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IN COMMAND AT THE 19TH PRECINCT LAW ENFORCEMENT Deputy Inspector Kathleen Walsh talks to Our Town about traffic and bike issues — and what it’s like for women at the NYPD
“Tom Wolfe and I covered many assignments together in 1964 when we were at The New York Herald Tribune,” photographer Jill Krementz recalled. “I was a staff photographer and he was a reporter. One day Tom was assigned to go to Paris with a just-married couple who were taking their friends on their honeymoon. Tom got to go to Paris. I got to go as far as the airport. I took this photograph of Tom on the chartered bus provided by the lovebirds.” Photo: © by Jill Krementz / All rights reserved
HOW TOM WOLFE WOOED AND WOWED MANHATTAN LIVES ... Even as he savaged its literati, artistes, architects, critics, elites, eggheads, liberals, Darwinians — and just about everybody else BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN
When he peacocked into a room, or penned a flamboyant sentence, or skewered a nemesis, or hatched an outlandish thesis, or reveled in an old-
fashioned literary feud, you knew at once: This was a true original. He was, in his own phrase, a “neopretentious” dandy who unmasked the pretensions of others. He loved culture, then tossed hand grenades into its temples. He sought status, then mocked the “status-sphere.” Exuberant and adrenalized and iconoclastic, gleeful foe of the pompous and nonsensical, scourge of the upper-crust vanities and ex-
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It was a homecoming of sorts when Deputy Inspector Kathleen Walsh became commanding officer of the 19th Precinct in January this year. An 18year veteran of the NYPD, Walsh had been a sergeant at the 19th from 2005 to 2010. She moved up in supervisory roles in Chelsea and the Upper West Side before going to the 25th Precinct in East Harlem, where she became commander in May 2016. “It’s good to be back,” Walsh said in her East Side office last week. “I never thought I would be sitting here.” Walsh was born in Yonkers, N.Y. but moved to Galway — both her parents are from the Irish city — when she was a child. She returned to NYC in September 1993 and said she tries “to get home once a year” to Ireland. Walsh met with Our Town last Friday to discuss issues in the community, the role of women in the NYPD and policing in an age of cellphones and social media. Excerpts:
Commanding Officer Kathleen Walsh notes the zeroes in homicide and rape categories. Photo: Straus News “Bicyclists do come pretty fast and they don’t always obey the rules of the road.” But, she added, “We’re not up significantly in pedestrians getting hit by bicyclists than when I was here in 2006. But it is a complaint.”
On what has changed in the 19th precinct from then to now.
Complaints about e-bikes.
“There are a lot of familiar faces which … made it easier for me to come back and actually gave [me] an advantage,” said Walsh. “I have familiarity with the building, and the community, the community council. “[I see] lot of the same issues. Traffic was an issue when I was here as a sergeant, bicyclists [were] an issue. Bicyclists and traffic were probably on everybody’s radar ... And maybe more so now,” she said, mentioning the increase in bike lanes since her earlier tenure. Most of the complaints, she said, are of the variety, “I almost got hit.”
“Officers have been going to restaurants, alerting them about new enforcement on those vehicles,” said Walsh. She noted that summonses go to businesses, rather than e-bike riders, although there is a gray area since some are third-party freelancers, like internet food-delivery services. Walsh said that’s among the issues that need to be addressed by lawmakers rather than the police. “Some of that is legislation. It’s out of our hands a little bit.” The increase in the use of e-bikes, she said, has become more of a concern for the community and is mentioned
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Communicating with residents in the age of social media and cellphones. “It’s good,” said Walsh. “They tell you what their issues and problems are and they’ll see that we’re addressing them because we’ll put up operations on Twitter.” She noted that the NYPD gets feedback that way, both positive and negative, and added that the precinct would be setting up a Facebook account this fall.
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BEACH READING FOR NYC MOMS PAGE-TURNERS
1. “The Ivy Chronicles” by Karen Quinn (2004)
5 novels about the hijinks Manhattan parents go through to get their kids into exclusive schools
Park Avenue mom Ivy Ames loses her high-powered corporate job and her marriage and goes into overdrive trying to come up with a new way to support her two daughters. Instead of looking for job, the marketing executive creates one for herself: helping upscale New Yorkers get their kids into the most exclusive kindergartens in the city. Boy, will she be sorry.
BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL
While some may be reading the season’s best-sellers, moms counting the days until Labor Day when the private school admissions process begins might want to delve into a different kind of beach reading — and I’m not talking about Victoria Goldman’s “The Manhattan Family Guide to Private Schools.” Get a glimpse into the world you are about to enter with novels old and new about the over-the-top hijinks some parents will go to in order to snag a coveted seat for their children. Even though some of the stories were written over a decade ago, they’re still relevant because, really, nothing much has changed from twenty years ago when my son was ready for Pre-K. You might want to think twice before discounting the following as merely fiction:
2. “Small Admissions” by Amy Poeppel (2017) What happens when Kate Pearson, a summa cum laude slacker, is forced by her more practical sister to get a job? She lands one in the admissions department at the revered Hudson Day School during the thick of the admissions season, or what her colleagues refer to as “the dark time.” Kate interviews Park Avenue parents who refuse to take no for an answer, have perfected the art of the subtle bribe and aren’t afraid to make outright threats. Hey, a girl’s gotta pay the rent some way.
3. “Admissions” by Nancy Lieberman (2005) The circus has come to town in the form of admissions day in NYC. The
Tuesday after Labor Day marks the beginning of the city’s most competitive and vicious blood sport: getting kids into private school. Because of her connections, Helen Drager thought her daughter Zoe was a shoo-in. But when her admissions officer BFF is no longer in a position to assist, Helen has to step up her game before Zoe might end up in a (gasp) non-uniform school.
4. “Momzillas” by Jill Kargman (2008) How to get into the only pre-preschool that counts as well as where to buy the must-have $300 toddler dress. This is the advice New York transplant Hannah Allen gets from the not so well intentioned Upper East Side mothers for whom success is measured in precocious achievements, jam-packed schedules, and elite private-school pedigrees. Before you can say “first choice letter,” the innocent and downto-earth Hannah finds herself caught up in the competitive world of highstakes mothering. The Bravo original series “Odd Mom Out” starring the author was based on this book.
