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TERRITORIAL DISPUTE OVER CLEANUP PROGRAM STREETS Doe Fund protests UES sidewalkcleaning funds allocated to another reentry nonprofit The American Museum of Natural History’s Gilder Center expansion will occupy a quarter-acre of what is now Theodore Roosevelt Park. Rendering: AMNH

museum’s favor, dismissing the lawsuit and rejecting each of the arguments put forward by Community United. The court found that an 1876 state statute “expressly authorizes the Parks Department to enter into a lease with the Museum for the thenexisting and as-of-yet constructed buildings within the Park.” The court ruled that the lease between the Parks Department and the museum “grants the Museum the right to construct an appropriate building anywhere within the Park.” The court also found that project met environmental review requirements regarding efforts to mitigate the impact of hazardous materials that could potentially be released during construction. Community United argued that the project’s environmental review was inadequate and that the Gilder Center, if completed, “would cause catastrophic

By their very nature, press conferences regarding City Council expense funding allocations are generally rather staid affairs. But a Dec. 5 announcement on public funding to tidy Upper East Side sidewalks turned into a raucous standoff between the cleanup crews of two nonprofits that each help formerly homeless and incarcerated individuals reenter the workforce through street cleaning jobs. Next to a litter-strewn tree bed on the East 86th Street sidewalk, the workers of Wildcat Service Corporation — clad in neon green vests, pushing wheeled garbage cans and bearing implements of trash collection — had gathered to celebrate $85,000 in funding allocated to the organization by local Council Member Ben Kallos to clean a number of “problem areas” in the neighborhood. Then, loudly approaching from the direction of Third Avenue, came the men of the Doe Fund’s street cleanup program in their signature blue uniforms, chanting, “Ready, Willing, Able — Doe Fund for life!” The advancing Doe Fund lines were met with a retaliatory chorus as two sides met near the entrance to Shake Shack: “We are the Wildcats, the mighty, mighty Wildcats.”

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AMNH EXPANSION LAWSUIT DISMISSED MUSEUMS Court ruling clears path for museum to move forward with $383 million Gilder Center project BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

The American Museum of Natural History moved a step closer to making its long-planned Gilder Center expansion a reality on Dec. 10 after the Supreme Court of the State of New York dismissed a case brought by a local group opposed to the project. Community United to Protect Theodore Roosevelt Park, the Upper West Side group that filed the lawsuit, argued that the city’s Parks Department acted incorrectly in granting the museum authorization to build upon a quarter-acre of what is now public land within Theodore Roosevelt Park. Justice Lynn R. Kotler ruled in the

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The “Men in Blue” of the Doe Fund’s Ready Willing & Able transitional work program protested the announcement of funding awarded to another nonprofit, Wildcat Service Corporation, to provide street cleaning services on the Upper East Side. Photo: Michael Garofalo

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MANAGING DIABETES OVER THE HOLIDAYS HEALTH It’s important to celebrate with family and friends, but here’s how to stay motivated and get back on track if you indulge

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sugar more often and discuss medication changes with your health care provider. If you are taking insulin or other medications with hypoglycemia risk (glipizide, glimepiride, repaglinide, among others), make sure to check your sugar before driving or doing any strenuous activity.

• Substitute pumpkin pie instead of pecan pie. • Substitute olive oil for butter. • Have a baked or boiled potato instead of mashed potatoes. • Minimize fried foods. • Generally, fruits with peels or rinds that you need to skin tend to be more sugary, such as bananas, oranges, nectarines, watermelon, pineapple, honeydew and cantaloupe. So eat more berries, pears and apples.

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Here are some suggestions to keep in mind: During this festive holiday season, managing your diabetes can be especially stressful due to food temptations, parties, travel and overall disruption of your daily routine. However, it is equally important to enjoy and celebrate the holidays with family and friends and to not let your diabetes discourage you. First, it’s okay to slip up sometimes, but just stay motivated and then get back on track with your next meal. A day or two of indulging generally shouldn’t be a problem. And don’t think of it as a failure either. Try to avoid skipping meals and then splurging for a feast as you are more likely to overeat and your body will have a harder time handling a larger carbohydrate or sugar load. The timing of your medications will also need to be adjusted to avoid the risk of low blood sugar. If possible, check your blood

• Make smart switches between food items. For example, if you plan to try dessert, eat less of other carbs (potatoes, bread, pasta or rice). And if presented with multiple starchy foods, try to just take a spoonful or bite of each. • Avoid or limit alcohol and take it with your meal whenever possible because moderate alcohol intake can have a blood sugar-lowering effect. Stick to calorie-free drinks and avoid punch or mixed drinks. • Start with protein first and then carbs afterwards. Recent studies have shown that eating protein before carbohydrates reduces your post-meal blood sugar spike. • While cooking or preparing food, avoid excessive sampling. After meals, avoid grazing and put the food right away. • Read the nutrition label whenever

Food temptations. Photo: Marco Verch, via flickr possible and focus on the carbohydrates (not just the sugars) for a given serving size. Ideally, for a full meal, aim for no more than 45-60 grams of carbs. And for a snack, no more than 15-20 grams of carbs, with no more than one snack per day. • Downloading mobile apps on your phone can help you estimate the carbohydrates. It’s helpful to take your family out for a walk after a big meal or do some ex-

tra walking or climbing stairs within your home. Sleep is also important, so continue to get 7 to 8 hours per night to avoid overeating due to lethargy. Especially when you are trying a new food, you can check your blood sugar before you eat and then about 2 to 3 hours after to get a sense of how much that food affects your sugar. This can be empowering and allow you to be in more control of your choices. It helps to focus on dishes that are “special” or “traditional.”

Remember, most people are very understanding when it comes to managing diabetes, so if you’re going to an event ask the host/hostess if you can bring your own light, healthy dish to the party. There are some great lowsugar recipes from the American Diabetes Association at https://www. diabetesfoodhub.org/. And always, if you don’t feel well or are having trouble, don’t hesitate to contact your physician. We are here to help you get through it all. Dr. Rahul Agarwal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, The Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai West.

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG BANKER THWARTS SCAMMER A careful personal banker saved a senior from an email scam. At 6:18 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 28, a 72-year-old woman living on East 89th Street received an e-mail from an individual claiming to be an associate, asking her to download a ďŹ le after disabling her antivirus software. Soon she received a phone call from her personal banker conďŹ rming her authorization of a $350,000 transfer from her HSBC account to an account associated with Five Star Bank. The phone call from her personal banker made her realize that someone had compromised her computer and used her e-mail and personal identiďŹ cation information to try to transfer her funds without permission or authority.

MOVIEGOER ROBBED While you’re watching the silver screen, thieves may be after your gold. At 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 28, a 56-year-old woman was catching a movie at the City Cinemas Beekman Theatre located at 1271 Second Ave. She later discovered that someone had stolen her credit and debit cards there and used them to make multiple transactions at Modell’s Sporting

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Goods and the AMC Loews Kips Bay movie theater, along with charging taxi fare and CitiBike rentals. The thief also made off with $360 in cash that she had been carrying.

DINER BAG SNATCH Let this story be the latest warning never to leave your belongings unattended, even for a minute. At 10:45 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 29, a 72-year-old man left his bag on a chair in a diner at 1634 York Ave. while he

went to the cash register to pay his bill. When he returned to his table just two minutes later, he found his bag was gone. Surveillance video later showed that a woman who had been sitting next to his bag took it and walked out of the diner. The stolen goods included a Louis Vuitton bag, a MacBook Pro laptop and a notebook, representing a total value of $5,000.

