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NEWS A long-shot run against Maloney He has no staff, no endorsements, and no campaign war chest, but Pete Lindner is hoping the voters of the Upper East Side will elect him to Congress. Lindner is the only Democratic challenger against Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, who has represented the 12th congressional district for 23 years. A graduate of MIT with a background in statistics and computer programming, Lindner wants to legalize marijuana and prostitution, promote gun safety, and eliminate corruption. (He was inspired to get into the June 28 race by a run-in with Maloney’s ofﬁce over an allegedly corrupt judge, though a spokesperson from Maloney’s office said there is “not a shred of truth” to Lindner’s accusations.) Lindner spoke with Our Town reporter Madeleine Thompson on his debut in politics.

On how he got on the ballot: I hate to quote Donald Trump, but the system is rigged. I went to the New York City Democratic Committee and I said I wanted to speak to somebody about running on the ticket. That was Keith Wright, and he said ‘I’ve been friends of [Carolyn Maloney’s] for 25 years’ and he told me to speak to his

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Richard Barr on the FDR with his Global Fury. Photos by Bill Gunlocke

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROFILE Seeing Richard Barr at home before going to the highway where he’s also at home. BY BILL GUNLOCKE

He said on the phone that he lived in apartment #2, that the buzzer didn’t work, but that he faced the street and I’d be able to tell which place was his. I didn’t worry about that when I got to his building on East 71st Street early and sat on the stoop for 10

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minutes looking at passers-by and the part of the morning paper I’d brought to read on the train. When I sensed it was time to meet him, I turned to look at both sets of firstﬂoor apartment windows, not knowing what would make his place stand out. Well, I had to grin to myself. His two window sills were adorned with various kinds of plants and maybe the rest was Richard-made art. I didn’t know. But these weren’t your grandmother’s window boxes for sure. He knew I’d like them. I real-

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ized then that his phone voice the day before had been pleased that I would be coming uptown to see and be intrigued by what he’d made. I called him then on my phone. I didn’t have a pebble to toss against the window. Suddenly there he was in the hallway, and he let me in. He’s Richard-made art himself. Right from the instant you see him, you see this about him. I mean he’s wearing two good ties, and he had on a good oxford cloth shirt. He could be

From AIDS to acceptance, same-sex marriage to 49 people dead in a nightclub in Florida. To be gay in America is to swing wildly from hope to despair, then back to hope again. The past year or so had been a jubilant one on the political front, as same-sex marriage bans were struck down in state after state. Then came the weekend horror in Orlando, and many of our gay neighbors felt the gains of the last year evaporating. At the Stonewall Inn on Monday, thousands of us gathered in a vigil to remember those who died, and to acknowledge why: Though much is still unknown about the killer, it’s clear that his choice of a gay nightclub for the slaughter was not a random one. Candles were lit for the victims, ﬂowers were laid at the Stonewall’s front door, tears were shed by a community once again bound by fear. But then came the pivot back to hope. The mayor not only vowed that this month’s pride week activities would carry on, but he encouraged people from around the country to join New York, to come together in unprecedented numbers to counter the hate.

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Chapter 16

EVE AND OTHERS

I’m ready to call,” said Eve. “My mother’s brother lives in Jerusalem. Wouldn’t it be an odd turn of events if he knew Alyosha? We could ask my Uncle Aryeh.”

BY ESTHER COHEN

Previously: A man disappeared from the Upper West Side, a mysterious man that no one seemed to know very well. His name was Alyosha. His super, Anibal Ramos, maybe had a way to contact him. There was a phone number in Jerusalem on Alyosha’s lease. A group of tenants from a building a few blocks away decided they’d try to ﬁnd him. “Shouldn’t we all discuss what you’ll say to whomever answers the phone?” asked the tall Richard, a logical man who had the word Consultant on his calling card. He believed he could give advice in many categories. Well read, Richard lived with another Richard, his opposite except in name. Tall Richard

was a formal person. He never just dropped in, even to ask the super a question about water pressure. Richard always called ﬁrst. Born in Boston, he believed in Roberts Rules of Order. Richard two, from a small town in South Carolina, came to

New York City after college to work in theater. As a boy he just knew that theater would be what he would do all his life. He’d seen a dinner theater production of “Oklahoma” and that had been enough, really enough, to shape his path. He hummed along with the words, knowing how happy humming made him. And hum he did, working in any job theater job he could ﬁnd until ﬁnally, he become a stage manager. There was nothing he liked more than working. “Play it by ear, why don’t we,” exclaimed Pin Ball, an odd voice of reason in Anibal’s appealingly unexpected apartment. Orange walls, bright blue trim. No white walls for Anibal. “I’m ready to call,” said Eve. “My mother’s brother lives in Jerusalem.

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Wouldn’t it be an odd turn of events if he knew Alyosha? We could ask my Uncle Aryeh. Jerusalem is actually a small city,” she said. “Only about 800,000 people altogether.” “Is there a reason you don’t just call?” Naomi was impatient with Eve. They were each dressed in shiny silver clothing, their own matched set. And then, there they all were. Standing around the phone in a loose half-circle, an informal group of people who, because someone disappeared, had formed their own odd community, people who, except for their street address, didn’t have all that much in common. “We’ve waited long enough,” Mrs. Israel said. “I wrote out some questions while we were standing here, in case you ﬁnd yourself tongue tied,” she said. “I have never been tongue tied,” Eve replied. “I beg to differ,” Charles spoke up. “Would you like some examples? They’re on the tip of my particular tongue.” He laughed at his own joke. “Later,” Eve answered. And then, at last, she picked up the phone, and dialed. No one spoke in the room.

They stood at a weird kind of attention. Waiting. Anibal put the ringing on speakerphone, so everyone could hear. A woman answered the phone. “Shalom,” she said. “Shalom,” Emily replied. “Ayfo Alyosha? Where is Alyosha?,“ she asked, in Hebrew ﬁrst, and then in English. And then, “Do you speak English?” “Yes, of course,” the woman answered, with no accent that anyone could hear. “I am American,” she added. “Just like you. That is, I assume you’re American from what little you said.” “I am,” said Emily, trying not to sound disappointed. “I have no idea where Alyosha is,” the woman offered. “I haven’t seen him in over a year. He’s my cousin,” she added. “We are close, but not in touch. Isn’t he in New York? He called a while ago to say he got an apartment, and he asked if he could give me for a reference. I have a job,” she said, and laughed. “Many of our family members are dutifully unemployed.” “I’m happy for you, said Emily, and hung up the phone abruptly.