5. “The Nanny Diaries” by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus (2003) The grandmama of them all intro-
duced us to Mrs. X, the Park Avenue mother for whom Valium was created because this woman is wound tighter than her Rolex. She didn’t work, cook, clean or raise her own child, therefore had nothing but time to get her son into the private school of Mr. X’s choice. When the boy gets wait-listed, the way the spouses go head-to-head makes the dynamic between Nanny
and Mrs. X look like Cinderella and her fairy godmother. O t her book s i n t he gen re: “Schooled,” “Posh,” “Prep,” “The Mothers of Country Day,” “Mrs.,” and “Primates of Park Avenue.” Lorraine Duffy Merkl is the author of “Back to Work She Goes,” about a SAHM who tries to re-enter the workforce.
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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 19th district for the week ending May 13 Week to Date
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Murder
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POSTAL PROBLEM And the pattern of checks taken from mailboxes and altered continues unabated. On Friday, March 2, a local business named Nadya M.D. mailed a check to Con Edison in the amount of $1,600, using a mailbox located at East 89th Street and Madison Avenue. On Thursday, May 10, the business discovered that the check had been intercepted, altered and cashed at Bank America by a party other than Con Edison.
HOSPITAL HITS Hospital employees were the victims of thefts in three separate recent incidents. In the first, which took place at 12:30 p.m. on Monday, May 14, a 60-year-old female employee at Lenox Hill Hospital at 100 East 77th St. reported that her wallet was missing left from a bag she had put in her desk drawer. She also told police that unauthorized charges later turned up on some of her credit cards. In the second incident, at 4 p.m. on the same day at New York Presbyterian Hospital located at 1285 York Avenue, a 23-year-old female employee left her bag unattended with
Explore Over 500 rings including 100 from the other employees’ belongings in location she thought was secure. Her credit cards and $100 were missing when she next checked her bag. In the third incident, late on Tuesday morning, May 15 located, a 33-year-old female employee of New York Presbyterian Hospital 525 East 68th Street reported that her Louis Vuitton wallet valued at $700 was missing, along with its contents, including checks, credit cards and $120, from a desk drawer in her unlocked office.
PRIORITY ALERT Shortly after 6 p.m. on Monday, May 14, a man entered through the front door of 315 East 77th Street, took an elevator to the basement, and then entered a window to a storage area where he took a bicycle belonging to a resident and walked it out a side door. The stolen bike is a Priority valued at $499.
SAD RIVER Police remind bar and restaurant patrons never to leave your belongings unattended. At 9 p.m. on Friday,
May 11, a 28-year-old woman left her bag on a chair inside the Mad River Bar & Grille at 1442 Third Avenue. When she returned for her belongings two hours later she discovered that her wallet had been taken from inside her bag, containing $100, various credit cards and a driver’s license.
BRONX JEER Police arrested a motorcyclist who should never have been on the road. At 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 12, a 50-year-old male motorcyclist from the Bronx was pulled over by police at Second Avenue and 95th Street. It was discovered that his bike was fitted with forged West Virginia license plates and his license had been suspended in New York State. In addition, the man had 16 suspensions, his motorcycle was unregistered and uninsured, and a search of his person at the time of his arrest turned up five glassine bags of alleged cocaine. He was arrested and charged with forgery, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, operation of a vehicle without insurance, driving an unregistered motorcycle, and possession of a controlled substance.
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HOLY ON MY OWN Self-love is sobbing fetal position on the brown wooden paneled floor of my bedroom in Bushwick the night before I move out; my torso prostrating back in on myself; my body, the only G-d in sight. Self-love is waking up at 5:00 a.m. at my mother’s cousins’ in New Jersey on the coldest day of winter and carrying three duffle bags, 10 boxes, my hula-hoop, three garment bags, and half a dozen crates up 8 feet of stairs at Manhattan Mini Storage by myself, on a weekday, in leather boots. Self-love is the ocean. Is folding my blue jeans on a rock. Is leaving my cell phone in a pocket. Is soaking my bare soles in the sun tucked sand. Is placing my right foot on the inner flesh of my left thigh and opening my arms to the sky. In my underwear. And a tank top. And saying, holy Hallelujah, look at what I’ve found. Self-love is moving to New Jersey. And back to Manhattan. And to Sarah’s couch in Brooklyn after three landlords in Queens say no. Because I’m an artist. Because I’m a single woman. Because I freelance. Because I am too sturdy to be knocked to the ground. Self-love is moving everything out of storage in my black platform wedges and Forever 21 dress mere hours before the first night of Pesach and here is me, my own Moses, parting the Red Sea.
BY CAROLINE ROTHSTEIN
Self-love is two years later. Is two more dances around the sun. Is too many more months than anticipated wandering in the desert. Still in Canaan. Still waiting for the tablets from Sinai. Still waiting for the spies to tell me what I’m too afraid to find within myself. Self-love is being 32 and single. Is being 32 and single. Is being 32 and single and four weddings in a row. And signing five ketubahs. And standing up and standing up and standing up. And getting my period. And getting my period. And standing up. And dancing the hora. And signing a ketubah. And dancing the hora. And signing a ketubah. And dancing the hora. And standing up. And watching my News Feed. And watching my News Feed. And still waking up alone. Self-love is tucking myself to sleep in the middle of my queen-sized bed and still knowing I am strong. Is waking up in Harlem. Is remembering Brooklyn. Is prostrating to my torso. Is prostrating to my womb. Is knowing that possibility may, in fact, be one hell of a magnificent God, but oh, how that golden calf creates idols. How too that burning bush is but a metaphor. How the only way out of this exodus desert dance is feeling whole, holy on my own.
Caroline Rothstein is a New York City-based award-winning writer, poet, performer and educator. Her work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, BuzzFeed, NYLON, Narratively, The Forward, Kveller, and elsewhere. She was a member of the 2010 Nuyorican Poets Cafe slam team, which placed second at the 2010 National Poetry Slam, and is a Youth Mentor at Urban Word NYC.
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NYPD CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Social media, said Walsh, “gives the police, particularly the 19th, the ability to alert the community to street closures, events and the like, but also allows for a law-enforcement component, by, for instance, sharing wanted posters and requests for witnesses to a crime. “It’s a little bit more transparency between us now and the community. They’re able to see a bit more of what we do.”
Women’s empowerment in the NYPD. “I’ve never felt held back as a female,” Walsh said. “I’ve always had very good mentors, both male and female. And never felt that being that being female was an issue or that ... because I was a female I couldn’t advance my career. I’ve had nothing but encouragement from both males and females.
“The NYPD is a great job,” she said. Regardless of gender, class or ethnicity, “the opportunity is there. If you work, you take the promotional exams, you can get promoted.”
first came on, so it’s changed in that sense as well. You have your head buried a little bit, but at the same time you have all this information at your fingertips.”
