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BATTLE OVER PLAYGROUND AT HOLMES TOWERS Housing Authority: we’ll replace it BY MADELEINE THOMPSON

A young boy stood nervously behind a microphone on Saturday afternoon. “We are a family, and I think this park should stay here,” he said. He was flanked by several smiling elected officials and members of his community at Holmes Towers. The nearly 1,000-resident housing project at First Avenue and E. 92nd Street — and specifically, a small playground between the towers — is the future site of a new building in the New York City Housing Authority’s (NYCHA) NextGen Neighborhoods initiative. The effort aims to close the authority’s $17 billion budget deficit by partnering with private developers. Housing Authority officials set their sights on the Holmes Towers playground a year ago, and the commu-

From left, Holmes Towers resident Saundrea Coleman, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and Council Member Ben Kallos spoke out Saturday against a plan to demolish a playground to build new housing. Photo: Madeleine Thompson

nity has been fighting them ever since. “Do you want to get rid of this playground? Do you want to put up fake affordable housing that you could never afford?” Council Member Ben Kallos, who represents the area, asked the crowd of 50 people gathered at this weekend’s “Party to Protect the Playground” rally. Each time, the answer was an emphatic “no!” Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and State Senator Liz Krueger joined Kallos in railing against the plan. At a meeting with residents last October, the housing authority promised to make long-awaited repairs at the existing buildings in the Isaacs/ Holmes public housing community and to give residents preference when

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AUTONOMOUS: SELFDRIVING CARS ON THE WAY The vehicles, expected everywhere within a generation, will require infrastructure modifications, new regulations BY MICAH DANNEY

Self-driving vehicles will roam New York City’s streets within a few decades, marking the beginning of a sea change that will require major modiﬁcations to the city’s infrastructure, according to transportation experts who addressed a forum on the topic

earlier this week. The technology has advanced rapidly during the last decade, so much so that one panelist projected that autonomous vehicles would be ubiquitous across the U.S. in 30 years. Although the shift is expected to happen in stages, with farm vehicles and freight trucks being the ﬁrst expected to use the technology, the consensus is that public transportation would be

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A self-driving Audi A7 on display outside the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building earlier this week attracted passers-by, who gazed at the tangle of electrical wires in its trunk. Photo: Micah Danney

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In Brief CITY RFP WITH TENNIS CLUB ON HOLD A license agreement between a private tennis club operating at the Queensboro Oval and the city’s and Department of Parks & Recreation is for now on hold at the request of elected officials, department officials said. The long-contentious concessionaire’s agreement, which is projected to bring in $2.6 million to city coffers this year, has been the subject of several hearings at Community Board 8 in recent months. Residents, board members and other elected officials have complained that the agreement with the upscale Sutton East Tennis Club prohibits the public from using the oval, an otherwise public park on Sutton Place between 59th Street and 60th Street, for all but two months of the year. “NYC Parks is continuing our open dialogue with community stakeholders including local elected officials and the Community Board to determine the best way to activate this space for sports and recreational purposes,” Parks Department Commissioner Mitchell Silver said in a statement. The club’s current 10-year agreement expires in August of 2017. CB8’s Parks Committee is scheduled to discuss the issue at its Thursday meeting.

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RECYCLING BEAUTY The Hell’s Kitchen Painters have met, painted and lunched for 15 years

ﬁre hydrant, and you know somebody died.” Some members incorporate what’s already on the canvases into their own

paintings, while others entirely obscure what was there and then begin their own work. For each, the process differs, and longtime Hell’s Kitchen Painters member Jo Ann Rosen said the variety of paintings speaks to the diversity of the group. “The portraits I usually do are of family and friends in some sort of familiar surroundings, but what I really look forward to is the posture of

people, since you can already identify someone because of the shape they’re standing or because of their gesture,” said Rosen, who studied at the Arts Students League and who earlier this year had one of her paintings show on a Times Square billboard. “Others do portraits as well. There are many still lives, beautiful landscapes, and one even — Myra Sobel — does market scenes from all over the world.”

BY DIAMOND NAGA SIU

They meet every week to paint on discarded canvases. For a couple of hours they express themselves through oil paints, then gather for lunch to discuss their shared creativity. Among their ranks are an actor, a filmmaker, a singer and a professor of mathematics. All of them, though, are serious artists. They call themselves the Hell’s Kitchen Painters. Edla Cusick, whose work has been twice displayed in the National Academy’s Annual Exhibition, founded the group after she left her art teacher position at Hartley House, the Hell’s Kitchen not-for-profit community organization. The painters have met for 15 years. Cusick said that their work aims to recycle as much as possible. You could say their ambition is both to lessen waste and to add beauty. “A network of guys helps us find canvases in the streets,” she said. “It’s a sad thing to me, how many canvases are discarded in the city — you find a bunch of them leaning up against a

Esla Cusick, reﬂected in a mirror, leaned on a table as she discussed some of the art hanging in the room. While the Hell’s Kitchen Painters work only in oil, the medium still gives the painters lots of creative freedom to incorporate other materials such as cloth and wire in their work. Photo: Diamond Naga Siu

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Rosen and Sobel, who formerly had a career as a writer and editor, wanted to showcase the assorted expressions conveyed in the group’s paintings, so they helped organize an exhibition. It will run for an entire month at the Riverside Library, near Lincoln Center. This is the second time they have shown at the library. “Everyone got more than one piece,” Rosen said. “There are about 60 works going into the exhibition, so we have to see how many will ﬁt on the walls — we have three hours to put it all up.” Each of the group’s 14 artists chose two to seven pieces to display. The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of one the Hell’s Kitchen Painters own. Yvette Edelhart, who trained at The Art Students League and exhibited throughout the city, died on Sept. 16. She had a life that was closely intertwined with art, and worked at the Frick Collection a week before her death, members said. “She was an extraordinary woman who decided at age 50 that she wanted to become an actress,” Cusick said. “I think we’ve used one of her Adirondack landscapes as the poster and the postcard for the show.” The landscape was one of the last things Edelhart painted, and Cusick said that it is a marvelous occasion for an artist to have their last work also be their best. A reception for the exhibition’s opening is set for Saturday, Oct. 8 from 1-4 p.m at the library, 127 Amsterdam Ave., at 65th Street.

