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PROUD BOYS FOUND GUILTY COURTS Jury convicts two members of far-right group on attempted assault charges at UES Republican club last October

BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM

After a two-week trial and a day and a half of deliberations, a 12member jury in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Monday found two members of the farright Proud Boys guilty of attempted assault charges connected to a street brawl with leftist protesters that took place last October on the Upper East Side.

Maxwell Hare, who prosecutors said instigated the street fight, and John Kinsman were convicted on charges of attempted gang assault, attempted assault and riot for their part in beating up the four people who police described as anti-fascists belonging to a left wing group known as Antifa.

The jury rejected that the pair were acting in self-defense when they punched, kicked and stomped the supposed Antifa members following the group’s meeting on Oct. 12 at the Metropolitan Republican Club on East 83rd Street, where the founder of

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THE GREEN GUNK THAT ATE CENTRAL PARK ENVIRONMENT

Lakes, pools and ponds that are typically fresh, clean and crystal clear are now discolored or splotched. The culprit is blooming algae – and it’s sometimes laced with toxins.

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SPOTLIGHT ON GHISLAINE MAXWELL Jeffrey Epstein’s close friend is now a likely target for prosecutors. p. 5

BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN

In all its magnificent shadings, the color green shimmers across the vast lawns and meadows and grassy banks and forest glades of Central Park.

Unfortunately, green also colors the sprawling, multi-acre algae blooms that are now blighting the park’s most beloved bodies of water.

Fast-growing algae accumulations have covered at least 18 locations in large swaths of four freshwater pools, ponds and lakes this summer, city and state data shows.

At least nine widespread algal blooms were spotted in the 20acre Lake – one of them alongside the world-famous Bethesda Fountain – between May 19 and Aug. 12, according to monitoring by the city Parks Dept. and an analysis by the state Dept. of Environmental Conservation.

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COPS AND 'COMPASSION FATIGUE' The Lake at Central Park with Manhattan skyline and a Harmful Algae Bloom, or HAB, in the foreground Photo: NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation

Of those nine, at least four were described as “Harmful Algae Blooms,” or HABs, by DEC, which uses visual observations, digital photographs and laboratory sampling results to make its determinations.

And of those four HABs in The Lake – a magnet for New Yorkers and tourists alike and the largest water body in the

park after the Reservoir – two of them, including one in the romantic secluded oasis of Wagner Cove, were “confirmed with high toxins,” DEC found.

While most algae are harmless, playing a key role in healthy aquatic ecosystems, some species produce toxins that

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SUMMERTIME, AND THE SLEEPING’S NOT EASY ■ Because summer days are longer, black-out shades will help you keep the sunlight out in the morning.

HEALTH

Hot weather can disrupt normal sleep patterns. What you need to know to get the rest you need.

BY SHILPI AHUJA, M.D.

A good night’s sleep is essential to rejuvenate your mind and body for the next day. But if you can’t fall asleep as easily in the summer, you’re not alone. Summertime insomnia is a real phenomenon. For most of us, trying to fall sleep and stay asleep when we’re hot and sticky is difficult.

Temperature plays a vital role in both falling asleep and staying asleep. A natural dip in our core body temperature helps get our bodies ready for sleep. Core body temperature dips in the evenings and reaches its nadir at 5 a.m. Our bodies rely on these mechanisms, so sleeping in an environment that is too warm may interfere with thermoregulation and can cause fragmented sleep.

Many experts report that the ideal

Remember the Basics There are some basic sleep strategies to help you create healthy sleep routines, no matter what the weather.

■ Maintain a consistent sleep schedule. Create a bedtime routine to help your body know what to expect so that you can fall asleep more easily.

■ Get as much bright light exposure as possible during the day but then avoid bright lights at night.

Catching some zzz’s in Central Park. Photo: Timothy Krause via Flickr ■ Exercising too close to bedtime can be stimulating, so try to do it in room temperatures for sleeping is keep your apartment cooler. between 60-68 degrees Fahrenheit. ■ At night, put a bowl of ice cubes the morning if possible.

If you have air conditioning or are in front of a fan so that the cold con- ■ Avoid all blue light devices (telelucky enough to have central air, try densation helps lower the ambient vision, iPad, iPhone, etc.) within two and target this temperature. This temperature, and keep your bed- hours of bedtime. Blue light will afshould be first on your summer room door open to help circulate air. fect your brain’s natural release of sleep checklist, but even if you don’t ■ Keep hydrated and drink cold melatonin that is essential in helping you fall asleep. have air conditioning, there is more water before bed.

■ Although it may be counterintui- ■ Speak to your doctor about you can do to stay cool at night. tive, taking a hot shower before bed whether any of your medications are stimulating and should be taken in Sleep vs. Heat Strategies may help keep you cool.

■ Use blinds to keep out the sun dur- ■ Bring an ice pack into your bed to the morning.

■ Avoid caffeine within 8 hours of ing the day. help keep your body cool. your bedtime.

■ Turn off unnecessary lights to

■ Avoid alcohol within 4-6 hours of sleep.

■ Avoid daytime naps, as sleeping any time before your actual bedtime will interfere with your ability to fall asleep at night.

■ Don’t watch the clock! That can make it more difficult to fall asleep.

You can set an alarm on your phone or device, but you might want to try and keep clocks out of your bedroom.

■ Keep in mind that everyone is different, so while these are general recommendations you need to figure out what works best for you.

And if your summer sleeping problem becomes chronic and continues even as Autumn approaches and the temperature begins to cool down, make sure to speak with a sleep specialist.

Shilpi Ahuja, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Mount Sinai Beth Israel and practices at Mount Sinai-National Jewish Respiratory Institute at Mount Sinai-Union Square.

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG ARMED SUBWAY MUGGER

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Police said that at 3:20 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 14, a 39-year-old man was waiting on the southbound express platform on the lower level of the 86th St. Lexington Ave. station when a man approached him from behind, put a black handgun to the back of his head and said in Spanish, “Don’t move or I’ll kill you.” Police said the suspect then took the victim’s wallet and backpack. The suspect also snatched the gold chain from around the victim’s neck before fleeing. Police soon arrived and searched the neighborhood but did not find the suspect. The items stolen included an Apple iPhone 8 valued at $800, a gold chain worth $500, the backpack, a Mexican passport, diabetes medication and a pair of headphones, making a total of $1,300.

Reported crimes from the 19th precinct for the week ending Aug 11

GUN THREAT IN XANAX THEFT On Monday afternoon, Aug. 12, police said, a man entered the CVS store at 305 East 86th St., went to the pharmacy counter and showed a note reading, “Give me your Xanax and cash. I have gun.” The pharmacist handed over two bottles (704 pills) of alprazolam 2 mg to the suspect, who then left the location.

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was a gray 2015 Yamaha Y-999 bike with New York plates 247A28, valued at $3,000. Other items missing included a New York State driver’s license and two credit cards.

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SPOTLIGHT ON GHISLAINE MAXWELL INVESTIGATIONS

Jeffrey Epstein’s former lover and close friend is now a likely target for prosecutors

Gossip columnist George Rush

BY STUART MARQUES

Jeffrey Epstein may be dead, but his former lover and close friend Ghislaine Maxwell is very much alive – and likely a prime target for prosecutors looking into Epstein’s sex trafficking ring that preyed on vulnerable underage girls.