New policing issues, and what commanders are looking for in new recruits.
On mental health training.
“Video is big now. Everybody has cellphones. I remind [officers] to conduct themselves in a professional manner, because they are probably being taped. Treat everybody with respect, regardless of their economic status ... from the homeless person on the street, to the business owners, to the residents — everybody gets treated the same. And that’s what I try to instill,” said Walsh. She noted that wanted flyers are now distributed by phone, and police reports are increasingly being done on tablets. Walsh said that officers “do tend to be looking a lot at their phones a lot more. In fact, you couldn’t ca rry a phone when I
Deputy Inspector Kathleen Walsh with her collection of challenge coins. Photo: Straus News
The “majority of our officers go through training,” Walsh said, and “all the new recruits as well. There’s a lot more awareness about mental health and how to deal with it.” She added that the opioid crisis is not a “huge issue” in the 19th Precinct, but said she had seen more overdoses in the 25th.
On the nature of policing, as crime has dropped. “I’m pretty certain if you asked any officer why they joined NYPD, they would tell you it was to get the bad guys, and not get the bicyclists,” Walsh said. There are, of course, some city neighborhoods that still experience their share of violent crime. “If you’re in a precinct where there is violence, then guess what, that’s going to be what you’re addressing.” she said. Even within precincts, different parts of a neighborhood — “sectors” in NYPD parlance — could be dealing with different types of issues. “Each sector is different in each command,” Walsh said. “Listen, if there’s violence, then we’ll address the violence. If there’s not then we’re going to try and address [what] the command’s conditions are,” she said. “If there’s violence and quality-of-life issues you’re going to try and address both. It depends, again, on what part of the city we’re talking about.”
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Stroke impacts approximately 800,000 Americans each year, but 80 percent of strokes are preventable through management of risk factors such as high blood pressure. May is National Stroke Awareness Month, during which doctors work to educate the public about steps they can take to reduce their risk of stroke and how to recognize and get help when a stroke occurs. Carolyn D. Brockington, MD, the director of the Stroke Center at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai West Hospital, spoke with Straus News to share potentially life-saving information about strokes that every New Yorker should know.
What is a stroke? A stroke is primarily an injury to the brain that occurs from an interruption of blood flow. So if we think of the blood vessels almost like pipes or plumbing, if there is
a blockage of one of those arteries or a clot that interrupts blood flow and not enough blood gets to the brain in a period of time, that part of the brain starts to die. The symptoms from stoke are going to happen over seconds or minutes, not over weeks to months. It really happens quite fast, and the reason is that brain cells don’t do well if they don’t get enough blood flow. Approximately 1.9 million brain cells die per minute if the brain doesn’t get enough blood flow, so that’s why in stroke treatment we say “time is brain.” The more time that goes by, the more likely the brain can be irreversibly injured. That’s why we want people to be able to recognize what a stroke is and to know that they need to go to the emergency room right away.
What are the signs someone may be having a stroke? There’s an acronym that the American Stroke Association has been circulating that we think is good. It’s act “F.A.S.T.” F is for face. If you look at someone’s face and ask them to smile and one side of the face is drooping, if that happened suddenly then they might be having a stroke. A is for arms. If you ask someone to outstretch their arms and they can’t move their arm on one side or can’t keep it elevated, that person might be having a stroke.
Carolyn Brockington, M.D., is a vascular neurologist and the director of the Stroke Center at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai West Hospital. Photo courtesy Carolyn Brockington S is for speech. Not only difficulty in articulation and sounding almost like you’re drunk, but also having difficulty communicating. Maybe someone suddenly can’t understand what you’re saying to them, or the words that they’re saying don’t make sense. T is for time. If those stroke symptoms develop, the key thing is to call 911 right away and go to the closest emergency room so they can be evaluated for treatment. In this age, everyone sort of Googles their symptoms or calls a friend to ask “what should I do now?” but with a stroke you really don’t have the time to do that. If something’s happening where not enough blood
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What can individuals do to reduce their risk of stroke?
Ultrasound scans are commonly used to evaluate blood ow through blood vessels in the neck. Strokes are the result of an interruption of blood ow to the brain. Photo: Stroke Association is getting to the brain, the time it takes for them to get to the emergency room and be treated appropriately is really critical and will factor in whether someone recovers very well or is left with some permanent disability.
Who is at risk? One of the biggest myths of stroke is that
people think strokes only occur when you get older — that you only have to worry about them if you’re 80 or 90 or older than that. The reality is, strokes can occur at any age. Stroke in the young has some different risk factors than as you get older, but essentially, if people develop sudden symptoms — weakness on one side of the body, numbness on one side of the body, difficult
Another myth of stroke is that there’s nothing you can do about it. The reality is that 80 percent of strokes can be prevented, through first identifying what your risk factors are and then modifying them or changing them appropriately. ModiďŹ able risk factors include high blood pressure, or hypertension, which is the number one risk factor for stroke. Identifying that someone has high blood pressure and getting it under control can reduce their risk of stroke and heart disease. Other risk factors include diabetes and elevated cholesterol, so those have to be controlled. Smoking is very bad for the brain, so if someone smokes they need to stop. Many times it starts out with just diet and exercise. Some people can really signiďŹ cantly change their cholesterol level by just changing some key things in their diet and becoming more active. Other people require not only those things but also medication. But the only way you’re able to ďŹ nd that out is if you sit down and have a one-on-one with your doctor in order to create a plan and really empower yourself to take care of your health. The brain has tremendous capacity for recovery, but the better thing is to prevent a stroke from happening. This conversation has been edited and condensed.
