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Bo Dietl, with the microphone, was among four Republicans candidates making their cases at the Metropolitan Club to be the GOP nominee in this year’s mayoral contest. Other candidates at the Wednesday night forum were, from Dietl’s left, Michel Faulkner, Nicole Malliotakis and Paul Massey. The Manhattan Republican Party’s chairwoman, Adele Malpass, seated at right, moderated. Photo: Madeleine Thompson
GOP MAYORAL HOPEFULS SKIRMISH POLITICS But four candidates at Upper East Side forum agree that de Blasio is a common foe BY MADELEINE THOMPSON
In her introduction to Wednesday night’s mayoral candidate screening, Manhattan Republican Party’s Chairperson Adele Malpass laid down the law. “We’re going to follow Ronald Reagan’s ‘11th Commandment,’” she said, “which is ‘thou shalt not speak
ill of other Republicans.’” Malpass’ decree was broken more than once by the forum’s four candidates, who jabbed at each other for everything from incorrectly filling out paperwork to donating to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s campaign. “Can we speak ill of Bo?” pastor Michel Faulkner joked, referring to fellow candidate Bo Dietl’s current status as an independent. Faulkner, former city police detective Dietl, Staten Island Assembly Member Nicole Malliotakis and real
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$100 MILLION FOR EAST RIVER GREENWAY ENVIRONMENT With climate change in mind, city announces waterfront expansion; will seek to upgrade portions of path vulnerable to sea-level rise BY MICHAEL GAROFALO
The city’s plan to add eight blocks of waterfront paths to the East River Greenway, announced last week, will account for rising sea levels under new city guidelines. Elsewhere on the East Side riverfront, the mayor’s office is exploring the possibility of
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raising several stretches of existing esplanade on the East Side riverfront that, according to current forecasts, could be jeopardized in the future by rising water levels. Both initiatives fit within the city’s larger climate change planning and mitigation efforts on the Upper East Side in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, which extend well beyond the waterfront. “Sandy, fortunately, didn’t hit Community District 8 in the same way it hit other parts of the city, but it did affect its critical infrastructure and it did affect those things you rely on
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FUNDRAISING FOR THE FLOCKS NATURE The Wild Bird Fund’s mostly volunteer staff cared for nearly 5,000 birds last year BY MICKEY KRAMER
The party really was for the birds. The Wild Bird Fund, New York City’s wildlife medical, rehabilitation and education center, held its annual fundraising â€œďŹ‚ocktail partyâ€? gala at the “Birdieâ€? Vanderbilt Mansion on East 93rd Street on April 20. Guests walked on a red carpet lined with stuffed toy animals, including pigeons and an owl in top hat, before entering the antique-ďŹ lled home. The fund’s founder, Rita McMahon, said the organization’s mission is to heal orphaned, injured and sick wildlife in order to return them to the wild as well as to educate New Yorkers about the richness of the city’s wildlife and how to protect it. The Tenay Nature Center brought a barred owl, bullfrog and snakes, among other “animal ambassadors.â€? The center’s animals were rescued from injury and are unable to survive in nature, said Elizabeth Hinckley, a
A red-tailed hawk from Tenay Nature Center was among the attendees at the Wild Bird Fund’s annual â€œďŹ‚ocktail partyâ€? fundraiser. Photo: Nancy Adler Photography
teacher naturalist. Others in attendance were a Japanese quail and three-week old white crested ducklings, a dumped Easter “gift,â€? said Ariel Cordova-Rojas, an animal care manager at WBF. The ducklings were domesticated, so won’t be able to be returned to the wild and will be sent to a sanctuary upstate, Cordova-Rojas, 26, said. Cordova-Rojas ďŹ nds it “fascinating how much wild life New York City actually has,â€? adding that “helping take injured animals, heal them and release them, is an incredible feeling.â€? The event, on two oors of the mansion, featured live music and dance, food, drink, a bevy of live animals, and an auction featuring tickets to “Hamilton,â€? a William Wegman photograph and a Patrick McDonnell-signed Mutts comic strip. Ticket revenue totaled $34,000, the most sold in the event’s six-year history. The funds will help with the purchase of medical supplies, food and equipment as well as contribute to operating expenses, McMahon said. Since the organization opened its doors in 2012, the number of birds treated by its mostly volunteer staff has more than tripled, to about 4,700.
Liza-Mae Carlin and Joey Luther, with squeaker pigeons, emceed the evening. Photo: Nancy Adler Photography Treatment, for native as well as migratory birds (New York City, and Central Park in particular, is a stopover along the well-travelled Atlantic Flyway), includes surgery, testing, bandaging, splinting, feeding and even physical therapy. Attendees were as young as 9-yearold Willow Phelps, the ASPCA’s 2016 “Kid of the Year� for her animal activism, who came with her mom, Erika Mathews, who works for the Animal Legal Defense Fund. Willow said of the fund, “they save many different kinds
of birds which is very important in New York City.� Upper East Sider Adriana Aquino, 52, a weekly volunteer for the Wild Bird Fund, said it was while in the company of an entirely different species that she became intrigued by the organization’s works. “Actually, it was while walking my pit bull Ruth on the streets that got me interested in the birds I would see,� Aquino said. “They need a lot of help and I feel compelled to go.�
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COUNCIL SEEKS TO BOOST PROTECTIONS FOR UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS CITY VS DC New bills would further limit city’s cooperation with federal immigration enforcement BY MICHAEL GAROFALO
One day after a federal judge issued a temporary injunction blocking President Donald Trump’s efforts to withhold federal funds from so-called “sanctuary cities,” New York’s city council discussed a series of bills that would bolster protections for the city’s undocumented immigrants.
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unit within the Law Department tasked with reviewing city agencies’ collection and disclosure of identifying information to ensure that the city only collects information necessary to provide services. The other would limit city employees’ and contractors’ collection, retention and disclosure of identifying information. Since Trump’s election, some city officials have feared that identifying information routinely collected by the city, which sometimes includes individuals’ immigration status, could be used by federal officials to enforce immigration laws. The city’s IDNYC
ficials, such as agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to access nonpublic areas of city property, like schools, without a judicial warrant or under other specific circumstances. Another would prohibit NYPD and other city agencies from using city funds to assist in federal immigration enforcement and would require any requests for assistance by federal immigration enforcement agencies to be denied and documented. New York City law already limits the situations in which police and corrections officials can cooperate with federal immigration enforcement of-
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Mayor Bill de Blasio (left) and NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill respond to a Justice Department statement calling New York City “soft on crime” at an April 21 press conference at One Police Plaza. Photo: Edwin J. Torres/ Mayoral Photo Office. “Today we bring our legislative tools to bear on the very real threat coming out of Washington to destabilize and undermine our community,” Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito said at an April 26 hearing on nine bills that would impact the city’s handling of immigration issues on an array of fronts. Two of the bills apply to the city’s handling of identifying information — data collected by agencies that could be used to identify or locate individuals. One would establish a new
municipal identification card program came under particular scrutiny after Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city would no longer store documents filed by card applicants and might destroy previously collected data, prompting a lawsuit from two Republican state assembly members from Staten Island seeking the preservation of the records. A judge ruled in the city’s favor in April, but the decision is under appeal. One measure would bar city agencies from allowing non-local law enforcement of-
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outrageous,” O’Neill said, adding that it made his “blood boil.” Attorney General Jeff Sessions later walked back the statement and praised the NYPD on ABC’s “This Week,” but said that enforcing immigration laws would make the city “even safer.” Two of the bills expand the responsibilities of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs. MOIA Commissioner Nisha Agarwal said that the de Blasio administration supports the council’s efforts to expand protections for undocumented immigrants, but urged lawmakers to revise the bills to maintain consistency with existing policy and not impinge on the city’s ability to provide services. “We strongly recommend that the council consider the administrative and operational burdens that these bills, as currently written, would place on city agencies, in a manner that could impact access to services for many New Yorkers,” she said, noting that new requirements on the Law Department in the information collection bills could affect the agency’s operations. Agarwal said that one bill, as currently written, could prevent police from enforcing certain criminal warrants, and that bills pertaining to information collection should be broadened. “In seeking to remain consistent with the city’s approach, we believe the legislation aimed at protecting identifying information should broadly address the privacy concerns of all New Yorkers,” she said. “Instead of a particular focus on requests from federal immigration authorities, as currently reflected in the bills, we recommend adopting a broader approach that recognized the privacy concerns of all.”
