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OTTY AWARDS Congratulations to Sen. Liz Krueger, who was named Eastsider of the Year this week as part of our annual Our Town Thanks You (OTTY) Awards. Krueger was one of 16 New Yorkers recognized in a ceremony on April 2 for their service to the Upper East Side. For proﬁles of all of the winners, see our special section, which begins on page 13.

THE POLITICS OF EVERYWHERE CITY HALL On the circuit with Gale Brewer, the busiest politician in New York BY MEGAN BUNGEROTH

The Borough President is famished. Gale Brewer has been working since 7:30 a.m., and by 5:15 p.m., as she’s leaving her ofﬁce, she realizes that all she’s had to eat so far is a banana. She’s not headed to dinner, though, or home. Tonight, Wednesday, March 26, Brewer will be attending seven events throughout Manhattan, a typical night for the woman who may be New York’s most omnipresent politician. “I try to go to as many events as humanly possible,” Brewer says in the elevator. Her staff sifts through hundreds of re-

quests each week to put together her schedule. She has a committee that helps decide which events she’ll attend. The only reason for turning down an invitation is that it conﬂicts with another scheduled event. Nothing is too minor, no one too marginal. She leaves the Municipal Building at 1 Centre Street about 15 minutes behind schedule, but still confident she can get to everything for the evening. Stop number one is at a bar around the corner from City Hall, Manhattan Proper, where a surprise going-away party for Chuck Meara, former staffer to both Speakers Christine Quinn and Gifford Miller, is underway by the time Brewer arrives at 5:18 p.m. Council members and veteran staffers clutch glasses of wine and whiskey, reminiscing with Meara, while

The start of a grueling evening for Brewer, who will make seven stops before ending her workday. Photo by Megan Bungeroth

the younger staffers cluster together around iPhones. Brewer pushes through the narrow room, stopping every two feet to shake hands and say hello to former council colleagues. She finds Meara and chats with him. There is no time to grab a drink, and no food to be found. She winds her way back out the door by 5:28 p.m. and climbs into the

big black SUV with city plates that will shepherd her around the island this evening. As her driver Michael navigates the potholes of 10th Avenue, Brewer concedes that tonight, with its seven stops, is slightly above average in terms of number of events; normally she’s got four or ﬁve on weeknights. That restriction, though, is simply one of

logistics, not of her willingness to show up. “Between 6 and 8 p.m. you can’t do more than four events,” she says. That’s when most groups schedule their meetings. When she was in the city council, representing the Upper West Side, she also appeared everywhere,

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NEW YORK’S SEGREGATED SCHOOLS A new study from UCLA shows that New York’s public schools are the most racially segregated in the country. The study tracked enrollment numbers from 1989 to 2010, and said that many black and Latino students go to class with “virtually no” white classmates. At New York City’s charter schools, the numbers are even more dramatic; 73 percent of charters have “less than 1 percent” white enrollment, the study states, making them the least diverse of all of the schools it studied. One of the report’s authors, Gary Orﬁeld, said that while the segregation problem is closely tied to housing patterns, “in the 30 years I have been researching schools, New York state has consistently been one of the most segregated states in the nation — no Southern state comes close to New York,” he told the AP.

REFORMING THE COMMUNITY BOARDS Councilmember Ben Kallos proposed revamping the city’s community boards. Kallos’ recommendations include instituting term limits for board members, requiring applicants to disclose conﬂicts of interest, and creating standardized online applications for those who wish to join boards. As we reported last week, Kallos also supports opening the community boards to teenagers. Between April 1 and May 30, four new borough presidents and 21 new city council members, along with their previously elected colleagues, will be making 1,475 appointments to 59 community boards spanning all ﬁve boroughs. “New York City community boards must truly represent the community,” Kallos said. “Yhey can be a vital space for New Yorkers who want to express concerns.”

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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS CHECK

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EXPLORER’S CLUB SUES JOHNNIE WALKER The Explorer’s Club, the prestigious group that has operated on the Upper East Side for 110 years, is suing Johnnie Walker whiskey for perceived intellectual infrigement. Johnnie Walker’s manufacturer Diageo launched the “Explorer’s Club” line in 2012. “Diageo’s use of the Explorers Club name is likely to deceive, and in fact already has deceived, the public into believing that Diageo’s products are affiliated with The Explorers Club,” says the suit, which seeks a court order barring the whisky label from using its storied name. NY Daily News

MAN STRIKES PEDESTRIAN IN WILD CAR CHASE William Hankerson was pulled over around 6:30 p.m., but it wasn’t long before he began ﬂeeing cops. Hankerson began his chase in his Honda Accord by speeding on Broadway near Columbus Circle, where he struck an unidentiﬁed pedestrian. The pedestrian suffered bruisings and scrapes to his left leg and right arm. The chase took place in parts of the Upper East and Upper West sides and Central Park. “The guy was all over the place and then around 62nd [Street], the cop ran into the guy’s fender and pushed him onto the curb,” said witness Ben Sandstrom. “It was crazy. At least 30 people were on the sidewalk trying to get out of the way.” Police eventually stopped and subdued Hankerson, charging him with vehicular assault, assault on a police officer and reckless endangerment. NY Post

The Explorer’s Club on E. 70th St. was incorporated in 1905. It’s now in a trademark ﬁght with the maker of Johnnie Walker whiskey.

MAN LOSES 100 LBS. NOW TRIATHLON COACH

RUPPERT BREWERY RELICS FOUND AT CONSTRUCTION SITE

At 45, Upper East Sider Pat Perretta stood at under 6 feet and over 300 pounds. But four months after starting the Simply Tri in 2005, a triathlon coaching program at Asphalt Green, he finished his first triathlon and had lost 30 pounds. Now, having lost 70 more pounds, Perretta coaches at Asphalt Green. “The goal is health first and foremost,” Perretta said. “It’s about changing your lifestyle. It’s about changing your life.” DNAInfo

While working on the construction of Ruppert Towers, workers stumbled across old relics from the famous Ruppert Brewery. Local archaeologists and historians were only given about half an hour to search and take pictures, during the workers’ lunch break, before the rest of the structure was destroyed. “This was a remnant of an industry that was a very big industry in New York, it’s gone,” said Joan Geismar, an archaeologist. NY 1

DETAILS REVEALED FOR 520 PARK AVENUE UBER EXPENSIVE CONDOS The newest ridiculously expensive condo tower has started revealing details. The 51-story tower will have just 31 units, some obviously extending multiple ﬂoors. Of the 31 units, one will be 12,400-squarefoot with a private terrace which is expected to be “priced at considerably more than $100 million.” The buildings marketing team released a statement saying that sales will “commence imminently,” and contruction will be complete by 2017. Condos start at $27 million. Curbed

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG ATM DISPENSES BAD NEWS

A local laundromat was robbed by a knifewielding thug. At 5:25 p.m. on Saturday, March 29, a 30-year-old man entered a Laundromat/ dry-cleaning establishment on East 81st Street. He approached an employee, whom he ordered into the back room at knifepoint. While the employee remained in the back room, the robber took $500 from the store’s cash register before ﬂeeing. Police said they suspect the same man has been responsible for a number of similar holdups at other area laundries.

Another woman fell victim to identity theft. On Tuesday, March 18, a 51-year-old woman tried to withdraw money from an ATM machine, only to encounter a message stating that she was unable to do so. She checked with her bank and discovered that someone had made an unauthorized withdrawal of $1,450.74 from her account. She had been in possession of her debit card the entire time.

TOOK POCKETBOOK

The NYPD advises you to safeguard your apartment and home. Recent burglaries have occurred in the neighborhood. Be alert. Perpetrators are gaining entry by: • Forcing locked doors, mainly the front, due to inadequate locks. • Front doors left open and unsecured. • Unlocked rear windows. • Fire-escape windows. Remember to: 1. Lock all windows and doors – even when you will be away from home only for a few hours, even if you live in a doorman building. 2. Install and lock secondary locks. 3. Do NOT leave your electronics (laptops, iPods, etc.) near your windows in plain view. 4. Install only FDNY-approved safety gates on ﬁre-escape or ground-level windows. Your local precinct Crime Prevention Survey consists of a walk-through of your home and a list of security recommendations to help prevent your chances of being burglarized. Call your local precinct (see phone number on previous page) and ask the crime prevention officer for this FREE service.. If you have any information regarding any burglaries, please contact your precinct.

Two men stole a woman’s pocketbook. At 12:36 p.m. on Sunday, March 30, a 65-year-old woman was obtaining ﬂu vaccine in a drugstore on Second Avenue, when a 20-year-old man snatched her pocketbook from her shopping cart. The man had a male accomplice, whom police described as a lookout. The pocketbook contained $42 in cash, a passport, a Medicare card, a credit card, and keys. Video is available of the incident.

SUSPICIOUS INDEED Someone withdrew cash from a woman’s checking account. On Thursday, March 27, a 70-year-old woman received a phone call from her bank reporting suspicious activity in her checking account. After receiving the call, the woman realized that her debit card was missing, as well as two checks from her checkbook. She managed to stop one of the checks but not the other, which was cashed for $675. Two unauthorized ATM transactions were also made in the amounts of $400 and $503.

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State Senator Liz Krueger

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Assembly Member Dan Quart

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RECORD-SETTING AUCTION FOR P.S. 6

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East side school raises $250,000 in annual auction BY KYLE POPE

UPPER EAST SIDE P.S. 6, the 81st Street elementary school that has taught everyone from Chevy Chase and Estee Lauder to J.D. Salinger, held its most successful fund-raiser ever last month, raising a quarter-million dollars in a beneﬁt and auction. The haul puts P.S. 6, a public school, in the same fund-raising league as some of the city’s private schools -- a testament, school officials say, to the community that has built up around the 120-year-old institution. “The auctions outdo themselves every year,” said Lauren Fontana, the school’s principal for the past eight years. “To me, it’s not just about raising the funds, but really about the community coming together.” To that end, the school used its New Orleans-themed gala this year to bring together alumni and former staffers;

Fonatana said she invited every teacher who has worked at the school since she arrived. Peter Cincotti, the songwriter and an alum, performed and pledged a percentage of the proceeds from an upcoming concert series to the school. Sheila Hultgren Giangrande, co-chair of the auction, said the money raised will go to the PTA, which uses it to support assistant teachers, arts, music and a theater program.

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Bill Cunningham, Gothic bridge in Central Park (designed 1860), ca. 1968-1976. Gelatin silver photograph. New-York Historical Society, Gift of Bill Cunningham

Now that it’s getting warmer out, it’s ﬁnally time to take a walk in Central Park. This photograph by Bill Cunningham depicts model Editta Sherman posing in period costume under the park’s Gothic bridge. The photograph comes from Bill Cunningham’s Facades, an eight-year photographic essay project to document the architectural riches and fashion history of New York City by pairing models—in particular his muse, fellow photographer Editta Sherman—in period costumes with historic settings. Although by turns whimsical and bold, Cunningham’s project also was part of the larger cultural zeitgeist in New York City, during an era in which issues surrounding both the preservation and the problems of the urban landscape loomed large. Through June 15, the New-York Historical Society is exhibiting the complete Facades collection. For more information, visit nyhistory.org.

