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THE DOGS OF PARK AVENUE PUP ART Portraits of canine companions of King Charles, Queens Victoria and Barbara and George H.W. Bush will grace new midtown museum BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN

Developer Peter Kalikow (center left) in front of his building at 101 Park Avenue, which will be the new home of the American Kennel Club and its Museum of the Dog. At far left is AKC President and CEO Dennis Sprung, with AKC executives, dog owners, dog handlers, and of course, dogs. Photo: Nancy Epstein / H.J. Kalikow & Co. LLC

Park Avenue is going to the dogs — literally. Foxhounds, deerhounds, mastiffs, salukis, clumber spaniels, long-haired terriers, Great Danes, Japanese Chins, Alaskan Malamutes and English Setters — or at least their artistic representations — will soon occupy a spanking new home on East 40th Street. It’s a mere trot from Grand Central. And it’s poised to become the city’s new Purebred Central. Why there? As is so often the case in New York, there’s a deeply simple two-word answer: Real estate. The American Kennel Club just signed a lease for 60,000 square feet of space in the Kalikow Building at 101

Park Ave. in midtown. As part of the deal, it is taking 18,500 square feet in which it will house a cultural treasure, the AKC Museum of the Dog. Billed as one of the only museums in the world dedicated to a concept that lives forever – “love and devotion” — it is a one-of-a-kind collection of great canine paintings created by animalloving artists who capture noble and soulful dogs, and the good cheer they bring their owners. “The mission is to share with the dog-loving population the values and the beauty of the human-canine bond through art,” said Gina DiNardo, executive secretary of the American Kennel Club. “We’re thrilled to be coming back to New York and bringing with us the largest collection of fine dog art in the world,” she added. Coming back? Yes, then known as the Dog Museum of America, it was founded in 1982 in the New York Life Insurance Building, at 51 Madison

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Be sure to take your afternoon coffee break outdoors on Monday — you’ll be in for a spectacle in the sky. The total solar eclipse of 2017 will blanket 48 states in at least partial darkness for a good chunk of midday on the 21st. Seen from New York City, the moon will cover just a bit more than 70 percent of the sun — not total darkness, but still an impressive sight. The rare event will start at 1:23 p.m. in New York and end around 4 p.m. EST, but peak time will be at 2:44 p.m. when the shadow will be largest, according to the American Museum of Natural History. While this is a must-see event, your mother’s warning holds true: do not look directly into the sun! There are safe ways to witness the eclipse without damaging your eyes, and your regular sunglasses won’t cut it. Instead, don special specs: “Eclipse glasses ensure that you are fully protected from all the harmful rays of the sun so you can stare at it for a lengthy amount of time,� says Jackie Faherty,

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG NOTHING TO SNEEZE AT

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A local allergy doctor wasn’t immune to the actions of a bad employee. A 38-year-old Yonkers woman working for an allergy and immunology doctor located at 121 East 60th St. was arrested on Thursday, August 10, and charged with grand larceny, after an investigation found she had used her employer’s business credit card to make unauthorized purchases amounting to $125,000 for her own beneďŹ t. Police said she had charged up a storm at businesses including Bloomingdale’s, JetBlue, Delta Air Lines, Marriott Hotels and Louis Vuitton.

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SAINT’S SINNER There are thieves, and then there’s the creep taking money from church donation boxes. At 4:33 p.m. on Wednesday, August 9, police got a call from St. Vincent Ferrer church at 869 Lexington Ave. alerting them to a man who had been damaging their donation boxes and taking money from them. Police found the man, a 35-year-old repeat offender from the Bronx, around the corner on East 65th Street. He was had envelopes containing cash and checks made out to the church. He was also found to have metal wires with tape on the ends that he used to remove donations from the boxes. He

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was arrested and charged with criminal mischief, possession of burglar’s tools, criminal trespass and other offenses. Apparently, the man had quite a record, having been arrested more than 30 times since 2000, police said.

PHILLY PHINK A pickpocket didn’t waste much time putting a credit card he had stolen to work. Between 1:45 and 2:24 p.m. Thursday, August 10, a 36-year-old Philadelphia man tried to buy merchandise at Bloomingdale’s using someone else’s credit card. Police arrived and arrested the man, charging him with grand larceny. He had stolen the cards from the wallet of a 32-yearold woman who had been lunching inside SeraďŹ na at 33 East 61st St. a little earlier. Stolen and recovered was

a Chanel bag he tried to purchase in Bloomie’s valued at $6,000.

THEFT CHARGES FOR DELIVERY MAN A Fresh Direct delivery man was arrested after being caught doing more than delivering. Police nabbed a 24-year-old man from Brooklyn on Thursday, August 10, after determining that he’d been involved in three robberies in the same Upper East Side neighborhood. In the ďŹ rst incident, which took place after Monday, October 10, 2016, a 44-year-old Fresh Direct customer living at 404 East 76th St. discovered that a pair of cufflinks valued at $500 were missing from his bedroom. In the second case, which occurred at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 6, a 33-year-old nanny inside 300

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LAUREN SCORIN’ East 71st St. left her employer’s door unlocked while she went for a walk with their child. When she returned, the door was wide open, a Fresh Direct package was sitting by the door, and jewelry valued at $23,155 was gone. In the most recent incident, which happened sometime after 4:20 p.m. on Monday, July 3, a woman taking her dog for a walk saw an apartment door ajar inside 315 East 69th St. and witnessed a man leaving the apartment. The resident later realized that jewelry valued at $400 was missing.

It appears that one Ralph Lauren store needs to beef up security. At 3:48 p.m. on Thursday, August 10, a 47-year-old man entered the high-end shop at 867 Madison Ave., taking 20 Purple Label items totaling $9,900 and leaving without paying. Then on the same day at 5:52 p.m. two men entered the same store and took a Lauren handbag valued at $2,950. Police are investigating the two incidents.

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SOME LEAD FOUND IN 83% OF CITY SCHOOLS’ WATER HAZARD DOE protocols call for immediate remediation when outlets are identified BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

Tests of every public school in the city during the 2016-17 year revealed that 83 percent of buildings had at least one water sample with lead levels above the statemandated action level of 15 parts per billion. Roughly 8 percent of all samples showed elevated results, according to the city’s Department of Education. Under DOE protocol, drinking and cooking water outlets with elevated lead levels are immediately taken out of service and subjected to remediation, which includes “flushing all or part of the system to eliminate water sitting in pipes overnight, replacing equipment and keeping affected drinking and cooking water outlets out of service until follow-up testing shows those outlets no longer have elevations.” In an April 2017 letter to families and staff, DOE Deputy Chancellor Elizabeth A. Rose said the department’s testing “demonstrates that we do not have any systemic issues with water in our school buildings and our remediation protocol is effective.” There has never been a

known case of lead poisoning due to water in New York City schools, Rose wrote in the letter. Exposure to lead can result in a variety of harmful effects, including high blood pressure, kidney damage and infertility. Because they are still developing, children are particularly susceptible to the effects of lead exposure, which can negatively impact growth and brain development. Children absorb up to 50 percent of ingested lead, while adults typically absorb 10 percent, according to the World Health Organization. According to the DOE, elevated lead levels found in some recent tests are likely not reflective of levels seen throughout the day, as samples were conducted on water that had sat in pipes overnight. Lead concentrations drop sharply, the DOE says, after faucets are first used in the morning and stagnant water is cleared from the pipes. The graphic accompanying this article shows the percentage of water samples in which elevated lead levels were found in school buildings on the Upper East Side during 2017 testing. This data was released by the city’s Department of Education following a Freedom of Information Law request filed by Straus News. Buildings in which no elevated samples were found have been omitted.

