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STUDENT PETITIONS FOR UNLIMITED METROCARDS HS senior says many attend “commuter” schools, with associated activities often far from home and campus BY MADELEINE THOMPSON

Samantha Fierro, a high school senior at Eleanor Roosevelt High School on the Upper East Side, has been working on her resume of activities for years now. She has taken classes at New York University and the International Center of Photography, and is very into the Israeli self-defense method krav maga. But because her school doesn’t have the capacity to host these activities, Fierro must traverse the city to get to them and because she doesn’t drive — like many of her peers — she rides public transportation. Plainly, her three-trip student MetroCard doesn’t quite cut it, and Fierro has started a petition asking the

Department of Education to provide students with unlimited rides. “We don’t have a lot of money as a family,” said Fierro, who is one of five brothers and sisters, all of whom attend different schools. “I’ve found it repeatedly difficult when I’m trying to ask my mom for money to justify why she would pay for my rides versus all four of my siblings. Because monthly that just becomes way too much for all us.” Since she posted her petition on the Care2 website roughly three weeks ago, it has gathered nearly 11,000 signatures and hundreds of supportive comments from parents, teachers and students. “How many more obstacles do the poor have to juggle?” wrote Ruth C. “How can a family raise themselves out of poverty and an oppressed state of being if NYC YOUTH cannot

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Samantha Fierro, a high school senior at Eleanor Roosevelt High, is asking the city Department of Education to issue unlimited ride MetroCards to students to better enable them to attend school and extracurricular activities. Photo: Madeleine Thompson

LOCKED DOWN IN YORKVILLE Alan Reisner’s presided over the neighborhood’s hardware needs for nearly a quarter century BY VIRGINIA RANDALL

Alan Reisner outside his York Avenue hardware shop. Photo: Virginia Randall

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For nearly a quarter of a century, Alan Reisner has advised young renters on the kind of hooks they need to hang their pictures, diagnosed mysterious sounds emanating from radiators and crafted sets of keys for new roommates. Reisner, the proprietor of ATB Locksmith and Hardware on York Avenue, near 85th Street, has presided over

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the 800-square-feet store, which is near stuffed to the ceiling with bins and racks holding every imaginable hardware item from tiny screws to plumbing tools. Reisman, though, has memorized it all, pulling the correct item out from the organized chaos with ease. After so many years ensconced in its compact nook, ATB is moving. But if Reisner has his say, he and his store will remain in Yorkville. “I didn’t pick Yorkville, Yorkville picked me,” Reisner, 60, said. “I wanted to be my own boss, and I looked in the paper for opportunities to take

over a business and there it was.” Taking over the hardware store on York Avenue was a bit of a return to roots for Reisner, who before taking over the shop had spent years on the account end at a major ad agency. “My dad was a landlord and I would go with him when he would fix up

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CENTER’S TUTORS ‘MAKING A DIFFERENCE’ At Goddard Riverside, in need of help to keep helping students BY CHRISTOPHER MOORE

Susan Galligan was looking for a volunteer opportunity she could sink her teeth into. She found it. And you could too. “I love it,” she says of her work two hours a week as a tutor at the Star Learning Center. Running from Oct. 5 through May 12, the program at the Goddard Riverside Community Center is seeking volunteer tutors for the new school year. “I feel as if I am really making a difference in a kid’s life,” she says. For three and a half years, she’s been helping out, almost always with the same student. She met him when he was in the second semester of third grade. “Now,” she says, “I like to say we are going into seventh grade.” She and her pupil join others at the center, where Galligan, 65, says there are tutors of various ages, including college students. “That’s a fabulous example of the kids,” she says. Her own tutoring work has meant keeping up her own academic skills. When

A volunteer works with a child at Goddard Riverside’s Star Learning Center. it comes to tutoring math, she says, “I was great up until the beginning of sixth grade.” She got up to speed again, and shares a passion for math

with her student. “We’re in sync on that,” she says. The program serves low-income students from across the city. The focus

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from 3:30 to 6 p.m. Tutoring applications are available at the Goddard Riverside web site at https://goddard.org/ grcc/volunteer/starlearning/ “Tutoring can really help a child succeed in school – and that makes a big difference in their lives,” explains Deena Hellman, the tutoring program’s director. “We urgently need more tutors to serve all the children who’ve signed up.” Galligan describes the center as a welcoming environment where she gets as much as she gives. There’s something compelling about following a child’s development, seeing improvements over time. Tutors get the support they need, she insists. And Galligan’s glad she’s learning about what it means to be a kid in today’s world. “I know more about soccer and Star Trek and some of the young adult novels the kids are reading now than I ever thought I would,” she says. After she retired from work as a lawyer, Galligan knew she wanted to contribute as a volunteer. She found her place in a supportive spot. “They do really great work. They really care about kids,” she says. “I am a big fan.”

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG CRUST BUST

STATS FOR THE WEEK

A thief was arrested after grabbing the wrong kind of bread at a Panera store. On Aug. 30, a woman in buying bread at the Panera store at 120 East 86th St. had her purse grabbed by man in his mid to late 30s. After a brief struggle, the robber fled the location but was arrested later after he was positively identified from the store video. The items stolen and recovered were $200 in cash, a wristlet wallet valued at $200, and two credit cards. Police did not identify the man.

Reported crimes from the 19th precinct Week to Date

TREE MUGGER File this story under peculiar street crimes. At 6 p.m. on Sept. 2, a man broke a cement planter and destroyed the roots of a tree outside 31 E. 79th St., causing some $1,000 worth of damage.

