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Dr. Jeffrey A. Ascherman campaigns on Lexington Avenue and 83rd Street. The Republican physician is running for a state Assembly seat on the Upper East Side and would become the only doctor in the Legislature if he triumphs. Photo courtesy of Dr. Ascherman for Assembly Campaign
THE SURGEON WHO WOULD BE LAWMAKER POLITICS A GOP doctor’s uphill quest to topple an incumbent Democrat and claim an Assembly seat in the old Silk Stocking District BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN
There are four medical doctors in the U.S. Senate and 12 in the House. At least two states are run by physician-governors. There is one on the City Council. And more than 75 serve in statehouses across America. Albany, by contrast, is Nowheresville. Out of 213 elected members in the state Legislature — 63 in the Senate and 150 in the Assembly — there is not a single medical practitioner. That’s been the case for decades. Now, Dr. Jeffrey A. Ascherman, a
I’m a hard-core Democrat. I never supported a Republican in my life. But I’m making an exception for my doctor.” Martha Brumfield, patient of Dr. Jeffrey A. Ascherman top plastic surgeon and professor of surgery who has been listed in New York Magazine’s “Best Doctors” issue for nine of the past 10 years, is seeking to change that dynamic. He’s mounting a Republican challenge for a state Assembly seat in a heavily Democratic district that
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GILDED AGE GRANDEUR MEETS BRUTALISM MUSEUMS As The Frick Collection’s expansion and renovation plans move forward, the museum seeks a temporary home at The Met Breuer BY KENNEDY MCDONALD
Frick Collection officials are in discussions with their counterparts at The Met about moving a selection of The Frick’s works into The Met Breuer while renovations and an expansion take place at the Gilded Age mansion on Fifth Avenue.
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Under a provisional agreement, some of The Frick’s Old Masters collection and amenities would move into The Breuer in 2020. “I didn’t expect to be engaged in a discussion about an entire building that would allow us to show the collection, host education programs, offer library services, store the collection, and have staff under one roof.” Ian Wardropper, The Frick’s director, said in a statement. “That the Breuer is architecturally significant, purpose-built as a public museum structure, and in the same neighborhood as us adds further to the appeal. It feels like an amazing number of factors have aligned.”
The arrangement would free The Met to refocus resources toward enhancing the modern and contemporary galleries at its Fifth Avenue flagship.
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RIVERSIDE PARK ART INSTALLATION CHANNELS HUDSON HISTORY MULTIMEDIA Exhibition at 69th Street Transfer Bridge by NYC artist Tony Oursler runs through October BY MICHAEL GAROFALO
The actress Pearl White, who starred in early silent ďŹ lms created along the Palisades, is one of many historical references featured in Tony Oursler’s “Tear of the Cloudsâ€? exhibition, on view this month in Riverside Park. Image: Tony Oursler Studio.
Upper West Siders will have one more reason to look forward to evenings on the Hudson this month. Starting this week, Riverside Park will host a large-scale multimedia installation by the New York City artist Tony Oursler. The project, named “Tear of the Cloud,� after the Adirondack lake that is the Hudson River’s highest source, utilizes the 69th Street Transfer Bridge as a canvas onto which ethereal images alluding to the river’s past will be digitally projected.
Videos cast onto the former rail transfer bridge, itself a reminder of the river’s industrial legacy, draw on the length and breadth of the Hudson Valley and its history, from the painters of the Hudson River School to the birth of hip-hop culture in the Bronx to the technological advances of Samuel Morse and IBM — all with an eye toward tomorrow. “The Headless Horseman and his horse are important references in Tear of the Cloud, as they gallop towards artificial intelligence, the chess-playing computer Deep Blue’s famous knight sacriďŹ ce, facial recognition technologies, and bots which have provoked signiďŹ cant questions about our future,â€? Oursler said in a statement. The exhibition, commissioned by the Public Art Fund, will be accompanied
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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 19th precinct for the week ending Sep 30 Week to Date
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MUGGER THWARTED A young woman fended off a wouldbe mugger on Third Avenue between East 63rd and 64th Streets in the early hours of Thursday, Sept. 27. The 21-year-old told police she was walking on the east side of Third about 12:20 a.m. when a man about 20 confronted her and demanded her wallet. She tried to escape him but he grabbed her around the neck and held her. She then started to scream and kick the man, who let her go and then fled north on Third, according to what she told police.
MOTORCYCLIST VS. PEDESTRIAN A pedestrian had an unfortunate close encounter with a motorcycle. At 9 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 30, a 32-year-old man was waiting to cross the street in the crosswalk at the southeast corner of Second Avenue and East 65th Street when a passing motorcyclist struck him on the side of his head with his elbow. The pedestrian fell to the pavement and suffered a cut to his right ear. The motorcyclist did not stop and continued south on Second Avenue, he told police.
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An Apple Store employee was arrested on suspicion of theft after store representatives realized five boxes of new and refurbished iPhones from the Apple Store at 940 Madison Ave. were missing. The employee, Javier Matos, was arrested Friday, September 28, and charged with grand larceny, police said. Police said that between Sept. 4 and Sept. 10 Mattos, 23, is suspected of having working with others to take the boxes, which contained phones valued at $80,000.
At 2 p.m. on Thursday, September 27, a 50-year-old man stepped away from his black 2017 BMW parked in front of 815 Madison Ave. for 30 minutes. When he came back he saw that the briefcase he had left on the passenger seat was missing. He told to police that he had left the car unlocked. In addition to the briefcase, an Apple MacBook, $200 and some personal items, including ATM and credit cards, were also missing.
Between 3:00 and 3:15 a.m. on Friday, September 28, a 55-year-old woman had her expensive bag and its contents taken from inside the Bar and Books cigar bar at 1020 Lexington Ave. In addition to the bag, a Chanel valued at $10,000, the woman was missing an iPhone and other items.