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PERCENTAGE OF ELEVATED SAMPLES FOUND IN UPPER EAST SIDE SCHOOL BUILDINGS Central Park East High School, Central Park East I, East Harlem Scholars Academy Charter School II

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New York Center for Autism Charter School, DREAM Charter School

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The Lexington Academy, Adult and Continuing Education

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P.S. 083 Luis Munoz Rivera, The Bilingual Bicultural School M.S. 224 Manhattan East School for Arts & Academics, Success Academy Charter School - Harlem 3, Renaissance Charter High School for Innovation

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P.S. 108 Assemblyman Angelo Del Toro Educational Complex, Central Park East II

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P.S. 138, Esperanza Preparatory Academy, Tag Young Scholars

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P.S. 38 Roberto Clemente, Harlem Prep Charter School

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P.S. 146 Ann M. Short, P.S. M169 - Robert F. Kennedy

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P.S. 171 Patrick Henry, Central Park East II

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Young Women’s Leadership School

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J.H.S. 167 Robert F. Wagner, District 2 Pre-K Center

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P.S. 183 Robert L. Stevenson

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P.S. 290 Manhattan New School P.S. 77 Lower Lab School, P.S. 198 Isador E. Ida Straus East Side Elementary School P.S. 267

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Julia Richman Education Complex

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Life Sciences Secondary School

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Only buildings with elevated samples reported in this chart. Graphic by Christina Scotti

P.S. 527 - East Side School for Social Action

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MAGGIE’S MAGIC GARDEN OASIS How one woman turned a garbagefilled lot on the UES into a lush space for plants, herbs and fruit trees BY MICHELE WILLENS

Maria Magdalena Amurrio wakes up most days at four a.m., walks next door, pulls out her hoses and hydrants, and starts watering. This takes a few hours, after which she quickly showers and is out by 6:30 to go to her real job — cleaning homes. What she leaves behind is an enchanting and rather awesome neighborhood park. One that carries her name, as well it should.

Maggie, as she’s known, moved to Lexington Avenue (between 100th and 101st) from Bolivia in 1989, and soon after, noticed the burned out, garbage-filled lot alongside her building. She started planting seeds and pulling weeds, even when the city considered forcing her to stop. Maggie’s Magic Garden (now part of the city’s Green Thumb project) is coming up on 24 years of flourishing plants, herbs, vegetables and fruit trees. (Even beehives doing their thing.) This hidden gem represents one woman’s determination to bring some velvety green to a decidedly brown and pockmarked city street. Just try to find anyone in East Harlem who isn’t familiar with, and grateful for, Maggie’s garden. Why does this warm, if understand-

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ably weary, immigrant mother of three do this? “A garden like this, it reminds me of my beloved Bolivia,” she says, “and I believe in taking care of the earth.“ The commitment is full-time and monetarily challenging. At one point, for example, she needed to raise $12,000 for generators. Maggie has her wish list: “We need a greenhouse to keep our seedlings during the spring, and we need ramps to allow access to our visitors in wheelchairs.” Though most funds have come, she says, “from my own pocket,” this is truly a community endeavor. Neighbors help to do the work, to donate, to enjoy the fresh goodies, to relax with a book, even to hold a meeting. “It has been harvested by volunteers,” says Maggie. Sure enough, the day I visited, three folks came by. Rafael Mutis has been helping out for the last few months, happy to play even a small role in Maggie’s blooming miracle. “This one will be white, this will be pink,” he says, proudly pointing out lilies of the valley which will arrive next spring. Justin Samuels, who used to live in the neighborhood, stopped by and was hugged by a surprised Maggie. A screenwriter and recent graduate of Columbia, Samuels had volunteered regularly, he said, “because I liked gardening and had always lived in rural areas. I weeded, I laid down mulch, I did everything.” “This is the pride of the neighborhood!” exclaimed another frequent helper, Julio De La Paz, who came by to pick up some fresh mint for his meal

Maria Magdalena Amurrio in the garden. Photo: Michele Willens that night. Right now, there are peaches and figs on the trees, perfectly purple eggplants bursting forth, and tomatoes turning from green to red. The bees are buzzing and Maggie says the locals are eagerly awaiting the sweet result. To call this place lush is no exaggeration, all the more unusual because it is smack in the middle of a mixed bag of eateries and barbershops. The restaurants are supporters of the garden, sending over wine and foods for the special events Maggie occasionally hosts. (Labor Day will be one.) Kiera Jerez, a cashier across the street, lit up when asked about Maggie’s garden. “It’s amazing,” she says. “I was born and raised here and that block looks completely different. It’s

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a place for people to sit and for kids to experience nature.” Then there are the passers-by who stumble upon this unexpected explosion of greenery. People like Margo and Dan Sinclair, who live on 94th and were enroute to a pizza restaurant in the gradually gentrifying area. They were given a tour of the garden by a volunteer and left behind a generous donation. The experience not only surprised them, but seemingly moved them to wax poetic. “What is a weed?” said Dan, a professional sculptor, after their visit. “It is a plant whose virtues have never been discovered. This applies to Maggie’s vision for an abandoned trash-strewn empty lot.”

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“Alexander and Diogenes” is an undated and whimsical work that was described as in the style of Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, the famed canine painter also known for his many imitators. Image: American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog

DOGS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Ave., where AKC, itself founded in 1884, then had it headquarters. It moved to St. Louis in 1987, was renamed the AKC Museum of the Dog in 1995, and now, it is coming home. Radio KMOX in Missouri lamented the move as a “doggone shame.” But for New Yorkers, a dog-centric art gallery that showcases dogs throughout history in portraits and sculptures is pretty doggone great: “The American Kennel Club has been around for 133 years,” marveled Richard T. Nasti, executive vice president of H.J. Kalikow & Co., LLC, which built and owns the 49-story tower. “They’re the gold standard in pedigree, and we like to think of our building as the gold standard in commercial real estate, so it’s a good match.” The nonprofit AKC, which runs the world’s largest purebred dog registry and is the governing body for some 22,000 dog shows a year, will move its headquarters, now at 260 Madison Ave., into the building’s fifth floor by the fall of 2018, along with as many as 100 employees. By early 2019, the museum will occupy contiguous space spread out on the ground floor and third floor. The Kalikow Building doesn’t have a second floor, Nasti explained, because the soaring lobby is roughly 24 feet tall. The key question of course: Will dogs be allowed into a museum that is dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and interpretation of the art, artifacts and literature depicting man’s best friend through the ages? Well, don’t expect to see the American English Coonhound or the Wire-haired Pointing Griffon cantering through the

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“I Hear a Voice” is an 1896 masterpiece by the English-American canine portraitist Maud Alice Earl (1864-1943). Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the Dog and could be displayed in the museum’s new home at 101 Park Avenue. Image: American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog

corporate lobby. But the museum will have a private dedicated entrance on East 40th Street, and details of canine access are still being worked out, both parties say. DiNardo said dogs will be permitted “for special events,” and Brandi Hunter, an AKC vice president, adds, “We are working on this.” Said Nasti: “We have a very nice relationship with them, and we have an understanding on a limited basis, but we need to work out details.” The museum’s collection of 2,500 artworks includes paintings, prints, drawings, watercolors, sculptures, bronzes, porcelain figurines and a wide array of decorative arts objects. There is also a dog library with 3,000-plus historic books and dog-related publications that depict the breeds, animal artists and the history of dog shows, as well as classic research works, like the 1890 “Illustrated Book of the Dog” and the 1910 “Dogs and All About Them.” Among the showpieces of the collection: • A portrait of King Charles II of England, along with his siblings

and their dogs, before he ascended to the throne in 1660. The dogloving monarch gave his name to the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, his preferred pet. • A 1990 painting of Mildred Kerr Bush, better known as “Millie,” the pet English Springer Spaniel, beloved of Barbara and President George H.W. Bush. Entitled “Millie on the South Lawn,” the work is by the contemporary American pet portraitist Christine Merrill. Millie, born in 1985, died in 1997. • An 1839 masterpiece called “Deerhound & Recumbent Foxhound,” also known simply as “Two Dogs,” an oil on canvas by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, the 19th-century British canine painter who was a regular fixture in the court of dog-loving Queen Victoria. • An 1896 classic, “I Hear a Voice,” by the English-American canine portraitist Maud Alice Earl, and a 1920 work, “His Majesty’s Clumber Spaniels at Sandringham,” by Reuben Ward Binks, who worked on royal commissions for King George V, is also featured. “We’re all dog lovers here, and we’re very excited to have them in our building,” Nasti said.

