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An empty newsstand at the 96th Street station on the Second Avenue subway. Photo: Michael Garofalo
NO NEWS ON SECOND AVENUE SUBWAY SUBWAYS Four months after the subway line opened, newsstands at the new stations remain vacant BY MICHAEL GAROFALO
It was a New Year’s Eve party a century in the making. One hundred years after the Second Avenue subway was first proposed, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio and other dignitaries rang in 2017 at an invitation-only soiree in the new station beneath 72nd Street, enjoying hors d’oeuvres and drinks as the Q train took its inaugural trip on the new line. Memorably, a pristine newsstand on the station’s mez-
City Council Member Ydonis Rodriguez (left) and DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg announce plans to close Broadway to vehicle traffic on Earth Day at a press conference in Times Square April 12. Photo: Michael Garofalo
zanine was repurposed into a bar, with bottles of beer from New York breweries lining the shelves in place of candy and magazines. The newsstands in the Second Avenue stations haven’t been put to use since. Nearly four months after the turnstiles started spinning in New York’s newest subway stations, the Metropolitan Transit Authority has yet to contract a vendor to operate four newsstands on the Second Avenue line. Black kiosks branded with the MTA’s Second Avenue subway logo sit shuttered and empty on station platforms as riders wait for trains to arrive. Anyone in need of a cold
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CAR-FREE ON BROADWAY FOR EARTH DAY ENVIRONMENT DOT will also convert one block of Broadway near Flatiron to fulltime “shared street” BY MICHAEL GAROFALO
Heading downtown on Saturday? Make sure your cabbie knows not to take Broadway. Or better yet, says the Department of Transportation, ditch the cab altogether and celebrate
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Earth Day with a stroll or a bike ride down America’s most famous street, which will be temporarily car-free. The DOT announced last week that Broadway will be closed to vehicles between Union Square and Times Square on April 22, leaving the street open to pedestrians and cyclists from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. All cross streets will remain open except 33rd Street. Plazas along the mile-and-a-halflong stretch of Broadway will host various DOT-sponsored events and activities, including musical perfor-
mances, dance classes and walking tours. Citi Bike will offer free bike-
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SPRING AND ALLERGY SEASON HAVE SPRUNG HEALTH Warmer weather triggers a surge in symptoms due to tree pollens BY SHRADHA AGARWAL, MD
As we hope for warmer weather over the next few weeks, we will also see a surge in allergy symptoms in children and adults due to pollen allergies. Allergic rhinitis is common, estimated to affect between 10 to 30 percent of the population worldwide, and the prevalence has been steadily increasing. In New York City, spring and fall are the most common seasons that people are symptomatic, due to tree and weed pollens respectively. In the spring, the common tree allergens include oak, birch, maple, and elm; in the fall, ragweed is the trigger. Typical symptoms of allergic rhinitis are nasal congestion, itchy, sneezing, runny nose, and watery/itchy eyes. This can cause difficulty concentrating at work or school, headache, fatigue, and irritability. Other symptoms that oc-
cur especially in asthmatics include cough, wheezing and/or shortness of breath. For anyone suffering with these symptoms, the first step is to visit an allergist who can review your history and environmental exposures, and perform a physical examination. A blood test for specific IgE antibodies or a skin prick test can identify which environmental allergens are pertinent. Once the diagnosis is confirmed, the allergist will advise how to avoid potential allergens and recommend treatment with antihistamines, nasal sprays, saline rinses, and eye drops. Many of these medications are available over the counter, but consulting with an allergist can help determine which ones will be most effective. Approaches to reduce symptoms depend on the type of allergen and degree of exposure. For certain indoor allergens, such as roach and dust mites, the approach focuses on reducing exposure by avoidance, use of dust mite encasings, and proper cleaning. Pollen — a fine powdery substance produced by trees, grasses,
April 2017 in Central Park. Photo: Shinya Suzuki, via flickr weeds used to fertilize other plants of the same species — is more difficult to avoid, since we spend a lot of time outdoors. Tips include staying indoors, shutting the windows when pollen counts peak — usually mid-morning and when windy conditions stir pollen into the air. Rainy days reduce pollen counts in the air short term. You can plan your day by visiting websites that track the local pollen counts. Wearing sunglasses and hats outdoors helps to reduce the amount of pollen getting into the eyes and
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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG front right paw severed and appeared malnourished, and had matted hair and uncut nails, according to a police account. The man, identified only as being 25, was arrested the same day.
STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 19th precinct Week to Date
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2016
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Murder
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Police arrested a man who had stolen an expensive convertible from a local parking garage. On Feb. 7, a 67-year-old man parked his brown 2015 Porsche Boxster convertible for the winter at an East 84th Street garage. When he returned to pick up the car on March 2, it was no longer in the facility. A day after the theft was reported on April 11, police arrested a 22-year-old Bronx man and charged him with grand larceny auto, criminal possession of stolen property, and unauthorized use of a vehicle. The Porsche is valued at $60,000.
Rape
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Robbery
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Felony Assault
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Burglary
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BANK ROBBERY
ANIMAL CRUELTY ARREST
LOT LOSS
Police are searching for a man in his 40s who walked in to the Chase bank at 126 East 86th Street at 3:45 p.m. on Monday, April 10, passed a note to a teller saying he had a bomb and demanded cash. He fled after the teller gave him $5,009.
An Upper Manhattan man was arrested and charged with aggravated cruelty to animals after he brought in his bichon frisé into The Animal Medical Center on 62nd Street on Monday, April 10. The dog, named Snow, had numerous signs of neglect and mistreatment. The dog had its
At 6:10 p.m. on Thursday, April 13, a 56-year-old woman left her suitcase with contents valued at about $5,200 at the entrance to the parking lot located at 245 East 93rd St. It was gone when she went to retrieve the bag 20 minutes later. Besides the black suitcase, the missing items include a
watch valued at $2,000, jewelry valued at $3,000, medications and other items. The woman told police she didn’t see anyone take it.
WATCH OUT Alert bank personnel saved an area senior from a phone scam. At 9 a.m. on March 28, an East 79th Street resident received a phone call telling her that
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her grandson was in police custody after he had broken a watch valued at $61,000. The woman, 80, was told to bring that amount to a firm called Avi & Co. at 43 West 47th St., where the watch was being repaired. She went to Chase Bank to withdraw that amount of money when bank personnel told her that the call sounded like a scam. Further investigation revealed that her grandson was not in custody and the story was untrue.
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MALONEY AND VELAZQUEZ: A MESSAGE OF ‘RESISTANCE’ TOWN HALL Maloney on rumored preemptive strike on North Korea: “They can’t do such an action without a vote from Congress.� BY MICHAEL GAROFALO
With Congress on recess, Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Nydia Velazquez held a joint town hall on April 13 to meet with constituents from their adjacent districts at the Anna Silver School on the Lower East Side. In contrast to the antagonism between constituents and elected ofďŹ cials that has come to characterize some Republican-led town halls in recent months, attracting national coverage, the crowd at last week’s event was largely supportive of the representatives’ central message: staunch opposition to President Donald Trump. “Nydia and I served together on the city council years ago, then we were both elected [to Congress] in ‘92, and we are now part of the resistance,â€? Maloney said in her opening remarks,
Rep. Carolyn Maloney speaks to constituents April 13 at the Anna Silver School on the Lower East Side. Photo: Michael Garofalo to cheers from the audience. Maloney and Velazquez were joined by a panel of experts from the New York Civil Liberties Union, Fiscal Policy Institute, New York Housing Conference and New York State of Health, who detailed the local impacts
of Trump administration policies, and ďŹ elded questions on topics including guns, health care, foreign policy and government ethics. As one of the panelists delivered remarks, an aide to Maloney walked briskly onto the stage to deliver a note
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UNPLUGGING BUT STAYING IN TOUCH SUMMER CAMP Parents, kids nevertheless have ways to connect BY MELISSA KOSSLER DUTTON
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Jen Oiler loves that her two daughters spend a week every summer unplugged from their phones and internet connection while visiting Camp Akita in Logan, Ohio. But she also appreciates that the camp takes full advantage of technology to help parents feel connected to their children’s experience. Each evening that her girls are away, she goes online to view photos that the camp has posted of the day’s activities. “I think not being able to communicate with them is more of a challenge for me than them,” says Oiler, of Dublin, Ohio. While kids are often unplugged at summer camp, the camps themselves are harnessing technology in new ways, for promotion and to enhance the camp experience, from posting photos and videos for parents and alumni to connecting campers in the off-season.
