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In the Dark at Park Avenue School Building records show plans to move the school picked up steam months before parents were told By Daniel Fitzsimmons

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his summer, parents of children who attend the well-regarded Park Avenue Church Christian Day School on the Upper East Side were blindsided by news that the school was moving, effective immediately, to a temporary location on the Upper West Side. Since then, some parents have complained that the Park Avenue Christian Church, which runs the school, should have given them more advance notice, or at least a chance to look elsewhere for a new school home for their kids. Now, building department records reviewed by Our Town show that the church had more than enough time to give parents a head’s up. The records indicate that the Park Avenue Church was making renovations to its school’s new Upper West Side location as early as March, despite sending out tuition bills to parents in early-August with no indication of the cross-town move. Parents learned in mid-August of the church’s plan to

East Side Businesses Wary of Gatecrashers Some small Upper East Side shop owners are concerned about recent middle-of-the-night burglaries; police precinct issues warning

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n mid-September, a beloved Upper East Side diner was struck on two separate occasions by burglars. While one of the burglaries involved a disgruntled former business partner, the other was part of a much larger trend. Throughout August and September, pizzerias, laundromats and shoe repair stores fell victim to burglars who would pry open gates and jimmie locks to gain access to the store, then smash registers and steal cash. Following this recent spate of middle-of-the-night burglaries on the Upper East Side, Our Town spoke to several other small businesses in the vicinity to discuss matters of security. While at least ten shops between East 75th and East 85th Streets — from mom ‘n’ pop pizzerias to laundromats to shoe repair stores — had heard nothing of the

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Late-Night Assault A woman was assaulted and robbed as she entered her apartment building. At 3:40 a.m. on Saturday, September 28, a 24-year-old woman was followed into her building on East 81st Street by an unknown man, who punched her several times on the face, causing a bruise and a lump on the right side of her face. She then fell down to the ground and bumped her head, causing a lump on the back of her head. The man took some items from her and fled in an unknown direction. Police searched the area but could not find her assailant. No surveillance video was available. The items stolen were an iPhone 4S valued at $450, $40 in cash, and a wallet from J. Crew priced at $18.

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Withdrawal Pains Someone accessed a woman’s bank account and made an unauthorized withdrawal. At 9 a.m. on Monday, September 30, a 46-yearold woman living on East 71st Street was informed by her bank of a $2,400 withdrawal. She was told that a woman had entered the bank’s branch at West 61st Street and Broadway and withdrawn the money. The victim was further informed that $5,000 of her money had been transferred from her savings to her checking account without her permission or authorization.

A man stole a woman’s handbag from her car as her daughter looked on. At 4:35 p.m. on Wednesday, October 2, a 40-year-old woman was picking up her younger daughter from class on Third Avenue when she got a phone call from her older daughter, whom she had left unattended in her car in front of the building. The older daughter reported that a 35-year-old man wearing a green tank top and a camouflage hat had reached into the car and removed the mother’s handbag through the open driver’s-side window. The man fled in an unknown direction. Police searched the area but could not find the thief. Items stolen were a Goyard handbag valued at $1,300, $500 in cash, a Prada wallet costing $400, and Fendi makeup. The total taken amounted to $2,400.

A couple stole an expensive jacket from a clothing boutique on Madison Avenue. Surveillance video showed the couple entering the store at 5:58 p.m. on Tuesday, October 1. The woman pretended to shop, while the man removed a $42,000 Helston Belstaff cropped biker jacket from inside a glass display, placed the jacket under his outer garment, and walked out of the store.

Lane Insane Two men in a van assaulted a cabbie in a road rage incident. At 3:55 p.m. on Monday, September 30, a 30-year-old male cab driver was heading southbound on Lexington Avenue. A double-parked truck was blocking the lane in front of him, and he put his signal on to merge right into the next lane. Two 40-year-old men in a van behind him began cursing at him and got out of their vehicle, a black 2005 GM Savanna 2500 with New York plates NY-94736MA. The men from the van then began punching and kicking the cabbie, causing scratches to his neck and both arms. The men finally fled in their van southbound on Lexington Avenue.

GPS MIA Someone broke into a Time Warner Cable truck and stole a GPS. At 4:02 p.m. on Sunday, September 29, a 39-year-old woman working for Time Warner Cable returned to her company pickup truck parked on East 95th Street. She noticed that her driver’s-side window had been broken and the Garmin GPS removed.

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With all due respect for the opinions of Mr. Sayeed Chawdhury and Sheikh Mostafa, the NYPD’s monitoring of the Muslim “community”, i.e., specifically its mosques, is not for the reason that the people practice Islam. It is because, unwittingly, the mosques can serve as breeding grounds for the few radical, potential terrorists and loosely hinged who will, intentionally, due to ignorance and/or misinterpretation ofthe Koran, use their faith as justification of their murderous acts around the globe. Admittedly, we have our own home-grown, mentally disturbed terrorists. Sheikh Mostaf refers to the American government’s “hypocrisy”; how so? Yes, the American government is concerned with the lack of human rights in other countries, i.e., freedom of religion, gender equality, however, the Muslims living in the U.S. have not been constrained from practicing their religion. Indeed, mosques are continually being built without confrontation unless designated for an area which may cause great controversy. Yes, we believe that 90 percent of Muslims here In the U.S. are decent, hard-working people who contribute to their community. Yet it would be most helpful if these people would be more vocal in denouncing the deplorable acts of terrorism commited by terrorists in the name of Islam. We need to continue to pray for peace on this earth. B. Brandon, NYC

Over 40 people attended the annual Blessing of the Animals at St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church on East 96th Street on Sunday, October 6. Father Tony began the blessing with a Franciscan prayer, in which he blessed both pet owners and pets, stating that they are both a blessing to each other’s lives and that there is a place in heaven for all God’s creatures. The blessing was held on the steps of the church, where pet owners brought dogs of all sizes, and even a few cats.

Alberto Pena and his wife (pictured behind him) brought his two dogs to receive a blessing.

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move the school to 4 West 76th Street – home of the Fourth Universalist Society - just weeks before school was set to begin. The move prompted dozens of parents to withdraw their children from the school, which costs about $20,000 a year to attend. Fewer than half of the 204 students who attended the school before the move have left, most of them on the younger end of the 3-5-year-old age scale the school caters to. The school was located in a five-story annex next to the church at 1010 Park Avenue for the past 50 years prior to the move in August. Church officials struck a deal last year with Extell Development Corporation to build a 16-story residential building on the site, a revelation that shocked parents when they learned of it in August. When asked why the church didn’t notify parents of the move earlier, church spokesperson George Artz said, “There are many moving parts to this deal, and the church wanted each one in place before they presented it for a congregational vote in August 2013. The church was only days away from revealing the move to parents when it became public.� However, building department records show that a work permit application was filed in March of this year for renovations on behalf of the Park Avenue Christian Church. The application called for $265,000 in renovations and was approved in April. The building department confirmed the renovations were completed, making it unlikely that the church wasn’t fully invested in the Upper West Side location in March. The application initially called for “renovation of the existing space for a new tenant (Park Ave Christian Church).� An amendment to the application was later filed that said the work was being done on behalf of an entity called “Little Day School.� A search of state and city records didn’t yield any information on a school called Little Day School, raising the question of whether the church used a pseudonym on building-department documents. One school parent who asked not to be identified suggested the church delayed making parents aware of the move in order to collect tuition bills for as long as they could before parents withdrew their children. The church sent the third of four tuition bills to parents on Aug. 5, one week before parents learned of the move. According to one parent, the Aug. 5 bill came in an envelope and on letterhead with the 1010 Park Avenue location and gave no indication of the move. Artz denied that the church delayed telling parents about the move in order to collect tuition payments and said difficult decisions had to be made to insure both the church and school’s existence. He previously told Our Town that the deal with Extell to build the residential tower, which has yet to be finalized, was made for financial reasons. “The congregation needs the funds for its very survival,� he

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said. A source close to the school said parents were aware it would have to move eventually, as the church’s only asset is the annex and air rights above it, but learning that the move would occur this year came as a shock. “We knew it was a possibility but we always thought we’d have a couple of years to find a place,� said the source, who asked not to be identified in this story. “We figured they would look after us.� In response to complaints about the late notice of the move, city councilmembers Dan Garodnick and Gale Brewer sent a letter to the church urging it to the refund the tuition of any parents who wish to pull their children out. “As you might imagine, we heard from angry parents -- on both sides of Central Park,� the letter states. According to one parent, current and former parents of the school are organizing in an attempt to split off from the church. Artz said in an email the church has been looking for a real estate solution that would allow both to survive separately. “For the past two years the Ministry Council explored a potential real estate move that would ensure the survival of both the church and the school,� said Artz. “Those discussions included moving the school, which has for 50 years occupied its space in the church rent free, and allowing the school to be independent of the church.� Although the school did not technically pay rent for the annex space, revenues from tuition are controlled and appropriated by the church. A major source of friction in recent years, according to one parent, has been that parents feel too big a portion of the money made by the school is taken for church use. The parent said separating from the church will allow the school to develop the Upper West Side location and attract families in that area without the issue of the church managing school funds. Controlling its own financials, the parent said, could possibly lead to an additional Upper East Side location in the future. Regardless of the church’s intentions, in interviews, those close to the school move expressed frustration, anger, and confusion over the way it was handled. “It’s really sickening and remarkably un-Christian,� said one parent. “It’s a wonderful community and no group of parents and teachers and administrators, particularly ones as fundamentally good and decent as this group, deserves to be treated this way.� Two different sources close to the move said the lease agreement between the church and the Fourth Universalist Society can be traced back to Park Avenue Pastor Alvin Jackson and was made last year. “The facts are that the parents have discovered that the church probably knew in the spring of 2012,� said a source of the move to the Upper West Side. “And they didn’t see fit to tell us.� Jackson did not return requests for comment and Artz did not specifically address when an agreement was made with the Fourth Universalist Society. Jon Arancio, president of the Fourth Universalist Society, did not respond to the question of when his organization entered into an agreement with the church.

