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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

TAPPED IN Lappin lands at the Downtown Alliance Former East Side councilmember Jessica Lappin has taken a job as the president of the Alliance for Downtown New York, an organization that promotes businesses and services for residents in Lower Manhattan. In her time representing the 5th City Council District, Lappin helped push through the Cornell tech center project on Roosevelt Island and worked to lessen the impact of the 2nd Avenue subway construction. Lappin said she’s thrilled to join the Alliance. “It’s particularly exciting to be taking the helm at the Alliance at this point in the district’s history,” she said. “The transformation unfolding in Lower Manhattan is inspiring. Few places anywhere can boast of the constellation of game changing projects underway and nearing fruition. Lower Manhattan is an extraordinary place. Working on behalf of the area’s businesses, residents, workers and visitors will be an honor and a privilege.”

Lappin is replacing former president Liz Berger, who passed away last year. Her first day on the job was Feb. 10. “We are delighted that Jessica has joined us as the Alliance’s fourth president,” said Alliance chair Robert R. Douglass. “Jessica’s energy, policy acumen, skills as a persuasive advocate and track record of substantial accomplishments in public service will enable her to make important, lasting contributions to the future of Lower Manhattan.”

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR To The Editor: The argument by certain “pro-horse-carriage” individuals that carriage horses “would die” if the carriage industry were banned, is admittedly an entrapping one. Yet, it seems to me that it can be a matter of the lesser of two evils. If horses can be properly cared for and not overworked and if the horse owners and carriage drivers can be responsible about keeping away from very dangerous streets and cleaning up after their horses, and putting the health of the animal first (etc), then I don’t see why the horse-drawn carriage industry cannot continue. However, it seems a short-term vs. long-term argument when it comes to the question of “What Will Happen To The Horses?” If the horse-drawn carriage industry continues, particularly without the right humanepractice regulations, horses will continue to be bred to pull carriages, and probably a lot of them will end up killed after they no longer can pull a carriage. If certain horses died because the industry was eradicated, then sad as it is, it might have been their fate anyway. Lucy Martinez W. 43rd St Sales records are not required by the Department of Health if a carriage horse is sold outside NYC as most are. Horses can be sent to auction/slaughter with no accountability by the owners. The City and State bills that seek to ban horse-drawn carriages attempt to remedy this and assure that horses are not sent to kill auctions. NYC has provided lucrative conditions to carriage drivers to earn a living, giving them the opportunity to work in Central Park during the day and in many other tourist areas at night. In return, the owners should be required to be accountable for their horses when they are no longer wanted. There is a huge turnover of horses in the NYC carriage trade – 529 horses in 7 ½ years. With no accountability for their whereabouts – whether they are considered property or not – this is simply not right. Elizabeth Forel / President Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages Upper West Side

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More on Rikki ■ In 2004, Klieman published a

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that I wanted to do was be a serious actress,” she said. “I had some fantasies about coming to New York and doing Shakespeare in the Park.” While her training at Northwestern University and years of childhood acting classes had prepared her for the craft, the gruel of auditioning in the face of fierce competition sent her in search of another career. Floundering, she reached out to a professor who had taught her undergraduate class in constitutional pre-law. “In those days women were teachers, social workers, nurses, secretaries. There was no professional career path for women that we knew of at that point,” Klieman said. Her professor suggested that she try law school. She replied that “girls don’t go to law school.” “And he said, ‘no, but women do.’ Those four words forever changed my life,” said Kleiman. She turned her energy to building a successful career as a trial lawyer – “what else would an actress want to be?” – and worked as a prosecutor in Boston, first under John Kerry and later William Delahunt, who became a Massachusetts congressman. “My theater in the courtroom became worth for me so much more than outside the courtroom,” she said. She was able to draw on her acting training to become a dynamic force in the courtroom – which was sometimes on national display when Boston began broadcasting trials in 1981 – and that lead her to a job on Court TV. “I had the good fortune of going on as a guest commentator during the O.J. Simpson preliminary,” she said. “The Daily News did a review of the legal commentators in New York and I got a great review.” She began working for Court TV regularly. In 1998, she caught the attention of the Court TV executives, and was offered a job as a primetime host. It was the opportunity of a lifetime, Klieman remembers, but there was one problem – she had started dating Bill Bratton, and knew that the schedule demands might wreck their relationship. “I knew if I took that job that I was going to kill my relationship with Bill. I’d been married before, I’d always put my work first, and that was not going to happen,” Klieman said. She made the unheard-of decision to ask her boss for a daytime host job instead, a choice

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memoir titled “Fairy Tales Can Come True – How a Driven Woman Changed Her Destiny.” She had been asked for years to write books recounting famous cases she had prosecuted, but didn’t want to relive her most difficult trials on the page. When she decided to put her relationship with Bratton above her career, she knew that would make a compelling subject for a book. “This is the first time I have ever made a choice to put my personal life over my professional life, I never thought I’d do it,” she said. “I thought, ‘this is a book for women.’” Klieman said she has considered writing an updated version and re-releasing it. ■ Klieman has lived on the same street in Manhattan, the street she and Bratton live on in east midtown, three

that was much less common in the 90s, before professional women were daring to “have it all” and balancing a career with a personal life. “I thought that I was going to ruin the cause of women for eons,” she said. “I expected to be fired.” Instead, her boss agreed to compromise and she took the nighttime gig for a few months, then transitioned to a more manageable daytime position. She stayed at Court TV until 2002, when she moved to L.A. with Bratton, to whom she was married by then. It was a tough call to leave her perfect job, but the proximity to Hollywood allowed her to re-establish her acting career. She often played lawyers and judges and worked with directors who would rely on her realworld experience to bring authenticity to the parts, like when she played a lawyer opposite James Caan on the show Las Vegas. Now, back in New York, Klieman will still take on small roles – she played a court clerk in The Fighter and was thrilled when director David O. Russell asked and heeded her advice on making her part and the court scene as realistic as possible – and gets a helping hand from her husband in keeping it all together. “I give a copy [of my lines] to my husband and he has a responsibility that when we are in a car together going to an event, he will take out his script, and he will run lines with me in the car, he will run lines with me on the phone between appointments,” Klieman said. That’s just one example, she said, of

separate times during her stints in New York. She jokes that she loves the neighborhood for its relative proximity to Bloomingdales. ■ Klieman serves as a mentor through her alma mater’s Council of 100 program, an organization of Northwestern alumnae that serves young female students and recent graduates. She advises young women to be persistent in their professional pursuits. She recalls a woman who wanted to work for her law firm in Boston, who would send her a letter every month, even though there were no open spots. Klieman eventually relented to an interview, and the woman offered to work for 30 days for free to prove her value and seriousness. She ended up hiring her. “I really believe that persistence pays off ; you should never take no for an answer,” she said.