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And how inordinately blessed are we who have doormen — and now, increasingly, door-women — within our apartment house entryways. And how concerned are we for those whose doors do not have these lifelines. “And yes, life extenders, besides being daily blessings,” said one elder tenant unable to attend the lobby party to celebrate Martin Griffin’s 30th anniversary on the job. But she posted a handmade sign there which read: “Heartfelt thanks to dear Martin!” Of course, door-people’s first and foremost duty is to keep intruders
from the building, ensure safety. Now doormen are all too aware of unsafe traffic when out there hailing cabs, for example — and so we urge them, “Hail from the sidewalk, not from the street!” Indeed, the building workers’ union should make this a demand. And door-people’s commutes are often lengthy and make them most aware of unsafe traffic, mostly people-made, but also nature-made. Like the people who deliver mail, they struggle through wind, ice and snow ... and hey, the union should also demand appropriate quarters for times when it’s too risky to travel home. And, oh yes, demand carpet-
ed lobbies to reduce door-people’s physical stress. And this is not the way this column intended to go — and yet don’t we honor door people best by ensuring their safety and comfort, since that’s what they do for us? But just one more “what we need to do for them,” door-people most need tenants with good natures with a ready smile and who besides saying “good morning” and “good evening” also have a few encouraging words. And so set a good example for the kids. Surely door-people make the building more of community, especially, but not only, for the elder or
those are too often alone. But everyone benefits from doormen’s and women’s thoughtful daily greetings where they live. Martin also makes you laugh with good-natured asides. And here’s a story that needs telling — an elder Upper East Side elder man died leaving his co-op apartment to a doorman who he said “was like a son to me.” His considerable stock holdings were left to the rest of the building staff. But his nephew, who reportedly hadn’t visited for a year, is suing to overturn the handwritten un-notarized will. Other tenants say these were definitely his wishes, that his mind was sound.
Staff members are concerned when misfortune occurs, maybe a break-up, or a lost job (not all co-op/ condo tenants are affluent). Longtime building staff members see and are affected when people grow old and infirm and, eventually, depart this life. And for that now-elder tenant who said Martin was a lifeextender, it’s when little things go wrong in the apartment, like a sudden leak, Martin will say, “don’t worry the super is on his way.” Doorpeople are often also peacemakers when disagreements arise among tenants. Above all, they reduce the stress of going it alone! And so much more — so much more. And Martin and the many like him, can not be thanked enough, let alone, emulated. Heartfelt thanks, dear Martin! dewingbetter@aol.com
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Honoring Restaurant Employees In these difficult economic times, it is especially important to patronize your favorite restaurants and honor the employees who make them a success. In the spirit of National Waiter and Waitress Day on May 21, there are several ways to say thank you. Let your servers, cooks and owners know how much you appreciate excellent food and service. We try to tip 20 percent against the total bill including taxes. If it is an odd amount, round up to the next dollar. If you can afford to eat out, you can afford an extra dollar tip. When ordering takeout, don’t forget to leave a dollar or two for the waiter or cook. Trust us, it is appreciated. Remember, the people who work at your favorite restaurant are our neighbors. They work long hours for little pay and count on tips, which make up a significant portion of their income. If we don’t patronize our local restaurants, they don’t eat either. Your purchases keep our neighbors employed and the local economy growing.
Why not drop off a box of candy, cookies or some other treat for your favorite waiter or restaurant staff as well? Leave them a thank-you card or note along with a larger than normal tip. Larry Penner Great Neck, NY
Church Windows I read about St. Vincent de Paul Church on 23rd Street in Our Town (“Saving Chelsea,” May 10-16). If the church is not going to reopen, preservationists should note the beauty of several of its stained-glass windows. There is one relatively rare window depicting Christ as the stranger on the shore. Many people don’t know that the phrase “Stranger on the Shore” comes from the New Testament. Hopefully, at least this window (if not all of them) will be saved. M.G. Koster East Side
Debating Parking Permits Regarding your article “Safe Spaces” (May 3-9), I disagree with the City Council’s proposal to designate parking permits for residents above 60th Street. This proposal is not only impractical, but very expensive to accomplish, let alone enforce. Cars and commercial vehicles come into Manhattan every day and they have a right to park. Some motorists have problems parking, but this is mainly because of Citi Bike taking up parking spaces and the constant digging up of our streets by construction companies and Con Edison. How do they propose issuing permits when where is no place to park while construction is going on? I own a car and live in the proposed area. I have never had a problem parking. If the City Council members who proposed this want to alleviate congestion, they should allow truck deliveries to supermarkets and restaurants after rush hours are over. Charles Petz Upper East Side
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AN EAST SIDER HEADS FOR THE HUDSON PARKS Former City Council Member Dan Garodnick to helm Riverside Park Conservancy BY MICHAEL GAROFALO
After spending the last 12 years representing much of Manhattan’s East Side in the City Council, Dan Garodnick will join the Riverside Park Conservancy as the nonproďŹ t’s president and chief executive officer. Photo: Riverside Park Conservancy Joining the conservancy, Garodnick said, “was a natural ďŹ t.â€? “I have spent years acting as a champion for public space, with a focus on public and private partnerships,â€? he said. “To be able to take that experience and bring it to one of New York’s most important public spaces was a great opportunity.â€? Riverside Park Conservancy, a nonproďŹ t that manages Riverside Park’s 400 acres on the Hudson River waterfront in partnership with the city’s Parks Department, will look to Garodnick to help grow the organization’s roughly $6 million budget, expand the conservancy’s work within the park and serve as an advocate for the park in talks with the city. Lori Lennon Bassman, who serves as chair of the conser-
vancy’s board of trustees, said that the board voted unanimously to appoint Garodnick following an extensive selection process that featured over 100 applicants. “I really felt that we needed somebody who’s a New Yorker, who understands how things work in New York,â€? she said. “Dan knows many, many people in the Parks Department, in New York City government, in philanthropy — because he’s been doing public service for the last 12 years, he has a deep understanding of how this city works.â€? In recent weeks, Garodnick’s name was oated as a potential ballot entry in the fall election for New York State attorney general. Garodnick said the rumors, reported by multiple outlets, were inaccurate — he had already agreed to join Riverside Park Conservancy when former Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced his resignation May 7 after multiple women accused him of abuse. “This was already settled,â€? Garodnick said. Garodnick will lead a new fundraising campaign set to launch this fall with the goal of expanding the conservancy’s zone gardener program, which assigns horticultural professionals to dedicated areas within the park’s diverse landscape in order to leverage knowledge of unique local soil and water conditions. Riverside Park Conservancy currently employs 17 zone gardeners; Bassman hopes to eventually hire as many as 60 or 65. The conservancy intends to focus on expanding service in the six-mile park’s northern half, which extends to the George Washington Bridge.
