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Upper East Sider Named Volunteer of the Year Carolyn Breidenbach is recognized for helping students at P.S. 198 By Omar Crespo
Benefit Cuts Hit Farmers’ Markets Customers and vendors express surprise at food stamp cutbacks By Alissa Fleck and Joanna Fantozzi
Customers shopping at the East 92nd Street Greenmarket
Pamela Oleas, manager of the 92nd Street Greenmarket on the Upper East Side, estimates that over half of her customers use Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) to pay for their groceries. Oleas believes recent cuts to the food stamp program will certainly affect the market, but not as much as it will affect others sprinkled throughout the city. She says the Lincoln Center Greenmarket has an abundance of EBT customers, and the
impact will be felt more heavily there. “Not many people come [here],” says Oleas, “but most people who do use cash or EBT.” The stereotypical farmers’ market customer may be thought of as an upper class, vegan yoga instructor looking for some kale and gras+s-fed beef. But the reality may surprise you. In 2012, GrowNYC GreenMarkets counted over $800,000 in sales from Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) customers, or customers that receive credit from the SNAP program, previously known as food stamps. And Union Square Market had the most amount of EBT profits: over $241,000. In fact, only 7 percent of Continued on page 5
Carolyn Breidenbach, 84, has been named Great School Volunteer of the Year 2013 by Learning Leaders, a non-profit organization that helps NYC public school students succeed early on in their academic careers. “To teach one child, one thing a day, makes me feel like I’ve had a good day,” said Breidenbach. “I’ve made a difference.” The NYC native and Upper East Side resident of 50 years has been working for Learning Leaders for the past 12 years. She decided to get involved in the organization after retiring from the Modern Museum of Art as a public affairs assistant, on the suggestion of her son who worked in non-profit as well. “Prior to my retirement, I didn’t do much volunteer work,” said Breidenbach. But she had always been interested in the field of education and how she could put those interests to use. “I felt there was a need to help with students around the neighborhood,” Breidenbach said. “I felt it was something exciting for me to do.” Continued on page 20
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Cheese Farmers Visit the City On Friday, November 8th, 75 New York State and New England dairy farmers arrived in the Big Apple to personally give thanks to New Yorkers for their loyalty and support during the Cabot Dairy Farmer Gratitude Tour. Coach buses, wrapped in signature Cabot plaid, traveled throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn dropping off the farmers at their food market posts, where shoppers sampled
an array of cheddars. The farmers also encouraged passersby on the street to jot down “Why I Love Farmers” (or “Why I Love Cows”) and snap a shot with a farmer to enter an Instagram contest. The winner would receive a 3-day Farm Stay Vacation at Liberty Hill Farm in Vermont. “Lots of the customers on the Upper East Side were really surprised to find out that 100 percent of the Cabot Cheese profits go right back to our farmers,” said farmer Ben Banker of Blue Hill Farm in Morrisville, NY.
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Farmers are great since they represent rural America, according to passerby Brendan Rafferty’s (center) Instagram message – much to the pleasure of the farmers who flank him, Ben Banker and Deanna Moore, both from Blue Hill Farm in Morrisville, NY.
Local Senior Gets Academic Award Xavier High School senior Stephen Day was honored at Xavier’s Fall Honors Assembly for being named a College Board National Merit Scholarship Commended Student. The award goes to students who place in the top 50,000 of
1.5 million students nationwide that take the PSAT exam. Stephen, a 17-year-old from the Upper East Side, was also named a member of the College Board National Hispanic Recognition Program. He was recognized for scoring in the top 2 percent of all Latinos who took the PSAT.
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CRIME WATCH Hugger Mugger A woman came up to a man on the street, hugged him -- and picked his pocket. At 6 PM on Saturday, November 2, an unknown woman came up to an 80-year-old man at the northwest corner of East 60th Street and Third Avenue, hugged him -- and surreptitiously removed his wallet from his front pants pocket. The woman pretended to act friendly with the victim, stating that she knew him. She then fled southbound on Third Avenue. At the time of the police report, there were no transactions on the man’s stolen cards. Items taken were a man’s wallet valued at $200, $600 in cash, and various credit cards.
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A man was arrested after trying to sell counterfeit DVDs to a plainclothes officer. At 2:15 PM at Tuesday, November 5, a 60-yearold man unwittingly offered counterfeit DVDs to a plainclothes officer in a chain donut store on East 86 Street. The counterfeiter’s pitch: “One for five dollars!” The man was found to be in possession of multiple counterfeit DVDs, and the Motion Picture Association of America was duly notified. The defendant was arrested on November 5 and charged with trademark counterfeit.
Unwitting Target Unauthorized credit cards were opened in a woman’s name. At 9 AM on Tuesday, October 29, a 30-year-old woman living on East 70th Street received a letter from Target’s fraud department stating that a credit card had been opened in her name. The woman replied that it was unauthorized. It seems that after she signed up for an identity card, she discovered that numerous additional unauthorized credit cards had been opened in her name throughout New York City. $1,000 had been charged to the Target card without her permission or authorization, as well as $467 charged to a Children’s Place card.
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Hammer Whammers Two men smashed a display case and stole jewelry from a store on Madison Avenue. At 4:36 PM on Sunday, November 3, an unknown man rang the doorbell to enter the jewelry store. An employee let the man enter, and the man held the door open for a second man. Both men then displayed hammers and shouted to the store’s two male employees, “Do not move! Do not move!” The second man smashed a display case door with a hammer, opened the display, and took items, while the first man wrestled with the first employee. Both men then wrestled with both employees before running out of the store heading northbound on Madison. Police searched the area but could not find the two thieves. Items taken were two rings valued at $10,000 and one bracelet priced at $5,000.
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Ilonka Karasz in “Peruvian poncho,” ca. 1916. Image 2A18815, American Museum of Natural History Library.
Skeevy Skeleton A man in a skeleton costume stole another man’s phone. Ten minutes after midnight on Friday, November 1, a 29-year-old man from Queens was walking on the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and East 62nd Street when an unknown individual dressed in a skeleton costume took the man’s phone and fled the scene. The stolen phone was a black iPhone 5 valued at $749.
