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DERAILING DIGITAL DEVIANTS SAFETY After several Tudor City women were sexually harassed online, two East Side pols crafted a bill that would crack down on threatening behavior in cyberspace BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN

Gov. Andrew Cuomo at the Dominican Day Parade, Aug. 12. Photo via Gov. Cuomo’s ﬂickr page

Cynthia Nixon on the campaign trail. Photo via Nixon’s Twitter feed

HOW YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD VOTED POLITICS A Straus News street-level analysis of the Democratic Primary for governor illustrates Manhattan’s fault lines BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN

Cynthia Nixon scored a landslide triumph over Andrew Cuomo — in the two square blocks bounded by First and Second Avenues and East 10th and East 12th Streets in the East Village. The insurgent racked up 184 votes to crush the incumbent governor, who managed only 86 votes, by a margin exceeding two-to-one in one of the city’s most liberal-left precincts. Nixon also walloped her rival on Carmine, Morton, Leroy, Cornelia and Bleecker Streets in Greenwich Village. She romped on a two-block

strip along West 100th Street between Broadway and Riverside Drive on the Upper West Side. And her micro-sweep encompassed several long blocks of West 21st and 22nd Street in Chelsea, as well as both sides of East 67th, 68th and 69th Streets between York and First Avenues on the Upper East Side. It wasn’t enough. Cuomo pulverized her. He won the statewide ballot by a 65.6 percent-to-34.4 percent margin. Even in Manhattan, where Nixon fared far better, she managed just 41.6 percent of the vote, while he snared 58.4 percent. But as a pioneer in an emerging sisterhood of political newcomers vying to unseat male incumbents, Nixon notched some impressive wins: She animated a liberal-left base, energized the electoral discourse and left a foundation for future progressive female challengers to

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The seismic power of the #MeToo movement has transformed the workplace, toppled executives, redefined personal relationships, revved up awareness and rattled the worlds of media, culture and politics. What it has yet to do is change the legal means by which prosecutors in New York can pursue sexual harassment offenders who prey on their victims with text messages, emails or other electronic communications. Now, two female state lawmakers who represent the Upper East Side are advancing legislation in Albany that would close a loophole in the current law and make it easier to build cases against online harassers. State Sen. Liz Krueger and state Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright were spurred to act after an incident this summer in which multiple women in Tudor City received unsolicited and unwanted text messages with sexually graphic images, allegedly from their building’s doorman. The employee, who was believed to have had access to the women’s cellphone numbers, was fired by the co-op for abusing his position and sending the residents numerous pictures of his private parts, along with sexually explicit videos, over a period of several months, police said. But though the alleged perpetrator was identified, no charges were filed against him, angering the women and calling legislators’ attention to a

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We should take up the challenge to protect the citizenry.” Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright

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POT PROSECUTIONS VACATED LAW ENFORCEMENT Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said his office would toss out low-level possession cases BY JENNIFER PELTZ

Over 3,000 low-level marijuana cases were thrown out last week as Manhattan’s top prosecutor furthered a shift away from arresting and prosecuting many people for small-time pot offenses in the nation’s biggest city. Misdemeanor and violation-level pot possession cases that had sat open for as long as 40 years were dismissed in a matter of minutes after Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. asked a court to scrap 3,042 warrants for people who missed court dates and to toss out the cases themselves. He recently decided to stop prosecuting many minor pot possession cases and argued it made sense to spare people potential arrests in old ones. “If anyone was brought in today on one of these warrants, my office would dismiss the case,” Vance said. He called the mass dismissal “something that is off-script but actually serves the interests of justice enormously.”

None of the people charged in the cases was there to hear Criminal Court Judge Kevin McGrath wipe them out. Some may long since have forgotten about the cases. But now they no longer face potential problems getting jobs or housing if the warrants pop up during background checks, or possible arrest if their IDs are checked during otherwise routine interactions with police — after a fender-bender, for instance, or while reporting a crime. “They are living with the peril of being put through the system for almost no reason,” said Carolyn Wilson, director of New York County Defender Services. Her group and Neighborhood Defender Services of Harlem are ready to help people seeking to figure out whether the dismissals affect them. Vance and Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez decided this summer not to prosecute most new misdemeanor pot possession and smoking cases, saying they had little public safety impact but caused defendants problems with employment, housing, immigration and more. The two district attorneys oversee prosecutions in two of the city’s five boroughs; all five DAs are Democrats.

Gonzalez announced a plan earlier this month that could erase an estimated 20,000 minor pot convictions. Queens DA Richard Brown’s office said it would review any misdemeanor marijuana possession cases there that haven’t been dismissed. Vance said Wednesday he was exploring the legalities of potentially voiding old convictions but hoped state lawmakers would create a certain path for doing so. For now, he said he was using prosecutors’ discretion to drop open pot-possession cases and warrants as a move toward fairness. “You can drive down the West Side Highway at 75 miles an hour, and you’ll get a ticket, but if you are found smoking a marijuana cigarette, you’ll be arrested and put in cuffs” and held for up to 24 hours before going to court, Vance said at a news conference. “The offense, in our opinion, does not justify that level of enforcement.” New York allows marijuana-derived medications for some conditions, but recreational pot remains illegal, although Gov. Andrew Cuomo has appointed a panel to draft legislation that could legalize it. Meanwhile, New York City has been easing policing of minor pot possession, which spurred more than 50,000

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. in Manhattan Criminal Court on Sept. 12 arguing for the dismissal of 3,042 marijuana smoking and possession cases, some dating back decades. Photo: Manhattan District Attorney’s Office arrests a year as recently as 2011. Last year, there were 17,880, according to the state Division of Criminal Justice Services. A 2014 city policy called for police to issue summonses citing violations, instead of making misdemeanor arrests, for most low-level marijuana possession cases, though not public pot smoking. As of Sept. 1, officers also have been directed to issue tickets in most marijuana-smoking cases. City prosecutors have previously

agreed on voiding vast numbers of warrants, if not focusing on marijuana ones. Brown, Gonzalez, Vance and Bronx DA Darcel Clark together prompted courts to nix over 640,000 violationlevel warrants in one day last year for such offenses as littering and opencontainer drinking. Staten Island DA Michael McMahon called that initiative “unfair to those citizens who responsibly appear in court.”