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bystander. At 10 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 30, a 27-year-old woman was paying for her bill inside Brady’s Bar at 1583 Second Ave. when a man who was having an argument with his friend pushed his friend against her, causing her to fall onto the frame of the establishment’s door, bruising her face.

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UTS PLEDGES FUNDS TO COMMUNITY FROM CONDO DEAL DEVELOPMENT Union Theological Seminary to provide $5 million in community investment as part of campus project BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

Union Theological Seminary, as part of an ongoing project to fund renovations to its facilities through an air rights deal permitting private developers to build a condominium tower on its campus, has announced plans to invest $5 million in community programs, much of which will address homelessness and displacement in Morningside Heights. The community investment is a component of Union’s plan to pay for a $100 million campus revitalization project by allowing real estate firms L+M Development Partners and Lendlease to build a condo building in the northwestern part of Union’s campus, near West 122nd Street and Claremont Avenue. Serene Jones, the president of Union Theological Semi-

nary, said that the deal will allow Union to make needed improvements to campus infrastructure without making any expenditures from its endowment, which is the primary source for funding student scholarships. “We did not want to renovate our buildings but make our education so expensive no students could come,â€? Jones said, adding that Union hopes to eventually offer tuition-free education to all students. “All of the money that we make from the sale of the air rights is going directly into the buildings,â€? Jones said. The $5 million community investment, Jones said, reects Union’s commitment to the Morningside Heights neighborhood. “From the start, we wanted to not just minimize the impact of whatever changes we made on the community, we actually wanted to view this whole campus revitalization as an opportunity to reach out and even more deeply seal our ties to the community.â€? “We are now at a place where we feel we have come up with a plan for making sure that we

Private developers will break ground next year on a condominium tower on the campus of Union Theological Seminary in Morningside Heights. The development is the result of an air rights transfer deal to fund $100 million in renovations to Union’s campus. Photo: David Merrett, via ickr can be here another hundred years and keep our community partners a central part of the work that we do,â€? she said. “We couldn’t feel better about it.â€? Un ion w i l l cont r ibute $700,000 of the $5 million community investment directly to P.A.’L.A.N.T.E., a Harlem-based tenants’ rights organization that works to prevent displacement. “As New York continues to see economic growth, it’s important to

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as well as apartments for faculty. Robert Stern of the Morningside Heights Community Coalition, a neighborhood organization that worked with Union and local elected officials to negotiate the community beneďŹ ts, praised Union for coming to the table and said his group is pleased with its investments, but said that his group remains opposed to the project. “We’re still against the building going up, but since we couldn’t stop it we felt an obligation to get as much money as we could for the community,â€? he said. Stern and others, including Council Member Mark Levine, have expressed hope that Union’s community investment will serve as a precedent for future development in Morningside Heights. Union will begin renovations in June 2019, with construction on the new tower projected to start by late summer or early fall 2019. Union officials hope for the new building to be completed and all campus renovations ďŹ nished by 2022.

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vices, projects and programs in Morningside Heights. Union will dedicate nearly $3 million to addressing homelessness through partnerships with advocacy organizations that work in Morningside Heights and New York City. The remaining $1 million will fund social justice programming at Union “to develop the next generation of activists and leaders.â€? The development plan, first announced in 2015, has been met with opposition from some members of the Morningside Heights community, as well as some Union students and faculty, who are concerned that bringing new market-rate housing into the neighborhood will accelerate gentrification and lead to the displacement of longtime residents. Union officials have not specified the projected size of the new building, but have said that the tower “will be approximately the same height as, but stay in respectful dialogue withâ€? the tower of neighboring Riverside Church, which is 392 feet tall. The new building will also contain Union classrooms and offices on its lower oors,

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CLEANUP CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “Doe Fund for life!” Several minutes of back-and-forth shouting later, the planned press conference ensued. Kallos explained that as part of a pilot program, Wildcat would deploy a four-person cleanup crew to the Upper East Side four days each week to empty trash cans, clean tree pits and gutters, and sweep sidewalks and bike islands. The Wildcat crew will focus on major cross streets, Kallos said, including 57th, 72nd, 79th, 86th and 96th Streets, and will also experiment with servicing certain sections of First, Second, Third and Lexington Avenues. “Business owners and residential buildings are responsible for cleaning in front of their buildings,” Kallos said. “That being said, as New Yorkers, we all walk past that piece of litter that we see day in and day out, and we wonder why no one is doing anything about it. I’m hoping that by bringing in Wildcat we’ll actually get to it.” Wildcat, formed in New York City in 1972, provides cleanup services in 25 City Council districts through the Council’s NYC Cleanup initiative. The organization employs formerly incarcerated people, homeless individuals and others with barriers to employment with the goal of helping them

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transition into permanent jobs. “We put them to work and we give them a paycheck,” said Mario LaRosa, Wildcat’s manager of operations. “They get what it feels like to have a full-time job, be responsible and so forth.” Doe Fund protesters repeatedly interrupted Kallos and others who spoke at the press conference with accusations that the pilot program with Wildcat amounts to “taking away jobs” from members of the Doe Fund’s Ready, Willing & Able transitional work program, which helps men who have experienced incarceration and homelessness reenter the community and the workforce through street cleaning jobs. Doe Fund representatives characterized the selection of Wildcat as a “snub” of their organization, which is based on the Upper East Side and provides trash pickup and street cleaning services along several East Side corridors on a pro bono basis. Doe Fund cleanup crews also service other locations throughout New York City through contracts with business improvement districts, management associations, neighborhood associations and other organizations. Harriet McDonald, who co-founded the Doe Fund along with her husband George McDonald, criticized Kallos for allocating the funding to an organization other than the Doe Fund. “He could have come to us and said, ‘Do you want to expand [the Doe Fund’s

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DECEMBER 13-19,2018 service] area?’ Not bring another group in,” she said, adding, “He should have reached out to us and given us the funding, because we have to [privately] raise all this money.” The Doe Fund was not eligible to receive the funding allocated by Kallos’s office through the City Council’s NYC Cleanup initiative because it never submitted a bid. “We can’t give money to someone who doesn’t apply for it,” Kallos said. In past years, the Doe Fund applied for and received funding through the very same program. The Doe Fund was awarded $34,313 in the 2015 fiscal year and $83,211 in the 2016 fiscal year to provide cleanup services in Kallos’s district through the NYC Cleanup initiative. The Doe Fund withdrew its NYC Cleanup services from the district in 2016, citing “a series of hardships and funding shortfalls.” The Doe Fund has not received any Council funding in the last two fiscal years. In an emailed statement, Doe Fund spokesperson Shannon Moriarty wrote, “We stopped participating in the program in 2016 because, upon analysis of available funding streams and their utilization by the Council, it became clear that the initiative had become focused on pursuing ever-lower bidders for cleaning contracts, as opposed to identifying those organizations who provided the highest quality services or those who provided the best care for the individuals engaging in street cleaning work as part

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“ENOUGH WORK TO GO AROUND” Teams of workers employed by the Doe Fund currently provide cleanup services seven days a week on the Upper East Side on a pro bono basis. The Doe Fund owns and maintains roughly 300 trash cans in the neighborhood, primarily on East End, York, Third and Lexington Avenues. Its service area formerly included First Avenue between 72nd and 82nd Streets as well, but the Doe Fund removed its cans from the corridor after the Wildcat announcement. A Doe Fund spokesperson wrote in an emailed statement that the cans were pulled “to consolidate our activities in the neighborhood and stay out of the way of Wildcat’s services.” Under the pilot program, Wildcat’s service area will include First Avenue between 55th and 72nd Streets and between 82nd and 96th Streets. Kallos said he is hopeful that the Doe Fund will maintain service along the routes its workers currently patrol, and noted that the routes to be serviced by Wildcat were designed not to overlap with those covered by the Doe Fund. “No one is taking any jobs away from the Doe Fund at all,” Kallos said. “I do not have the power to take any jobs away from the Doe Fund, and we want them to continue.” A Doe Fund spokesperson said that the organization’s cleanup crews will continue their work in areas not serviced by Wildcat.

