Our Town - July 26, 2018

The local paper for the Upper East Side

WEEK OF JULY-AUGUST

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• 2018 SPECIAL REPORT • SEE PAGE 9 •

AVERAGE WEEKDAY SUBWAY RIDERSHIP on the Second Avenue & Lexington Avenue lines 6: 96th St

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2016: 26,939 2017: 18,983 ź29.5%

4/5/6: 86th St Q: 96th St

2016: 64,793 2017: 45,882 ź29.2%

How an East Side retailer and political upstart (with two names) is braving long odds in a bid to oust a congressional fixture

2017: 17,150

6: 77th St

BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN

During its first year in operation, the Second Avenue subway succeeded in achieving one of its chief objectives — easing the burden

As he will be the very first to tell you, the 76-year-old former U.S. Army captain and owner for four decades of tony clothing stores across the Upper East Side is a most unconventional and unlikely political hopeful.

“I am not a normal candidate,” said Eliot Rabin in a candid two-hour interview as he sat under racks of boy’s jackets in the crowded stock room of Peter Elliot Blue, his shop on Lexington Avenue and 72nd Street.

Right on cue, he tossed off a trademark politically incorrect bon mot to describe the inventory of his shops.

“Ain’t nothing made in China,” he said. After a short pause for effect, “My merchandise is finah.”

Rabin is mounting a Republican challenge, steeply uphill, to longtime Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney in the 12th Congressional District. “I’m old,” he said matter-offactly. “But I’m fresh.”

The South Carolina native may be a political neophyte. He has scant campaign funds. Modest name recognition. He only joined the GOP a few months ago. He’s vying to represent an area where 70,000 Republicans are out-registered and outvoted by 288,000 Democrats.

But he’s developed a possible campaign slogan: “Maloney is baloney.”

And he plans to deploy “my verbiage, my energy and my personality” to topple the North Carolina-born rival four years his junior.

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Q: 86th St

2016: 36,103 2017: 27,584 ź23.6%

2017: 23,722

6: 68th St

Q: 72nd St

2016: 35,068 2017: 24,456 ź30.3%

2017: 28,145

4/5/6/N/R: Lexington Ave - 59th St

Q/F: Lexington Ave - 63rd St

2016: 67,684 2017: 58,467

2017: 20,893

ź13.6% Data Source: MTA, Graphic by Caitlin Ryther

SECOND AVENUE SUBWAY DELIVERS IN YEAR ONE TRANSIT

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Ridership at adjacent Lexington Avenue stops down significantly since the new line opened

BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

The first phase of the Second Avenue subway took nearly a century to build. But once the new line finally opened on New Year’s Day 2017, it had an immediate impact on New York City’s transportation system.

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Eliot Rabin, a former U.S. Army captain, current clothier and Republican, is challenging longtime Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney for the 12th Congressional District seat.

Photo: Douglas Feiden

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33 WAYS TO LOVE NEW YORK ENCOUNTERS Public library program offers free passes to museums, cultural institutions

BY MARY GREGORY

The treasures of New York just got a lot more accessible.

As of July 16, anyone with a New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library or Queens Library card is entitled to one annual free admission at 33 major museums, cultural institutions and attractions. “Culture Pass� plays off museum memberships that have been popping up in small regional libraries, but does it like only New York can.

Ancient artifacts from Egypt, cutting edge works by contemporary artists, cherry blossom festivals at botanical gardens and even the deck of an aircraft carrier are among the attrac-

tions and experiences opened up by the program. It’s a move to get more people in the doors, broaden audiences and interact with underserved segments of the local community. For families, especially, it can save hundreds of dollars or more every year.

If there’s a museum you’ve always wanted to visit, there’s never been a better time. Take the challenge, and see as many as you can. Check out an exhibition about color at the Cooper Hewitt; Tibetan and Himalayan art and ritual objects at Staten Island’s Jacques Marchais Museum; or trumpets, photographs and records at the Louis Armstrong House in Queens. Institutions in all five boroughs are partnering with the libraries.

Go to the Culture Pass website (www.culturepass.nyc/) and select your library system. Enter your card number and PIN. Choose from available dates and institutions and make a

reservation (book early for the most popular venues). Log back in to retrieve and print a pass shortly before your trip, and bring ID. They’ll check that your name matches the name on the pass.

Even good things can better.

And this does. Library cards are not only available to residents of New York City. People who work in New York and all residents of New York state can sign up for a card.

Among the popular destinations and hidden gems participating are the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, The Drawing Center, The Frick Collection, the International Center of Photography, The Met, The Morgan Library, MoMA and MoMA PS1, the Noguchi Museum, the Rubin Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, the Whitney Museum and Wave Hill. Plan carefully, book early, visit often and be enriched.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue is among 33 cultural institutions you can visit for free through a new initiative of the city’s public library systems. Photo: Adel Gorgy.

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 19th district for the week ending July 15 Week to Date

Photo by Tony Webster, via Flickr

$4,000 TAKEN FROM BOY An aggressive solicitation incident escalated to grand larceny. At 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday, July 17, a 13-year-old boy was approached by a 30-year-old man in front of 1000 Fifth Ave. The man asked the boy, “Will you buy candy for my school’s sports team?” The boy declined and began to walk away. The man then said, “I will follow you. Buy some candy; don’t make me mad.” The boy, who told police he felt scared, took out his wallet to give the man some money. While his wallet was open the man reached in and took about $200.

Two other men, also about 30, then approached the boy, also imploring him to buy candy. One of the men took cash despite the fact that the boy said, “No, no, no!” In all the three solicitors got away with $4,000 in cash.

SANITATION WORKER ASSAULTED

INTOXICATED DRIVER ARRESTED

At 9:45 p.m. on Saturday, July 14, a 38-year-old male motorist followed a garbage truck driven by a 41-year-old man to the southeast corner of Second Avenue and East 86th Street. The motorist claimed that the garbage man had caused damage to his vehicle when the sanitation worker was throwing garbage into the back of the truck.

The motorist, later identified as Jason Gonzalez, then punched the garbage man, according to the police account.

Gonzalez was later arrested and charged with assault.

At 2:23 a.m. on Thursday, July 12, police officers responding to a radio call found a 29-year-old man in a black 2012 Jeep Cherokee at the southeast corner of Madison Avenue and East 84th Street. The motorist was behind the wheel of his car with the engine on and the keys in the ignition. An FDNY team arrived on the scene and broke the car’s window to remove the driver from the car. Then police officers found a syringe needle at the bottom of the driver’s seat. The arresting officer determined that the motorist has been driving while intoxicated, although the motorist refused to take a test. Daniel C. Casaletto was arrested and charged with DWI.

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HOAGIE SHOP HEIST

MOTORCYCLE STOLEN

Sometime between the hours of 11 p.m. on Monday, July 16, and 8:45 a.m. on Tuesday, July 17, an unknown person entered the restaurant Hoagies Heros at 1650 Third Ave. through the front door, causing damage to the lock. The perpetrator then removed property and left the premises. The manager told police he suspected an ex-employee who had been terminated the previous Saturday. The items stolen included 15 sodas worth $15 and $506.

At 5 p.m. on Sunday, July 15, a 26-year-old man parked his motorcycle in front of 420 E. 71st Street. When he came back the following day at 10 p.m., his 2017 Yamaha R3 was missing. A search of the neighborhood turned up nothing. The bike is valued at $7,000.

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TAKING ISSUE EAST SIDE OBSERVER

BY ARLENE KAYATT

Dustoff redux — The July 10, 2018, East Side Observer column, “Dustoffs, political and otherwise,” took exception to Community Board 8’s allowing a political candidate in a Congressional primary race to speak at a public meeting. Below are two unedited responses from readers — one a CB8 member, the other a former New Yorker and Our Town writer. My replies follow.

Arlene, As we discussed, your column (...) suggested CB8’s chair erred in allowing a political candidate to speak at the public session.

In fact, our rules permit anyone to speak about any issue other than politics as community boards are non-partisan city agencies. Many candidates suddenly develop an interest in addressing some issue before an election. Their intent is obvious. If a Cardinal Rule was violated, it was done so by an audience member who, without being recognized by the chair, challenged the candidate. Such back-and-forth is not permitted in the public session or it would go on all night. Before the Chair could restore regular order, other members quickly called for its end as inappropriate.

Hope this helps clarify the event.

Our chair is a skilled attorney and mediator/arbitrator, well trained in managing — and resolving — conflict.

Dave Rosenstein, Member CB8M, Co-Chair, Communications Committee East Side Observer — You remind me how politics are

the same everywhere — from community to national to global, proceedings involve struggles with bylaws, pushy personalities usurping undue privilege, projects lingering so much overtime that they turn in to campaign issues. Our so-called resident’s forum will make you feel right at home and yield familiar copy to your ever watchful eye that catches “people in the act of being human” ... ain’t it all fun?

Judy Joy Ross, former NYer, now Oregonian Replies: Rosenstein acknowledges that political candidates try to schedule themselves for community board meetings. And that CB rules permit anyone to speak about any issue other than politics — which is exactly what we’re arguing about.

Politicians are relentless. They want to be heard wherever there are voters in the district where they are running. All members of the public who want to speak at

the meeting must sign in and the lists vetted to avoid allowing political advocacy at the public CB meetings. Historically, there has been enforcement in not permitting it. Otherwise, political debate can and will get out of hand. Preemptive measure — not allowing it — is more orderly and preferred so there doesn’t have to be reliance on a chairperson’s expertise in arbitration, mediation, the law or otherwise. Many a political candidate has had to sit through a community board meeting staring down a chairperson who would not call on them to speak. As a part of local government, community boards do not permit political discourse at public meetings. Audience intervention should not only be unnecessary. It should be avoided. The cardinal rule of keeping political candidates off the stage at public meetings of the community board is time honored and should be vigorously avoided.

And while Judy Ross’s points are

well-taken, she is not referring to public meetings of a governmental nature.

The look of Lex (Ave) — 86th Street has always been the hub of commercial activity. In the 1970s and ‘80s the East Mid-Manhattan Chamber of Commerce was active in fighting for the planning and zoning that has resulted in making the 86th Street corridor/neighborhood a hub of commercial and residential use and activity. It’s still a work in progress with the ups and downs and travails that come with it. And let’s not forget the inconvenience of accessing the subway. Much has been lost as far as the ethnic businesses, restaurants, housing, overall community. But I’d like to remember the Chamber pioneers of those years, including Hal Lashin, a president of Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, and the Friedland family, for their vision in making 86th Street viable in the 21st century.

A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL?

BY NANCY FELICE LANG

A few incontrovertible facts about our subway system: it’s the transit lifeblood of this city; it’s old and decrepit; and just about every one of its close to six million daily riders loudly and regularly deplores its service as undependable, inadequate and infuriating.

Misguided subway management, poor financing, diversion of funds to other projects, and the cost of repairs necessitated by natural disasters and terrorist attacks have depleted the MTA’s coffers. Maintenance of the subway’s infrastructure has been neglected, and we have inherited the results.

So what can citizens do about the state of the subway? Four Freedoms Democratic Club of the Upper East Side and Yorkville is tackling the problem with education. On July 10, the club hosted a transit forum featuring Council Member Helen Rosenthal, transit economist and activist Charles Komanoff, and real estate analyst and journalist Stephen J. Smith. The panelists touched on all of these issues and more.

Among the subway’s principal ailments is its seriously impaired signal system. Panelists discussed that the system dates back to the Truman administration and has been only intermittently repaired. Because of this, a train’s operator can determine only in what section of the track the train in front is located, but not that train’s precise location — meaning an operator must always keep a train at a “safe distance,” resulting in slow, stop-andstart trips and the subway’s worst ontime performance record in decades.

The MTA started upgrading signals 20 years ago. It has installed ultrawideband radio devices along test tracks on the F and G lines but cannot even confirm a timeline for this technology’s testing. It has also installed more sophisticated signal equipment — Communications-Based Train Control — but on only one line, the L. Why the delays? Money and politics are the usual culprits behind slow progress. Essentially the same issues that caused subway problems 50 years ago are behind today’s problems: hugely inflated construction costs

with no-bid or restricted-bidding contracts, lack of funding, misguided prioritization and political infighting.

A high point of the Democratic Club’s panel discussion was the spirited exchange between Komanoff and Rosenthal about the chicken-and-egg nature of subway construction and repair costs. Komanoff champions funding subway repairs with congestion pricing and performing repairs as soon as possible. Rosenthal’s position is that before any money is spent, we must reform the MTA’s bidding practices and outrageous construction costs. While no consensus emerged, the discussion provided the audience with plenty of information, stimulation and food for thought.

Of course, education is only the first step in addressing these issues as citizens. The next is finding ways to effect change — to drag our subway operatives into the 21st century. The city’s riders have suffered too long and been disappointed too many times. In January, Governor Andrew Cuomo handpicked transit wunderkind Andy Byford to rescue the city’s subways and

Cutting a section of rail north of 18th Street on the 1/2/3 lines in November 2017.

Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit buses and appointed him president of New York City Transit. On May 22, Byford presented his “FAST FORWARD” plan. It lays out two successive fiveyear programs that will install modern switching systems on most of the subway’s lines, upgrade 150 stations, equip 50 stations with elevators and buy 650 new subway cars. They also include overhauls on how the transit system buys equipment, hires contractors, negotiates with unions and manages big projects. Most transit insiders welcomed the plan, but Cuomo’s response was tepid, and de Blasio took months to even meet with Byford.

Byford’s plan is costly but thoughtful — and is essential to the well-being of this city. We mustn’t allow it to die on the vine.

The Democratic Club will push the MTA, the city and the state to do the right thing and finally treat their transit customers with the respect they deserve. I urge you to join us and help us make a big noise about the MTA and other pressing issues for our city and our nation.

Nancy Felice Lang is chairwoman of the Four Freedoms Democratic Club’s public transit subcommittee. www.fourfreedomsnyc.org

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• 2018 SPECIAL REPORT •

SENIOR LIVING QUALITY OF LIFE • MASTERS SPORTS • A RESOURCE GUIDE • HOMES AWAY FROM HOME • FRESH FOOD FOR SENIORS

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SAFE STREETS (BY NUMBER OF FATAL CRASHES) as measured by the average annual number of fatal crashes per 100,000 people

TOTAL NUMBER OF BUSES AND TRAINS per hour in both directions

Median U.S. Neighborhood

for all stops within a quarter-mile of the average block

UPPER EAST SIDE:

CHELSEA:

620

289

UPPER WEST SIDE:

GREENWICH VILLAGE:

766

466

HELL’S KITCHEN:

LOWER MANHATTAN:

Greenwich Village

160

429

Lower Manhattan

Upper East Side Upper West Side

CHELSEA:

2

1.3

UPPER WEST SIDE:

GREENWICH VILLAGE:

2

5

HELL’S KITCHEN:

LOWER MANHATTAN:

1.2

3

2.7 2.7 4.9

Hell’s Kitchen Chelsea

2.8 2.7 2.7

NUMBER OF WALKING TRIPS per household per day, a measure of the ease of navigating local

NUMBER OF PARKS within a half-mile of the average block UPPER EAST SIDE:

6.8

streets and the volume of nearby destinations.

0.73

Median U.S. Neighborhood

Upper East Side Upper West Side Hell’s Kitchen Chelsea

2.43 2.25 2.14 1.80 5.99

Greenwich Village Lower Manhattan

2.97

Data Source: AARP’s Public Policy Institute and Livability Index; Data compiled by Douglas Feiden; Graphics created by Caitlin Ryther & Christina Scotti

QUALITY OF LIFE

By the numbers, a look at an island that offers so much to its senior residents.

And why it’s hard to find any other place that comes close

No one ever said growing old was going to be easy.

But for the 222,802 Manhattanites over the age of 65 — and 311,259 aged 60 and up — there are delights, discounts, services, infrastructure and vibrant options like no other place in America.

The numbers speak volumes: In Greenwich Village, 95.4 percent of residents enjoy high-speed broadband Internet access — dwarfing the 14.6 percent rate nationwide.

BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN

On the Upper East Side, 98.4 percent of residents have walkable access to parks, recreational facilities or other exercise opportunities. On the Upper West Side, 766 trains or buses stop every hour within a quarter-mile of the average block.

And in Lower Manhattan, there are 77 grocery stores and farmers markets situated within a half-mile walk.

“Walk out your front door, and the world is basically at your feet,” said 88-year-old

Melanie Rosen, a retired Wall Street bookkeeper who lives on the Upper West Side and regularly visits her son in Battery Park City and two grandchildren in Tribeca.

How does she get there? Well, Rosen said, she “jumps on the 1, 2 or 3 train.” Sometimes, she “jumps” on the A or the C. She quickly amended those remarks. “Actually, I may limp, not jump, these days!” she said.

“But it gets me where I’m going, and fast enough.”

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NEIGHBORHOOD AGE-GROUP DIVERSITY

NEIGHBORHOOD LIVABILITY

index on a scale of 0 to 1, with 1 indicating the most multi-generational communities and 0 indicating the least

on a scale from 0 to 100, based on acess to jobs, transit, food, recreation, health care, social interaction and walkable streets.

The median U.S. neighborhood is ranked at 0.86

The overall NYC neighborhood livability average is 81.

NUMBER OF RESIDENTS 60+ YEARS, with percentage of those seniors living within a neighborhood

AVERAGE LIFE EXPECTANCY AT BIRTH 85.9 YEARS 24.72%

Upper East Side

53,648

Upper West Side

46,560

Hell’s Kitchen & Chelsea

25,200

17.40%

Greenwich Village, SoHo, Tribeca, Wall Street & Battery Park

25,767

17.74%

Even when it comes to the negatives, Manhattan’s seniors enjoy a quality of life that’s tough to beat, AARP researchers found.

Obesity on the Upper East and Upper West Sides is pegged at 17 percent. Citywide, it’s 26.6 percent, and the U.S. median is 28.9 percent.

Every year, there are four unhealthy airquality days in Manhattan — but there are 5.7 such days across America.

89 LOWER MANHATTAN

Greenwich Village

GREENWICH VILLAGE

Chelsea

Lower Manhattan

CHELSEA

0.74 0.70

HELL’S KITCHEN

Hell’s Kitchen

89

95

94

90 UPPER WEST SIDE

Upper East Side

0.81

UPPER EAST SIDE

0.84 0.88 0.85 Upper West Side

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24.45%

Of course, not all the numbers are good.

More 60-and-up Manhattanites live alone, 40.8 percent, than the overall city average, 28.9 percent.

And there are fewer “zero-step entries” to homes and apartments in the borough, 28.9 percent, than there are across the U.S., where 43.6 percent of units are groundfloor accessible, which fosters aging in place.

Still, it’s hard to argue with the blessing

Upper East Side

84.7 YEARS

Upper West Side

83.1 YEARS

Hell’s Kitchen & Chelsea

85.8 YEARS

Greenwich Village, SoHo, Tribeca, Wall Street & Battery Park

Citywide average: 82 years Statewide average: 80.4 years National average: 78.8 years

of personal safety: The crime rate for every 10,000 island residents is 222. Nationally, there are 261 crimes per 10,000 people.

The data points were developed by AARP researchers who analyzed scores of factors — walkable streets, healthy food, social interaction, civic engagement, exercise opportunities, health services, pollution, access to transit — to determine the livability of neighborhoods coast to coast for people 50 years and older.

Bottom line: Manhattan is user-friendly to the aging, the old and the very old. It offers seniors an all-but unrivaled quality of life. It outpoints the other four boroughs, most of the state and most of the nation in terms of safety, diversity, access, recreation, social services, green spaces and infrastructure.

“And it is all within running, jumping or limping distance,” Rosen said. invreporter@strausnews.com

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‘PAST MASTERS’ TAKE THE FIELD A boomer lacrosse player on keeping competitive and fit in one’s senior years

BY STEPHAN RUSSO

This is the time of year when the butterflies in my stomach start to flutter and the anxiety of whether I am “up” for playing another year of Past Masters lacrosse begins to consume me. For me, these are not the lazy days of summer. I only have one week left to prepare for the annual Lake Placid lacrosse tournament that takes place the first week in August. The tournament is now in its 28th year and this year’s event in upstate New York is rapidly approaching.

I have a lot of work to do to sharpen my stick skills and see if my legs still carry me forward. The feet don’t move as quickly these days and my two surgical hips have clearly slowed me down. I also wonder whether I still have the mental toughness to aggressively seek out a ground ball, ride herd on one of the defensemen or come barreling around the 6 feet X 6 feet lacrosse cage and score that goal knowing I will be crashed to the ground.

My wife has gotten used to this lacrosse-related angst, and is wont to remind me, “Once you get there you’ll be fine and get right back into the action. Just don’t come back with any broken limbs!”

You might ask what this all about since playing a sport like lacrosse, with its body contact, hard stick checks and scramble for ground balls, is not what most folks in their right mind do at the age of 67. True, one of the unique things about our generation is its focus — some would say obsession — on exercise and physical fitness. Myriad articles have been written about the importance of physical exercise as we age. The general guideline for older adults aged 65 and over is to undertake 150 minutes (two and a half hours) of moderate aerobic activity a week. Of course, for the average sane person, this involves cycling, walking, swimming, yoga, Pilates, mild weightlifting or

Stephan Russo (center) with his former college teammates and fellow Past Masters lacrosse players, Dave White and Dom Starsia. Photo courtesy of Stephan Russo

Stephan Russo (in red jersey) in Past Masters action at Lake Placid.

Photo courtesy of Stephan Russo

splurging on your own personal trainer — but lacrosse at this age?

Organized sports for older adults, however, are no laughing matter. The National Senior Games, an Olympic style event for athletes over fifty, are held every two years. In 2017, 10,500 older athletes representing all 50 states competed in 20 sports from badminton and bowling to golf, horseshoes, pickleball and volleyball. You can also find adult leagues and races in the city in basketball, hockey, soccer, rugby, swimming and track and field but you would be hard pressed to find enough competitive outlets dedicated to the over-fifty crowd.

THAT FIRST YEAR I MANAGED TO SCORE A GOAL AND ASSIST ON SEVERAL OTHERS. I WAS HOOKED. ” Stephan Russo For many years, I hadn’t thought about lacrosse nor picked up a stick until I discovered that there was a nascent adult league run by an old friend and fellow “laxer.”

He invited me join his masters team (which was then 45 years of age and up even though I was in my early 50s at the time) in Lake Placid. I was worried I would not be good enough to play again nor be accepted by my teammates despite my stellar lacrosse reputation during college. I didn’t want to embarrass myself. However, that first year I managed to score a goal and assist on several others. I was hooked.

Every summer since then, I have been making the trek to Lake Placid. As we continued to age and desired to keep playing, the tournament organizers kept increasing the five-year age range. There is now a 60+ division that supersedes any masters-level group. There is even an added exhibition game for those 65 and over. Talk about watching lacrosse in slow motion!

The tournament organizers didn’t know what to call our old-man bracket but decided on naming the division “Past Masters.” There are nine teams in the division which translates into over 200 “geezers” playing in this

age range. One team has a 77 year-old goalie. The strongest teams have the most players who just meet the age bracket threshold. When you are 67, it’s a challenge to play against those just turning 60 this year.

My team is called the Ultra Legends. With names like the Gray Eagles, Grateful Undead, Cloudsplitters and USA Stars, the Past Masters group is quite a collection of characters. While some guys enjoy golf outings, Past Masters lacrosse is my idea of male bonding. Last year, we tied for the championship with the perennial champs, Cloudsplitters. (Luckily for us the championship game was rained out.)

The camaraderie (win or lose) and after-game tailgating where the beer, chips and embellished stories of old lacrosse feats flow (I’m good for only one Coors Light) make it all worth it.

Lacrosse hasn’t been my only athletic passion. I was a competitive athlete in my younger years and have remained physically active my entire life. I now swim a mile twice a week; do 40 minutes of an elliptical workout combined with an hour of weight training at least another two days a week.

In my late fifties, I decided I wanted to try my hand at open water swims in the Hudson River and joined a masters swim club to obtain a qualifying time as well as to train. I was enticed by the irrational lure of jumping into the Hudson — flotsam notwithstanding. The club has a range of swimmers from those who were top-flight collegiate competitors in their heyday to run-of-the-mill recreational swimmers like me. There are not many swimmers over the age of sixty-five. Over the years, I have swum under the Brooklyn Bridge, around Governor’s Island and survived a 10K swim from Pier 59 to the Dyckman Street Marina past the Little Red Lighthouse by the GW Bridge.

But nothing gets the competitive juices flowing like donning my helmet, putting on the arm pads and gloves, and yelling “Go Legends” before the opening face-off. I can’t wait to get back on the field with the likes of JohnyMo, TC, Wilbur, Whitey, Dom, Ricer, Matty, and the rest of the crew. I know the limbs will be sore by the end of the weekend — but nothing a good ice pack can’t alleviate. Let’s just hope I come back in one piece. There will soon be another tournament to prepare for and I am not throwing in the towel yet.

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COMING SOON Where to live next: 13 senior living residences in Manhattan and outside the city

BY GENIA GOULD

Isabella House & Isabella Nursing 515 Audubon Ave., near West 191st Street 212-342-9200 isabella.org Facilities: 78 independent-living apartments, from studios to one-bedrooms; 705 nursing beds Fees: $2,400 to $2,800 per month Waiting list: Varies depending on availability — typically not more than 3 months Type: Independent Living — with additional support as needed Isabella House, a residence for independent seniors over the age of 62, was built in the 1960s on the campus of Isabella Geriatric Center. The Center began in 1875 — originally in Astoria, Queens — and relocated to Washington Heights in 1889. The original building was replaced with two large tan brick buildings in the 1960s and ‘70s, and occupies the top six floors of the 525 Audubon Avenue building.

Residents of Isabella House can reside in studio or one-bedroom apartments that offer stunning views of the New York skyline.