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SKIRMISH CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 estate executive Paul Massey answered questions at the Metropolitan Club on East 60th Street in front of a packed house of more than 100 people. Cheers abounded at any criticism of de Blasio, who was lambasted by the candidates for protecting immigrants from deportation, failing to ďŹ x the homelessness crisis and what they characterized as a bloated city budget. “I’m currently suing [de Blasio] ... to try to stop the destruction of city records associated with the municipal ID card,â€? Malliotakis said in her opening remarks. “It’s about safety, it’s about government transparency and it’s about rule of law.â€? Malliotakis is the newest addition to the mayoral race, having filed her paperwork the day before the screening. Still, she aggressively marketed herself as a connection to the city’s immigrant voters and as an experienced legislator. Massey, considered the GOP frontrunner, emphasized his business acumen and his wellestablished campaign as key advantages. “Our campaign has been in place for well over a year,â€? he said. “That we’ve already had millions of dollars ow into our campaign is evidence, pure and simple, of a groundswell of support for me.â€? Massey has so far outraised de Blasio, but he is also spending more than he has taken in. Massey called the current mayor an “Olympic-level failureâ€? and harshly criticized his administration’s decriminalization of minor offenses. On the announced closing of Rikers Island, Massey said “we need to close the thing that is Rikers Island,
but sending it into different neighborhoods of the city makes no sense whatsoever.â€? Dietl’s trademark brash rhetoric did its job to entertain the audience, though it got him into trouble towards the event’s conclusion. He described the Manhattan Supreme Court judge whose ruling prevented him from running as a Democrat as resembling first lady Chirlane McCray, which, Dietl said, is when he knew the judge, Debra James, would “give [him] trouble.â€? He also promised to get rid of bike lanes as his ďŹ rst act, should he be elected, and accused de Blasio of turning the city into “Sodom and Gomorrahâ€? by letting topless so-called desnudas perform in Times Square. For his part, Faulkner touted his time spent working with the homeless and with public housing residents. “Nobody else can say that they’ve fed the homeless or have eaten a meal with them.â€? he said. “The crisis is epic. We don’t have time to learn on the job. I don’t need to experiment; I know exactly what to do.â€? He suggested restoring homeless shelters at religious institutions and requiring proof of residency to enter a shelter. He said he would open a homeless shelter in City Hall if he could. The crowd was receptive, at various moments, to all of the candidates, but mostly to the idea of ousting de Blasio. They seemed to share Malpass’ sentiment that any of the candidates would be an improvement over the current leadership. The mayoral hopefuls will begin gathering signatures in June to run in the September primary. Madeleine Thompson can be reached at newsreporter@ strausnews.com
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ers do not understand that it is the law for them to stop on red — and no one in the government or otherwise has done anything to correct this. New York is no longer considered the wonderful walking city it was and that is a definite loss to most of its citizens. Florence Slatkin Upper West Side
BIKES, CON AND PRO You are spot on in your article (“Disrupting the Grid,” April 27 - May 3), and the Bloomberg and now the de Blasio administrations have made our streets more dangerous and congested, all done by yielding to the very strong cycling lobby. At the time of implementation, the cycling community was 2 percent of the population. The false concept that it is a good thing to turn this into a biking city dominated the discussion. Business will always be conducted by cars and trucks, not bikes. Each time you introduce a new entity on to the street, you make the streets more confusing and more dan-
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Czech in, French out — Some olds are in, some not. Before celebrating a new Eastern European ethnic restaurant on the UES, have to bid adieu to Le Perigord French restaurant on East 52nd and First Avenue. Owner Georges Briguet had to close the doors of his cherished Le Perigord after 52 years — and not because the rent’s too high. Word has it that the forced closing comes in the wake of the high cost of a union contract.
Cyclists heading southbound on Ninth Avenue near West 30th Street. Photo via Wikimedia Commons gerous. Michele Birnbaum Upper East Side Like most New Yorkers, I am a walker. Since the special bike lanes have been installed and bike riders have been elevated to the privileged, it’s become
Never fun to lose a great New York restaurant. Impeccable service. Tasteful menu. Le Perigord served the rich, the famous. Locals in that part of town include Le Perigord regulars Henry Kissinger, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell and husband Alan Greenspan. On the upside of today’s restaurant scene, it was exhilarating to find Bohemian Spirit, a Czech restaurant bringing back the ethnic food of old Yorkville in a modern room with recipes and a menu from the homeland. Think beef goulash, sour red cabbage, potato pancakes, dumplings, schnitzel, rye bread and apple strudel to die for. And let’s not forget Pilsner Urquell beer. And terrific Czech red wine. Owned by Vit and Vlasta Stuchl, Czech natives, the husband and wife moved to the city and opened Bohemian Spirit on the Upper East Side where they had lived earlier on. Opened about a year ago and located on East 73rd
a nightmare — for the pedestrians and the traffic on the main avenues. Most of the time, Columbus Avenue resembles a parking lot and trying to cross the street is an accident waiting to happen! As to the pedestrian, the green light no longer gives us the right of way. Bik-
Street between First and Second Avenues in Bohemian National Hall (once home to Manhattan Theatre Club), Bohemian Spirit has a strong millennial and family following for dining and drinking . Na zdravi! Cornered — Milano’s Market, corner store with two entrances/exits, one on Third Avenue, the other on 89th Street. The Third Ave. entrance has a step up. Mid weekday afternoon, a sweet Labrador collie was tethered to the door handle on Third Ave. waiting patiently as his owner/ walker/whatever went shopping. Along came a woman, two beautiful standard poodles in tow. She tethered the poodles to the 89th Street entrance and left them waiting as she went shopping. Get the picture — three catty-cornered dogs in a row. No way to get in or out of Milano’s without brushing by the collie or the two poodles. A passerby, disturbed at the sight, motioned to the smiling lady that she would stand vigil with the dogs. One customer leaving
I’m a pedestrian, a cyclist and a driver. Your history of New York traffic regulations is fascinating, but the problems you describe do not “disrupt the grid.” In the 50 years I’ve lived in New York, traffic has never moved smoothly at all times and places, but the grid is alive and well — even improved by the new turning zones for cars at the front ends of parking lanes. The bike lanes are well-designed. They separate cyclists from moving cars and, if they stay in the solid green lanes, cyclists are protected from what once was a constant threat of “dooring.” New Yorkers have always routinely broken the rules. Pedestrians jaywalk, cyclists ride the wrong way, and both cross against red lights. If the chaos has gotten worse, it’s only because there are more bicycles and because New Yorkers continue to break the rules. Tom Yager Upper West Side
Milano’s had to stop to figure out how she could exit with a hot container of coffee in each hand and not cause a dog day afternoon. A wheelchair-bound manwith an aide luckily arrived as the collie leasher was leaving. The man, leash and dog in hand, wanted to know why everyone was standing around. Nobody bothered to tell him. Nor did they say anything to the smiling woman who thanked the passerby for watching her dogs. Why bother? They’ll do it again, and again. Clueless. Color coordinated — To celebrate the newly opened Second Avenue subway — after more than a hundred years! — some local businesses have taken to livening up their look. Take Rathbones and Genesis, both pub/ restaurants on Second Avenue between 88th and 89th — where they seem to have coordinated their sidewalk cafes with the same tables and chairs in different colors: green slat tables and chairs for Rathbones, and
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It is tragic that the federal government is pulling back on policies, laws and agreements that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels (“City Copes with Trump on Climate Change,” April 13-19). Rising seas will be a great challenge for all coastal communities as well as wildlife and ecosystems across the world. One way for New York City to step up would be to ban the use of woods logged from old-growth tropical forests and from old-growth forests in general. Logging is the primary factor leading to deforestation in the tropics, estimated to contribute 25 percent of the world’s human-caused greenhouse gases. The demand for high-value woods is driving loggers to bulldoze roads deeper and deeper into never-before-logged forests in the Amazon and elsewhere. NYC continues to be an extremely large end-user of these woods, for pilings in the Staten Island Ferry terminals, the decking of the Brooklyn Bridge, park benches, subway track ties, and more. Any response by cities should preclude the use of these materials by all agencies, developers, builder and residents with the city itself. Drew Hunter Rainforest Relief
red slat tables and chairs for Genesis. Standing between the two is Goodwill Thrift Shop in same old same old. No change there — but it’s great to see that the subway is finally bringing joy and goodwill to businesses and residents on the UES. Stop skipping — The bus stop at 90th and Second Avenue was removed well over a year ago, never to return. Strange, because local bus stops are usually located within two blocks of each other. That’s not the case on Second Avenue. There are local stops at 94th and 86th Streets. The immediate neighborhood includes high rises, walk-ups, senior housing, schools, a hotel, and never-ending construction. The street at 90th and Second is wide. There are new steel benches at the location probably placed there when there was a bus stop. And Ruppert Park spans the street from corner to corner. Bring back the old bus stop. Too many blocks between stops.