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The New York City Police Department’s neighborhood policing model is coming to the Upper East Side’s 19th Precinct. Precinct officials will introduce the neighborhood coordination officer program to residents at a public meeting on Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. at M.S. 167 Robert F. Wagner Middle School, located at 220 East 76th St. Deputy Inspector Kathleen Walsh, the 19th Precinct’s com-
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This month marks the launch of the NYPD’s neighborhood coordination officer program in the Upper East Side’s 19th Precinct. Photo: NYPD 19th Precinct, via Facebook
POLICING CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 manding officer, explained that the program aims to reinforce public trust in the NYPD and foster communication and collaboration between local police officers and the communities they serve. To that end, the program assigns two neighborhood coordination officers, or NCOs, to each of the 19th Precinct’s four sectors to serve as community liaisons, attend regular meetings and work closely with their sector’s patrol officers. “You will see the same cops
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Blasio and NYPD officials have credited the model with contributing to declining crime rates, skeptics have claimed the program lacks transparent accountability mechanisms to address police misconduct issues that give root to public mistrust. In the 19th Precinct, year-todate crime statistics are up in several major categories over the previous year’s totals, including robberies and rapes. The 19th Precinct is one of six precincts that will implement the NCO program this month, after which it will be in place in all precincts citywide, according to an NYPD spokesperson.
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REMEMBER HENRY STERN NOW BY BETTE DEWING
Should John Jay Park pool be renamed for former city Parks commissioner Henry Stern while he can still enjoy the honor or be renamed, as is usual, only after the honoree has departed this life? Community Board 8’s Park’s Committee voted a unanimous “yes” to renaming forthwith. But New Yorkers nevertheless need to hear about this longtime parks commissioner and his dedicated and visionary work for parks and the city at large. And, yes, Henry was a bit of an eccentric, which sparked more media coverage of places and concerns too often overlooked. And sometimes caused some misunderstandings. And, remember as well, prior to being parks commissioner, Stern was a City Council member-at-large for Manhattan, and with Council Member Bobbie Wagner Jr. tried
in vain to have subway station rails installed, Stern was a man for safe travel, in general, and his remark about city biking was a truth-in-anutshell, a Sternism. He said: “A bicycle can be more scary than a car, because it’s small, swift and silent and can come at you from any direction.” But among the few city officials who agreed was Police Commissioner Ben Ward who warned: “Scofflaw biking is scaring the public to death.” Stern did post “No bicycling” signs on pedestrian park paths, and pushed for greater park patrol enforcement but there’s still a long way to go. Stern is being honored, of course, for his enormous contribution to parks citywide, including, the extraordinarily loving care he gave to park trees – city trees in general. And, he closely monitored the many recreational places, especially the safety of playgrounds, not to men-
tion public swimming pools. But also endearing were the more personal things Stern initiated like giving park names to park-goers, his staff and others. Stern, though, was a central figure in lawsuits alleging discrimination at Parks during his tenure, which the city eventually settled for tens of millions of dollars. But, of course, there also was Stern’s strong commitment to public swimming pools, exemplified by his involvement with John Jay Park pool. The city’s public pools were lifesavers, he reportedly said, for those unable to travel to beaches. Yes, even in this affluent Upper East Side location there are such people, and they especially want the pool to bear Henry Stern’s name while he still can appreciate the honor. Stern is reportedly in ill-health, due to Parkinson’s disease. And don’t we need to hear about that in
Henry Stern. Photo: swedennewyork, via flickr a time when so many afflicted elders especially drop out of sight,of public view, even those who once so magnificently served the public like Henry Stern? Surely now it’s their care that needs close monitoring – their diseases and disorders which need more research to find better treatments and also cures - even if the population were not aging.
So these conditions must be seen, not hidden, for this to occur especially in a society which so inordinately values the young and fast movers and talkers. Again, we need to hear more about Henry Stern’s life now, ideally, to see him at those civic meetings he once so faithfully attended. And how we need to hear Stern speak, however, haltingly, about the hard truths about Parkinson‘s and other disabling conditions which keep those afflicted away from these community meetings, at which decisions affecting entire communities are made. Time for a much needed change and with no one more qualified to lead it than an unparalleled public servant like Henry Stern at age 81. It’s not an impossible dream, not if enough of us share it — and with the able-bodied enabling those who are not, to be seen and heard on a public level. And in general — to never let them be out of sight and mind — or forgotten. dewingbetter@aol.com
FOUL VS. FAIR: WHO WILL TURN OUT? BY MEREDITH KURZ
A light rain fell when the #CancelKavanaugh rally started last Thursday near Trump Tower, but it quickly became a downpour as the crowd of protesters swelled. Anti-Trump protesters have always been cordoned off across the street from Trump Tower, with the meager number of pro-Trump supporters slightly south, on the same side of the street of Trump’s building. Taking the NYPD by surprise, it seemed, activists were directly marching on the sidewalk in front of Trump Tower. Officers finally moved the protesters farther south of Trump’s building, but the march was soon over. The rain stopped, people faded away, most leaving soggy signs. There were no arrests. The foul weather voters could determine next month’s midterm outcomes. According to a 2007 study in The Journal of Politics, statistics favor Republicans in inclement elections.
