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Small businesses hit hard by rent increases, changes in co-op rules By Daniel Fitzsimmons

Two East Side bars that cater to Broncos and Seahawks fans prep for the big game By Daniel Fitzsimmons We know - the Giants flopped this season and the Jets didn’t do much better.

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Hoping for Pay Dirt On Super Bowl Weekend Renting out apartments to outof-towners, sometimes at sky-box prices By Alissa Fleck Real estate broker Ralph Auerbach owns a number of residences he’s been renting out for a few years through the website AirBnB, including one on the Upper West Side that is going for $5,000 for Super Bowl week. The rate for a normal week in January? $1,500. “I tend to be very selective and usually pass up more leads than I bring to fruition,” explains Auerbach of his vetting process. “These are people coming into my home.” With only days remaining before the Super Bowl, New Yorkers -- many of whom seem largely ambivalent to the big game -- nevertheless are hoping to cash in on the influx of visitors, offering up their apartments at prices that can triple or quadruple the usual rate. So far, though, game-goers aren’t biting. (Super Bowl ticket prices also, apparently, are off, with scalpers worried that cold weather may be keeping traveling

fans at home.) For the Super Bowl, Auerbach was hoping to rent his Upper West Side studio out to a single professional who might come to town for the game, not a gaggle of inebriated frat boys. “The Super Bowl does not draw a sophisticated crowd,” he explains, “maybe not the crowd you want in your house.” Continued on page 4

Fred Kooby signed a lease for his stationery store on the Upper East Side the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. Since then, he’s operated Blacker and Kooby at the same location on Madison Avenue and 88th Street with a handful of long-time employees, some of whom have been with him for decades. But come Jan. 31, the Carnegie Hill mainstay will be closing its doors and relocating north to Lexington Avenue, with paired-down offerings that will only include the printing department. In one sense, the closing of a long-time neighborhood retailer has become the new normal in Manhattan, as rising rents make it ever-tougher for mom and pop stores to keep the doors open. But those pressures are now being exacerbated by a change in federal tax rules affecting retailers who rent space from co-op buildings. Prior to 2007, the “80-20 rule” required that these buildings receive 80 percent of their overall revenue from shareholders who owned apartments. But in 2007, that regulation loosened, enabling buildings to generate more money from leasing out retail space. Now, as five-year leases have started to expire, co-op buildings are cashing in on the ability to dramatically increase their business tenants’ rents. Blacker and Kooby is one of five businesses along a fourblock stretch of Madison Avenue that have closed or moved recently, along with the restaurant Jackson Hole, Moormends Luggage Store, the Green Tree Deli and the Gerald Bland Gallery. Kooby said the co-op he’s rented from for the past 50 years offered him a lease at double the $35,000-a-month he’s currently paying. “We decided that’s it, we’re leaving,” said Kooby. “The store, as it exists, that’s gone. Over half a century.” Gerald Bland - who rents space for his antiques gallery from a co-op - said he’ll be moving at the end of March after his lease expires. He was offered a new lease with increased rent, which he declined. It’s unclear whether Jackson Hole, Moormends and the Green Tree Deli were forced to close or move as a result of the change to the 80-20 rule; Jackson Hole closed last spring for repairs and a rental sign only recently appeared it its former

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TAPPED IN Kallos Kicks Off Council Term On Sunday, January 26, Benjamin Kallos was joined by over 700 Upper East Side leaders and residents as he took the oath of office for the city council, representing the Upper East Side’s 5th district. New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman swore in Kallos on his bar-mitzvah chumash as it was held by his sister. The ceremony at the 92nd Street Y featured invocations from all three major religions as well as performances by renowned concert pianist and district resident Roy Eaton under slides of landmarks and community groups in the district, the national anthem by Talent Unlimited High School Men’s Ensemble, a ballet performance of Snow Pas de Deux from the Yorkville Nutcracker by Dances Patrelle, gymnastics performances by the 92nd Street Y GymStars and the Asphalt Green Wave Gymnastics Team, as well as readings of Pastor Martin NiemĂśller’s “First They Came‌â€? and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “Four Freedomsâ€? by members of the community. “I will heed the lessons of the ‘greatest generation.’ I will speak for those for whom there is no one else to speak, regardless of whether I am one of them,â€? Kallos said. “Four essential human freedoms that we heard about from Jim remain a generation overdue. But like FDR, I believe them to be ‘attainable in our own time and generation.’ And I believe that they start at the local level, in the community.â€? Kallos also spoke about his vision for the council’s Government Operations Committee, which he will chair. “Our mandate will be to make our city’s operations more efficient at seamlessly serving you,â€? he said, also highlighting reform of community boards, campaign finance, the Board of Elections and the Board of Standards and Appeals. Kallos invited members of the community to join him in-person for “First Fridaysâ€? in his district office (starting February 7), offered his website and phone number, and promised to bring his office to the community with mobile hours at community centers and senior homes. He named education as a policy priority, speaking about his plan to propose more schools by incentivizing their inclusion in new buildings and identifying new spaces. He also reaffirmed his support for universal pre-K, after school and summer programs, and loan forgiveness for CUNY students who graduate and stay in the city.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Rockefeller University Plan (January 16 edition) Regarding Rockefeller University’s plan to build a 4-block long platform over the FDR drive directly adjacent to the East River Esplanade between 64th and 68th Streets: there is more at stake than the loss of 244 square feet of public open space referred to in the article. The proposed design drastically changes the Esplanade pedestrian’s experience by cutting off a rich, open urban view of historic buildings and sky and replacing it with looming construction, a dark tunnel, concrete pylons, and walls. This negative effect is amplified because the Esplanade is already walled off by existing structures at the south (64th) and north (68th to 71st) edges of the project area. Ironically, the same plan that diminishes the public’s experience of open space will give the University an enormous area of new, private open space overlooking the river. This could be turned into a win for both Rockefeller and the community by changing the design to incorporate a public access strip along the easternmost edge of the platform. J. Appel, East 62nd Street

Rockefeller University Expansion & the Esplanade: Dollars but no sense? Rockefeller University’s mitigation of some $9M for the enhancement and repair of the East River Esplanade affected by their proposed expansion is appreciated, but both the community and the University’s pocketbook would be better served by rethinking the idea. Creating an area for the public within outdoor space of the proposed expansion would be a sensible and sensitive step forward. Given the increased population density of Upper East Side (and the increased likelihood of Sandy-like events), putting money into the Esplanade as it is instead of creating an elevated public area along this stretch, is money down the drain. Susan P. Blackwell

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CRIME WATCH By Jerry Danzig

Unlocked and Unlucky Someone stole property from a man’s car. t 2 PM on Sunday, January 19, a 32-year-old man parked his Honda at the corner of Second Avenue and East 75th Street. When he returned to the vehicle forty-five minutes later, he found that a number of items had been taken from their location on the car’s front seat, including a Samsung laptop, a law book, a hearing aid, a passport, and a North Face book bag. None of the car’s windows had been smashed, and the man admitted to police that he might have neglected to lock the doors. The total value of the stolen items came to $4,360.

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Phony Phone Bill Another Eastside resident became the victim of identity theft. At 10 AM on Monday, January 13, a 67-yearold woman received a notice from a collection agency regarding an unpaid bill of $1,902 for an AT&T account that she had never opened in California.

A woman’s wallet was lifted on a cross-town bus. At 3 PM on Tuesday, January 21, a 61-year-old woman was riding on the M86 cross-town bus. When she got off to transfer to the Lexington Avenue subway, she discovered that her wallet was missing from her pocketbook. Her wallet had contained $200 in cash, two Visa cards, a New York State identity card, a Social Security card, and a Medicaid card. Fortunately, the woman canceled her credit cards before any fraudulent charges appeared.

Debit Hit Fraudulent transactions appeared on a woman’s bank account. At 1 PM on Wednesday, January 22, a 33-year-old woman was online checking her bank account balance, when she discovered evidence of fraudulent activity. $191.25 worth of merchandise had been purchased by unknown perpetrators at numerous locations. The woman was still in possession of the debit card that had been used for the unauthorized transactions.