how the couple keeps their relationship thriving in the midst of two highpowered and demanding careers. “This thing that a marriage is a 50/50 effort does not sell for me. It’s 100/100,” she said. “[Your] life is important, but the others’ life is equally important, and if you communicate on a daily basis, there are times when each person understands that there are times when the other’s needs come first.” When they can carve it out of their schedule, the couple spends time together over dinner at their favorite Italian restaurants on the East Side, near their east midtown home, and La Mangeoire, a French restaurant on East 53rd Street and 2nd Avenue. “It’s just like you think you’re going to a country restaurant in France, it’s like going to Provence,” Klieman said. She also sings the praises of a local dry cleaner, Mme. Eleanor’s Cleaners, on First Avenue, where she has always brought her most prized pieces of clothing – like a beaded dress with a chocolate cake spill – for repair, even when she lived in L.A. In the midst of juggling her hectic life, Klieman still takes the time to mentor young women. Her most frequent advice to the next generation is to not let fear hold them back from pursuing their professional goals. “The world is out there. I’m just unafraid - maybe it’s because I was a young actress,” Klieman said. “Someone rejecting me is irrelevant to me, it’s not about me. If you’re not afraid of people saying no to you, you can do a lot.”

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Vanderbilt hosted its 2014 Annual Campaign Kickoff on Monday, February 10th. The Annual Campaign offers transformative programs in teen leadership, afterschool learning, work readiness, cultural assimilation and international exchange for New Yorkers. The kickoff began with Senior Executive Director, Anita Harvey giving a warm welcome to attendees. Then the Annual Campaign Co-Chairs, Justin Carroll and Allison Downing shared an overview of the 2014 campaign and detailed the $265,000 goal. Afterwards, the Talented and Gifted Y-Afterschool Kindergarten students put on a musical performance that brought smiles to the faces of those in attendance. Then teens, Rashaan Douglas and Kalifa Lanier gave moving testimonials of how the Y has changed their lives for the better, because of the Annual Campaign. Finally, a video presentation was shown displaying more examples of members who have faced hardships in their lives but because of the YMCA, overcame those challenges. The evening ended with friendship, food, and fellowship.

Full House Antiques, a consignment store on 3rd Avenue and East 80th Street, specialized in high-end furniture, brought in by local customers, with sales being split between customers and the store. At least that’s the way it’s supposed to work. An angry customer called Our Town last week after walking by the store, only to find it “room-swept clean.� A note on the door remained, with a phone number for information. Dialing the number goes straight to voicemail. The store’s website has also recently been shut down. “They had my stuff for over a year,� said the customer, who had been growing impatient, but didn’t want to be a bother. “I figured they were doing me the favor.� Eventually, the flustered customer received

a reply, letting him know that his belongings were in a warehouse in Riverdale. Full House was still trying to organize everyone’s pieces. There was no address given for the warehouse, nor a time-table for expected returns. It’s almost been a month and the customer still hasn’t received his items. Rumors have been flying and area businesses have been asked by passersby if they know what happened. “They’d been there for two or three years,� said the owner of an adjacent building. “Then one day, they had a bunch of moving vans come and take everything away. They pulled a quick one.� The move occurred in a single afternoon with no announcement that they were closing. According to David Kriss, the property’s landlord, the co-owner of the store suffered quadruple bypass heart surgery and was unable to keep up the high rent. “If people are concerned, they should go to the Department of Consumer Affairs,� Kriss said. Do you have a question about something in your neighborhood? Email us at news@strausnews.com with the subject line “What’s up with that?�

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1.6 percent of the city’s commercial garbage - and only 1.3 percent of the in-city truck miles - will be diverted to the [marine transfer station],� says the study. “This is not enough to significantly relieve waste-related traffic or pollution in the communities that currently house many of the private transfer stations that handle commercial waste.� The group also cited increased support for its cause in the form of Bertha Lewis, a fiery local activist who has Mayor Bill de Blasio on speed dial. Lewis is a co-founder of the Working Families Party, which endorsed de Blasio early on and has benefited from a recent windfall of political clout. De Blasio has voiced support for the waste transfer plan on the Upper East Side, and Lewis’ opposition is seen as a potent response to his position. “I said to Bill, ‘you know I love you baby, but it’s a new day. You’ve got to change this plan,’� said Lewis. “I like a good fight, and I’m so happy to be back in this fight.� Pledge 2 Protect hopes to provoke a response from the city with its report and an internal audit of the solid waste management plan that takes into account the effects of Hurricane Sandy. Political support is key, said Lewis and other opponents, if an audit is to be conducted that could eventually result in the plan being revisited. But political will to revisit the issue may be hard to muster, especially considering that newly elected Brooklyn councilman Antonio Reynoso - who was endorsed by council speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito - chairs the sanitation committee. Support among Upper East Side residents against the transfer station at East 91st Street is significant; locals packed the cavernous Holy Trinity Church on the eve of a major snowstorm last Wednesday to hear Pledge 2 Protect and local leaders talk about the new report and the status of their opposition. Lewis MC’d the rally, introducing Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Borough President Gale Brewer and State Senator Liz Krueger as her “sister-girlfriends.� All three spoke out against the waste transfer plan, as did Assemblymen Micah Kellner and Robert Rodriguez and Council Members Ben Kallos and Dan Garodnick. Fielding a question about who has the clout to stop the waste transfer station plan, Pledge 2 Protect president Kelly Nimmo-Geunther said the power lies with the mayor and the council, but that there are other ways to stop it. Maloney said she plans to introduce legislation that will prevent federal money from funding waste management facilities in flood zones. According to a map released last year by the city’s Office of Emergency Management, the proposed site of the marine

