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EMERALD EMPIRE EVICTS AUTOS GREENING For the first time since the 19th century, Central Park turns its back on the internal combustion engine, embraces anew its original purpose as an urban refuge BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN AND CLARRIE FEINSTEIN
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MTA UNVEILS BUS ACTION PLAN TRANSPORTATION Proposal calls for updated route network, expanded traffic enforcement and tech upgrades to speed up boarding and travel times BY MICHAEL GAROFALO
In response to a growing crisis on the city’s bus network — which has seen ridership drop 32 percent in Manhattan since 2007 and is the slowest of any major system in the world — the MTA announced this week an ambitious set of proposals intended to reshape bus service in New York, a comprehensive plan that New York City Transit President Andy Byford called “the first piece in the jigsaw toward the full scale modernization of New York City Transit.”
First and foremost, New York City has to address congestion in a concerted way.” MTA board member Veronica Vanterpool The plan aims to reverse the trend of declining bus ridership by providing faster, more reliable service through steps including technology upgrades to reduce the time buses spend at red lights and picking up passengers, a new command cen-
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It was November 13, 1899, when the city granted legal permission for the first automobile, by permit only, to drive into Central Park. After 119 years — and a backlash dating to 1906 that intensified over the past half-century — that green light is about to turn red. Beginning on June 27, the park will become car-free, and the oasis that Frederick Law Olmsted once dubbed the “lungs of the city” will breathe a little easier. “Our parks are for people — not for cars,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio, who unveiled the ban two days before Earth Day and described it variously as “permanent,” “forever,” “for all times” and “irrevocable.” His theatrical props were well chosen: Clad in a green tie and standing at the south end of the Mall, near the Balto Statue, Frisbee Hill and the Olmsted Flower Bed, the mayor declared, “Now, the Earth’s most iconic park will be car free.” For more than a century, he said in the April 20 announcement, “Cars have turned parts of the world’s greatest park into a highway. Today, we take it back.” Local elected officials were ecstatic. And City Hall rounded them all up for statements. “The perfect way to celebrate our planet,” said City Council Speaker Corey Johnson. “A historic decision,” said Council Member Keith Powers. “A long-overdue victory for all New Yorkers and our environment,” said
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Horse-drawn carriage driver Christina Hansen said a ban on cars in Central Park would improve safety, noting that bike-renting tourists are often unaware that cars drive through the park. Photo: Clarrie Feinstein Council Member Helen Rosenthal. “Countless families, joggers and cyclists can now enjoy an even safer, healthier park space,” said Council Member Mark Levine. “An oasis of calm and greenery is about to get even better,” said Assembly Member Richard Gottfried. Not everybody shared their enthusiasm. The 6.1-mile park Loop affords a route the subway doesn’t provide, said taxicab driver Frank Elais. It can also offer a shortcut from midtown to LaGuardia Airport. Closing off park access limits options and eliminates faster routes that can bypass traffic congestion, he said.
“It will definitely be an inconvenience” for cabbies, Elais said near Columbus Circle on Monday. “Ultimately, it will make traffic worse in the city.” Others interviewed near the park’s southern entrance applauded the ban,
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR CLEANING UP OUR STREETS Over the last few years I’ve noticed a steady deterioration in the cleanliness of the streets in my neighborhood on the Upper East Side. There have been times lately when the streets looked as bad as they did in the 1970s. I know because I grew up here. I started by photographing problem areas and venting to City Council Member Keith Powers and to Community Board 8’s District Manager Will Brightbill. Powers suggested I work with his staff and use the city’s 311 app to document specific trash problems. Brightbill confirmed the steps I needed to take to trigger remedial action. From November through March I photographed excess trash conditions and uploaded the photos via the 311 app. I also sent copies to Powers’ staff and they followed up with the Sanitation Department. Slowly but surely, conditions improved. I learned that the Department of Sanitation had been issuing fines to offending property owners, providing the “stick” needed to change behavior and counteract over-reliance on the Doe Fund. Powers also obtained additional fund-
ing for trash pickups on Second and Third Avenues in the 70s and 80s and ordering new trashcans. This foray into retail activism taught me a few lessons: • If you don’t say something, nothing changes. • You need to learn what the levers of change are for your issue so your activism is effective. • You need to be persistent and methodical. • You need to show that engagement works so others follow suit. Please use the 311 app and call your representatives. This is one problem we can actually solve if we do it together. Suzette Brooks Masters Upper East Side
MR. ROGERS’ NEIGHBORHOODS What a wonderful, sensitive, beautiful article by Bette Dewing honoring Mr. Rogers and his generous, loving thoughts and talks to us and our chil-
dren (“Easter & Passover Wishes, via Mr. Rogers,” March 29 — April 4). My Julie and Tommy watched the show daily and sometimes I with them. It never ceased to amaze me how he seemed to hit the right tone in the content of the show. Thank you so very much for your article which reminded all of us of the simple, loving gestures and actions we can do each day to and with our neighbors. Maggie Mills Upper East Side
[A friend] forwarded Bette Dewing’s column to all of the deacons at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. I’m so glad she did. The column was so important and relevant to the season, and using Mr. Rogers’ focus on neighbors and kindness to those around us, even the so-called “staff,” made it clear and simple. Nancy Hauber Upper East Side
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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 19th district for the week ending Apr. 15 Week to Date
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A CASE OF THE BRAS One imagines that a certain shoplifter’s cups must now runneth over. At 6 p.m. on Friday, April 13, a man entered the Victoria’s Secret store at 2333 Broadway and grabbed 48 bras worth $1,300 before exiting the premises without paying.
