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NYPRESS.COM • THE LARGEST PAPER ON THE EAST SIDE • FEBRUARY 20, 2014
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The First Lady of the New NYPD Rikki Klieman, an accomplished attorney and actress and wife of Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, takes New York by storm By Megan Bungeroth It must take a lot to throw Rikki Klieman off her game. She won’t let a blizzard ruffle her any more than a crosscountry move leaving her dream job behind, or an unexpected return to public life as her husband once again assumes the top cop position in America’s biggest city. Klieman, 65, is married to William Bratton, who just became the city’s police commissioner, a job that he had in New York for two years in the ‘90s under Mayor Giuliani and for seven years in L.A., from 2002 to 2009. When the pair returned to New York after their stint in California, both assumed they’d regain a sense of privacy and normalcy, which they did, temporarily. “This is completely different, but I did it once before,” Klieman said of adjusting to her
husband’s new gig. She recalled that when the possibility of his taking the job first came up, they sat down together with a yellow legal pad and listed the pros and cons, a scenario indicative of how they make all their big life decisions – together, and with a mutual respect for each others’ career ambitions. “How selfish would that have been, not just as a wife but as a citizen of New York, to deny him this,” Klieman said. “The wife in me may have wanted him home and we could make angels in the snow today. [But] there is no better person than Bill Bratton for this job, and I’m proud of him, even when I’m exhausted.” Klieman’s own professional schedule is enough to exhaust most people. She splits her time working as an onair legal analyst for CBS This Morning, commenting on major cases that grab national attention, writing legal papers and a memoir, speaking to various groups of women leaders and attorneys, and snagging guest roles on TV shows and in movies. “From the age of four through about the age of 24, I thought the only thing on earth Continued on page 4
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Councilman Ben Kallos addresses a packed audience of Upper East Side residents at Holy Trinity Church opposed to the marine transfer station.
East Siders Rally Against ‘the Dump’ Hoping for a political shift in fortune, Upper East Side residents want to kill the 91st Street waste transfer station By Daniel Fitzsimmons A new report by a group opposing the construction of the waste transfer station on the Upper East Side claims that the city’s comprehensive waste management plan is deeply flawed --the latest salvo in a battle between local residents and a city that’s struggling to adequately deal with the trash it generates. According to the report by Pledge 2 Protect, an advocacy group, the city’s Solid
Waste Management Plan is “antiquated and focuses merely on waste transport rather than reducing and recycling waste.” The report also said that one of the city’s main arguments for placing the transfer station on the Upper East Side - equal distribution of sanitation operations throughout the boroughs - is misguided due to the proximity of a nearby NYCHA housing development and Asphalt Green, which serves thousands of Yorkville and East Harlem kids. Another cornerstone of the report is its assertion that the transfer station will not provide any relief to outer-borough streets burdened with trash-hauling dump truck traffic. “At its maximum permitted capacity, only Continued on page 10