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG

CYCLIST TACKLED AFTER RIDING THROUGH OBAMA MOTORCADE Authorities say a bicyclist tackled by a New York City police officer as President Barack Obama’s motorcade approached has received a summons for disorderly conduct. NBC New York reports that officers shouted and signaled for the bicyclist to stop at around 6 p.m. last Wednesday in Manhattan. He kept going. Video shows an officer knocking the man to the ground. Another officer rolled him face-down onto the pavement and handcuffed him. Seconds later, onlookers on the opposite side of the street waved at the president and cheered as he passed. Obama was in the city to tape “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”

HOME ALONE Living in New York comes with challenges, but so does leaving it. At noon on May 24, a resident of the De Hostos Apartments at 201 West 93rd St. left home for eight days. When he returned, his apartment door lock and belongings worth more than $6,000

STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 19th precinct Week to Date 2016 2015

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2016

2015

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Murder

n/a

100.0

Rape

-100.0

-50.0

which may have allowed the thieves to access her personal information.

Robbery

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n/a

0.0

TELEPHONE TROUBLE

Burglary

40.0

42.1

A man was arrested following a domestic dispute. According to a police account, at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, May 31, a 32-year-old man began a verbal dispute with his 47-year-old girlfriend, who was living at 102 West 109th St., because she was on the phone with her daughter. He then pulled her hair and punched her in the back of her head. She grabbed his testicles in self-defense, hoping he would let go of her hair. He did let go but continued to argue and threatened to call child services on her. He then destroyed her cell phone and computer and picked up a dolly, which he threw at her, hitting her on the right arm, causing pain and injury. He was arrested later that day and charged with assault. Police did not release the man’s name.

Grand Larceny

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533

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were missing, police said. The items stolen included a diamond ring, a Rolex watch, a 40-inch Samsung TV, a 30-inch Samsung TV, a 15.6-inch Hewlett-Packard laptop, a 15.6-inch Lenovo laptop, an iPad Air, and a window air conditioner. The total value stolen came to $6,600.

WACK HACK On June 2, a 59-year-old woman living on West 95th Street reported to police that an unknown person had attempted to make unauthorized transactions on her credit card account. Four transactions were attempted, one at an Apple Store and three at Bloomingdale’s, but fortunately her card issuer Citibank refused to authorize the charges, totaling $15,035. The victim told police that her e-mail account had been hacked during that time, and she had been in the process of changing cell phone service,

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At 10:23 p.m. on June 2, a 24-yearold deliveryman had stopped for a red light at the corner of 103rd Street and Columbus Avenue when nine men approached him. One said, “Give me the food, or I will kill you” and displayed a knife, while two of the others forcibly removed three bags of food from the delivery bicycle’s front basket. Three of the bad guys were last seen running southbound on Columbus, and a search of the neighborhood failed to turn up any of the others. The value of the food taken came to $99.44.

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About 5,000 people attended a vigil near the Stonewall Inn on Monday evening that commemorated the lives lost in the mass shooting in Orlando. Photo: Isodro Camacho

5,000 ATTEND VIGIL AT THE STONEWALL A reading of the Orlando shooting victims’ names closed the solemn event BY ISIDRO CAMACHO

Nearly 5,000 people attended a vigil for the victims of the Orlando shooting on Christopher Street last night, according to police. A large crowd silently gathered in front of the Stonewall Inn before the vigil officially started. Several people were crying and holding onto others for support. Grace Bannasch, a 24-yearold from Western Massachusetts, made the 4-hour drive by herself to attend because, she said, “this is where we go when things are bad.” “Growing up in an LGBT community makes me realize how important an LGBT community is,” she said. People somberly milled about inside the Christopher Street Park across the street where someone had written the names and the ages of the 49 victims on the ground in chalk. Mourners carefully tiptoed to put ﬂowers and candles at the foot of the park’s “Gay Liberation” statue. Charles Davis, a Brooklyn resident, said that many of his friends did not come because they were either “too emotional or scared to be here.” The sullen attitude of the event changed when the vigil actually started. Before Governor Andrew Cuomo took the stage, the names of all openly gay members of local government were read. This tangible evidence of the LGBT community’s impact in government ignited the crowd.

Seventh Avenue at Stonewall Place on Monday evening during a commemoration of the lives lost in the mass shooting in Orlando. Photo: Isodro Camacho Speakers from all sides of the LGBT community came forth to express their grief and to call for ending discrimination and easy access to firearms. Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke, so did Nick Jonas and Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. Dr. Sheldon Teperman, the chief trauma surgeon at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, gave a speech that held the crowd in silence. He commented on the endless cycle of gun violence he sees within his operating room and described in unflinching detail the killing power of an automatic rifle. Speakers who tried to politicize the issue, including de Blasio, were met with frustrated yells from the crowd to stop

and say the names of the victims or “get off script.” Police Commissioner William Bratton, one the event’s last speakers, barely reached the ears of the restless crowd. His presence set the group into a frenzy. He attempted to talk about increased policing for the Gay Pride Parade later this month but he struggled to speak over cries of “end police brutality” and “white supremacy.” One man, clad in black, climbed atop a bus pole to shout his criticisms of the NYPD. Recognizing the uneasy anger of the crowd, the organizers immediately commenced the vigil. As speakers read the names and ages of each of the

victims a solemn hush fell over the area. The combined light of thousands of cellphone flashlights, candles and lighters set the street aglow. Each name was met with either “rest in power” or, in Spanish, “presente.” Muffled gasps and winces broke throughout the throng of people when speakers read the names of Akyra Murray and Jason Benjamin Josaphat, teenagers who were in the club. The vigil ended as silently as it started. The crowd quietly dispersed and groups of people began to hug and comfort each other. While most of the people headed home, several moved back toward the Stonewall to continue the tribute.

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ARTIST IN RESIDENCE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 some eccentric wooden-boat-owner dressed for the porch of the American Hotel in Sag Harbor. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got these long forearms and long hands that a baseball player or a golfer would envy. Or you could think sailor about them, too, if you wanted to extend the Sag Harbor metaphor. But you go inside the apartment and you see that these arms and hands sticking out of the sleeves of his shirt have been busy making art and making an artful place of his apartment. I was there to talk to him and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re both eager talkers and so that happened naturally, but I could have nosed around his wonderfully cluttered, thickly cluttered, place in silence. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a collector,â&#x20AC;? Richard Barr says. If you were opening a restaurant from an earlier era, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d want this stuff. Fishs Eddy looks like Uniqlo compared to Richardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s place. You want the mix of framed things on the walls. You want everything. You want to ask him about the Jim Croce vinyl album. You want to ask him about the old Donald Trump doll still in its box. You want to ask him about the small bedroom you peeked in with a bed that looks like Gertrude Steinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bed might have looked or Whitslerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. You want to ask him who cleans the place. You do ask him whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the guy in the big black and white framed photo hanging in the kitchen. And he says thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s his father who was a newspaper editor in the Adirondacks, which is where Richard grew up and where he was given full freedom to roam and where he learned to love nature. And where he realized you could make stuff from what you found in the world. When he talks his arms go out and up like Bernie Sanders. You could listen to him all day. If you met him in a bar, in your drinking days, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be doing shots after a while. If it was in the afternoon, the bartender would be listening in to his stories. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be fascinated to hear how he knew Andy Warhol or how on a road trip to Florida once, he pulled over to the side of the road and picked up some pieces of truck tires that had blown out. He sensed he could make something out of them. He knew he could. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the thing about him. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the thing that most has his attention now. Those pieces of tires. Shredded pieces of truck tires. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made cool-looking bracelets from the stuff. He calls the tire pieces Furys. Not Furies, Furys. The biggest Fury is the Global Fury. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s his main thing right now. For that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to leave the apartment. You know how you see precarious places where high school seniors have spray painted their schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s initials and their class year? Well Richardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Global Fury is in a place kind of like that. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s along a narrow pathway along the FDR that he