A SCORE WAITING TO HAPPEN It seems that a production company waited too long before checking on their belongings. At 8 p.m. on Tuesday, April 10, employees of the Lincoln Square Production company left a load of camera equipment in a waiting area inside 120 West End Avenue. When they returned for their gear, they found it was gone. The missing paraphernalia was worth some $8,200.
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An area Duane Reade was a onestop shop for thieves in April. In the first incident, at around 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, a man in his mid-20s entered the chain’s location at 2025 Broadway and stole $1,500 worth of Crest Whitening Strips. In the second robbery, which occurred at 6 a.m. on Sunday, April 15, a man and woman apparently used a store key to enter the same location and make off with $3,500 worth of Claritin, Zyrtec, Rogaine and other overthe counter medications.
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AUTOS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 which goes into effect the day after public schools close and affects Center, East, West and Terrace Drives below 72nd Street. All park drives north of 79th Street have been permanently car-free since 2015, and the four transverse roads, at 66th, 79th, 86th and 96th Streets, will remain open to motor vehicles. “It’s rare to be in a natureonly setting in Manhattan, so having no cars will really honor the park and how people experience it,” said bicyclist Rachel Admit. “It’s more important for bikes and pedestrians to have this space,” said Clyde Stanton, a former cab driver who works at the Rent-A-Bike kiosk at Columbus Circle. “It’s easier for everyone if cars don’t drive in the park.” Horse-drawn carriage driver Christina Hansen, a spokesperson for the industry, says the ban will improve both traffic and safety, noting that bike-renting tourists are often completely unaware that cars drive through the park. “You have lanes for cyclists, joggers, pedestrians and horse carriages, and that’s all there should be,” she said. How did cars penetrate the park in the first place? “In the 1890s, cars were a hobby for rich folks,” Hansen said. “They argued that if horses could ride through the park, they should also be able to do the same.” The blowback was swift: In July 1906, a New York Times
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Our Town|Eastsider ourtownny.com ed year-round. In 1972, a few car-free hours were added on weekdays. In 1975, they were expanded. But even as the first tentative efforts were made to squeeze out autos, parts of the great park became a hellhole. A sea of mattresses showed up for prostitution and drugs. The Sheep Meadow resembled a dust bowl, Belvedere Castle was caked with graffiti and attacked by vandals, needles floated in the Bethesda Fountain. Lakes and streams resembled sewers and cesspools, and it wasn’t until the 1980s, after
editorial lashed out at the noise, ostentation and “bad odor” emanating from vehicles it variously branded a “devil wagon,” “Blue Assassin,” “Red Juggernaut,” “Black Avenger” and “Yellow Terror.” The purpose of the park was being “perverted,” The Times thundered, and a civic leader should step up, confront the “automobilists,” and say, “Ye shall not speed, ye shall not be noisy, ye shall not defile the air.” By 1966, Mayor John V. Lindsay initiated car-free summer Sundays. The next year, weekend restrictions were extend-
the founding of the Central Park Conservancy, that a turnaround began. That in turn spurred new efforts over three decades to close entrances to cars, curtail hours, discourage motorists and, ultimately, take the finally step to reclaiming the entire park. “Wow!” said Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver. “Now, we’re making history by demonstrating just how clean, accessible and safe an urban park can be.” Douglas Feiden: invreporter@ strausnews.com
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BROADWAY: TRAFFIC-FREE FOR 2 MANHATTAN MILES EXPERIMENTS City officials closed off 30 blocks last Saturday to mark global Earth Day BY VERENA DOBNIK
It was a bold New York experiment: closing Broadway to trafďŹ c for two Manhattan miles. On Saturday, 30 blocks of Broadway was open only to pedestrians and anything on two wheels but no motor, from Times Square down to Union Square. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., city ofďŹ cials invited pedestrians and cyclists to join the fun, food and games marking global Earth Day, which falls on Sunday.