It’s a delicate balance, keeping parents informed and happy while not losing sight of camp’s purpose, said Tom Rosenberg, CEO of the American Camp Association, headquartered in Martinsville, Indiana. “I find that parents today need more communication than our parents did when we went to camp,” he said. “It’s a learning experience for us.” Many camps ban cellphones for campers but engage with parents by posting daily photos, letting parents email their children, and creating annual videos featuring campers and activities. Some camps encourage kids to stay in touch year-round by having them share phone numbers, email addresses and social media information. Many camps maintain Facebook pages and Instagram accounts for campers to connect.
PHOTOS A PRIORITY After years of reading teacher blogs and classroom newsletters, parents have grown accustomed to having a window into their child’s day. Many camps have responded by hiring a staffer to take photos and post them online every day. Camp Kanata in Wake Forest, North Carolina, for example, provides daily photos along with updates about the weather, activities and meals, said executive director Shane Brown. “We feel that it’s important for parents to have an idea of
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what is going on at camp,� he said. Capturing the experience in photos is too important and time-consuming a task for counselors, he added: “I don’t think it can be secondary. We hire a person to be the eyes and ears for parents all day, every day.�
WEEKLY VIDEOS In addition to posting photos, Camp Fitch in North SpringďŹ eld, Pennsylvania, creates weekly videos for parents. The videos also allow campers to relive the fun times later, and they provide an opportunity for the camp to reach new audiences, says Matt Pose, executive director. While photos occasionally lead to a parent calling because their youngster looks “mopey,â€? they typically have a reassuring and positive effect, he said. Parents can see their kids trying new things and making new friends. “The upside is parents feel a lot more engaged in the experience and become even more evangelicalâ€? about the beneďŹ ts of camp, he said.
ONE-WAY EMAIL Tanya Hummels never sent her three children care packages or letters while they were at Camp Tecumseh, in Brookston, Indiana, but she regularly emailed them. Many camps encourage letter-writing by parents but do allow them to send emails, which are printed out and delivered to campers once a day. If kids want to write back, however, they usually must rely on pencils, paper and stamps — although some camps will scan
handwritten letters and email them to parents. Hummels liked the ease of composing a few lines each morning on email with tidbits about the family pet or updates on sports news. “The kids said they always looked forward to it,� said Hummels of West Lafayette, Indiana. “It was a little dose of home.�
STAYING CONNECTED Hummels’ daughter Abby never objected to leaving her phone at home, but did insist that her mom bring it on pickup day so she could add hew new friends’ contact information. Abby and her camp friends have arranged several reunions and visits outside of camp. The friendships would not be as close if it weren’t for technology, said Abby, who started going to sleepaway at age 8 and is now 17. After booking her week at Camp Fitch, 14-yearold Eleanor Ziance of Bexley, Ohio, shared the information on her social media channels to see who would be there at the same time. That laid the foundation for new relationships and made her look forward to camp even more, she said. Poese, Fitch’s director, said that ability to connect to fellow campers year-round solidifies friendships and the connection to camp, which is good for kids and camps. “We see a lot of kids communicating through Instagram and other platforms,â€? he said. “It deďŹ nitely intensiďŹ es the experience.â€?
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CITY SHOUTOUTS BY ARLENE KAYATT
EAST SIDE OBSERVER In praise of city service — Shoutout to the Parks Department. It all happened so quickly. Upper East Siders had questions that the Parks Dept. could answer. Phoned the department. Got Crystal Howard. Told her the question. Gave her my email — and voila, within no time had the answer. Question: which entrances are now open to the Esplanade and which are now closed? Here goes — Open: 60th Street, 63rd Street, 78th Street. Closed: 81st Street entrance is currently blocked because of reconstruction of the pedestrian bridge leading down to the Espla-
nade. Open: 82nd, 83rd, 84th Streets run into John Finley Walk, which connects to the Esplanade. Open: 85th to 89th Streets run into Carl Schurz Park, where you can access John Finley Walk and then the Esplanade. Open: 96th Street. And another shoutout to Upper East Sider Madelaine Piel who checked in with Our Town to bring back the news. From automat (think Horn & Hardart) to automated (think Eatsa) — It took awhile, not forever, and here we are — a people-less restaurant. In the late evening, as I was about to cross at the southwest corner of Lex and 43rd, I noted a new brightly lit establishment (a restaurant?, I’ll have to think about the nomenclature). It was closed. Hours are from 7 AM to 7 PM. Not open on
weekends. What I could see were a line of several iPad kiosks on the left for placing orders. At the back is a wall with glass cubicles (“cubbies”) where the food is picked up. It’s all mobile. No upfront staff. Behind the wall is a kitchen staff that prepares the food and places it in the cubbie when it’s ready. The cubbie lights up and the name of the customer appears. No human interaction between staff and customer. Eatsa’s menu is a variety of quinoa bowls with toppings that include guacamole, spaghetti squash, tomatoes, cheese egg, onions, pears, or you can order from a menu selection that includes a burrito bowl, priced at $6.95 a bowl. If you want to read the Eatsa story, check out the February 2016 Business Insider. Eatsa’s the new wave. I’ll get there, maybe. In the meantime, I’m savoring the memories of Horn & Hardhart, when automation meant depositing some coins into a slot, turning a knob, and getting food like baked beans, creamed spinach, buns from behind a dispenser. The 2nd Avenue Deli on
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75th and 1st has a wall dedicated to the relic automated dispenser. Just for display. If you want food, you have to be served sitting down at a table. The old fashioned way. Light of day, night, too — One of the consequences of safety precautions is that they can be unsightly. Scaffolding, meant to protect passersby from falling objects, makes for a blight on light and the appearance of our city streets, among other things. Lexington between 54th and 55th Street on the west side of the street is a prime example. Scaffolding covered the block for what seems like years. Now that it’s down, I found out the name of the restaurant where I stop every morning for takeout — Cafe Olympia. And the name of a smaller version next door I now know is Red Olive. The block is taking on a vibrancy that was hard to see when there was scaffolding. In the last month, BBQ Korilla takeout restaurant opened on the street. Great to finally see it all in daylight. That’s not to say the neighborhood is
scaffold-free. There’s new scaffolding right around the corner. Hopefully, not for long. Good for your health — Walk-in medical facilities, privately owned, are the new commercial kids on the block. Very much needed, they are providing a real service to communities in Manhattan. Names like City MD, Pro Health, Urgent Care, among others. They are not primary health care providers and send reports and results of tests to the primary physician. Plaudits for the new emergency-type health care providers are coming from people of all ages. From moms and dads with young kids to older and younger adults. They speak of the experience and expertise of the physicians. The immediate follow up with the patient about test results and anything that should be looked into. The facilities are clean, attractive. Staff is polite. Nice that something good is happening in health care.
LESSONS FOR WRITERS OF ALL AGES BY ALEXIS GELBER
I had a very inspiring morning recently, during a visit to P.S./I.S. 171 on East 103rd Street. The principal, Dimitres Pantelidis, had invited me to his school, of which he is very proud. The school has frequently been mentioned in lists of the city’s best elementary and middle schools (including in Our Town), and Pantelidis was an OTTY winner two years ago. What I saw blew me away. The school buzzes with energy and enthusiasm. Parents are engaged, teachers convey passion about their subjects, and the kids radiate excitement about learning. In every classroom I visited, hands
were up in the air. The environment is stimulating: there are shelves and baskets of books in every classroom, and students are given iPads for specific assignments. I remember looking at schools when my own children were young. The schools where I thought they would thrive were places I would want to spend time myself, and this school reminded me of that. As a journalist, what especially impressed me was the importance Pantelidis and his teachers place on writing. The students are encouraged to write in every subject, including math and science. And they get savvy writing lessons from
an early age. The photos on this page are from two classrooms. The poster on the left is a checklist for first-graders learning how to write opinion pieces. (At a time of concern about “fake news,” please note the last two entries on the list.) The poster on the right is in a second grade classroom. It gives students a guide for how to write a lead — the start of a story. Even experienced journalists could learn a thing or two from this chart. After my visit, I shared these images with some journalist friends. One summed it up this way: “Suddenly, the future doesn’t look so bad.”
