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PEDESTRIAN HIT, KILLED ON YORK IMPACT OF NEW SUBWAY An empty storefront near the Second Avenue subway’s 96th Street station. Photo: Michael Garofalo
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Well-known market manager was struck by a taxi BY LAURA HANRAHAN
A longtime Upper East Side market manager was struck and killed by a yellow cab as he crossed York Avenue and 78th Street Saturday night, the second such fatal incident at that intersection in 15 months. Manikkam Srymanean, 50, was crossing York when he was hit about 9:30 p.m., police said. He presumably had just left the Super-Del Market, on the east side of the avenue just north of 78th Street, where he had worked for 30 years. Srymanean was taken to NewYork-
Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead shortly afterward. The cab driver, who remained at the scene, was not arrested. Police did not say if he was cited. The NYPD Highway Collision Investigation Squad is investigating. Srymanean, who lived nearby on East 78th Street, was well-known in the community. On Sunday and Monday, friends and acquaintances gathered in front of the market, where a growing, makeshift memorial of bouquets of flowers, signs and notes had assembled since Saturday night. The market was closed Sunday. Known to residents as “Mano,” Srymanean was described as kind
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Even after a report indicating that long-anticipated residential rent hikes on the Upper East Side have been slow to materialize following the Second Avenue subway’s opening in January, locals remain concerned about
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the line’s impact on the area’s already high-priced housing market. An April 17 analysis by Crain’s New York Business found that since the new line opened New Year’s Day, asking rents had dropped for more than half of apartments listed near the three new stations. But according to some community members, year-todate data paints an incomplete picture of how the subway has changed the neighborhood’s real estate market. “The rent increase with the subway has already been cooked in,” Community Board 8 member Ed Hartzog
said at an April 24 meeting of the board’s housing committee, which he co-chairs. “So just because it hasn’t gone up in four months doesn’t mean
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HIGH LINE KICKS OFF EVENTS SEASON CULTURE Upcoming activities include yoga and meditation classes BY MICHAEL GAROFALO
The High Line marked the start of its cultural events season April 22 with an all-day slate of free programming that included musical and spoken word performances and a live podcast. Weekend revelers took shelter from sporadic rain showers under a building-covered stretch of the elevated park near 14th Street, which doubled as a performance space for members of the musical collective Brooklyn Raga Massive. Curious passersby and enthusiasts of Indian classical music alike were drawn in by the captivating sound of the Arun Ramamurthy Trio. Ramamurthy’s ethereal violin playing centers on raga, the melodic modes at the core of traditional Indian song, but is propelled into genre-defying improvisational territory by jazz-infused percussion and bass accompaniment. The group’s smooth, meandering passages, punctuated by convulsive bursts from drummer Sameer Gupta,
The Arun Ramamurthy Trio plays on the High Line near 14th Street on April 22. Photo: Michael Garofalo
made for a singularly stimulating cross-cultural experience. The trio was later joined onstage by members of Afrika Meets India, another group affiliated with Brooklyn Raga Massive, for a rollicking set incorporating African instruments and rhythms that inspired dancing and singalongs from the audience. Elsewhere on the High Line, the day’s events included a standup performance by comedian Maysoon Zayid, tales about the great outdoors from Queer Memoir storytellers, and a live discussion of race and pop culture with Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings, co-hosts of the popular For Colored Nerds podcast. Upcoming activities on the High Line include recurring events like yoga and meditation classes, Tuesday night stargazing with the city’s Amateur Astronomers Association, and tours of the park’s gardens, wildlife, and architecture, as well as monthly performances as part of the park’s Out of Line programming series. Cabaret performer Justin Sayre headlines the first Out of Line show of the year on May 18; free tickets are available with RSVP starting this week at http:// www.thehighline.org/.
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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG POLICE SEEK BURGLARY SUSPECT
STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 19th precinct
Police are seeking an unidentiďŹ ed man in connection with a weekend commercial burglary near the corner of Third Avenue and 88th Street in March. The man being sought is suspected of jumping a fence there on March 12 about 1:40 p.m. and taking a construction saw valued at $5000. He is being described as in his 40’s, about 5 feet, 8 inches tall and 185 pounds. He was wearing a dark watch cap and all dark clothing. Persons with information on the incident are asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Tips can also be submitted online at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or by texting to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.
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Police are looking to question this man in connection with a commercial burglary near Third Avenue and 88th street in the early afternoon of Sunday, March 12. Photo: NYPD
A pedestrian helped police collar a shoplifter who had stolen merchandise at Bloomingdale’s. At 10:20 a.m. on Tuesday, April 11, a man entered the store, took ďŹ ve purses whose value was later put at $2,675, and left the store without paying for them. Store personnel alerted police, and an officer on the street outside saw the alleged shoplifter attempting to remove security devices from the handbags. The officer approached the man, who then dropped the merchandise and ran. A pedestrian gave chase as well, and with his assistance the officer managed to nab the suspect at 61st Street and Second Avenue. The man, identiďŹ ed only as a 42-year-old from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, was charged with grand larceny.
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Police remind subway riders always to keep a secure hold on your belongings on trains and platforms. At 9:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 9, a 24-year-old man got on the Manhattan-bound F train at the Grand Avenue station and put his bag down on the seat next to him. He soon fell asleep, and when he woke up at the Lexington 63rd Street station his bag and its contents was gone. He is missing an Apple MacBook and assorted hardware.
ID thieves claimed another victim recently. During the period between Wednesday, March 29 and Wednesday, April 12, someone used the personal information of an East 63rd Street resident to order two cell phones that were billed to an AT&T account in his name but sent to other addresses. He had not authorized the purchases, which amounted to $2,099.98.
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It’s not every 17-year-old who can say they’ve had their photographs displayed around the world — including two at the Met Museum. Alison Hirsch, a junior at the Trinity School, is one of them. Her latest accomplishment, however, is becoming the youngest person to be approved by the Cornell Institutional Review Board of Research Integrity (IRB) to study the effects of poetry on mood during the Tea and Poetry sessions she runs once a month at the Upper East Side’s Irving Sherwood Wright Center on Aging. One Tuesday each month, Hirsch and a group of seniors at the Irving Wright Center on First Avenue between 77th and 78th Streets gather around a long table with cookies and tea to read and discuss poetry. Hirsch says she’s always felt comfortable around older people and two years ago decided she wanted to reach out to them. “I realized there’s a lot of stigma on aging and it’s very isolating in society,” she said. “I knew that that’s the group I wanted to reach. Then in ninth grade, I was able to get in contact with Irving Wright Center and set up a meeting and brainstorm.” Hirsch, a natural storyteller who also works for her school’s newspaper and literary magazine, eventually decided to share her love of poetry. “I loved stories ever since I was younger and then when I found poems I was like, this is so great because it’s a small story,” she said.