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Two of three crooks were arrested after a looting spree at a local Duane Reade. On the morning of Sept. 5, two young men, aged 16 and 19, along with a male accomplice in his mid-20s, entered the Duane Reade store at 1356 Lexington Ave. took

merchandise from store shelves and put them into bags before leaving . A female store employee tried to stop the trio, but one or more of them lunged at her in a menacing manner. The items stolen included $300 worth of

candy, body care products valued at $663, medicines costing $135 and electronics tagged at $35, making a total of $1,134. The two younger men were arrested later that day and charged with robbery.

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ROBBERS ON TWO WHEELS

When construction workers are at play, construction burglars may have their day. Sometime between 1:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 2 and 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 6, unknown perpetrators entered a construction site on East 76th Street between Madison and Park Avenues and made off with construction tools valued at $2,612.

Pedestrians already fear being hit by bicyclists; now they have to fear being robbed by them as well. At 12:37 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 9, a 30-year-old woman was walking and talking on her cell phone at Third Avenue and East 86th Street when a man riding a bicycle swooped by and snatched her phone. The robber then rejoined three other bicyclists, and the foursome took off into the night. The stolen cell was an iPhone 6S valued at $500.

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A story in the Sept. 8 edition of Our Town, “The Jazz Church,” should have identified Lella Massimo as the wife of designer Massimo Vignelli. The piece also should have referred to Emory Roth & Sons as the architects of the CitiCorp Center.

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One of the flags flown at ground zero following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks has returned to the site following a roundabout, decade-long trip. Photo: Andrea Booher/ FEMA News Photo

FLAG RAISED AT GROUND ZERO RETURNS TO SITE AFTER JOURNEY The iconic Start and Stripes, raised by three firefighters following the September 2001 attacks, had a roundabout journey BY JENNIFER PELTZ

An American flag raised at ground zero on Sept. 11 in a defining moment of patriotic resolve took its place at the site last week after disappearing for over a decade. The 3-foot-by-5-foot flag took a symbolic and curious journey from a yacht moored in lower Manhattan to the smoking wreckage of the World Trade Center, then to a firehouse about 2,400 miles away in Everett, Washington — and now to a glass case at the National Sept. 11 Museum. A TV show, a mysterious man and two years of detective work helped reestablish its whereabouts. “In a museum that’s filled with such deeply powerful artifacts, this newest of artifacts is certainly one of the most emo-

tionally and historically powerful,” the museum’s president, Joe Daniels, said as the display was unveiled on Sept. 8, three days before the 15th anniversary of the terror attacks. The flag’s absence, he said, “just felt like a hole in the history of this site.” The flag is the centerpiece of one of the most resonant images of American fortitude on 9/11. After plucking the flag from a nearby boat, three firefighters hoisted it amid the ashen destruction as photographer Thomas E. Franklin of The Record of Hackensack, New Jersey, captured the scene. The photograph inspired a postage stamp, sculpture and other tributes. Meanwhile, the flag was signed by New York’s governor and two mayors and flown at Yankee Stadium, outside City Hall and on an aircraft carrier near Afghanistan _ except it wasn’t the right flag. It was bigger, and by 2004, the yacht’s owners had publicly broached the error.

By then, officials had no idea what had happened to the real flag. They were in the dark until November 2014, when a man turned up at an Everett fire station with what is now the museum’s flag, saying he’d seen a recent History channel piece about the mystery, according to Everett Police detective Mike Atwood and his former colleague Jim Massingale. The man, who gave firefighters only the name “Brian,” said he’d gotten it as a gift from an unnamed National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration worker who’d gotten it from an unidentified 9/11 widow. The detectives gathered surveillance video and circulated a police sketch, but they haven’t found the man or been able to confirm his explanation of the flag’s provenance. DNA tests of material found on electrical tape wrapped around the flag’s halyard didn’t match the firefighters or other people known to have handled the flag.

But a forensic expert analyzed dust on the flag and halyard and found it consistent with ground zero debris. Meanwhile, the detectives scrutinized photos and videos of the flag-raising and consulted one of the yacht’s former crew members to compare the flag’s size, material, stitching, hardware and halyard. Taking all the evidence together, “we feel it’s very likely the one captured in the photo,” said Massingale, now with the Stillaguamish Police Department on the Stillaguamish Tribe’s reservation in Washington. The yacht’s owners, Shirley Dreifus and the late Spiros E. Kopelakis, were so surprised when first told the flag might have resurfaced that Kopelakis wondered whether the call was a prank, Dreifus said. She and Chubb insurance donated the flag to the museum. A documentary about the flag’s recovery aired Sunday on History.