As at this rally, many pro-Trump supporters are quiet about their preference. The trick for pollsters is to uncover his secret voters. There was only one counter-protester willing to show his stripes at the #CancelKavanaugh rally. He held an oversized “Trump 2020” banner, marching along with the protesters, yelling, “Losers!” He said he’s been at every protest since April 2017. He felt Christine Blasey Ford should be heard, but that Kavanaugh should get in. There was a scuffle when he and another man exchanged words. A nearby officer quickly quelled the dispute. A woman in a torn dress and fake blood all over her was handing out red-splotched flyers quoting the Old Testament — “‘They had sex with her and abused her all night long until morning,’ Judges 19:25.” A wide group of organizations sponsored the rally, from the Women’s March which gathered more than three million people nationwide in
2017, to a group called the Socialist Rifle Association, with the National Lawyers Guild, Black Women’s Blueprint and many others. The only escape from the rain was the Trump Tower overhang: reporters and photographers hovered there, with the doormen and the NYPD. One young man there looked like a businessman who just left work; tie and jacket off, but in a white collared shirt and suit pants. He did not want to give his name, but said he was a conservative Republican. He calmly explained why he wasn’t coming forward to express himself as a counter-protester: he’d been aggressively harassed in the past over his atypical Manhattan opinions. “I don’t think Republicans are conservative enough,” he said with a quiet smile. He supported Trump and approved of Kavanaugh, citing his twelve years on the D.C. courts, and the many times the Supreme Court endorsed his opinions. He noted that
four of Ford’s friends denied that the alleged assault happened as Ford explained it, and that he’d never seen a group of people try to ruin someone else’s life. He admitted he’d like to see Trump behave more formally and that the president had a big ego. However, he likes that Trump “sells” America, claiming we have the best products, the best employees. He’s very happy with the new trade agreement with Mexico and Canada. “Trump cares about, and is doing a good job with, our economy,” he said. “He gets work done. The voters knew what they were getting, and they voted him in.” The protesters had many varied opinions, yet all agreed Kavanaugh didn’t belong on the Supreme Court and that Trump should be voted out. Most felt the president should not be impeached because it would continue this ongoing political feud. As a generalization, the women
An open Trump supporter at the protest. Photo: Meredith Kurz protesters seemed focused on the disparity between being their being in the majority numerically while being grossly underrepresented politically. The men on both political sides seemed more focused of the power struggle between the two political parties. One woman I spoke to said Kavanaugh had “expressed a disdain for a political slant of some Americans.” This Saturday there is a rally in Washington, DC sponsored by the Women’s March. There is no estimate on the size of the rally. Weather forecast? Fair.
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FURY IS ALL THE RAGE BOOKS Journalist Rebecca Traister’s “Good and Mad� analyzes the power of women’s anger, and why it is essential to cultural transformation BY ALIZAH SALARIO
Rebecca Traister is furious, and she feels “fucking great� about it. Traister, award-winning author, journalist and New York magazine writer at large, and Aminatou Sow, co-host of the “Call Your Girlfriend� podcast, spoke to a packed house at the New York Public Library’s main branch on Oct. 2 to mark the launch of Traister’s new book, “Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Woman’s Anger.� Obviously, cracked Sow, Traister engineered the book’s release with the current news cycle. Yes, the joke landed. But looking around — at an audience ranging from young professionals to older activists on the feminist scale, at the middleaged woman Instagramming her “suff RAGEtte� shirt, at the teetering stacks of books that would sell out by the end of the evening, at the audience giving a standing ovation before the talk even began — it was clear that women’s anger isn’t just a blip in the news cycle or a trend
piece. Female rage is both a catalyst for and consequence of American history. If the room stuffed to the gills was any indication, there are still pages and pages yet to be written. It was with this in mind that Sow and Traister launched into a passionate conversation about just how women’s anger functions as a political propellent, particularly at a moment when almost daily, a new incident fans the ames. (It’s worth noting that at approximately the same time as the book talk, President Trump was imitating Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee at a campaign rally in Mississippi.) Traister did not pull any punches. Yes, she said, it’s risky to show anger. Angry women are often characterized as “hysterical, performative, unhinged.â€? These shrill harpies and furious freaks are the very opposite of the cool girl trope, noted Traister, the pop culture ideal rewarded by the patriarchy for keeping her cool. For women of color, the stakes of showing anger are even higher. Anger can get you ďŹ red. Anger can get you killed. Which, of course, is why women’s anger is sanitized and tamped down. Perhaps it’s also why neither Traister nor others thought of women’s anger as a worthy lens to view politics until the 2016 election. Traister called her book idea a
moment of clarity, and a narrative through-line became immediately obvious. Women’s anger is “consequential ... only women never had their fury hailed as fundamentally transformative and patriotic,� she said. The audience nodded in recognition. Traister envisioned working on a book about female anger over a period of years. But that was before the Women’s March, before young women were some of the most vocal activists on gun control, before #MeToo, before the Kavanaugh hearings. The fast and furious pace of political upheaval and outrage turned a marathon into a four-month sprint. Yes, “Good and Mad� comes at a time when women’s anger has reached a boiling point. But Traister is quick to point out that as a country, we’ve been here before, many times. It was women who led labor and civil rights efforts that transformed our nation. For instance, Clara Lemlich called for a general strike that became the shirtwaist workers uprising, resulting in new labor agreements with all but a few factories — one of which was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. For the record, Rosa Parks wasn’t just tired. She was intentional in the act of refusing to stand. And yes, she was angry. Traister certainly isn’t the
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Wed 17 BOOK TALK: TOM SLEIGH AND CHARLES BARDES Shakespeare and Co. 939 Lexington Ave. 6:30 p.m. Free Join Hunter College professor, poet and essayist Tom Sleigh (“House of Fact,” “House of Ruin” and “The Land Between Two Rivers”) and physician and poet Charles Bardes (“Diary of Our Fatal Illness”) for a fascinating conversation on their work. Q&A and book signing to follow. 212-772-3400 shakeandco.com
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GRANDEUR CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The discussions follow the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s approval in June of The Frick’s latest renovation plan — a major milestone for the museum in its long-sought effort to expand. In 2015, public outcry — mostly regarding the proposed elimination of The Frick’s beloved Russell Page Garden — led The Frick’s board of directors to withdraw and ultimately revise the initial renovation plan. The recently approved plan — designed by architect Annabelle Selldorf in collaboration with architecture firm Beyer Blinder Belle — features the garden as the centerpiece of the renovation. The plan also includes an expansion of the museum shop as well as a new second floor above the reception hall, a café and an education center. The Frick must still secure approval from the Board of Standards and Appeals before work can begin. “We anticipate submitting our application in October. We cannot make any assumptions about the duration or outcome of this process, which often involves many visits over a period of months.” said Heidi Rosenau, a spokesperson for The Frick.
