Our Town - November 15, 2018

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THE CASE OF THE VANISHING REPUBLICAN POLITICS It’s RIP for the moderate Manhattan GOP, a streetlevel analysis of last week’s election found. Once the party showcased names like Lindsay, Javits and Rockefeller — now, its candidates get crushed in their own backyards

BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN

U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, who cruised to a landslide reelection last week. Turnout in her Upper East Side Congressional district literally doubled -from 113,501 votes in 2014 to a record 226,373 in 2018. Photo via Maloney’s flickr page

STAYING HOME WAS NOT AN OPTION VOTERS The electorate swarmed the polling places, shattered the midterm records and came out in droves because of a New Yorker many despise — Donald J. Trump

BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN

The turnout was stupendous. Never before had a midterm election in the city drawn so many voters. And the numbers speak for themselves: Four years ago, when U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney stood for reelection, a mere 113,501 voters showed up at the polls.

In last week’s election for the 12th Congressional District on the Upper East Side and Midtown, including Trump Tower, the tally was 226,373.

Yes, Maloney easily dispatched an untested Republican challenger. But the larger story was the doubling of the size of the ballot — an increase,

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In the typical political shellacking, the losing candidate usually ekes out a tiny symbolic victory by winning the block on which he or she lives.

Not this year: At least four Republican pols were thrashed on Election Day by margins so lopsided they didn’t even carry their own streets.

Literally. They were routed by landslides in areas that include their own apartment buildings and fall within one to three square blocks of their homes, a Straus News street-level analysis of the Nov. 6 balloting found.

In micro-neighborhoods on the Upper East Side, Upper West Side and Murray Hill, GOP aspirants for two Congressional seats and a state Senate and state Assembly seat garnered on average one vote for every 5.25 votes piled up by Democratic incumbents, according to a review of online New York City Board of Elections records.

What happened? President Donald Trump. Sparking a great backlash in his home borough, he energized, even inflamed, Democrats seeking to repudiate his policies and personality, shattering turnout records for a midterm election and punishing those who share his party affiliation.

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Dr. Jeffrey A. Ascherman campaigning on Lexington Avenue and 83rd Street for a state Assembly seat on the Upper East Side. The Republican won just 24 percent of the ballot, but his tally appears to have bested that of all 17 other GOP candidates in Manhattan. Photo courtesy of Dr. Ascherman for Assembly Campaign The scale of the sweep may push the once-proud moderate wing of the Manhattan Republican Party — historically, an incubator of presidential hopefuls, but a vanishing breed for decades — ever closer to extinction.

To gauge the fate of its standard-bearers, Our Town and The West Side Spirit examined the results in the borough’s 12 state Assembly Districts, or ADs. The papers then drilled down into individual Election Districts, or EDs, the state’s smallest political jurisdictions, which encompass an area as little as one city block

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or as large as two to three square blocks.

There are thousands of EDs in Manhattan alone, mini-districts that in a high-turnout general

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WHAT IT MEANS TO DRINK IN MODERATION HEALTH

If you’re counting your drinks throughout the week: • No more than 14 drinks for men • No more than 7 drinks for women

After a recent study reported that alcohol doesn’t confer any health benefits, two national institutes offer some new guidelines

The amount is lower for women as they have less volume for the alcohol to be distributed because they tend to weigh less than men and have less body water per pound compared to men. Women are also at a greater risk of liver damage from drinking alcohol than men. Furthermore, it is still unclear if there is any safe amount of alcohol to drink if you already have an underlying liver disease, so you may be especially at risk of alcoholic liver injury if:

BY AMON ASGHARPOUR, MD

A few months ago, a new study was released in the British medical journal The Lancet that reported that when it comes to alcohol, no amount of drinking can improve our health. Previously the thought had been that drinking alcohol, in moderation, of course, resulted in some health beneďŹ ts, especially for heart disease, and reduced the risk of stroke and diabetes. The study suggests that these potential beneďŹ ts are outweighed by an increased risk of cancer and other health relatedharms that alcohol poses to oneself and others.

So, after decades of being told that “moderateâ€? drinking was not just safe for us, but actually “healthy,â€? the ďŹ ndings in this new study bring these notions into question. But there’s no need to throw out those good bottles of wine that you’ve been saving for a special occasion quite yet. However,

Photo: Marco Verch, via ickr with the holidays approaching fast, it is time to redeďŹ ne what drinking in moderation means.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) have created some guidelines to help us by “Rethinking Drinking.â€? It deďŹ nes a standard drink as equaled to 14 grams of ethanol which can be found

in 5 ounces of wine, 12 ounces of beer or 1.5 ounces of 80 proof spirits. So how many drinks can you have?

For people with no known liver problems, this means that on any single day: • No more than 4 drinks for men • No more than 3 drinks for women

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• You have already been diagnosed with a liver disease such as iron overload or hepatitis B or C. • You are obese. • You have genetic factors that could determine the likelihood of liver injury after heavy drinking. • You have a family history of alcoholism.

And because liver disease is often silent, people may not know that they have an underlying liver disease such as Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) even though they may be drinking moderately. With this in mind, there is a New York State law that requires health care providers to offer one-time testing for all those born between 19451965. If one is found to have HCV, there are many well-tolerated, oral, and highly effective one-time treatments that can eliminate the virus and cure the disease.

Alcohol consumption is common in the United Sates with 86% of all people greater than 18 years of age reporting having tried alcohol at some point in their lives. Furthermore, 56 percent of adult Americans say they drank alcohol in the last month, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. This holiday season, the “The Big Apple� may be the city that never sleeps, but let’s also try to make it the city that drinks mindfully.

Dr. Amon Asgharpour is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, The Division of Liver Diseases at Mount Sinai.

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG FEROCIOUS IN THEIR 50S Two valiant store employees sustained injuries while thwarting two shoplifters. At 4:25 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 5, two men entered the Jennifer Tattanelli store at 1082 Madison Ave. One of the men removed a fur coat off a rack and tried to leave without paying.

However, two female employees, 56 and 59 years of age, tried to stop both men by grabbing the first perpetrator’s jacket. The first man then scratched the 56-year-old’s left arm, and the 59-year-old woman’s face got pulled into the door as she held onto the man while he tried to flee. The latter woman was removed to Lenox Hill Hospital, while the former was treated for her injuries on the scene. Police searched the area, but to no avail. The women prevented the thieves from stealing a red-and-black chinchilla fur coat valued at $100,000.

JEWELRY THEFT Someone stole valuables from a senior citizen’s apartment, and it might have been an inside job. At noon on Monday, Oct. 1, a 73-year-old woman living on East 84th Street came back from a walk and noticed pieces of her jewelry were missing. Apparently, there

were no signs of forced entry to the apartment, and only two other people had keys. The victim told police she had failed to close her jewelry safe properly, and it had not been forced open.