They’re friends now that come together who didn’t know each other before. It’s hard to make friends when you’re that age. You don’t have school, you don’t have a job, there’s not really places to meet people, so it’s nice that they’re friends. They exchange emails and stuff so that’s really exciting. They’ll have inside jokes. It’s really great” Alison Hirsch For each session, Hirsch selects four to five poems for her class, which has as many as 17 attendees. She gives a short background on the poet and then reads the poem aloud to the class. Everyone will discuss their interpretations. According to Hirsch, there is no shortage of voices. “They’ve learned so much, their comments are amazing, they’re insightful and they’re engaged with the text like it’s alive,” Hirsch said. “I feel so lucky because it’s so great to read poetry with people that sometimes know the poet, remember the decade the poem was written in, can explain it, give context to it — context I could only imagine from what I’ve gotten in the poem — and hear about people’s different experiences.” Hirsch said that Robert Hayden’s poem,
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Hirsch (second from left) at a Tea and Poetry session. Photo: Allison Maritza Lasky
“Those Winter Sundays” (1966) registered very well with the class and prompted many to share personal stories. “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer (1914) was another class favorite; Hirsch said many participants had studied the poem in grade school and enjoyed revisiting the text. The class has also read some of Hirsch’s own poems, including “Swinging,” and “An Ode to Curiosity, Cowardice, and Cinema.” Some attendees have even been inspired to write their own poetry to bring to the sessions and share with the group. “I’m so happy about that,” Hirsch said. Hirsch wanted feedback about the sessions, hoping to improve her teaching skills, so she began handing out mood forms before and after class. The participants would rate their mood on a scale of one to ten and leave feedback comments. Hirsch began to find that moods would improve from the beginning of class, particularly for those who were the most engaged during the discussions. “I realized it’s selfish to just use these to see how to better my own personal class,” Hirsch said. “It’s interesting to see how much it affects people’s moods, so I brought it to the attention of the IRB and it got approved and now I can actually publish this work.” Hirsch and the IRB created a new, more in-depth rating system for moods that she will soon begin to implement. The new scale lists individual moods such as happiness, fatigue, and insecurity that attendees rate on a scale of zero to five. “We can tell you, oh, before people were insecure and now they’re more confident, or before they were tired and now they’re excited,” she said. For Hirsch, one of the most exciting aspects of the class is that she has been able to offer a consistent social opportunity for her guests that has now turned into a close community of poetry enthusiasts. “There’s a whole social aspect that came along with people seeing it as, you know, this is why I got out of the house today,” Hirsch said. “They’re friends now that come together who didn’t know each other before. It’s hard to make friends when you’re that age. You don’t have school, you don’t have a job, there’s not really places to meet people, so it’s nice that they’re friends. They exchange emails and stuff so that’s really exciting. They’ll have inside jokes. It’s really great.” While she will be graduating from high school next year, Hirsch says she hopes to continue doing Tea and Poetry for as long as possible.
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DISRUPTING THE GRID SCOPING OUT MANHATTAN The Age of the Bicycle has undermined the orderly patterns of Manhattan’s block system
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New York City. The mesh of poetry and practicality in the island’s traffic ow derives from its “block systemâ€? of 1909, in which all vehicles on a block stop, to let traffic on the crossing street go, in a pattern that neatly reverses itself into inďŹ nitude. And the linear motion of our vehicles — bound for the rising or setting sun on the streets, mirroring the ow of the great encircling rivers on the avenues — stems from the introduction of one-way streets in the 1930s and one-way avenues in the 1950s. All these features deďŹ ne our urban space. Together, they offer predictability for residents, access for businesses, rationality for commuters, wayďŹ nding for tourists and relative security for all who trod corners, crosswalks and sidewalks. There’s just one problem. After two centuries, the rhythms of the grid have been knocked out of kilter. The block system has been effectively degraded. The spirit of the one-way street has been undermined. The streetscape is imperiled. And evidence is everywhere: Order devolves into chaos. Rule of law is abrogated. Basic protocols pertain no more. Menace pervades roads and public spaces. Fear of bodily harm awaits vulnerable citizens who venture out of doors. A post-apocalyptic vision out of a “Mad Maxâ€? movie? Take another look. It’s actually a description of the streets of Manhattan in the Age of the Bicycle. It wasn’t supposed to be that way. With the best intentions, the current and former mayors set out to boost bike traffic, and thus, curb carbon emissions, cleanse the air, promote exercise and tame vehicular traffic, all worthy goals. To accomplish them, City Hall in the space of 15 years grafted a new public transportation system onto the grid — the foundational design for the streets of Manhattan with its at surfaces, straight lines, right angles, street walls and rectangular lots, all framed by a dozen north-south avenues and 200 numbered east-west streets. The grid was municipal overreach at its ďŹ nest. Here were orthogonal spaces tailor-made for skyscrapers, and soon, a vertical grid rose atop the horizontal. Here were linear byways that could accommodate almost anything, and soon, above or below them, there came the automobile, sidewalk, stoop, traffic light, underground train, sewer main, subterranean utility trench, water tunnel from the Catskills. It was upon that masterpiece of alignment and perpendicularity that officials superimposed 131 miles of bike lanes, concocted a bike-share program and built hundreds of docking stations stocked with thousands of Citi Bikes. Before long, a narrative had taken hold: The program was a shining success. Not so fast. There’s another story that must be
told. “This used to be a much more orderly city,� said Dieter Brauer, 79, a German construction engineer who has been coming to Manhattan on business for 42 years. “The streets used to make much more sense,� said his wife Marie, 71, who has joined him on annual trips for 27 years. The Brauers were standing on the west side of Eighth Avenue near the protected bike lane at 28th Street. The block in Chelsea has an improbable claim to fame, says blogger-and-data-analyst Todd Schneider, who analyzed hundreds of thousands of Citi Bike rides over a three-month period in the autumn of 2015. “It’s the single road segment most trafficked by Citi Bikes,� he found. Schneider’s research is based on where rides begin and end, so it doesn’t capture cyclists’ behavior. But it could well be the single road segment in which bikers most frequently blow through red lights, in defiance of the block system, ride the wrong way against the traffic stream, in repudiation of the one-way street, and bump up to sidewalks from which they’re legally banned, in contravention of the discipline of the grid. I stood with the Brauers during the evening rush last week, and in 15 minutes, we counted 20 red-light runners, three sidewalk riders and a dozen “salmoners� careening southbound down northbound Eighth Avenue or westbound against eastbound 28th Street. The word refers to the foolhardy practice of riding in the wrong direction that bikers dub “salmoning,� as if it can be likened to the glories of an upstream salmon run to natal spawning grounds. “All this subtracts from the specialness of the city,� the senior Brauer said. “It does more than that,� his wife corrected. “It adds to the dangers.� It’s hardly a secret to New Yorkers and visitors that an aggressive and empowered cycling culture has taken root on the island. But just how radically the streetscape of Manhattan has been transformed, its arterial infrastructure re-engineered, the very mission of its roadbeds re-prioritized to make way for, well, a stampede of scofflaws, has been far less commented upon. Transportation planners have narrowed thoroughfares, shed vehicular lanes and reallocated miles of freed-up asphalt to bikeways. Consider what happens when a protected bike lane is fabricated on the left-hand side of a principal avenue, say, northbound First and southbound Second Avenues on the East Side, or northbound Eighth and southbound Columbus Avenues on the West Side. Positioned curbside for its entire length, the bike path now displaces cars and delivery trucks, shunting them deeper into the roadway, accord-