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Friday Oct. 11 Imran Qureshi on the Roof at the Met Enjoy the view while you catch this season’s garden exhibit at the Met before it closes in November. Qureshi, a contemporary Pakistani artist, brings a modern spin on techniques from India’s Mughal era with paint-splattered patterns covering a rooftop courtyard. Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Avenue, $25 (suggested) www.metmuseum.org

Saturday Oct. 12 World Economics—Danced The French playwright Pascal Rambert brings this provocative show to the French Institute, in which a choir, professional dancers and a professor of economics help regular New Yorkers tell the story of how the global economy has affected their lives. Followed by a director Q & A. French Institute: Alliance Française 22 E 60th Street. 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. $20 www.fiaf.org

Sunday Oct. 13 European Clocks and Watches Marvel at more than three centuries of timekeeping in a remarkable exhibit featuring the collection of Winthrop Kellog Edey. From early Renaissance clocks to 18th-

century Swiss watches, explore how clockmakers have long made this functional necessity a true art form. The Frick Collection 1 E. 70th Street. 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. $20 http://www.frick.org/

Monday Oct. 14 Mingus Big Band Every Monday, the widow of legendary jazz bassist Charles Mingus runs a critically-acclaimed concert series playing her late husband’s rollicking tunes with a 14-piece big band. While you listen, dig into delicious BBQ, courtesy of Blue Smoke, Danny Meyer’s restaurant upstairs. The Jazz Standard 116 E. 27th Street, near Park Avenue South. $25 mingusmingusmingus.com

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Wednesday Oct. 16 American Legends at the Whitney Through November, the Whitney culls a selection of the greatest American painters from the first half of the 20th century, including Paul Cadmus, Georgia O’Keefe, and Edward Hopper. Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Avenue. Daily tours starting at 12:30 p.m. Free. www.whitney.org

Thursday Oct. 17 East 67th Street Market

Tuesday Oct. 15 Edmund de Waal’s “Atemwende” While most know his name from his bestselling memoir (The Hare with the Amber Eyes), Edmund de Waal has been an artist for decades, working mainly with clay and porce-

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burglaries, workers who had heard about them expressed mixed reactions. Steven Tevli, who manages The Source, a paper store near E. 80th Street and Third Avenue, had not heard about the burglaries, but says he hasn’t been concerned about security at his store for a long time. At the time we spoke, Tevli, the only employee working, was taking a lengthy smoke break outside while perusers meandered through

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Upper East Siders Should Contribute to City Health Data The neighborhood is least likely to participate in an upcoming health survey By Dan Garodnick

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n 2004, researchers found elevated levels of the chemical cotinine in the blood samples they collected during the first ever New York City Health and Examination Survey, or NYC HANES. Cotinine is linked to tobacco smoke, and the data suggested that New Yorkers, on average, were breathing more secondhand smoke than other Americans. That finding helped persuade the City Council to pass legislation that has kept Central Park and all other city parks and beaches smoke-free since 2011. In fact, the results of the survey have led to a variety of changes in local laws, all aimed at making NYC a healthier environment to live in. Now, after almost ten years, it’s time to update that data. In the coming months, 3,000 randomly selected New Yorkers will be invited to participate in the 2013 NYC HANES. But if previous trends hold, Upper East Siders will be the least likely to say yes - in 2004, turnout for the survey in the Upper East Side was among the lowest in the city. That’s a shame, because NYC HANES is a unique opportunity to influence municipal health policy. It is modeled after a national survey that began in the 1960s, NHANES. Dr. Tom Frieden, who is the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and served as New York City’s Health Commissioner for seven years, calls NHANES

the “gold standard� in health surveys. New York City is the only jurisdiction that conducts a comparable local survey. Unlike most other health surveys, which simply ask questions, NYC HANES also includes a physical exam. This has the advantage of providing scientists with an objective measure of New Yorkers’ health, but it requires a 2-3 hour time commitment, which can dissuade some residents from participating. In addition, Upper East Side residents have higher rates of insurance coverage than many other New Yorkers, so there may be less interest in the free lab tests provided by the survey. The Health Department and the CUNY School of Public Health, who are jointly conducting the upcoming NYC HANES with primary support from the de Beaumont Foundation, hope to increase turnout by making survey participation as easy as possible. The most important change is that the survey may now be conducted in respondents’ homes whenever convenient. The mayor frequently boasts that New Yorkers live longer than anyone else in the country. It’s true - life expectancy in our city is 80.6 years, more than two years longer than the national average. That’s a statistic to be proud of - and in order to maintain the gains we’ve made and improve even further, public health initiatives like NYC HANES are essential. I urge New Yorkers who are selected for the survey to participate, so that all New Yorkers can enjoy the benefits it can provide. Dan Garodnick is the Council Member representing District 4, which includes the Upper East Side, East Midtown, portions of the West 50’s, and Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village.

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Why Term Limits Are Good

Fall Prevention Week Ignores Outdoor Perils

The city will see some big and necessary - changes in the upcoming year By Tom Allon

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t’s an interesting quirk in the political world that some elected offices are term limited while the vast majority are not. In New York state politics, you can be a legislator for 40 years or more, winning your district election every two years, generally with no real opposition. The powers of incumbency are so great that more people are indicted or die in office than lose to challengers in contested elections. The same is true of Congress and the Senate, a legislative body which has come under intense criticism in recent years for its ineffective ways, most recently highlighted by the government shutdown. The maxim these days is that most people like their Congressmember but disrespect Congress, and some of that may be attributable to the crippling polarization and long tenures that we are seeing in this large legislative body. But in New York, as we are seeing this year, city officials turn over every eight years (except for the 12-year anomaly due to the overturning of term limits for a brief time in 2009). In 2014, we’ll have a new mayor, public advocate, comptroller and almost half of the city council. The fresh energy and ideas will hopefully infuse the city and build on the successes of the past few decades. There has been an incredibly strong mayor leading New York for most of the past 30 years and the city has gone from being thought of as ungovernable in the Lindsay era to a model of growth and safety and economic vitality to large cities around the world. It’s worth pausing for a second to think about the breathtaking changes the city has experienced under the steady and innovative guidance of Mike Bloomberg and his talented group of deputy mayors and commissioners. As NYU Professor Mitchell Moss eloquently wrote in a recent NY Observer article, there may be a yearning for change in some quarters of the city’s democratic party, but history will be very kind to Mike Bloomberg’s legacy.

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The visionary public health changes -- particularly the once-controversial smoking ban in public places -- have not only extended life spans in New York but also influenced other cities around the world to adopt these lifesaving measures. The rezoning of large swaths of the city -- particularly the long-underutilized waterfront -- has led to the revitalization of many neighborhoods, particularly in Brooklyn and Queens. The increase in park space and large tracts of open space like the High Line in Chelsea has made this a better and more enjoyable city for those who live here and the ever-increasing stream of tourists. And the list goes on. But now, because we should all believe that the arc of history is constantly bending towards progress, Bloomberg’s successor gets to pick priorities and ways to make our city a better place for all. If it’s de Blasio, which seems likely with the huge 50-point recent poll lead, then we can expect more attention paid to the middle class and the poor. De Blasio will champion the rights of middle class workers and those trying to raise themselves up to the middle class. There is no doubt that while the city has improved in many ways in the past few decades, there are still way too many New Yorkers who struggle to make ends meet. Those New Yorkers will have a champion in de Blasio and it’ll be interesting to see what he can do to help them while also ensuring that sectors like Wall Street and the wealthy want to stay in the city. Change is generally good, and term limits symbolize the political equivelant of change. It’s probably time to explore term limits for our legislatures, too, whether it’s in Albany or Washington, DC. When you’re in a job that’s too secure and immune to change, sometimes it leads to bad habits and forgetting the will of the people who elected you in the first place. So when you vote in November and observe as a whole new team takes over the reigns of the city, remember that in the long term, change is good, even if there may be some initial bumps in the road. Tom Allon, the president of City and State, NY, is a former Liberal Party-backed candidate for Mayor. Question or comments? Tallon@ cityandstateny.com

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It’s not just falls in the home that older New Yorkers should know about By Bette Dewing

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o who knew the first week of autumn was designated Fall Prevention Week? After all, falls are the leading cause of serious injury and even premature death among the rapidly growing 65-plus age group. Falls also cost the health care system very big bucks. So what’s needed are Spring, Summer, Winter as well as Fall Prevention Weeks! And a whole lot of media alerts and coverage. So who knew? I only knew because two friends did, a retired high school principal, and a retired RN and science teacher, who so importantly, were also devoted caregivers for their ill husbands. Claire and Ruth knew because they were on New York - Presbyterian’s Health Forums list and they shared the Fall Prevention at Home handout with me. Sure there’s a lot we need to know about home prevention, but we three militant elders are most concerned that nothing is said about what others must do to prevent falling risks, especially outside the home. For government, whose first duty is to protect public safety, safe travel conditions are not a top priority. Yet traffic law-breaking vehicles are the primary dangers out there for every walker, but especially elder ones. There are also uneven crosswalk surfaces which can upend those whose balance is not 20/20, and must peer down for street bumps as well as glance left and right for drivers and bicyclists too, who fail to yield when turning into their crosswalks. And two-wheelers are often allergic to the laws of the road. Indeed all city vehicles should make a nice little warning sound. Crackdown on Kamikaze walkers, in general. They can also topple a vulnerable pedestrian. But what to do about the explosion of small fries heedlessly riding bikes and

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scooters on sidewalks and park paths? What to do about the unconcerned parents and nannies, is more like it. There once was a time in Manhattan when youngsters rarely rode bikes. Silent scooters didn’t exist. And yet kids managed quite well with just walking and their running was mostly confined to playgrounds and parks. Ah, New York was once such a great walking city - for everyone. Other outdoor falling risk dangers include city buses, which elders especially rely on. Now some able-bodied riders still don’t give their seat to those who are not, despite signs to remind them and an occasional mention from the MTA Command Center heard over the bus’s loudspeaker. Rear door exiting is risky for many elder riders, and many desperately need drivers to pull the front entrance door to the curb but are too timid to ask. So the command center must also announce often and loud: “This bus pulls to the curb whenever possible!” Sure, there’s much we must do to protect ourselves, not only from falling, but to ensure that those hired or elected to protect the citizenry must at least reduce the forementioned dangers. We also have a dream of a citizenry concerned with heedless everyday actions on these finite streets, walkways and in all shared spaces, which especially threaten the vulnerable - often elder New Yorkers. And we dream that their voices will be heard in “senior” faith, health, civic and surely political groups because they’ll be enabled to get there, even after dark or in stormy weather.