A part of New York normally filled with car fumes and noise was alive with artistic performances mixed with fitness classes and educational activities about a sustainable, healthy environment. “We’ve been waiting for spring and I looked at the weather, so I started looking up things to do and found out that City Bike was free today,� said Stephanie Alexander, referring to the city’s bike-sharing program, which offered free passes for the day. “So I rode down from the Upper East Side, at least seven miles.� She said even a day of not using cars or burning fuel “might be a good thing for the city.� For the third time in as many years, the city made Broad-
way car-free — this time for a stretch longer than ever. Each point along the way was dedicated to different themes. Music and dancing filled the pedestrian plazas of Times Square, and the Garment District offered arts and crafts workshops, plus a science photo exhibition. Free rollerblade rentals got some people to the day’s ďŹ nale in Union Square. In addition to car-free Broadway, the city closed down parts of St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem, Montague Street in Brooklyn, Shore Boulevard and Woodside Avenue in Queens, and Eagle Avenue in the Bronx. AP radio correspondent Julie Walker contributed to this report.
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EMULATING WHAT MADE BARBARA SO BELOVED BY BETTE DEWING
For once TV talk shows were not about bad people and bad behavior. Refreshingly bipartisan, newscasters were talking about Barbara Bush’s departure from this life at age 92. CNN, typically “on the left,” aired as many heartfelt tributes to the former first lady as did Fox. And I wasn’t sorry TV had been invented. Ah, but the very next day an acquaintance’s Facebook entry was all about what Barbara Bush had done wrong. OK, so such views need to be heard, but couldn’t this irate critic have waited awhile? And also given a nod to the solid 73-year Bush marriage and acknowledge how that does make for a safer and non-violent society for all? The youngsters who marched for that cause would
likely agree and that life is better with intact families and where parents work things out. And few will argue how working things out and role-model marriages are so needed in high and influential places. Ah, but this column didn’t plan to be so much about that, but Barbara Bush might well have said “It should be!” Two Bush sons, George and Jeb, appear to have role-model marriages. We don’t hear much about the other two sons and one daughter. Which reminds, “on the left,” nobody has a more stable marriage than the Obamas and lest you forget, Michelle’s widowed mother looked after the first daughters in the White House. She is likely still a vital part of that household. And how we need such role-model connections.
Barbara Bush would surely agree and that when they exist, grandparents and other extended family should not become bit players in their families’ lives. Ah yes, and the problems and conflicts that often divide, must be worked out – worked out. Communication skills should be learned and practiced from prekindergarten on to life’s very last class. Yes, these skills exist, Virginia, and I’d vote for most anyone who stressed this kind of literacy - especially the conflict resolution kind. But more about why Barbara was so generally liked as well as beloved. Hey, longtime parents rejoice that she spoke her mind to her adult sons and adult daughter. obviously believing we never outgrow criticism that is constructive. And far more must be said how
wife Laura’s one-person intervention got George W to stop drinking. A family intervention is not always needed, although so thankfully Betty Ford’s did step in and likely, eventually, to make her the first lady who did the most overall good. Her autobiography, “A Glad Awakening,” should be required reading as intervention is still too often resisted. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And it was surely Barbara Bush’s appearance too which made her endearing — looking more like her constituents, not like a high fashion model. And I wish Barbara had said more about women still so judged by their appearance which had better be youthful — and yes even sexy, AAUGH. Ah, but so universally important, who will take care of George H.
Photo: Esther, via flickr Walker without Barbara around? We hope George W. and Laura, who live nearby, will and that other sibs and grandkids will share in the care long-distance. Such role model caring could not be more needed — could not be more needed. Nor could remembering and emulating what made Barbara Bush so universally liked and beloved. dewingbetter@aol.com
MANHATTAN MOTHER TO THE RESCUE BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL
Pop stars. Broadway. And Upper East Sider Kevin Kline. If those weren’t enough reasons to devour Amy Poeppel’s new Manhattan mommy-lit novel, “Limelight” (on sale May 1), how about the fact that it DOES NOT include momzillas or an errant hedge fund hubby who leaves the protagonist for another woman. Although the book does borrow from the common theme of starting over, it’s more about how when the going gets tough, it takes a Manhattan mother to get things going. Allison Brinkley’s lawyer husband Michael transfers to NYC, and her dream of living here finally comes true. It is an adjustment for her and their three children, especially when the teaching job she had lined up dissipates and her tutoring side hustle falls flat. But this is a city where things change in a New York minute and you never know who you might run into — literally. When Allison accidentaly sideswipes a parked BMW and leaves her