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In the discovery room, kids are encourage to handle the 120 objects from Native peoples across the Western Hemisphere. Photo: 5th Ave Digital
A fifth-grade student from New York City Public School 276 tries out Native American snow goggles at the imagiNATIONS Activity Center grand opening ceremony, Thursday, May 17, 2018. Photo: Jason DeCrow/AP Images for Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian
NATIVE INNOVATION FOR THE NEXT GENERATION Science and sensory lessons for kids at the National Museum of the American Indian BY ALIZAH SALARIO
Touch, don’t just look: at the new imagiNATIONS Activity Center at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, children are encouraged to handle objects originating from across the Americas, from the Arctic down to Tierra del Fuego. On May 19, as part of the Museum’s annual Children’s Festival, the city’s youngest residents broke in imagiNATIONS, a multimillion-dollar sensory extravaganza that showcases the innovations of Native peoples throughout the Western Hemisphere. Children plucked the nylon strings of a Charango, an instrument made from an armadillo shell and played by the Aymara people of the Andes. They studied different types of corn, and used a touch screen to raise enough
crops to feed a family of four while learning about the technology used by indigenous farmers in Mexico to develop maize. They sat in a kayak replica to appreciate the science behind its structure, (carefully) tossed a Lenape football made from tanned deerhide and deer hair stuffing — and tested out a pair of Arctic sunglasses that resemble the sporty wraparounds worn by modern snowboarders to protect against the harsh glare of sun on snow. “I’m hoping people walk away from here with a different perspective, and realize that Native people are still contributing to our lives today,” says Gaetana De Gennaro, manager of imagiNATIONS. At a time when questions about who shapes and transmits history are being raised, the imagiNATIONS center is a, well, innovative answer. De Gennaro notes that Native cultures are often taught as a “laundry list” of traits and tasks, and though science and technology is central to Native
cultures, it is not often central to the narrative. The Museum seeks to change that. Native scientists contributed their research and expertise to the creation of imagiNATIONS, and De Gennaro, who is part of the Tohono O’odham tribe of Southern Arizona, is responsible for curating the 120 Native objects in the center’s discovery room. From lacrosse sticks to woven baby carries that rival the construction of the modern Ergobaby, these objects reflect innovations from across the Americas and the Caribbean. “We really want to have people realize that Native science continues,” says De Gennaro. “Contemporary Native people are in the sciences; they’re mathematicians, they’re doctors, they’re astrophysicists. They’re all over the place, still working on science, trying to better our world and figure things out that we don’t know about.” Joint funding for the sleek activity center came from the Mayor’s Office,
In the “a-maize-ing science” activity, young people learn how Native people developed different types of corn. Photo: 5th Ave Digital the New York City Council and the Manhattan Borough President’s Office through the Department of Cultural Affairs. Tom Finkelpearl, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner and co-chair of the Mayor’s Commission on Monuments and Markers, spoke about the importance of New York City history — and the way that history is told. “I think there’s been a re-evaluation, a looking in the mirror to understand how we’ve told history. It’s been a great moment for myself and other people to reset, in a way,” he said. The Museum sits upon the tip of Manhattan, and in fact it does rewind the history of this storied piece of land to a point long before it was christened New Amsterdam. Objects from the Lenape tribe, indigenous to the region, are on display and then fast-forward a few centuries. A segment of steel cable from the Bayonne Bridge is on display next to a replica of the Q’eswachaka Bridge in Peru, comparing striking similarities and
tensile strength between New York steel and braided grass rope of the Quehua people. “It’s really to have people realize the continuity of native knowledge. It’s part of your daily life, from the foods you eat to lacrosse,” says De Gennaro. It was Amazonian people who invited a chemical process to create rubber long before vulcanization, and the Aztecs who developed chocolate from the cacao seed. While imagiNATIONS is geared toward 12-year-olds, most of the kids at the inaugural weekend were under nine years of age. This reporter brought a very discerning patron, her one-year-old daughter, who delighted in the texture of horse hair and alpaca pallets. It’s too soon to tell, but learning through sensory engagement that shows how the past is very much a part of our present may be the way the littlest New Yorkers begin to build a more inclusive history of our city, and beyond.
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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS MAY 9 - 15, 2018 The following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s website and include the most recent inspection and grade reports listed. We have included every restaurant listed during this time within the zip codes of our neighborhoods. Some reports list numbers with their explanations; these are the number of violation points a restaurant has received. To see more information on restaurant grades, visit www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/services/restaurant-inspection.shtml. Tasti D-Lite
1221 3 Avenue
Grade Pending (26) 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. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
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Grade Pending (19) 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.
Javelina
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Lorenzo & Maria’s
1418 Third Avenue
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HUDSON CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 Garodnick takes over from John Herrold, who previously served as the conservancy’s president while simultaneously working for the Parks Department as Riverside Park’s administrator. Herrold will stay on as a senior advisor to the conservancy and continue in his role with the city. The board believes that the addition of Garodnick’s managerial and fundraising skills will allow Herrold to dedicate more of his time and expertise to improving the park and its horticultural programs, Bassman explained. “John has worn two hats for many years now,” she said. “As we have increased the workload, it’s become more than a oneman job.” “He has an encyclopedic knowledge of the park, and that’s where we want him,” she added. Garodnick said he looks
forward to working “hand in hand” with Herrold. “John knows every inch of this sixmile space and is an invaluable resource to the city,” he said. “I intend to complement his work and bring extra support to enhance the quality of the park from 59th Street all the way to 181st Street.” Other significant projects on tap for Riverside Park Conservancy include an overhaul of the 79th Street Rotunda (“My dream is that it is going to be the Bethesda Fountain of Riverside Park and bring a lot of life to that area,” Bassman said) and the renovation of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, which has fallen into disrepair and is currently fenced off from public access. “It really is not in a dignified state,” Bassman said. “It represents people who served our country and lost their lives to protect our freedom, and it really bothers me that it’s not in good repair.” Refurbishing the structure and its surroundings, includ-
ing opening the inside of the monument to the public, “is certainly an aspiration of the conservancy,” Bassman said, “but it’s a hugely expensive renovation and so we will work to help the city once they decide that they’re ready to move on it.” Bringing on Garodnick, Bassman said, is an important step for the continued growth of the conservancy, which has seen both its budget and mission expand over the last decade. She likened the board’s role to that of an auto mechanic. “I’ve had the hood up for the last several years and have just been fixing this engine,” she said. “What I wanted was then to have a race car driver who could come in and drive the car, and that’s who I feel Dan Garodnick is for us.” “This conservancy has done a great job over the years in enhancing a spectacular park,” Garodnick said. “They are ready to take it to the next level and I hope to help them get there.”