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A proposal to fund the renovation of a playground shared by P.S. 198 and P.S. 77 was one of two winners in District 5’s participatory budget voting. Photo: Michael Garofalo
UES RESIDENTS VOTE TO FUND SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS FUNDING Kallos announces District 5 participatory budget winners BY MICHAEL GAROFALO
The Upper East Side has spoken: residents voted to allocate $1 million to fund two capital projects at local public schools as part of District 5’s participatory budgeting process, Council Member Ben Kallos announced last week. The winning proposals of the district’s annual participatory budget vote, in which residents choose capital projects to receive taxpayer dollars, are a new science classroom at P.S. 183 and a playground renovation at P.S. 198/77. P.S. 183 Robert Louis Stevenson on East 66th Street will receive $600,000 for a science
and technology laboratory that will include a hydroponic planting system. “It’s for water hookups so that they can do hydroponics, and it’s part of a larger scale idea of expanding the classroom onto yet another roof,” Kallos told Our Town. The playground for P.S. 198 and P.S. 77, which share the Isador and Ida Straus School building at Third Avenue and 95th Street, is in for a makeover that will include new equipment and surfacing, as well as the removal of a diseased tree. The playground renovation will cost an estimated $500,000, which, along with the $600,000 for P.S. 183’s science classroom, puts the two projects slightly over the $1 million allocated to the participatory budget from the district’s roughly $5 million in discretionary funds. Kallos said he will allocate the remaining $100,000 from the discretion-
ary budget to ensure both projects are funded. More than 2,400 residents voted this year, the initiative’s largest turnout to date. Kallos credited digital voting for the increased engagement — nearly 80 percent of votes were cast online. “I’m glad that residents are participating,” Kallos said. “And I’m really hoping that with how easy digital voting is that we finally get to having the over 100,000 people in the neighborhood voting in participatory budgeting.” All District 5 residents over the age of 14 were eligible, and could vote for up to five projects on the ballot. The winning proposals beat out nine other ideas submitted by community members, including a plan to build irrigation for trees and vegetation on the East River Greenway and funding for new security cameras in the Holmes Towers.
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Saturday, May 6 | Noon–4 pm FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION AND FOR MEMBERS
Inspired by the legacy of Theodore Roosevelt, the Museum celebrates the importance of natural history collections by inviting visitors to bring in their own specimens to our annual Identification Day. Bring your shells, rocks, insects, feathers, bones, and artifacts to be identified by Museum scientists and explore rarely seen objects from the Museum’s collections. Scientists will attempt to identify your discoveries and provide a certificate of identification.
By Joseph Mallord William Turner. Turner’s Modern and Ancient Ports: Passages through Time, current exhbition at the Frick.
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HELPFUL TIPS Before you come to Identification Day, follow these tips that will help Museum scientists identify your objects and specimens. PLEASE NOTE: No appraisals will be given at ID Day, and gemstones will not be identified.
Bring as much information about your specimen as possible. If it belongs to a friend or family member, try to get the details from that person.
Botany Please only bring plants that you have permission to collect. Plant samples that have flowers or fruits (or both) are much easier to identify. Bring your plant sample in a resealable plastic bag. This will keep the plant moist for easier identification and will avoid spreading pests in the Museum. Please try to bring fresh (very recently collected) plant samples.
Paleontology and Geology Bring as much information on your specimen as possible, especially details about its place of origin.
A Special Note on Animal Specimens With the exception of insects, please do not bring any live or dead specimens. Photos of your snake, bird, or other specimen will be enough for identification.
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Czech Center, 321 East 73rd St. 7-9 p.m. Free Concert program features classical chamber music masterpieces of the Czech Republic, including arrangement of Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95. 646-422-3399. czechcenter.com
SPENCE-CHAPIN ANNUAL GALA Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children, 410 East 92nd St. 6-9 p.m. $500-$10,000 Opportunity to support Spence-Chapin’s gala being held at Pier 59 in Chelsea, and their commitment to “finding loving and permanent families for children.” 212-369-0300. spencechapin.org
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The Frick Collection, 1 East 70th St. 6-9 p.m. Free Admission and gallery programs free on first Fridays of most months. Enjoy gallery talks, music performances and sketching in the company of art other enthusiasts. 212-288-0700. frick.org
The Saloon, 1584 York Ave. 8-9:30 p.m. $20 Open to active firefighters and EMS providers, and women of all professions. It’s a “Magic Mike meets Chicago Firethemed event.” 212-570-5454. saloonnyc. com
KOREAN ART: NOW & THEN Kang Collection, 9 East 82nd St. 6-8 p.m. “Works of Korean contemporary artists organized to reveal connections between history of Korean art forms and global view reflected in the imagery and techniques.” 212-734-1490. kangcollection.com
THRIFT SALE Church of the Heavenly Rest, 2 East 90th St. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $3-$5 Shop for clothing, housewares and jewelry in landmarked church, located on Museum Mile; and then take a post shopping stroll in Central Park. 212-289-3400, heavenlyrest.org
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‡ 7KH )ULFN &ROOHFWLRQ ‡ WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE MUSEUM LAST CHANCE: Turner’s Modern and Ancient Ports Closing May 14th The acclaimed exhibition at the Frick explores a turning point in the career of Britain’s greatest landand seascape painter of the nineteenth century, Joseph Mallord William Turner’s (1775–1851). The artist’s distinctly modern approach to the theme of the port is shown through grand paintings, dramatic watercolors, sketchbooks, and prints, filling two galleries.