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On reducing crime: If there are high crime areas Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d also have the government check to see what the unemployment is. Because if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high, I feel the government should be the employer of last resort, and they should be able to sweep the streets and clean up the parks and things like that. However, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s say the minimum wage is $15 an hour, the government can also encourage companies to hire these people by paying $10 of the $15 per hour for their salary. That way the company gets a worker for $5 an hour and $10 straight by the government, plus the worker has a job, learns something, gets benefits -- unemployment, medical coverage, sick leave, IRA and things like that -- and has a vested stake in the community. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we want. I think that would make things safer so people wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to steal or trade drugs, do illegal things, in order to stay alive.

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Tracking Envelope. Suppose you call the police about something, you tell the whole story, and they say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re calling precinct 13, you should call precinct 10.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; They would assign a PETE number, which is a unique number in the world, and then they would pass that number to the other agency or whatever and it would have a record of the whole conversation, all the notes and things like that, so you wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to repeat it. It would be like a ďŹ le.

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Voices bird, having cleaned up the crumbs, follows right behind her. I thought I heard a tweet. Not sure. These days, tweets are seen, not heard.

EAST SIDE ENCOUNTERS BY ARLENE KAYATT

Democrat Party time — Petitions, primaries, politics. If it’s June, it’s petitioning time and petition carriers, most from local Democrat Party clubs this year, will be asking you to sign to get candidates on the ballot in November. If there are candidates competing for the same office, their names will appear on different petitions and there will be a primary election in September. In order to get on the ballot, candidates for each office require a certain number of qualifying signatures. The names of candidates who are endorsed by a local political club will appear on the petitions they carry. Some candidates may have petitions with only their name on it. Up to them. This year there will be a primary in the 76th Assembly District, which runs from 61st to 92nd Streets, east of Third Ave plus Roosevelt Island, but does not include Ruppert/Yorkville Towers (90th to 93rd Streets east of Third Ave). There are candidates competing for Civil Court (6th Judicial District) and for male member of the State Committee as well as for judicial delegate and alternate delegate. [Full disclosure: I’m a candidate for judicial delegate.] Getting on the ballot is not automatic. Hence, your favorite elected official with no opposition has to petition to get on the November ballot when their term of office is up. So don’t be surprised to see State Senator Liz Krueger or Assemblywoman Rebecca Seawright on many petitions, along with the names of candidates for the other races. In the Civil Court race, there are three candidates competing for one seat. Only Housing Court Judge Sabrina Kraus came out of the screening panel for the 6th Judicial District for the East Side. She also previously came out of

When more is less — Dunkin’ Donuts had a special: medium coffee, $1.99. Small coffee, $2.99. I report. You decide. Someone in the echelons of Dunkin’ must have gotten the word that a ban on medium-sized cups is on the way. Don’t laugh. Could happen. Indicia, indicia — How do you know when a restaurant is going bye, bye? I found out when I was sitting at the bar at Cinema Café on the southeast corner of 34th and Third and ordered a bloody mary. No stirrer. No celery. No ﬁlling for the dumplings from the app menu. All on a Saturday evening. A conversation started up at the bar and the word was out that, in April, commercial tenants had been served with vacate notices and would have to be out by the end of July. Somebody said that the building was sold and that the residential tenants would be gone too. The Italian restaurant, La Giara, right next door to Cinema Café, has closed. Someone said that the landlord owned La Giara. Apropos of Cinema Cafe’s fate, I’m wondering what it means that Jacques Brasserie, farther uptown on East 85th Street, has taken pate off their menu?

Illustration: League of Women Voters the New York County Screening Panel and is endorsed by two of the three Democratic clubs that cover the 76th Assembly District — the Lexington Democratic Club and the Lenox Hill Democratic Club. Her name appears on their petitions. The candidate endorsed by the Four Freedoms Club (of which I’m a member) withdrew from the race. So no judicial candidate’s name appears on the Four Freedoms

petition. The other two candidates in the race are Len Silverman, an attorney who lives on the Upper East Side, and Susan Avery, who is also a Housing Court Judge. So if you’re a registered Democrat and live in the district, sign a petition to get candidates on the ballot. You can then vote or not vote for them in September or November. Signing just gets them on the ballot. The American way.

When tweets were for the birds — Coffeehouse cum bakery in the East 80’s on a Friday afternoon. Door opens. Two men, busily chatting, pass through the portal as a bird unexpectedly ﬂies in. One gent heads for a table. The other for a latte at the counter. The bird goes straight for the sprinkling of crumbs on the ﬂoor near the bakery entrance. Noticing the bird, a lady screeches and runs for the door. The

Bus plus — You won’t ﬁnd moi having anything good to say about NYC/ MTA buses. Just doesn’t happen. Not with the long waits and the caravans of buses not picking up passengers. But it sure is delightful to note some of the nice things you see along some of the bus routes. Traveling down Lexington Avenue on a weekday at the southwest corner of 46th/47th Streets, a swing band was playing on the plaza of an office building. Thanks to Arts Brookfield’s “Swinging Into Summer.”