From Beaux-Arts to Brutalist While it may be located only five blocks away, the Brutalist-style Breuer building is a far cry from the Beaux-Arts sensibilities of The Frick. What might it look like when Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s “The Progress of Love” from 1772 leaves the gold-trimmed walls of the airy Fragonard Room for the Breuer’s harsh lines and concrete? “This is a very exciting opportunity to see our works in a different space and perhaps install them in ways we don’t here (i.e. chronologically or by school) but no determinations have been made yet as to what we will do,” Wardropper said in his statement. “We look forward to fleshing out those conversations once our discussions with The Met have concluded.” During The Frick’s provisional stay, The Met would remain official stewards of the property, which in turn is still owned by the Whitney Museum of American Art. It’s not yet known what the Whitney intends for the Breuer when The Met’s lease expires in 2023. After the Whitney relocated to Chelsea in 2015, the Breuer’s flexible lighting and minimalist, moveable panels provided at fitting space for The Met’s experimental exhibitions of 20th and 21st century art. The Frick Collection, on the other hand, resides in the former residence of its founder, the Gilded Age industrialist Henry Clay Frick. Designed in 1913 by architect Thomas Hastings in ornate Beaux-Arts style — from which modernists like Marcel Breuer intentionally departed — the Indiana limestone mansion features unwavering symmetry, arched windows, whimsical molding and a bounty of neoclassical nods in its numerous, varied rooms. Complete with oak paneling, Oriental rugs and abundant gold detail, The Frick envelopes its collection of Old Masters, 19th-century paintings, sculptures and decorative art in a unique, intimate distillation of Gilded Age life. In contrast to the flexibility of the Breuer’s galleries, the Frick mansion was designed from the start with the intention of displaying Henry Clay Frick’s art and eventually becoming a public museum. Several of the collection’s paintings and furnishings remain configured exactly as they were when Frick and his family still lived in the mansion. With The Frick’s works destined to reside in The Met Breuer for at least two years, one might wonder how the Renoirs, Goyas and Rembrandts will appear in an environment so vastly different from their carefully curated home.
Open Call’s inaugural class. Photo: Scott Rudd
FRESH VOICES RESPOND TO THE SHED’S OPEN CALL ARTISTS The up-and-coming cultural institution aims to present arts and pop culture under one roof for all audiences. Can a generous commission program for emerging artists help? BY ALIZAH SALARIO
To butcher a Virginia Woolf quote, artists must have money and a large cultural institution of their own if they are to create. Now, 52 New York City-based artists and arts collectives have just that, thanks to The Shed’s inaugural Open Call program, announced by CEO and artistic director Alex Poots on Oct. 9. The luxuries of time and space have long eluded even established and mid-career artists, particularly in a city where the rent is too damn high. The Shed, the gargantuan new cultural center located where the High Line meets Hudson Yards, is trying to change that. The institution is already positioning itself as New York City’s next hub of artistic innovation with the inaugural commissions well before it officially opens in spring 2019. “A fundamental part of our mission is to engage our local communities and support New York City’s diversity of talent,” said Tamara McCaw, chief civic program officer at
The Shed, who co-organized Open Call along with Emma Enderby, senior curator. “Open Call provides the resources local artists need to fully explore their ideas, as well as the platform for reaching higher levels of visibility with new audiences.” Developed specifically for New York Citybased artists who have haven’t had the opportunity to create and present work with large cultural institutions, Open Call spotlights artists from across the creative spectrum. Beating out a pool of nearly 1000 applicants, the recipients each receive a stipend of between $7,000 and $15,000, in addition to support and resources to develop their work. Applicants went through a rigorous vetting process, including a committee of curatorial and producing artists that honed in on inventive and risk-taking proposals. Final selections were made by a panel of New York-based movers and shakers, including poet and cofounder of Cave Canem Cornelius Eady, Harlem Stage managing director James King and filmmaker and CEO of the fashion collective Hood By Air Leilah Weinraub. Though the artists selected for Open Call self-identified through the proposal process as either “early-career” or “emerging,” many boast impressive biographies and myriad accomplishments — just not a previous commission with a large or major institution. Recipients include designers, rappers, dancers,
activists and makers, all of whom will have the chance to bring their creative visions to two stages in The Shed’s innovative space: a 500seat black box theater and a 17,000 square-foot open air plaza with The Shed’s movable shell ceiling. Recipients include Prince Harvey, a Dominica-born artist and musician known for recording his first album in an Apple Store and for STAY BOLD: 100 DAYS 100 SONGS, where he released a song a day for 100 days as a protest against President Trump; artist Gabriela María Corretjer Contreras, who utilizes textiles and performance as a way of imagining a future for a society with an “identity crisis;” and vocalist and composer Tariq Al-Sabir, who has premiered roles in the Smithsonian-commissioned operetta “Qadar” and in the social justice opera “Stinney,” in addition to jingle writing, film scoring and music production. The inaugural group of artists will launch the Shed’s 2019 season and continue into 2020. All of the performances will be free. Core to The Shed’s mission is commissioning and presenting leading artists and thinkers from all disciplines under one roof. Just like the structure itself, it’s a lofty goal — but one that now has plenty of creative fuel behind it. For more information, visit theshed.org/commission/ open-call
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Bangkok Cuisine
1586 2nd Ave
Grade Pending (30) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
China Jade
1643 2nd Ave
Grade Pending (22) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
SEP 26 - OCT 2, 2018 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 www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/services/restaurant-inspection.shtml. Hunter Deli
966 Lexington Ave
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1055 Lexington Ave
Grade Pending (24) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.