The items stolen include a diamond engagement ring valued at $45,000, two diamond tennis bracelets totaling $19,000, two Tiffany ruby diamond rings amounting to $11,500, a pair of Bulgari 24-karat earrings valued at $4,500 and more. The total amount of jewelry stolen is valued at $93,300.

IPHONE SCAM

STATS FOR THE WEEK

Phone scammers preyed on yet another senior citizen recently. At noon on Tuesday, Oct, 23, a 78-year-old woman living on East 72nd Street received a phone call from scammers who claimed that her iPhone was not working and she needed to purchase Google cards to pay to get it repaired.

In all, she purchased Google cards totaling $7,000 from several different locations.

Reported crimes from the 19th precinct for the week ending Nov 4

MOTORCYCLE HAUL

BALCONY BURGLARY

At 2:35 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 6, a 30-year-old man parked his motorcycle on the south side of East 96th Street.

When he returned at 8:30 the next morning, he found his bike missing and its cover on the ground. A search of the area proved fruitless, and there were no eyewitnesses to the incident.

However, a surveillance camera in a neighboring building captured the image of a U-Haul truck with an unidentified license plate being loaded with the motorcycle. The stolen bike was a gray 2006 Honda CBR 600 with New Jersey plates 3SDB2, valued at $5,000.

Lock that balcony door: A 65-yearold man living on East 84th Street left his apartment at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 5. When he came back at 12:15 a.m., he noticed that his front door was unlocked, and he discovered property missing from inside his apartment. He told police his balcony door does not lock and is easily accessible from the building’s rear fire escape. The stolen items include a gold ring with the letter K valued at $3,000, a MacBook Pro priced at $1,200 and various debit and credit cards. In all, the burglars got away with property valued at $4,200.

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Eliot Rabin at his upscale men’s clothing store on Lexington Avenue and East 72nd Street. A Republican challenger to longtime incumbent U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney on the Upper East Side, he lost his own block with just 18 percent of the vote -- and managed only 12.7 percent of the ballot overall. Photo: Douglas Feiden thinking she had little chance of winning.

It seems hard to believe, but liberal Republicans were once competitive on the Upper West Side: In 1946, a young antiTammany reformer named Jacob Javits was elected to what is now the Nadler seat, serving in the House until 1954 and moving up to become U.S. Senator for a quarter-century.

“Though we may have come up short in this race, we’ve undoubtedly started a movement that has fundamentally changed the debate in my beloved city of New York,” Levin said.

The district includes a swath of Brooklyn, and Levin noted that while she got 19 percent of the overall vote, she mustered 45 percent in more conservative Brooklyn precincts — even though, she added, “Jerry Nadler overspent me 25 times over.”

• Prominent plastic surgeon Dr. Jeffrey A. Ascherman, who sought to topple Democratic state Assembly Member Dan Quart in the old Silk Stocking District to become the first medical doctor in the Legislature, lost his home ED by a 3.1-to-one margin.

He received 115 votes in the three square-block area between 86th and 89th Streets and Third and Lexington Avenues, while Quart chalked up 361.

Still, he appears to have outperformed fellow Republicans both with that losing tally on his home blocks and in the overall results in the 73rd Assembly District, where he won 24 percent of the ballot.

“I was told that of 18 races with Republican candidates in Manhattan, I had the highest percent,” Dr. Ascherman he said. “But it’s still a long way away from winning elective office.”

Citing a polarized electorate nationally and an unhealthy one-party system in the city, he told of a line he’d often heard repeated on the campaign trail: “People would tell me, ‘You’re a good candidate, but we have to vote a straight Democratic ticket so we have to vote against you,’” he said.

• Licensed real estate sales agent Pete Holmberg, who tried to oust the long-serving, liberal-left Democratic state Sen. Liz Krueger in the 28th Senate District on the Upper East Side and Midtown East, lost the ED in his own backyard by a 6.2-to-one margin.

He got just 48 votes in the two square-block area between 32nd and 34th Streets and Third and Lexington Avenues in Murray Hill, while Krueger nabbed 297.

“It was the best experience of my life,” Holmberg said.

The drubbing he took can’t be blamed on voting patterns. “I lost because I failed as a candidate,” he added. “But there’s no embarrassment in losing to Senator Krueger. She’s a very formidable opponent.”

Still, the wholesale rejection of the Republican Party in Manhattan was tough to miss: “A lot of people on the street would just flat out refuse to take my campaign literature,” Holmberg said. invreporter@strausnews.com

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election pinpoint far broader trends. Among the findings of the Straus News analysis of the returns: • Clothier and former U.S. Army Captain Eliot Rabin, who mounted an uphill Republican challenge to unseat longtime Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney in the 12th Congressional District on the Upper East Side, lost the ED in which he lives by a 5.6-to-one margin.

He managed just 91 votes on the single square block bounded by 81st Street on the south, 82nd Street to the north, First Avenue to the west and York Avenue to the east — while Maloney pulled down 510 votes.

Rabin was also trounced in all 103 EDs of the 76th Assembly District, his home base.

It may be scant comfort, but the 18 percent of the ballot he won on his own block exceeded the 12.7 percent he claimed overall in the 12th CD. “The support I received from the Republican Party was negligible,” Rabin said. “But I did much better than expected since no one seemed to think I’d get more than three or four percent.”

Contrast that with an earlier incarnation of the same district that elected its most celebrated Republican to Congress exactly 60 years ago — John V. Lindsay, who served from 1959 to 1965 and became a two-term mayor with Liberal Party support from 1966 to 1973. Along the way, he became a Democrat in 1971, launching an abortive presidential bid in 1972.

• Software engineer and daughter of Soviet-Jewish refugee parents Naomi Levin, who attempted the near-impossible mission of dislodging Democratic fixture U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler in the 10th Congressional District on the Upper West Side, Chelsea and downtown, lost the ED in which she resides by a 6.1-to-one vote margin.

She received just 54 votes in the two square blocks bounded by 84th Street on the south, 85th Street to the north, West End Avenue to the west and Amsterdam Avenue to the east, where Nadler locked up 330 votes. Levin also lost all 114 EDs in the West Side’s 67th Assembly District handily.

By contrast, Nadler scored an 88 percent knockout — 378-to51 votes — in his home ED, located west of West End Avenue between 70th and 71st Streets.

Like Rabin, Levin faulted the GOP establishment for not providing her with support,

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GIVE NEW YORK’S SUBWAYS A BREAK — LITERALLY VIEWPOINT Transit systems in most big cities pause at night for maintenance and cleaning.

