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The local paper for the Upper East Side ETERNAL BEAUTY FROM AN ENDURING EN NDURING CULTURE ◄ P.12

The breweries and elevated trains are gone. The churches, social halls and French Flats remain. But for how long? A new book chronicles the neighborhood’s history — and ponders its future amid a megabuilding boom BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN

As a burst of oversized and out-ofscale development projects radiate from the path of the Second Avenue Subway, a preservation group is ﬁghting back — by publishing a book to document the area’s glorious past. The Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts is delving into the boundless historical, cultural, architectural, mercantile and ecclesiastical treasures of Yorkville — at a time that heritage seems most in jeopardy. “Shaped by Immigrants: A History of Yorkville” plumbs the Old World roots of a neighborhood where Czechs, Slovaks, Germans, Hungarians and Irish lived and worked, dined and courted, shopped and prayed. It salutes the immigrant ethos that made the community great and

BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

We’re not going to stop development. But I certainly hope we can preserve the flavoring and seasoning of the neighborhood, a great deal of which has already been lost.” Franny Eberhart, president of Friends of the Upper East Side

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defines its character to this day — even though no one calls 79th Street “Goulash Avenue” anymore, or 86th Street the “German Broadway.” Against the backdrop of a built environment that has largely endured for 150-plus years, the book raises several existential questions: What hath the Q train wrought? And how can Yorkville’s immigrant past — which lives on in its low-rise, small-scale buildings, serving residential, religious, commercial, social and recreational needs — be safeguarded amid a building boom? In the foreword, Franny Eberhart, president of Friends of the UES, says

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now that the subway is here, and travel to and from Yorkville is faster than ever, the word most commonly used to describe the Q is “transformative.” “But what other sorts of transformation will occur?” she asks. “And what might Yorkville lose in the process? What needs to be protected, preserved and celebrated?” The book, and a 15-minute, minidocumentary ﬁlm accompanying it, is an attempt to answer those questions by detailing a neighborhood’s brick and mortar, character and charm. Drawing on over a decade of research, the advocacy group authored what it bills as the ﬁrst-ever comprehensive history of Yorkville, an illustrated account replete with archival images and contemporary photos commissioned for the project. “Numerous out-of-scale developments, many that subvert long-established zoning rules meant to encourage predictable development, are changing the face of Yorkville,” said Rachel Levy, executive director of the Friends group. With its vitality and uniqueness threatened, “Shaped by Immigrants” celebrates the rich legacy of

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The landmark Cherokee Apartments, at East 78th Street and Cherokee Place, was built between 1909 and 1911 as the Shively Sanitary Tenements. They were originally designed as airy, healthy model apartments to combat tuberculosis among the poor. Photos: Trix Rosen Photographer Ltd / Friends of the UES Historic Districts

Crosstown bus service on the 79th Street corridor has seen increases in speed and ridership since the introduction of select bus service last year, according to Metropolitan Transportation Authority data. The M79 bus is eight percent faster on average since the M79 SBS route launched in May 2017. M79 SBS buses spend 21 percent less time paused at bus stops and five percent less time stuck in traffic that they did in the route’s previous iteration, according to transit data presented to Manhattan community boards this month. Riders traveling west during the evening rush hour experienced the greatest time savings, with buses completing their runs nearly three minutes faster on average, a 12 percent speed increase. Transportation officials attribute the speed increase to the SBS offboard payment system, which reduces dwell time spent at bus stops for fare collection, as well as street improvements implemented by the city’s Department of Transportation, including newly painted bus lanes and traffic light timing adjustments.

CONTINUED ON PAGE 19 Zion-St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, a small stone church on East 84th Street off First Avenue, built in 1889 in the late Victorian architectural style, proclaims its German heritage in a facade inscription that reads, “Deutsche Ev. Kirche V. Yorkville.”

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR PROPOSAL FOR A NEW RIVERBOAT STOP What about an added north-south Hudson River ferry stop at Chelsea Piers, where a docking facility appears to be already in place (“The River of No Respect,” Nov. 1-7)? This would connect easily with the terminus of the M23 crosstown bus. Harry Malakoff Chelsea

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IMMIGRATION CONCERNS I am in favor of giving immigrants places to live once they have been given approval to enter, however, they should only be allowed to enter with proper documentation (“The ‘SantuaryHood’ Campaign,” Oct. 25). That’s how my parents got in. They also didn’t ask for free health care, housing or any types of handouts. My father had three jobs and my mother two, until better opportunities were awarded them. They took or expected nothing from the government. The other side should be heard as well.

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I am very concerned about the misleading rhetoric coming from the administration and the media about the caravan of immigrants headed to the United States from Central America. It’s dishonest, destructive and unjust.

Editor’s note: Judy Klinek, a West Side Spirit reader, called to ask for contact information regarding our story on the recent senior job fair (“Helping NYC Seniors Land Their Next Gig,” Nov. 1-7). Reporter Megan Conn provided the following: For more information, call 212-6026958 or 311 and ask for Senior Employment Services. You can also visit SESU on the 6th ﬂoor of 2 Lafayette St. in Manhattan. To view the step-by-step application process and verify your eligibility, visit: access.nyc.gov/programs/senioremployment-services-ses

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG DOG OWNER ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT

STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 19th precinct for the week ending Nov 11

On Tuesday, Nov. 13, a 32-year-old woman got into a verbal dispute with a 56-year-old man in front of 211 East 70th St. regarding his dog. The dispute became physical when the dog owner slapped the woman’s face and pushed her to the ground. Police later arrested Philip Hoffmann and charged him with assault, according to police.

