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SYNAGOGUES, SECURITY AND SOLIDARITY COMMUNITY After the mass murder of Jews in Pittsburgh, New York’s shuls start thinking about the unthinkable — and they’re confronting horror and hate with soul-searching and hope City Council Member Mark Levine stands at the West 125th Street Pier on the Hudson River. Photo: Office of the Council Member
THE RIVER OF NO RESPECT TRANSPORTATION As city ferryboats ply the East River, the Hudson by comparison is becoming a transit backwater — but a nice berth is available near Columbia’s new uptown campus
They forgot half of Manhattan.” West Side City Council Member Mark Levine
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East Siders have quickly embraced the city’s fast-growing ferry system to speed to jobs in midtown and downtown as waterborne commuters. West Siders have had no such luck. The daily descent into a Dantesque subway system remains their inescapable ticket to jobs and paychecks. It’s a tale of two rivers: The East River boasts six NYC Ferry routes with five stops. The Hudson River hosts zero routes and zero stops. East River landings from 90th Street to Wall Street provide connections to Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx, linking all 21 stops in a
city system that spans 60 nautical miles. None of those stops can be accessed from the Hudson. Now, City Council Member Mark Levine, who represents a swath of the West Side, is urging the city to launch a new ferry route from a landing at the West 125th Street Pier in Harlem. The underutilized berth, which juts into the river opposite the uptown Fairway in the West Harlem Piers Park, could be used to establish both north-south service, linking midtown and downtown, and an
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Moorish and Medieval. Romanesque and Byzantine. Gothic and Deco. Brutalist and Expressionist. Every architectural style under the sun was employed in the golden age of Manhattan synagogue construction. It started after the Civil War and lasted into the 1960s, and hundreds of houses of worship came to life in that century of faith. They had two things in common: In culture, design and physical plant, most were open and inviting and welcoming. And they were never built as fortress redoubts to ward off guntoting domestic terrorists. Now, their potential vulnerability to catastrophic attack is on display — despite years of hardening infrastructure and seeking protection with bollards, stone blocks, squad cars, private security and off-duty cops. The hate-fueled massacre of 11 Jewish worshippers at the Tree of Life Congregation on a Sabbath morning in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27 by an antiSemitic, anti-immigrant killer shouting “All Jews must die” has shaken the faith community to its core. Security protocols are being changed. Extra metal detectors installed. Cameras purchased. Eblast injunctions to carry ID cards dispatched
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Police increased security at Park East Synagogue on East 67th Street following the Oct. 27 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office en masse. But more fundamentally, a communal soul-searching about the rise of a venomous anti-Semitism in America is underway. And even as interfaith prayer vigils are held at Central Synagogue, Sutton Place Synagogue and Congregation Ansche Chesed, and candlelight vigils take place in Union Square, and a more religious vigil was held at Yeshiva University, and Mayor Bill de Blasio and other officials offered consolation at Temple Emanu-El on Fifth Avenue, rabbis and congregants alike were asking the same urgent questions: Can it happen here? Is there a gunman like Robert Bowers, who opened fire during a baby-naming ceremony, felling victims who ranged in age from
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We live the exact values the assailant repudiated. And we have no intention of ever backing down from them.” Rabbi Robert Levine, Congregation Rodeph Sholom
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MAKING SURE EVERY NEW YORKER COUNTS VIEWPOINT The 2020 census will go digital for the first time. What the Manhattan Borough President learned in Providence, RI, site of the Census Bureau’s test run BY GALE A. BREWER
2020 will be a pivotal year in determining federal funding and representation for a decade. And no, I’m not referring to the presidential election (though that’s critical, too) — I’m talking about the 2020 census. Every decade, the U.S. Census Bureau must get a headcount of everyone living in the United States — citizens, legal residents, long-term visitors, and the undocumented. The results affect states’ and cities’ representation in Congress as well as state and local political boundaries — and they also directly affect how much federal funding communities receive for everything from schools to transportation infrastructure. The stakes are high, and there’s more reason than ever to start preparing in advance.