Next Fridays Event: May 5th Museum admission and programs are free 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on the first Friday evening of the month. Visitors have access to the permanent collection and special exhibition galleries, enjoy talks and lectures by museum educators and curators, music and dance performances, and open sketching in the Garden Court (complimentary materials provided by the Frick.) For more information, visit frick.org/FirstFridays.
COMING UP The Pursuit of Immortality: Masterpieces from the Scher Collection of Portrait Medals. Opens May 9th
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VIVA ITALIA!▲ The Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, corner Mott and Prince Streets 3 p.m. $40 Program features Italian composers, 18th to 20th centuries including Giovanni Gualdo da Vandero. Italianthemed reception following performance. 212-222-3569. sylvanwinds. com
GLAMOROUS SPACES | TALK Manhattan Art & Antique Center, 1050 Second Ave. 1-3 p.m. Free Judith Gura, a design historian and faculty member of The New York School of Interior Design, lecture about the city’s Landmark Interiors. Meet and greet follows. the-maac.com
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ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE’S Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center, 1 East 65th St. 6:30 p.m. Free St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble performs Mozart’s “Eine Kleine Nachtmusikâ€? and Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-at Major, Op. 20. 212-744-1400. emanuelnyc. org
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‘THOMASINE & BUSHROD’ Mid-Manhattan Library, 455 Fifth Ave. 6:30 p.m. Free. Rare blaxploitation classic, “Thomasine & Bushrod� intended as counterpart to Bonnie and Clyde. A duo sets out to correct unbalanced distribution of cash in their urban surroundings. 917-275-6975. nypl.org
DEMAGOGUES U.S. HISTORY | TALK Stephen A. Schwarzman Library, 476 Fifth Ave. 6:30 p.m. Free. RSVP. Talk looks closely at the political genealogy of the 45th president. 917-275-6975. nypl.org
Wed10 FRANCESCO CLEMENTE | TALK 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington 8 p.m. $32 Internationally acclaimed artist Francesco Clemente in conversation with art historian Sir Norman Rosenthal; rare insight into the artist’s oeuvre. (212) 415-5500. 92y.org
FIRST 100 DAYS | TALK Asia Society and Museum, 725 Park Ave. 6:30-8 p.m. $20 A discussion of President Trump’s early moves in Asia, and of the outstanding issues and challenges on the horizon. 212-288-6400. asiasociety. org/NYC
Last summer the Frick announced the largest acquisition in its history—a promised gift of approximately 450 portrait medals from Stephen K. and Janie Woo Scher. Representing the development of the art of the portrait medal from its inception in fifteenth-century Italy to the nineteenth century, the Scher collection is arguably the world’s most comprehensive and significant collection of portrait medals and will be celebrated in a show this summer.
Divine Encounter: Rembrandt’s Abraham and the Angels Opens May 30th A captivating work dating from 1646 will be on loan from a private collection. This luminous oil painting by Rembrandt has been exhibited only a handful of times in its history and was last on public view ten years ago. It has inspired a tightly focused exhibition in which the painting will appear alongside about a dozen depictions by Rembrandt of the Old Testament figure Abraham—a spectacular selection of prints and drawings from American and international collections.
Fired By Passion: Masterpieces of Du Paquier Porcelain from the Sullivan Collection Opens June 8th This June the Frick’s Portico Gallery Frick will feature an exhibition of rare DuPaquier porcelain. The show will feature gifts from Paul and Melinda Sullivan in addition to loans from their collection, all created at the Viennese manufactory. Established in 1718 by entrepreneur Claudius Innocentius du Paquier, it was only in operation for twenty-five years. Yet, it left an impressive body of inventive and often whimsical work, forging a distinct identity in the history of European porcelain production. Exhibitions focused on this firm are uncommon, special viewing opportunities.
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DID YOU KNOW? What site in NYC was one of the key locations for the “Monuments Men� mapping of Europe during World War II, with the goal of preserving cultural treasures form Allied bombing raids? Hint: It’s a remarkable museum library at 10 East 70th Street. Today it’s much in the news as a center for research. Open to the public. Answer: Frick Art Reference Library
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7:45 p.m. $25; $18 advance. RSVP. Rachel Roth memoir recounts her experiences as a schoolgirl and those of her classmates as Jewish teenagers in Poland during the Holocaust. 212-717-4613. chabaduppereastside.com
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INFINITY, IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND Small wonders at the Cloisters BY MARY GREGORY
We all know, and d many of d to see, us have traveled ks of art monumental works like the Pyramids of Giza. nders no But there are wonders less spectacular att the opectrum. posite end of the spectrum. Through May 21, breathtaking examples off some of the world’s most exquisite ures are on miniature sculptures nders: Gothic Boxview in “Small Wonders: wood Miniatures” at the Cloisters. s, Henry VIII wantIn the early 1500s, ed (among others)) one of the highly ries that were comprized carved rosaries ops in the Nethering out of workshops lands. Having one meant not only ortant, but that that you were important, nected and had you were well connected excellent taste. hing,” said Dr. “It was the in thing,” ehm, Paul and Barbara Drake Boehm, or Curator for Jill Ruddock Senior The Met Cloisters,, when I spoke he exhibition. with her about the ave been very “They seem to have much appreciated within aristoircles.” Of the cratic and royal circles.” his exhibition 130 in existence, this ost remarkable brings 49 of the most to New York. sary that belonged The boxwood rosary is wife, Katherine to the king and his of Aragon, is a highlight. Eleven om about the size beads, ranging from of a marble to the size of a small egg, are teeming with infinitesimally detailed scenes from the Bible. Boehm and her colleagues have identified the subjects, and she describes them engagingly in the wall texts and object labels. Four tiny medallions on each of the 10 smaller beads depict carved figures from the Old and New Testaments. Weaving through the scenes are even tinier Latin inscriptions, in this case, parts of the Apostle’s Creed. The hinged main bead opens to reveal the figure of Mary sur-
A prayer bead depicting the Legend of Saint James the Greater made in the Netherlands in the 16th century is just 2-1/4 × 1-7/8 inches in diameter. Photo: Adel Gorgy rounded by rays of light, with six winged angels, two of whom hold a crown above her head, all in a space smaller than your thumb. In the upper portion, the artist has carved a church with soaring Gothic arches, an altar flanked by priests, and a tiled floor with kneeling attendants. Fore-
ground, background, figures peeking ing through the arches, ccarved designs gns on the priests’ robe cks robes, candlesticks holding minutec hese minute candles — these and a sense o ent of astonishment and wonder are a contained d in this marvel that t typifies the quality and workmanship w p in these maste masterpieces. The detail detai is mind-bogoggling; it wo e to would be wise bring a mag ass. magnifying glass. But Boehm o tise offers expertise and aid. Her descriptive labe ure bels about the beads, miniature obje ackaltars and other objects offer backi n on ground on the work, information techniq ory the patron and techniques, and a story happenin on these tiny about what’s happening stages. A Crucifi Crucifixion xion scen scene with a soldier t holding a lance that’s literally thinner than a k kitten’s whisker presents, along with delight and amazement, amazemen two questions. First — af after fashioning a carving with three crosses, horses and figures gur all crowded into this tiny space, spa why did the artist make the effort to add a minute, fragile lance? It had to be incredibly difficult. di It must have taken eno enormous concentration and tim time. There might have been many failed works before this perfect one. Did he add becau he could? To that detail just because celebrate and flaunt h his virtuosity? Was it for the glory of God? Or was it to impress a patron a and ensure the next commission? “I think ‘D,’” said Boehm, “all of the above.” The second question (and this was murmured from one visitor to another at each sculptural miracle) is — how? The exhibition includes a box of woodcarver’s tools from the 1600s and videos that document recent discoveries about construction techniques. “When we have the video and CT scans and all the things that we did to understand finally how these things were made,” Boehm said, “to me, it doesn’t decrease our sense of wonder,
A miniature altarpiece with the Adoration of the Magi from the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, shows variety and the artist’s creative spark. Photo: Adel Gorgy it actually redoubles our sense of wonder.” And then, there’s a larger question. To what end? Three octogenarian ladies, bespectacled and primly dressed, gazed into the case next to me. One turned and, in a very proper British accent, said, “Mind blowing.” These tiny altars and prayer beads were meant as much as dazzling works of art as they were for private devotions to transport viewers to a different level of awareness. “The meditative quality of them works in a couple of ways all at once,” Boehm said. “When you take one of these things in your hands, first of all, it has this lovely smooth and yet complicated surface. So that, immediately, you want to finger it, and that busies you. It preoccupies you. And then, when you open it, there is this little tiny world there that you’re holding in your own hand that allows you to kind of step into it visually. ... It is its own little world, and it’s a little world that you have the right to gaze in.” I was particularly drawn to a bead that depicts St. Jerome. I’m a fan of the saint who first translated the Bible to Latin and spent his days in a
library reading and writing, accompanied by his dog and a loyal lion from whose paw he extracted a nasty thorn. They’re all here, enclosed in a miniscule universe, the flip side of which pictures Jerome in the wilderness surrounded by a forest with branches as delicate as dill fronds. Boehm pointed out an altarpiece with the Adoration of the Magi from the Art Gallery of Ontario, which, together with the Rijksmuseum, co-organized the traveling exhibition. “It has three little figures of lions holding up the base on their backs, and the amazing thing is that the lions aren’t even the same.” She described each as about the size of a lima bean. “The first lion looks like he’s asleep, and then the second one is turning around and, like a puppy, he’s teething on the wood base itself. Then the third one, he’s licking the platform on which he sits.” What Boehm hopes people will discover is, she said, “Those touches that the artist introduces just because he wants to, or just because he can. The variety that happens for no need, for no reason at all, except just to do it. To me, that’s the creative spark.”