A case for cutting back on NYC’s 24/7 service

BY TEDDY SON

A subway system can tell marvels about its city, be it good or bad. In New York’s case, it could not be worse. New Yorkers have long viewed their subway system with pride, comparing it to other less elaborate systems in nearby cities, such as Boston and Washington, DC. Fast forward to today, and the MTA’s pride and joy has lapsed into complete disarray.

On-time rates have reached an all-time low of 65 percent, similar to the 1970s, and nowhere near the MTA’s projected aim of 91.9 percent. Even as the MTA’s so-called “rescue planâ€? (aka Fastrack) is attempting to improve the situation, on-time rates still remain depressingly low. Delays are not the only worries, given the unsanitary conditions of the trains. According to a report by Travelmath, a website that calculates travel statistics, the average handrail of a New York subway train contains two million CFU (colony forming units) of bacteria, more than ďŹ ve thousand

times that of the second dirtiest subway in the country, the Bay Area Rapid Transit of San Francisco.

Problems are evident in the languishing infrastructure as well, with ooding being a major pain for as long as the subway has been running. Most recently, last month’s heavy storms devastated the C and E lines. New York riders took the the time to shoot images of rainwater cascading down the stairs and into the platforms and tracks; some of the video appeared on local newscasts.

Likewise, the New York subway has a list of problems longer than a spoiled child’s Christmas list, and the list keeps growing as these problems remain unresolved. The Fastrack plan claims to be making progress, but apart from partial service stoppage on certain lines — such as the 23rd Street station on the F and M lines, as well as the L line — there’s little to show that change is actually being made.

Yes, on weekends some platforms are completely roped off for maintenance, but at what cost? Is it worth disrupting the journeys of so many people for changes that are so intangible?

Recently, tourists had little choice but to take the C train all the way up to 125th Street and take a downtown train forty blocks back if they wanted to go to the American Museum of

Natural History by subway due to trains skipping certain stations. This is only one example of countless others that involve maintenance at the cost of travelers’ time and effort.

There is a solution that could put the MTA’s rescue plan in full throttle: giving up the system’s trademark 24/7 service.

Few metro systems in the world operate on a 24/7 basis (chart), with New York’s immense ridership proving to be a justifying factor. However, there are other subway systems around the globe that have riderships similar to or larger than New York, such as Seoul and Tokyo, yet choose to maintain a “resting period� during night hours for sanitation work and repairs.

Put simply, maintenance improvements cannot take place when trains are running day and night. Twenty-four hour service puts unnecessary pressure on improvements that are meant to be meticulous. Is it that much of a loss to simply stop the network for a few hours every night, when riderships are at their lowest?

Everyone needs a breather, so why not give the subway one?

Of course, it would be admittedly hard to shut down the 24-hour service on such short notice. The subway has been a crucial part of getting people where they need to go at any hour day or night, and that will

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SUBWAY SCHEDULES RIDERSHIP (YEARLY)

CITY

HOURS OF OPERATION

Tokyo

3,344,000,000 (2013)

Mostly 5 am - 12 am

New York

2,699,536,300 (2017)

24 hours

Seoul

2,628,000,000 (2014)

Mostly 5 am - 12 am

London

1,379,000,000 (2017)

Mostly 5 am - 12 am (24 hour service on some lines)

Washington DC

229,595,700 (2017)

Sun: 8 am - 11 pm Mon-Thu: 5 am - 11:30 pm Fri: 5 am - 1 am Sat: 7 am - 1 am

Boston

167,167,900 (2017)

Mostly 5 am- 1 am Sun: 6 am - 1 am

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Other cities, such as Munich, do not have as long a break in between running hours, but still give their network a muchneeded breather. The result is a system that is reliable, efficient and clean. SacriďŹ ce may be necessary to bring about drastic changes. In order to actually see the MTA go forward

in terms of improvements, installing a night break would be a difficult, yet healthy pill to swallow.

Shutting down the 24-hour service, at least on some lines, is a more tangible idea than one may think. As a part of his “Fast Forward� initiative to make sweeping changes to the city’s transit systems, New York City Transit president Andy Byford has proposed closing subway lines for hours at night while making signal upgrades, though that is a temporary measure.

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BY ARLENE KAYATT

Reading for Dogs 101 — Unless dogs learn to read, there may be some serious consequences. Take Le Pain Quotidien on 77th Street and Second Avenue, where there’s a sign posted on the door announcing a code of conduct for dogs who cross the portal. What happens if a dog breaks the code? And then barks that s/ he did or didn’t do it? Does the dog get detained? Retain a lawyer to argue that the sign’s too high, Fido couldn’t see it? Or that s/he is a companion dog? Maybe a prep school for

dogs should be added to the services offered by dog day care centers and spas. Some discipline may save Fido from a day in a detention center.

Bāng Bar — If you’ve read or heard all about David Chang’s (the man behind the Momofuku empire) new Bāng Bar at Time Warner Center, and are eager to try out their Korean wraps with spit-roasted meats, bring a GPS. The reviews will tell you that it’s on the third floor. Take the escalator. If the GPS doesn’t do malls, then your work is cut out for you. There are no arrows or signage

directing patrons to Bāng Bar. There are wall plaques with the name, but that’s it. No arrow or sign leads you in the direction of the restaurant.

Asking a security guard or an employee of another store on the third floor is futile. When asked, responses ranged from “It’s around the corner,” to “Never heard of it” and “Not in this building.” Finally — perhaps she was a foodie — a staffer in another restaurant told me that it was “behind the sunglasses store.” And so it was — hidden away in the dark reaches of the third floor. When I got to Bāng Bar, all I could see was the glassed-in kitchen, which looks out onto the floor. Never got inside.

Lunch was over. They serve breakfast and lunch; their hours are 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. And it was closed.

Maybe an investment in signs and arrows or a tasting for building personnel will get the public to the place on time. Hype alone won’t do it.

More stories — Add assisted living to the mix of unaffordable housing in Manhattan. At least two ginormous residential buildings are coming to the East Side, one at the southwest corner of Lexington Avenue and 54th East Street, the other on the south side of York Avenue between 85th and 86th Streets. The 54th Street site has been ready for construction for at least two years.

The York Avenue site — all buildings south of Arturo’s pizzeria — will be demolished. In both cases, the structures take up at least half the block.

And more demolition and construc-

tion is coming to the same 86th Street neighborhood, where Gristedes once stood. The construction on that site will extend mid-block on 86th Street to First Avenue and 85th Street. Like it or not, big is in.

