounded is the love of theater, and the knowledge that the only constant is change.” For audiences, the good news is that refunds are automatic for anyone who bought a ticket with a credit card for performances through April 12. The refund window will probably be extended if the theaters don’t reopen then. Meanwhile, there is streaming. You can take digital museum trips, watch an opera from The Metropolitan Opera, and see and hear some
What keeps me grounded is the love of theater, and the knowledge that the only constant is change.” Theatrical press agent Keith Sherman performances online. But even if a previously taped version of a Broadway show were broadcast, anyone whose seen a live performance knows it ain’t the same. And anyone who has seen a Broadway production knows why millions of visitors come every year, even though they may have seen a version of the play or musical back home. There’s live and then — no matter how great — there’s everything else. And there’s everything else, and then there’s Broadway. Leida Snow is a journalist, author and critic.
COVID-19: Times Square area on March 25. Photo: NYPD Times Square via flickr
has come to an agreement with The Broadway League of Producers, Theater Owners and General Managers for “an emergency relief agreement [that will] provide Broadway employees with pay and health insurance during the current suspension of all Broadway shows.” Apparently the agreement covers productions that were running when the lights went out. As for those in the pipeline: The producers of “Hangmen” were the first to pull the plug on the eagerly awaited Martin McDonagh play that was in previews and was due to open March 19th. The Roundabout Theatre Company has postponed its Broadway productions. COBUG called for government help. The coalition sent over 80,000 letters over two days to Congress, asking that displaced arts and entertainment workers be included in upcoming federal aid pack-
ages. Representatives Jerrold Nadler and Carolyn Maloney were among those urging the inclusion of protections for entertainment professionals, previously excluded from relief plans. In order to qualify for benefits that some of the unions offer, individuals have to document a certain level of income. These folks can’t work remotely, and most of them are freelance. Most are part of the gig economy — they work for a day, a week, maybe a season on a production, and now they are without wages and benefits they counted on, with no end in sight. Broadway is an economic engine for New York. It is also a national — in fact, a global — phenomenon. There are hundreds of thousands of arts and entertainment families across the country and abroad that are looking at zero income to pay rent, buy food, or pay for medical care
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A ZOOM RETIREMENT PARTY
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A beloved porter in an Upper West Side building gets a virtual sendoff BY EMILY GOODMAN
Gregorio/Gregory/Greg Martinez came to work on the last Sunday in March to say goodbye to the brooms and buckets that are the tools of his work, and also for a Zoom retirement party. After more than 25 years working as a porter at the Savannah 250 West 89th Street, Martinez and his wife, Leyda, are taking off for Tampa. “She can’t wait,” he said to the hidden camera. A lobby retirement party with drinks and food was knocked out by Covid-19, but the virus was no match for Zoom. With about 20 inexperienced electronic attendees in the building or outside the city, the message was, “We love you, we’ll miss you, and thank you, Greg.” Greg, 65, came to work at the Savannah after almost a decade at the Plaza Hotel, and after giving up his own local business, a store on 104th St. between Broadway and Amsterdam. Originally from the Dominican Republic, he has lived on West 165th St. since he arrived in New York. On Sunday he was all smiles when he described how happy he has been at his job and how much the residents mean to him. “I love them all,” he said about the apartment owners and tenants in this firstname-basis building. And the feeling is mutual; everybody loves him. Via Zoom, Deniz Ozenbas welcomed “the chance not only to wish a beloved employee well,” but also to share her thoughts with neighbors. Cindy Hsu, Channel 2 news anchor, recalled Greg’s help
The message was, “We love you, we’ll miss you, and thank you, Greg.”
Greg Martinez says goodbye to building residents in the Savannah lobby. Photo: Emily Goodman
when she moved so her daughter Rosie would have her own room. “While we’re extremely happy for Gregory as he enters retirement, the Savannah community is sad to see him go,“ said board president Rob Fink. “For over 25 years Gregory was a friendly and cheerful presence, who was always willing to go the extra yard to help a resident or colleague.
He will be sorely missed.” Building manager Mike Norat, who hired Greg, described him as “excellent.” When the party was over, there was only one thing missing (besides the cake and champagne): No hugs. The staff have their own event planned for Greg’s sendoff even if they have to be six feet apart.