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG

ARREST IN EXPLOSION THAT KILLED FIRE CHIEF The NYPD said it arrested a man in connection with a house explosion that killed a fire battalion chief. Police say Manhattan resident Garivaldi Castillo was arrested on charges of criminal possession of marijuana. Police haven’t said how he’s connected to the Bronx explosion. Chief Michael Fahy, of Yonkers, was killed by falling debris Sept. 27 while directing operations from the street. He had been supervising an evacuation following a report of a gas leak at the two-story house. He was a 17year fire department veteran and father of three. Authorities are looking into whether the building that exploded was being used to grow marijuana. It’s unclear if Castillo has a lawyer. Police were questioning another man for possible ties to the explosion.

STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 19th precinct Week to Date

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Year to Date

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2016

2015

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Murder

N/A

100.0

Rape

N/A

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Robbery

-80.0

-18.4

GRAN LARCENY

UNWARRANTED

Felony Assault

150.0

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It looks as if one Upper West Side resident might want to have a serious talk with her granddaughter. On Sept. 16, a West 96th Street resident went away for three days while her granddaughter stayed home with some friends. When the grandmother returned home at three days later, various pieces of her jewelry were missing. These included a diamond ring with an 18-karat yellow metal band, a diamond ring with three diamond stones and two ruby stones, and a yellow metal necklace with a yellow metal pendant. The total stolen came to $43,800. The victim told police that the person who took her jewelry appears to be someone known to her granddaughter.

Remember, folks, the genuine IRS does NOT accept payment in the form of store gift cards! On Sept. 21, a West 102nd Street resident received phone calls from an unknown person claiming to represent the IRS stating that the woman needed to send payment immediately, or risk arrest. Accordingly, the victim transferred $3,800 to a speciﬁed Chase account and later emailed Best Buy gift cards in the amount of $14,700. The total stolen in the scam came to $18,500.

Burglary

700.0

148

120

23.3

Grand Larceny

47.8

1,037

974

6.5

Grand Larceny Auto

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7.0

STONY PHONY The only way to combat ID theft is to keep a wary eye on your account balance. A 45-year-old man living on West 107th Street told police that

between April 12 and Sept. 23, an unknown person or persons withdrew nearly $22,000 from his account on multiple occasions using fraudulent checks. The victim told police he was not missing any checks from his checkbook. The ﬁrst two checks were cashed in Stony Point, NY.

CATCH 22 Yet another West Side resident became a victim of ID theft. At noon on Sept. 12, a West End Avenue

resident was at a Citibank ATM when he noticed that his balance was lower than it should have been. He contacted the bank to ask about his account and soon discovered that there had been some 22 transactions made in multiple places by someone using his personal information. The bank told the man that they could not cancel his account due to the ongoing investigation, but they would place a hold on the account until the investigation was complete. The total stolen came to $8,769, including more than $8,000 in Internet purchases.

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Horrible. Dirty. A dump. Commuters going through the city’s Penn Station have choice words for it, none of them good. So plans announced this week that would widen concourses, raise ceilings and create a sparkling, light-ﬁlled waiting area across the street were greeted with cautious approval — and skepticism about whether the long-talked-about effort at the nation’s busiest train station would come to fruition. “I think anything would be an improvement,” said attorney Brigit Zahler, who splits her time between Red Bank, New Jersey, and West Islip, on Long Island, east of New York. She said she’s been going through Penn Station daily for more than a decade. “It’s horrible. I literally hate coming here,” she said last week, as she sat on her backpack because there was nowhere else to sit. “It’s everything that’s bad about the city: It’s too crowded, there’s not enough exits ... and it’s ugly.” Gov. Andrew Cuomo shared that sentiment when he announced the plan and its contractors late last month. “It is dirty, it is dingy, it is dark, and that is not what New

York is all about,” said Cuomo, a Democrat. The plans call for the construction of a new train hall in the historic James A. Farley Post Office across the street. The hall, to be named the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Train Hall in honor of the late U.S. senator, would have dining and retail options and office space. The underground maze of concourses that is the current Penn Station would be rebuilt, according to the plans. While it won’t be possible to bring in natural light, Cuomo said, the ceilings would be raised to 18 feet, and LED screens looking like a cloud-ﬁlled blue sky would be installed. The concourse, which commuter An-

thony Lee likened to the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, during rush hour, would be widened. The project is priced at $1.6 billion, with a planned 2020 opening date. Lee said he was skeptical of the project getting done, since it’s been talked about for years. “For the volume of people that actually comes through here, I think something should have been done a very long time ago,” he said. Penn Station has 650,000 daily passengers, three times the number it was designed for, on Amtrak, Long Island Rail Road and New Jersey Transit train lines. The Moynihan hall plan had

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been contracted to developers Related Cos. and Vornado Realty Trust for more than a decade. That agreement was cut, but Related and Vornado were selected again for the latest iteration of the project, along with Skanska AB. Yolanda Flores, of Babylon, on Long Island, has no intention of still living in the area by the time of the station project’s expected opening. And, after 39 years living in New York, she still didn’t entirely believe it would happen. But it would be a good thing, the payroll manager said. “For future generations,” she said, “that will be nice to come to New York City and be proud of Penn Station.”