What would the Talmud say? — Temple Shaaray Tefila on East 79th Street has a glass frame hung on the side of the temple which displays the names of the rabbi and others associated with the synagogue, along with birth announcements, bar and bat mitzvahs and other religious and related civic activities. It was surprising to also see a quote from Hillary Clinton relating to women and their role in society. Is it impolitic to ask why?

THE NYC HISTORY OF DYLAN’S ‘BLOOD ON THE TRACKS’

BY JON FRIEDMAN

When fans of Bob Dylan — you know, the Nobel Prize winner — think of his relationship to New York City, they remember vividly the game-changing protest songs that he wrote in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s.

But the city also played a key role in the creation of “Blood on the Tracks,” widely regarded as his most personal album and one that ranks high on critics’ “favorite” lists. The album is back in the news these days, marking the release this month of “More Blood, More Tracks,” the 14th offering in Dylan’s generous and revealing “Bootleg” series. This selection highlights the songs that Dylan recorded in 1974 for his landmark album, which came out in January 1975.

Dylan was at one of his periodic crossroads on Sept. 16, 1974 (which happened to be Rosh Hashanah), when he arrived at the A&R Studio at 799 Seventh Avenue to record songs he had written the summer before, on his farm in Minnesota.

Earlier in 1974, he had barnstormed North America with The Band, embarking on his first tour in nearly eight years, an event so momentous that Newsweek put him on the cover. He had just returned to his longtime professional home of New York-based Colum-

Bob Dylan (second from right) and The Band touring in Chicago, 1974. Photo: Jim Summaria, via Wikimedia Commons bia Records, after releasing two albums on Los Angeles-based Geffen Records.

Most noteworthy, he and his wife of nine years, Sara, had separated earlier that year (and would divorce in 1977).

Music critics — mostly short-sighted and stuck in the past — had by then routinely panned Dylan’s records, griping that The Bard no longer wrote and sang with the fire of “Highway 61 Revisited” and “Blonde on Blonde,” his classics from a decade before. Give the man a break!

Clearly, Dylan had a lot on his mind — and on the line — by late 1974. He rose to the occasion and recorded an album’s worth of remarkable new material in four days. The songs of lost love were alternately confessional, angry, defiant, sorrowful and revelatory.

Columbia planned to release “Blood” in December, marking Dylan’s third release of the year, no small feat.

The stark sound of Dylan alone on an acoustic guitar, with a quiet bass and an occasional organ sound, would

have generated splashy headlines, all by itself. Add to it the powerful songs purportedly about his failing marriage and you had the makings of a special album.

Then Dylan got spooked.

Prodded by his younger brother David Zimmerman, a music producer in their home state of Minnesota, Bob rerecorded five songs from the original “Blood” with a rock and roll sound.

Columbia released the album in January 1975, featuring five songs from the

New York sessions and five from Minneapolis. The critics raved.

In retrospect, over the years, lots of Dylan fans were left feeling unsatisfied by the popular “Blood.” Sure, “Idiot Wind,” in particular, had a sprightly, pulsating beat (didn’t that driving organ remind you a bit of “Like a Rolling Stone”?) and the brutally honest lyrics came through, even after he re-recorded some key songs in Minneapolis.

But something valuable was lost in the process. Dylan sacrificed unflinching, raw emotion — as gritty as the place on West 52nd Street where he recorded those songs — in favor of a rocking sound. Did Dylan pull his punches? Did he exchange record sales for authenticity?

For decades, fans have hoped to hear those original recordings. As usual, Dylan’s team has worked hard to produce something unique and worthwhile. Team Dylan puts a lot of work into these “Bootleg” packages. His management believes in putting out a new piece of product every year, a wise strategy to keep relevant a 76-year-old icon who tours all the time but writes precious few new songs.

Now, Dylan lovers can hear the way the songs sounded at their birth in New York.

At last.

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Meet Cyrus Gewecke U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the incoming chair of the House Judiciary Committee, who scored a landslide reelection victory last week. Turnout in his Upper West Side Congressional district skyrocketed 77.6 percent -- from 101,882 votes in 2014 to a record 180,895 in 2018. Photo: Ralph Alswang, via flickr

VOTING TURNOUT CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 to be precise, of 99.44 percent.

To be sure, presidential election races inevitably draw larger turnouts, often doubling, or even trebling, the totals in offyear bouts.

In the 2016 Hillary Clintonversus-Donald Trump matchup, 294,071 voters came out in the 12th CD, which also includes Flatiron, the East Village, Union Square and parts of Chelsea, Brooklyn and Queens.

But the decrease at the polls from 2016 to 2018 — a mere 23 percent — is de minimis compared to historic plunges typically recorded between the presidential and midterm contests.

Fueling the surge in turnout in the Nov. 6 election is the “Trump Bump,” as political cognoscenti have dubbed it: A divisive president so rankles deep-blue Manhattanites that they flock to the polls en masse, driven by a desire to reward his Democratic antagonists — and punish those who share his party affiliation, including far more moderate and main-

stream Republicans.

Consider the energized voters of the 10th Congressional District on the Upper West Side. They reelected U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, who will take the helm of the House Judiciary Committee in January and would play a central role in any impeachment scenario, with 81.2 percent of the vote.

In 2014, when Nadler also breezed to reelection, only 101,882 residents cast their ballots, according to a review of city Board of Elections records.

Last week, the unofficial results say, 180,895 voters turned out in the 10th CD, which also includes Hell’s Kitchen, Chelsea, Soho, Greenwich Village, Tribeca, Wall Street, Battery Park City and parts of Brooklyn.

That’s a boost of 77.6 percent from 2014 to 2018.

Meanwhile, the down-ballot state legislative candidates also benefited from the spillover effect.

“The voters established a vital and strong foundation for the changes needed to both protect and enhance our community,” said Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright, who

represents the Upper East Side and Roosevelt Island and cruised to reelection with 97 percent of the vote.

Four years ago, 23,490 residents voted in her 76th Assembly District, while this year, turnover rocketed up 66.4 percent for a total of 39,084 votes.

Even several losing candidates embraced the rise in voter participation.

“Levels of apathy are down across the board,” said Pete Holmberg, a Murray Hill Republican who managed just 18.3 percent of the vote in his losing bid to replace incumbent Democratic state Sen. Liz Krueger in the 28th Senate District.

“We’ve turned a corner when you see such a huge increase in turnout,” he added. “And everybody is more engaged and energized.”

Krueger’s Upper East Side district, which also includes Midtown East, Flatiron and Union Square, generated only 57,092 votes in 2014. The number last week shot up to 104,287, a sharp increase of 82.7 percent.