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week day, with one transfer each, between the hours of 5:30 a.m. and 8 p.m. Half-fare cards, for students who are considered to be living close enough to walk to school, only work on buses and require the student to pay half of the cost. According to the Office of Pupil Transportation’s website, “Three trips allows a student to travel from home to school, from school to an after school activity, and then from that activity to home.� The cards do not work on weekends, holidays or over the summer. Fierro and her friends have found that arrangement inadequate. “If you go to high school in the city, chances are you don’t live right there,� she said. “You probably have friends in different neighborhoods. It’s just hard when you want to participate in things all over city at different times, especially on the weekends.�

SEPTEMBER 15-21,2016 A DOE spokeswoman, Toya Holness, issued a brief statement citing “safe, reliable transportationâ€? as the Office of Pupil Transportation’s top priority. “The OPT transports approximately 143,700 public and non-public school students to and from school by bus every day and provides approximately 653,400 students with MetroCards,â€? the statement read. With college application season about to begin, Fierro is more aware than ever of how her experiences and skills come across on paper. She hopes to stay in the city for college — somewhere like Fordham University or FIT — where she can continue ďŹ ghting for students’ rights. Reach reporter Madeleine Thompson at newsreporter@strausnews.com

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since the beginning—parents, teachers, administrators, and staff—there’s the pride of having launched that first group of impressive young people into the world, ready to fulfill our mission statement by being “architects of lives that transcend the ordinary.” We know how excited they are about the new school year. So are we.

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STOPPING ALCOHOL-FUELED VIOLENCE BY BETTE DEWING

“Except for drunk driving, the alcohol factor is seldom indicted in violent disputes, assaults and other crimes of violence. Also suicide, But all that deserves another column or volume.” This from my recent “Olympian Lessons of the Very First Kind” column is now most tragically and immediately kept by the stabbing death late last month of Anthony Nazaire, the 19-year-old Ithaca College student from Brooklyn. It happened during a brawl at a fraternity party. Thankfully, another stabbing victim student will survive. Unlike Anthony’s loved ones, his family will be spared a heartbreaking and enduring loss. And the words of Anthony’s distraught family need to be stressed and publicly remembered and especially at Ithaca College: “the pain this person has caused this family is unbelievable.” Again, this enduring and unimaginable pain must get out and stay out there – to offer comfort and support,

but above all, to help prevent such crimes — to stop the alcohol overuse which triggers these abominable – actions done “under-the-influence.” Recall also how Anthony was a second-year business administration student on a full scholarship to the university. So much to be remembered how a serious student and a caring person like Anthony can be a victim of all-too-commonplace campus drunkenness. It should not be given a pass — especially in “places of higher learning.” Indeed, required courses on the myriad dangers of alcohol use and to physical health, as well as on how younger brains can be permanently damaged by early binge drinking, are all long overdue. Older brains can also lose debilitating volume by longtime, everyday and even relatively moderate drinking; even more so when it’s immoderate. Yes, there are studies that most unfortunately are rarely noted by neurologists. And I’m getting sidetracked again from the original promise to ex-

pose the too-little-acknowledged link between alcohol and anti-social and criminal actions, which again would likely not take place were the person sober. We all know about DWI — driving while intoxicated — but not about other lawless or anti-social actions committed while intoxicated — under the influence of a drug which disables the brain’s judgment/conscience center. This is not to excuse such behavior but to help prevent it. The facts need to become common knowledge. Consider these few statistics from the National Institute of Alcohol and Drug Abuse regarding college students aged 18 to 24: • 1,825 died from alcohol related unintentional injuries, including vehicular crashes. • 696,000 students are assaulted by another student who has been drinking, • 97,006 students report alcohol-related sexual assaults or date rape As you know, mothers of victims

organized the now-well-known group Mothers Against Drunk Driving group (MADD). A group against drunk violence is just as needed. Ah, but the overall need is an all-out movement against irresponsible drinking, which statistics show is a factor in so many homicides, physical assaults, including the sexual kind, domestic abuse and neglect and suicide – not to mention and just highly regrettable non-violent and risk-taking behavior. The city’s former medical examiner, Dr. Michael Baden, said “Everywhere medical examiners look, whether it’s automobile accidents, drownings, homicides, suicides, falls or fires, alcohol is involved.” A large percentage of the prison population had been drinking before the crimes for which they were convicted were committed, Baden and other experts have said. And weekend murders and assaults almost invariably are alcohol-related. Another story which appeared in the same edition as the Anthony Nazaire news piece was titled, “Bloody Sunday

Matt Baran, via flickr 13 Shot, Two Dead.” No doubt, alcohol was involved in this street gangrelated violence which should also be stopped – the alcohol trigger should be denounced along with gun and gang violence. Whatever happened to Harlem Mothers Against Violence? Again, Alcoholics Anonymous group’s number is 212-647-1680. Everyone, especially policy makers, should attend these open meetings to hear the real life “before and after” stories. These are an invaluable resource about which infinitely more must be said — but surely at Ithaca College and all places of learning, including places of worship. And don’t forget online and regular media. It can be done if enough of us try. dewingbetter@aol.com

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS GRAYING NEW YORK BY MARCIA EPSTEIN

My apartment is now home to three senior citizens on medication; me, my partner John, and our cat Simone. Recently, Simone was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism and takes two pills a day. There are lots and lots of pills in our apartment, all taken at different times of the day. So now we not only have to remember when to take our own medication, we have to remember when to give Simone hers. Pills, pills everywhere. Such is senior life. Every summer John takes me to Eisenhower Park on Long Island to the batting range. I am the only granny there, and I try to go when the cages and benches are free. I don’t mind being an eccentric old lady, but I don’t particularly want an audience for this activity. I played softball when I was