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A WEED GROWS IN MANHATTAN â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Save the treeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; effort falls after designation change BY OLIVIA KELLEY

Residents of the James Lenox House retirement community on East 73rd Street objected to removal of a tree on the left side of the building â&#x20AC;&#x201D; until it was found to be a weed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were going to have a petition to save the tree,â&#x20AC;? said resident Laura Lehrman, â&#x20AC;&#x153;until everyone found out it was a weed.â&#x20AC;? The six-story tall â&#x20AC;&#x153;weed treeâ&#x20AC;? is set to be cut down due to recent construction around the front of the building. Susannah Talley, a 21-year resident whose apartment was shaded by the tree, began organizing a petition to save the plant, but stopped the effort after the weed designation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I do not want to pound my chest about losing this tree. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a real sad parting,â&#x20AC;? Talley said. A city parks official confirmed that the tree was

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A â&#x20AC;&#x153;weed treeâ&#x20AC;? is making news on the Upper East Side. Photo: Olivia Kelley

a weed and would attract unnecessary beetles and insects. According to the Websterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dictionary, a weed is any plant that is â&#x20AC;&#x153;not valued where it is growing and is usually of vigorous growth.â&#x20AC;? Lehrman said she still feels adamant that this is not reason enough to cut the tree down, saying itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unacceptable to take the life of a plant due to a renovation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I see it as a decision that has been made, because aesthetically it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ďŹ t in with their plans,â&#x20AC;? she said. Talley has ďŹ&#x201A;ed to her summer home in Massachusetts, saying she canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stand to see the tree come down. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just would like to have a second opinion,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a weed tree, if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not causing any problems then why take it down?â&#x20AC;? Talley said this isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t her first time saving trees at James Lenox and called

herself the â&#x20AC;&#x153;lady of the trees.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the 90s, I petitioned and was able to save four trees from being cut down in the back of the building,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To me, trees are sacred â&#x20AC;&#x201D; especially in New York.â&#x20AC;?

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FIND A QUIET ESCAPE Take a walk up to Conservatory Garden, the only formal garden in Central Park. It is made up of three stylized gardens, each unique: English,

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SHOW YOUR ADDRESS To the Editor: Re: Arlene Kayatt’s piece concerning lack of street addresses posted on building fronts (“Late Summer in the City – Sorry, no number,” Sept. 22). Arlene Kayatt writes that “it’s really a pain when you’re going somewhere and can’t find an address.” In fact, it’s an illegal and life-threatening situation which real estate interests have been, for too long, allowed to ignore. Not being able to find a specific street address is a major problem for the NYPD, FDNY, EMS and Con Ed, among others, when they respond to emergency calls, which often involve immediate and critical threats to life and property. Why the Department of Buildings and other agencies do not issue summonses for this very obvious and critical violation is a question that has needed to be addressed for many years. On a much lesser scale, it’s also a daily problem for delivery companies, car services and others who may have to circle a block several times looking for an address and thereby add to traffic congestion and air pollution. The city could add significant summons revenue and make life much safer and easier if the appropriate agencies were to enforce strictly the existing laws. And every city agency should have the power to issue summonses for these egregious and obvious lifethreatening violations. Frank Meade Manhattan

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Have grade, will travel — Several weeks ago I bemoaned the closing of commercial establishments from 86th and Third to 89th and Third. I was heartened at the time when a worker told me that Uptown restaurant, located mid-block between 88th and 89th, was coming back, maybe under new owners. And right he was. Now known as “TDT” — which stands for Two Door Tavern — the restaurant/pub reopened in late September. There are two doors with access to the restaurant but not sure that’s the reason for the name. There’s another location in Brooklyn. The inside is freshened up. More televisions. A communal table. A little more rustic. Nice. Inquiry as to whether TDT is a successor to Uptown ownership-wise is a little iffy. The woman who managed Uptown said that she’s the new owner and that TDT has nothing to do with Uptown. OK. However, there’s a Sanitation Inspection Grade with an “A” rating displayed in the window. Not unusual that Uptown, which was at the location at that time, would get the “A” rating, but after gutting the restaurant and not being inspected or re-inspected, why is TDT claiming the “A” grade? Huh? Even if the ownership is the same, there has to be a new inspection. The one on display is dated 01/13/16 and was issued to Uptown. In any event, an old inspection grade has no bearing on the newly opened, reconstructed restaurant now known as TDT. Even if TDT had returned with the Uptown name, they would not be entitled to display an earlier report when there was a subsequent closing and reconstruction. I’m sure TDT can make the grade on its own. Bingo bus(t) — Woman and man get on bus in the East 70s. He sits in the single raised seat immediately behind the driver. She sits on the opposite side leaning into her walker.

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Photo: EGiniger1, via Wikimedia Commons Male voice intones, “Give me the numbers.” Female voice calls out, “I can’t tell. I think it’s 2, 6, 8, 5.” “Can’t be, can’t be, look again,” as she takes out a magnifying glass to look more closely at the numbers on her pill prescription vial. “For god’s sake, I still can’t hear you,” the man shouted after several more unsuccessful attempts to hear the numbers which, it turns out, he was texting to the pharmacist. Whereupon the bus driver called out, “Damn it, you two, this is no place for Bingo.” What? This is New York where anything can happen and most everything does. All in together — Life’s getting really really compartmentalized. A dad,seated at a table in a local food shop with his 5-year-old son and maybe 7-year-old daughter, dutifully kept an eye on the stroller/ carriage alongside his table with his several months’ old baby in it. Between sandwich bites and a few pliés, big sister climbed into the carriage and played with the baby. She

was soon joined by little bro. He slid himself into a seat just beneath the raised carriage with the baby and big sister. When dad was finished drinking his coffee and texting, he got up, turned the wheels, pushed the carriage and, voila, the family was gone. A heavy push but at least the family’s all in one place. Would love to be around when dad and the stroller meet up with mom/pop and the family pooch. Bialys take center stage — Growing up it was bagels and bialys. In that order. Nowadays, not so much. Bialys are ﬁnding — or have found — their own niche. They’re smaller than bagels and instead of having a hole in the middle, there’s a depression, or indentation if you like. Bialys are made of a chewy yeast and baked. Bagels are made of yeasted wheat dough and boiled. When a bialy’s cut in half, you get a flat bottom and raised top. Somehow, with its hole in the middle, a bagel just doesn’t make the cut for pizza. So find your way to the

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newly opened Bagel Café on 93rd and Third for fabulous bialy pizzas made on oversized bialys — standard bialys are a 6-inch circle. The cafe’s always busy with all manner of Upper East Sider — from kids with and without parents to singles, couples, oldsters, teens, millennials — in an airy white-tiled, all windowed café. Bialy pizzas have names and ingredient descriptions — from pepperoni, cheese, tomato sauce (aka “Sergeant Pepperoni”); grilled chicken, cheddar cheese, black bean, corn, pico de gallo and pickled jalapenos (aka “Fiesta”) to garden veggies and tomato sauce to plain mozzarella cheese and tomato sauce (aka “Say Cheese.)” Best of all, though, is the Hail Caeser, piled high with romaine, grape tomatoes, artichoke hearts, black olives, parmesan cheese and croutons and drizzled with Caesar dressing. OMG, bialy heaven. Great for leftovers. And cheap — $6.95 to $8.95. Note to our Mayor: Bagel Cafe’s a short sprint from Gracie Mansion. Have a bialy pizza. They’re perfect with fork and knife.