Pascalou
1308 Madison Avenue Grade Pending (25) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or nonfood areas.
Yeti Spice Grill
1764 1st Ave
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Caffe Dei Fiori Ristorante
973 Lexington Ave
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Thais New York
1750 2nd Ave
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Joe & The Juice
993 Lexington Ave
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Kaia Wine Bar
1614 3 Avenue
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Effy’s Kitchen
1393B 2nd Ave
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Island
1305 Madison Avenue A
Mezzaluna
1295 Third Avenue
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Nick’s Restaurant Pizzeria
1814 2 Avenue
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Session 73
1359 1 Avenue
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Go Cups
1838 2nd Ave
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Jones Wood Foundry
401 East 76 Street
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Chinatown Restaurant
1650 3rd Ave
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Persepolis
1407 2 Avenue
Grade Pending (22) Food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment. Evidence of rats or live rats present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
Mughlai Indian Cuisine
1724 2nd Ave
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Zesty Pizza & Salumeria
1670 3rd Ave
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Effy’s Kitchen
1567 Lexington Ave
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Rao’s Bar & Grill
455 East 114 Street
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The Guthrie Inn
1259 Park Avenue
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Taco Mix
234 E 116th St
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La Amistad Pizzeria & Grill
2067 2nd Ave
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Spice Hut
2036 2nd Ave
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Bardolino Pizza
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Elio’s
1324 2nd Ave
1621 Second Avenue
Grade Pending (27) Food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
Sandro’s
306 East 81 Street
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Nicola’s Restaurant
146 East 84 Street
Grade Pending (21) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
Eli’s Table
1411 3 Avenue
Grade Pending (32) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal product temperature is reduced from 140º F to 70º F or less within 2 hours, and from 70º F to 41º F or less within 4 additional hours. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies or food/ refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/ or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
Toloache
166 East 82 Street
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1254 Lexington Avenue
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FURY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 ďŹ rst to recognize that women’s anger can be a propulsive force. But by looking at “the speciďŹ c nexus of women’s anger and American politics,â€? and how many of the movements for social change and progress are woven within it, Traister presents an illuminating reframing. Women’s anger isn’t threatening because a shrieking banshee may spontaneously combust. It’s threatening because angry women run for office. They expose corruption and wrongdoing. Most recently, the unapologetic rage of Ana Maria Archila and Maria Gallagher, the activists who confronted Senator Jeff Flake in an elevator, used anger as a vehicle for disruption and change. Anger makes it impossible to look away. Women’s anger has proven not only productive, but patriotic, even revolutionary. So why is it that the righteous anger of our forefathers — our “national lullaby,â€? Traister calls it — is the song we have on repeat? This reporter couldn’t help but think about what was
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What comes first — the movie theater or the film? Would you choose a cinema because you like the ambience, the seats or the snacks, without knowing what’s playing? Or do you read a review or talk to a friend before deciding where to go and what to see? Movie-going is changing. Across the country, developers are tempting folks with perks like blankets and pillows in plush seats and food that’s catered, ordered in advance, and eaten in the dark. CMX is the newest entry promising a wow dining-and-watching experience, and hoping its centrally located address, 400 East 62nd St., just off First Avenue, will impress. The Mexico-based cinema chain has resuscitated the long-vacated Clearview Cinemas multiplex, which devolved into a self-storage warehouse. Already many Manhattan theaters offer reserved, reclining seats. iPic Theater on Fulton Street calls itself “America’s premier luxury restaurant-and-theater brand.” Downtown Miami, Florida, saw CMX’s 2017 first U.S. development. Reviews from the Sunshine State mention cutting edge audiovisuals, oversized reclining seats, and in-seat or gourmet concession dining options. There’s wine, and a lounge and bar area, and customers get to pre-purchase tickets and order food in advance. CMX is a subsidiary of Cinemex, which claims it is the world’s sixth-largest cinema chain. Its entry into the United States market was facilitated by the acquisition of Cobb Theatres last year, bringing CMX’s screen count in the U.S. to more than 300, and transforming the company into one of this country’s major exhibition circuits. CMX has a vigorous development plan, including additional Florida sites as well as in New Jersey, Illinois and Minnesota. The company is very hush hush about its new baby, tentatively set to open later this month. If the theater at all echoes reviews of CMX’s Brickell City Centre theater in downtown Miami, there’ll be lounge areas with giant TV screens, great for sports fans. Moviegoers will be able to enjoy games without having to buy a movie ticket. The seats in the main auditorium will be big and comfy, and they’ll recline. Somehow the in-theater service won’t be intrusive, and the food may be of
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the pizza and burger variety, but it will be good. Of course, the cost of the food will be extra, but the price of the movie ticket will include the popcorn. The price of that ticket? CMX counts on folks being willing to fork over a few extra dollars for the advertised luxury experience. Don’t look for much information on their website. CMX asks you to trust you’ll be impressed. Their Twitter feed is a little more generous, with photos of their burgers and shakes section and the Delicatessen Station. The food market, which looks like something you’d find in one of the larger Duane Reade’s, will be open to the public. An employee, who was not authorized to speak for the organization, confided that one of the six screens will be saved for iconic revivals like “The Godfather.” He said CMX had great success with that Miami booking. He said that putting a first foot in New York City means a great deal to CMX. Movie theaters stopped being a default destination years ago. Cinema owners are looking beyond upgraded projectors, sound that extends into the seating itself, and food ordered from comfortable seats. One London theater provides moviegoers with trays of mystery boxes with one-bite treats. CMX Director Luis Castelazo has said that his aim is to give moviegoers an experience they can’t have at home — where they already have large screens and reclining seats. He touted the proprietary CMX App which caters to those who want to order ahead of time or from their seats, without having to wait for a server. And, he said, the CineBistro at some of their locations means patrons can enjoy a full meal and watch a movie at the same time. The neighborhood could certainly use a new six-plex. On the other hand, it comes down to the films, doesn’t it? The public is choosier now, with fewer films moving into the must-see column. But there are still good flicks around. Will folks opt for CMX just because it’s a sleek new venue if it’s not showing what they want to see? And as for choosing the CMX restaurant CineBistro as a stand-alone destination — that depends. After all, Manhattan has countless delicious dining spots. CMX is promising to open soon, pending completion of outstanding city inspections. One employee said they’re targeting October 18. As of this writing, their website encourages advance purchase tickets to “A Star Is Born.” If you click to buy, though, there are no listed showtimes.