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SPRING PROTECTION FOR CATS AND DOGS

PETS The warm weather means it’s time to check up on your pets’ wellbeing and safety As we say goodbye to the chills and snow and hello to the sun, be aware of seasonal hazards that can threaten your pets. Experts at North Shore Animal League America, the world’s largest no-kill animal rescue and adoption organization, urge pet owners to be mindful of their pet’s safety. “It’s an animal owner’s obligation to ensure its safety at all times, but spring especially presents a unique set of challenges with the weather change. With good preparation and

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Alzheimer’s Disease Research Update: What’s New in 2014 Wednesday April 9th, 2014 2:00pm - 4:00pm NYU Langone Medical Center’s Farkas Auditorium 550 1st Ave at 33rd Street, New York, NY 10016 Body Fat and Muscle: Relationship to Cognitive and Physical Decline Speaker: James E. Galvin, MD, MPH Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry and Population Health Clinical Core and Education Core Leader, NYU Alzheimer’s Disease Center

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knowledge, pets can be safe and comfortable over the season,” advises Mark Verdino, Vice President and Chief of Veterinary Staff. Animal League America offers these tips: 1. Springtime brings Easter fun but a lot of human celebrations can be toxic to our pets. Keep Easter lilies and candy bunnies away from your pets. Chocolate is toxic to cats and dogs and lilies can be fatal if ingested. Cats and kittens love to nibble on plastic grass this can lead to an obstructed digestive tract, severe vomiting and dehydration. 2. Pet owners spending time outdoors with their pets should make certain they are protected with flea, tick and heartworm treatments and are up-to-date on vaccinations. 3. Be sure to install sturdy screens in all windows, to avoid putting your pets at risk of jumping or falling through the window. 4. Dental hygiene is another effective “Spring Tune-Up” tool. Have your pet’s teeth checked and cleaned by a vet. 5. We all know dogs love to feel the wind on their faces, but allowing them to ride in the bed of a pick-up truck or stick their heads out of a moving-car window is dangerous. This opens up your pet to inner ear or eye injuries and lung infections from flying debris and insects. Make sure your pets are always secure in a crate or wearing a pet seatbelt harness while riding along with you. 6. Spring cleaning brings opportunities for harm to our pets. Be sure to keep all cleaners and chemicals out of your pet’s way. Products such as paints and solvents can be toxic to your pets and cause severe irritation or chemical burns. Be careful of physical hazards, including nails, staples, insulation, blades and power tools. 7. Beware of many springtime plants that are highly toxic to pets and can easily prove fatal if eaten. Fertilizers, insecticides and herbicides might help our plants and lawns grow but can be fatal for your pet if ingested. 8. Pets can be allergic to foods, dust, plants and pollens. Allergic reactions to dogs and cats can cause minor sniffling and sneezing as well as life-threatening anaphylactic shock. Please check with your veterinarian to see if your pet has a springtime allergy. 9. Springtime means longer walks and more chances for your pet to wander off! Make sure your dog or cat has a microchip for identification and wears a tag imprinted with your home address, cell phone and any other relevant contact information. 10. And most importantly, any time of the year, spay and neuter your pet so that your animals do not contribute to the large population of unwanted litters. To learn more about keeping your pets safe and healthy at all times, visit www.AnimalLeague.org.

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MILESTONES

RACHEL TOFEL, CAMERON FERRANTE ENGAGED TO WED Richard Tofel of Soho and Jeanne Straus of the Upper West Side have announced the engagement of their daughter, Rachel Straus Tofel, to Cameron Adams Ferrante, son of Dr. and Mrs. Giovanni Ferrante, of Bristol, Virginia. A wedding is planned for early November. The future bride is an assistant to Thomas Campbell, director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is studying in the evenings for her Masters of Business Administration at the NYU Stern School of Business. Her mother is President of Straus News, publisher of The West Side Spirit, Our Town and 12 other local weekly newspapers in Manhattan and the Tri-State region. Her father is president of ProPublica, a non-proďŹ t investigative news organization. He was formerly assistant publisher of The Wall Street Journal. The bride graduated from The Ethical Culture Fieldston School and Bates College. Miss Tofel is a granddaughter of the late Ellen Sulzberger Straus and R. Peter Straus, who owned and ran WMCA Radio. She is also the granddaughter of Robert Tofel, a attorney retired from Tofel & Partners and the late Carol Collins Tofel.

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luster, you better be sharp,” she says. “You gotta be on your toes.” The car pulls up to Lincoln Center for event #2, a cocktail reception in Avery Fisher Hall for the Spring Gala fundraiser, at 5:59 p.m. Brewer has enough time to take her coat off and is immediately snagged into animated conversation with attendees. Jed Bernstein, the president of Lincoln Center, wants to talk to her about an upcoming arts funding meeting. Brewer asks a Lincoln Center administrator about some job openings they have; maybe she knows someone who would ﬁt the bill. A woman she doesn’t know (probably a board member) stops her to ask about arts education, and Brewer hands the woman her business card and tells her to call her office. By 6:10 p.m., the gala is moving upstairs for dinner and Brewer is back in the SUV for the short drive over to John Jay College. The peripheral search for food at the last event was futile. (Having been warned of the non-stop schedule, I packed snacks. I offered Brewer a granola bar, but she politely declined.) She was hoping for something a bit more substantial, but there’s no time to stop. The third event of the night (arriving at 6:15 p.m.) has Brewer onstage behind a placard with her name, ready to speak to a packed theater about the mayor’s Vision Zero initiative to eliminate pedestrian traffic deaths in the city. After an introduction by Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, Brewer uses her allotted two minutes to lay out her ideas for improving safety - focusing on more audio assistance at intersections for the visually impaired; using federal money for traffic studies, like one that was conducted on the Upper West Side; helping educate cyclists to obey the rules of the road. After several rounds of thanking one another and the mayor,

5:15 p.m. at One Centre Street. Brewer is preparing to leave her office in the Municipal Building.

THE POLITICS OF EVERYWHERE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 and wasn’t just conﬁned to her district, as many West Side-based organizations would hold their events in midtown or the Lower East Side (where there’s a concentration of catering halls). “I don’t know what the other council members do,” Brewer says. “They used to laugh at me - how can you go to so many events?” The politically engaged Upper West Side, home to 2,500 non-proﬁts and one of the highest voterturnout rates in the country, trained her well for the current gig. In Manhattan, people expect a lot from their elected officials. “You can’t be lack-

well-appointed lliving room and the council members launches into a talk about what introduce a Departshe’s been working on - arts ment of Transportaw education, getting mental tion representative, health services into middle who talks through servi schools (“I’ve some of Vision Ze(“I’v had 35 foster kids so I know that teenagers ro’s plans. Brewer need help.”) as has to leave before a well as finding space for affordable housing in it’s finished (one of or MIST Harlem 46 W. 116th Street Manhattan w without building her deputies will stay too many massive skyscrapand report back), but ma ers. She notes that she, like all is impressed by the good de Blasio acolytes, is woman’s presentaBla pushing for tion; she’ll mention it fo universal preK (“I’m so sick of [talking later. about] pre-K By 7:06 p.m., Brewer pre but I know it’s the focus.”) is back in the car and focus.” but also hopes that the ma mayor won’t forget headed downtown again, to 817 BroadPrivate home about other pressing issues way in the Flatiron. homele services. She 53 E. 75 Street like homeless concedes that She’s speaking at a th she’s happy to be away fro from the commitPAC meeting of LoAvery Fisher Hall tee meetings cal 371, the Social meeting of being on the Columbus Ave council, and from some of the Service Employees at 65th Street members: “The Union. Upon arrival “T city council Ben [Kallos, whose staffer is at at 7:27 p.m., she’s [Kallos,w greeted with exclathe meeting] is wonderful, but John Jay College I won’t give mations and clapsome I can’t stand. s 524 W. 59th Street you any nam names. Well maybe ping and ushered into (She doesn’t.) a fluorescent room later I will.” (S where about a dozen Her remarks are unscripted, each event she atpeople are eating g tailored to ea salmon cakes, roasted d tends. When someone asks charter schools, she chicken and cooked d about chart greens from plasticc is quick to note that there Hudson Bond are som some great charter plates, facing the front nt 215 W. 40th Street schools in the city of the room. This group up school has endorsed her in the just not n those run by past, and she tells them hem Eva Moskowitz, the head of Success that they’re the “fourth urth he Academy and the stop and my best stop” p” of Ac face of the battle the night. She talks about fa against de Blasio. affordable housing, developevelopa “I know I get in ment in Manhattan, the fight Local 371 trouble [saying for pre-K funding. One e woman 817 Broadway this] - I canasks Brewer, with a tone ne indicatnot stand Eva ing she expects her to o know the Moskowitz,” full answers, what exactly actly is going Brewer says. “In on with the Second Avenue venue Subway, B what’s happening to the people who the city council, lived in the East Harlem em building that she was very smart and Manhattan Proper very obnox obnoxious. She was a collapsed last week, and nd what’s going on 6 Murray Street good chair [o [of the education with those tiny apartments ments Bloomberg because she asked was pushing? committee] be questions, but she didn’t Asked about Mayor de e Blasio, she defends lots of question anybody else.” Brewer his management style,, explaining that it’s involve anybod rooted in community organizing, not tophas levied this ccriticism before; Moskowitz and Success down management, so o his initiatives will take she sued Moskowi Academy when they moved into an Upper time. (She also jokes that he “owes me for life” after she supported his failed bid for council speak- West Side high school, and she doesn’t think that er and was stuck on the technology committee charter schools belong in the districts with good as retribution, a post she turned from a dreaded public school options. A few other perennial Upper East Side issues appointment to a crucial role in the council with bills like the Open Data law and ones increasing come up - how to stop the East 91st Street Marine Transfer Station (Brewer voted against it); when broadband internet access in the city.) The president of the union, Anthony Wells will de Blasio make good on his promise to rid praises her and presents her with a backpack Central Park of the carriage horses (she doesn’t and hat emblazoned with the union logo. “Gale think that one will be as easy as it sounds). She does not just talk the talk; she shows us what also, finally, has a moment to eat a small plate of she’s about,” Wells said. “She’s as humble and bread, cheese and grapes proffered by the hostess. real now as when I first knew her.” “I call her the queen of constituent requests,” Brewer poses for a quick picture, with everyone in the room grinning behind her, but there’s says the event’s organizer, Monica Atiya, of no time to grab a plate of food before she’s off at Brewer as she prepares to leave. “She puts her whole heart and mind into it.” 7:56 p.m. At 9:01 p.m., she’s back in the tiny old elevator She arrives at a private residence on East 75th Street a little past her scheduled time to speak at and then headed up to W. 116th Street. At 9:15 8 p.m., but the two dozen or so members of Upper p.m., she arrives at MIST Harlem for a fundraiser East Side for Change, a Democratic group, are for victims of the recent building collapse, run by thrilled she’s there. 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“My father knows Gale,” said Landon Dais, the organizer. “He has only good things to say about her, and he doesn’t say that about every politician.” Dais is eager to introduce Gale to his fiance, who it turns out she knows, and she chats with a few people before heading out again at 9:25 p.m., hoping to make it on time to the seventh and final stop of the night, an event that ends at 10 p.m. She’s been running only a few minutes behind schedule the whole evening - impressive considering the variables of traffic in Manhattan - and feels confident that she’ll be okay arriving late at this last event. “If you’re going to a senior center - be on time! Everybody else, you got a little leeway,” she says. She’s right. At 9:52 p.m., the Manhattan Young Democrats 5th Annual Engendering Progress Event is still going strong in the basement bar of Hudson Bond on W. 40th Street. It is, as the name suggests, mostly people in their 20s and 30s, and they are tickled when Brewer arrives and grabs the microphone. She musters up energy to match the crowd,

6:15 p.m. at John Jay College. Brewer spoke at a Vision Zero Town Hall meeting. Photos by telling them how impressed she is by what young people can accomplish, giving the example of the young DOT rep from earlier in the evening at the Vision Zero town hall. She is happy with the development so far on Vision Zero, she says. “I give Bill de Blasio a lot of credit; I don’t always - I’m his conscience!” After a round of whoops and cheers, she hands the microphone over and stays to mingle with the enthusiastic group. She spies a member of her staff, who was last seen at 1 Centre Street stirring up a frozen dinner as Brewer left the office. The music is loud and the bar is dim, and if the feelings of a reporter many years her junior are any indication, Brewer must be exhausted. It doesn’t show. She stays until 10:20 p.m. She’ll probably eat something when she gets home, she says. Finally, I ask if she ever takes a vacation. “I haven’t had one,” Brewer says, “but I know they do exist.”