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MAN THWARTS TEEN CELL SNATCHERS At 6:34 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 13, a 39-year-old man was standing in front of 171 East 84th Street making a phone call when three teenagers approached him and tried to take his cell phone out of his hand. He resisted and managed to retain his phone, but the teens made verbal threats and spat at his face. The coveted phone was an iPhone XS valued at $1,150.

SENIOR SCAMMED Another Upper East Side senior became the victim of the “tech support phone scam” in which a perpetrator pretends to be a computer expert and calls potential victims claiming to ﬁx

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broken computers. On Friday, Nov. 2, a scammer claiming that he was from AppleCare contacted a 63-year-old woman living on East 71st Street. The unsuspecting victim gave him her credit card information. The scammer also requested an additional $1,000 in the form of iTunes gift cards. In all, the victim was taken for $500 in iTunes cards, along with unauthorized purchases on her credit cards, making a total scam of $4,403.

U-HAUL HAUL, PART TWO Once again a U-Haul truck was spotted in the area making off with motorcycles. On Monday, Nov. 5, a 30-year-old woman parked her motorcycle in front of 302 East 95th St. When she returned for her bike at 2:20 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 6, it was missing. The victim told police that a parking attendant at a nearby lot had seen a U-Haul pull up at 2:16 a.m.,

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just a few minutes before she arrived, when three men lifted the two-wheeler into their truck and took off. A search of the neighborhood proved fruitless. The stolen bike was a red 2015 Honda CB300F with New York plates 25TJ08, valued at $4,000.

PILFERED PACKAGES A certain building needs to improve its lobby security. At 2:15 a.m. on

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YORKVILLE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 its architecture and peoples. The goal: “Kickstart the public conversation about the buildings and sites that must be prioritized for preservation amid rapid change,” Levy added. The book features such longvanished worlds as George Ehret’s Hell Gate Brewery, located on a superblock between 92nd and 93rd Streets and Second and Third Avenues and dating to 1866. It conjures up the German immigrant known as the “King of the Beer Corners” because his 42 saloons were mostly located on corner lots. But it largely focuses on the extant. In so doing, it documents dozens of architectural gems that lack city landmark status and could theoretically fall prey to the hyper-development unleashed by the subway’s opening.

THE MAYOR AND THE ‘ANTEDILUVIAN MONSTER’ These gems include the “French Flats” apartment buildings, a term evoking Parisian living accommodations, which were designed for middle-class families at a time when the rich mostly lived in private, single-family homes, while the poor dwelled in multi-unit tenements. Two of the best examples are on Second Avenue in the 80s. Counted among the city’s ﬁrst modern apartments, they came complete with such thenluxuries as hallways, private bathrooms, closets and fully equipped kitchens. The Manhattan, built in 1880 on 86th Street, and the color-

The cornerstone set in the façade of the Church of St. Elizabeth of Hungary at 211 East 83rd Street. The ﬁrst date marks the original construction, the later date was when St. Elizabeth bought and moved into the church.

The interior courtyard of the landmark Cherokee Apartments, built before World War I at Cherokee Place and 78th Street, was designed as an airy, sun-splashed gateway to clean and sanitary living spaces for poor tuberculosis patients. Photos: Trix Rosen Photographer Ltd / Friends of the UES Historic Districts fully named “Kaiser and The Rhine,” built in 1887 on 89th Street, were both ventures of the Rhinelander family, an early Yorkville developer, who designed them with more light and air than other period dwellings. It was The Manhattan where future three-term Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. spend his childhood. His father, the powerful German-born U.S. Sen. Robert F. Wagner Sr., resided there from 1912 to 1933. The book pegs the evolution of Yorkville to ﬁve supersized, mass-transit projects — the building of two rail lines in the late 19th century, their demolition in the mid-20th century, and the arrival of a new subway

in the 21st century. Development was kicked into overdrive with the opening in 1878 of the coal-powered Third Avenue Elevated Railway, with stations at 67th, 76th, 84th, 89th and 99th Streets. By 1880, the Second Avenue El debuted, with stops at 65th, 72nd, 80th, 86th, 92nd and 99th Streets. The impact of the locomotives: “A frenzy of real estate speculation,” a passage for immigrants away from the teeming Lower East Side and the growth of multicultural, working- and middle-class communities, the authors write. Of course, the Friends group — a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the architectural legacy, livability and sense of

Our Lady of Good Counsel, looking north on East 90th Street off Second Avenue, opened in 1892 to serve mostly Irish and German immigrants who worked in the nearby breweries. Today, the Gothic and Tudor church welcomes a large Spanish-speaking population.

place of the UES — notes that not everyone was overjoyed by the hulking Els. It quotes social novelist Henry James describing them as “skeletons” whose streets they “darkened and smothered with the immeasurable spinal column and myriad clutching paws of an antediluvian monster.” By 1942, as World War II raged, the city fathers (yes, they were all men back then) agreed. The Second Avenue El came down ﬁrst, its steel converted to munitions. By 1955, the Third Avenue El was ﬁnally demolished. “The dismantling of these lines removed the literal and figurative dividing line that

had for so long separated the Gold Coast from Yorkville, while also ushering in a new era of building,” the book says. Now, after three-quarters of a century, the trains are running again on Second Avenue. Commuters have direct access to and from Yorkville. The transformative impact to which Eberhart alludes is unmissable. “We’re not going to stop development,” she said. “But I certainly hope we can preserve the ﬂavoring and seasoning of the neighborhood, a great deal of which has already been lost.” Father John Kamas, pastor of the Church of St. Jean Baptiste on East 76th Street, says he lived through the last “land grab.” Born in 1948, a lifelong