“I think she will have some big problems ahead of her,” says John Connolly, co-author of “Filthy Rich,” a 2016 book about Epstein, his sexual abuse of minors and the sweetheart deal he received in Florida a decade ago, before federal prosecutors brought new sex trafficking charges against him last month.

“I’d be shocked if they don’t charge her,” Connolly says.

“She was definitely a main player in this.”

She has yet to be charged with a crime, but she clearly was in the mind of U.S. Attorney General William Barr who, after Epstein’s apparent suicide in the Metropolitan Correctional Center on Aug. 10, warned that the “case will continue against anyone who was complicit with Epstein.

“She and Epstein had this symbiotic relationship ... He had money and she had the social connections he wanted.”

Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion on East 71st Street. Photo: Ema Schumer

Any co-conspirators should not rest easy.”

A separate investigation of Epstein’s death has already resulted in two guards being put on leave, and the transfer of the MCC warden. And on Monday, Barr reassigned the acting director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons as the fallout continued.

Celebrities and People in Power Growing up in a fabulously wealthy family, Maxwell, now 57, probably could never have imagined finding herself in prosecutors’ crosshairs. The youngest of nine children of disgraced newspaper publisher Robert Maxwell, she was raised in opulence in a 53room mansion outside Lon-

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As the daughter of a powerful publisher and as a British socialite, the Oxford-educated Maxwell was exposed to celebrities and people in power – and very much used to getting her way. She was a director of a football club her father owned and reportedly worked at one of his publications, the European.

She came to America in late 1991, after her father, then embroiled in a financial scandal as owner of the New York Daily News, died in what was ruled an accidental drowning when he fell overboard from his yacht, named the Lady Ghislaine, near the Canary Islands.

According to reports, Maxwell eventually moved into a posh apartment on the Upper

East Side and dabbled in real estate. In the early 90s, Maxwell met Epstein, with whom she had a romantic relationship. They remained close after the romance ended.

“She and Epstein had this symbiotic relationship,” says George Rush, who wrote a gossip column with his wife for the New York City tabloids.

“They were of use to each other. He had money and she had the social connections he wanted.”

Rush, who had dinner with Maxwell and a mutual friend once in the mid-90s at Le Bilboquet, a French restaurant on the Upper East, said Maxwell was “charming and the picture of sparkling conversation,” chatting about her love of traveling and her passions for environmental issues.

“I would run into her occasionally on the social scene or at a premiere,” Rush said. “She always seemed to be at premieres.”

She also displayed a unique ability to mingle with and being photographed with famous people like former President Bill Clinton – she

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MAKING EDUCATION COUNT SCHOOLS

The city plans to engage schools in the 2020 Census to ensure that they and other government agencies get their fair share of funding

BY JADEN SATENSTEIN

Although a citizenship question will not appear on next year’s census, officials are concerned that the fear and misinformation spread during the national debate over the issue could have serious consequences in New York City, which is home to historically undercounted populations, such as people of color, immigrants and members of low-income households.

While the final national mail participation rate in the 2010 Census was 74 percent, it was just 70 per-

“We can really empower and leverage our schools and our teachers to be messengers about the census directly to parents.”Amit S. Bagga, Deputy Director of NYC Census 2020, cent in Manhattan and as low as 61 percent in Queens and 58 percent in Brooklyn, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In addition to two congressional seats, billions of dollars in federal funding are at risk if New York is dramatically undercounted again in 2020.

And since the amount of federal

Julie Menin, Director of the Census for New York City, at the U.S. Supreme Court during oral arguments over the addition of a citizenship question. Photo: Courtesy of Office of the Census for New York City

A question from the 2010 census form. Photo: Spot Us via Flickr

funding the state receives for public education is largely determined by the census population count, city schools could take a serious hit. “If there were to be an undercount overall in the State of New York, the State of New York would not receive its fair share of federal funding with respect to a variety of programs, some of which are tied to public education,” said Amit S. Bagga, Deputy Director of NYC Census 2020, an office commissioned by Mayor de Blasio in January.

Getting It Right The office, which has a budget of $40 million, is dedicated to ensuring that all New Yorkers participate in the 2020 Census. Considering that the city makes up over 40 percent of the state population, and will thus be a vital factor in determining the level of federal funding, a good count here is critical.

“It is imperative that we get a complete and accurate count of all New Yorkers next year – and that’s going to take some serious work,” wrote Jose Bayona, Director of Community & Ethnic Media at the Office of Mayor Bill de Blasio, in a statement to Straus News. “That’s why we created NYC Census 2020, a team of diverse, talented, experienced New Yorkers who, through community organizing, responsive messaging and investments directly in communities, will work to dispel fear, correct misinformation and get every single New Yorker counted.”

Bagga outlined some the ways that the NYC Census 2020 office will

work to engage New Yorkers in the census, including outreach campaigns and grants to communitybased organizations. In addition, the office plans to partner with city agencies to spread the word about the census.

Many of those agencies are at risk of losing important funding themselves, including the Department of Education (DOE).

Trusting Teachers “The school system is obviously going to be one of our most important partners,” Bagga said. “1.1 million school children equal at the very least 1.1 million parents … and as many as two million, so that’s a whole lot of people in the City of New York. And so the DOE really is the one city agency, the one public institution, that has the greatest reach in the city. Partnering with them, getting their teachers trained on census messaging, getting key school staff trained on census messaging, is going to be very important for us.”

In addition to the wide reach that schools have, Bagga noted that the trust families put in teachers makes them extremely valuable when it comes to sharing information.

“We know for a fact that parents of all backgrounds often find that teachers are among the most trusted messengers of important information,” Bagga said. “And so we can really empower and leverage our schools and our teachers to be messengers about the census directly to parents.”

Dispelling Fears The most important message that Bagga hopes teachers and other city agencies, organizations and volunteers convey is that the misinformation spread about the census should not cause any New Yorkers to fear participating, as personal information obtained by the Census Bureau cannot be shared with anyone, including other government agencies or courts.

“Any information that you provide to the Census Bureau is protected by the strongest confidentiality law that is on the books,” Bagga said.

“Title 13 makes it a very serious crime for any person, including any Census Bureau employee, to share any personally identifying information that they get about any people.

The penalty for sharing this information is a $250,000 fine and up to five years in prison.”

NYC Census 2020 plans to release more detailed plans about their partnerships with city agencies, as well as other initiatives, in the coming months.

“There’s no time more important than now where we need to ensure that every part of the country is fully represented in Congress, especially given some of the political fights that we have on our hands,” Bagga said. “And so we want every New Yorker to understand the importance of the census and help spread the word. We’re going to be giving New Yorkers a number of opportunities to do just that.”

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A MANHATTAN NEIGHBORHOOD PREPARES FOR THE CENSUS COMMUNITY

Community Board 8 is hosting workshops on the Upper East Side to raise awareness of the count and to inform residents about census-related job opportunities

BY EMA SCHUMER

As the nation prepares for the 2020 Census, the Upper East Side’s community board, CB8, is taking measures to ensure that every New Yorker is counted. Thus far this summer, the community board’s census task force has hosted five job opportunities workshops throughout the district, in collaboration with the United States Census Bureau, to encourage people to apply to work for the bureau.

The census, which takes place once a decade and is mandated in the Constitution, tries to account for every resident of the United States.

Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer articulated the importance that every New Yorker participate in the census in an op-ed in Our Town. “The results affect states’ and cities’ representation in Congress as well as state and local political boundaries — and they also directly affect how much federal funding communities receive for everything from schools to transportation infrastructure. The stakes are high, and there’s more reason than ever to start preparing in advance,” she wrote.

Thousands of Workers Needed To assist in the collection of census information, the bureau is hiring for a variety of temporary positions. These include census takers, recruiting assistants, office staff, and supervisory staff. Any U.S. citizen with a valid social security number who is at least 18 years old is eligible to submit an application online, according to the Census Bureau’s website. Chair of the

CB8 Census Committee Chair Loraine Brown (standing, right) and U.S. Census Bureau representative Joli Golden (standing, left) lead at a 2020 Census job opportunities workshop held at Lenox Hill Senior Center earlier this summer. Photo: Courtesy of Community Board 8

CB8 Census Task Force, Loraine Brown, said that the bureau is looking for approximately 55,000 New Yorkers to assist in the 2020 census.

The most recent jobs workshop organized by CB8, which took place Thursday, August 8th at the Lenox Hill Senior Center at 343 East 70th Street, resulted in 45 people submitting applications. One of those applicants, Karen— who asked that we not use her last name—said that, although she is retired, she still enjoys working, and a census is an appealing way to supplement her income. “I would like to be of service to make sure it’s done correctly,” she said.

The 2020 Census has become a political lightning rod in light of the Trump administration’s desire to add a citizenship question to the questionnaire. Though the U.S. Supreme Court stymied the president’s efforts to add such a question in a recent ruling, many still fear that undocumented immigrants will be reluctant to participate in the census.

Brown said that people hired by the bureau will go through training to learn how to address relevant concerns regarding the census. “We need to assure the undocumented people that [the citizenship question] is no longer an issue,” she said. “Everything that they fill out in the questionnaire is confidential.

It cannot be shared with anyone...If [the bureau] gets a request from the White House to share the information, they can’t do it.”

The First Digital Census The 2020 Census has also garnered attention for its new digital component; for the first time since the initial census was conducted in 1790, respondents will be able to submit the questionnaire online. Every household will have the option to respond to the questionnaire online, by mail, or by the phone, according to a pamphlet published by the bureau. As a final step, if households fail to submit a questionnaires using one of those methods, enumerators will knock on doors requesting them to fill out the questionnaires in person.

Brown, who is personally passionate about informing New Yorkers about the census, has resolved to do everything in her power — as a member of the community board and as an individual — to spread awareness of the census. “I want everyone to benefit. If they’re not counted, there’s going to be a shortfall. I want to be sure we get our fair share,” she said. In addition to planning monthly workshops, Brown said that she will continue to hand out fliers on street corners, at Costco, and on the subway to spread the word about National Census Day, which arrives on April 1, 2020.

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SEARCHING FOR SWEETS EAST SIDE OBSERVER

BY ARLENE KAYATT

It took a bus - For all the fault to be found with the MTA, it’s nice to see that each ride or each stop can create a village. Example 1, a man got off the bus on 61st and Lex. Traffic is very very slow. About 5 stops later, huffing and puffing, the same man gets on the bus again. “I lost my wallet. I lost my wallet,“ he moaned, almost crying, as he entered the bus and walked over to the front seat

where he had been sitting. He looked down and under the seat. Voila, his wallet. The riders and the driver gave him a shout and applause. Next, another bus, and a woman who had traveled to Penn Station from Merrick, LI, told no one in particular that she took the trip so that so she could return to the restaurant where she had had the “best crepes” she had ever had. As she was riding the 86th St crosstown, going west (don’t know why coming from Penn Station to go to West 86th St. - she was on the East Side), she forgot the name and location of the restaurant she

was going to, except that it was close to the 86th St. crosstown bus on the UWS. As she was explaining her plight - again to no one in particular - her fellow riders took action. Using Iphones, smartphones, whatever they located two possibilities for the immediate vicinity: La Mirabelle, a French bistro near Columbus Ave, and Viva La Crepe, a self-serve creperie on Columbus in front of the M7, M11 bus stop. “That’s it, that’s it,“ she grinned. “In front of the bus stop; in front of the bus stop. I’m getting off.

I’m getting off. Thank you. Thank you,“ as she gleefully reminded her

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fellow travelers, “Remember, it’s Viva La Crepe, in case I forget again.”

Chocolate’s hot - Looks like chocolatiers are creating their own footprint in NY - in Manhattan anyway.

The Godiva shop at 50th and Lex, which once was the go-to place for gifts of chocolate, is now a café where you can buy the gift of chocolate and sit down at a table, indoors or outdoors, and have a cup of Joe, a croissant/waffle sandwich, or a chocolate covered treat. Then there’s Hotel Chocolat. on the east side of Lexington between 44th and 45th Street. At first I thought it was another hotel, but turns out it’s a chocolate gift shop. Further uptown, at 731 Lexington, between 58th/59th Streets, Laderach Chocolate is getting ready to open. It’s located in what is known as the Bloomberg

Tower, the place where our erstwhile mayor’s business is located. Sweet stuff’s happening on Lexington Avenue.

Where the rubber meets the sidewalk - Great to see that the westbound bus stop at 23rd Street and Second Avenue has added rubber padding on the street between the sidewalk and the bus stop so that riders don’t have to navigate the several inches required to step from the curb onto the bus. Or to step down from the bus when getting off. It’s particularly challenging when getting off through the back exit because you have to step down and there are no sidebars to grasp as you do that. Glad to see the change to the city sidewalk at the bus stop. Hope it comes to all bus stops that don’t have high curbs.

THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE WALKER PUBLIC EYE

BY JON FRIEDMAN

How has your summer been going?

Hasn’t it been hot and uncomfortable here in the city? I hope you got away to Canada or Alaska. Maybe you braved Paris, with historic 108degree temperatures in the City of Light (and heat?).

I’ve been busy, myself. I have given myself a long overdue project: lose weight. So far, so good. I’ve lost between 30 and 35 pounds since midMay, the official beginning of my summer vacation from teaching college students out on eastern Long Island. (And I taught a course in Manhattan, for the record).

I had a very simple but effective strategy. I walked around my home borough of Manhattan. I started out mastering the rule of taking 10,000 steps, or roughly four miles, a day.

This regimen got boring because it was too easy for me. Four miles a day quickly gave way to five and then six and ... lately, I have been averaging

View of the East River along the walk.

Photo: Jon Friedman

13 miles a day. And yes, the weight seems to flying off.

It’s a full-time job. I am not exactly a sprinter and I treat myself to generous water breaks in the city’s awful heat.

Here are my trade secrets:

I try to start my walking by 7 a.m. I want to get in six miles during my first leg. I have found that it takes about 75 minutes for me to walk from my apartment at First Avenue and East 19th Street to a Starbucks on Second Avenue at East 94th Street. I chose this destination because it conveniently totals a little more than three miles, one way, or six miles, round trip. Mission accomplished!

Working out is supposed to be monotonous and tedious and repetitive.

But I break up the sameness by taking two other early-morning routes.

I walk along the East River, a route that features one of the most breathtaking sunrises in the city.

Or, I keep it really simple and walk around the block in my neighborhood in Stuyvesant Town. This trip equals one mile and takes me approximately 20-22 minutes, depending on how many baby carriages, people using walkers, pain-in-theneck people who clog the street for no good reason and other people whose sole mission in my life appears to be to slow me down.