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 19th precinct for the week ending Sep 9 Week to Date

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BICYCLIST ATTACKED A bicyclist reported to police that he was set upon by four people at Madison Avenue and East 60th Street at about 12:30 a.m. on September 10. The 20-year-old man was on his bike when two men and two women, all in their early 20s, knocked him off his bike and then kicked and punched him, he told police. The victim kept his wallet and bike, but one of the quartet took his cellphone, he told police. The man suffered no injuries and refused medical attention at the scene.

COUPLE ASSAULTED Police arrested a pushy panhandler. At 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 8, a 65-year-old man and a 78-yearold woman standing at the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and East 82nd Street were asked for money by a 71-year-old man nearby. The two men got into an altercation with the 65-year-old man pushing the beggar away, and the older man then returning the shove to both the man and woman, knocking both to the pavement. The ﬁght grew more violent when the

panhandler, later identiﬁed as James Jones, allegedly punched the man in the face. Arriving officers arrested Jones, charging with assault.

COUPLE SCAMMED OUT OF $8,000 An East 88th Street couple were scammed out of $8,000 when they twice complied with a caller requesting $4,000 to presumably get their son out of jail, police reported. The ﬁrst call, around noon on Wednesday, August

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29, the 83-year-old man, received a phone call from an unknown person telling him his son had been arrested and the senior needed to send $4,000 immediately using Home Depot gift cards. The man complied with then request. Later, a 79-year-old woman at the same location received a similar call. She also complied. The scammer called the couple a third time, requesting another $6,000 in gift cards, but this time the victims did not comply.

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VOTING CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 build on in the hundreds of blocks and scores of Election Districts in which she did prevail. Take the single square block bounded by West 106th Street to the south, West 107th Street on the north, Broadway to the west and Amsterdam Avenue on the east, where the tenants have historically included Columbia University students, professors and support staff. Nixon amassed 210 votes on the block, trouncing Cuomo, who tallied just 158 votes. Based on the unofficial election night results from the state Democratic Party primary on Thursday, Sept. 13, Straus News conducted a preliminary and unscientiﬁc street-level analysis of how dozens of the mini-neighborhoods of Manhattan voted. The review focused on the borough’s 12 state Assembly Districts, and then drilled down into what is probably the

We’re going block by block by block by block.” Cynthia Nixon, campaign speech

states’ smallest political jurisdiction, the Election District, which can comprise an area as little as one city block, or at most, eight or nine blocks. Known to political cognoscenti as EDs, the districts in Manhattan alone number in the thousands. For instance, in the 66th Assembly District, or AD, which covers Soho, Tribeca, Greenwich Village and the East Village, there are 106 EDs. Nixon won 74 of them. Among the findings of the Straus News primary analysis, which was based on online data available on the New York City Board of Elections website: • The 66th AD, represented by As-

sembly Member Deborah Glick, is the only AD that backed Nixon. She won handily, chalking up 10,574 votes to Cuomo’s 8,903. • Within the 66th AD, she crushed the governor by a 208-to-138 margin in the 23rd ED, which runs from West Houston Street on the south to Bleecker Street on the north and from Crosby Street on the east to Greene Street on the west. • Also in the 66th, she scored a twoto-one win in the 30th ED, drawing 164 voters from East 3rd, 4th and 5th Streets between First and Second Avenue against Cuomo’s 80. • Nixon was unbeatable in Soho, cleaning up by hefty margins on West Broadway and Wooster, Mercer, Prince, Spring, Broome and Thompson Streets, also in the 66th AD. “We’re going block by block by block by block,” the challenger said in a hopeful campaign speech back in June. Those efforts sputtered in the face of the incumbent’s onslaught. And the establishment she had denounced as

the “state’s old-boy network” roared into action, outspending and out-organizing her and marshalling unions, elected officials and political clubhouses to do lethal battle. In the end, Cuomo had spent north of $23 million to win, while Nixon’s losing effort cost south of $3 million. The review of unofficial Board of Elections returns, with 98 percent of vote scanners reported, also found that: • The 68th AD, covering most of East Harlem, was Cuomo’s best district, and his 11,620 votes dwarfed the 4,755 that Nixon mustered. • The two districts taking in the Upper West Side, the 67th and 69th ADs, were comfortable territories for Cuomo — even though Nixon had lived in the neighborhood for years — and he won them by 13,783-to-10,389 and 14,134-to-12,282 vote margins respectively. • Within the 67th AD, the sprawling Lincoln Towers apartment complex ﬂanking West End Avenue in the upper 60s gave Cuomo one of his best

victory margins. In four EDs that take in most but not all of the eight-building, 20-acre campus, he tallied 1,136 votes to Nixon’s 561. • The 76th AD, represented by Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright and taking in the Upper East Side and Roosevelt Island, was the scene of another Cuomo landslide as he took the district by 10,120 votes to the challenger’s 6,559. • And within the 76th AD, he vanquished Nixon in the front yard of one of her closest political friends, and one of his favorite political punching bags, Mayor Bill de Blasio, who after long public ruminations ultimately endorsed no one in the gubernatorial race. The 74th ED sits due west of Gracie Mansion and runs from East End Avenue to York Avenue along East 88th and East 89th Streets. Cuomo won it by a better than two-to-one margin, collecting 126 votes while Nixon managed 58. invreporter@strausnews.com

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jail facility at 80 Centre St. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a crucial piece in Mayor Bill de Blasioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan to close the notoriously violent Rikers Island jail facilities within ten years â&#x20AC;&#x201D; has prompted passionate opposition from many in the Chinatown community. The cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan would transform the corner of Centre and Worth Streets, currently the site of the Louis J. Lefkowitz State Office Building, which houses courtrooms and offices of the Manhattan District Attorney, City Clerk, Manhattan Marriage Bureau and other city agencies. The new jail would be