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Why Jacques Demy Matters A legend of the French New Wave gets a complete retrospective at Film Forum By Armond White

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ne of my fondest experiences in the New York Film Critics Circle concerned the late Jacques Demy, subject of a complete Umbrellas of Cherbourg career retrospective at Film Forum history and cinema possibility, but those esthetics also came (Oct. 4 –17): out of the warmth in Varda’s tear-bright eyes. When Demy’s first two films Lola and Bay of Angels That warmth—and the moral intelligence behind it--is what were re-issued in 2001, I proposed to the Circle that the I recognized in Demy’s films from the first time I saw Lola. re-lease amounted to a re-discovery and merited a Special It was a panned-and-scanned TV print shown on Canadian Award. It was gratifying, and an exhilarating surprise, that television yet nothing could diminish the film’s exuberance. It’s the membership concurred. Back then, the Circle had not beauty and expansiveness was confirmed when I finally saw it given many special awards so this was, indeed, special. It on the big screen years later at the Alliance Francaise. recognized that the deeply expressive Lola was one of the most By the time of that 2001 Film Forum reissue, I understood accomplished debut features ever made and that the existential that Lola’s widescreen tribute to romantic faith—a deep romance Bay of Angels was more than a follow-up, but a spirituality connected to the joy that Demy found in cinema confirmation of Demy’s great talent and unique sensibility. and paid back in Lola’s tribute to both Max Ophuls and Josef It was right that the New York Film Critics Circle bestow von Sternberg—was actually an arms-open embrace. In a rare honor on Demy. Lola premiered in 1962, the year the dramatic, musical, spatial, visual terms, Lola’s expressed love Circle suspended its awards due to a newspaper strike, so and desire, through time, as the essence of CinemaScope. Demy’s deserved prize was, in a sense, long overdue. (I had Demy would also pay his debt forward through a career an additional motive in my double-Demy proposal: The 1996 making films that explored the depths of desire. His Nouvelle reissue of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg might also have won a Vague distinction always expressed desire though a selfspecial prize if not for the simultaneous reissue of that infernal conscious appreciation of storytelling styles. Demy was Vertigo.) particularly devoted to the movie-musical genre--especially And at the NYFCC awards ceremony on January 10, 2002, the American ideal represented by Gene Kelly’s maritime I was honored with the opportunity to present the Circle’s myth Anchors Away (significant for Demy, born in the port prize—expressing what those films mean in cinema history and for me personally--to Demy’s widow, the filmmaker Agnes city Nantes) and Vincente Minnelli’s Meet Me in St. Louis (significant for Demy’s modernist equating of nostalgia with Varda. It was not my first time meeting Varda but her sweet consciousness). Lola proved that Demy could make movies appreciation and ebullient gratitude were unforgettable. It with buoyancy and rhythm—films that felt like musicals was the fulfillment of a connection I had always felt with that without necessarily being musicals. (Jonathan Demme is the great film movement The French New Wave in which she and only American filmmaker with musical taste—and a humane Jacques Demy played important roles. That connection was perspective--similar to Demy’s.) based in esthetics, a new, world-changing approach to film

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Anouk Aimee in Lola It is this unusual sensibility that was the source of Demy’s great vision, which eventually flowered in his masterpiece The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (showing at Film Forum Oct. 18-24). The visual feast of Umbrellas was unparalleled until Bertolucci’s The Conformist, yet this is an ever greater work; it elaborates on Lola’s philosophical complexity. Demy’s lifelong work constructed an analysis of desire that coheres Lola-UmbrellasModel Shop as a metaphysical/metacinema trilogy. This vision of man’s struggle with desire continued through mixed-genre films that heightened one’s appreciation of movie narrative possibility as well as the spiritual history of ardor, through nostalgic reverie or innocence-into-adulthood myths (as in The Pied Piper, Lady Oscar and Donkey Skin). Demy’s films are romances but complex romances that explicate emotional identity. Such films as Lola, Bay of Angels, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Model Shop, Une Chambre En Ville and Two Seats for the 26th are never so crude—or confused--as to be about gender. Before the idea of political correctness, Demy’s explication of desire allows a musical understanding about the spiritual identification and recognition that passes between men and women, children and adults. His films are light-hearted but more fool you if you take them lightly. Follow Armond White on Twitter at 3xchair

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Standards, Met and Unmet A Tchaikovsky masterpiece at the Met and a classic movie By Jay Nordlinger

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n a fall preview last month, I made a point about Valery Gergiev, the Russian conductor: He is mercurial. Sometimes he’s up, sometimes he’s down. Sometimes he’s electric, sometimes he’s blah. On a recent Thursday night at the Metropolitan Opera, he was alternately electric and blah. He was conducting a Tchaikovsky masterpiece, Eugene Onegin. He can conduct the chorus and dance in Act I so that you can barely sit in your seat— that’s how exciting it is. But on this occasion, no. It’s as though he decided to withhold the electricity. Other parts of the opera were exciting, mesmerizing or other desirable things. The music ran out of gas at the end, which is a bad time to run out of gas. Gergiev is an interesting and mysterious cat. Sitting there, I thought, “It’s hard enough being a music critic without being a shrink as well.” The Met orchestra played responsively and admirably. This was especially true of the woodwinds, to whom Tchaikovsky is so kind. Stefán Höskuldsson, the flute; Elaine Douvas, the oboe; Anthony McGill, the clarinetist— they were all first-rate. So was Joseph Anderer, the French horn. In the Letter Scene and elsewhere, he played with extraordinary accuracy. French hornists are born to stumble. They have a right to do so. If Anderer keeps this up, they’ll kick him out of the horn union. In the leading male roles were two Poles: Mariusz Kwiecien, the baritone, who sang Onegin, and Piotr Beczala, the tenor, who sang Lenski. Kwiecien was sleek and assured, as usual. His insouciance toward Tatiana was just right. But, particularly in the final scene, he lacked a certain heft, both vocally and theatrically. Beczala had a magnificent night, a supercharged night. He was booming it out there like Bjoerling. His natural likability made Lenski more likable than ever, and acutely tragic. Also, Beczala took great pleasure in his singing—and it can be quite pleasurable to hear another take pleasure in his own singing. This opera has three mezzo-sopranos, the leading one of whom sings Olga, Tatiana’s younger sister. At the Met, she was Oksana Volkova, who was adequate. Elena Zaremba and Larissa Diadkova are former Olgas, seasoned pros, who at the Met were Madame Larina and the Nurse, respectively. They were wise and glorious, giving lessons in Russian

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opera singing. Ferruccio Furlanetto, the Italian bass, once told me that Prince Gremin in Onegin is just about the best role in opera: You play golf in the afternoon; you have a nice dinner; you arrive at the opera house during the second intermission; you sing the best aria in the opera, stealing the show; you get the girl; you go home with a healthy check. Nice work if you can get it. Alexei Tanovitski got it here, and performed serviceably. The Met’s production is a new one, under the care of Deborah Warner. It replaces one of the finest productions in the Met cupboard, the 1997 Onegin by Robert Carsen. The new one is unobjectionable at worst, satisfying at best. A successful small touch, I think, is the handshake and hug that Onegin gives Lenski before the duel. Less successful, I think, is the long smooch that Tatiana plants on Onegin at the end. It’s a little gimmicky and suspends the opera, marring Tchaikovsky’s pacing. Speaking of Tatiana, she was Anna Netrebko, possibly the starriest soprano of the last ten years. I have written many thousands of words about her, and will now confine myself to a few: She has the gift of knowing— how to phrase, how to apply dynamics, how to put across a character. I have no idea what she would score on an SAT test. But, as an opera performer, she’s an Einstein. Over at Avery Fisher Hall, the New York Philharmonic did something fun: They played the soundtrack of 2001: A Space Odyssey, as the movie unspooled on a big screen overhead. Everyone knows that Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra is used in this movie. Actually, people refer to this music as “2001.” But there are also pieces by Johann Strauss the Younger, Aram Khachaturian and György Ligeti. On the night I attended, the Philharmonic, under Alan Gilbert, did not come off as a top orchestra. (There were two screenings, of which I caught the first.) They came off as a perfectly good orchestra. Entrances were okay, sound was okay (mainly), musical spirit was okay (sort of). There was some lovely unison cello playing in the Khachaturian bit from Gayane. But there was not a lot else to commend. The Danube waltz was downright uncommendable—having little grace, little beauty, little of Vienna. It was good enough for government work, maybe. But for a top orchestra? Perhaps these forces were doing their very best on this night. Perhaps not. New Yorkers are loyal to their orchestra, and the Philharmonic will probably win applause and praise no matter what. So it’s all the more incumbent on players to meet high standards, just because.