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PAGING THE VILLAGE BY BETTE DEWING

Of course, The Debate, but does society win with the lack of civility shown by the debaters? It sends a wrong message especially to young people. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sort of trash talk takes precedence, and which has unfortunately gone main-

stream. It undermines the cause, not just of good race relations, but of all relationships. And again elder kindred were ignored as a natural support system and also a group that might need support â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as well as contact, interaction with those younger. Both candidates are grandparents and there is

a grandmother in the White House about whom we hear almost nothing. Incidentally, this year Grandparents Day fell on 9/11 and I thought of bereaved grandparents who have little access to their grandchildren whose father or mothers were killed on that most terrible of days. And of course you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

have to be a grandparent or a grandchild to need that supportive intergenerational support system. It takes a village, indeed. Surely the big story this week is the death of former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres. The worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s foremost leaders attended his funeral, where his countless and extraordinary accomplishments were rightfully praised, but too little if anything would have been said about the stroke he suffered on Sept. 13 and how this awful disorder desperately needs more attention paid to prevention

and treatment. Above all for a better understanding by all is needed of the utter helplessness of a severe stroke victim. And yes, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to say it, if strokes did not predominantly afflict older people, more attention would in fact be paid. Too little was said about the likely suffering of a great leader, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. One news piece did say when he was ďŹ rst stricken that he was able to shake his sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hand. Are you like me at risk for stroke, an atrial ďŹ brillation victim or have someone you love been stricken. If we push for more attention and achieve

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and in the name of Peres too â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that would be his greatest accomplishment. And the big traffic story is of the train derailment at Hoboken station. By withholding critical funds that would help establish greater safety on the rails and in public transportation overall, government hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fulfilled its primary duty to protect cities. Trains are still the safest mode of travel on land, more so than buses and infinitely more than private cars; Attention must be paid and support must be had.

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Open House NY Saturday, October 15 12:00pm - 4:00pm Marble is excited to once again open our doors as a part of Open House New York. Our church is a prominent example of Romanesque Revival architecture with Gothic inﬂuences and preserves many original 1854 features. See our historic Sanctuary, featuring beautiful stained glass windows, two of which are Tiffany, our Labyrinth Room with an inlaid labyrinth and our lovely Chapel. From the spire to the ﬁne details of the interior, Marble is a treasure worth exploring. Join us for guided or self-guided tours.

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exhibition, subtitled “Art and Underground Culture in New York.” A panel will discuss the cultural dynamics of gay New York, and will be followed by a reception and viewing. 212-534-1672, www.mcny. org

92nd Street Y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd St. 8 p.m. $32 Join Antonio Damasio, David Chalmers and Marcelo Gleiser as they discuss human consciousness and whether ETHEL AND FRIENDS science will ever be able to understand it. 212-415-5500, www.92y.org The Met, 1000 Fifth Ave. 5-8 p.m. Free with Museum admission Come out to the Great Hall for GAY GOTHAM▼ cocktails and appetizers while the critically acclaimed string Museum of the City of New quartet performs. York, 1220 Fifth Avenue 212-535-7710, www. 6 p.m. $25, adults; $20, metmuseum.org students and seniors; $15, members The opening of the new

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PLATING THE PAST Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden, 421 East 61st St. 7 p.m. $65; $55, members Come try popular 19th century dishes such as syllabub, mini pies, gingerbread cake and more. 212-838-6878, www.mvhm. org

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HARVEST FESTIVAL Carl Schurz Park, East End Avenue, between 87th and 88th Streets 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free Come pick out a pumpkin, ride on a horse-drawn carriage and listen to a concert. 212-459-4455, www. carlschurzparknyc.org

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MY CITY LAB: SENSATIONAL CITY Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free with Museum admission Investigate objects, scents and scenes throughout New York History and explore the exhibitions â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gilded New Yorkâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Roz Chast: Cartoon Memoirs.â&#x20AC;? 212-534-1672, www.mcny. org

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STEVE REICH 80TH BIRTHDAY Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Fifth Avenue and 89th Street 7:30-8:50 p.m. $40; $35, members Preview Carnegie Hallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Steve Reichâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 80th Birthday Celebration.â&#x20AC;? See Ensemble Signal perform excerpts from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pulseâ&#x20AC;? before itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world premiere in November as well as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Quartet.â&#x20AC;? 212-423-3575, www. guggenheim.org

JOSH AND THE JAMTONESâ&#x2013;ź The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave. 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m $16; $13, members Bring out the kids for this family concert of reggae-pop tunes.

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NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE CELEBRATION Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free with Museum admission Celebrate the history and contributions of Native Americans. Hear folk stories, make a corn husk doll and enjoy a free snack made from traditional corn. 212-534-1672, www.mcny. org

RETHINKING VISUAL INTELLIGENCE 92nd Street Y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street 7 p.m. $29 Lawyer and art historian Amy Herman shares her guide to seeing and communicating, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Art of Perception.â&#x20AC;? 212-415-5500, www.92y.org

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CINĂ&#x2030;SALON DOUBLE SCREENING Florence Gould Hall, 55 E 59th St. 4 and 7:30 p.m. $14; $7,

students; Free, members Come check out this double screening event of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Haramisteâ&#x20AC;? followed by â&#x20AC;&#x153;US Go Home.â&#x20AC;? 1-800-982-2787, www.ďŹ af. org

AN EVENING WITH WENDY WALKER Hunter College, Lexington Avenue and 68th Street 7-8 p.m. Free Walker, editor of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chicken Soup for the Soulâ&#x20AC;? and author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;All is Not Forgotten,â&#x20AC;? gives a lecture. Book signing and reception will follow. 212-772-4295, hunter.cuny. edu

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WHAT WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED IN NEW YORK NUMBERS