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“Two Dogs” is an 1839 classic by the British animal painter Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, who specialized in dogs and horses. It is part of the collection of the Museum of the Dog, which is moving from St. Louis to 101 Park Avenue. Image: American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog

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THE NEW YORK COMMANDMENTS LEX AND THE CITY BY ALEXA DIBENEDETTO

One might say that every city has its own collective personality, made unique by the collective attributes of its population or the geographical highlights or, I don’t know, its most tasty street food or mass-produced export. That being said, what makes up New York City’s personality? Or, alternatively, what makes you a real New Yorker? People say that the New York lifestyle, the constant energy that fuels the city that never sleeps, is unparalleled. They say that moving here will change you - that you adapt to survive. Swept into the push and pull of a culture driven by constant stimulation, bustling streets and unceasingly busy schedules, things begin to alter. You realize that, upon finally finding a moment of peace and quiet, you feel oddly uncomfortable. You find it difficult to have a “lazy night in” when you’re surrounded by so much opportunity — restaurant openings and concerts and book signings and random Italian street festivals. You develop a more adventurous palate – it begins when your friends invite you out for some authentic Japanese street food, and you soon find yourself encouraging others to try frog and duck liver croquettes and something described as “fried dough balls filled with minced octopus.” You begin seeing a therapist — not for anything severe, but to vent about the constant barrage of stimuli that is New York living, in addition to your feelings about nasty coworkers and the plot twists on the television show you “hate” but refuse to stop watching. Upon coming in contact with some odd scenario, you are quick to say (in the most passé and unaffected way possible) that nothing surprises you anymore. Alternatively, you are often very surprised, as New York is just chock-full of surprises. All things considered, being a New Yorker is a full-time job. Below is a

NYC Commandment 2C: Consider as urban yoga the pretzel-like positions you assume in order to fit onto busy trains. Photo: Susan Sermoneta, via flickr list of commandments by which we live. If you’re new to this town – hello! Fear not, you will be this crazy soon enough, but it’s a painless process and you’ll barely feel it. If you’re already a New Yorker through and through, if you’ve earned your stripes and your hands are figuratively callused by years of battling subway doors and awful relationships and occasional food-poisoning from 3 a.m. takeout orders – hello! You’ll relate to this list fairly easily, I’m sure. 1. Thou shalt not ask for directions. I have lived here for the majority of my life, and, despite this, I often have no clue where the heck I’m meant to be going. Google Map it, or you might

as well wear a fanny pack and an I <3 NY T-shirt. 2. Thou shall always allow people off the train before getting on yourself. This is just one of many rules of train etiquette — an entire guidebook could be written for appropriate train behavior. Other important rules include A) You may scoff when someone holds the train door, but you may also do this yourself. B) No food shall be eaten on the train, aside from an occasional, not-too-crunchy granola bar. C) You will be forced to assume elaborate, human-pretzel like positions in order to fit onto busy trains – we all do it, just consider it urban yoga. 3. Thou may OK to be overzealous in

your change of dress and the slightest sign of a new season. You will be judged. Shake it off. This is New York – you could go to the grocery store in a cat costume, and people would assume you’ve got a very good reason for it. 4. Thou shall not scream upon seeing a rat. At some point, many (but not all) New Yorkers become unfazed to rats scurrying in their periphery. They’re pretty gross, but they’re not coming near you, and their certainly not disappearing. Please do not scream, or shriek, or jump in the way of those who are walking unnecessarily fast to their next destination.

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5. Thou shall be, like, totally besties with your neighborhood bodega guy. Every real New Yorker hits up their local bodega on a regular basis. It’s a part of the routine – you go for the over-the-counter banter just as much as you go for eggs, milk, cigarettes or condoms. Your bodega guy will be nice to you when you’re in a rush or having an off day or hungover and nearly incoherent. Be nice to him. Crack a joke. Pet his cat. 6. Thou shall always carry some cash. Always have at least ten dollars in your wallet. In case emergency, of course, but also because hipster dive bars often don’t accept credit cards, and happy hour is important. 7. Thou shall never “upstream” others when hailing a cab We are a tough and scrappy people, but we are not uncivilized. If someone else gets a cab before you, accept defeat. 8. Thou must keep the noise in your apartment to a minimum on weekdays. Ethically, this is the mark of a person who is both considerate and courteous. Logistically, this is a strategic move to avoid retaliation in the form of loud Wednesday night parties across the hall and passive aggressive notes taped to your door. 9. Thou shall spend too much on food. Sure, you may be a great cook. You may be a five-star chef. But so is David Chang, and Daniel Boulud, and the fella in the kitchen at your local midnight dumpling spot. Eat out often. Ignore your crying wallet. 10. It’s OK to be overwhelmed. You probably have a lot of feelings. Being a New Yorker can be hectic, but you learn to live for the buzz of a crazy day and the reward of getting through it. You’ll welcome the bumps and the hiccups just as much as those rare days when everything goes your way. Sure, you may be caffeine-addicted, sleep-deprived and constantly in motion, but the tradeoff is that you’re almost never bored. I don’t know about you, but I’d take that tradeoff any day.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR CHEROKEE STATION POST OFFICE

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I want to dispel a rumor regarding the beloved Cherokee Station post office. There are no plans to close the post ofďŹ ce [1483 York Avenue, at 79th Street]. Portions of Cherokee Station were briefly closed while repairs were made on the roof, but the repairs are completed and the post office will continue to remain open. Recently, Cherokee Station was notified by its landlord that necessary repairs had to be made on the roof, and that it would be unsafe for post office to keep the service windows open during the repairs. The postal service kept the front part of the main room open so that patrons would be able to use the self-service electronic kiosks and stationed mobile units outside the building to service customers. I have been assured that the repairs have been completed and service is now back to normal. One of my ďŹ rst successes as a member of Congress was persuading the U.S. Postal Service to open the Cherokee Station post office. Since then, it has been much in demand and a great benefit for the community. I will continue to work to make sure that the Cherokee Station post office continues to serve this area. There is no comparable post office nearby, and thousands of people rely on Cherokee Station for their postal needs.

Readers responded to Douglas Feiden’s request for suggestions about where they would like CityBenches in Manhattan (“The Benching of Manhattan,� August 3 - 9):

Carolyn B. Maloney Member of Congress

I am a visiting volunteer and my senior would love a bench at Eighth Avenue and 25th Street, if it’s possible. She likes to shop at the Gristedes on 26th and Eighth, but she has osteoporosis and has to stop frequently to rest. There is nowhere to rest after 23rd and Eighth. The Gristedes at 22nd Street doesn’t always have what she likes in stock, and the 26th Street store is much larger. I can always pick things up for her, but she likes to be able to do as much as she can herself. We take full advantage of the benches in the neighborhood. It’s wonderful to live in a city that has so much to offer its seniors. Marilyn Nourse Chelsea I live at the intersection of 86th and Second, with (finally!) new bus stops and the new Q train. I recently noticed a nice new bench on the northwestside of Second and 86th, just north of the bus stop on Second. A happy surprise at an excellent location. An even more necessary location is on the southeast side of 86th and Second, somewhere near the new Q elevator and the new eastbound 86th Street bus stop. It’s a bumped-out sidewalk, but there is yet no bus

shelter, therefore a big need for a bench that will serve two purposes — the bus and the subway, and the many, many seniors in the neighborhood (many of whom use the elevator at that location). We could probably use one by the shelterless westbound 86th Street bus stop on the northwest corner of 86th as well.