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Is Lenox Hill NY’s Most Expensive Hospital? Web study says so, but the hospital questions the methodology
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Just how pricey is Lenox Hill Hospital on the Upper East Side? A new study by the consumer-advocacy web site NerdWallet ranks Lenox Hill, at E. 77th Street and Park Avenue, as the state’s most expensive hospital. NerdWallet produced the ranking after analyzing the costs of the 100 most common treatments at 50 hospitals throughout the state. Lenox Hill topped the site’s survey of the least affordable hospitals in New York; Manhattan’s NYC Langone Medical Center came in sixth. No Manhattan hospitals showed up in the group’s “most affordable� list, though Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn did make that cut. A complete list of the group’s finding is at www. nerdwallet.com/blog/health/2013/11/04/most-least-affordablehospitals-new-york . Napala Pratini, the lead analyst for the study, said the group decided to focus in particular on New York, given that historically the state’s health care has been among the country’s most expensive. “We’ve noticed that consumers are increasingly interested in the cost of their care and in shopping around for better quality,� she said. Pratini said NerdWallet chose patient discharge information collected by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The data represents a cross section of private and public sector hospitals. But she conceded that choosing to measure only patient discharge information produced by Medicare might raise questions about the study’s reliability. “While this data is limited in that it includes only charges for Medicare patient
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worried about the cuts and that he’s personally doing okay. Another customer at the market who Greenmarkets do not accept EBTs. preferred not to be named says the market, and So what happens then, when the others like it, simply need more exposure. She government makes significant cuts nationwide says the further you move uptown, the more to people who rely on these food stamps to you encounter fast food restaurants and dingy survive? It comes out to about $11 less a month bodegas with fewer grocery stores. - EBT cards can be swiped at for an individual for a total of $189, and a $36 “There’s a low rate of diabetes here,” she says, the EBT information tent at any cutback for a family of four for a total of $632. indicating the low 90s, “until you hit Harlem, participating greenmarket to Ngodup Tserind, who runs the bread and then you see people walking around without pastry stand at the Greenmarket says he only a leg.” “purchase” as many farmer’s sees one to two EBT users a day at the market, The market also provides educational market tokens as a customer which operates Sundays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. presentations on nutrition facts and how to wants He notes the produce vendors see more EBT cook healthfully. - Farmer’s market token come users and would receive more of the impact “The city is spending so much on Medicaid, in green (worth $1), or orange from cuts to the program than he would. but this preventative,” she said. “It’s also Another market worker, Tsering, who important mentally. People come and see they (worth $5) prefers his last name not be published, oversees have a choice and it breaks the mental barrier.” - Healthbucks encourage healthy the produce section known as “Philip’s While she concedes prices are actually eating habits: for every $5 spent Market.” He has not heard about the food lower downtown at the 14th Street market, she at a market, EBT customers will stamp cuts and can’t understand why this believes vendors take the use of benefit cards resource would be reduced. receive a $2 coupon (initative runs into consideration on the Upper East Side, “It’s for the poor and unemployed,” he says. though the 14th Street market also accepts from summer - November 15th) “A lot of customers use it and people are using food stamps. - WIC checks for fruits and it in a sensible way.” Elderly EBT users really feel the impact of vegetables are for women, infants Tsering also works at the Grand Army Plaza the cuts, especially if they live alone. and children and come in $6, $10 market in Brooklyn and says by the end of “I can’t believe they’ve deducted $11 when the day, they have a massive stack of Women, I was barely making anything to begin with,” or $15 increments Infants, Children (WIC) checks. He adds the said Paul Georges, 89, a Union Square Market 92nd street market is smaller and lesser known customer from New Jersey. “I get a $20 as it only recently got started. greenmarket coupon as a senior. I don’t know what I’m going to buy Nestor Vestwicz, a customer at the market, says he will be paying now, but it’s got to be something soft. I have to be more frugal now.” with both cash and his benefit card for produce. Vetwicz says he’s not SNAP cuts Continued from page 1
SNAP Facts - More than 1 in 7, or 47.7 million Americans are on SNAP or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - 3,194,000 New Yorkers participate in SNAP - Participation has doubled in recent years - 100 million SNAP meals will be lost annually with the new cutbacks
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Saturday November 16
Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid
Recess at Symphony Space
Barnes and Noble, 86th & Lexington 7 p.m. Free Fulbright scholar Jessica Alexander stops by to discuss her gritty and inspiring memoir about responding to humanitarian crises across the globe. 212-369-2180
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2537 Broadway (at 95th) 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. $15-$25 Grammy-nominated and winner of seven Parent Choice Gold Awards, Justin Roberts and the Not Ready for Naptime Players returns for their annual power-pop family concerts at Symphony Space. A former Montessori preschool teacher, Justin clearly remembers what it was like to be a kid – and his high energy, smart sound will get everyone in the family on their feet, dancing and singing along. www.symphonyspace.org
Saturday Night SingleSpeak
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92y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, classroom 112 7:30 p.m. $35 Meet other singles in a relaxed, engaging setting. Discuss ways to handle the challenges of being single. Event begins with a wine reception, followed by group discussions and music. 92y.org
Sunday November 17 Sense and Sensibility: The Human Body Herblock-The Black and White: A Tribeca Film Documentary
PIER 94 - NYC New York’s Largest Antique, Art & Collecting Event
500 Exhibits
328 67th Street Library 3 p.m. Free Herbert Block’s career at The Washington Post spanned fifty-five years and thirteen presidents, a timeframe in which he claimed three Pulitzer Prizes, the Medal of Freedom and a significant role in President Nixon’s resignation. Ben Bradlee, Tom Brokaw, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Jules Feiffer, Ted Koppel and Jon Stewart are among the witnesses to Block’s life, work and indelible contribution to American satire in this documentary. Nypl.org
92y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, classroom 112 10 a.m. $40 Sight, sound, touch, taste and smell are the great communicators to the brain about the world of feeling. Learn the fascinating ways they work. Explore a mystery bag of “sense” items and take it home. 92y.org
Norman Bel Geddes: I Have Seen the Future Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue, 103 Street 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. $10; $6 students/seniors Norman Bel Geddes, best known for the Futurama exhibition at the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair. I Have Seen the Future explores Bel Geddes’ long career in theatrical and industrial design including 200 never-beforeseen drawings, models, photographs and films. 212-534-1672 ;Mcny.org
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Monday November 18 2013 CUNY Graduate Programs Fair Grand Hyatt at Grand Central Terminal 109 East 42nd Street 2 – 7 p.m. Free Learn more about CUNY’s 800+ Master’s and Doctoral degree programs and over 200 Graduate Certificate programs in 150+ fields. You will also have the opportunity to speak with graduate admissions professionals from a host of CUNY schools. www.cuny.edu/graduate
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Rising Waters Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue, 103 Street 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. $10; $6 students/seniors To mark the one-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, the museum solicited images of the storm’s effects on New York City from both professional and amateur photographers. This juried exhibition includes before-and-after images of the storm, from preparation to the ongoing rebuilding work. 212-534-1672, mcny.org
Wednesday November 20 Guide to New York City Urban Landscapes: A Book Talk The Arsenal, Third Floor Gallery, 830 Fifth Avenue 6:30 p.m. $20; $15 members Robin Lynn and Francis Morrone point to the less obvious, the city’s low-scale open spaces, as inspiring as those found in nature in their newly published book. Attend for an illustrated lecture on places and landscape design, from 19th century cemeteries to the Upper East Side’s Conservatory Garden, with stops in-between. http://www.friends-ues.org/ RSVP required.
Writing the College Essay 112 East 96th Street Library 1 p.m. Free Take the opportunity to explore some of the latest e-reader devices at this special event. Kindle, Ipad, and nook devices will be available for participants to try. Nypl.org
328 67th Street Library 4 p.m. Free Do you need to write a personal statement for your college applications? Is the deadline coming up fast? At this workshop, led by expert Laurel Haines, you’ll learn how to write a great essay that will make you stand out from the crowd. nypl.org
Tuesday November 19
Thursday November 21
“Lung Cancer CT Screening Saves Lives: Are You At Risk?”