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Ronald Richter, CEO of the Jewish Child Care Association, displays a new comic book aimed at preventing sex trafficking. Photo: Madeleine Thompson
‘A FORM OF MODERNDAY SLAVERY’ CRIME ACS targets child sex trafficking in the city BY MADELEINE THOMPSON
At a press conference last Wednesday, timed to National Child Abuse Prevention Month, the city’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) announced a new effort to educate young adults about sex trafficking. In partnership with the Jewish Child Care Association (JCCA), End Child Prostitution and Trafficking (ECPAT) and Cause Vision, an organization that produces educational materials, the ACS has released a comic book called “Where Is Dylan?� to help vulnerable children and communities prevent and identify signs of sex trafficking. The comic book will be distributed at schools around the city starting in September. “This is a form of modern-day slavery that is taking place every day in our city,� Susan Morley, senior adviser for investigations at ACS, said last week. “We have had cases as young as 12 years old.� Morley went on to describe the ways in which technology has helped and hurt the cause. Social media, she said, has both made it easier for traffickers to operate under the radar — and for law enforcement to track them down. The many ways in which traffickers can ensnare children on social media has made educating youths on spotting and avoiding predators a crucial priority. According to ECPAT’s website, “about 25 percent of the youth in a random sample who were surveyed at Covenant House (a shelter for street youth) in New York experienced some form of trafficking victimization.� A report by the Center
for Court Innovation, which studies problems in communities and government systems, found that in 2008 “almost 4,000 children in New York City were found to be sexually exploited [and] 50 percent were boys.â€? Nearly half of those victims were exploited in hotels. Because of the role hotels play in sex trafficking, New York assemblymember Amy Paulin recently introduced legislation that would require hotels to use organizations like ECPAT to train their employees to recognize signs of trafficking. “We know girls are being trafficked in hotels, and the more awareness we can bring, the greater potential we have of rescuing them and preventing future victims,â€? Paulin told the New York Times on Sunday. Paulin has already helped pass a similar bill pertaining to hospital workers, and is drumming up support for the new one among local elected officials such as Representative Carolyn Maloney of the city’s 12th Congressional district. Resources on the ACS website explain that trafficking can be difficult to spot, but encourage people to look out for, among other things, older men accompanying young girls who refuse to make eye contact. The state Office of Children and Family Services lists red ags as, for example, children who lack proper identiďŹ cation, have frequent injuries, rely on someone else to speak for them and have a heightened fear of authority. Those who have information that is not an emergency can contact the NYPD’s 24-hour Organized Crime Control Bureau hotline at 646610-6610.
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92nd St. Y, 1395 Lexington Ave. 7:30-8:30 p.m. $25-$85 “Anne Akiko Meyers revels in the fantastical. Alongside music by Beethoven and Ravel are evocative new works written especially for Ms. Meyers.” 212-415-5500. 92y.org
Asia Society, 725 Park Ave. 6:30-9 p.m. Free. Pre-register. “Secrets of the Sea: A Tang Shipwreck and Early Trade in Asia.” Keynote address by scholar Regina Krahl on eve of daylong symposium. 212-288-6400. asiasociety. org
Kitchen Arts & Letters, 1435 Lexington Ave. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Hundreds of damaged, older and second-hand food and wine books going for $1-$10. Help clean out shelves and find good homes for wonderful books. 212-876-5550. kitchenartsandletters.com
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Carlton Hobbs Gallery, 60 East 93rd St. 6-9:30 p.m. $200 The Wild Bird Fund, a medical, rehab and education center is holding its sixth annual fundraising gala at Vanderbilt Mansion, and honoring Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell. 646-306-2862. wildbirdfund. org
Turtle Bay Music School, 244 East 52nd St. 7 p.m. Free. RSVP. “Larry Weng explores the composer’s relationship with narrative journey and transformative emotional arch of multi-movement works in piano works by Schubert and Schumann.” 212-753-8811. tbms.org
SPRING YARN SHOWCASE Annie & Company Needlepoint & Knitting, 1763 Second Ave. 2-5 p.m. Spring/summer stock, all new yarns to peruse and get inspired by. There will be patterns and snacks. No purchase required. 212-360-7266. annieandco. com
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SAILING STORIESâ–ź Explorers Club, 46 East 70th St. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. “Sailing Storiesâ€? is a day focused on sailing-based exploration and conservation; presentations and cocktail party. 212-628-8383. explorers.org
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�Most people who develop symptoms of a stroke do not get to the hospital fast enough to recieve the most effective treatments available,� said Dr. Matthew E. Fink, neurologist-in-chief at NewYorkPresbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and chair of the Department of Neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine.