6:08 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Brewer is there to attemd the Spring Gala.

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DEAR VALUED AND ENGAGED READER: Thanks for your commitment and interest in your local newspaper. For the past decade Our Town has been recognizing East Siders making a difference in the neighborhood with an OTTY (Our Town Thanks You) Award. We continue that long-standing tradition of the following pages. In trying to decide who to proďŹ le, we asked for suggestions from readers, neighborhood groups, companies and our reporters and editors: who should we highlight, shine a light on and interview about their work in the neighborhood? We think youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll ďŹ nd the following proďŹ les of fellow Upper East Side New Yorkers enlightening. From William Marquardt, who ensures that unsightly graffiti and garbage in the neighborhood is disposed of, to State Sen. Liz Krueger ďŹ ghting to halt the Marine Transfer Station, the stories of these amazing New Yorkers inspire each of us to push to do more for the neighborhood. Some of the people proďŹ led on the following pages youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll know, or have heard of. Like NYC Police Commissioner William Bratton and his wife Rikki Klieman, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on CBS TV as a legal analyst. But others, like Beth Pereira, who has taught second grade at P.S. 6 for the past 14 years, make a difference in the lives of children and families here. We salute each of them, and thank them for their service. We also thank our sponsors for their support of this community effort.

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East Sider of the Year

INSPIRING THE U.E.S. In a recent drive back from Albany, Senator Liz Krueger was discussing with an intern the meaning of her work and the stamina it takes to stay positive since she loses so many more fights than she wins. In addition to inspiring her intern, she has inspired the entire Upper East Side community with her work for tenant’s rights, affordable housing, improved access to health care, and her ﬁght for women’s health care equality. “I don’t really think I had any idea about what the job description actually was,” she explained. “I had never imagined running for office but discovered I had this secret political flag flying in my closet. Soon I realized that I did believe we needed good people to get involved with government to get good outcomes.” One of her most notable wins was during her first term when she saw the success of the Women’s Health and Wellness Act. As a result, women in New York now receive vital reproductive health

““A lot of the legislation I’ve gotten involved with has been driven by the fact that I see real life issues affecting real people.” coverage, including prescriptive contraceptives, osteoporosis exams, and breast and cervical cancer screenings. Her resilience is one of the reasons Our Town has named her Upper East Sider of the Year. “When you are ﬁghting big picture ﬁghts, on behalf of people or communities, the reality is you are just going to lose more than you win. I always tell my staff you need to lick your wounds, pick yourself up, and move onto the next issue,” she said. Krueger represents District 28, which extends along the East Side of Manhattan from 10th Street up to 96th street. While balancing such a diverse district, one of her most dedicated issues has been her fight against hunger, homelessness, and the lack of affordable

housing. “I am never going to please everyone, that is just mathematically impossible. So if I have a reputation for being a proactive and responsive office, it’s because we take anything that people bring to us and try to look at it from a holistic approach,” she said. Working with her staff, Krueger breaks down every issue by identifying three things: Is there something we can do? How can we approach this so there will be value added to the community? Finally, what can she do as a government official to actually make change happen? In her efforts to support underprivileged New Yorkers, Krueger has served as chair of the New York City Food Stamp Task Force, Co-Facilitator of the New York City Welfare Reform Network, and a board member on both the City Wide Task Force on Housing Court, and NYC Federal Emergency Management Agency Emergency Food and Shelter Program. She has been a resident of the East Side since 1983, and attri-

butes her ability to relate to her district so well to the fact that she has called New York home for so many years. Her ﬁrst major job, one that she jokes she was completely unprepared for, has now grown into an organization that serves close to 5.4 million meals each year to emergency food programs, senior centers, day- care centers. “At that time I just kept putting

one foot in front of the other, and try to take the steps that would translate into building this non for proﬁt organization, in hopes to feed the millions of hungry New Yorkers,” she said. “A really important lesson that I learned from that experience was to just keep pushing forward no matter what you are up against.” The Senator has carried this

Krueger helped launch an organization that serves nearly 5.4 million meals per year.

East Sider of the Year - Culture

ART FOR EVERYONE Before he was accustomed to wearing a suit every day, Ian Wardropper fondly remembers spending hours studying at the Frick Art Reference Library during his earliest years as an art history graduate student at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York. Since being appointed museum director in of the Frick Museum in 2011, Wardropper has made impressive strides at making the museum more relevant today. One way he has made the museum more accessible is by making the 13-story art reference library more inviting to the public. “It has remained somewhat of a secret because it used to be more private in the old days, and slightly forbidding. I used to show up to study,

Restaurant – Antonucci Cafe on east 81st Loves to attend the Frick’s weekend concert series as much as possible Attends the theatre with his wife often.

“ What I’ve found in really observing the public is that they are grateful we have taken the time to be very selective in the works that we show them, and not given them too much to look at.“ and they would insist that men wear jackets and women wear skirts,” he explained. “That’s cha n ged, a nd we’ve made it open to everyone. ” The Frick has remained a small but su mptuous museum since its creation almost 80 years ago. Wardropper has found a balance of respecting the building’s historical significance and introducing more modern curating techniques. Much of his inspiration is drawn from working directly with the museum curators. He often ap-

plies is own experience as a curator to each exhibit, and enjoys helping out with exhibit installation as often as he can. Within his ﬁrst year as director, Wardropper saw major success with the “Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting” exhibit in February of 2012. The Frick saw a spike in museum memberships and had to turn people away. He began brainstorming ways to make the museums audience bigger than its small capacity. At a senior staff meeting he introduced the idea of live-streaming lectures and exhibition openings online, allowing the Frick to reach a much larger, more global audience. Wardropper is inspired by the Upper East Side community on his

Ian Wardropper upstairs at the Frick Museum Photo by Mary Newman walk to work every morning, and hopes the museum can give back. The Frick now offers classes for middle and high school students, after-school programs, sketching classes in the gallery for college students, and continuing education classes for adults. Wardropper has had rethink how the museums can use its scale as an advantage. “I’ve had to really think more about what this place can do, that a larger muse-

um can’t,” he explained. Since his start as museum director, Ian Wardropper has undoubtedly brought a breath of fresh air to the 100-year-old house, reintroducing it to its neighbors on the Upper East Side. “The Frick can maintain its quality, excellence, and traditions but we try to look for new avenues that will make it more interesting and refresh the space. That has been my approach.”

“ I was a graduate student in New York in the 1970s, and Central Park has always been my lifeline. That is where I will go to get some inspiration.”

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East Sider of the Year - Power Couple

NEW YORK LOVE STORY Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his wife Rikki Klieman had read about one another for years in Boston before meeting when she surrendered a fugitive to him in 1990. They joined forces while he was making a name for himself as a prominent cop on the rise, and Klieman was doing the same as a criminal defense attorney.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The combination of things that I do has been really rewarding to me both in my own proďŹ le, and certainly with the fabulous platform of being the wife of the Police Commissioner.â&#x20AC;? Klieman Since running into one another over breakfast at the Regency Hotel in 1998, the couple has been

The bench in Central Park Klieman had dedicated to Bratton on their one year anniversary Photo by Mary Newman

able to support one another in both their personal and professional lives. The two moved back to New York in 2009 after Bratton served as the Los Angeles Police Commissioner for seven years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coming back to New York was always in the plan for us,â&#x20AC;? Klieman says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We came back to live on November 1st 2009, and he went into the private sector. From there we reestablished ourselves here.â&#x20AC;? As the 2014 mayoral race began, several candidates came to Bratton for advice but Klieman explained that Mayor De Blasio came the most often. The two are a perfect example of opposites attracting, and managed to balance two incredible careers. She has brought her years of experience working as a criminal defense attorney to her job as an on-air legal analyst for CBS This Morning. She also offers her undeniable magnetism to support Brattonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career, describing her as his additional eyes and ears. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Becoming commissioner was a joint decision. It was not some-

RESTAURANTS Fresco in their neighborhood on East 52nd St. Elioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on East 84th St. Nectar, favorite diner on East 82nd. thing that I decided unilaterally,â&#x20AC;? Bratton explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had many soul-searching conversations because we knew there would be a lot involved. A change in lifestyle, a change in ďŹ nancial status, and the intensity of our schedules.â&#x20AC;? The two have found creative ways to find some alone time, balancing their hectic schedules. Coining the term â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ricky and Billy time,â&#x20AC;? the two enjoy spending time in Central Park, where he proposed to her in 1999. One of their favorite things to do is walk to the Carousal and sit on the bench Klieman had dedicated to him on their one-year anniversary. In the four years before being appointed the New York Police Com-

Bratton and Klieman at his office downtown Photo by Mary Newman missioner for the second time in his career, the couple was able to escape public life and really become New Yorkers again. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those years gave us true Ricky and Billy time,â&#x20AC;? Klieman explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were able to experience all of New York in a way that would be impossible to do now. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think there is a foot in Central Park that we havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t walked together.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x153; Rikki and I are both movie buffs, sometimes we will see three or four movies over the weekend. Our favorite theatre is the one at Lincoln Center.â&#x20AC;? Bratton

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East Sider of the Year - Real Estate

GOOD ETHICS IN REAL ESTATE Real estate mogul Fred Peters has enjoyed rediscovering New York City throughout his career for the past 30 years. After working as Sales Director at Albert B. Ashforth, he acquired the 95-yearold business, renaming it Warburg Realty in 1991. Peters has since doubled the size of his company, becoming co-chair of The Real Estate Board of New York’s Board of Directors (REBNY), and has been awarded the Kenneth R. Gerrety Humanitarian Award. Peters has built Warburg Realty on a foundation of good ethics and giving back to the surrounding communities. His agency has expanded from one office with 40 agents to 130 agents working out of four Manhattan offices. He knows all of his agents personally,

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“ It’s not hard for me to be enthusiastic about selling the opportunity to live in New York, because I really don’t think there is anyplace like it.” and trains them to work under his company slogan of “Integrity, Intelligence, and Innovation.” “I want to operate the business in the way that feels right to me. I have no desire to run an agency with 800 agents,” he explained. “I believe we have an obligation to the greater community in which we live to try and make the quality of life in that community as strong as possible.” In addition to improving the quality of life of the Upper East Side’s real estate value, Peters has also been extremely charitable to the arts community. Growing up he had wanted work as a contemporary classical composer, and pianist. He frequently supports different musical organizations and non-proﬁts around New York. Most notably, he is the board chair

of Music USA, which is one of the largest composer advocacy organizations in the United States. Peters uses his platform as a board member of REBNY to instill the same good ethics that he expects of his agents with the entire real estate industry. He is the biggest contributor to the Warburg blog, and is constantly evolving to stay current with popular demands. In a recent blog post titled “Is Money Everything?” he discusses the changing morals of his industry. “When did money begin to trump morality in the real estate marketplace? I know when I began as a real estate agent in 1980, buyers and sellers almost always kept their word,” he wrote. “In spite of the cultural messages which bombard us to the contrary, we all know: money truly isn’t everything.” He is passionate about creating an environment among agents in New York that is fair, and has become an example of good character in his own agency, and through

“ I have always an enormous focus on integrity, and respect. I’m always willing to lose a transaction before I do something that I don’t feel right about.” his work with REBNY. Peters has a complete appreciation for New York, and considers discovering new neighborhoods one of the best perks of working in real estate. He has enjoyed discovering the real estate changes in Harlem, spends his free time discovering the contemporary operas at BAM in Brooklyn, and frequents the restaurant E.A.T. on the East Side with his wife. Neighborhoods are transforming across the city, sometimes so quickly it feels like it happens over night. Real estate agents play a major part in cultivating the neighborhoods we live in, and if Fred Peters continues to work as a leader in his industry there is now doubt New York will remain the greatest city in the world.