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Even though the Super Bowl is being held at the Meadowlands, it’s hard for New Yorkers to get pumped about it. But at the very least, a local Super Bowl is worth a beer and a few minutes of television. So, where to watch the game? Butterfield 8 at 38th Street and 5th Avenue is the only Broncos bar in the city. Bartender Gavin Cunningham said they expect over a hundred people to pack into the front bar, in which case they’ll open up the back bar for the loyal dressed in orange. On most days, Butterfield’s is a classy - even refined establishment, with shimmering chandeliers and white linen tablecloths. But on Sundays, Cunningham said, the Broncos schwag - which they get directly from the team - goes up on the wall and all bets are off. “It gets pretty rowdy,” said Cunningham. “This past week we were fully packed.” Butterfield is doing a $50 unlimited Bud, Bud Light and wings special for the duration of the game - for $15 more you can get unlimited well drinks on top. For the Seahawks faithful, no bar in the city beats Carlow East on Lexington Avenue and 85th Street - if you can get in the door, that is. Owner Sean Spratt said they’re selling $100 tickets via PayPal for an all-you-can-eat-and-drink-6 p.m.to-midnight-bonanza, with the first tickets being offered to a core group of Seattle transplants that have been coming to to Carlow East every Sunday for years. Don’t despair though, the bar is teaming up with

McSwiggan’s at 2nd Avenue and 23rd Street to handle the overflow. The two together are temporarily changing their names on Super Bowl Sunday to the Hawk’s Nest East and the Hawk’s Nest South. Spratt said about six years ago, a group of Seattle fans reached out to the bartenders at Carlow East looking for a place to call home. “We embraced them, and it’s been a Seattle-New York love affair ever since,” said Spratt. For Alan Murphy, a regular at Carlow East going back 15 years, the atmosphere is unbeatable. “Seahawks fans are great, they’ve really done Seattle proud,” said Murphy, who’s become a bit of a Seahawks fan himself in the past year, setting off a minor scandal among his peers. “It’s going to be hard for me to go back to Big Blue next year.” Murphy, who owns Salon V on East 7th Street, is even offering a gameday $20 Seahawks coloring job for the hardcore fans who don’t have a job. So from our point of view, you can either cry into your beer at your hole on Su Super Bowl Sunday, or you ur usual can become a Broncos/Seahawks fan for a day Broncos/ and chalk it up as a win - because there’s always next year.

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Auerbach hasn’t yet had a single bite on this property. Auerbach blames his lack of success with AirBnB, in part, on the website itself -- and, curiously, not on the price tag he has put on his property. “I don’t have a high success rate,” he says. “I think because they filter communications, it’s hard to do business. A lot is lost in feeling out the renter - you lose human contact so you can’t judge a person’s caliber. One thing I look for is level of education and you can’t feel [a person] out using all your senses.” Auerbach said he has no intention of lowering the price to draw hits and is still hoping for a bite for this upcoming weekend. Gordon (not his real name), who frequently rents out his four bedroom apartment in SoHo, has been using AirBnB successfully since November of last year to rent his apartment in a prime Manhattan location. He receives many requests from couples as well as the occasional girls’ weekend trip. Typically Gordon will price his property at $600 a night for weekends and $500 a night for weeknights. When seeking out Super Bowl pricing, he saw a similar four bedroom apartment in Union Square asking for $25,000 for Super Bowl week. “That seemed high to me,” explains Gordon, “but I figured I’d start there.” He raised the price to $5,300 a night for the Super Bowl. Like Auerbach, Gordon wasn’t getting any bites at his asking price. He ended up lowering the price to $11,000 for a full week. “I think that’s a pretty reasonable price, if you break it down per person,” he says, adding he’d lower the price again but hopes he won’t need to. Gordon also inflates his prices around Christmas and New Year’s.

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Kathleen Gaffney, also on the Upper West Side, listed her property on Craigslist and notes, “the most interesting thing is [she] hasn’t had a legitimate inquiry yet.” Gaffney rents her apartment, which sleeps five people, so she explains this is more like subletting. “I heard from friends and around the neighborhood that the city’s hotels were booked and visitors were paying top dollar to rent apartments during Super Bowl week/weekend,” says Gaffney. “I already had plans to go away so I thought I’d give it a try.” At press time, several Manhattan hotels still had rooms available for the weekend, but for steep prices. The Hilton Times Square is going for $619 a night, the Westin Times Square for $685, and the Marriott Marquis for $999 a night. While we were unable to find anyone on the Upper East Side willing to comment on the process, a search on both AirBnB and Craigslist reveals no shortage of listings in the area, many of which advertise the Super Bowl as a major draw. One three-bedroom apartment at 81st St. and 2nd Ave. (11 miles from MetLife Stadium in New Jersey) lists its asking price on Craigslist as $1,250 with a three-night minimum. It also lists a “party package,” which promises discounts and connections to NYC nightlife. Unlike AirBnB, Craigslist does not require pictures, something that might keep potential renters at bay. James, who is listing his 73rd. St. and 2nd Ave. apartment on AirBnB, calls it “the ideal SuperBowl weekend spot.” His Upper East Side apartment sleeps up to five people, and his thorough listing includes a full weekend itinerary for potential guests. James’s listing has received five out of five possible stars on AirBnB by past renters. He’s asking for $1,120 per week, though his apartment remains unclaimed for the Super Bowl weekend.

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Jaywalking Crackdown Doesn’t Phase New Yorkers Amid a rash of pedestrian deaths in the city, the police are upping their enforcement of jaywalking laws By Mary Newman Most New Yorkers ponder the consequences of jaywalking about as often as they contemplate the advanced physics of movement – in other words, they don’t think about it, they just do it. But errant street-dashers may need to reconsider their technically illegal crossings. So far in January 2014, the number of jaywalking citations issued by the New York Police Department is already five times higher than the number issued in January of 2013. The increase is likely due to the recent spate of pedestrian deaths in the city, four of which were on the Upper West Side in the past two weeks. Three of those fatal accidents occurred at the busy intersection of 96th Street and Broadway. Traffic police flooded this location last weekend, issuing 18 jaywalking citations and only 5 traffic tickets, according to The Wall Street Journal. Among those ticketed was the 84-year-old Chinese immigrant Kang Wong, who recently made the cover of the New York Post after being aggressively restrained by the NYPD when he did not understand why he was being ticketed. Mayor de Blasio has faced recent criticism over the jaywalking crackdown. The mayor has addressed the issue of pedestrian safety recently, stating, “There is no larger policy in terms of jaywalking and ticketing and jaywalking – that’s not part of our plan. But it is something a local prescient commander can act on if they perceive there to be a real danger.� Caroline Durham One busy Saturday afternoon we staked out intersections York. I see people going 50-60 mph on the streets, so it would on the Upper West Side to talk to New Yorkers about their be a real investment of resources to both change the behavior jaywalking habits. of pedestrians and drivers.� The increase in citations has made city residents more aware The sudden spike in jaywalking tickets has caught many of their jaywalking tendencies, although most admit that it will New Yorkers off guard, and some are even unsure of what it not change their habits of ignoring traffic lights. Upper West means to jaywalk. Side resident Caroline Durham said, “It is very easy to get into “I think people are unsure of what jaywalking actually is, your own zone, you’re not looking around, and become very if it’s crossing the street with out the light, or walking in the unaware of what is around you. I’ve made that mistake, BROOKLYN BRIDGE ANIMAL WELFARE COALITION, LINDA’S CAT so that’s why I know.� ASSISTANCE & NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA Although many New Yorker’s admit to jaywalking, they don’t believe that ticketing pedestrians so aggressively is the answer to -B.B.A.W.C increasing safety. 1 Astor Place (btwn 8th & Broadway) “It’s not just a matter of * $%! - - , jaywalking, it’s also a matter of drivers who don’t observe [the speed limit],� said car ' ' # ) #( -L.C.A owner John Hutchinson. New York, NY “Most people don’t know that - , it is a 30 mph limit in New Like us on AnimalLeague.org

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middle of the street,� said Upper East Side resident Eva Ramos. Most New Yorkers, from residents to politicians to cops, seem to be unified in the goal of bolstering the safety of pedestrians. The debate lies in what will be most successful without disrupting people’s daily routines. An effective compromise might mean sharing the blame equally between drivers and pedestrians. It also means educating everyone on safety practices. Photos by Mary Newman “I was surprised to learn that because of the rarity of jaywalking enforcement, some younger New Yorkers were mistaken in their belief of what actually constituted jaywalking,� said attorney Gerard McCloskey. “An educational campaign could remedy that and alert pedestrians that police will be enforcing the jaywalking restriction.� Scott Gastel, a spokesperson for the Department of Transportation, said that their department does not have control over what citations the NYPD gives out, but said that the DOT will be employing new safety measures. “We are developing a proposal with pedestrian safety enhancements for the intersection of West 96th St. and Broadway, and will present it to Community Board 7 on Thursday [January 30th],� Gastel said. Advertorial

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That Doggie In the Window A state ban on puppy mills makes life uncomfortable for Manhattan pet stores By Joanna Fantozzi

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Every Thursday night, the protestors line up in front of CitiPups in Chelsea, handing out fliers to passersby, their chants of “Stop Puppy Mills� drowning out the faint barks of the puppies romping in the window. This small band of protestors has been demonstrating, pretty much every week, in front of CitiPups for almost two years, claiming it has evidence that the store gets its dogs from puppy mills. CitiPups, in turn, has sued the protestors, claiming defamation and slander, saying the weekly vigil hurts business. “They thought I was just going to roll over and dance for them, but I will not sit back and let these people lie about us,� said David Jacoby, the manager of CitiPups. “Look, we hate puppy mills, too.� The battle in Chelsea – pitting store owners who claim they are doing the right thing against protestors convinced they aren’t – could soon multiply across the city, thanks to legislation recently passed in Albany. The puppy mill bill, signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and co-sponsored by Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal, would allow local municipalities to regulate pet dealers, meaning that New York would have more teeth to crack down on pet stores.