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Dayle Henshel Upper East Side A bench is needed at the corner of 53rd and First Avenue. It is a local bus stop. If the city will not provide a bus shelter, a bench would be lovely just the same. Another location, on Third Avenue between 53rd and 54th Street, would be an ideal location for a bench. It is a local bus stop with no shelter. Alfred N Bonnabel East Side My request, my plea: a CityBench installed at the bus stop, York at 69th, NewYork—Presbyterian Hospital. There is a sheltered bus stop across the street on York, west side. This has been irksome to me for some time. I did get in touch with DOT and their reply was �no room.� Come on, there is room. Figure it out! It is a muchneeded rest stop. It’s next to a hospital, for goodness sakes! Fingers crossed and I will be optimistic. Mary Ramniceanu East Side

$31 Billion of the City’s $85 Billion budget goes to the Department of Education. What has it bought us? NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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▲ COCKTAILS AND JAZZ Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2 East 91st St. 6 p.m. $13 online/$15 at door The Juilliard Jazz Ensemble will perform music from New Orleans from the 20s and 30s in Cooper Hewitt’s Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden. Held rain or shine. 212-849-8400. cooperhewitt. org

ART AND ACTIVIST BADGES Poor Richard’s Playground, East 109th St., between Second and Thirds Aves. 11 a.m. Free Inspired by the Museum of the City of New York’s “Activist New York� exhibit, families with children ages 6-12 are invited to create a badge championing a cause they care about. Think voting rights, wages, religious tolerance and access to education. 917-492-3371. mcny.org

Fri 18 THE DUCHESS OF CARNEGIE HALL New York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West 10 a.m. $21 Discover the iconic portrait photography of Editta Sherman, who worked and lived in one of the artist studios above Carnegie Hall for more than 60 years. The “Dutchess� captured famed writers, poets, sports heroes — and the colorful bohemian lifestyle of days gone by. 212-873-3400. nyhistory.org

DAVE CHAPPELLE AND TREVOR NOAH Radio City Music Hall, 1260 Sixth Ave. 8:30 p.m. $240+ Fresh off the success of two Netix specials, the legendary Dave Chappelle holds court in a residency at Radio City, where he is joined by “The Daily Showâ€? host Trevor Noah. 212.465.6741 radiocity.com

Sat 19 SATURDAY SKETCHING Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Ave. 10 a.m. Free with museum admission Teens are invited to explore the Guggenheim’s architectural shapes and spaces through drawing activities in the museum’s galleries. Drawing boards, paper and pencils are available on loan. 212-423-3500. guggenheim.org

NYC HISTORY WALKING TOUR New York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West 11 a.m. $28 Learn about the church that was used as a horse stable during the British occupation and see where Theodore Dreiser lived after writing “An American Tragedy.� The city’s legends come alive on this docent-led tour. 212-873-3400. nyhistory.org

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Sun 20 ETHIOPIAN JAZZ IN CENTRAL PARK SummerStage, NYC New York 5 p.m. Free The legendary father of EthioJazz Mulatu Astatke makes his SummerStage debut with female songstresses Alsarah and the Nubatones and Emel Mathlouthi. The latter is also known for her role as a leading artist in the Arab Spring. 212-360-2777. cityparksfoundation.org/ summerstage

▲YOUTH WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL Gertrude Ederle Recreation Center, 232 West 60th St. 1:00 p.m. Free, NYC Parks recreation center membership required Scrimmage against other wheelchair basketball players, or if it’s your first time on the court, learn the rules of the game. Hosted by New York Rolling Fury. 212-360-3341. nycgovparks. org

Mon 21 TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE American Museum of Natural History, 79th Street Transverse and West 81st Street Noon. Free with museum admission

On Aug. 21, the moon will pass between the earth and the sun, completely blocking out the sun for about three minutes in parts of North America. Learn more about this rare celestial event and watch NASA’s live broadcast. (New Yorkers will be able to see the moon cover about 75 percent of the sun.) 212-769-5100 amnh.org

BILLY JOEL AT THE GARDEN Madison Square Garden 8 p.m. $185+ The music icon takes the stage once again at the Garden, where he’s the arena’s first-ever music franchise, meaning the piano man will play a concert a month there as long as there is demand. 212-465-6741. thegarden. com

Tue 22 THE ART OF THE MOVING IMAGE Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Ave. 3 p.m. Free with museum admission The final installment in the Guggenheim’s summer film series, “Exploring Abstraction in Motion,” examines how the techniques and ideas practiced by artists remain relevant to contemporary moving image production. 212-423-3500. guggenheim.org

SUMMER SANDBOX SERIES Carl Schurz Park, in the playground at 84th St. and East End Ave. 4 p.m. Free Get groovin’ at this sing-along for kids of all ages. Led by pianist, vocalist, composer and educator Brenda Earle Stokes. 212-459-4455. carlschurzparknyc.org

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ON THE FRONT LINES — AND THE HOME FRONT The Met Fifth Avenue hosts a haunting show of prints and drawings commemorating the First World War BY VAL CASTRONOVO

“World War I and the Visual Arts” at The Met is the third major museum exhibit devoted to the Great War to open in Manhattan since April, the month Congress declared war on Germany 100 years ago and the U.S. entered the fray. While the Museum of the City of New York has focused on propaganda with a colorful poster show and the New-York Historical Society is featuring John Singer Sargent’s “Gassed,” among other epic paintings, The Met is highlighting smaller-scale prints, drawings and photographs of the war’s impact, drawn mostly from its collection. With more than 130 items, including books, periodicals, medals, helmets and a gas mask, the exhibit showcases well-known and lesser-known artists alike, such as Sargent, George Bellows, Edward Steichen, Marsden Hartley, Pierre Bonnard, Fernand Léger, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Käthe Kollwitz, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson and many more. British painter-printmaker C.R.W.

IF YOU GO WHAT: “World War 1 and the Visual Arts” WHERE: The Met Fifth Avenue, 1000 Fifth Ave. (at 82nd Street) WHEN: through January 7 www.metmuseum.org Nevinson (1889-1946), one of the most famous visual chroniclers of World War I, served as an ambulance driver and medical orderly before being appointed an official war artist in 1917. His prints are sprinkled throughout the show and are among the most haunting items here. He used Futurist and Cubist techniques to produce works that evoke the mechanical aspects of the conflict, the first truly modern war with airplanes, machine guns, tanks, poison gas and horrific casualties. Unlike propagandists who portrayed the war as a grand adventure leading to a better future, Nevinson refused to paint a rosy picture. As he wrote in his autobiography, he created images “without pageantry, without glory, and without the over-coloured heroic that had made up the tradition of all war paintings up to this time.... No man saw pageantry in the trenches.” He used repetitive imagery to convey

Käthe Kollwitz. German, Kaliningrad (Königsberg) 1867–1945 Moritzburg. “The Parents,” 1921–22. Print. Woodcut on heavy cream wove paper. Image: 13 7/8 × 16 7/8 in. (35.2 × 42.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Bertha and Isaac Liberman Foundation, Inc. 2017

