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A NEW COURSE ON HORSES NEWS A plan from the mayor would sharply reduce the number of horses and move their stables into Central Park BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced last week his team is working on a bill to reduce by over 80 percent the number of horse carriage operators in Central Park and move the stables at which horses are lodged to inside the park, a shift from previous efforts that focused on banning the industry altogether. His ascension from mayoral long shot to City Hall was aided by his pledge to ban horse carriage rides in Central Park, but almost two years into his tenure that
VINTAGE GOODS, AGED AND NOUVEAU K & D Wines and Spirits has been on the Upper East Side since right after Prohibition BY MICKEY KRAMER
It’s a kaleidoscope of colors and, nearly, a case of sensory overload walking into K & D Wines & Spirits: 1,500 different bottles, in all shapes and sizes, line shelves from floor to ceiling. K & D has been serving — and lifting — spirits on the Upper East Side since 1934. The current Madison Avenue location, just below 94th Street, is two blocks south from the original storefront. It’s been run by Richie Klein and Andy Klugerman since 1995. Their fathers, Artie Klein and Erwin Klugerman, ran the store from 1962 until the boys, childhood friends who had started work at the shop as delivery boys, took over.
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promise remains unfulfilled. In comments last week he revealed the new approach would move the stables to inside the park, so horses would not have to contend with city traffic, and reduce the number of carriage operators from their current level of over 200 to just three dozen. The debate is currently framed by a group of animal rights activists on one side, most notably NY Class, which contributed significantly to de Blasio’s mayoral ambitions. On the other side is the Teamsters Joint Council 16, which counts among its ranks horse carriage drivers. The activists maintain that having large animals in a major urban center is cruel and that the horses are regularly
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Corruption in Albany has become the background noise of our state politics. Scandals are followed by more scandals. Politicians start out as reformers, then somehow end up as part of the problem. Which is why this week’s guilty verdict in the Sheldon Silver graft case is both breathtaking and depressingly familiar. And once again, we’re left to ask: Could this be the catalyst that finally prompts real change in our corrupt capitol? If the answer depended on our current governor to sweep out the muck, the answer would clearly be no. You had to smirk at Andrew Cuomo’s statement in the moments after the Silver verdict, in which he vowed “zero tolerance” for public corruption. This from a man who disbanded his own Moreland Commission, the best shot Albany had in decades to clean up its own house. No, our hope for change has to come from the outside, from U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. For months, Bharara and his team have sensed that Albany was ripe for a takedown, and the Silver verdict proved them right. Should we care about any of this? We really don’t have any choice. And if it takes the federal government to save us from ourselves, at least change is coming.
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WHAT’S MAKING NEWS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD CONSTRUCTION-RELATED DEATHS SPIKE
The city’s construction boom is on record pace. It’s come at a steep human price, according to a recent report by
The New York Times. Since 2014, deaths and injuries of laborers working on both business
and residential projects have occurred at a rate exceeding that of new construction, the paper reported. According to city Buildings Department numbers cited by The Times, 10 people died in constructionrelated accidents in the ďŹ scal year ending in July, nearly twice the recent annual average of fatalities — 5.5 deaths — recorded during the previous four years. On-the-job injuries jumped 53 percent during the ďŹ scal year compared to the prior ďŹ scal year, to 324 workers hurt, The Times said. New construction permits rose just 11 percent while renovation and other related permits increased by 6 percent during the same period, the paper said. The number of construction casualties supports assessments by inspectors and government officials that job-site safety measures are poor. The Times looked at records and documents related to every construction-related death over the past two years and concluded that laborers, most of them undocumented immigrants working non-union jobs, eschewed basic safety measures such as harnesses and helmets. Supervision, too, was lax, it said.
FDR PROJECT NEAR DONE A construction project near the High Line. Deaths and injuries of laborers working on both business and residential projects have occurred at a rate exceeding that of new construction, according to a report in The New York Times. Photo: Timothy Neesam, via Flickr
Two gun-toting men ďŹ rst robbed a pedestrian walking on East 78th Street near First Avenue before accosting and robbing an idling taxi driver on Sunday morning, according to the New York Post . The ďŹ rst victim, a 25-year-old man, was forced to surrender his backpack, cellphone, wallet and jewelry to the robbers, sources told the Post. One of the thieves then came upon a cabbie whose car was parked near Madison Avenue at around 4 a.m. He gave away $160 to the thief through the window. None of the victims was hurt, the Post reported.
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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG
ARREST IN PARK RAPE CASE
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Police have arrested a suspect in the rape of a woman jogging in a Manhattan park. The New York Police Department says Paul Niles turned himself in Saturday, a day after police publicly identified him as the suspect in Wednesday’s attack in the East River Park in downtown Manhattan. Police have no address for the 28-year-old Niles. Possible lawyers for him didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. Police say Niles grabbed the 26-year-old runner’s hair, put his arm around her throat, pulled her off the footpath, raped her and stole her credit card. Police say a 56 year-old woman reported that Niles had approached and groped her while she was walking along the East River that same evening.
An Upper East Side resident was undone by “bad energy” to the tune of $7,600. At 4 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 23, a 26-year-old woman was walking on Third Avenue between 87th and 88th Streets when she was approached by another woman, who said that the 26-year-old looked sad and needed help with her bad energy. The 26-yearold wound up paying the other woman the money to help dispel the bad energy, before realizing she had been scammed. Police are continuing to investigate.
NOT SANTA An alert apartment dweller thwarted a burglar. At 11:20 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 23, a 40-year-old woman living on 81st Street between Second and Third Avenues thought she heard noises coming from her roof. She opened some curtains to see an unknown man around 6 feet tall out on her balcony. She screamed, and the man fled in an unknown direction.
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Another burglar was thwarted, this time by the employee of a business. At 7:12 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 24, a man entered his place of business on 81st Street between Second and Third Avenues, only to find an unknown man in his early 20s inside the location. The employee yelled at the intruder to stop, but the latter fled through the back door in an unknown direction, leaving a number of laptops belonging to the business on the ground outside the back door.
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IDLE CRIME A female motorist learned the hard way not to keep your vehicle unlocked and unattended. At 2:40 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 24, a 51-year-old woman got out of her Mercedes E350 on Madison Avenue, between 75th and 76th Streets, leaving the car unlocked with her purse inside. When she came back fifteen minutes later, her Louis Vuitton bag, valued at $5,000, was missing. The purse held a Chanel wallet priced at $2,000,along with $2,000 worth of jewelry, an
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iPhone tagged at $500, plus a number of gift cards. In all, the woman’s loss totaled $14,000.
PHANTOM FIREARM Police arrested a juvenile mugger. At 9:30 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, a 25-year-old man walking on 86th Street
and Lexington Avenue was approached from behind by a 17-year-old male youth who had his right hand in his pocket as if he were pointing a handgun and said, “Give me your phone, or I’ll shoot you in the face.” Apparently, the young man lost his nerve, however, and made off without taking the victim’s
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The Explorers Club on East 70th Street is known for its affiliation with the first moon landing and the first summit of Mount Everest. But, more recently, the club launched an expedition of a different nature. At “Crickets and Cocktails,” an event co-hosted by Alimentary Initiatives, the New York Entomological Society and the Metropolitan Society of Natural Historians, guests munched on hors d’oeuvres featuring ingredients that most New Yorkers would be surprised to find on a silver platter. Cricket croquettes, grasshopper tostadas and waterbug crostini were among the treats, which were prepared by chefs Natalia Martinez and Mario Hernandez. Curious attendees on the club’s second floor swarmed around trays of crackers garnished with worms and insects. New trays, brought out by waiters, emptied in minutes. The line for cocktails wrapped around the wood-paneled room. Side tables featured dishes of dried mole crickets, flying termites and sago grubs, among other critters. Alexa Saur, 9, liked the crickets and the termites, but not the grubs. Consider her a grasshopper gourmand: she and her 12-year-old sister, Erika, have dined on insects before. Their mother, Adrienne Saur, has eaten bugs at four other events. She and her husband, Drew Saur, are trying to teach their daughters more about science. “As much as she might enjoy steak, there’s a lot more bugs in the world than steak,” Adrienne Saur said. “We’ve been looking for an opportunity to expand their horizons,” Drew Saur said, before biting into a breaded croquette featuring manchego cheese, piquin salsa, truffle cream and — of course — crickets.