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AN EAST END LIFELIINE IS LOST MY STORY BY BETTE DEWING

This year, Father’s Day (June 19) gets a different twist after learning the East End Avenue’s Gristede’s reprieve has ended – July 1 is the last day for this store and its caring staff, headed by managers Ellen and Joe. The community is in mourning to lose this store which so inordinately blessed this East End enclave for decades. We mourn for the staff that thankfully has jobs at other Gristedes markets, but none together, sighed longtime checker Donna. This staff really cares about their customers – co-manager Ellen says, “If you ever need anything please call me!” Joe expressed the same concern. The staff are also “everyday friends,” especially important to the many elders who live alone to have this accessible store with people who care. And about Father’s Day, let’s observe it by going by to say thank you and sign the lovely memory book grateful customer Susan Elefant so thoughtfully supplied along with my framed March 2015 column’s ﬁrst warning that the building had been sold. And, so all this time we knew its days were numbered – and just kept hoping for more. Not only on Father’s Day, of course, you might have brunch or dinner at the East End Kitchen, also housed in this lovely 1906 building where the rental tenants reluctantly took buy-outs. It, too, will be

greatly missed, for its dinners, weekend brunches and continental breakfasts which bring neighbors together. Somehow the new high-rise should find space for this restaurant, not to mention Gristedes. It’s a progressive idea long, long overdue. This must also happen to Gracie’s Café, whose 81st and York corner building has been sold. Gracie Inn, sadly, closed months ago. To stay with Father’s Day, above all, plan protest actions against the destruction of these places where everyday needs are met, and are within a short walking distance so essential for the growing elder population. Push for media coverage! Urge, no, even demand, that your local officials get involved, (See Helpful Contacts list in this paper). The mayor who lives on East End is blind to this critical need for neighborhood places. Indeed his bill was passed which overturns some zoning laws protecting low rises and enabling ever taller high rises to make room for affordable housing. But where will these tenants buy or break bread? Do urge civic, faith groups and any condo or co-op board’s etcetera to get involved. Infinitely much is at stake. Infinitely much is lost with the razing of 40 East End to be replaced with, of course, a luxury high rise condo serving only a select few. We lose the village we once had, needed by all, but especially for elder persons. Ah, and Gristedes is wonderfully compact, so helpful for those who have trouble walk-

ing or with children in tow. Again, it is just such a community center – and open from 7 to 11, which also makes the avenue safer as well as convenient for those who work late. East End Kitchen also makes the side street safer. And while grateful for the small deli on East End, it has limited hours. We miss the old family Coleman deli it replaced, and Suzy Coleman who was so much a part of the community. And you know all too well how losing community places is an epidemic all over the city. But how it so adversely, ruinously, affects the citizenry must get out there on a public level. Ongoing stories must be told about how the lives of the rental tenants, employees, and the neighborhood at large are afflicted – immediately and permanently. It must be recognized as a major health issue and that the destruction of community places is the real city crisis. We won’t let this so profound East End loss go gently – indeed it must be the start of a citywide ongoing protest! Please, please share this column – it’s also online (ourtownny.com). And maybe leave flowers and notes outside the store, so everyone knows. To be continued in the next column, on what we must do and why (your ideas needed) – and more about our beloved Gristedes and a staff which is like family. Remembering your father and mine with very much love. dewingbetter@aol.com

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TALK & WALKTHROUGH: BROOKS BROTHERS FAMILY Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave. 1 p.m. $20; museum members, $10; seniors and students, $15. Bruce Weber, curator of paintings and sculpture, for a series of gallery tours to explore and discover some of New York Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prominent ďŹ gures in the exhibition â&#x20AC;&#x153;Picturing Prestige: New York Portraits, 1700â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1860.â&#x20AC;? 212-534-1672. www.mcny. org/

THE SUPERMODEL ERA The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave at 92nd Street 2-3 p.m. Free with museum admission; RSVP recommended A talk focusing on the supermodel era of the early 1990s, led by Chris Gartrell, senior coordinator of adult programs, in conjunction with the exhibition â&#x20AC;&#x153;Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History.â&#x20AC;? 212-423-3200. thejewishmuseum.org/calendar

FILMS TO COME: MOHOLY-NAGY AND THE MOVING IMAGE Guggenheim Museum, Fifth Avenue and 89th Street 11 a.m. Free with museum admission. This program includes documentaries on MoholyNagy and the Bauhaus and selections of abstract cinema. The program concludes with a screening of the 1936 sci-ďŹ ďŹ lm â&#x20AC;&#x153;Things to Come,â&#x20AC;? directed by William Cameron Menzies and based on H.G. Wellsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; novel. 212-423-3500. www. guggenheim.org/

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ICE CREAM GARDEN SOCIAL â&#x2013;˛ Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, 421 East 61st St. 1-3 p.m. $15; members & children under 12, $10 Come to for an afternoon of ice cream making the oldfashioned way, period toys and games, and historic tunes, and celebrate New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Path Through History Weekend. 212-838-6878. www.mvhm. org/calendar/

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YOUNG ARTISTS DEBUT AT THE MET SHOWCASE The 2016 Scholastic Gold Key Award Winners Exhibition BY MARY GREGORY

Imagine the ﬁrst time you exhibit your artwork or publish your writing, and it’s not on the refrigerator, but at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For hundreds of New York City kids, that’s just what happened. The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards is the country’s longest-running program to highlight the achievements of talented teens. In 2016, thousands of kids in grades 7-12 from New York city schools submitted their art and writing to a panel of experts that winnowed some 13,000 entries down to about 600 works

deemed worthy of the highest recognition – the Gold Key Award. Regional exhibitions of winners, from the over 320,000 nationwide entrants, take place in schools and public buildings all over the country. And all the students selected are, justifiably, proud. But young artists from more than 300 schools in the five boroughs were chosen for New York’s regional show, which was held at the largest art museum in the Western hemisphere. The Met proudly hosted this year’s exhibition of art and writing by some of the city’s brightest and most talented. The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, along with Parson’s School of Design, Pratt Institute, and the Met worked together to fill the walls of the Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education with paintings and photographs, video and multimedia works, along with interactive screens

that presented stories, poems, cartoons, plays and essays. There were 260 judges, professionals in the ﬁelds of art and literature, who selected works. They considered each carefully, aware of the history and the weight of the honor they bestowed. This is no minor talent competition; previous winners include artists Andy Warhol, Philip Pearlstein, and Cy Twombly; and writers Sylvia Plath, Joyce Carol Oates, Truman Capote, Stephen King and Lena Dunham. Images of the world we live in were as diverse as the kids who created them, as were depictions of the interior life of these artists. There were local street scenes shot in black and white by photographers with classical eyes, stunning landscapes of distant mountains, pictures of pets and the farthest reaches of space, and expressive selfportraits painted with dreamy romanticism or

unflinching realism. But, more than anything else, these works by artists early in their journey express curiosity, exploration, passion and discovery. In them, one sensed visions inspired by artists like Susan Rothenberg, Diane Arbus, Henri Matisse, Picasso, Pixar and George Lucas. There were intensely felt, moving works of fiction, poetry and prose, and scholarly essays on matters important not just to teens, but to all of us. Though the exhibition at the Met has ended, all the Gold Key award winners from across the country were honored on June 2 in a ceremony at Carnegie Hall, hosted by filmmaker Ken Burns. These hard-working prodigies have long, fruitful roads ahead of them. The only pity is that we can’t fast-forward to see the great work they’ll be producing in 10 or 20 years.