Yorkville resident of Slovak descent, he remembers what happened when the Third Avenue El came down: “You lost a neighborhood where people would hang out on the stoops, leave the front door unlocked and shop in the little shops under the El,” said Father Kamas, a Friends board member. “That life started to disappear because real estate interests only see money, they don’t see neighborhoods, they don’t see history, they don’t see our immigrant past, they don’t see beauty,” he added. “We’re not opposed to growth, but it should be harmonious. “This time, we’re asking developers to show a little more respect.” “Shaped by Immigrants: A History of Yorkville” can be purchased online for $30 at www.friends-ues.org/yorkvillebook. A 15-minute, minidocumentary chronicling the neighborhood’s history can be viewed for free at the same link. invreporter@strausnews.com

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“The Kaiser and The Rhine,” a colorfully named apartment building on the northeast corner of 89th Street and Second Avenue, was a so-called “French Flats” building for the middle-class. It was erected by the Rhinelander family in the Romanesque Revival style in the mid-1880s.

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PATIENT POWER HEALTH What New Yorkers need to know about CABs, PFACs & YACs BY CAROL ANN RINZLER

Since 1969, every New York City public hospital has been required to have a Community Advisory Board (CAB) comprising past or present patients, community residents, and a representative from the local community board. In 2011, Dick Gottfried, chair of the NYS Assembly Health Committee, introduced a bill to require a similar group at every hospital in the state. The bill sailed through the Assembly but wasn’t even brought up for a vote in the Senate, a situation Gottfried thinks may change with the new legislature. Meanwhile, New York City’s voluntary non-profit hospitals have been introducing their own version of a CAB: PFACs (Patient and Family Advisory Councils). Unlike community boards, which play a mandated role in some legislative and regulatory areas such as land use, CABs and PFACs are strictly advisory. But New York State law requires each voluntary non-proﬁt hospital periodically to adopt and update a community service plan. Gottfried says that should include consultation with the PFAC. Even without new legislation, hospitals often agree. For example, ten years ago, when Louise Dankberg joined the Bellevue

MEETING SCHEDULES Bellevue Hospital CAB Fourth Wednesday of the month, 6:00 pm Lenox Hill Hospital/Northwell Health PFAC Last Thursday in Jan/Mar/May/ July/Oct/Nov, 5:30 pm Mount Sinai Hospital YAC Second Thursday of the month, 5:30 pm NYU Langone Health PFAC Second Thursday of each month, 4 pm Note: CAB/PFAC/YAC meetings often skip a summer month CAB, she had no idea she’d end up chairperson for ﬁve years. During her tenure, she was proud to lead a group that “not only identiﬁed patient complaints but succeeded in quality-of-life projects such as keeping open a low cost diner and gift shop for patients, staff and visitors.” In short, Bellevue CEO William Hicks takes his CAB seriously, praising it for “urging us to try harder, to be better and to strive for the best in quality and service for all who present to the hospital.” Two blocks up First Avenue at NYU Langone Health’s PFAC, the sentiments are similarly sunny. “During an extended patient experience,” says Keith Cunningham, “I quickly ascertained the need to be an assertive advocate for my own care plan and recovery and began offering advice to the staff and other patients. Being on PFAC has been an incredibly rewarding chance to help improve the system.” Kimberly Glassman, NYU Langone’s Senior Vice President for Patient Care counts her hospital “fortunate to have individuals like Keith whose insights help make us a better care provider and a more valuable resource to those who turn to us for help.”

Bellevue South Lobby. Photo: NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue Ditto at Northwell’s Lenox Hill. “No system is ever perfect,” says PFAC member Jordan Klemons, “but Lenox Hill Hospital did such an incredible job taking care of me and getting me back on my feet again, I felt it was my responsibility to help them continue improving for all future patients.” Appreciated, says Joe Leggio, Associate Executive Director, Patient & Customer Experience. “The PFAC is our guiding voice in designing how everyone should experience health care.” In 2015, the Mt. Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital expanded the CAB/ PFAC family with a YAC (Youth Advisory Council) to address the speciﬁc

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needs of pediatric patients. “As an active member of YAC,” says one young member, “I have been able to help give a perspective on how children feel when they enter a hospital.” Morgan Stojanowski, assistant director of the Child Life and Creative Arts Therapy Department, names one such important YAC observation: the need for accessible language translation services. “Leadership responded immediately,” she says, “distributing 50 dual handset translator phones throughout pediatrics, providing additional Language Assistance in-services to medical staff, and introducing enhanced video interpreter services.”

Clearly, CABs and PFACs are popular, so popular in fact, that one member actually appointed himself. In the late 90s, as chair of Brooklyn’s Community Board 13, Marty Levine was barred from a Health and Hospitals meeting at Coney Island Hospital. “A couple of weeks later,” he says, “I learned that every HHC facility was mandated to have a CAB and that as chairman of the community board I had the authority to appoint someone to the hospital’s CAB. So I appointed myself and walked in. I’ve been a member ever since.” What are you waiting for?