I am not a nice person when I am doing my walking. I have been cursed at (sometimes loudly!) by otherwise nice, sane New Yorkers because I give them a hard time when they get in my way. I mutter obscenities under my breath. I cajole. I push (I do NOT shove people).

I am demanding.

I have come to appreciate the kindhearted baristas at Starbucks, as well as the company’s people-first culture. I usually order my tall skinny vanilla latte while crucially remembering to ask for a cup of ice water. But if I ask only for the water, they’ll give it to me, too.

When I walk up First Avenue, my favorite attraction is the United Nations plaza. It’s cool to see so many people from foreign countries gaping and gawking at the seat of global power and influence. There are also plenty of places to sit.

The run-of-the-mill bodega on First Avenue and East 54th Street is many people’s favorite one around.

The proprietor charges a sensible buck for Poland Spring water (NOT $1.25 or more!). He is a nice fellow to

boot.

I have a healthy supply of albums and Elvis Costello bootleg concerts on my phone. My go-to music to help me reach the finish line is Bruce Springsteen’s live in New York City collection from July 1, 2000, at Madison Square Garden (I was there).

Costello’s 1978 concerts were spectacular and they keep me moving.

The Beatles and the The Rolling Stones are my old reliables. So is The Doors’ fabulous song, “LA Woman.”

My personal best at walking is 15.2 miles, on Aug. 3, which demolished my previous record of 15.1 miles.

Of course, if I adhered to a more sensible daily diet I a) would not have gotten so overweight in the first place and b) wouldn’t feel so desperate to walk all these miles because I wouldn’t have to, in the second place. I am working on it, my next frontier.

Meanwhile, if you happen to recognize me while I am out and about on foot, stay out of my way. It’s every man and woman for himself and herself!

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A PERFECT MATCH RELIGION

UWS religious communities with faith and values in common join forces

BY JASON COHEN

Two Upper West Side congregations will begin sharing a space this fall in a carefully planned arrangement that could become permanent.

Congregation Shaare Zedek, 212 West 93rd Street, whose new building is currently under construction, plans to leave its temporary facility at the Franciscan Community Center, 214 West 97th Street and join Kehilat Hadar, an independent that holds services at the Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan at 805 Columbus Ave. In July, both shuls voted in favor of the proposal to begin joint operations. They will officially begin services together Oct. 26.

“Our two communities have a lot of overlap,” said Kehilat Hadar President Emily Scharfman.

“We have similar core values, which is important.”

Shaare Zedek President Michael Firestone explained that when construction began two years ago on the new building – a modern 14-

floor condominium with 20 residential units – the board at the temple began to look for another shul to merge with.

In their search, the board realized that Hadar was the perfect match, he said. They were both small congregations (combined they total around 150 members), egalitarian, do not have full time rabbis or cantors and are heavily rooted in activism.

“One of our core values is volunteerism,” Scharfman said. “People really get involved that way.”

This is not something that happened overnight.

In September 2018, the Board of Trustees of Shaare Zedek approached the Board of Trustees of Kehilat Hadar to explore whether both communities would be interested in coming together.

The KH Board appointed a task force to engage in discussions with Shaare Zedek to determine if a multi-year phased approach to integrate both communities would be desirable and feasible, both now and in the future. These conversations focused on the religious, programmatic, governance and financial aspects of both communities.

In December 2018, the task force completed its evaluation and presented it to the KH board. In January and February 2019, the board engaged

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the team leads of KH for feedback and appointed a dedicated team, chaired by Ashira Konigsburg and Emily Scharfman, to continue the conversations.

In the first phase of agreed-upon plan, Shaare Zedek and Kehilat Hadar will conduct “joint operations” as separate legal entities with their own boards and memberships. The two communities will hold Shabbat morning services together as a single minyan in Kehilat Hadar’s current location, and will coordinate on various other aspects of synagogue life, including children’s programming, adult education and che-

sed activities.

In the next phase, they will move into Shaare Zedek’s new building, which is replacing their West 93rd St. building and is expected to be ready by the fall of 2020. Finally, within nine months of the move, the members of Shaare Zedek and Kehilat Hadar will vote on whether to become a merged entity with a single board and unified membership.

Shaare Zedek will own three floors of the new building – the basement level, street level and

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EDITOR’S PICK

Thu 22 SOUL TRAIN TRIBUTE TO ARETHA FRANKLIN Marcus Garvey Park Mount Morris Park West 6:00 p.m. Free harlemonestop.com 212-658-9160 In Sidney Pollack’s concert film, the Queen of Soul performs gospel songs at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles in 1972. Preceded by live musical tribute, and Harlem’s attempt to form a recordbreaking Soul Train line.

ACTIVITIES FOR THE FERTILE MIND

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The Rise and Fall of the Vanderbilt Mansions Along Fifth Avenue Tour: An Aristocratic History

SATURDAY, AUGUST 24TH, 11AM Municipal Art Society of NY | 212-935-3960 | mas.org Rediscover the Vanderbilt mansions of Manhattan and how they all fell from grace. Get insight into the Gilded Age and how one wealthy family struggled to maintain an extravagant lifestyle ($30).

White Flights: Jess Row

MONDAY, AUGUST 26TH, 6:30PM Mid-Manhattan Library | 455 Fifth Ave. | 212-340-0863 | nypl.org Connect with White Flights, a critique of white writers whose stories are set in isolated settings in which they don’t have to engage with race. Author Jess Row will delve into his close reads of the likes of Don DeLillo, Annie Dillard, and David Foster Wallace (free).

Just Announced | TimesTalks: “She Said”

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25TH, 7PM Merkin Concert Hall | 129 W. 67th St. | 212-501-3330 | timestalks.com Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Times reporters who broke the story of Harvey Weinstein’s decades of alleged sexual harassment and abuse, talk about their upcoming book She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement ($45).

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WIKIPEDIA EDIT-ATHON WORKSHOP

FISHING AT HARLEM MEER

Barnes & Noble 150 East 86th St 3:30 p.m. Free Join cast members from the Tony Award-winning musical Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! for live performances, followed by CD signing.

Priority seating will be given to customers who purchase a CD. barnesandnoble.com 212-369-2180

Frick Art Reference Library 10 East 71st St 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Free Interested in knowing more about making Wikipedia edits? Frick is hosting its first art-history-related workshop on the subject, focusing on creating and enriching articles about New York art collectors and collections. frick.org 212-547-0641

Central Park Charles A. Dana Discovery Center 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Free Some of the fish living in the Meer include largemouth bass, pumpkinseed sunfish, bluegill sunfish, carp, and chain pickerel. Fishing poles are available to borrow as part of this daily catch and release program. centralpark.com 347-443-0656

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Children connect with Jewish heritage, gaining knowledge & skills through Hebrew language, text study, ritual & prayer.

Students K-12 learn & laugh with friends & teachers as they build a Jewish community of their own.

CONNECT today!