contact info, she never imagines the call to exchange insurance info would come from Bieber-esque pop singer, Carter Reid. What begins as a momentary pity party for an eighteen-year-old guy with no direction or family, who exhibits enough self-destructive behavior to fill a year’s worth of tabloids, turns into a full-time gig as caretaker. Allison’s job is to literally and figuratively get Carter’s house in order. His penthouse overlooking Central Park is in dire need of a good cleaning, and his poor eating habits combined with a drug/alcohol habit require the celebrity’s body and mind to be cleansed, too. The newly-minted assistant has only a small window to get the job done, because the wayward teen idol is about to start rehearsals for a Broadway musical, which also stars Tony-winner Kline, as well as Hollywood star, Melissa McCarthy. Another refreshing thing about this read is that there’s no us vs. them, (a la “The Devil Wears Prada,” “I Don’t Know How She Does It,” et al.) where loved ones get on the main character’s
case for abandoning them for her career. Taking care of Carter actually becomes a family affair with Michael reading contracts and teen daughter Charlotte running lines with the learning-challenged singer. Allison’s publicist BFF Sara steps up with image-changing ideas: a law enforcement officer, whom Allison tutors in writing, agrees to act as bodyguard, and the more NYC-connected moms from son Jack’s school come through with recommendations for a chef, chauffeur and much-needed concierge doctor. As I read this work of fiction, I couldn’t understand why situations like this are not more of a reality, as in: why isn’t the parent skill set considered a valuable asset — especially for mothers returning to work after a stint of stay-at-home childcare? A couple of years ago, I interviewed for a position at a Broadway show-focused website. My pitch highlighted that the Great White Way was a go-to destination for my daughter and me; my two decades as a promotions writ-
er for major entertainment networks; and my management skills, which came from both my family experience as well as volunteering at both my children’s schools, where I spearheaded committees, organized events and fund-raised persuasively. The guy looked at me and all he could come up with was: “But besides the ‘mom stuff,’ when you were on staff, you weren’t a manager?” And right there it was clear that the fact that I did not supervise anyone at my 9-to-5 eclipsed all the managerial work I’d done over the past twenty years because it was associated with the apparently irrelevant triad: mother/school/volunteer. I don’t want to lay this behavior solely at the doorstep of men. I’ve had a number of professional women roll their eyes at my pro-bono positions, that, pardon me, I took seriously and thought were significant. Perhaps those who hire should consider the phrase “transferable skills.” If they really want to bring someone on board to get the job done, they’ll hire the Allisons of the world who can
walk in, survey the situation and take charge. For anyone who needs a reminder, “Limelight” is a great place to start. Amy Poeppel discusses “Limelight” on Wednesday, May 2 at 7 p.m. at Book Culture On Columbus, 450 Columbus Ave. Lorraine Duffy Merkl is the author of the novel “Back to Work She Goes,” about a 50+ stay-at-home-mother who tries to re-enter the workforce.
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transformed over the past two decades from a small Ivy League
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advances in precision medicine and immunotherapy—two
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Manhattan and into Brooklyn and Queens. Weill Cornell Medicine’s
approaches that have the potential to reshape the way physicians
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in June, the program, run in collaboration with Weill Cornell
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Cellilst Laura Navasardian, 14, firstplace winner of the 92Y School of Music concerto competition. Photo courtesy of 92Y
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Ian Maloney, 13, won a chance to perform in the 92Y School of Music concerto competition. Photo courtesy of 92Y
BRIDGING GENERATIONS THROUGH MUSIC Celebrating its 100th anniversary, the 92nd Street Y Orchestra brings together instrumentalists who “make a difference in people’s lives” BY SHOSHY CIMENT
For the 92nd Street Y School of Music Orchestra, continuity is key. Now in its centennial year, 92Y Orchestra is still committed to the same principles upon which it was founded in 1917. That is, providing musical opportunities to amateurs and non-professional musicians in New York City. Of course, it isn’t entirely the same as it once was. As the longest-running community-based orchestra in New York City, 92Y Orchestra has transformed somewhat over the last 100 years. But while rehearsals, concert pieces and membership have all shifted slightly, the underlying goals of the orchestra have survived. In certain cases, the orchestra has even returned to its ancient customs without realizing it. “We’ve made it full circle unintentionally,” said Yana Stotland, the director of the 92Y School of Music. She noted how the orchestra, which had departed from its original rehearsal time of 3 p.m. on Sundays a while ago, has now shifted back to that time as a result of changes throughout the years.
To Stotland, the orchestra’s ability to simultaneously celebrate its history while looking forward to the future is what has kept it relevant. The 92Y School of Music and accompanying orchestra foster programming for kids, adults, and senior citizens. The school, which boasts around 1000 students each semester, offers private music lessons, group instruction classes, chamber music classes and a chorus that exclusively performs selections from the American musical theater songbook. “It’s such a beautiful union of sharing something that is universal,” said Stotland. “Music means a lot to these people.” The 92Y School of Music Concerto Competition, which is open to students who are 17 years old and younger, gives budding musicians the rare opportunity to perform on stage with a semi-professional orchestra. The winners of the 2018 competition, 14-year-old Laura Navasardian and 13-year-old Ian Maloney, were the soloists for the 92Y Orchestra’s centennial concert on April 22. “It was really an honor to win and just be a part of it,” said Navasardian, who has been playing the cello since she was six. Navasardian performed Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, the piece that won her first place at the 2018 concerto competition.