Katharina Unger, an Austrian industrial designer, explains her desktop mealworm farm to attendees of “Crickets and Cocktails.” Unger likes the mealworms for their nutty taste and their high protein content. Photo: Nomin Ujiyediin. While the Saur family snacked on the club’s balcony, industrial designer Katharina Unger was showing off her latest invention on the second-floor landing. Her company, LIVIN Farms, has developed a desktop hive where consumers can grow their own edible mealworms. The white plastic hive featured a stack of silver trays, each holding mealworms at different stages of development. The bottom tray was ajar. Hundreds of the inch-long specimens writhed inside it. Next to the hive, a petri dish held mealworms that were frozen, boiled and roasted. They make for a dry, crunchy snack. “I just wanted to empower people to grow their own healthy and sustainable food,” said Unger, who was born in Austria and is currently based in Hong Kong. Her travels in Asia and Africa inspired her to explore insects as a source of protein and other nutrients. “I love it,” she said about the flavor. “What I like about it is that it’s a bit nutty but still relatively neutral.”
Unger wasn’t always comfortable with the idea of eating insects, also known as entomophagy. “Growing them and seeing how it all works is one of the steps to overcoming the hurdle,” she said. She and her partner, Julia Kaisinger, found that people were more amenable to the idea of eating mealworms once they could see how they were grown. After the cocktail hour, Unger and other experts presented their perspectives on entomophagy to event attendees who gathered in a room full of Explorers Club memorabilia, including flags that had been brought to Mount Everest and the Marianas Trench. Aruna Antonella Handa of Alimentary Initiatives, which promotes innovative and sustainable food, lamented that the guests had to try desiccated insects, rather than fresh ones. “It’s the difference between using canned tuna and fresh tuna,” she said. “From a culinary perspective, they’re interesting, but not tasty,” Handa elaborated about
the dried insects. Pa leoentomologist Ph i l Barden explained that the relationship between crustaceans and insects gives crickets their shrimp-like flavor. It’s also the reason that people with shellfish allergies might consider avoiding eating the insects, which have been around for 250 million years — longer than dinosaurs. Crickets are “one of the oldest and most ancient lineages that you’ve probably ever consumed,” Barden told attendees. For Lily Berniker and Pam Horsley, this was old news. The two entomologists are no strangers to eating insects with their colleagues. “The trick is convincing non-entomologists that it’s a valid food source, and that it tastes good,” Horsley said. Perhaps the evening’s biggest success was that it had. “Mealworms are delicious,” one afficionado said on the second-floor landing. “I’d love to have mealworm chips.”
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NEW COURSE ON HORSES CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 mistreated. The Teamsters refute those charges of abuse and cast drivers as an iconic part of New York City. Polls show that the public, meanwhile, is mostly opposed to the ban while support for a ban in the city council is tepid at best. NY Class spent about $1 million attacking de Blasio’s chief rival, former city council speaker Christine Quinn, in 2013’s democratic mayoral primary. Their support was based on de Blasio’s campaign promise to enact a ban if elected. But for the past two years his efforts to ban the industry have failed due to a lack of political support. In August he appeared to have all but given up on the issue saying it was in the hands of city council members. As for the new proposal, both sides appear to be taking a wait and see approach. “NY Class’ number one priority is and has always been the safety of carriage horses. We need to see more details, and frankly, we need to see action and not just promises,” said the group in a statement. “But we will continue to work with the mayor and city leaders to protect the horses.” The group deferred any additional comment until after the bill is written. The Teamsters, meanwhile, indicated that they’re open to compromise but are also waiting for more information. “New Yorkers have made it clear that they stand behind the carriage drivers and want this iconic institution to stay,” said George Miranda, President of Teamsters Joint Council 16. “We have always been open to compromise, but the Teamsters would accept nothing short of preserving the horse carriage industry and the livelihoods of our members.” De Blasio passed up an opportunity to expand on the bill at a news conference last week, telling reporters that his administration is in the middle of a back-and-forth with members of the city council. Elizabeth Forel, president of the Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages, said her group is disappointed in what appears to be a compromise on the issue. “The mayor promised a full ban on this inhumane and unsafe business and anything less is simply unacceptable,” she said. “There is no way this new proposal will work - beginning with taking public park land from the public for a private business. It is nothing more than a ploy to keep activists at bay while the mayor runs for reelection.” Forel said a “true compromise” would be to retrofit the existing carriages so they operate with motors not horses. “But the unions and drivers have to be willing,” she said. “If they do not agree, then the drivers will have to continue to endure people insulting them as animal abusers. Their choice.”
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WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE PARK HOLIDAY DECORATIONS TO SEE AND VISIT Signs of the holiday can be seen all around Central Park. View the largest menorah in the world at Grand Army Plaza (60th Street & Fifth Avenue), do some holiday shopping at the Columbus Circle holiday market, visit the dairy and see the giant holiday wreaths, and after dark view the Arsenal, the Harlem Meer and the Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, all of them lit up. Visit www.centralpark.com/ eventsto learn about our holiday sights guided tour.
KEEP MOVING, STAY WARM With the cooler weather upon us, it’s the perfect time to take a well-paced hike, ride or run through the park to get your blood flowing. Adventure through the Ramble or the North Woods and you might think you are in the Adirondacks instead of in the heart of the city. There’s also warmth in numbers, so if you’re looking to explore the park with others we offer a variety of group walking, running and biking tours that will keep you moving and give you that cardiovascular workout. Go to centralpark. com/guide/tours for more
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Celebrate the season at their 19th Annual Holiday Lighting on Dec. 3. Meet Santa and friends, watch a live ice-carving demonstration, sing carols on the Plaza, and warm up with hot cocoa and cookies starting at 5:30 p.m. and going until 6:30 p.m. at the Charles A Dana Discovery Center, just inside the park at 110th Street, between Lenox and Fifth Avenues. For more info visit centralpark.com/events
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LAST WEEK’S ANSWER Fort Clinton. This overlook marks the site of a military fortification built during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. From high and rocky ground, with expansive views that can still be experienced today, it’s clear why this was an important strategic position. In the 1860s, the park’s designers recognized both the scenic and historic value of this location, and retained the original topography and remains of the fortification. The Central Park Conservancy rebuilt Fort Clinton in 2014, recreating some
of the historic details and improving the site with new paving, planting, and furnishings that are more rustic in character and aim to better capture the views of Harlem Meer and beyond. The two cannons were also conserved and reinstalled, after being in storage for 40 years. Congratulations to Joe Ornstein and Marisa Lohse who pinpointed it correctly, honorable mention to Nancy Brennerand, Gregory Holman and Bill Ferrarini for labeling last week’s question correctly.