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o more thrilling space has opened up for unconventional performances and installations in recent years than the Park Avenue Armory in 2007. Built in 1861 to resemble Grand Central Station and other majestic 19th century railroad stations and designed as a military facility and social club, it became home to the 7th Regiment of the National Guard, a volunteer unit, its towering 55,000 square foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall ideal for marching maneuvers, its elegant period rooms, created by the likes of Louis Comfort Tiffany and Stanford White, pleasing to the club’s socialite members. Now a haven for a wide ranging Massive Attack at The Armory arts projects, it has featured among its chess board, while a giant scoreboard and many outstanding presentations, the video cameras record the action on a large 9,216-square-foot action painting “Greeting screen television. Card” by Aaron Young, made of burned “Nothing prepares you for the majesty out tire marks produced by speeding of the Armory,” says scenic and costume motorcycles, the Royal Shakespeare Company designer Lucy Osborne. “The challenge was to performing five plays in a duplicate of its create the atmosphere of a sports arena.” For home theater, installations by Ernesto Neto, research, she visited Madison Square Garden. Christian Boltanski and Ann Hamilton, Returning to the task invigorated, she created Peter Greenaway’s multimedia Leonardo’s a complete 360-degree environment, with Last Supper, an immersive tribute to Merce raked seating, so that audiences will have an Cunningham, and choreographer Elizabeth intense sense of focus and feeling like they are Streb’s acrobatic “Kiss the Air.” almost falling into the chessboard. “Our mission is to present work that The match between Kasparov and Deep otherwise might never be done,” says Blue always fascinated Charman, who thinks Rebecca Robertson, the Park Avenue Armory of it as a boxing match. He studied the president and executive producer. “The space contenders’ backgrounds, more interested in doesn’t dictate. Therefore, artists can develop the psychological aspects of the match than their ideas anyway that they want. Every artist in chess itself. “I applied all the basic rules surprises us.” of storytelling,” he says, “trying to figure out The new season began with a compelling why people do things, wanting to empathize production of British playwright, Matt with their motives.” He did the same kind Charman’s The Machine, a depiction of of research into the characters close to the epic 1997 New York chess tournament them, including Kasparov’s mother and the between chess phenomenon Garry Kasparov members of the Deep Blue team. “Casting was and a super computer called Deep Blue, tough,” he adds. “We had to build a family. We developed by IBM and mastermind Dr. wanted an ensemble feel. We wanted the rigor Feng-Hsiung Hsu. It runs through September of truthfulness. We got it.” 18. A co commission by the Park Avenue Armory, Donmar Warehouse and Manchester Upcoming Armory Productions: Massive International Festival in England, where it had its premiere, the play is staged by Donmar Attack V Adam Curtis – Sept. 28-Oct. 4; The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic – Dec. Warehouse artistic director Josie Rourke like 12-21. a sports event, with seats around a four-sided

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fter his first career several generations ago as Hollywood’s most adorable child star, Ron Howard’s second career might be even more distinctive, though less loveable: He’s Hollywood’s reigning chameleon director-no appreciable point of view, just morphing through various impersonal styles to fit any given commercial project: from early Roger Corman yahoo fare like his 1977 race-car rebel debut Grand Theft Auto, which put him on the charts (thus on the industry’s directorial map); to his period of TV-derived, friendly comedies (Night Shift, Gung Ho, Splash, Howard’s best period); followed by his long stretch of Spielberg imitations (the dreary, gee-whiz spectacles Cocoon, Willow, Apollo 13,); then the star vehicles (Parenthood, Backdraft, Far and Away, Ransom, The Paper, How the Grinch Stole Christmas); and back to the vehicular traffic of celebrity epics (A Beautiful Mind, The Missing, Edtv, Cinderella Man, The DaVinci Code, Angels & Demons, Frost/Nixon, Howard’s worst period). By subject matter alone, Howard’s new film Rush, about the 1970s rivalry of Formula 1 race car gladiators Tom Hunt and Niki Lauda, belongs to the latter category. It is another impersonal, imitative celebrity epic but more puzzling than the others since the relatively unknown stars (beefy blond Chris Hemsworth as Hunt and anxious-eyed Chris Bruhl as Lauda) are not exactly boxoffice draws. Howard’s celebrity-worship is literalized through the film’s rather obscure protagonists--more lost to history than Howard’s Opie years but standard material for star-fucker screenwriter Peter Morgan. Morgan is as impersonal as Howard, making a career out of celebrity bio-pics from The Last King of Scotland and The Queen to Frost/ Nixon—all imitations of a kind. These films have nothing to do with politics beyond the spectacle of power which is essentially what most Hollywood films made on Howard’s

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expensive level are also, basically, exercises of power: projects that Howard and producer Brian Grazer can make happen even though they’re not worth making. If Howard was a film artist, Rush might have explored the testosterone urge of drivers who put themselves outside the safety zone of pedestrian sports. Morgan’s celeb-fixation prefers superficial “personal� anecdotes about Hunt/Lauda’s sponsorships, girl-chasing and marriages. Attempting to deepen the shallow personality clash of Frost/ Nixon (that disingenuous dialogue between propagandistic political effigies), Howard and Morgan proffer the secret antagonism/ admiration between Hunt and Lauda—which is equally disingenuous. One foul scene has Hunt assault a journalist who embarrasses Lauda at a press conference. Howard’s use of crowd-pleasing brutality proves Opie has turned into a dope. The 1970s period details (including music) are so glib the movie never catches imaginative hold and the shift to racing sequences hustle viewers into visual chaos— especially the climactic race in Japan during inclement weather. Here Howard imitates Michael Mann, going for existential blur through cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle’s confusion of film/video abstraction. This is a long way from the pellucid beauty that d.p. Mikael Salomon achieved in Far and Away and Backdraft. Rush coulda/shoulda been a kinetic thrill but if you recall the embarrassing action sequences in The DaVinci Code, the inert Apollo 13 which climaxed when white collar NASA workers stood around applauding, you know Howard has no skill for movement or montage. Instead of imitating past race car movies like Grand Prix, Bobby Deerfield or Eat My Dust, he takes the Hollywood Oscar-winner route of ersatz style. That’s what glorified hacks do. Follow Armond White on Twitter at 3xchair

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Labeling is an interesting phenomenon. On the one hand, labels allow us to see ourselves clearly. We wake up each morning and function throughout the day based on the labels that we assign ourselves. If you perceive yourself to be an independent, hard working person, you might dress and carry yourself in a way that reflects that belief. If you think of yourself as a funny individual who is the life of the party, you might be sure to crack as many jokes as you can throughout the day even if you’re not in the mood, in order to live up to your selfproclaimed identifier. So, we definitely use labels that we assign ourselves to help us navigate everyday situations. But what we don’t often realize is how other people’s labels influence our behavior. Several years ago, two psychologists, Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson, were especially interested in the impact of labeling on behavior. In a now famous study called “Pgymalion in the Classroom,” the two psychologists found that a phenomenon, called a self-fulfilling prophecy, is elicited when people attribute labels to your personality. A self-fulfilling prophecy is when a behavior becomes true, just because people expect it to be true. Rosenthal and Jacobs tested this phenomenon at a California elementary school where they administered a fake IQ test to students. Though they did not divulge actual scores of the exams, they randomly chose half of the students and told teachers that these students

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were “bloomers” based on the exam scores. They informed teachers that these “bloomers” would show more intellectual acumen and growth than the other half of the students. In reality, Rosenthal and Jacobs chose the students’ names out of a hat. The children never knew their designated labels — only the teachers were informed of the “bloomers” versus “non-bloomer” labels. Remarkably, those students who were expected to perform better actually did when tested a year later. Because the teachers expected those students to get smarter and perform better, students in turn gave into the way they were expected to act. They demonstrated intellectual growth merely because they were expected to. Expectations of perceived behavior can transform someone’s personality in a flash. You could unknowingly be significantly altering someone’s behavior, merely by assigning him or her a certain label. What’s important here is to be cautious of attributing negative labels to individuals. In Rosenthal’s study, the other half of students who were “non-bloomers” showed less intellectual growth than the other students. This has implications for how we treat people in everyday settings, whether at work, school, or your personal life. If you’re a boss at work and want to encourage your employees to perform better, treat them like they will do so. If you are providing breakup advice for a friend who just broke up with his girlfriend, treat him like he is resilient and will get through it. The biggest take away is how the process of labeling can impact behavior. You should be aware of the labels you assign to others, but also of the labels that others assign to you. If you’re aware that someone is labeling you in a way that doesn’t fit your perception of yourself, you have the ability to turn the self-fulfilling prophecy over on itself. Assign yourself a positive label and watch it come to life. You have the ability to make anything happen. By Kristine Keller, who received her Master’s in psychology from New York University.