John Singer Sargent. American, Florence 1856–1925 London. “Wheels in Vault,” 1918. Watercolor, graphite, and wax on white wove paper. 15 3/8 x 20 13/16 in. (39.1 x 52.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950 the bleakness and tedium of life on the front, producing powerful scenes of soldiers marching, resting and heading for the trenches. One of his more classically styled pictures, “The Road from Arras to Bapaume” (1918), set in the Somme region, is an elevated view of tiny troops cutting across a vast battle-scarred landscape, whose scale underscores the men’s frailty. American expat John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) also served as an official war artist for the British army. He shadowed soldiers in northern France and Belgium for several months in 1918, creating works that mainly allude to the war’s brutality but avoid addressing it directly or very explicitly. Three sketches and two watercolors are on view, including “Wheels in Vault” (1918), a desolate rubble-strewn picture of a bombed-out church. The show’s organizers speculate that the scene must have resonated with Sargent, whose niece and inspiration, Rose-Marie Ormond, died at a concert at a church in Paris that was bombed by the Germans in March 1918. Ninety others perished in the raid. Otto Dix (1891-1969), a volunteer machine-gunner for the German army

who fought in the Battle of the Somme, took an entirely different approach. No airbrushing here. Seriously wounded in the war, Dix created graphic images of the toll on man and his environment, producing a landmark series of 51 prints, “The War” (1923-24), to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the outbreak of hostilities. Considered one of the most important visual responses to war in the last century, the portfolio is displayed in full here, arranged in three long rows. The artist’s pacifist sympathies are evident from the gruesome, war-ishell depictions of dead soldiers, bugeyed wounded soldiers and soldiers about to be buried alive. An eyewitness to the horror, Dix doesn’t hold back. Men with blackened faces, victims of a gas attack, lie dead on the ground. A human skull is crawling with worms. Corpses are caught on barbed wire — and a skeleton-faced sentry, still holding his weapon, sits lifeless in a trench, clothing ripped apart and body decomposing. Dix sketched in place, but also from memory and from photographs. While many war artists focused on the combatants and their agony, oth-

ers focused on the agony of those left behind — mothers and fathers, wives and children. German artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) lost her 18-yearold son, Peter, just one month after the war began. In 1919, after the armistice, she began work on “War,” a series documenting the suffering on the home front. As she wrote in her journal while she labored over the very black woodcut “The Parents” (1921-22): “Done the sheet ‘Parents’ over again.... Far too bright and hard and distinct. Pain is totally dark.” The image of a husband and wife collapsed in grief was later adapted into a sculpture in memory of her son. Kollwitz’s “Mothers” (1919), a lithograph from the same series, meanwhile pays special tribute to the maternal bond. A tight image of mournful mothers clutching youngsters, the piece features the artist at its center, huddling with her two sons. “I have drawn the mother who embraces her two children,” she wrote in a letter dated February 1919. “I am with my own children, born from me, my Hans and Peterchen.”

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HAPPINESS, ON SALE GRAYING NEW YORK BY MARCIA EPSTEIN

It seems that landlords have found a way to get back at rent-controlled tenants, who have been getting low or no rent increases in the past few years. For many years, landlords were getting 5 percent to 9 percent increases in one- and two-year leases. But lately, oneyear leases have been 0 percent and two-year leases 2 percent. Landlords are unhappy. And so ... here comes the MCI (major capital improvement). The landlord claims that he’s “fixed the /boiler,” “upgraded the elevators,” “redone the terraces,” “repaired the roof” and improved this and that and the other thing. And so, hello to the MCI, a monthly charge per room that is added to the rent and goes on into perpetuity. In other words, the MCI goes on even after the cost of the claimed work has been paid. If a building has a strong board of directors and good lawyers, it fights the MCI in the courts, sometimes for years. Landlords, of course, don’t like rent stabilized tenants. They want to get market rates for apartments, and if they can’t get us out, they at least want substantial raises on lease renewals. Since they’re not getting that lately, we have to pay one way or another. My

building is involved in a new MCI fight right now, and we’ve got a great board and smart lawyers. Here’s to justice winning over greed. Here’s to plain old fashioned fairness and caring about people rather than profit. Most rent stabilized tenants are not wealthy, many are elderly and sick. In my opinion, MCI’s are an underhanded way to get back what the Rent Stabilization Board “took away.” Thumbs down on these greedy landlords. And with the money we tenants save, we will buy ... happiness. According to study published last month in “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” money can in fact help secure that elusive quality — if the money is used to save you time. According to the article, 6,000 people in the U.S., Canada, Denmark and the Netherlands agreed that buying services that save time gives them more pleasure than buying things. For example, housekeeping, delivery services and taking taxis make people a little bit happier than buying something material. Paying people to do what you don’t like to do, and what is time-consuming can add brightness to a person’s life. Still, only 28 percent of those surveyed spent money to save time. One of the researchers, using these findings, hired someone to get rid of the unpacked boxes in her new house and then hired a housekeeper

and delivery services and was surprised and how great she felt. I absolutely relate to these survey results. Although I get a temporary lift from buying something new, I have a few indulgences that I’d never give up. For example, I have been taking my laundry out, to be picked up neatly folded and closet-ready, for at least 25 years. I wouldn’t know how to operate the laundry machines in our building, and I don’t want to. I love putting the crisply folded sheets and towels away, and walk away to do something more productive, like read. I also hire a cleaning person every few weeks to do what I like least, such as scrub the tub and keep the kitchen and bathroom sparkling. Of course I do some cleaning in between, but I leave the tough stuff to her. I also indulge in buying books, either from thrift shops, streets stands, bookstores or Amazon. If I really want to read it now, I’ll pay full price. Another thing I indulge in; I like to eat out. Nothing fancy, but out! I hate to shop and cook, but do like to eat, so off I’ll go to the neighborhood diner or local Italian restaurant. I love to take myself out to breakfast; I’m a bit of a French toast and pancake maven. And so, I count myself in with the 28 percent of people who spend money to save time and do the things I don’t want to do. I totally get it!

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 22ND, 6:30PM NY Academy of Medicine | 1216 Fifth Ave. | 212-822-7200 | nyam.org Medical writer Randi Hutter Epstein looks at early germ history, childbed fever, and life before antibiotics appeared on the scene in the 1940s (free, reservation required).

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1018 Lexington Avenue

Grade Pending (33) 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. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or nonfood 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. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.

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973 Lexington Ave

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Workshop

1415 2Nd Ave

Not Yet Graded (40) Insufficient or no refrigerated or hot holding equipment to keep potentially hazardous foods at required temperatures. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Baked Cravings

1673 Lexington Ave

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Mexican Restaurant

1779 Lexington Avenue

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS AUG 2-10, 2017 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. Sushi Ishikawa

419 E 74Th St

Not Yet Graded (40) Toilet facility not provided for employees or for patrons when required. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Creative Cakes

400 East 74 Street

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The Green Bean Cafe

1413 York Avenue

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The Allie Way Sports Bar & Grill

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Mo Gelato

956 Lexington Ave

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The Sweet Shop Nyc

404 E 73Rd St

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Burger King

154 E 116Th St

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Campagnola Restaurant

1382 1St Ave

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Maxwell’s Bar & Restaurant

1325 5Th Ave

Delizia Ristorante

1374 1 Avenue

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Good Health Cafe

1435 1St Ave

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Up Thai

1411 2Nd Ave

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Mel’s Burger

1450 2Nd Ave

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La Esquina

1402 2Nd Ave

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Matsu Ii Sushi

411 East 70 Street

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Dallas Bbq

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Grade Pending (25) 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. Hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room. Hot and cold running water at adequate pressure to enable cleanliness of employees not provided at facility. Soap and an acceptable hand-drying device not provided.