That’s why I led a New York delegation last week to Providence, Rhode Island, where the U.S. Census Bureau conducted its 2018 census test. Joining me were Council Member Carlina Rivera, reps from elected officials and city and state agencies, community boards, unions, nonproďŹ ts, NYCHA tenants and more. Our goal was to hear directly from officials and community groups in Providence, and the Census Bureau itself, about their experiences with the census test. Although we learned a lot, we also realized just how much work we need to do. The census is required by the Constitution itself, so we’ve done it for centuries — but it’s clear that this one will be different. For starters, the Census Bureau is rolling out its ďŹ rst-ever online survey, hoping that going digital can save money and increase efficiency. Concerns have been raised about whether the online survey can be used on a national scale, and also about whether it heightens the risk of hacking, data theft and fraud. The bureau plans to invite 80 percent of households to respond to the census online. In the Providence test run, the total response rate
for both online and offline surveys was 52.3 percent and, of those who responded on their own, about 61 percent did so online, almost double the number who responded by mail. More than 700 census takers visited households that did not respond after initial outreach. The bureau told us the test showed they could automate hiring and training, reduce census takers’ workloads by getting many residents to respond online, optimize assignments and routes, and capture interview data safely and securely. However, the dry run in Providence had a narrow goal: to test processes and systems, not to get a complete count. So the Bureau did not focus much on messaging or community partnerships — and even after our trip, it’s still unclear how households will respond in 2020 and how the new online survey will hold up when it’s used on a nationwide scale. There are also widespread worries about a new “citizenship question� the Trump administration wants to add to the census. Given the White House’s open (and outrageous) attacks on immigrants, there’s good reason to be concerned the addi-
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tion of the question will raise fears that the data could be misused to target non-citizens for deportation or revocation of their immigration status — and that as a result, noncitizens and their families might avoid being counted. The New York Attorney General’s office and others across the country have filed lawsuits seeking to block the question from being added, but the suits are still in court. The citizenship question was not included on the Providence dry run, so we don’t know for sure how much it would affect response rates. What’s more, funding for the 2020 census effort has markedly decreased; Congress has given the Bureau $200 million less through ďŹ scal year 2017. According to news reports, there will also be fewer enumerators knocking on doors to remind people to complete the survey. And despite the fact that the Census Bureau will be making a huge change with the introduction of an online form, they elected to test the system in just one location — Providence — instead of testing in multiple locations, which is what
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Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer (right) with Council Member Carlina Rivera. Photo: Greg Lewis, Manhattan Borough President’s Office
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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG MOTORIST VS. MOTORIST
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Troubled waters flowed under the Queensboro Bridge after a recent traffic accident. At 9:05 p.m. on Wednesday, October 17, a 42-year-old man was driving westbound on the bridge when he got involved in a motor vehicle accident. At the northeast corner of Second Avenue and East 59th Street, the male driver of the other vehicle then got out of his car and struck the 42-year-old on his left cheek with a closed fist, causing pain, according to police. The assailant then fled the scene, while the victim refused medical attention.
Reported crimes from the 19th precinct for the week ending Oct 21 Week to Date
MISSING MOTORCYCLE The weather may be getting colder, but area residents are still driving motorcycles, which are still being stolen. At 10 a.m. on Friday, October 12, a 27-year-old man parked his motorcycle opposite 114 East 85th St. When he returned at 7 p.m. he found his wheels were missing. The stolen bike was a black 2015 Honda CBR600RR with New York plates 42TP20, valued at $9,000.
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At 9 a.m. on Tuesday, October 16, a 71-year-old woman living on Fifth Avenue had some movers in to transport furniture from one apartment to another. At 1 p.m. she discovered that an expensive bracelet was missing. The stolen jewelry was an 18-karat yellow-and-white-gold striped textured bracelet, valued at $4,600.
Police remind the public that when dining out, do not place bags behind chairs. At 9:15 p.m. on Friday, October 19, a 23-year-old woman was eating at the Shake Shack at 154 East 86th St. when an unknown man took her bag from behind her chair and ran away. The items stolen included a black iPhone 8 valued at $800, a black Michael Kors purse priced at $200, a pair of
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Bose headphones selling for $130, a MetroCard worth $121, a set of keys priced at $100, a North Carolina driver’s license valued at $30, a green card case priced at $20 and various credit and debit cards, police said. In all, the suspect got away with belongings worth $1,401.
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be risky. At 9:45 p.m. on Thursday, October 18, a 28-year-old man met with an individual intent on buying his iPhone, while he was parked in his car at the southwest corner of Lexington Avenue and East 60th Street. While the potential buyer was looking at the phone, the seller asked for the iPhone box back and noticed that the headphones were missing. The seller confronted the man, who then fled to the subway with the stolen headphones, valued at $35.
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You won’t see this on the Hudson River. A northbound NYC Ferry boat zips up the East River across from Fulton Street and the South Street Seaport downtown. Photo: NYC Economic Development Corp.
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The Council member, who represents the Upper West Side above 96th Street, Manhattan Valley, Morningside Heights, Hamilton Heights and Washington Heights, advanced his proposal in an Oct. 11 letter to James Patchett, president of the Economic Development Corp., the lead city agency overseeing ferry operations. “As New York City continues to make the dream of a truly citywide ferry network a reality, I strongly urge you not to leave northern Manhattan behind,� he wrote. Levine told Patchett he was excited by the immense potential of the ferry system when it was first proposed in 2015 — then disappointed that a huge chunk of the borough had been left out of the plans. The pier on West 125th Street — where uptown’s fabled eastwest thoroughfare meets the Hudson, and where the infrastructure for a new ferry landing is already in place — makes the site the ideal location for the further expansion of NYC
Ferry operations, he wrote. Besides, Levine added in the interview, providing riverboats so that residents, workers and visitors can zip up and down the Hudson makes good common sense: “They forgot half of Manhattan,� he said.
WHO NEEDS THE SUBWAYS? EDC is currently wrapping up a ferry feasibility study it expects to release by the end of this year or by early 2019. The agency, which administers NYC Ferry, is examining additional possible landings and routes that could complement the existing system, and it plans to consider factors such as water depths, population density, travel time and existing access to mass transit in making the siting decisions. “We appreciate the Council member’s proposal and will take it into account as we ďŹ nalize the feasibility study,â€? said Stephanie BĂĄez, EDC’s senior vice president of public affairs.