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young, before it was “in” for girls to be athletic. And even today, I find conventional exercise excruciatingly boring and avoid gyms like the plague, but love my weekly pingpong game and still enjoy my yearly test of my batting skills. So on Labor Day weekend, there I was swinging away, hitting nearly every one of the 20 balls I paid $6 for and feeling good about myself. As we walked away from the batting cages, a young man in his 20s approached me and said, “Good hitting.” I was mortified that he’d been watching and said, “I’m a bit embarrassed to be the only old lady out here.” He replied, “Don’t be embarrassed, be proud.” And suddenly I felt as though the whole of Yankee Stadium had stood up and cheered for me. I thanked the young man and walked away feeling … proud. A fan club! How about that. A good friend of mine was about to be scammed on a web dating site. I say about to be because after she talked to me and some other friends, the red Vice President/CFO Otilia Bertolotti Vice President/CRO Vincent A. Gardino advertising@strausnews.com

flags were obvious. The man contacted her, started writing long and detailed emails about himself and his life, and indicated that he was interested in a deep and meaningful relationship. My own bells were ringing: Too soon, too much too soon.” They were emailing and speaking on the phone several times a day, and of course my friend was excited. But when I and others expressed skepticism (unwillingly, as I didn’t want to be wrong and I didn’t want to be a downer), my friend began to do research about these scammers, and the profile was just too perfect for comfort. Too serious too soon; an accent that didn’t match his so-called place of upbringing; lots of unanswered questions, lots of lovely flattery, and finally, a trip to a foreign country for some business. My friend spoke to a Verizon representative who asked her questions that were right on target for scammers, and his phone turned out to be a throw-away flip top. The Verizon rep said that this

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Travis Wise, via flickr was very common and that she should block her numbers. “Liz” chose not to hang on and wait until he asked for money; she just listened to the rep and had her numbers blocked. I might have waited and chewed him out, but she wanted no part of that. “Liz” is sadder but wiser. It turns out that dating websites do give out information about what to be careful about with on-line dating. Some of the other red flags are excuses not to meet in person, talking about traumas in their present life, having no photos (though some scammers use phony pictures of very good looking people) and giving a bio full of extraordinary accomplishments. Both men and women can be

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scammers. There’s no shortness of evil in either sex. The key is to listen to your gut instinct. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. For those who have met wonderful men on dating websites, including myself, I just want to say that it’s possible and that the scammers ruin it for everyone. May the fleas of a thousand camels be inflicted on these creeps. A new, age-friendly New York City website is coming soon from The New York Academy of Medicine with updated resources for New Yorkers to make New York a great place to grow older and inspire age-friendly practices in other cities around the world. Check out info@nyam.org.

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YORKVILLE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 the apartments,� he said. “I must have learned by osmosis.� Unlike other local businesses, most recently two Gristedes supermarkets, the culprit isn’t a change in building ownership or a rent increase. Reisner noted that although his rent has just about doubled during his tenure, his landlord and property managers also lowered his rent when the economy took a dive in 2008. “It’s the real estate tax, it keeps going up,� he commented, “My share is about $1,000 a month.� For now, it’s business as usual at the York Avenue store, since he’s on a monthto-month arrangement with his landlord while he looks for another location nearby so he can continue to service his regulars — or the occasional call from the police. “Since I’m a locksmith, I get asked by social services or other groups to break into apartments to help people who need help,� he said. Sometimes the tenant is beyond help.

“When tenants say they haven’t seen a neighbor for a while and notice a bad smell from the apartment, the manager will call the cops and contact me to break into the apartment. Once I was the ďŹ rst one in the apartment. A big heavy naked guy on the bed, all purple. It was something. Or an elderly lady in her apartment. The landlord couldn’t ďŹ nd the key and had to climb in the ďŹ re escape. That’s life in the big city,â€? he said philosophically. Thankfully most of Reisner’s days are spent on more mundane tasks, including on-site house calls and repairs that will continue no matter where he lands next. “I install ceiling lights 20 feet up for people who can’t climb ladders, rewire lamps, install or replace locks, change out light ďŹ xtures, switch plates, outlets, dimmers. I do plumbing, too, but I’m getting kind of old for climbing under cabinets.â€? His mission seems tied to the store name. When he took over, he asked the previous owner what ATB stood for. “He must have had visions of grandeur. He told me it stood for ‘All The Boroughs,’ but I decided that it really means ‘All The Best.’

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THE ABSTRACT LANDSCAPE GALLERY TALK Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave., at 92nd Street 2 p.m. Free with museum admission The talk, led by Jenna Weiss, manager of public programs, focuses on the relationship between representation and abstraction. 212-423-3200. thejewishmuseum.org

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Classroom, 1395 Lexington Ave. FIAF OPEN HOUSE FOR 7 p.m. $20; includes two FALL drinks and supplies Come out for drinks along with music and drawing inspired by French Institute, 22 East an education theme. 60th St. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free 212-415-5500. www.92y. org Come out to learn more about fall French classes at this open house. There will be various activities throughout the day for children and adults, including mini-French classes, story time and a wine party. 212-355-6100. www.ďŹ af.org

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Prestige� and “Activist New York.� 212-534-1672. www.mcny. org

Sun 18 92Y STREET FEST 2016 â–ş Lexington Avenue from 79th to 94th Streets Noon-5 p.m. Free 92Y is hosting a free outdoor festival with performances and activities for children and adults. It is a multi-stage event spanning 15 blocks. 212-415-5732. www.92y. org

KATE WEARE COMPANY: MARKSMAN Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Ave. 7:30 p.m. $40 Excerpts are performed from choreographer Kate Weare’s newest work followed by a moderated discussion with Weare and saxophonist Curtis Robert Macdonald. 212-423-3575. www. guggenheim.org

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The Frick Collection Music Room, 1 East 70th St. 1-6 p.m. Free, registration required Symposium exploring the relationship between art and war from the tenth century to present day. 212-547-0641. www.frick. org

Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free with museum admission Come learn about iconic moments in New York history through hands-on activities. NEW YORK THERAPY Children and adults can work DOGS R.E.A.D. â–ş together to discover images from the current exhibitions “Picturing Webster Library, 1465 York

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Ave. 3 p.m. Free, pre-registration required Children 5-12 can come spend some one-on-one time reading to a therapy dog. 212-288-5049. www.nypl. org

Preview our weekly Talmud class by Rabbi Scott N. Bolton, Or Zarua’s spiritual leader and resident expert on generosity and giving.