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transfer station is located within flood zone 1, which has the highest risk of flooding during a hurricane. Kellner said a lawsuit he launched against the Army Corps of Engineers, which was combined by a federal judge with a suit brought by Residents for Sane Trash Solutions, has a good chance of bringing a halt to the plan. According to Kellner, the Army granted a permit for the city to build the transfer station just 24 hours after receiving a large amount of data on the changing ecology of aquatic life in the East River. “There’s no way they had enough time to review all that data,� said Kellner. According to federal law, the Army Corps must grant permits for projects that could affect protected species, including those that Kellner said have recently moved into the East River. Initially the Army Corps used citysupplied data from 2003 on the ecology of the river. At Kellner’s urging, the city provided more recent data in 2012, which he said wasn’t properly reviewed. “That’s how we’re going to win this,� said Kellner. “I would love to hope that we’re going to convince the mayor and the city council to change their mind but every time we bring new data to them they seem to say, ‘that’s great, we’re moving forward.’� Kellner is also pushing residents to inundate the state DEC with letters urging them not to renew the city’s 5-year operating permit for the East 91st Street marine transfer station, the process of which is set to begin in the next few weeks. Asphalt Green Executive Director Carol Tweedy said that one good side effect of the snowy weather is that it’s slowed down the city’s construction of the transfer station. “We haven’t seen hardly any activity in the last two or three weeks, we know they’re not able to pour the concrete for the caissons unless the water temperature is above 35 degrees, it is not above 35 degrees at the moment, and it looks like it won’t be for a while, so this is a wonderful thing,� said Tweedy. “All in all we think they’ve poured about 25 percent of those caissons, we know they’re about four months behind their original schedule.� Tweedy said she’s heard through her role as chair of the advisory committee on the project that the city plans to finish within their original deadline, but she doesn’t know how. Regardless of the city’s bullishness on the issue, residents and local leaders opposed to the plan say nothing is concrete, as evidenced by buttons that were handed out with the slogan “It’s not a done Deal.� “It’s a done deal when we stop fighting,� said Nimmo-Geunther, to the standing room only crowd at last Wednesday’s rally.

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DeTocqueville Goes West Del Toro and Desplechin play postcolonial brotherhood in Jimmy P By Armond White

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movies. The sexless lunacy of PSH’s acting praised in so many selfserving obits explains why Del Toro is America’s most underappreciated great actor. A Hollywood version of Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian would cynically put Issues first-an America-centric interest in individual entitlement, struggling against social circumstances, equating healing with freedom and ego. French director Arnaud Desplechin, making his first U.S.set, English language film, works like a cinematic DeTocqueville, using wide-ranging observations to explore the story’s complexities. In lieu of a style that coheres events and emotions in the life of WWII vet Jimmy, Desplechin mixes several different approaches, coming at Jimmy’s biography from several angles: Flashbacks and metaphors combine with straight-forward scenes of Jimmy’s debilitating headaches and occasional blindness. His confessions and dialogues with French-Hungarian Jewish

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Misty Upham and Benecio del Toro in Jimmy P anthropologist and therapist Georges Devereux (Mathieu Almaric), assigned to investigate and resolve Jimmy’s psychosomatic ailments, further elaborates the main story into many. Desplechin’s aggravating method digresses rather than focuses, ruminates instead of defines. There’s intellectual grandiosity to his forays (art, theater and film allusions) and yet a guileless dedication to what creates Jimmy’s predicament: postwar experience as a veteran, a racial minority, a male perplexed by sex, ethnic tradition, and the need for love, family and community. All are shown alongside Devereux’s own idiosyncrasies romancing married woman Madeleine (Gina McKee) and as a scientific outsider with identity issues. But Jimmy P isn’t as methodical as its title suggests. Desplechin’s process develops from the style of French New Wave films like Truffaut’s The Wild Child and Alain Jessua’s Life Upside Down, humanistic essays about the vagaries of personality and socialization. Desplechin replaces the poetic brevity of those films with vain absorption in his own process which

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always extenuates his storytelling. Jimmy P’s tangents create a narrative puzzle that contradicts the banality of psychotherapeutic problemsolving. Not the French traditionof-quality like his overrated A Christmas Tale or the glib nihilism of his also overrated Kings and Queen yet that’s essentially what happens. Treating Jimmy as a case-study is no better than the obvious do-gooder intentions of raceproblem pics Pressure Point, Home of the Brave, Cry Freedom, Let There Be Light or even Michael Cimino’s Thunderheart. Desplechin’s narrative affectation gives the superficial appearance of innovation. It’s for filmgoers who like to muse and loiter rather than think or feel. The duets between Del Toro and Almaric let two good actors harmonize in different styles (intense introspection, manic exuberance) which becomes an additional narrative embellishment. Del Toro and Almaric converse as if translating their humanity through linguistic, cultural and class barriers. Jimmy speaks as an eternal alien from the reservation while Devereux plays both Tocqueville

and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s descendant: “I didn’t help Jimmy because he was an Indian but because it was in my power to help him. It was between two men of good will looking for common ground. Sure we are different, all men rejoice differently, but still we should all sit down to Gods banquet.” Jimmy P is a mess of good intentions, artistic pretense (Malickstyle vistas of the American west inhabited by ostracized Natives) and compelling acting (DelToro’s marvelous concentration, Misty Upham’s graceful benevolence as Jimmy’s wronged true love). The film’s confused liberalism downplays the sanctimony that poisons recent movies about America’s race history. Yet Desplechin’s method isn’t as strong as cinema’s best accomplishments of compassion and brotherhood--whether the modern colonial consciousness of Renoir’s The River or its New World development in Altman’s Kansas City. Desplechin’s penchant for questioning scientific routine as merely an attempt to understand and control mankind’s mysteries (“Sometimes we have scars on the body, sometimes there are scars on the mind, too”) dodges experiences that Americans know first hand. Madeleine’s smiling summation “You put the soul in the heart, the heart in the mind, and the mind in the body and the body in the person, voila!” exposes Depleschin’s pseudo-scientific lack of craftsmanship. And yet, this may be his best film. Follow Armond White on Twitter at 3xchair