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includes the Upper East Side, Sutton Place, Turtle Bay, Kips Bay and Midtown East, including Trump Tower. Of the scores of candidates for elective office who marched, noshed and schmoozed at the Columbus Day Parade on Oct. 8 and the German-American Steuben Parade on Sept. 15, only Ascherman could truly say, “I’m not a professional politician, I’m a practicing physician!” For the past 14 years, he’s served as site chief of the division of plastic surgery at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia, and he holds an endowed chair as the Thomas S. Zimmer Professor of Reconstructive Surgery at Columbia University Medical Center, where he’s been an attending physician since 1995. He’s also published 90-plus scientific articles. The 56-year-old Ascherman is basically a lifer at Columbia. “I’ve been here for 34 years,” he said. “I started medical school in 1984, and outside of a study year in Paris, I never left.” So why is he vying to unseat Assembly Member Dan Quart — a popular Democratic incumbent who was first elected
Dr. Jeffrey A. Ascherman marches in the German-American Steuben Day Parade on Fifth Avenue on Sept. 15. He is campaigning for a state Assembly seat on the Upper East Side and would become the only doctor in the 213-member state Legislature if he upsets the Democratic incumbent. Photo: courtesy of Dr. Ascherman for Assembly Campaign in 2011, thrice cruised to reelection and trounced his last GOP opponent, Rebecca Harary, by a 36,000-to-21,000 vote margin — in the Nov. 6 general election? “I’m not running as a partisan,” he explained. “I’d like to improve the lives of all my patients and all New Yorkers — no matter what party they’re in. “Healthcare and healthcare legislation affects every single one of us,” he added. “That
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Restaurant: Eighteen, 240 East 81st St. “Good kosher food in a comfortable, relaxed ambience where I have celebrated many happy occasions with family and wonderful friends.” Street corner: 85th and Fifth. “Not far from home, and near entrance to our beautiful Central Park where I love to go running.” Shul: Kehilath Jeshurun and Manhattan Sephardic Congregation Best subway stop in the district: 86th and Lex. “Very active and exciting area in my own back yard!” quickly after a mastectomy and breast reconstruction surgery. “I have performed thousands of breast reconstructions over the years,” Ascherman said. “And I can tell you, this is not an outpatient procedure.” Other bills he supports would bar sudden increases in drug prices in the midst of a patient’s cycle of treatment and care, and “minimize preauthorization hassles” with insurance companies before medical tests, needed surgeries and even simple visits to a doctor can proceed. “There are too many times we’ve had to delay surgery for patients with breast cancer because the insurance company hasn’t approved it yet — and the patient is worried that the cancer is going to spread, and I’m worried that the cancer is going to spread,” Ascherman said. The state legislature is a part-
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time job, so if he wins, he won’t have to put down his scalpel. He’d also be able to continue his long practice of providing community service beyond the hospital’s walls, in China for instance. Ascherman has conducted several humanitarian surgical missions in Nanjing and Harbin, performing five surgeries a day over a week in orphanages and hospitals and operating on cleft lips, cleft palates, hand defects and burns to help make scores of Chinese children more adoptable. “These kids were becoming social outcasts, they couldn’t go to school, people were making fun of them, they were never being adopted — and yet, these abnormalities could so easily be corrected,” he said. How will this translate in the political arena? Unclear. But by one key yardstick, the doctor is set to defy conventional wis-
dom: Typically, an underdog — and there are 2.6 registered Democrats to every Republican in the 73rd Assembly District — goes on the attack. Ascherman says he won’t do that. “Political people have advised me to do negative mailings. They say you have to attack your opponent,” he said. “But I’ve instructed my staff not to do so. I haven’t said a single negative thing about him, and I don’t intend to.” In an interview, Quart repaid the favor, saying any disagreements would be policy-based, not personal. “I have tremendous respect for anyone who runs for public office, so I never would and never will attack Mr. Ascherman,” he said. Instead, Quart said, he’s running on a record that includes helping to lock up an extra $1 billion in capital funding to continue building the Second Avenue Subway; securing monies for library construction on the East Side; funding air-quality monitoring and improvements citywide; and battling for comprehensive property tax reform. Meanwhile, in the old Silk Stock District — where Hillary Clinton bested Donald Trump in 2016 by a 47,749-to-10,859 vote margin — the doctor’s patients have informally organized #DemocratsForDr.Ascherman, a group whose support he’ll need if he any chance of beating the odds. “I’m a hard-core Democrat,” said Martha Brumfield, a patient at high risk of breast cancer whom Ascherman treated, along with her two sisters. “I never supported a Republican in my life. But I’m making an exception for my doctor.”