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‘ROUND’ED-OUT THEATER Shakespeare in Battery Park BY ERICA MAGRIN

William Shakespeare’s playing company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, built the Globe Theatre in 1599. Thereafter, all of the Bard’s works were shown at this open-air, circular amphitheater until June 29, 1613. It was burned down tragically on this date, as the thatched roof became kindling during an error with a cannon in a production of Henry VIII. Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616, but the Globe Theatre would be granted a second life. Shakespeare’s Globe, an approximate replica of the Globe Theatre, was completed in 1997. This new Globe was designed to be everything that the original was: a circular, rooﬂess theater on the River Thames used to stage the great works of William Shakespeare. As for us Americans, it may seem that we have struck out in the department of authentic Shakespeare recreations. Of course, these more than classic plays have been done in the US and all over the world time and time again, but very seldom are productions held in a performance space that harkens back to the reality of what seeing one of Shakespeare’s masterpieces would have been like when they were originally created. Enter Shakespeare Downtown, a theater company that values the importance of classical theater, even in these modern times – because before there was Hamilton, there was the Bard of Avon. Artistic director Billie Andersson, director Geoffrey Horne, and designer Amy Goossens spearhead Shakespeare Downtown. The theater company started off by performing more American classics, such as A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie, along with many genres of plays, some of Shakespeare’s included, at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, where Horne was a professor. “When I moved to New York, when I went to the [Strasberg] Acting School, it changed everything for me. ... It gave meaning to my life, almost like a kind of calling,” says artistic director Billie Andersson. Now the troupe focuses on the works of Shakespeare, but

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what sets them apart is exactly where these performances take place. The setting: Castle Clinton, which, like the Globe Theatre before it, is a round, open-air landmark. Located in Battery Park, it is also right on the water, and obtains all the ambience of the Globe with its own New York flare. All performances are free, as Shakespeare Downtown is a 501(c)(3) nonproﬁt organization. “By staging these free outdoor performances at Castle Clinton, audience members will be able to experience the plays how they were originally

cally accurate Elizabethan costumes, and classical theatrical designs. The troupe themselves are close-knit, with most of them having studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. Andersson and Geoffrey Horne, the company’s director, are even a husband and wife team. They are also local to the community, as the director and assistant director live in the downtown neighborhood. When forming Shakespeare Downtown, Andersson and Horne set out to ﬁnd a performance theater speciﬁcally downtown in order

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TUESDAY, JUNE 21ST, 12PM 92nd Street Y | 1395 Lexington Ave. | 212-415-5500 | 92y.org Review film criticism at an event focused on four film critics of the 1930s and 40s whose serious commentary, though largely ignored by the media of their time, ultimately elevated how films are now discussed. ($25)

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22ND, 6PM Stephen A. Schwarzman Building | 476 Fifth Ave. | 917-275-6975 | nypl.org Catch the author of the latest of the Outlaw anthologies as he shows rare images that chronicle underground artists from the post-war era through the present. (Free)

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MONDAY, AUGUST 1ST, 7:15PM 92nd Street Y | 1395 Lexington Ave. | 212-415-5500 | 92y.org Catch a preview of the new ﬁlm Florence Foster Jenkins, the story of a New York socialite who loved to sing in public despite having absolutely no ability to do it. ($80)

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Buy one bus voucher, get one bus voucher free on Wednesdays* A scene from Shakespeare Downtown theater company’s production of “Twelfth Night.” Photo: shakespearedowntown.org/ done at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre over 400 years ago,” says Shakespeare Downtown’s web page. “If it’s raining,” the website says, “performances are canceled.” This is what makes this particular theatre troupe’s production of a Shakespeare play different from others: the live genuineness of the experience, presented in a way that is so rarely done, even if this was the only way it was originally done. “[Castle Clinton is] perfect for doing Shakespeare,” says Billie Andersson. “It’s open-air, and in the round.” Shakespeare Downtown also uses histori-

to share their talents with their community, and now are doing just that at Castle Clinton. Shakespeare Downtown will put on free performances of Romeo and Juliet at Castle Clinton in Battery Park Tuesdays through Saturdays from June 7th to June 25th, 2016. With no intermissions, the performances will start promptly at 6:30 p.m. and run until 8:15 p.m. Though Shakespeare Downtown performances are free, those who wish to see the show must obtain tickets at Castle Clinton the day of the performance.

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In Brief NEW SPOT FOR LEVAIN Levain Bakery, founded in 1994, will be opening another location in order to meet rising demand. Co-owners Connie McDonald and Pam Weekes had already opened another location in the village of Wainscott on Long Island’s East End in 2000. The newer, larger space will be located at 351 Amsterdam Ave., while the original location is located at 167 West 74th Street. They also have a location in Harlem at 2167 Frederick Douglass Blvd. According to their website, the name comes from, “A French term for a natural leavening agent traditionally consisting of ﬂour, water and wild yeasts. Perhaps better known in the USA as a sourdough starter.” Levain bakery was ranked ﬁfth in a list of the best chocolate chip cookies in NYC by grubstreet. com

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TARA HILL CLOSING Tara Hill Irish Tavern on 108th Street and Broadway is closing on July 1st. The pub, originally known as Cannon’s, has been around since 1934, opening its door just after the end of prohibition. Cannon’s closed in 2004, and returned a few months later as O’Connells after a change in ownership. The pub re-opened in 2013 under its current name, Tara Hill, named after the Hill of Tara in Ireland, which was the seat of the High King of Ireland, according to tradition. Reportedly a regular spot for the late George Carlin, and was also in a movie featuring Eddie Murphy as well as being featured in the TV show Law and Order. The bar’s Facebook page encourages people to come help celebrate their last month in business, and according to the calendar on their website, they have a live music night planned for June 21.

JACKSON HOLE CLOSES, TOO Jackson Hole, a burger joint located at 517 Columbus Avenue, closed its doors suddenly last week after 40 years of business. Besides burgers, they also offer chicken sandwiches, breakfast options, salads, and vegetarian options. In 2014, Jackson Hole made Gothamist’s list for best burgers in NYC, but they later wrote that the burgers were “over-cooked meat bombs,” and that they, “regret the error.” Jackson Hole has four other locations in NYC and another in New Jersey. “It is with great regret that we have decided to close our doors after 42 years in business,” a sign on the door says, according to the West Side Rag. “Thank you for all your support and great memories.”

CALIFORNIA BISCUIT JOINT Traditionally one might associate biscuits with the South, but newcomer to the Upper West Side The Big Bottom Biscuit Bar hails from California. The Big Bottom Biscuit Bar opened earlier this month out of the coffee window of wine bar Osteria Cotta, located on 513 Columbus Avenue at 85th Street. Menu options range from simple butter and jam biscuits to biscuits in gravy, or their ultimate dish, the Sea Biscuit, topped with pickled onions, crème fraiche, and smoked salmon, which is meant to challenge the traditional New York bagel with lox, according to Gothamist.