“If you are making people feel something, that’s what matters,” she said. Maloney’s piece with the 60-member orchestra was Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C Major, which he started learning when he was eight-years-old. In addition to the cello, Maloney plays the piano and the trumpet and hopes to become a professional musician. “That’s really what I want to do,” he said. Musicians in the orchestra range from teenagers to people in their eighties and nineties; some people have been performing there for decades. “I think it’s really the community that makes it different,” said Tomo Matsuo, the 92Y Orchestra’s music director since 2014. “They all sort of come together and shed their personas of their daily lives.” Like many of the musicians in the orchestra, Matsuo also has a day job; he is an executive in financial services. But despite the differences in the orchestra’s personnel, a love of music is the uniting factor for a group that spans generations. To Stotland, who will be celebrating her eighth year with the 92Y school music in August, there is no more satisfying career than one in music. “You make a difference in people’s lives,” she said. “It sounds cliché, but you do!”
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A FIRST LOOK AT PIER 17 DEVELOPMENT The waterfront space, featuring restaurants, ESPN studios and rooftop performance venue, will soon open its doors to the public BY MICHAEL GAROFALO
The new Pier 17, set to open this spring, is a centerpiece of developer Howard Hughes Corp.’s effort to revitalize the Seaport District as a commercial destination. Photo: Michael Garofalo
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Food, drink, outdoor space and breathtaking views will be the key offerings at the new multipurpose commercial space set to open next month at Pier 17 — the latest addition to the Lower Manhattan waterfront and a major component in Howard Hughes Corp.’s overhaul of the South Street Seaport district. The developer hasn’t announced an official opening date, but public outdoor spaces on the roof and the building’s periphery are expected to open by late May, with a full opening to follow sometime this summer. Howard Hughes Corp. hosted a public tour of the space April 19 as contractors completed final touches on the new four-story building, which juts into the East River at Fulton Street. Retractable glass doors on the sides of the building, which will be kept open as weather permits, reveal an airy twostory space on the ground floor. Within are several modular commercial spaces, clad in corrugated metal and reminiscent of shipping containers, that will hold restaurant tenants, including concepts from chefs Andrew Carmellini and David Chang. The first restaurant, a casual seafood-centric offshoot
of chef John-Georges Vongerichten’s ABC Kitchen, is scheduled to open in August. The open areas between the restaurants will feature seating intended to evoke a hotel lobby ambience rather than the feel of a shopping mall, Howard Hughes executive Saul Scherl said. “We’re planning on making it lounge-y,” he said. A 1.5-acre rooftop space with public seating offers sweeping views of the downtown skyline, East River bridges and Brooklyn waterfront. Future plans for the roof include a 50-seat restaurant and an ice skating rink in the winter months. The roof will double as a 3,400-person venue for concerts and other events, prompting concerns from some neighbors about excessive noise. The stage will face south towards Governors’ Island, which Howard Hughes officials said would project sound away from nearby buildings; plans originally called for the stage to face west toward Lower Manhattan. The second floor houses ESPN’s live broadcast studios, where the network began filming a new flagship morning show in early April. The developer is still seeking a tenant for commercial space on the third floor. “The building was built one foot above the new FEMA requirements” instituted after Superstorm Sandy, Scherl said, and the structure’s power lines can be sealed off from water during a flood event. The old Pier 17 building did not flood during Sandy. Howard Hughes Corp., which leases Piera 17 from the city through an agreement with the New York City Economic
Development Corp., has invested roughly $781 million in the pier and the surrounding Seaport District in an effort to transform the neighborhood from a tourist haven to an upscale commercial destination. The Tin Building, which stands between Pier 17 and the FDR Drive, is in the process of being renovated and will eventually hold a food hall overseen by Vongerichten. The fate of the neighboring site that holds the New Market Building is as yet unclear. Howard Hughes Corp. previously planned to build a residential tower at the site, but abandoned the proposal in 2015 in the face of local opposition. NYCEDC announced in January that the building, which once housed the Fulton Fish Market and is outside of the South Street Seaport Historic District, would be demolished. In response, Community Board 1 passed a resolution admonishing the EDC for moving to demolish the vacant building while providing no details on the timeline and “nothing about future plans for this historic and sensitive site.” “[W]e regrettably find that the EDC [...] has continued its previous practice of not sharing important information with the CB or the community nor consulting with the community in advance of making important decisions despite the CB’s repeated requests to do so,” the resolution stated, continuing, “we do not want to see another tower proposal for the New Market site.” Michael Garofalo: reporter@ strausnews.com
Public outdoor spaces at the redeveloped Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport are expected to open by late May, with a full opening of the commercial project to follow in the summer. Photo: Michael Garofalo
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LIVE April 20 marked the 19th anniversary of the shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado when two students killed 12 of their classmates and one teacher. To commemorate the anniversary, students from throughout New York City and the country walked out of classes to call for stronger gun laws, as they did at Washington Square Park, above. Photo: Jeremy Weine
STUDENTS RALLY FOR GUN CONTROL ACTIVISM At Washington Square Park gathering, the third national demonstration since Parkland shooting, a call for action at the ballot box BY CLARRIE FEINSTEIN AND ASHAD HAJELA
“I want to read books, not eulogies,� read one student’s sign. Similar sentiments, on signs and in chants, were in full view and voice in Washington Square Park last week as several hundred mostly high school students rallied for gun control on the 19th anniversary of the Columbine, Colorado, school shooting. The air was chilly but the atmosphere boiled with fervor as students’ impassioned calls change echoed for blocks. Students from over 40 city schools came to the rally. Savannah Phillips-Falk, a senior from Packer Collegiate Institute, organized the Brooklyn school’s walkout on March 14, a month after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that killed 17 students and staff.