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PRE-K EXPANDS, BUT DEMAND REMAINS EDUCATION Despite increased number of seats, some parents are frustrated in finding placements
MARBLE COLLEGIATE CHURCH Sunday Worship at 11:00am Sunday Worship, led by Dr. Michael Brown, is the heart of the Marble Church community. It is where we all gather to sing, pray, and be changed by an encounter with God. Marble is known throughout the world for the practical, powerful, life-changing messages and where one can hear world class music from our choirs that make every heart sing. Busy? Live stream Sunday Worship with us at 11:00am at MarbleChurch.org.
BY MADELEINE THOMPSON
Mayor Bill de Blasio rolled out a new initiative last week to offer universal pre-kindergarten to all New York City 3-year-olds, though kinks in the original program have yet to place all 4-year-olds in their preferred schools. Before the mayor’s announcement, Council Member Ben Kallos already had a rally planned for April 30 to demand additional seats for 4-year-olds within his district. “Pre-K for all must include the Upper East Side,” Kallos said at his event. “Three hundred 4-year-olds are being told that they have to take a commute down to the financial district.” There has been progress on the Upper East Side, however. Since 2013, seats available for 4-year-olds enrolling in preK have increased fourfold, from about 150 to about 600. This school year, though, 900 4-year-olds applied to fill them. As of 2014, more than 2,700 children in that age group lived on the Upper East Side, some of whom choose private school. Numerous elected officials attended Kallos’ rally, including city Comptroller Scott Stringer and state Senator Liz Krueger, all of whom echoed Kallos’ call for de Blasio to keep his promise. In a press release, de Blasio emphasized the “successful model” of his original push for universal pre-K. “We are doubling down with free, fullday, high-quality 3-K for All for our three-year-olds,” he said. “This extra year of education will provide our children with a level of academic and social development that they cannot get later on, while at the same time, alleviating some of the strain New York City’s working families face today.” Will Mantell, a spokesperson for the Department of Education, said in a statement that the agency would “continue to
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Several elected officials, parents and their children attended a Sunday rally hosted by Council Member Ben Kallos, center, seeking increased access to the city’s pre-K program. They included Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and city Comptroller Scott Stringer, either side of Kallos, and city Public Advocate Leticia James, foreground right. Photo courtesy of Kallos’ office. take steps to add more seats and meet local demand.” “There is a free, full-day, high-quality pre-K seat for every four-year-old in New York City, and our pre-K enrollment specialists will work with families — across the Upper East Side and all five boroughs — to find the best pre-K seat for their child,” he said. A year ago, Kallos had just helped secure 60 more seats for his district. Since then there has been a net loss of 22 seats due to decreased class sizes at several locations. Until now, Kallos said, he considered officials at the Department of Education “good partners.” He now feels that they have “stopped working in good faith.” Kallos also expressed frustration that the agency’s statistics measuring the number of preK applications and available seats are difficult to track. He hopes the city will require developers to create school seats when they want to build. He also advocated for using more private childcare providers. Kallos, though, fully supports expanded early childcare and has long been pushing for it in the City Council. On Monday, a DOE spokesperson said the department plans to issue a request for proposals this summer for childcare providers who could offer more seats starting in fall 2018. They
are also negotiating with the School Construction Authority to secure more seats. Irina Goldman, an Upper East Side mother of two who attended the rally, said that despite applying to eight programs in her neighborhood, she was “wait-listed in the hundreds at all of them.” Goldman’s 4-anda-half-year-old daughter was placed at a school on Washington Street, a 45-minute commute. “Our zoned school is telling us ‘we only have one class, and you don’t fit into that class,’” she said. “All the other schools are telling us ‘please call your zoned school.’ I don’t know what we’re supposed to do.” The mayor’s expanded universal pre-K program promises to have all of the city’s 11,000 3-year-olds in full-day pre-K by 2021. His administration will roll out the program this fall, starting in Brownsville and the South Bronx. According to the press release, 3-K For All is expected to cost the city $177 million by 2021, though it cites research findings concluding that “every dollar invested in high-quality early education saves taxpayers as much as $13 long-term.” Madeleine Thompson can be reached at newsreporter@ strausnews.com
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UWS DOG ‘PAWTEE’ RAISES THOUSANDS FOR NO-KILL SHELTER PETS Party celebrates daycare’s fifth year in operation BY RAZI SYED
Around 60 dogs dressed in their best spent an afternoon munching on doggy cake, drinking “champagne” and playing in non-toxic, bacon-scented bubbles at an Upper West Side doggy daycare on April 28. Camp Canine, owned by Tania Isenstein, threw its dog “pawtee” to honor the anniversary of its fifth year in operation and to benefit Muddy Paws Rescue, a no-kill shelter based in Brooklyn. Half the proceeds from the $55 party fee, about $2,000, was donated to Muddy Paws. Four dogs at the party came from Muddy Paws and are available for adoption. Isenstein walked away from a career as lawyer on Wall Street to buy Camp Canine, located on 73rd Street between Columbus and Central Park West. “I left [Wall Street] because it wasn’t fulfilling to me,” Isenstein said. “I decided the one thing I love most in life is dogs. I live down the block from here, so I purchased it and dedicated to make it the best place it can be for our clients.” The party was held in three separate shifts to prevent overcrowding. The pups sipped “champagne” or chicken
Ready for cake at Camp Canine’s “pawtee” on April 28. The Upper West Side doggy daycare hosted to benefit Muddy Paws Rescue, a local no-kill shelter. Photo: Razi Syed
Camp Canine founder Tania Isenstein, right, and longtime Muddy Paws Rescue volunteer Hartje Andresen pose with a $2,000 check to benefit Muddy Paws. Photo: Razi Syed broth and ate dog-safe cake. Isenstein said Camp Canine has helped rescue around 150 dogs by taking fosters from high-kill shelters and socializing them so they can be adopted. Longtime Muddy Paws volunteer Hartje Andresen said the nonprofit’s workers drive down to Alabama and Kentucky, and bring back to New York dogs that are on the list to be eutha-
nized. “We find new permanent homes here for them,” Andresen said. “We’re only able to do that because a tight network of volunteers, fosters and a really supportive community that work together, hand-in-hand, to save these dogs’ lives. Camp Canine is a group that fosters, helps out and has been incredibly supportive.”