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(ÂŹ @€É² ‰¿ ùïðþÄ? :Â‰Ă˜k²¿£ĤJÂżÂ‰Ăƒ Þɉ¿™tÂŹ ÂĽtΏ€—‰… ɗ‰ Ă§ÂżĂƒĂ‰ 9² ™¼‰ QÉ¿²£‰ V¿‰tɍ‰É [™É Ä 9QV[ÄĄ ² the East Coast. NewYork-Presbyterian’s emergency departments have systems in place to expedite stroke care once the patient reaches the hospital, resulting in response times from evaluation to treatment that are among the best in the country. “What we realized is there is still an issue with patients receiving time-sensitive treatment,â€? said Dr. Fink. “Often it’s because patients are unsure ²’ ɗ‰™¿ ĂƒĂžÂŤÂźĂ‰Â˛ÂŤĂƒ tÂŹÂ… Ă˜t™É tÂŹÂ… ĂƒÂ‰Â‰Ä” VÂ—Â™Ăƒ Ă˜t™É™“ ɗ‰ ÂżÂ‰ĂƒĂŽÂĽĂ‰Ăƒ ™ Â’t™¼Î¿‰ ɲ ÂŤt£‰ ɗ‰ ÂŤÂ˛ĂƒĂ‰ ²’ ɗ‰ ²ŸŸ²¿ÉΏ™ÉÞ ’²¿ ‰t¿¼Þ ™É‰¿×‰É™²Ĕ Q² Ă˜Â‰ —t׉ ‰‰ ɿޙ“ ɲ ç“ο‰ ²ÎÉ Ă˜Â—tÉ Ă˜Â‰ €tÂŹ …² ɲ ĂƒÂ—Â˛ÂżĂ‰Â‰ÂŹ ɗtÉ ə‰ ™É‰¿×t¼Ĕč V—‰ 9QV[ É¿tÂŹĂƒÂ’Â˛ÂżÂŤĂƒ ɗ‰ €Î¿¿‰É ²…‰¼ ²’ €t¿‰ Ăž ¿™“™“ ɗ‰ ‰‰¿“‰€Þ department to the patient. “It’s an ED on wheels so to speak. By doing this it allows us to save upwards of 30 minutes in time to treatment for patients who may be having a stroke,â€? said Jeffrey QÄ” Â˛ÂŁĂƒÂ‰ÂżÄ? י€‰ ÂźÂżÂ‰ĂƒÂ™Â…Â‰ÂŹĂ‰ ²’ Ăƒt’‰ÉÞÄ? ĂƒÂ‰Â€ĂŽÂżÂ™Ă‰Ăž tÂŹÂ… ‰‰¿“‰€Þ ĂƒÂ‰ÂżĂ—Â™Â€Â‰ ’²¿ :Â‰Ă˜k²¿£ĤJÂżÂ‰Ăƒ Þɉ¿™tÂŹÄ” With the support of the Fire Department of New York and other key stakeholders, NewYorkPresbyterian mobilized the team, custom built the ambulance complete with a specially designed Ÿ²¿Ét ¼‰ V ĂƒÂ€t‰¿Ä? …‰×‰¼²Ÿ‰… ɗ‰ ÂźÂżÂ˛Ă‰Â˛Â€Â˛ÂĽĂƒÄ? tÂŹÂ… €t¿¿™‰… ²ÎÉ É¿t™™“ tÂŹÂ… ĂƒÂ™ÂŤĂŽÂĽtə² Â…ÂżÂ™ÂĽÂĽĂƒÄ” ÄŞe™É— t V ĂƒÂ€tÂŹÄ? ÂĽt ²¿tɲ¿Þ ™’²¿tə²Ä? tÂŹÂ… t ÂŹÂ‰ĂŽÂżÂ˛ÂĽÂ˛Â“Â™ĂƒĂ‰ÄĂƒ ‰Ă?t™tə² ²’ ɗ‰ Âźtə‰É €²Ÿ¼‰É‰… in the unit, a diagnosis or rule-out of stroke can be made quickly and guide decisions that can be carried out at the hospital,â€? said neurologist Dr. Michael P. Lerario, who serves as medical director of ɗ‰ 9² ™¼‰ QÉ¿²£‰ V¿‰tɍ‰É [™ÉĔ V² ¼‰t¿ ²¿‰Ä? Ă—Â™ĂƒÂ™Ă‰ÄŽ www.nyp.org/mobile-stroke-treatment-unit
Dr. Matthew E. Fink, neurologist-in-chief, NewYorkJÂżÂ‰Ăƒ Þɉ¿™tÂŹÄše‰™¼¼ ²¿‰¼¼ę ¿Ĕ Qɉ׉ 0Ä” Â˛ÂżĂ˜Â™ÂŹÄ? president and CEO, NewYork-Presbyterian; James JÄ” ²²É—Ä? €—™‰’Ä? 9Q @Ÿ‰¿tĂ‰Â™Â˛ÂŹĂƒÄ? :Â‰Ă˜ k²¿£ ™ÉÞ !™¿‰ ‰Ÿt¿É‰Éę 0‰’’¿‰Þ QÄ” Â˛ÂŁĂƒÂ‰ÂżÄ? י€‰ ÂźÂżÂ‰ĂƒÂ™Â…Â‰ÂŹĂ‰Ä? Qt’‰ÉÞÄ? Q‰€Î¿™ÉÞÄ? tÂŹÂ… ‰¿“‰€Þ QÂ‰ÂżĂ—Â™Â€Â‰ĂƒÄ™ tÂŹÂ… ¿Ĕ @ÂĽt¢™…‰ Ä”e™¼¼™tÂŤĂƒÄ? …™¿‰€É²¿Ä? €Îɉ QÉ¿²£‰ QÂ‰ÂżĂ—Â™Â€Â‰ĂƒÄ? :Â‰Ă˜k²¿£Ĥ
Held on the Weill Cornell Medicine campus, ™“ M‰… QV 9 tĂž Â™Ăƒ t €²¼¼t ²¿tə׉ ‰’’²¿É run by students, faculty and staff across Cornell campuses and the New York City ‰Ÿt¿É‰É ²’ …΀tə²Ĕ e—™¼‰ ²¿‰¼¼ V‰€— representatives taught student attendees to create their own PokĂŠmon GO games and QÂŹtŸ€—tÉ Ă§ÂĽĂ‰Â‰ÂżĂƒÄ? “¿tÂ…ĂŽtɉ tÂŹÂ… Ώ…‰¿“¿tÂ…ĂŽtɉ students from the Ithaca campus showed teens how to use electroplating to make a silver penny and a copper nickel. Medical and biomedical doctoral students taught them how to use staining methods to differentiate bacteria from soil, yogurt and even their mouths, and a Cornell Cooperative Extension associate engaged them in cartography and mapping activities to create their own collaborative design for a neighborhood park.
Dr. Augustine M.K. Choi Named Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine Dr. Augustine M.K. Choi, an internationally renowned physician-scientist ™ ɗ‰ 牼… ²’ ¼Î“ Â…Â™ĂƒÂ‰tĂƒÂ‰Ä? Ă˜tĂƒ ÂŹt‰… ɗ‰ QɉŸ—‰ tÂŹÂ… QĂŽĂŁt‰ eÂ‰Â™ĂƒĂƒ ‰tÂŹ ²’ e‰™¼¼ ²¿‰¼¼ 9‰…™€™‰ tÂŹÂ… ²¿‰¼¼ [ÂŹÂ™Ă—Â‰ÂżĂƒÂ™Ă‰ĂžÄĂƒ ÂźÂżÂ˛Ă—Â˛ĂƒĂ‰ for medical affairs effective Jan. 18. Dr. Choi had served as interim dean of Weill Cornell Medicine since June 1, 2016. Dr. Choi was recruited in 2013 as the Qt’²¿… (Ä” e‰™¼¼ —t™¿tÂŹ tÂŹÂ… ÂźÂżÂ˛Â’Â‰ĂƒĂƒÂ˛Âż ²’ ‰…™€™‰ ™ ɗ‰ 0²tÂŹ tÂŹÂ… Qt’²¿… (Ä” Weill Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and as physician-inchief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Previously, he was the Parker B. Francis Professor ²’ 9‰…™€™‰ tÉ &t¿×t¿… 9‰…™€tÂĽ Q€—²²¼ and chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
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Dr. Choi leads a rapidly growing Dr. Augustine M.K. Choi institution, which includes a physician organization that is expanding throughout New York City, thriving programs in biomedical discovery and clinical and translational research, and top-ranked medical and graduate schools. Based on his experience as a clinician, researcher, entrepreneur and mentor, he plans to advance diverse initiatives across Weill Cornell Medicine’s mission of improving human health.
ÄŞ ‰™“ —‰¿‰ ɲ…tĂž ¿‰tÂĽÂĽĂž ²Ÿ‰‰… ÂŤĂž Â‰ĂžÂ‰Ăƒ ɲ ɗ‰ Ă˜Â˛ÂżÂĽÂ… ²’ ĂƒÂ€Â™Â‰ÂŹÂ€Â‰ tÂŹÂ… ɉ€—²¼²“ÞÄ?ÄŤ Ăƒt™… Vt™t J—²‰™Ă?Ä? t ¢Î™²¿ tÉ Ă?Â€Â‰ÂĽĂƒÂ™Â˛Âż J¿‰ŸtÂżtɲ¿Þ &™“— Q€—²²¼ ™ LĂŽÂ‰Â‰ÂŹĂƒÄ” Q—‰ Ă˜tĂƒ ²‰ ²’ þï ĂƒĂ‰ĂŽÂ…Â‰ÂŹĂ‰Ăƒ from 10 high schools in Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx to attend the daylong event. Her €¼tĂƒĂƒÂŤtɉÄ? 9t‰ etĂ‰ĂƒÂ˛ÂŹÄ? Ăƒt™…Ä? ÄŞe‰ “²É ɲ Â€Â—Â˛Â˛ĂƒÂ‰ Ă‰Ă˜Â˛ tÂ€Ă‰Â™Ă—Â™Ă‰Â™Â‰Ăƒ ’²¿ ɗ‰ Â…tÞĎ @‰ ɗtÉ Ă˜Â‰ Ă˜Â‰ÂżÂ‰ potentially interested in for a career and one workshop we may have never considered.â€? @¿“tÂŹÂ™ĂŁÂ‰ÂżĂƒ —²Ÿ‰ ɗtÉ tÉɉ…™“ ɗ‰ €²¼¼‰“‰Ĥ¼‰×‰¼ QV 9 Ÿ¿²“¿tÂŤ ÂźÂżÂ˛ÂŤÂźĂ‰Ăƒ ɗ‰ ĂƒĂ‰ĂŽÂ…Â‰ÂŹĂ‰Ăƒ ɲ ÂźĂŽÂżĂƒĂŽÂ‰ higher education in science and medicine.
Among his main priorities as dean will be expanding clinical services into Lower Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn with hospital partner NewYork-Presbyterian. In the context of a shifting and complex health care environment, Weill Cornell Medicine will take a proactive approach to reach new patients and increase its cohort of clinical faculty, which currently numbers more than 1,200 physicians.
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Another key area of focus will be joint research, academic collaborations and entrepreneurial partnerships across all of Cornell’s campuses that will pool faculty’s intellectual resources with complementary interests and bolster efforts to recruit and retain the best scholars, trainees and students.
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Dr. Choi will also strengthen the institution’s research enterprise through faculty development, enhanced research support and ongoing recruitment. An increased emphasis on entrepreneurship will help speed the translation of research projects from bench to bedside and contribute to New York’s burgeoning biotech industry.