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 ing cyclists a place of honor, while erecting barricades to commerce by walling off retailers from their suppliers. The repositioning creates a domino effect: The bike lane replaces a parking lane, the parking line replaces a traffic lane, the traffic lane morphs into a de facto delivery lane, and suddenly, a line of trucks, essentially triple-parked, are standing and idling and spewing fumes in the middle of the avenue because the new configurations bar them from getting anywhere near a curb. That’s an improvement? Now hold that image of the triple-parked truck in your mind. Go back in time with Morris Vogel, president of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, to the neighborhood at the turn of the 20th century. There’s an analogy here, and it’s not such a reach. To outsiders, it was a “helter-skelter,â€? he told me, a chaotic jumble of “pushcarts and imsy stands jostling each other every which way — bushels, barrels and boxes strewn across streets and sidewalks ... â€? That messiness, defying both grid and street ow, led to the crackdown launched by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia against the street peddlers and their conveyances in the late 1930s. “Pushcarts were lined up helter-skelter, which is one reason LaGuardia wanted them off the streets,â€? Vogel wrote. And off the streets they went. Perhaps the next mayor will contemplate a similar crackdown on bike infrastructure. Bikeways have few greater champions than Sam Schwartz, who coined the word “gridlockâ€? in the 1970s, built the ďŹ rst short-lived bike lane for Mayor Ed Koch in 1980, and, under the nom de guerre “Gridlock Sam,â€? is the only traffic engineer in city history to become a household name. Schwartz, the author of “Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars,â€? is also commonsensical. When I asked if the presence of those triple-parked trucks, engines running, isn’t a textbook case of poor urban planning, he wrote matter-of-factly, “Trucks need access.â€? Yes, there could have been better planning, Schwartz said. He would have reserved one side of an avenue for truck-loading zones. Few New Yorkers better understand the history of the one-way street, or the consequences of defying it. In 1791, he notes, “Drivers of horse carriages going to the theater were to travel east on east-bound streets and west on west-bound streets because of theater gridlock.â€? As for wrong-way bike riding, “It’s wrong in any event because of the dangers to pedestrians looking the opposite way, cars not expecting the riders — and physics,â€? Schwartz says. “A car going 30 miles per hour that hits a bike going 10 mph in the opposing direction is the equivalent of a 40 mph hit. Survival is low. But a car hitting a bike rider at the same speeds in the same direction is a 20 mph impact crash. Survival is high.â€? Schwartz speaks of physics in the language of the traffic engineer. But there’s another principle in physics I’d deploy for the state of our streets in the era of the bicycle — entropy. This is hugely consequential. And while there was public outcry over the reordering of the public realm, it never reached the intensity, say, of the political debate over horse-drawn carriages in Central Park. Absent vigorous pushback, ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who developed the initiative, and
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NOISE MAKES YOU LOOK OLDER! BY BETTE DEWING
Hee! Hee! Bet that got your attention — if you are over 30 that is. Nothing could be more unjust, but until the revolution ... But this is an Earth Day and International Noise Awareness Day column (the former observed April 22, the latter on April 26), and how something as emotionally as well as physically damaging as noise in schools, hospitals, work places and, above all, our homes, can be so ignored by save the Earth/planet leaders, medics and elected officials whose first duty it is to protect public welfare — health. Maybe repeat that, please. While what we breathe is still polluted, the city Health Department recently released a report saying that New York’s air is getting clean-
er. That’s because great attention was, and continues, to be paid. And yet noise-related calls to 311 reportedly get little remedial action even though they are more about noise invading the home, especially noisy neighbors, than any other 311 lament? But these desperate pleas for help don’t go public and may not even be privately shared. But the home invasion kind has never been a hot media topic. The research is there but, hey, if the damage done were household knowledge, some of us tenants might have to put down noisemuffling rugs or tone down our stereos to reduce noise transmitted to neighboring apartments. So there’s a lot of resistance and even in a city of mostly multiple dwelling places. Ah, but there’s even resistance from landlords, managing agents
and co-op and condo boards as the East 79th Neighborhood Association once found out in a most important anti-noisy homes project overseen by Dr. Arline Bronzaft, chair of the Noise Committee at the city’s Council on the Environment. But the majority of Upper East Side landlords, managing agents and co-op and condo boards refused to distribute a questionnaire to their residents which related to their experience with neighbor and other disturbing noise coming into their homes. A number of individual-related laments prompted this thoughtful study and action to bring unnecessary home noise out in the open and make helpful suggestions to overcome or reduce it. Again, only a few landlords, managing agents and co-op condo boards complied. As Bronzaft says of her noisyneighbor-related work. it is often the lack of sound-muffling floor
covering, even though it’s required by most apartment house leases and house rules. And it’s often a “silence thing” among the noiseafflicted and an “ignorance thing” among those whose first duty it is to protect public safety and welfare. To my knowledge, sound-proofing is not a priority even in new luxury high-rise condo construction. Rather typical are friends who worry about who will move in the co-op above them now that their quiet elder neighbors have moved to L.A. to be near their sons. Again, how this needs to be talked about. But unlike construction and restaurant//bar home invasion noise victims, afflicted individuals don’t have group support and so they don’t even report it so as not to cause bad neighbor relations. And you men, don’t think it’s somehow “unmanly” to say you’ve got a noisy neighbor or a problem with noise pollution in general.
Attention must be paid. These stories must be shared on both a private land and public level, especially the latter. Yes, keep calling 311 but more important repeatedly call elected officials, your police precinct and community board listed in this paper’s Useful Contacts column. And hey, why, with somewhat impaired hearing, am I the only one holding my ears when an emergency vehicle blasts by? Non-emergency horn-blowing has to go. So do noisy restaurants, movie house sound systems. It’s too noisy EVERYWHERE. Earth Day and International Noise Awareness Day must first protect the places we live and spend the most time. Overcoming noise pollution, in general, must become a top priority concern. It can be done if enough of us try - if enough of us try. dewingbetter@aol.com
GREENING CONCRETE GRAYING NEW YORK BY MARCIA EPSTEIN
The sidewalk on West 97th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues is the size of five average city sidewalks. There is an ongoing battle between a group called Friends of Stryker Park and The West 97th Street Community Improvement Group over how to make use of that largely empty space. Friends of Stryker Park, established in 2012, wants to make 97th Street a safe and enjoyable public space. They have met with local residents, businesses owners and institutions to solicit ideas about making the now empty block a neighborhood-friendly place of greenery and activities. They want to see flowers growing on the plaza and not trash. The group proposes only minor enhancements to the plaza that would not involve major construction. Every volunteer event has drawn many local people who ask why it’s taking so long to
move forward with improvement on the block. I live right across the street from the proposed plaza, and I can’t see any drawbacks to using the space in a more productive way. It’s a large area with a huge potential. Right now, nothing is there but a few benches. Why not use it to beautify the community and provide activities for its people? Well, here’s what those opposed say. The West 97th Street Community Improvement Group asks the community and the organizations involved in possible support of Friends of Stryker Park not to fund any plaza on that block. The West 97th Street Community Improvement Group is a coalition of residents in the Park West Tenants Association, the Westgate Tenants Association and the Westview Neighbors Tenants Association. They claim that Friends of Stryker Park is an outside group who describe this block as underutilized and desolate (It is!). The group says that the plaza would make the street more crowded, dangerous and unhealthy (how and why, I ask?). They also say that since there
The north side of West 97th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues. Photo courtesy of the Friends of Stryker Park will soon be three schools and possibly a large nursing home on the block, the children in these schools need the sidewalk for play, have fire drills and other activities (Why? They have playgrounds). The group thinks that Stryker Park (really just potted plants, chairs, umbrellas and weekend activities) would attract more rats and would add to the traffic problems we already contend with. The West 97th Street Community Improvement Group claims that
it will examine ways to enhance and beautify the block (I haven’t seen anything yet). Friends of Stryker Park dispute most of these claims. They say that their message aligns with The West 97th Street Community Improvement Group in many ways and that they share the same concerns. The Friends group is frustrated that their motives are called into question and puzzled to have met with opposition. They’ve asked to meet with the community
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group for over a year and haven’t been able to do so. They say that they are not outsiders; the founders and team members live within a few blocks of the plaza. All they want, they say, is the betterment of the neighborhood. They are all volunteers and not out for any sort of profit or gain except to develop the huge plaza in a way beneficial to the community. The plaza is empty and under-utilized. I know this, as I walk it almost every day. I can’t see a downside to using it as a neighborhood gathering place. Stryker Park proposes only minor enhancements to the plaza, not major construction. Right now, the plaza is little more than a gathering place for pigeons and garbage. A caveat: I am not in the “in group” and might have missed something essential. However, I’ve been to some of their events and have found them lively and fun. I’ve enjoyed the potted plants and the tables with umbrellas. I simply don’t understand the opposition to something that would turn an under-utilized space into a community gathering spot with flowers growing in the tree beds. New York doesn’t have many open spaces like the five-sidewalk wide block of 97th Street. I’m for anything that would make it pleasant for me and my neighbors.