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KUMBAYA OR CHAOS? EAST SIDE OBSERVER BY ARLENE KAYATT
Parks, Community Boards, and waterfront parks: a collaboration that’s working - By the time you read this, the New York City Parks Dept. will have met with local residents at the office of Manhattan Community Board 8 to get their input on the design for the reconstruction of 14 Honey Locusts Park, located at East 59th Street between First and Second Avenues. With the community’s input, the Parks Dept. will develop a design to be presented to CB8 for the public to review. The Parks Dept. and CB8’s Parks
Met clubbing - If Andrea Catsima-
Committee - Barry Schneider, cochair, Margaret Price, Barbara Rudder and William Sanchez - have already effectively worked together in their creation of the Andrew H. Green Park at the site of a former heliport by the East River. The first two phases of the park’s construction have been completed, and the next two phases are expected to be fully completed by 2020. A good vision. On Saturday, Nov. 20, at 2:00 p.m., the public is invited for an update on the progress of the park’s design and construction at the as yet unfinished Andrew H. Green Park, and to celebrate the 19th century master planner and preservationist for whom the park is named. Guest speaker Fran Leadon, author of the
tidis, chairwoman of the Manhattan Republican Party, was looking for kumbaya when she co-hosted her dad John Catsimatidis’s AM 570 radio show’s Political Forum, it didn’t happen. The forum, held at the Empire Steakhouse in the East 50s, was worthwhile, and offered a chance to hear from Manhattan Republican candidates running in the midterm elections for local offices. Chele Farley, who is running for U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s seat, was at the forum and interviewed by the chairwoman. With a few exceptions, the candidates were preaching to the choir. The elder Catsimatidis’s vision for the Republican Party was on display as he advocated for eliminating incivility
in political discourse and working across the aisle and within the political parties for peaceful, productive discourse. To show his bona fides, Catsimatidis invited Robert Zimmerman, Democratic National Committeeman from New York, to share his views. But civility and peaceful discourse were not on everyone’s agenda. A day or so after the radio show’s forum, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, on Manhattan Republican Party letterhead, emailed a solicitation for contributions to “Help us fight back right now,” referring to the “leftist violence and aggression [which] cannot go unanswered,” “the unhinged radical Left” and the “complicit liberal media.” As chair of the Manhattan Republican Party, and with her dad at her side, Andrea Catsimatidis may have to choose between her father’s vision for the GOP and that of Giuliani, for
the Manhattan Republican Party. Try kumbaya.
Believe it or not, MTA style - 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, 11 a.m., a weekday morning. Praise for the working timer. Kvetch for the news that the M102 bus would be arriving in 33 - yes 33 - minutes. Sounds like the MTA’s way of telling riders to take a walk. Or an Uber. Or a cab. Or to just get lost. Funny sign - 84th Street and Second Avenue is soon to be home to the Green Kitchen. It’s unknown if it’s the same Green Kitchen diner that’s been on First Avenue and 77th Street forever. Anyway, at the new location, there’s a sign seeking staffers in the window. One of the openings is for a “busser.” Hope that’s a misspelling, not a new employment opportunity. In the #MeToo age, spelling really matters.
WHAT IF UPDIKE’S ‘RABBIT’ HAD LIVED ON THE WEST SIDE? PUBLIC EYE BY JON FRIEDMAN
“What if? What IF? WHAT IF?” the acclaimed New Yorker journalist and author Adam Gopnik mused at one point during his recent talk at 92Y. Gopnik was there to speak about John Updike and, in a lively and sometimes poignant presentation, took a moment to reflect on writers and their work. Gopnik prompted me to consider a “what if” that I wonder about, especially on those occasions when I need to come up with something stimulating because, say, the lights have just gone out on the F train and we’re plunged into darkness: What if Updike’s best known hero — and, arguably, his alter ego — Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom had resided in Manhattan and not in Updike’s native Pennsylvania Dutch country? When I put this to Gopnik after his presentation, he nodded along with my whimsy. He noted that Updike, who lived in New York for six years after graduating from Harvard and start-
ing as a staff writer for The New Yorker, came to prefer the countrified confines of Massachusetts to our fair city. Gopnik suggested that Rabbit in New York City “would have been Updike” in New York City. And taking this college-freshman, literary device of the suspension of disbelief, I say Rabbit would have had to live on the West Side, right? Rabbit tramping around in the Village — and fighting off the poseurs and tourists for a spot on line at Joe’s pizzeria? Unthinkable. The Upper East Side? Give me a break. He’d scoff at all of the urban soccer moms. MAYBE I’ll agree to put Rabbit in lower Manhattan, but only when SoHo and TriBeCa were populated by warehouses, not lofts, dive bars (no longer featuring pool tables in the back) and coffee houses. But I could see Rabbit living relatively happily in Clinton — though you just know that Harry would forever refer to the nabe by its traditional handle of Hell’s Kitchen. You’d never find Harry in Fairway or, for that matter, in a Whole Foods or a Trader’s Joe. He’s strictly a
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D’Agostino’s/Gristedes kind of guy. He’d probably buy his beer and chips at a bodega, too. Note: I came honestly by such obsessive ideas. I inhaled Updike’s remarkable four-novel series, tracing both Harry’s life and that of his beloved United States of America, from 1959 to 1989. Updike produced a new novel every 10 years: “Rabbit Run,” “Rabbit Redux,” “Rabbit Is Rich” and, finally, “Rabbit at Rest.” (For the record, Updike later wrote a novella called “Rabbit Remembered” — and it, too, is terrific.) I read “Rabbit, Run” in the weeks between my college graduation and my arrival date for the summer program at the Medill School of Journalism of Northwestern University. Then the floodgates had opened and I eventually devoured the other books. To this day, I marvel how Updike created an entire world in each of his sensational novels. He made me want to be a novelist (and I am one, too — albeit unpublished, so far). I met Updike. Once. On Oct. 24, 1995. I was working for Bloomberg News. He was in the office to appear on Charlie Rose, to commemo-
rate the publication of all four of the Rabbit books in one volume. He was pleased when I quoted passages back to him from the Rabbit books, stuff he seemed to have forgotten writing — and then appreciated anew with me reciting them. That day, I did something I never do — and righteously chew out my journalism students for doing: ask your interview subject for an autograph. He smiled and wrote: “For Jon, all best to a real Angstromite.” I am not embarrassed to say that his inscription means a lot to me. I even carry it with me in my iPhone. And speaking of the 21st century, what in the world would Harry have thought of smartphones? Nah. He would be a flip-phone man till his dying day. Right? Of course, Rabbit Angstrom’s life could not possibly have been the same here. You know that great scene at the very end of “Rabbit, Run” when Harry, predictably, takes off, to find his version of peace of mind? It just wouldn’t be the same to see the guy charging toward the sanctuary of the entrance of a downtown IRT station along Broadway.