Fred Peters at his Upper East Side office for Warburg Realty Photo by Mary Newman

East Sider of the Year - Healthcare

DIVERSITY IN MEDICINE Since his time as a student attending Stuyvesant High School on East 15th street, Dr. Gary Butts has always worked to prove stereotypes wrong. Born in New York he has seen the city at its worst, and focused his career on improving the quality of healthcare offered to children in all ﬁve boroughs for the past forty years. He now holds positions at Mt. Sinai as a Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics, Medical Education, and Preventative Medicine. He has also been appointed the Senior Associate Dean for Diversity Programs, Policy and Community Affairs for the Icahn School of Medicine. His work as a pediatric physician has inspired his focus his career on improving education for children interested in science and medicine. Butts starting working at Mt. Sinani in 1980 as a pediatric intern, and quickly realized how underserved the children of East and Central Harlem was. Infant mortality rates were

alarming low, and childhood immunization rates were averaging at only 40%, and New York parents were facing a measles epidemic. After being appointed the Healthcare Commissioner in the 1990s he increased the immunization rate of children 2 years old and younger to 90%. “It was important for us to understand where the gaps in the [healthcare] system were,” he said. “In order for us to be successful, it required a truly collaborative effort between public and private sectors.” Upon receiving more responsibility as the Senior Associate Dean for Diversity Programs, Policy, and Affairs in 2013 he began working in a more administrative role. Dr. Butts made sure to stay connected to his patients, he wanted remain aware of what the people in his community really needed. A connection to his community has been a vital part of Dr. Butt’s success, and he believes that this starts with

education. He has developed educational programs for minority and disadvantaged students living on the Upper East side. Mt. Sinai Icahn School of Medicine has partnered with Columbia Medical School, and Rutgers Medical School to form the Northeast Regional Alliance Medical Prep Program. The program offers junior high school students who are interested in science or medicine to spend a day at a New York City hospital. Here they get to meet doctors, researchers, and medical students that show them it is possible to achieve their goals. “Students in East Harlem get a chance to see doctors who look like them and they are able to see that practicing medicine is possible,” he said. “Programs like this have been so inﬂuential in increasing diversity within medical industries.” The Northeast Regional helps students prepare the skills needed for acceptance into medical school. They have bees successful in inspiring minority and disadvantaged students living in New York who don’t think they have the ability or resources to

Dr. Butts teaching to Middle and High School students at Mt. Sinai’s summer program. pursue a career in science or medicine. This past year, 35 out of their most recent group of 55 students were accepted into different pre-med programs all over the country. Dr. Butts has been a leader in the fight for racial and gender diversity in the medical industry. Since heading the diversity programs, Mt. Sinai has become one of the most diverse medical schools, and the hospital has

doubled the percent of Black and Latino faculty and house staff. “Healthy kids translates into healthy communities,” he said. “This begins with decreasing infant mortality, and continues through their educational development. It is my goal to inspire the children of East and Central Harlem to become leaders in science and medicine.”

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East Sider of the Year - Community Builder

HELPING KIDS STAY FIT After being approached by members of the executive board at Asphalt Green in 1994, Carol Tweedy could not picture herself shifting her career in social services to one involved with physical ﬁtness. Once she saw the facilities being built on East 90th Street she realized that improving people’s health was another way for her to help people.

“What I do is all about helping people face life’s challenges. All the things I was doing in my career up until that point was about making people stronger, whether it was a kid on the run from a difficult family setting, or delivering healthy meals to homebound senior citizens,” she explained. This realization supported her decision to become the Execu-

tive Director of Asphalt Green, a position she has held for the past 30 years. Tweedy has been successful in building the non-for-proﬁt organization into one of New York’s most valuable resources, offering sports and ﬁtness programs to our community from its beautiful Upper East Side location. Community service is a core part of their mission, offering health programs to thousands of public school students all over the city. One of their goals at Asphalt Green is to fight the increasing rates of obesity in children. Tweedy and her team developed the Recess Enhancement Program (REP) in 2001 to transform the culture of recess, teaching students how to make the most out their time outdoors. They send their staff to schools where they teach kids new games to play that support positive interaction between the students, and get their heart rates going. The program now services 60 public elementary schools in Manhattan, Brook-

lyn, Queens, and the Bronx, reaching more than 27,500 students. “As we grew, this site became like a hotel with no vacancy. It became clear that we have to take what we know and drive it into communities of need all over the city,” she said. “Another important part of how our community programs developed was when we realized the pitiful conditions of physical education in the city.” Growing up as a pre title IX girl in New York, Tweedy didn’t have access to any sports leagues, so she didn’t realize how important staying active was until a little later in her life. Now an avid swimmer and skier, she advocates physical ﬁtness to all ages. “I realized how transformational being involved in sports and ﬁtness was for me, and I became excited to focus my career on making it more accessible [to New Yorkers].” Beginning with her efforts to improve physical education in East Harlem, Carol Tweedy has done an outstanding job of improving the health of New Yorker’s all over

the city. Using her experience in social services and program development, her focus remains to be on making people stronger to face all the difficulties we encounter in life. “We can’t control the challenges that come to us everyday, and life is full of them,” she said.

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East Sider of the Year - Religious Leader

HELPING THE HELPLESS The Reverend Dr. Michael Brown of the Marble Collegiate Church asks himself one question every day, “Am I willing to live life by the principles of love?” He works to achieve this principle through his work as a reverend, parent, and teacher. He knew he wanted to become a reverend since the time he was 12 after being inspired by his childhood minister, Cecil Hefner. He continued a close relationship with Hefner until his death, continuing to reach out to him for advice. Dr. Brown hopes to give the same kind of guidance and inspiration to his own congregation. A native of Winston-Salem, N.C., Dr. Brown brings a certain southern charm to his sermons, and encourages his students and congregation that vulnerability is an important part of life. Education has been a theme throughout his entire career as a spiritual leader. “It is always exciting to work with people who are getting

“You will be so much happier if you find a cause to get involved with, it’s important to be a part of things than are bigger than we are.” started on the journey that I’ve been on for so many years,” he said. “Education gives me the platform to come into that mentor role. Hopefully I can influence my students and offer them the same kind of guidance that I have received over the years.” Dr. Brown has enjoyed his move to New York City, and continues to find new ways to feel at home here with his wife Page. A lover of soul and jazz music, the reverend finds inspiration at various east side jazz clubs. They escape the city noise by fre-

quenting Arthur’s Tavern, Groove New York, and the Garage. “Loving yourself, and genuine self care is what facilitates our ability to help those in need,” he said. “There are so many causes that deserve attention, and Dr. Brown encourages his congregation to ﬁnd one they can connect with. “It doesn’t matter who you choose to help, but it’s important that we try to give back to our communities,” he said. “We have to try and be a part of something bigger than ourselves.” Under his leadership, Marble Collegiate Church has partnered with over 50 helping agencies, local, national, and global. Dr.

Reverend Dr. Michael Brown Photo by Mary Newman Brown likes to focus his efforts on helping children, and most notably his ﬁght against childhood sexual abuse and ﬁnding ways to help the 123,000 homeless teens in New York. Reverend Dr. Michael Brown has an incredibly positive and loving energy, one that he has been

sharing with New York since joining the Marble Collegiate Church. “My father always said I could make a living working or talking, and I chose talking,” he said. The east side community is thankful he chose talking because of his efforts to help those in need across the city.

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The only time Jesus ever used the word command was when he told us ‘I command thee to love one another,’ and that is what inspires the work that I do.”

East Sider of the Year - Bravest & Finest

CONNECTING TO COMMUNITY Knowing he wanted to ﬁnd a career that allowed him to help people, Michael Lombardi was inspired to become a NYPD Police Officer after hearing stories from his two older cousins. His career took off quickly after graduating from the police academy in September of 2004, leading him to his current position of Community Affairs Advisor. Always considering himself a people person, Lombardi immediately enjoyed connecting with people in the community. He has been assigned to the 19th Precinct since 2005, and has really gotten to know the diverse Upper East Side community. “I like to talk to people, I could talk to a wall if I had to,” he said. “It’s a good way to get to know people, and I’ve learned that it’s the best way to really ﬁnd out what’s

Grew up in Levvitown, NY – attended Holy Trinity High School and Nassau Community College. 86th and Lex is his favorite location in the 19th precinct Enjoys getting his lunch from the food truck outside of Hunter College on 68th street – right around the corner from his office

“ I’m not trying to be a superhero, I just try to do my job. I like doing my job.” going on.” He has gained extensive experience patrolling the Upper East Side, handling things ranging from a building explosion to working with the local community board members on issues of traffic safety. His office is ﬁlled with visual proof of the dozens of daily tasks he has as Community Affairs Advisor, set to a non-stop pace of phone calls and emails that he receives 24/7. If he has time to escape, Lombardi likes to grab some coffee at Stargate Diner on East 86th street and people watch. He catches up on current events during his commute from Long Island, where he lives with his wife and newborn baby boy. Since his current position requires more administrative responsibilities, Lombardi doesn’t spend as much time “on the ground” as he did in the beginning of his career. He makes sure to stay connected to the community by constantly attending the 79th Street Neighborhood Association, and responding to every concern that might land on his desk.

“The biggest difference between the start of my career was back then it was my job to hand out tickets, or summons after something had gone wrong. Now it’s about ﬁxing the situation before it happens, and now I’m the guy working to make sure things run smoothly,” he explained. “I’m constantly asking the question, ‘What can we do to help?’ and trying to listen to what the neighborhood wants.” Lombardi has seen change in his 10 years of patrolling the neighborhood, and he applies that experience to his approach as the Community Board Advisor. Most notably, the completion of the 2nd Avenue subway has attracted younger people to live in the traditionally older community. A goal of his has been to get the younger residents involved in the area through the various community boards and council meetings. Walking through the 19th precinct, Lombardi brought an infectious smile to anyone that crossed his path. He brings a young fresh perspective to his position, constantly brainstorming ideas on how to better the community, and genuinely listening to needs of Upper East Side residents.