AUTHOR TALK: ED HAMILTON Yorkville Library Meeting Room, 222 East 79th St. 5:30 p.m. Free Author Ed Hamilton comes to discuss and sign copies of his latest book, “The Chintz Age: Tales of Love and Loss for a New New York.� 212-744-5824, www.nypl. org

Come LEARN with us! Rabbi Bolton’s weekly Talmud classes this fall begin with “Living Generously: Tzedakah in the Talmud.� Study the distinctions among charity, kindness, and righteousness. Texts provided in original and in English translation. Beginners welcome. Wednesday, September 21, 7:30 pm.

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Barnes & Noble, 150 East 86th St. 4 p.m. Free Jamie Lee Curtis will be signing copies of her new book, PICTURING THE BRONX “This is Me.� 212-369-2180, stores. ON FILM barnsandnoble.com Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave. 6:30 p.m. $16 (adults), $12 (students) Join a panel of photographers

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Kaufmann Concert Hall, 1395 Lexington Ave. 7:15 p.m. $32 Come out to see this preview screening of “Christine� moderated by Annette Insdorf. 212-415-5500, www.92y. org

CHUCK COLLINS ON ‘BORN ON THIRD BASE’ Book Culture, 450 Columbus Ave. 7 p.m. Collins discusses his book, subtitled “A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good.� 212-595-1962. www. bookculture.com/upcomingevents

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NAN GOLDIN’S NEW YORK MoMA offers a gasp-inducing ‘Ballad’ BY MARY GREGORY

It seems strange that art audiences that appreciatively linger over a Lautrec print or a Degas pastel might be taken aback by Nan Goldin’s powerful chronicle of downtown life in New York around 1980, “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.” How different are Goldin’s subjects from Lautrec’s denizens of the demimonde or Degas’ absinthe drinkers? Yet, when Goldin’s ground-breaking work first came out, curators had to fight to have it shown. It still elicits gasps and involuntary shaking of heads. “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” on view at MoMA through Feb. 12, takes its title from a song in Bertolt Brecht’s “The Threepenny Opera,” its plot from Puccini’s bohemian opera, its soundtrack, setting and characters

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was influenced by artists like Lautrec and Degas, or even Mary Cassatt. But it’s hard to imagine, looking at her thoughtfully composed albeit shot-in-a-moment pictures, that she wasn’t. It’s harder to imagine that she didn’t deeply affect generations of later artists.”

Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” comprised of close to 700 slides, on view at MoMA through Feb. 12. Photo: Adel Gorgy

Nan Goldin’s girls break the mold of depictions of women in art. Photo: Adel Gorgy from any of the many chronicles of the dizzying mix of music, art and life that swirled around lower Manhattan 35 years ago. But the story Goldin tells with her camera is timeless. Don’t think, if you’ve seen individual images, that you’ve seen “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.” For that you have to step behind the curtain and let nearly 700 slides play out across 40 minutes in all their poignancy and passion, laughter and strife. The blunt reality Goldin presents as she endlessly snapped her friends, family, lovers, neighbors – her tribe – is so honest and specific that it transcends time and place and becomes universal. Anyone who remembers the world below 23rd Street in the late 1970s and early ’80s will recognize much of what they encounter. But so would Beat poets in San Francisco in the ’50s or the artists of Montmartre around 1900. It’s a picture of youthful indiscretion played out in fast motion. Goldin’s paean to punk – “La Bohème” through a CBGB filter – shows young people finding themselves, daring themselves, pushing themselves to the edge, and sometimes destroying themselves in the process. They’re rites of passage that have been going on since the beginning of time, but few have por-

trayed them more immediately, immersively and intensely than Goldin. The photographs show the grit of pre-gentrification New York during the AIDS crisis at its most unrelenting and tragic. It’s a slice of life with plenty of gristle, a short story with a predictable ending: live fast, die young. Before reality TV, selfies, Snapchat, Facebook, or Instagram, Goldin brought her vision of the East Village, LGBT, rock and roll party scene to the art world through compassionate, if blurry, eyes. Larger-than-life images fill a darkened room. They’re accompanied by music ranging from Maria Callas to the Velvet Underground. Mostly they’re tracks about relationships and refer back to the “Threepenny Opera” song, which suggests even the worst man can be brought down by women. Rather than some angry attempt at revenge, what unfolds is a tremendously moving portrait of humanity, told by a woman, through pictures of mainly women. It’s a chronicle of love, longing, passion and loss. There are images of burnt-out, bored businessmen in bars. Guys in their best clothes with their arms around girls. But it’s mostly girls. We see them putting on make-