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A rendering of a proposed jail facility at 80 Centre Street in Lower Manhattan. Image: NYC Mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office gan Street to connect the jail and the court. Many at the meetinng said they support the closure of Rikers and the idea of community jails, but oppose one being built in Chinatown. Much of the public criticism centered on the fact that there was little transparency or opportunity for public input on the new jailâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s location before preliminary plans for the 80 Centre St. site were released in mid-August. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Closing Rikers is a laudable goal,â&#x20AC;? said Nicholas Stabile, who lives in a Park Row coop near the proposed jail site. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But the process employed by the Mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office to achieve this goal focuses on only half the equation â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the people inside the jail. It ignores the other half of the equation â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the people in the surrounding community.â&#x20AC;? Rather than consulting locals before releasing the plan, Stabile said, the administration â&#x20AC;&#x153;came in with a fully baked plan that burdens the community and provides almost no beneďŹ ts.â&#x20AC;? In comments at the beginning of the meeting, neither Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer nor local Council Member Margaret Chin took a position on the proposal. Brewer criticized the administrationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s handling of the

planning process thus far, particularly the decision to release preliminary plans in August, when most community boards do not hold meetings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I may disagree with you on whether or not there should be a jail, but I will never disagree that there should be a community process that has lots of time in order to have your input,â&#x20AC;? she said. Chin emphasized that the process of siting a new jail is still in its early stages and the result is far from certain. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am not taking a position on this project because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only the beginning,â&#x20AC;? Chin said, explaining that she would listen to and evaluate the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presentation before passing judgment. Her statements drew jeers from many in the crowd who already oppose the jail plan. In an emailed statement following the meeting, Chin said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concerns must be heard, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exactly what happened at the Town Hall last night.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I look forward to fostering a productive dialogue between the Administration and the residents, small businesses and property owners that stand to be most impacted by any change at the current [Manhattan Detention Complex] site,â&#x20AC;? she continued, referring to the

existing city jail at 125 White Street, commonly known as The Tombs. During the public comment period, speakers questioned how the jail would impact property values, the availability of parking in the neighborhood, and traffic on Worth Street, a key east-west thoroughfare. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You look at Worth Street now, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a disaster already,â&#x20AC;? said Chinatown resident Victor Huey. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And you want to put a 40-story tower on Worth Street? Are you kidding me?â&#x20AC;? Several locals also brought up safety concerns and said city resources would be better spent on creating affordable housing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our community feels threatened by the idea of being neighbors with criminals,â&#x20AC;? Chinatown business owner Sio Wai Sang said in written testimony. Also at issue is the height of the new building, which could rise as tall as 432 feet and cast shadows on neighboring Columbus Park, an important hub of the Chinatown community. City officials said the jail would be designed to minimize shadows on the park. Public comments on the project will be accepted at a scoping hearing on the project Sept. 27 at 6 p.m. at 1 Centre St.

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understand how the landlord is getting away with it. There should be oversight of this kind of project once permits are granted. And time limits for completion. There sure are plenty of traffic enforcement agents writing out tickets for overtime parking on the street and on the avenue. How about the city deploying inspectors to ensure the landlord and his or her contractors are in compliance with safety and any other rules and regulations? And they should be giving out summonses for violations if they are not.

CHARGED UP EAST SIDE OBSERVER BY ARLENE KAYATT

Tough walking — The block between Third and Lex on 90th Street on the north side of the street is an accident waiting to happen. The sidewalk is in the process of being repaired in some of the old four- and ﬁve-story walkups, starting at 165 East 90th, and ending just before the luxury highrise on 90th and Third. The buildings have yellow plastic tape stretched from their entrances to the curb. As you try to make your way to Third Ave., there are no signs directing you on where to walk, or on how to get there. Very, very weird. It’s hard to

Small world — St. Agnes Library on Amsterdam Avenue in the 80s is a world made ready for the Lilliputians among us. No seating for grown-ups. Just kid-size chairs and tables. Haven’t been to other libraries lately, but if St. Agnes is a sign of what’s out there or is foretelling the future, teens and adults will have to

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do their reading at a Barnes & Noble. Unlike at the library, they will have to pay to take home a book but will have the option of reading while having a cup of joe at a B&N Starbucks. Not the same as the library — but sitting in a chair meant for 6-year olds is not my cup of tea — even with a good book.

Going batt(er)y — There was a time, like up to maybe two weeks ago, that you could go to a CVS or a Duane Reade to get an AA or AAA battery for TV remotes, a wireless mouse, whatever. Those days are over, gone. Now the batteries come in various sizes of AA or AAA — like AA2, AA3, AAA4. Hard to know which one to get. Unless, of course, you take heed of the old American Express commercial letting you know that “you can’t leave home without it,” “it” being the battery-operated thingamajig that has to be replaced. Yes,

thingamajig — a gadget or other thing that you either don’t know or have forgotten. Count me among the forgotten who will NOT carry a TV remote or other battery challenged device when I leave home or any place else.

Chutzpah, Chicago style — Within a year of Tronc taking over the Daily News from Mort Zuckerman, the Chicago-based media print and online company cut staff and content while raising the price of the weekday and weekend papers. Weekday papers went from $1 to $1.50. Saturday to $1.50 and Sunday to $2. Seems like Tronc is miming President Ford’s sentiment — so powerfully captured by the Daily News in its 1975 headline, “Ford to City: Drop Dead.” The venerable Daily News — however tabloid-y, and its reporters and staff — deserves better. So does its readers. So do New Yorkers.