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Emmanuel Ax and Anne Sophie von Otter

A Beacon of Civilization Anne Sofie von Otter in recital with Emanuel Ax By Jay Nordlinger nne Sofie von Otter, the Swedish mezzo-soprano, gave a recital in Carnegie Hall, which is not unusual. What is unusual is that she was accompanied by a famous concert pianist, Emanuel Ax. They did a program that was all-Brahms, almost. Von Otter included one song by Tor Aulin, a Swedish composer from the late 19th century, and the early 20th. She likes to tip her hat to her native country. Von Otter and Ax also performed a new work by Nico Muhly, the American composer. Otherwise, it was Brahms, including some solo piano pieces. Von Otter sat discreetly behind the piano while Ax played. We heard four piano pieces and about 20 songs. Many of these songs were sad, of course. Last month, I interviewed Christa Ludwig, the great German mezzo-soprano (born in 1928). She spoke of her love for these sad Brahms songs for low voice. Once, her brother-in-law, an American, said to her, “Christa, can’t you put one happy song on your program, just for me?” Like Ludwig, von Otter is a great singer and a great singing musician. She is tasteful, smart, cosmopolitan, poised. She is a rare combination of education and innate

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musicality. In this latest recital, she was secure in every sense. She knew how she wanted to sing, and she had the technique to follow through on it. She sang in very clear German, although German that was never overenunciated. In singing a song, she always told a story. Ludwig told students in a master class, “A song is an opera in one minute.” In Brahms’s “Sommerabend,” von Otter was gentle, exquisite, like the song. In “Ständchen,” she did some marvelous caressing—caressing of caressable notes and words. Sometimes, she was perhaps too subdued in a song. (In “Trennung,” for example.) But she unquestionably knows how to swing. She has long favored American jazz. And in Brahms’s Zigeunerlieder, the Gypsy songs, she swung. I will now ask the terrible question, “How is she aging?” (Von Otter is nearing 60.) There is less voice than there once was. But she still has plenty, and there is no wobble or other serious sign of wear. Moreover, she does not try to compensate for a reduction in sound with hamminess, or overinterpretation, which is a temptation to singers. The pair gave us two encores, both by Brahms, of course. I thought for sure they’d bid goodnight with the lullaby, “Guten Abend, gute Nacht.” But von Otter sang a wonderfully jokey song from the Deutsche Volkslieder, and that was it. I will say again what I have said over the years, and decades: Anne Sofie von Otter is no less than a beacon of civilization.

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This exhibition is both subtle and brilliant. Think about the macro-story in simple terms. Frohawk creates a giant tale where the White colonialists are dependent on the Brown Natives, an underground army, if you will, of street-wise mercenaries whom the Whites depend desperately in their battle for Empire and dominance. These portraits then both celebrate the bravery, treachery and lives of a revolutionary army and remind us that there is a completely contemporary parallel to this grand narrative. We live in a society that is both fearful and celebratory of what is called “urban culture.” The tip-off is a drawing entitled “Paid advertisement for the Bartica Liberation Brigade.” It depicts a handsome couple, a man and a woman snuggled together, he, proudly holding a pistol in the air. Reminiscent of a Black Panther poster from the 1960’s or a defiant piece of street art, daring the authorities to act. Either way, it boldly promotes the possibility of revolution in a Colonial society. Frohawk hits it hard and once you’ve gotten this message then the entire body of work morphs yet again into a new narrative. A narrative that questions all of our notions about race and power and history in America, this is an exhibition that delivers on its promises--and then some. Frohawk Two Feathers’ “Heartbreaking and Shit, But That’s the Globe. The Battle of Manhattan” through March 1 at Morgan Lehman Gallery 535 West 22nd St. 212- 2686699 http://www.morganlehmangallery.com/

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rohawk Two Feathers is re-writing American history. In his current exhibition at Morgan Lehman Gallery, “Heartbreaking and Shit, But That’s the Globe. The Battle of Manhattan,” he has re-imagined the conquest of North America from a very different point of view than what you were taught in grade school. Exquisite drawings done in the style of 18th formal portraiture depict a radically new narrative of American history. In Frohawk’s America the European colonialists, residents of “Frengland” (an alliance of the historically opposed colonial empires of France and England) have gone to war with “New Holland.” Both sides have formed constantly shifting allegiances with local Native tribes. Rather than the expected portraits of White Colonialists the works in this show portray various characters of the Native army. Both men and women are posed in a formal, somewhat stiff manner, yet the drawings pulse with life and excitement. An elaborate narrative accompanies each drawing, a back-story of each character and the role they play in this grand parade of faux history. The show works on two levels. If one wanted, you could simply walk through the gallery looking at the drawings (and several faked “artifacts”) and enjoy them for their virtuosity. The artwork stands well on its own. On the other hand, with a little time and your reading glasses you can dive into the strange and elaborate narrative that threads all of the work together. It is a totally engrossing, logically consistent story about empire building, conquest and the ways in which we create mythology from history. Now here’s the kicker: the drawings, as mentioned, are based on formal portraiture. They are beautifully painted in acrylic and ink on coffee and tea stained paper, which gives the works a faux ancient look. But as you draw closer you notice that the Native Americans portrayed, though in period costume bear all the markings of contemporary urban life. Tattoos, on their faces, necks and handssome reminiscent of gang tags, some filled with longing for a loved one. This device fast-forwards the work immediately into the present--right now--and adds yet another level of complexity to the narrative.