Channel 2 news anchor Cindy Hsu (right) and her daughter Rosie on Zoom. Photo: Emily Goodman
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HELP AT HAND CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “He’s a sweet, beautiful person and he’s my best friend,“ said Gov. Cuomo. He added that his brother was going to be fine. The governor said it was a reminder that people need to be smart and distance themselves from more vulnerable people. In his case, he said he was worried about his own mother’s exposure.
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PASSOVER
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 help of technology, a meaningful Pesach is still within reach. Straus News has collected resources for celebrating the Festival of Freedom while choosing to stay at home.
Playlists Music is a great mood lifter. To set a festive tone, Reform Judaism has created two playlists — one for adults and one of family favorites— available for free on Spotify. To listen, download the Spotify app on your smartphone, computer, or tablet and search for “reformjudaism.”
Print Haggadahs “Many people have never led a Seder, so they’re not sure what’s involved in that, because very often you’re a guest for a Passover,” Rogosnitzky explained.
Chabad-Lubavitch (Chabad.org) offers printable haggadahs, available in English, Hebrew and bilingual versions on its “Everything You Need to Celebrate Passover During Coronavirus” page.
Shopping Lists Websites such as KosherFamily.com offer shopping lists to guide you in crafting a Seder that would make Bubbe proud. Park East Kosher (1733 First Avenue) and The Kosher Marketplace (2442 Broadway) are two local businesses braving the pandemic to keep their doors open ahead of Pesach.
Take Out For those who prefer to avoid shopping right now, some retailers, including Fresh Direct, are offering complete Seder meals delivered straight to your door.
Tune In Synagogues around the world will be broadcasting Passover services online. Check listings for specific times. Manhattan services on April 8 will include a first night seder from Congregation Rodeph Sholom at 6 p.m. (rodephsholom.org), and a “Tot Passover Celebration” for toddlers via Zoom from Central Synagogue at 12 p.m. (centralsynagogue.org). On April 9, Temple Shaaray Tefila (shaaraytefilanyc.org) will broadcast a “virtual community second night seder” starting at 6:30 p.m. “Accept that this is not the norm,” Rogosnitzky advised, encouraging Jews to mark the holiday regardless: “Even if it only means that a person sits at the table, has some Matzah, reads a little bit about the history of Passover, the most important thing is that you keep it in whatever way, that you observe it.”
Michael Kane, owner of Park East Kosher, which is keeping its doors open before Pesach. Photo: Jennifer Doherty
As confirmed cases in the state surpassed 75,000, the governor repeated his request for health care workers from across the country to come to New York and provide their services. The city has had to become creative elsewhere in order to meet the demand for medical services, which has included the transformation of the Javits Convention Center into a 1,000-bed hospital with the help of the Army Corps of Engineers. Additionally, more than a dozen white tents were constructed over the weekend in Central Park by the disaster relief organization Samaritan’s Purse as part of a field hospital on the lawn across from Mount Sinai Hospital near Fifth Avenue and 99th Street. The field hospital, which opened Tuesday, has 68 beds, 10 Intensive Care Unit beds, as well as X-ray equipment and a pharmacy. A
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makeshift morgue will also be a part of the facility.