Two dogs dressed in their best at Camp Canine’s “pawtee” to benefit Muddy Paws Rescue. Photo: Razi Syed
RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS APR 18 - 21, 2017
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Pinkberry
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Camaradas El Barrio
2241 1 Avenue
Grade Pending (17) Evidence of rats or live rats present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
El Paso Restaurante Mexicano
1643 Lexington Avenue
Grade Pending (21) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/ or non-food areas.
Latin Bites
419 E 70Th St
Grade Pending (22) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/ or non-food areas.
My Ny Bakery Cafe
1584 1St Ave
Grade Pending (27) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.
1565 Lexington Avenue
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Putawn Local Thai Kitchen
Crown Fried Chicken
1867 Lexington Avenue
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New Nyc Yoan Ming Garden 1407 Madison Ave
Grade Pending (42) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
118 Kitchen
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Cafe Sabarsky
1048 5 Avenue
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Kobeyaki
215 E 86Th St
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Maison Kayser
1535 3Rd Ave
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Peng’s Noodle Folk
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H & H Midtown Bagels East 1551 2 Avenue
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Hot & Crusty Bagels Cafe
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ACTIVITIES FOR THE FERTILE MIND
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Dystopia in Fiction and Reality
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Tea & Talk: “The Jazz Age”
MONDAY, MAY 8TH, 3PM Cooper Hewitt | 2 E. 91st St. | 212-489-8404 | cooperhewitt.org Take a tea break in 1920s style with this Tea & Talk event, presented in conjunction with the Cooper Hewitt’s The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s exhibition. ($35)
Treats from Tipsy Scoop. Photo courtesy of Melissa Tavss
ICE CREAM WITH A BUZZ SHOPS Tipsy Scoop, a new “barlour,” opens this weekend BY LAURA HANRAHAN
Of all the places in New York that might ask to see your ID, an ice cream shop seems like one of the least likely spots. Tipsy Scoop, a new ice cream “barlour” on East 26th Street, is about to change that. Opening on Sunday, May 7, the small shop boasts a decadent menu of boozy ice creams infused with alcohol. Founder and Manhattan native Melissa Tavss, 29, says she hopes to create a fun and exciting atmosphere with her experimental ice cream flavors. “I want it to sort of be like when you go to one of those mixology bars and they’re like, ‘what kind of liquor do you usually like?’ and we’ll try to help people out with that,” said Tavss. Tipsy Scoop has been in operation as an online and catering business for more than three years, and began selling products in stores like Whole Foods two years ago. Tavss says she never had plans to open up a storefront. That is, until people began popping up at Tipsy Scoop’s East Harlem production facility, looking to grab a cone. “People kept showing up, so we’re like, I guess we’ll try it!” Tavss said. Tavss’s favorite flavor: the spiked hazelnut coffee — a mix
of cold brew coffee, hazelnut liquor and Cafe Patron. “It’s awesome, it’s so good,” she said. “I think the best-seller is definitely the dark chocolate whiskey salted caramel. In the stores they can’t keep that on the shelves.” The barlour will also offer virgin flavor options, like root beer float and Shirley Temple, for those who want to enjoy their ice cream sans alcohol. For the lactose intolerant, there will be dairy-free, vegan options, like the refreshing raspberry limoncello sorbet. And for those who just can’t choose, there will be a flight option that features four flavors in chocolate and sprinkle-rimmed shot glasses. The secret to getting her ice cream to freeze while still containing a sizable amount of alcohol is just that, Tavss says — a secret. “We have a custom ice cream mix made for us to be able to freeze the alcohol,” she said. “It is a softer consistency, but it’s still creamy, which is good.” For Tavss, Tipsy Scoop was as an “accidental business.” While working in marketing for liquor companies as a day job, she became fixated on creating the perfect homemade ice cream. “It’s really hard to do in a tiny Cuisinart machine, so I was using alcohol in the beginning to soften the ice cream,” she said. Tavss began to toy with the idea of getting her ice cream to hold a measurable alcohol content, as opposed to other desserts like rum cake where the volume of alcohol is almost
non-existent. Soon, her now indemand recipes were born. While Tavss herself had no previous culinary experience, creating and sharing ice cream is a central part of her family history. “My great-grandfather was actually the president of the Ice Cream Alliance in Great Britain, which I’m sure you didn’t even know was a thing, but I have a picture of the plaque to prove it,” she said. “They were Scottish-Italian so they brought over gelato carts from Italy to Scotland in the 1800s ... some of the first gelato carts in Scotland.” Tavss started out by catering friends’ weddings and events for her old marketing clients — “a pretty natural fit for liquor brands,” she says. This soon grew to include other corporate events, birthdays and office happy hours. Being a small-scale, local business with only eight employees, Tavss tries to utilize locally-sourced ingredients in Tipsy Scoop’s recipes. “We work with a lot of different smaller liquor brands too,” Tavss said. “Our ice cream mix is made in a dairy farm in New York, so it’s New York certified.” As for whether it’s possible to get drunk off of eating ice cream, Tavss says that all depends on how much of the dessert you can tolerate. “Two scoops is around the size of a light beer,” she said. “If you’re one of those people who can eat a gallon of ice cream on the couch, you might start to feel it.”
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TUESDAY, MAY 16TH, 8PM Symphony Space | 2537 Broadway | 212-864-1414 | symphonyspace.org Microbiologist Martin Blaser explores the benefits of our inner ecosystems, and the ways in which the overuse of antibiotics may be impacting our health— and even our mood. ($25)
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CHINESE CHEFS REBRAND TRADITION RESTAURANTS Eclecticism fuses with authenticity BY CLAIRE WANG
Little Tong, among the newest additions to East Village’s eclectic culinary scene, bears more resemblance to a trendy brunch spot than a Chinese noodle shop. Taking over an almost perfectly rectangular space on the corner of First Avenue and 11th Street, it can accommodate just 28 customers. Enclosed by chocolate brown bricks on one side and a wooden, sand-colored slat-wall panel on the other, the restaurant’s contemporary interior exudes, paradoxically, an edgy rusticity. Two dishes lay atop a countertop by the kitchen: the beef tartare with a slice of scallion pancake, arranged like guacamole and chips in a wooden dipping bowl, and the ghost chicken, an extravaganza of leaves and spices burrowed in the center of a hat-shaped glass plate. Meticulous plating and polished aesthetics are endemic to Lower Manhattan’s Western diners but, until recently, have rarely been adopted by Chinese cooks. In New York, Los Angeles and other big cities in the U.S., the stereotype that Chinese food is cheap, convenient and casual is so ingrained that many believe the alternative to be inauthentic. In the past year, half a dozen contemporary Chinese restaurants emerged in neighborhoods outside of Chinatown, offering innovative dishes that fuse authenticity with elegance. Chef Simone Tong, alum of Michelinstarred restaurant wd-50, drew from her extensive travels to Yunnan to recreate the mixian, the Chinese province’s famous slick rice noodle. Since
opening shop at the end of March, Tong’s crafty interpretations of Yunnan comfort food have been featured on food websites such as Eater and Grub Street. Her eye-catching mixian dishes, served with herbs and fermented vegetables in a spicy pork broth, reflect the history and culture of specific regions she visited. “I want to transport the memories of my travels back to New York,” Tong said, who noted the lack of diversity of Chinese cuisines in the city. “There are so many flavors in China that you can’t find here.” Large-scale migrations from Hong Kong and Fuzhou in the mid-20th century brought to New York’s Chinatown a multitude of inexpensive dim sum parlors, dumpling houses and hand-pulled noodle shops that would come to define overseas Chinese cuisine. Doyers Street’s Nam Wah Tea Parlor, the city’s first dim sum bar, once hosted members of the violent Tong Gangs in the 1930s. More diversity came through at the dawn of the aughts, when the likes of Joe’s Shanghai spearheaded the craze for the diminutive soup dumplings, and Xi’an Famous Foods made chili oil street food a sweat-inducing sensation. Even as flavors diversified, though, Chinese cuisine’s reputation as the perennially low-cost option persisted. Refined, credit card-taking Chinese restaurants have always quietly coexisted alongside their more common cash-only counterparts. Mr. Chow, a luscious, blindingly white Midtown East eatery featuring Champagne chillers and tuxedoed waiters, has been serving $38 walnut chickens since 1979. Near the Hudson in the West Village, RedFarm, an inventive dim sum bar established in 2011, combines $20 lobster dumplings with Oktoberfest aesthetic.