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ovie history is short (106 years and counting) yet Alain Resnais’ special place in it is apparent in his 1968 film Je t’aime, Je t’aime showing at Film Forum (Feb. 14 to 20). More than 50 years since his feature-length debut Hiroshima, Mon Amour, Resnais has continued an innovative, serious-art approach to movies, overcoming many different fads, failures and successes with such masterpieces as Last Year at Marienbad (1962) and the breathtakingly inventive Muriel (1964). Like Godard, Resnais has outlasted the peak, competitive years of European cinema, still playing with cinematic form and the intricacy of the mind and time. Still on top, Resnais’ past three films Private Fears in Public Places (Coeurs), Wild Grass and You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet are the most daring, adventurous and entrancingly beautiful movies so far this century. Critic Stuart Lee memorably cited You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet as “Heavy to wear but gorgeous like a Chinchilla coat.” That assessment recognizes Resnais’ esthetic richness and emotional profundity--both still evident in the Film Desk’s reissue of Resnais’ light, ready-towear Je t’aime, Je t’aime. Often described as science fiction, Je t’aime, Je t’aime (1968) is actually, in uniquely Resnaisian terms, an intellectual love story: A suicidal publisher Claude Ridder (Claude Rich) takes part in a scientific experiment to go back in time where he relieves his amatory past and inconsolable mourning for a lover Catrine (Olga Georges-Picot). Irredeemably geeky film critics insist on categorizing the

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artistry of Je t’aime, Je t’aime in familiar generic terms--as if it trod the same territory as Computer Chess or Shane Carruth’s Prime and Upsteam Color. Resnais looks higher: the scientists who submit Claude to experimentation as if he were a lab rat are too narrow-minded and boyish to see the romantic tragedy that obsesses his soul and memory. Je t’aime, Je t’aime takes a droll approach to Resnais’s experiments with time and consciousness, as if teasing his own hyper seriousness. But the constant experimentation with montage has a purpose: kaleidoscopically viewing all sides of a sexually adventurous but morally perplexed man’s existential dilemma. As the pathologically resigned Claude lies sedated in the scientists’ plush cell (womblike interior and testicular exterior), his memory literally takes him back into his past but his spirit awakes. It’s one of those infernal French movies that can’t help examining masculine privilege and its regrets, which puts Je t’aime, Je t’aime into an entirely different genre than what superficial critics claim. It is a tragic romance, droll yet touching in the same way that Rich’s performance goes from hollow to heartfelt (while Georges-Picot, alas, is but one Rich’s charming if typically sexy femme fatales). Recently, comparisons have linked this film to Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I prefer seeing connections with Shane Carruth’s attempt to explore modern pathological thought in Upstream Color; Resnais is as aware of man’s guilt and self-loathing, but he doesn’t succumb to easy nihilism. The title Je t’aime, Je t’aime is like a Chinchilla coat: it clues viewers to the profound warmth--the essential human need--that is at the root of Resnais’ artistry. The drollery here replaces Resnais’ usual flash and luxe but spiritual confrontation gives it substance. Follow Armond White on Twitter at 3xchair

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Intervention, and the lessons of Philip Seymour Hoffman By Bette Dewing Know someone whom you desperately want to quit drinking or smoking or using illicit drugs or doing other destructive behavior? Then don’t be silent. And don’t believe that dangerous but prevailing notion that the drinker, smoker, drug-user, etc. must really want to stop the defeating behavior before they can be helped. Believe instead that there is a real RX out there called intervention which really does work – not always, and may need repeating. But when you consider the alternative. it has to be tried, not to mention, publicized. Naturally, this longtime concern is raised by the wallto-wall coverage of 46-year-old stage and screen actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman, found dead in his Greenwich Village apartment with a needle in his arm. But in all the vast media coverage, little was said about any intervention effotts by family, friends, and colleagues, including those in recovery groups, when they knew he had recently relapsed. And how doubly tragic for this to happen after those so commendable years of being clean and sober. I might add that his family of orgin, mother,father and four siblings, were rarely mentioned as his survivors. Mostly we heard and read, “He is survived by three young children and their mother, his partner of 15 years.” That partner and he were recently separated. And because I’m writting this on Valentine’s Day and all the coverage is about couple love, may I just inject the ignored fact that family of origin love is often the most enduring, selfless and irreplaceable kind of love, and needs equal time and status with couple love. The February 9 Times article , “His Death, Their Lives,” was about the sorrow and shock of members of recovery group meetings where Hoffman had been active. But they worried most about possibly

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relapsing even after years of being clean and sober. Most will not relapse, and my concern is how little coverage these self help-one-anther groups get and that members find it a truly good way of life. And imagine the relief of those who love them - if ever stories need to be told. The A&E TV Intervention series was dropped after eight years in 2013. It was one reality show which had the potential for good, showing family and friends helped by an intervention professional to get their loved one into treatment for drug or alcohol dependence. Not a good sign that the show’s ratings dropped while the likes of “Housewives” continue to attract. For a fee, the Freedom Institute (212 -838-0044) in Manhattan teaches intervention skills to famlies and friends of the chemically dependent. Of course, nobody described the process as well as Betty Ford, who put intervention on the map. And current First Ladies would do well to read this former First Lady’s 1986 book, “Betty, A Glad Awakening.” They might then consider that while smokng and obesity damage the body, they don’t shut down the braain’s judgement like alchol and drugs do. Indeed all policy makers, including clergy, should read this book and also attend open meetings of A.A. and other 12 Step recovery group meetings. For information about various recovery meetings, call 212-647-1680. Incidentally, the Cocaine Anonymous meeting held at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church on Wednesdays at 6.PM was once featured in a N.Y. Times piece which also felt 12 Step groups should not be so anonymous. And oh how intervention, in general, needs to really “get out there” to solve so many human dilemmas, especially, but not only troubled relationships. Silence is often not golden. dewingbetter@aol.com.