The total square feet of our

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Artist Joseph Reginella created an artwork to tell a ﬁctional tale. Photo: Joseph Reginella

A TALL TALE’S TENTACLES A nephew’s questions inspire artist’s tale of disaster BY ULA ILNYTZKY

Ever hear about the gargantuan octopus that dragged a New York City ferry and its 400 passengers to the river bottom nearly 53 years ago? A cast bronze monument dedicated to the victims of the steam ferry Cornelius G. Kolff recently appeared in Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan, erected a stone’s throw from a handful of other somber memorials to soldiers, sailors and mariners lost at sea or on the battleﬁeld. But if you can’t recall the disaster, it could be because the artist behind the memorial, Joseph Reginella, made the whole thing up. The 250-pound monument, which depicts a Staten Island ferry being dragged down by giant octopus ten-

tacles, is part of a multi-layered hoax that also includes a sophisticated website, a documentary, fabricated newspaper articles and glossy ﬂiers directing tourists to a phantom Staten Island Ferry Disaster Memorial Museum across the harbor. It took Reginella six months to put it together. He said the idea for the project came to him while he was taking his 11-yearold nephew from Florida on the ferry between Manhattan and Staten Island. “He was asking me all kinds of crazy questions like if the waters were shark-infested,” he said. “I said ‘No, but you know what did happen in the ‘60s? One of these boats got pulled down by a giant octopus.’” “The story just rolled off the top of my head” and the idea for a mock memorial was born. It evolved to become “a multimedia

art project and social experience — not maliciously — about how gullible people are,” said Reginella, who creates artworks for store windows and amusement parks. The monument never stays in one spot for more than two days “because the city will come and take it away,” he said, adding that it takes two people to break it down. “It’s definitely an experience when you see people who don’t know about it. They get this strange look on their face, they stare out at the water and walk away,” he said. “I sit close by with a fishing pole and fish. I eavesdrop on the conversations.” Sometimes, he said, when he overhears people saying, “How come nobody has ever heard of this?” he’ll interject, offering that the disaster happened on Nov. 22, 1963, a day that the news was dominated by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. “It creates a plausibility for them, and they shake their head ‘Maybe.’” Puzzled tourists looking for the memorial museum on Staten Island and its supposed collection of wreckage

The statue comes complete with a fake documentary. Photo: Joseph Reginella with “strange suction-cup-shaped marks” sometimes wonder into the Snug Harbor Cultural Center asking for directions.

The staff at the nearby Staten Island Museum admits it too was puzzled at first. “We kind of scratched our heads and said we don’t know where it is and started looking further into it, and realized it was a hoax,” said spokeswoman Rachel Somma. “Most people have the feeling that it’s not a reality. It’s a treasure hunt for them. It’s fun. That’s what we love about it. ... It’s great that it gets people out here,” she added. Melanie Giuliano, who produced a mock documentary for the monument’s website, used her father in the role of a maritime expert and her neighbor as an eyewitness. Reginella’s wife’s co-worker served as the narrator. “I thought it was an insane idea but I thought it was hilarious,” said the videographer and filmmaker. One thing about the preposterous story is real. There really was a Cornelius G. Kolff ferry. It ferried passengers for 36 years before becoming a stationary floating dorm for Rikers Island inmates. It was sold for scrap in 2003.

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A tour bus winds its way through the Financial District. Photo: Prayitno, via Flickr

POLS: LIMIT TOUR BUSES Chin, Brewer take aim with legislation BY MADELEINE THOMPSON

In Lower Manhattan, where the population has doubled in the last decade and where several new tourist attractions have recently been built, residents are concerned about the side effects of extra attention. Especially when it comes to tour buses. The number of such buses with active licenses has tripled since 2003, according to Council Member Margaret Chin, who represents District 1. Chin and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer introduced legislation to the City Council last week that proposes to limit the number of buses in the area. “Oftentimes you see these double-decker buses that are empty on the bottom, and on the top they’re not full either,” Chin said. In testimony given on behalf of the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) at the bill’s introduction last week, Assistant Commissioner for Legislative Affairs Margaret Cooley said

eight bus lines with 237 buses currently operate in Lower Manhattan. While the more than 50 million tourists who visit each year do contribute around $40 billion to the economy, they also contribute to polluted air and congested streets. As the oldest neighborhood in the city, Lower Manhattan is not laid out on the same structured grid that governs the rest of it and thus feels more strongly the consequences of the bus industry. “Our street grid is very irregular and with lots of small streets,” said Community Board 1 President Anthony Notaro, who described the tour bus issue as a very prominent concern of his constituents. “The main street through it is Broadway, which is heavily congested,” Notaro said. Since buses are “idling or cruising around in a very congested area, it causes a lot more fumes and exhaust,” he said. A 2000 study showed that double-decker buses like the ones used for sightseeing emit 25 times more diesel particles than a 40-foot MTA bus.

Though the tourist buses aren’t always sold out, Chin speculated that the operators choose to run them anyway because of the money they get for hosting ads on the sides of the buses. “You have these buses roaming our narrow streets like a rolling billboard,” she said. “One of the questions that I asked at the hearing to the Department of Consumer Affairs and later on to the tour bus companies is, how much money are these companies making.” In her testimony, Cooley expressed a willingness to work on a solution, but she cautioned that limiting the number of buses could disadvantage smaller bus companies. The proposal “could have the consequence of granting a particular company or handful of companies an unfair advantage over new entrants into the market,” she said. “New and smaller companies would not have the ﬂexibility to grow and the dominant positions of larger companies could be locked in.”