up, waiting by the phone, crying their eyes out, passing through romances either supporting and loving, or dysfunctional to the point of abuse. We move to women getting sad, then mad. There’s a fierce girl lounging in a hammock, a butcher knife in hand. Goldin’s girls build muscles, hold guns, and get Pit Bulls. And then, they move on. Life can be hard, ridiculous, maddening, but it’s still life, so they try anyway. There are hipster weddings, painful looking pregnancies, angelic children. And because the AIDS crisis was raging and these kids practically defined at-risk behavior, there is sickness and death. The show ends with two graffiti skeletons locked in an embrace, a memento mori for the late 20th century. It was meant to pack a wallop, and it does. It’s hard to tell if Goldin was influenced by artists like Lautrec and Degas, or even Mary Cassatt. But it’s hard to imagine, looking at her thoughtfully composed albeit shot-in-a-moment pictures, that she wasn’t. It’s harder to imagine that she didn’t deeply affect generations of later artists. Part confession, part proclamation, Nan Goldin’s “Ballad” is profoundly moving. Is it heartbreaking? Hopeful? That depends on your outlook. It’s life.

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ACTIVITIES FOR THE FERTILE MIND

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Soft City: Book Talk with Karen Green

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15TH, 7PM Scandinavia House | 58 Park Ave. | 212-779-3587 | scandinaviahouse.org Legendary Norwegian pop artist Hariton Pushwagner celebrates the U.S. release of his 1975 graphic novel Soft City, which had been lost for decades. Film clips, a discussion, and a signing will all be part of the evening. (Free)

John Roman on The Art of Illustrated Maps

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20TH, 6:30PM Stephen A. Schwarzman Building | 476 Fifth Ave. | 917-275-6975 | nypl.org Navigate your way to this exploration of artistic, not-to-scale maps, and how our minds instinctively accept the artistic license they take. (Free)

Just Announced | Secret Science Club: Words on the Move

MONDAY, OCTOBER 10TH, 8PM Symphony Space | 2537 Broadway | 212-864-1414 | symphonyspace.org English has always been a flexible language, and the American iteration seems to be evolving right before our very tongues. Linguist John McWhorter talks about this dynamic process, dropping some surprising back stories to common phrases along the way. Prepare to LOL. ($25)

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WTC ARTS COMPLEX DESIGN UNVEILED Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center will produce new works and be home to the Tribeca Film Festival BY RACHELLE BLIDNER

A design of translucent marble and glass was unveiled last week for a long-stalled performing arts center at the World Trade Center complex. Officials also announced that Barbra Streisand will serve as board chair of the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center that will be dedicated to producing new works and serving as a public space. Located between One World Trade Center and the memorial plaza, the cube-shaped center will aim to both commemorate the Sept. 11 tragedy and reflect the vitality of New York City, board members said from a

room overlooking the project site. Made out of translucent, veined marble and glass, the building will look like a “mystery box,” architect Joshua Prince-Ramus said. During the day, it will have a dull sheen. But at night, the three-level building will illuminate like a paper lantern. The 90,000-square foot building will include three auditoriums and a rehearsal room. Because artistic directors need flexibility with new productions, the rooms and halls will feature moveable walls to create up to 11 configurations, Prince-Ramus said. The largest configuration will hold up to 1,200 people for events like rock concerts. Maggie Boepple, president and director of the center, said the space will be both a “birthplace” for new shows and a

community center with amenities like a cafe and yoga classes. The center also will be home to the Tribeca Film Festival. Estimated to cost $250 million, the center still requires $75 million in donations before it opens in early 2020, Boepple said. Namesake Ronald Perelman, a billionaire businessman and Streisand friend, already donated $75 million in June. The federal Housing and Urban Development Authority has already contributed $99 million. The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, a city and state government entity, gave the project the green light. Board members have not yet determined which productions will be staged. “Anyone who works here will have a huge responsibility to do their very best to commemorate those whose lives were lost,” Boepple said.

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Food & Drink WHEN DOWNTOWN COMES UPTOWN At e’s BAR, Upper West Siders created the bar they wanted to visit BY MONICA DINATALE

Things have been getting busier between West 84th and 85th Streets on Amsterdam Avenue recently. That’s because e’s BAR, the brainchild of Erin Bellard and Ethan Hunt, set up shop in 2014 and has been growing steadily ever since, developing a loyal following of rabid fans. The new neighborhood favorite is a place that marches to the beat of its own playlist, evoking the vibe of a downtown destination in a distinctly uptown location. Bellard and Hunt first met as neighbors in an elevator at 72nd Street and Riverside Drive. They longed for a neighborhood place that felt like home, a place to connect with friends and unwindh. The two decided to create their own spot. Longtime Upper West Siders, they

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searched for their perfect location, and settled on the site mid-block on Amsterdam, formerly the Neptune Room and, most recently, Slightly Oliver. e’s BAR was launched, from idea to execution, within a year. Bellard and Hunt’s cool spot was influenced by CBGB’s for the musical inspiration, and the East Village’s former beloved Mars Bar, for a certain atmosphere. You’ll only hear music specifically from 1960 to 1999, and the walls are covered with musical memorabilia. “We wanted a place to get a burger and a beer (on the Upper West Side) and hang out at...something other than a wine bar,” explained Bellard. “We wanted a dive bar, for adults, but the bathrooms are clean,” she said with a laugh. With more than 20 years of experience in the food and beverage industry, Bellard spent six years with the New-York-City based B.R. Guest Inc.,