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PESTICIDE APPLICATION RAVAGES GARDEN GREEN SPACES Jenny’s Garden, in West Harlem, loses harvest after Amtrak contractor uses herbicide on right of way BY RICHARD KHAVKINE
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A pesticide application on the Amtrak right of way through West Harlem has ravaged a community garden off 138th Street just as its caretakers were readying a fall harvest destined for an Upper West Side soup kitchen. Roughly half of the plantings at Jenny’s Garden, which abuts the railway at the westernmost end of 138th Street, were killed or severely damaged by the application on Sept. 15. Fig, peach, apple and pear trees were also damaged. Jenny Benitez, who lives on Riverside Drive and started the garden nearly 50 years
ago, was inspecting the coming harvest on Sept. 22 when she noticed that a 15-year-old fig tree’s leaves were browning and looking poor, said her daughter, Victoria Benitez. She then saw that plantings nearest the wire and mesh fence abutting the right of way were also ailing. “It dawned on her that was happening was not natural,” Victoria Benitez said. “She called me in near hysterics because she didn’t know what had happened.” Recalling that a similar but more minor incident happened about 10 years ago, also attributable to a pesticide application, Benitez called Amtrak. A company official initially told Benitez the company had no record of a recent spray. The Amtrak official later called to say that a pesticide application, by a contractor, had in fact taken place on Sept. 15. In a statement, Amtrak said
the company had investigated the incident through a site visit and would continue to assess the damage to the garden and to work toward a resolution. “Amtrak assured Jenny’s Garden and the Parks and Recreation Department that Amtrak will work with its contractor to take care of the garden and leaf damage to some of the plants,” the statement said. The statement said the contractor had provided documents related to the incident to the city Parks Department. Citing the company’s continuing investigation, the spokesman said Amtrak officials would not answer detailed questions about the incident, including about the types of chemicals used, any necessary permits and the extent of the pesticide application. Benitez, though, said she was told that the application was of Bayer Viewpoint Herbicide, a so-called “broad brush” prod-
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Residents raise concerns at announcement BY MICHAEL GAROFALO
Freedom House, an Upper West Side homeless shelter long a source of neighborhood grievances, will soon close and be replaced by a new facility nearby. The city’s Department of Homeless Services plans to close the shelter, at 316 West 95th St., between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive, late this fall. A new 200-resident shelter operated by a different nonprofit provider will open one block south on West 94th Street by December. Since it opened during the Bloomberg administration in 2012 with no advanced public notice under an emergency contract, “Freedom House has never shed the reputation of being a problem site,” said Helen Rosenthal, who represents the neighborhood in the City Council. For years, neighbors have complained of Freedom House residents engaging in aggressive panhandling, drug dealing, harassment and other disorderly activity, prompting calls from Rosenthal and members of the local community for the shelter to be closed or placed under new management. Steven Banks, commissioner
of the New York City Department of Social Services, which oversees the Department of Homeless services, acknowledged that the shelter had fallen short of the agency’s standards. “This particular location has not been an effective facility for serving our clients, and [Rosenthal] has been extremely helpful in pointing out ways in which there have been challenges for both our clients and the community,” he said. The new shelter, also between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive at 306 West 94th St., will be operated by Praxis Housing Initiatives, a Manhattan-based nonprofit. “We have a high-quality provider that wants to provide services on the Upper West Side, they have a track record of providing excellent services, they have a building in which our clients could get better services, and that was really the catalyst for going in a different direction here,” Banks said. Locals learned of the city’s plans for the site at an Oct. 4 meeting with elected leaders and DHS and Praxis officials at P.S. 75 on West 95th Street. A few dozen neighborhood residents attended the forum, which was billed in flyers as a “community update” on Freedom House. “I think there would have been more people here if they had said in advance what their intentions were,” said Aaron Biller, president of Neighbor-
hood in the 90s, a local block association. The Praxis proposal aims to address key deficiencies that Rosenthal and local groups identified as contributing factors to many of the problems plaguing Freedom House. Freedom House lacks an indoor common space, prompting residents to gather on the sidewalk and in Riverside Park. Additionally, Rosenthal said, security at Freedom House is provided by a third-party firm contracted by Aguila, Inc., the nonprofit provider that runs Freedom House, and not wellintegrated into the shelter’s operations. Praxis will hire its own security guards and the new shelter facility will feature indoor common space and a courtyard area for residents. Praxis CEO Svein Jorgensen told residents at the Oct. 4 meeting that he and his colleagues would regularly attend community advisory board meetings, employ staff to patrol the area, engage with neighbors to address concerns and address loitering and public nuisance issues. “We will be part of the community,” Jorgensen said. Rosenthal said she was reassured by her City Council colleague Andy Cohen’s assessment of a Praxis-operated shelter in Cohen’s Bronx district. “Praxis has a good reputation, which never could be said about the [provider at
OCTOBER 11-17,2018 Freedom House],” she said. “If the provider is meeting the needs of the residents, then you don’t see the types of problems that the neighbors have had with Freedom House,” Rosenthal said. DHS intends to terminate its contract with Aguila and close Freedom House in the weeks to come. Including Freedom House, the city has four contracts with Aguila, for which the nonprofit receives $34 million annually in public funds. The nonprofit’s other contracts will remain in effect after Freedom House closes. DHS officials declined to address DHS’s assessment of the quality of services at the other Aguila facilities or whether DHS plans to phase out its contracts with Aguila entirely, as the agency has done with other underperforming providers. “We’re always looking at their portfolio,” Banks said, adding, “we’re raising the bar and so we’re reviewing all of our providers constantly.” Banks said he is hopeful that the Freedom House building will become permanent affordable housing after the shelter closes. DHS officials declined to share details regarding how such a transition might play out. Several residents expressed concern over the site’s future at the Oct. 4 meeting, fearing that Freedom House could eventually be replaced with another shelter or supportive housing. DHS Deputy General Counsel Aaron Goodman said that the agency has no plans or proposals at this time for another shelter at the location. Rosenthal shared some attendees’ skepticism toward
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we can, in any way possible, to answer any and every question that comes our way as the community has concerns,” said Lori Boozer, a special adviser at DSS. “I’m interested in getting in that building and seeing for myself that it’s in good shape,” Rosenthal said, adding, “It’s really important to me that the community hear this and that we hear their concerns. I’m going to continue to hold DHS’s feet to the fire to make sure that what we’re talking about actually plays out.” A public hearing on the proposal is scheduled for Oct. 18. Closing down and replacing problem shelters such as Freedom House is one aspect of the de Blasio administration’s “Turning the Tide on Homelessness” plan to overhaul the city’s approach to homelessness, which DHS officials explain evolved in a haphazard manner over the previous decades to include shelters operated by not-for-profit providers contracted by the city, commercial hotels and so-called “cluster” sites consisting of private apartments largely in the Bronx and Brooklyn. The city is working to end the use of cluster sites and hotels, as well as to reduce the overall footprint of the system while opening 90 new shelters. DHS has ended the practice of opening new shelters without advanced notification and now provides public notice of plans for new facilities at least 30 days in advance. Last year, the shelter system census remained flat roughly from the previous year for the first time in over a decade.