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BATTLE OVER TENANT HARASSMENT BILLS HEATS UP REAL ESTATE Legislation faces opposition from real estate industry BY MICHAEL GAROFALO
A package of 14 bills currently under consideration in the City Council that advocates say will curb harassment of tenants by landlords is facing resistance from the real estate industry. Supporters of the legislation — who include City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and Council Members Helen Rosenthal, Ben Kallos and Dan Garodnick — say that the bills will improve tenants’ protections against predatory landlord tactics intended to force tenants out of rent-controlled and rent-stabilized apartments, so that the units to be rented at higher rates. The bills encompass a broad array of proposals, which include increasing civil penalties for tenant harassment violations, expanding the definition of harassment to include “repeatedly contacting or visiting a tenant at unusual hours,” widening the scope of tenant protection plans that landlords are required to file prior to performing construction work, and establishing a tenant advocate’s office within the Department of Buildings to provide additional oversight of landlords’ adherence to tenant protection plans. The measures face staunch opposition from the Real Estate Board of New York, which publicly opposes most of the bills. “REBNY recognizes the importance of protecting tenants from improper owner behavior designed to force vacancies,” the powerful industry association said in written testimony submitted for an April 19 hearing on the bills held by the council’s Committee on Housing and Buildings. “However, legislation to discourage and penalize such behavior must be narrowly tailored so that only the ‘bad actors’ are isolated and affected.” One bill that would lessen tenants’ legal burden for proving harassment was met with a particularly harsh response from REBNY. Currently, tenants must show that a landlord committed one of a list of
Council Member Helen Rosenthal speaks at a February 23 rally against tenant harassment at City Hall. Photo: Office of Helen Rosenthal acts or omissions classified as harassment with the intent of causing the tenant to vacate their apartment. Intro. 1530, co-sponsored by Rosenthal, would create a “rebuttable presumption” removing the requirement that tenants must prove the landlord’s intent. “It just flips where the presumption lies,” Rosenthal said of the bill. “It turns it so the tenant can say, no, the landlord has to prove that they’re not harassing me.” REBNY warned that the bill would “turn the most basic American concept of justice — ‘innocent until proven guilty’ — on its head” and result in a flood of frivolous lawsuits against landlords. “All a tenant needs to do is to assert owner acts or omissions that could loosely make out a harassment case under the Housing Maintenance Code, no matter how tenuous the evidence may be,” REBNY said in its written testimony. “It will be the owner that will need to prove otherwise. New York City Housing Court, already backed-logged and under-resourced, will become mired in tenant harassment cases.” Rosenthal, in a phone interview after the hearing, acknowledged that tenants initiate the majority of complaints, but said that the bill would help add balance to an unfair system. “I understand REBNY has to take the position they need to take, but there’s no question in my mind that this will help tilt the system a little bit on the side of tenants,” Rosenthal said. “Right now tenants are just completely disadvantaged.” The lone bill in the package
that REBNY supports is Intro. 938, which would require increased DOB oversight of contractors that have previously been issued violations for working without a permit. The DOB, for its part, expressed doubt that the bill would provide an adequate mechanism for identifying and targeting problem contractors. “Most work without a permit violations are issued long after the work is completed, and are typically issued to the building owner, for the simple reason that the contractor has long since departed the site,” the department said in its written testimony, noting that it currently uses other data to identify and monitor offending contractors. The DOB also opposes the creation of a new tenant advocate’s office within the department, reasoning that such an office would be redundant. Thomas Fariello, first deputy commissioner with the DOB, testified that the department already performs many of the functions the office would be tasked with under the council’s proposal, such as reviewing and approving tenant protection plans, monitoring buildings with tenant protection plans, and fielding tenants’ complaints. Rosenthal said that many constituents have expressed frustration with the DOB’s current handling of complaints and tenant protection plans, and that the bill is intended to improve the process. She added that she looks forward to continuing to work with both DOB and REBNY during the legislative process in pursuit of needed reforms for tenants.
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COLLECTING VIDEO 2-5 p.m. Hubert Gallery, 16 East 79th St. Video artist Townsend Maier They spin finely (Hilan Delgado), Los Caprichos, plate 43, 1799, in his debut exhibition. The Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), etching, aquatint, drypoint artist will be speaking about and burin. © The Trustees of the British Museum collecting video art. 212-628-2922. hubertgallery.com installation shimmering with quality of 19th century Paris arcades.” 212-423-3200. thejm.org
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‘FROM MOURNING TO MORNING:... Temple Israel, 112 East 75th St. 8 p.m. Free ...Music of War and Peace.” Under the artistic direction of Soo-Kyung Park, musicians of Lenox Hill perform Sibelius, Liszt and Mendelssohn. 212-249-5000. tiny.org/molh
BANG ON A CAN | PIANIST The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave. 7:30-9 p.m. All Stars member Vicky Chow performs Tristan Perich’s “Surface Image” for solo piano, a “monumental performance-
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92Y School of Music Orchestra, 1395 Lexington Ave. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Dvorak’s “Symphony from the New World” and Tchaikovsky’s “Piano Concert No. 1” with soloist William Chen, a 92nd St. Y School of Music Concerto Competition winner. 212-415-5580. 92y.org/ orchestra
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Mon 1 14TH AMENDMENT | WORKSHOP Mid-Manhattan Library, 455 Fifth Ave. 2-3 p.m. Free Artist & lawyer team, teach universal suffrage, and current controversies surrounding voting rights. Participants create cartoon, meme, song, poem or social media post. 212-340-0863. nypl.org
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ARCHITECTURE & WELL BEING ▲ 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave. 7 p.m. $32 Architect Michael Van Valkenburgh (Brooklyn Bridge Park) speaks with architecture critic Sarah Williams Goldhagen about landscapes, buildings and cityscapes, and how they impact personal and social lives. 212-415-5500. 92y.org
Tue 2 EILEEN MYLES Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Ave. 6:30 p.m. $15 The influential poet, novelist, performer, teacher and art writer reads at the second annual event honoring scholar Kenneth
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TICHA-TICHA CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. 6 p.m. Free Intense, poetic play, part of International Play Festival 2017. Ticha-Ticha awaits return of Michael, the love of her life, who is, however, drawn to her daughter. 212-817-2020. gc.cuny.edu
Wed 3 JAPAN/AMERICA WRITERS Asia Society, 725 Park Ave. 6:30-8 p.m. Conversation between Japanese and American authors featured in international literary journal “Monkey Business”: Brian Evenson, Jamaica Kincaid and Hiroko Oyamada. (PEN World Voices). 212-288-6400. asiasociety. org
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ART, BY THE NUMBERS MUSEUMS Rationality, mystery and mysticism fuse in The Met’s “Picturing Math” BY MARY GREGORY
By the time we’re through with taxes, we’ve all looked at more numbers than we care to, and probably not with a kind eye. The Met Fifth Avenue has the antidote. “Picturing Math” brings together 49 works from the Department of Drawings and Prints adding up to one delightful exhibition. Following the department’s recent look at text in art, “Picturing
IF YOU GO WHAT: “Picturing Math: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints” WHERE: The Met Fifth Avenue WHEN: Through May 8 www.metmuseum.org/
Math” presents works from the 1500s through 2015 that reflect measurement, multiplication, geometry and all things numerical. In one of the most heavily trafficked galleries in The Met, connecting the main stairway with
Dodecahedron and variants, from Perspectiva corporum regularum, by Jost Amman in 1568 (Etching Printed in Nuremberg. Photo: Adel Gorgy