Places like Little Tong straddle the infrequently exploited space between the decrepit, often family-run diners in Chinatown and the extravagant, fine-dining variety like Mr. Chow and RedFarm. While most Chinatown shops sell noodles for less than $10, her mixian dishes start at $14. “The idea that Chinese food is only cheap is a misconception that we need to change,” Tong said. “We want to give you another option to tell you that Chinese food is not all cheap, just like how Japanese food is not just sushi, or American food is just burgers and fries.” The misconception Tong mentioned seems to exist only in western countries. “In China, you have the hole-inthe-walls and the banquet style restaurants,” said Eric Sze, recent NYU alum and owner of The Tang, another fledgling East Village noodle bar located just a few blocks from Little Tong. “In America, you only get the cheap, take-out variety. A generation of Chinese-American cooks came together and decided to change that.” Unlike its Yunnanese neighbor, Sze’s restaurant skirts categorization. At the sleek First Avenue storefront, which debuted in July, customers can find seared short ribs marinated in lip-numbing Szechuan pepper, the westernized pork-belly wrap, and the ZJM (zhang jian mian), the wickedly meaty fried sauce noodle originating from Beijing. Similar to those at Little Tong, The Tang’s noodles range from $12 to $15. To Sze, whose idols are Mission Chinese’s Danny Bowien and Momofuku’s David Chang, preserving the flavors of each region is as important as exercising his own vision as a cook. Though The Tang serves mostly Chinese comfort food, he said, “Nothing here is what your grandma makes at home.”
Simone Tong, right, owner and chef of the East Village Yunnanese noodle bar, Little Tong, notes the lack of diversity of Chinese cuisines in the city. Photo: Claire Wang In concocting the Hu noodle, for example, Sze blended ground pork with fermented chickpea puree to achieve a miso-like flavor. The sesame tofu, a bestseller, is drenched in a custard sauce infused with Parmesan cheese. “We want to show New Yorkers that you can freestyle Chinese food while still keeping it authentic,” he said. The desire to modernize and elevate popular homemade meals has been spreading across Lower Manhattan. Pinch Chinese, a Taipei-based dumpling house that opened up in SoHo this February, offers an original, palatecleansing way to enjoy familiar, heavy dishes. “We want to give our the most pleasant dining experience,” said owner Sean Tang, who refers to his restaurant as regionally “agnostic.” At Pinch, he said, dim sum dishes – appetizers like the marinated cucumbers
ON THE SIDE STREETS OF NEW YORK THE SWEET SHOP NEW YORK CITY — 404 EAST 73RD STREET “We’re a nostalgic experience,” says the Candyman, also known as Kelly Jaime. Kelly had lived in the neighborhood since 2000 and was working in sales for
a Fortune 500 company. He continually lamented that there were no late-night ice cream stores. In 2013, he decided to solve the problem himself. What started as a simple ice cream parlor, however, turned into a shop serving ice cream and candy. To read more, visit Manhattan Sideways (sideways.nyc), created by Betsy Bober Polivy.
Kelly Jaime and his son, Matthew. Photo: Tom Arena, Manhattan Sideways
and cumin ribs – always start a meal, but will never be directly followed by the spicy Szechuanese dishes like ma po tofu. The shift toward more complex recipes and more thoughtful serving styles reflects the rising standards of restaurants in China, said Julia Dong, communications rep of Hao Noodle and Tea, a Sichuanese chain that launched its West Village location in June. With popular stores in Beijing and Shanghai, Hao Noodle’s elevated price range, which can hit $30 to $50 per person, underscores the changing attitude toward Chinese dining. “As more and more Chinese are traveling to New York, and more Chinese emigrated to New York and settled here,” Li said, “their standard and need for more refined Chinese food has raised the bar high.”
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61st Street, announced April 25. The project will narrow the largest remaining gaps in Manhattan’s waterfront pathway, which officials hope will one day encircle the island’s entire 32-mile waterfront. The plan calls for the construction of an elevated path raised on pilings over the East River from East 61st Street to East 53rd Street. Once the project is completed, a few gaps East Side greenway will remain, including from 52nd to 41st Streets and at several points in East Harlem. Construction is expected to commence in 2019 and last three years. North of the planned addition, the city is working to upgrade existing portions of the esplanade put at risk by climate change. The East River esplanade from 62nd Street to 81st Street is included in the ďŹ rst phase of the city’s raised shorelines initiative to mitigate the impact of rising sea levels, announced last year. The city is currently performing studies to identify particularly vulnerable portions of the greenway that will be targeted for design improvements, Shaikh said. “This is not to protect, necessarily, from storm surge, but it is to account for the sea level rise projections,â€? he said, noting that the city anticipates sea levels to rise by as much as three to six feet by 2100. “It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when the sea level rises.â€?
