The local paper for the Upper East Side
WEEK OF SEPTEMBER MORE THAN PRETTY ◄ P.12
20-26 2018
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
CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
To see how your borough and district voted, go online for links from the New York City Board of Elections and Straus News Research at OurTownNY.com
OurTownEastSide
O OURTOWNNY.COM @OurTownNYC
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
CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
Crime Watch Voices NYC Now City Arts
3 8 10 12
Restaurant Ratings Business Real Estate 15 Minutes
14 16 17 21
We should take up the challenge to protect the citizenry.” Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright
State Sen. Liz Krueger. The East Side Democrat recently introduced abill in Albany that would close a legal loophole and facilitate theprosecution of online sexual harassment cases. Photo: Office of LizKrueger Jewish women and girls light up the world by lighting the Shabbat and holiday candles Friday Sep. 21, 6:37 pm Sukkot eve. Sunday Sep. 23, 6:33 pm 2nd day Sukkot eve. Monday Sep. 24, after 7:30 pm from a pre existing flame For more information visit: www.chabaduppereastside.com
We deliver! Get Our Town Eastsider sent directly to your mailbox for $ $49 per year. Go to OurTownNY.com or call 212-868-0190