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Nearly a decade ago, Upper East Side resident David Barrett discovered his passion for birding. An avid middledistance runner, Barrett often jogged or walked through Central Park. To make his walks more enjoyable, he began birding and researching the various birds that he observed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to make those walks as interesting as possible and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how it all started,â&#x20AC;? Barrett explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got interested in birding as a thing to do. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fascinating subject.â&#x20AC;? Today, he has racked up a lifetime total of 267 American Bird Association-countable bird species in Manhattan, placing him second on the all-time list for eBird, an online citizen science database, as of November. In 2013, Barrett launched Manhattan Bird Alert (@BirdCentralPark) and today, the Twitter feed has been front and center as it has helped birders see the Mandarin Duck that has created a sensation in Central Park. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Manhattan Bird Alert, I

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w Manhattan Bird Alert has been following the whereabouts of a barred owl in Central Park. Photo: @jhonny_2003 courtesy of Manhattan Bird Alert think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great thing for all New Yorkers,â&#x20AC;? Barrett said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been very popular because of the Mandarin Duck. The purpose of it is to give the public a way to get birding news delivered to them quickly.â&#x20AC;? Birders identified the male duck as native to East Asia, and no one was sure how he had made his way to Manhattan. Manhattan Bird Alert (@ BirdCentralPark) has provided regular updates on the duck since his ďŹ rst arrival in October. After a four-day absence earlier this month, the duck returned to the Central Park Pond on Nov. 14. On Thursday, during the ďŹ rst snowfall of the season, the duck enjoyed the snowďŹ&#x201A;akes. One post via @LRo70 read, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A little snow does not bother the MANDARIN DUCK, still at the

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REALITY CHECK: ‘THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT’ PUBLIC EYE BY JON FRIEDMAN

Are facts negotiable? Is there a distinction between truth and accuracy? Should there be one at all? For our purposes, the key question is: Can a lesson in news literacy be entertaining in a darkened Broadway theater? I can answer the last question emphatically: Deﬁnitely, yes. “The Lifespan of a Fact,” the muchdiscussed show at Studio 54, raises these and other points that are so essential here in the Trump presidency, when it can feel like truth is in the eye of the beholder and facts are up for grabs. One of the reasons why the dis-

course is lively and fun is that the the actors don’t preach and instead leave it to the audience to come up with the answers. The production, which lasts for approximately an hour and 25 minutes (with no intermission), moves along at a brisk pace. The dialogue is snappy throughout. The stellar cast — the always-brilliant Cherry Jones as Emily the editor, Daniel Radcliffe (firmly shedding whatever Harry Potter image may still remain) portraying Jim the fact-checker and Bobby Cannavale (looking comfortable playing John, the tough-talking writer) were terriﬁc. It was as if they were playing three-on-three basketball at a high level, with each actor generously passing the ball around before one of them took a shot. Unfortunately, the very earnest show also deserves what some col-

lege educators call an Accuracy F. It’s really too bad that a very entertaining show has this stone in its shoe because, God knows, the media could use something to proclaim how valuable journalism is in these strained times. When the play opens, Daniel Radcliffe appears as a frightfully green but determined kid who has been with a magazine for a matter of months. Yet his no-nonsense editor, Cherry Jones, decides to entrust the fact-checking of a piece so important that she says it could be her “legacy” to him. Bobby Cannavale emerges as the kind of street-smart, patronizing writer who might evoke images of Jimmy Breslin or Pete Hamill or even Norman Mailer. The rookie struggles to wrest control of the story from the writer, who clearly has little use or respect for

him. Meanwhile, the editor gamely tries to get the piece published on time. That is the entire cast: three extremely well-crafted characters, each with an angle of his or her own. Recognizing the performers from their own work, journalists will no doubt smile — and squirm — as they see themselves in these parts. And the lesser people in the theater can happily sit back and appreciate the superb acting. How much is the audience expected to accept? Could we reasonably expect to see a fact-checker fly across the country (on his own nickel, no less) to confront the author? Stretching reality further, the fact-checker’s boss then follows him out there to try to restore order and meet a stressful deadline. I’ve worked for decades in the media ecosystem and never heard of this

happening — but that’s just me. This show has come along in a sweet spot of our popular culture. The profession of journalism is under siege. The President of the United States is determined to use the media as a prop in his all-out culture war — and then declare himself the winner. His strategy is as clear as it is timeless: capitalize on journalism’s lousy public image to divide and conquer. All that’s missing from this picture in 2018 is a retelling of the Nixon administration’s greatest hits, complete with Spiro Agnew’s “nattering nabobs of nihilism” and defense of the Silent Majority. “The Lifespan of a Fact” neatly counters the President bleating about “fake news” and “the enemy of the people.” It is a production for its times.