Leaders of several local neighborhood groups said that many parts of the district could benefit from the additional cleaning services to be provided by Wildcat. “I, for one, think that there’s enough work to go around,” said Joanna Cawley, the executive director of Carnegie Hill Neighbors. Valerie Mason, the president of the East 72nd Street Neighborhood Association, said that her neighborhood has seen an increase in garbage along sidewalks, gutters and tree beds since the opening of Second Avenue subway, and that any additional cleaning services are welcome. “We really feel there is a need, so we’re looking forward to seeing how this works out,” she said. Andrew Fine, who sits on the board of the East 86th Street Neighborhood Association, said he is hopeful that Wildcat’s services will supplement cleaning work currently done along the 86th Street corridor on a volunteer basis by local residents and by workers funded by the neighborhood association. “We need all the help that we can get, and it’s definitely a plus when we have support beyond ourselves,” he said. “I was just surprised that Doe took such great offense to another organization cleaning areas that were not competitive with where they were cleaning,” Fine added. “There seems to be an unlimited supply of garbage,” he said. “Until they run out of garbage, they shouldn’t be fighting.”

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Bill Raudenbush, who serves as chairman of Community United to Protect Theodore Roosevelt Park, said, “We are disappointed with the judge’s decision, as ultimately this means that the AMNH as it stands is entitled to build on the entirety of the park moving forward. We skeptically and eagerly await the AMNH’s promises of little disruptions to the neighborhood both during and after this project and hope they can live up to their promises, but are also evaluating all of our options including an appeal. We hope our elected officials renew our calls for a master plan from the museum as we firmly believe it would go a long way to assuaging concerns about whether or not they are ultimately being a good neighbor with their development ambitions.” The court’s decision paves the way for the museum to move forward with the 190,000-square-foot addition, which will include new classroom and exhibition spaces and create a new entrance to the museum facing Columbus Avenue near West 79th Street. Museum officials hope to complete the project by 2021.

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MIGRATING MANHATTAN BY ARLENE KAYATT

Saturday night fervor — With the closing of the Third Avenue Garden on Third Avenue and 91st Street, another neighborhood mainstay has passed. The 24/7 bodega/supermarket/grocery store (a term of yore) carried the everyday food essentials along with flowers, plants, produce and newspapers. But it was near and dear to me for another reason as well. It was the go-to spot for picking up Sunday’s New York Times on Saturday night. For the uninitiated, there was a time when the Sunday Times, the Daily News and the New York Post were delivered on Saturday night. And the ritual wait took place at newsstands and candy stores

throughout at least Manhattan. Trucks carrying the Sunday night editions of the Times dropped off stacks of newspapers, bound with rope, on the sidewalk in front of the drop-off point. The proprietor would have the newspaper’s various sections (which were delivered earlier in the week) assembled for purchase. All I can do now is mourn the loss of Third Avenue Garden. And the Saturday night ritual of waiting for the Times. Eight o’clock on Saturday night will never be the same. Giving a hoot — The Mandarin duck that found its way to Central Park may have started a trend for the migration of more animal species to Manhattan. Since the duck’s arrival, another out-of-towner, a tiny brown

and white owl, has made its way to the streets of the city in Stuyvesant Town. The Town & Village newspaper reports the presence of the owl, identified by Anne Lazarus, a local “longtime birder who leads bird watching tours in Stuyvesant Town,” as a Northern Saw-whet Owl, which is known for its lack of ear tufts. Although the brown and white owl is tiny, it is said to be an adult. According to Ms. Lazarus, these owls have been “showing up this year” and several have been spotted in Central Park. Let’s not forget that New York’s the place for night owls — and they are welcome in the day, too. Speaking of StuyTown — The streets of the sprawling enclave, in the vi-

cinity east of First Avenue starting on 20th Street, have lost parking spots as part of a traffic safety project undertaken by the Department of Transportation to accommodate increased bike and pedestrian traffic once the L train is shut down in April next year. The lack of communication between the DOT and the NYPD has resulted in community residents being ticketed and towed from parking spots that were previously legal. According to the community, there was little notice given of the changes. Under the auspices of the project, two bike lanes were created on the north side of 20th Street and the bus stop on the street was moved to an island outside the bike lanes. Hardly a safety measure for pedestrians or for bus riders who have to pass through bike lanes to get to the bus. Doesn’t ad up — Two TV commercials have caught my attention. The

first one is the ad for Spectrum TV’s NY1 Noticias, which has been airing for awhile now. The other is more recent and is promoting the vegan life. The Noticias ad, celebrating Latino/a life, shows Hispanic men and women saying the things they associate with Hispanic life as they hug and shout about themselves, and sing and dance and herald their heritage. It’s high-spirited and attractive. As I’ve seen the ad over time, it has occurred to me that it’s celebrating a stereotype. Not sure how that plays out in the bigger picture when others may mime the ad’s characterization of “being Hispanic.” Would likely lead to criticism and controversy. The other ad — celebrating being a vegan — has celebrities and everyday types shouting “I’m a Vegan,” and is playfully advocating for changing lifestyles, or at least eating habits and values. I get the vegan concept. Not Noticias’s.

PASSIONATE ABOUT PRIDE BY MARK NIMAR

The People’s Forum on 37th Street was bustling with big personalities on Dec. 5 for the weekly meeting of the Reclaim Pride Coalition (RPC). An old Hispanic man donning an enormous purple hat, gold chains and a turquoise necklace sat to my left. On my right was a gentleman sporting a navy cravat with polka dots, wide rim glasses and buckled brown shoes. Among the others present were a woman with bright red boots and a matching scarlet blouse, a dude with scruff and a snoopy T-shirt, and an old man with bright orange hair and a full, green beard to rival Merlin’s, his pants and shoes covered with colorful splotches of paint. RPC, an LGBT group that opposes the NYC Pride March’s “corporate saturation, unnecessary restrictions, and excessive police presence” had assembled with the purpose of discussing the overall vision of their June 2019 Pride March, which will mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, widely regarded as the beginning of the gay civil rights movement. According to RPC, the annual Pride

March has strayed too far from its informal, activist roots. The group is trying to plan a simpler, non-corporate march that “highlights the most marginalized members of [their] community ... recognizes the powerful legacy of the Stonewall Rebellion,” and also “makes a commitment to the ongoing fight for LGBTQIATS+ rights worldwide,” according to its website. After a brief video comparing the simpler, more activist-oriented 1970 march with the colorful, more corporate pride marches of recent years, Jim Fouratt, a veteran activist who was present at the 1969 Stonewall riot, took to the stage. “There was a moment I will never forget that sparked across the world a message that changed forever how we see ourselves,” said Fouratt. “Despite our racial differences, despite our age differences, despite cultural differences, lesbians and gay men of all gender expressions suddenly rebelled against internalized homophobia ... and felt for the first time, the spark of freedom ... We were not in a bar, we were not in the bushes, we were not in toilets in the subway, the places that they allowed us to be as gay men ... We

were in the street, and we saw each other. I cannot ... I wish ... I could tell you what [the magic of what] that moment was like.” In the spirit of Fouratt’s words, the assembly voted unanimously to have its march follow the original 1970 pride march route, which would start in the Village at Sheridan Square, continue up Sixth Avenue, and conclude in Central Park. Gene Fedorko, a voter from the Gay Liberation Front, which formed in 1969 after the Stonewall riots, noted that “there is a huge poetic justice to reclaiming that route ... and marching up Sixth Avenue to Central Park.” Other topics addressed included having a concert at the route’s end in Central Park, a ban on the use of floats, and limiting barricades “so people can join the March at any point,” according to a leaflet that was handed out at the meeting. Ann Northrop, the meeting’s moderator, drolly noted that “Sister Lah-di-dah,” a member of the voting body, “will be in charge of all police negotiations.” Many people voiced concern about not only the fragile rights of the LGBT community in the U.S., but also of the