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TINTORETTO IN FOCUS The Met Fifth Avenue and The Morgan join commemorations of the Venetian artist’s 500th birthday

BY VAL CASTRONOVO

Jacopo Tintoretto (c. 1518-1594) was the son of a fabric dyer, hence the name (“the little dyer”). He was one of a triumvirate of great 16th century Renaissance painters from Venice, along with Titian and Veronese. This year marks the 500th anniversary of his birth, which is being celebrated with a flurry of exhibits in Venice, New York and, come spring, Washington.

At The Morgan, curators have cast a spotlight on the artist’s drawings and those of his contemporaries and followers, including his talented son, Domenico (1560-1635), who trained in the father’s workshop and became his artistic collaborator and heir. Some 70 works are on view, including a smattering of drawings tantalizingly attributed to a young El Greco when he lived in Italy.

Another unknown sitter. Curator Andrea Bayer theorizes he is a patron of the artist, not the artist himself. Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti), (Italian, Venice 1518/19–1594 Venice), Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?), 1550s, Oil on canvas, Private collection

On a recent Friday morning, we gathered at The Met’s Robert Lehman Wing for a chat about the master, part of the museum’s in-gallery series “Conversations with...” featuring the experts. Curator Andrea Bayer commenced a deep dive into “Tintoretto the portrait painter,” focusing on a small group of head and bust studies culled from the holdings of The Met and other museums and private collectors.

She made a beeline for the exhibit’s centerpiece, two closely related paintings of an unknown sitter — one, “Portrait of a Man,” belonging to The Met; the other, “Head of a Man (Portrait Study),” belonging to the Royal Collection of the Queen of England and kept in Prince Charles’s residence in the Cotswolds when not on loan.

Bayer described standing on a sofa of the heir to the throne and examining the expressive portrait for The Met’s planned homage to Tintoretto.

“He was not there, just the dogs running around,” she said to laughter. Looking at the painting, she knew from the subject’s hair, clean shave and facial scar that the sitter in the picture belonging to the royals matched that of the more formal portrait in The Met’s collection.

“Everyone thinks about Tintoretto as a painter on a monumental scale, with huge narratives with dozens of characters, or of the interesting but routine portraits of the old men who ran Venice. What people do not know is that he was such an incredible observer of individuals and was looking to explore personality in small sketches. I found this group of them and decided to bring them together.”

Both studies were produced in the 1550s and are a departure from the idealized portraits of the period. “In the Renaissance, portraiture is mostly about showing your status, about capturing you at your best moment for posterity...it’s the opposite of warts and all,” she said.

Especially in the Royal Collection sketch, reality trumps perfection and

An expressive portrait from Prince Charles’s home in the Cotswolds, now on loan to The Met. Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) (Italian, Venice 1518/19–1594 Venice) Head of a Man (Portrait Study) Probably 1550s, Oil on canvas laid on panel, Royal Collection/ HM Queen Elizabeth II

IF YOU GO What: “Celebrating Tintoretto: Portrait Paintings & Studio Drawings” Where: The Met Fifth Avenue, 1000 Fifth Ave. When: through Jan. 27 www.metmuseum.org

A more formal, newly restored portrait from the collection of The Met. Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) (Italian, Venice 1518/19–1594 Venice). Portrait of a Man. 1550s. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941 thoughts of legacy: “Tintoretto has turned that [Renaissance idea] on its head. He has given us that man as he saw him, sitting in front of him. Look at the red nose. Look at the wrinkled brow and the quizzical expression.

His eyes are rheumy. He looks like he’s getting over a cold. This is a portrait of that man, at that moment, totally unprettified up.”

Such an intimate portrayal, suggesting a special rapport between painter and sitter, has led scholars like Bayer to conclude that the subject must have belonged to Tintoretto’s social circle.

He was not a doge (a ruler of Venice) or a patrician. He was more likely a patron from the large community of German and Flemish merchants living in Venice at the time, which would account for his odd-man-out look — the bangs, the longish hair, the lack of a beard.

The larger companion piece from The Met’s holdings has undergone a lengthy restoration for the removal of degraded varnish and now sparkles.

Adjacent to the star attractions hangs the solemn “Portrait of a Man (SelfPortrait?)” (1550s). Bayer quickly dismissed the idea that it’s a portrait of the artist, arguing that she compared it to two self-portraits currently on view in Venice: “I took a careful look at the three digitally and am not convinced that we are looking at the same man.”

The eureka moment came when she compared the portrait here to a head in the crowd of a larger painting Tintoretto produced in 1561, “Wedding Feast at Cana.” She held up a reproduction of the biblical scene and points to a figure with “the same aquiline nose, arched brows, same tousled hair, same shape of the beard. It may

What: “Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice” Where: The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Ave. When: through Jan. 6 www.themorgan.org

really, really be the same man.”

Again, we don’t know the individual’s identity, but, given how close Tintoretto must have been to him to create such a penetrating likeness, we can surmise that the two overlapped socially and that the man is “an important patron,” Bayer said, part of the moneyed class that purchased major artworks.

“It’s so unusual and so startlingly modern, that when this painting first emerged from a private collection and was sold into another private collection, the experts looking at it said, ‘Are we looking at Tintoretto? Are we looking at something from the 17th century? Or are we looking at something from the 19th century?’ It has that quality to it that makes it leap out of its time.”

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS OCT 31 - NOV 6, 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.

Grade Pending (9) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

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164 East 87 Street

CLOSED (81) Appropriately scaled metal stem-type thermometer or thermocouple not provided or used to evaluate temperatures of potentially hazardous foods durin cooking, cooling, reheating and holding. Evidence of rats or live rats present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Evidence of mice or live mice 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.

Hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room. Hot and cold running water at adequate pressure to enable cleanliness of employees not provided at facility. Soap and an acceptable hand-drying device not provided. No facilities available to wash, rinse and sanitize utensils and/or equipment.

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1695 2 Avenue

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1680 1st Ave

Not Yet Graded (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.

Pizza City

1760 1st Ave

Not yet Graded (53) Appropriately scaled metal stem-type thermometer or thermocouple not provided or used to evaluate temperatures of potentially hazardous foods during cooking, cooling, reheating and holding. 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 not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Earl’s Beer & Cheese

1259 Park Ave

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159 E 116th St

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Cafe Con Leche

2026 2nd Ave

Grade Pending (21) 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.

Cafecito Del Arte

181 E 108th St

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Mamagyro

165 E 106th St

Grade Pending (7) Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

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The one day Americans take pause and express gratitude for the food on their plates is rapidly approaching. The other 364 days of the year, however, the origins of our abundance and the rituals surrounding that which sustains us are not necessarily top of mind.

Not so for Dr. Pamela Proscia, an adjunct assistant professor at Hunter College/CUNY and the director of the Musical Seeds Project: Intersections of Ecology, Music, and Dance.