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WEAPONS OF MASS PERSUASION HISTORY A World War I poster show at the Museum of the City of New York commemorates the 100th anniversary of the U.S. declaration of war on Germany BY VAL CASTRONOVO
This year marks the centennial of the United States’ entry into World War I. The 100th anniversary of Congress’ declaration of war against Germany on April 6, 1917, was marked in the city by a sweep of events, from a performance of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” at St. John the Divine to a screening of the silent film “Wings” at the French Institute Alliance Française. The Museum of the City of New York kicked off its commemoration on April 5 with a powerful show, “Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York,” a tribute to the artists and illustrators who gave visual shape to wartime propaganda.
IF YOU GO WHAT: “Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York” WHERE: Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue (at 103rd Street) WHEN: Through October 9 www.mcny.org ton, D.C., but the visual effort was based here. “New York had artists, the ad industry, magazines, illustrators, art societies and art schools,” Jaffe said. The government’s Department of Pictorial Publicity led the visual campaign from headquarters at the Society of Illustrators, under the direction of its president, Charles Dana Gibson, creator of the “Gibson Girl.” Gibson and his team of 300 artists, illustra-
tors and ad execs designed posters, but also banners, ads, buttons and cards for store windows, all in the name of patriotism. They took their cues from Washington, and by the end of the war “had worked for almost 60 government agencies and war-related organizations, from the Navy to the Red Cross,” the wall text states. They created 2,500 designs in just over 18 months, resulting in the production of 20 million posters — weapons of mass persuasion to instill loyalty and promote sacrifice. The show boasts one of the most popular images in history, James Montgomery Flagg’s “I WANT YOU FOR U.S. ARMY” recruitment poster, with Uncle Sam’s iconic finger jab. Per Jaffe, Flagg, one of the premier commercial illustrators of the time, looked in a mirror and “sketched himself and later superimposed the beard and star-spangled hat.”
“The exhibition was originally conceived as being historic, but it turned out to be really quite timely,” Whitney Donhauser, the museum’s director, said at a preview, alluding to themes of nationalism and fears about immigrants. “As we worked through the exhibition, we saw that there was so much in it that actually resonates today.”
“The city itself became a theater of war. It was a spot for parades, and posters covered every square inch,” co-curator Donald Albrecht said at the preview, alluding to the plastering of walls, billboards, subway kiosks and department store windows with these visual forms of persuasion, seen here in vintage black-andwhite photos.
Some 65 posters from the museum’s collection of 600 are on view. As co-curator Steven Jaffe described the challenge for those spearheading the propaganda war, “How do we use artists who are very good at persuading people to buy Cream of Wheat? How do we get them to engage in similar psychological persuasion around the issue of the war?” When Americans entered the fray, the propaganda effort was based in Washing-
Graphic designer Mirko Ilic, a panelist at “Propaganda by Design,” a recent talk at the museum tied to the exhibit, singled out the poster and asked, “Why is this so powerful an image? Because [the finger] looks like a gun.” The government printed four million copies of the poster between 1917 and 1918. It was inspired, in part, by a 1914 World War I design by artist Alfred Leete, with a pointy-fingered Lord Kitchener urging men to enlist in the British army.
Herman Roeg, “Help the Red Cross,” 1918. Museum of the City of New York, gift of John W. Campbell.
One photo stands testament to the mural program set up in front of the New York Public Library on 42nd Street, “where people watched murals de-
August William Hutaf, “Treat ‘em Rough,” c. 1918. Museum of the City of New York, gift of John W. Campbell. voted to our Allies being painted. The murals were then hung along Fifth Avenue, which became the ‘Avenue of the Allies,’” Albrecht said. The photos contrast with the brilliantly colored posters that line the walls. Graphic designer Seymour Chwast, another speaker at “Propaganda by Design,” noted that posters have become “less and less important” today, but 100 years ago, “there were not a lot of interesting ways to present propaganda.” His top pick from the show: “LEND!”, the dramatic appeal to buy Liberty Bonds, with one all-caps word on a bright red background. “It’s so direct. It assumes viewers know the message.” In an age of mass immigration from Germany and elsewhere in Europe, there was great fear on the part of the
government about achieving unity in the U.S. to fight the war. The posters demonize Germans, calling them “Huns,” and imagine the Kaiser and his cohorts as devils. Some of the works reflect nationalist appeals for immigrants — GermanAmericans, Italian-Americans, IrishAmericans —to get rid of the hyphen and simply designate themselves Americans. “Are you 100% American?” one Liberty Loan poster asks, begging the questions, “What does it mean to be an American? What does it mean to be from somewhere else, and are you trustworthy if you are from somewhere else?” according to Jaffe. “It does feel very timely, like we skipped over a century,” he said.
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CUNY UNDERGRADS WIN NSF FELLOWSHIPS
RENT STABILIZATION TURNOVER RATES NEIGHBORHOODS New report shows where tenants are leaving (Lower Manhattan) and staying put (Upper West Side) BY MADELEINE THOMPSON
SCIENCE Students plan to pursue neuroscience and astrophysics research BY MICHAEL GAROFALO
Two current undergraduates in the City University of New York system are among the winners of this year’s prestigious National Science Foundation graduate research fellowships. Hala Haddad, a senior at Hunter College, thought it was unlikely that she’d be selected for the highly selective fellowship, but awoke one morning to a text message from her program coordinator telling her she had won. “I texted her back, hazy-eyed and sleepy, and said, ‘No, I didn’t.’ And then she was like, ‘No, go check the results,’� Haddad remembers with a laugh. “It took me half an hour to sit there in disbelief and look at my name in the list of winners, and then I texted her back saying, ‘Hey, I won!’� Haddad, a psychology major, developed a passion for neuroscience research working in the laboratory of Hunter professor Dr. Amber Alliger. Under Alliger, she studied environmental enrichment, examining the effects of physical and social stimuli on animal behavior and brain morphology. In the fall, Haddad will begin her doctoral studies at Brown University, where she plans to focus on the role environmental enrich-
Hala Haddad and Ellianna Schwab won NSF fellowships to pursue graduate research. Photos: CUNY ment plays in motor development and apply her research in the context of diseases like ALS. “My project touches a lot of bases, so I can kind of apply it to different areas within the realm of neuroscience,� she said. Ellianna Schwab, a physics major at Macaulay Honors College at the City College of New York, received an NSF fellowship for her research proposal to study gravitational waves in close binary stars. Last year, she won a national award from the American Astronomical Society for her research on brown dwarfs, celestial bodies between the size of a large planet and a small star. She hasn’t yet decided where she will attend graduate school after completing her undergraduate degree at Macaulay
this spring. NSF graduate research fellowships support students pursuing advanced degrees who have shown potential for significant research achievements in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or in education in those ďŹ elds. The three-year fellowships are worth $138,000 and are funded by the NSF, a federal agency. The NSF selected the 2,000 students who received this year’s fellowships from a pool of more than 13,000 applicants. Along with Haddad and Schwab, ten other students affiliated with CUNY — nine recent alumni of CUNY undergraduate programs and one current Ph.D. student at the CUNY Graduate Center — also won graduate research fellowships.