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The St. Jean’s Players 167 East 75 St. 6 p.m. $25 adults/$20 children and seniors One of New York’s longest running not-for-profit theaters is putting on the Tony Awardwinning, madcap, melodic and joyful send-up of teenage crazes and parental dismay, “Bye Bye Birdie.” Don’t miss this timeless musical comedy. Additional performances Nov. 3-4, 9-11 and 16-18. 917-907-3193 stjeansplayers.org
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre Symphony Space 2537 Broadway 7:30 p.m. $29-$49 The Indo-American Arts Council brings three masters of the sarod, one of the most popular stringed instruments in the Indian subcontinent, to the stage: Maestro Amjad Ali Khan with Ayaan Ali Bangash and Amaan Ali Bangash. Two generations of classical Indian musicians will show off their sarod skills. 212-864-5400 symphonyspace.org
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The Guggenheim 1071 Fifth Ave. 7:30 p.m. $45 In honor of Alvin Ailey’s 60th anniversary, artistic director Robert Battle, artistic director emerita Judith Jamison and choreographer Rennie Harris will join in a conversation moderated by author Susan Fales-Hill that spotlights what truly makes the company so special. Alvin Ailey dancers will perform highlights from signature classics and commissioned pieces. 212-758-0024 guggenheim.org
Manhattan JCC 334 Amsterdam Ave. 6:15 p.m. $12 This documentary tells the story of Israel’s “development towns” as never told before. Testimonials and previously sealed transcripts expose harsh methods of law enforcement and the decision makers behind the “population dispersal” policies in the first decades of independence. The Other Israel Film Festival runs Nov. 1-8. 646-505-4444 otherisrael.org
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A MANNERIST MASTER AT THE MORGAN A recent restoration of an outstanding 16th century painting by Jacopo Pontormo created an opportunity to revisit the innovative artist’s oeuvre BY MARY GREGORY
New York is enjoying a rare visit of a “Visitation” by Jacopo Pontormo. The Mannerist masterpiece has been temporarily liberated from its home in Carmignano, near Florence, and stars in a small but unforgettable exhibition, “Pontormo: Miraculous Encounters” at the Morgan Library & Museum through Jan. 6. The show, organized with the Uffizi Gallery and the J. Paul Getty Museum, presents a handful of drawings and two spectacular Pontormo paintings, the “Visitation” and “Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap (Carlo Neroni?)” for the first time in the United States. After their debut in the Uffizi and their visit to New York City, the works will travel to Los Angeles. The occasion of this noteworthy “Visitation” is a restoration. This included the removal of old varnishes and repainting, as well as some 500 years of candle smoke and incense, breath and the effects of cold, hot, dust and weather. Once lifted, they’ve revealed a moving portrayal of a significant moment. It’s the meeting between two cousins, Saints Mary and Elizabeth, in which each shares the news of her pregnancy – Mary with Jesus and Elizabeth with John the Baptist. Under Pontormo’s hand, the subject becomes more than a recounting. It’s resplendent in carnation pink, cornflower blue, apple green and sunflower gold (with a broad swath of tangerine shadow) as bunches and folds of fabric, unconcerned with such trifling realities as the forces of gravity or volume, bunch, float, pool and swirl with energy. After the artists of the Italian Renaissance had solved so many thorny pictorial issues – perspective, naturalism, realism, space, volume and harmony – painters that followed had to come up with something new. Jacopo Pontormo (born Jacopo Carucci in Pontorme, in 1494) was one of the innovative founders of a new style. Replacing the solid, three-dimensional, naturalism perfected by Renaissance artists with elongated, elegant shapes, unnatural, torquing poses, and strangely indefinite backgrounds, Pontormo, after stints with Leonardo da Vinci and Andrea del Sarto,
Portrait of a Man (Carlo Neroni) by Jacopo da Pontormo, 1529 – 1530, Oil on panel, 36 1/4 × 28 3/4 in. Photo: Adel Gorgy
Jacopo da Pontormo, “Visitation,” 1528 – 1529, Oil on panel, 79 1/2 × 61 7/16 in., Carmignano, Pieve di San Michele Arcangelo. At the Morgan Library & Museum through Jan. 6, 2019. Photo: Antonio Quattrone. started painting in a “new manner” which we now call Mannerism. The altered vision is evident in the “Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap.” Elegant, branch-like fingers emerge from billowing sleeves covering what seem like miles of arms. The subject’s right hand, sharply angled away from his wrist, grasps a letter. The method of physically holding a paper that way is unclear, but the balance of that long pale hand against the shiny black and gray outfit is undeniably striking. And that was the point. For his “Visitation,” Pontormo took an even greater stride away from realism, and to stun-
ning effect. The four female figures, Mary, Elizabeth, and two attendants, are life-sized and pushed right to the front of the picture’s space. There’s no foreground; Mary’s robe gets cut off by the frame, she’s so close. Behind the women is a patch of empty blue sky; around them are pavements and snippets of buildings that suggest a city. But the sloping lines of perspective that Renaissance artists had struggled to align in order to create a perfect illusion of receding space are disjointed here and refuse to line up. Pontormo rejects the staid seated pose of the past and puts his vividly hued figures into a compressed, irra-