Better Red than Dead: Red Wines and Cheeses to Match
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1425 Madison Avenu, (at E. 98th Street), 1st Floor 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free Hosted by veteran broadcast journalist Roz Abrams, this two-hour symposium brings together some of the nation’s foremost experts in lung cancer to present the latest research and answer questions about how to help
92y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, classroom 84 7 p.m. $40 Contrary to the advice of several noted wine authorities, it is possible to match red wine and cheese. In this class we show how it’s done, with some amazing red wine and superb cheese combinations. 92y.org
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Before Bill de Blasio ran ramshackle over opponent Joe Lhota in the race for NYC mayor, shop talk was understandably centered on which elected leaders in the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Democratic corps were Sen. Liz Krueger and Public Advocate Bill de interested in a job with de Blasio in 2010 at a press conference announcing a Blasioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s administration. statewide campaign to halt Styrofoam use by the state On the East Side of government. Manhattan, two Democratic Photo courtesy LizKrueger.com. insiders mentioned State Senator Liz Krueger was elect on the Upper East Side, previously told eyeing a spot, possibly in housing. However, Our Town heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d stand up to whoever is elected when contacted, Krueger denied the mayor to stop the project. suggestion. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am not angling for any position Lhota also won pockets of downtown with the presumed new Mayor,â&#x20AC;? Krueger said. Manhattan, presumably from wealthier â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are rumorsâ&#x20AC;Śbut they are not being residents who work in the Financial District. generated by me, nor by Mr. De Blasio. I look De Blasioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan to tax the rich to pay for forward to assisting him in any way that I can universal kindergarten didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sit well with to be a great mayor for our city.â&#x20AC;? many in New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s monied class, but his An interesting response if one is prone to overall message resonated with an astounding over-analyze, but it does lead to the question 73 percent of city voters. of who might fill her seat. Krueger was elected Lhota also took the borough of Staten to the 28th District in 2002 and is currently Island, a significant chunk of southern the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Brooklyn and portions of Queens as well. Committee. In his generally gracious concession speech, One name thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bandied about is 73rd Lhota did fire a parting shot at de Blasio; â&#x20AC;&#x153;We District Assemblyman Dan Quart, who are five boroughs, but we are one city,â&#x20AC;? said represents portions of the East Side in Lhota. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are one people, and we want our Manhattan. A source with knowledge told city to move forward not backwards. And I do Our Town that Quart is interested in the 28th hope our mayor-elect understands this before District seat should Krueger jump to a city itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too late.â&#x20AC;? government posting, but nothing solid is yet known. As an interesting side note; de Blasio is What is known is that the nascent de Blasio the first mayor-elect from Brooklyn since administration is attractive to those in state Abraham Beame, who was elected in 1974 government who want a part in enacting the and left the office in 1977. The four mayors lofty liberal and progressive ideas that got him who came after Beame â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Edward Koch, David elected by a 50-point margin. It remains to Dinkins, Rudolph Guiliani and Michael be seen who de Blasio will pick for his dream Bloomberg â&#x20AC;&#x201C; were all Manhattanites. team, but the building of his administration Beame presided over the city during the will have implications for state politics. financial crisis in the mid-seventies when the city was almost forced to declare bankruptcy. Although Joe Lhota only won 24 percent He was also mayor during the infamous of the citywide vote, he received the vast blackout of 1977. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to hoping the next majority of votes on the Upper East Side, Brooklynite mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legacy will be a little due in part to his opposition to the marine more illustrious. transfer station. Bill de Blasio, by contrast, has indicated that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d let the project proceed. Ben Kallos, the neophyte City Council member-
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Guide to 2014/2015 Private School Admissions Nursery, Pre-K, Kindergarten
School
Grade Levels
Application Deadlines
Early Childhood Admissions Assessment (“ECAA”)
Playgroup/ Interview
Parent Tour/ Interview
ISAAGNY (Independent
The Allen-Stevenson School 132 E 78 St NY, NY 10075 212-288-6710 Allen-stevenson.org
K-9
Applications for K were being accepted prior to Sept. You can apply online, pay fee)
Required
School will contact you to arrange for small group interview
School will contact you for parent tour and interview
Required for children currently enrolled in early childhood education programs
$39,770, which includes lunch, activities, books and supplies
The Birch Wathen Lenox School 210 E 77 St NY, NY 10021 212-861-0404 Bwl.org
K-12
Nov 30
$50 non-refundable Also enclose recent family photo which must include applicant
Required
Small group interview required
No parent interview as part of process; however, parent essay required
Required for children currently enrolled in early childhood education programs
$39,819. Additional fees include $300 activities fee, $1,500 lunch program, $100 Parents Association dues, and $14 Student Accidental Injury insurance.
The Brearley School 610 E 83 St NY, NY 10028 212-744-8582 Brearley.org
K-12
Nov 20 (5 pm)
$65 non-refundable
Sept 1
Test must be taken before Jan 10, 2014
Will be scheduled after sub of application
Deadline for scheduling tour and interview is Nov 29, 2013.
Required for children currently enrolled in early childhood education programs
$39,900, which includes lunch, books, supplies and class trips.
The British International School of New York 20 Waterside Plaza NY, NY 10028 212-481-2700 Bis-ny.org
N-8
Jan 17 is deadline for completed submission (including application, assessments, test scores, past school records, etc.)
$125 plus copy of child’s birth certificate or passport
Aug 31
Required for K students
School will contact you to arrange for small group interview
Required for children currently enrolled in early childhood education programs
$38,850, which includes educational materials, lunch, snacks, athletic & educational field trips. One time security deposit of $1,000, refundable upon graduation or withdrawal in good standing.
The Browning School 52 E 62 St NY, NY 10021 212-838-6280 Browning.edu
N-12
Nov 29 – Per website, carefully proofread online application. A family photo would be appreciated, but is not required.
Sept 1
Required
School will contact you to arrange for small group interview
Parent interview/info session post application
Required for children currently enrolled in early childhood education programs
$41,200
The Buckley School 113 E 73 St NY, NY 10021 212-535-8787 Buckleyschoolnyc.org
K-9
Submit online application
Sept 1
Required
School will contact you to arrange for small group interview
Parents must take a tour and will have separate interview
Required
$38,000
The Caedmon School 416 E 80 St NY, NY 10021 212-879-2296 Caedmonschool.org
N-5
Nov 30
Sept 1
Required for K-5th grade
School will contact you to arrange for small group interview
School will contact you to arrange parents interview
Required
Beginners (2.8-3 years old): $19,871 Early Program Half Day (3s): $19,871 Discovery Program (extended day for children in Beginners program): $13,320 K: $33,440
The Cathedral School 319 E 74 St NY, NY 10021 212-249-2840 Cathedralschoolnyc.org
N-8
Rolling application policy; applications processed throughout the year.