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THE ANIMALS WILL BE BLESSED EAST SIDE ENCOUNTERS BY ARLENE KAYATT
A blessing event: They’ll arrive primped and pretty, proud and preening. They’ll have waited all year. Dogs and cats. Birds and bunnies. Maybe a goat. Some will strut, others may struggle. Some will be bright-eyed and bushy tailed, others may wiggle and waffle. Some will be rescues. Others pure bred. On Sunday, Dec. 13, they all will be one as they walk the red carpet in the sanctuary of Christ Church for Cindy Adams’s 7th Annual Blessing of the Animals to the caroling of The Roosevelt High School Choir. Bestowing the blessings will be Christ Church’s Senior Minister Stephen Bauman and Central Synagogue’s Rabbi Emeritus Peter J. Rubinstein. WHEN: Sunday, Dec. 13 at 2 p.m. WHERE: Christ Church, 60th and Park Ave. The sanctuary is always SRO. No RSVPs. People bring their pets. Pets bring their people. Among the regulars each year are Cindy’s beautiful Yorkies Jazzy and Juicy, Moses the pug, Samson the hound, Hazel the happy brown tiger tabby who is blind in one eye, and yappy Noodle the jumping up and down black poodle. We’ll be looking for Mary and Joseph, a pair of shih tzus, and Vanushka the Russian Blue kitty and Velvel the frisky chihuahua. It’s a proud day and a proud roster of presenters - The NY Post, Peter Kalikow, John Catsimatides, Cornell Veterinary and the Baker Institute for Animal Health - joining Cindy for her “only in NY” blessing event. Go Kaia: It’s not often that a fundraiser is something to look forward to, but it is when it’s at Upper East Side Assemblyman Dan Quart’s annual holiday party at Kaia Wine Bar, a five-year-old establishment on Third Ave. (between 90th/91st). Owner Suzaan Hauptfleisch, who is from South Africa, is a
whirlwind of knowledge and savvy about South African wine and food. Suzaan will tell you all about the sustainable wines of her country and the origin of the food coming out of Kaia’s kitchen, including why only her mom’s recipe for bread - which is made on premises - is served. The bobotie entree - egg custard (spiced beef with egg custard, chutney, tumeric rice and raisins served in a ceramic dish) - is a must-have. At Dan’s event, it was served bite-size, like little pies. Sausage (boerewors) is home made with pork and beef. To die for is a lamb burger served with Kaia’s pickled cucumbers, plum chutney and local Roquefort on brioche. An Equinnox pop-up office just set up shop right next door to Kaia. An Equinnox health club is coming to the new Related building on 92nd St off Third. Not bad. Join the health club. Have a work out. Then some wine. The good life on the UES. Busing 101: Recorded announcement on uptown M103: “It’s against NY law to assault your bus driver. Anyone who does will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.” Seated rider, to no one in particular, “Have to take that one off my bucket list.” No brainer. A sea of blue: A show of hands - 9:30-ish, weekday morning. Bus stop at 86th/3rd: MTA transit officers in blue standing or milling around the 86th side of Banana Republic ready to serve or pounce. Hard to tell why what looked like a posse or an armada was needed - terrorist alert? gunman in the area? someone, something gone or going amok? Hardly. No sooner did the Select pull into the stop than the men in blue charged through the open doors and shouted in unison, “Hold up your tickets.” Up went a sea of arms clutching and waving proof that they’d paid their fare. To preserve and protect? Please. Militia tactics are nonsensical and a colossal
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waste of MTA funds. Better to use resources for better service - like getting more buses making local stops and cutting down on the never-ending Not In Service buses. These buses, sometimes (sometimes not) with passengers on board but not picking up new riders, must serve a purpose (I’d like to know what that requires 8 to 12 a day) besides creating gridlock and causing agita. Noon notes: Imagine a piano player playing piano in the lobby of an office building mid-day in mid-Manhattan? That’s the gig thanks to Paramount Group, which manages office towers in Manhattan. Two hours a day a piano player plays within the lobby space of the several office buildings Paramount manages. A delightful oasis amid the hustle, bustle, cells and sounds of NY. Marquee madness: Who is behind the notion that a movie house marquee should not display the films that are playing there? AMC theater on 86th/3rd gives you a dot com address to contact if you want to know what’s playing. Weird. Maybe they’re too cheap to pay workers to do the job. Until they stopped, each week workers could be seen standing on ladders and displaying letters that would spell out the film titles that would be playing starting that weekend. No more - and, if you walk into the lobby to see what’s playing, you’ll need a magnifying glass or 3D glasses because of the small size of the font and the background color of the signage. It’s all the more annoying if you’re passing AMC on a bus, can’t find out what’s playing, and have to keep riding. Arlene Kayatt’s East Side Encounters runs bi-weekly in Our Town. Know of something she should include in the column? Email her at news@strausnews. com
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NEW YORK’S FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE OP-ED ALEX PALMER
While many New Yorkers might assume that Rockefeller Plaza has always been home to the city’s official tree lighting, for two decades the big event took place about 30 blocks south of 30 Rock, in a gathering that served as a model for the rest of the country. In December 1912, Madison Square Park played host to New York’s first citywide Christmas tree. The idea of a big outdoor gathering to light up a tree was a novel one — most people celebrating the holiday did so in their homes, and any other large holiday celebrations had generally taken place in churches, bazaars, or theaters. But in 1912, the city banded together to erect the first truly public tree in the country. Unlike this year’s celebration, which gives New Yorkers a month to enjoy the evergreen smell and glittering lights, the city’s first tree didn’t light up until Christmas Eve. It was a striking evergreen, sourced from the forests of the Adirondacks and hauled to Madison Square Park. Instead of “Christmas Tree,” this was called the “Tree of Light” in newspapers and in promotions, and with good reason: illuminating it required 2,300 colored electric bulbs (city officials had only planned on 1,300 lights, creating a last-minute scramble as it was being prepared). On the big day, crowds began gathering in the snow-covered park by early afternoon, with thousands there by the
time church bells chimed at 4:50. Finally, as 25,000 New Yorkers pressed together in the park, a call of trumpets announced something the city had never seen before: the lighting of a huge public Christmas tree. As the electric bulbs ignited, including the brilliant “Star of Bethlehem” at the top of the tree, the crowd cheered. This kicked off a night of singing and music that lasted until midnight, with local choirs and bands performing carols and Christmas standards. The soprano Eva Emmet Wycoff sang “O Holy Night,” and when she finished, the crowd called for an encore, to which Wycoff agreed. Sausages and coffee were served to the attendees. A group of 200 Boy Scouts helped facilitate the festivities, running messages to the organizers and helping guide the crowd. A band played “The Star Spangled Banner,” continuing on until a midnight performance of “America,” closing out the evening. The lights were shut off shortly after midnight, but the tree would be lit up every evening for the rest of the month, until the final lighting on New Year’s Eve. The celebration served as a cheery civic gathering, but its goal was also to provide the city’s less fortunate with a place to enjoy the holiday. “This is a real Christmas for me,” one woman told her friend, according to The New York Times. “Those rich people who give so much money away on Christmas always get the idea that the poor need something to eat. They forget that we also like to look at nice
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things and hear lovely music.” The rapturous response to the Tree of Light led immediately to plans for the ceremony to continue the following year. But it was not just New York City that was excited by the proceedings. The next year, dozens of other cities followed Gotham’s lead. Chicagoans gathered around a commanding 75-foot tree in 1913, lit to the chorus of the city’s Grand Opera Company. Cincinnati introduced a 45-foot-high Christmas tree. Detroit, Baltimore, Jersey City, and about 50 other cities lit up their first municipal Christmas trees in 1913, all following New York’s successful example from the year before. This community Christmas celebration that originated in New York would spread through press coverage, pamphlets, and instructional books that offered details on how cities could host their own tree lighting. In 1923, President Calvin Coolidge would light up the country’s first National Christmas Tree in President’s Park. But as the grand tree-lighting tradition proliferated, the city that did it first continued to do it biggest. The NYC tree lighting continued for two more decades in Madison Square Park before moving to Rockefeller Center in 1933, where it continues to reign today as the grandest Christmas tree lighting in the country. Alex Palmer is the author of the new Christmas history book The Santa Claus Man: The Rise and Fall of a Jazz Age Con Man and the Invention of Christmas in New York, out now from Lyons Press.