First, though, both sides need to agree on what constitutes a puppy mill – a definition that isn’t entirely clear-cut. According to the ASPCA, the definition of a puppy mill is “a large-scale commercial dog breeding operation that places profit over the wellbeing of its dogs—who are often severely neglected—and acts without regard to responsible breeding practices.� Photos circulating on the Internet, playing on Humane Society commercials and plastered on protestors’ poster boards show dogs’ legs with flesh rotted to the bone and sickly puppies recently freed from shut-down facilities. But what about a breeder like Donna Dailey who supplies dogs to New York pet stores like CitiPups, and according to USDA inspections (the agency overseeing pet farms), has had zero violations in the past three years, despite having over 100 dogs and puppies at her facility in Missouri? She may have passed the tests of the inspectors, but her facilities are unquestionably large-scale. Jacoby at CitiPups says he is in touch with other pet stores in the city about their breeders, and claims to know where at least 75% of the puppies are coming from. “And it’s not puppy mills, these are reputable breeders,� he said. Dana Derraugh, who owns the Chelsea Kennel Club and used to be co-owner of Le Petit Puppy on Christopher Street, echoed that view, claiming that most pet stores in New York get their dogs from reputable and ethical breeders. “Just because I’m a pet shop doesn’t

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mean I’m a puppy mill,” said Derraugh, whose own yorkie was her bridesmaid for her second marriage. “After 30 years in the business, I can smell a puppy mill from a distance. Healthy puppies are happy, plump and bright-eyed. Pet stores are safe, and it’s actually usually people who buy from online breeders who are in trouble.” Michael Feldman, an organizer of the

weekly protests at CitiPup, doesn’t buy it. “In New York City, I would say 100 percent (of the pet shops) get their dogs from puppy mills, and probably 99 percent nationwide,” said Feldman. “In puppy mills, dogs are forced to breed two or three times a year, and they don’t care whether the puppies are healthy or not because it’s a for-profit industry. Pet stores are in the business of selling puppies as products.”

Despite pet-store contentions that their dogs come only from reputable breeders, there nevertheless are dozens of negative Yelp reviews online for pet shops across the city, including CitiPups and Chelsea Kennel Club. “They assured me the pups were not from puppy mills but now I am convinced I was LIED to!” says one CitiPups reviewer. A Chelsea Kennel Club reviewer said, “The vet cleared this dog for sale for the pet store

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owner, and now we are dealing with having a sick dog and a $4,000 surgery that we may have to pay for.” When asked about these negative reviews, Jacoby said puppies, like people, can get sick, no matter where they come from. Derraugh had a similar take on the negative reviews. “If the dog gets sick, it doesn’t make him a puppy mill. It’s a natural thing that they get sick, because puppies are fragile,” she said.

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NY Times Hunter, The Saddest Smartest School Around Elite East side high school ranks last in happiness study By Adam Janos

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intense, but never cutthroat competitive. “I’m in law school now, and when I was applying I’d hear stories that at some law schools, people will rip out the relevant pages from the library books so other people couldn’t read it. It was nothing like that,â€? Friedman says. “At Hunter, there was a lot of cooperation: people were sharing notes, people were copying homework.â€? Still, Friedman notes that there was limited sunlight in the classrooms (the students refer to the building itself as “the brick prisonâ€?), and advises current Hunter College High School students to, “go to the park during lunch. spend some time in the courtyard.â€? Other alumni are less glowing in their reviews of the Hunter community; Sachi Ezura, class of ’04, remembers high school as one of the most difficult times in her life. “One thing I remember, is that everyone would go home and write in their Xanga or their Livejournal [online blogs]. And this one kid, all the popular kids used to pass around his blog‌ people reveled in each others’ sadness.â€? Ezura herself spent considerable time in the nurse’s office when she would get upset, and she notes that in her class’s yearbook, there’s a drawing of her crying on a page entitled, “A Day in the Life of the Senior Class at Hunterâ€?. Michelle Kang, class of ’02, thinks a large part of the stress was related to the high pressure of the school combined with the inherent stress of living in New York. “I mean, you think all the typical things American kids get to do in high school: driving around, going to football games‌ I was in the middle of this dense, dirty place, trying to catch a train.â€? Kang has since moved to Seattle, and is getting her master’s degree in architecture. Still, all Hunter alumni seem to agree that the experience, however painful or enjoyable, was indispensible. And when asked, all maintain that their closest friends in adulthood are people they met while at Hunter. “I think if people can step away from [the academic pressure] and appreciate that this is the time in your life when you’re surrounded by the most intelligent, special people, that there’s a lot to be gained by that,â€? Benjamin Axelrod, class of ’02 says. “It’s a really good group.â€?

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long ago. The side not often heard above the rallying cries of well-meaning preservationists, however, is that of the actual church or synagogue members. The landmark process, meant to protect and preserve historical assets that theoretically belong to everyone, can sometimes end up displacing the very people who hold the actual deeds to these properties and destroying the community that resides within the building in order to preserve its facade. On the Lower East Side, a well-known synagogue is hoping to avoid a landmark designation that some in the community are eager to obtain. The Town & Village Synagogue on East 14th Street has occupied a building for decades that has been technically calendared (meaning that a vote was already taken to schedule a hearing) by the Landmarks Preservation Commission since 1966, though a hearing was never Continued on page 8

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being on Madison Avenue, but they look empty inside,� she said. “For people who live in Manhattan and live in the neighborhood, it’s kind of destructive because it doesn’t really space. An employee at another Jackson Hole serve them anymore.� location said the Madison Avenue restaurant Businesses being priced out of the would be moving, but she didn’t know where neighborhood is not a condition unique to or when the move would take place. Carnegie Hill, and not every co-op in the But whatever the reason, it’s clear there is city will be able to increase their retail space a small-business exodus from Carnegie Hill. rents. Under the new law, a building must Kooby said his store was the last holdout on pass one of three criteria in order to keep their a block that once had many staples of life in federal tax benefits, which include valuable New York - a butcher, a hardware store, an tax deductions; a co-op must either meet the art gallery and a cobblers, in addition to the original 80-20 requirement, spend at least 90 recent businesses that have left. percent of their revenue toward things that “Everybody is gone,� said Kooby. “At this will benefit tenant-shareholders, or commit at point I’m not going to start something new, least 80 percent of its total square-footage for that’s how it is. I’m ready to retire.� residential use. One of his employees, who gave his name Nevertheless, real estate experts and as Khem, is originally from Guyana and has brokers have hailed the regulation change as a worked at Blacker and Kooby for 30 years. tremendous benefit to co-op buildings, which Like his boss, he’s stoic in the face of the store can now entice buyers with low-maintenance closing. apartments and, in some cases, actually offer a “I had a good 30-year run. It’s happening dividend to property owners drawn from the all over the city, we’re the last guys in this rent they charge ground-floor retailers. neighborhood,� said Khem. “I’m going to take But federal tax regulations and real estate some time off and do some travelling.� boons aren’t important to Carrie Doyle, who Kooby’s daughter, Vanessa, has taken over grew up in Carnegie Hill the printing side of the and now lives nearby with business at 1390 Lexington her family. For her, the Avenue. Blacker and Kooby physical change in the will still offer custom Really, how many neighborhood is as heartinvitations and stationery, Duane Reades, Chase breaking as it is striking. as well as engraving, Banks and Starbucks do “I spent my childhood letterpress printing and we need?’ eating plates of greasy calligraphy, at that location. french fries at Jackson Hole Still, she said, it’s the end of Carrie Doyle, former Carnegie after school, and ordering an era. Hill resident buttered bagels from Green “Fifty years is a very Tree deli, and buying long time, our customers suitcases at Moormends are practically crying and school supplies at Blacker and Kooby. For at the register,� said Vanessa Kooby. “The the past few years my sons have been doing chain stores are creeping up Third and the same,� said Doyle, 41. “Carnegie Hill was Madison, Lexington is really where all always a neighborhood - a sweet, safe, and the smaller businesses are going, and the happy community tucked in a little pocket on smaller businesses are really what makes our the Upper East Side. Now, all the mom and neighborhood our neighborhood. Otherwise, pop shops are being swept away and we’ll be you could just go live near a strip mall in New left with rows of chains. Really, how many Jersey.� Duane Reades, Chase Banks and Starbucks do Many of the stores, she said, look empty we need?� during the day, and are probably on Madison Avenue simply for the status that such an Do you have thoughts about the changing face of address confers. “They don’t seem to mind if the Upper East Side? Email editor.ot@strausnews. they don’t compensate for their rent because com and your comment could be printed in Our I guess they get some kind of externality Town next week. Priced out of Carnegie Hill Continued from page 1