They enjoy lunch and dinner each day and a full array of activities. Cable television and utilities are also included. An enclosed outdoor garden offers an opportunity to enjoy the good weather in a secure setting.

In addition to Isabella House, Isabella Geriatric Center offers short-stay rehabilitation in a new state-of-the-art Rehabilitation Suite; an Adult Day Health Care Program; Home Care; and free membership in the education and wellness program — the Institute for Older Adults. The Center has a nursing home with specialties in dementia care and ventilator-dependent care.

Isabella House offers “really good value,” says Betty Lehmann, Director of Marketing and Community Relations. Residents of all income levels choose Isabella House for the value, says Lehman, preferring to spend their savings on cabs to Lincoln Center, excursions and occasional dinners out on the town.

Brookdale Battery Park 455 North End Ave., near Chambers St. 212-791-2500 brookdale.com Facilities: 217 apartments, from studios to two-bedrooms Fees: $6,780 to $10,600 per month Waiting List: High occupancy; first come, first served Type: Independent Living “Brookdale is like a cruise ship that isn’t moving with lots of services in place,” says Gail Hochfeld, a Brookdale sales counselor.

It has an impressive lobby featuring a huge arrangement of fresh flowers and beautiful common rooms. Large oil paintings hang on the walls (many of them painted by a current resident).

Built in 2000 with seniors very much in mind, hallways are wide with built-in ledges for extra support, and apartments feature low counter tops.

Brookdale Senior Living is the largest owner and operator of senior living communities throughout the U.S., running 1,100 of them.

Residents are given a pendant which works like a GPS so if they feel the need for assistance they will be easily identified

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and located. There are motion detectors in residents’ room so if they sleep in later than usual, staff will check on them.

On the premises, there is a fitness and wellness center and a walk-in clinic with a doctor and a nurse and physical therapist.

There are also two home aide agencies on the premises 24-7 that offer cluster care — “snippets of care,” says Hochfeld, “rather than the four-hour minimum most homecare agencies charge.”

Brookdale is located at Battery Park, giving residents the opportunity to walk and enjoy the river. There’s also a small garden sanctuary within the complex.

Among the hundreds of activities organized every month, from lectures to musical events, “food-shopping trips are a big deal here,” says Hochfeld. “Many residents like to go to a Shop Rite in Jersey City ...

They’re a savvy group, they know that the Shop Rite has bigger aisles, is less congested than the Whole Foods, or the supermarkets in the city, it’s a little cheaper, and they recognize the brands.”

Brookdale is one of the few senior living communities with a heated swimming pool (with a chair-lift and lifeguard).

Inspīr Carnegie Hill 1802 Second Ave. 203-567-4397 inspirmanhattan.com Facilities: 215 apartments, studios to two bedrooms Fees: Starting at 15,000 per month Leasing Gallery Opens in the Fall Type: Independent Living, Assisted Living, Enhanced Care, Memory Care This will be the first new senior housing to be built in Manhattan in over 20 years.

The senior housing provider Maplewood has launched a “luxury senior housing brand in an urban environment” called Inspīr, New York City being the first one.

The 23-floor, new construction located in the Carnegie Hill section of the Upper East Side, opens its doors in late 2019/ early 2020.

A LEED-certified building, it is described by Andrea Ellen, vice president of marketing and communications for Maplewood Senior Living, as modern and simple, a “direct and essential architecture.” Many of the same materials on the outside of the building will be used within, enhancing a balance between street life and private life, indoor and outdoor.

The centerpiece and heart of the structure is a vast, two-level high atrium and terrace with interior and exterior seating, situated on their 16th floor, providing a connection to nature and light. “Residents who may not have ease of mobility, have both the opportunity to be indoors in a space with extensive natural light, and lush gardens, as well as access to the outdoors and nature, and sit amongst the greenery and enjoy the sunlight,” says Ellen.

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is purposefully built for Manhattan’s aging population and offers a continuum of lifestyle, allowing individuals who opt to or are no longer able to live in their own city apartments, to remain close to their health network and physicians, and family and social circles. The housing is also near cultural institutions, museums, universities and theaters.

Multiple levels of services are offered, a complement of independent living, assisted living, memory care, with concierge floors. 24-7 licensed nurses are on staff throughout the building available to all the residents.

Independent living residents are able to enjoy an active lifestyle with everything taken care of, including dining and transportation. Among the amenities are a beauty salon, a swimming pool and spa and fitness center.

To meet the expectations of a clientele with sophisticated palates, “the food options are healthy farm-to-table fresh menus, and haute cuisine experiences.

Kitchens are also open-display, where residents have the opportunity to watch the chefs as they cook,” says Ellen.

In September, an Inspīr leasing gallery will be open to prospective residents and families to meet with Inspir reps, learn about their philosophies and levels of care in the building and to see models of the different rooms.

Rendering of Inspir Carnegie Hill’s new building opening in late 2019, courtesy of Handel Architects of New York and DBox.

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Amsterdam Nursing Home 1060 Amsterdam Ave. 212-316-7700 amsterdamcares.org Facilities: 409 beds Waiting list: None Type: Skilled Nursing Home & Rehab

The New Jewish Home marching at Pride 2018. Photo: Tadej Znidarcic on behalf of The New Jewish Home.

The New Jewish Home 120 West 106th St. 212-870-4715 jewishhome.org Facilities: 514 beds; they also run a Westchester campus (in Mamaroneck) and senior-housing residences in The Bronx, including independent living and assisted living. Most recently, they opened an Adult Day Heath Care Program (off Hutchinson Parkway) Fees: A mix of private-pay, Medicare/Medicaid Type: Skilled Nursing Home & Rehab The New Jewish Home continues to be in construction of a new 20-story facility, the first high-rise Green House Project® in a densely populated urban setting, at 97th Street and Columbus Avenue. Completion is projected for early 2022. The green house employs a person-directed care model, which places the older adult at the center of decisionmaking.

Each green house accommodates 12 long-term care residents, with their own room with private or shared bathroom. Rooms will open onto a central living area, with an open kitchen where staff can accommodate residents’ food choices and activities.

Although a nurse is available 24 hours a day and the clinical-care team is nearby, the sense is that one is receiving care in a family-type setting. Staff are consistent to one group, and develop warm relationships with residents.

A not-for-profit, The New Jewish Home has been running small houses at their

Westchester campus successfully for several years on a smaller scale. Small communities embody the innovative Green House approach to older adult care.

To keep pace with the development of the new building at their current location on 106th Street, the Home has been adapting the green house principles, making changes where they can within the footprint (a traditional hospital floor plan). They are preparing to be ready when staff and residents are transferred to the new location.

The present building has impressive features, including a spacious outdoor garden and a library, and an auditorium where many social events for the residents take place, including writing workshops, pet therapy and art classes.

Residents also regularly attend concerts, have movie nights and go to the theater.

Recently LGBT residents were taken to the NYC Pride March. Seniors in their wheelchairs and dozens of staff and friends participated with two colorfully decorated vans.

Wendy Strauss, 75, a resident, says, “This parade is for all Americans to see.

We’re all the same: we go to work, we go to war, we pay the ultimate sacrifice.

If the NJH is sponsoring this for their residents, then maybe other homes like this one will get the idea to do the same thing. That’s our one little seed.”

One of the oldest nursing homes in the city, founded 145 years ago as a home for “old men and aged couples,” Amsterdam was once located on Hudson Street and moved to the Upper West Side in 1872, even before St. John the Divine Cathedral was built. Amsterdam is a not-for-profit skilled nursing facility dedicated to providing excellence in clinical care and quality of life.

Sitting just across the street from the iconic Cathedral, the home is protected for privacy with shrubbery and plants and trees and offers a continuum of life in the Morningside neighborhood. On nice days, residents sit outdoors with an attendant or family to enjoy the fresh air.

There are lovely common rooms, one with a piano, and plush armchairs for concerts and other events. One room features a captivating live bird display and fish tank. A

connecting landmark building (which at one time was built as a water pump station) is where their adult day care program is held.

While Amsterdam serves the local community and NYC, hospitals often recommend patients for rehabilitation, including those coming from throughout the U.S. and abroad for surgical procedures. “We have good outcomes,” says Judith Fenster, Senior Vice President and Administrator.

Amsterdam has consistently received fivestar ratings from Medicare/Medicaid.

One special feature, Fenster says, is a GeriGym, a complement to prescribed physical therapy. “You want people to retain their level of function; if they’re walking — even with assistance, you want them to continue and maintain their functional abilities and their independence.”

Last fall, Amsterdam entered into a partnership with VNSNY, (Visiting Nurse Service of New York), to provide an additional service — acute inpatient hospice care for those needing end of life symptom-management and care.

The 80th Street Residence 430 East 80th St. 212-717-8888 80thstreetresidence.com Facilities: 70 rooms Fees: $16,000 to $19,000 per month Waiting list: Call for current information Type: Enhanced Assisted Living The 80th Street Residence is the only assisted living residence in NYC entirely devoted to enhanced memory care. The 80th Street Residence has 70 residents, all of whom suffer from cognitive impairment.

With their Special Needs Assisted Living Residence license, 80th Street offers a secure environment with specially trained staff to work with their residents. With their Enhanced Assisted Living Residence license, they provide a home where people can age in place so should their needs become greater, they can remain at 80th Street while receiving more support. “Our community has created a wonderful home for our residents. Whether a person is in earlier stages or later stages, we have excelled at providing the appropriate support for all and are able to continue to care for them as their needs become greater. You don’t see anything like that in other communities,” says Assistant Executive Director Lindsey Harbison.

The interior design is like a bed and breakfast with Upper East Side appeal. Based

on the “green house” model, the resident floors are designed to accommodate only eight to ten individuals. Each floor groups residents together based on their abilities and their needs, as well as other factors, including their personalities and interests.

“Not only are we interested in providing support and care but also creating an environment that allows residents to engage and connect with each other,” says Harbison. “Staff is also essential with helping the residents initiate interactions and making connections. Perhaps the staff mentions to Mr. Smith that he and Mr. Jones both went to Columbia University. Right there we’ve got a connection and engaging can begin.”

80th Street has an extensive activities calendar including trips to museums, Lincoln Center and intergenerational programs with local schools. Music is a major part of everyday life at 80th Street. “We realized that music is key to the soul, little by little we started bringing in different performers. Whether a resident likes classical music or The Beatles, we have found extraordinary performers so that everyone can hear a little bit of ‘their’ music,” says Executive Director Clare Shanley.

The fee for residents is all-inclusive; one monthly rate includes beauty parlor services, toiletries, outings, TV and furniture and transportation to doctor visits.

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Lott Assisted Living Residence 1261 Fifth Ave. 212-534-6464 lottresidence.org Facilities: 127 studio apartments Fees: $4,500 per month Waiting list: Anywhere from 2 weeks to 6 months Type: Assisted Living Lott Residence was built for low-income seniors in 2000, located at the northern end of museum mile and across the street from Central Park. The not-for-profit residence was built to offer seniors quality care in the East Harlem area. It is one of only two assisted-living facilities in New York City that accept Medicaid — 90 percent Medicaid, 10 percent private pay.

As a Medicaid recipient, Lott is required to adhere to many rules which preclude

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residents from having pets, overnight guests or wheelchairs (with some exceptions), but the upside is that the staff are vigilant, and residents have “low fall rates.”

While Lott aims to target seniors in the area, residents hail from the Bronx, Staten Island, Florida, everywhere, says CEO Nicole Atanasio.

Lott residents have the opportunity to engage in a full calendar of activities including exercise, lectures, trips and music programs. Resident jazz musician Ruben Wilson performs for the Lott community with his trio once a month.

A charming garden is at the center of the building where many events take place.

The resident dining room on the 14th floor is described as a daily dose of joy, with a spectacular view of the Harlem Meer in Central Park.

Atria West 86 333 West 86th St., near Riverside Drive 212-712-0200 333West86.com Facilities: 183 apartments, from studios to a two-bedroom penthouse Fees: Starting at $7,495 per month Waiting list: Limited availability for select floor plans, including upper-floor apartments with river views Type: Assisted Living (Enriched Housing) This fully renovated pre-war Upper West Side building makes it easier for older New Yorkers to live in the cultural heart of the city.

Surrounded by dining destinations both trendy and legendary, life at the community means eating well — whether residents choose to go out or stay in. Food is a celebratory affair at Atria, with three on-site restaurant options for residents: Anthony’s, a formal restaurant offering gourmet cuisine and table service; A.P.’s Grille, with an open kitchen offering casual fare; and a 24-hour café.

There is a communal terrace on the roof, and many rooms offer stunning views of the Hudson River. Tenants live as independently as they wish but have the option to be an active member of a vibrant and supportive apartment community. All-inclusive rental rates provide residents with on-site dining, housekeeping, city-wide car service, daily instructor-led fitness classes and a myriad of on-site events each month, among other services. Residents also can choose different levels of aid and assistance, as needed. There’s a wellness center and a 24-hour nurse on site; doctors visit weekly.