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Camps Speak an International Language Some American camps are teaching international language and customs By Linda Grier Pulliam There’s a passionate debate going on — whether men and women should share childrearing responsibilities — even if it means the father sometimes stays at home. Native American, Nigerian, Kyrgyz, Israeli, Bosnian, Azerbaijani, and American teens each express their points of view. And it’s only 9 a.m. at the Global Youth Village, a leadership camp for adolescents thirteen to eighteen. Stepping into Waldsee, a visitor is immediately immersed in the German– speaking cultures of Europe, complete with Alpine huts, saunas, and a fairy tale forest called Marchenwald. And how far do campers travel to Waldsee? Only as far as Bemidgi, Minnesota, to one of six authentic Concordia Language Camp villages — French, Norwegian, Finnish, Russian, Spanish, and German.

The Universe Just Got Smaller Despite the cameras, computers, telephone hookups, and technicians that had commandeered the dining hall, all eyes were fixed intently on the large screen. For twenty “goose bump” minutes, campers at the marine science camp posed questions through a staff translator to cosmonauts. These exchange visitors provide a unique opportunity for American children to have cultural exposure to new customs, languages, and activities by living and playing with the children and adults who become an intrinsic part of the multicultural tapestry of camp. Dick Thomas, director of Chewonki in Wiscasset, Maine, finds that the lives of his campers are enriched by this experience, as they realize that the United States is not the center of the universe. “International staff brings a symmetry and energy to the total staff,” according to Thomas. Chewonki, like many other American camps, also hosts campers from other nations. Families of international children appreciate the diversity of the camp community as well as the opportunity for immersion in a safe, secure American tradition.

Pass the Pelmeni! — Festivals with an International Flavor Many camps go beyond simply including international staff and campers in their community. Culture festivals are popular, with cabin groups and counselors representing different countries through costumes, flags, food, folktales, songs, crafts, and games. Working with the camp food service, Russian pelmeni, Norwegian flatbread, Mexican

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fajitas, or other ethnic dishes may make an appearance at special theme meals. Campers often discover that many of their traditional camp songs actually have origins in other countries or are sung with slightly different words. Even the game of “Rock, Paper, Scissors” is played by children around the world.

Camp’s Global Reach Some camps, as well as many national youth organizations, also sponsor exchange trips abroad. During the past decade, Chewonki has offered trips to Australia and Russia with the advantage of allowing participants the familiarity of the camp experience in another country. Since 1911, the YMCA has been building global citizens and is active in 110 countries with thirty million members worldwide. Through programs such as “Global Teens,” internationally minded teenagers from New York City participate in a oneyear program that includes three weeks of summer overseas travel. “Go Global” provides opportunities for young adults, age eighteen and up, to work in YMCA programs abroad. As an official non-governmental organization, the YMCA also hosts an annual United Nations Conference for volunteers and youth members. Since 1948, the IFYE program (International 4-H Youth Exchange) has provided opportunities for young ambassadors ages sixteen to twenty-five, to live and work in host families in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific. The 4-H Labo program for Americans ages twelve to seventeen includes a one-month home stay in Japan and also recruits American families and camps to host IFYE or Labo youth.

The Bridge to Understanding From the colorful flags hanging in a camp’s dining hall, the lilt of the Irish receptionist who answers the phone, the display of African drums, or even the introduction to a child’s counselor, Tarik, Fiona, or Rodrigo, camp is a global village. Peace Poles, with plaques in eight languages proclaiming, “May Peace Prevail On Earth,” rise in the center of many camps and in the national office of the American Camp Association. Camps and their young ambassadors play an integral role in sowing these seeds of peace. Linda Grier Pulliam is executive of the American Camp Association, Virginias, and was a camp director for twenty-seven years. Originally printed in CAMP Magazine, reprinted by permission of the American Camp Association.

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS

Tisane Pharmacy

340 East 86 Street

A

February 5 - 12, 2014

Ryan’s Daughter Cafe

350 East 85 Street

A

Restaurant Grades

Guzan Japanese Cuisine & Bar

1534 3 Avenue

A

Plenty Cafe Bakery Catering

1457 3 Avenue

A

The Penrose

1590 2 Avenue

A

Mole Cantina Mexicana

1735 2 Avenue

Grade Pending (22) Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations. Appropriately scaled metal stem-type thermometer or thermocouple not provided or used to evaluate temperatures of potentially hazardous foods during cooking, cooling, reheating and holding.

A-Jiao Sichuan Cuisine

1817 2 Avenue

A

The Kiosk

76-80 East 116 Street

A

D’amore Caffe & Winebar

118 East 116 Street

A

East Harlem Cafe

153 East 104 Street

Grade Pending (20) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.

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. Starbucks Coffee

1449 2 Avenue

A

Good Health Natural Cafe

1435 1 Avenue

A

Beach Cafe

1326 2 Avenue

A

Cafe Boulud/Bar Pleiades

20 East 76 Street

A

Alex Cafe & Deli

1018 Lexington Avenue

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 nonfood areas. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Firenze

1594 2 Avenue

A

Inase Sushi Restaurant

1586 1 Avenue

A

El Chevere Cuchifritos

2000 3 Avenue

A

Carlow East

1254 Lexington Avenue

A

Corleone Pizza

188 East 104 Street

Pintaile’s Pizza

1573 York Avenue

Grade Pending (27) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment. Appropriately scaled metal stem-type thermometer or thermocouple not provided or used to evaluate temperatures of potentially hazardous foods during cooking, cooling, reheating and holding.

Molly Pitchers Ale House

1641 2 Avenue

A

Grade Pending (52) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations. Food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Asha Indian Food/ Glens Pizza

151 East 103 Street

Closed (119) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. 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 nonfood areas. Sewage disposal system improper or unapproved. Hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room. Hot and cold running water at adequate pressure to enable cleanliness of employees not provided at facility. Soap and an acceptable hand-drying device not provided. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2014

NEIGHBORHOOD REAL ESTATE SALES Reported February 10 - 16, 2014 Neighborhood

Address

Apt.

Sale Price

Neighborhood

BR BA Listing Brokerage

Beekman

415 E 52 St.

#8Ea

$700,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

Carnegie Hill

115 E 90 St.

#3D

$470,000

1

1

Sotheby’s

170 E 87 St.

#W10g

$1,440,018

2

2

Corcoran

Lenox Hill

115 E 86 St.

#73

$850,000

181 E 90 St.

#7E

$1,320,000

1080 5 Ave.