Officer Lombardi inside his office at the 19th Precinct Photo by Mary Newman

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East Sider of the Year - Philanthropy

FINDING PEOPLE WORK After moving to New York in 1967, George McDonald spent the first 15 years of life as a New Yorker working in the apparel business and spending time with celebrities like Joe Namath. “It was an exciting time to be alive in New York City, except I started fighting with that internal conflict of stepping over a homeless person in the doorway after spending a couple hundred dollars on lunch,” he explained. Wanting to do more for the homeless, he began by simply handing out sandwiches to the homeless in Grand Central Terminal. That has grown into the non-profit organization The Doe Fund that he founded in 1985. He now runs the organization with is wife Harriet Karr-McDonald, helping thousands of homeless and formerly incarcerated people every year. The pair met at the funeral of April Savino, a spirited homeless girl they had both come to know separately. In his time spent handing out food to the homeless, McDonald came to know Savino, and Harriet became close with her while doing research for a screenplay on the homeless

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“We do three things; we get money from the government, we raise private donations, and we generate our own revenue through the work we do ourselves.” community that had formed in Grand Central Terminal. Both were so saddened after Savino took her own life, they redirected their careers to focus on providing people with a way off the streets. They married three months later, and have continued to collaborate professionally for the past 30 years The Doe Fund provides housing and support to people who are lost in the vicious cycle of homelessness, criminal recidivism, and substance abuse. McDonald knows that it is very easy for people to get trapped into this cycle, and his efforts at the Doe Fund are aimed at ﬁnding more preventative solutions. A large part of what the foundation does is introduce homeless, or those recently released from jail into training programs, giving them skills to ﬁnd jobs. “Growing up I had always seen

myself as a politician, it is what I always wanted to be. I wanted to be President,” he said. “I believe that you should always shoot for the moon.” His political aspirations were a big part of his effort to make legislative changes early on, but he has since realized that working as a non-proﬁt allowed them to help people more directly. Doe serves 700 formerly homeless and incarcerated individuals daily through their largest training program Ready, Willing & Able. This program offers individuals the chance to live in safe housing, ﬁnd support in drug relapse prevention, occupational training, and educational opportunities. The Doe Fund has also developed a group of social enterprises, finding jobs for people who want to give back to their communities. Most notably their Community Improvement Project that cleans and maintains 150 miles of New York City streets. You will see them all over the city wearing their iconic blue uniforms, making our streets a cleaner and safer place. “Over the years I’ve really come

George McDonald of The Doe Fund Photo by Mary Newman to realize that it’s not about the politics,” McDonald said. “The work that I do is very satisfying, and although I had wanted a career in politics it became clear

that you don’t always get what you want, you get what you need. I needed to help people, and I’ve been blessed in being able to do so.”

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East Sider of the Year - Restaurant

FRESH FOOD AND FAMILY Grace Balducci Doria and her family have been bringing delicious food to New York for almost 100 years. The daughter of Louis Balducci, Grace opened up her own marketplace on the Upper East Side with her husband Joseph Doria in 1985. Together they built a thriving gourmet marketplace, feeding the likes of former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Mick Jagger. Together with their restaurant Grace’s Trattoria, the marketplace has become a landmark on the Upper East Side. In a similar spirit to her father, Grace makes sure her marketplace has the largest variety of the freshest food. “If it grows, we sell it,” she told us. The business is now run in collaboration with ﬁve of her six children. The idea of selling prepackaged, homemade food from a counter came from Grace’s mother. She

Joe Jr. goes to P.J. Bernstein’s for his coffee every morning. Her favorite meal to make is Broccoli Rabe with Pasta Her parent’s came to New York from Corato, Italy in 1914

“ I won’t sell anything I won’t eat myself.” Grace would watch her mother prepare peppers, and other vegetables not ﬁt for sale because they were bruised or cracked in some way. Even with its success and expansion, the marketplace still feels extremely homey and welcoming. Customers enjoy fresh deli meats, over 80 varieties of gourmet cheese, and breads prepared daily. They source much of their produce from Hunt’s Point in the Bronx, and receive deliveries of fresh seafood seven days a week. Grace has always run her marketplace as if it were her own kitchen. Often offering cooking tips to her customers, making sure anyone who walks through their door hungry leaves satisﬁed. She used to prepare meals for Lucille Ball and Gary Morton when they were living on the Upper East Side. Lucille wrote her a handwritten note thanking her for the delicious food and describing Grace

as “Mother of the Year,” because of her endless generosity. “She treats our customers and our employees like they are family. She has an ability to make everyone feel special, no matter who she is talking to,” her son Joe Jr. explained. “Customers have always loved that. If they come into the marketplace they see Mom or another family member, and that goes a long way I think. It gives people a sense of loyalty.” This summer they will be changing locations, moving only 4 blocks away to 1299 Second Avenue. There new location will have all the same departments offered in the current marketplace, but they will be adding an espresso bar and open kitchen. Customers will be able to take cooking classes from different New York chef’s who will be featuring their favorite dish. They hope that the new space will offer a place for Upper East Side residents to come and socialize. Grace’s Market Place has been able to remain a family owned and operated business, despite increasing corporate competition.

Gracey Balducci Doria with her son Joe Jr. inside Grace’s Marketplace Photo by Mary Newman Joe Jr. attributes their continued success to their willingness to listen to their customer’s needs. “If we don’t have what you are looking for, whatever it is will be on our shelf the following week,” he said. Grace gave the example of when her father started selling watermelon at Balducci’s in the middle of the winter because a pregnant

customer was craving it. This was unheard of at the time, but her father made sure single customers could ﬁnd what they were looking for. This sense of genuine customer satisfaction can still be found in her own market place today. “It isn’t about where you eat, or what is trendy. What matters to us is making sure people feel at home,” Grace said.

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You can’t get any more market to table than this.” Joe Jr.

East Sider of the Year - Religious Leader

SPIRITUALITY IN EDUCATION The Chabad of the Upper East Side has created an amazing community center on East 77th street where Jewish people of all ages can ﬁnd support and spiritual guidance. Under the leadership of Rabbi Ben Krasnianski, the Chabad has developed dozens of community programs that follow their philosophy of “Love every Jew; educate every Jew; reach out to help every Jew.” They are a part of the worldwide organization Chabad-Lubavitch, coming to the Upper East Side in 1993. In addition to their popular preschool and Hebrew schools, Rabbi Krasnianski has helped developed some unique programs with the hope to share their mission of spreading love and acceptance. “Due to no fault of their own, most Jews haven’t been given the opportunity to have a Jewish education, or relate to their heritage in any meaningful

way,” Rabbi Krasnianski said. “We have made our Chabad a place where everyone can feel at home.” One of their most inspiring programs is The Friendship Circle, a non-profit organization that provides social and recreational programs for Jewish children, teens, and young adults with special needs. They pair local teenagers with special needs children for support through weekly home visits, a Miracle Sports League, Holiday celebrations, and day camps. “New York State offers many different programs helping special need families and their children,” explained Rabbi Krasnianski. “What these programs don’t offer is friendships.” The focus of this organization is their belief that every child should be given the chance to be a productive member of the community, servicing up to 100 special needs

““Our effort is literally non-stop. We open our doors at quarter to 7 every morning, and have some program running during every hour of the day.” children and families of the Upper East Side. This spring, Rabbi Krasnianski and the UES Chabad will hold their second annual Friendship Circle Walk. Last year they gathered 1,000 people to walk a mile around the neighborhood together in an effort to raise awareness and acceptance for children with special needs. Knowledge is the major focus for Rabbi Krasnianski in his work. In addition to The Freindship Circle, and offering traditional Jewish services at the Chabad offers educational programs to college students and adult. They have partnered with Hunter College forming a network of Jewish

students who meet to discuss the Torah. Chabad Young Professionals of the Upper East Side is another network for Jewish East Siders in their 20s and 30s. The program holds different social events and meetings each month, extending a warm welcome to all members of the Jewish community. It is important to Rabbi Krasnianski that the Chabad reach out to the younger generations because they represent the future of the Jewish religion. . “When you look at a child, you’re looking at the future. They are like seeds, and our role is to be the gardener,” he explained. “The smallest scratch in a seed will end up with a crooked tree. Here at Chabad we look at education as something very sacred.” Rabbi Krasnianski is an extremely accepting man, and is runs the Chabad with an open door police, welcoming anyone

is search of spiritual guidance. Their mission reads, “We open our arms and hearts to all, regardless of education or affi liation,” and the Rabbi has shown the Upper East Side community the importance of those words through his work over the past 30 years. To get involved with the Chabad, or any of the programs mentioned you can visit their website at w w w.chabaduppereastside.com.

Rabbi Ben Krasianski outside of Chabad of the Upper East Side Photo by Mary Newman

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East Sider of the Year - Educator

AN INNOVATIVE TEACHER Wh i le ma ny teac hers a re feeling frustrated over the increase of state and federal regulations on education, Beth Pereira has been developing creative new ways to get her students engaged. One example of Pereira’s innovation was when she partnered with Our Town to have her P.S. 6 first grade student’s op-ed letters published. After starting a new opinionwriting unit for her class, she realized that their letters were just being filed away into their folders. “I was the only one reading their opinions, and I needed to give their writing a reason and a purpose. I was teaching them that you can’t just put it in a drawer, you have to get it out in the world.” she said. Pereira uses the same kind of approach in all of her lessons. The increase of testing and curriculum standards can

become overwhelming for her students. “The curriculum is very rigorous, but I always keep in the back of my mind I am teaching 6 and 7 year olds. I want to make sure that whatever we do across the curriculum, I bring some kind of joy to it,” she said. Ma k in g her st udents feel comfortable is extremely impor ta nt. She is con sta nt ly telling them that being wrong is an important part of learning. She compared a recent vocabulary lesson to her own memories of school, explaining their excitement to learn new words. In her own experience, she would have felt embarrassed admitting things she didn’t know to her friends or teachers. Pereira has worked at P.S. 6 for the past 14 years. “I landed exactly in the right place,” she shared. “Kids are the number one priority here. We are con-

stantly trying to elevate the level of learning.” Explaining the point of her curriculum is an important part of how she approaches each lesson. Meaning is important, and she is constantly telling her students why they need to know the things she is teaching them. “I think that if we’re going to be rigorous, and make them do the hard work, we shou ld ex pla in to them why,” she said. A major focus for Pereira is creating memories for her students, and finding time to do activities that don’t require a grade. Her students planned a “fancy dance” to celebrate her engagement. All the students got dressed up, and Pereira spent her Friday night teaching them how to do the box step. Ever y t h i n g she does is rooted in her goal to improve the m inds of her students;

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Teacher Beth Pereira in the PS 6 Library Photo by Mary Newman this means spending a large amount of her free time making sure each family feels supported. “There is love here, that’s the important thing about P.S. 6,” Pereira said. “It’s about the moments, and that’s what I try to focus on.

My st udents a ren’t goi n g to remember the fact that I taught them how to read; they will remember things like getting published in the newspaper. I try to create those special moments for them each year.”

“ I have to grow with the curriculum, I have to grow with the standards, I have to grow with the culture of the school.”

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East Sider of the Year - Healthcare

A HERO OF MEDICINE, HELPING BURN VICTIMS HEAL

Dr. Roger Yurt of New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center Photo by Mary Newman

Dr. Roger Yurt has built an impressive career to become one of the most well-respected surgeons on the world, making Upper East Side residents healthier for the past 35 years. Specializing in trauma, burn surgery, and wound healing, he currently is Chief of the Division of Burns, Critical Care and Trauma at the New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, and is the FDNY Honorary Medical officer. “I was always interested in science and wanted to be a physicist,” said Yurt of his school days. Eventually, medicine won out and Yurt received his M.D. degree at the University of Miami School of Medicine, before performing his initial residency at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas. After receiving his degree, Yurt spent the following several years participating in postdoctoral fellowships and even served on active duty in the Army at the United States Army Institute

of Surgical Research for three years. His connection to New York grew stronger after his experience treating victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “The most impressive thing for me was the response after 9/11,” said Yurt. Yurt’s efforts during this traumatic time in New York’s history drew applause not only from city residents but also from the Royal Academy of Medicine. It held an honorary dinner for the quick response and outstanding work that Yurt and his medical team displayed. Yurt is recognized as the Johnson and Johnson Distinguished Professor of Surgery and is the Vice Chairmen of the Department of Surgery at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. His experience in education has remained an important part of his career, something Upper East Side residents have beneﬁted from directly. “It’s the ability to interact with the community, in not just care, but prevention,” said Yurt.