Ann Northrop modertes a meeting of the Reclaim Pride Coalition. Photo: Jackie Rudin rights of LGBT people abroad. Until all LGBT people are free from discrimination, then “none of us are free,” said one speaker. Members expressed a strong desire for RPC’s march and its subsequent gathering to be a space for serious dialogue. I could not help but feel inspired. In a I could not help but feel inspired. In a political climate as cynical as our own, it was refreshing to see such an optimistic, fired-up group of people, young and old, and from different cultural

backgrounds, gather together and to decide how they wanted to be represented. And then they voted. The exchange shows that democracy is alive and well. If this group of people, with their strong passions and big hearts, is the future of the LGBT community, then I am proud to be a part of it. You can get involved with the Reclaim Pride coalition by attending one of their weekly meetings at The People’s Forum, or visiting www.reclaimpridenyc.org.

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AN AUTHOR AND HIS ALMA MATER PUBLIC EYE For Tom Barbash, life is what happened when he returned to Dwight BY JON FRIEDMAN

The acclaimed writer Tom Barbash had just ďŹ nished giving a well-received reading from his new novel, “The Dakota Winters,â€? at his alma mater, the Dwight School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Barbash’s story line hooked me instantly since John Lennon, my favorite rock and roll star of all time, looms as a major presence in the book (which is published by Harper Collins). As Barbash was accepting congratulations and signing books, I felt compelled to lean in and ask him what his favorite Lennon song was. He shot back, “Beautiful Boy,â€? one of John’s signature compositions on Lennon and Yoko Ono’s highly entertaining 1980 collaborative comeback album, “Double Fantasy.â€? “Beautiful Boyâ€? resonates with me because it contains one of Lennon’s indelible lines/ philosophies: Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. For Barbash, Lennon’s pearl is a way of life. He never imagined becoming a writer, much less a distinguished and much-admired one. Barbash went to college at Haverford in Pennsylvania, expecting to become a lawyer. But he gravitated to the writing life, first as a reporter on the Syracuse Post-Standard, where he said he learned to respect deadlines and “not to be too preciousâ€? with his words. Then he progressed to writing long-form projects. Barbash is also the author of the novel “The Last Good Chance,â€? a collection of short stories, “Stay Up With Me,â€? and the nonfiction work “On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal.â€? Barbash’s latest work takes place around 1979 and centers on the Winters, a family living in Manhattan’s celebrated Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to Lennon’s assassination on Dec. 8, 1980. To give you some perspective, this month we are marking the 38th “anniversaryâ€? of this still mind-blowing event. When Lennon lived in the Dakota — he and his wife Yoko

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Tom Barbash reads from his new novel, “The Dakota Winters,� at the Dwight School on the Upper West Side. Photo: David Dean

When Lennon lived in the Dakota — he and his wife Yoko Ono moved in around 1972 and John called it home till he was assassinated — he was practically the real mayor of New York. Ono moved in around 1972 and John called it home till he was assassinated — he was practically the real mayor of New York. Fans and tourists made pilgrimages to the Dakota in the hope of getting a glimpse of him. Me, too. I used to loiter at Lennon’s favorite neighborhood hangout, CafĂŠ La Fortuna, in the hope of, oh yes, getting a glimpse of him. (I was determined to ask him if the walrus really was Paul. KIDDING!) For Barbash, as with skilled novelists everywhere, the setting of his story is like another major character. “I had to create a world,â€? Barbash told his Dwight audience, referring to what was then a very different Manhattan — one that seemed more adventurous and daring than the one featuring a maze of such 21stcentury chains and staples as, well, Staples/Starbucks/ Sunglass Hut/Whole Foods/ Trader Joe’s and any number of antiseptic bank chains as far as the eye can see.

“It was a more dangerous place back then,â€? Barbash acknowledged, adding slyly: “We miss it.â€? The reading gave Barbash an opportunity to return to his roots at Dwight, one of the city’s notable private schools, and, especially, reacquaint himself with the remarkable Stephen Spahn. If Barbash may feel compelled now and then to shake his head in surprise at his career path, one person who professes not to be shocked is Spahn. He has been the highly effective chancellor of Dwight for an astonishing ďŹ ve decades. In fact, as a testament to Spahn’s success, this congenial and deeply analytical educator serves as the longest-serving head of a school in the United States. Following the reading, Spahn recalled that Barbash exhibited the kind of passion that great writers need to have — though his student at the time most vividly expressed himself on the tennis court. Fiery and emotional, Barbash made a lasting impression on Spahn, whose great skill as an educator is to create an environment that can help to bring out the best in his charges. “He was intense,â€? Spahn recalled with a smile, noting that Barbash had to learn “how to channelâ€? his emotions through his writing. “He had a huge emotional intensity.â€? This admiration society is clearly a mutual one. Barbash unabashedly refers to his mentor as “Chancellor Spahn,â€? though Barbash left Dwight decades ago. He says that Spahn has been a “huge person in my life.â€? Barbash, who now teaches novel writing, short ďŹ ction and nonfiction at the California College of the Arts, surely can appreciate the impact that dedicated teachers can have on students. Not coincidentally, perhaps, the mantra of Dwight School, which has six global campuses, is “igniting the spark of genius in every child.â€? I took the time to look around the room while Barbash gave his reading. The audience consisted largely of Dwight teachers, students and alumni. The 70 of us were hanging on Barbash’s every word and during the subsequent Q&A session, admirers asked him detailed, nuanced questions, signs that they had really listened to him. Ultimately, it was the best of times: a triumphant occasion for a beloved writer — and his beloved alma mater.

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Rethinking Pregnancy: Two Philosophical Perspectives with Suki Finn and Jennifer Scuro

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‘NINE AND A HALF LOVE’ Asia Society and Museum 725 Park Ave. 7:30 p.m. $25/$22 students and seniors Inspired by Homer’s epics, Greek tragedy, Nietzche’s “Thus Spake Zarathustra,” and real-life revenge stories, “Nine and a Half Love” uses montage to combine poetry, myth, and allegory. This solo performance by Huang Xiangli reveals a fresh vision of art in contemporary China. 212-288-6400 asiasociety.org

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BEHIND THE SURFACE Warhol at the Whitney BY MARY GREGORY

Andy Warhol, when he wasn’t painting, drawing, making films or recordings, or writing books, had a habit of scooping whatever artistic, mental detritus had accumulated on his workspace into a big cardboard box, sealing and dating it. One of these Warhol “time capsules” opens the Whitney’s sweeping retrospective “Andy Warhol — From A to B and Back Again.” Including, among other things, a Lou Reed album, a postcard of a Duchamp, and an announcement for a poetry reading at St. Mark’s Church in the East Village starring William S. Burroughs and John Giorno, it’s a revealing glimpse into a mind and a moment. There are countless such windows into the artist’s inspiration, work, influences and creative process throughout the thoughtful, eye-catching exhibition. Warhol once claimed, “If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.” And yet, deputy director and senior curator Donna De Salvo, along with Christie Mitchell and Mark Loiacono, find plenty of depths to plumb. De Salvo’s presentation is guided by a deep knowledge of Warhol’s life. She met and worked