Kickstarter, which helps artists fund their creative pursuits through public monetary pledges. The Kickstarter campaign, which began on September 16, has been slowly making its way to the $50,000 green-light goal. If the full amount isn’t pledged by a October 21 deadline, the parade won’t get any of the funds. Fleming said that compared to the hundreds of thousands of people who have attended and enthusiastically supported the parade over the decades, “the Kickstarter response has been lukewarm.� As of press time, the campaign had raised $41,975 from 732 backers, and five days left. The $50,000 collected this year will go to investment insurance for the businesses and individuals who donated last year but did not get a parade. Before this new digital venture, support for the parade came in the form of sponsorship from companies, businesses and TV licenses, as well as from grassroots-level funding such as children selling cookies or restaurants donating food. Recently, the Greenwich VillageChelsea Chamber of Commerce, which represents small businesses in the downtown area, announced that the Rudin Family Foundations and the Association for a Better New York will give a $15,000 matching fund if the parade Continued on page 8

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Anti-Homesickness Strategies • Stay busy. Doing a fun, physical activity nearly always reduces homesickness intensity. • Stay positive. Remembering all the cool stuff you can do at camp keeps the focus on fun, not on home. • Stay in touch. Writing letters, looking at a photo from home, or holding a memento from home can be very comforting. • Stay social. Making new friends is a perfect antidote to bothersome homesickness. Talking to the staff at camp is also reassuring. • Stay focused. Remember that you’re not at camp forever, just a few weeks. Bringing a calendar to camp helps you be clear about the length of your stay. • Stay confident. Anti-homesickness strategies take some time to work. Kids who stick with their strategies for five or six days almost always feel better. Originally printed in CAMP Magazine, reprinted by permission of the American Camp Association.

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Your Child’s Health at Camp How to ensure your little one stays healthy this summer By Linda Ebner Erceg, R.N., M.S., P.H.N. Letting go means different things to families. Growth. Independence. Opportunities. No arena is more challenging for parents than entrusting their child’s wellbeing to others. We have our medicine cabinets brimming with bright Band-Aids® and children’s cold medicines, not to mention the ready hug and kiss when the need arises. So, what’s a camp to do? A look at what camp health professionals are talking about helps parents prepare for a child’s camp experience.

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The Camp Health Form — What Happens After You “Stick Out Your Tongue” The camp health form provides the perfect opportunity to assess the overall state of your child’s health and growth. Preparation should include parents reflecting on some of the following: • Growth and development (physical, intellectual, emotional) • Eating and sleeping habits (changes are important, too) • Recent illnesses or injuries • Immunizations (also note travel, especially outside the U.S.) • Fitness • Behavior • Family life adjustment or challenges • Puberty and other developmental issues A thorough exam by a pediatrician or family practitioner prior to a camp session allows you to take the necessary steps to

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Something is Making Me Sneeze — Allergies and Asthma Children’s health profiles are best described as moving targets. Allergies, both mild and severe, can exhibit themselves for the first time at camp or be exacerbated because exposures at camp vary from those experiences while at home. Parents need to get the assurance from camp staff that they are prepared to address these symptoms if they occur, as well as the procedures they follow. Camps offer a rich profile of activities

for children, and given various health concerns, parents are advised to carefully select a camp for their child with this in mind. Children who have asthma, for example, aren’t necessarily a good match for a camp emphasizing scuba diving or rock climbing, while a strong pioneer or crafts program at another camp may be a perfect fit for their child. Parents will want to learn what accommodations camps can make for health issues while at the same time presenting a range of activities appropriate for their camper.

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communicate fully with the camp’s health-care staff. The physical is also a chance to update that very important health history.

Communication is a Two-Way Street

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Camp directors and health-care staff are eager to discuss the health concerns and needs of campers. Armed with your own observations and information from your child’s health-care provider, you can ask the right questions and provide the information that creates the most positive experience for your child. Families with children experiencing chronic health problems may occasionally forget to share some of the routine care instructions — second nature to them, but unfamiliar to camp nurses and staff. This also is a major step in assuring that your child will not be marginalized because the staff is unprepared to smoothly integrate medicines or treatments into the camp routine. Have a management plan in place before your child begins camp and determine how the camp will communicate that plan to its staff. Another area of concern for camp professionals is a child’s exposure to health risks from traveling, particularly outside the U.S. Again, sharing this information about travel previous to camp will lead to a more

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Emotional and Psychological Wellness For campers with diagnosed psychological challenges or in cases where parents are unsure about a child’s behavior, parents need to talk with the child’s professional care provider and assess whether the child is a good risk for camp at this stage. Just as a pediatrician needs information about the camp under consideration, so, too, does the child’s mental health practitioner. A shorter-stay camp, for example, offering a two-week stay, has a very different skill set profile for campers than one offering a longer-term stay. Day camps offer another option for parents to consider — maintaining a familiar routine at home to balance the challenges of a program filled with new faces and new activities.

Stress Happens — Even at Camp! Sometimes in our rush for community and togetherness, we forget that contemporary children are often used to solitude, and, may, in fact, need quiet time and space to reflect on their day. Providing a child with a clock radio with headphones or a CD player tucked under a pillow may allow your son or daughter to

decompress. Ask the camp director or camp health-care provider about opportunities for private time. Maybe the camp library is the perfect place — or a sheltered outdoor spot away from the fray of games will provide the quiet and restful area that your camper may seek. Talking with your child ahead of time reassures both of you that camp can and does accommodate many different personalities and needs while offering a wealth of activities to share.

Camp — Designed for Healthy Living When we think about it, camp practices what parents and health professionals are always preaching: be active, get up off the couch, turn off the TV, stop snacking before meals, listen to others, cooperate, eat a variety of foods, sleep well. It’s a nearly invisible set of rules that makes a world of difference. At camp, we believe that enthusiasm for a healthy life is, in the best sense, contagious! Linda Ebner Erceg, R.N., M.S., P.H.N., is executive director of The Association of Camp Nurses, as well as health and safety coordinator of Concordia Language Villages in Bemidji, Minnesota. Reprinted by permission of the American Camp Association.

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Preparing for Group Living Be consistent. That’s one of the most important maxims of parenting. But wait! At camp, we ask children to turn some rules upside down: share bunk beds,

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Gadgets, Great Outdoors Can Co-Exist

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1. Rely on technology to plan or inspire outdoor adventures. This can include anything – from finding great nearby hiking trails to interactive, outdoor treasure hunts. 2. Keep a record of outdoor experiences with the help of electronic photos, videos or an electronic journal. They’ll love the ability to share their experiences with family and friends. 3. When safe and practical, take hand-held devices outdoors to combine the best of both worlds (just remember to plan for some fully unplugged time outside, too).

4. Use tools such as Ubooly, an appbased learning toy that can turn a walk in the park into an interactive experience with activities such as scavenger hunts, nature hikes, mindfulness games and plenty of exercise.

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A new National Wildlife Federation (NWF) report shows that kids’ media habits can both positively and negatively impact health, and provides real-world advice to help parents serve as positive role models and teach children to use technology in moderation. “Kids need to be outside all year long, especially in the winter when days are short and we’re all a little more cooped up than usual,” said Maureen Smith, chief marketing officer for National Wildlife Federation. “In addition to developing a deeper appreciation for the outdoors and the wildlife around them no matter where they live, it helps them burn off energy, stay fit, and be mentally focused for school, homework and all activities in their busy day.”

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Advancements in technology over the last decade have children spending more time with gadgets and gizmos, and less time enjoying the great outdoors. In fact, kids are now indoors up to 10 hours a day, according to the Joan Ganz Cooney Center. But kids’ increasing use of technology and opportunities to appreciate Mother Nature do not have to be mutually exclusive. You don’t have to take away the electronics to lure your little ones into some greenery. There are dozens of games and apps designed for phones and tablets that are designed to get your kid outside and immersed in nature. Apps like the Audubon Society’s North American bird fieldguide, and one called Leafsnap, which helps catalogue different leaves kids find, encourage users to glance at the screen but also go hunting through the woods for things to collect and learn about. There are apps and programs with star gazing charts, hiking trails, animal identifiers and lots of games for all ages. Children can also easily record photos and videos of what they find outside, and will hopefully get inspired to step in front of the camera to exlore while they’re out shooting.