#12A

$2,500,000

181 E 90 St.

#12C

$3,050,000

2

1 3

$345,000

1

1

Ny Living Solutions

14 E 90 St.

#8D

$3,640,000

3

3

Corcoran

3 E 94 St.

$10

128 E 93 St.

$7,500,000

4

5

$1,450,000

47 E 88 St.

#4A

$5,100,000

4

3

Douglas Elliman

315 E 68 St.

#2S

$722,500

1

1

Halstead Property

360 E 72 St.

#C2800

$1,450,000

2

2

Corcoran

230 E 71 St.

#2E

$420,000

1

1

Corcoran

530 Park Ave.

#17B

$8,858,775

30 E 65 St.

#4D

$1,025,000

150 E 72Nd St.

#Phs

$9,164,250

625 Park Ave.

#8H

$267,958

625 Park Ave.

Multi

$21,500,000

737 Park Ave.

#5G

$3,791,799

1 3

2

1 2

2

0

1

Coldwell Banker Bellmar

620 Park Ave.

#3

$7,950,000

4

4

Sotheby’s

150 E 72Nd St.

#5S

$11,200,750

4

5

Macklowe Properties

750 Park Ave.

#7C

$1,650,000

160 E 65 St.

#6B

$855,000

340 E 64 St.

#6R

$1,290,000

1

1

Corcoran

404 E 66 St.

#5N

$650,000

1

1

Singer New York Real Est

781 5 Ave.

$625,000

0

200 E 66Th St.

#D1806

$1,629,200

834 5 Ave.

#14Phb

$34,000,000

880 5 Ave.

#15G

$2,500,000

1210 3 Ave.

#11B

$2,400,000

360 E 72 St.

#B604

$737,000

1 2 1

1 1 3 1

Corcoran Corcoran Yorkville

Brown Harris Stevens

#3A

$590,000

1

1

Coldwell Banker Bellmar

160 E 65 St.

#9D

$1,960,000

2

2

Douglas Elliman

721 5 Ave.

#45C

$16,000

Midtown E

220 E 57 St.

#4C

$390,000

1

1

#5D

$650,000

1

1

Next Stop Ny

220 E 57 St.

#8K

$372,500

1

1

Gridiron Realty Group

#18B

$1,695,000

141 E 55 St.

#1A

$375,000

2

2

136 E 36 St.

#5G

$637,000

1

1

Djk Residential

3

4

Douglas Elliman

251 E 51 St.

#6B

$555,000

1

1

Regii

345 E 50 St.

#1B

$2,750,000

3

3

Corcoran

1

1

Halstead Property

301 E 48 St.

#3K

$415,000

301 E 48 St.

#14A

$500,000

335 E 51 St.

#4H

$500,000

1

Weichert Realtors

301 E 45 St.

#9F

$639,000

1

1

Fenwick Keats Real Estat

145 E 48 St.

#15G

$582,500

0

1

Nestseekers

791 Park Ave.

#6B

$8,700,000

4

4

Sloane Square

179 E 79 St.

#1B

$540,000

1.5

1

Bond New York

8 E 83 St.

#6G

$1,750,000

200 E 74 St.

#4C

$815,000

1

1

Argo Residential

125 E 74 St.

#9B

$1,025,000

200 E 74 St.

#12A

$840,000

3 E 77 St.

#2B

$1,900,000

200 E 79Th St.

#3B

$4,067,908

911 Park Ave.

#13C

$8,150,000

3

3

Brown Harris Stevens

225 E 73 St.

#1J

$550,000

1

1

Halstead Property

408 E 79 St.

#14C

$2,525,000

2

3

Douglas Elliman

1000 Park Ave.

#10C

$5,908,500

3

3

Brown Harris Stevens

240 E 76 St.

#12B

$732,500

325 E 77 St.

#2J

$747,500

2

1

Corcoran

205 E 78 St.

#9L

$1,100,000 2

2

Town Residential

3

3

Core

32 E 76 St.

#1505

$2,650,000

350 E 77 St.

#4D

$570,000

440 E 79 St.

#7H

$385,000

965 5 Ave.

#14Fl

$85,329

330 E 75 St.

#28A

$2,100,000

404 E 76 St.

#11D

$850,000

1025 5 Ave.

#4As

$2,600,000

3

3

Corcoran

501 E 79 St.

#10C

$1,275,000

2

2

Sotheby’s

#18B

$1,400,000

2

2

R.F. Stuart, Real Estate

#26A

$2,647,450

3

3

Douglas Elliman

#5D

$279,000

0

1

Town Residential

Douglas Elliman

415 E 37 St.

#25G

$1,125,000

2

2

Brown Harris Stevens

120 E 36 St.

#5H

$935,000

2

2

Christopher Korey

25 Tudor City Place

#1612

$440,000

225 E 36 St.

#15L

$286,000

0

1

Corcoran

137 E 36 St.

#17K

$877,000

2

2

Stribling

400 E 90 St.

45 Park Ave.

#904

$1,369,500

1

1

Douglas Elliman

110 E 36 St.

#3A

$380,000

0.5

1

Pietro Lembo R.E

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Pietro Lembo R.E

Gridiron Realty Group

245 E 54 St. 200 E 57 St.

Douglas Elliman

1

Douglas Elliman

301 E 64 St. Midtown

1

0.5

$4,000,000

$640,000 #1616

1

$358,000

$367,500

Macklowe Properties

$285,000

$665,250

#2D #34H

Macklowe Properties

#4B

#8L

110 E 36 St.

#Coop

Halstead Property

405 E 63 St.

415 E 37 St.

425 E 58 St.

Upper E Side

#Phw

BR BA Listing Brokerage

319 E 50 St.

Corcoran

1133 Park Ave.

Sale Price

Turtle Bay

Corcoran

#1C

Apt.