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Leaning Into the Holidays BY BETTE DEWING harlie Brown might agree that making “everydays” better is what holy/holidays like Christmas/Chanukah, are very much about. I say, ditto for birthdays and the greater the number, the greater the need for follow-up caring support. Surely related is the six-week series on the post-retirement life of now 85-year-old Upper East Sider, Hank Blum. The series, which run in this paper, is called “Exceeding Expectations,” and is produced by The Robert N.Butler Columbia Aging Center which also chronicles the lives of 20 other elder New Yorkers. I might add that the late Dr. Robert Butler coined the term “ageism” decades ago and I was a member of his sadly last 2010 Age Boom Academy for journalists who often write about elder conditions. Now Hank Blum is one of the more advantaged elders -- financially secure, with a wife and adult children and grandchildren, emotionally and physically close. He’s still able to do subway stairs (!), but during the day he’s often on his own. and very much relies on eateries where he is known by name and you can still have just a coffee or snack.
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Save the Everyday Places Most disastrously, such places are being killed off by skyrocketing real estate values, and my last column hoped the Blums would join the East 79th and East Sixties Neighborhood Associations’ battles to save these places which so meet everyday needs. And shop local, because even supermarkets like D’Agostino’s on York between 79th and 80th are vulnerable with the advent of Fairway, Fresh Direct and big box stores. But D’Agostio’s dedicated former manager, Joe Mojica, is back and promised the E. 79th group to make the store “better than ever.” Not only elder people need these brick and mortar markets.
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And not only elder walkers need safe travel conditions either although they are the prime victims of the unsafe kind. And while actively opposed by these two civic groups, there’s a long way to go, Hank Blum.
Holiday Sing-along Oh yes, 212-713-5826 is the phone number of the East Sixties group which holds its annual Holiday Sing, December 10 at 6 p.m. on the S.E. corner of First and 67th Street. Ah, sing-a-longs in general, are so “good for what ails us,” and for those with lung problems like Hank Blum’s. And the Blums might also join the 19th Pct. Community Council. Call 212 452 0613 for information, and share concerns which need attention like unsafe traffic conditions.
Church Mergers But the Blum series didn’t mention any faith group involvement, a resource elder people especially depend upon. The recent merger of city churches has cost thousands of Catholics their home parish which were close by and also “disability accessible.” This was surely on this protestant’s mind at the St. Stephen of Hungary’s 7th Thanksgiving Dinner for the Community. Although now officially merged with St. Monica’s, it’s still able to have an 11:30 Mass for the Hearing Disabled and host this church memberproduced dinner until St. Monica’s automatic outdoor lift is in place. (St. Stephen’s
has an indoor lift and an indoor elevator.) Newspaper reporters from Ireland were there to cover the innovative Thanksgiving Community Dinner and the church merger effect. They also learned of meeting place losses for groups like A.A., and related to elder resources, hard to find low-cost exercise classes.
Macy’s and Charlie Brown Now elders like Blum and me grew up in the great department store era, and thank heavens for Macy’s and its wonderful “Charlie Brown’s Christmas” windows honoring this TV classic’s 50th birthday. Surely no other Minnesotan has done as much over-all good as its creator, Charles Schulz. And hurrah for a Charlie Brown Christmas Forever stamp and for real mail all year!
Park Avenue Memorial Trees Ah, but too few know, maybe even WW II generation, Hank Blum, that the fir trees lining Park Avenue are there to honor all who made the ultimate sacrifice in this nation’s wars and that this sacred tradition was started by several bereaved mothers after Word War II. The Park Avenue Memorial Trees will be lit on December 6 (hey, that’s my birthday) – they are surely what the peace and goodwill season is about - for all ages and backgrounds. And surely more follow-up is needed on Hank Blum’s life as he grows older. dewingbetter@aol.com
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Americas Society, 680 Park Ave. 7 p.m. Members, free; nonmembers, $10. Alina GarcĂa-Lapuerta lectures on MarĂa de las Mercedes Santa Cruz, also known as the Comtesse Merlin, the subject of her biography “La Belle CrĂŠole.â€? 212-277-8353. www. as-coa.org/events/la-bellecr%C3%A9ole-cuban-countesswho-captivated-havana-madridand-paris
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, 421 East 61st St. Dec. 4-5, 6:15 & 7:30 p.m. Step into the holiday season of 1830, take a tour by the warm glow of candlelight, enjoy historic caroling, and sample traditional confections and beverages. On Friday, meet “Flora,� the kitchen help, and hear about her 1830s holiday preparations. On Saturday, listen to the PACC Recorder Consort perform holiday and period music. Reservations recommended. 212-838-6878. www.mvhm. org/
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The Frick Collection, 1 East 70th St. 6–9 p.m. The Frick’s Free Nights program provides afterhours access to the museum and programs such as lectures, gallery talks, music,
67th Street Library, 328 East 67th St, between First and Second Avenues. 2-3:15 p.m. Mystery authors Cathi Stoler, Laura Joh Rowland, Catherine Maiorisi and Cynthia Benjamin read from their novels and short stories. 212-734-1717. www.nypl.org/ events/programs/2015/12/05/ sisters-crime-mystery-reading
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave., at 82nd Street 5-8 p.m. Free with museum admission. With the TransAtlantic Ensemble: Mariam Adam, clarinet, and Evelyn Ulex, piano. Works by D’Rivera, Poulenc, del Aguila, Gershwin and Sierra 212-535-7710. www. metmuseum.org/events/ďŹ ndevents
Sun 6 BRIGHT LIGHTS — BIG MENORAH Sutton Place and East 57th Street 4 p.m. Free People of all ages are invited to enjoy and celebrate Chanukah. 212-758-3770. www. chabadsutton.org
PETER & THE WOLF WITH ISAAC MIZRAHIâ–ş Guggenheim Museum, Peter B. Lewis Theater, 1071 Fifth Ave., at 89th Street 2:30 p.m. & 4 p.m. $25-$100 Isaac Mizrahi narrates Sergei ProkoďŹ ev’s charming children’s classic as Brad Lubman conducts Ensemble Signal, and a cast performs choreography by John Heginbotham. 212-423-3575. worksandprocess.org
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FIAF, Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th St. 4 & 7:30 p.m. Non-members, $14; students, $7; members, free day of, $3 in advance. Olivier Assayas’ 1998 ďŹ lm, “Fin aoĂťt, dĂŠbut septembre,â€? with Mathieu Amalric, Virginie Ledoyen. In French with English subtitles. 800-982-2787. www.ďŹ af. org/events/fall2015/2015-1208-cs-august.shtml
CLAUDIA RANKINE 92nd Street Y, Lexington Avenue and 92nd Street. 8:15 p.m. From $22 Poet Claudia Rankine reads from “Citizen,� her recent meditation on race in America, then sits for a conversation on art, trauma and social justice with Cleonie White and Sarah Stemp, clinicians from the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society. 212-415-5500. www.92y. org/Event/Claudia-Rankine.aspx
Albertine, 972 Fifth Ave. 7 p.m. Free One hundred years after Barthes’s birth, Michael Wood and Ben Kafka will discuss the impact of “Mythologiesâ€? on their work as critics and scholars of literature, ďŹ lm, history and psychoanalysis. 212-650–0070. www. albertine.com/events/barthesmythologies/
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ART OF LATIN AMERICA, CURATED BY STUDENTS EXHIBITION The show at Hunter College includes many works shown for the first time BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO
A group of Hunter College students are bringing little-seen artworks, and new research, to the public. “Boundless Reality: Traveler Artists’ Landscapes of Latin America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection,” a selection of more than 150 works, was curated by Harper Montgomery and her graduate students at Hunter College. The exhibition runs through January 23 at the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College on 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, and at the Americas Society Art Gallery a block away on Park Avenue. All pieces in the exhibition are from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, one of the world’s most extensive holdings of Latin American art, Montgomery said. The exhibition marks the first public showing of many of the works. “Most of them haven’t really been studied before so not only are they being shown for the first time but it’s the first time there’s an academic inter-