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East Sider of the Year - Community Builder

CLEANING UP OUR STREETS New Yorkers have become accustomed to the endless stream of advertisements, ranging from the dozens of menus stuffed under our door to the flashing billboards that illuminate Times Square. Everyone would prefer a cleaner city, but we never take the time to clean up a mess if it isn’t our own. William Marquardt has started a movement to improve the cleanliness and quality of life by ﬁghting the intentional defacing of property on the Upper East Side for advertising purposes, graffiti, and garbage matinence. Calling his movement “Improve NYC,” Marquardt has been working to better the visual aesthetic between East 72nd and East 96th streets, considering it the “laboratory for proving that a cleaner New York City is possible.” He has partnered with other community members to decrease the amount of graffiti, stickers, business cards placed by locksmiths, the distribution of menus at the entrances at the entrances of walkup apartments, and ﬂyers taped to lampposts. One of

“ New York City can become known as not only one of the safest large cities in the nation, but also the cleanest.”

his main partnerships has been with the organization CIVITAS, a company dedicated to improving the neighborhood quality of life in the Upper East Side and East Harlem since 1981. Marquardt was raised by two creative parents, and has always identiﬁed as an artist in some way despite never working in art professionally. “I am very good an looking at an area and deciding what needs to be done, needs to be fixed, or cleaned up to make our community look a bit more spiffy,” he explained. “I’ve never been directly involved with design work, but if something is out of order I hone in on the details and get it done.” After moving to New York in 1992

he started noticing the accumulation of flyers taped to lampposts, usually advertising different moving companies. “On a whim one day I decided to take a handful of them down, hoping to make my block look a little better,” he explained. “Then only after a few days, I noticed they were back again. I attempted to remove them several times before realizing that it was going to take an organized effort to get rid of these flyers completely.” Although the flyers were the start of his effort, Marquardt has since extended his effort to fight anything that was disrupting the visual aesthetic of the Upper East Side. He started attending meetings of the East 79th Street Neighborhood Association, and began working with a committee dedicated to getting rid of unattended, and overflowing trash cans. As a result of his collaboration with President Betty Cooper Wallerstein, they have seen drastic changes in the cleanliness of trash cans around the neighborhood. “My membership in the E. 79th Street Association played a key role in broadening the mission

Photos of overﬂowing garbage cans on the Upper East Side taken by community builder William Marquardt for Community Board 10 of Improve NYC,” he said Marquardt and his team have seen success in reporting graffiti on mailboxes directly to the United States Postal Service. “The USPS has repainted or replaced the boxes. As a result today there is only one box in the entire area from 72nd St. to 96th street with un-removed graffiti,” he explained. You can reach out to Marquardt to help his efforts in improving the cleanliness of New York City streets. They

are working to grow large enough to help beneﬁt more neighborhood, the way they have cleaned up the Upper Ease Side. “My immediate goal has been to prove that you can improve these neighborhoods. Improve NYC has been able to prove that it can be done,” Marquardt said. “It takes a lot of perseverance, and I hope to show people that having a clean living space will improve their spirits and overall quality of life.”

East Sider of the Year - Community Builder

GETTING KIDS TO CAMP Growing up, Richard Wasserman remembers spending his summer vacation at his local Y summer camp. He was born and raised on the Upper West Side; he now works as a diamond dealer and jewelry designer on East 47th street. His showroom is located in the heart of the diamond district, and he has been designing breath-taking pieces for almost 20 years. Wasserman has always tried to give back to various charities in both New York and New Jersey for years and tries to instill a sense of generosity to his children. “I have had a very blessed life,” he said. “I always try to give back, it is important to me.” Last summer he found himself in a position to truly live up to

He wants to raise $5,800 dollars in effort to send the 10 children to camp. They only have 1,000 left to raise To donate people can call the Vanderbilt Y at 212-912-2500 and ask for Mary Park. They can also email Richard at rwk14k@aol.com

Wasserman poses with Julia that, and learned what it really means to give back. On his walk to work every morning, he noticed a little girl sitting outside in the heat right outside the entrance to his office. Her mother was handing out ﬂyers for a business nearby, and brought her daughter to work everyday because she couldn’t afford another option. He was stricken with guilt knowing the heat was almost unbearable during his walk, and couldn’t imagine sitting in the humidity like that all day.

“Julia would sit reading or coloring on the sidewalk beside her mother, literally spending her summer on the streets of New York,” he explained. “I remember thinking what is this beautiful little girl doing sitting here like this? One day it had to be 90 degrees outside, and I just couldn’t walk past her anymore,” he described. “After speaking with her mother I learned that they had absolutely no money, and she told me she didn’t want to leave her little girl at home alone.” From that moment he knew he had to ﬁgure something out for this hardworking mother and daughter. He remembered the fun he had attending summer camp at the Y on the Upper West Side as a child, and he knew the Vanderbilt YMCA was only a few blocks from his office. Wanting to help he called up the Vanderbilt Y located on 7th street, here he connected with their Fund Development and Communications Director Mary Park. Since Wasserman was calling in June, all the camps were completely full and there was no more money to fund another camper. However, the staff at the Vanderbilt

Y was very touched by Julia’s story so they made room for her to attend their summer camp. Wasserman helped her fill out the application, and she started attending their soccer camp a week later. “During the middle of the summer I hear a buzz at my office door. We have cameras everywhere for security, and we can see everything. Someone kept buzzing the doorbell and knocking on my door, but I couldn’t see anyone out there,” he told us. Completely confused he answered the door and realized that it was Julia; she was too small to be seen by the cameras. She had paid him a visit to tell him all about her time at camp. “She had such a beautiful summer playing at their soccer camp, and the Y absolutely loved her.” Wasserman has donated to charities in the past, but couldn’t believe how amazing it felt to help someone so directly. Inspired by Julia’s story, he has now partnered with the Y again this summer to help send 10 underprivileged children to camp. “The value of the Y that I experienced, ﬁrst in my own childhood and

Richard Wasserman inside the Vanderbilt Y cardio center Photo by Mary Newman again this past summer has truly inspired me,” he said. “Seeing Julia transform into a Y Camper has motivated me to help more children like her; children I don’t know yet or may never know.”

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Mount Sinai Health System Congratulates Hon. Liz Krueger NY State Senator East Sider of the Year William Bratton & Rikki Klieman NYC Police Commissioner CBS Legal Analyst/Attorney Power Couple Gary Butts, MD Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Mount Sinai Health System Health Care Pro and all of the OTTY Award Recipients

Kenneth L. Davis, MD Chief Executive Officer and President, Mount Sinai Health System Dennis S. Charney, MD Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; President for Academic Affairs, Mount Sinai Health System Jeremy Boal, MD Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Mount Sinai Health System

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FAMILY FUN AT FILM FORUM MOVIES FOR KIDS Long-standing movie theater kicks off fifth season of children’s programming BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO

SOHO When a longtime financial supporter of nonprofit movie house Film Forum expressed concern about the city’s lack of movie programming for children, Karen Cooper, director of the Houston Street cinema, approached Bruce Goldstein, Film Forum’s director of repertory programming, about putting together a children’s film series. “I wanted to do just classics,” said Goldstein, who has run classic programming at Film Forum for more than 25 years. “Even silent films and black and whites.” The inaugural season of Film Forum Jr. kicked off in January of 2013, with the 1957 French classic “The Red Balloon,” which screened to a sold-out theater. Children in the audience took home their own red balloons at the end of the film. Since then, Film Forum has presented more than 50 feature films to young audiences, selling out almost half the screenings. The fifth season of the series opened on Sunday, March 30, with another French film, François Truffaut’s “The 400 Blows,” which corresponds to the start of a three-week Truffaut festival at the theater. Other films in the series, which screen every Sunday at 11:00 a.m., include “The Muppets Take Manhattan,” a newly-restored “Oklahoma!” and Harold Lloyd’s 1923 silent comedy “Safety Last,” presented with live piano accompaniment. Given the heavily-animated visual spectacles that populate the current landscape of children’s cinema,

showing silent films to kids might seem a risky move. But Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin films have been sold-out successes in previous seasons; kids even arrived dressed as Chaplin, in suit jackets and black hats, with mustaches painted on their faces. “The kids recognize that they’re really doing these stunts,” Goldstein said. “You can tell when people do stunts today that it’s CGI, but when you look at Lloyd hanging from a clock, you can tell he’s really dangling above a city street.” Cooper, the director of Film Forum since 1972, sees the age of audiences at cultural events in New York City as an indication of the need for kids art programming. “You can see that the audience for culture in New York—and I’d say everywhere—is graying,” she said. “People at the ballet are older than they were 20 years ago. People at the theater are older. And the same is true for art films and independent films. So we both feel that it’s absolutely critical to develop a young audience that cares about really highquality filmmaking. Not just films about car crashes and aliens and those kinds of things.” There are some fine lines to walk in children’s programming. Goldstein doesn’t select gory, blood-soaked films, though some violence does crop up. But he didn’t shy away from films with heavy subject matter, either; a Father’s Day screening of “To Kill a Mockingbird” and the 1967 film “The Two of Us,” about a Jewish boy living in Nazi-occupied France, are also included in a program that features musicals, physical comedies and Muppets. “If you feed them kiddie stuff exclusively, that’s what their taste is going to be,” he said. “It’s a gradual introYoung movie-goers at the Film Forum Jr. series, dressed as Charlie Chaplin. duction to the adult world.”

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KICKSTARTING A MOVIE CAREER FILM A first-time director makes his debut in a crowd-funded movie BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO

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a lot of red flags,â&#x20AC;? Shah said about working with the inexperienced director. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But the moment I looked at the script and met Ryan, I knew he could direct, even though Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never seen a reel.â&#x20AC;? With Shah on board, Kennedy shot â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Projectionistâ&#x20AC;? in 34 days in 2011, and spent the next few years editing the ďŹ lm, which cost $100,000 to produce. Having privately financed the creation of the film, the pair turned to Kickstarter to fund its independent theatrical distribution, and released the ďŹ lm to campaign donors via digital download. They wrapped their successful campaign last month, and will release the film in New York and Los Angeles in the fall, and expect to have it on streaming platforms by the end of 2014. For crowd funding, the tactic is unique. Most Kickstarter projects rely on donations to

fund development, not distribution of a completed product, and the unorthodox model has garnered attention. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are a lot of ďŹ lms of this size and scope that are made, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really hard to stand out,â&#x20AC;? Kennedy said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mostly, the reason why weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re so excited that the distribution model itself is getting attention is because you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just look at the distribution model. Once people were very, very interested in that, they take a step further and actually look at the ďŹ lm itself.â&#x20AC;? Sitting on a couch next to Shah at the sunny co-working office space they share, Kennedy, now 24, has a wide smile and rarely breaks eye contact. He talks a lot, and quickly, and if he were dressed in a suit rather than a black ďŹ&#x201A;eece, khakis and Nike sneakers, he might make an effective litigator. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to imagine him convincing investorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or Shahâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;of his potential. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I watch a lot of movies, and that was kind of my education in cinema,â&#x20AC;? Kennedy said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything I was doing on set was pure logic. I never read it in a book. It just came to me.â&#x20AC;? Though untrained in the traditional sense, Kennedy did receive some informal grooming. His grandfather was a