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LAUGHING MATTERS OPEN MIC

Central Park Rumsey Playfield 7:00 p.m. Free One of the greatest sounds of Salsa and winner of Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album Linda Viera Caballero aka La India will perform at SummerStage Festival. She will be joined by Cuban funk dance artist Cimafunk. centralpark.com 212-360-2777

Stella & Fly 1705 First Ave 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. $5 Laughing Matters NYC is an underground comedy collective trying to do comedy differently and bring communities together with laughter. Audience participation is welcome at this weekly open mic event. laughingmattersnyc.com 469-323-3033

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CURATOR-LED TOUR: NATURE – COOPER HEWITT DESIGN TRIENNIAL Cooper Hewitt 2 East 91st St 1:30 p.m. Free with admission Cooper Hewitt’s curators welcome you to ask them anything about the exhibition, a collaboration with scientists, engineers, farmers, environmentalists, and nature itself to design a more harmonious and regenerative future. cooperhewitt.org 212-849-8400

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REQUIREMENTS

• Registered voter residing in the City of New York

• A permanent U.S. resident over 18 years of age and a resident of New York City

• Enrolled in the Democratic or Republican party

• Fluent in English and the interpreter’s language

• Able to read and write English

• Spanish interpreters needed in all boroughs

DUTIES

• Chinese interpreters needed in Manhattan, Brooklyn & Queens

• Prepare the poll site for voters

• Korean, Hindi and Bengali interpreters needed in Queens

• Assist voters during the voting process

For Hindi Interpreters: Please note on your application if you can also speak Punjabi.

• Close the poll site • Canvass and report election results

• Does not have to be a registered voter

• Assist other poll workers as needed

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• Assist non-English speaking voters by translating voting information into covered languages during the voting process

• All Inspectors must attend a training class and pass the exam

TRAINING • All Interpreters must attend a training class and pass the exam

HOURS/LOCATION FOR PRIMARY/GENERAL ELECTION • 5:00 a.m. until the polls are closed and results reported, which will be after 9:00 p.m.

• Must be willing to travel within the borough for assignment to a poll site

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AMERICAN BLING An exhibit at the Met tracks the evolution of our jewelry, and its role in our lives, from the early 1700s to today

BY MARY GREGORY

Arranged along a narrow gallery, flanked by portraits of early Americans gazing into the central row of vitrines, are old and new, traditional and modern, glitzy and earthy, commercial and artful examples of how Americans have done bling. Spanning 300 years and laid out chronologically, “Jewelry for America” is a deep dive into gold and silver, diamonds, emeralds, tortoiseshell, and everything in between that’s been crafted p into personal decorations as jewelry. Men and women a l i k e

IF YOU GO

What : “Jewelry for America” Where: The Met 1000 Fifth Ave When: Through April 5th commemorate milestones – births, marriages, successes, and deaths – with rings, necklaces, brooches, and medals, and they’re all on view, in pavé or plastic, from the early 1700s to today.

The pieces, culled from the Met’s permanent collection, have been grouped into five sections, each examining a theme or time frame. “Sentimental Journey” addresses how jewelry was used to express desire, mark occasions, or hold dear a loved one.

A picture of George

Snips of hair were often tucked into lockets, this braid was fashioned into a dazzling statement piece by Tiffany & Co. in the 1800s. Photo: Adel Gorgy

A jaunty rabbit serving cocktails was both a statement of fun and a political commentary, since it was made and worn during the Prohibition Era. Photo: Adel Gorgy

Washington made its way onto a gold and enamel “mourning ring” made around 1800, but more touching are the several portrait brooches or cameos that kept the likeness of the beloved (or family, or even just a picture of one eye) pinned right to the heart.

Death, and the Spiritual World Jewelry made from or encasing human hair may seem odd, but it’s long been common to tuck a curl into a locket. A pair of earring from the 1880s, with gold beads giving way to dark, woven drops, looks unspectacular until you read the label and find that the dangles are made of extremely thin braids of human hair. An 1868 Tiffany & Co. brooch carries plaited auburn hair behind a crystal, surrounded by gold and pearls. Only a bit of hair remains of the woman, along with her name engraved on the back, Cornelia Ray Hamilton. Despite date with death it

implies, it’s elegant and appealing, even to today’s eyes.

One of the most moving displays in the exhibition is a case of Zuni beadwork. Necklaces of coral and turquoise from the early 20th century evoke natural and spiritual world views. One can almost feel the energy coming off of them. The collection once belonged to Henry Chee Dodge, a chief of the Navajo Nation, whose photograph hangs above it. The museum does well carrying forward a policy of including Native American art in the galleries and exhibitions in the American wing.

M. Gattle, Verdura, David Webb, and Raymond Yard.

Sleek Art Deco styles started to replace traditional forms.

One of the most charming pieces, filled with whimsy and sparkle, was designed by Raymond Yard in about 1930. It’s a rabbit made of gold, diamonds, rubies and sapphires, carrying a tray of martinis – a declaration of fun and a political statement made right in the middle of the prohibition era.

By the 1930s, American artists like Alexander Calder began to turn their talents toward jewelry. There’s a hammered abstract wire coil reminiscent of his greatest sculptural works, along with a stunning silver necklace, at once modern and stylized and referencing timeless Asian, African, and Native American shapes and forms.

The Depression and PostWar periods inspired jewelry makers to adapt, using less costly materials, like plastic.

Bakelite’s bold colors and shiny surfaces decorated eve-

rything from wrists to radios.

There’s a terrific bright red necklace from an unknown maker from the 1940s that many visitors to the show might covet more than some of the fussy diamonds.

A Glimpse of What We Value Fluid abstract shapes by Elsa Peretti, an almost conceptual sweep of silver titled “Cello Bracelet” by Ed Wiener, and a surrealist eyeball brooch by Sam Kramer give a hint of how contemporary jewelry makers tackle the complex issues of self-decoration and declarations, ornament, material and design in surprising, engaging, original and exciting ways.

To see glittering gems and precious metals doesn’t require a trip to the Met. A jewelry store can provide that, and Fifth Avenue has plenty of the best. It’s the glimpse at what we value, and how we express what we’re thinking through what we wear, that makes the Met’s “Jewelry for America” shine.

Diamonds, Deco and Bakelite “American Industry,“ “Fin de Siècle Brilliance,“ and “Nature and History as Inspiration” trace changing tastes, including a madness for diamonds spurred by discoveries of mines in South Africa in the second half of the 19th century, and by the rise of luxury manufacturers like Tiffany & Co., Cartier, Dreicer & Co., E.

Art Smith’s mid-20th century “Modern Cuff” bracelet is sculpture to be worn. Photo: Adel Gorgy

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A FAMILY AT SEA BOOKS

“The Floating Feldmans” brings home all-too-real relatives who choose to cruise

BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL

On our family cruise, the floating Merkls did not get into a brawl like “The Floating Feldmans,” the title family of the newest novel by Elyssa Friedland, but that doesn’t mean the trip was always smooth sailing.

Even though those who choose to cruise have volunteered to isolate themselves, sequestered from the outside world, well, as the fictional cruise director Julian says: “The boat brings out the best and worst in people. It’s a lot of togetherness.”“Regrettably,” admitted Feldman matriarch Annette, “I’m one of those people who tried to

force togetherness.”

It’s her 70th birthday and her doctor husband David is not in top form, their 48-yearold bachelor son Freddie, who’s always been a handful, is estranged, and their daughter Elise plus her husband Mitch and teen children Rachel and Darius are not quite strangers to her, but might as well be since they don’t have much of a relationship.