She also helped organize Friday’s walk-out. “This issue directly affects us,� Phillips-Falk said of gun control. “Adults are dismissive of us, but we will not back down.� Under the square’s iconic archway, student activists, local community leaders and City Council members addressed the crowd. Congress Member Jerrold Nadler and Council Member Keith Powers both urged students to vote and called for gun control reforms. “Young people are rising up and making a change!� Nadler projected into the megaphone. “Vote them out� was the mantra of the day as students called for the removal of politicians who stand against gun control. “Voting is the only way change will happen,� PhillipsFalk said. “The next election I think we’ll see a huge surge of student voters.� Students crowded around the stage, forming an impenetrable lattice as people tried to pack into unavailable space. A student walked across the park in a shirt with an encircled gun on it. Another angry student pursued him, seemingly telling him off.
Some students were issued warnings from their respective schools if they chose to walkout. “Teachers said we might be suspended,â€? said LaGuardia High School sophomore Kadijah Belcher. “I’d rather be suspended than shot.â€? She carried a sign reading: “Gun Control isn’t about Guns it’s about Control.â€? Belcher said over half the student body from LaGuardia attended the rally, one of over 2,000 across the country taking place Friday. The rally marked the third national demonstration since the Parkland school shooting in February, which itself followed a bleak legacy of gun violence since Columbine. According to the Washington Post, 208,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since Columbine, where 12 students and a teacher were killed by two other students. They include the 32 students and five faculty killed at Virginia Tech in 2007, the ďŹ ve students killed at Northern Illinois University in 2008 and the 20 students and 6 adults killed at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.
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Business ‘FEARLESS GIRL’ MOVING TO NEW HOME WALL STREET Will ‘Charging Bull’ follow her? BY VERENA DOBNIK
New York’s “Fearless Girl” statue that has become a global symbol of female business prowess will be moved from her spot staring down Wall Street’s bronze “Charging Bull” to a new home facing the New York Stock Exchange. Officials announced on April 19 that the statue would be moved by the end of the year. Hours later, visitors from around the world swirled around the ponytailed girl in a windblown dress that became a tourist magnet last spring when the artwork popped up confronting the famed bull. The 11-foot-tall, 7,100-pound behemoth by Italian sculptor Arturo Di Modica had become a symbol of American financial resilience follow-
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GOING CASHLESS PAYMENTS Faster lines as restaurants forgo payments in bills and coins BY JOYCE M. ROSENBERG
The lunchtime lines at Dos Toros move faster these days — customers don’t fumble for bills or coins, and employees don’t make change. Since around New Year’s, the Mexican food chain has been cashless. “For the vast majority of customers, there’s no reaction at all; they’re already paying with their cards. And the significant majority of cash customers don’t have any problem with it either,” says co-owner Leo Kremer, who has 14 stores in New York and one in Chicago. If people do try to use cash, employees explain the reasons for the change — faster service for customers, saving the business time and money. The trend toward cashless small and mid-sized businesses is fairly new.