WOLFE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 travagances, bane of the selfaggrandizing snobbery that could, at times, inform his own persona and works, Tom Wolfe was, in a word, unforgettable. The old newspaper beat reporter and magazine essayist — a co-founder of the New Journalism who skyrocketed to fame as a nonfiction writer, novelist, social satirist and cultural commentator — died on May 14 of an unspecified infection at an unnamed Manhattan hospital. He was 88. Clad in his trademark threepiece, white-linen suits with a silken necktie and two-tone shoes and typically bearing a silver cane, Wolfe broadcast to the city he felt possessed too many cookie-cutter personalities that he was a one-of-a-kind character-cum-icon, a man in white who stood apart in a town of grays. And then he proved it with a body of work that began in 1962, at the long-defunct New York Herald Tribune, and gathered steam when its Sunday-magazine supplement emerged as New York magazine after the Trib folded following a 1966 strike, and then exploded in a torrent of bestsellers that delighted readers while enraging critics for the next half-century. Along the way, he delivered into the lexicon such immortal phrases as “radical chic” and the “me decade,” the “right stuff” and “pushing the envelope,” “social x-rays” and “good old boys” and “masters of the universe” and the list goes on. Judge a man by his enemies and his oppositionalities, for while Wolfe worshipped art and literature and architecture, he had scant use for the bulk of artists and writers and builders. Pablo Picasso may have been a demigod, but Wolfe disdained him. “He never learned perspective or anatomy,” he wrote. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe? The “cult-like” architect of the Seagram Building degraded the city, and his legacy was the “rohe after rohe” of “correct glass box after correct glass box.” As for the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission — which failed to act when Huntington Hartford’s white marble museum at 2 Columbus Circle was redesigned and effectively obliterated a decade ago — “it is the bureau of the walking dead.” Manhattan’s marquee literati
Tom Wolfe (second from left) in the office of New York Magazine on November 7, 1967. The others are the crème de la crème of the magazine’s staff, from left to right, George Hirsch, Gloria Steinem, editor Clay Felker, Peter Maas, Jimmy Breslin and Milton Glaser. Photo: © By Jill Krementz / All rights reserved fared little better: When his 1998 novel “A Man in Full” was published, John Irving offered that “it makes you wince,” John Updike opined that it “amounts to entertainment, not literature,” and Norman Mailer branded its author the “hardest-working showoff the literary world has ever owned.” Wolfe’s answer was “My Three Stooges,” an essay about those “piles of bones ... our three old novelists” who don’t report, don’t portray the social reality of America today, and who appear increasingly “effete and irrelevant.” Added Wolfe, “It must gall them a bit that everyone — including them — is talking about me, and nobody is talking about them.” Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1930, Wolfe achieved global celebrity status with “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s,” a New York magazine takedown about a 1970 party for the Black Panthers at Leonard Bernstein’s 13-room penthouse duplex at 895 Park Avenue — in which, he observed, the Panthers devoured “little Roquefort cheese morsels” by the concert grand piano. Another classic, “Tiny Mummies! The True Story of the Ruler of 43rd Street’s Land of the Walking Dead!” was a public dissection of revered New Yorker editor William Shawn, who he branded a “museum curator, mummifier, preserver-inamber and smiling embalmer” who carried a hatchet in his briefcase because he feared getting stuck in an elevator. By 1987, at the tender age of 56, Wolfe penned his first novel. “Bonfire of the Vanities” was a mega-hit about race and avarice, class and politics, that gave the world “Masters of the
Universe,” from super-producing, bond-salesman protagonist Sherman McCoy, and “social X-rays,” which captured the skinny, rich, ladies-wholunch set on the Upper East Side and was modeled after society hostess Nan Kemper. That was Wolfe’s world for he was a creature of the UES. And one of his most memorable pieces, for Esquire magazine in 1985, rankled his across-the-park critics on the Upper West Side when he posited that there were only 42 “Good Buildings” in all of New York — and every single one of them was in the old Silk Stocking District. A social and political conservative, he loved ridiculing the pretensions of Manhattan liberalism and baiting the left: To wit, he recently branded Donald Trump a “lovable megalomaniac.” And the intellectuals of both East and West Sides were always those “secondhand idea salesmen.” The right-of-center establishment loved him back. And in 2006, he shared a stage with ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who dubbed him the “Dickens of our modern age,” as the Manhattan Institute awarded him its Alexander Hamilton Award. New York Times columnist David Brooks made the introduction, and he put it like this: “Many of you have probably observed that history has a pattern of imitating Tom Wolfe novels. There was ‘Bonfire of the Vanities,’ and then came Al Sharpton. There was ‘I Am Charlotte Simmons,’ and then came the Duke Lacrosse scandal. “Tom Wolfe is so good that even God is plagiarizing him!” invreporter@strausnews.com
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The nation’s oldest supermarket-style food pantry is going mobile. A new mini-mart on wheels will offer low-income residents fresh, healthy food in Northern Manhattan and Bronx communities at the greatest risk of hunger. The Mobile Food Pantry is the latest outreach project of the 39-year-old West Side Campaign Against Hunger. WSCAH staff, local elected officials and social service providers formally launched the customized refrigerated van on Tuesday, May 15 at Goddard Riverside at Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center on West 65th Street. Volunteers helped eligible neighbors select fresh fruit and vegetables, dairy, grains and canned proteins. There’s already a waiting list. “It’s allowing people to do exactly what every citizen in America does these days: getting food delivered,â€? said Greg Silverman, WSCAH’s executive director. “We want to make sure people have the same dignity as everyone else in the community, so we want to bring healthy, affordable, avorful food to people, where they live, learn and play.â€? WSCAH operates a food pantry and social service hub from the basement of The Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew on West 86th Street. Last year, it distributed nearly 1.5 million pounds of food to clients, including working families with children and undocumented immigrants. Clients must prove need for assistance, live in New York City, and have a place to prepare and cook food. They shop the grocery aisles, stocked with produce, meats and other nutritious staples. They also volunteer, get job training, and even sit on the board. Many travel from as far away as Northern Manhattan and the Bronx. But growing numbers of seniors — and others with mobility issues — have trouble making the trip. WSCAH dreamed of bringing the pantry to the people. Cou ncil Member Helen Rosenthal recalls how the community had joined forces with
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Council Members Mark Levine and Helen Rosenthal check out WSCAH’s new mobile pantry, which serves clients at Levine’s office in Harlem. Photo: Leslie Gersing WSCAH four years ago to make it happen. “I remember saying to some of my friends at West Side Campaign Against Hunger, is there some way we could get out into other districts? That would let other people know.� Supporters advocated for the project through a rigorous budget process. During the 2014-2015 Participatory Budgeting, Rosenthal’s disrict voted to provide $250,000 to build a mobile pantry. Test-runs started last October, with staff in a rental van distributing over 150,000 pounds of food to more than 3,000 households. Now, the mobile truck hits the road four days a week, serving clients at 17 partner organizations. That includes students and young adults taking classes at the Northern Manhattan Improvement Corp. in Washington
Heights. “Sometimes people have to make choices between continuing to study with the goal of promoting their careers or continuing to work in more dead-end jobs,â€? said NIMC’s Sara Chapman. “If ... they have food on the table, that means they can stay in the program.â€? The Food Bank for New York City says more than 1.3 million New York City residents, or 14.9 percent lack reliable access to sufficient amounts of affordable, nutritious food. That includes nearly 1 in 5 children. While the improved economy has reduced demand for food assistance, those still getting help are falling farther behind. Back at Lincoln Square, Celso Ruiz ďŹ lled his basket with groceries. Speaking in Spanish, he called the mobile pantry a “wonderfulâ€? idea “because it helps poor people.â€?