est in these works,” said Anna Ficek, a master’s candidate at Hunter College and one of the student curators. “I think that it’s a very fertile field for further study.” As part of an ongoing partnership between Hunter College and the Cisneros collection, which provides students access to the private collection for research and coursework, master’s candidates in Montgomery’s fall 2014 seminar on 19th-century Latin American landscapes completed in-depth research on specific works, worked on the exhibition across its two venues and wrote catalogue entries for the accompanying publication, which appear alongside essays by premier scholars in the field, including the book’s editor, Katherine Manthorne. “It’s extremely compelling to do writing that the public will read, to think about your research and writing not just as a paper you will hand in at the end of the semester,” said Montgomery, the Cisneros assistant professor of modern and contemporary Latin American art at Hunter College. Montgomery also noted that, while many of the works are on view to the public for the first time, the show is itself unprecedented because it’s the first exhibition of traveler artist’s
paintings of Latin America in the United States. The curatorial work becomes part of the students’ professional portfolios, said Jennifer Raab, president of Hunter College, an asset for those entering the job market. “They researched the objects from perspectives that had never been taken before,” said Raab. “Their research was groundbreaking, was new, and it was exactly what you ask your faculty to do, and in this case that was our students. To approach art and science from a new perspective and come to new conclusions.” Pulling from the collection’s holdings of work by traveler artists, the exhibition focuses mostly on pieces from the mid-19th century, after the independence of Latin American territories eased access for travelers to the region. The presentation of mostly landscape paintings at the Hunter gallery, such as Franz Post’s cloudy “View of Frederica City in Paraiba” from 1638, one of the earliest works in the show, examines the “conventions of landscape” and the European influences on the works, like adding details to create depth of field, said Ficek. Also on view in the small gallery is American painter Frederic Edwin
Church’s “Cotopaxi” from 1853, a work from the same journey through Ecuador that resulted in the artist’s famed “The Heart of the Andes,” Ficek explained, which is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Expedition is the focus at the Americas Society less than a block away, including an extensive showing of the work of artist Auguste Morisot from his expedition with French explorer Jean Chaffanjon. The travelers followed the Orinoco River, said Silvia Benedetti, one of Montgomery’s students who acted as a curatorial assistant for the exhibition. Morisot’s many monotypes, watercolors and graphite sketches of the local flora and fauna, people and surroundings he encountered along the river are central at the venue. This portion of the exhibit also includes early photographs. As part of their coursework, students in Montgomery’s seminar wrote exhibition proposals and presented their ideas to the galleries at Hunter and the Americas Society, and to the Cisneros collection, a process that started about a year ago. “That was the first step to organize the exhibition,” she said. Design studio Project Projects designed the two-venue show and simi-
lar elements pop up at both galleries. Walls of pale pink and deep green are found at both locations, as well as wooden display cases for illustrated books and the small objects from Morisot’s travels. Through the classroom curatorial process students helped determine which pieces would appear in the show and how they’d be presented, a process that, paired with a semester’s worth of research on the objects and their contexts, yielded a lot of discussion about what to include, Montgomery said. About half the traveler artist works in the Cisneros collection appear in the show, narrowed down in part by the students in Montgomery’s seminar. Students were also involved in developing related programming, including landscape tours of Central Park and an upcoming talk with Argentine artist Eduardo Navarro, a guest artist with the college’s visiting artists and critics program, another aspect of the partnership. “I think conventional wisdom is nothing by committee is done well, it’s better to have a single voice,” Montgomery said. “I would definitely argue that this exhibition proves that theory wrong.”
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ACTIVITIES FOR THE FERTILE MIND
FOR THE WEEK BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO OUR ARTS EDITOR
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Stacy Schiff, The Witches: Salem, 1692
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8TH, 6:30PM Temple Israel | 112 E. 75th St. | 212-249-5000 | templeisraelnyc.org Penetrate the panic and persecution that gripped Massachusetts in 1692, the infamous year of the Salem Witch Trials, in this lecture by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff. ($10-$15)
NUTCRACKER WINTER SUITE Ballet students from Valentina Kozlova Dance Conservatory of New York perform some of the cherished numbers from the “The Nutcracker,” including the snow scene and the “Waltz of the Flowers,” performed to Tchaikovsky’s iconic score. Nutcracker Winter Suite Saturday, Dec. 5 Symphony Space 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street 3 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Tickets $40 To purchase tickets, call 212-864-5400 or visit symphonyspace.org
Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts: Phantom Breweries of the Upper East Side
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9TH, 6:30PM Ryan’s Daughter | 350 E. 85th St. | 212-535-2526 | friends-ues.org The UES was fertile ground for breweries in the late 19th century. Learn more about Ehret’s Hell Gate Brewery and its brethren, with a local craft beer tasting to follow. ($20)
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KIDS LES NUBIANS AND TAMMY HALL AT FIAF As part of the French Institute Alliance Française’s Family Saturdays program, musicians Hélène and Célia Faussart, who perform as Les Nubians, play a show for kids, teaching the young audience about African music and its impact on genres like jazz and R&B. Tammy Hall leads a storytelling session, with stories from Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago and other parts of the globe. Kids are invited to join in the music-making. Saturday, Dec. 5 French Institute Alliance Française 22 E. 60th St., between Park and Madison Avenues 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Admission $25 for Les Nubians; $10 for Tammy Hall For more information, visit fiaf.org or call 212355-6100
GALLERIES CHELSEA GALLERY TOUR Former college professor turned gallery tour guide Rafael Risemberg has led gallery tours for the last 13 years. This week he guides a tour through the city’s leading gallery district, with stops at seven modern galleries. Rain or shine. Saturday, Dec. 5 Meet at 526 W. 26th St., between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues 1 p.m. Tickets $25 To reserve tickets, visit nygallerytours.com or call 212-946-1548 for more information
in her Upper West Side home, celebrates the 175 birthday of Tchaikovsky with a solo performance of some of the composer’s works, including “Deux Morceaux,” “Dumka,” and the seasonal favorite “The Nutcracker Suite.” Dec. 9 and 13 Private residence Address provided upon ticket purchase Dec. 9 at 7 p.m.; Dec. 13 at 5 p.m. Tickets $25 To purchase tickets, visit http:// yelenagrinberg.com/grinberg-salon-series/ or email ygpiano@gmail.com for more information
MUSEUMS EXPERIENCE INDIA AT THE RUBIN MUSEUM Tied to its exhibition of photographs of life in India by Steve McCurry, the Rubin Museum of Art hosts an evening of events, including a discussion about yoga practices and a music performance by the Acoustic Mandala Project, which will be joined by percussionist Dan Kurfirst. The museum stays open until 9 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 9 The Rubin Museum of Art 150 W. 17th St., near Seventh Avenue 6-9 p.m. Museum admission $15 For more information, call 212-620-5000 or visit rubinmuseum.org
MUSIC CELEBRATING TCHAIKOVSKY AT 175 Bringing her current season to a close, pianist Yelena Grinberg, who hosts a classical salon series
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In Brief
Food & Drink
REMAKING A RITUAL REPAST Sunday supper makes a comeback
BY LIZ NEUMARK
Photo: TheGiantVermin, via Flickr
SALT WARNINGS COMING TO MENUS Menus at the city’s chain eateries will now sport salt shaker labels next to certain dishes, designed to note which items include 2,300 milligrams of sodium, the Daily News reported. Chain restaurants with at least 15 locations must post the label next to foods that meet or surpass that amount, the recommended daily limit of sodium. Restaurants that don’t comply are subject to $200 fines from the city’s Health Department. The National Restaurant Association is filing a lawsuit against the department, Politico New York reported, with spokesperson Christin Fernandez saying that the mandate will hurt small businesses.