A Surge in Wills and Trusts Inquiries The surging death numbers have undoubtedly taken a toll on the psyche of New Yorkers. The anxiety has brought new business to Suzanne Thau, a trust and estates attorney. “We’ve gotten a lot of inquiries from people concerned about their own mortality,” said Thau, who works at a boutique firm with 52 lawyers. “Because it is so uncertain, it’s making people think about their mortality more than they normally would.” Thau’s firm has seen a surge in questions from clients asking for guidance as they navigate the uncertainty of the pandemic. Mostly, she’s seen an urgency in clients’ desire to have theirs wills and trusts settled that is not typical in other times. “I will work with people over the course of a year sometimes because it’s just a macabre topic that a lot of people don’t really want to talk about,” said Thau. “I will start planning with people and then I won’t hear from them for six months, I’ll send them drafts, I will hear from them for another six months. And yeah, it’s because we’re New Yorkers: we’re super busy and people have careers, kids and a million demands on their time. But it’s also that you kind of mentally want to put it on
He’s a sweet, beautiful person and he’s my best friend.” Gov. Andrew Cuomo, saying his brother Chris Cuomo, the CNN anchor, had tested positive for the virus. the back burner, because who really wants to think about dying right?” Thau is used to asking the uncomfortable questions. In her job, she often has to game out morbid scenarios. What happens if you and your kids all die in a plane crash together? Where would your money go then? Planning for the improbable is an everyday reality. “I’m accustomed to seeing these things,” said Thau. “It kind of gives you a different perspective on the world.” But even for her, the pandemic has been an unusual and unprecedented experience, and she’s trying to be a calming presence for her clients. “We don’t want to scare anyone. We don’t want to add any type of panic feeling. We want to make this easier for people right now because there’s enough stress,” said Thau. “We’re just telling people to enjoy their time with their loved ones, which is something this career kind of forces you to recognize.”
Emergency field hospital tents in Central Park set up across from Mount Sinai by Samaritan’s Purse. Photo: Nancy Ploeger
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Veteran journalist and UWS resident Sree Sreenivasan on his newest public service project, Sree’s COVID-19 Call BY JENNIFER DOHERTY
As a reporter, professor and social media professional, Sree Sreenivasan has kept us up-to-date through tough times from 9/11, through the 2004 tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the 2008 Mumbai attacks. With COVID-19 sparking fear and misinformation, he’s back in action, running a daily webcast that brings global experts and the public into conversation under the hashtag #SreeCovid19Call. He is also the host of a new radio program on WBAI, called “Coping With COVID19: A Helpful, Hopeful Call-In Show,“ every Saturday at noon. Sreenivasan, the Marshall Loeb Visiting Professor of Digital Innovation at Stony Brook School of Journalism, spoke to Straus News from his home on the Upper West Side.
One of the things that I’ve been telling people is that this is an opportunity. This time has given us an opportunity to work on something. This is a chance for us to work on some kind of passion project or an idea, whether it’s writing a novel or writing a short story or doing something digital. And with that in mind, when the lockdown started, I realized that there was no way that I could have my daily interactions restricted to my client work calls and dealing with my wonderful, lovely family of two 17-year-olds, my wife and my dog. I wanted to have some way where I could talk to other people and have kind of a group therapy session and the chance to learn about what’s happening. It started as an open phone call, kind of a conference call on steroids, so anybody could just pick up the phone and chat. And very quickly there was enough interest that it morphed into what we have now, which is a daily global online conversation on four different platforms. When you add up all the different platforms, we’re at a couple of thousand people a day.
Sree Sreenivasan hosting his daily COVID-19 webcast. Photo via @sree on Twitter
Sree Sreenivasan in action. Photo: Mike Oswald
Which platforms is this available on?
This is on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn, both live and archived. The idea is that you could listen live on any of those platforms and also see the archives. My belief is there’s a contribution people can make by being a curator of useful information in a time of crisis. Staying where you are but taking information from all over the place and sharing it in a coherent manner is a useful service.
I was reading about your long-tail approach …
Yeah, that was also a part of that for sure. So, starting with 9/11, we used the tools of the day. In that day it was email, where you could share useful, relevant, timely information. And I did that several times a day in emails, news alerts or combination of information, combining things — curation. After that came the tsunami of 2004. Again, we did a whole similar thing, but it was all email-based and website-based. Then came Katrina in 2005, where we were able to, again, mostly weband blog-based. And then, the Mumbai attacks of 2008, where the radio and online audio became the easiest tool and we used that. So you kind of see the evolution of this. And then, if you fast forward to today, it makes much more sense to use a social media tool and video as a way of bringing people together. Do it’s the same thing that I was doing on September 11, 2001 with email, but now on a global scale using social media, and the heart of it is: Can we help advance the conversation? Can we bring useful ideas? Can we help people? That’s the reason to do it.
That’s a wonderful philosophy. What can listeners expect from the daily call in terms of content or structure?