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AS RENTS SOAR, CO-LIVING BECOMES AN OPTION Mini-apartments and amenities like gyms and grocery delivery are features of this new trend BY DEE-ANN DURBIN
Big city apartment-dwelling can be a financial and emotional drain, but the growing trend of co-living can soften the blow. Co-living comes in many varieties, from shared houses to luxurious miniapartments. But the basic premise is the same: Renters can save money and expand their social circle if they’re comfortable with smaller digs and shared common spaces. Co-living properties also tend to have more flexible lease terms and no broker fees, which can add thousands to the cost of a rental. Take Carmel Place, an apartment building in the Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan. It opened in 2016 and is owned by Monadnock Developments and run by Ollie, a six-year-old co-living startup. The building has 55 studio apartments that range from 260 to 300 square feet, about the size of a one-car garage. The apartments come with bed linens, towels and furniture designed for tiny living, like a couch that folds into a bed. Residents share a lounge, laundry facilities, a gym and a
rooftop terrace. Apartments at Carmel Place start at $2,775 per month, which includes cable and Wi-Fi, regular housekeeping and access to social events. One block away, an unfurnished, 510-squarefoot studio in a building with a gym is listed at $3,150 per month. Matthew Alexander has lived at Carmel Place for almost two years. He had been living with roommates but wanted a place of his own, and he liked Carmel Place because it was new and offered amenities like grocery delivery. Alexander has befriended his neighbors through Ollie-planned events like a mixology class in Soho and a tour of a Brooklyn chocolate factory. He doesn’t mind his apartment’s small size, but thinks it would be too small for two people. “I like the concept of the microstudio and minimalist living,’ said Alexander, 27, who works in human resources at Citigroup. Rooms at co-living spaces are in high demand. Common, a co-living startup with homes in New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Washington, says it’s getting 1,000 applications per week for its 500 bedrooms. Co-living is such a new trend that no one company has perfected it yet, says Bob O’Brien, the global real estate sector leader for the Deloitte consulting
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Micro-studio model unit at Ollie’s Carmel Place in Kips Bay. Photo: Mekko Harjo firm. He expects a lot of experimentation over the next five to 10 years. But he thinks the trend could be here to stay, in part because it appeals to so many people. Even if millennials form families and move to bigger homes, there are plenty of transient contract workers and empty nesters who might fill the void. Ollie will expand its offerings this month in Long Island City, a neighbor-
hood in Queens, New York. It’s opening two- and three-bedroom furnished apartments with kitchens (but no living rooms) on 13 floors of a 42-story high rise. It will help match roommates who can pay as little as $1,393 per month for a small bedroom with a shared bath. Residents have access to an indoor lap pool and a gym. In the same neighborhood, Craigslist is advertising a bedroom in a two-bedroom apartment for $2,021 per month. “What we’re trying to do is create Class B pricing for a Class A product,” said Christopher Bledsoe, Ollie’s cofounder and CEO. Ollie brings down costs by fitting a lot of people into its buildings and negotiating with furni-
ture suppliers and other vendors. Bledsoe says two-thirds of Ollie’s renters are under 35. But most of the rest are over 50. WeLive — which spun off from WeWork shared office spaces — is another co-living option, with buildings in Arlington, Virginia, and New York that have 200 apartments each plus shared office space. The fully furnished apartments are a little larger than Ollie’s, but there’s a similar focus on big common areas and amenities like housekeeping. A WeLive studio apartment in Arlington starts at $1,500 per month, or about $100 less than a nearby unfurnished studio listed on Apartments.com.
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“Don’t go north of 96th Street,” quipped Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, the author of the new book, “Saving Central Park: A History and a Memoir.” Rogers recalled receiving this outdated piece of advice at a time when Central Park was a dangerous, run-down place. At her recent book talk at the Upper West Side Barnes & Noble, Rogers spoke about how back in the 1970s and ‘80s, Central Park looked very different than it does today. Graffiti marred the walls of the Belvedere Castle. Drugs were sold behind the Naumburg Bandshell. And the Great Lawn was a “dustbowl,” a dry and desolate plot of land beneath the great skyscrapers of Manhattan. But then Rogers came along as the driving force behind the Central Park Conservancy, founded in 1980. As the first appointed Central Park Administrator, Rogers helped restore the park to its former glory. Her
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Vauxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s design was the winner. And for the next thirteen years, Olmstead and Vaux transformed the park from a â&#x20AC;&#x153;wildernessâ&#x20AC;? into an elegant green space. And although the parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s date of completion is widely regarded as 1873, Rogers notes that Central Park is never really ďŹ nished. She says that it is like â&#x20AC;&#x153;[a] work of art,â&#x20AC;? always changing, evolving, and needing constant maintenance and upkeep. Rogersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; own history with the park, however, has not been without controversy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People just love a ďŹ ght,â&#x20AC;? said Rogers, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and they love a well-publicized ďŹ ght.â&#x20AC;? The ďŹ ght to which she was referring was Central Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s infamous tennis house controversy. In the 1980s, Rogers planned to replace the old tennis house with a new neo-Victorian one, which she felt would increase the parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;green openness,â&#x20AC;? and also be more aesthetically pleasing. The public at large, however,
saw the construction of the new tennis house as a wasteful, elitist measure that served the most affluent people of New York instead of the average citizen. Much to Rogersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; dismay, the plan for the tennis house was thwarted. Controversy even followed Rogers at the book discussion. During the talkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Q&A session, one man asked Rogers why she completely eliminated graffiti
from the park during the restoration process. He argued that preserving the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s graffiti would show the parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history, and exhibit New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contemporary urban aesthetic. He also argued that other ancient societies had had graffiti on their walls, and Central Park could have followed suit. Rogers said that while she was familiar with graffiti on ancient Roman structures, and the beauty they brought to that space, she felt Central Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s graffiti did not make the same contribution. She said that instead of being art, the graffiti was simply â&#x20AC;&#x153;tags,â&#x20AC;? and did not fit within her classical vision for the restoration of the park. This exchange at the discussion perfectly illustrated the constant tension that exists in a public-private partnership such as Central Park. Both parties feel that the park belongs to them, and constantly fight to have their opposing visions realized. Controversies aside, no one can dispute the vast contribution Elizabeth Barlow Rogers has made to the restoration of Central Park. Under her leadership, the park went from a rundown wasteland to an elegant green space that everyone in the city can enjoy. When she talked about the park, with a smile on her face and a twinkle in her eye, her deep love of it was evident. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All of itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a miracle,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are living in a golden age of Central Park.â&#x20AC;? And this spring, as millions of people enjoy the parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pristine lawns and structures, Rogersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; outstanding restoration will be the gift that keeps on giving.