$50
Aug 31 (must be 2.9 yrs or older for N and Pre-K program)
Required
School will contact you to arrange for small group interview
School will contact you to arrange parents interview
Required
3s Program, Full Day: $15,500. Half Day: $13,500 4s Program Full Day: $15,500. Half Day $13,500 K – Gr 8: $14,500 Non-refundable Registration Fee: $1,000
The Chapin School 100 East End Ave NY, NY 10028 212-744-2335 Chapin.edu
K-12
Dec 1
$65 non-refundable
Sept 1
Required
Admissions will schedule a visit
Admissions office will call to schedule parents-only tour, interview
Required for children currently enrolled in early childhood education programs
$37,780 Additional expenses of $1,300 to $5,000 (depending on grade) include books, school supplies, recess food, lunch, Parents’ Association Dues, School trips,
Convent of the Sacred Heart 1 E 91 St NY, NY 10128 212-722-4745 Cshnyc.org
N-12
Dec 1
School will contact you to arrange for small group interview
Post application, admission schedules parent interview
The Dalton School 108 E 89 St NY, NY 10128 212-423-5200 Dalton.org
K-12
Nov 15
$60
Aug 31
Required
Required
Required
Required
Tuition Grades K-12: $40,220,, includes books and lunch. Some items may have extra cost, such as After School program.
Geneva Scool of Manhattan 583 Park Ave NY, NY 10021 212-754-9988 Genevaschool.net
N-8
Rolling application policy; applications processed throughout the year.
$100
Aug 31
Required
School will contact for individual student assessment.
School will contact you to arrange parents interview
Required
Pre-Beginners (3 half days):$12,400 Beginners (5 half days): $14,400 Pre-K (5 full days): $20,300 K to 4th Gr: $22,400
The Hewitt School 45 E 75 St NY, NY 10021 212-288-1919 Hewittschool.org
K-12
Nov 29
Sept 1
Required
School will contact for individual student assessment.
School will contact parents interview/tour.
Required
$40,900, which includes books, trips within school day, breakfast and lunch.
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Application Fee, Additional Items to be submitted
Age Eligibility
June 1: Pre-K (3s) Aug 31 – Jr -K (4s) & K – (5s)
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School Admissions Association of Greater NY) or evaluation from non-member school
Pre-K: $21,170 Jr-K: $27,865 K - Gr 12: $41,040
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La Scuola D’Italia Guglielmo Marconi 12 E 96 St NY, NY 10128 212-369-3290 Lascuoladitalia.org
N-12
Admissions works on a rolling basis; applications accepted as long as there is opening in class
$100 (for new families only); Two reference letters introducing family to school are required
Dec 31
Not required for N-Gr 2, but if child is being tested, please have scores sent
Small group interview
Parents will meet with Admissions Director
Required for children currently enrolled in early childhood education programs
$21,800 Non-refundable registration fee: $1,000 Textbook, materials and field trips fee: $600
Lycee Francais de New York 505 E 75 St NY, NY 10021 212-369-1400 Lfny.org
N-12
Dec. 1
$200 nonrefundable
Dec 31
Required
School will contact for individual student assessment.
School will contact you to arrange parents interview
Required
$27,600 Additional non-refundable fees: Lunch Fee - $1,300; APL Fee per student - $50; New student fee (one-time fee for first year only) - $3,000.
Lyceum Kennedy 225 E 43 St NY, NY 10017 212-681-1877 Lyceumkennedy.org
N-11
Dec 1
$200 nonrefundable Copy of birth cert or passport, passport sized photo of child
Schedule Discovery Day(s) for child’s evaluation
Family information form required
Student evaluation form from child’s current pre-school, plus copies of report cards, if available
Tuition for N, Pre-K and K: $21,800 plus $820 in fees Fees include insurance costs, books, computer usage, snacks (lower grades), field trips and yearbook costs.
Manhattan Country School 7 E 96 St NY, NY 10128 212-348-0952 Manhattancountryschool.org
N-8
Dec 2
$70 non-refundable fee
Sept 1
Not required, but if child is being tested, please have scores sent
Small group Interview with child scheduled after application received
Parents meet informally with member of administration
Required for children currently enrolled in early childhood education programs
Tuition and fees are determined on a sliding scale, with maximum tuition for children in the 4-5s programs $37,000 for the 2014/2015 school year.
Marymount School School for Girls 1026 5th Ave NY, NY 10028 212-744-4486 marymountnyc.org
N – Gr 12
Nov 30
Fee 2 personal letters of recommendation required
Aug 31
Required for K and above
Student Playgroup will be arranged after after application
Parent Tour and Parent Interview required after application
Required for children currently enrolled in early childhood education programs
N & Pre-K: $24,425 K – Gr 3: $41,685 Tuition includes lunch, books, supplies, some activities, Parents’ Association fees.
Nightingale-Bamford School 20 E 92 St NY, NY 10128 212-289-5020 Nightingale.org
K-12
Dec 1
Sept 1
Required
Girls will attend playgroup
Parent-only tour and interview
Required
$39,985
Park East Day School (Rabbi Arthur Schneier) 164 E 68 St NY, NY 10065 www.parkeastdayschool.org
2s – Gr 8
Required for K and above
Visit will be arranged after application received
Post application family interview
Required from previous school. Letters of Recommendation required from both previous school and parent/guardian
2s –3 ams: $14,285; 5 ams: $17,860 3s – Half Days: $18,155; Full Days: $20,130* 4s – Full Days: $21,630* K: $23,175*Includes lunch.
Ramaz School 125 E 85 NY, NY 10021 212-774-8000 Ramaz.org
N-12
Nov 22
$150 nonrefundable
Aug 31
Required for K and above
Upon receipt of app will arrange time to meet with your child
Contact to arrange meeting with Admissions
Required for children currently enrolled in early childhood education programs
N: $27,375 Pre-K: $28,175 K : $29,925 Tuition includes non-refundable fee of $3,000
Rudolf Steiner School 15 East 78 St NY, NY 10021 212-879-1101 Steiner.edu
N-12
Nov 29
$55 A parent statement is required with application and fee’
2s, K, 4 & 5 by June 30; Nursery – 3 by July 15.
Not required, but if child is being tested, please have scores sent
Children & parents are interviewed together
Transcripts and confidential teacher recommendation to be submitted directly to the school
Nursery, ½ Day Program: $25,200. Kindergarten, ½ Day Program: $26,275; Mixed Week Program: $31,550; Full Week Program: $35,350. The cost of the Lunch Program is included.
Saint David’s School 12 E 89 St NY, NY 10128 212-369-0058 Saintdavids.org
N-8
Dec 1
$60
Private tour led by current parent; interview with admissions
Required
Pre-K: $26,445 K-Gr 8: $39,650 Tuition includes athletics, books, lunch, student accident insurance and Parents Association Dues
The Spence School I22 E 91 St NY, NY 10128 212-289-5940 Spenceschool.org
K-12
Nov 15
$65 non-refundable No first choice letters or letters of recommendation, please!