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The Bottom Line About Camp Costs Ask the right questions to understand the true price of camp Parents know that camp is an experience that will last a lifetime. However, they may worry about the cost, especially if there is more than one camp-aged child in the house. The good news for parents is that there is a camp for just about every budget. While fees to attend camp vary, they can range from $75 to over $650 per week for American Camp Association-accredited resident and day camps. Parents may also reduce the costs by asking the right questions. When talking with the camp director, parents should ask the following:

• What is included in the tuition?

• Are special discounts available?

Day camps will typically include transportation as part of their tuition. Resident camps may offer limited transportation, such as a van ride from a major local train station. Other amenities to ask about are fees for special programs and trips, laundry service, camp canteen, special equipment that is required and service organization membership. Also, ask the camp director if it is appropriate to send spending money with your child.

Often, camps will offer special discounts for such things as early registration, full-season enrollment, and enrollment of multiple family members. If more than one special discount applies, parents may only be able to take advantage of one. The ACA camp database provides parents with many ways to find the ideal ACA-accredited camp. For more information, visit ACA’s family-dedicated Web site, www. CampParents.org. Reprinted by permission of the American Camp Association.

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• What is the refund policy? Refund policies vary greatly from camp to camp. Some refund for illness only, some will give a total refund prior to certain date, and some don not refund at all. Most camps will ask for a small non-refundable deposit at the time of application, which may or may not go toward the cost of tuition. It is important to know the refund policy before you send any money.

• Is there financial assistance available? Many camps offer camperships, which is a partial or total subsidy of the tuition costs, but parents need to ask if they are available. Although they are usually awarded based on need, don not assume that you make too much to qualify. It is important to apply early.

Valley Forge Summer Camps are as special as the school itself. Located on the campus of Valley Forge Military Academy & College, campers grow, discover new abilities, and develop friendships that will last a lifetime. Filled with exceptional, exhilarating, and exciting experiences like horsemanship, marksmanship, mixed martial arts, sailing and SCUBA training, our camps have become the talk of the town! We offer a fun and safe environment where 9-17 year olds can build self-confidence and leadership while trying new and exciting challenges and skills with counselors and campers from around the block – and around the world. Our fitness program will challenge your camper like they have never before been challenged. When they complete our camp successfully, their self-image will improve and their confidence will begin to grow so that they can face the challenge of their high school years positively and successfully.

DWIGHT SCHOOL SUMMER CAMP With customized programs for children ages 4-13, we offer an extensive range of sports, and visual and performing arts activities to “ignite the spark of genius in every camper!” Swimming, basketball, fencing, martial arts, soccer, tennis, video game design, 2-D and 3-D art, music, dance, yoga, circus arts, and much more will make it the best summer ever! Based on age and preference, campers can customize their day. We have day trips for younger campers and overnight trips for older campers. With color wars, theme days, and all the challenges and fun that camp brings, Dwight offers you the choice of two, four, and eightweek sessions to match your family’s summer plans. Headquartered on the Upper East Side, we provide chaperoned stop-to-stop bus transportation throughout Manhattan, as well as pre-camp and after-camp activities, for additional fees, to meet the needs of busy parents and extend the day for your child. 917.551.6430 www.dwightsummercamp.org

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THOMAS SCHOOL OF HORSEMANSHIP For the first time ever children from Manhattan can experience Thomas School of Horsemanship Summer Day Camp in Melville. Thomas School is located on 33 beautiful acres in the heart of Long Island. This year there will be central pick up locations in Manhattan for transportation to camp. Give your children the total camp experience plus an extensive horseback riding program. Campers enjoy Red Cross Swimming twice daily, a full gamut of sports including soccer, lacrosse, basketball, volleyball, tennis, gymnastics, TaeKwonDo, Yoga and a full arts program with Zumba, acting and art. In addition, campers have daily riding lesson, horse care an older campers get to take their “own” horse. All these activities are adapted for boys and girls ages 3-15. For 70 years Thomas School has been connecting children with horses. The life skills that horses teach children about respect, compassion, communication, trust, confidence are so powerful. Today, Thomas School is serving a second generation of campers as alumni are now sending their children. Let your children enjoy the open spaces that both children and horses thrive in.

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When he started Our Victory Fred Tunick wanted a camp where each child could grow, by “creating value” in their lives. A place where acceptance and nurturing, would encourage the growth of ego and self esteem. Calling upon his experience in Special Education (1963-1997), as a Speech Pathologist, Child Study Team Chairman and Special Education administrator, he developed a program where “Each Child Could Achieve Success, Regardless of Ability.” Where traditional day camp activities, could be geared to the needs of each summers population. This is accomplished by: 1 Utilizing mature staff working in or currently studying special education and/or related fields. (Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language, Social Work, Counseling etc.) 2 In addition to the group staff, five Specialists, with knowledge of our population, provide Art, Sports, Music, Drama and Movement. All activities are geared to the needs of each season’s population 3 Small groups of nine with three staff members per group and a maximum enrollment of 63 campers. 4 All prospective campers have an intake interview to determine if the program is the right one for them. 5 In May, Parents submit a detailed “needs” history, including school, psychological and social information and a photograph. Pertinent information about each child is then shared with the entire staff prior to the first day of camp. With this approach, the staff is familiar with each campers needs on the first day and allows for the start of a successful summer experience. Parent: “Thank you, a million times, for the amazing, wonderful, happy, place that OVDC is. I have never seen him so happy and eager to explore each day, with so many friends and adults that can see his special qualities. He has already informed me that he will be returning until he is 13. Thank you for being special people with a very special staff.”

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CAMP RAMAQUOIS Camp Ramaquois, “A day camp as complete as sleep-away camp”, situated on 44 acres in nearby Rockland County. Only 30 minutes from the George Washington Bridge, via the Palisades Parkway. From adventurous activities to creative arts to athletic activities, boys & girls, ages 3-15 experience a traditional day camp program filled with a variety of stimulating activities. Facilities include group bunks, a 5-acre crystalline lake, 8 heated swimming pools, a splash park, tennis, basketball & volleyball courts, hockey rinks, ball fields, soccer fields, a petting zoo, horseback riding, special events & much more. Optional Adventure Trip Program for grades 4-10. 10th Grade Leadership Program Mini Day for 3 & 4 year olds (Pre-K). Many air-conditioned buildings. Visit us at www.ramaquois. com or call 845-354-1600 for a personal tour. PAGE 17

It’s Not Easy Being Green How camps help children care for the earth Daily life in the city can make getting “back to nature” hard for any family. Yet experiencing the outdoors helps children gain enhanced abilities to learn, lead, and experience contentment, as well as gain a lifelong interest in caring for planet earth.

A Toad or a Frog? Parents who want to be sure their kids know a toad from a frog and a catfish from a crawfish don’t need to go it alone. Camp programs are among the best ways for children to get to know first-hand a very important family member — Mother Nature. Take James, for example. Despite being included in many family travels, James and the natural world had only a passing acquaintance, and his parents were wise enough to send him into the woods for camp. “We have a little potato patch down by the river, and the kids can catch a trout in the river and dig up potatoes and bring them back to camp, learning what it’s like to live off the land,” explains Sandy Schenk, owner and director of Green River Preserve camp

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of Cedar Mountain, North Carolina. “When James’s parents came to pick him up at week’s end, he dragged his duffle bag across the parking lot, gave his mom and dad a big hug, and fished out his prize from camp,

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a huge potato, and gave it to his father. He was so proud. This was a first — he made a connection between the earth and food, and you could just see the light bulbs turn on.” Almost all camps incorporate hikes and nature activities, and some go an extra mile to immerse kids in nature and the environment. Green River Preserve is one such camp. It specializes in helping gifted children better understand the earth through daily activities with professional naturalists on a 3,400-acre nature preserve. “We find that getting kids into the natural world is transformational,” says Schenk. “Nature’s a magnificent teacher because everyone is treated the same. Pushing yourself is something that happens naturally in the out of doors. And when you see kids helping each other over a slippery rock wall, it’s amazing. We see each child come out of the program with a greater understanding of nature and better sense of self.” Eagles’ Nest Camp of Pisgah Forest, North Carolina, has been teaching kids to take care of their natural world for decades. “In our Explorer’s Club class, kids are out in the woods, streams, and bushes, really getting a feel for the amazing biodiversity of the Northern Appalachians,” explains Noni WaiteKucera, executive director of Eagle’s Nest Foundation. Eagle’s Nest also sponsors camp craft classes, helping children learn to read a map, build a fire, and leave no trace. Even an earth art class uses items found in the forest for woodland sculptures, which campers then leave behind to biodegrade and contribute to the health of the forest ecosystem.