THE E.D. WE MUST OVERCOME BY BETTE DEWING

Yup, this title is meant to spark attention, which “empathy dysfunction” spelled out might not. And what does empathy or its absence have to do with Thanksgiving? Well, this year, it means not forgetting California’s unprecedented hardship and heartbreak — and the help we need to give and keep giving as long as it takes. Our surprise winter storm diluted immediate concern for the wildﬁres, and the unprecedented gridlock was incredibly stressful. But homes and communities were intact when ﬁnally reached. Yes, numerous trees were downed, lamentably, but the damage was incomparable to large areas of California, where everything is blazed out. Imagine. And imagine we must. Oh, it should be remembered that due to our storm, public events were cancelled, like the 79th Street Neighborhood Association monthly meeting, where California’s heartbreak and

hardship would have been an active concern. So many New Yorkers have close family and friends who live in California and won’t need reminding. But others will, and how we need high profile people to do just that. The president finally toured some burned out areas, which thankfully seems to have raised his not-so-active empathy level. But so far, more needed are our former Presidents Carter, Clinton, both Bushes and Obama to be there pledging all-out support. Even more so, perhaps, the first ladies must be there, one of whom was secretary of state and almost our president. And yes, first offspring and first grandparents should be there as well. And what must we at home be doing? For now, here’s some of what this column urged after the Carolinas were ravaged by Hurricane Florence. New York City youngsters were asked to reach out to Carolina youngsters, letting them know they cared by using social media. And they’d set an example for other age groups, especially

for elders to reach out to their peers in the Carolinas, who were often alone and disabled. And long overdue, these youngsters enabled elders’ social media use. New Yorkers with animal pals were told about animal rescue groups in the Carolinas. And I took the liberty of reminding faith and civic groups how they must be at the forefront of these critical and ongoing endeavors. Now read the Nov. 15 New York Times piece, “California Fires Only Add to Acute Housing Crisis.” On the news, a Paradise, Calif. man pleads for a garage he might rent to temporarily house his family. But what about home sharing? Once people opened their homes to family, friends, neighbors and others in need. And yes, that’s difficult for members of a society now so accustomed to living alone. But it would be inﬁnitely easier if communication skills were learned to aid getting along. I can think of some books that do just that — like those by Haim Ginott, “Straight Talk” by Sherod

President Trump’s motorcade passes neighborhoods devastated by wildﬁres as he surveys the damage on Nov. 17 in Paradise, Calif. Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead Miller, and by Daniel Walkman, Elaine Nunnally and Carol Saline. Remember, there were some city faith groups that held forums and classes as well. Among them were Central Presbyterian Church, Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church and the Roman Catholic Church of the

Epiphany. They need a mighty revival to help overcome the many unprecedented social and political divides. There would be so much more to be thankful for — and it can be done if enough of us try — with California never very far from our minds. Do know I am so very thankful for you.

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Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the good news: tourism is up, employment is up, and population is up. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the bad news: the transportation system is sinking fast, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fare hike proposal on the table and the MTA Chairman just resigned. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the solution: New Yorkers when they get together can do something about it. While riders get angry for a moment and then get on with their day, many citizens have pulled together and are trying to help all New Yorkers, and our millions of tourists, to improve the city commute. Danny Pearlstein is the policy and communications director of the Riders Alliance, an organization, he explained, that â&#x20AC;&#x153;fights for better transit by organizing subway and bus riders.â&#x20AC;? Pearlstein got recruited from the membership four years ago, and came on the staff last Thanksgiving. He grew up riding the subway and has a true passion for getting it right, for all New Yorkers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When the transit doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work, our city doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work,â&#x20AC;? said Pearlstein. The Riders Alliance has not only increased their membership recently, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve joined a coalition of disparate grassroots groups that have the â&#x20AC;&#x153;transit system to

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ETERNAL BEAUTY FROM AN ENDURING CULTURE Treasures from Armenia at The Met BY MARY GREGORY

Armenia! - celebratory exclamation mark and all – is the subject of a beautiful, reflective exhibition at The Met Fifth Avenue, on view through Jan. 13. It’s focused on the history, culture and exquisite art of Armenia from the beginning of the 4th century, when it became the world’s first officially Christian country, through the 1600s when it was a powerful leader of international trade. The galleries are filled with stone work and architectural fragments laden with spiritual imagery, luxurious textiles, illuminated manuscripts from the Middle Ages and rare antique printed books, reliquaries laden with gems and precious metals, and a hushed sense of awe. “By examining these magnificent treasures, we can better understand and appreciate the central role that art played in defining and connecting Armenian communities during this time, and how they both influenced

Arm Reliquary of Saint Nicholas. The medallion on the hand of the reliquary identiﬁes it as containing the bones of the saint. Photo: Adel Gorgy

and were inspired by styles from other cultures,” said Max Hollein, the new director of The Met. The exhibition was organized by Helen C. Evans, curator of Byzantine Art, with C. Griffith Mann, the curator in charge of Medieval Art, and the assistance of Constance Alchermes. Of the roughly 140 works in the exhibition, most have never been seen in the U.S. before, and many have not traveled for centuries. Rooted at the base of Mount Ararat, the Armenian culture saw and survived the influence of Byzantine, Persian, Arab, Seljuk, Mongol, and Ottoman powers that passed through their lands at the historic and geographic crossroads of several civilizations. As with many enduring cultures of the world, Armenians adapted and adopted, moved and morphed, yet never relinquished their own unique identity. Spectacular standing Khachkars, or towering cross stones, a distinctly Armenian art form, are a highlight. One on loan from the monastery of Havuts‘ Tar in Ayrarat was carved in 12th– 13th century with incredibly intricate twining lines, knotted and looping endlessly. It’s the kind of decoration that was often painted on medieval manuscript borders, but hewing that level of complex detail from solid stone is something else altogether.