VIC’S PIZZA CLOSES Pizza joint Vic’s Pizza has served its last slice, amNewYork reported. The downtown spot, which operated on Essex Street for 45 years, closed last weekend as the building owner, Interboro Properties, looks to take down the building. Owner Victor Mendez said that neighboring businesses were shuttering as well. After looking for another space to rent in the neighborhood, Mendez decided to “shut it down,” he told amNewYork, as rents in the Lower East Side are now too high.
Exit Thanksgiving with its celebration of family and friendships, headline hogging recipes and endless innovative advice for leftovers. Now begins the run-up to an even more anxiety provoking holiday, a mash up of idyllic gift giving, picture perfect family time and of course, more creative if not traditionally inspired, cooking. The centrality of gathering around the table at holiday time is of course not limited to Thanksgiving and Christmas. Add Passover, Easter, Jewish New Year, Kwanza and other religious or secular holidays, and the list mushrooms. And though the feasting is legendary, so is the apprehension of family reunions, taxing travel logistics and general domestic stress that accompanies command performances. For weeks, an under-celebrated ritual has been rolling around in my head: the Sunday Supper. It sounds — well — so simple and evocative and seductive. Upon further examination, while it appears to be a contemporary trend (might I say a foodiemillennial-trendy-reconnection to lost values) but it has very real and deep roots in several American family traditions. The practice of a Sunday supper originated with families gathering after church for a full meal in England and Europe, countries with deep Christian heritage. Ask someone about his or her Sunday supper experience, and there is an immediate transformation of demeanor and I bet a sharp drop in blood pressure, as though one is instantly transported to a magical faraway place. I am jealous and enchanted as the Sunday dinners of my childhood were on the fly and consisted of “LO’s,”
Sunday Supper is fashionable again. Pictured, a 1919 edition of the meal. Photo: Don O’Brien, via Flickr leftovers, the result of growing up in a traditional Jewish household, where both Friday night and Saturday lunch were with family. So I set about to ask friends and colleagues about their Sunday supper memories. Diane Dilbert, of Scandinavian/Italian heritage, had Sunday supper in the early afternoon for 22 years, till her dad passed; the church going ended in her late teens. Pot roast, ham, turkey, and potatoes were typical fare — her mom worked full time, cooked nightly and the food was tasty. Now she has Sunday supper with her husband’s Jewish family, a happy evolution. David Copper, a chef, is from Queens, but with deep Southern roots via his North Carolina grandmother. He wistfully recalls an all-pork meal every Sunday evening as a child. “It was homey; with sweet potatoes, mac & cheese, collard greens and fried food.” Mark Greico’s family ate promptly at 3 p.m. It was always Italian food, a big meal,
even when it was 90 degrees out he remembers with a smile. Church? Well, that was only until his confirmation. Grandpa Gustavio commanded the kitchen, setting a good example for Mark who was to become a chef of equal passion. Another chef, Mark Russell, with Scotch/Welsh/Canadian/Upper Michigan roots, described the sequence as “Roast in, go to church, back to eat. Most often, top round or rump roast.” Once the family moved, the ritual was replaced with Sunday breakfast at a local restaurant with the nuclear family. Sunday supper continues as a special time for families but it is a far less common, eroded by scheduling demands, detachment from church-going rituals, eclipsed by sport commitments (TV or participatory) and other modern day pulls. In Georgia, The HandsOn Network hosted a Sunday supper in 2011; “Inspired by the legacy of Dr. King, America’s Sunday Supper invites people from diverse back-
grounds to come together to share a meal, discuss issues that affect their community and highlight the power each one of us has to make a difference.” And the Emily Post Institute offers tips for a “successful Sunday Supper” for bringing people together without the formality of a Saturday night dinner and the early finish of a school night gathering. Online, there is sundaysuppermovement.com, which offers and on on-line food community with recipes and events, and yes, brand sponsorships. Sunday supper is creeping back into fashion, whether by activist communities or individuals hungry for the simplicity of home cooked meal and family face time. There is a revived social as well as culinary component, connecting the supper to southern heritage and regional recipes such as Gumbo and Creole style dishes from New Orleans in a cooking class in Berkeley, California. Food blogs promote the meal as “a special occasion to look
forward to and can make the end of the weekend seem brighter.” Sunday supper encourages families to cook and sit down to eat together. That alone merits our commendation. It presents an opportunity for young people to hone social and table skills, how appropriate and necessary. It encourages conversation and banishes ubiquitous electronic devices to the sidelines, how positively refreshing! And, unlike thanksgiving, Passover or Christmas, the next day is a workday — so the meal won’t go on forever so you don’t have to plan a timely escape. If you have a Sunday supper tradition, please share it with me, along with any recipes and menus. I would love to hear more about this simple yet rich custom. Liz Neumark is the CEO of Great Performances catering and the author of the cookbook “Sylvia’s Table.”
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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS
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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. Shanghai Chinese Restaurant
1388 2 Avenue
A
Marymount College Nugents Cafe
221 East 71St Street
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Szechuan Gourmet
1395 2Nd Ave
B (16) 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.
5 Napkin
1325 2Nd Ave
Not Yet Graded (2)
Tanoshi Sushi Saki Bar
1372 York Avenue
A
Mel’s Burger
1450 2Nd Ave
A
Garden Court Cafe (Asia Society)
725 Park Ave
A
Voila 76
1452 2 Avenue
A
Oita Sushi
1317A 2Nd Ave
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Bkb
321 East 73 Street
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Seamstress
339 East 75 Street
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Cafe Luka
1319 1 Avenue
A
Cilantro
1321 1 Avenue
A
Dunkin’ Donuts
411 East 70 Street
B (16) 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. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
World Cup Cafe
956 Lexington Avenue C (31) Food from unapproved or unknown source or home canned. Reduced oxygen packaged (ROP) fish not frozen before processing; or ROP foods prepared on premises transported to another site. Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations. 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.
Eats
1055 Lexington Avenue
B (18) Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. 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/sewageassociated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies.
4Th Floor Cafe
221 East 71St Street
A
Hotel Carlyle
35 East 76 Street
A
Caffe Bacio
1223 3 Avenue
Grade Pending (36) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, crosscontaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
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1446 1St Ave
Not Yet Graded (2)
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987 Lexington Ave
Not Yet Graded
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525 East 71 Street
A
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967 Lexington Avenue A
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NEW COMMISSIONER FOR SMALL BUSINESS SERVICES Mayor Bill de Blasio has named Gregg Bishop as the Commissioner of Small Business Services, a promotion from his previous role as deputy commissioner of the agency’s Business Development Division. “Gregg hits the ground running. His resume
speaks for itself,” said de Blasio in a statement. “The work he has done to assist immigrants and women entrepreneurs proves no one is more qualified to support NYC’s small business community and run the agency than he is.”