Sutton Place

Corcoran

170 E 94 St.

301 E 64 St.

Murray Hill

1

Address

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#3B

$2,500,000

2

2

Corcoran

#6D

$1,575,000

2

2

Halstead Property

#37E

$770,000

#5A

$240,000

1

1

Town Residential

#21H

$1,165,000

2

2

Corcoran

#16B

$990,000

2

2

Owner

#9B

$449,000

1

1

Oxford Property Group

#27B

$1,766,663

2

2

Douglas Elliman

#15A

$485,000

1

1

Corcoran

#23A

$1,250,000

2

2

Douglas Elliman

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CELEBRITY PROFILE

52 Weeks in the City Explain how your friendship evolved during the writing of the book.

Two friends wrote a blog, then a book, vowing to do something new each week for a year By Angela Barbuti One night at Hi-Life Restaurant, Karen Amster-Young and Pam Godwin were, ironically, talking about the high and lows of their lives. Both happily married 40-somethings with children, they sometimes felt the need to stray from their routines and find inspiration. With this simple, yet seemingly unattainable goal in mind, they embarked on a yearlong journey of selfdiscovery. Their concept of trying a new thing each week resulted in a blog called 52 Weeks. As the blog gained momentum and popularity, readers suggested that they compile their experiences into a book, and in November, The 52 Weeks: Two Women and Their Quest to Get Unstuck was published. From museum visits to poker classes to cleaning up their local park, the women discovered themselves while exploring all New York City has to offer along the way.

Tell us how the blog and book came about. Karen: We never wanted to be bloggers, but it was a way to stay on track. We did the blog to be accountable to each other, just like if you start a weight-loss program or start running, it’s easier when you have someone to support as well as check in on you. Then, we realized we were motivating and inspiring other people. It was when we started getting some media interest and comments from family friends in the business that it should be a book, that we decided to do that.

At the beginning of the book, eating blueberries was a metaphor for the bigger goals you wanted to achieve. Karen, explain why that was the case. It was very symbolic to me, and that’s why I thought it was so important to kick off the book with that. So many people get paralyzed and have a hard time taking small steps, and I still do. The blueberries represented incorporating healthier choices into my diet. It wasn’t so much about weight loss at that time; I was just getting frustrated with my food choices, patterns, and routines. I would buy these organic blueberries every

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week, and by the end of the week, they were shriveled up and I had to throw them out. So for my 52 Weeks project, I started putting the blueberries on a bagel with cream cheese, and by the end of the week, I was grabbing a handful and going out the door. Taking that first step and getting that confidence is so important.

The importance of play for people of all ages is something you write about. Pam, you joined a women’s poker class at the 92Y. Actually, the woman who taught the class, Ellen Leikind, wound up becoming an expert in our book. She’s in marketing, and uses poker to teach empowerment skills to women in business and life. Initially, what I thought would be a very fun, lighthearted seven-week class, wound up being extremely challenging and intense. It was so interesting, because there was such a variety of women there from all facets of life.

You also speak about making time for relationships. Karen, you took dance lessons at Fred Astaire with your husband. We have a whole relationship chapter in our book. I wanted to do new things with, in my case, my spouse, but I really believe in it for friendships and siblings as well. The dance lessons gave us a special date night. We had a lot of fun. There was so much anxiety in the sense that it was so out of my comfort zone. The last time we had taken a dance lesson was before our wedding, 20 years earlier.

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Karen: Everyone’s 52 List is different. From the beginning, we had very different things on our list. The original goal, which we didn’t achieve as much as we wanted to, was to do some things together. Like any joint venture, it’s challenging to be in business with someone. I think we both have a great sense of pride in starting something with a friend and finishing it, and we never thought it would take us here. Pam: Our original project started a few years ago. That was meant for us to grow together and on our own, and have some fun and explore. But then, the pressure of the fact that we really were accountable to each other, and had to write about our experiences every week, set in. I didn’t want to do that, so Karen yelled at me a lot. And in the end, I did like that because it pushed me out of my comfort zone more. Once we got the book deal, things shifted very quickly. The relationship had to change because we were working together. Being friends with someone is different than being their work partner.

Part of the journey involved revisiting things from your childhoods. Pam, you took piano lessons again. I had taken them years ago, and my piano sits in the living room. By having a career, getting married, and starting a family, you put yourself aside for a long time. You forget all the things you had in your back pocket as an independent person. The piano was always in the back of my head and triggered memories for me. I took two lessons with my daughter’s teacher, but I have to say in full disclosure, I have not continued on. I do feel more comfortable now, sitting down and actually tickling the keys.

During your quest to enjoy art, you discover a small art studio on the Upper East Side. Karen, you took a nude drawing class there. Yes, at Fabrizio Art Studio, on 3rd Avenue, between 87th and 88th. This husband and wife team has this small studio with no desire to franchise. They have such a love and passion for what they do. You can go in a la carte, which is a very hard thing to find in New York. The class was really out of my comfort zone because I really don’t know how to draw. It was calming for me, unlike yoga, which I had to struggle with to embrace the stillness.

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This was a different kind of stillness. You’re being quiet, but you’re still doing something with your hands.

Pam, you visited Ground Zero. What was that experience like for you? The trigger was that we were moving out of the apartment that I was living in at the time of September 11th. Even though we lived uptown, I could see the smoke from my apartment for days. I had been at that apartment for 25 years, my kids were both born there, and I met my husband there. It was an emotional move for me. I went a year and a half ago, before the Freedom Tower was up and the memorial was finished. I decided I would go very early one morning before the tourists came. It was right before rush hour, and people were just hurrying by me on their way to work. That struck me, that we need to live and move on.

Pursuing spiritual paths is something you touch upon. Karen, you went to The Kabbalah Centre here in the city. I thought there was going to be 10 people in the room, and there was standing room only. I had just lost my father-in-law, and didn’t feel connected to my own religion. That led me to see if I could connect elsewhere. I really did enjoy Kabbalah and think it’s something I’d really like to incorporate more in my life. I went back that particular year a couple of times. I loved the professor, besides talking about the history of Kabbalah, he took us through a series of exercises to show us how blocked we really are in how we look at the world. the52weeks.com @The52Weeks

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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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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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