St Bernard’s School 4 E 98 St NY, NY 10029 212-289-2878 Stbernards.org
K-9
Nov 15
No application fee
The Town School 540 E 76 St NY, NY 10021 212-288-4383 Thetownschool.org
N-5
Nov 29
$65
Aug 31
The Trevor School 11 E 89 St NY, NY 10128 212-426-3300 Trevor.org
N-5
Dec 15
$50 non-refundable
UN International School 24-50 FDR Dr NY, NY 10010 212-684-7400 Unis.org
K-12
Nov 15
$75 non-refundable Copy of birth certificate or passport, and small photograph of child
92Y Nursery School 1395 Lexington Ave NY, NY 10128 212-415-5532 92Y.org
2.6 - 5s
Schedule appointment for a tour and orientation in Oct and Nov. At conclusion of tour, parents offered application. Filled on first come, first served basis.
$50 non-refundable Copy of birth certificate Recent photo (optional)
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Required for K and above
August 31
Small group visit
Required
$40,975
A separate interview will be scheduled for child’s small group interview
Tour by CoDirectors of Admissions, meet with headmaster
Required for children currently enrolled in early childhood education programs
$39,115, which includes lunch, books, supplies and other expenses.
Required
Contact admissions office to arrange small group interview
Contact to arrange tour and parent interview
Required for children currently enrolled in early childhood education programs
N 3s: $26,900 N 4s : $35,650 K - Gr 8: $39,000
Aug 31
Required for K and above
School will contact you to arrange playbased visit
School will contact to arrange tour and parent interview
Required for children currently enrolled in early childhood education programs
N : $27,250 Pre-K : $33,000 K : $39,000
Aug 31
Required
Children will be interviewed in small groups
Required for children currently enrolled in early childhood education programs
Jr A (Kindergarten): $28,800
Mar 31
Tours done at beginning of admissions process
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Nursery, Pre-K, Kindergarten Private School Application Deadlines Check individual school websites for important dates and deadlines, i.e. Financial aid submissions; completion of application requirements (documentation, interviews, etc.); admission decisions; enrollment deadlines. Schools with no deadlines which are listed on the previous pages are not shown here.
Fri. November 15 Avenues The World School Early Notification for N & Gr 2-11) The Dalton School The Riverdale Country School The Spence School St Bernard’s School United Nations International School The Calhoun School
Wed. November 20 The Brearley School (5 pm)
Fri. November 22 Ramaz School
Fri. November 29 The City & Country School 2’s and 3’s program by lottery; families notified by end of December. All 4’s applications will be placed on hold; no openings anticipated, but applications will be activated if they do occur. The Rudolf Steiner School The Hewitt School The Town School
Wed. December The Trevor School Sun. December 29 4 The Browning School
Sat. November 30 The Birch-Wathen Lenox School The Caedmon School Marymount School
The Studio School
Thu. December 5
Sun. December 1 The Chapin School Convent of the Sacred Heart Leman Manhattan Prep School Submit application, Parent Statement and fee Little Red Schoolhouse St. Luke’s School Collegiate School Lycee Francais de New York Lyceum Kennedy The Nightingale-Bamford School Saint David’s School Bank Street School for Children St. Hilda & St. Hugh’s School The Rodeph Sholom School The Dwight School The Cathedral School
Abraham Joshua Heschel School
Fri. December 6 The Speyer Legacy School The Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan
Fri. December 13
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Mon. December 2 Manhattan Country School Village Community School Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School
Ecole Internationale de New York N, Pre-K and K programs.
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Biting Britten On Nico Muhly’s Two Boys, plus the demise of City Opera By Jay Nordlinger
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he Metropolitan Opera has been staging a work it commissioned, Two Boys, by Nico Muhly. The composer is an American in his early 30s. The librettist, too, is an American, Craig Lucas, the playwright who wrote Prelude to a Kiss, among other wellknown scripts. But their story is British: a tale “loosely inspired by real events in England in the early 21st century,” as the program notes say. That story is about the world of Internet chat rooms, a world that can be dark and depraved, as well as light and beneficial. At the end of Two Boys, one of those boys is dead. Knowing that the opera was about the Internet, I wondered how it could possibly be pulled off. People sitting at screens do not an opera make, normally. But I soon found out how: You do it by showing screens onstage— very large—and by having your characters sing the lines they type. For example, we might see the old abbreviation “n2m,” and a singer will sing, “Not too much.” It is all rather
ingenious. The production is in the hands of Bartlett Sher, a director known in both the Broadway and the opera realms. How about the music? It is often minimalistic, in the mode of Glass or Reich. There is lots of “soft percussion,” which is to say mallet instruments (mainly). The music is sometimes New Agey, Californian, psychedelic. There is a church scene in this opera, and therefore a bit of church music, as in Tosca and other works. The score is also Brittenesque, which I will explain as follows: You know that secular spirituality (for lack of a better phrase) that marks so many works by Britten? It’s here, too. Muhly’s opera is Brittenesque down to the boy soprano and the sexual torment. At the end of the opera, there is a skillful ensemble, which made me think of the quintet at the end of Vanessa (Barber) and the octet at the end of Summer and Smoke (Hoiby). I have done what a lot of people do when writing or talking about new music: refer to other composers. But I would not deny Muhly his individuality. One outstanding thing about his score is that it’s kind: sincere, earnest, sympathetic, humane. Muhly is on the side of his characters. There is much meanness in the story, but no meanness in the score. The story has huge tension and suspense, like a whodunit. In fact, that’s what it is, certainly in part. So I have to ask, “Once you’ve seen the opera once, and know how it comes out, can you see it
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Two Boys at Metropolitan Opera again?” Well, you can see Tosca again, even though you know that Cavaradossi falls dead and his girlfriend jumps. But I’m not sure that Two Boys can ever be as suspenseful, and therefore as effective, as on first experiencing it. Here is another question: “Can you listen to it on the radio?” Two Boys is heavily dependent on the visual, specifically those screens. Let me give you a third question, just for fun: When directors go to update this opera— because updating is what they feel they need to do—what will they replace the Internet with? I could pick at Muhly’s opera till the cows come home, but it is still an achievement. I will close with a strange statement, though a perfectly true one: I was eager for the opera to end, but I was engaged by it, and respected it, while it was taking place. In September, City Opera staged Anna Nicole, a new work by Mark-Anthony Turnage (about Anna Nicole Smith, the late, tragic tabloid personality). And that was it: City Opera folded, after 70 years in business. Julius Rudel, the nonagenarian conductor who began with the company shortly after it was founded, made a poignant statement: “I would not have thought in my wildest dreams that I would outlive the opera company.”