When David and Annette announce they are treating everyone, including Freddie’s 27-year-old girlfriend Natasha, to five days and four nights aboard the Ocean Queen to not only celebrate the milestone birthday, but get the family back on track, no one is more shocked than the septuagenarian couple that all are literally and figuratively on board for the trip.

Aside from the two kids who have no choice, the four adults each show up with separate agendas to be re-

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vealed to their captive audience with surprising results, such as the aforementioned fist fight on the Starboard Deck that shocked as well as inconvenienced the other three thousand hungry diners.

Not to one-up the Feldmans, but in 2006, twenty members of our family (my husband Neil is the oldest of seven, five are married, four have children) set sail to celebrate my mother- and father-in-law’s 50th anniversary.

Although we never came to

physical blows, I finally got to see what it is like when a large family has no choice but to deal with each other.

At the time Neil and I had been married 18 years. I liked his parents, and my siblingsin-laws and their significant others as well as my nieces and nephews, but I had never lived with them.

As an only child, I had always romanticized the “Brady Bunch”-type family.

On our very first date, Neil made it clear, “We’re not the Brady Bunch. In fact, the closest thing on TV to our family was a show called “Eight Is Enough.”

Now here we were on this floating tin can as close to living under the same roof with them as I had ever come. Neil had always told me that people may grow up in the same house but still end up very different, developing their own personalities, likes and dislikes, and ways of doing things. I finally had reason to believe him.

My late brother-in-law Tom, notorious for not always showing up when he was supposed to, was first onboard

and greeted us with a tropical drink in hand and a look that said, “What took you?”

Whereas Neil’s youngest brother Andrew and his wife Kathy, toting their toddler Danny, who were usually early birds were late.

Getting the group photo accomplished was a long day’s journey, as every time someone took his or her place in view of the camera, someone else would wander off.

Whenever it was time to choose a group activity, I could see how everybody maneuvered in their own way to get their way; how people formed alliances; and how sometimes, all it took to get what one wanted was exerting one’s place in the birth order.My mother-in-law had a rule that everybody didn’t have to do everything together, but all had to be present and accounted for at dinner so we could eat together and share our day’s events. At one of those meals, we stood together as one when a passenger in the dining room made a snide comment about how many of us there were and how the staff

had to be inconvenienced rearranging tables to accommodate our large group. Let’s just say the person who made the remark didn’t bother us again the rest of the trip.

As a Merkl by marriage, I pretty much went along to get along.

One thing I did though, was deem myself documentary filmmaker, capturing every moment of our time on the high seas. By our last day my sister-in-law Mary (youngest of the original seven) yelled at me, “Enough already with the camera, Lorraine. Enough.”

Because I caught her outburst on film, I made it the penultimate scene of the video, which I edited, screened and gave to everyone. The final shot was the words OK MARY. OK! All was forgiven.

Or as Annette Feldman wisely shares with Julian during their discussion about how trying family sometimes may be, “I like having people that are bound to me in some way.”

Lorraine Duffy Merkl is the author of the novels “Fat Chick” and “Back to Work She Goes.”

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The New York Police Department is experiencing a spike in officer suicides as two more officers killed themselves last week. So far this year nine officers have taken their own lives.

The concerning bump in the number of suicides — which usually sits at five per year — has elicited calls for action from city officials.

However, according to Heath Grant, a professor from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, police suicide has always been a prevalent issue as some studies suggest that more officers die by suicide each year than in the line of duty.

Grant’s interest and concern in the issue led him to conduct his own study of a phenomenon called compassion fatigue, which he described as stress that develops from helping others, and how it affects police.

While he couldn’t say compassion fatigue directly leads to suicide, Grant said the stress from compassion fatigue could accumulate over time and contribute to impaired mental health.

Grant recently spoke with Straus News to talk about his study, compassion fatigue and ways to help officers at risk. Excerpts:

Can you explain what compassion fatigue is and why you wanted to study it?

It’s a combination of burnout and secondary trauma. It can look a lot like PTSD in some respects, but it’s different. Officers take on trauma by helping someone in a difficult set of circumstances and the officer just can’t relieve that stress so it leads to their own burnout and it leads to their own trauma.

That stress builds over time.

Compassion fatigue traditionally been looked at in other helping professions like nursing, emergency doctors and firefighters but it was never looked at with police. Now, sometimes, they’re going into the community to help but that community doesn’t trust them,

Heath Grant, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

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or even worse they think of [the police] as the enemy.

There’s that kind of a dynamic that goes on and we just know from seeing compassion fatigue in other fields that it takes a toll over time. It’s not that we can say for sure that compassion fatigue definitely leads to suicide all the time because that research has not been done. But we can see how the link can logically be made and it’s something we need to look at much more closely.

How did you conduct your study?

We used some of the bestknown validated measures that are out there to do this exploratory look. We did an anonymous survey of over a hundred officers from within New York City, New York state and Connecticut. The anonymous part is important to make sure they feel comfortable answering.

What did you find?

The interesting finding is that both in my study, and another study like it that I’ve seen, compassion fatigue wasn’t higher in the police that were studied than the general population. It was contrary to what we were expecting to see, so we said ‘wow, that’s a good thing.’ That means less burnout, less trauma among police While compassion fatigue might have been low, so was what’s called compassion satisfaction. It’s basically job satisfaction. Officers get satisfaction out of the helping aspects of the job. Why is that important?

One: because that’s why they got into the job in the first place. Two: we know it’s well documented in other fields that compassion satisfaction or job satisfaction from helping oth-

risks of compassion fatigue. In the study, that was very, very low compared to the general population. We plan to test the same officers in a few years and they are likely to have compassion fatigue: burnout and trauma.

What are some ways to combat compassion fatigue and prevent officer suicides?

Generally, therapy can work.

What that looks like is more inward reflection on the part of the officer in terms of their emotions, the day to day experience in the job, at home, and understanding that they need to manage their emotions better. Most importantly, I think in addition to traditional therapy, what works is having supportive peers or managers that can talk about your experiences regularly. I know of groups that are being developed that look promising. I will be soon going to Ottawa, Canada to look at a peer support group network.

What’s the biggest challenge to identifying compassion fatigue in police officers and getting them the help they need?

Taking the stigma away from therapy in the profession is the biggest challenge we face. Officers think, “If I go do that I might end up on a desk job.” A lot of it stays in and I think that’s part of the problem. The culture is just not really there. I don’t mean just the NYPD, but police in general. Everything I’m saying has been well documented for decades. But it’s never been properly dealt with.

As long as we can couple counseling strategies with some organizational support all the way up the chain of command that takes away stigma and encourages this kind of approach that is not traditional policing material, we have no reason to believe it wouldn’t work.

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Among the risks: Inhaling airborne water, droplets or spray can result in asthma-like symptoms. External contact can trigger a rash, itching or skin, nose, eye and throat irritations.

And swallowing or ingesting the water can lead to nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain or other gastrointestinal symptoms, city and state officials say.

Don’t take any chances, the Parks Dept. warns. While blooms producing blue-green algae, technically called cyanobacteria, can be toxic, many aquatic plants that resemble it are harmless. But since it’s exceedingly tough for a lay person to discern the difference, park stewards say the safest recourse is simply for people and pets to steer clear of any visible blooms.

“When enjoying fresh water features in city parks, it is important to try to avoid contact with any algae, and keep pets on leashes, and do not allow them to enter or drink from lakes and ponds unless in areas specifically designated for such activities,” said city Parks spokesperson Megan Moriarty.