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THE PROJECTIONIST Written and Directed By Ryan M. Kennedy Produced by Atit Shah Running Time: 99 Minutes Screening at the Take Two Film Festival at Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Ave., at 2nd Street Wednesday, April 9 at 8:20 p.m. Followed by a Q&A with Director Ryan M. Kennedy, Producer Atit Shah and lead actor Russ Russo Tickets $7.50, available at taketwofilmfestival.com All proceeds from the screening will be donated to the Wounded Warrior Project projectionist, and when Kennedy and his siblings visited their grandparents, they had access to stacks of films and a makeshift movie theater. “He had these bookshelves with VHS tapes and every single movie you could possibly think of,” Kennedy said. “He let us watch anything. He encouraged it.” Even without a theatrical release, the critical response to the movie has been mostly positive. In early March, the film won the Audience Choice Award at the Amelia Island Film Festival in Florida, and will screen locally on Wednesday, April 9 at the Take Two Film Festival, a forum for independent films and emerging artists (all proceeds from the film’s ticket sales will be donated to the Wounded Warriors Project). The festival, which takes place at Anthology Film Archives,

will screen 20 films from seven different countries, and culminates in an awards ceremony. Kennedy was nominated for his directorial debut. Kennedy and Shah, who are planning future projects together, are also pleased with the positive response from veterans who have seen the film and related to Jacob Nicks, the film’s withdrawn, tortured protagonist (played by Russ Russo). “We have veterans say, ‘This is the first thing I’ve ever seen that can even start to explain what I’ve gone through,” Kennedy said. In part because of the efforts behind the grassroots distribution campaign for “The Projectionist,” Kennedy is aware of the limited marketability of his film in a way he wasn’t when he started shooting. “My naivete is why this project got made,” said Kennedy. “Knowing what I know now, I probably wouldn’t make a black and white neo-noir film. I’m glad that I did, don’t get me wrong, but any time [Shah] and I talk about a project moving forward, the first thing is like, ‘can we market this? Can we get it financed? Will there be a market so we don’t have to go through what we went through on this?’ But thank God we did because the fact that the film isn’t really marketable or doesn’t look like it on paper is actually what’s making us stand out.”

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Food & Drink

< DA CAPO OPENS ON MADISON AVENUE Grub Street took a look inside new Upper East Side coffee house Da Capo Aperitivo e Caffè, which had its soft opening in midMarch. Opened by Anastasios Nougos, the barista behind midtown café Zibetto Espresso Bar, Da Capo offers a similarly

In Brief CHANGES TO RESTAURANT GRADING SYSTEM WILL REDUCE FINES Recent changes to restaurant grading rules will minimize fines and provide free consultative support for restaurant owners, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito announced on Friday, March 21. Penalties for violations will be fixed, and restaurant owners can schedule ungraded inspections without the fear of fines, designed to teach about proper food safety and prepare restaurants for their next graded inspection. The health department estimates that the new guidelines will result in a 25 percent reduction in fines. 90 percent of city residents approve of the restaurant grading system, Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett said in a statement. She added that since the implementation of the system in July of 2010, the number of reported incidents of Salmonella in New York City has dropped by 14 percent compared to the rest of New York. Nearly 90 percent of restaurants in New York City currently have an A grade.

WRITERS HONOR LEGENDARY RESTAURATEUR ELAINE KAUFMAN The Table 4 Writers Foundation’s Second Annual Awards Gala honored legendary New York City restaurateur Elaine Kaufman on Thursday, March 27 at the New York Athletic Club at Central Park South, the Wall Street Journal reported. Kaufman, who passed away in 2010, opened her eponymous restaurant on the Upper East Side in 1963, which became a famed respite for some of the city’s great writers. (Elaine’s shuttered about six months after Kaufman’s death). Table 4 Writers Foundation, a nonproﬁt founded in Kaufman’s memory, provides grants for emerging writers. The gala’s awards ceremony honored both prominent writers and actors, including Stuart Woods, Chazz Palminteri and Richard Dreyfuss, as well as promising new talent—grants totaling $12,500 were awarded to ﬁve up-and-coming writers. Also in attendance at the event were Gay Talese and actor Tony Danza, longtime friends of Kaufman’s.

as tiramisu, cannoli and gelato. Da Capo is located at 1392 Madison Ave., between 96 and 97 Streets, and is open Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m., and weekends from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.

THE ETHICS OF FOOD RESTAURANTS The weeklong event celebrates establishments that support their workers BY LAUREN ROTHMAN

New York City Restaurant Week: been there, done that, right? The dining deal that allows city dwellers to get a taste of haute cuisine at a softer price point debuted in the early ‘90s and has since inspired many spinoffs, including Brooklyn Restaurant Week, Chinatown Restaurant Week and Queens Restaurant Week. Next month, the city will add yet another dining deal to its annual roster, but this one has a conscience behind it. High Road Restaurant Week

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classic Italian beverage menu, and features a medium roast from Nougos’ private label in Italy, Grub Street reported. Da Capo also serves light fare, with Panini offerings heavy on Italian cured meats and a lengthy dessert list that includes traditional Italian confections, such

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Chef Colt Taylor speaks about why he started High Road Restaurant Week will run from April 23 to April 30. Participating restaurants are those that have been recognized by the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY)—a labor organization that promotes improved working conditions for restaurant workers—for providing sustainable wages and safe working conditions for their employees. Twenty restaurants in Brooklyn and Manhattan will serve special dishes at somewhat gentler prices. New York City diners’ standards are higher than ever, but few consumers think beyond what’s on their plates to consider what working in a restaurant is like. And the reality, ROC-NY representatives say, is sobering. Both front- and back-of-house “There is a way to maintain high standards without abusing your staff,” said Colt Taylor, executive chef at One if by Land, Two if by Sea, who was

instrumental in organizing the restaurant week. Like all High Road restaurants, One if by Land pays its workers a rate above minimum wage; provides beneﬁts such as healthcare; affords workers both sick and vacation days; and promotes from within the restaurant as opposed to hiring from outside. If New York—a premier culinary destination for most of its history—wants to hold on to its restaurant workers, it needs to step up its game, Taylor said. Over the past few years, the city’s restaurant workforce has eroded as the cost of living continues to skyrocket and underpaid, overworked chefs and cooks bring their talents to fast-growing culinary destinations such as Denver, Austin and Portland, Ore., where the cost of living is lower and the quality of life higher. “This needs to happen in New York ﬁrst,” he said. “We no longer

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have that edge that says, ‘We can treat you however we want because we’re New York City.’” Many foodies strive to pinpoint the origins of their organic produce and learn about the diets of their free-range chickens, but talking labor conditions just isn’t as “sexy,” Taylor said. Steven Picker, the chef and owner of Good Restaurant on Greenwich Avenue, agreed that it’s high time diners paid some attention to the people who create and serve New York’s phenomenal food. “In addition to talking about carrots, it’s great to be talking about people,” he said. High Road Restaurant Week runs from April 23 – 30. For more information, visit highroadny.org.

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My Story

Adding a Sound to the Silence of Bikes BY BETTE DEWING he City Council bill to install chirping traffic signals to tell visibly impaired walkers when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s safe to cross the street is surely a must, but it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t alert them, or anyone else, to a silent bike running a light or riding the wrong way. So keep repeating former parks commissioner Henry Sternâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great truth: â&#x20AC;&#x153;A bicycle can be more frightening than a car, because it is small, swift and silent, and can come at you from any direction!â&#x20AC;? And this was before Mayor Bloombergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goal to ďŹ&#x201A;ood the city with bicycles and bike lanes to protect riders, but prudent walkers had yet

another lane to check, this one, for cyclists who routinely run lights and ride the wrong way. A police officer canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be at every corner, (or any corner, it seems), so until the revolution of all-out enforcement and compliance, we desperately need a softly audible city bike, say, with tiny bells rung by its turning wheels. I hear bicyclists donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want that, but they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have it all in a highdensity city with great public transit, even though elected and appointed officials often say they can. Audibility makes for safer cycling, as well as safer walking. So does visibility like a ďŹ&#x201A;ag or banner attached to a city bikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rear fender. Bikes ridden in the city should only be the low-speed kind. And long overdue is an official license plate for which adult riders would pay an appropriate fee. As nonadult riders are often more responsible for accidents in which theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re involved, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve really got to be seen and heard. Scooter riders do, too. And while bicycles donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

kill â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not like motor vehicles do -- they have, and will, and the injuries inďŹ&#x201A;icted often go unreported. But the greatest overall harm they do is the stress engendered by the countless near misses and always being on guard for this silent machine which can come at you from any direction. This is why Police Commissioner Ben Ward said, when he tried in vain to limit messenger biking hours in midtown: â&#x20AC;&#x153;These bikes are scaring the public to death!â&#x20AC;? My May 1984 Times op-ed piece included a plea for an audible city bike. And if bikes had made a sound, my Pedestrians First group might not have had to hold respective vigils for Rodericaa Monk, 60, and Peggy Ryan, 29, both fatally injured by red-light running messenger bikes. And if the elected officials in 1986 had continued the concern they expressed that day, I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to write about bike lawlessness today. But I am, and also urging the Stuart Gruskin Family Foundation to join this push for audible city bikes. And

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HARLEM REAL ESTATE TOUR THIS WEEKEND The Real Estate Board of New Yor’s residential members are preparing to hold their 2nd Annual Upper Manhattan Committee Harlem Open House Expo, which will take place on Saturday, April 5th and Sunday, April 6th from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The event will kick off at Corner Social res-

taurant at 321 Lenox Avenue, and will include exclusive viewings of co-op, condo, and townhouse listings for sale in East Harlem, Central Harlem, West Harlem and Hamilton Heights. The expo will begin at 9:30 a.m. at Corner Social with an information session and meet-andgreet. Brokers representing ﬁrms including

Aizer Realty, Bohemia Realty, Bold New York, Charles Rutenberg Realty, Citi Habitats, Coldwell Banker, Douglas Elliman, Halstead Property, Harlem Lofts, Harlem Properties, Level Group, Miron Properties, Platinum Properties, The Corcoran Group, and Warburg Realty Partnership will be on hand. Each will host

an open house viewing of an exclusive listing later in the morning. For reservations, contact Desiree Jones at djones@rebny.com, or call Jeanne Oliver-Taylor at (212) 616-5261.

In Brief TIGHT RENTS ON THE U.E.S. If it feels tough to ﬁnd an apartment on the Upper East Side, it is: a report by the Reis real estate information ﬁrm says the vacancy rate in the neighborhood is the lowest in New York. The vacancy rate of 0.5% sent rents up 2.4% during 2013, to an average asking rent in the neighborhood of $3,915. According to Reis, the projects underway to ease the tight supply include the 173-unit building at 1113 York Avenue.

An architectural rendering of the 1,189-unit apartment building on West 57th Street between 11th Avenue and 12th Avenue.

NYC TECH TO HELP WITH PRE-K Crain’s New York Business reports that Mayor Bill de Blasio is seeking assistance in rolling out universal pre-K from the city’s tech sector, now that $300 million in funding has been secured from the state. Next week, the Department of Education will hold a workshop with other city agencies along with representatives from Google, Control Group, a consulting ﬁrm, and Huge, a design and marketing agency, among other companies. The administration is hoping to make signing up for pre-K easy for parents and to avoid the glitches that plagued the rollout of Obamacare earlier this year, according to Crain’s. The city expects approximately 55,000 chilren to enroll in pre-K for the 20142015 school year.