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who still sees patients in her downtown office, moved into the community from Brooklyn two years ago with her husband.

They decided to be pro-active about needing assistance, “before anyone else suggested it to us.”

Mary says she used to get a chuckle at the vans full of seniors that would pull up in front of Broadway theaters, but now she herself enjoys that same service. It seems like every minute is accounted for, from a writing workshop hosted by a Columbia University journalism grad student to morning walks in Riverside Park and art history lectures, as well as museum outings and strength and balance classes. At Atria West 86, the social calendar also includes on-site performances by Juilliard and the Jazz Foundation of America, New York Mandolin Orchestra rehearsals, renowned guest speakers from NYU and the Israeli Consulate, and group outings to museums, parks and Broadway shows.

“I don’t know whether they have a special interviewing technique or whether they train the staff. This staff is both kind and very professional,” says Mary, “I used to be a nurse at one point, and now a therapist, and I watched the interaction, and people try to be kind, but really there is an extra layer.”

Billie Jean King, who won 39 Grand Slam tennis titles and became the first female athlete to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, is Atria’s well-being coach. Atria West 86 is the company’s flagship location on the Upper West Side, among 28 communities throughout the New York metro area, including communities in three boroughs, on the North Shore of Long Island and in Westchester County.

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The bistro at 305 West End Assisted Living. Photo courtesy of 305 West End.

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305 West End Assisted Living 65 weekly classes Lifelong learning Endless possibilities 92Y.org/HimanBrown 212.415.5633 Watch our short film at 92Y.org/HBVideo Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street, NYC

305 West End Ave. at 74th St. 212-874-5000 305WestEndAL.com Facilities: Upon completion, assisted living and memory care apartments – studios, one-bedrooms and two-bedrooms Fees: $7,800 to $17,000 per month Waiting list: N/A Type: Will be Assisted Living & Memory Care 305 West End is the new name of the former The Esplanade Manhattan senior luxury housing community, after being acquired in 2016 by Northwind Group and Engel Burman/Harrison Street in a joint venture. The purchase heralds structural and operational renovations and improvements. The 14-story pre-war building will comprise 191 residential apartments (with two floors dedicated to memory care).

New amenities, says, Jenny Zaun, marketing director of The Engel Burman Group, include a cinema, a salon, a country club-style dining room, a bistro grille for casual dining and a fitness center; in addition, there will be a card and game room, a performing arts center and a computer center.

The location, on West End Avenue between 74th and 75th Streets. has the particular benefit of being next to Riverside Park, near Central Park, Lincoln Center, the American Museum of Natural History, dozens of cultural spots and dining and shopping opportunities. With the Hudson River nearby, many apartments

on the west side of the building have impressive river views.

Included in the rent, residents receive three meals per day with snacks in their “bistro,” daily housekeeping, weekly linens and laundry, town car service and motor coach transportation to and from outside activities, educational and wellness programs, and a full activity schedule of events every day. Concierge service is available to residents 24/7 to manage additional requests, says Zaun.

Some sample activities include: daily strength training or aerobics; painting or craft classes; trips to theaters, restaurants or museums; new or classic movies in the cinema; social hours with hors d’oeuvres or desserts; classical piano performances; cooking demonstrations; on-site religious services; creative writing sessions.

There is an “always available” menu, and the chef provides options for hearthealthy meals and sugar-free desserts, says Zaun. A sneak peek of a dinner option: Seared Duck Breast with Cherry Sauce, served with whipped Yukon Gold potatoes and peas, carrots and pearl onions.

“The residents maintain an independent lifestyle,” says Zaun, “with assistance and support available at all times.”

305 West End accepts long-term care insurance or private pay.

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Carnegie East House 1844 Second Ave. 212-410-0033 carnegieeast.org Facilities: 98 apartments, studios to two-bedrooms Fees: $5,900 to $7,600 per month Waiting list: Six months for units with East River views; two to three years for one of 21 units set aside for qualifying low-income applicants Type: Assisted Living As an independent, not-for-profit, says Marketing Director Margaret Foley, Carnegie East “is not under pressure to increase rates by 10 percent each year.” That means they have a small budget when it comes to advertising and marketing, but there is added focus on the residents.

“Every resident knows me, they know my family, they know where my parents live,” says Foley. “I think people really feel cared for.”

Resident Phyllis O. Silverman, 87, a retired school teacher, says that “I love my little apartment. Every morning I look out my window, and see people walking their

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ArchCare at Mary Manning Walsh Home dogs, and the traffic, I love it and I feel like I’m part of the city.”

Among the activities, highly noteworthy are operas performed live by The New York City Opera Forum once a month; as many as 15 singers perform. There are movies every night, lectures, a Shakespeare class, a jewelry-making class, Tai Chi, chair yoga and stretching exercises. Residents can participate in a theater workshop, and put on shows several times a year in an activities room they call “Carnegie Hall.”

Carnegie East also offers affordable housing, something no other senior living community does, Foley says that if a residents spend down their money, they can be placed on a waiting list for affordable housing. When a resident meets New York State requirements, Carnegie East can do a conversion on the spot.

“A rent can go from $6,700 to $2,700 a month with the same services in place,” says Foley. “Three meals a day, housekeeping, laundry, everything.”

1339 York Ave. 212-628-2800 archcare.org Facilities: 362 nursing beds Fees: Mix of Medicare/Medicaid, private and commercial insurance Waiting list: Varies Type: Skilled Nursing Home & Rehab Mary Manning Walsh Home is a part of ArchCare, the continuing care community of the Archdiocese of New York, and sponsored by the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm. Grounded in faith, Mary Manning Walsh welcomes people of all backgrounds, and consistently receives top ratings from Medicare/Medicaid. Most rooms are private.

A living room on the first floor features a grand piano, where families congregate and where concerts are often performed.

There is also a chapel on the first floor, where daily mass is held, along with regular religious services and pastoral care for people of all faiths.

The Home’s recently modernized rehabilitation suite and patient floors of-

fer a feeling of lightness, brightness and homelike elegance.

Meals are delivered to residents’ rooms but residents have the option to dine in common dining rooms, or even in a restaurant-style dining room on the seventh floor, with an outdoor patio facing York Avenue.

“It is nicely furnished, with a wonderful view and welcome breeze during the summer, which residents and families take full advantage of,” says Wanda Taylor, director of admissions. Executive Director Michael Monahan adds, “Oftentimes after a card game or concert, residents and families will enjoy wine or cocktails in the Emerald lounge, or coffee at our café,” both on the concourse level.

The Home offers an excellent recreational program including music therapy and concerts from classical to jazz every weekend. There is also a bridge club, beading and art classes and a wide range of other recreational activities.

Some of the residents’ jewelry goes on sale in their gift shop.

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FiveStar Premier Residences of Yonkers 537 Riverdale Avenue, Yonkers 914-423-2200 bit.ly/5staryonkers Facilities: 198 independent-living apartments; 76 assisted living.

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Fees: $4,000 to $8,500 per month Waiting list: Call for availability status.

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Five Star Premier Residences of Teaneck 655 Pomander Walk Teaneck, NJ 201-836-3634 bit.ly/5starteaneck Facilities: Over 200 One and Two Bedroom Apartments (Balconies Available) Fees: Starting at $3,695. One Bedroom $4,995. Two Bedrooms Type: Resort-Style Independent & Assisted Living Five Star Premier Residences of Teaneck is a suburban, resort-style senior living community right over the George Washington Bridge, located on 5 ½ acres of expertly landscaped grounds. Over 200 residents call these award-winning apartments “home,” where they enjoy access to a wealth of amenities, a booked calendar of activities and outings, top-notch dining, and a genuinely, devoted staff.

The professionals at Five Star are known for their kindness—from the bus drivers and housekeepers, to the executive sales team. “My husband and I have lived here for three years and we love it,” notes resident Hilda Lauria, “We do not rate the staff as excellent, but superior.”

The community is both elegant and comfortable, with a focus on wellness. Five Star Teaneck’s “Lifestyle360,” approach, based on “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs,” harmonizes the essential dimensions of wellness by focusing on the intellectual, social,

physical, emotional and spiritual needs of each individual.

While New York and the neighborhood’s surrounding shops are available right at the residents’ fingertips, there is much to be enjoyed on-site. Daily events and programming range from art classes, music events, and Tai-Chi lessons to compelling lectures and religious services. Their restaurant-style dining is led by celebrity chef Brad Miller, and supported by an executive culinary team that works hard to create rich, diverse menus to please any and all dietary restrictions.

For many, moving to Five Star’s Teaneck location proves to be an exciting, new chapter. “For the past four years, I took care of my husband as his illness progressed. He died six months ago. Several of my friends have died and several have moved far away.

Life as I knew it would never be the same again. I moved to Five Star feeling I had come to the end of the line,” says resident Joan Posage. “But that’s not so. Living here for just 7 weeks has given me a new found hope. There are so many activities to choose from. The staff are extremely caring and helpful. I am meeting so many warm and welcoming people. This is not the end of the line. It is just the beginning of a new line!”

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FiveStar Senior Living is a senior living communities and services provider with 283 residences around the country. The facility in Yonkers took over management of an existing community senior residence six years ago.

Their 18-story building, within a gated community, has a feeling of an upscale hotel. “The original company had that intention when they built it,” says Jane Kennedy, FiveStar Premier Residences of Yonkers Director of Sales, “and that’s what most will say, ‘like a luxury apartment in a Manhattan or grand hotel’.”

Independent seniors occupy the sixth through 18th floors, with one- and twobedroom apartments with views of the Hudson River (some face the George Washington Bridge, others the Tappan Zee Bridge). The grounds feature gardens with walkways. The location has the double advantage of feeling rural but benefiting from close proximity to New York City, about 1/2 hour with easy access to the Henry Hudson Parkway and several buses. The BX7 bus stops right in front of their location. They are also a stone’s throw from Wave Hill, the Bronx Zoo, the Bronx Botanical Garden and historic homes.

Activities programming is a highlighted feature for FiveStar where they’ve developed what they call Lifestyle360, “not just about living in a senior living

community but about thriving in a community,” says Kennedy. She adds that FiveStar takes a holistic approach, addressing “five dimensions of wellness: intellectual, physical, social, emotional and spiritual.”

In addition to a full calendar presented by outside vendors, FiveStar modifies programming based on residents’ wishes and suggestions. Both the Independent and Assisted Living residents share in the activities. Memory Care, occupying one floor of the building, follows the Montesorri Method, “where each person is an individual and their life is important,” says Kennedy.

FiveStar will cull talent from within the community of former teachers, professionals and artists. A former NYPD detective presented a class on criminal investigations. A former Broadway director runs a theatrical group featuring other residents that performs on a regular basis. “They’re working on a Cole Porter number now,” says Kennedy.

Outings take place every weekend to shopping centers, museums and restaurants; there are classes for art, horticulture and jewelry-making, as well as walking clubs. A popular group, according to Kennedy, is a meeting about news of the day, where many points of view are enthusiastically and sometimes heatedly aired.

Pets are welcomed in the Independent Living apartments, but must weigh 25 lbs. or less, and the owner must be able to care for the pet themselves.

Each month is assigned a theme: in June it was Pursuit of Happiness, and residents were encouraged to write on a daily basis what makes them happy. July is Pearls of Wisdom, with programming that includes residents’ storytelling.

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AGING IN PLACE: A RESOURCE GUIDE Transportation, home-delivered meals, health care, activities, caregiving advice and counseling: where Manhattan residents can turn

TRANSPORTATION Reduced Fare MetroCard Those who are 65 and up can benefit from reduced fares on MTA NYC Transit local buses and subways.

Regular fare in 2018 is $2.75, while the reduced fare is $1.35. Two of the following forms of identification are required: valid New York State driver’s license, Medicare card, birth certificate, valid New York State Identification Card or a passport. A photo must be present on at least one. web.mta.info/nyct/fare/rfindex.htm Phone: 718-330-1234 or 511

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Artists such as Izabella Gutman participate in JASA classes.

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SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES Age-Smart Manhattan: Senior Resources for Better Living

92Y Himan Brown Senior Program

From the office of Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, a guide to benefits and services for seniors, including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, housing, long-term care, veterans and LGBT issues. manhattanbp.nyc.gov/html/resources/seniors.shtml

Part of the 92nd Street Y, the Himan Brown program provides a wealth of activities for seniors age 60 and older in Manhattan.

Members pay a $500 annual fee, giving them access to classes that include fitness, bridge and chess instruction, art, music, literature, writing, technology, dance, drama and current events. Membership also includes discounted tickets to select 92Y events. The Himan Brown Senior Program is staffed with licensed social workers and counselors who are available to provide information, referral and counseling to members and their families.