tional box where they hover on tiny toes, unable to hold up their own weight. It creates a sense of tension – a buzz of energy. And then, into that vigorous swirl, Pontormo threw a curve ball. Traditional altarpieces or devotional images were typically constructed as a scene in three parts. In the center, the main characters were presented – Madonna and Child, the Crucifixion, the Deposition, the Nativity – while flanking them, offstage, are saints and often, at a smaller scale, the patrons who paid for the painting. In Pontormo’s composition, all that is changed. Four women populate the painting. Two thin gold bands create halos over Mary and Elizabeth, otherwise, each woman looks of this earth – no angelic wings, no dazzling crowns. Mary and Elizabeth, one old and one young, face and touch one another. The other two women, also old and young, look directly outwards, at the viewer. It’s a paradigm shift. If there’s a stage left and a stage right, both of which should face the center and be filled with witnesses to a sacred moment, then where’s the other side of the stage and the other group of witnesses? By rotating the space and having the attendant figures make eye contact with the audience, it’s as if Pontormo has invited you, the viewer, into the picture to participate in and witness a holy moment. The entire scene extends into the audience’s space. It’s a pretty radical choice – far more than elongating figures – and presages a challenge to the flatness of pictures that other artists wouldn’t take up for hundreds of years. At the same time, the artist makes a profound statement about the holiness of the faithful in Pieve dei Santi Michele e Francesco, the church built in 1330, for which Pontormo’s “Visitation” was commissioned. See for yourself, during this brief but beautiful visitation.
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they did in previous decades. Meanwhile, the Census Bureau has gone more than a year without an official director. Add all of these challenges together and you come up with the scary potential of undercounts, especially in large cities with diverse populations like ours. While the full results of the Providence census test won’t be released until early next year, there are steps we know
we need to take to get ready for 2020. One thing is clear: we can’t rely entirely on the federal government to do the outreach necessary to maximize census responses. New York City is fortunate to have interested state and local governments, a wealth of active community organizations, philanthropic foundations, cultural institutions, major employers, and more. That gives us an opportunity here in New York City to be a model for municipalities around the country.
What can you do? Join the New York Complete Count Committee, or reach out to your local Community Board. Encourage organizations you’re a part of — from your job to your house of worship or your block association — to start thinking about how they will get involved when 2020 comes along. Contact your state and local officials and encourage them to dedicate funding to census outreach efforts. We have less than two years — let’s make the most of them and make sure every New Yorker counts.
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SENIORS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 terview workshops and receive one-on-one career advising. Carmen Cuyar Alvarez was attending the job fair for the ďŹ rst time. She discovered the program a few months after fleeing her home in San Juan following Hurricane Maria, and is now working part-time in the city’s Grandparent Resource Center while searching for a direct-hire role. After a temp agency at the fair invited her to interview for a secretarial role the next week, she declared, “I am enchanted with this program.â€? Employers also saw value in the event. Across the room, Steve Silverberg was interviewing candidates on behalf of Spanjar Signs, one of eight companies new to the fair. One conversation in particular caught his attention. “I was showing her our logo, and she started telling me about its meaning,â€? he recounted. “I should hire her just because she researched our company!â€? The job of preparing candidates to leave positive impressions belongs to Director Maria Serrano, who has focused on workforce development for more than 40 years. She says creating positive interactions is critical both for current and future program participants. “I tell them, ‘You cannot let us down because we are opening a door. You have to respect that opportunity, because if you don’t it could close a door for the one behind.â€? Even after a participant is placed, case managers follow up with them weekly to ensure they are successful in their new role. Serrano says they look for ways to continue supporting participants: “We ask them, ‘What do you need? Are you having a situation? How can I help?’â€? The agency often helps se-
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A Citibank representative reviews a participant’s resume. The bank has openings for tellers at multiple locations and often promotes from within. Photo: Megan Conn niors address life circumstances that impact their employability. For those with limited language proficiency, the agency runs English classes. It also helps seniors secure stable housing. Sometimes, that means helping a senior move from a homeless shelter to a rented room, or connecting them with ďŹ nancial aid to help round out a month’s rent. “They don’t have resources, they don’t have money,â€? Serrano says of those entering the program. “Often, they are only living off of social security, which is such an insufficient amount in New York City today.â€? Census data shows that the proportion of seniors in the city living below the poverty line — 18.4 percent in 2016 — is already double the national average and rising. Accordingly, retirement is out of reach for many seniors, including Denise Baker, the former senior program operator. At 68, she says “I need to work, for now. I’ll work as long as I can so I can have a bank account again. I’m thankful that I’m a young senior.â€? Baker had to spend most of her retirement savings while out of work after surgery. When she is able to retire, she already knows one thing she’d like to do. “I want