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here have been a multitude of ďŹ rsts, celebrated successes, groundbreaking research ďŹ ndings, and more than 4,000 lives saved – and that was just in the ďŹ rst 50 years. In October, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and The Rogosin Institute celebrates the 50th anniversary of their worldrenowned kidney transplant program. To commemorate this milestone, an anniversary celebration, “50 Years of Transplant Excellence,â€? was held on October 2, attended by some 200 members of the leadership and staff of NewYork-Presbyterian, Weill Cornell Medical College, and The Rogosin Institute; transplant recipients, donors, and family members; and partners from the community. As part of the celebration, a framed Congressional Extension of Remarks was presented from US Rep. Carolyn Maloney’s ofďŹ ce congratulating the transplant program. “We have a very simple strategy when it comes to transplantation – we consistently strive to offer the maximum number of opportunities for patients,â€? says Dr. Sandip Kapur, surgical director of the transplant program. “We’ve treated patients of all ages. Every available tool that exists, exists in this program. It’s a detail that distinguishes us from 90 percent of the programs in the country and helps position us as a national leader in what we do.â€? “This is a special occasion to acknowledge the remarkable accomplishments of the

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transplant program over the last ďŹ ve decades and honor the doctors, scientists, nurses, staff, and all members of the transplant team who have made them possible,â€? says Dr. Steven J. Corwin, CEO of NewYorkPresbyterian. “We congratulate and thank all those, past and present, who have made the program what it is today. At the same time, we celebrate the thousands of adults and children whose lives have been saved through transplantation and look forward to the next 50 years of advances so that we can continue to offer patients and families the most outstanding and compassionate transplant care, and a renewed gift of life.â€? “The transplant program exempliďŹ es translational medicine at its best,â€? says Dr. Laurie H. Glimcher, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College. “Over ďŹ ve decades of transplantation, our physician-scientists have made

research breakthroughs that have enabled patients to receive superior care before, during, and after their transplants. The Transplant Program is renowned for maximizing transplant opportunities and delivering exceptional outcomes for patients through cutting-edge laboratory research, advanced surgical techniques, personalized medical management, national kidney exchanges, and a unique multidisciplinary treatment approach. The program works in close cooperation with The Rogosin Institute, a leading research and treatment center for kidney disease and a member of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System. The kidney transplant program was the ďŹ rst of its kind in the metro area when it opened in 1963, and has performed more 4,200 transplants over the last 50 years, making it one of the highest-volume transplant centers in the nation.

! Weill Cornell Establishes Child Care Center

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/ Weill Cornell Medical Center, located in Manhattan on the Upper East Side at York Avenue and 68th Street, comprises NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College. For general information, call 212-746-5454. For information about physicians and patient programs, call 877-NYP-WELL. WWW NYP ORG s WEILL CORNELL EDU Produced by the Public Affairs Department of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, 212-821-0560.

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eeping the community and the needs of families on campus in mind, Weill Cornell Medical College has opened a child care center for children of its faculty, students and staff. After 18 months of planning and more than ďŹ ve months of renovations, the new 5,000-square-foot child care center at 409 East 60th Street, between First and York Avenues, admitted its ďŹ rst students in September. The center provides services for infants, toddlers and preschoolers. In addition to providing such services for its faculty and staff, it is the medical college’s hope that this center will alleviate some of the pressure on existing centers in the neighborhood. The center is operated by Bright Horizons Family Solutions. The company operates child care centers and schools across the United States, Canada and Europe, including several in New York City.

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October 10 Julie Kolzet, Ph.D. “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Weight Management � October 17 Mary Olson, DNP, ANP “New CDC Recommendations for Hep-C Screening� October 24 Soo J. Rhee, M.D. “Current Treatment of Varicose Veins�

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ecognizing that medicine is not one size ďŹ ts all, Weill Cornell Medical College and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital recently established a new translational research hub that explores the new frontier of precision medicine. The Institute for Precision Medicine at Weill Cornell and NewYork-Presbyterian/ Weill Cornell Medical Center offers optimal targeted, individualized treatment based on each patient’s genetic proďŹ le. The Institute’s new genomic research discoveries will help develop novel, personalized medical therapies to be tested in clinical trials, while also building a comprehensive biobank to improve research and patient care. The Institute is directed by Dr. Mark Rubin, a renowned pathologist and prostate cancer expert at Weill Cornell and pathologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/ Weill Cornell who uses whole genomic sequencing in his laboratory to investigate DNA mutations that lead to disease, particularly prostate cancer. “This Institute will revolutionize the way we treat disease, linking cuttingedge research and next-generation sequencing in the laboratory to the patient’s bedside,â€? said Dr. Rubin, also vice chair for experimental pathology

and the Homer T. Hirst III Professor of Oncology at Weill Cornell. “We use advanced technology and the collective wealth of knowledge from our clinicians, basic scientists, pathologists, molecular biologists and computational biologists to pinpoint the molecular underpinnings of disease – information that will spur the discovery of novel treatments and therapies.â€? Dr. Rubin and his team are looking to replace the traditional one-size-ďŹ ts-all medicine paradigm with one that focuses on targeted, individualized patient care using a patient’s own genetic proďŹ le and medical history. Physician-scientists at the Institute plan to precisely identify the genetic inuencers of a patient’s speciďŹ c illness – such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative disease and others – and use this genetic information to design a more effective course of treatment that targets those speciďŹ c contributing factors. Also, genomic analyses of tumor tissue enable researchers to help patients with advanced disease and no current treatment options, as well as to isolate the causes of drug resistance in patients who stop responding to treatments, redirecting them to more successful therapies.

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Dr. Mark Rubin leads new Institute for Precision Medicine.

Preventive precision medicine also is a key initiative at the Institute, allowing physician-scientists to help identify a patient’s risk of diseases and take necessary steps to aid in its prevention through medical treatment, lifestyle modiďŹ cation or both. In addition, the Institute will leverage an arsenal of genomic sequencing, biobanking and bioinformatics technology to transform the existing paradigm for diagnosing and treating patients. The Institute will be headquartered in the Belfer Research Building, set to open in January.

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ewYork-Presbyterian Hospital announced in July that New York Downtown Hospital has become its sixth campus, the result of a merger between the two hospitals. The 180-bed community hospital, now renamed NewYork-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital, remains the only hospital south of 14th Street in Manhattan, serving a daily population of some 750,000 residents, visitors and professionals. The merger was made possible with the assistance and approval of the New York State Department of Health. Dr. Steven J. Corwin, chief executive ofďŹ cer of NewYorkPresbyterian Hospital, highlighted the important role that NewYorkPresbyterian/Lower Manhattan plays in the health care of the community. “As the only acute care hospital serving lower Manhattan, this campus is vital to meeting the health care needs of many populations,â€? said Dr. Corwin. “We are working closely with the community, as well as with Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell physicians, to create a ďŹ rst class campus that provides the highest quality, most compassionate care and service for patients and their families.â€?

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The Future Revolution in Cancer Care Lewis C. Cantley, Ph.D. Peter Martin, M.D.

How to Recognize Celiac Disease and Dietary Strategies to Overcome it Georgia A. Giannopoulos, R.D. Alissa Lupo, R.D.

Demystifying the Approaches to Hip Replacement and Post Surgical Rehabilitation Michael M. Alexiades, M.D. Steven Murray, P.T.

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Forty percent do not call 911: Survival rates show every minute matters

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recent New England Journal of Medicine study reviewed the records of about 97,000 patients with severe heart attacks who were admitted to 5151 hospitals between 2005 and 2009. Although many hospitals improved the time between when patients arrived at the emergency room and underwent intervention, the survival rate did not improve. Researchers then looked at what happens before a heart patient arrives in the emergency room. They found that 40 percent of patients with severe heart attack don’t call 911, causing significant treatment delays. The American Heart Association launched its Lifeline program to teach the public to recognize heart attack symptoms and act quickly. Fast action saves lives. A heart attack occurs when blood flow to the heart is blocked, preventing oxygen-rich

blood from reaching a section of the heart. If the blocked artery is not reopened quickly, the part of the heart normally nourished by that artery begins to die. Michele Hooper, manager in the AHA National CPR/ Emergency Cardiovascular Care programs, said the heart muscle will no longer be able to pump efficiently, a life-threatening event that requires immediate medical care.

What it looks like Symptoms of a heart attack may be immediate and may include intense discomfort, pressure or pain in the chest or other areas of the upper body. There is often shortness of breath, cold sweats, and/ or nausea/vomiting. More often, though, symptoms start slowly and persist for hours, days or weeks before a heart attack. Women are somewhat more likely than men to experience shortness of breath, nausea/ vomiting, and back, neck or jaw pain. The heart usually does not stop beating during a heart attack. The victim is often aware and alert but in distress. The longer the person goes without treatment, the greater the damage to the heart which can result in death

or permanent damage to the heart’s function (heart failure).

What you can do

Heart Attack Signs in Women

If some or all symptoms are present, even if you’re not sure it’s a heart attack, call 9-1 or your emergency response number. Every minute matters. It’s best to call EMS to get to the emergency room right away. Emergency medical services staff can begin treatment when they arrive — up to an hour sooner than if someone gets to the hospital by car. “Calling 911 activates the local emergency response system,” Hooper said. “Patients with chest pain who arrive by ambulance usually receive faster treatment at the hospital, too.” Most heart attacks do not lead to cardiac arrest — when the heart stops beating. But when cardiac arrest occurs, heart attack is a common cause. The American Heart Association also encourages everyone to be prepared in a cardiac arrest emergency and learn Hands Only CPR by watching a oneminute video at www.heart.org/handsonlycpr. Visit www.heart.org/heartattack to learn more about how to recognize heart attacks.

• Uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness or pain in the center of your chest. It lasts more than a few minutes, or goes away and comes back. • Pain or discomfort in one or both arms, the back, neck, jaw or stomach. • Shortness of breath with or without chest discomfort. • Other signs such as breaking out in a cold sweat, nausea or lightheadedness. • As with men, women’s most common heart attack symptom is chest pain or discomfort. But women are somewhat more likely than men to experience some of the other common symptoms, particularly shortness of breath, nausea/ vomiting and back or jaw pain. • If you have any of these signs, don’t wait more than five minutes before calling for help. Call 911 and get to a hospital right away.