92y.org/himan-brown Phone: 212-415-5633

DOROT A nonprofit organization whose goal is to alleviate social isolation and provide concrete services to older adults, DOROT has a wide variety of offerings – including delivered meals, transportation, transitional housing, visits from volunteers, wellness programs and weekly classes and events. DOROT also focuses on providing intergenerational connections to seniors. dorotusa.org Phone: 212-769-2850

JASA One of New York’s largest nonprofits for older adults, JASA helps individuals of all races, religions, and economic backgrounds to live lives of independence. Services in Manhattan include Sunday JASA college-level courses at John Jay College and Club 76 Senior Center on the Upper West Side where members can participate in computer, art, music, advocacy and exercise classes. jasa.org Phone: 212-273-5200

SAGE (Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elders) SAGE provides a “second home for LGBT elders” focusing on friendship, community and pride. SAGE offers daily nutritional meals, cultural and social events, support groups, health, financial, and social services and home visits. There is also assistance for military veterans through SAGEVets and a program for elders living with HIV/AIDS. sageusa.org Phone: 646-576-8669

If you need transportation and are not able to use public bus or subway service, Access-A-Ride is an option. It offers shared ride, door-to-door paratransit service, as well as trips to and from normal MTA NYC transit bus routes or subway stops (for those who can travel 1-5 blocks). Only disabled riders are eligible.

According to a State Assembly pamphlet, “eligibility is determined on a periodic basis, after review by independent medical professionals in consultation with disabled riders’ medical provider.”

Phone: 1-877-337-2017

Memorial Sloan Kettering Jitney For those in need of health services at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the hospital provides a free patient shuttle service — also known as the jitney — to take MSK patients and their caregivers between Memorial Hospital at 1275 York Avenue and Manhattan locations, which include the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center, the Sillerman Center for Rehabilitation and several outpatient centers. mskcc.org/locations/visiting-us/patient-shuttle

NYC Department for the Aging (DFTA) The DFTA offers listings on a range of subjects. The department partners with community-based organizations to provide services through senior centers, home-care agencies, home-delivered meal programs, mental health and friendly visiting programs. DFTA also has a Senior Employment Services Unit, a bill payer program, and resource centers for caregivers, senior crime victims, grandparents and foster grandparents. www1.nyc.gov/site/dfta/index.page Phone: For general questions, call 311

New York Foundation for Senior Citizens The mission of this longtime non-profit is “helping New York’s seniors enjoy healthier, safer, more productive and dignified lives in their homes and communities and to help them avoid the need for premature institutionalization.” Among the organization’s resources, the NYFSC focuses on housing and has a home-sharing program. nyfsc.org Phone: 212-962-7559

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FOOD Citymeals on Wheels Founded by Gael Greene and James Beard in 1981, Citymeals on Wheels delivers weekend, holiday and emergency meals to homebound older New Yorkers. Citymeals partners with community-based organizations and senior centers to supplement the city’s weekday meal-delivery program. citymeals.org Phone: 212-687-1234

God’s Love We Deliver Providing meals and nutrition counseling for people with severe illness, God’s Love began 33 years ago when one woman delivered a meal to a man dying from AIDS. Today God’s Love, a nonsectarian organization, cooks and home-delivers 7,200 meals each weekday for clients with over 200 diagnoses and provides meals for children and senior caregivers of its clients. All of the agency’s services are free to clients. godslovewedeliver.org Phone: 212-294-8100

SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) SNAP, also known as food stamps, provides food assistance for low-income New Yorkers, including seniors.

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FUN WITH PURPOSE That is what AARP’s volunteers do every day in New York. Improving lives and helping your community.

Be part of the journey.

Become an AARP Volunteer.

Learn more at aarp.org/nyvolunteer.

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www.plazajewish.org www.plazapreplan.org Pre-need services are available Serving the metropolitan New York area, Florida, and Israel 24 hours a day Arranging for funerals in all 50 states and Europe

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Martha Stewart Center for Living The center offers “an innovative approach to healthy aging,” with medical care, healthy living activities, educational programs, caregiver support, and community referrals. mountsinai.org/patient-care/service-areas/geriatricsand-aging/areas-of-care/martha-stewart-center-forliving 1440 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10029 Phone: 212-659-8552

Irving Sherwood Wright Center at NYP/Weill Cornell Providing both primary care and consultation to older adults, The Wright Center on Aging “is dedicated to providing older adults with comprehensive care so that they can lead fulfilling lives to the greatest extent possible.” weillcornell.org/wrightctr 1484-1486 First Ave., New York, NY 10075 Phone: 212-746-7000

Beth Israel Senior Health (Mount Sinai) Focuses on primary care medicine, preventive medicine, social work services, palliative care, a house calls program and caregiver support program (stress reduction techniques and crisis intervention). wehealny.org/services/bi_seniorhealth/ 275 Eighth Ave. (at 24th Street), New York, NY 10011 Phone: 212-463-0101 JASA seniors gather at City Hall to advocate for funding of senior services in the NYC budget. Photo courtesy of JASA

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HEALTH AND WELLNESS Helen’s Pilates Helen Ovsiy opened her first Pilates Studio in Brooklyn in 2008, and a new location recently on the Upper East Side. Through her work, Helen became aware that many senior clients suffer from arthritis, stenosis, muscular spasms as well as knee, hip and shoulder pain. Helen’s Pilates offers private, semi-private and small group sessions. as well as private sessions in your home for those unable to come to the studio. helenfitness.com 30 East 60th Street Phone: 212-593-0100

Lighthouse Guild Lighthouse Guild is dedicated to vision loss, providing services and programs that address eye health and needs of people with, or at risk for, vision loss: -A comprehensive Health Center, including care for heart issues, neurology, endocrinology, vision assessment, podiatry and physical and occupational therapy;

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-Low Vision Rehabilitation services to help individuals with vision loss regain function and remain safe, independent and active.

-An Adult Day Health Care Program for adults with vision loss and chronic medical conditions offers nursing, medication assistance, therapies and personal care, two meals a day, transportation and daily activities.

Lighthouseguild.org 250 West 64st Street (at West End Avenue) Phone: 800-284-4422

NYP OnDemand Telemedicine Kiosks at Duane Reade/Walgreen’s As part of their NYP OnDemand digital health services, NewYork-Presbyterian has opened telemedicine kiosks in six Duane Reade/ Walgreens locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn for non-life-threatening medical concerns.

Through the kiosks, seniors can partake of remote sessions with board-certified emergency room physicians, or consult with medical professionals through the app. nyp.org/ondemand

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AGING IN PLACE: A RESOURCE GUIDE CAREGIVING NYC Caregiver This city program offers caregiving services, help with entitlements, paying for care, legal information, and advice about caring for oneself. nyc.gov/html/caregiver 2 Lafayette St., NYC 10007 Email: caregivers@aging.nyc.gov

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It’s a beautiful life, inside and out.

benefits and entitlements and finding services.

Sadin does presentations on aging issues and has a private practice for home visits to develop a care plan which she or a family member can supervise.

Email: sjs.eldercaresolutions@gmail.com Phone: 833-SJS-CARE (833-757-2273)

AARP: Caregiver Resources Next Step in Care: Family Caregivers and Health Care Professionals Working Together Created by the nonprofit United Hospital Fund, Next Step in Care focuses on family caregivers who are dealing with transitions in care for chronically ill patients. Next Step in Care provides advice about moving between hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, nursing homes and home. nextstepincare.org/Caregiver_Home/Care_ Coordination

SJS – Elder Care Solutions, LLC Director Sara J. Sadin works with corporations of all sizes to help employees who are caring for an older family member, assessing needs, discussing

An overall guide to finding support, with goals and needs checklists and caregiving plans. aarp.org/caregiving Phone: 877-333-5885

“Caregiving 101” In July 2017, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer hosted an event at John Jay College called “Caregiving 101: The Essentials of Caring for Others (And Yourself).” Video of a panel discussion with experts and resources discussed at the event are available at this link: manhattanbp.nyc.gov/html/resources/ caregiving101.shtml

LEGAL ASSISTANCE

COUNSELING

New York City Bar

SPOP (Service Program for Older People)

The Legal Referral Service provides assistance with wills, trusts and estates. Initial consultations are $35 or free, depending on the type of case, and last for up to 30 minutes. nycbar.org/get-legal-help/our-services/ request-a-lawyer/ Phone: 212-626-7373

Offers mental health care for adults age 55 and older. Services include counseling for substance abuse, home-based psychotherapy for clients homebound due to disability, and therapy for caregivers. SPOP also offers free bereavement support for adults of all ages at their office on the Upper West Side, with groups for spousal and non-spousal bereavement. Counseling offered in English, Spanish, French, Cantonese and other languages. spop.org Address: 302 West 91st St., NYC 10024 Phone: 212-787-7120, ext. 514

Sources: Congregation Rodeph Sholom for listings from “Symposium on Aging” (March 2018), the Office of Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Michael DeSantis

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TO THEIR HEALTH Columbia’s School of Nursing brings primary care to patients

BY NATASHA ROY

When Iris Brady Boteler needs a checkup, she’s stuck. It’s physically difficult for the 101-year-old to leave her home and go to her doctor’s office. Instead, Boteler’s nurse practitioner, Marie Carmel Garcon, comes to her Fort George Hill home every three months to perform a checkup on her.

Garcon checks Boteler’s heartbeat and blood pressure, and inquires about any health issues that may have come up recently. If Garcon herself can’t take care of the issue, she’ll call a doctor in her network who specializes in taking care of the specific problem.

Garcon doesn’t only serve Boteler. She has 100 patients she sees in their own homes as part of the Columbia University School of Nursing’s house calls service. Garcon provides the same primary care that patients would receive in a doctor’s office.

The program, which started a little over a year ago, primarily serves seniors in Washington Heights. Columbia Nursing’s associate dean of clinical affairs, Stephen Ferrara, said the practice started in part because the school was aware that several people in the area had a difficult time accessing primary care in a traditional setting.

“It’s about accessible primary care, and we know that if we’re able to tend to our patient’s needs in a rapid way, then it tends to cut down on unnecessary hospitalizations and actually helps unnecessary hospitalizations,” Ferrara said. “It also poten-

ONCE YOU GET INTO THE PROGRAM, THEY SEE ME AS THEIR, NOT ONLY PROVIDER BUT AS A FRIEND, AS A FAMILY MEMBER. SOMEBODY THEY CAN TRUST, SOMEBODY WHO’S REALLY AN ADVOCATE TO THEM.” Marie Carmel Garcon, nurse practitioner

As part of Columbia University School of Nursing house-call service in Washington Heights, nurse practitioner Marie Carmel Gordon, left, has been making regular home visits to Iris Brady Boteler for a year. Photo: Natasha Roy

tially could reduce the amount of time that somebody’s hospitalized if the hospital knows that they’re being discharged to a level of service that could provide care for them in the home setting.”

The house calls program essentially brings the primary care provider’s office to patients.

“We’re talking about things like diet and exercise while prescribing medications for them, being able to order lab tests or even X-ray tests in their home to keep them healthy and keep them well where they’re most comfortable,” Ferrara said.

Before the program was even established, Ferrara had reached out to Garcon about her being the first nurse for the program.

Garcon, who has been a nurse for 30 years, has worked in several areas, including bedside and outpatient care.

Garcon is the program’s only nurse practitioner thus far, but Ferrara said they are looking to add more nurses. “Right now we’re committed to this community, and we’re also looking on expanding staff to be able to care for those residents,” Ferrara said.

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For Garcon, house calls aren’t simply about ensuring patients’ physical needs are taken care of — she addresses social and psychological needs as well. “It’s a trusted relationship, I would say,” Garcon said. “Once you get into the program, they see me as their, not only provider but as a friend, as a family member. Somebody they can trust, somebody who’s really an advocate to them.”

Garcon goes above and beyond to show her patients she cares. When they need to go to the emergency room, she is right there waiting for them so they can see a familiar face, and when she visits a patient for a regular checkup, she’ll pop in to catch up with her other patients in the building.

Many of her charges don’t have family who visits them, Garcon said. So instead, she makes it her business to see to their overall wellbeing. She arranges for some patients to have hairdressers, meals and more come to their home. It’s an aspect of her care her patients appreciate.

“She keeps track of me, and I let her know everything,” Boteler said. “She’s like family now.”

Boteler’s niece, who lives with her, updates Garcon on Boteler’s state. Other patients, like 84-year-old Lona Fluker, who said she does well living on her own, call Garcon when they encounter problems. Garcon taught Fluker how to use her iPhone to make FaceTime calls, and she also sets alarms and reminders for Fluker to take her medication and remember appointments.

“It’s really comforting,” Fluker said. “I respect her. I look up to her as a nurse practitioner.”

Fluker said she her relationship with Garcon is both professional and personal.

“Sometimes you don’t get both of those things — professional and nice, too,” Fluker said. “And she has both. She’s definitely professional, but also she looks at you as a patient and a friend. That’s the only way I can describe her.”

And the admiration Garcon’s patients have for her is reciprocated.

“You have that connection, that trusted relationship, and that’s the part that I love,” Garcon said.

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THE BENEFITS OF CREATIVITY An art program in East Harlem gives seniors an opportunity to take classes taught by professionals â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and connect with the community

BY CHRISTINA CARDONA

Are you over 65 and interested in exploring your creative side? At the Carter Burden/Leonard Covello Senior Center on 109th St. in East Harlem, there are free senior art classes called Making Art Work.