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With a politician’s gift for the rhetorical phrase, Fiorello La Guardia dubbed City Opera “the people’s opera,” and the label stuck. It was always a bit of a conceit, though. There are cheap seats at the Met, and there were expensive seats at City Opera. And people dressed casual (or worse) at both places. City Opera staged a variety of works, and had singers from all over—but it specialized in American operas and young American singers. A person could “see the stars of tomorrow today.” I myself learned a lot from City Opera—a lot of repertoire. I learned new operas, of course, but also obscurities from the Baroque period and later. City Opera was the kind of company that would give you The Pearl Fishers, by Bizet. Otherwise, you hear just the famous duet, a standby at galas. The perpetual question is, “Will New Yorkers support a second opera company?” Well, it seems they didn’t support City Opera. They didn’t come to the old favorites, like another Bizet opera, Carmen, and they didn’t come to the esoteric or new stuff. They just didn’t come, in great enough numbers. If the people want a big or biggish company in addition to the Met, and the market is free to work, they’ll get it. Meanwhile, the mighty Met should be able to satisfy the operatic appetite.
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Arts That Unites The UN and Gabarron Foundation bring international art to local attention By Judy Gelman Myers
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Imagination runs wild Creativity blooms Young artists have a blast National Academy School Young Artist Programs 5 E. 89th Street at Fifth Avenue Register Now! www.nationalacademy.org 212.996.1908
he remarkable institution that parented the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 65 years ago and has been campaigning for human rights ever since—the UN, of course—will be turning 70 in 2015. To celebrate, they’ve mounted a superb exhibit of art culled from their massive archives. Dubbed UNEARTH, the exhibit is currently on view at the Gabarron Foundation’s Carriage House Center for the Arts, 149 E. 38th St., through December 27, when it will tour the world before returning to New York for the UN’s birthday. This fascinating exhibit is designed to illustrate the UN’s drive for human rights, development, peace and security, and humanitarian assistance. But it also serves to reflect the way art is perceived and produced by an organization representing 193 members from radically different cultures. Through posters created by such artists as Joan Miró and Keith Haring, images from photographers stationed around the world, and a film series accompanied by Q&As with high-ranking UN officials, UNEARTH embodies the fine line—if a line exists at all—between politics and art. It’s the brainchild of Chaim Litewski, chief of the UN’s TV unit, and the Gabarrón brothers, whose Carriage House Center for the Arts provides a gorgeous brownstone setting dedicated to international cultural exchange. UNEARTH commences on the brownstone’s first floor with a historical roar: A sketch of a proposed UN structure drawn on a napkin by FDR during his meeting with Stalin and Churchill in Teheran. This segues into a fine collection of 40 photographs culled from an 800,000-image archive. Highlights include a sizzling 2011 shot of young men grasping their way toward a border in Libya by contract photographer Alexis
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Duclos, and John Isaac’s image of Vietnamese refugees scrambling over makeshift boats in Kowloon while Hong Kong skyscrapers beckon, hostile, metallic, in the background. On the second floor, 34 posters ranging from historic to supercontemporary chronicle the UN’s self-image as it changes over time. UNEARTH can be considered both an art exhibit and a self-portrait. Discussions that are so important now—sustainable development; empowering women; selfdetermination—originated in the UN, a fact reflected in the iconography of UNEARTH. But the iconography also suggests an institution that is highly conscious of the fact that it serves 193 bosses. UNEARTH, then, does nothing short of representing the fascinating interplay between doing and not doing—between making the world a better place and simply letting people live as they would—that might well represent the ultimate human challenge. UNEARTH on view at the Gabarron Foundation’s Carriage House Center for the Arts, 149 E. 38th St., through Dec. 27.
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Cameron Diaz in The Counselor
Headless Hacks Director and writer hacks behead The Counselor By Armond White
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ovelist Cormac McCarthy must have been a fan of Breaking Bad since he steals its plot--its essence--for The Counselor, the film billed as his “first original screenplay.” The combination cynicism-and-pretense that motivates this crime film about a lawyer (Michael Fassbender) who gains wealth from assisting clients in drug deals, repeats the same moral confusion that is the hallmark of today’s more celebrated TV shows--especially the twisted absurdity of Breaking Bad. This corruption is not profound but for sophomoric minds it is trendy and sussing out trends is part of director Ridley Scott’s headless hack method. “Headless” fits because Scott’s cynicism complements McCarthy’s; it comes out in The Counselor’s leitmotif-various forms of grisly decapitations that are reminders of Scott’s ultra-hackery in Hannibal (where Anthony Hopkins ate from Ray Liotta’s exposed brain). The Counselor outdoes the treachery of Breaking Bad with several gruesome, headless killings. You need to be mindless to enjoy this kind of junk. Yet The Counselor is a swanky form
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of junk with Fassbender and his trophy girlfriend (Penelope Cruz) enjoying a ritzy lifestyle along with his bling-loving client Reiner (Javier Bardem) and his unfathomably cynical, bisexual moll Malkina (Cameron Diaz) who keeps two pet cheetahs, wears a gold tooth, silver fingernails and has cheetah spots tattooed across her back. It’s almost a comic version of the luxe afforded to big-name filmmakers like Scott. Getting rich off cynicism is a hoary theme of indulged--and overscaled-by filmmakers who get profit from cynicism. McCarthy peddles cynicism like a huckster who’s found a sure-fire gimmick. His script overflows with bone-headed, pseudo-profundities that weigh upon the story’s self-seriousness. This kind of thing works for TV viewers who are lazily impressed by literary attitude borrowed from hard-boiled fiction--a pretense special to HBO’s Boomer sarcasm and favored by middlebrow media outlets like the Times and Entertainment Weekly. McCarthy adds an existential gloss that seems overly ambitious for the big screen when flashy hacks like Scott add visual, kinetic excess. But McCarthy’s significance slows Scott’s roll; The Counselor is mostly about dialogue. The exchanges are howlers: “Greed really takes you to the edge.” “That’s not what greed does, that’s what greed is.” Or: “That’s a bit cold.” “Truth has no temperature.” Or: “We announce
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to the darkness that we will not be diminished by the brevity of our lives.” My favorite is a barely remembered rant from philosophical drug kingpin Ruben Blades: “Our extinction is a thingamabob that resignation cannot whatchamagig.” And there’s worse. This richly terrible jabber exposes a creativity deficit. The cast--the sinister Fassbender, a hapless Brad Pitt repeating his Seven tragedy and a superbly steelyeyed Diaz--only gets credit for keeping their faces straight. McCarthy and Scott give so much attention to treachery, snark and assorted means of killing from pickling bodies in barrels to several decapitation contraptions (including a snuff film) that they lose the moral decline sweepstakes to a Breaking Bad competition. They fail to measure the social era like Oliver Stone’s fascinating drug tale Savages or Costa-Gavras’ Capital or such classic John Huston melodramas as The Asphalt Jungle and Beat the Devil. After the Coen Brothers’ No Country For Old Men, McCarthy’s Hollywood stock went up. The Counselor should settle that. I never finished Blood Meridian--the only McCarthy book I’ve opened--but if this is the kind of crap McCarthy writes, I don’t feel I’ve missed anything. Follow Armond White on Twitter at 3xchair
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Costa-Gavras returns to form in Capital By Armond White