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New York City’s stock of rent-stabilized apartments uctuates every year, with a net loss of just over 8,000 in 2015 but a net gain of more than 150 in 2014 and 1,000 in 2013, according to the city’s Rent Guidelines Board. Since the rent-stabilization program began in 1974, however, roughly 150,000 units have been lost to market rates. A new report by the city’s Independent Budget Office (IBO) studied approximately 925,000 apartments that were rent-stabilized for at least two years between 2010 and 2015 to determine turnover rates by neighborhood within the highly coveted units. According to the study, the Upper West Side had one of the lowest turnover rates with only nine percent of the area’s 22,173 stabilized units changing tenants from one year to the next. This wasn’t surprising to Sarah Stefanski, the report’s author, because the area has such a large pool of rent-stabilized housing. In contrast, Lower Manhattan had one of the highest rates of turnover with 32 percent of its 5,798 stabilized units changing tenants from year to year. But 84 percent of the stabilized units in Lower Manhattan were built after 1974, while on the Upper West Side that population accounts for only 10 percent of stabilized units. The Chelsea-Clinton and Lincoln Square areas also have high turnover rates paired with large shares of post-1974 stabilized buildings, while Greenwich Village and the Upper East Side’s Carnegie Hill neighborhood are mostly comprised of buildings stabilized when the original law was passed. “There’s this separate group of apartments that were added into rent stabilization after the law took effect,â€? said Sarah Stefanski, the author of the IBO report. “These are buildings that generally are getting some sort of property tax beneďŹ t, and in exchange for that tax break they have to rent stabilize their apartments.â€? The algorithm that determines the set rent for newly-stabilized apartments
tends to be near market rate, Stefanski explained. So plenty of rent stabilized tenants are paying close to what their non-stabilized neighbors might be paying. “In areas that have a large share of these later apartments we tend to see higher turnover rates,â€? Stefanski said. The IBO report can’t pin down the exact reasons tenants leave or stay in their rent-stabilized apartments, but some educated guesses can be made. “High turnover rates may indicate tenant mobility, changing neighborhood characteristics, or landlord efforts to vacate apartments to increase the legal rent of a rentstabilized unit,â€? the report states. “In contrast, low turnover rates may indicate tenant stability, or that tenants feel locked into their rent-stabilized apartments because of their below-market rents when they otherwise may have considered moving.â€? The low turnover rates on the Upper West Side, West Village and Carnegie Hill could make it seem as though there is less tenant harassment in those areas, but Council Member Helen Rosenthal begs to differ. “Because of all the harassment going on ‌ a good portion of people in family homeless shelters are there because they got evicted from their home,â€? Rosenthal said. Her office handles plentiful cases of rent-stabilized tenants being harassed by their landlords, but she added that it is hard to make a generalization because “everyone has a different story.â€? Rosenthal is one of several City Council members behind a package of legislation that would give tenants more agency when ďŹ ghting their landlord. It’s possible to see the higher turnover rates in lower-income areas as a sign of gentriďŹ cation, but Stefanski said she couldn’t speculate as to the accuracy of that assumption. “[Rentstabilized tenants] enjoy rent protections that market rate tenants don’t, so in some ways they have protections even when a neighborhood is rezoned or is changing,â€? Stefanski said. But even those protections, she added, can’t always prevent landlords from wanting to knock down a building to construct more expensive units. Or perhaps an avocado bar.
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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS APR 5 - 12, 2017 The following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s website and include the most recent inspection and grade reports listed. We have included every restaurant listed during this time within the zip codes of our neighborhoods. Some reports list numbers with their explanations; these are the number of violation points a restaurant has received. To see more information on restaurant grades, visit www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/services/restaurant-inspection.shtml. Crusty & Tasty Bagel
1323 2Nd Ave
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Putawn Local Thai Kitchen
1584 1St Ave
Grade Pending (27) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.
Cafe Sabarsky
1048 5 Avenue
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Kobeyaki
215 E 86Th St
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Maison Kayser
1535 3Rd Ave
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Peng’s Noodle Folk
1659 1St Ave
Yeti Spice Grill
1764 1St Ave
Camaradas El Barrio
2241 1 Avenue
El Paso Restaurante Mexicano
1643 Lexington Avenue
Grade Pending (21) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/ or non-food areas.
My Ny Bakery Cafe
1565 Lexington Avenue
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Crown Fried Chicken
1867 Lexington Avenue
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New Nyc Yoan Ming Garden 1407 Madison Ave
Grade Pending (42) 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 Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
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1 E 118Th St
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Not Yet Graded (37) No facilities available to wash, rinse and sanitize utensils and/or equipment. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.
Pasteles Capy
242 E 116Th St
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San Crestobal
339 E 108Th St
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Grade Pending (17) Evidence of rats or live rats present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
CAR FREE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 sharing citywide throughout the day. “Overreliance on cars causes a lot of problems: danger to pedestrians, air pollution, congestion, street noise, wasted space to make room for parking, and more,” Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer said last week at a press conference in Times Square announcing the event. The second annual Car Free NYC is an expansion of last year’s inaugural event, during which Broadway was closed to vehicle traffic from Union Square to Madison Square. The DOT will also close a half-mile span of St. Nicholas Avenue
in Washington Heights for the day. City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, who chairs the council’s transportation committee, called for a further extension of the Earth Day initiative next year. “I think that we should aim together to close Broadway from the tip of the island all the way downtown,” he said. The DOT won a victory in its efforts to improve pedestrian safety and access on Broadway last week, when Community Board 5 approved the department’s proposal to convert a single block of Broadway near Madison Square into the city’s first full-time “shared street.” Under the shared streets concept, which is in use in Seattle and Pittsburgh and was piloted by the DOT on several downtown blocks last summer, pedestrians and cyclists share the road alongside slow-moving
vehicles, without designated lanes or crosswalks. The DOT’s plan will redirect traffic on Broadway between 24th and 25th Streets to flow northbound (so that vehicles can only enter from Fifth Avenue), lower the speed limit to five miles per hour, narrow traffic from two lanes to one and change the color of the asphalt. The location was chosen due to its heavy foot traffic — a DOT study found that pedestrians outnumbered cars 18 to one on the block during peak hours. The DOT plans to implement the changes this summer. “We’re going to improve pedestrian circula-
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City Council Member Ydonis Rodriguez (left) and DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg announce plans to close Broadway to vehicle traffic on Earth Day at a press conference in Times Square April 12. Photo: Michael Garofalo
drink or some reading material is out of luck. (There’s no chewing gum available either, but that’s not unique to the Second Avenue stops—subway newsstands are forbidden to sell it by the MTA.) The MTA officially broke ground on the first phase of the Second Avenue subway in 2007, but did not issue a request for proposals for the newsstands at the stations until Dec. 19 of last year, less than two weeks before the $4.5 billion line opened to the public. The RFP said the MTA would continue accepting proposals until Jan. 12, well after the subway began service. An MTA spokesperson said the agency would award a contract “soon,” and expects the newsstands to open “in a few months.” The RFP offered four newsstands in total — one each at the three new Second Avenue stations at 72nd, 86th and 96th Streets, and another at the expanded station at 63rd Street and Lexington Avenue. The four stands were offered as a package to a single vendor for a five-year license term. The MTA’s Real Estate Department is re-
tion, we’re going to provide more public space for the public to enjoy, and still provide vehicular access to the buildings and continued traffic flow,” DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg said at the press conference. Asked whether car-free Earth Day and the shared block in the Flatiron District could be a preview of more expansive traffic changes to come on Broadway, Trottenberg declined to address specifics. “I’d say we’re starting the journey,” she said. “I don’t know if we’re going to get there immediately, but I think we’re taking some exciting steps this year.”
sponsible for leasing agency-owned spaces such as newsstands to retailers, advertisers, parking lot operators and other tenants through a competitive RFP process. The department’s objective in awarding leases is “to maximize MTA Agency revenues while choosing qualified tenants who will meet their obligations and improve the appearance of MTA facilities and the quality of the amenities offered to the public at such facilities,” per its policies and procedures. A 2009 audit of the MTA’s real estate portfolio by the state comptroller found that 600 rental units were vacant at the time of the audit, “many” of which “had not been actively marketed by the Real Estate Department, even though some of the units had been vacant for years.” MTA officials responded that some of the units were scheduled to be offered while others were not marketable at the time. The comptroller’s audit also found that the rent charged by the MTA “may not always be as high as it could be.” Last month, the MTA board voted to award a $7.3 million contract to begin outreach services for the second phase of the Second Avenue subway, which would add three new stations expanding the line to 125th Street and is currently in preliminary planning stages.
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A warning from the East River Fifties Alliance about how the skyline could look if the neighborhood isn’t rezoned against supertall towers. Photo courtesy of East River Fifties Alliance
A SUPERTALL BATTLE REAL ESTATE Sutton Place residents submit proposal to thwart plan for 850-foot tower BY MADELEINE THOMPSON
Photo: Lucas Vasilko, Manhattan Sideways.
ON THE SIDE STREETS OF NEW YORK BERNARD AND S. DEAN LEVY, INC. — 24 EAST 84TH STREET Since 1901, when Ginsberg and Levy, Inc. began, the Levy family has garnered a reputation specializing in American antiques, primarily from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Though the art world lost a great man in early 2016 when Bernard Levy passed away at the age of ninety-eight, his son and grandson, Dean and Frank, are successfully carrying on the family business, which changed its name to Bernard and S. Dean Levy in 1973. To read more, visit Manhattan Sideways (sideways.nyc), created by Betsy Bober Polivy.