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Antonio Damasio & David Chalmers with Marcelo Gleiser: The Mystery of Consciousness

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6TH, 8PM 92nd Street Y | 1395 Lexington Ave. | 212-415-5500 | 92y.org Contemplate the mind in the company of a neuroscientist, a philosopher, and a physicist, who question how far science will ever get in seeking out what lies beneath human awareness. ($32)

Plating the Past: Tasting the 19th Century

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7TH, 7PM Mount Vernon Hotel | 421 E. 61st St. | 212-838-6878 | mvhm.org Sample dishes like syllabub, pie, and chicken curry New York-style, enjoyed from rare 19th century china in the company of a collector, who will speak on New York-made ceramics and glassware. ($65)

Just Announced | LIVE from the NYPL: Marina Abramovic

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28TH, 7PM Stephen A. Schwarzman Building | 476 Fifth Ave. | 917-275-6975 | nypl.org Performance artist Marina Abramovic discusses her new memoir and its revelations about a career ﬁlled with inspiring acts of stamina. Just announced: New York icon Deborah Harry will be holding up the other half of the conversation. ($40)

For more information about lectures, readings and other intellectually stimulating events throughout NYC,

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS SEP 23 - 30, 2016

Caffe Bacio

1223 3 Avenue

The following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s website and include the most recent inspection and grade reports listed. We have included every restaurant listed during this time within the zip codes of our neighborhoods. Some reports list numbers with their explanations; these are the number of violation points a restaurant has received. To see more information on restaurant grades, visit http://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/services/restaurant-grades.page

Afghan Kebab House

1345 2Nd Ave

New Beijing Wok

1324 2 Avenue

Bagel Bobs On York

1641 York Ave

Eli Zabar

922 Madison Ave

Irving Farm Coffee Roasters

1424 3Rd Ave

Mariella Pizza

965 Lexington Avenue A

Le Pain Quotidien

1131 Madison Avenue

Eats

1055 Lexington Avenue

Subway

1205 Lexington Ave

Dunkin’ Donuts, Baskin Robbins

1225 1 Avenue

Grade Pending (24) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked ﬁsh and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Food Protection Certiﬁcate not held by supervisor of food operations. Tobacco use, eating, or drinking from open container in food preparation, food storage or dishwashing area observed.

Cafe Boulud/Bar Pleiades

20 East 76 Street

Grunauer

1578 1St Ave

Per Lei

1347 2 Avenue

Trend Diner

1382 2 Avenue

Mumtaz

1582 York Avenue

Casimir & Co

1022 Lexington Ave

Eli’s Essentials

1291 Lexington Ave

Juice Press @ Equinox

1429 2Nd Ave

Sushi Ren

1584 2Nd Ave

Hanabi

1450 2Nd Ave

The Gilroy

1561 2Nd Ave

Szechuan Gourmet

1395 2Nd Ave

Casa Pizza

1427 3Rd Ave

Mel’s Burger

1450 2Nd Ave

Lake Toba

1643 2Nd Ave

Corrado Bread And Pastry

960 Lexington Avenue A

Subway

1256 Lexington Avenue

Alex Cafe & Deli

1018 Lexington Avenue

Lexington Candy Shop

1226 Lexington Avenue

Tang’s Garden

1328 3Rd Ave

Barnes & Noble Cafe

150 East 86 Street

Fratellis

1317 1 Avenue

Just Salad

1471 Third Ave

Latin Bites

419 E 70Th St

Burger King

226 East 86 Street

Via Quadronno

25 East 73 Street

Tasti D-Lite

Beanocchios Cafe

1431 York Avenue

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A land swap agreement that would allow Manhattan Valley community gardeners to cultivate on two contiguous lots awaits just the consent of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Economic Development Corp. About a year ago, the owners of two roughly 17-foot by 100foot lots â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the nonproďŹ t Manhattan Land Trust, which owns the easternmost lot, and two neighborhood families, which together own the middle of the gardenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three lots â&#x20AC;&#x201D; agreed in principle to swap plots. But a deed restriction for the easternmost lot that calls for it to â&#x20AC;&#x153;be used in perpetuity for open space purposesâ&#x20AC;? complicated matters. For the exchange to go forward it needs approval from the EDC, meaning that the restriction must in effect piggyback on the swap. A subsequent endorsement of the agreement by Community Board 7 and Councilman Mark Levine has since bolstered the chances for ratiďŹ cation by the EDC of an â&#x20AC;&#x153;unusual process,â&#x20AC;? the director of the Trust for Public Landâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New York City Program, Andrew Stone, said.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;They OKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d the concept and said they would cooperate,â&#x20AC;? Stone said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They understood what we wanted to accomplish.â&#x20AC;? The easternmost lot was sold in 1999 by the EDC to the Trust for Public Land. It was conveyed to the Manhattan Land Trust about six years ago. The trade would allow the gardeners at La Perla, just east of Columbus Avenue, to continue to tend to dozens of roughly four-foot by eight-foot raised beds as they have since the mid1990s, albeit on arable land reduced by about one-third. The gardeners received permission from the two families â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Elizabeth and Douglas Kellner and Lizabeth and Martin Sostre â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to use the middle lot about 1995. But a steadily increasing tax bill on the lot â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the families now pay nearly $16,000 in annual property taxes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; convinced the families to sell the lot, Kellner said. La Perlaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fate had been uncertain since spring 2015, when the two families decided to sell the 17-foot by 100-foot property they purchased for $500 at public auction in the late 1970s. The sale of the lot, now assessed at about $350,000 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and its likely development â&#x20AC;&#x201D; would have made it especially difficult for the gardeners to salvage their venture on two essentially separate lots.

The holdup gave the gardeners an additional season at the garden. Liz Hall, decade-old La Perla member, said the longer the garden remains a whole entity, the better. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(The swap) is obviously a very sad thing for La Perla, but we recognize that a lot of gardens just disappear altogether,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At least this way we get to keep the garden. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important for the neighborhood to have these green spaces. Levine, who represents the district, agreed, but called a swap the best possible outcome. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a loss to lose green space like this. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no way to sugarcoat it,â&#x20AC;? he said last year. But â&#x20AC;&#x153;to have split the property down the middle would have been devastating.â&#x20AC;? La Perla, translating literally to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Pearl,â&#x20AC;? exists as a jewel to the community. Once a haven for crime, the neighborhood has undergone a renaissance in the last few decades. The gardenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website describes La Perla as an â&#x20AC;&#x153;inspiration and a way of life.â&#x20AC;? The green space is now home to murals, benches, personal garden plots and a plethora of flora and fauna. Concerts are often held on the small, wooden stage located in the corner of the plot.