A ‘BLUE WAVE’ ON THE WEST SIDE BY RICHARD BARR

It’s usually very rare that an incumbent running for re-election to our State Legislature is defeated. So last week’s primary day was a real anomaly — five of the six New York City members of the (former) Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) in the State Senate were taken down by challengers. The eight IDC senators (one of the two upstate members was also defeated) had been elected as Democrats but caucused with the Republicans, keeping them in the majority, with the Republican leader, John Flanagan from Long Island, controlling the Senate agenda. The IDC purportedly agreed, this spring, to rejoin and caucus with the mainstream Dems in the Senate, but by then a “blue wave” of groups opposing Republican agendas had arisen here in New York as it has throughout the country, driven largely by a perceived need to push back against the Trump era. Spirited challengers to all

eight IDCers emerged and refused to be deterred by the supposed deal that the group of eight — whom the challengers called “Rogue” or “Trump” Democrats — had made. The IDC group claimed that they had managed to get progressive laws passed as a result of their alliance with the Republicans, but the challengers pointed to legislation which the Democratic-controlled State Assembly was willing to pass which failed, or was watered down, in the Senate. In Senate District 31, which winds its way up Manhattan’s West Side from Hell’s Kitchen all the way up to Washington Heights and Inwood, Robert Jackson handily won the Democratic primary, defeating incumbent Senator Marisol Alcantara by 56 percent to 38 percent. Two years ago, the two of them faced off, along with Micah Lasher, to try to win the seat which had been vacated by Adriano Espaillat. They each got about a third of the vote in the primary, with Alcantara winning a narrow victory, aided by

an infusion of $500,000 from the IDC, which she joined immediately upon being elected in November of that year. This time around, Lasher endorsed Jackson, which gave the ultimate winner of the primary a big boost — and makes Jackson’s election in November all but certain. Jackson ﬁrst became known in the early 1990s, when he was chair of the District 6 Community School Board in northern Manhattan. He was the plaintiff in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit, which sued the State for failing to provide the children of NYC schools with adequate funding to ensure that they receive the “sound basic education” which the New York State Constitution entitles them to. The State Court of Appeals eventually ruled for the plaintiffs in the lawsuit and said that the State owed billions more in education funding. From there, Jackson went on to serve several terms on the City Council, where he rose to become chair of the education committee. Now he will

Robert Jackson campaigning in the 2018 New York State Senate race. Photo courtesy of Robert Jackson campaign likely take his focus to the State legislative stage. He says about this campaign that “We didn’t pay for any polls — the poll we had was on the ground in the district — people everywhere were telling us we were going to win. And twice as many votes were cast this time as two years ago. The 31st had more votes cast than any other

district in the City.” “If I won and the others didn’t, nothing would change,” Jackson added. “It was imperative that the others won as well. I was motivated to run, as were all the others, and all the groups which rose up — the blue wave, the anti-IDC groups, everyone knew change was needed. Everyone was engaged.”

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Since it was the pre-internet era, there was no provision for electronic communications and no online victims to protect. Now, flash forward a halfcentury-plus. And absurdly, in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s texting culture, where forms of harassment have evolved every bit as much as the technology itself, oldfashioned phone calls, when abusive, are still the evidentiary standard needed to ďŹ nd a party guilty under current aggravated harassment law. Other prosecutorial remedies for similar abuses exist, of course, under several stalking, obscenity and disorderly conduct statutes. But the Tudor City incident â&#x20AC;&#x153;highlighted the need to modernize our laws to address harassment by electronic means,â&#x20AC;? said Krueger, whose district takes in the East Side and Midtown East, including Tudor City. Accordingly, on Aug. 15, after the New York Post brought the â&#x20AC;&#x153;dirty doorman caseâ&#x20AC;? to light, Krueger introduced her bill to broaden the offense of aggravated harassment so that the

quirk of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s penal code that narrowly deďŹ nes harassment in a way that fails to take into account evolving digital technology. â&#x20AC;&#x153;SpeciďŹ cally, dirty unwanted text messages with sexually graphic images are not considered harassment under existing New York State law,â&#x20AC;? said Seawright, a co-sponsor of the bill whose district covers the East Side and Roosevelt Island. To understand why, you have to go back to at least 1964, according to research by Kruegerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Albany office into the legislative history of a section of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aggravated harassment law that her legislation would amend. It was the era of rotary dial phones â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ma Bellâ&#x20AC;? monopoly over telephone service â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and at that time, aggravated harassment in the second degree was codiďŹ ed as a Class A misdemeanor only in cases where a person â&#x20AC;&#x153;makes a telephone callâ&#x20AC;? with â&#x20AC;&#x153;intent to harass or threaten another person.â&#x20AC;?

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statute would include a person who â&#x20AC;&#x153;makes a telephone call, or contacts, via text, email or other electronic communication,â&#x20AC;? another person with intent to harass. The law â&#x20AC;&#x153;should certainly treat unwanted harassing text messages such as this just as seriously as harassing phone calls,â&#x20AC;? Krueger said. In the memo of support, written to attract elected officials from both parties to sign on as co-sponsors of the bill, the authors say the follow-up to the recent digital nightmare at Tudor City underscores the need to update the law. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Law enforcement representatives indicated that under existing law, such communications could only be treated as harassment in the second degree, a violation,â&#x20AC;? the memo states. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since violations can only be charged in cases where law enforcement witnesses the offense, no charges could be brought in this case.â&#x20AC;? Updating the law â&#x20AC;&#x201D; so that texts, emails and other electronic missives will fall under the same standard as phone calls â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will provide prosecutors with better and more effective legal tools to clamp

State Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright. The former prosecutor is aco-sponsor of state legislation aimed at making it easier to buildcases against cyber-predators who target victims with unwanted,sexually explicit text messages. Photo: Office of Rebecca Seawright down on texting tormentors, the memo concludes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In this national climate, in the reality of the #MeToo movement, it is imperative that a progressive New York State amend its penal laws to reďŹ&#x201A;ect changing technology,â&#x20AC;? Seawright said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We should take up the challenge to protect the citizenry.â&#x20AC;? invreporter@strausnews.com

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Thu 20 ‘THE KIDNAPPERS OF NONEXISTENT TIME’ Bohemian National Hall 321 East 73rd St. 7 p.m. Free 212-729-9658 new-york.czechcentres.cz In the period between the two world wars, various artistic and poetic strategies in Europe reﬂected the absurdity of recent violence and optimism for a more utopic future, and movements like Dada and Surrealism spread from one major city to another. “The Kidnappers of Nonexistent Time” is a reﬂection on this period, and features illustrated presentations by art historian Meghan Forbes and Slovak artist Gabriel Levicky.