A gold, silver, and silk altar frontal, 1741, from New Julfa, an Armenian district in Isfahan settled after the forced relocation of Armenians from Julfa to Isfahan. Photo: Adel Gorgy At the beginning of the exhibition is a four-sided stela, or upright stone marker, from the monastery of Kharaba. One of the oldest extant works of Armenian art, it was made in the 4th5th century, and depicts the conversion of King Tiridates to Christianity by Saint Gregory the Illuminator. Gregory, the patron saint of Armenia, was the son of a tyrant who ﬂed the kingdom un-

A magniﬁcent gilded manuscript giving a sense of the wealth and piety of medieval Armenia. Photo: Adel Gorgy.

der the protection of Christian caretakers. He returned years later as a monk, converting the new king and the entire country. Gregory’s story and other Armenian tales are repeated across centuries and works of art that express styles typical of both the Eastern and Western worlds. The story that comes across most clearly is of a tenacious, peripatetic and persevering people. Curator Evans describes the Armenians as “A unique people, who beginning from their homeland at the base of Mount Ararat, by the end of the Middle Ages have spread across the globe and are controlling massively important trade routes that reach from England to Latin America, from India to Russia.”

Detail of a Four-Sided Stela from the Monastery of Kharaba depicting the Madonna and Child. Photo: Adel Gorgy.

The success of the Armenian people is reflected in the lavishness of the works on view, including spectacular manuscripts with painted and gilded illuminations by T‘oros Roslin. Evans said of Roslin, “He is the Rembrandt of the Armenians, the Titian, and his lasting inﬂuence is as great as a Titian or a Rembrandt within the Armenian world.” In Roslin’s “Gospel Book of Lady Keran and Prince Levon II,” the artist incorporated images of faith and culture as well as human and divine presence all at once. The manuscript was commissioned as a gift for the couple. They stand side-by-side holding a picture of the sacred book. Dressed in rich silks, their portraits proclaim the wealth of the society. Above them, Christ blesses them. It’s a statement of both piety and worldly ambition. Photographs of the works, as well as the audio guide, can be experienced on the Met’s website. Still, to stand before works fashioned from imagination, devotion and creativity, and with materials from ages ago, is moving and humbling in ways that an online experience can never be. The chance to widen our understanding of the world and become immersed in a culture while gazing upon exquisite works of art is a rare gift from the Armenian people, government, and religious and cultural institutions. Don’t miss it.

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AMAZON DEAL SPARKS LOCAL BLOWBACK Backlash from NYC elected officials after announcement of a new campus in Long Island City BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

From nearly the moment details emerged on Amazon’s plans to build a new corporate campus in Long Island City, the tech giant’s deal with the city and state became the subject of immediate backlash from some local groups and politicians. Criticism of the agreement has focused on a variety of factors, including the strain the rapid growth would place on the neighborhood’s transit system and housing market and the nearly $3 billion in subsidies and tax breaks the company is poised to reap. Amazon has said the Long Island City site and another new campus in Arlington, Virginia would each get 25,000 new jobs that the company said would pay an average of $150,000 a year. Amazon has said it will spend $5 billion between both locations on construction and other projects, and that hiring at the two headquarters will begin next year, but it could take a decade or more to build out the offices.

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The secretive process by which the deal was reached has also come under scrutiny. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio engaged in private negotiations with Amazon that excluded state and local legislators, arriving at an agreement that exempts the development from the City Council’s authority on land use decisions. Council Speaker Corey Johnson said the legislative body is reviewing its legal options to change or block the deal. Here’s what local politicians are saying:

Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer: “New Yorkers are being told Amazon needs and deserves billions of dollars in payments and tax breaks to locate in Long Island City, minutes from Manhattan, when we have no certainty on a range of issues from local hiring to the effects on rents throughout the city. Moreover, the state plans to suspend local control over zoning – what gets built and where – not in order to build critical regional infrastructure, but to build a corporate headquarters. This sets a scary precedent for every neighborhood in every borough. This project

“The governor and they mayor have decided to throw Jeff Bezos almost $3 billion in subsidies and tax breaks and throw in a helipad so he doesn’t have to take the damn 7 train when we are several blocks from the Queensbridge Houses,” Queens Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer said at a protest against the deal to bring Amazon offices to Long Island City. Photo: NYC Council, via Twitter. should go through a full public review like any other major project and there should be a robust public engagement process.”

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson: “Amazon is one of the richest companies in the world, but you can’t put a price on community input, which has been missing throughout this entire

process. I ﬁnd that lack of engagement and the fact that the negotiations excluded the City Council – which is elected by New Yorkers to guide land use projects with communities in mind – extremely troubling. I also don’t understand why a company as rich as Amazon would need nearly $2 billion in public money for its expansion plans at a time when New York desperately needs money for affordable housing, transportation, infrastructure and education. I will always advocate for economic development and jobs in New York, but when the process is done behind closed doors, with zero community input and nearly $2 billion in subsidies to a global behemoth, I am going to be skeptical.”

Council Member Keith Powers, who represents much of Manhattan’s East Side: “The public clearly has a lot of questions about Amazon. A public process allows us to discuss impacts of development and the overall value of the deal. We want good jobs, but bypassing the public process is a poor precedent & raises a question of why one project gets a pass.”