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THE HOTEL THAT NEW YORK BUILT The Carlyle ambassador takes us behind the doors — and into the elevators — of the storied landmark BY ANGELA BARBUTI
Hector Ruiz technically never has a day off and wouldn’t have it any other way. As the ambassador of The Carlyle Hotel, he makes himself available even when not on the clock, taking guests’ calls for coveted reservations on his cellphone. The Puerto Rico native, who moved to New York when he was 12, has spent 26 years at the legendary Manhattan property, which symbolizes old-world grace, once welcoming names like President John F. Kennedy and Princess Diana, and still being relevant today, with celebrity devotees like George Clooney and Harrison Ford. When asked what gives the 76th and Madison corner address its staying power, Ruiz credits its 440 employees’ upmost attention to detail, including a seamstress who monograms each guest’s pillowcase, as well as discreteness. Adding to those high standards, he notes, are the longevity of its staff and, of course, its breathtaking views of Central Park. The documentary “Always at the Carlyle,” which opened on May 11, sweeps audiences into the allure of the hotel’s 87-year history, while celebrating its continued prosperity. Audiences learn about Prince William and Kate staying there during their
first visit to New York, watch old clips of Bobby Short serenading Cafe Carlyle, and hear about one of its original owners, Peter Sharp, for whom Ruiz worked before joining the team there. We also board their elevators, one that once held Princess Diana, Michael Jackson and Steve Jobs, and referred to as the most famous elevator ride in history. We caught up with Ruiz, very fittingly, on his day off, as he was prepping to travel to London for the film’s premiere there. “Yeah, it’s a quick trip,” he said. “We’ll be back on Wednesday and back at it again, which is good.”
The film stresses the fact that employees are trained not to divulge information about guests. Who can you tell us about? Well, basically you can talk about Princess Di, who’s no longer with us. In those older days, there were a lot more people who were in “Forbes.” There weren’t that many billionaires, but there were a lot of millionaires years and years ago. And these were people who didn’t want anybody to know that they were that wealthy. Everything was kept very quiet and a lot of times, they stressed that we didn’t have to worry about the budgets or making money, the most important thing here is the guests, to service them. The managers and the owners worried about the money. And Peter didn’t really need it. That wasn’t his money maker; he was a real estate developer.
Hector Ruiz, the Carlyle Hotel’s ambassador. Photo: Andrew Moore But he had to keep it at a certain level of quality and discreteness, because a lot of these people he sat down and had dinner with. It was important to make it very special and it’s the business that his family had been in for many, many years. After the hotel was sold to Maritz Wolff, everyone then really knew what it was to work in a hotel, because before, it was basically word of mouth. There wasn’t a big reservation department, or central reservations or getting online where anyone could book a room.
What does your job as ambassador entail? I was the executive assistant manager when Giovanni Beretta came to manage the hotel. And he realized that it was different, this hotel. And it was amazing that one person had so many people who never called the reservations department; they only called me. And there was another gentleman before me, and his name was Ronald Hector. He’s well known throughout Europe and the States. And everybody called him for their reservation. And when he passed, they came to me, because I had known Ronald for a long time, before the technology of these days. He used to send me faxes to the apartment and I would (quote) the average rate for the day, the occupancy, so Peter could see every day. So I had a good rapport with Hector, and then when I went to work there, he just sort of took me under his wing and then all of the sudden, I became the Ronald Hector for all these people. Tommy Lee Jones calls me for his reservations. I do Clooney. I do a lot of these people who have been going there for
The Carlyle’s East 76th Street entrance. Photo: Justin Bare
many years and that’s the way they did things. And, you know, a lot of the people, they don’t like changes.
Tell us a story about a guest. Yesterday I got a call from a lady who produces “Jersey Boys” and other plays and she’s from California. And she was making a booking. And I said, “How are things?” And she said, “Oh Hector, don’t ask. My gardener left me and didn’t give me any notice. Now I gotta look for a gardener.” So I had to call her back and the machine came on, so I started speaking to her in Spanish and saying, “I understand you need a gardener and I would be very interested, but unfortunately, I live in New York and you would have to come to New York to interview me and I work at The Carlyle.” And right away, she knew it was me. So she called me because she was playing back messages, and said, “You know, I laughed so much when I received that message. And I still laugh about it. So I just had to call you and tell you.”
What have been some memorable moments from your career? When Mr. President [Clinton] came and he was going to a party on Park Avenue and he decided to come there to freshen up and take a little rest. And before he left, he went around and shook everyone’s hand and his photographer took pictures. And they sent us all a picture. I was pretty impressed; here was the president and he took time to shake everyone’s hand. I was in room service and did a lunch once for Princess Di and she wrote me a little note. That was very memorable.
The hotel’s underground tunnel is also mentioned in the film. There is a tunnel. We have a way to get you in and out of the hotel with no one ever seeing you come or go. And that’s because we own the building next door and the garage, so someone could drive in. Paparazzi can’t go in there. They pull down the gate, you bring them through the basement, and up through the elevators, because the main elevators go to the basement. And they could go right up to their room and never be seen.
What are your future plans? To relax, play a little more golf, be there when the clients are there. It’s like, I think of leaving, and I just don’t think of myself; I think of all these people that I deal with it. I mean, today, I’m trying to get out of here, and people are calling me here on my mobile and I’m making reservations from my apartment. I do that a lot. And no matter if I’m away on vacation...but I keep that open for them and that’s important because they call and know they’re gonna get an answer and they know that I’m gonna be back to them within an hour. “Always at the Carlyle,” directed by Matthew Miele (“Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s,” “Crazy About Tiffany’s”) is playing at Quad Cinema.
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