Andy Warhol, “Self-Portrait,” 1986, Silkscreened ink and acrylic on canvas, 106 x 106 in. Credit: Adel Gorgy

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with the artist when she was a young curator, and she’s mounted several major exhibitions of his work at different venues. Key points she focuses on here, through exhibition texts and selections of works, are Warhol’s life as a gay, Roman Catholic man, the son of working class immigrants and his role as both a keen observer of and participant in post-war American society. The exhibition fills the entire fifth floor and other areas of the museum with some 350 works. It’s a monumental show and a powerhouse. There are rarely seen early paintings and drawings, commercial commissions (shoes he painted for the I. Miller company), intimate erotic sketches, iconic silkscreen prints, late works including superb collaborations with Jean-Michel Basquiat, along with films, books, time capsules and historic documents. They present a portrait of the artist, and pose complex questions about his life and work. We’re all familiar with the surface of Warhol. Here are some thoughts to consider if you want to scratch deeper. Was Warhol more a product of or producer of American culture? His influence is unfathomable. His prescience on subjects like social media, fame and self-branding seems astounding. But was he seeing or doing more than capturing and commenting on something everyone was feeling? With small screens in practically every home in the ‘60s, wasn’t everyone enamored of Marilyn and Liz and Jackie? Was he the only one placing everyday objects like Coca-Cola and Brillo on pedestals? TV commercials from that time did nothing less, and did it constantly. De Salvo commented that Warhol felt that Coke was a uniquely democratic substance. Whether you were royalty or the lowest paid laborer, everyone got the same Coca-Cola when they opened the bottle. A silkscreen print of rows and rows S&H Green Stamps won’t be familiar unless you’re of a certain age. All kinds of products offered these little stamps as a bonus. You collected them, pasted them in a book, and down the road earned a decent reward — a kitchen appliance or kids’ toys were typical. One image from many stamps brings to mind “E pluribus unum.” Thrift, diligence, work, hope for reward and so many of us doing the same thing — what could better capture the American spirit of those days? But, how much of that thought originated

Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol, “Paramount,” 1984-85, Acrylic on canvas, 76 x 105 in. Credit: Adel Gorgy in Warhol, and how much in my own mind? That’s always one of art’s big questions. What’s to be inferred by the scale of Warhol’s works? A small, garish portrait of former president Nixon titled “Vote McGovern” next to a towering chairman Mao makes one statement. The contrast between notebook-sized delicate pencil sketches of friends and lovers and a larger-than-life Liz Taylor painted in flat colors makes another. Are Warhol’s paintings really about surface? A series of Jackie Kennedy portraits captures her hope and happiness one the top row, her abject sorrow in the middle row and a forever changed persona on the bottom. Is that a portrayal of a wife transformed by death, or one of the country as a whole? Warhol wasn’t the first to blur the lines between advertising and art. Remember Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec? Warhol wasn’t the only Pop artist to elevate consumerism to gallery walls. Roy Lichtenstein, a draftsman in the army, and James Rosenquist, a former sign painter, turned commercial tropes into art. Bring up those names and you may meet blank stares. Warhol is one of the most recognized artists in the world. Did he remake what art could be? Or did he cannily give people what they truly desire — fame, glamour, sex, wealth and power? Or both? For me, I haven’t arrived at answers; I’m still thinking. That’s why this is such a worthwhile show.

Andy Warhol, “Nine Jackies,” 1964, Acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen, nine panels, 60 3/8 × 48 1/4 in. Credit: Adel Gorgy

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BIRDLAND SPREADS ITS WINGS ENTERTAINMENT The renowned music mecca offers a new venue for theater BY SCOTT STIFFLER

What avian entity builds two nests, never migrates and soars like a singer’s highest note — but has no feathers? It’s Birdland, the beloved West 44th St. music mecca that audiences flock to for jazz, cabaret, and Broadway enter entertainment that’s anything but chicken feed.

“Birdland is a cultural treasure, and is known around the world,” noted the namesake host of “Jim Caruso’s Cast Party,” the popular Monday night open mic, where household names, unsung greats, and eager amateurs all get a chance to shine in the spotlight — and become part of the venue’s storied history. Seven nights a week, Caruso said, “People just come in the door, not knowing what will be on the stage, but knowing whatever is at Birdland has got to be pretty good.”

It happens like clockwork at “Cast Party,” where curious tourists and loyal regulars alike, Caruso noted, “are sitting next to superstars. It’s the elbow-rubbing capital of New York City, and I think that’s what makes a great party — the mix of performers, and the people who love them.” As for what makes Birdland great, that question would have elicited a very different answer before July 17, when the 150-seat room (which has presented the likes of Chita Rivera, Diana Krall, Dave BruK beck, and Tito Puente) welcomed a hatchling. Now, the hatch Midtown destination is known destin as Birdland Jazz Jaz Club & Birdland Theater. “We call it the Birdland Theater,” Ca r u so Theat said, said of the 100seat sea downstairs space, “because sp we w want to be able to book all kinds of entertainment, from cabaret to jazz to comedy to burlesque. Whatever f loats our boat at the

From left to right: Billy Stritch, Klea Blackhurst and Jim Caruso. Their annual “A Swinging Birdland Christmas” is one of NYC’s brightest holiday highlights. Photo: Bill Westmoreland

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moment, and whatever we think might appeal to our audiences.” Joining Caruso as the others in that “we” equation is “Ryan Paternite, who “has been booking the jazz at Birdland forever. But he also really appreciates what I’ve brought in. He’s not holding his nose for the Broadway and showbiz crew. He just loves it, as does the owner [Gianni Valenti], whose heart is with his jazz friends — but he’s almost as obsessed with Marilyn Maye and Miss Coco Peru. It’s nice to have a boss who is so respectful, for the talent. That’s not always the case, but it is at Birdland.” Indeed, it was the success of the Caruso-curated Monday night “Broadway at Birdland” series (veteran performers and creators, and names currently on The Great White Way), which inspired the creation of Birdland Theater. “It’s brand new,” Caruso said. “It has that new nightclub smell, which means clean carpet, clean upholstery. It’s a very slick black box of a space, not overly designed — no chandeliers, and not a lot of artwork on the walls. We all agreed the focus is what’s happening on stage. We’re interested in showcasing the best talent, and to be a breeding ground for up and coming projects, and creative endeavors.” Among the upcoming talent at Birdland is James Barbour (who had a three-year stint on Broadway, as the lead in “The Phantom of the Opera”), presenting his annual holiday concert on Dec. 14/15, and Santino Fontana (Dec. 17), who’s been cast in the Dustin Hoffman role, when the musical adaptation of “Tootsie” comes to Broadway next year. Twice a month (Dec.