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How can you identify a potential bloom?

That’s the easy part. Parks and DEC officials don’t typically deploy such colorful language, but they’ve variously described the unsightly mess as “carpet-like mats of floating green, bubbling pond scum” – and “green-tinted water” with “globs, clumps and/or dots” that has the appearance of pea soup, or green, blue or red paint.”

“Where did the turtles go?” asked 12-yearold Melinda Gross of the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, who was touring the Turtle Pond, parallel to West 80th Street, with a school group on a recent morning.

Actually, most of the five species who live there year-round were in residence. Still, in a body of water known for its purity and clarity and crystalline nature, the creatures, who love

basking in the sun on flat logs or rocks, were very tough to find.

A volunteer descended on the pond, near Vista Rock, in an instant. She helpfully pointed out a couple of red-eared sliders. Melissa was grateful and overjoyed.

Still, she asked the obvious question: “Shouldn’t their home be a little bit cleaner?”

There was no ready answer. Eventually, the algae flushes itself out, dissipating when the chemistry balances.

At least four algae blooms were observed in Turtle Pond between July 21 and Aug. 12, and the HAB status was confirmed for three of them. All were described as “large in extent,” and one was identified as “widespread or lakewide.”

The Role of Climate Change It’s not wrong to factor climate change into the onslaught of algal blooms in Central Park: “Many factors influence algae blooms, including high nutrients, stagnant water, high temperatures and low oxygen,” Moriatry said.

Of course, cyanobacteria isn’t new, state scientists point out, and in fact, it has been present in waterbodies for thousands of years. So what is new? Many state officials believe climate change is a factor in the occurrence of HABs -- and the fact that reports of HABs are increasing worldwide supports that.

Meanwhile, according to Parks data and DEP photos and analyses, other park algae blooms include: ■ At least four locations along the northeast shore of the Harlem Meer, at East 109th Street, all of which were observed between June 24 and Aug. 12. At least three were confirmed HABs, and one was described as “possessing high toxins.”

■ At least one location in the Pool – photographed near West 101st by Straus News on Friday, Aug. 9th – and appearing to sprawl over the entire dimensions of the pool.

■ Separately, outside of Central Park, at least two algae bloom sites in Morningside Pool in Morningside Park, near Morningside Avenue at West 103rd Street, were observed between July 7 and July 23. Both were described as small and localized, but both were also “confirmed HSBs.” “Yuck!” said Courtney Browne, a nine-yearold Brooklyn schoolgirl as she stood on the north shoreline of The Pool on a recent afternoon with her parents. “… And I mean totally, totally yucky!” invreporter@strausnews.com

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Although the neighborhood has endured many changes over the years, restaurant owners insist that they’re still here and thriving

BY JADEN SATENSTEIN

To many New Yorkers, Little Italy is not a regular go-to spot to grab a meal and spend an evening. Some city residents never take the trip to Mulberry Street, other than to entertain visiting family and friends who hope to reenact scenes from “The Godfather.”

While many original establishments, such as Luna Restaurant, have remained open, many others have had to close their doors over the years. Popping up in their place: souvenir shops.

“It’s a tourist destination completely,” said Doreen Donofrio, who grew up in the neighborhood in the 1960’s and 70’s. She is now the manager of Luna, which her great grandparents opened in 1912 after immigrating from Naples. “The

neighborhood has changed dramatically. We were a community. We were three, four, five generations.

Everyone knew each other. And it wasn’t all this commercialized stuff.

We had bakeries, a funeral home, a dry cleaner ... It was just one big family.”

Longtime residents point to extreme rent increases, on both commercial and residential properties, as a major reason why their community, which was once heavily ItalianAmerican, has dwindled.

Additionally, the small size of the typical apartments, tenements that were once home to immigrant families striving to achieve the American Dream, have led families to leave the neighborhood in search of more space.

Frozen in Time In spite of these changes, aspects of the old Little Italy remain.

Walking into the Mulberry Street Bar is like stepping into a time machine. The bar, which opened in

Caffe Roma has been run by the same family since it opened in 1891. Photo: Jade Satenstein

1908, has been the location for many famous movies and television shows, including “The Sopranos” and “The Godfather III.” An episode of “Blue Bloods” was shot there just a couple weeks ago.

“Everything here is from 1908, including the bartender,” joked Mulberry Street Bar owner Vivian Catenaccio. “The floor is the original floor. The bar is the original bar.” Although she acknowledged the many changes in the neighborhood, Catenaccio said Little Italy continues to be a vibrant community and major destination for locals and tourists alike.

Supporting the Community “We’re still here and thriving,” Catenaccio said. “We have millions of people that come through here, tourists and otherwise. It’s very safe, very festive and still very popular.”

Catenaccio largely attributes this success to the strength of the Little Italy Merchants Association (LIMA), which has worked to support dozens

of Little Italy establishments, including restaurants, specialty shops and Italian delis, for over 30 years.

The president of LIMA, Willie Dominguez, hails from Mexico. He moved to the neighborhood in 1992 and began working as a busboy in restaurants, including Luna Restaurant, which he now owns. When asked why he decided to settle down in Little Italy after coming to the United States, Dominguez’s answer was simple: “I love Italian food.”

‘What a Neighborhood is About’ “We here at LIMA are the future of the neighborhood,” Catenaccio said.

One hope for that future, shared by many residents and merchants, is for city officials to do more to support historic Little Italy establishments, such as Caffe Roma, which has been run by the same family since it opened in 1891 and is famous for its classic Italian pastries.

“This is a neighborhood that’s basically a very, very lucrative business

for the city,” said Vincent “Buddy” Zeccardi, the current owner of Caffe Roma. “They don’t give us any incentive ... You see a city official walk the street, you know they’re looking for something. They’re looking to take something away from you …

The politicians really don’t have any insight into what a neighborhood is about.”

The area has welcomed many visitors this summer for the Little Italy Pedestrian Mall – throughout the summer, Mulberry Street is closed to traffic on weekends, allowing pedestrians to peacefully stroll through the neighborhood. (The pedestrian mall ends September 8.) Although most Italian-American families have left the neighborhood, many will return to attend the Feast of San Gennaro next month.

“We will do everything possible to keep our community intact,” Catenaccio said. “We’re three blocks, but we’re three blocks strong.”

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Hare, 27, was found guilty on all three counts of attempted assault.

His co-defendant, Kinsman, 39, was found guilty on two counts of attempted assault and “justified” in his actions on the lowest counts of attempted assault.

The verdict came after a separate and much larger clash between the two groups in Portland, Oregon over the weekend. The groups have become common foes, engaging in violence in cities across the country over the last few years.

No Testimony from the Victims The trial was peculiar in that it relied heavily on video footage that captured the minute-long melee and featured no testimony from the victims. On the night of the fight, the Antifa members, who were referred to in the indictment and during the trial by their physical attributes and named respectively as Khaki, Ponytail, Spike Belt and Shaved Head, refused to speak to an officer who was at the scene. Later, investigators were unable to identify or locate the victims. Consequently, the district attorney’s office was not able to charge the Proud Boys with assault, as that charge requires evidence of

“They romanticize violence. Their attack was vicious, disproportionate and most important, unnecessary.”

Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass injury.

The prosecutors said that if the four Antifa members had been identified, they too would have faced charges for their part in the brawl.