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Eating whole fruits found to lower diabetes risk

Some fruits are better than others: Blueberries, apples, and grapes especially beneficial

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ating more whole fruits, particularly blueberries, grapes, and apples, was significantly associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a new study led by Harvard School of Public Health researchers. Greater consumption of fruit juices was associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes. The study is the first to look at the effects of individual fruits on diabetes risk. “While fruits are recommended as a measure for diabetes prevention, previous studies have found mixed results for total fruit consumption,” said senior author Qi Sun, assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition at HSPH and assistant professor at the Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Our findings provide novel evidence suggesting that certain fruits may be especially beneficial for lowering diabetes risk.” The researchers looked at overall fruit consumption, as well as consumption of individual fruits: grapes or raisins; peaches, plums, or apricots; prunes; bananas; cantaloupe; apples or pears; oranges; grapefruit; strawberries; and blueberries. They also looked at consumption of apple, orange, grapefruit, and “other” fruit juices. People who ate at least two servings each week of certain whole fruits — particularly blueberries, grapes, and apples — reduced their risk for type 2 diabetes by as much as 23 percent in comparison to those who ate less than one serving per month. Conversely, those who consumed one or more servings

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of fruit juice each day increased their risk of developing type 2 diabetes by as much as 21 percent. The researchers found that swapping three servings of juice per week for whole fruits would result in a 7 percent reduction in diabetes risk. The fruits’ glycemic index (a measure of how rapidly carbohydrates in a food boost blood sugar) did not prove to be a significant factor in determining a fruit’s association with type 2 diabetes risk. However, the high glycemic index of fruit juice — which passes through the digestive system more rapidly than fiber-rich fruit — may explain the positive link between juice consumption and increased diabetes risk. The researchers theorize that the beneficial effects of certain individual fruits could be the result of a particular component. Previous studies have linked anthocyanins found in berries and grapes to lowered heart attack risk, for example. But more research is necessary to determine which components in the more

“Our findings provide novel evidence suggesting that certain fruits may be especially beneficial for lowering diabetes risk.”

Lung cancer screening: Early detection could save your life. If you are a current or former smoker, or have had exposure to hazardous materials, you are at increased risk for lung cancer and may benefit from screening. As a leader in cancer research and a pioneer in lung cancer screening, NYU Langone uses low-dose CT scans to detect lung cancer at an early stage, when it is easier to treat successfully.* This painless, noninvasive exam takes only minutes to complete and you get the results in just a few days.

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beneficial fruits influence diabetes risk. “Our data further endorse current recommendations on increasing whole fruits, but not fruit juice, as a measure for diabetes prevention,” said lead author Isao Muraki, research fellow in the Department of Nutrition at HSPH. “And our novel findings may help refine this recommendation to facilitate diabetes prevention.”

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new analysis of lead in lipstick conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reveals that the problem of lead in lipstick is worse and more widespread than previously reported. The new study found lead in 400 lipsticks tested by the agency, at widely varying levels of up to 7.19 parts per million (ppm) — more than twice the levels reported in a previous FDA study. The agency has studied only the levels of lead in lipstick, and has conducted no health studies or safety assessments. In January, an advisory committee to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new report asserting that there is no safe level of lead for children, and stressing the importance of preventing lead exposure for children and pregnant women. “Lead builds up in the body over time and lead-containing lipstick applied several times a day, every day, can add up to significant exposure levels,� said Mark Mitchell, M.D., MPH, policy advisor of the Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice and co-chair of the Environmental Health Task Force for the National Medical Association. “Lead is a proven neurotoxin that can cause learning, language and behavioral problems,� said Sean Palfrey, M.D., a professor of pedi-

Lipsticks with the most lead More than half of 33 brand-name lipsticks tested (61 percent) contained detectable levels of lead, with levels ranging from 0.3 to 0.65 parts per million (ppm). One-third of the tested lipsticks exceeded the FDA’s 0.1 ppm limit for lead in candy — a standard established to protect children from directly ingesting lead. Among the top brands testing positive for lead were: L’Oreal Colour Riche “True Red� — 0.65 ppm L’Oreal Colour Riche “Classic Wine� — 0.58 ppm Cover Girl Incredifull Lipcolor “Maximum Red� — 0.56 ppm Christian Dior Addict

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atrics and public health at Boston University and the medical director of Boston’s Lead Poisoning Prevention Program. “Pregnant women are particularly vulnerable to lead exposure, because lead easily crosses the placenta and enters the fetal brain where it can interfere with normal development.� The FDA study of 400 lipsticks was quietly posted on the agency’s website in December. The most contaminated brand in the study, Maybelline Color Sensation by L’Oreal USA, contained more than 275 times the amount of lead found in the least contaminated, and least expensive, brand, Wet and Wild Mega Mixers Lip Balm — demonstrating that price is not an indicator of good manufacturing practices. “How many millions of women have applied and reapplied lead-containing lipsticks since we first raised concerns about this problem five years ago? How many kids have played with their mom’s lipstick?� said Janet Nudelman, interim director of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and policy director at the Breast Cancer Fund. “It’s time for L’Oreal to get the lead out of its products, and for FDA to set a safety standard for lead in lipstick.� The FDA said it is currently evaluating whether to recommend an upper limit for lead in lipstick. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is urging FDA to set a maximum limit for lead in lipstick based on the lowest lead levels cosmetic manufacturers can feasibly achieve. U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer, John Kerry and Dianne Feinstein have also urged FDA to take action to reduce lead in lipstick. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is also calling on L’Oreal to make a public commitment to reformulate its lipsticks to ensure the lowest possible levels of lead. L’Oreal makes five of the 10 most lead-contaminated brands in the FDA study. Online US Food and Drug Administraton: fda.gov The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics: safecosmetics.org US Centers for Disease Control: cdc.gov

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ice season is here. Back-to-school typically signals the time parents should start keeping a wary eye on their children for signs of lice infestations. The main symptom of a head lice infestation is an itchy scalp from the bites of the lice. The bites can then become infected, and may appear red or crusty, and may lead to your child developing swollen lymph glands in her neck. “Children with head lice will have gray or reddish brown live head lice scurrying around their scalp,” said Alvaro Alban, MD, of New York Doctors Walk-In Urgent Care. “Lice are small, about the size of a sesame seed, and although they don’t fly or hop, they can crawl very fast, making them hard to spot.” Another sign that can help you determine whether your child has lice, is finding nits, or lice eggs, attached to your child’s hair. Nits are small, oval shaped and usually a yellowish-white color and are firmly attached to the side of hair shafts. According to Dr. Alban, the treatment for head lice is typically the use of a lice shampoo. “The main treatments for head lice usually involve using a head lice shampoo, like Rid or Nix, and then patiently and diligently removing nits with a lice comb,” he said. Be sure to follow the manufacturer’s instructions for whatever products you choose to use. Also be sure to wash your child’s clothing and bedding in hot water and vacuum to remove lice and nits from furniture, carpets, stuffed animals, etc. For light infestations, or if you are uncomfortable using an anti-lice shampoo, you can try to simply remove the live lice and nits manually. Nits hatch in 7-10 days

and develop into an adult in another 7 to 10 days and can then lay more (up to 100) eggs. It is important to remove all of the nits to break this cycle. Since anti-lice shampoos don’t usually kill nits, you have to usually retreat the child in 7 to 10 days to kill any newly hatched lice. Children are often misdiagnosed with head lice because they have hair casts that resemble nits, or they have dead or empty nits that are far away from the scalp. If you think your child has lice but you don’t actually see any live lice, visit New York Doctors Walk-In Urgent Care to confirm the diagnosis. •e careful before trying “alternative” treatments, like mayonnaise, Vaseline, olive oil or tea tree oil. Although they are natural treatments, they are untested, and products like mayonnaise can be hard to get out of a child’s hair (dishwashing liquid is supposed to make it easier though).

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS

September 21—October 3, 2013

Restaurant Grades The following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s website on October 4, 2013 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.

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1309 3 Avenue

Grade pending (19) - cold food item held above 41Âş f except during necessary preparation; evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas.

Papadam

1448 1 Avenue

Grade pending (21) - cold food item held above 41Âş f except during necessary preparation; 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.

New Beijing Wok

1324 2 Avenue

Grade pending (44) - cold food item held above 41Âş f except during necessary preparation; live roaches present in facility's food and/or nonfood areas; food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Domino's Pizza

1396 1 Avenue

Grade pending (30) - cold food item held above 41Âş f except during necessary preparation; evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas.

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1388 2 Avenue

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1022 Lexington avenue

Grade pending (50) - live roaches present in facility's food and/or nonfood areas; filth flies or food/refuse/ sewage-associated (frsa) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas; insufficient or no refrigerated or hot holding equipment to keep potentially hazardous foods at required temperatures.

Marymount College Nugents CafĂŠ

221 East 71 street

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1584 2 Avenue

Grade pending (19) - evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas; live roaches present in facility's food and/or nonfood areas; filth flies or food/refuse/ sewage-associated (frsa) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS Nancy Lee's Pig Heaven

1540 2 Avenue

Grade pending (4) - non-food contact surface improperly constructed. Unacceptable material used.

Asian Station

1444 3 Avenue

Grade pending (26) - hot food item not held at or above 140º f; evidence of rats or live rats 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.

Sistina Restaurant

1555 2 Avenue

Grade pending (23) - cold food item held above 41º f except during necessary preparation; live roaches present in facility's food and/or nonfood areas.

Uno Chicago Grill

220 East 86 street

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Mimi's Pizza

1248 Lexington avenue

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East 86 Cinemas

210 East 86 street

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Gracie's Café

1530 York avenue

Grade pending (23) - evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas; live roaches present in facility's food and/or nonfood areas; food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Danny & Eddies

1643 1 Avenue

Grade pending (43) - filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (frsa) flies 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.

Big Daddy's

1596-1598 2 Avenue

Grade pending (24) cold food item held above 41º f except during necessary preparation; evidence of mice or live mice present in facility's food and/or non-food areas.

Koffeecake Corner

1269 Lexington avenue

A - 09/25/2013

Ko-sushi Japanese Restaurant

1619 York avenue

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Johnny Foxes

1546 2 Avenue

Grade pending (17) - live roaches present in facility's food and/or nonfood areas; food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Dunkin' Donuts

355 East 86 street

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Gracie-Mews Restaurant

1550 1 Avenue

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1715 2 Avenue

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1737 York avenue

Grade pending (25) - food worker does not wash hands thoroughly after using the toilet, coughing, sneezing, smoking, eating, preparing raw foods or otherwise contaminating hands; wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.