the photography and Impressionist galleries, the collection of drawings, etchings, prints and engravings on paper are filled with numbers, shapes and even magic. One of the most famous images in art, and certainly the most famous in the exhibition is Albrecht Dürer’s “Melencolia I,” a picture viewers have pondered, discussed, debated and spun tales about since it was created in 1514. It played a supporting role in Dan Brown’s 2009 thriller, “The Lost Symbol,” due to a grid of numbers known as a magic square. While Brown might have seen alchemy and mysticism hidden in the work, others see it as nothing more mysterious than a kind of medieval Sudoku. Theories have abounded about the symbolism in Dürer’s “Melencolia I,” which features a winged female figure holding a compass (as in compass and protractor) surrounded by measuring devices, examples of geometric shapes, architectural tools and a ladder, and in the upper right quadrant, a magic square. This foursquare grid is populated with numbers that, pretty much no matter how you approach them, all add up to 34. What that signifies and why Dürer did that is an open question. The number 34 was associated with the planet Jupiter in Agrippa’s “De Occulta Philosophia,” a book written just four years earlier that was big with the intellectual set of the day. Jupiter was the king of the Roman pantheon and signified wisdom and light. The magic square may have been Dürer’s statement on the intellect, but it was also an announcement of sorts. The right and left corners on the bottom line of the square hold the numbers 1 and 4, a code for the first and fourth letters of the alphabet (the artist’s initials) and the center two squares hold 15 and 14, the year of the work’s creation. Nearby, a particularly lovely Italian Renaissance engraving depicts a beautiful young female, Geometria, riding a cloud, drawing a square, a circle and a triangle across the sky. It’s part of a series of 50 works documenting the intellectual prowess of a society that had, in its estimation, mastered the conditions of man, the seven liberal arts and the “scientific” fields of astrology, philosophy and theology. Some of the more recent works in
Albrecht Dürer’s “Melencolia I” is filled with mystery, magic and math. Photo: Adel Gorgy the show may be less opaque. But then again, maybe not. A striking collection of black and white prints present long, complicated equations. “Concinnitas” is an homage to blackboards in general and one in particular. Einstein’s iconic blackboard, still bearing an equation he wrote in 1931, has been preserved at Oxford and photographed countless times. Dan Rockmore, a professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College, invited 10 colleagues to represent the “most beautiful mathematical expression” they had ever encountered. The result is the series “Concinnitas.” While only some of the audience will be able to grasp the meaning, we can all still marvel the way we do at the elegance of calligraphy in a language we can’t read. The exhibition also presents fascinating juxtapositions between Sol LeWitt’s untitled cube studies in tones of gray and Peter Flötner’s cube studies from 1528. Cy Twombly’s scratchy, energetic scrawl (from the 1960s) reads more as an encapsulation
of jitteriness than as the letter “F,” as in its title, while Josef Albers linear “Transformations” of 1950 have all the grace of their Renaissance forebears. Howardena Pindell is a contemporary artist whose father was a mathematician. Her “Constellations” from 2015 is abstract and elegant, and, hearkening back to Dürer’s, it’s loaded with allusion and mystery. On a blueblack expanse, Pindell charts a circle reminiscent of a sky map. Rather than stars, the curators note, she fills hers with marks like “numbers, arrows, and other personal references that reflect her influences (such as African art), life experiences, and political activism.” The Met’s Drawings and Prints collection numbers in the hundreds of thousands. There are beloved icons and works that are rarely on view. An exhibition like “Picturing Math” offers a fresh, fun way to revisit and reconsider a collection that’s much more than the sum of its parts.
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LIVING WITH CARAVAGGIO ART At the Met Museum, a longtime art writer for La Stampa reflects on a masterpiece she grew up with in Italy BY FIAMMA ARDITI, WITH MICHELE WILLENS
I walked with some hesitation into number 621 of the Old Masters rooms at The Met. Then suddenly, over the teeming crowd, I saw it. Not unlike Proust and his madeleines, I was instantly taken back to my childhood. Would anyone have believed me if I’d announced that I had grown up with this famous painting, created by the most maddening and controversial of artists? As I ďŹ nally made my way to the museum’s imposing wall, there it was, close enough to touch: “The Denial of Saint Peter,â€? by Caravaggio. Some 50 years evaporated as I saw myself and my two younger sisters scampering around our home in Milan, where this very painting hung over our ďŹ replace. We knew it meant something important to others, but for little girls, the dark depiction of Peter denying Jesus, the woman denouncing him, the Roman soldier in his elaborate dark armor ready to arrest him, was something that nightmares are made of. It belonged to my mother’s eldest sister, Elena, who left Naples to live with us. A beauty who greatly resembled Ava Gardner, this generous, passionate woman was a collector of Neapolitan Caravaggeschi from the seventeenth century. But when she moved to Milan, she took with her only “The Denial,â€? painted in 1610 by Caravaggio, whose real name was Michaelangeo Merisi. At least she believed it was painted by him. Many of the art historians in those days were not so sure. My sisters and I were often sternly invited to “disappear,â€? as our home became the stage of multiple appearances of experts from
around the world. This drama, of sorts, went on for years, with different actors taking on the roles of those who supposedly knew a work of genius from a fake. But my aunt was as stubborn as she was beautiful, and ďŹ nally found the courage to take a train to Florence to meet with il professore, Roberto Longhi, considered the ultimate Caravaggio scholar. “Professore,â€? she demanded, “until you write, black on white, that my painting is by Caravaggio, I won’t leave your house.â€? The following day, she returned to Milan, her face transformed. Not only was it determined that “The Denial of Saint Peterâ€? was indeed painted by Caravaggio, it was said to be one of his last two works. In her later years, my aunt did ďŹ nally part with the masterwork, selling it to a Dutch and a German dealer. Eventually, it was purchased by American collectors and found its ďŹ nal resting place at the Met. That is where, right now, “Peterâ€? and the other ďŹ nal work, “The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula,â€? have been placed together in a show curated by Keith Christiansen, chairman of the Department of European Paintings. As with every exhibit with the name Caravaggio attached, the lines are long. So little is known of the man who was rebellious at best, a murderer at worst. Also, his sexuality has been debated for centuries, so observers are always seeking clues. What I do know is that the presence of even only two works allows us to appreciate an artist who so powerfully brought the people from the streets into the canvas. For me, I expect nothing. (Though I wouldn’t mind if Helen Mirren offered to play my role.) No, as I stand in front of this masterpiece, which was so much a part of my upbringing, I feel inordinately grateful to once again remember living with Caravaggio. Fiamma Arditi has written on the art scene for Italy’s La Stampa for 20 years.
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BRINGING LGBTQ HISTORY TO LIFE ACTIVISTS “Making Gay History,” a podcast produced by two neighbors in Chelsea, recalls vibrant people who helped change the world BY LILY HAIGHT
Eric Marcus, a journalist, author and historian, lives across the street from radio producer Sara Burningham in West Chelsea. With his three-decadeold audio archive of interviews with LGBTQ activists, icons and allies combined with Burningham’s production skills, the two neighbors have created a podcast, “Making Gay History.” The podcast first launched in October 2016 and is now in its second season. Each episode runs about 15 to 20 minutes long and features one person’s story, with an introduction from Marcus, giving details about when he interviewed them and why they were significant in the gay rights movement. Because he recorded the interviews in the late 80s while he was preparing to write a book by the same name, many of the interviewees have since died, making the recordings precious recollections of vibrant people who helped change the world. Originally, Marcus did not consider himself a historian, nor did he know very much about LGBTQ history. But his venture to write an oral history of the gay civil rights movement lead him to discover many major leaders of the early movement — people like Wendell Sayers, a black gay man born in 1904 and “diagnosed” as a homosexual at the Mayo clinic when he was 16 years old, who became the first black attorney to work in the Colorado State Attorney General’s office. Or Frank Kameny, who was fired from his federal government job in 1957 because he was gay and then fought and won an eighteen-year-battle to change the law.