Covello is one of four New York City-based senior centers in the Carter Burden Network. The purpose of Marking Art Work is to connect the NYC senior community to the arts and art education and provide an opportunity to socialize. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our classes arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the typical senior center art classes, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the ďŹ rst thing I would say,â&#x20AC;? said Liz Curtin, a teaching artist at Covello. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have art classes that are professional level, they just coincidentally take place at a senior center.â&#x20AC;?

Curtin has been teaching art for over 30 years, specifically working with seniors.

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years, along with her colleague and fellow teaching artist Diane Schneck. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The senior center art programs can be anything from people sitting around crocheting together to a studio class situation, which is more of what we have for the most part,â&#x20AC;? Schneck said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have professional artists teaching all of the art classes, so their skills are really high and varied and they just bring a tremendous amount to the program.â&#x20AC;?

Covello has multiple classes a day, and about 25 per week. They include classes in painting, quilting, clothing construction, doll-making, drawing and many more.

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Participants in the senior art classes sometimes donate their handmade items to charities. They made purple baby hats to support awareness for infant crib death, knitted hats for the American Heart Association and made blankets for the Animal Care Center nearby.

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Paul Wolsk started playing the saxophone in elementary school. He would go on to play in his high school’s marching band and kept up a little bit in college. Then he put the horn down.

Some 35 years later, a friend started a jazz band, and Wolsk picked up his alto once more.

Now 80, Wolsk is still learning. But a few years ago, he thought his chops had hit a plateau, that he still had untapped talent.

His wife suggested he check out Lucy Moses School. Wolsk, a retired music business lawyer, has been studying and playing at the West 67th Street school ever since. And he’s learning.

“I took an ensemble here that was way over my head, people were all very good.

They were way above my level. At the end of the song, they would always go out of their way to compliment me on what I had done,” Wolsk said, adding that the school is welcoming to everyone, no matter their skill level. “And they were very appreciative of the fact that I was there.

People are at all different levels. Even if you’re just starting out your effort is appreciated here.”

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Paul Wolsk, in the yellow shirt, started playing saxophone in elementary school but gave it up shortly after college. He’s become a serious player again. He’s pictured in a jazz theory class taught by Roni Ben-Hur (left), the director of the adult division jazz program at the Lucy Moses School. Photo: Christina Cardona

cover new pathways of learning music and an opportunity to try out a sample class.

All skill levels are welcome, beginners to advanced musicians.

“I think Lucy Moses School is a wonderful home for older adults. We have a really vibrant community of musicians and artists of all ages,” said Alicia Andrews, the assistant director adult and division manager at the Lucy Moses School. “Our community includes kids as young as 18 months all the way to senior citizens, and everyone comes together to create a building that is humming with music.”

Music, Andrews said, is good for cognitive health. She said learning to play an instrument keeps your brain active. There are physical benefits as well.

“Working on something like Dalcroze, a method of teaching music through movement, can really build skills for balance,” she said. “I think music, besides being a wonderful way of creativity and self-expression, can be a tool for continuing to live a full, rewarding life.”

Ellen Landsberger, a recently retired obstetrician, played the clarinet in high school, but only played intermittently since then – until she, too, enrolled at Lucy Moses. She’s been attending classes – music theory and Dalcroze, among others – there the past two years.

She said the school fosters growth, development and stimulation with a wide variety of programming.

“I’ll speak for myself, and I know many of my friends get very caught up in work,

family, and move away from some of your passions,” Landsberger said. “I’m finding that since my retirement, being able to do a variety of different projects and get back to things I loved in the past, it’s been very remarkable.”

Playing music, she said, has been one of her most soothing and meditative experiences.

“I think that music is very healing, so I think as we age and experience different medical problems, being able to play and listen to music is also very healing and beneficial,” Landsberger said, adding that the school is something of a second home for her.

Andrews, the adult division manager, said it’s apparent that the older adults cherish the sense of community and endeavor that playing music with others can bring.

“I think for many of the older adults that are a part of this program, what they really prize is that sense of teamwork, in a chamber music group or a jazz ensemble, you’re not only learning to play your instrument, but you are part of a team,” Andrews said.

“I think music really brings people together. And the opportunity to be with likeminded individuals working on a project together I think is really valuable.”

To sign up in advance for the 10-minute mini lessons at the open house, call 212501-3360. For more information about Lucy Moses School at Kaufman Music Center and the open house, go to www.KaufmanMusicCenter.org/LMS.

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BE PROACTIVE Too often, Brower and Russo said, seniors don’t start thinking about making changes around the home until after they’ve suffered a fall or begun encountering difficulty. Good design anticipates potential

problems before they arise, Brower said, “so that if people suffer an injury down the line, their home will work with them and won’t be an obstacle to their recuperation.”

The pair emphasize that functional senior design can be both stylish and practical. “I think people are under a misconception that making these changes as you age will make your home look like a nursing home or an assisted living or rehab facility,” Brower said. “We pride ourselves on integrating these changes so that they’re almost imperceptible, but they make the space much more user-friendly.”

MINIMIZE FALL RISK Falls are the number one cause of injuryrelated deaths among Americans age 65 and older, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Roughly one in four older adults report a fall each year, and one in five falls results in a serious injury.

In the bathroom, where water presents a fall hazard, Brower and Russo often recommend threshold-free showers and slipresistant tiles. Good lighting throughout the apartment becomes crucial as aging impacts vision. Removing thresholds between rooms to eliminate level changes within the apartment reduces risk and can be done relatively easily.

“If you’re in a co-op, try to make sure your co-op puts a second railing in front of the building for you to get down those couple of steps to the street,” Russo said.

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CUT OUT CLUTTER â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot seniors either arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t able to clean up and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the help they need or are afraid to give up things,â&#x20AC;? Brower said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re living at risk with a lot of clutter.â&#x20AC;?

Removing unnecessary items can make it easier for seniors to get around, while reducing the risk of falls and eliminating places for harmful dust to accumulate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The plan of the living space can be rearranged so that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still comfortable and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still their furniture, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more open space so that they can navigate more freely,â&#x20AC;? especially if a walker or wheelchair becomes necessary, Russo said.

In the kitchen, consolidating dishes and cookware into more conveniently located cabinets with pull-out shelving can reduce stress caused by bending and overreaching.

DIY WITH A PROFESSIONAL EYE The prospect of redesigning a home can seem daunting in terms of cost and inconvenience, but based on a quick walkthrough of a space, firms like Brower & Russo Interior Design can often recommend simple changes that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t require a full overhaul or remodel. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can identify things you can do yourself or with your super or handyman,â&#x20AC;? Brower said.

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For older Manhattan residents, the city’s cultural institutions offer discounts to walking tours, museum exhibits and more. Some benefits of being a NYC senior:

BY MICHAEL DESANTIS

Central Park Zoo Address: East 64th St. & Fifth Ave. Penguins, snow leopards, sea lions, grizzly bears, emerald tree boas, poison dart frogs and lemurs are just some animals you could encounter at a trip to the Central Park Zoo. Check out various attractions from the Polar Circle to the Tropic Zone.

Seniors 65+ pay $15, saving $3 off the general charge.

Carnegie Hall Tour Photo: massmatt, via flickr

Photo: Alquitara, via flickr

Address: 881 Seventh Ave. The tour of Carnegie Hall allows visitors to get an in-depth look at some of the most prominent musical performances in the concert hall and learn about the background of the building itself.

The Hall’s website says tour guides will shine a light on the building’s 125-year history over the course of a 60-75 minute tour that includes checking out the Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Composers Alley and the Rose Museum, where over 400 Carnegie Hall artifacts are on display.

Anyone who is 62 or older pays $12, which is $5 less than the adult fee.

United Nations Tour

Metropolitan Museum of Art Address: 1000 Fifth Ave. At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, seniors 65 or over from outside New York State pay $17 admission as opposed to the $25 general admission price. However, all NYS residents can pay as they wish, though the Met urges them to be as generous as possible. According to the museum’s website, tickets are valid for three consecutive days at the Met’s Fifth Avenue location, The Met Breuer and The Met Cloisters.

Address: 405 East 42nd St. Visitor Check-in Office: 45th St. and First Ave. The United Nations guided tours include a visit to the General Assembly Hall, the Security Council Chamber, the Trusteeship Council Chamber and the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Chamber. The tour will also teach people about how the United Nations looks at issues like disarmament, peace and security and human rights. Those 60 and above are eligible for the ticket discount — $15 instead of the adult $22 price.

The Morgan Library & Museum Address: 225 Madison Ave. The Morgan features exhibitions devoted to fine art, literature and music. After checking those out, visitors can dine at the Morgan Café, shop or attend a concert or film. Seniors who are 65 and up pay a discounted admission fee of $13 instead of the standard $20.

Photo: Mark B. Schlemmer, via flickr

Photo: Robert Cutts, via flickr

The Guggenheim Address: 1071 Fifth Ave. At The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, admission is $18 for seniors 65+ and $25 for adults.

It’s also pay as you wish for everyone on Saturdays during 5-7:45 p.m., so that’s the best time to bring your family.

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‘DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU’ Seniors are prime targets of IRS impersonation fraud. How to protect yourself

BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN

Okay, let’s start by defining the terms: What exactly is “IRS impersonation fraud”?

This scam involves fraudsters impersonating an IRS agent via phone, email or text in which they threaten arrest from law enforcement or use other scare tactics until a purported tax debt is paid immediately — often through gift cards or wire transfers.

April 15 was deadline day for tax filers. Is the problem of elder financial crimes still a serious concern months later?

Yes. Scammers that solicit these false claims often assert that a tax debt is past due. These types of scams target consumers year-round, and in some cases, use April 15 as a starting point for their targeting.

IN ORDER TO CATCH THE BAD ACTORS, WE HAVE TO KNOW YOU WERE TARGETED.”

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How can you tell if you’re being victimized and what do you need to know to prevent it?

Frankly, the first indication is the phone call or email itself. This method of communication is not used by the IRS to deal with taxpayer issues. A failure to tell you have rights to dispute the claim is a secondary indicator, as well as any Ron Long, Wells suggestion that you will Fargo Advisors be arrested. But first and foremost, the initial contact is your best indication you are being scammed.

As for elder financial abuse more broadly, telltale signs that something might be fraudulent include: Someone insisting you take immediate financial action and discouraging you from consulting with others before purchasing or paying for something ... The IRS will never call to ask for money or immediate payment. These types of communications are provided via writing and in the mail.

Is there an average age or a relative age range for the victims of this scam?

This scam is aimed at all ages, but elders and immigrants are a prime target.

This is clearly a nationwide phenomenon.

How bad is it in Manhattan?

I don’t have numbers on IRS fraud in New York City specifically, but we do know 13 percent of New York’s population is older than 65, and that seniors are targeted often because they have accumulated significant wealth or are vulnerable because of isolation and/or cognitive or physical decline.

Ron Long, director of regulatory affairs and elder client initiatives at Wells Fargo Advisors, tells seniors how to safeguard their financial security and steer clear of scam artists.

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ART What do we know about these fraudsters? Do they operate individually? Do they belong to organized rings?

This fraud is committed both by major crime rings working out of office buildings, some based overseas, and individuals.

Do they often get caught, prosecuted and convicted or have they largely managed to elude law enforcement?

There has been some success, breaking up a major ring in India and a significant recent Justice Department announcement of over 200 arrests, several involving IRS fraud. But underreporting is a major issue as it relates to elder financial abuse broadly — only one in 44 cases are being reported.

In order to catch the bad actors, we have to know you were targeted.

Does the scam artist leave any kind of information or digital fingerprints that can lead to apprehension?

These crimes are difficult, but remember, the bad guy has to surface at some point to collect the money. It is a global financial system and mobility aids the fraudster, but all information such as phone numbers, destination for the funds and other information can be a part of the forensic puzzle.

Are known cases of IRS Impersonation Fraud increasing?

According to the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, IRS impersonation fraud was the No. 1 fraud targeting seniors in 2017. As elder financial abuse continues to increase [generally], we anticipate the number of fraudsters using this tactic will also increase ... Estimates are that nearly one in five Americans 65 and older have fallen victim to elder financial abuse.

What steps can be taken to prevent this?

Maintain security over your tax records. Let a trusted contact know where to find it. Write down the information/number of the “alleged” IRS agent. If you have questions, call the IRS. Do not call the number of the alleged “agent.” Tell your family or a trusted contact immediately if you receive an IRS call.

There are also actions individuals can take to protect themselves from elder financial abuse: Talk with family members about financial plans and seek counsel when a situation seems suspicious. Update legal documents like wills, an advance healthcare directive and powers of attorney for financial matters and health care ...

Avoid isolation through social activities.

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THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS At MoMA’s photography biennial, a looks at depiction, perception and representation

BY MARY GREGORY

Possibly no artistic medium has to contend with the idea of newness more than photography. Artists either grapple with or embrace a tool that morphs constantly and incalculably between concept and expression. What constitutes a photograph?

Does an image need to be printed? Uploaded? Should it be altered digitally?