Since 2015, Proscia has spearheaded an annual autumn harvest gathering, where participants with origins from across the globe come to celebrate the ethnic and horticultural diversity of our city, and the earth beneath it.

This year’s gathering took place on Nov. 3 at the Corpus Christi School on West 121 Street (the Sakura Park location was rained out) and was, in part, a lesson in the myriad ways people celebrate the sacred acts of planting and harvesting. Though some New Yorkers might think of “horticultural diversity� as the ability to access various vegetarian cuisines all within a few block radius, Proscia’s definition extends further, both in time and space. The Musical Seeds Project was inspired by her dissertation research on the teaching and learning of Mexican folkloric music and dance in pre-conquest Mexico. “I started to look at, and then piece together, that so many cultures at planting time and harvest time have different celebrations [that] brought people together through music and dance,� says Proscia.

Around the same time, a conversation with a friend about concern for the environment got Proscia thinking about the fact that despite the “regreening� of parts of the earth, many people aren’t really in tune with the origins of their

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food, or aware of the ancestral knowledge about planting and harvesting passed down for generations. “Even in the work I’ve done over the years with children, they didn’t know where food came from ... it was just something you went to the store and bought,� says Proscia. “We talked about how we can really bring back [horticultural] diversity in general, and how important it is to care for life on the planet in general. Musical Seeds came out of those concerns.�

The first harvest gathering, held in Battery Park, showcased cross-cultural parallels.

Participants from the Jewish community attended, including an agronomist who planted wheat — one of two grains on the biblical list of the seven species, and a crucial part of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, celebrating the gathering of the harvest. The wheat was then transferred and planted in Battery Park, and accompanied by an Israeli folk dance.

Members of the Ramapough Lenape Nation brought sassafras, participants with Scots Gaelic heritage brought heather plants and members of the Tibetan community contributed sage and mint. From across the globe, plants that were “essential for the lineage and survival� of different peoples were rooted in Manhattan. The 75100 participants, many of them children, danced, played music

and planted with the Statue of Liberty in view. “We’ve worked now with hundreds of children who have been allowed to come into a space where there are diverse people sharing their cultural knowledge of music and dance, sharing the cultural practices of planting and harvesting.

We’re looking to expand our work with schools that would like to integrate some of these themes into their curriculum, especially related to diversity and stainability,� says Proscia.

Festivals have also been held at the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, and at Dyckman Park in Northern Manhattan.

Come next year, Musical Seeds is discussing a collaboration with the Riverside Park Conservancy. They’ve also partnered with Project Drawdown, an approach to reversing global warming that offers solutions to climate change from 195 nations around the globe.

Taking action steps, and not just talking about ecology, is particularly urgent in this day and age.

Says Proscia, “I think it’s exceedingly important to deal with climate reality, no matter what the administration’s position is. At a grassroots level, people have to deal with the fact that there are extremes going on, and there are rising sea levels. These are things we have documented, it’s not stuff that we’ve made up.�

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Andrew Berman, executive minal space would give Google room for upwards of 8,500 new director of the Greenwich employees, according to the Village Society for Historic Preservation, said that the St. Wall Street Journal.

News of Google’s latest ex- John’s Terminal site would be pansion came soon after word a major development and bring leaked that Amazon would change to the neighborhood name Long Island City as one regardless of Google’s involvement. But the of two locapresence of the tions where the massive Interecommerce benet company hemoth plans on the edges to build new [The tech industry’s of Greenwich corporate ofgrowth has] Village could fices. On Oct. s e r ve a s a 1 3, A m a zon introduced a kind magnet for admade its choice of development ditional tech official. pressure those f ir ms w it h Amazon neighborhoods have appetites for could bring as never experienced unique office many as 25,000 before.” space outside new jobs to Andrew Berman, the customary New York City, Greenwich Village Midtown mibut public Society for Historic lieu. respon se to Preservation Facebook the news has a l ready ha s focused in no offices at 770 small part on potential drawbacks to the Broadway, near Astor Place, deal, including the strain it and a planned tech hub on would place on the city’s tran- Union Square could serve to sit system and housing market attract more tech companies and the hundreds of millions of to Greenwich Village and the dollars in tax breaks Amazon East Village — neighborhoods could be poised to reap from without extensive history as corporate hotbeds. “It’s introthe state.

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Last March, after news broke that Google had acquired the Chelsea Market building — a $2.4 billion addition to the tech giant’s massive tract of office space stretching from Eighth Avenue to the Hudson River between 15th and 16th Streets — these pages reported on the “Googlification of Chelsea.”

Now, less than eight months later, it appears that Manhattan’s Googlification won’t be limited to a single neighborhood. According to multiple reports, the company plans to again expand its already sizeable West Side footprint — this time along the Hudson River at Houston Street.

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Google plans to lease or buy 1.3 million square feet of office space in the redeveloped St. John’s Terminal building. The former rail depot, a massive three-story structure stretching several blocks along West Street, is being overhauled and expanded into a 12-story commercial development by Oxford Properties Group.

The jump to St. John’s Terminal would represent a new southward tack for Google, which has become a dominant presence in Chelsea over the last decade.

Since Google began leasing in the former Port Authority building at 111 Eighth Ave. in 2006 (it later purchased the property, one of the buildings in New York City, for roughly $1.8 billion in 2010) the company has steadily expanded westward to the Hudson River, first at the neighboring Chelsea Market building, where it began leasing in 2008, and later at 85 Tenth Avenue. Google will complete its march to the riverfront late next year, when it will begin leasing 320,000 square feet of office space at Pier 57 upon completion of redevelopment work.

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fore,” Berman said.

“I don’t want to pin this on Google specifically, but the fact that we’re seeing tech companies interested in areas that weren’t traditionally office districts has real implications for these residential and mixed-use neighborhoods,” Berman said, noting the potential for the loss of old buildings, out-of-scale development and “changes in the character of the businesses and the people who can afford to live there.”

For Google, new offices at St. John’s Terminal would reflect another case of the company utilizing buildings with history in the West Side’s bygone days as a center for industry and shipping. 111 Eighth Ave., the former Port Authority Commerce Building now owned

by Google, originally served as an inland freight terminal for goods heading to and from the piers and railroads. Oreo cookies were once baked in the Nabisco factory now known as Chelsea Market.

St. John’s Terminal, built for New York Central Railroad in 1934 at a cost of $19 million, was originally the southern terminus of the High Line, 75 years before it became a manicured mecca for camera-toting tourists and lunching workers. The terminal’s remaining railroad tracks will be incorporated into the design of the overhauled building.

A century ago, the West Side’s proximity to New York Harbor and the freight rail network made it desirable real estate for industry; in 2006, the location of 111 Eighth Ave. along a key fiber-optic cable corridor was a selling point for Google.