In what has become a race to the finish, the Sutton Place community in East Midtown has officially submitted its proposal to limit development in hopes of preventing the construction of an 850-foot tower. Announced in 2015, the supertall residential building has hurdled considerable obstacles from bankruptcy to intense community opposition. But, as of now, it is still in the works unless Sutton Place residents can get their rezoning plan approved first. In order to “keep the sun shining on our community,” according to the East River Fifties Alliance (ERFA) website, the rezoning plan aims to cap building heights at 260 feet. Because the area’s current zone has no height limits, developers behind the Sutton Place tower were able to move forward as of right, or without requiring public input. Rather than let it happen, the residents represented by the East River Fifties Alliance banded together to devise a rezoning of their neighborhood; a rare and potentially groundbreaking move because residents generally don’t attempt such an undertaking. In addition to imposing a height limit, the community’s plan also in-
cludes provisions for more affordable housing by providing developers with some benefits in exchange for “reserving 20 percent of total units for people earning at or below 80 percent of area median income,” according to ERFA. The proposal would disallow commercial development. At a February town hall in support of the rezoning, high hopes were pinned on Marisa Lago, who began her tenure as director of the Department of City Planning in March. Should the agency certify the community’s plan, it would then proceed to review by the commu-
nity board, borough board, borough president and City Planning Commission before being given the stamp of approval by the City Council. ERFA expects the process to be completed sometime in the middle of this year. Elected officials such as Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and Council Members Dan Garodnick and Ben Kallos have already spoken out in favor of the rezoning. Madeleine Thompson can be reached at newsreporter@strausnews.com
The Skytop Lounge at Plaza 400 was packed on Friday morning with Sutton Place residents opposed to supertall towers, especially the one planned for 430 East 58th Street. Photo courtesy of Ed Lederman
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WORDS OF WISDOM RELIGION On faith, bad news, bullies, second chances and goodness: Easter sermons from Manhattan churches BY MICHAEL GAROFALO, GENIA GOULD AND RAZI SYED
On Easter Sunday, city clergy, while reflecting on unsettled times and the anxiety borne by competing ideologies, advocated for resilience and hope. They also gave voice to eternal
It is spring, not winter, and it is a birth — a rebirth — not a funeral” Cardinal Timothy Dolan
themes of hope and rebirth, openness and acceptance. They reminded their congregations that the holiday celebrated rebirth, that spring symbolized new beginnings. Some excerpts from their sermons:
Dr. Michael B. Brown, Marble Collegiate Church “Every morning when we roll out of bed we are barraged with bad news on every hand, and it will not go away, and we will not turn away. How can people of faith ever ignore all of the issues that confront us?
NOTICE TO PERSONS WHO MAY HAVE SUFFERED FROM INADEQUATE ACCESSIBILITY AT THE VERDESIAN, THE VANGUARD CHELSEA AND THE SOLAIRE On February 13, 2017, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a consent decree resolving a lawsuit brought by the United States Department of Justice against certain builders and developers alleging that they failed to include certain accessible features for persons with disabilities required by the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. § 3604(f)(3)(c), in the design and construction of The Verdesian, The Vanguard Chelsea, and The Solaire. Under this consent decree, a person may be entitled to receive monetary relief if he or she: • WAS DISCOURAGED FROM LIVING AT THIS PROPERTY BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF ACCESSIBLE FEATURES; • HAS BEEN HURT IN ANYWAY BY THE LACK OF ACCESSIBLE FEATURES AT THIS PROPERTY; • PAID TO HAVE AN APARTMENT AT THIS PROPERTY MADE MORE ACCESSIBLE TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES; OR • WAS OTHERWISE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST ON THE BASIS OF DISABILITY AT THIS PROPERTY AS A RESULT OF THE INACESSIBLE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION. If you wish to make a claim for discrimination on the basis of disability, or if you have any information about persons who may have such a claim, please contact the United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York at 212-637-2800. You may also fax us at 212-637-2702 or write to:
United States Attorney's Office Southern District of New York Attn: Civil Rights Unit 86 Chambers Street New York, New York 10007 NOTE: You must call or write no later than February 13, 2020.
At Trinity Church, the Rev. Dr. William Lupfer invited congregants to take a flower home after the last service of Easter Sunday. Photo: Trinity Church Wall Street/James Melchiorre
... But on Easter Sunday we also acknowledge that there is an additional issue that we would like to ignore — we wish would go away but it won’t ... Is there something after this something? Easter says there is.”
The Rev. Dr. William Lupfer, Trinity Church Wall Street “ Wall Street was what marked the colonial folks and our Dutch friends, who were afraid, so they built a wall. It didn’t really work, did it? ... We’re at the nexus — right here at Trinity, in our geography — between opening broadly to God’s love or shrinking down and worrying about who’s safe and who’s dangerous, and where we’re going to put our wall. ... We’re called not only as individuals to claim the reality of Easter, which is that nothing gets in the way of God’s love for us and for others, but also as a collective people ... that there is nothing out there that is so scary that it can take us from the love of God.”
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archdiocese of New York “The word this morning, my dear friends, is light and life and newness and freshness and second chances and hope and mercy and goodness. It is spring, not winter, and it is a birth — a rebirth — not a funeral.”
The Rev. Beverly Dempsey, Jan Hus Presbyterian Church “In our world today, there are so many seismic shifts to our sense of normalcy; so many dramatic changes to what many of us believed was just the new baseline for a growing justice; so many previously presumed-to-be-managed
The Rev. Dr. Stephen Bauman, Christ Church
Love and its derivatives are the only authentic positive change agents there are. Think about that. If someone is changing for the better, love is somehow at work” The Rev. Dr. Stephen Bauman conflicts rising. All of these surprising events compound our tension from age-old horrors, like piracy and terrorism and trafficking and the countless injustices against personhood like racism, homophobia, xenophobia and bigotry. It seems like we need Jesus to break through more than ever before... Like the people of all time, we need a savior today. We need a savior to break through and remind us that we are never alone. We need a table turner who’ll stand up to bullies. We need a peacemaker who knocks down every bomb. We need a healer who binds all woundedness with surgical precision. We need a friend whose wide embrace leaves no one outside the love of God. We need a savior who never fails to breaks through the pain and the suffering of the world, methodologically shifting the plates beneath us all to set the world straight.”
“Love and its derivatives are the only authentic positive change agents there are. Think about that. If someone is changing for the better, love is somehow at work.”
The Rev. Schuyler Vogel, Fourth Universalist Society “As Unitarian Universalists, many of us have a deeply complicated relationship with Jesus, no matter what version of him we have encountered. Many here were raised in Christian households or exposed to a version of Christianity where Jesus was literally God himself, divine, perfect, everlasting. ... Perhaps you have been hurt by rigid and unkind interpretations of Christian doctrine, or found that you simply can’t believe in miracles and resurrections. ... We come from two different traditions, Unitarians and Universalists, both who defied the prevailing religious thinking of their day. Where others saw God and Jesus as a hardened, divine judge, Universalists saw Jesus as loving and preaching the good news that everyone could find their way to God, no matter who they were. These histories, and the diverse experiences of many of us here make Easter tricky. We honor the holiday, but do not deny its complexities. ... There is too much goodness in the story of Jesus to let theology get in the way. His life was too interesting, too poetic, and even too visionary for us nonconformists and skeptics to not admire his legacy.”
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A SEED GROWS IN MIDTOWN Brothers Lee and Daniel Novick on their healthy eating concept that’s changing the area’s lunch landscape BY ANGELA BARBUTI
“What are we going to each for lunch today?” became a question that Lee and Daniel Novick almost dreaded asking every day. The brothers worked in Midtown in their father Howard’s franchise business and saw the lack of healthy, high quality options for their lunch breaks, so decided to take matters into their own hands. On March 20, they, along with two other families, opened Good Seed on 35th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. The restaurant specializes in plentiful salads and also offer what they call picnic baskets with hearty entrees like grilled salmon and herb-roasted chicken. In the month they have been in business, Lee, 28, and Daniel, 26, have already been showered with positive feedback and say they are enjoying over a 40 percent repeat customer rate. “I can’t tell you, in the first couple weeks we were open and even still, how many people came into the store and say, ‘We have been waiting for a concept like this to open,’” said Daniel.
structure like? Daniel: As things come up, we kind of just know who would be the best at it and that person just takes it and runs with it. Lee was involved very much in the lead on building the store, developing the concept and getting the store to completion. And organizing everything that goes into it, from deciding which [point of sale] system we are going to use, to the dimensions of the line. Whereas, I’m more of a num-
pretty well. It just felt right to fill a need in a neighborhood that we feel strongly about how great it is. Key elements are just missing from it.