to take at least one cruise,� she says. Meantime, she and all program participants know they will make at least the city minimum wage, which will rise from $13 an hour to $15 next January. Seniors with in-demand skill sets can make even more. Last year, program participants were hired into data entry jobs that pay $20/hour and maintenance positions at Port Authority that pay $26/ hour. While many program participants find financial stability, continued funding for Senior Employment Services is uncertain. The division’s entire $4.5 million dollar budget stems from federal grants administered by the Department of Labor. In his 2018 proposed budget, President Trump proposed eliminating these grants entirely, though Congress ultimately elected to maintain the program. The agency’s funding is set to remain stable for three years, but administrators say they don’t take anything for granted. Serrano says, “We wish we had more funding to serve more, but it’s not so. This is on the chopping block every year. It’s always in the back of our minds — how long do we have?�
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THE SCHWEITZER SOLUTION How an 86-year-old typewriterrepair company in the Flatiron District is attracting a new generation of customers who grew up on computers BY DAN WHATELEY
Paul Schweitzer is not into modern technology. “I actually have no desire, no need for it,” he said. Sitting at his shop desk in between a landline phone and an IBM electric typewriter, Schweitzer says he doesn’t use a smartphone or computer and prefers a fax machine for sending documents. Schweitzer, 79, owns Gramercy Typewriter Co., a shop in the Flatiron District that has been selling and repairing typewriters since 1932. According to Schweitzer, many of their customers in recent years are younger people who grew up with computers. “We sell typewriters every day. And most of these portable manual typewriters and electric typewriters are sold to the younger people,” he said. “And I’m saying younger people from 10 years old and up.” “They’ll consider the color, the style, the weight of a machine, and they’ll try to fit one to their needs,” he said. According to Schweitzer, typewriters that come in a color other than black often draw in shoppers. When entering Gramercy Type-
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writer Co.’s fourth-floor shop, you hear the whirring of an electric analog clock and notice the faint smell of oil that Schweitzer uses to service the machines. Across the room from Schweitzer’s desk is a lineup of vintage typewriters waiting to be serviced or purchased. A light grayishgreen Hermes Ambassador stands out amidst three rows of classic black Royal, Underwood and Remington typewriters. Nina Boutsikaris, 31, visited Gramercy Typewriter Co. on Valentine’s Day this year, receiving a new typewriter as a gift from her boyfriend. She describes her typewriter as “cute and compact,” with a “nice cool tone color scheme” and “an easy light touch to the keys.” Boutsikaris, an essayist and writing professor at Eugene Lang College, says she uses her typewriter as a collaborative daily diary. “It sits on the console by the front door next to a vase of paper. When we pass by it, we type up the date and add some news, personal things,” she said. “It’s become a poem, a time capsule, an art project.” Boutsikaris said her boyfriend first discovered Gramercy Typewriter Co. after learning that Academy Award winner Tom Hanks was a frequent visitor to the shop. “Mr. Hanks is a typewriter collector,” Schweitzer said. “Over the years he had come for repairs of some of his equipment,” he noted. “Whenever he
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Paul Schweitzer at his desk at Gramercy Typewriter Co. Photo: Dan Whateley has time he can stop in and purchase a machine here or there.” Typewriters are one of several vintage items that have seen a resurgence in New York City in recent years. Charles Hutchinson, a record buyer at nearby Academy Records and CDs on 18th Street, says demand for vinyl records among young people has increased since he started working at the shop nine years ago. “There’s a variety of different re-
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cord players that are available now,” Hutchinson told Straus News in a recent phone interview. “There are options for people across the board in terms of price range and quality.” Hutchinson thinks young people are buying typewriters and playing records as an alternative to internet or computer-based entertainment. “Certainly it would seem to be a reaction against, you know, the intangible aspects of the online world,” he said.
“Downloads and streaming are pretty disposable, whereas if you’ve got the original album, you feel like you’re in some sense in touch with the history of it.” The Gramercy Typewriter Co. is itself a part of New York City history. Located on Fifth Avenue in an area of Manhattan once crowded with publishing houses, Paul Schweitzer’s father, Abraham Schweitzer, founded the business in 1932. At various times, Abraham employed between five and seven service workers who would fix typewriters in law offices, book publishers and accounting firms throughout the city. Today, Paul runs the business with his son, Jay Schweitzer, and one additional employee who helps with service work. He still does on-site visits to offices in the city, mostly working on laser printers. “I take my tool bag and every day we go out and I go from office to office repairing and doing the service work on the printers.” When asked about business competitors in Manhattan, Schweitzer says most office equipment dealers that offer typewriter services have shifted to fixing photocopy machines and computers. “As far as the typewriter is concerned, I think we’re just about the last of the ones who want to do this type of work,” he said.