Kenneth T. Jackson, a history professor at Columbia University and the editor of “The Encyclopedia of New York City,” said that the West Side’s transformation shows the city’s adaptivity in the face of economic change. New York City is already home to more technology workers than anywhere other than Silicon Valley — many of them employed by the start-ups and midsized firms that have been the backbone of the city’s “Silicon Al-

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ley” — a number that is poised to continue growing as bluechip companies expand. “The more high-tech jobs there are in the city, the more employers will be attracted,” he said.

Rapid growth of the likes of Amazon certainly poses challenges for the city, according to Jackson — “You can’t move 25,000 people anywhere and not be disruptive,” he said — but “New York can absorb this better than just about

any place.” Accommodating growth is a relatively good problem for the city to have, in Jackson’s view, and certainly better than the opposite, as when the city was forced to cope in the 1960s with the closure of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which employed 75,000 workers at its peak. “New York City has also experienced the reverse, and the reverse is worse than what we’re going to see,” Jackson said.

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Although he was associated with the downtown art scene, the cultural icon was an Upper East Sider, residing on 89th and Lexington, then at 66th between Madison and Park Avenues. When the Pittsburgh native passed away in 1987 at age 58, he was not just one of my favorite artists, but one of my

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Even though we never actually met, Andy and I once ended up side-by-side on a Park Avenue corner waiting for the light to change. He and I turned simultaneously to size up who we were standing next to. I of course thought, “Oh wow, it’s Andy Warhol.” He, on the other hand, looked almost frightened over making eye contact, and I could tell he was growing anxious at the prospect that I might start speaking to him.

So, I didn’t.

Yes, out of respect for Mr.Everyone-Will-Be-World-Famous-For-15-Minutes, I chose not to share that his was the first real piece of art I ever purchased. Circa 1985, I went to a West Broadway gallery showing Warhol’s work and plunked down a chunk o’ change on a Campbell’s chicken noodle soup lithograph. My thenboyfriend (now husband) Neil began to hyperventilate that I’d spend “all that money on a poster.”

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decades, though, I decided it was time to let someone else appreciate it. A gallery owner friend sold it to a museum for double my initial investment, which I earmarked for my kids’ educations. (Neil finally forgave the monetary indiscretion of my youth.)

The current installation at the Whitney reminded me how much of a smile could be brought to my face by Coca Cola bottles and Brillo boxes, kooky-looking bananas and dollar signs, as well as colorful portraits (the artist’s single largest body of work) of legends such as Liz, Marilyn and Aretha.

It is the largest U.S. expo of Warhol’s work to date, with more than 350 works of art across all media spanning his four-decade career. The Whitney calls it a “landmark retrospective that recasts Warhol, one of America’s best-known and most prolific artists, as a vanguard of the twentieth century and a herald of the twentyfirst.”

The most interesting part of the event, for me, was the thirdfloor gallery presentation of

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Warhol’s experimental material: groundbreaking films, videos and screen printing. My favorite was a documentary of the pop artist seated at a table in front of a white wall eating a burger and unceremoniously dipping his food in Heinz ketchup. It may sound a bit like watching paint dry, but from the crowd around the monitor, it could only be called mesmerizing.

What made the proprietor of The Factory awe-inspiring was his quickness to embrace new advancements in technology and ways of disseminating his art. One can only imagine what this inventive and influential master would have done with YouTube, Twitter, Facebook

and Instagram at his ingenious disposal.

We’ll never know. All we have left is the vast portfolio of the artist, filmmaker, writer, photographer, TV soap opera producer, window designer, commercial illustrator, magazine editor and publisher, collector and archivist, and shaper of his own carefully curated celebrity.

“Andy Warhol — From A to B and Back Again” was well worth the trip to a part of Manhattan that’s nowhere near my life — it’s the least one Upper East Sider could do for another.

Lorraine Duffy Merkl is the author of the novels “Fat Chick” and “Back to Work She Goes.”

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RISING TO THE (TURKEY) CHALLENGE Gregory Silverman, executive director of the West Side Campaign Against Hunger, finds his dream job

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Chef Greg Silverman has taken a long journey to combine his love of working “on the line” in restaurant kitchens with trying to combat hunger. After graduating from the former French Culinary Institute in Manhattan, the search took him from owning restaurants in Ithaca, New York, to the Peace Corps in Mali, to nutrition education and emergency food programs in London and Washington, D.C. In January 2017, he became executive director of the West Side Campaign Against Hunger (WSCAH) at the Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew at West 86th Street near West End Avenue. Founded in 1979, WSCAH is the nation’s oldest supermarket-style food pantry. It also provides a one-stop gateway to social services and trains some clients as chefs.

Silverman lives in Harlem with his wife and baby daughter. He talked to Straus News about WSCAH’s mission, and how the community pitches in to help its neighbors at Thanksgiving.

What is WSCAH doing to help its customers have a traditional Thanksgiving?

Everyone is used to seeing a turkey on the table on Thanksgiving from a very young age, and understanding that some people don’t have that opportunity is a powerful message. Every year we run the “Thousand Turkey Challenge.” We ask people for $18 for a turkey. You can give us a check, you can go online and pay for a turkey, and you can text TURKEY [to 56512] and we will get money for that.

Community members, various folks on the Upper West Side, long-standing religious institutions and schools, reach out to their communities. We’ll probably give out over 1,200 turkeys.

People are getting bread and they’re getting potatoes and sweet potatoes and carrots, and they’re getting greens.

The funding goes to all the food that we give to people during the holiday season. We want you to be able to have joy on that day, and forget about all the troubles that are happening, and enjoy a turkey and just have a great time.

One of your fundraisers showcases some of WSCAH’s future chefs, right?

Our [November 13th] fundraiser is our

WSCAH’s mobile food pantry, which serves neighborhoods in northern Manhattan and the Bronx, brings enough food for 150 clients per trip. Photo: courtesy WSCAH great opportunity to have dinner to again bring the community together.

Over 200 people come to a threecourse, sit-down dinner cooked by our Culinary Pathways Chef Training students. It’s been amazing to watch these students in 12 weeks learn, not just knife skills but, more so, [gain] the confidence to go after a job and get a job, whether it’s in the pastry kitchen or in the service of food or in the prep kitchen. [The program] just gives people opportunity. This year we’ll raise close to $250,000.

Do you see more demand during the holidays?

Across emergency feeding [organizations] in New York City, need spikes in November and December. And partly it’s because people want to do more for their families, but people struggle.

It’s seasonal employment, there’s all these issues that are happening. So we struggle to make sure we have all the food we need on the shelves for all the extra customers.

What other services does WSCAH provide?