Domino’s

1396 1 Avenue

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Kenedy Fried Chicken

2100 2Nd Ave

Chipotle Mexican Grill

1288-1290 1St Avenue

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The Stumble Inn

1454 2 Avenue

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T-Bar Steak & Lounge

1278 3 Avenue

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Sant Ambroeus Cafe At Sotheby’s

1334 York Ave

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Grade Pending (48) Hot food item that has been cooked and refrigerated is being held for service without first being reheated to 1 65º F or above within 2 hours. Food, food preparation area, food storage area, area used by employees or patrons, contaminated by sewage or liquid waste. Hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room. Hot and cold running water at adequate pressure to enable cleanliness of employees not provided at facility. Soap and an acceptable hand-drying device not provided.

Mezzaluna

1295 Third Avenue

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The Wright

1071 5 Avenue

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Sette Mezzo

969 Lexington Avenue A

The Tool Box

1742 2 Avenue

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Starbucks Coffee #26188

1000 S 8 Ave

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Hoagie’s Heros

1650 3Rd Ave

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Sushi Gama

1403 2Nd Ave

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Island

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Conmigo

1685 1St Ave

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Yours Truly

1592 3Rd Ave

Not Yet Graded (17) Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations. Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared.

Oaxaca Taqueria

1709 2Nd Ave

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Dunkin’ Donuts

411 East 70 Street

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Zucchero E Pomodori

1435 2Nd Ave

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Tenny & Betsy

197 E 76Th St

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Bareburger

1370 1 Avenue

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Uskudar Restaurant

1405 Second Avenue

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Cafe Evergreen

1367 1 Avenue

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A NEW TEA HOUSE COMES TO THE UWS Silence, light and art are the hallmarks of a tranquil space on West 72nd Street BY ELISSA SANCI

Each morning, Elina Medvedeva starts her day by sitting in silence and drinking tea at Floating Mountain, the recently-opened tea house she co-owns with business partner Roza Gazarian on West 72nd Street between Broadway and West End Avenue. She believes that a silent tea bowl ceremony is the proper way to start the day, and so, from 11 a.m. to noon, she sits cross-legged on a cushion on the floor, drinking cup after cup while meditating. For 42-year-old Medvedeva, a former finance executive, tea — and all the culture associated with it — is more than just a drink; it’s a way of life. It’s with this thought in mind that she and Gazarian, 30, run the business they officially opened on June 12. Nestled above an organic dry-cleaning store, Flouting Mountain is an oasis from the bustling street below, and Medvedeva and Gazarian hope to offer Upper West Siders something they rarely get in New York: tranquility and calmness. “The way we offer tea here brings you to meditation,” Medvedeva said. “It brings you to a state of mind where you can stop and appreciate the tea. It’s a rare opportunity to stop and really enjoy something.” It’s for this reason that Floating Mountain doesn’t sell to-go cups of tea. Instead, customers looking for something quick can buy either by the bowl (small cups without handles use in traditional tea ceremonies), by the pot or by the pitcher (for those who like it iced). Floating Mountain offers a variety 50 different kinds of tea to choose from, all from China. The menu is split into three types of teas: greens, yellows and whites, all varying in price. For those more curious about tea culture, there are a few different tea tasting kits. For $35, customers can choose between five preset kits, which include three different teas. Some kits are entirely green teas, others are all oolong, and some have a mix of tea types. For $45, the customer can create his or her own kit of three teas. Floating Mountain also offers different sessions, like the Gongfu Session, which focuses on the preparation of the tea,

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Elina Medvedeva pours herself a bowl of tea. Photo: Elissa Sanci and the Tea Bowl Session, designed to connect the drinkers with nature, themselves and others. For these tea sessions, reservations are required — the Gongfu Session is $40 a person, while the Tea Bowl Session is $15. When customers cross the threshold, they are greeted with stillness, an open space and a sign requesting they remove their shoes, which can be disorienting for a New Yorker, to say the least. This is also the idea behind the daily silent tea bowl ceremony — to slow down and appreciate the present rather than stress about the past or worry about the future. Anyone can stop in for the free, hourlong meditation; a number of Medvedeva’s late-morning customers come from Ashtanga Yoga Upper West Side, the studio right across the hall, where she herself practices yoga in the morning. The spiritual aspect of drinking tea is what finally pushed Medvedeva to open her own place — she said it was the most logical continuation of her yoga practice. Medvedeva was leaving yoga one Monday morning in November 2016 when she noticed the space across the hall was available for rent. What was once a custom tailor’s workshop was now just an empty room flooded with natural light. By the time she reached her office on 42nd Street, she had decided to leave the world of corporate finance to start her own business. That same week, Medvedeva, who said she had always thought of opening a tea house, signed the lease for the space. For the next few months, she

and Gazarian prepared to open Floating Mountain, creating a space to mirror the tea ceremony’s soothing quality. Big windows allow natural light to flood the space. Shelves displaying handmade ceramic vases, all made by New York artist Anna Aristova, hang on the wall. The pair traveled to China in late March to buy their supply of tea leaves. They met with tea farmers and sampled a variety of teas. This was important to Medvedeva, who didn’t want to buy tea in bulk on the Internet — she said that’s not what Floating Mountain was about. “It’s about bringing an appreciation and deep respect to the tea, to the farmer, to the culture, to the process,” she explained. While primarily a tea house, Floating Mountain is also a gallery of sorts. The two business partners decided to use part of their space to showcase international and local artists who specialize in ceramic art. “We thought that the ceramic art ... is a big part of the tea ceremony and the tea experience,” Gazarian said. “So it would be nice for half the space to highlight the contemporary artists who work in that medium.” Their current exhibition features Aristova’s work; Gazarian also has two shows planned for September and November that will showcase two international artists who are collaborating on a collection of Japanese tea bowls. “We created the space with art in mind,” Gazarian added. “It’s nice to not only make [Floating Mountain] about the drink but about the culture as well.”

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BEYOND THE COUCH How multipurpose furniture is meeting the needs of city dwellers tight for space

BY KATHERINE ROTH

It’s not always enough for a couch to be a couch. Sometimes, especially when space is tight, it helps if the couch can double as two armchairs and a coffee table, and even storage shelves, as is the case with one Japanese camping couch popular among city dwellers. The multifunctional Camp Couch is made by the upscale Japanese brand Snow Peak, which recently opened boutiques in Portland, Oregon, and in the trendy SoHo section of New York. Although its $749.99 price tag may be steep compared to other camping goods, some clients see it as inexpensive compared to other sofa options — and far more versatile. “The reality is that living spaces are getting smaller, people are moving back to cities, and while people across the country are more willing now to trade square footage for geography, they don’t want to sacrifice their lifestyle,” explains Lisa Blecker, marketing director at New York-based Resource Furniture, one of the largest suppliers of “transforming furniture” in North America. The answer for many people now is multifunctional or folding furniture that makes small spaces both comfortable and versatile. “Simple, dual-purpose furnishings are absolutely on trend now,” says Blecker. Gadgety, multipurpose furniture is nothing new, says Sarah Coffin, curator and head of product design and

decorative arts at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in Manhattan. It emerged in Europe and Asia a century or more ago, and has been popular among American city dwellers since at least around the time that elevators made large apartment buildings possible, she says. “This kind of furniture was very popular in the 18th and 19th centuries,” Coffin says. “The idea that a chair can be pushed in or a side folded down to make more space has been around for a while.” “Think of a telephone table where the chair fits into it, or a vanity table that houses a pull-out stool.” And there was camping furniture: In the 17th century, “people had to travel with their own furniture and carried something like a writing box, which opened up with a leather surface for writing and little drawers for pens and ink,” she says. “And the Koreans and Chinese had chests of drawers with carrying handles so they could be brought aboard ships,” she adds. In a similar sprit, niche furniture like the murphy bed, multifunctional tables, and camping furniture that brings to mind colonial-era camping furniture but with a streamlined, modern sensibility, has now gone mainstream. Chain stores across the country cater to a growing demand for furnishings that are both hip and versatile. Outdoors stores like REI have also gotten into the act. At REI’s store in SoHo, for example, sleek and versatile couches, dining chairs and rocking chairs are sold alongside the expected array of tents and other camping gear. “I’d say 70 percent of the clients buying this kind of furniture are planning