Some Japanese okonomiyaki. Photo by hirotomo t via ﬂickr

DECODING RESTAURANT MENUS NEWS The impact of globalization on what we eat BY LEANNE ITALIE

Okonomiyaki, anyone? A survey for the restaurant reservation site OpenTable showed that style of savory Japanese pancake is the No. 1 most befuddling term among 2,035 diners, with one in ﬁve saying they won’t order something they don’t understand on a menu. Foodies, stand down. Many of the Top 10 most confusing terms you’re likely familiar with. For the rest of us, as chefs in America have expanded their horizons, we bring you gochujang, piri piri, yuzu and bibimbap, following okonomiyaki in that order. Nearly one in three diners in the Harris Poll conducted online for OpenTable said some menus are more confusing than they need to be. More than half surveyed in March felt ordering an unfamiliar item ruins their restaurant experience. Okonomiyaki was a challenge for 69 percent of the diners ages 18 and over, about half of whom said they eat out at least once a month. But there’s rarely shame. The survey of diners around the country showed two-thirds aren’t embarrassed by their cluelessness, saying they are usually ﬁne asking a server for guidance, said Caroline Potter, OpenTable’s chief dining officer. The fact that some of the rubs, ingredients and completed dishes are a problem at all shows just how far many mainstream restaurants have come, she said. For instance, the 2014 edition of “The Foodspotting Field Guide,” featuring 75 dishes chosen by a gaggle of recreational foodies, posed this question: “Ever heard of Okonomiyaki?” Now, at least among those who don’t know classic Japanese cuisine, “It’s much more preva-

lent on American menus,” Potter said. “It’s interesting that there still remains this confusion on the diner side, whereas chefs and restaurateurs have latched onto it.” The menu issue doesn’t mean some components aren’t easily identifiable. “While you may recognize, you know, carrots, you might not recognize when it says on a menu they’re rubbed with harissa,” Potter said, noting that particular North African spice mixture of chili, cumin, garlic, coriander and olive oil occupies the No. 11 spot on the list of confusing menu terms. In addition to roaming the globe looking for inspiration or to expand their repertoires, the farm-to-table movement has chefs reconsidering heritage techniques that might not be widely known by name. Ballotine, for example, is a piece of roasted, braised or poached meat, poultry or fish that has been boned, stuffed, rolled and either tied or stitched. Think turducken. It’s a classic French way of cooking a chicken thigh, intended to be reshaped to look like one, but the word was unknown to 61 percent of diners surveyed, capturing the 10th spot on the list. It’s clear, Potter said, that diners are trying to catch up with the ambitions of chefs. “Chefs are reaching back, they’re reaching to all corners of the globe. When you talk to chefs, the way they’re spending their downtime, they’re saying I’m going to Thailand for two weeks and I’m going to eat my way through street food and all these restaurants and come back with inspiration,” Potter said. Potter thinks yuzu, which 64 percent of those surveyed found confusing on menus, is a good example of an ingredient enjoying big love from chefs in the U.S. Dallas restaurant Victor Tangos, for example, has used the aromatic Asian citrus fruit known mostly as a flavoring in everything from tempura-fried Brussels sprouts to an infusion for a cocktail made of gin, shiso (No. 8), French wild

cherry liqueur, lemon, honey and orange flower water. “Restaurants are doing everything from serving yuzu miso brown butter on their lobster to yuzu marmalade or yuzu vinaigrette,” Potter said. Recently, at a Manhattan restaurant, she ran across a yuzu pound cake and a yuzu jelly. “That, in particular, is really sweeping the nation, and I have to admit I was kind of, like, what is yuzu exactly?” she said. There is, of course, a segment of diners in search of familiarity and comfort in restaurant food, Potter said. “We do know that diners want to see more descriptors on menus, and they also like to see pictures. That plays to our food photo culture. Instagram is filled with food pictures. That desire is a by-product of how visual our food culture has become,” Potter said. So what is gochujang, the second most confusing term? It’s a savory, spicy, pungent fermented Korean condiment made from red chili, glutinous rice, fermented soybeans and salt. It was deemed confusing by 67 percent of diners surveyed. And No. 3 piri piri, which was misunderstood by 64 percent? It’s a Portuguese term for hot chilies or a hot sauce made from them. No. 5 bibimbap is a Korean dish of rice topped with sauteed vegetables served with chili paste, beef or other meat, sometimes with a raw or fried egg. Gougere, a puff pastry flavored with cheese (usually Gruyere) and often stuffed with a savory filling, showed up at No. 6, followed by guanciale (a type of Italian cured pork made from the cheeks of a pig); shiso, which is an Asian plant in the mint family used as an herb in cooking; and en brodo, a beef or vegetable stock often used on its own as a broth or as the base for sauces and stews.

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS MAY 27 - JUN 10, 2016 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 http://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/services/restaurant-grades.page

The Penrose

1590 2 Avenue

El Aguila

1215 Lexington Avenue

Mimi’s Pizza

1248 Lexington Avenue

1396 1 Avenue

Metropolitan Museum Roof 1000 5 Avenue Top Garden Cafe

Domino's Six Happiness

1413 2Nd Ave

Hu Kitchen

The Sweet Shop Nyc

404 E 73Rd St

New Beijing Wok

1324 2 Avenue

Dunkin Donuts

1433 2Nd Ave

Not Yet Graded (30) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

Shabu-Shabu 70 Restaurant

314 East 70 Street

Bareburger

1370 1 Avenue

Sant Ambroeus Cafe At Sotheby’s

1536 3Rd Ave

The New Amity Restaurant 1134 Madison Avenue A Amc Theatres

1538 3Rd Ave

Chipotle Mexican Grill

1497 3 Avenue

1334 York Ave

Ramen Meijin

1574 2Nd Ave

Three Guy’s Restaurant

960 Madison Avenue

Treat House

1566 2Nd Ave

Tasti D-Lite

1221 3 Avenue

Wa Jeal

1588 2 Avenue

Chipotle Mexican Grill

1288-1290 1St Avenue

Dylan Murphy

1453 3 Avenue

Starbucks

Candle Cafe

1307 3 Avenue

1280 Lexington Avenue

Starbucks Coffee #26188

1000 S 8 Ave

Gracie’s On 2Nd

300 E 86Th St

Lexington Bar And Books

1020 Lexington Avenue

Oriental Cafe / Sunny

1580 1St Ave

Matsu Ii Sushi

411 East 70 Street

Sette Mezzo

969 Lexington Avenue A

Papadam

1448 1 Avenue

Blue Bottle Coffee

945 Madison Ave

The Stumble Inn

1454 2 Avenue

Dunkin’ Donuts

411 East 70 Street

Dallas Bbq

1265 3 Avenue

Caffe Dei Fiori Ristorante

973 Lexington Ave

Closed By Health Department (104) 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. Appropriately scaled metal stem-type thermometer or thermocouple not provided or used to evaluate temperatures of potentially hazardous foods during cooking, cooling, reheating and holding. Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/ sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room. Hot and cold running water at adequate pressure to enable cleanliness of employees not provided at facility. Soap and an acceptable hand-drying device not provided. Insufficient or no refrigerated or hot holding equipment to keep potentially hazardous foods at required temperatures.