Does it even have to begin with an eye and a lens anymore? What about photographs that machines take of us in stores, on elevators, in the street? If an image is moving, as some phones do automatically, does that make it some other art form (video, film)? Billions of photographs are added to the internet every day. Everyone carries a camera at all times. The screen has become the mirror of our souls.

Somewhere within that vast cloud of potential and pitfalls are museums and curators trying to keep current, find new trends, identify emerging voices and spotlight important work.

“Being: New Photography 2018,” MoMA’s survey of what’s happening in the field, brings together 17 contemporary artists from around the world to address the idea of how photography can capture what it means to be

IF YOU GO WHAT: “Being: New Photography 2018” WHERE: The Museum of Modern Art, enter at 18 West 54th St. WHEN: through August 19 www.moma.org human. Since 1985, curators have used this biennial series of exhibitions to present new artists and new forms of photography. Past iterations have included digital avatars, glowing, pulsating installations, magazine shops transplanted to the galleries and a host of challenges to notions of picture taking and making.

This year, curator Lucy Gallun has put together a refreshingly traditional exhibition, in the material sense, but one that packs a wallop in terms of meaning. We’re presented with things that look like photographs and act like photographs. For the most part, they’re printed on paper, placed in frames and hung on walls. But what they say and how they do it is fresh, at times controversial, and always interesting.

Photographs have an inherent realism built in. Light is captured, transferred and transformed mechanically.

So turning them into abstractions, conceptual works, or performance pieces takes ingenuity on the artist’s part. German photographer Andrzej Steinbach’s 2017 series presents a

Artist Shilpa Gupta sliced photographs in two to represent personal and social fragmentation. Photo: Adel Gorgy

Aida Muluneh’s arresting image “All in One” greets visitors to MoMA’s “Being: New Photography 2018.” Photo: Adel Gorgy

Ethiopian photographer Aida Muluneh’s 2016 “The Morning Bride.” Photo: Adel Gorgy fragmented group portrait. Spanning several images, subjects in black and white photographs pose separately, but together. In each, there’s a person and a half. Your eye can join the fragments, but the artist doesn’t. Instead Steinbach says something about closeness, completion, isolation and society. The exhibition’s themes — assumptions about how individuals are depicted and perceived, who has the right to represent whom, privacy and exposure, individuality and expression, and the power and peril in being identified — are put forward in intriguing ways.

Ethiopian artist Aida Muluneh uses the global tradition of face-painting, here amped up by stark, vivid coloration, to change ideas about the depiction of Africans and African-Americans in photography. Her images are arrestingly beautiful and forceful.

Also finding inspiration in traditional African art is Stephanie Syjuco (who, in a nod to Cindy Sherman, dresses up and takes self-portraits). Syjuco riffs on studio portraiture like the work of 20th century Malian master Seydou Keïta, mixing formal poses with densely patterned clothing and backgrounds. But she’s adding a taste of biting social commentary. For her “Cargo Cult” series, Syjuco shopped at big chain stores and shopping malls for clothes, fabrics and accoutrements to don that seemed to express someone’s idea of ethnicity — here, corpo-

rate America’s.

Photographs have traditionally been used to memorialize the deceased, which inspired Em Rooney to encase her images in altar-like constructions, while Harold Mendez traveled to Necrópolis Cristóbal Colón in Havana, Cuba, to document traces left on the landscape after burials. His abstractions leave almost no clues about the origins or the lives that passed through or came to rest in the places he pictures. Nearby, Carmen Winant’s “My Birth” fills a wall with a moving installation of over 2,000 found photographs. Winant’s sources were magazines, books and photographs depicting women pregnant, in labor, and giving birth. They’re candid, real, unromanticized and all the more powerful because of it. “My Birth” presents undercurrents of the history of photography, of countless anonymous narratives, and of feminism, but the overwhelming flood is a sweeping vision of humanity, with all its pain and love, mess and glory.

“Being: New Photography 2018,” on view through August 19, presents 17 artists, most of them new to most viewers. It also offers thoughts on how photography has changed and how it’s changing us. Identification, self-identification, privacy, documentation, classification and the structures of power that rely on them provide the contrast for the seemingly benign fun of selfies, sharing and social media.

Brazilian photographer Sofia Borges’ “Yellow Chalk,” 2017, 89 inches in height, gazes down on the viewer. Photo: Adel Gorgy

Em Rooney encloses photographs in ceramic, wire, glass and fabric to create portraits recalling altars, memorials and plaques. “Veronica’s Horror,” 2017. Photo: Adel Gorgy

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HELL’S KITCHEN HAUNT TO SHUTTER The Coliseum, on West 58th Street, is one of the West Side’s longest tenured bars

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Our family has outgrown our junior 4 condo in Kips Bay and we need to move. We recently found a large two-bedroom co-op further uptown for a similar price. However, we’re going to need the equity from our condo in order to make this purchase happen. If we have to wait until we close on our current place in order to get the proceeds, we’ll basically be homeless until we are able to close on a new place. Is there any way to avoid this scenario?

Welcome to real estate’s version of the chicken and egg. This is of real concern for anyone who doesn’t have a truckload of cash just sitting around. The best way around this, and what I have advised clients in this situation, is to work out a rent-back arrangement with the buyers of your current place. This will allow you to close on the sale and continue to live there (for a specified period of time) as a renter. This will provide you with the means, and peace of mind, to move forward with your new purchase. With it typically taking three months from contract signing to closing, you’ll have a roof, a familiar one at that, over your head while waiting until the moving truck arrives, (and they’ll only have to come once and not twice by following this plan of action).

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Hell’s Kitchen is losing a staple.

Citing expenses, Kathleen Reilly, the owner of The Coliseum Bar & Restaurant, said she is being forced to close down the IrishAmerican pub after 40 years of it being in her family.

Reilly said paying a $40,000 monthly rent along with the costs of upkeep made it impossible for her to keep the restaurant open. The pub has been around since as far back as 1949, according to its website. Reilly’s late father, Paddy Reilly, acquired the lease in 1978.

“It’s an exorbitant amount of money for the type of establishment we are because we try to keep prices low for regular customers,” she said. “We’re trying to make sure everyone can come in and have a meal. It’s for the working guy, the regular person and family.”

The Coliseum’s last day of business will be either Sunday or Monday.

Reilly described her business as an American pub with an Irish flair, attributable to her family’s Irish roots. Traditional American bar fare is on the menu, from buffalo wings and chicken fingers to burgers and fries. Of course, there are also Irish specialties like Irish sausages and mash, shepherd’s pie, and fish and chips. For a few more days, you can finish your meal with an Irish coffee and cheesecake, or apple crumble.

“One of my father’s things was if it wouldn’t be served at your own house, at your own table, it shouldn’t be served,” Reilly said.

She grew emotional when thinking about how her dad would’ve handled the move.

“My dad and I were very close, so it is a little hard with the closing,” she said of Paddy Reilly, who passed away five years ago.

“I know I’ve done everything and my family has done everything to try and keep it going. But he’d be the first person to say, ‘It’s time to move on, there’s a time for everything.’”

Kathleen Reilly, the owner of The Coliseum, in front of the pub, which is set to close next week. Photo: Michael DeSantis The Coliseum has been so named since the 1950s, taking its moniker from the convention center that was on the west side of nearby Columbus Circle from 1956 until 2000.

Paddy Reilly once owned eight bars around the city. Two will remain once The Coliseum closes its doors. Kathleen Reilly, who co-owns both The Abbey Tavern on Third Avenue and The Molly Wee on Eighth Avenue, said she’ll transition to working full-time at the Abbey Tavern.

Kathleen Mattessich, a friend of Reilly’s and a customer of The Coliseum for decades, said the pub closing down is a major loss for the neighborhood and the city.

“It’s been a haunt for a lot of people for a lot of years,” Mattessich, 71, said. “It’s a community place. Various businesses use it for after-work events. It’s just a neighborhood place.”

Reilly and Mattessich both expressed their disappointment that The Coliseum is far from being the only independent business that’s been forced to close in recent years. Mattessich said Manhattan is on the fringes of becoming the next Mall of America.

“All you find are these chain stores because mom-and-pop stores are getting pushed out of the city,” Mattessich said. “The landlords will keep hiking the rent because they know they’ll

get it from a chain store.”

And while The Coliseum ended up being the latest small business forced to close its doors, Reilly, 47, is optimistic there are still bigger and better things ahead for her.

“I’m very much at peace with it but I’m very sad to be going,” Reilly said of leaving Hell’s Kitchen. “I’ll be very sad to close the doors, especially because of the neighborhood and all of the beautiful people we’ve met.

They’re not just customers.

They’ve become friends and family. We’d like to say thank you to everyone. The last 40 years have been marvelous.”

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apart, strive to make their mark on a world set against them.

In 1928, a 25-year-old bohemian — Clara — is teaching at the Grand Central School of Art, on the seventh floor of the terminal’s east wing, while having her illustrations observed by the male gaze, which diminishes the work, created as it is, by a “woman artist.” Brash, fiery, confident and single-minded, Clara is determined to achieve creative success, but is soon blindsided by the Great Depression, which destroys the entire art scene. Poverty and hunger, though, do little to prepare Clara for the greater tragedy yet to come.

Nearly 50 years later, in 1974, the terminal has fallen into disrepair as acutely as Virginia’s life. It’s full of grime and danger, from the smoke-blackened ceiling to the pickpockets and drug dealers who roam the floor.

Although there’s a fierce lawsuit to preserve the oncegrand building, Virginia hopes the place stays open simply because the recently divorced mother needs her job in the information booth. But when she stumbles upon an abandoned

art school within the terminal and discovers a striking watercolor hidden under the dust, her eyes are opened to the elegance beneath the decay. Virginia’s desire to find the artist of the unsigned masterpiece leads her on an impassioned mission, not just to unravel the mystery of Clara Darden’s disappearance in 1931, but to join the battle to save Grand Central.

Jackie Kennedy Onassis’s activism serves as an inspiration for Virginia to keep fighting for what she wants for herself, what she needs for her daughter, and ultimately for what is right.

Our neighbor would have been 89-years-old on July 28.

Her dedication to preservation lives on here on the Upper East Side, as well as around the rest of city, and now in “The Masterpiece.”

“The Masterpiece” is out August 7, when the author will do a 6:30 p.m. reading at Rizzoli Bookstore 1133 Broadway, at 26th Street.

Lorraine Duffy Merkl is the author of the novel “Back to Work She Goes” about a SAHM who tries to re-enter the workforce.

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A RETAILER’S TRIUMPHS AND DISASTERS

Rabin possesses not only drive, humor and a quirky world view — he’s got two separate identities. His campaign committee, “Eliot Rabin-Peter Elliot for Congress,” may be the only entity registered with the Federal Election Commission that uses alternative names for a single candidate.

His explanation is a political novelty. “Over the last 40 years, I have become, generically, ‘Peter Elliot,’ from the name of my stores,” he said.

“But the candidate you’re going to vote for is named ‘Eliot Rabin.’

“The people who know me well call me ‘Eliot,’” he added.

“The people who think they know me well call me ‘Peter.’

I answer to both.”

Asked to elaborate on the duality, Rabin — who grew up in Charleston attending Reform synagogues and now prays at Temple Emanu-El on Fifth Avenue — offers a ready answer.

“Think Yiddish, look British!” he said.

At stake in the race is a district that’s been Maloney’s political base since she was first elected to Congress in 1992.

The prize takes in the Upper East Side, Midtown, including Trump Tower, Union Square, Flatiron, Roosevelt Island, the East Village and parts of Chelsea, Brooklyn and Queens.

A 1964 graduate of The Citadel, the military college in his hometown, Rabin entered the Army, served in Germany during the Vietnam War, developed a fondness for guns but a loathing for the NRA, and to this day, treasures the rigor and discipline of service.

The returning veteran became a buyer at Bloomingdale’s on 59th Street, later designing menswear for Givenchy and Oscar de la Renta. But he never forgot the words of his father, Leon, who owned men’s stores in Charleston and once handed him a broom, saying, “If you can fold a cashmere sweater with your left hand and clean a toilet with your right hand,

In 1977, Rabin did just that.

He opened the first of what would eventually become five Paul Elliot shops on the East Side, and the business took off. But there were spectacular failures, too, and Rabin discusses them with a candor rare for any political candidate.

“I over-expanded the business, I burned up the money,” he said. “I had creative ideas for new retail businesses, but I was undercapitalized from the beginning.” He contracted, closed shops. Today, there are two left, including Peter Elliot Women at 1071 Madison Avenue.

“It’s my fault, 100 percent, my responsibility,” Rabin said.

There’s more: In 1984, he could have bought a building on Second Avenue at 80th Street where his first shop was housed. It was offered for $375,000, his lawyer and accountant felt it was worth $275,000. Eventually, it sold to a third party for $450,000.

A quarter-century later, it traded for $36 million.

“Biggest mistake I ever made in business,” Rabin said. He added, “I was smoking dope at the time, I wasn’t thinking straight.”