She sings, we swoon: Marilyn Maye, one of the first performers to grace the Birdland Theater stage. Photo: Kevin Alvey 18 is the next one), comedian extraordinaire Susie Mosher hosts the anything-goes variety show “The Lineup,” which, Caruso proudly pointed out, has been called “the crazy stepsister of ‘Cast Party.’ It’s nuts,” he said of the show, whose typically atypical lineup might include a theremin player and a professional whistler. Your “Cast Party” host also delivers some bankable holiday fare. Highly recommended is “A Swinging Birdland Christmas” (Dec. 22-25), whose trio is comprised of ludicrously likable Caruso, the preternaturally gifted arranger/pianist/ performer Billy Stritch, and beyond-brassy comedian/ singer Klea Blackhurst. “We’re adding new material,” Caruso promised. “We found a great song that was recorded by Jane Lynch on her ‘A Swingin’ Little Christmas!’ album.” There will undoubtedly be a medley, and banter reminiscent of the TV variety shows (think Sonny & Cher, Andy Williams) that inform this annual happening. In addition, a fresh look is in the cards: “I have a new jacket, and Billy has a new jacket, and I believe Klea has a new dress. And this is really important,” Caruso wryly asserted, “because that’s what people come to look at.” New Year’s Eve revelers also

have an option at Birdland. Upstairs, The Birdland Big Band plays all night, while downstairs, the Caruso-hosted “A Swing Swang Swingin’ New Year’s Eve” has shows at 8 and 11. “The cast alone, absolutely kills me,” Caruso said, of his handpicked roster, which includes “Lesli Margherita, who is funny, and dirty, and all the things you want for New Year’s Eve.” The late show comes with hats, horns, and balloons — and when it’s time to go, don’t worry about the maddening crowd. Even though Birdland is located not much more than a good stone’s throw from the world’s most congested countdown to midnight, “There are big barricades between that, and the block we’re on,” Caruso noted. “You can get out of there easily, but be close enough to feel all the craziness and insanity of a Times Square New Year’s Eve. It’s the best deal in town.” And there’s one more thing to sweeten the deal: Hot off the buzz from his Christmas show jacket reveal, Caruso deadpanned, “I’ll be there in a new tuxedo. You’re welcome, America.” For a calendar of events and reservations, visit birdlandjazz.com or call 212-581-3080.

The stage is the thing: Birdland Theater’s design is divine, but doesn’t distract. Photo courtesy of Birdland

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DOORS OF MANHATTAN Upper East Side BY DODY TSIANTAR

“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else,” the playwright Tom Stoppard once wrote. I’ve always thought the same thing about doors. They’re mysterious; they hold promise of adventures, and secrets. I can’t help but wonder what’s happening behind them; or what world will emerge if I opened them. I guess you could say I have a thing for doors. Especially red ones. I first noticed my obsession when I visited the Greek island of Santorini years ago.

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As I gazed at the hilltop village of Oia and its sea of white houses, I noticed a bright red door on a house at the top of the hill across from our terrace. I couldn’t get enough of that door. In my 25-plus years as a journalist, I’ve never taken photographs professionally — I teach journalism to graduate students at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism — but I’ve been taking photos of doors ever since that red door caught my eye. A sampling of the doors of Manhattan.

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GOODWILL STORE ON WEST 79TH TO CLOSE SHOPS Plan is to relocate staff and inventory to Goodwill Chelsea store BY JASON COHEN

A store that has been a mainstay on the Upper West Side for more than three decades will be shuttering its doors on Monday. On Dec. 17, Curated by Goodwill at 217 West 79th Street is closing after 35 years at that location. Manager Amanda Stevens told the West Side Spirit that the store’s lease was up at the end of the month and the landlord was going to increase their rent by more than half of what it is now. Stevens explained that in order for them to stay afloat, they would have to sell double the merchandise just to break even. In fact, the same landlord forced their neighbor, Voila Chocolat, 221 West 79th Street, to close due to rent last month. “It kind of sucks,” said Stevens, who

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has been with the company for four years and at the 79th Street store since January. “We’ve had a lot of mixed emotions.” In July, the company changed the name to Curated by Goodwill, essentially rebranding the store. That created a buzz in the community, Stevens said. With this new concept, the staff helps shoppers pick out an entire outfit and the store now offers trendier clothes. Goodwill also has Curated stores in Paramus, N.J. and Brooklyn. “We found it [Curated] hard in the beginning, but now since people keep coming back, they understand the concept a little bit more,” Stevens said. “The number one thing we try to focus on is helping people. “We’ve gotten new customers and made more money, but it’s just not enough to sustain rent,” she added. According to Stevens, the plan is to relocate the inventory and staff to the Goodwill Chelsea store at 103 West 25th Street, at Sixth Ave. and convert it to a Curated location. If people can’t travel that far, there is another Goodwill nearby at 157 West 72nd Street,

between Amsterdam and Columbus. Customers Rommel Cintron and Tim Markewich, who both work in the area, spoke about their fondness for the store. Cintron recalled how when he moved to New York City four years ago from Puerto Rico he had never heard of a place like Goodwill. “It’s the first time I saw how New Yorkers do donations and resell things,” Cintron said. “I was surprised because where I come from in Puerto Rico, we don’t see that.” Since he walked in the store a few years ago he has been hooked. He comes a few times a week and always finds good bargains. Markewich, of Jackson Heights, first came to Goodwill on 79th a couple years ago to buy a belt and ended up getting a pair of shoes as well. He said he has been to other Goodwill locations, but the friendly staff at this one has kept him coming back. “It’s a shame to see them go,” Markewich said. “But the rent is crazy. Unfortunately, that’s how the corporate world works.”

MOMS FILL DEMAND FOR SPANISH BOOKS PUBLISHING Women have started publishing companies for children’s series and bilingual brands BY ALEXANDRA OLSON

You might have heard of the three blind mice or the itsy-bitsy spider who went up the water spout. But have you ever heard of the little cold and hungry chicks? If you grew up speaking Spanish, the answer is probably yes. But Susie Jaramillo wants everyone to know “Los Pollitos,” a bedtime song about a hen taking care of her hatchlings that’s as familiar in the Spanish-speaking world as “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” is to English speakers. The song is the heart of Canticos, a series of bilingual books, companion apps and singalong videos that the Venezuelan-American mother of two dreamed up after she couldn’t find enough Spanish-language books to read to her children. The brand,

which debuted in 2016, had its biggest breakthrough this year when Nickelodeon adapted it to develop a series for toddlers on its digital platforms. Canticos capitalized on a growing market for Spanish books in the United States, which the traditional publishing industry has addressed in fits and starts. Small companies are stepping in to fill the void, leveraging social media and strategic retail partnerships to target key customer bases, often ones they themselves belong to. “When I had my first child, I went online and thought: Where are all the board books of these songs that I grew up with?” said Jaramillo, a former co-founder of a Latino-focused New York advertising agency. “We’re always singing the American songs in Spanish, and our songs are great. Why aren’t people singing them in English?” Jaramillo teamed up with fellow mother Nuria Santamaria Wolfe, a former head of multicultural strategy at Twitter, to launch Encantos Media Studios, an entertainment company

that released Canticos as the first of its planned bilingual brands. Two other mothers, Patty Rodriguez and Ariana Stein, founded their own publishing company in 2014 when Rodriguez couldn’t sell mainstream publishers on her concept of a bilingual board book series featuring Latino icons and traditions. The company, Lil’ Libros, landed a partnership with Target just five months after publishing its first book, “Counting with Frida,” now the best-seller on Amazon among children’s counting books. The books are now sold at 1,300 stores nationwide. “We didn’t expect this reaction. We were doing it for love. If 100 kids picked up our books, we would have been happy,” said Rodriguez, a senior producer for the radio show ``On Air With Ryan Seacrest.’’ U.S. sales of children’s Spanish-language books rose 6 percent over the past year to 1.5 million units, according to NDP BookScan. Overall Spanishlanguage books jumped 15 percent. But that still represents less than 1 percent of the overall book market in

a country with more than 41 million Spanish speakers. Pam Kaufman, president of global consumer products at Viacom/Nickelodeon, said the company had been looking for a baby brand when she was introduced to Canticos at an industry conference. When she showed the videos to her Hispanic colleagues, some teared up. “I thought, OK, we have something here,” Kaufman said. “We are excited about it because it is authentic.” A growing number of Hispanic authors are pushing for Spanish translations of their books or weaving the language into stories with bilingual themes. Juana Martinez-Leal wrote both the Spanish and English versions of her award-winning “Alma and How She Got Her Name’’ and insisted on a publisher that would release them simultaneously, said her agent, Stefanie Sanchez Von Borstel. Of the seven publishers who bid on the book, only two agreed. Candlewick Press released the two editions

“C “Counting i with i h Frida” F id ” is i a best-seller b ll on Amazon. Photo via amazon.com in April, and the English version is in its second printing. Von Borstel said sales of the Spanish edition have been a little slower, partly because bilingual and Spanish-language books face a tough battle for shelf space. Rodriguez and Stein understand that problem well. Once, they were once stunned to find Lil’ Libros — an American series — upstairs in the “foreign section” of an Oregon bookstore. Stein scooped them all up and marched them downstairs to the children’s section herself.