T-Bar Steak & Lounge

1278 3 Avenue

1633

1633 2Nd Ave

Gina La Fornarina

1016 Lexington Ave

Taco Today

1659 1St Ave

Rongoli Exquiste Indian Cuisine

1393A 2Nd Ave

Nectar Of 82Nd Street

1090 Madison Avenue A

Mezzaluna

1295 Third Avenue

Eli’s Table

1411 3 Avenue

Mckeown’s

1303 3 Avenue

Cafe Sabarsky

1048 5 Avenue

Maz Mezcal

316 East 86 Street

Antonucci

168-170 East 81 Street

Starbucks

1488 3 Avenue

1550 1 Avenue

Guzan Japanese Cuisine & Bar

1534 3 Avenue

Gracie-Mews Restaurant Papaya King

179 East 86 Street

Grade Pending (21) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Dunkin’ Donuts

1248 Lexington Avenue

Five Mile Stone

1640 2Nd Ave

Pig Heaven

1420 3Rd Ave

Bayards Ale House

1589 1St Ave

Grunauer

1578 1St Ave

Members Dining Room @ The Met Museum

1000 5 Avenue

Mad River Bar & Grille

1442 3 Avenue

Not Yet Graded (21) Food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal product temperature is reduced from 140º F to 70º F or less within 2 hours, and from 70º F to 41º F or less within 4 additional hours. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

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Central Park

WHATâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S HAPPENING IN THE PARK SUMMERTIME IN CENTRAL PARK Central Park in summer offers hundreds of activities and attractions across its 843 acres, such as green meadows, sprawling waters, colorful gardens, unique bridges and walkways, performance centers, educational facilities and classical architecture. Tour these wonders with a licensed expert and learn something that you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know! Visit our tours page on www.centralpark.com.

HARLEM MEER PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL For an international and cultural experience right here in

Central Park, check out the Harlem Meer Performance Festival. Held at the Dana Discovery Center, the festival features a different type of musical and/or dance performance every Sunday during the summer. For the 2016 Harlem Meer Performance Festival schedule visit our activities page on www.centralpark.com.

COMING UP THIS WEEK

races, free bike valet parking and outdoor gear exhibits. When: June 18 Time: 11 a.m.- 4 p.m. Where: Bandshell area in Central Park. Enter the park at 72nd Street. For more info visit: www.centralpark.com/ events

VINYASA YOGA CLASSES Join The Yoga Trail in Central Park on the grass for this relaxing yoga class. This class is relaxing and meditative, but it is still a vinyasa ï¬&#x201A;ow and will involve a good amount of movement and some sweat. When: Weekdays through October Time: 5:45 p.m.-7:15 p.m. Visit www.centralpark.com/ events for more details and booking information.

ADVENTURES NYC Join NYC Parks to celebrate the great outdoors and enjoy a day of adventure â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for free! Activities will include: rock climbing, stand-up paddleboarding, kayaking, yoga, mountain biking, obstacle

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WHERE IN CENTRAL PARK? Do you know where in Central Park this photo was taken? To submit your answer, visit: centralpark.com/wherein-central-park. The answers and names of the people who guess right will appear in the paper and online in two weeks.

ANSWER TO THE PREVIOUS QUIZ: Victorian Gardens at Wollman Rink is one of a few amusement parks in the New York metropolitan area. This small but well-designed park opened in 2003, and it occupies the Wollman ice skating rink every summer in Central Park from Memorial Day thru September. The park

hosts 12 rides. The majority of the rides are designed for children between the ages of 2 and 12. Congratulations to Marisa Lohse, Gregory Hol-

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SKATE PARK PLAN TO GET SECOND LOOK Dozens of skateboarders have lobbied for a more inclusionary design than that proposed by the city’s Parks Department BY SILAS WHITE

A planned $1.8 million redesign of Riverside Skate Park back will be reconsidered, to the delight of dozens of skateboarders who are advocating for a more inclusionary design than the one proposed by the city’s Parks and Recreation Department. “The new design doesn’t ﬁt the skate community at all,” skater Ian Clarke told Community Board 7 before the board voted Tuesday night to send the plan back to its Parks and Environment Committee for further discussion. “We look at the design and say, ‘you just don’t get it.’” The skaters contend that the proposed design, with its largest bowl reaching to just 6 feet high, would have excluded so-called “vert” or “transitional” skaters, who prefer to skate up and down ramps and bowls. The park, at the level of West 108th Street, now has a three-tiered system, with ramps at 3 feet, 6 feet, and 9 to 10 feet high. The proposed design would have eliminated this scheme, which is currently the park’s largest draw, said Clarke, who spoke on be-

half of the roughly 25 skaters who attended the meeting. The planned design would dedicate two-thirds of the park to street-type skating, involving urban obstacles. That design, Clarke said, would exclude the vert skating community, which he said is already underrepresented within the city’s roughly 20 skate parks. The park, the city’s ﬁrst dedicated to skateboarders, is considered a landmark by many city skaters. It was built in 1995 in close consultation with skating legend and Upper West Side resident Andy Kessler, whom Clarke called the “godfather” of the New York City skating scene. Kessler died in 2009 at the age of 49 following an allergic reaction to a wasp sting. Clarke said the new design went against Kessler’s original vision of a three-tiered system, which allows skaters to work their way up as their skills progressed. The skaters last month released a statement on their Facebook page detailing problems with the proposed design. Their main concern is that the Parks Department’s design does not equally allocate beginner, intermediate and advanced spaces. The statement, issued on May 26, called the new design a “swing and monkey bars” playground design. While the skaters say the Parks Department “indeed has the best of in-

tentions” and that they look forward to a redesign, the proposed plan’s faults resulted from a lack of consultation with the skating community. The statement said that the $1.8 million allocated for a redesign of the park should result in a world-class facility. A parks spokeswoman, however, said the department held two scoping meetings and a design discussion on site. Altogether about 50 skaters attended the meetings and on-site discussion, she said. The park’s designer also received input from representatives of the skating community. The department will review the proposed design, she said, with the intention of designing a park that accommodates skater at all skill levels. “NYC Parks … is excited about providing a re-envisioned skate park to Riverside Park skateboarders that takes into consideration a wide range of usership and skating skills,” the spokeswoman said in an email statement. According to the architect behind the project, one of the goals behind the new design was to allow the park to be open around the clock. It is now only open at certain hours and an attendant is required to monitor the skate park during its operating hours to insure safety protocols are followed,