In Brief ONE MILLION TREES Mayor Bill de Blasio recently joined NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver, former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and New York Restoration Project’s Bette Midler to celebrate the planting of the one millionth tree of the MillionTreesNYC initiative two years ahead of schedule. The mayor planted tree number 1,017,634, an American linden, at Joyce Kilmer Park in the Bronx. At the event, de Blasio was also joined by NYRP Executive Director Deborah Marton, elected officials, third graders from PS35 Franz Siegel, and dedicated volunteers. City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito said the initiative has transformed New York City in all five boroughs and helped reduce the city’s carbon footprint. “This critically important initiative builds on the council’s on-going efforts to make our city more sustainable and environmentally friendly and I thank Mayor Bloomberg, Mayor de Blasio and all of our partners for making this program a tremendous success,” said Mark-Viverito. New York Restoration Project Founder Bette Midler said, “There are now one million more reasons why New York is the greatest city in the world. Nine years ago, planting one million trees was a far-fetched idea. Today, we’ve done the impossible. One million trees means that every single New Yorker has a little more green space in their life. I’ve always loved this city, but I’ve never been more proud to call it home.” Midler also said the Empire State Building was lit in forest green to symbolize the city becoming more sustainable.
EDC SAYS UNEMPLOYMENT DOWN The city’s Economic Development Corporation said unemployment is down 3.3 percent since Mayor Bill de Blasio took office. “We are laser-focused on growing this economy and making sure it works for more New Yorkers,” said Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development Alicia Glen. “And what we are seeing is tremendous. Jobs are up. Wages are up. More New Yorkers have access to benefits like paid sick leave and a living wage. We’re determined to deepen these trends.” EDC President Maria Torres-Springer said the agency’s mission is to grow quality jobs across the five boroughs, and “these numbers show not just more jobs, but better jobs for New Yorkers.” Torres-Springer touted growth in the healthcare and tech sectors and said the trend points to more people being on pathways to careers in well-paying fields. “These numbers are extremely exciting, and we will continue to work to create even more quality jobs here in New York City,” she added. The state’s Department of Labor recently released jobs numbers in New York City for October, and found that unemployment rate has reached its lowest level since August 2006, dropping a full four tenths of a percentage point since last month from 5.2 percent to 4.8 percent, putting it below the national unemployment rate for the first time since June 2011. The city also gained 47,700 jobs last month on a pre-seasonally adjusted basis, well above the typical number for October. Growth was especially strong in healthcare, retail, and finance over the last year, according to the EDC. Average weekly earnings for New York City private sector workers are up 2.4 percent from last year, and the agency added there are currently 4,255,100 total jobs in New York City.
Business As commissioner, Bishop is charged with directing the agency’s mission of unlocking economic potential and creating economic security by connecting New Yorkers to good jobs, creating stronger businesses, and building a fairer economy in neighborhoods across
the five boroughs, said City Hall. Bishop has served as Deputy Commissioner of SBS since early 2012, and started his career at SBS in 2008 under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He also has worked at leading media companies, such as Oxygen and VIBE.
BLACK FRIDAY’S EARLY START NEWS The unofficial kickoff for holiday shopping moved up a day this year, to Thanksgiving BY ANNE D’INNOCENZIO
Black Friday used to kick off the holiday shopping season, but this year Thanksgiving Day was the new tradition for some shoppers. Macy’s officials said about 15,000 people were at the 6 p.m. opening at its flagship store in Manhattan. An hour and a half before the Toys R Us in New York’s Times Square opened at 5 p.m., about 40 people stood in line. And at the 24-hour Wal-Mart store in Naperville, Illinois, the aisles were clogged with people and carts by 6 p.m., when employees began pulling shrink wrap off palettes of merchandise to mark the official start of Black Friday deals. Outside, the scene was much the same. With the parking lot filled to capacity, drivers circled slowly looking for spaces, causing a backup of traffic trying to pull into the lot. Some gave up and parked in the near-empty lot of a fitness center and a Starbucks across the street. “It’s the worst wonderful time of the year!” an employee laughed as he collected shopping carts. Shopper Julie Desireau snagged a $10 crockpot and the last $10 deep fryer and promptly hid them under a rack of women’s flannel pajamas. Then the 29-year-old called her husband, who was in the toy department with their cart, and told him to come pick her up. “There’s no way I’m going back there,” she said. After opening earlier and earlier on the holiday, this year, most of the more than dozen major retailers like Macy’s, Target and Kohl’s opened around the same time they did last year -- about 5 p.m. or 6 p.m. One big exception: J.C. Penney, which opened two hours earlier at 3 p.m. on
the holiday. Staples reversed course and was closed on the holiday. Sporting goods chain REI, which was always closed on Thanksgiving, also bowing out of Black Friday altogether and asked employees and customers to spend time outdoors and not go shopping. Still, stores weren’t waiting around to push discounts on holiday goods until the official weekend. Increasingly, they’ve been discounting holiday merchandise earlier in the month. In fact, according to the National Retail Federation, the nation’s largest retail trade group, nearly 60 percent of holiday shoppers had already started holiday shopping as of Nov. 10. Overall, the National Retail Federation estimates that about 135.8 million consumers shopped Thanksgiving weekend, compared with 133.7 million last year. The trade group expects about 30 million shopped on Thanksgiving, compared with 99.7 million on Black Friday. The group also expects a 3.7 percent increase in sales this year to $630.5 billion for the season. But grabbing those dollars will be tough. While the economy has been improv-
ing, shoppers remain tight-fisted. Unemployment has settled into a healthy 5 percent rate, but shoppers still grapple with stagnant wages that are not keeping pace with rising daily costs like rent. Stores also are contending with an increasing shift to researching and buying online. In response, Wal-Mart and Target made all deals available later in the stores online Thanksgiving morning. New this year at Target: shoppers who spent $75 or more on Friday received a 20 percent discount to use toward a future purchase on any day between Dec. 4 and Dec. 13. Target CEO Brian Cornell told reporters on a conference call Thursday night that early results show that the discount chain is seeing higher traffic at its stores than last year and shoppers are buying items across the store, from clothing to electronics to toys. He also said that he has been pleased with strong results in online sales. Among some of the most popular doorbuster deals is a Westinghouse TV, marked down to $249.99, a savings of $350, he said. Target also offered 40 percent off of all fashion and accessories. “This is the start of a really good shopping season,” he said. But not everyone is impressed with the Thanksgiving lines. By about an hour before Toys R Us in Times Square opened the line swelled to over 100. “Black Friday isn’t what it used to be,” said Keith Nelson, 54, who was third in line after arriving about 2:15. “Lines used to be longer, people would be sleeping and bringing lounge chairs out here.’’ Lisa Gutierrez thought her strategy of waiting to go shopping until after kickoff of Thursday night’s NFL game was a good one. Until she arrived at the Target near her home and found out the flat screen TVs she had her eye on were sold out almost immediately after the store opened at 6 p.m. “That’s a bummer,” she said. On the bright side, “at least it’s not a total madhouse in here.”