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announce that Amazon will establish a new corporate headquarters in Long Island City, Queens. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: “While I’m glad that Amazon recognizes that Queens is a great place to do business, I’m concerned about the lack of community input and the incentivizes that Amazon received in order to convince them to bring these jobs to New York. One of the wealthiest companies in history should not be receiving ﬁnancial assistance from the taxpayers while too many New York families struggle to make ends meet.”

Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez: “Many New Yorkers, myself included, are concerned by the enormous incentives this package extends to Amazon. There are also very real reservations about how this proposal would affect traffic, transit crowding, housing affordability and our small business communities in Queens and Brooklyn.” Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer, who represents Long Island City: “The governor and they mayor have decided to throw Jeff Bezos almost $3 billion in subsidies and tax breaks and throw in a helipad so he doesn’t have to take the damn 7 train when we are several blocks from the Queensbridge Houses… We have a public housing crisis…but somehow folks who consider themselves progressive Democrats have seen ﬁt to throw $3 billion at the richest man in the world.”

Assembly Member Daniel O’Donnell: “Now that the details have come out, it’s clear that this is a bad deal for New York. The truth is, many of the jobs Amazon is claiming they will create are already being created without billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies… This deal includes no investment into our subways, no new affordable housing, no infrastructure repairs to NYCHA developments in Long Island City, and no entry level jobs for those that need them the most.” —With The Associated Press

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“Cocktail,” the 1988 Tom Cruise movie, shows Manhattan in a bygone era: all of its decadent 1980s glory. Don’t be coy. You remember that era, when a whole new vocabulary and way of life came into prominence. Crack was the cheap drug of choice of high school kids who mugged older people (like me, on Friday night, June 13, 1986) to pay for the shabby high. The perp walk was born on Wall Street when the feds outsmarted greedy bankers and brokers. The baby-boomers, disparaged by the media as Yuppies, slinked off to Brooklyn if they couldn’t afford to live in The City. The movie “Cocktail” — no rational person would dignify such a critically reviled flick by calling it a “ﬁlm” — shows a bygone time in the city’s pop-culture history. Someday, anthropologists will gleefully dissect “Cocktail” to learn the rhythms of the Upper East Side. Perhaps no other movie has revealed the meat-market aspect of life in those shameless pickup bars. If you’re nodding in chagrined recognition, it’s OK! Hey, I was there, too, and, you bet, I am also cringing at the memory of the pulsating disco music and the wasted, aspiring hipsters doing blow in the bathrooms. Cruise plays Brian Flanagan, a young military veteran who comes home to Queens to stake his claim to the American Dream. Capturing the spirit of the go-go, insider-trading-rich 1980s culture in the city, he ﬁnds that schoolroom classes are too slow and stultifying for him. Desperate to make a few bucks but lacking the requisite training for most coveted jobs, he stumbles into a job in an Upper East Side singles bar and quickly learns the ropes from the resident, all-knowing bartender, Doug Coughlin, played smartly by Bryan Brown. “Young Flanagan,” as Coughlin calls him affectionately and dismissively, quickly becomes a rock-start barkeep. Men idolize him for his breezy cool style and women want to sleep with him. Few movies have featured the

Tom Cruise, 2017. Photo: Eva Rinaldi, via ﬂickr city as such a notable supporting character. Sure, we’ve had “Moonstruck” to represent romantic Italian Brooklyn, and “Bright Lights, Big City” for the youthful, cocaine-ﬁlled literary set, “Wall Street” for the naked greed of Wall Streeters, “Manhattan” for, well, Manhattan and, God knows, “Taxi Driver” for the underside of one man’s descent into madness. There are, of course, dozens of others. “Cocktail” is perfect for fans of the 1980s Cruise. He plays Brian to the hilt of that era of patented Cruise characters who scream cockiness and still manage to betray a little vulnerability. Think of a bartender version of “Risky Business,” “Top Gun,” “The Color of Money” and, a later, “Rainman,“ “A Few Good Men” and “Jerry Maguire.” And what about the city itself? What has become of those singles bars? I suspect that things just aren’t quite the same today as they were

30 years ago. This conclusion came to me a few months ago. I was sitting on a bench at the West 23rd Street IRT subway station early one morning when I overheard two taxi drivers lamenting the new pressures on their way of life. Like any know-it-all journalist, I interrupted them and sagely nodded about the effect of Uber and Lyft on them and their brethren. One of them shot back: “No, no, sir. That’s not exactly it. People don’t go out to the bars, to pick people up, as much as they used to.” The other man nodded vigorously and added: “They stay home now and use online dating services, instead of going to singles bars.” That’s what it has come to. Is it better or worse to live in New York today than thirty years ago? Is the city now tamer or more sensible? Who can say ... But it sure is different now.

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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO WILL With a passion for theater, social justice and the teachings of Jesus, William Critzman is a modern minister with a mission rooted in timeless ideals

that arc bend towards justice. I think religion knows about a sense of history. We bring the connective tissue. If we preached the headlines every day, we’d never run out of material. But religion reminds people that the headlines of the day are part of a bigger picture. We have to bring in the [wider] landscape. We can’t be ashamed of our faith; we have to let it guide our life, and how we love one another.