The defense took advantage of the Antifa members’ absence and made characterizing them as a group out to terrorize Proud Boys a central part of their cases. The defense lawyers called them “maniacs” and “monsters.” Hare testified to watching “hundreds” of YouTube videos in which Antifa members wield bricks, crowbars and bottles of urine to hurl at anyone they deem to be Nazis or fascists.

Kinsman’s attorney, Jack Goldberg, who was animated throughout the trial and often shouted during his questioning and summation, suggested that the prosecutors were not only politically motivated, but also that the NYPD, the district attorney and Antifa were colluding with one another since no charges were filed against the four involved in the fight.

Police circulated video of street violence on 82nd Street that occurred after the Oct. 12, 2018 event at the Metropolitan Republican Club. Image: NYPD

“These people are not from the New York County district attorney’s office,” Goldberg said during his summation. “They’re from the New York County district Antifa’s office.”

Looking for a Fight Likewise, the prosecutors frequently invoked the founder of the Proud Boys, Gavin McInnes, who

was not charged in the incident.

They called McInnes a “hatemonger” and read a statement in which he promoted violence, saying, “We don’t start fights. We finish them.”

Joshua Steinglass, the prosecutor, said the Proud Boys were looking for a fight on the night of October 12. He showed video footage of what he characterized as Proud Boys taunting the many protesters who had gathered across the street from the Met Club that night. The protesters were chanting “No Nazis, no KKK, no fascist USA.” Steinglass paused the video on a frame of Kinsman with his arm rigid and outstretched and hand flat pointing forward. He asked Kinsman what he was doing in the video.

“I was waving,” Kinsman said.

“So that’s not you giving the Nazi salute?” Steinglass asked. Kinsman denied the claim.

The prosecution also noted that Hare had been involved in other altercations with Antifa, including months earlier in Portland. He also described a photograph of Hare posing with an AR-15 and a defaced Antifa flag that had been posted to Facebook.

“They romanticize violence,” Steinglass said of the Proud Boys.

“Their attack was vicious, disproportionate and most important, unnecessary.”

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The Metropolitan Republican Club was vandalized prior to an event featuring Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes. Photo: Michael Garofalo

The defense, however, painted the Proud Boys, who have been flagged as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, as an anti-racist group that was founded on the ideals of nationalism and conservatism.

Kinsman said he joined because he

was looking for drinking buddies.

Hare testified that he was afraid of the protesters outside the club that night, and that his fear began when he learned that on the previous night, hooded figures vandalized the club, by shattering windows and spray painting anarchist symbols on the doors. The vandals also left behind leaflets, which contained a socalled manifesto that denounced McInness and promised future attacks.

The footage shows the group of at least 10 Proud Boys walking along Park Avenue when Hare stops, claps his hands, and shouts, “Proud Boys, you ready?” He then runs toward four masked people wearing all black clothing on East 82nd Street.

One throws a plastic water bottle at Hare, but it misses him and flies past his head. Hare then swings and punches Ponytail and also punches and kicks Shaved Head. Kinsman comes into the frame a few seconds later when he launches himself into Spike Belt, who he kicks and stomps until he turns his attention to Shaved Head, who he also kicked.

Hare testified that he had no choice but to confront the “row” of Antifa he spotted coming toward his group and that he his group was already under attack when he started swinging.

Kinsman said that on the night of the incident he could not tell who started the fight and he got involved to help protect his friends.

Sentencing is scheduled to take place on Oct. 11. Each defendant faces a maximum of 15 years in prison for the top count.

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At the American Museum of Natural History, Cheryl Hayashi’s “silk library” could help develop new materials

BY JEREMY REHM, ASSOCIATED PRESS

With two pairs of fine-tipped tweezers and the hands of a surgeon, Cheryl Hayashi began dissecting the body of a silver garden spider under her microscope.

In just a few minutes she found what she was seeking: hundreds of silk glands, the organs spiders use to make their webs. Some looked like mashed potatoes, others like green worms or air-filled rubber gloves.

Each lets the spider produce a different type of silk.

Some silk types can be stretchy, others stiff. Some dissolve in water, others repel it.

“They make so many kinds of silk!”

They make so many kinds of silk!

That’s just what boggles my mind.”

Cheryl Hayashi, AMNH

Hayashi said. “That’s just what boggles my mind.”

Hayashi has collected spider silk glands of about 50 species, just a small dent in the more than 48,000 spider species known worldwide.

Her lab at the American Museum of Natural History is uncovering the genes behind each type of silk to create a sort of “silk library.” It’s part of an effort to learn how spiders make so many kinds of silk and what allows each kind to behave differently.

The library could become an important storehouse of information

Curator Cheryl Hayashi. Photo: © AMNH/R. Mickens

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for designing new pesticides and better materials for bullet-proof vests, space gear, biodegradable fishing lines and even fashionable dresses.

Hayashi has been at this for 20 years, but improved technology only recently let scientists analyze the DNA of silk faster and produce artificial spider silk in bulk.

“Any function that we can think of where you need something that requires a lightweight material that’s very strong, you can look to spider silk,” Hayashi said.

Spider silks all start out the same: a wad of goo, akin to rubber cement or thick honey, as Hayashi describes it. Spiders make and stash it in a gland until they want to use the silk.

Then, a narrow nozzle called a spigot opens. And as the goo flows out, it morphs into a solid silk strand that is weaved with other strands emerging from other spigots.

Nobody knows how many kinds of spider silks exist, but some species can produce a variety. Orb-weaving spiders, for example, make seven types. One has a sticky glue to catch prey. Another is tough but stretchy to absorb the impact of flying insects. The spider dangles from a third type that’s as tough as steel.

How and why silks behave in these

various ways is a puzzle, but the secret likely lies in genes. Finding those genes, though, isn’t easy.

Until recently, scientists had to first chop the glands’ DNA into pieces and have a computer try to put the sequence back together like a jigsaw puzzle. That’s a daunting task, and it’s especially difficult for spiders, because their genes are very long and repetitive.

It’s as if the sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is instead, “The quick brown fox jumps, jumps, jumps, jumps, jumps, jumps, jumps, jumps over the lazy dog,” said Sarah Stellwagen from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. If you have no idea what the sentence says and have to rebuild it from a shredded mess of thousands of copies, how do you know how many “jumps” to put into it?

That’s the problem Stellwagen faced when she recently determined the entire set of genes, and their DNA makeup, for spider silk glue.

She’d thought she could do it fairly quickly, but it took almost two years.

Scientists have to recover the full gene to truly mimic natural silk, she said. If they try to produce synthetic silk from just part of a gene or some lab-built stunted version, “it’s not as good as what a spider makes,” Stell-

wagen said.

That’s the issue researchers and companies have had in the past using genetically modified yeast, microbes and even goats to make synthetic silk. Only last year did a group make a small amount that perfectly mimicked an orb-weaving spider’s dragline silk, the type it dangles from, using bacteria.

But that was only one type of silk from one species. Hayashi asked: “What about the other 48,000?”

Technology has improved. Researchers can now determine genes from beginning to end without first chopping them up. And companies have gotten ever closer to mass-produced synthetic silks.

Now, it’s a matter of uncovering the secrets of the potentially thousands of other silks out there.

It’s a hard task, considering the many spiders she has yet to study and that some are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence.

“But hey, you know, we all have goals,” she said.

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