Why is he running? “I’m a patriot,” he said. “I’m tired of incivility. I’m tired of the socio-economic divisiveness, it’s extremely dangerous, and I think we can bring a little bit of manners back to the city.”

Civility doesn’t typically figure in rough-and-tumble, big-city politics, but it’s vital to Rabin: “I will always be a Southern boy,” he said. “I’m bringing Southern gentility to New York City.”

Admittedly, it’s an old-fashioned approach. “I profess to be a little bit of a gentleman,” he added. “I still say, ‘Yes, sir,’ and ‘Yes, ma’am,’ and I still open the door for a lady.”

At that point, Molly C. Braswell, his Mississippi-bred campaign manager, interjected, “You have no idea how much some of us really appre-

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Rabin continued, “The bottom line is this, when I compliment a woman in my elevator, and say, ‘Ma’am you look very nice,’ I get a thank you, and I really appreciate that.”

The Parkland school massacre was a catalyst for his decision to run, Rabin said, and he had been stirred to action by what he deems the “moral decay of our society, the moral bankruptcy of a lot of our leaders.”

He adds, “It’s not just about guns, it’s about a collective breakdown of our society.”

In Congress, he’d seek to reverse that. One approach would be to bring back the draft, he argues. “With no exemptions for Mr. Trump, no exemptions for Mr. Clinton, no exemptions for Harvard, Yale, Princeton or Podunk University,” he said. “All genders would serve.”

Under his plan, conscientious objectors could serve in two new branches of government, a Youth Reaction Corps, to supplement first responders, and a Domestic Peace Corps, to boost the poor and needy.

Another item on his agenda: “English should be our national language. Period,” he said. “Everybody in this country should learn a second language, but English is our native language, our primary language. It’s as simple as that.”

Like the incumbent he seeks to dislodge, Rabin has long been rooted in the Upper East Side. He lives near First Avenue at 81st Street, and his two favorite restaurants — Gracie Mews, an upscale diner, and A.O.C. East, a French bistro — are right around the corner.

A few blocks away, Fifth Avenue and 79th Street is his favorite street corner. “It’s a marvelous mix of local and tourists. They’re all in awe, peaceful and loving, as they enter the park or the Met, feasting along the way,” Rabin said. invreporter@strausnews.com

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ORIGIN STORIES In her lifetime, our long-time Upper East Side neighbor Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis had many careers: wife, mother, first lady, photographer, book editor and landmark preservationist. In fact, every time you walk around Columbus Circle, say a prayer at St. Barts, run around the Central Park Reservoir or get off the train at Grand Central, you have Jackie O. to thank. She saved them all.

For many of us, Grand Central Terminal, in particular, has become another Apple Store location, with lots of other shops we zip past to be on time for work.

We forget about its rich history, which began in 1913, and many newbies to our city as well as native millennials don’t even know we almost lost it.

In 1975, Jackie formed the Committee to Save Grand Central Station and participated in rallies to protect the BeauxArts terminal from demolition by a city developer who wanted to build yet another skyscraper.

She wrote a letter to our thenmayor, Abe Beame, urging him to fight the plan, saying it was “cruel to let our city die by degrees, stripped of all her proud moments, until there is nothing left of all her history and beauty ...”

To remind us of her efforts, there’s a plaque that hangs in Grand Central’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Foyer. There’s now also a new book of historical fiction that recounts the tireless hours spent to keep the terminal intact, and, in the course of its narrative, reveals interesting facts that even this native New Yorker wasn’t aware of.

“The Masterpiece” (Dutton) by Fiona Davis provides an inside look at Grand Central, including the Oyster Bar, Whispering Gallery, Campbell Apartment and, most importantly, the glamorous lost art school within the terminal, established in 1922 by Walter Leighton Clark together with John Singer Sargent, Edmund Greacen and others (it closed in 1944).

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS JUL 10 - 16, 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.

PJ Bernstein Deli & Restaurant

1215 Third Avenue

Tanoshi Tei

1374 York Ave

A Grade Pending (40) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. 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.

Texas Rotisserie

1315 1st Ave

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Gina La Fornarina

1016 Lexington Ave

Grade Pending (10) Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Ko Sushi

1329 2nd Ave

Grade Pending (23) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation.

Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.

Matsui II Sushi

411 E 70th St

Not Yet Graded (20) 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 not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Flip Sigi

1752 2nd Ave

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Roma Pizza

1572 3rd Ave

Grade Pending (19) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. 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.

San Matteo Takeaway

1731 2nd Ave

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A-Jiao Sichuan Chinese

1817 2nd Ave

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Dunkin’ Donuts

1391 Madison Avenue

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Domino’s Pizza

1993 3rd Ave

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Aloha Harlem

2245 1st Ave

Grade Pending (27) Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations.

Evidence of rats or live rats present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or nonfood areas. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Great Wall

2234 1 Avenue

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Bawarchi Indian Cuisine

1396 Madison Ave

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1000 5 Avenue

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1550 1 Avenue

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Subway

1661 1 Avenue

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1538 3rd Ave

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Au Jus

1762 1st Ave

Grade Pending (23) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation.

Evidence of rats or live rats present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Mid-Manhattan Library | 476 Fifth Ave. | 212-340-0863 | nypl.org

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Gina Americana

27 E 92nd St

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Sushi Suki

1577 York Ave

Grade Pending (24) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation.

Food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment.

Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Mitz (Mellow Yellow Coffee & Vibes)

1729 1st Ave

Sushi Ren

1584 2nd Ave

Grade Pending (18) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation.

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.

Grade Pending (27) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Filth flies or food/refuse/ sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or nonfood 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.

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LEGACY IN THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY Through family lore and personal testimony, a collection of 72 essays explores the myriad ways new immigrants have journeyed to America.

BY ALIZAH SALARIO

They came on cargo ships and transatlantic flights. They came to escape poverty, to seek a better life. They are Eastern European Jews with lives bleak as a Dickens tale whose grandson became the billionaire mayor of New York City. They are also the refugee fleeing persecution who became the first Vietnamese-American woman elected to Congress, and the son of Ugandan refugees who went to Harvard. They are Michael Bloomberg, Stephanie Murphy and Adem T. Bunkeddeko, Americans whose immigrant pasts are captured in “Journeys: An American Story,” a collection of 72 powerful essays edited by Andrew Tisch, co-chairman of the Loews Corporation, and Mary Skafidas, head of investor relations and corporate communications for Loews.

We caught up with Tisch, who told us how speaking to new immigrants galvanized the collection, why America is more mosaic than melting pot, and why he still believes in the American Dream.

You were inspired to put together this collection after speaking at a swearingin ceremony for new immigrants.

Tell me why.

I had recently joined the board of the New-York Historical Society, and among other things they have a very nice auditorium that they loan out to immigration and naturalization services about once a quarter. For one of the swearing-in ceremonies, they asked if I would offer greetings to 100 new immigrants from 41 countries. I said sure, I’d be happy to. As I preparing my remarks, which really had to do with how my family got here, I started to think

that unless you’re a Native American, everybody’s got a story about how they’ve got here. Then, when I attended the swearing-in of the new citizens, I looked around the room and saw 100 faces, and I said, “I’ll bet you every one of these people has an interesting story.” And I started to talk to people, and ask them “What was your story?” and everybody got very animated when they started to think about what their family’s story was.

The book is organized by theme. How did you decide on the structure of the collection?

We agonized for weeks about how to do it. I’m not sure whether I had the idea or whether Mary had the idea, but we said, why don’t we do it somewhat subjectively, by why people came here because that seems to cross all the boundaries.... So we have people who were seeking something, people who were fleeing something, people who were rescuing, the lovers, the survivors, the trailblazers.

Mary Skafidas and Andrew Tisch compiled and edited “Journeys: An American Story,” 72 essays that recount the histories of families’ arrival and experience in the United States. Photo courtesy of Loews Corp.

Given our current political climate, the section that I found really powerful was “The Undocumented.”

We’ve had undocumented [immigrants] for centuries. The derogatory term for Italian when we were growing up was WOP, if you remember. Do you know what stands for? It stands for “without papers.”

In the undocumented section, we have people who came over without the proper documents, [but] when you look at the contributions that they’ve made, it’s the same as everybody else.

The timing with your book is impeccable.

If I had this kind of timing in everything else I did, I’d be able to predict what tomorrow morning’s Wall Street Journal would look like. We knew immigration was a story.

We certainly had no idea that it was going to be the story it is right now. And quite frankly, I’d give up a significant amount of the potential sales for us not to have the problem.

There’s always been these two competing narratives about

America, one that we welcome immigrants to our shores, the other that we’re exclusionary at crucial times.

How do you think we’ll look back on this moment? Can you put it in historical context for us?

We’ve always been somewhat reluctant to let the stranger in. 2018 represents the centennial celebration of the Immigration Act of 1918, the year of the Asiatic Barred [Zone] Act, which sought to limit the number of Asians coming into this country. When the Italians came, we didn’t want them.

When they Jews came, we didn’t want them ... when every group came in, the groups themselves had to prove their worth, and they proved their worth by starting at the bottom and working hard, and by establishing themselves and becoming part of the great mosaic that is America. We’ve always been somewhat xenophobic, but never really unwelcoming.

Why do you refer to our country as a mosaic?

Everybody thinks of it as the melting pot, the ingredients all thrown in to have one desired taste. We look at it as a mosaic of rocks in different colors and textures and sizes. And the most important thing in any mosaic is the grout, the sand and glue that holds it all together, which is opportunity, and freedom, and justice. If you don’t have the right grout, all that you end up with is a pile of stones.

One common thread throughout these essays is that people identify as both American, and as a product of their or their family’s country of origin. Was that your intention?

It wasn’t our starting intention, but you know, I was aware growing up that I was both an American and a Jewish-American. That you can have more than one loyalty without being disloyal. These are all stories in the words of the writers, but they all bore that same thing out. You can have multiple identities, and still be every bit as American as everybody else is.

Do you think the American dream is still alive?

Absolutely. I think it’s alive. I think it’s got to be nurtured. We have to make sure that people realize that there is opportunity here. The American dream dies when the sense of opportunity dies. When you look at what’s been created here in terms of economic opportunities, look at some of the great companies that have been created by immigrants.... [W] hen you look at the ability to go from nothing to being worth billions in one generation, or the ability to have true freedom of expression, there’s no other place in the world. We have to make sure that we continue to offer that to people that live outside this country, and that we make them feel welcome here.... [W]e may seem like we’ve strayed a little right now, but we always seemed to correct ourselves. I have every confidence that we can do so now.

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PUBLIC AUCTION NOTICE OF SALE OF COOPERATIV APARTMENT SECURITY PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: By Virtue of a Default under Loan Security Agreement, and other Security Documents, Karen Loiacano, Auctioneer, License #DCA1435601 or Jessica L Prince-Clateman, Auctioneer, License #1097640 or Vincent DeAngelis Auctioneer, License #1127571 will sell at public auction, with reserve, on August 1, 2018, in the Rotunda of the New York County Courthouse, 60 Centre Street, New York NY 10007, commencing at 12:45pm for the following account: Eric Goldberg and Lisa Goldberg, as borrower, 144 shares of capital stock of 310 East 70th Street Apartment Corp. and all right, title and interest in the Proprietary Lease to 310 East 70th St, Apt. 6E, New York, NY 10021 Sale held to enforce rights of Citibank, NA, who reserves the right to bid. Ten percent (10%) Bank/Certified check required at sale, balance due at closing within thirty (30) days.

The Cooperative Apartment will be sold “AS IS” and possession is to be obtained by the purchaser.

Pursuant to Section 201 of the Lien Law you must answer within 10 days from receipt of this notice in which redemption of the above captioned premises can occur. There is presently an outstanding debt owed to Citibank, NA (lender) as of the date of this notice in the amount of $292,521.80.

This figure is for the outstanding balance due under UCC1, which was secured by Financing Statement in favor of Citibank, N.A. recorded on September 16, 2005 under CRFN 2005000517302. Please note this is not a payoff amount as additional interest/fees/penalties may be incurred. This sale is subject to a first lien held by Astoria Federal Savings and Loan. You must contact the undersigned to obtain a final payoff quote or if you dispute any information presented herein.

The estimated value of the

above captioned premises is $1,050,000.00.

Pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code Article 9-623, the above captioned premises may be redeemed at any time prior to the foreclosure sale. You may contact the undersigned and either pay the principal balance due along with all accrued interest, late charges, attorney fees and out of pocket expenses incurred by Citibank, NA. and the undersigned, or pay the outstanding loan arrears along with all accrued interest, late charges, attorney fees and out of pocket expenses incurred

by Citibank, NA, and the undersigned, with respect to the foreclosure proceedings. Failure to cure the default prior to the sale will result in the termi-

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If you have received a discharge from the Bankruptcy Court, you are not personally liable for the payment of the loan and this notice is for compliance and information purposes only. However, Citibank, NA, still has the right under the loan security agreement and other collateral documents to foreclosure on the shares of stock and rights under the proprietary lease allocated to the cooperative apartment.

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