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Environmental programs don’t always take place exclusively in the outdoors. Enter the kitchen! The Whole Kitchen program uses holistic ingredients, fresh foods, whole grains, and local produce. “We grind our flour from wheat berries, and the kids make the bread,” Waite-Kucera says. “It’s all a way to show how nature provides for us, and why we need to return the favor.” Sometimes, a camp’s location can provide built-in environmental lessons. At Windsor Mountain (formerly Interlocken), camp life centers around a small farm and camp garden nestled in the foothills of New Hampshire on the edge of a 4,000-acre nature preserve. “We offer kids a chance to get their feet wet in the morning dew, to feel the grass under their feet, to lie down in the field and look up at the stars. Our activities help them understand how Mother Nature is delicate and why we care about helping to protect her,” says Sarah Herman, director of the camp.

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Five Planet-Friendly Ideas • Start a recycling program at home. Call 311 to find out what what can be recycled, and then research what happens to the recyclables. • Save 3-5 gallons of water when you brush your teeth — no need to keep the water running. • At the store, consider the packaging — is it disposable or reusable/recyclable? • When cleaning, choose rags that can be reused after washing. • Plant a tree in your backyard or neighborhood — help keep the air clean. Many block associations sponsor tree pits and kids can sign up to keep them free of weeds and litter.

Art and Nature Campers harvest vegetables from the garden for the salad bar and help take care of the farm animals. Children with a special interest in nature also can go directly into the marsh to learn about its animal habitats, into the woods to create natural art, or on a bog-wading ecological adventure. For older youth, off-campus trips can take campers backpacking, mountain climbing, rafting, and more — all with an eye to building awareness in the natural surroundings. Some campers even take environmental skills into their own communities. “One of our campers who enjoyed our garden wrote to tell us that he’s volunteering his time to a community garden project,” Herman says. It’s that kind of love for nature that camps of all types can foster. “We feel like we’re opening a door for many of our campers, so they can enjoy natural parks and wildlife preserves for the rest of their lives,” says Schenk.

Doing What Comes Nature-ly According to Camping Specialist Gary Forster of YMCA USA, camps are an ideal setting for creating environmental awareness in our children. “Children seeing animals in a natural setting for more than just a day and understanding how their choices have an impact on all systems of life is just the beginning. From awareness grows an appreciation, and from that standpoint, we see children who are ready to act.” Reprinted by permission of the American Camp Association.

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Chelsea Church going and Theater-hopping Atlantic Theater Company’s season of newness By Phyllis Workman

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reek theater grew out of a religious festival so it’s fitting that the Atlantic Theater Company’s home in Chelsea uses that former neighborhood church as the locus of plays concerned with, in a classic theater company’s motto, the deepest questions about morality and performances that show the relationship between mortals, the gods and fate. As Shakespeare wrote, quoting the Greeks, “The Play’s the Thing,” and Cheseaites know it well. The Atlantic Theater Company’s current season turns its neighborhood-friendly space into a cosmopolitan theater temple with five new premieres. Ethan Coen’s first fulllength play Women or Nothing has already premiered. Next up is Stephen Adly Guirgis’s new play Between Riverside and Crazy about New York apartment renting--a perfect topic for Chelsea. Another premiere, Nancy Harris’ Our New Girl is scheduled, this “psychological thriller” promises to address “the darker side of parenthood.” Two special events are also upcoming: choreographer-director Martha Clarke’s visionary interpretation of Brecht and Weill’s The Threepenny Opera, addressing age-old and urgent moral and musical questions for a new century. There’s also urgency in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, a new production of the Alan Sillitoe book and play, this time adapted by Britain’s new breakthrough playwright Roy Williams, whose colloquial dialogue that The London Times has called “Crisp and bespoke: motives are mixed, nobody is a hero, nothing is black and white.” Now in its 28th year, The Atlantic Theater, founded by playwright David Mamet along with William H. Macy and 30 New York

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Atlantic Theater Company at St. Peter's Episcopal Church University acting students in 1985 works out of two Chelsea locations. There’s a 99-seat Stage 2 space known as a black-box theater at 330 West 16th Street (Sigourney Weaver walked through its doors the day CityArts visited). It’s where the Company’s new plays are developed. But the Company’s main stage for performance and public entertainment is the Linda Gross Theater, a 165-seat space at 336 West 29th street. The Gross occupies the parish hall of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church which was built in 1854 then was Desanctified and renovated. Since then, what began as the Atlantic Acting school in1987, operates as both a private conservatory and an undergraduate program in conjunction with the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. It’s a local venue but its goal is worldwide.

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Touring the Gay Ghetto Stranger by the Lake is a pathological murder mystery By Armond White

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he full-frontal male sexuality in Alain Guiraude’s Stranger by the Lake occurs at a gay nude beach in France. This location, surrounded by hilly woods and a parking lot, puts gay cruising rituals on display as well as explicit sexual acts-ejaculation, fellatio, copulation-shown with matter-of-fact frankness. Yet this film is anything but a realistic work. Despite the lavish, widescreen concentration on natural exteriors and woodsy, aquatic environmental sound effects, everything’s carefully arranged to accommodate a murder-mystery plot. Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps), a bland, boyish, middle-aged blond, focuses on the lithe, tanned, slimhipped Michel (Christophe Paou), Franck and Henri in Stranger by the Lake a dark-haired Tom Selleck-type, and becomes even more fixated when primary theme. His bluntness about gay male sex habits and he witnesses Michel drown a lover in the waves at night. The desires are part of an audio- visual schematic; he unveils a mystery of Franck’s erotic attraction to death is Guiraude’s subculture that has recently become more mainstream--or at least more widely acknowledged. The cruisey beach setting of assorted gay types suggests a behavioral grid--including bi-curious divorce Henri (Patrick CHARENEE WADE D’Assumcao), a burly Gerard Depardieu-type who cagily Vocalist pursues Franck through casual conversation. The murder investigation by a local police inspector (Jerome Chappatte, who resembles Jean-Luc Godard) provides cursory suspense while analyzing that grid—it implies a critique of how social authority ineffectually responds to the mysterious, uncontrollable impulses of gay male sex. Many critics have superficially likened Stranger by the Lake to Hitchcock and although the element of erotic threat resembles Hitchcock’s Suspicion and Rear Window, Guiraude’s beach is really Francois Ozon territory--the sexual obsessiveness that the ever-adventurous Ozon, student of Cocteau and Fassbinder, has lately surpassed. (Ozon’s In the House was a 21st century Rear Window and a more satisfying film than this.) Guiraude began as a student of Godard demonstrating an estheticized sense of humor in his 2001 medium-feature That Old Dream that Moves, where his prankish ellipses observed

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the private thoughts of laborers assessing their working conditions while contemplating a strike. Stranger by the Lake’s tour of gay sex habits is also full of ellipses, surveying psychological games within gay men’s amatory pursuits-various, private needs from physical release, love-of-danger, to simple fraternization. Guiraude’s analytical style is not enhanced by the murder-mystery plot; if anything his bravura frankness, including the unnervingly quiet primal murder scene (like Leave Her to Heaven) drags gay film progress back to the pathological closet of Gregg Araki’s aberrant feature, the self-loathing Mysterious Skin. The Police Inspector’s investigation suggests the potential for social assimilation and regulation through solidarity and compassion. But then those hopes are cruelly, doubly dashed-a nihilistic turn that prevents Stranger by the Lake’s subculture from integrating into the moral universe. Integration is what Ozon learned from the example of Fassbinder’s films that argued for the stabilizing universality of queer emotion. In Fassbinder’s masterpiece Querelle, the interior (imaginary) gay world was seen with more rigor, passion and depth than Guiraude’s leisurely, outdoorsy, out-of-the-closet tour of a spiritual ghetto. Follow Armond White on Twitter at 3xchair

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Over-acting-Out August: Osage County bashes red states and Chekhov By Armond White

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s the film version of August: Osage County finally, mechanically winds down, it reveals playwright Tracy Letts’ goal: His unoriginal view of domestic squabbling goes from warmedover Edward Albee to room-temperature Chekhov in a scene where three adult sisters Barbara, Karen, Ivy (Julia Roberts, Julianne Nicholson, Juliette Lewis) discuss frustrations regarding their gorgon, pill-popping mother Violet (Meryl Streep). It’s staged as a classic three sisters confab like in Cries and Whisper but Ingmar Bergman knocked your eyes out, here director John Wells fixates on drab ordinariness as if revealing shattering truth. Wells’ pretense is the most laughable thing about this unfunny movie which the Weinstein Company is trying to sell as an edgy comedy. Letts’ superficial drama toys with death, suicide, incest, greed, jealousy no differently than a sitcom but heavy-handedly. (This damn thing even begins with a T.S. Eliot quote, the same one Morrissey wittily turned into a threnody in The Smiths’ “The Queen Is Dead.�)