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1762 2 Avenue

Grade pending (59) - cold food item held above 41º except during necessary preparation; raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with haccp plan; live roaches present in facility's food and/or non-food areas; hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room; food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Effy's Café

1638 3 Avenue

Grade pending (46) - cold food item held above 41º f except during necessary preparation; live roaches present in facility's food and/or non-food areas; insufficient or no refrigerated or hot holding equipment to keep potentially hazardous foods at required temperatures.

Bocado Café

1297 Lexington avenue

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Glaser's Bakery

1670 1 Avenue

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Juice Press

1296 Madison avenue

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Island

1305 Madison avenue

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1370 Lexington avenue

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Neighborhood

Address

Apt.

Sale Price

BR BA Listing Brokerage

Midtown E

2

2

Corcoran

1

1

Corcoran

2

2

Corcoran

Neighborhood

Address

Apt.

Sale Price

BR BA Listing Brokerage

200 E 57 St.

#10N

$1,200,000

Beekman

444 E 52 St.

#8F

$889,000

2

2

Brown Harris Stevens

207 E 57 St.

#9A10a

$1,900,000

414 E 52 St.

#8F

$655,000

1

1

Classic Marketing

209 E 56 St.

#Phs

$675,000

Douglas Elliman

141 E 55 St.

#4B

$590,000

200 E 57 St.

#8A

$1,200,000

425 E 51 St.

#1A

431 E 52 St. Carnegie Hill

414 E 52 St.

#10F

$1,970,000

#7D

$2,500,000

141 E 88Th St.

#4D

$4,067,908

1120 Park Ave.

#10A

$540,699

11 E 87 St.

#10E

$570,000

1

1

1125 Park Ave.

#9D

$2,900,000

2

3

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3

2

200 E 58 St.

#10J

$789,000

2

1

Citi Habitats

Midtown South

425 5 Ave.

#23E

$995,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

Murray Hill

300 E 40 St.

#15M

$725,000

1

1

Rose Associates, Inc.

320 E 42 St.

#1703

$270,000

0

1

Steven Corcoran

Stribling

139 E 36 St.

#1

$1,250,000

2

2

Douglas Elliman

Halstead Property

25 Tudor City Place

#1904

$450,000

1

1

Tudor Realty

Stribling

1060 5 Ave.

#2D

$5,000,000

30 E 37 St.

#6G

$535,000

0

1

Douglas Elliman

120 E 87 St.

#P12b

$1,200,000

1

1

Halstead Property

311 E 38 St.

#2B

$660,000

1

1

Platinum Properties

1060 Park Ave.

#8D

$1,350,000

2

1

Sotheby’s

10 Park Ave.

#24K

$755,000

1

1

Coldwell Banker A.C.

137 E 36 St.

#19F

$1,315,000

2

2

Stribling

Douglas Elliman

325 E 41 St.

#104

$230,000

0

1

Alchemy Properties

$1,703,000 #3A

$1,140,000

1

2

422 E 72 St.

#29B

$865,000

1

1

Realty Group

415 E 37 St.

#6C

$740,000

1

1

Fenwick Keats

150 E 61 St.

#4F

$770,000

1

1

Corcoran

242 E 38 St.

#6C

$515,000

1

1

Core

200 E 61 St.

#41F

$1,050,000

80 Park Ave.

#12E

$890,000

220 E 65 St.

#21M

$2,060,000

630 1 Ave.

#5C

$1,300,000

2

2

Brown Harris Stevens

220 E 67 St.

#22C

$370,000

35 Park Ave.

#10D

$600,000

200 E 69 St.

#15C

$2,200,000

3

3

Corcoran

310 Lexington Ave.

#12B

$365,000

0

1

Corcoran

1160 3 Ave.

#3K

$460,000

1

1

Corcoran

155 E 34 St.

#2E

$565,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

401 E 65 St.

#13J

$489,000

1

1

Corcoran

320 E 42 St.

#1610

$410,000

0

1

Halstead Property

315 E 65 St.

#8G

$630,000

1

1

Owner

10 Park Ave.

#24L

$750,000

1

1

Coldwell Banker A.C.

132 E 35 St.

#14K

$550,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

795 5 Ave.

#40811

$5,500,000

345 E 69 St.

#17C

$805,000

1

1

Corcoran

201 E 36 St.

#10C

$1,200,000

2

2

Halstead Property

205 E 59 St.

#17A

$2,450,000

2

2

Stribling

35 E 38 St.

#6H

$510,000

0

1

Beverly Diamond

524 E 72 St.

#39F

$570,000

1

1

Corcoran

225 E 36 St.

#10M

$300,000

0

1

Town Residential

17 E 63 St.

#1

$3,000,000

340 E 72 St.

Multi

$4,035,000

Sutton Place

425 E 58 St.

#44B

$1,900,000

60 Sutton Place S

#5An

$700,000

15 E 69 St.

#9A

$7,850,000

3

3

Brown Harris Stevens

400 E 59 St.

#4A

$485,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

530 E 72 St.

#7A

$750,000

1

1

Halstead Property

415 E 54 St.

#11C

$1,350,000

2

2

Stribling

220 E 67 St.

#2C

$280,000

0

1

Brown Harris Stevens

330 E 57 St.

#10

$2,850,000

3

2

Brown Harris Stevens

311 E 71 St.

#9D

$318,000

430 E 57 St.

#15B

$1,302,500

2

2

Corcoran

420 E 64 St.

#W8b

$478,000

425 E 58 St.

#23D

$2,334,300

2

3

Brown Harris Stevens

50 Sutton Place S

#4B

$310,000

0

1

Douglas Elliman

400 E 56 St.

#18H

$1,437,500

2

2

Douglas Elliman

0

1

Halstead Property

440 E 62 St.

#3G

$465,000

301 E 69 St.

#18C

$950,000

48 E 64 St.

Midtown E

2

141 E 88Th St.

153 E 87 St.

Midtown

3

$8,000,000

120 E 90 St. Lenox Hill

$1,399,000

1

1

Real Direct

420 E 58 St.

#15C

$580,000

2

2

Brown Harris Stevens

357 E 57 St.

#Res

$799,000

$6,350,000

44 E 67 St.

#3A

$2,445,455

200 E 69 St.

#47A+

$15,000,000

4

3

Brown Harris Stevens

420 E 58 St.

#Ph1

$4,206,000

3

2

Citi Habitats

320 E 72 St.

#8B

$2,800,000

3

4

Warburg

333 E 53 St.

#7A

$395,000

1

1

Keller Williams

315 E 69 St.

#6C

$300,000

0

1

Douglas Elliman

425 E 58 St.

#47E

$3,250,000

3

3

Douglas Elliman

360 E 72 St.

#B811

$749,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

50 Sutton Place S

#7L

$850,000

2

2

Coldwell Banker

188 E 64 St.

#1005

$730,000

0

1

Peter*Ashe

0

315 E 70 St.

#8H

$1,200,000

2

2

Next Stop Ny

111 E 56 St.

#1107

Turtle Bay

230 E 52 St.

#2E

$402,777

310 E 46 St.

#18G

$356,250

$300,000

310 E 49 St.

#5D

$415,000

#711

$410,000

1

Corcoran

1

Halstead Property

1

1

Douglas Elliman

1

1

Corcoran

721 5 Ave.

#54C

$2,170,000

1

1

Corcoran

333 E 43 St.

136 E 56 St.

#8C

$725,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

301 E 48 St.

#15K

$625,000

1

1

Corcoran

211 E 53 St.

#4H

$467,500

0

1

Douglas Elliman

310 E 46 St.

#8H

$1,019,700

2

2

Corcoran

245 E 54 St.

#29M

$665,000

1

1

Next Stop Ny

310 E 46 St.

#17E

$635,000

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NEIGHBORHOOD REAL ESTATE SALES Neighborhood

Address

Apt.

Sale Price

BR BA Listing Brokerage

Neighborhood

Address

Turtle Bay

155 E 49 St.

#6E

$230,000

0

Yorkville

200 E End Ave.

#17O

$900,000

330 E 49 St.

#2D

$638,000

302 E 88 St.

#4C

$492,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

310 E 49 St.

#3G

$402,500

Corcoran

333 E 85 St.

#3A

$240,000

0

1

Citi Habitats

301 E 48 St.

#7B

$740,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

10 E End Ave.

#17D

$2,425,000

4

3

Corcoran

212 E 47 St.

#21C

$885,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

515 E 89 St.

#5M

$390,000

333 E 45 St.

#25E

$705,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

235 E 87 St.

#10D

$699,500

2

1

Owner

845 PlazaUnited Nations

#16C

$1,250,000

1

1

Town Residential

207 E 74 St.

#Phd

$835,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

188 E 78 St.

#26A/ B+

$9,950,000

205 E 78 St.

#4F

$595,000

1

1

Corcoran

30 E 85 St.

#4E

$2,260,000

2

2

Corcoran

Upper E Side

Yorkville

1

1 1

Douglas Elliman

784 Park Ave.

#5E

$874,625

196 E 75 St.

#4G

$600,000

1

1

Brown Harris Stevens

205 E 77 St.

#2C

$405,000

0

1

Douglas Elliman

175 E 79 St.

#7B

$2,200,000

2

2

Brown Harris Stevens

401 E 74 St.

#8L

$843,500

2

1

Douglas Elliman

340 E 74 St.

#6E

$735,000

2

1

Halstead Property

969 Park Ave.

#5E

$1,565,000

2

2

New York Private

140 E 81 St.

#4D

$1,302,000

2

1

Corcoran

330 E 75 St.

#21B

$1,310,000

343 E 74 St.

#12E

$440,000

0

1

Warburg

399 E 78 St.

#4F

$350,000

1

1

Maz Group Ny

150 E 77 St.

#11F

$1,600,000

200 E 78 St.

#Phb

$1,350,000

2

2

Warburg

#3C

$800,000

40 E 78 St.

#5E

$2,437,500

2

2

Douglas Elliman

345 E 77 St.

#4J

$440,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

200 E 79Th St.

#2F

$1,501,715

340 E 74 St.

#4C

$1,295,000

2

2

Halstead Property

343 E 74 St.

#21A

$900,000

2

1

Halstead Property

1441 3 Ave.