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n a third of the time it took Olivier Assayas to turn 70s terrorism into a epic hipster rave (replete with postpunk soundtrack) in Carlos, CostaGavras exposes the nature of social and financial compromise--moral terrorism--in Capital. This timely story of how Phenix Bank, a French financial institution, replaces its ill-and-aging CEO with a younger man Marc Tourneuil (Gad Emaleh) who turns out to be cagier than the puppet the board of directors expected, dramatizes a current concern with global chaos. Immediacy has always been Costa-Gavras’ gift. Instead of Assayas’s apathetic hindsight, Costa-Gavras revives the excitement of his political films Z, The Confession and State of Siege--movies that made him a combo Eisenstein-Hitchcock of the era--where fascination with the self-interests of political parties took the form of thrillers--politically engaged noirs, you could say. Tourneil is motivated by arrogance as much as greed which Costa-Gavras understands to be the basis of banking philosophy that, in the 21st century has come to replace political ideology. Capital shows this even more clearly than Oliver Stone’s recent Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. Costa-Gavras--the experienced old Lefty-doesn’t pretend to clean-up Wall Street with regulation and prosecution; he also knows better than to pretend that
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socialist beliefs are sufficient. The very smart, privileged, overachieving characters in Capital are aware of operating within corruption-their intelligence takes the form of keeping their heads above filthy water. Tourneuil operates on intellectual conceit, suspicious of everyone except his wife on whom, in the European way, he cheats when enticed by the exotic supermodel Nassim (Liya Kebede) who typically trades her body out of vanity and luxury, having made no evaluation on her soul. Capital is a breeze to watch largely because Costa-Gavras’s narrative skills suggest a functioning moral compass. It’s a dark social vision, yet it isn’t cynical. Tourneuil represents an inherent honesty that his adversary Dittmar Regule (Gabriel Byrne), a Brit acting from the surety of American might. There’s no Occupy sentimentality in Capital which may explain why the media has not embraced it, but neither is there the simplistic, self-satisfaction of J.C. Chandor’s sophomoric Margin Call or TV-style sarcasm. Costa-Gavras’ basic moral approach to political crime provides a clear-eyed view of things gone wrong and gets at the deeper reasons why; his dubious hero exposes the workings of greed, the psychological incentives behind high-level survival. Working-class sentimentality is dead in 21st century art and finance. Assayas is too cool to care but at least Costa-Gavras won’t lie about it and that--as with Walter Hill’s Bullet to the Head--is the essence of the politically-engaged action movie. Welcome its return. Follow Armond White on Twitter at 3xchair
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Il Tesoro Ristorante Brings a Fresh Take to Italian The Upper East Side eatery takes traditional pasta dishes out for a spin By Helaina Hovitz Born in a small seaside town in Sicily, Chef A.J. Black became immersed in the food industry at just six years old, washing dishes at the family restaurant and fishing for the catch of the day with his grandparents. Now, his Italian eatery Il Tesoro Ristorante & Bar (1578 First Avenue) is a far cry from just another stuffy, â&#x20AC;&#x153;authenticâ&#x20AC;? Upper East Side Italian joint. Celebrating three years this month, Il Tesoro has become a neighborhood staple for locals who look forward to seeing whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next from Chef Black, who believes that the only art you can eat is food. It seems like a lot of chefs are turning food into â&#x20AC;&#x153;artâ&#x20AC;? these days. They are, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s usually kind of abstract. At Il Tesoro, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get a â&#x20AC;&#x153;realistâ&#x20AC;? piece of food. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to not be able to recognize it anymore. Besides, I want you to see that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve used every inch of the whole fish, for example. Not many people use the whole fish or the
Me. Every single dish has my own spin on it. I go to the market every day and ask, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fresh, whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cool, whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new?â&#x20AC;? Something that you might call weird is music to my ears. Today Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m serving oxtail, which is from 17th century Rome. Also, every other person says their stuff is homemade, but we make every single thing in the kitchen from scratch. Tell me about one of your most unique dishes. Our Lobster Agrodolce is lightly tempura fried. Agrodolce is â&#x20AC;&#x153;sweet and sourâ&#x20AC;? style sauce from Sicily made with brown sugar, white wine vinegar, garlic and olive oil. We always hear about it in every other Asian restaurant, but in Italian itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sicily sauce.â&#x20AC;? In all of my dishes, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always a hint of lemon or orange or nutmeg. You also offer a lot of gluten-free options. I became a chef to nurture people, so we have lots of gluten-free options. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new gnocchi made out of butternut squash, with no flour at all. We have so many different kinds and shapes. People up here buy pasta out of the bag for a gluten-free option, but we make it fresh daily: farro pasta, the ceci â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;chickpea pastaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, the rice pasta, the polenta, and risotto, as well as the pecan pasta are all gluten-free.
whole animal anymore. You describe it as â&#x20AC;&#x153;nice Italian without pretention.â&#x20AC;? People donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to get dressed up and impress anyone. Here, they feel like theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re home. What happens here on the Upper East Side is, some restaurants only thought about the super cool foodie guys, and some thought about the Average Joe, the guy who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what shape of pasta to eat. We wanted to take both, bring them together, and say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;OK, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all sit down and have dinner.â&#x20AC;? What makes you guys different from all of the other Italian restaurants on the Upper East Side?
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Your menu is always changing seasonally. What specials do you have lined up for winter? Homemade chestnut and chickpea capellini pasta sautĂŠed with wild mushroom and finished in truffle cream sauce, black squid ink risotto topped with calamari and shrimp in light spicy tomato sauce, large rigatoni with pistachio pesto and seared scallop, slow braised beef short ribs served over our homemade pumpkin gnocchi, oven braised suckling pig over butternut squash risotto with green beans and mascarpone blood orange cognac sauce, and marinated grilled octopus finished with olive oil lemon and fresh herb.
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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS
November 4, 2013
Restaurant Grades The following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygieneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website on November 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. China Taste
1570 2 Avenue
Grade Pending (19) Hot food item not held at or above 140Âş F. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facilityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facilityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies.
Wok 88
1570 3 Avenue
Grade Pending (31) Hot food item not held at or above 140Âş F. Cold food item held above 41Âş F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ÂşF) except during necessary preparation. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.
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38 East 98 Street
Grade Pending (28) Cold food item held above 41Âş F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ÂşF) except during necessary preparation. Toxic chemical improperly labeled, stored or used such that food contamination may occur. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.
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40 E 66 St.
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150 E 72Nd St.
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304 E 65 St.
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166 E 61 St.
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1210 3 Ave.
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Corcoran
160 E 65 St.
#4D
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Weichert Mazzeo
315 E 65 St.
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401 E 60 St.
#37C
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Murray Hill
305 E 40 St.
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52 Park Ave.
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52 Park Ave.
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303 E 57 St.