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HOLMES TOWERS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 the new building’s portion of affordable units are built, but that wasn’t enough to stem the reaction. The tenants walked out of that meeting, and have said that there is nothing that could make them agree to the project. Saundrea Coleman, who has lived at Holmes Towers for more than two decades, said the housing authority should go through the official land use review process. “They think they’re not supposed to do that,” Coleman said. “We think that would be fair…we welcome all of our community to come and play here.” Coleman added that her community has taken a couple of significant hits in the last few years. She mentioned the fight over the playground, new construction nearby that caused a blackout and the death of a resident this past spring who was run over by a garbage truck. That fatality highlighted the dangers of a new marine waste transfer station

DRIVERLESS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 close behind. But self-driving doesn’t mean driverless. In the models being developed by Tesla, Audi and Google, control is transferred between the driver and the vehicle depending on surroundings and other factors, such as road conditions. When a vehicle leaves a highway, for example, the driver can take over to navigate residential streets and traffic. “It’s essential to get the consumers and drivers to understand what the technology is, and not be afraid of it and misuse it,” said Brad Stertz, the director of government affairs for Audi. The last thing his company wants, he added, “is for people to think, ‘I can now jump in the back seat and take a nap or have a coffee or something.’” Roughly 45 people attended the forum, which was hosted by Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer Wednesday at the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building. “Self-driving vehicles are quickly transitioning from science-ﬁction to reality, so we need to think about how they will change the world we live in,” Brewer said before the forum. “Where this technology is, where

opening down the street in 2017. “What I ﬁnd sad about it is each administration puts their own commissioners in place who are only here for a limited amount of time,” she said. “But they’re making decisions for our lifetime. That’s not right.” Due to the dreary weather, most of the music and festivities taking place to celebrate the playground were held inside. But for the main event the group moved outside to the make their voices heard – on the very turf in question. With kids swinging off the monkey bars in the background, the elected officials blasted the housing authority’s plans to take away green space in an area that is starved of it. Maloney said the housing authority is “taking away a sense of hope for our young people.” “What are they going to give us instead?” Maloney asked. “Concrete and glass and no play room.” Later on, Brewer described the plan as ill-fated and terrible. Barely 24 hours before the rally, NYCHA released a statement announcing that they will

it’s going, and the risks and rewards of integrating it into cities like ours are questions we need to wrestle with now, because these vehicles will be on our streets much sooner than you think.” While the technology’s assimilation into city streetscapes will be incremental, the speakers agreed that planning for it should start early, including for a host of new regulations. Vehicles would have 360-degree awareness and would communicate with other vehicles and a network built into the city’s infrastructure, such as sensors in trafﬁc signals. They would also require wellmaintained street markings and asphalt conditions for vehicles to navigate safely. Regardless, prospects are promising, said Will Carry, senior director for special projects at the city’s Department of Transportation. More predictable and uniform traffic flow could reduce gridlock, while less driver distraction and speeding could mean safer streets for pedestrians. People with disabilities could gain greater mobility. With the rapid growth of the electric car industry — Audi expects 25 percent of its new vehicles to be electric by 2025, Stertz said — autonomous and electric infrastructure could be designed to work together, with self-driving taxis driving themselves

conduct a series of family-friendly workshops where residents can help design a replacement playground. Friday also happened to be the last day the authority was accepting bids from developers to construct the new building, which the authority will require be started only after a new playground is built. “Families participating in the playground workshops will be able to share feedback on the site of the new playground and the type and placement of engaging play equipment, from swings to slides,” the statement read. Though the community was made aware of this development at the rally on Saturday, residents and officials were not satisﬁed. Opponents to the current plan wondered where NYCHA planned to put the new playground, and mourned the prospect of losing light and air that will be lost in an area that doesn’t have much to spare. Madeleine Thompson can be reached at newsreporter@strausnews.com

to charging stations when their batteries get low. Carry said that the conversation about regulation of autonomous vehicles at the federal level doesn’t currently consider cities, but should. Jeff Garber, director of technology and innovation at the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission, said that consumer protections, vehicle safety standards and accessibility for all New Yorkers will be essential to a system that is truly beneﬁcial to the city. “In the best case scenario, all the positives of autonomous vehicles will show up on their own, but they won’t necessarily do it without some regulation to nudge them in the right direction,” Garber said. Joanna Oltman Smith, 46, a Park Slope resident and a member of Community Board 6 in Brooklyn and an advocate for safe streets, suggested that the city had miles to go before New York could safely accommodate the self-driving vehicles. “What I had not thought about is this need for the infrastructure to be in impeccable condition to maintain safety for our street users,” she said, “and all you have to do is step outside and see the conditions of our road markings on the city level, and they’re not up to the right level that they’re going to need to be to support this kind of vehicle.”

In Brief CRIME CONTINUES TO FALL CITYWIDE September had 12.1 percent fewer reported crime than a year ago, making the month the safest September in the Police Department’s CompStat era, according to a release from Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office. Overall, crime citywide has continued to decrease this year, with 3 percent fewer index crimes reported compared to this time last year, the release said. There have so far been 97 fewer shootings and 10 fewer murders this year than through September last year. The Transit Bureau and the Housing Bureau also reported fewer crimes this September compared to last year’s. “After the safest summer in decades, New York City remains the safest big city in America. While other cities across the nation ﬁght rising violent crime rates, long-term crime trends in our city continue to fall,” de Blasio said. CompStat, for computer statistics, began in 1994, is a broad organizational tool that tracks crime data sets to, among other things, manage the deployment of officers.

CITY: PROGRAMS REDUCING NUMBER OF HOMELESS Increases in rental assistance and legal services, as well as reductions in evictions helped keep down the number of homeless people in shelters, the de Blasio administration said. The number of people in shelters is about 60,000, where about 67,000 would have been expected without the programs and other measures, a release from the administration said. Homelessness has become a persistent problem in the city, growing about 115 percent since the mid1990s, the mayor’s office said. A shelter census at that time put the number of homeless at just under 24,000. A similar count in 2002 put the number at about 31,000. A spurt in the number of homeless happened in 2011, when a rental assistance program was discontinued, according to the release. Homeless people increased by more than 5,000 each year after that, growing from 37,572 to 54,835 in 2014. “We said ﬁve months ago when we announced the results of the 90-day review of homeless services that it would take time to reverse 20 years of policies and that the number of people in shelter might continue to grow. Our current programs have substantially slowed the rate of growth in homelessness,” the commissioner of the Department of Social Services, Steven Banks, said.