“I remember being outraged that I didn’t know this history. I thought that everything began at Stonewall and I didn’t really know much beyond that,” said Marcus. “And then here I discovered there was this incredible history dating back to World War II and that most of the people I wanted to talk to were still alive.” After writing his book, which first came out in 1992, Marcus found himself with an archive of 100 interviews, 300 hours worth of tapes which have since been digitized by the New York Public Library. This treasure trove of gay history is at his fingertips, ready for him to filter through and decide whose story will be told next. “The experience of doing the podcast now is rediscovering the material all over again, but by using the actual audio, it’s so much more intense and intimate,” said Marcus. “You get to hear p e o ple a n d their voices, which to me is very powerful.” Marcus began sorting through the tapes in order to create some short clips for a non-profit organization called History Unerased, which is working on creating
We have won key battles in almost every aspect of American society whether it’s legal or social. But there are still so many areas in which we haven’t achieved equality and there are lots of ways in which our lives are still misunderstood” Eric Marcus LGBTQ-inclusive K-12 curricula. Realizing that he had more than enough material, he asked Burni n g h a m to help him produce it, and it soon got picked up by the podcast producing company, Pineapple Street Media. At the time that Marcus was writing his book, there was not a lot out there in terms of documented
Journalist, author, historian and podcast creator Eric Marcus has one of the largest archives of interviews with leaders of the LGBTQ rights movement. Photo: Jordan Matter
Lesbian activist Barbara Gittings, featured in episodes 9 and 18 of the “Making Gay History” podcast, with Eric Marcus, at the time he conducted the original interviews in the late 1980s. Photo: Kay Lahusen.
LGBTQ history. But even still today, LGBTQ history is rarely taught in schools. According to History Unerased, LGBTQ students are 30 percent more likely to drop out of school, while 82 percent of LGBTQ youth report being bullied. “A lot of my contemporaries died during the AIDS crisis, so there aren’t as many of us around who can talk about this as there would have been,” said Marcus. “I feel an enormous responsibility to the people I interviewed to help them tell their stories that would otherwise be lost to history.” Listening to trans icons Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, who were
prominent activists in the Stonewall Riots, reminds listeners just how far LGBTQ rights have come in the past couple of decades. But they are also reminders of the strength and determination it takes to keep moving forward. “We have won key battles in almost every aspect of American society whether it’s legal or social. But there are still so many areas in which we haven’t achieved equality and there are lots of ways in which our lives are still misunderstood,” said Marcus. “Each successive wave of LGBTQ people has picked up the ball from a previous generation and run with it.”
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HOW TO READ IN THE CITY BOOKS On trains, in cafes and browsing bookstores: tips and tricks for Manhattan word nerds BY MADELEINE THOMPSON
Let’s assume I live to be 85. This is slightly higher than the average life expectancy for a white, American female but, hey, dream big. At 24, that gives me 61 more years to pursue and enjoy my favorite pastime: reading. In order to make books even more of a priority in my life, I made a resolution this year to read a book every single week, and I’ve been chronicling my (so far successful) efforts online. Let’s now assume that I continue reading a book a week until my death, which I imagine will be the result of a collision with an adult man going 35 mph on a razor scooter. That means I have slightly fewer than 3,200 books left in this life. Keeping my resolution has required carving out time where there wasn’t any before. I don’t watch as much TV as I used to — definitely a good thing — and I’ve even ventured into audiobooks, which I wasn’t a huge fan of before. One of the biggest obstacles I’ve faced has been New York City itself. Loud, crowded and fast-moving, the city can make it seem like the only decent place to read is in your own home. But that doesn’t seem to hinder all the people I see reading on
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trains, in cafes and browsing bookstores for their next pick. (According to a 2016 article on the website Quartz, New York City has the sixth most bookstores per capita globally, ďŹ rst among cities in the U.S., with 10 for every 100,000 people. That’s more than 800 total.) So, like other word nerds living here, I’ve had to adapt. You can, too, if it bothers you that you could go to your grave without actually ďŹ nishing “The Power Broker.â€? Here are some tips and tricks:
Always pack a book Waiting on line is practically a second job for New Yorkers, whether at Trader Joe’s or at the post office, and you never know when you’ll have an extra 15 or 20 minutes to flip some pages. When that time does arrive, it would be disappointing not to be able to make the most of it.
Headphones are your friend My apartment may be the best place I know of to read, due to the presence of comfortable chairs, etc, but it’s not always the quietest. Roommates, nearby construction and the neighboring elementary school can all be counted on to disturb the peace. Thus, I recently invested in some noise-cancelling earbuds, and if things get too loud I’ll put them in and play some white noise on my phone. Ah, blessed silence. A good pair of headphones can also be useful if you can’t hear your audiobook over the screeching and clacking of the subway.
Use your local library The other day I discovered something so exciting I squealed at my desk: the New York Public Library system lets you borrow ebooks and then download them to your Kindle. I knew they had a vast collection of ebooks to lend out, but I didn’t know I could get them on my Kindle, which is where I do most of my reading these days. I promptly downloaded a YA series I loved as a kid. A signiďŹ cant bonus to library books is also, obviously, that they’ll save you money. If you’re a compulsive book-buyer like me, try to train yourself to look at the library’s catalogue ďŹ rst to see if what you want is available to borrow. They also have audiobooks!
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Read however you want Phone? Tablet? Audiobook? Kindle? Great. Amazing. I read on all these devices at various points depending on what is closest/most convenient. I also have a very decent collection of physical books. My point is, don’t let anyone tell you it only counts if you read on paper. Your crowded, rush-hour commute may not allow for you to open up a hardback, but your phone is the perfect size to prop against the backpack invading your personal space. Someone reading a physical tome doesn’t get to feel superior if they’re reading at half your rate. Keep doin’ you. Madeleine Thompson can be reached at newsreporter@ strausnews.com
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Business SPORTING SWORDSMANSHIP IN YORKVILLE SPORTS Posture, footwork, fun at Sheridan Fencing Academy BY MICKEY KRAMER
A grocery store, dry cleaners and pizza restaurant line the west side of First Avenue between 93rd and 94th Streets. It’s the fourth business on that block that invites a double-take. Jason Sheridan opened Sheridan Fencing Academy about nine years ago elsewhere on the Upper East Side. The business even had an early stint at an Upper West Wide shul. It’s been at its current location for about five years now. “I thought the Upper East Side was a good fit,” Sheridan, 40, said. “There are so many families and kids and we were something new.” Sheridan was introduced to the sport while attending Vassar College in the mid-1990s. “I saw a flyer for the fencing team. ‘No experience necessary’. That was perfect for me,” he said. Sheridan became “immersed” in the sport. He joined the Peace Corps after graduation and spent four years in Poland teaching English, while also becoming the only American to complete the Fencing Master’s Program at the Academy of Physical Education in Katowice, Poland. Sheridan takes pride in his school. “To have some kids come in and not believe they can do anything, develop into some of the top athletes in the country, the world,” he said, “is a great feeling.” Sheridan started coaching future NCAA fencing champion Adrienne Jarocki when she was 13 years old. While at Harvard, Jarocki twice was champion in individual saber. More recently,
Participants at Sheridan Fencing Academy. Photo: Jason Sheridan Sheridan coached Galen Cadley, who won bronze at the Junior Olympics Championships in Kansas City earlier this year, and Kristen Wong, 16, who took home a silver medal at the Junior and Cadet Pan American Championships in March. On a recent Saturday morning, a few champion hopefuls were perfecting their technique. Cora Riely, 7, rested on a side bench with her mother, Kari Riely, after just finishing her private lesson and awaiting a group class. Cora, who has taken lessons for a year and half, takes pride in her sport calling it “kinda my thing.”