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The Riverside Skate Park, looking north. Photo: Ian Clarke particularly on the larger ramps. The new design would dedicate twothirds of the park to street skating and be open 24/7, with only the part of the park dedicated to vert skating fenced off and requiring an attendant, she said during the board meeting. Clarke called the Pier 62 Skatepark in Chelsea, run by the Hudson River Park Trust, “legit” and a model of how a skate park should be laid out. That park, he said, attracts skaters of all ages and backgrounds, while the proposed design for the Riverside facility would likely only attract teen and younger skaters when built. “The Riverside Skatepark location is the most important and signiﬁcant location currently being developed on the East Coast. We’d like the City of New York, W Architecture and Landscape Architecture and whichever vendor it chooses to design and build to frame the design with this in mind,”

the statement says in part. The skaters, from teens in T-shirts to adults in suits, celebrated outside following the board’s vote, at Fordham University. Michael Massagli, a local resident, was delighted at the board’s 35-3 vote in favor of returning the redesign to the board’s Parks and Environment Committee. Another skater credited the victory to the sheer amount of skaters who showed up, which he said made the board more aware of community dissatisfaction. “There’s deﬁnitely strength in numbers, if there were ﬁve of us, we would have been out of there,” another skater said. The Parks and Environment committee next meets on June 27. Clarke said the skaters would once again have a chance to voice their opinions and discuss their designs.

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William Dionne has watched the Carter Burden Center for the Aging ﬂourish in the 25 years he’s been its executive director. “It’s been ever growing. When I started there was just one location. We now have nine different locations,” he said of the philanthropic organization that provides services for New Yorkers 60 and older. When he began there in 1991, the center was assisting 1,500 seniors. It now helps 5,000 with 3,500 volunteers and a staff of 85. Dionne says his work at CBCA keeps him enthusiastic and quite busy, since the landscape for elderly residents is constantly changing. “The issues that we’re facing in aging today are very different than the ones we were looking at 25 years ago. And the gaps in service and need just keep growing,” he explained. As for initiatives that have launched since his tenure began, one has been the building of a facility on East 99th Street to house 1,700 people after the decommissioning of the Coler-Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island. Another worthwhile project they’ve instituted is an art gallery in Chelsea where reemerging senior artists can exhibit their work.

What is your business background? Did you have experience in nonprofits? Yes, I did. My degree is in health administration. I have worked in the aging field for over 35 years. I got involved on the board of directors for a community-based organization in Park Slope and being on the board for a few months, they asked me if I would consider being executive director. That was 30 years ago and I just fell in love with the idea of continuing my work in aging, which I had done in nursing homes before that and being able to embrace the community. After being there for five years, I was approached by the Carter Burden Center to apply for the position as the executive director. And here I am, 25 years later, still the executive director. If someone would have told me that, I would have said, “That is crazy.” But it has just been an amazing organization.

What does your job entail? What is a typical day like for you there? A typical day is that nothing is ever typical. And it’s interesting because in my life I tended to have jobs for four year and then I would want to move on. But it’s been a position that just keeps me excited because we’re always looking at new things to help better serve the community. Carter Burden was a city councilman and started the center 47 years ago because he had so many older folks coming to his office, that he recognized there was a need for aging services and he went to his

family foundation, so the Carter Burden Center was born from philanthropy and it just kept growing.

How do you ﬁnd the artists featured in the Carter Burden Gallery? We merged with an organization called Elder Craftsmen and their location is right across the street from FIT. And our assistant director said, “This could be an interesting gallery.” We had no idea what the needs would be, but we knew that we wanted it to focus on aging artists. Your question is a great one about how we get artists. It’s word of mouth. The community is, I guess, they’re great gossips or something, and each share with each other the fact that there’s this gallery. And the art world, the gallery world especially, is very ageist. They’re always looking for the new, emerging artist. Whereas our gallery is looking at what we refer to as reemerging artists, artists who have had a passion and career in art but because of their age, have a hard time figuring out where they can exhibit their work. We have now shown hundreds of artists with hundreds and hundreds of artists waiting to show.

What is one of CBCA’s projects you’re proud of? We have worked with probably ﬁve different senior centers, some of which were underperforming. And I remember opportunities where we would get to a center — the Department for Aging is an example — where we were expecting to serve 60 meals. And what

William Dionne, executive director of the Carter Burden Center for the Aging. Photo: Carter Burden Center for the Aging in fact was happening was they were only serving 30. As a result of Carter Burden Center getting involved, we have seen the centers triple and quadruple. So I’m very proud of that, but I think if I were to say one thing that is overarching in all of our programs is how welcoming each of them are. There is this idea that we are really in the hospitality business.

You also serve meals to the homebound. We serve about 1,200 meals a day in total. But with regards to the homebound population, we do a meals-onwheels, where we have people literally bring food to people’s homes. The importance of that program is that many of the folks we’re serving are people that we may well be the only contact that they have. Oftentimes there’s not family involved, so we’re the people that recognize what’s happening in people’s lives. Because of the consistency of delivery, we can see when there’s changes in their lives. It’s a great way for us to advocate, but also be the mouthpiece for their needs.

Tell us about why the 99th Street facility was created.

Seniors participate in a fashion show at the Carter Burden Center for the Aging/Leonard Covello Senior Program. Photo: Carter Burden Center for the Aging

There was the decommissioning of the Coler-Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island. And when that happened, there were 1,700 people who needed to be placed in other facilities. The building on 99th Street was built for that purpose of housing some of those folks who were deemed to be able to live in independent housing. However, some of the folks had been living in the hospital for 22 years. So imagine going from a situation where you were living in institutional care for 22 years

and then being put in a facility where you’re living independently. Of course, that needed to be stopped. Carter Burden’s role in the center is really looking at quality of life issues and programs.

Your Associates Council program, a group of young professionals, visits seniors and deliver meals. Yes, every month they do a meal delivery. The wonderful thing about that is that the program has been going on for so long that one of the ﬁrst associates stayed with the program to the point that she joined the board and is now the treasurer. She has grown with us from right out of college. For a lot of folks who may be here, not living near their grandparents, many of those associates have said that’s why they joined the committee because they miss the aging contact. It’s also wonderful in breaking the divide of generations and the misconceptions of generations. It really has proven to be a wonderful program and my favorite part is that every year they will throw a senior ball and pay for everything for the seniors. They get music and all of them come and dance. It’s just a wonderful event. For more information, visit www. carterburdencenter.org

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