Bellard and Hunt first met as neighbors in an elevator at 72nd Street and Riverside Drive. They longed for a neighborhood place that felt like home, a place to connect with friends and unwindh. The two decided to create their own spot.” and had a hand in many top New York City restaurants, including Ocean Grill, Rouge Tomate and Tom Colicchio’s Riverpark and Witchcraft restaurants. Hunt is a principal in the New York City branch of Lucky Strike Lanes on West 42nd Street. He is also one of the founders of Amsterdam Billiards & Bar, located on a small stretch of 4th

Avenue in lower Manhattan. “We are the real McCoy,” said Hunt, who grew up on West 87th Street. His father owned a laundromat and his mother was a teacher at P.S. 156. “We offer the Upper West Side authenticity that people gravitate to. We’re not transplants,” he said. Bellard is the president of her son’s PTA at the Mandell School, but she thinks of the bar as an escape for parents. Underscoring how the business is committed to the community, the bar recently hosted a charity event for Ready for Rescue, a group dedicated to saving New York City’s cats and dogs. Before technology, people actually went to a bar to talk and meet other people. “It’s about conversation,” said Hunt, who wanted e’s to feel like old-school New York. They’ve created a space where customers are not necessarily basking in the glow of a cell phone. Filled with games ranging from Con-

nect Four to Jenga and card games, people interact and enjoy each other’s company. No wi-fi necessary. “We wanted people to engage with each other,” Bellard proudly admitted. Keeping the menu and overhead reasonable with $8 burgers and $10-$12 menu items was another deliberate choice. Bellard developed a burger recipe that is meant to be a cross between Corner Bistro and J.G. Melon, creating the perfect bar bite. If you’re looking for a celebrity chef with wait staff upselling specials nightly, move along. Just order from the bartender, so he gets to know you, or use the app Use Tray and your food will magically appear. The owners are actively looking to expand on the Upper West Side, perhaps into the Columbia neighborhood or even higher uptown. The business plan was to create a place, like Cheers, where “everyone knowns your name.” They’ve already done it at e’s.

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ART’S ON THE MENU Sips, eats available in museum settings BY VIRGINIA RANDALL

Let’s drink in some culture. Some neighborhood cultural institutions offer drinks – and eats too – without visitors needing to pay an entry fee. It’s part of a long tradition connecting art with imbibing. After all, painters from Toulouse-Lautrec to Willem De Kooning held a cocktail as often as a paintbrush. Here are a few good spots for mixing art and cusine. The Asia Society and Museum: the Garden Court Cafe. 725 Park Avenue. Reservations: 212-570-5202. From Tuesday through Sunday (11.a.m. – 5 pm.), the Asia Society and its Garden Court Café reveal the culture and art of regions from Central Asia to the Pacific Islands. Expect menus to match, with sake as well as wine and beer. Besides standards like chicken curry salad and glazed salmon, Chef Litesh Hosabettu of Great Performances aligns menus with current exhibits and a Pan-Asian flair ($7 for starters and $10 – $25 for small plates and entrees) and many vegetarian options. The adventurous could try the Daily Special Bento Box, based on sup-

plies from an upstate organic farm, or sample the dim sum served from 11 a.m. to 2 pm. There’s no kids’ menu, but the chef can whip up an omelet or French toast. The cold-brewed teas here are the standouts. They vary daily and are combined with pureed fruits (or your own combinations). The cocktail scene revives on Sept. 16 when the Leo Bar – a networking party – resumes on Friday evenings, with signature cocktails weekly. This café is an oasis of calm: a spare, airy environment, no music, Buddhist pines and a “scholar’s rock” in one corner. Table seating for 80 doesn’t seem crowded. The wait staff is equally Zen. Society of Illustrators: Museum Café 128 East 63 Street, reservations at 212-838-2560. Tucked in a brownstone on E. 63rd Street, the Museum Café lets you literally drink in some culture. The warm, charming space doubles as the Hall of Fame Gallery with art from curated exhibits (currently a retrospective of Gonzo illustrator Ralph Steadman). More traditional art hangs over the compact and nicely carved bar – a 1939 original Norman Rockwell. There’s also an outdoor patio. Contemplate it while bartender Ramon whips up one of the cocktails

($12) he helped design—the East 63rd St. Sidecar, the F train, the Red Door, The Park Avenue and more. Or enjoy wine by the glass ($10) or beer ($6). The casual American menu offers

salads, burgers, mac & cheese, omelets, pasta and sweets ($12 - $16). One Saturday each month (11:00 a.m. – 3 p.m.), there’s a $30 per person buffet brunch of savory or sweet treats plus coffee, tea and a drink. The café, open Tuesdays through Fridays (12-5) and Saturdays (1p.m. 4p.m.), also hosts a Sketch Night until 9:30 on Tuesdays and most Thursdays. For $20 admission ($10 for students or seniors), visitors can sketch models – nude with an occasional accessory – while enjoying a small-plates buffet and a cash bar. The bar seats six for cocktails, with more seating at nearby high-tops. It’s an elegant, cozy spot for a drink and a bite, worth walking up three flights of stairs, past artwork-lined walls. The New York Historical Society: Caffé Storico 170 Central Park West at 77th St. Reservations preferred. (212) 485-9211. Open Tuesdays through Sundays from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m, Caffé Storico has a cheerful design. The bright yellow banquettes, crisp white walls and gingerbread trim make an impression. Some shelves on view display five sets of 18th- and 19th-century plates from the Society’s collection. Local history pervades General Manager Gabriel Solano’s signature cocktails ($14 - $16), too. The “1804” marks when the historical society was founded, and the “New Amsterdam” honors its roots. The signature cocktail, “An Englishman in New York” (bourbon, lemon juice, and exotics) represents Chef Tim Kensett, who’s from London. Enjoy these drinks or the Italian wines