Greg Silverman, the West Side Campaign Against Hunger’s executive director.

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We are a free grocery store. So many customers come here because we give better food and we give more food.

[Our] mobile market [truck] came online this past year. We’ve grown our number of people that we see by 25 percent in less than a year, and instead of bringing people to food, we’re bringing food to people.

Like any non-profit, or entity, we have to have the money to do our work.

That goes to make sure that we can keep that truck rolling across the city, that we can have a free chef training program, that we can have six social service staff, in-taking every customer

WANT TO DONATE? Go to www.wscah.org/thousandturkey-challenge for more information. so that when you show up at the WSCAH, you’re not just getting food. Do you need immigration support? Do you need health insurance? [Do you have] housing issues? We want to help lift people out of food insecurity and poverty, and it takes a lot more than just food.

How did you go from being a chef, running restaurants, to running a free food pantry?

I had three restaurants for many years. It wasn’t enough to cook great meals for my customers. I was spending more and more time as a board member of a soup kitchen and running a literacy program in Ithaca because it was more satisfying. I took a break to go into the Peace Corps, but ended up working there in Mali in West Africa, mostly with restaurateurs. Again I was stuck as a chef in a good way, working with local community members who were trained to advance their business interests and also who were trying to do good by their community.

I worked for the City of London on nutrition education programming. I redid school feeding programs in East London. In Washington, D.C., I helped grow a program for a non-profit called Share Our Strength. I led their national nutrition education initiatives and that also allowed me to be our lead on White House engagement. I saw a lot on how to scale programs across the

country, and how to influence policy and how to do advocacy.

What’s so special about the Upper West Side and WSCAH? I’ve worked in national organizations in Washington and London, and what I’ve found is a lack of connection to the work on the ground. At the WSCAH, it’s not about trying to make that connection happen. It just simply is a community — a community of 20,000 food customers, 800 volunteers a year, 3,000 people who donate to us every year, of a myriad number of public and private schools, religious institutions, government officials and businesses all across the Upper West Side, all coming together to feed their community.

Coming to the West Side Campaign Against Hunger gave me the opportunity to pull everything I’ve done into one place. This organization has innovated how to perform emergency feeding in a way no one has, building up a customer-choice model. It advocates at a city, state and federal level, and at the same time, we’re a community and a team who work together every single day. And that sort of ability to be on the ground and also functioning at a high level at the same time allows me to be all that I want to be.

Last question: what’s your favorite vegetable?

Beets. The first thing my daughter ever ate was a beet puree.

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PUBLIC NOTICES SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - COUNTY OF ROCKLAND INDEX # 033789/2015 FILED: 10/18/2018 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Plaintiff designates ROCKLAND County as the place of trial. The Basis of Venue is that the Subject of the Action is situated in ROCKLAND County.

BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC, Plaintiff, against SARA KEATING, ESQ., as Guardian ad Litem for the respective heirsat-law, next-of-kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through Sterle K. Murray A/K/A Sterle Murray, who may be deceased by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in the real property described in the amended complaint herein, STEPHEN F. DEGROAT, AS PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR OF ROCKLAND COUNTY, DORCAS MURRAY, AS HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF STERLE K. MURRAY A/K/A STERLE MURRAY, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION & FINANCE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, Defendants. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS:

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YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Amended Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Amended Complaint is not served with this Supplemental Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff’s Attorneys within 20 days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Supplemental Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); The United States of America may appear or answer within 60 days of service hereof; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Amended Complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT: THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is the foreclosure of a Mortgage, dated April 3, 2008, executed by the defendant, Sterle K. Murray a/k/a Sterle Murray, as Borrower, to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as mortgagee, to secure the sum of $293,000.00, which mortgage was duly recorded in the Rockland County

Clerk’s Office on April 11, 2008 under Instrument No.: 200800017115. Effective December 1, 2008, the Borrower entered into a Loan Modification Agreement whereby the principal balance was adjusted to $303,173.60. The Loan Modification Agreement was recorded on August 7, 2009, under Instrument No: 2009-00027972 in The Rockland County Clerk’s Office. Effective April 1, 2011, the Borrower entered into a Home Affordable Modification Agreement whereby the principal balance was adjusted to $307,271.88. The Home Affordable Modification Agreement was recorded on April 28, 2011, under Instrument No: 201100016299 in The Rockland County Clerk’s Office. Effective November 1, 2013, the Borrower entered into a Loan Modification Agreement whereby the principal balance was adjusted to $330,944.20, with a deferred principal balance of $99,283.26.

The Loan Modification Agreement was recorded on March 25, 2014, under Instrument No: 2014-00008033 in The Rockland County Clerk’s Office. An Assignment of Mortgage was recorded on October 3, 2014, under Instrument No.: 201400026776 in The Rockland County Clerk’s Office, covering premises known as 28 Rela Avenue, Haverstraw, NY 10927 (Section 26.36, Block 1 and Lot 18). The relief sought within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt described above. To the above named Defendants: The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. Sherri L. Eisenpress, A.J.S.C. of the State of New York, filed along with the supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of ROCKLAND on 10/11/2018. This is an action to foreclose on a mortgage.

ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Village of Haverstraw, Town of Haverstraw, County of Rockland and State of New York, Section 26.36,

Block 1 and Lot 18, said premises known as 28 Rela Avenue, Haverstraw, NY 10927. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. There is now due and owing from the Estate of Sterle K. Murray a/k/a Sterle Murray to plaintiff the principal sum of $327,423.85 plus interest and late charges. UNLESS YOU DISPUTE THE VALIDITY OF THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, WITHIN THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER YOUR RECEIPT HEREOF THAT THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, IS DISPUTED, THE DEBTOR JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU AND A COPY OF SUCH VERIFICATION OR JUDGMENT WILL BE MAILED TO YOU BY THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR. IF APPLICABLE, UPON YOUR WRITTEN REQUEST, WITHIN SAID THIRTY (30) DAY PERIOD, THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED A DISCHARGE FROM THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT, YOU ARE NOT PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR THE UNDERLYING INDEBTEDNESS OWED TO PLAINTIFF/ CREDITOR AND THIS NOTICE/ DISCLOSURE IS FOR COMPLIANCE AND INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE New York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the Summons and Complaint in this foreclosure action, you may lose your home. Please read the Summons and Complaint carefully.

You should immediately contact an attorney or your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure.

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seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies, and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by New York State Department of Financial Services’ at 1-800-269-0990 or visit the Department’s website at http://www.dfs.ny.gov FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. Section 1303 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this Summons and Complaint by serving the copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Stiene & Associates, P.C., Attorneys for Plaintiff, 167 Main Street, Northport, NY 11768 File # 201501160

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