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$595,000
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Link discovered between diabetes and heart disease High blood glucose causes sugar molecule in heart muscle to trigger irregular heartbeats
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National Institutes of Health. The American Heart Association estimates that at least 65 percent of people with diabetes die from heart disease or stroke and has emphasized the need for research focused on understanding this relationship. Through a series of experiments, Bers, his UC Davis team and their collaborators at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine showed that the moderate to high blood glucose levels characteristic of diabetes caused a sugar molecule, O-GlcNAc, in heart muscle cells to fuse to a specific site on a protein known as calcium/calmodulindependent protein kinase II, or CaMKII. CaMKII has important roles in regulating normal calcium levels, electrical activity and pumping action of the heart, according to Bers. Its fusion with O-GlcNAc, however, led to chronic overactivation of CaMKII and pathological changes in the finely tuned calcium signaling
system it controls, triggering full-blown arrhythmias in just a few minutes. The arrhythmias were prevented by inhibiting CaMKII or its union with O-GlcNAc. “While scientists have known for a while that CaMKII plays a critical role in normal cardiac function, ours is the first study to identify O-GlcNAc as a direct activator of CaMKII with hyperglycemia,” said Bers. A comprehensive approach allowed Bers and his team to identify the specific site of sugar attachment to CaMKII, along with how that attachment activated CaMKII and caused calcium-dependent arrhythmias. “Since O-GlcNAc is directly made from glucose and serves as a major nutrient sensor in regulating most cellular processes, it is perhaps not surprising that attachment of this sugar to proteins is emerging as a major molecular mechanism of glucose toxicity in diabetes,” said Gerald Hart, DeLamar Professor and director
of biological chemistry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and one of Bers’ collaborators. “The findings undoubtedly will lead to development of treatments for diabetic cardiovascular disease and, potentially, therapeutics for glucose toxicity in other tissues that are affected by diabetes such as the retina, the nervous system and the kidney.” In an additional experiment, the team found elevated levels of O-GlcNAc-modified CaMKII in both hearts and brains of deceased humans who were diagnosed with diabetes, with the highest levels in the hearts of patients who had both heart failure and diabetes. “Our discovery is likely to have ripple effects in many other fields,” said Bers. “One key next step will be to determine if the fusion of O-GlcNAc to CaMKII contributes to neuropathies that are also common among diabetics.” The research was funded by the American Heart Association, National Science Foundation, Fondation Leducq Transatlantic CaMKII Alliance and the National Institutes of Health. Source: University of California/Davis: http://healthsystem.ucdavis.edu
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A Date with Kate on Broadway First Date’s Kate Loprest on blind dates, Match.com, and Henry Cavill
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By Angela Barbuti Although we’ve all been on the quintessential disastrous first date, there are always some that turn out to be exciting surprises. This is what First Date is - an hour and a half of heartwarming (and at times, heart-crushing) fun. It chronicles a first date of two New Yorkers, complete with the awkward pauses, bailout phone calls, and the looming question of who will pay the check. The audience alternates between laughing and cringing as they relive every step of a first date with a couple who they can’t help but root for in the end. Kate Loprest plays the ex-fiance meant to stir up some drama for the male lead, played by Zachary Levi. As she walked her dog around Columbus Circle, the 30-year-old actress talked about her history of being a part of “little shows that could.” Loprest put it best when she said, “The relationships I make and the fun that I have, I wouldn’t trade it for any big blockbuster. It’s such a sweet existence.”
You’re from a small town in Chicago. When did you know you wanted to move to New York? Not until the very last minute. Chicago in and of itself is a big theater town and I started working professionally when I was 15. I grew up going to regional theater there and thought that was the biggest deal. I had never really thought about New York until I got to college and everybody was talking about moving here. I did my showcase in New York and people responded really well and I got an agent.
Where was your first apartment? You know, I sublet out in Astoria, like everybody does. [Laughs] I have a very sweet spot in my heart for Astoria. That’s where it all started for me. I remember sitting on the train above ground on a beautiful fall day and seeing Manhattan. The world was my oyster at that point.
You live in Midtown now. What are your favorite places there? I live at 56th and 9th Ave, across the street from Kashkaval. It’s a great Mediterraneaninspired wine and cheese bar. My girlfriends and I absolutely love it. It’s a big theater hangout. I also live across from Route 66. There are a lot of diners in the city, but I feel like this one is cream of the crop. During Sandy last year, it was one of the restaurants
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into a situation too quickly and didn’t know how to handle it, so dealt with it poorly in the aftermath.
Did you base her on anyone in particular? I grew up on the North Shore of Chicago. There are a lot of very wealthy, I would say, entitled, people there. I definitely took cues from people in my past, but you can take cues from entitled people in New York City too. that stayed open the entire time.
Your first principal role on Broadway was playing Amber in Hairspray. With Hairspray, I started to feel like all my hard work was finally starting to pay off. When I joined the cast, we got our closing notice 10 days later. It was a sweet time in that show because everyone just had a love fest for the last four months. That’s the thing with long-running shows - they go through ups and downs where people get complacent because they think that it’s going to run forever. The first Broadway show I did was The Drowsy Chaperone - a little show that could - that just brought happiness. Then I moved on to do Xanadu, which ironically, is another little show that could.
In First Date, you play Allison, the ex-girlfriend. How would you describe her?
Have you been on many blinds dates in New York? [Laughs] Ironically, along with the Match. com line in our show, I have definitely been on Match.com. I was on it when our show started. I am now off of it - not because I’m dating anyone - but because I don’t really have time for it all. Match.com bought out the entire balcony of our show right after we opened and they sold half the seats to men and half to women. They paired up everybody randomly and sat them next to each other to watch the show. And afterwards, they had a little meet and greet.
What’s your best first date memory? You know, Krysta [Rodriguez, who plays Casey, the female lead] and I have talked a lot about this. I think, as with everybody in our cast, we just love talking to people and getting to know them. That’s why I
The show jokes about offlimit first date topics like exes, religion, and admitting to Googling your prospective dating partner. What are some deal breakers for you? Diseases and bodily functions. Things are still sacred at that point. I also don’t really want to hear if you hate your parents. That’s kind of a red flag for me.
I saw an interview with you where you said Henry Cavill is your celebrity crush. Has he come to see the show? No, I would love it if he did. We close in January. Quick, run! [Laughs]
It’s a very small cast of seven. Are you all close? We’re really close. I’m so lucky to do a show with seven people I absolutely adore. A cast of seven principals - you’re lucky if it happens once in your lifetime. Broadway shows are usually crammed into theaters with casts of 35. I want to make sure this is on record, we have the most amazing, caring, and gracious producers I have ever worked with in my life. They put us in an environment of love and support every single day.
What’s your favorite song in the show? The song that I perform with Zac, “In Love With You,” at the end of the show. I rarely sing a thing in the whole sequence, but it’s a really fun acting experience for me. I try to do something a little different every night - pepper it with more angst, or a little more care. It’s fun playtime for me, within reason.
Is the show really going to close? It’s so good! Tell me about it. Yeah, it is. But we’re always like, “Maybe it’ll extend.” Then there are the ones - God love them, they keep our industry going - but they’ve been running for a million years. And you’re like, “Why won’t it die?” It’s the sweet ones that run for a short amount of time. To learn more about Kate, visit www. kateloprest.com
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