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Mighty Mouse has come to save the Met. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducted his first performance as just the third music director in the Metropolitan Opera’s 135-year-old history when he mounted the podium of the financially challenged company last Tuesday night in a new production of Verdi’s “La Traviata” by Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer. Some in the Met orchestra have taken to calling the 5-foot6-inch Montreal native by the affectionate anthropomorphic nickname first bestowed by mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato. “It has to do with the incredible amount of energy and super-heroic disposition, wrapped in a more compact package,” she said in an email. Rafael Kubelik lasted just six performances as the Met’s first music director in 1973, quitting after clashes over casting. James Levine started a 40-year reign in 1976 that lasted more than 2,300 performances; he

was pushed out two years ago following a decade of declining health and fired from his emeritus role last March after allegations of sexual misconduct the Met found to be credible. The Met said in June 2016 that Nézet-Séguin would become music director for the 202021 season, then moved up the timetable last February. “There’s a boyish enthusiasm about him that’s very sincere, and I think that that brings something different to the table,” said Sylvia Danburg Volpe, associate principal second violin. Nézet-Séguin, 43, represents a generational change from the 75-year-old Levine, a dynamo in his prime but confined to conducting from a motorized chair since 2013 due to back injuries, his left arm impaired by Parkinson’s disease. Clarinetist Jessica Phillips, chair of the Met’s orchestra committee, felt “in the last 10 years we were left sort of rudderless” and “it was just kind of a slow, steady decline.” She encouraged Nézet-Séguin to move up the start of his tenure. A drawing of him by Emmanuelle Ayrton was commissioned by the orchestra, which along with Met general manager Peter Gelb toasted NézetSéguin with Champagne after a matinee of Wagner’s “Parsifal” last winter.

“My impression is that there is a general state of euphoria around the house,” Gelb said. Because of his relative youth, Nézet-Séguin is more approachable and musicians are more relaxed. “Jimmy was awe-inspiring and then like kind of terrorinspiring,” Phillips said. “Not that he was a dictator, but if you hadn’t worked with him for a long period of time, you would be terrified. He would just work and work and work, and either you grew or you became very worried about everything that you were doing because he would nitpick so much. I think Jimmy would only nitpick with the people he thought could grow from it.” Nézet-Séguin has been music director of the Orchestre Metropolitain in Montreal since 2000 and of the Philadelphia Orchestra since the 2012-13 season. He was chief conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic from 2008-09 through last season. He becomes Met music director at a time when ticket sales have stabilized at about 75 percent of capacity and 67 percent of available box office. Levine focused on Verdi, Wagner, Mozart and Strauss but broadened the repertory. Nézet-Séguin wants to widen it even more, increasing baroque operas in the 4,000-capacity house.

DECEMBER 13-19,2018 “I feel that the orchestra is confused, not only the orchestra, the house is confused at how to behave with the size of the auditorium,” he said. “I hear a bit too much about, oh it’s big here, therefore this and that and that. I understand the box office and the seats issue. That is easy. But acoustically I always found that here the size of voices, the volume of the voice, is not what reacts the best. What reacts best is actually the right resonance of the voice.” The Met hopes to present some stagings outside its home, subject to union agreements, including Missy Mazzoli’s “Breaking the Waves” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2020. While Levine’s interactions with students were concentrated to those on an elite track, Nézet-Séguin is opening the house to school groups. A class from Queens attended a “Traviata” orchestra rehearsal, and he answered questions after. A post-opera meet-and-greet was planned for the house’s new south entrance space after the second “Traviata” performance on Dec. 7. His musical impact already has been significant. “It’s the first time that we had a conductor be able to tell the director what to do,” Phillips said. “It’s been the other way around for a very long time.” Nézet-Séguin is an urbanite without a driver’s license, muscular and with a tattoo of a turtle holding a baton on his right shoulder. He has one assistant, Ben Spalter, plus his agency, Askonas Holt in London. Claudine Nézet, his mom, takes care to get his clothes and scores to the right city. His husband, Or-

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SCANDAL? WHAT SCANDAL? IOWA BECKONS Juan Diego Flórez as Alfredo and Diana Damrau as Violetta in Verdi’s “La Traviata.” Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera chestre Metropolitain violist Pierre Tourville, tends to cats Rodolfo, Melisande and Rafa (named after Nadal) at home in Montreal but intends to move to the new two-bedroom apartment — a 6-minute walk from the Met. Nézet-Séguin got the orchestra’s attention this fall when he mandated new parts for “Traviata” to replace ones that some players had marked up dating to the performances conducted by Carlos Kleiber in 1989. While he made his Met debut on New Year’s Eve nine years ago in Bizet’s “Carmen,” the relationship changed with the shift from guest conductor to music director. “Whenever somebody visits, they kind of treat you more like they’ve got you out on the first date. Now we’re moving in together,” Danburg Volpe said. “I can tell from what he says that he spent a lot of time in the house listening to us in other performances. And so he’s kind of crafted a very specific version of how he wants things to read in the house. And so, yes, I think he wants us being

richer. He does ask for vibrato a lot. He does want things a little bit longer.” Nézet-Séguin’s plans include the first Met performances in French of Verdi’s “Don Carlos” in three years and “Les vepres siciliennes (The Sicilian Vespers)” in the Stefan Herheim staging from Covent Garden. He will conduct the Met premiere of Jake Heggie’s “Dead Man Walking” with DiDonato in 2020-21, when he likely will lead six productions. “I think he will bring with him his incredible enthusiasm and exuberance, wrapped in a huge desire to lift every performance to its utmost potential,” DiDonato said. “He has a wonderful way of getting the artists around him to contribute and to participate in a way where all of us have a stake in the quality of what we are giving the audience. I also sense in him a total devotion to the craft — there is no ego to wade through, no self-serving agenda. This will win the hearts of the musicians, the patrons and the public.”