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The Riverside Premier Rehabilitation and Healing Center 150 West 87th St. 9 a.m. Free The West Side Inter-Agency Council for the Aging will host a panel discussion featuring professionals who will discuss trends in the ﬁeld of aging over the past 50 years. Q&A to follow. 917-774-0305 wsiaca.org

ART AS PROPAGANDA 92nd Street Y 1395 Lexington Ave. 10:30 a.m. $45 Visual art has been employed as propaganda since the days of the early Greeks. Learn about how one ruler’s desire to legitimize his position helped to kick-start the Renaissance, and American art’s possible role in the Cold War of the 1950s. Special emphasis is placed on the cataclysmic events of the 20th century. 212-415-5500 92y.org

Webster Library 1465 York Ave. 10 a.m. Free In 1915, Andrea and Nicola, two Italian brothers, skilled in the restoration of cathedrals, leave their native country in search of wealth in America. They wind up in Hollywood, where they design sets for ﬁlms. Then tragedy and war tears them apart, only to reunite them in World War I. “Good Morning Babylon” is part of a series on lesser-known ﬁlms about WWI running throughout the season. 212-288-5049 eastsidewwicentennial.org

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MORE THAN PRETTY A new show at The Museum at FIT examines the history of pink in fashion BY VAL CASTRONOVO

The color has been embraced by painters, pop stars, protesters, preppies, punks, fashionistas, Hollywood and Apple, which added a rose gold iPhone to its lineup in 2015. Its fans include Louis XV’s mistress, Madame de Pompadour, first ladies Mamie Eisenhower and Jackie Kennedy, Elvis Presley, boxing legend Sugar Ray Robinson, screen icons Elle Woods (“Legally Blonde”) and Andie (“Pretty in Pink”), rappers Nicki Minaj and Cam’ron, Florida hoteliers, plus legions of Barbie and Hello Kitty aﬁcionados everywhere. And lest we forget: Gwyneth Paltrow cried in a pink Ralph Lauren gown when she won the Oscar in 1999 for her performance in “Shakespeare in Love” (a copy of the gown, sans tears, is on view here). At The Museum at FIT, curator Valerie Steele, who has edited a new book on the subject, provides a rich history of the color and its connotations in two darkened basement rooms that highlight its many shades — 45 to be pre-

IF YOU GO WHAT: “Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color” WHERE: The Museum at FIT, Seventh Avenue at 27th Street WHEN: through January 5 www.ﬁtnyc.edu cise, according to her book, ranging from baby pink, ballet slipper pink and bordello pink to Mexican pink, millennial pink and Tumblr pink. The color caused a stir in the walkup to the Women’s March on Washington in January 2017, with a Washington Post columnist cautioning women to “back away from the pink” and rethink the “pussy hats.” She felt the pink would undermine their cause. “For all its femininity, or because of its femininity, it is seen as a profoundly unserious color,” Steele said on a recent tour of the exhibit. The curator has made it her mission these past two years to dispel the cute factor — the notion that pink spells sugar and spice and all things nice and not much else. She has done a prodigious amount of research to document new perspectives on what has been called “the world’s most polarizing color.”

The “feminization of pink” on display in the ﬁrst gallery of the show. Photo: Val Castronovo

An ode to girlhood, the diorama in the first gallery features pink toys, doll clothes, princess costumes, flamingos, a calculator, Minnie Mouse and more. Objects lent by Raina Bajpai, Jessica Barber and Jennifer Morgan, Grazia d’Annunzio, The Fashion Class, Jennifer Farley Gordon, Theodora Hellen Rose Ingersoll, Loretta Keane, Larissa King, Olympia Maldonado, Melissa Marra, Gladys Rathod, Jody Shields, Julie Steele and Hannah Steele-Morris. Photo: © The Museum at FIT In essence, the conventional pinkblue divide — pink to denote girls, blue to denote boys — became increasingly apparent in the U.S. in the 1950s and 1960s before “the pinkification of girl culture really took off in the 1970s and 1980s, when Mattel’s Barbie acquired a new, predominantly pink wardrobe. By the end of the 20th century, the association of pink with girls had spread throughout the world,” she writes. Go down, down, down to the galleries and enter a pink wonderland, with 80 ensembles and a fabulously sweet diorama in the first gallery overflowing with pink things — toys, doll clothes, princess costumes, flamingos, a calculator, Minnie Mouse and way more. It’s a kitschy, over-the-top ode to girlhood that sets the tone for this exhaustive show. The first room, showcasing EuroAmerican fashions from the 1850s to 1990s, illustrates the “feminization of pink,” Steele said. It’s a glam fest, with haute outfits by designers such as Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Cristobal Balenciaga, Elsa Schiaparelli and Chanel. Dior favored soft pink in his couture collections (e.g., his late 1950s silk moiré evening dress), while his successor, Yves Saint Laurent,

opted for deeper hues (e.g., his 1960 bubble-gum silk faille cocktail dress, with bubble skirt). By the 1980s, pink-and-black combos were trending, a blend of feminine and chic. Victor Edelstein’s show-stopping black-velvet/pink-satin gown (1987) has a giant pink bow at the back that seductively suggests its wearer is a present waiting to be unwrapped. The second room invites a broader look at the color. “Pink was a completely androgynous color in the 18th century.... It was a color associated with novelty and aristocrats. See this wonderful cupcake-like gown and her male companion in pink silk suit,” the curator said, pointing to two French royal court outﬁts. The color has been fashionable across centuries but also across cultures — in Japan, China, Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America and Africa. Fashion editor Diana Vreeland once said, “Pink is the navy blue of India.” It remains popular with both sexes there today (see the pink-silk wedding Sherwani, a man’s coat, from 2018). Globalization has abetted acceptance of pink by men in the West. The show’s mantra borrows from French color guru Michel Pastoureau:

“It is society that ‘makes’ color, deﬁnes it, gives it meaning.” By the end of the 20th century, the meaning of pink had toughened up considerably in the U.S. It was a color to be reckoned with — it was powerful and serious, feminist and transgressive. In 1994, Hillary Clinton wore a pink suit to her ﬁrst press conference as first lady. During the AIDS crisis, gay-rights activists adopted the Naziera pink triangle — used in concentration camps to single out gay men — as a symbol of advocacy, while breastcancer awareness campaigners have adopted a pink ribbon to brand their deadly serious cause. Punks, rockers and hip-hop artists made the color cool and gender-neutral. Punks reveled in its “bad taste,” inspiring Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons to create her “18th-Century Punk” collection, which includes a warrior-pink, faux-leather costume in the style of body armor (fall/winter 2016-17). “Pink is something that more men feel confident about wearing, and more women don’t feel embarrassed to wear,” Steele concluded. “It’s not just saying, ‘I never grew out of my 5-year-old fashion idea.’”