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September had 12.1 percent fewer reported crime than a year ago, making the month the safest September in the Police Department’s CompStat era, according to a release from Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office. Overall, crime citywide has continued to decrease this year, with 3 percent fewer index crimes reported compared to this time last year, the release said. There have so far been 97 fewer shootings and 10 fewer murders this year than through September last year. “After the safest summer in decades, New York City remains the safest big city in America. While other cities across the nation ﬁght rising violent crime rates, long-term crime trends in our city continue to fall,” de Blasio said. CompStat, for computer statistics, began in 1994, is a broad organizational tool that tracks crime data sets to, among other things, manage the deployment of officers.

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DAVIDSON’S NOW FEELING AT HOME AT FORDHAM A new dean on the university’s values and what he hopes to accomplish there BY ANGELA BARBUTI

In August, Fordham welcomed Anthony Davidson as dean of their School of Professional and Continuing Studies and he already feels right at home among the faculty there. “I’m very happy to say that, having been at many high-level meetings, they don’t only talk the talk, they walk the walk. And it’s really very refreshing in today’s society, to be involved in an institution that does that.” Having been a dean at both NYU and Manhattanville College, he comes to the position with the experience that Fordham was looking for to maximize their program’s potential. A Jesuit university, it is grounded in the principle of cura personalis, which translates to “care for the whole person.” Davidson cited the School of Professional and Continuing Studies, which is geared towards adults and nontraditional students, as a perfect example of that. “I think this school is the best manifestation of that motto, because we can develop the whole person and help people who come here be what they can really be.” For Davidson, creating programs that beneﬁt them is the most rewarding part of the job. “My greatest satisfaction is when I get emails years later from students who say this program changed my life.”

What was the ﬁrst thing you tackled at Fordham? To me, the most important thing was to understand the tradition of Fordham, its mission, its values. It has a global reputation, of course, and their values are very important to them, starting from Father McShane and throughout the whole university. And that’s really one of the main reasons that I joined here.

signed to help women advance in the workforce, to gain leadership skills. And we launched it in a very short period of time and have already two successful annual conferences. The ﬁrst of which we had only four months after we launched the institute. And we ran a certiﬁcate in executive leadership and had women who were sponsored by companies like Morgan Stanley, Swiss Re, PepsiCo, MasterCard, Westfair Communications and they all reported tremendous development. When we talk about diversity, gender diversity is an important component.

What are the best parts about working at universities and what are the hardest parts?

I’ve taken journalism classes at NYU’s School of Professional Studies. You worked there for 11 years. How is it different from Fordham?

Great question. Let me deal with the second part ﬁrst. The hardest part is change. Universities, by virtue, are very charter in existence. They are difficult to change and attract people who don’t really want to change. And it takes a long time, very often, to get change implemented. And even those universities that recognize that things need to change and they do, just because of market conditions, there’s still a lot of pockets of resistance. The best part of universities from an individual perspective is when I create a program and people’s lives are changed as a result. And on a global perspective, it’s that you’re dealing with a different mindset than sometimes in corporate. Corporate could be a lot more hard-nosed and cutthroat. And in universities, for the most part, you are surrounded by really wonderful colleagues, and that’s especially true at Fordham.

At NYU, I built and became the founding dean of a division of programs in business. And these were very focused, applied master’s degrees, undergraduate, professional certificates, executive certificates. Fordham is poised to do the same thing. I think they wanted somebody who had done what I did at NYU for over here because people understand that that’s the bridge between your traditional academic institutions and the typical for-profits. For-profits don’t have the academic gravitas, but they do understand the market. They understand that there’s a whole bunch of people out there who want to become more qualified. Not all of those people want a graduate degree. Some of them want a certificate. And most of them, quite honestly, they just want to upgrade and update their skills. If you took marketing 20 years ago for your MBA, it’s not your marketing you do today.

How much interaction do you have with students? Do you keep in touch with them? The students are very important to me. I’ve always had a very close relationship with all my students. Even as a dean, every semester, I’ve always held what I call Dean’s Hours, where I invite students to just come and sit around the table with me for an intimate conversation. They’re not allowed to bring complaints, but they are allowed to bring suggestions. If you want to see my because you have a problem, I’ll see you in the regular protocols. This is for us to just be able to have a ﬁreside chat. I’m proud of the fact that I do remember my students. I remember them by name, because I just have a knack for that. And I am in touch with students from 30 years ago still.

What are some interesting courses that they offer here and what do you still want to see on the curriculum?

I love the atmosphere. I ﬁnd it’s very respectful of people. It’s very considerate of people. And I had an amazing outpouring of people, professional colleagues and friends, when they found out I was coming to Fordham, everybody spoke so positively about it. It’s very upbeat, so I’m very happy.

I think adult reentry programs are very important. There was just a feature on CBS News actually. We have a student who is 100 years old. Talk about lifelong learning, right? There are people who come back to get their degrees and they should feel accomplished. I see lots of room for the development of programs and initiatives that ﬁll a need in the marketplace today, where people can change their careers or can advance in their current career. And we are giving them the kind of skills that employers thirst for.

You were at Manhattanville for ﬁve years and created the Women’s Leadership Institute there. Tell us about that.

You grew up in London, but went to Baruch for your undergraduate and graduate degrees.

It was a concept that had been in my mind for quite a while, even before I came to Manhattanville. But I felt that Manhattanville, with its history, having been a women-only college with some notable graduates, was the right place to launch it. It really was de-

I started coming to America in the summers because I started a soccer program in a sports camp up in the Catskills. I was always involved in business. When I was a teenager, I was running my own business exporting secondhand pianos to Europe. I want-

What’s the atmosphere like at the university?

ed to do business and I had friends here and loved the place after spending a few summers here. And I moved and completed my education here, my B.B.A. and MBA. I did consulting work and always taught on the side. Then I decided to do my Ph.D. in Total Quality Management Systems at Cass Business School in London. Then an opportunity came to me at NYU and they asked me to build out ﬁrst their program, and it became a whole series of programs, and then it became an entire division.

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