At first I enjoyed watching the actors say theatrical dialog (Streep’s voice has never been deeper, harsher, sharper but she’s still over-acting up a storm and Julia Roberts’s anger hold interest then stays the same). But Letts’ theatrical conceit--a profane version of Chekhov no better than corn pone Beth Henley--becomes offensively shallow. “This madhouse is my home� Barbara snaps then complains “I can’t perpetuate this myth of family.� Letts and Wells must think this cynicism is new. It not even up-to-date. Todd Solondz’s ingenious examinations of Jewish American self-reproach (Storytelling, Palindromes, Life During Wartime, Dark Horse) go into ethnicity and then deeper. Letts is stuck at the sophomoric level of his semi-educated characters who speak of “Gordian knots� and a teenage druggie-savant describing life as “A random selection of cells� but lacking Solondz’s understanding that such nihilism is redundant and risible; Letts intends pathos. And then there’s crazily sentimental music-indie mush, sub-Philip Glass piano arpeggios-and even an Indian-ex-machina played by Missy Upham whose here just to contrast the loopy racist white folk. At least when William Friedkin directed Letts’ Bug and Killer Joe he kept things moving; this film is weighed down by its theatrical dialogue--the only thing going for it. Letts and Wells congratulate their own crabbiness by alluding to “the spiritual

affliction of the blues.� August: Osage County is titled ridiculously as if documenting some phase of sociological history (another Red State denigration) but this story of selfdevouring Okies has nothing in common with the soulful laments of the blues--or even

authentic Country & Western songs. Letts’ b.s. would make Merle Haggard vomit without drinking. Follow Armond White on Twitter at 3xchair

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Lively Still Lifes Daniele Marin’s various techniques combine at Noho Gallery in Chelsea By Joe Bendik

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t NOHO gallery, Daniele M. Marin is showing her new series of still-lifes entitled “Interaction”. Marin examines her association with this medium and explores various eras of art history. Indeed, there appears to be references to James Ensor and traditional still-life along with more contemporary art. Re-contextualizing the form by juxtaposing images gives a fresh approach to the works. Marin calls these works “Still Life Painting Installation” as she considers the gallery walls themselves to be part of her art. Instead of traditional hanging, the paintings are grouped together as “Interactions”, where they appear to have “conversations” with each other and the viewer. Through Marin’s use of a variety of techniques, the viewer’s eye travels among the canvases as different shapes begin to transform in their narratives. A bottle can lead to a lampshade. An opaque vase is fleshed out to almost blur into the background. Some of these pieces border on Abstract Expressionism These paintings are deceptively complex and layered. There is no way to receive all of the

information at first look. There is a depth to these works that is spellbinding. Images one might pass by at first glance become dominant upon further viewing. Born in Paris, but living in America, Marin studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn (where she received her MFA). One can sense the European roots meet American sensibilities. Utilizing a universal form such as the still-life, Marin creates her own unique language. Within that structure her works contain elements of both balance and mystery. Daniele Marin’s “Interaction” at Noho Gallery 530 West 25th Street through February 1.

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Restaurant Grades The following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s website on December 13, 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.

PanAme has flown under the radar since opening this past summer By Joanna Fantozzi

New Dragon Town Of Manhattan

2030 3 Avenue

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Asian Gourmet

1509 Lexington Avenue

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El Nuevo Nazareno 2002 3 Avenue Bakery

Grade Pending (26) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. 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 non-food areas. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Indo-Pak Halal Restaurant

2173 2 Avenue

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The Green Bean Cafe

1413 York Avenue

Grade Pending (18) Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, crosscontaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Eats

1055 Lexington Avenue

Grade Pending (21) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or nonfood areas. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Pita Grill

1570 1 Avenue

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Crumbs Bake Shop

1418 Lexington Avenue

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Ottomanelli N.Y. Grill

1424 Lexington Avenue

Grade Pending (20) Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, crosscontaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.

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Rumor has it, if you want to open up a French restaurant in New York, you should consult with Bernard Ros, who has owned and operated seven restaurants during his decadeslong tenure in the New York City restaurant business. “The first thing I will say to you,” said Ros with a distinguished French accent, “is to not do it. But if you are serious about it, then we can talk.” Two years after his prior restaurant closed, Ros has opened up his new Art Decoinspired French bistro, PanAme, this summer on 2nd Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets. The cozy space, with a simple but modern menu is nestled between the tall, modern glass buildings of midtown East. Ros’ last restaurant, Meli Melo on Madison, never quite took off, and had a smattering of reviews, ranging from lukewarm to negative. The restaurant closed after it was damaged by a fire. Ros sought monetary reimbursement from the landlord in a lawsuit. Although Ros is modest and relatively tightlipped about the people he has helped over the years, he said that he has seen a former busboy open and run a successful French bistro, and he has seen people with years of experience close down. He is also brutally honest with people who consult with him. A 27-year-old young man from France who had owned a vineyard wants to open a restaurant on the Upper East Side with no prior experience. Ros tried to steer him away from the spot and toward midtown, but he didn’t listen. The young man’s restaurant never got off the ground. “A good product and a good price will help you make it,” said Ros. “It doesn’t matter if you have the best chef in the world, if you have the wrong menu in the wrong neighborhood, it won’t work. I don’t believe with sticking to one formula. I am open to change.” Ros will be following his own advice and hoping for the best with this new place. With an informal education in French culinary cuisine, Ros is not the typical restaurateur or head chef. He is there seven days a week, running the restaurant, shopping for

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ingredients and tasting the dishes that come out of the kitchen. At his current place, he even busses the tables. “It’s very important to be there for each plate, to me that’s not business it’s dedication,” said Ros. “If you want to see the chef, I am here. At restaurant groups, you never see the chef. You ask for him and he is opening up a new place in Chinatown.” The menu at PanAme is classically modern French with simple dishes. Ros says the most popular dishes right now are the fish and steak chop. He is not trying to do anything trendy or groundbreaking for sure: his crème Brule, he assures his customers, is made with real cream, “not half and half ” he says with mild disgust. And his succulent and tender salmon is simply coated with spices and lemon. The trick, he says, is to start with the quality product: the chicken, fish or steak, and to pay attention to sealing in the juices so that the meat or fish is not dry. Just like his menu, Ros’ method of marketing and PR is no-nonsense and oldfashioned too. He scoffs at the likes of Yelp, Zagat and Open Table. In fact, despite the restaurant having been open for six months, only a couple of TripAdvisor reviews, one Yelp review and two blog posts can be found with a quick Google search of PanAme. He believes that asking the phone company for a number that is easy to memorize, and in going with a red and white awning to stand out, will go further than a high Zagat score. “Zagat says ‘they’ liked the service or the décor, but who is this ‘they’ and what do they know?” said Ros. “I don’t think this place will ever have a problem filling up.”

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NEIGHBORHOOD REAL ESTATE SALES Reported January 20 - 26, 2014 Neighborhood Neighborhood Beekman Carnegie Hill

Lenox Hill

Address

Apt.

Sale Price

188 E 76 St.

#5E

$857,500

#3A

$250,000

BR BA Listing Brokerage

444 E 52 St.

#8D

$566,000

1

1

City Connections Realty

509 E 77 St.

#5Bb

$1,350,000

2

2

Corcoran

130 E 75 St.

#2E

$1,650,000

3

3

Kleier Residential

130 E 94 St.

#3C

$495,000

1

1

Heddings Property

40 E 78 St.

#6E

$2,583,750

1

2

Corcoran

130 E 94 St.

#9D

$475,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

200 E 74 St.

#7A

$750,000

1105 Park Ave.

#9D

$3,750,000

2

2

Brown Harris Stevens

404 E 76 St.

#5B

$739,000

1

1

Corcoran

1165 Park Ave.

#14D

$3,900,000

3

2

Stribling

923 5 Ave.