The cold-brewed teas here are the standouts. They vary daily and are combined with pureed fruits (or your own combinations). The cocktail scene revives on Sept. 16 when the Leo Bar – a networking party – resumes on Friday evenings, with signature cocktails weekly.” or local or imported beers at one of the 12 seats at the bar. Or at the tables or the bright yellow banquette. “Storico” means “historic” in Italian, and Mediterranean flavor abounds in antipasti, pasta, panini and salads at lunch ($13 -$21). Dinner ($16-$34) features heartier pastas, seafood, chicken or steak. Besides half portions on weekdays, kids will love the weekend brunch – lobster mac and cheese, eggs, salads, sandwiches, sweet breads or Nutella crepes ($12 - $19) You don’t need to buy a ticket for the museum to go to the restaurants…but wouldn’t you want to see the culture, art and history that inspired those plates and all those cocktails? Virginia Randall’s blog about New York City life, “Don’t Get Me Started,” is at www.newyorknatives.com

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get notified that it liquefied, we announce it throughout the feast with our PA system. To people who have faith, you don’t have to explain it. To people who don’t have faith, you could never explain it.

Figli di San Gennaro member and native Little Italy resident John Fratta explains the history and present-day significance of the neighborhood and its iconic feast BY ANGELA BARBUTI

In a city where everything is constantly changing, it proves difficult to maintain the traditions on which New York was built. But Italian-Americans of Little Italy continue to celebrate their culture through the Feast of San Gennaro and it has become the largest and longest running one in the city. Its rich history dates back to 1926, when Italian immigrants who settled in the area wanted to venerate their patron saint in the same way they did back home in Naples. What started as a one-day event now runs from Sept. 15 to Sept. 25 and this year will celebrating its 90th anniversary. John Fratta is part of that history as his great-grandfather, Luigi Vitale, was one of the feast’s founders. As a fourth-generation Italian, born, raised and still living in Little Italy, Fratta’s pride for the neighborhood has never wavered since he began serving in area politics at just 16 years old.

As a member of Figli di San Gennaro, the nonprofit that runs the feast, he gave us a glimpse into what makes it special this year. For the first time, it will be webcast in Italy, which is a milestone in the celebration’s ongoing narrative. And as for its charitable component, some of the money raised will be sent to central Italy to aid with earthquake relief. This year also marks the first ever Meatball Eating Contest in honor of actor John “Cha Cha” Ciarcia, Little Italy’s unofficial mayor, who passed away last year.

Your great grandfather was the first president of the San Gennaro Society. What can you tell us about how the feast first came about? It came about as a celebration. When the Italian immigrants came over, especially from Naples, they came to Mulberry Street and brought with them their custom of honoring their patron saint, who, of course, is San Gennaro. And they brought that over to New York, like they do in Italy. In Italy, it’s always sunny, so they celebrate the feast outdoors. So it started here more or less as a block party honoring San Gennaro. And then it grew and it grew and it is what it is today. The most important aspect of

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How do you keep it religious? It’s difficult, but we do it. We make sure that we have our solemn high mass on its feast day on the 19th of September. That’s where we carry the San Gennaro statue out of the church and march through Little Italy. We have a mass every day at Most Precious Blood Church during the feast. The first day of the feast is the blessing of the stands by the priests. They don’t bless the food; they bless the stands, wishing them luck during the feast. We try very hard to keep the religious aspect of it. Years ago, we used to have fortune tellers in there, then we removed them all. That was ridiculous; you got a religious festival and you got fortune tellers. And we really try to clean up our act with vendors. We have food and game vendors, but we still want the celebration to be about San Gennaro more than everything else.

Tell us about the miracle that San Gennaro is known for in Italy. San Gennaro was killed in 305. When they chopped his head off, a woman in

John Fratta, a member of the nonprofit that runs Little Italy’s San Gennaro Festival. Photo courtesy of the Figli di San Gennaro the town soaked up his blood and put it in vials. The vials are kept at the Cathedral of Naples. And on the 19th of September and on the first Sunday of May every year, the blood liquefies. It goes from a powder form to a liquid. Scientists have been trying to figure out how it’s happening. It’s the miracle of San Gennaro. My mother saw it when she was in Naples for the 19th a few years ago and said it was the most unbelievable thing she’s ever seen. This year, it liquefied another time, when Pope Francis went to the Cathedral and lifted up the vials. When we

As we tell everybody, Figli di San Gennaro is not a foundation, we’re a not-for-profit, charitable, religious organization. So whether we make $5 out of this or we make a million dollars, it doesn’t matter to us, because we give that to charity after our expenses are paid. So it’s really about honoring San Gennaro first and then whatever profits we have left, we give out to charity. We give about 80 percent of our leftover money to charities. Originally, when Figli di San Gennaro was formed, we focused on Catholic education. But a lot of our Catholic schools are closed now, so we changed it over. While we do give it to schools in the area, now we also expanded to give to places like Bowery Mission, Cooley’s Anemia Foundation. And, of course, this year, we’re going to try and make a real nice donation to Italy to the earthquake victims.

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