Many of the companies adopting the policy are restaurants with menus and prices more upscale than fastfood chains, but service that aims to be almost as quick as a McDonald’s or Subway. During a busy lunch hour with customers lined up at ordering stations and cashiers, forgoing cash means faster transactions. Sweetgreen, the popular salad chain, went cashless in 2017. Many business owners would rather be cashless. Cash actually costs money — banks charge fees for cash deposits and to handle coins. If businesses take in enough cash to justify pickups by armored car services, that’s another cost, and given that restaurants can be a target for holdups, not one that can be eliminated. And counting and checking cash and preparing it for deposit takes up time a manager could spend with staff or customers. “We feel a manager’s time is so valuable, and it was being spent on what is only 10 percent of our revenue,” says Kremer, who also says revenue at Dos
Sweetgreen, the popular salad chain, went cashless in 2017. Photo: bryan ..., via flickr
ing the 1987 stock market crash. Di Modica wanted the girl gone, saying she altered the dynamic of his bull and was no more than what he called “an advertising trick.” But the bull and the girl belong together, said Martine Guillon, a high school teacher visiting from Paris. “A little girl can be stronger than a big animal; she’s a human mental force that is bigger than animal force,” Guillon said in her native French. Kristen Visbal’s smaller sculpture, with her hands on her hips and chin pointed up, was installed in March 2017 by the Boston-based State Street Global Advisors financial firm as a temporary display lasting a few weeks to encourage corporations to put more women on their boards. But its popularity spawned an online petition seeking to keep it. The city agreed. State Street officials joined Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday to announce that “Fearless Girl” would be
moved to what the company called its “long-term” home by year’s end. “Charging Bull” may follow. City officials have said the two figures on a Broadway traffic median are a hazard to both pedestrians and traffic, since crowds often spill onto the street there. “The Bull will almost certainly be moved and will very likely wind up reunited with ‘Fearless Girl,’” de Blasio’s spokesman, Eric Phillips, wrote on Twitter. The relocation to the stock exchange, three blocks away, would bring the bull back to its original place where it was delivered on a forklift truck as guerrilla art during the night in December 1989 to express financial survival after the stock market collapse. “Moving her to the stock exchange will show that a woman really has a place there,” said Lin Mateedulsatit, a 26-year-old woman who works for a chemical trading company in Thailand.
Toros hasn’t been hurt by the transition. Millions of consumers use little or no cash. In a survey released last month by the financial services company Capital One, only 21 percent of 2,000 people questioned said cash was their most common way to pay for things. But going cashless isn’t a slam-dunk. Some customers who want to use cash point to a statement on paper money: “This note is legal tender for all debts public and private.” However, the Federal Reserve says on its website that private companies can make their own policies about cash unless there is a state law saying otherwise. Massachusetts does have such a law. One concern about cashless restaurants is that they exclude would-be customers who don’t have bank accounts or credit cards. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. found in a 2015 survey that about 9 million households didn’t have bank accounts. Nearly 60 percent of households without bank accounts or cards said they didn’t have enough money to keep in an account. Customers will be more understanding if store employees explain the rationale for going cashless, and how it might benefit them, says Utpal Dhola-
kia, a marketing professor at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business. “I think customers are very happy to trade off their ability to use cash to get this service in return,” he says, and notes the popularity of apps that let people order and pay for food online or on their phones and bypass the line completely to pick it up. When Tender Greens went cashless earlier this year, it took other steps to improve the experience for customers, says Denyelle Bruno, president of the chain that has 29 stores in California, New York and Boston. Customers no longer need to sign charge receipts under $25, and lines move faster since managers have more time to help out. Tender Greens, whose menu includes salads, sandwiches, fish and chicken, isn’t seeing frustrated customers give up and leave the line, Bruno says. Signs throughout the stores alert customers to the no-cash policy. But occasionally, people are still surprised when it’s time to pay — and some have no other form of payment on them. “We give the food to the guest” in those cases, Bruno says. “Our goal is never to turn people away when they get to that point.”
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TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS The executive director of the city’s largest volunteer organization on the ‘joyful endeavor’ that is his work BY ANGELA BARBUTI
Gary Bagley revels on the impact his organization has on the lives of New Yorkers. As executive director of New York Cares, the largest volunteer organization in the city, filling over 200,000 volunteer positions in the city annually, he is always focused on where there’s need anywhere in New York City. “Every month, 11,000 people get off their couch or up from behind their desk and show up somewhere in the five boroughs,” he said. The Washington Heights resident highlights the organization’s volunteers for their dedication on projects like sorting donations at their annual holiday coat drive, aiding in disaster relief, serving at soup kitchens, and assisting students with homework. Still, there’s always more to be done, Bagley said “When I feel good about the work we’re doing at a certain school, I can’t help but think about the school two blocks away that doesn’t have access to our volunteers,” he said. In any one year, New York Cares serves more than a half a million city residents and helps 1,275 nonprofits and schools. With numbers such as numberssuchas those, it’s not surprising that when asked what one of the best parts of his job is, he said it’s knowing all the neighbor-
hoods, schools and individuals that the institution and its volunteers have touched.