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HEALTHY BRAIN AGING, MEMORY LOSS, AND ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE These “Stars of Hope” adorn a makeshift memorial a block or two from the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh on Tuesday. They were painted by the children and parents of Congregation Rodeph Sholom on the Upper West Side as an offering of love and a display of solidarity with the grieving Jewish community of Squirrel Hill. Photo: Jeff Parness / Stars of HOPE Program
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til 5:30 p.m. on Saturday when a shaken worshipper seeking comfort came in for afternoon prayers and related the news, which he could not know because Orthodox observers eschew access to phones and TV on the Sabbath. “A Jew is a Jew is a Jew — Reform, Orthodox or Conservative — and their only crime, the only reason they were attacked, the only reason for the outburst of a madman, was that they were Jewish,” Rabbi Krasnianski said. “We have to respond to darkness with light,” he added. Chabad on East 77th Street, which is affiliated with the Lubavitch Hasidic movement, uses a global security firm staffed by ex-officers of Shin Bet, the Israeli secret service, and upgrades and enhancements are always a possibility, he said.
FIGHTING THE FORTRESS MENTALITY “But I hope we never reach that point where we go the European-style, where the synagogues are fortresses, or the South American-style, where they don’t let you in if they don’t know you,” Krasnianski added. Many synagogues are now tinkering with their security plans. In a “Dear Congregants” letter for instance, Rabbi Joshua Davidson of Temple Emanu-El wrote that from now on, entry for all members and visitors to services and events
will be moved away from Fifth Avenue and confined to 1 East 65th Street. “Additional security personnel will be deployed,” he wrote. But security is only part of the story. So is abiding faith: “We live the exact values that the assailant repudiated,” said Rabbi Robert Levine of Congregation Rodeph Sholom on the Upper West Side. “And we have no intention of ever backing down from them ... No antiSemite will dictate how we live — never has and never will.” To that end, Jeff Parness, one of his congregants, traveled to Pittsburgh on Tuesday, got to a makeshift memorial within a block or two of the Tree of Life, and in a phone interview at the scene, told of how he had brought with him 45 “Stars of Hope” created on Sunday by the shul’s children and their parents in solidarity with the victims. “When you see art bearing hopeful messages, drawn organically by the hand of a child, you see that we are all God’s children, you see that we are all human, and you know that you are not alone,” Parness said. Then he hung some of the onefoot-high painted stars, crafted on the Upper West Side, at the memorial, attached others to a police barricade and set off to sprinkle the rest all about Squirrel Hill. invreporter@strausnews.com
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Beginning the morning of Oct. 24, when evacuated office workers and residents flooded into the streets around Columbus Circle following the discovery of an explosive device at CNN’s Time Warner Center headquarters, Manhattan was the site of three bomb scares in the course of three days last week. The devices — which FBI Director Christopher Wray described as IEDs, or improvised explosive devices — were among at least 15 found around the country that were mailed to CNN and prominent Democratic political figures frequently criticized by President Donald Trump and conservative media outlets. Federal officials allege the bombs were sent by a Florida man who is a supporter of President Trump. None of the devices detonated and no one was injured.
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Wednesday, Oct. 24 At approximately 10:00 a.m., the Time Warner Center is evacuated after a bomb is found in the mailroom of CNN’s headquarters. Police remove the device to an NYPD bomb range in the Bronx. “This clearly is an act of terror attempting to undermine our free press and leaders of this country through acts of violence,” Mayor Bill de Blasio says. Three additional packages addressed to Democratic political figures are recovered around the country.
Thursday, Oct. 25 At 3:14 a.m., Trump tweets, “Funny how lowly rated CNN, and others, can criticize me at will, even blaming me for the current spate of Bombs and ridiculously comparing this to September 11th and the Oklahoma City bombing, yet when I criticize them they go wild and scream, ‘it’s just not Presidential!’” At approximately 6:30 a.m., police remove an explosive device delivered to the Tribeca restaurant and offices of actor Robert De Niro. Later, law enforcement officials in Delaware announce the discovery of two bombs addressed to former Vice President Joe Biden.
now a contributor at CNN. By the end of the day, law enforcement officials recover three additional devices mailed to Sen. Cory Booker, Sen. Kamala Harris and billionaire progressive activist Tom Steyer. At approximately 11:15 a.m., federal agents arrest Cesar Sayoc, 56, in Plantation, Fla. Sayoc was arrested in the vicinity of his white van, which was plastered with stickers and images, including photos of Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, images of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other Democrats overlaid with crosshairs, and a graphic reading “CNN sucks.” Federal prosecutors charge Sayoc with five crimes in the Southern District of New York, including interstate transportation of an explosive and illegal mailing of explosives. Sayoc faces up to 58 years in prison if convicted. NYPD Commissioner James P. O’Neill praises police, members of the media and the public for their assistance. “New Yorkers don’t back down,” O’Neill said. “They step up every single time. We’ve been through things like this and much worse.”
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Center area and Chinatown, and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer penned a joint letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio on Oct. 26 calling on the mayor to reset the scoping process for the new facility, which Brewer and Chin claim has moved too quickly and failed to adequately engage the public. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While we remain staunch supporters of criminal justice reform, and fully support the closing of Rikers Island, we also believe that the City has fallen short of its obligation to engage the Lower Manhattan community in a transparent and inclusive conversation about the site selection process,â&#x20AC;? Brewer and Chin wrote in the letter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To that end, we are asking for a reset of the scoping process to consider fully all possible sites.â&#x20AC;?