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Here’s a conversation I had on the corner of my Upper East Side block, when I ran into an acquaintance. Him: So, you’re a writer. What do you write? Me: Mostly essays for magazines, newspapers and websites. I’ve also had a couple of novels published, and I wrote a screenplay that I hope will get produced sometime before I die. Him: I’m a writer, too. Me: What do you write? Him: Well, I don’t have time to actually sit down and write, but I have a lot of ideas and I’ve written a novel as well. I just haven’t gotten it on paper, yet. It’s all up here, though. At this point he took his index ﬁnger and tapped his temple. I then smiled and wished him luck — he’ll need it. Here’s the cold, hard truth: you’re not a writer if you never write anything. This is also the surefire way to NOT get published. Yes, it’s that easy. Don’t write and you won’t see your words in print. Someday in the distant future, technology will perhaps advance so that you can create something in your chip-implanted mind and then transmit it telepathically out into the universe and people will be able to read it in their heads. Until that day comes, you need to put pen to paper so to speak, so that you can submit to editors via email. I’ve found that writers usually fall into three categories: a) those who don’t know where to begin; b) those who write, but don’t know how to sell it; or c) those who get published often, but wish to take their writing to the next level by breaking into a different genre or type of venue. I’ve lived through all three phases, so I can tell you from experience you need to reach out for advice/help in order to game-change. About nine years ago, I wrote a newspaper column as well

as one online, had written for The New York Times, and had my first novel published; yet I could not get a piece in a magazine to save my life. I heard from an editor, to whom I had been lamenting, that there was a professor named Susan Shapiro, who offered a once-a-week, five-week class out of her Greenwich Village apartment titled “Immediate Gratification Takes Too Long.” She alleged that by the end of the term students would have a published piece and could use their fee to pay for the class. As a born and raised New Yorker — make that an “outta” borough NYer — I was skeptical. But by the end of five weeks, I had what would become my first published magazine clip. Perhaps at this time, you’re not able to make a financial or time commitment to head downtown on Wednesday nights for a little over a month, but you can still benefit, as I did, because Shapiro has just consolidated her class into a book: “The Byline Bible — Get Published in 5 Weeks.” (Full disclosure: the author included the essay I wrote in her class, along with those of other students, in the how-to as an example of publishable work — page 167, FYI.)

For less than twenty bucks, you can ﬁnd out where to start, get assignment prompts, learn how to find a home for your writing and direction on crafting a cover letter. It’s the closest thing to having an instructor come to your apartment, sit at your computer and do the whole thing for you. Shapiro also moderates free editor panels around the city, so you can hear from the proverbial horses’ mouths what stands out in the submission slush pile. This is New York, so there are many teachers, courses and, of course, books on the subject of writing. I’m recommending that which I’ve actually experienced, but if you ask around I’m sure you’ll have a plethora of options to choose from. Just choose something. Invest in yourself in some way and start doing what you set out to do when you got here. Then you’ll really have something to write home about. Lorraine Duffy Merkl is the author of the novels Fat Chick and Back to Work She Goes. Susan Shapiro’s next free publishing panel Friday 9/21 from 6-8 p.m. at Union Square’s Barnes & Noble.

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A ‘GHOST BIKE’ ON CENTRAL PARK WEST STREETS Safety advocates renew call for protected bike lane along the avenue a month after cyclist’s death BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

A solitary bicycle, painted stark white, now rests on Central Park West at 67th Street in memory of Madison Jane Lyden, the 23-year-old Australian tourist struck and killed by a garbage truck nearby Aug. 10. Adorned w ith photos,a stuffed koala, an Australian ﬂag and other mementos of the young woman from Tasmania, the “ghost bike” is one of dozens throughout the city where bicyclists have been killed. Twenty-four candles flickered during the dedication — one for each year of Lyden’s life, plus one extra. “That one is for us to all carry Madi’s light,”

A family friend described Madison Jane Lyden, the 23-year-old tourist killed last month in a cycling collision on Central Park West, as “the most bubbly, vibrant person you’ve ever met.” Photo: Michael Garofalo said Carolyn Bischof, a family friend who spoke at the ceremony. She called Lyden “the most bubbly, vibrant person you’ve ever met.” As Lyden rode north Aug. 10, a livery vehicle blocked the painted bike lane on Central Park West, forcing her to pull into the adjacent traffic lane, where she was struck and killed by a private sanitation truck.

Lyden’s death has prompted renewed calls from bike activists and local politicians for the city’s Department of Transportation to replace the painted bike lane on Central Park West with a protected lane, a step supporters say could have prevented the collision. “Had we had a two-way protected-bike lane, the first car never would have been able to pull over in the ﬁrst place,” said Council Member Helen Rosenthal, who has led the push for a street reconﬁguration in the wake of Lyden’s death. Earlier this month, CB7’s transportation committee passed a resolution requesting that DOT explore implementating bike lane protections on CPW; the full board will vote on the resolution Oct. 2. Officials with the Department of Transportation have confirmed that the agency is looking at the feasibility of installing the protected lane.