What is the key to operating the largest volunteer organization in New York? New York Cares’ founders were meeting a pressing need in the city, which is that volunteers want to have access to high quality, high impact experiences. And, nonprofits and schools generally want to benefit from that. But for a lot of reasons, the two were not able to get together well. One of the things that we do at New York Cares is focus is on ease of access. So for volunteers, they go to one 45-minute orientation, then they have access to about 1,700 projects every month. Now, in terms of accessibility for nonprofits and schools, we provide a number of programs that are known to be good for volunteers and clients of the organization. Whether that’s STEM programming for elementary school kids, SAT prep program for high school kids, helping adults get back in the workforce, painting and gardening, we have 30 years of developing programs that we can offer to our schools and nonprofits.
There are 1,300 team leaders who are crucial to yyour operations running so smoothly. The real rea reason we’re able to do this much is that we provide those volunteers with a person on-site, who is called the volunteer team leader. This vol person is a volunteer from our datavo meaning unpaid. They volunbase, meani teered with us, then interview and become a team leader, and apply to bec then go to a training session. When you’re a volunteer and show up on vol the day of you your project, there’s a New York Cares tteam leader there who will actually h help manage the experience. And A the reason that’s so important is that’s the key capacity that most schools and nonprofits lack, that on-site management. We hear all the horror stories, like “They forgot I was coming.” Or even more important, if it’s a home-
Gary Bagley is executive director of New York Cares, which serves more than 500,000 city residents annually. Photo: Lyn Hughes
As executive director of New York Cares, Gary Bagley oversees an organization that fills 200,000 volunteer positions each year. Photo: New York Cares less shelter or a public school, things may happen that are more urgent than the fact that you’re showing up to read to a child that day. So this allows us to provide consistency for the volunteer and for the nonprofit partner or school.
What is the demographic of your volunteers? Seventy percent of our volunteers are between the ages of 18 and 34, which is really cool, because that’s not the typical demographic of most volunteers. They want to learn more about community issues and want the ability to give back more mindfully. We were founded by a group of volunteers who were working. And so their biggest barrier to volunteering was that they had jobs. So we’ve always focused on making sure that there’s this ease of access and therefore, a lot of our programs take place outside the traditional nine to five workday. Although we certainly have a good share of daytime programming. We’re also finding when people move to New York City, volunteering is way to get to know New York. It’s a great way to meet like-minded New Yorkers in a really positive setting.
Tell us a story of a person whose life has been changed by your organization. I think we first connected with her eight years ago, a wonderful woman named Tonya Ingram. Tonya grew up in our programs. She was working with a local social services agency in the Bronx and in the fifth grade, went on one of our Read to Me programs. And New York Cares volunteers were the reason she got her first library card. And she stayed connected to us, and eventually, years later, when she
was preparing for her SATs, the organization that she was working with also brought in a New York Cares SAT prep program. And so Tonya, who is very bright, then did very well on her SATs. And one of her volunteers, who had gone to NYU, asked her if she was applying there and Tonya said, “I don’t know NYU.” And they took her on a trip there, and she ended getting I think a full scholarship. And she’s remained connected to us. She’s turned into a wonderful, talented poet. There’s a virtuous circle in volunteerism, which is that folks who have been given a lot and helped, then feel compelled to help others.
There is also a disaster relief component. You were there for Hurricane Sandy. As horrible as Superstorm Sandy was, there was a moment for New York Cares where we were truly at the hub of people who wanted to help and a place where there was great need. And the skill in deploying people where they can really be helpful when there are so many unknowns, is very challenging. I do list the follow-up to Hurricane Sandy as possibly the most exciting period of time in my career. Our donors stepped up and we raised over three-and-half-million dollars just dedicated toward disaster response. In the first six months, we deployed 25,000 individuals to help and really challenged ourselves. There was not a strong nonprofit infrastructure in the Rockaways, coastal Brooklyn or Staten Island at the time. We had to test our systems, learn how to work directly with homeowners, bring a lot of resource into that area and really make a full dedication to that work. I’ve never done so much on so little sleep in my life. But I will tell you, in the course
of 30 days, we staffed up and built a disaster response team of nine or 10 people and some of them have gone on to careers in disaster recovery work because it really spoke to them.
New York Cares is also known for its holiday coat drive. What are some stats from this past winter’s? I’m proud to say we collected and distributed over 104,000 coats to New Yorkers in need. And this is truly a citywide effort. We partner with the NYPD; people can donate at any police precinct in the five boroughs. We collect at transportation hubs. We have 1,300 groups that collect, whether it’s individuals who run a collection at their company, real estate firms in the lobby of their buildings, Girl Scout and Boy Scout troops, synagogues, churches, mosques. It’s such a spirit of folks collecting. And it’s powered by volunteers who are bringing the coats in, getting them sorted. We work with our nonprofit partners who need them to, as soon as they’re ready, get them right back out to the communities they serve. It’s an amazing logistical journey. I drop my coat in a box in a police precinct and it somehow ends up in another borough on a person’s back, and sometimes in as short as two weeks and at the busiest time, within four weeks. www.newyorkcares.org
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