Take us through the menu planning. Daniel: We have a husband and wife and they’ve been in the food industry a long time. In the couple of years that we were developing this concept, they came in every so often and brought us ideas of different things they wanted to try. We knew it was going to be sal-
To read about other people who have had their “15 Minutes” go to ourtownny.com/15 minutes ing for something to help them put on muscle mass. So we can provide people with a vegan grain-free salad or a hearty portion of grilled salmon with roasted cauliflower. We provide healthy no matter what your definition of healthy is. We also want it to be accessible to everyone, so you don’t have to each quote unquote healthy, but everything you eat here, including the pesto mac and cheese, their ingredients are high quality, not processed, and coming from the right places.
Lee: One thing that did surprise me was we’re not just salads, we have a picnic basket area, which is like a marketplace with a main and two sides. We just didn’t really know what to expect with that because we’ve been marketing ourselves as a healthy, delicious salad restaurant. And some of those picnic basket items are our most popular items and we can’t even keep them on the shelf. We’ve doubled production from the beginning to now on some of the items.
What are the pros and cons to working with your brother?
What have been your bestsellers?
Lee: I think working with Daniel is really easy because our skills complement each other very well. Like he said in the beginning, he’s more of a num-
Daniel: It’s kind of been a surprise because we didn’t know what customers were going to want. I think the biggest surprise has been our Caribbean bowl. It’s our second bestseller, which I, per-
How did the idea come about? Lee: The background of this company is it’s a family business. And we’ve been involved in the food business and franchising for 10 years or so. The idea came about because we’re healthy people; we live a healthy and balanced lifestyle. And we wanted to do something that we were passionate about that was more than just going to work and trying to make money. We started developing this concept almost three years ago and we kept tweaking and evolving into bigger and better and I think we ended up with something really great. Daniel: It kind of started from the question, “What are we going to eat for lunch today?” There never seemed to be a really good answer that people really enjoyed and thought was really healthy. It felt like we had to pick one or the other. We wanted to do something that had both.
Explain your dad’s history in the food business. Daniel: Our dad was in the hospitality industry for about 20 years and then he sold the business in 2003 and then a couple of years later, met his now-partner, Rich [Greenstein], and they decided to go into the Dunkin’ Donuts business together. So our business for the last 10 years has been primarily Dunkin’ Donuts. And a few years ago, we opened a handful of Smashburger franchises. There are three families involved in running the business. What is the
Lee Novick and Daniel Novick recently opened Good Seed, on 35th Street, with two other families, after working with their father, Howard Novick. Pictured left to right: Richard Greenstein, Howard Novick, Eric Portnoy, Daniel Greenstein, Ronnie Portnoy, Dayna Greenstein, Lee Novick and Daniel Novick. bers guy. Dayna [Greenstein], part of one of the other families, is more on the creative side. Everyone has their own role, even though it’s not formal.
What made you choose that location? Lee: We have two offices, air quotes for the word “office,” because they’re basically built-out mezzanines above our Dunkin’ Donuts locations. One is on 40th and one on 39th Street, both in that area. That’s where we are every day and where our Dunkin’ Donuts business is mainly based out of and that’s where we felt there was a big need for this type of concept. Because there are so many people working around there. We see everyone from people in suits and ties to artists to young advertising professionals to tourists. And there’s the same question every day, “Where should we go to eat?” And we think we fill that void
ads, but we didn’t always know exactly what each dish was going to look like. So they brought in all kinds of creative stuff. We didn’t know what was going to be on the menu besides salads, so we went through a lot of different ideas with them. They’re very creative people and excellent chefs. Everything that they make is delicious. Lee: We also are the market and demographic that we’re trying to serve, so it was a little easier because we knew what we were looking for and couldn’t find. We wanted salads you would find at a nice restaurant for dinner, but accessible for people for lunch at a price they could afford. And something we always come back to is that healthy means different things for different people. Some people might be looking for something under 400 calories, some people might be look-
bers guy and I kind of just go with my gut a lot. And in that sense, we balance each other out and combine to form a pretty good team. Because I’ll say, “Let’s just do it.” And he’ll say, “Let’s run the numbers.” And then we do and it makes sense or it doesn’t. And sometimes numbers don’t tell the whole story and sometimes they do. Daniel: I think because growing up together, we’ve known each other, literally, our entire lives. We have that chemistry where you know who should be doing what, when to back off, when the person might be feeling agitated or frustrated. Basically, when to push and when to hold back. You kind of just know that innately, in a way that you wouldn’t know with a normal coworker.
What is something that surprised you about the business?
sonally, didn’t expect at all. That’s a bowl with black and wild rice, arugula, shaved coconut, mango, jerk chicken. Our picnic baskets as a whole have sold a lot. The roasted salmon and the grilled chicken have sold extremely well. The pesto mac and cheese people keep raving about. Lee: Just to give you some context, the first day we were open, we made six trays of pesto mac and cheese. We’re making 16 now. www.goodseedsalad.com
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PUBLIC AUCTION NOTICE OF SALE OF COOPERATIVE APARTMENT SECURITY. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: By Virtue of a Default under Loan Security Agreement, and other Security Documents, Karen Loiacano, Auctioneer, License #DCA1435601 or Jessica L Prince-Clateman, Auctioneer, License #1097640 or Vincent DeAngelis Auctioneer, License #1127571 will sell at public auction, with reserve, on April 26, 2017, in the Rotunda of the New York County Courthouse, 60 Centre Street, New York, NY 10007, commencing at 1:45 p.m. for the following account: Michael Wawrzonek, as borrower, 127 shares of capital stock of 310 East 70th Street Apartment Corp. and all right, title and interest in the Proprietary Lease to 310 E 70th St., Apt 11S, New York, NY 100218609 Sale held to enforce rights of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., who reserves the right to bid. Ten percent (10%) Bank/CertiďŹ ed check required at sale, balance
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PUBLIC NOTICES due at closing within thirty (30) days. The Cooperative Apartment will be sold â&#x20AC;&#x153;AS ISâ&#x20AC;? and possession is to be obtained by the purchaser. Pursuant to Section 201 of the Lien Law you must answer within 10 days from receipt of this notice in which redemption of the above captioned premises can occur. There is presently an outstanding debt owed to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (lender) as of the date of this notice in the amount of $501,216.33. This ďŹ gure is for the outstanding balance due under UCC1, which was secured by Financing Statement in favor of DE Capital Mortgage LLC which was ďŹ led on February 2, 2011 under CRFN 2011000038704. The lien was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA by a UCC3 recorded on March 31, 2011 under CRFN 2011000114998. Please note this is not a payoff amount as additional interest/fees/penalties may be incurred. You must contact the undersigned to obtain a ďŹ nal payoff quote or if you dispute any information presented herein. The estimated value of the above captioned premises is $700,000.00. Pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code Article 9-623, the above captioned premises may be redeemed at any time prior to the foreclosure sale. You may contact the undersigned and either pay the principal balance due along with all accrued interest, late charges, attorney fees and out of pocket expenses incurred by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. and the undersigned, or pay the outstanding loan arrears along with all accrued interest, late charges, attorney fees and out of pocket expenses incurred by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., and the undersigned, with respect to the foreclosure proceedings. Failure to cure the default prior to the sale will result in the termination of the proprietary lease. If you have received a discharge from the Bankruptcy Court, you are not personally liable for the payment of the loan and this notice is for compliance and information purposes only. However, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., still has the right under the loan security agreement and other collateral documents to foreclosure on the shares of stock and rights under the proprietary lease allocated to the cooperative apartment. Dated: March 1, 2017 Frenkel, Lambert, Weiss, Weisman & Gordon, LLP Attorneys for Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 631-969-3100.,l File #01-071771-F00 #91225
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