A Murphy bed. Photo: Joel, via flickr to use it indoors,” says Mike Martin, a manager at the store, located just a block from New York University. He notes the store’s display of Japanese “outdoor lifestyle” living and dining furniture. “It’s really popular among students looking to furnish their apartments,” he says of multipurpose furniture. “And the cool thing is you can also use it on a balcony, take it to an outdoor concert, or even camping.” Blecker says her company’s furniture, much of it made in Europe, has gone from niche market to widespread in the past decade. “Our products are expensive, but they’re much cheaper than the cost of moving, or of expanding a home.

Instead, they allow you to make much more of the space there is,” she says. “Home sizes are shrinking as people opt for prime location as opposed to larger space, and even for those in houses, transforming furniture makes for more versatile spaces.” Because of the high cost of larger transforming pieces (Resource Furniture’s folding bed with integrated sofa can range from $5,000 to $20,000), many households tend to select one or two important high-end items, like a bed, couch or console-to-dining table, and fill out the rest with less expensive items. “The No. 1 thing people don’t want to give up is a real bed. So they may be buying a wall bed from us, and filling

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out other things like desks at CB2 and end tables from IKEA to put it all together,” says Blecker. Much of the trend toward attractive and versatile small spaces began in space-squeezed Japan, moving on to Europe and then here, she says. Martin, at REI, concurred, saying Japanese brands like Snow Peak seemed to lead the way on camping furniture that could just as easily be used indoors. “It’s cool to have something that works great in your apartment but that you could also ... just fold completely out of the way so it doesn’t take up precious space,” he says.

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SENATOR SQUADRON TAKES HIS LEAVE POLITICS Manhattan Democrat says farewell to the taint of Albany — but vows to remain active in politics, policymaking and the resistance BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN

First, a sense of foreboding. “It’s been an honor to serve,” the August 9 letter began. Next, the familiar salutation, “Dear Friend.” Finally, the bombshell: “I have decided to resign from the Senate this Friday.” A fast fadeout. A short, poignant goodbye. An early end to a promising career in public service? Well, not exactly. The next act is yet to come. “See you in the neighborhood,” the letter concluded. Signed, “Daniel.” Thus did state Senator Daniel Squadron stun his constituents, shake up the political biosphere, announce his August 11 resignation and trigger a messy — and not at all democratic — firefight to anoint his successor. He also created a backlash against the way in which he stepped down. Meanwhile, on his way out the door, he savaged political deal-making and the influence of big-money, blaming it for incubating corruption — and making New York a “particularly seedy example” among the states. As if all that wasn’t enough, Squadron also unveiled a new career: He’s teaming up with Jeffrey Sachs, the celebrated Columbia University economist and ex-director of the Earth Institute, and Adam Pritzker, the fashion-brand investor and Hyatt hotel scion, to launch a movement to counter Trumpism.

Sound a tad vague? That’s because the trio hasn’t yet released plans or announced the name of its national reform initiative. Squadron said the group will advocate for stronger candidates, push policies at the state level, stand up for “core values” and “help turn the tide nationally.” The 37-year-old, reform-minded, dyed-in-the-wool anti-Trumper, an architect of the Senate Democratic conference’s “resistance agenda” and a favorite of good-government groups, represented a liberal district encompassing Wall Street, Battery Park City, SoHo, Tribeca, Little Italy, and parts of the Village and Brooklyn. A lifelong fan of the Beastie Boys and former top aide to U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, he introduced the first New York State $15 minimum wage bill, passed a measure to ban assault weapons in the state and got the Lunar New Year designated a public school holiday. Signs of his restlessness had surfaced before. In 2013, he vied for public advocate, losing a runoff election to Letitia James. Squadron’s unexpected adieu, from a safe seat he held for five terms and could easily retain for decades more, is markedly different from the typical Albany exodus — under a cloud of corruption, à la ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos. He’s leaving voluntarily. That’s depressingly rare. His integrity has not been besmirched. Ditto. Sadly, as he acidly noted, virtually nothing has changed after separate scandals forced both pols to vacate their posts. “The status quo has proven extraordinarily durable,” he wrote in an Au-

Former state Senator Daniel Squadron, who resigned his seat on August 11, at the Independence Plaza North Senior Center in downtown Manhattan in February. Photo: Madeleine Thompson

Former state Senator Daniel Squadron, who unexpectedly resigned his seat on August 11 after blasting the scourge of corruption in Albany. He is helping to launch a national reform movement to combat Trumpism. Photo: 26th State Senatorial District / Squadron gust 9 Daily News op-ed piece in which he disclosed he was stepping down. “It barely shuddered when the leaders of both legislative chambers were convicted of corruption.” Squadron was only 28 when he toppled a 30-year incumbent in November 2008. Propelled by the Barack Obama political tide, swept up in the heady hope-and-change spirit of those days, he said he believed state government had the potential to better the lives of New Yorkers. “I still do,” he opined. But then came the cri de coeur. Over the years, he wrote in The News piece, he has seen good governance “thwarted by a sliver of heavily invested special interests.” Squadron cited “cynical political deals,” roadblocks to reform, festering corruption and hurdles that trip up rank-and-file legislators — among them, “three-men-in-a-room decisionmaking, loophole-riddled campaign finance rules and a governor-controlled budget process.” New York may excel in mendacity. But other states, too, once viewed as “laboratories of democracy…have instead become petri dishes of corruption,” he wrote. “Rather than increase economic opportunity, they serve the opportunistic.” Bottom line: States should step up to do more to “beat back President Trump’s corrosive priorities,” and Squadron, joining forces with Sachs and Pritzker, will support candidates and issues to do just that. So a key question: What next for the 26th State Senatorial District he’s represented for the past decade? That’s where things start to get quite messy. The next regularly scheduled election for the seat takes place in 2018. But now, there’s a vacancy in 2017. Unfortunately, what that means is that

voters will have little to say about who gets to serve in the state Legislature. Undemocratic? Absolutely. But it’s the law. And in this case, a good-government advocate set that process in motion. Due to the timing of his resignation – late in the election cycle, past the deadline for the petitioning process that places candidates on the ballot – there will be no open and competitive party primary for the seat. A primary would typically determine who runs on the Democratic and Republican lines. Instead, the political parties, not the voters, will pick the nominees, who will run in a special election on November 7 coinciding with the citywide general election. Each party’s county committees, in Manhattan and Brooklyn in this case, and their respective chairmen, make the choice. In Tammany days, this was the classic closed-door-and-smokefilled-room school of decision-making. Practically, what it means to this day, is that mostly unknown political insiders and their clubhouses still retain supreme king-making power when an unexpected vacancy abruptly opens up in a non-election year. Since Squadron’s district is heavily Democratic, his successor will effectively be anointed by the whims of just two men, Manhattan Democratic Chairman Keith Wright and Brooklyn Democratic Chairman Frank Seddio, who have considerable control over how their respective committees vote. In other words, it’s more like a “coronation” than an election, says Dick Dadey, the executive director of Citizens Union. Squadron didn’t return a call. But it’s unlikely the reformer has any illusions about the boss-driven process his resignation triggered:

He had proposed legislation — unsurprisingly, it never passed muster in Albany — that would have required a nonpartisan special election to fill a vacant state legislative seat. It’s not happening. The party’s nominee, handpicked by the Wright-andSeddio machines, will likely coast to victory in the November election. Only in 2018 will the winner finally face the will of the voters to secure reelection. “The timing of my decision means the 26th District Senate seat will be filled in this November’s election,” Squadron wrote his constituents. “I remain committed to continuing to fight for an empowered Democratic majority.” Who will reap the spoils? Squadron announced his resignation on the morning of August 9. Flash forward barely three or four hours. By early afternoon, state Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh had thrown his hat in the ring. One of the six children of an Irish immigrant police officer, Kavanagh, first elected in 2006, represents an East Side district that includes Murray Hill, Tudor City, Kips Bay, Turtle Bay, Union Square and East Midtown Plaza. In a statement, he pledged a “progressive, reform-minded” platform centered on affordable housing, better schools, rent protection, and economic and social justice. The Democratic pol won’t be the only aspirant. Would-be Squadron successors include Taiwan-born state Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou, who holds Silver’s old downtown seat; human rights lawyer Jenifer Rajkumar, director of immigration affairs at the New York Department of State, and Democratic district leaders Lincoln Restler and Paul Newell.

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THE SOUND OF YOUTH Broadway music veteran Joseph Baker on his work with talented kids BY ANGELA BARBUTI

Having 30 kid singers in a room for seven hours led Joseph Baker to create the Broadway Youth Ensemble. A Broadway music director for 30 years, he assembled a group of children to sing at a charity event, and was worried about how they would fare during the long waiting time between the sound check in the afternoon and the curtain call in the evening. To his surprise, the kids reveled in the opportunity to have downtime with fellow artists, and erupted into song together. “Sometimes people who are involved in theater when they’re in school are known as the geeks. One kid actually said, ‘No one in school gets my theater jokes, and all these kids do,’” Baker said. Since its inception in 2010, the group has grown to 100, with talent ranging in age from 8 to 17. “We’ve done everything from New Year’s Eve with the rock group Train to working for Mayor Bloomberg to doing something with Vice President Joe Biden there,” Baker said of BYE’s memorable experiences. Their philanthropic component includes performing at children’s hospitals, nursing homes and fundraisers for nonprofits. To expand on his mission of nurturing and unifying talented youth, Baker also launched Broadway in the Mountains, a performance-centered summer camp, which just completed its second year in the Catskills.

on Broadway. The director was a guy named Scott Ellis, who’s very famous right now. And the choreographer was Susan Stroman.

What does your job as a music director entail? Basically I’m sort of in charge of everything having to do with music. Working with the composer, the orchestrator, conducting the orchestra. And the final thing is working with all the singers, making sure they’re comfortable and the show is as good as it can be. So it’s sort of a jack-of-alltrades. I work as a conductor, vocal coach and sometimes I’m performing at the piano at the same time.

How have you seen the industry change? One thing is it’s much more expensive to put on a show and there’s much more risk. I think the average is now, it takes eight years to get a musical from start to Broadway. And in addition to that, there are a lot of actors out there. Part of it is when “Glee” started on television, there was a new renaissance of kids who were interested in theater. Because a lot of what they did had to do with theater. My friend Matt Morrison was the teacher. He was a theater person and all the actors were. And they were doing songs that were from theater. And there was a show called “Smash.” You can see it in the number of colleges now that offer music theater and the number of programs. There’s a huge influx of

How did you get your start in theater? I had graduated the University of Pennsylvania. I went there for composition, but came out not really wanting to do composition. [Laughs] But I was working around town and got a call on Sunday night at one in the morning, asking, “Can you play auditions for a show tomorrow at 10 a.m.?” And I’d never played auditions before. Playing piano at auditions means that the actors come in and have music and you play for them. They only get a couple minutes, so basically it’s sight reading whatever they put in front of you. That really wasn’t my skill, but I said yes because I could use the money. I was just out of college. I played the day and the director came to me and said, “Would you be interested in conducting our show?” I wanted to make sure he understood my lack of experience, so said, “I’d love to, but I really haven’t conducted a show.” And he said, “That’s OK; you can’t be possibly as bad as the guy they want me to hire.” And that was my entrée. It was a production of “Grease” and starred a 21-year-old Andrea McArdle, who was known because she was the first Annie

Photo courtesy of Charles Wenzelberg kids who want to do this. I applaud their going after their dream, but the more there are of them, the less work there is.

What are some standout moments from your career? I did the show “Blood Brothers” that originally had a cast from England that was here, because the show originated in England. And they brought it to Broadway. There’s an agreement with the actor’s union Actors’ Equity that after six months, you have to replace that show with American actors. So the person who was producing it decided that he would only take stars in it. It was a story of brothers, and he had David and Shaun Cassidy play

them. I got to work with them, which was wonderful. And for the mother, they picked Petula Clark and then Carole King and then Helen Reddy. So I got to work with all of them for quite a while. I also got to work with some strange people, like Jackie Mason, when we did a musical that lasted seven days. He’s a great comedian, but not a good music theater performer. Those are the highs and lows, but I’ve had some incredible experiences with fantastic people.

Tell us how the idea for the Broadway Youth Ensemble came about. I was working with an Irish tenor named Ronan Tynan. He’s an amazing guy. He actually won the Irish ver-

sion of “American Idol” while he was in residency getting his degree in orthopedics. And he’s also a paraplegic; both of his legs are amputated at the knee. At the time, I was music director when he was living in New York. And he needed a kids’ choir for this one charitable event we were doing. And I had been starting to work with this voice teacher, Amelia DeMayo. I saw that she was really great with kids, so I said, “I need 20 to 30 kids.” And I knew they were going to be talented. It included my daughter, one of her students. When you do these events, you have to be there really early and wait until it’s very late. So I had 30 kids in a room for seven hours and thought, “They’re gonna kill each other. What am I gonna do?” They had a great time. They were singing with each other, doing duets. We finished and one of the girls came to me and said, “That was such a fun day. I hope we can do this again.”

What are your future plans? I’m offering voice coaching and also videotaping, because a lot of auditions these days are submitted through video. It’s part of my private coaching business, Mr. B Studios. So it’s a onestop shop for singing and acting that I’m launching at my studio in September. Starting this semester, I’m the music director at Circle in the Square Theatre School. That’s with young adults, college-aged, who I also like to teach. www.broadwayyouthensemble.com www.broadwayinthemountains.com www.bakerboysmusic.com

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Pass -Through CertiďŹ cates Series, 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. Dated: July 21, 2017 Frenkel, Lambert, Weiss, Weisman & Gordon, LLP Attorneys for US Bank National Association as Trustee for CMSI Remic Series 2007-02Remic Pass -Through CertiďŹ cates Series 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 631-969-3100 File #01084751- #92493

above captioned premises is $1,069,000.00. 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

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PUBLIC AUCTION NOTICE OF SALE OF COOPERATIVE 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 Aug. 30, 2017 in the Rotunda of the New York County Courthouse, 60 Centre Street, New York, NY 10007, commencing at 12:15 p.m. for the following account: Yasemin Aktas, as borrower, 110 shares of capital stock of 408 East 73 Street Housing Corporation and all right, title and interest in the Proprietary Lease to 408 East 73rd Street, Unit #5C, New York, NY 10021 Sale held to enforce rights of US Bank National Association as Trustee for CMSI Remic Series 2007-02- Remic Pass -Through CertiďŹ cates Series,

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