#4A

$1,600,000

2

2

Corcoran

520 E 81 St.

#9C

$675,000

1

1

Town Residential

340 E 93 St.

#15G

$415,000

1

1

Halstead Property

233 E 86 St.

#9C

$910,000

2

2

Corcoran

340 E 80 St.

#19L

$399,000

0

1

Douglas Elliman

55 E End Ave.

#10M

$326,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

345 E 81 St.

#9J

$552,000

1

1

Bold New York

200 E 84 St.

#8A

$405,000

0

1

Brown Harris Stevens

1619 Third Ave.

#6H

$1,080,000

2

2

Douglas Elliman

345 E 93 St.

#6K

$485,000

1

1

Next Perfect Homeâ®

10 E End Ave.

Multi

$1,150,000

333 E 91St St.

#6D

$625,000 2

2

Douglas Elliman

2

2

Corcoran

55 E End Ave.

#5D

$1,175,000

500 E 83 St.

#9Ab

$2,350,000

345 E 81 St.

#5H

$699,000

300 E 85 St.

#1702

$1,255,000

520 E 81 St.

#5J

$425,000

1

1

Charles Rutenberg

418 E 83 St.

#4A

$351,306

1

1

Owner

200 E End Ave.

#15Ijo

$2,681,250

5

4

Douglas Elliman

10 E End Ave.

#10A

$450,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

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The Meat of the Lower East Fifth-generation owner Jake Dell dishes on what makes his deli so special By Angela Barbuti

K

atz’s Delicatessen can serve anywhere from 400 to 4,000 customers a day. That’s a lot of pastrami. But a deli doesn’t survive for 125 years on the meat alone. At 2 p.m., the lunch rush is in full swing, and I find Jake Dell at a table, eating a knoblewurst sandwich. Although sampling the food is a delicious perk, Dell, 26, whose grandfather Marty bought the deli in 1988, thinks the best part of his job is hearing the stories of customers’ personal attachment to the restaurant. “There’s this deep emotional connection,” he said. Since there was no cohesive history yet written down, the book Katz’s Autobiography of a Delicatessen was created to commemorate their milestone anniversary. Released on October 1st, the photo/history book captures the essence of the customers, staff, and food that make the deli what it was in the late 1800s and still is today. With the landscape of Manhattan always changing, Katz’s reminds us of

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our flavorful past. Dell acknowledges that by saying, “Change is inevitable in New York. But this doesn’t need to be the place that changes.”

Your grandfather wanted you to join the business, because at one time you were applying to medical school. I thought I wanted to be a doctor; I realized that was stupid. [Laughs] I love this place; I really do. This place has fed me for howevermany years - it’s sent me to school, it literally saw me become a man at my Bar Mitzvah. This place is so integral to my life that, of course, I was going to give a year back and let my dad take some time to relax. That’s how it started. There were these creeping doubts, like I needed to make sure I really didn’t want to be at Katz’s and really did want to be a doctor. At the end of the year, I said, “What am I thinking?”

In the book it says you work 70 hours a week. What’s a typical day like for you? I work a lot, yeah. Now I work less because I’m going to school. Probably 10 of those hours are spent at school now. I’m getting my MBA from NYU. I go part time, nights and weekends. In the morning, I come in and do what needs to be done in the office. I address issues that may have come up, call people back. I like to be on the floor once the lunch rush hits and usually am here till the rush dies down at 3 or 4. Then go back to emails or calls, or do interviews. If I have class, I leave. Otherwise, I stay through dinner. We do shipping sometimes overnight and I’ve stayed until 6 in the morning.

On the weekends, you’re open 24 hours. This neighborhood has changed drastically over the last 10 to 15 years. Now it’s a hotspot and Ludlow and Orchard is a destination. They close off the streets to traffic. Two summers ago we recognized this. It’s been great. It has its own set of headaches, but it’s a lot of fun. There are a lot of people I run into outside of here who say, “I know that place, I’ve been there at 3 in the morning.” They have this attachment to it, and that’s what I care about.

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Beth Daugherty [of Bauer and Dean Publishers] approached me with the idea. It was a little more general. It was basically saying that we needed a snapshot in time of Katz’s. This was last year and we were approaching our 125th anniversary. I thought it was important, before it’s too late, to get all this in writing. I can talk about what’s happening right now, but why write it when we can show it through the photography?

In the book, each employee’s picture is featured from cashiers, to cutters, to security. Honestly, without them, there’d be no store. Half these guys - their families have worked here before them. Everyone is equally important. My busboys - without them the restaurant looks like a mess. Without the guys in the kitchen, there’s no matzo ball soup or latkes coming out.

Adam Richman writes the book’s foreword and says you have “arguably the best pastrami on planet Earth.” How did your exposure on the Food Network change your business? That was one of many factors. My father and my uncle did a wonderful job of adapting with the times, and that meant being on TV. I think this place naturally films well; we’re very lucky. A lot of our regulars included guys like Adam Richman, Emeril Lagasse, Mario Batali. Daniel Boulud made a bone marrow dish at DBGB’s that had a little piece of Katz’s pastrami on it.

I thought it was interesting that your mom came up with the idea to make Katz’s a stop on tours. Tour groups come in here. A lot of people want to say “only tourists go there,” and I get that. A lot of the times that has to do with the time of the day that you come. Quite frankly, a lot of New Yorkers just take their food to go because they’re on the run.

Where’s the farthest you’ve shipped to? We’ve shipped the meats to every city imaginable in the country. Internationally, we started shipping our salamis during World War II. Our slogan is, “Send a Salami to Your Boy in the Army.” We’ve sent to Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, anywhere there are U.S. soldiers. That’s only the salami, anything else would go bad. We are going to start a program where if you don’t know the solider, you can donate a

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What happened here during Hurricane Sandy last year? We were open. We had to shut down for a day. I had to buy dry ice to preserve all the meat. We were giving away thousands of pounds to shelters and giving the volunteers food. There was one tourist couple who came in - I’ll never forget this - and said, “So are you guys serving today?” They made the trek from the Upper West Side on Wednesday, when there was no power down here. They were that committed. To learn more about Katz’s, visit www.katzsdelicatessen.com On October 22nd, Katz’s is launching The Space, a pop-up gallery and apparel shop filled with local artists’ deli-themed creations.

The Stats on Katz’s (served per week) Pounds of pastrami: 6,000 to 16,000 Pounds of corned beef: 4,000 to 9,000 Number of hot dogs: 2,000 to 5,000 Number of pickles: 8,000 to 15,000

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FAIR Church of ST. Thomas More, 65 East 89th St. New York, Park/Mad. will host a “More For Less Fair� (indoor) from 10.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. on Saturday Oct. 26th. Accepting all donations, designer/vintage clothing, silver, jewelry,crystal, glass/kitchenware. Artwork. Kindly ask that all contributions be in good condition. Donations can be checked in at the Rectory Reception 10.00 am to 5.00 pm, 7 days a week. Contact: Alice Casey 212-3698519.

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Request for Bids:

OPERATION OF TENNIS PROFESSIONAL CONCESSIONS AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS CITYWIDE The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (“Parks�) has issued a Request for Bids (RFB) for the operation of tennis professional concessions at various locations citywide. All bids submitted in response to this RFB must be submitted no later than Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at 3 pm. Hard copies of the RFB can be obtained, at no cost, commencing on Wednesday, September 25, 2013 through Tuesday, November 12, 2013, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., excluding weekends and holidays, at the Revenue Division of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, which is located at 830 Fifth Ave, Rm 407, New York, NY 10065. The RFB is also available for download, commencing Weds, September 25, 2013 through Tues, November 12, 2013, on Parks’ website. To download the RFB, visit http://www.nyc.gov/parks/businessopportunities and click on the “Concessions Opportunities at Parks� link. Once you have logged in, click on the “download� link that appears adjacent to the RFB’s description. For more information or to request to receive a copy of the RFB by mail, prospective bidders may contact the Revenue Division’s Project Manager, Lauren Standke, at (212) 360-3495 or at lauren.standke@parks.nyc.gov. TELECOMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR THE DEAF (TDD) 212-504-4115

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Use it as wrapping paper, or fold & glue pages into reusable gift bags.

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Add shredded newspaper to your compost pile when you need a carbon addition or to keep flies at bay.

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Use newspaper strips, water, and a bit of glue for newspaper mâché.

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Crumple newspaper to use as packaging material the next time you need to ship something fragile.

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Tightly roll up sheets of newspaper and tie with string to use as fire logs.

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Make origami creatures

Use shredded newspaper as animal bedding in lieu of sawdust or hay.

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Make your own cat litter by shredding newspaper, soaking it in dish detergent & baking soda, and letting it dry.

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Wrap pieces of fruit in newspaper to speed up the ripening process.

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Cut out letters & words to write anonymous letters to friends and family to let them know they are loved.

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Roll a twice-folded newspaper sheet around a jar, remove the jar, & you have a biodegradable seed-starting pot that can be planted directly into the soil.

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Make newspaper airplanes and have a contest in the backyard.

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Stuff newspapers in boots or handbags to help the items keep their shape. Dry out wet shoes by loosening laces & sticking balled newspaper pages inside.

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