LEADERSHIP Even before he’s sworn in for a second term, Mayor Bill de Blasio will hit the Hawkeye State to rev up his national profile — despite intense blowback from bogus leadpaint inspections at public housing BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN

When the going gets tough, Mayor Bill de Blasio gets going — as far away from City Hall as politically, geograph-

ically and logistically possible. It’s been a four-year pattern. And now, even as his administration reels from a mushrooming scandal at the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), it is about to repeat itself: The mayor next month packs his bags for Iowa, home of the first-in-thenation caucuses — and graveyard-inthe-cornfields for outsized dreams and overreaching politicians. Fresh from his reelection triumph and two weeks before his swearing-in for a second term, he’ll headline the fifth annual holiday party for the lib-

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Are you prepositionally challenged? Hesitant around hyphens? Undergoing a comma crisis? Simply enraptured by the beauty of a well-placed ellipsis? Ellen Jovin wants to talk grammar with you. Jovin has become familiar to Upper West Side word lovers in recent weeks as the face and founder of Grammar Table — a public forum for open-ended discussion of all things language. Armed with a folding

table and an array of reference books and style guides, Jovin sets up shop near the northern entrance to the 72nd Street subway station on Broadway to dole out complimentary (with an “i”) pointers, guidance and emotional support to all comers, from devoted syntacticians to the downright grammar-averse. “Hi, this looks lit,” a young woman said on a recent after-

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EDC presents basis for proposed 54th Street bridge location, which has stirred opposition from some Sutton Area residents BY MICHAEL GAROFALO

A plan to install a pedestrian bridge in a small park near 54th Street and Sutton Place that would provide access to a new section of the East Midtown Waterfront Esplanade has become a source of neighborhood controversy. Representatives from the New York City Economic Development Corporation, the lead agency on the project, laid out the rationale for the location of the proposed bridge at a Jan. 22 meeting of Community Board 6’s land use and waterfront committee. The “flyover,” as EDC officials have termed the proposed span, would create an access point bridging the FDR

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Drive to the new span of riverfront esplanade set to be built between 53rd and 60th Streets on the East River. The entrance to the bridge would occupy much of what is now the northern portion of Sutton Place Park South, a small area of green space with riverfront views along Sutton Place South between 53rd and 54th Streets. The proposed bridge is opposed by some residents, who fear that the entrance ramp would have a negative impact on the park’s character, resulting in a loss of walking space and benches, drawing additional bicycle and pedestrian traffic to Sutton Place,

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A SHIFTING LANDSCAPE From the Brooklyn Navy Yard to the outskirts of Rome, Pamela Talese captures stories of cities in transition on canvas BY ALIZAH SALARIO

When Pamela Talese traveled to Rome with the intention of painting places where new and old architecture intersect, she didn’t anticipate seeing America’s possible future in Italy’s past. But Talese, who has long captured New York’s outer boroughs, hopped on her bike and found a fascinating visual landscape along the periphery of Rome that is defined, in part, by the history of Fascism. Her latest exhibition, “The Third Rome,” (the title takes its name from Giuseppe Mazzini’s dictum that “After the Rome of the emperors, after the Rome of the Popes, there will come the Rome of the people”) now on display at Robert Simon Fine Art, Inc., on the UES, explores themes of pseudo-populism and fallen heroes in a series of evocative, small-scale oil paintings. Talese, a lifelong New Yorker, spoke to Straus News about the similarities between Benito Mussolini and Robert Moses, how her famous parents influenced her approach to the artist’s life, and the disappearing Upper East Side of her youth.

Tell me about the inspiration behind “The Third Rome.” What drew you to the city? I can’t really say why it was that Rome called. I had always loved Rome...Romans are very much like New Yorkers. They are funny, they’re a little abrupt, they can be rude, they’re moody, so it felt very familiar to me ... The more I was there, the more I stand in a place, the more I feel intuitively. Then I do some research and it’s like wow, there’s a really big story here.

IF YOU GO: WHAT: “The Third Rome: Allegorical Landscapes of the Modern City” by Pamela Talese WHERE: Robert Simon Fine Art, 22 East 80th St., 4th Fl. WHEN: Though Dec. 15 www.robertsimon.com How so? What was the story? I began to spend more time in the Foro Italico [a sports complex intended for the Olympic games] where there are several Carrara marble statues of athletes ... these amazing, oversized, muscular, sort of these perfect male bodies are all around the Foro Italico [formerly Foro Mussolini, built during his regime] ... I thought that they were really campy, so I never paid much attention to them. But somehow that summer in the heat, the first summer of Trump, whatever I was going through at the time, made me look at these sculptures differently, and I began to think ... all of these young men were sent off to war completely underequipped. Half of the Italian army ended up being imprisoned or in work camps. It was all propaganda, and no strategy. So the story of Italy in the 20th century is a sad one, it’s a really tragic one, and I think it’s that tragedy that I began to feel that summer.

That’s interesting to think of the parallels between the massive construction projects in our city today and these massive, early 20th century projects. I was born and raised on the Upper East Side ... And I remember when there were three major companies. It was Turner, Tishman and Trump in the 70s, and they were tearing up the city that I knew, so I was acutely aware of urban development at a very young age. There’s a wonderful book by Na-

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than Silver, “Lost New York” ... maybe just seeing that book [as a young child] made me aware of preservation, and buildings, and the virtue of certain buildings ... another thing that I’ve said is that Benito Mussolini is the Robert Moses of Rome. They are very similar in sort of being master builders, they both were in love with the car and they both thought nothing of displacing thousands of residents for their big projects.

You sound like a true New Yorker. I’m such a New Yorker. It’s sort of sad. We’re very provincial in that way.

So what do you miss about the Upper East Side you knew growing up? I’m a little bit despairing about the amount of development that’s going on on the Upper East Side. I mean, you walk on a block, an early to mid-20th century block, and then all of a sudden ... it looks very surgical. To me, it looks like somebody pulled a tooth out. You’ll see a gap on the corner, especially everything that’s happened on Lexington and Third. That to me is a huge loss. I know that the world’s global population is expanding, and I understand why people want to live here. I mean, so do I. It’s a problem with scale, for me. We have some really beautiful, gracious streets ... there were these wonderful pastry shops — the Eclair — there were a couple of German or German-American pastry shops that made these kind of cookies that I have never seen again.

Did you parents encourage a career in the arts? I should say I did everything I could not to be a painter. I’m no fool. My original plan was to be a magazine designer, and on and off for about eight years I was an interior designer. And I worked briefly for Parish-Hadley, and

Pamela Talese, on site Termini. Photo courtesy Pamela Talese I worked for David Kleinberg [Design Associates], a job I loved ... There was one day I went up to Coney Island just to do another drawing of this building that was not a building of note, but I liked the composition, and it was gone. And I thought okay, I have to move on this. It wasn’t so much that I thought that I had a big art career, because I didn’t at the time. I didn’t even know it was my calling. I felt the urgency of documenting these things in the way I saw them before they disappeared. And that’s where it started. I quit my job in 2000 ... my father [author Gay Talese] was not thrilled. He was not delighted. My mother [publisher Nan Talese] was much more encouraging. She had always thought that I was an artist, and I had been

Rain at the Foro, Marble Athletes from Provinces of Brindisi, Napoli, Aosta, Livorno, & Bergamo. Oil on linen over panel, 9 7/8 x 14 1/8 inches

resisting it. And they are still kind of puzzled. Really, they’re wonderful, they’re nice, they’re concerned...I’m concerned, but it’s too late for me to become a paralegal.

I’ve always felt that way about writing. Did your parents give you any advice? I mean, you’re a storyteller in many ways. I think that there’s a storytelling aspect in my family, and I guess while there wasn’t direct advice, they led by example. Both of my parents, who are in their 80s, are still working. I have a sister as well, and the four of us, we work all the time. That’s just the way we are oriented ... you know, my mother publishes amazing literary authors that are occasionally commercially successful, like Margaret Atwood or Ian McEwan or Pat Conroy, but she doesn’t do it because she can tell that they’re going to be a big seller. She does it because she believes in the work. And my father very much goes off on his direction, sometimes against some persuasive advice. He is called in a certain way, and that’s the work he does, and certainly the work he does is not on trend. I’m a realist who paints mostly on location, and what’s been fascinating about this show is ... this work is transitional not only in my own career, but also in the ways people see Rome. I guess from my parents, I learned to just forge ahead.

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