It’s kind of an open session where people can comment and network and hear other ideas from all over the world. We have attendees on a regular basis from four or five continents every day. It’s so nice to just see people connecting with each other and hearing opinions from other places. I also try to program it a little bit. Today I’m having doctors talking, but doctors who are not COVID specialists, like what is happening to dental work? What’s happening to eye surgery? Yesterday we had a session on saving Main Street. We had a session earlier this week with four journalists and a doctor live from Italy. All of these are things that you see versions of every day on TV, but when you’re seeing it on the cable news, you get much better production values and good-looking people, but you don’t have a chance to interact. We bring some of what you’ve seen on TV to you and into your computers and phones. We also bring things that you may not yet see on TV. There are also lots of journalists watching the show for source ideas. I’ve had multiple people who’ve been on my show, then ended up on television the same day or the next day.
Who will you be interviewing in upcoming episodes?
The Editor-in-Chief from the Wall Street Journal has agreed to join us. We have more medical folks. We’re going to have different themes. People loved and responded really
well to our economic hardship discussion, so we’ll be talking more about how we encounter that and what we do about it.
What’s one piece of information or perspective from the calls that’s really stuck in your mind as we ride out this pandemic?
That people want information. That people want to help, and people want to get help. I think those are all really important ideas.
You’ve covered a number of disasters. What makes COVID different?
Well, because this is going to change everything. I just talked yesterday to the provost at Hong Kong University, who was talking about the second wave coming in there already. We have to understand that the world has changed and will need to change. I don’t think we’ll be able to carry on as if nothing happened. The good news is that human beings come out of crises. We came out of World War One, out of World War II, out of the influenza in 1918, so I’m confident we will get through this, but we will be a changed people and a changed planet after this. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Follow Sree on Twitter @sree for information on daily call times and guest speakers. Tune in to his radio program on Saturdays, noon - 2 p.m. ET on WBAI 99.5FM and on http://wbai.org.
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There’s so much that enrages me these days that I’m sure I overacted last week when I spotted the boarded up storefront of the luxury skincare store on Ninth Avenue in my Chelsea neighborhood. My partner and I were on our way back from our earlymorning fast-walk in Hudson River Park (super-early to avoid having to be vigilant about staying six feet away from other walkers and runners). The sight of the raw plywood stopped me in my tracks. At first I thought perhaps someone had broken a window, but on closer inspection I realized that the corporate entity that owns Aesop had decided to prepare for the apocalypse. When my partner and I moved to West 20th Street twenty-six years ago, it would have been laughable to think that luxury anything would be sold on the east side of Ninth Avenue between 20th and 21st Streets (the west side was still occupied by a General Theological Seminary building that had no street-level retail). It was a homely block of hyper-local stores that included a longtime butcher, a vegetarian takeout place frequented by South Asian cab drivers and a
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tiny florist shop. Over the years this little stretch of our neighborhood has been transformed along with so much of Chelsea, but until Aesop arrived, all the stores on this block were still locally owned; Aesop is owned by a Brazilian company and has 225+ locations around the world. What infuriated me about the boarded up storefront was the message it sent: we don’t trust you NOT to loot our store. As if the first thing people think of in a pandemic is stealing luxury skincare products. I quickly discovered that Aesop wasn’t alone, that the virus of fear had struck at the heart of luxury brand retailers with stores across town in SoHo, and in high-end shopping districts well beyond New York. Maybe these retailers know something I don’t about what’s to come. But what I know is that the crime rate here in New York has fallen even further as the pandemic has unfolded and I can’t find a single news story about looting. So what are these multi-
national luxury goods purveyors afraid of? And what does it say about how much these companies care about our communities? I never thought I’d quote Ronald Reagan or even paraphrase him, but here goes: Aesop, tear down your plywood wall! If the apocalypse comes, the plywood isn’t going to make a difference anyway (I was in NYC for the 1977 blackout — even metal gates didn’t keep out looters). In the meantime, you’re just making people like me resent you and your presence in our neighborhood. Just one final question for Aesop’s parent company: Now that you’ve secured your inventory behind plywood (or at least take comfort in that illusion), what are you doing to protect the salaries and health insurance of the lovely people who worked in your Chelsea store? Eric Marcus is a journalist. He coproduces and hosts the “Making Gay History” podcast.
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