Chinatown residents aired their frustrations with the plan to city officials at a Sept. 12 town hall and a Sept. 27 scoping meeting. Among the common areas of concern were complaints about how the new jail would impact parking and public safety, the fact that the proposal lacked an affordable housing component and the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s general lack of transparency in its analysis of other sites before the 80 Centre Street location was announced in mid-August. The new Manhattan facility is one component of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan to replace the notoriously violent Rikers Island jails with four new borough-based jails within 10 years. The three other new jails would be located in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. The new jail at 80
Centre St. would replace the existing Manhattan Detention Complex at 125 White St., which has approximately 1,000 beds and is commonly known as the Tombs. Both Chin and Brewer support the administrationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts to close Rikers but have objected to the planning process for the new Manhattan facility. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not too much to ask that we restart the process, actually listen to the community, and get the land use part of this right,â&#x20AC;? Brewer said in a statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The mayor must take the time to actually listen to what the neighborhood has to say, minimize the bad, and maximize the good.â&#x20AC;? The mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office did not respond to requests for comment on the letter.
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VEGAN TRUFFLES ARE SERIOUS BUSINESS Andrea Young, founder of Sweet Vegan chocolates, dishes on turning her passion into a second career and the inspiration behind her dairyfree delights BY MARC B. BOUCAI
A Midwestern transplant who began her career as an interior designer, Andrea Young didn’t come to New York City to pursue her passion for cooking. But after enrolling in classes at The Natural Kitchen Cooking School in Princeton, N.J. and becoming a private chef to acclaimed artist Peter Max, Young took the leap and returned to the kitchen, a place where she’d found warmth and joy as a child. Young launched her business, Sweet Vegan, in the area of food creation she enjoys most: chocolate-making. After months of experimentation, Young hit on two styles of truffles to start out with: Dreamy bites, velvety rich ganache, and fruity bites, a combination of chocolate and raw fruit. She received a boon when she was accepted this year into the small business program run by Columbia University and the Harlem SBDC (Small Business Development Center). Young spoke to Straus News about healthy living, making an important product with high-quality ingredients, and why vegan sweets can be dastardly delicious.
Where are you from? I grew up in Indianapolis, Ind. [and]
SEEKING SWEET VEGAN CHOCOLATES? FIND THEM AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: • Food Liberation, 1349 Lexington Ave. • High Vibe, 138 East Third St. • Fulton Stall Market, 91 South St. • Westerly Natural Food Market, 911 Eighth Ave. it was my grandma, Georgia May, who was my inspiration. She taught me to cook with integrity and joy … from cutting up a whole chicken to making egg noodles from scratch. She was all about aesthetics. I came from a single parent family and was the oldest daughter of five children. Financially, we struggled to get food on the table. My grandma was the tour de force of all things beautiful. When I came home from school, I worked with my grandma to get food on the table. [Cooking] is where we really bonded … it wasn’t [just] about getting the food right, but about the warmth, love and connection that only food can bring.
How did you arrive in New York? I always knew I was going to leave Indiana … I started [in New York City] as a nanny. I was living in midtown Manhattan and enrolled and completed my studies in interior architecture at Parsons School of Design.
How did you get into making vegan sweets? When my mom came and made a little visit to New York for a family graduation at Columbia University, she took a fall and fractured her
pelvis. The doctor said she was malnourished, and she came to recuperate at my apartment. I needed to get an assistant to help her, but I wasn’t sure she would know about nutrition. [I brought] in a chef to my home one a day week, [and] the chef and I would cook together, and my mom would be the unofficial taster. This chef [Christine Waltermyer] was vegan, and she introduced us to a vegan lifestyle. She started The Natural Kitchen Cooking School, and I enrolled, never thinking I would ever do it professionally. And [then] the interior design industry was starting to crumble, and I was asked to only work four days a week. I had extra time on my hands, [and began] teaching cooking. Also, I was able to be a private chef to [artist] Peter Max and his wife Mary Max for two days a week for the next four years. And Peter is a chocoholic!
What are challenges and what is exciting about balancing making chocolates with entrepreneurship? In 2016, I started looking into trademarking and forming a LLC. Everywhere I went I shared Sweet Vegan chocolates, and I got people’s opinions and feedback. The important
Andrea Young, Sweet Vegan founder, and her chocolate creations. Photo: Chenli Wi thing is being open to ideas and never being timid. I was accepted into the community-based Hot Bread Kitchen in Harlem, where I call home. Meeting my fellow entrepreneurs and sharing ideas and problems with solutions is critical. Building my brand awareness with social media and getting that “first-taste” is the challenge. One of the exciting things is fulfilling the desires of customers that are lactose, gluten, soy [free] and have nut sensitivities. My joy comes from giving a quality chocolate and getting the ah-ha moment, “Can this really be vegan?”
Tell us more about your business: Where can we get your chocolates? How big has the operation grown?
What are your favorite places on the Upper West Side to find food and local goodies that aligned to your business’ values?
Sweet Vegan embodies the spirit of New York: hard-working, ambitious and high-energy!
One of my all-time favorites is Cafe Candle West on Broadway and 89th Street. They are not only a plantbased restaurant, but the [food] presentation goes back to my heart and creativity. I love to shop at Gary Null’s Uptown Whole Foods on Broadway. It has the integrity and the type of quality I believe in.
We’ll take seconds, please. Sweet Vegan’s Dreamy Bites: luscious lemon creamy ganache. Photo: Chenli Wi
Right now I am in five different stores [including] Food Liberation and High Vibes on the Lower East Side. I was just accepted into Westerly Natural Market on the West Side and Foodcellar Market in Queens. All the chocolates are handmade with carefully sourced ingredients. Soy, nut, and gluten-free! I keep my product as clean and rich and flavorful as possible. Not all chocolates are created equal.
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