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THINKING TWICE ABOUT PETS AS GIFTS
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PETS What happens when the cute puppie of the holidays becomes the family dog? BY MELISSA TREUMAN
The holiday season is a time for joy, and few images evoke as much joy as the beaming face of a loved one when presented with a new puppy or kitten. Rightfully so, as anyone who has shared their life with a fourlegged companion can tell you: pets change our lives for the better. Animal companionship provides us with friendship, laughter, love-- even benefits to our health and overall wellbeing. It’s no wonder that many people consider pets as holiday gifts for their loved ones. But is this a wise decision? Over the years many animal welfare groups have discouraged the idea of giving pets as presents. I know, what a bunch of killjoys. But the truth is, these groups aren’t trying to scrooge with your holidays. Rather, we are all trying to ensure that every animal that finds a home this holiday season is entering an environment where they are prepared for and welcomed with open arms. There is nothing more impor-
tant to any reputable animal rescue group than making compatible, lifelong matches between people and pets. In fact, here at Bideawee, that concept is at the very core of our mission: to cultivate and support the lifelong relationships between pets and the people who love them. While some might find the adoption process excessive, these protocols are in place to ensure successful matches, and minimize the prospect of returning a pet, which can be incredibly traumatic for both the adopter, and the animal. It’s important to remember, that while pets can provide a world of happiness to a family, they are also a big responsibility. The decision to adopt an animal is a serious one, and one that should be considered and discussed before the time comes. That being said, preparation and discussion can make
all the difference in the world. Research suggests that when these decisions are well thought out, animals given as gifts are less likely to be relinquished than dogs and cats that were spur of the moment or surprise decisions. If you want to present your loved one with a cuddly companion this holiday season, we’d suggest surprising them with a trip to an animal shelter, and bringing them face to face with their newest family member. When in doubt, think of it like a marriage proposal: the day itself can be a surprise, so long as the desire to spend the rest of your lives together isn’t. For more information about Bideawee and the organization’s adoptable animals, please visit www.bideawee.org. Happy Holidays to all two and four-legged families. Melissa Treuman is brand manager of marketing at Bideawee
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One change is the huge increase in the available wine selection. In the early days the shop had just six wines from California in the shop, Klugerman said. These days, K & D stocks several hundred wines from the Golden State. The wine sellers received a big boost in the late 1970s when The New York Times’ wine columnist called K & D “The great hole-in-the-wall wine store.” The columnist, Terry Robards, gave a specific shout out to a Cellole Chianti, which sold for $2.59 a bottle. That bottle now sells for $19.99.
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On the Friday morning after Thanksgiving, Courtney Conner, 55, dropped in to make her selections, as she has been doing since 1978. “I usually ask the staff for recommendations as they are so knowledgeable and friendly,” said Conner, who often shops with her 14-yearold cocker spaniel, Bubba. She’ll eventually settle on the newly arrived George Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau, released each year on the third Thursday of November. Ask him, and Klein will tell you his top pick is a Californian, a Caymus Vineyard cab-
ernet sauvignon. Klugerman is partial to France’s Burgundy region. “I love the travelling around the world for wine,” said Klein, who has visited vineyards throughout the West Coast as well as parts of France, Italy and elsewhere. “It’s a passion and it makes it easier to talk to customers when you’ve actually seen the hills where certain grapes have come from.” Klugerman appends a toast: “I wouldn’t want to do business anywhere else in the city.”
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“I love it ... the people, the product,” Richie Klein said. “If you have to work, a wine shop is not a bad place to be.”
marking the beginning of the end of Prohibition in March 1933 by signing a law that once again permitted the manufacture and sale of low-alcohol beer and light wines. Klugerman began working full time at K & D in 1982 and learned that good service is paramount. “We were always a ‘keep them happy no matter what’ organization,” he said. “If a delivery is, late for example, ‘Quick, put it in a taxi,’ they’d say,” he said. “That was how they were back then. A lot has changed but that philosophy remains the same.”
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A black-and-white photograph from 1939 hangs on a wall near the cash register. It’s President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s motorcade riding right past the then-5-year-old shop. FDR, of course, was a friend to wine purveyors everywhere,
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BUILDING A SCHOOL Dru Collins wants to graduate “social artists” into the city and the world BY ANGELA BARBUTI
The city will welcome a new charter school next year. Its mission will be to teach students skills that transcend their classroom experience. The Social Arts Academy of New York City, which will serve sixth to 12th graders, is slated to open its doors in September of 2017. Its principal, Dru Collins, is already working to create an environment that graduates “social artists,” which he defines as people who “think creatively about the issues and problems in the world and come up with outof-the-box solutions to them.” He has a vision that his students will emerge as community leaders, inspiring those around them to take action around issues of social justice and leave a lasting effect not just on our city, but throughout the world. A Texas native with 11 years of experience working in urban educational settings, Collins always dreamed of opening his own school close to home. Then, while on vacation here in 2012, he became enamored with New York. He moved here three weeks later, and his aspiration is becoming a reality here in the city.
What experience in education did you gain once you got here? I worked at Peninsula Prep Charter in Far Rockaway, which was my first entrance into the charter world. Being from Texas, I didn’t really understand the geography of New York and didn’t understand that Far Rockaway was far away from the city. [Laughs] I was living in Bed-Stuy in a sub-leased situation and traveling every day out to Far Rockaway and it was a very long commute. I ended up switching jobs and working for the New York City Charter School Center. In that role, my job was being a service provider to all the charter schools in the city. I primarily worked with middle and high schools. For all grades six through 12, I provided support for their special education programming. I worked for the special-ed collaborative at the Charter Center and helped charter schools set up and maintain sustainable special education programming for their students with special needs.
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I read on your website that in an early college charter school, students are more likely to graduate high school and complete a college degree. Why do you think that’s the case?
up having to travel outside of it to go to a quality school, so I would like to reverse that and give them one more option here in their backyard.
We know this from research; the earlier you intervene, the more successful students will be. So if students need college readiness preparation, the earlier you give it to them, the more successful they’re going to be with because they have more time to develop those skills. We have a great partner, EDWorks, a subsidiary of KnowledgeWorks which is a nonprofit organization that has dedicated their time to creating these early college models across the nation. They have several high schools across the nation that they’ve created and a couple here in New York City. And in every one of those models, students are graduating in the 80th and 90th percentile range with college credit leaving high school, ready to go to work or to pursue higher education.
How does the process of securing a location work? It must be daunting.
How many students at SAA do you estimate will be underprivileged? I really hope that they will be 100 percent of our population. That’s the purpose of us opening this school. We want to make sure that those particular students have an opportunity that they currently don’t have. However, because we are required by law to have the random lottery, we really don’t have control over their numbers. So the best way we can kind of force that to be is to locate the school in a neighborhood where those students live. One thing the charter law does allow for is that if you live in that area community school district, you do have a preference in the lottery. So those students have first dibs on these seats.
You’re looking to place the school on the Upper West Side or Harlem, right? Yes, we’re trying to get into Central Harlem, West Harlem or the Manhattan Valley area, which is right by the Frederick Douglass houses. Within Community School District 3, which is the Upper West Side, all the high schools are open citywide to applicants across the city and so all the specialized high schools get filled with not necessarily Community School District 3 residents. So students who live in this district end
It’s very complicated. The first step is to reach out to the New York City Department of Education and ask them what space is available because they plan out two to three years in advance. At this point, we’ve reached out to them and have yet to have a meeting scheduled. I think they’re waiting for us to get word back from the authorizers on whether or not we can submit an application. We’re still in the early phases of submitting the charter application.
You’ve worked in urban schools for the past 11 years. What are the differences you’ve observed between those and ones located in the suburbs? It takes a lot of flexibility in an urban school because you’re working with a lot of intense needs and trying to give students the right amount of attention. You have so many needs present and the same amount of time and recourses as any other school. And in some cases, it’s not the same, it’s actually less because a lot of suburban schools have extra resources since the parents contribute to the school’s well-being. The other thing in the urban schools that I recognize is that many of our buildings are a lot older and that presents a unique challenge in keeping up with technology and making sure students are ready for real-world experience when they leave your school. Most people are not going to work in a building that does not have adequate internet service. That’s one of the things I find is a huge challenge in the urban schools, that the technology is not up to par when it comes to what is going to happen in the world of work. To learn more about the school, visit www.saanyc.org
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