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We sold our Murray Hill co-op on our own and the closing is quickly approaching. We were wondering if we need to leave all the designer light fixtures and window air conditioners for the new buyer? This is an interesting question and one that certainly comes up often. When it comes to “what’s included as part of the sale,” it often boils down to what is stated in the contract of sale, as that overrides any verbal or non-verbal understanding. If nothing is stated in the contract about the light fixtures, it is common that sellers will remove designer chandeliers, sconces or expensive lighting and replace them with inexpensive fixtures. When it comes to window air conditioners, which are personal property, the contract of sale rules. This is why it is so important that all these nuances be communicated to your attorney so that they can incorporate them in the contract. Once it’s in writing, you’re protected and hopefully your closing will be smooth sailing. Andrew Kramer is a licensed associate real estate broker with Brown Harris Stevens Residential Sales

What do real estate agents really earn? Every year the National Association of Realtors releases data on the median income of its members. For 2017 the median income for real estate agents countrywide was just under $40,000. Hardly a living wage! Of course, there are many variables which go into the number. Those agents who have qualiﬁed to be brokers almost always earn more than salespeople; maybe it is the extra effort required to get the higher level qualiﬁcation which indicates a greater commitment to success. And agents with broker’s licenses who have been in the business over 15 years tend to earn far more than their colleagues who are newer: the median income for these experienced brokers is over $100,000, which actually IS a living wage (and more) in most of the country. The study brings to my mind every year how little most people know about pursuing a career in real estate brokerage when they decide to do so, and how much harder it is to succeed than most newcomers understand. The exam rooms for the (pathetically easy) New York State real estate salesperson’s exam are always full. Of those taking the exam, maybe 50 person maxi-

mum will stay in the business more than a couple of years, and of those 50 percent, maybe another 40 percent to 50 percent will actually make a decent living. Because the bar for entry remains so low, and because the job looks easy from the outside, a great many people want to get in on the easy money. After all, prospective agents have said to me many times over the years, how hard can it be? I used to say, only half in jest, that the public looks at real estate brokers in Manhattan and sees a fur coat, a ring of keys and a big check. If only it were so easy ... During my almost 40 years in the business, I have seen some stunning successes and a lot of failure. While I can’t offer a formula to guarantee the former, I can make some observations about what makes people successful in real estate: • Great agents are not ashamed. You can’t succeed in a job you are embarrassed to have. Sure, it’s true that agents don’t have the best reputation, but I always urge that we make it our business to elevate that reputation with every client interaction. Most of the agents I know in New York (and every agent at Warburg!) adhere to the highest ethical and professional standards. If you cannot say with pride that you are a residential agent, you probably won’t get too far trying to succeed as one. • Great agents know how to mine their spheres. Great agents build a powerful network of referrals. But how? The answer:

it is different for everyone. Social media is great if you are a whiz but useless if it’s not intuitive and fun for you. Do you love giving big parties or intimate dinners? Are you brimming over with market data and tactical advice to share? Any one of these serves the purpose of keeping you connected to once and future clients. Whatever you choose, it has to be an intuitive ﬁt for you. If you don’t like doing it, you won’t do it, so it won’t work. • Great agents get back up again. In this business you get slapped to the ground time and time again. My rule; give yourself 24 hours to feel bad, then bounce back. You can’t stay down if you want to succeed. • Great agents self start. It’s not your company’s responsibility to give you buyers or hand you exclusives. In my career I never once had a deal handed to me by either of the companies I worked for as an agent. I worked day and night (literally) to build a sphere of contacts to whom I demonstrated my competence and commitment. If you are not self-reliant and always ﬁguring out how you can do it better, this line of work is probably not for you. It’s a 24/7/365 affair and the ball is always in your court. Win or lose, your success as a real estate agent is up to you. Frederick W. Peters is chief executive officer of Warburg Realty Partnership.

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recent years increasingly relied on permissive interpretations of zoning regulations (often characterized by opponents as “loopholes”) to build ever-higher luxury residential buildings — with commensurately high asking prices — that critics say often do not align with the scale or architectural context of their surroundings. The zoning challenge, prepared by planning consultant George M. Janes, raises a number of objections to Extell’s plans, which include an “atypically large mechanical void” in the middle of tower that accounts for 161 feet of the building’s height. Areas used for mechanical equipment do not count toward floor area totals that govern permissible height. According to Janes and other zoning experts, developers now often use excessively large mechanical voids to artiﬁcially increase building heights — in violation of the spirit, if not the letter, of city zoning codes. According to opponents of the Extell tower, the building’s void is not proportionate with its actual mechanical purpose. “While there may be some mechanical equipment placed on the floor of this space, it appears that the primary use

of the floor is to increase the height of the tower floors above it,” the challenge states. The challenge also claims that the large void may pose safety issues in the event of a fire, citing concerns previously raised by the FDNY about another building with a large mechanical space. Extell’s plans for the development, which sits within the Special Lincoln Square District, rely on an interpretation of the zoning resolution that if adopted widely would effectively “neuter” the tower-on-abase regulations that limit the practical height of buildings in the district to roughly 300 feet, Janes said. The zoning challenge was filed by the local land use and preservation nonprofit Landmark West! and residents of a neighboring co-op building at 10 West 66th St. Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, City Council Member Helen Rosenthal, state Sen. Brad Hoylman and Assembly Member Richard Gottfried support the challenge. At a Sept. 13 meeting at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Rosenthal said that Extell’s proposal relies on a zoning interpretation “that is the opposite of what was intended

SEPTEMBER 20-26,2018 a housing crisis, this project would include just 127 apartments and stand 775 feet tall.” Rosenthal has also criticized Extell for engaging in what she termed “a procedural baitand-switch” in ﬁling its plans for the property. In December 2015, the developer filed for permits from the DOB to build a much smaller building at the site; at 292 feet, the proposed development would have been similar in size to neighboring buildings. Extell began clearing the site under the old permit, while Rosenthal and others called on the developer to address rumors that a largerscale project was in development. Their suspicions were confirmed when Extell filed new plans for the 775-foot tower in late 2017. “What this has done is allow them to move the building forward for 18 months and put the community opposition on its heels,” Janes said. While ﬁling fake plans isn’t illegal, he added, “It doesn’t seem right.” Extell Development did not respond to a request for comment. The Department of Buildings will likely issue