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In New York City, modes of worship are as varied and diverse as the city itself. Some Upper West Siders may reserve Sundays for brunch or SoulCycle, others for a weekly church service. For the Reverend William H. Critzman, 39, the new senior minister at West End Collegiate Church, Jesus’s messages of love, compassion and equality have never been more relevant, particularly when it comes to politics, social justice or the arts. But while Critzman has immense love for old biblical teachings, he is also breaking new ground as the ﬁrst openly gay senior minister to serve at Collegiate Church in the organization’s nearly 400 year history. With his youth and fresh perspective, Critzman is poised to attract a whole new group of worshippers to the congregation. Straus News sat down with Critzman last week to talk about his background in show business, holding our nation’s leaders accountable, and why he wants you to come to church.

What’s your favorite section of the bible? Why? My favorite book in the bible is the Gospel of Mark. I think it contains everything the New Testament needs to tell us. It’s the shortest of the gospel. The entire Gospel can be read in 55 minutes. Mark’s favorite word is “immediately”. He uses it 44 times. And this sense of immediacy, it speaks to the call to make the world change now. The Gospel of Mark is written in CE in 70 when Rome is on a full assault of Jerusalem. And when it is bleak, I think about this in our New York lives. This is like September 12, 2001. The city is under attack, and we don’t know why. We are in a state of trauma and grief, and the one way we comfort each other is by telling stories. We look to a story that might bring us hope.

For someone coming to West End Collegiate Church for the ﬁrst time who does not have a relationship with God or has never attended church, what could they expect?

How did you become a minister? What called you to the profession? Well, my background was as a theater producer and arts executive. I worked in London, San Francisco and New York. And about 10 years ago, when I was working at Lehman Brothers, everyone was talking about the importance of being inter-disciplinary in our approach to the arts. We needed to look at what it means to be in the arts, and we were talking about how we were not doing a very good job of incorporating other disciplines into our profession. So I started looking at some seminary programs to do a master’s in the arts and religion, so I could try to bring theology and art together. In the 20th century, the left claimed the arts, and the right claimed religion, and I wanted to put the two together. One thing I know is that no one walks on the stage of the Met without saying some sort of prayer; every act of creating art is an act of faith. I swore I’d never work in a church. But over the past year, my sense of call was coming to a time of change. I was beginning to feel this sense of change downtown [where I was studying]. And then I got a call from West End Collegiate’s search committee. I told them, “I think I am wildly unqualiﬁed for what it is you’re looking for. I think you’re looking for someone who’s

Rev. William H. Critzman, the ﬁrst openly gay senior minister at the West End Collegiate Church. Photo: Ken Bower more traditional than me.” But we had a conversation over three months and seven different rounds of interviewing. I met with 73 different people, and walking into each space, I fell so in love with the search committee, and by the time we got to the ﬁnal rounds in June, I felt that we could do something new and amazing with the Upper West Side, and that feeling was palpable in my body. So far, it’s been a really great and energetic experience.

What’s your favorite thing about the ministry? It’s all about the people. I came into the ministry with these macro ideas: public religion, public theatre. And the more I got into the ministry, you learn that people have lives, and show up on your doorstep, and are hungry. I learned that I needed more tools for how to listen to people, and what they

are saying. My favorite part is to hear people, to connect the dots, to connect them with people around them and their families. To teach them about what it means to be a human, and be with each other, and be with creation.

The life and teachings of Jesus may seem so far removed from modern life. How are they relevant to the present day? I think the simplicity of Jesus’s teachings is so relevant in our modern day: Love god. Let love be the guide. Love your neighbor as you love yourself. These are easy teachings. Let us love, and just love each other. That means Black Lives Matter. That means LGBT individuals should have equal rights. That means women should have a seat at the table for making decisions about themselves. That means we’re not going to name-call people,

we’re not going to use profanity. We’re not going to disrespect people. And when we see that in our leaders, we’re gonna call it out. Jesus had a history of holding leaders accountable, calling people out of old cemented ways of living, and calling them into new life.

Right now, the United States is going through a turbulent, and some may say dangerous political time. What is religion’s role, and how can it help heal the country? I think one of religion’s chief roles is to be an arbiter of morality, dignity and respect. If you look at Judaism and Islam at their core, they have each person as a spark of the divine. Separation of church and state is important. But [religion] does have something to say about how we engage in debate, how we talk to one another, and how we engage in disagreement. How we help

When you walk into West End Church on a Sunday morning, the congregation takes tradition and worship very seriously. They take hospitality seriously. People are dressed in all sorts of different things: some people come in jeans, some people come in sweats, it’s all ﬁne. But as the community gathers, there’s this sense of informality that turns into something very formal. I can’t tell you what it is, but it’s holy. Then suddenly, an acolyte walks down the aisles. The service is beautiful. We have stunning musicians, and if music is a way for you to connect to the divine, come. The kids also have a wonderful energy before going to Sunday school. What you’re going to ﬁnd here is a community. There’s a 150 of us every morning. That 150 is just the right size. That sense of belonging does not happen anywhere else, that sense of caring. It helps piece together the fragmentation of our lives.

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Each Sudoku puzzle consists of a 9X9 grid that has been subdivided into nine smaller grids of 3X3 squares. To solve the puzzle each row, column and box must contain each of the numbers 1 to 9. Puzzles come in three grades: easy, medium and difficult.

SUDOKU by Myles Mellor and Susan Flanagan

by Myles Mellor

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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

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YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION & FINANCE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, Defendants. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: 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. In addition to 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 tollfree helpline maintained by New York State Department of Financial Services’ at 1-800269-0990 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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