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THE SECRETS OF SECRETIONS Dr. Randi Hutter Epstein discusses her new book about the history of hormones, and why it’s both a story of amazing advancements by brilliant scientists, and crazy claims by hacks and charlatans BY ALIZAH SALARIO
Hormones. Just over a century ago, little was known about these tonguetwisting chemicals. Now oxytocin, estrogen and testosterone roll off the tongue and into daily conversation. Their basic functions — regulating fighting or fleeing, puberty and sex, for instance, are common knowledge, but exactly how hormones work, and the extent of their influence, remains a mystery to many. In “Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything,” author Randi Hutter Epstein shares the human stories behind these fascinating secretions. Epstein, a medical writer, lecturer at Yale University, Writer in Residence at Yale Medical School, and an adjunct at the Columbia School of Journalism, spoke to Straus News about why p y hormones are like our internal Wi-Fi, the women who made remarkable discoveries about these chemical messengers, and why no one goes hungry on the Upper West Side.
How did you become interested in the history of hormones in the first place? My first book was called “Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank.” So while I was doing that book I started looking into hormones because our hormones change, and it takes hormones to make a baby. A s I sta r ted look i n g i nto t h e h i s to r y of hormones, wh ich was tangential to the first book, I rea lized that starting at the turn of the twent ie t h ce ntury, when it
Dr. Randi Hutter Epstein. Photo: Nina Subin
comes to hormones, it’s been over a century of amazing advances but also ridiculous claims. And while those outrageous claims make for funny and wacky stories, it also means what can we learn [from those stories]...I can’t believe we were peddling some of this stuff in the 1920s — some of the charlatans — but as we all know, history repeats itself. So a lot of what I found in the 1920s in terms of cures for libido, and people wanting certainty, and people promoting hormone cures to make you feel balanced, it was very similar, different remedies but very similar ideas, to what’s going on today.
You manage to seamlessly weave the nitty-gritty science in with the personal stories of scientists and subjects. Can you tell us a little about your writing process? I usually write on the top of my blank sheet of paper “topic” like whether I’m going to be talking about, I don’t know, pregnancy or growth hormones — topic, story, or what is the point, so I’m always searching for the story that’s going to tell the science. I think the other thing is I have a really short attention space, p , so I think of that as I’m explaining the science. If I’m starting to go on for a page or two, I’ll figure out oh, maybe we can break this up and go back to some conversation ... I do rewrite a lot, and I delete a lot, too.
A lot of women were trailblazers in the study of hormones, like New Yorker Rosalyn Yalow and Georgeanna Jones. Was that intentionally part of your book? You’re the second person to ask k me that. It wasn’t consciously in-tentional, however when I’m do-ing my research I can’t help but love the stories of these women who should get more attention, but they don’t ... Like when it came to Georgeanna Jones, I remember I was talking to this group of friends who are writers, and you know how things go ... We were sitting around drinking and talking about the writing process, and I started to tell them about Howard and Georgeanna Jones, and while they did create America’s first test-tube baby together, and while she made a landmark finding of the pregnancy hormone while she was a female medical student (and there weren’t many female medical students back then), I also happened to throw out that she and her husband shared one desk their entire careers. I can tell you I’m happily married, my husband and I have known each other since we were 17, but if we shared a partner’s desk we would not make it till lunchtime. And the fact they worked for decades together, they shared one car, they stared at each other, they worked in the same office, they were besottedly in love, I was like, America’s first test-tube baby? Well ell that’s okay. Sharing a desk with your husband and having that spark keep going for decades? That’s astonishing. That’s a miracle. So I was telling this story, and someone in my group said, “That’s how you begin your chapter.”
Today when we talk about hormones people tend to ascribe almost magic powers to them. I’m pregnant at the moment, and that certainly seems to be the case? Oh absolutely. We ascribe so many magic powers to them. I mean, they are, in some ways, I wouldn’t say magical, but hormones are astonishing in the sense that I like to consider them our internal Wi-Fi ... It used to be that we thought every message in the body was transmitted by nerves, it just marched along, or it went through the blood and it just sort of washed up like oxygen ... but a hormone is a chemical that’s secreted from one gland and reaches a faraway target, like email. Like your pituitary [gland] will send out a little chemical of something —
the pituitary is in the brain — and that chemical will know to target specific cells, whether it’s the ovary or the pancreas or the testes or the thyroid, so it’s really amazing that it’s like a bow and arrow. It’s really amazing that it knows where to go, but we tend to think of [hormones] as this nebulous thing. Oh, you’ll be “hormonal.” What does that really mean?
You’re a longtime Upper West Side resident. What do you love about the neighborhood? When my kids were little (now they’re 18-25), I remember they watched the movie “Home Alone” and they thought in case you ever forgot about us — I mean, right, like I’m going on a family vacation and I’ll get halfway around the world and think, damn I forgot the kids — in case that ever happened, they wanted to figure out if they could eat three meals a day. And they did! They could go into Zengoni’s on 83rd and Columbus, they
could go into Broadway Farms, they knew the people at both places ... and they figured out the restaurants ... like T & R Pizza. Yes, it’s back, yay, on 78th! That’s a nice thing for kids to grow up knowing. They felt that they were in a community ... not to mention that I feel this strong sense of community, and we’re in each other’s business all the time, but then I can just walk a few blocks and be in Central Park and feel like I’m in the middle of nowhere, which I love. Interested in having Randi Hutter Epstein speak at your book group? You can contact her via her website: randihutterepstein.com
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