Multi

$6,200,000

1185 Park Ave.

#14D

$6,550,000

4

4

Stribling

215 E 73 St.

#5D

$150,000

60 E 96 St.

#6C

$695,000

2

1

Brown Harris Stevens

301 E 79 St.

#26G

$780,000

1

1

Corcoran

123 E 88 St.

#5B

$360,000

1

1

Brown Harris Stevens

200 E 90 St.

#7H

$845,000

2

1

Douglas Elliman

118 E 60 St.

#12B

$670,000

200 E 90 St.

#28E

$1,112,500

2

2

Douglas Elliman

610 Park Ave.

#5A

$6,000,000

2

2

Sotheby’s International R

345 E 81 St.

#10G

$310,000

0

1

Douglas Elliman

200 E 61 St.

#35B

$1,450,000

1

1

Level Group

315 E 80 St.

#2K

$430,000

1

1

Saldo Properties

530 Park Ave.

#5B

$2,725,000

200 E 90 St.

#19D

$585,000

530 Park Ave.

#5H

$1,975,000

511 E 82 St.

#1E

$985,000

2

2

Halstead Property

Yorkville

1

1

Douglas Elliman

530 Park Ave.

#5A

$5,428,083

250 E 87 St.

#14C

$835,000

1

1

Edwards & Noble Proper

311 E 71 St.

#6G

$990,000

2

2

Corcoran

345 E 93 St.

#12B

$459,100

1

1

Citi Habitats

900 5 Ave.

#17A

$6,650,000

2

2

Stribling

206 E 95 St.

Multi

$4,587,407

530 Park Ave.

#5D

$7,500,000

213 E 88 St.

#4A

$292,500

1

1

Corcoran

315 E 70 St.

#11Q

$755,000

1

1

Coldwell Banker Bellma

340 E 93 St.

#12G

$400,000

737 Park Ave.

#5C

$8,795,659

3

3

Macklowe Properties

215 E 79 St.

#12A

$1,365,000

2

2

Warburg

55 E End Ave.

#1G

$358,900

1

1

Brown Harris Stevens

245 E 87 St.

Multi

$2,831,156

737 Park Ave.

#10B

$17,838,584

108 E 66 St.

#7B

$810,000

1

1

Rubicon Property

176 E 71 St.

#7C

$2,195,000

2

2

Douglas Elliman

575 Park Ave.

#1407

$2,050,000

359 E 68 St.

#7B

$1

530 Park Ave.

#16D

$7,568,437

330 E 70 St.

#4B

$462,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

#2903

$2,400,000

2

2

Peter*Ashe

117 E 57 St.

#27F

$650,000

0

1

Douglas Elliman

Murray Hill

240 E 35 St.

#2L

$365,000

1

1

Halstead Property

201 E 36 St.

#17C

$1,250,000

2

2

Akam Sales And Broker

137 E 36 St.

#9G

$830,000

1

1

Stribling

155 E 38 St.

#5D

$1,325,000

2

2

Corcoran

320 E 42 St.

#1012

$270,000

0

1

Halstead Property

330 E 38 St.

#39A

$1,109,500

1

1

Thrasher Real Estate

300 E 40 St.

#10G

$655,000

1

1

Noble Realty

225 E 34 St.

#2J

Upper E Side

Sale Price

415 E 52 St.

188 E 64 St.

Turtle Bay

Apt.

BR BA Listing Brokerage

Midtown

Sutton Place

Address

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$995,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

25 Sutton Place Sout #6N

$1,350,000

2

2

Corcoran

425 E 58 St.

#8H

$2,335,000

3

3

Warburg

420 E 55 St.

#5L

$440,000

1

1

Coldwell Banker Bellmar

425 E 58 St.

#41B

$2,575,000

2

2

Brown Harris Stevens

411 E 53 St.

#11J

$560,000

0

1

Douglas Elliman

2

2

Corcoran

400 E 56 St.

#9D

$715,000

100 United Nations

#15A

$1,550,000

212 E 47 St.

#18E

$849,000

1

1

Barkin And Associates

865 United Nations

#3E

$829,873

1

1

Halstead Property

301 E 48 St.

#11L

$435,000

1

1

Citi Habitats

216-218 E 47 St.

#20A

$960,000

1

1

Corcoran

145 E 48 St.

#19G

$775,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

255 E 74 St.

#14A

$5,075,000

4

3

Douglas Elliman

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Upper East Sider Amelia Meena started Appleshine to help with the daunting task of organizing our belongings By Angela Barbuti When you’re trying to stuff that last pair of jeans into an overflowing drawer, don’t you ever want to stop and just declutter? That’s where personal organizer Amelia Meena comes to the rescue as your own cheerleader, teacher, motivator, therapist, and interior designer all rolled into one. The 32-year-old started Appleshine to help New Yorkers with the daunting task of organizing, decluttering, and, ultimately, loving their homes no matter how large or tiny they are. When she’s not rearranging kitchens, she’s bringing donations to family shelters, or putting shoe racks over the doors of studios. As a child in Kentucky, she would always eagerly volunteer to organize her friends’ rooms. “Now, here I am living in New York City. I get to do that every day with these tiny apartments,” she said.

What does someone’s apartment say about them? We tend to judge people based on their space, saying, “You must not have your stuff together if you literally don’t have your stuff together.” Everybody has a right to express themselves at home how they’d like to, but my clients come to me when they realize their home is not expressive in the way they’d like it to be. There’s an interesting book called Snoop, by Dr. Sam Gosling. Through his research, he discovered that everyone assumes you’re a nicer person if your space is more organized. Whether it’s right or not, that’s not the point. The point is society really tells us how to judge people based on their space.

You said your dad always told you to live within your means. How do you apply that to apartment living in New York City? He taught us to live within our means mostly financially, however I took that to a broader scale. Think about what you have and how your life’s going to fit into that. A lot of times I bring up the point of capacity limits with my clients. For instance, I had a client who was recovering pens from all across her apartment. She kept finding pens. And she would have a huge wad of them and she’s like,

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“They all work. I don’t want to throw them away.” I said, “You probably have so many pens because you never designated a home for pens so you could not find them when you need them, then you have to buy more.” So if you can designate a home, that place becomes a capacity max. So say that it’s now a drawer in your kitchen. Those are where the pens live. But ultimately, if you go over capacity, then you have to scale back.

I’m sure you’ve been overwhelmed at times. What have been the most daunting places you’ve had to organize? I do my best work with people who want to work with Appleshine. The most daunting projects have been with people who aren’t ready to get organized. Someone put them up to it, or are in a circumstance, like a time crunch, or dealing with the loss of a loved one. They’re emotionally not ready, and it’s hard.

How do you help clients who are dealing with the loss of a loved one? A client’s mother had passed and she had a lot of her artwork. She was able to donate to a company called Art Start, which teaches art classes to homeless children in the city. It was very specific to her mother’s legacy.

Through your experience, what have you learned about why we hold onto things? I find that we hold onto them for a lot of emotional reasons. Memorabilia we’ll hold onto because our memory is attached to a physical item. We’ll hang onto it because of guilt - someone gave it to us or it reminds us of someone. And we don’t want to disrespect them by getting rid of it. A lot of people keep things for financial reasoning. They paid a lot of money for it at one point. And I use

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the counterpoint. This is an item you agreed to purchase at a price for its service and that service has likely expired. Even though it’s still a good item, those jeans no longer fit you or that shirt is no longer in style.

I have so many books. How do you deal with those? Books are tough because they’re another one of those very sentimental things. I’m a very tangible person; I love holding a book and turning the page. However, we just don’t need them in our lives extensively because they take up precious space. The New York Public Library has a decent return policy in some of their facilities. Children’s books are pretty easy to give back. There are great organizations that help gain books for correctional facilities. It helps promote literacy, empowerment, and education.

How can one incorporate sentimental items into everyday living? I have a breadbox that I got from my grandfather. I’m sure it has no monetary value, the veneer is chipping, but it’s something I remember from going to his home as a young girl. I have it on display and I use it. That makes me really happy. I have some clients who have their grandparents’ stuff and they just keep it boxed up. What if

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My favorite place to donate is to a family shelter. You can do research and find one in your neighborhood. Because they house men, women, and children, they have a need for a large variety of products. They’ll take clothing, toys, electronics, household goods. It’s a onestop shop and you know the goods you give are getting used immediately. Sure, you can take things to Housing Works or Goodwill, but they have a processing procedure and it might take a little longer. I’ve never encountered a family shelter yet that said “no,” but I always call ahead.

Since it’s almost Valentine’s Day, let’s talk about the interview you did about the concept of dating your apartment. Yeah, we did that [interview] last year with Apartment Therapy. It was about accepting your space for what it is. Just like we always tell our girlfriends, “Just accept him for who he is and don’t try to change him.” The same goes with your space, especially in New York City. We are very limited with space, it’s not going to change, so we have to accept it and work with it instead of against it. Even aesthetically, if it has quirks or design flaws, how can you make them work for you? If you only have one closet and you’re visual and inspired by your clothes, put them on display in your room on an open rack and use the closet for things that are less attractive, like paperwork. To learn more about Appleshine, visit www. appleshinenyc.com Follow Amelia on Twitter: @appleshinenyc

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