Fencing, Kari Riely said, “teaches grace, commitment and assertiveness. We love it, it’s a wonderful place.” Brad Blumenfeld was sitting on the sidelines watching his son, Chase, participate in that same group class. “We live locally and he’s always been interested in medieval knights and all medieval things, so it was a natural fit for him to try fencing,” Blumenfeld said. Chase, 8, who took lessons a couple years ago, and started back up a few months ago, recommends fencing at Sheridan, saying that its improved his reflexes “tremendously” and helps you strategize.
Matthew Power might no longer aspire to Olympic glory but he nevertheless takes the sport seriously. Power, 43, has been attending the adult group classes on Monday and Wednesday evenings. “I wanted to find a sport that was competitive and a good workout,” he said. “It forces you to be more coordinated and I’m having a ball.” Adele Bubnys, 24, picked up fencing in college and has been a regular at Sheridan for about two years. “The thing I like is it’s not only an athletic endeavor but also an intellectual challenge,” she said. Bubnys also notes that the “people are fantastic” and there’s a social
ON THE SIDE STREETS OF NEW YORK LITTLE FROG — 322 EAST 86TH STREET Francois Latapie, the owner of Little Frog, certainly likes the element of the new and unexpected and the promise of the future, but the old still has its place beneath every surface of his French restaurant. It is there in the antiques placed about the space, in the soft ticking of a clock, and in the white brick. Little Frog is unpretentious and cozy, but somehow maintains an air of mystery, while serving beautifully prepared, uncomplicated dishes. To read more, visit Manhattan Sideways (sideways.nyc), created by Betsy Bober Polivy.
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aspect as well, often leading to drinks after the evening sparring. Sheridan has since expanded to Forest Hills, Queens, and White Plains. He wants to continue to build the program to get more kids engaged. Sheridan, who lives with his wife and mixed-breed dog just a few “lunges” away from his club, said the neighborhood has “got a great relaxed energy to it.” Which he hopes is reflected in his academy and his charges: “One of the great satisfactions I have is transforming their perspective in terms of what they are capable of.”
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MAN WITH A PLAN FOR MARINE TRANSFER STATION PROJECTS Resident Evan Zebooker hopes to repurpose the controversial site to “benefit New York City as a whole” BY MADELEINE THOMPSON
The City Council approved plans to open a marine transfer station (MTS) on the Upper East Side more than a decade ago, but the community’s vehement opposition to the garbage dump has never wavered. As recently as 2015 neighbors were angered by the addition of a second ramp to the site, which sits in the East River between 91st and 92nd Streets near the Isaacs-Holmes houses and the Asphalt Green sports facility. No amount of outcry has yet had an effect, but Evan Zebooker, who has lived in Yorkville since 1980, hopes to change that. Zebooker recently launched a website — letsrepurposethemts.wordpress.com — that houses three ideas he has had for alternate uses of the station: a terminal for the new Citywide Ferry, a marine operations center for the fire department or an NYPD harbor unit. “What I’m trying to do is take a progressive, forward-looking approach to, now that [the MTS] is here, what do we do moving forward?” said Zebooker, who is a proponent of the city’s waterways and was inspired by a recent community board meeting he attended. “I’ve been in the city a long time and I’ve always felt that the waterways have been underutilized.” He emphasized that his proposal is
The Marine Transfer Station under construction in October 2015. Photo: Daniel Fitzsimmons of a different mindset from previous community opposition and stressed that he wants to find a way for the inevitable new building to “benefit New York City as a whole.” Though he proposes three ideas, Zebooker thinks using the MTS site as a ferry terminal has the most promise.
The New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) has already slated Pier 90 for a stop as part of the Soundview Route that will launch in 2018, but Zebooker says that “the site that they have chosen is probably not the best site.” He cites a lack of accessible access and the fact that Pier 90 is
open to the elements. “There’s a lot of congestion there,” Zebooker went on. “There’s no place to park.” Instead, he suggests, use the transfer station, which is enclosed year-round, and the city might be able to make some revenue off of a newsstand or coffee shop.
Community opposition to the MTS has focused on its potentially harmful environmental effects as well as the danger that hundreds of garbage trucks coming and going present to the many local pedestrians and cyclists. Their fears are well founded. Just a year ago, 55-year-old Jodi McGrath was fatally struck by a private sanitation vehicle not even a block from her apartment at the Holmes Towers. Council Member Ben Kallos inherited the problem of the MTS and has supported residents in fighting it since he took office. “I’m really excited by Evan’s ideas,” Kallos said. “I hope the city will consider all of them. I believe that the long walk to the 90th Street pier is a particularly compelling argument.” Zebooker said he would be turning to Kallos to help figure out the best way to explore his plan, though he has reached out to a few groups already, including the EDC that will oversee ferry service. “Once you actually say ‘does this really make sense’ I think people kind of like the idea,” Zebooker said. In response to an interview request from Our Town, a spokesperson for the corporation gave the following statement: “We’ve already selected the location for the ferry landing at East 90th Street, and we will be making upgrades to the existing slip. EDC is very excited to bring NYC Ferry to the Upper East Side in 2018.” Madeleine Thompson can be reached at newsreporter@strausnews.com
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PEDESTRIAN DEATH CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 and generous. Notes on the market windows read, “A great man with a generous heart, Mano was a friend to all and loved by Yorkville,” and “Mano: You will always be in our hearts” were stuck to the windows. He was recalled at Sunday Mass at nearby St. Monica’s Church, and Karyn Delay, an Upper East Side resident, started a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for Srymanean’s family. “He was truly a wonderful human being,” she said. The York Avenue corridor, particularly in the 70s, is notorious for the number of pedestrians and motor-vehicle incidents that happen there. In January 2016, a Fort Lee, N.J., woman who was a regular customer at the Super-Del Market was struck and killed at York and 78th. According to Vision Zero data, there have been 281 incidents along York from East 69th and East 82nd Street since 2009. Council Member Ben Kallos said his office is working with police to increase oversight of that stretch of York. Kallos said his office worked to eliminate asymmetric lights at East 79th Street and York, and recently installed leading pedestrian intervals at the intersection where the collision took place, which allow pedestrians to enter the intersection before vehicles. “I think the key thing here is following this collision and others, we are working closely with the Department of Transportation and the 19th precinct to identify exactly what went wrong here and what we can do to keep it from happening again,” Kallos said. “We hope to work with P.S. 158 and the children there, who all had a strong relationship with the victim, to do a survey to reignite our 2014 survey of dangerous intersections and identify which places still need addi-
I think the key thing here is following this collision and others, we are working closely with the Department of Transportation and the 19th precinct to identify exactly what went wrong here and what we can do to keep it from happening again” Council Member Ben Kallos
tional attention.” In a statement, Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright said her office “will continue” to work with the city’s Department of Transportation and the 19th Precinct to improve safety. “This is the second fatality that occurred at this intersection within the past 15 months,” Seawright said. “This is unacceptable and the safety of our streets is not something on which any community can compromise.” Lily Haight contributed to this report.
A makeshift memorial grew outside the Super-Del Market on York Avenue near 78th Street throughout Sunday, hours after Manikkam Srymanean, a manager at the market, was struck and killed by a yellow cab nearby.