One aspect of the zoning challenge against Extell’s proposed midblock condo tower on West 66th Street focuses on a 161-foot mechanical void that would start at the building’s 18th floor, shown in gray in this rendering. According to the zoning challenge, “it appears that the primary use of the floor is to increase the height of the tower floors above it.” Image: George M. Janes & Associates

This development is in a residential neighborhood, not Billionaire’s Row.” Sean Khorsandi, executive director of Landmark West its decision on the zoning challenge by late November at the earliest. Subsequent appeals may be made to the Board of Standards and Appeals. Construction can continue while the case is under review. The dispute takes place within the context of a broader debate over the permissiveness of city zoning laws, as similar controversies have erupted over towers under construction at 200 Amsterdam Avenue, 180 East 88th St. and 430 East 58th St., near Sutton Place, each the subject of pending litigation. Rosenthal, Brewer and other elected officials have called for an update to zoning rules to limit mechanical voids and other perceived loopholes, such as excessive floor-to-ceiling heights. The Department of City Planning is expected to soon take action to address excessive mechanical voids, but any change would in all likelihood not affect Extell’s West 66th Street project. Preservationists are concerned that the Extell development, along with the 200 Amsterdam tower and another potential large-scale project at the American Broadcasting Company headquarters on West 66th Street recently acquired by Silverstein Properties, is indicative of a growing trend of Midtown-scale towers creeping northward into the traditionally lower-slung Upper West Side. “This development is in a residential neighborhood, not Billionaire’s Row,” said Sean Khorsandi, the executive director of Landmark West!

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when this community adopted the Special Lincoln Square District.” “It takes advantage of existing loopholes, and the developer is doing his best to create some new loopholes,” Rosenthal said. “It bends and it breaks these rules in service of an ultra-luxury tall tower that does not serve any public policy good. In the middle of

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Liza Treyger is not afraid to offend you. A New York-based comedian, Treyger talks about everything from the Holocaust to her one-night stands in appearances on “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” “Chelsea Lately” and “@Midnight.” Treyger has her own half-hour show coming out on Netﬂix at the end of October. We sat down with her recently to chat about cokedout audience members, the #MeToo Movement and the real difference between male and female comedians.

Where are you from? I was born in Russia, but I grew up mostly in Skokie, which is a suburb of Chicago. I feel lucky that I lived so close to Chicago, and I had Chicago to do stand up.

How did you get into comedy? When [the movie] “Superbad” came out, I decided I wanted to write a movie like “Superbad” and I was invited to go to an open mic my friend invited me to. I bombed, but I returned because I really liked it.

And he stood up, and took hundreds of dollars out, and said he would pay for anyone else to come up on stage, and make me stop talking. Then earlier in the evening, he threatened to kill me. [The audience] just kept interrupting, kept screaming to order drinks and going out for cigarettes. They were coked out, and at any normal place, they would have been kicked out.

How are audiences different inside and outside of New York? Yeah, New York, you can talk the fastest and have the most amount of jokes. New York is bam-bam-bam — I love it. Some places just truly hate me, where you go to towns where people are boring, and people don’t like their spouses. When people get free ticketsthey’re just there and they don’t ... a lot of people just don’t care for women. You have to trick them into liking you. Sometimes men are dragged there by their wives and girlfriends. And one time, one man did not look at me the whole night, and I called him out on it. And I said, “You don’t want to hear a woman talk,” and he was like, “No.” I just feel like when it’s Midwest-suburb-boring, they don’t like me. Cincinnati hates me. Upstate New York hates me. But I wonder if I go back to these places, and if I am more experienced, they would like me more.

What’s the craziest thing an audience member has done at a show?

What’s it like being a woman in comedy?

This one guy, he was the worst. There were only six people in the audience.

I mean, I have a great time,... I love doing comedy. Men usually go into

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“I just like to talk, make jokes and have my point of view heard,” says the comedian Liza Treyger. Photo: Mindy Tucker. comedy, because nothing else worked out for them in their lives. They are able to go onstage and talk about how miserable they are, and people love it. But for women, [comedy is] such a hyper-masculine thing that you already have to be a conﬁdent woman to do it. The women I know [in comedy] have friends, clean apartments, and we have a great time together. Obviously, there are moments where I cried in my car, or I feel like shit, or a man I had sex with publicly humiliated me, and that sucks. But comedy is hard, and you have to do the hard things to get to the fun stuff. Now, I guess the only thing that’s annoying is that the men I am surrounded with don’t understand #MeToo, or Time’s Up, and think they’re victims. They’re myopic, and don’t understand anything that’s not them, because the whole culture is them. They don’t understand harassment. The things that come out of these dudes’ mouths are truly insane. These people who are supposed to be progressive, funny and are supposed to be part of the counter culture and be commenting about it [are] true idiots. And just not understanding feminism

is annoying. It bothers me. I used to care so much about getting into certain places, and them thinking that I am cool. But now I don’t care, and I’m just like, “I’ll have fun over here.”

many jobs to be had. It’s exciting that people can make money. If you’re a weirdo and you might not be for certain things, people can find you. There’s more for everyone.

When it comes to comedy, where is the line between what’s funny and what’s offensive?

What’s something people don’t normally know about comedy?

You don’t know it. You have to be able to try stuff out, but why are you saying these jokes? Do you have something intelligent or awesome to say? .... A part of comedy is being likable. And you have to ask yourself: are you connecting with them? Are you giving them what they want? But if you’re up there, and it’s your goal to make people uncomfortable, and make marginalized people feel bad, people don’t have to laugh.... You are not entitled to people’s laughter. Go find your audience. People don’t have to like you.

How has the industry changed since you started out? There just seems to be more of everything. More cities, more comics, more jobs.... There’s just a lot. There’s so many channels and avenues.... So

It’s just like a thing you have to do every day for many years. Just because you’re funny and you make people laugh at your job ... it’s an actual thing you can’t just do. People will want advice, and want a shortcut. [But] it’s a thing you have to do for a long time to get anywhere. It takes four to 10 years to get a late-night set. I just like it so much. Yeah, it’s what I love to be doing. I just like to talk, make jokes and have my point of view heard. It’s great.

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