NEW BUILDING COULD STRAIN SCHOOLS NEW CONSTRUCTION City leaders eyeing impact of 1,000+ unit apartment building on Upper West Side BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS

UPPER WEST SIDE City leaders are looking closely at plans for a 1,189-unit apartment building at 606 West 57th Street that’s just received approval from the City Planning Commission. Although the project would create construction jobs and make better use of underdeveloped lots, Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal and Borough President Gale Brewer have reservations that they’re trying to work through with developer TF Cornerstone. “I definitely have some concerns about the project,” said Rosenthal, who as a former chair of Community Board

7 reviewed a proposal for the nearby Riverside Center, a 616-unit project on West End Avenue. “That guides a lot of my thinking about this particular project,” she said. The biggest issue with Riverside Center and the West 57th Street project, she said, is the effect that an inﬂux of residents has on public services. “Most importantly, in my mind, schools,” said Rosenthal. “I really want to work with the Dept. of Education and city planning to do a better job planning for school demand so we don’t have to respond in these crisis situations like we’ve had to in the past.” However, Rosenthal said she feels limited by a lack of options in creating new schools or otherwise mitigating the impact that residential development has on the educational resources of a neighborhood. “I’m committed to ﬁguring out a way

to address the public school needs of this community coming up in the next five, six, ten years,” said Rosenthal. “It’s going to be overwhelming.” Brewer, in a letter to the planning commission, said the proposed project has plans to go into a community that has seen a number of such large developments in recent years, “and has many more in the pipeline.” “The impacts of each of these projects may not reach the level of significant adverse impacts, but the impact of all of the projects taken together is certainly significant,” said Brewer. Shino Tanikawa, president of Community Education Council 2, in which the proposed building will be located, called for a detailed analysis of the western corridor of district 2 that would take into account the educational impact of all recent development in the district that’s occurred. Although

she knows such a study is beyond the responsibilities of TF Cornerstone, she’d like to avoid overcrowding issues that she said are a problem in district 1 due to unchecked development. “Lower Manhattan in district 1 has the worst overcrowding problems because residential development projects were allowed without any consideration for impact on public infrastructure, including schools,” said Tanikawa. “Most of them were as-of-right projects, and the city does not have any mechanisms for requiring developers to contribute to public infrastructure. That is what we would like to see changed. We have to learn from our mistakes and start a different process somewhere.” According to TF Cornerstone’s ﬁnal environmental impact statement, the project wouldn’t adversely impact public high schools or middle schools.

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315 E 65 St.

$1,125,000 2

Douglas Elliman

Sutton Place

25 Sutton Place South

$1,300,000 2

Halstead Property

Beekman

424 E 52 St.

$535,000

Douglas Elliman

Lenox Hill

150 E 61 St.

$385,000

Martin Greenstein

Sutton Place

333 E 55 St.

$585,000

Douglas Elliman

Carnegie Hill

1148 5 Ave.

$4,495,000 3

Douglas Elliman

Lenox Hill

201 E 66 St.

$160,000

Sutton Place

303 E 57 St.

$1,400,000 3

Halstead Property

Carnegie Hill

1435 Lexington Ave.

$2,400,000

Lenox Hill

301 E 63 St.

$130,000

Keller Williams

Sutton Place

300 E 59 St.

$163,051

Carnegie Hill

141 E 88Th St.

$4,995,169 4

Stribling

Midtown E

240 E 55 St.

$429,000

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Turtle Bay

321 E 43 St.

$191,500

Carnegie Hill

152 E 94 St.

$500,000

Corcoran

Midtown E

200 E 57 St.

$749,000

Mercedes Berk

Turtle Bay

319 E 50 St.

$769,000

Brown Harris Stevens

Carnegie Hill

1050 5 Ave.

$2,400,000 2

Midtown E

235 E 57 St.

$585,000

Town Residential

Turtle Bay

142 E 49 St.

$650,000

Carnegie Hill

152 E 94 St.

$600,000

Midtown E

153 E 57 St.

$365,000

Corcoran

Turtle Bay

335 E 51 St.

$495,000

Douglas Elliman

Lenox Hill

1175 York Ave.

$800,000

Murray Hill

123 E 37 St.

$395,000

Halstead Property

Turtle Bay

333 E 45 St.

$665,000

Douglas Elliman

Lenox Hill

301 E 62 St.

$1,595,000 3

Douglas Elliman

Murray Hill

211 Madison Ave.

$2,112,012

Core

Turtle Bay

142 E 49 St.

$490,000

Lenox Hill

520 E 72 St.

$315,000

Brown Harris Stevens

Murray Hill

211 Madison Ave.

$2,060,500 2

Core

Turtle Bay

251 E 51 St.

$710,000

Halstead Property

Lenox Hill

655 Park Ave.

$16,000,000 5

Douglas Elliman

Murray Hill

415 E 37 St.

$1,850,000

Turtle Bay

310 E 46 St.

$732,000

Halstead Property

Lenox Hill

220 E 65 St.

$1,600,000 2

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Murray Hill

320 E 42 St.

$410,000

Upper E Side

23 E 74 St.

$1,100,000

Lenox Hill

200 E 66Th St.

$2,800,000

Murray Hill

201 E 36 St.

$729,000

Douglas Elliman

Upper E Side

311 E 75 St.

$260,000

Corcoran

Lenox Hill

250 E 65 St.

$10

Murray Hill

211 Madison Ave.

$2,642,358 2

Core

Upper E Side

157 E 75 St.

$425,000

Warburg

Lenox Hill

404 E 66 St.

$730,000

Douglas Elliman

Murray Hill

25 Tudor City Place

$460,000

Steven Corcoran

Upper E Side

188 E 76 St.

$2,300,000 2

Corcoran

Lenox Hill

205 E 63 St.

$1,600,000 3

Halstead Property

Murray Hill

160 E 38 St.

$593,000

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Upper E Side

205 E 78 St.

$408,000

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Lenox Hill

422 E 72 St.

$1,295,000 2

Brown Harris Stevens

Murray Hill

50 Park Ave.

$590,000

Upper E Side

1035 5 Ave.

$2,400,000 2

Stribling

Lenox Hill

360 E 72 St.

$449,500

Douglas Elliman

Murray Hill

305 E 40 St.

$450,000

Douglas Elliman

Upper E Side

225 E 74 St.

$552,000

Corcoran

Lenox Hill

200 E 66Th St.

$4,785,775

Murray Hill

25 Tudor City Place

$250,000

Lenox Hill

1175 York Ave.

$350,000

Douglas Elliman

Murray Hill

2 Tudor City Place

$656,500

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300 E 71 St.

$740,000

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Murray Hill

155 E 38 St.

$555,000

Citi Habitats

Lenox Hill

167 E 61 St.

$695,000

Douglas Elliman

Sutton Place

300 E 55 St.

$2,775,000 2

Heller Organization

Lenox Hill

200 E 66Th St.

$2,392,887

Sutton Place

300 E 55 St.

$1,545,000 1

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YOUR FIFTEEN MINUTES

DRAWING FROM LIFE IN NEW YORK Q&A Artist Nathan Pyle on standing at subway entrances, checking out at the 42nd St. Library, and navigating the city in crutches BY ANGELA BARBUTI

Nathan Pyle is sure to earn the respect of natives and newcomers alike with his ﬁrst book, NYC Basic Tips and Etiquette. In the cartoons he’s created, he hopes to teach transplants how to survive in New York by taking a light-hearted approach to the positives and negatives of daily life here. In the process, he also manages to entertain city veterans by reinforcing situations that have undoubtedly become second nature to them. The 31-year-old Ohio native moved to Manhattan in 2008 and started putting his work online last year in the form of animated GIFs. In just a few weeks, he already had a book deal.

Nathan Pyle draws cartoons to help newbies navigate the city.

Brooklyn Bridge.

When did you ﬁrst put the GIFs online? One year ago at the end of March. I had this idea for a while. I wanted to try and draw some New York-based humor because I had been here for four and a half years at that point. I wanted to make something that someone might buy. Sure enough, someone did buy it. HarperCollins called me up

I’m from New York and think you did a great job with this book. Awesome. I always hope to get an approval from natives. It’s a big deal to me.

You said you take inspiration in Manhattan. Where? There are so many seats in front of windows in the city. Especially for this book, I found that those were the best places to sit and draw, and kind of watch the city go by. I have all these secrets places that people with laptops haven’t discovered yet. I have to keep them secret. I go to coffee shops and cafés all throughout the city. I’ll even walk to Brooklyn two or three times a week because I don’t live far from the

time I saw people doing something in Central Park that was unusual. I think it was the fact that people would just sunbathe in normal clothes. I remember seeing a lot of people playing weird sports on the Great Lawn. Sports that I didn’t think were really sports, but just games they were making up. I was thinking, ‘This is exactly what Central Park is all about. You have all this space here and we all have all this pent-up energy because we don’t have any grass.’ It’s like never having a lawn as a kid and wanting to go to the park. It’s such a big deal.

One joke you mention is that people can’t check books out at the 42nd St. Library. a few weeks after. That was really my hope, that someone would reach out to me like that.

You have a cartoon in showing how anything can go on in Central Park. What is the weirdest thing you’ve ever seen there? I remember the very first

Yeah, right. [Laughs] A lot of people make that mistake. I sure did. I thought, ‘I’m gonna go and check out a book at the famous library.’ You’re going to have to learn over time that a lot of the things that you assume, you just have to go try them.

The cartoon showing two dif-

never been on before.

ferent kind of brunches - traditional and trendy - is so accurate. Where are your favorite brunch spots? [Laughs] I went to a really loud brunch on accident one time. Which is fine, if that’s what you want. But I wasn’t planning on it, I was planning to talk to someone and it wasn’t the atmosphere I expected. I had no idea there would be loud brunches; I didn’t know they were an option. Café Orlin in the East Village is one of my favorites. On reason is because I love French toast and they have a really good one there. And then down near me, there’s a place called Vin et Fleurs. It’s kind of off the beaten track in SoHo.

You also show how everyone from residents to tourists needs maps to get around. One of my cartoons is just a big map of the city where I’m saying a lot of tourists come and think they’ve explored New York because they wandered around Midtown for a while. The point is that part of the reason we need maps is because this is a huge place. There are many times where I’m on some street that I’ve

Giving money to the homeless is the theme of another cartoon. You mention that people can also give to charities like the Bowery Mission. What’s that? That’s one of the oldest missions in the city. The Bowery Mission is an organization that helps people get back on their feet. What’s neat is that they do a lot of comprehensive stuff, like helping people with their resume. It’s really about helping people get back into the working world which is obviously a huge deal.

A major tip you give is to not stand at the entrance of the subway. Not a good place to stop. People stop because that’s the last chance they have to use their phone for most stations. It’s natural for them to want to stand there, but the idea is it’s really easy to stand off to the side. And I see people do it the right way all the time.

You also explain that without the privacy of cars, New Yorkers are forced to show emotion on the subway. I’ve deﬁnitely cried in Penn Station a few times. [Laughs] We’ve all cried.

There are so many examples of seeing people cry in public and on the train. There’s really not much that raises anyone’s eyebrows in the city. Like no one thinks, ‘Oh, look at that guy crying.’ Everyone’s just going about their business. We’re all experiencing this great spread of emotion-some of us are having wonderful days and others are having the worst days everbut we’re all right next to each other on the train.

You said that people here inspire you to do better. Can you give an example of that? Last year, I was on crutches and that was the worst, being on crutches in Manhattan. There were people opening doors and holding things for me, this is the nicest place in the world. I had so many people say, ‘Hey, I was on crutches not long ago. I know how bad it is.’

GET THE BOOK The book is available on April 15th, in print and as an animated eBook. Follow Nathan on Twitter: @ nathanwpyle

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