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In accordance with Section 1-12 of the Concession Rules of the City of New York, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (“Parks”) has issued a Request for Bids (“RFB”) for the sale of food from mobile food units at various locations at Central Park, Manhattan (NYCDPR Solicitation #CWB-2017-B). Hard copies of the RFB can be obtained, at no cost, commencing Tuesday, April 25, 2017 through Tuesday, May 23, 2017 between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., excluding weekends and holidays, at the Revenue Division of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, which is located at 830 Fifth Avenue, Room 407, New York, NY 10065. All bids submitted in response to this RFB must be submitted by no later than Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. The RFB is also available for download, Tuesday, April 25, 2017 through Tuesday, May 23, 2017 on Parks’ website. To download the RFB, visit www.nyc.gov/parks/businessopportunities, click on the link for “Concessions Opportunities at Parks” and, after logging in, click on the “download” link that appears adjacent to the RFB’s description. For more information related to the RFB contact Glenn Kaalund at (212) 360-1397 or via email: glenn.kaalund@parks.nyc.gov TELECOMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR THE DEAF (TDD) 212-504-4115
that we haven’t been feeling the effects of that.” Hartzog cited research compiled by the real estate website StreetEasy to support his point: as of November 2016, two months before the subway line opened, residential rents had increased 27 percent along Second Avenue over the previous five years (rents along First and Third Avenues increased 19 and 14 percent, respectively, over the same period). It is also likely too early to assess the subway’s influence on commercial rents, said Sarah Chu, co-chair of the board’s small business committee. “With businesses, one thing we know is that they have long-term leases, so we may not see the impact immediately,” Chu said. “It may be something that we see a year or two down the road, and it may or may not be better or worse.” The subway’s opening has highlighted and intensified larger issues within the neighborhood’s housing market, according to local resident Kara Collins, who moved to the Upper East Side while in her
mid-20s, a decade ago. Collins has lived in the same studio apartment since — she agreed to a $100 rent increase due to the subway opening when she renewed her lease earlier this year — but is ready to “put down roots” and purchase a unit in the neighborhood she has grown to love. “I feel like that’s putting more pressure,” Collins said of the subway. “It seems like there’s more people willing to consider Yorkville since it opened.” In the course of her search, Collins, who works in marketing, has found herself in an unhappy middle — unable to qualify for “affordable” units based on her income, and priced out of the luxury condominium market, which accounts for much of new construction. “A lot of what’s being built isn’t for anybody who lives and works in this neighborhood,” she said. “You’re talking about condos at the Kent” — a new complex on East 95th Street — “that start at $2.5 million. I don’t know a single person who can buy that.” It’s a problem, she said, that is forcing many of her friends to leave the neighborhood, even though they are the kind of residents the area should seek to keep — “People who want to stay here and es-
tablish families, have an education, have great jobs, who really establish the fabric of a neighborhood.” Local leaders have struggled to address rising residential rents, but members of CB8 identified reforming the city’s Commercial Rent Tax — a 6 percent tax on businesses paying more than $250,000 in rent annually — as a potentially feasible avenue for easing pressure on neighborhood businesses. Businesses above 96th Street and in portions of lower Manhattan are currently exempted from the tax, and some feel that the tax should be altered to help Upper East Side businesses. City Council Members Dan Garodnick, Corey Johnson, Ben Kallos, Margaret Chin, Mark Levine and Helen Rosenthal are among the co-sponsors of a bill that would change the tax to apply only to commercial tenants paying more than $500,000 in rent annually, thus narrowing the field of impacted businesses. “That’s one of the few things I think we can actually get accomplished,” CB8 member Barbara Chocky said. “That’s a very realistic action that I think we should really support.”
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THE REWARDS OF SERVING OTHERS Betsy Newell, the outgoing board president of Goddard Riverside Community Center, will have a fund named in her honor BY ANGELA BARBUTI
Betsy Newell has seen Goddard Riverside Community Center grow into a coveted city resource. “I just have such a history with Goddard and remember when it was a very small settlement house with a budget of $5 million, which seemed huge. Now we have a budget of $35 million.” The Upper West Side haven, with outposts throughout Manhattan, cares for a vastly diverse group of New Yorkers, with 26 programs such as afterschool tutoring for children, meal delivery for the elderly and outreach for the homeless. Serving on its board since she’s been in her early 30s, Newell, now 76, is stepping down from her role as board president, a post she’s held since 2011. For her unwavering commitment to the organization, the Betsy Newell Older Adult Fund, which will launch on May 10, has been created in her honor. Growing up on the Upper East Side, Newell learned of the importance of helping others at an early age. Not only were her parents strong proponents of volunteering, but the school she attended, The Brearley School, fostered her motivation to give back as well. Having always worked with children, Newell, who is director of Park Children’s Day School, has been asked,
“How come they’re naming a fund for older adults after you?” Her answer is, “I really appreciate, from a historical point of view, the continuity that older people bring to the community. But I also see, in my own schools at Grandparents’ Day, what older adults give to the next generation or next two generations.”
How did it come about that you joined the board at Goddard? I was living on Riverside Drive and 88th and had a group of friends that did things for charity. One of the members married a Russian pianist and Goddard had the idea that it would be fun to have a house concert. So I was very active in organizing that concert. One thing led to another, and I got involved and served on other committees and was on the board by my early 30s, I would say. And I’m 76, so that’s a long time ago.
What are some initiatives you’ve worked on there that you’re most proud of? We have had two mergers with other organizations that are terrific, but they were having some difficulty keeping going. Before I became president, I was very active with the first one. It was a very small community center, but they did wonderful work, especially with afterschool tutoring. It was in a church community center on 84th, St. Matthew and St. Timothy’s. We were able to get early childhood programs and something called Star Learning, which is the tutoring program. We’re just in the process of completing the merger with Lincoln Square Commu-
nity Center. That’s just behind Lincoln Center and has its own community center and some fabulous programs, including one for the elderly, which is just wonderful. I suppose those two things were the most satisfying.
Tell us why you were shy to have the fund named after you at first. I’m not being modest, but I honestly feel that it’s the people on the front line who are actually doing the work, presenting the activities and programs, after whom the fund should be named. Also, in my circle of friends who are my age, they’re all deeply involved in charitable organizations. And I just felt embarrassed to have somebody make a fuss over this.
You learned about charitable work through your parents, but also at school. When I was a fifth grader at The Brearley School, we had a chance, a couple of times a week, to volunteer at a day nursery. Now, you never hear that word anymore, but in the 30s, 40s and 50s, day nurseries were what we would now call daycare. We went to one in the neighborhood, on the Upper East Side. I really loved it. They were little, infants to five. As we got older, I did a lot of volunteering at one of the local public schools in their afterschool program. And it was just very satisfying. I think we all felt that way. There was just a real commitment at the school, a sense that you had a responsibility and had to figure out a way to give back.
As director, how much interaction do you have with the children of Park Children’s Day School?
Photo: Michele Kestenholz Oh, lots. I mean, we only have about 115 children, so I know them all. I know their parents. One of the great joys of my job is getting to know really interesting and intelligent families. For many of them, it’s their first school experience, so I like to send them off with a very positive attitude.
Do you have any funny stories involving a student? It’s funny, I just told this story this morning to a set of parents whose younger child is with us. The older son is in first grade now. He’s graduated. And he came back because his school had a day off when we were in session. Our alums come back and spend the day in their old classrooms. So he came back and came up to say hello to all of us in the office. And he threw his arms around me and gave me a big hug and said, “And what was your name again?” [Laughs]
Tell us a memorable story about your work with Goddard.
Photo: Jenny Pfister
After I had been on the board for maybe 10 years, we took over our first single-room occupancy building. And we started to work on turning it into a place for the homeless. And the board was asked if we wanted to help to furnish a room. So I was assigned to a room for a woman who, it turned out, went to Smith College where I had gone. She was there during the
war years, hired by Conde Nast, sent to England to do watercolors and report on country houses after the war. And here she was, how many years later, on the streets for 17 years. And she didn’t talk, so she never talked to me. But she had her original drawings that had been in the magazine. So I made curtains and bedspreads and all of that to try to make the room attractive. And on the last day of this event, I got a local art store to give me some decent watercolor supplies and got a little easel. Then I was told, a couple of months later by the staff in the building, that she actually had started painting again. And the whole experience of being in the room with her and having her sit and just watch me with her rolled-up paintings in an old Bloomingdale’s bag between her legs, the only precious thing she had and had kept for 17 years on the streets, was just an amazing experience for me. www.goddard.org/grcc
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