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TRANSIT AGENCIES SUED OVER ACCESSIBILITY TRANSPORTATION Coalition of advocate organizations and individuals file class action in state and federal courts BY MADELEINE THOMPSON
When Sue Susman goes from her apartment at West 97th Street to see her doctors at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center on West 165th Street, she takes a downtown-bound 1 train, exits at 59th Street and then transfers to an uptown A or C train. Susman, who has multiple sclerosis, takes that roundabout route because she uses a wheelchair, and has to plan her commute around accessible subway stations. She has otherwise stopped using the subway much at all since so few stations have reliably working elevators and she mostly relies on the bus or on her husband to drive her. A coalition of advocate organizations for the disabled hope to change that for Susman and tens of thousands of other New Yorkers. Citing what they say is the subway system’s pervasive inaccessibility, the organizations and several individuals last week filed class-action lawsuits against the state’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the city’s Transit Authority and the city in state and federal courts. The first action, filed in state court, claims that the MTA’s failure to install elevators throughout the system is a violation of the New York City Human Rights Law. The second suit, filed in federal court, alleges the MTA of failing to maintain elevators where they do exist, which causes recurrent breakdowns. “On average, there are approximately 25 elevator outages per day, with median outage lasting four hours and with many outages lasting for months at a time,” according to a summary of the case by the national nonprofit Disability Rights Advocates, a party to both suits. “Defendants further compound these issues by frequently failing to inform the public about outages, by not providing signage to describe alternate accommodations and/or accessible routes, and by not ensuring alternate transportation for people who cannot use the subway unless
elevators are functional.” In a statement, MTA spokesperson Beth DeFalco said the agency is committed to serving customers with disabilities. “That commitment continues to be evident in our current Capital Plan where we are spending more than $1 billion to increase the number of ADA-compliant subway stations and replace existing elevators and escalators,” she said. She did not elaborate, citing a policy not to comment on pending litigation. Susman said she was thrilled to hear about the lawsuits. So was Fredda Rosen, executive director of Job Path, a group that supports people with disabilities by helping them find homes and jobs. “My first thought was, in a way, it’s about time,” Rosen said. “When we start working with someone who uses a wheelchair ... that really kind of limits the employment opportunities, because we know we’ve got to work around [the subway].” Instead, Rosen’s staff often rely on buses and on Access-aRide, neither of which is an ideal solution, she said. Access-a-Ride requires passengers to call at least a day in advance to schedule a pick-up time, and has been plagued with complaints about long wait times. Rosen said the service has improved in recent years, but not sufficiently. “We used to have someone on our staff who commuted on Access-a-Ride ... and it was more common than not that he’d be out in front of the building at 7 p.m. still waiting for his Access-a-Ride,” she said. A report by New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation and the Citizens Budget Commission last year found that Access-a-Ride is extremely cost inefficient. The report also estimated that making the entire subway system accessible could be done for less than $2 billion. The MTA, however, es-
timates the cost at $10 billion. Disability Rights Advocates litigation director Michelle Caiola told The New York Times that the MTA has shown no interest in “any long-term plan to address the inaccessibility.” “We’ve talked to the MTA on multiple occasions,” she told the paper. Her organization was also involved in the 2013 lawsuit that resulted in a promise from the city to make half of all yellow cabs wheelchair accessible. New York City’s more than 450 subway stations, most built before 1940, are the least accessible of the country’s 10 largest transit systems at 24 percent. According to The Times, comparably aged systems in Boston and Philadelphia have 74 percent and 68 percent accessibility, respectively. During a recent trip to Portland, Ore., Susman was elated to find that all the city’s public transportation was accessible. “They have these trams going on tracks, and when it stops you press a button on the outside and a door opens and a ramp comes down, which is wonderful,” she said. Susman also mentioned visits to Lyon, France, and Boston as far more accommodating experiences. But, though it takes significant time and energy to visit her children in Brooklyn, among other trips, she would never leave the city. “My community is here,” the native New Yorker said. In addition to increased accessibility in the subway system, Rosen hopes these lawsuits bring more attention to “disability rights as a civil rights issue, and [to] the issues around the full inclusion of people with disabilities in day-to-day life.” This, she said, is the greatest challenge disability advocates face.
With less than 25 percent of subway stations accessible, New York City wheelchair users often face long, complicated commutes, and few alternative options. Class actions filed in state and federal courts against the MTA hope to change that. Patrick Cashin/MTA
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AND THE BEAT GOES ON Founder of the InterSchool Orchestras of New York takes us on the nonprofit’s musical journey BY ANGELA BARBUTI
Annabelle Prager, 95, is still very much part of the nonprofit she started more than four decades ago. The InterSchool Orchestras of New York, launched in 1972 with 32 children, now comprises 350 musicians, ages 6 to 19, playing in seven orchestras and a band. The idea was born after her son, who was 10 at the time, wanted to play the clarinet. Prager soon learned that budget cuts had trimmed orchestras from the school curriculum. “They used to call music a frill,” she explained. When she asked the head of the middle school at Collegiate, where her son attended, where the orchestra was, he replied, “Why don’t you start one?” And Prager, a professional artist and illustrator, did just that. “We have two purposes. One is to find talent and develop it and the other is to bring music to areas that don’t have it,” Prager said of her mission. The organization is committed to providing financial aid and scholarships to students as well as free concerts in underserved communities. On May 11, she will be honored at ISO’s largest fundraising event of the year, the Edward and Elaine Altman 45th Anniversary Concert at Carnegie Hall.
How involved in ISO are you still? I’m very involved. I’m a very good idea person. For instance, last year, I met the person who was working with the Metropolitan Opera Guild. And I suggested that we do a project together so the children could learn about opera. So they helped us and our children all went to the opera and each group studied a composer and learned a lot about the opera from that country. So that was a very good thing. And it created some opera lovers because a lot of people don’t go to the opera; it’s expensive. I have another idea for next year. I think we should do ballet music.
The idea to create the organization came about because of your son. What happened was my son, who was about 10 at the time, wanted to play the clarinet. And I went to a
InterSchool Orchestras of New York students. Photo: Adam Hume clarinet teacher and was told, “Not a good idea, because there’s no place for him to play.” And why? Because of budget cuts and other things that eliminated music. So why should he play the clarinet by himself at home? I was shocked because in my childhood there were bands and orchestras. So I went over to the school where he was and said, “Where is the orchestra?” And they said, “Why don’t you start one?” I loved music and always sang in choral groups. I was very naïve and called a meeting of music teachers and that wasn’t going to do anything. I was lucky because the head of a school turned up and said, “You have all the wrong people here. You want the heads of schools, not music teachers.” And I thought, “What a snob.” But he was right. And he did get some other heads of schools.
How did you get it started? We started with a little orchestra. It sounded terrible, but it didn’t take long for it to get better. We separated the older children from the younger children. And then I got this idea to go into schools with our orchestra to
show children what fun it was to make music, hoping they’d want to do it. And sure enough, they did. We called the schools and said we’d like to help. And since we offered our services free, they were delighted.
How did you find places to rehearse? Let me just say, this has been a real problem from the very beginning. We have eight orchestras. The beginner orchestras have to be located throughout the city, so if you live on 18th Street, you don’t have to go all the way to Morningside Heights. So we have orchestras in various parts of the city, so little children can go to the orchestra that’s near them. Slightly older orchestras are also located in various places. When you get older, you can travel to go someplace. This has been something I spent a lot of time on, finding places. One of the things that’s hard about it is you have to find a place to store instruments and music. We started at the Church of the Heavenly Rest. Then moved to a place in Mount Sinai, a big hall in the nursing home. Then we moved to various places. We’ve been kicked out of
more places because they wanted the space for something else. We’ve had a terrible time. Parents help us. There’s a place called the Liederkranz Club on 87th Street for German culture and this man was a member and arranged for us to rehearse there. We were there quite a long time. You’re committed to helping minorities, who you say are underrepresented in orchestras. Talent should be developed in every cultural and economic group. Black people are not represented really very well in orchestras. There was this woman I knew who started something called the New York City Housing Authority Symphony, an orchestra for black people. And in her honor, I established a scholarship program, Janet Wolfe scholars. So every year, black children would have lessons and we developed quite a nice little group of children.
Tell us stories about your students who went on to play professionally. One child was Korean and played the jazz violin. He was very successful and started playing all over Korea and made lots of records. We have a
primary player in the Chicago Symphony. And one of the music critics at The New York Times is an ISO person. I started this in 1972, so there are really almost three generations of children. Children of students come. They’re very loyal. Parents mean a lot; they’re very grateful.
What are your future plans for ISO? Where do you want it to go? We want to go into areas where there’s a need for music. We want to reach a population which is not getting enough music. For instance, we’re starting an orchestra in Queens. Usually, there are parents who want children to have the opportunity to make music and they say to us, “We’d like to have an orchestra in this area.” www.isorch.org
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The puzzle contains 15 words relating to the gym. They may be diagonal, across, or up and down in the grid in any direction.
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Bars Bicycle Endurance Energy Exercise Heartbeat Lifting Muscles Pushups Reps Routine Running Stretch Treadmill Weights
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