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City council members drafting legislation to prevent unequal access to amenities in apartment buildings BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS
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Following several recent reports of buildings on the Upper West Side that bar rent-regulated tenants from using amenities such as gyms, playrooms and roof gardens, City Council members Corey Johnson and Mark Levine are drafting legislation that would prevent such discrimination. Louis Cholden-Brown, the legislative affairs director for Johnson, said the bill is currently being drafted and will seek to change the NYC Human Rights Law in a way that would, “bar discrimination on the class of tenancy.” Developers and management companies use amenities as a way to attract market-rate tenants, and in some buildings, prevent rent-regulated tenants or others who participate in some form of subsidized housing from using facilities in the building such as fitness centers, pools, playrooms, rooftop green spaces or storage areas. The practice has received a fair amount of media attention, but until now, little by way of an official reaction or response. Councilman Mark Levine said one of the most egregious cases is occurring at Stonehenge Village, an apartment building on West 97th Street, where a sign on the gym door advises marketrate tenants not to hold the door for their regulated counterparts, and that only market-rate tenants should have access to the gym. “This is a rapidly growing problem at a time when so many buildings are converting market-rate, and my district has a large number of them because we have so many legacy buildings,” said Levine. Levine said he finds himself having a “very visceral reaction to the idea that in someone’s own home they can walk by a sign saying that because of
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CALLING ALL TEACHERS EDUCATION CUNY develops its own crash course in finding and training 1,000 new pre-K teachers BY MARY NEWMAN
While students across the city celebrate the final months of school, the Department of Education is coming to grips with the fact that the deadline to hire 1,000 new PreK teachers by fall 2014 is fast approaching. Since implementing his Universal Pre-K plan, Mayor de Blasio has faced criticism over the scope of the project, and concerns that there’s too much to be done to be ready by September. The administration has defended itself by insisting that the only potential speed bumps preventing the success of the program are financial. Since Gov. Andrew
Cuomo’s promise to fully fund the program through existing state revenues, the microscope now falls on the city’s execution. The Department of Education has formed a $6.7 million partnership with City University of New York to develop a fast-paced training and certification program to hire the 1,000 pre-K teachers needed for the fall. CUNY has partnered with the NY Early Childhood Professional Development Institute in developing two options for recruiting and training 400 new teachers by fall 2014. “We realize that this isn’t an easy undertaking, but the Department of Education knew it had to be proactive in accomplishing the goals set out by Mayor de Blasio,” explained Executive Director Sherry Clearly. “Our focus is to elevate early childhood education, and identify and train the best teachers that apply.”
The first group of people they are targeting for recruitment are those with a bachelor’s degree, who want to make a career change into teaching. The DOE has been running advertisements around the city to inform people of the Fast Track Study Plan. Participants will receive full academic and financial support to assist them during the 14-month Master’s program. One of the most important requirements for all applicants is that they have a B-2 certification (birth to 2nd grade early education). The second group of people that the DOE is recruiting are teachers who hold Master’s Degrees but aren’t B-2 certified. Both options are going to be offered at five CUNY campuses; City College, Brooklyn College, Lehman College, Queens College, and Hunter College.
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Assemblyman Dan Quart has endorsed democrat Rebecca Seawright in her candidacy for the NYS Assembly’s 76th District. The seat is currently held by Micah Kellner, who announced in February he would not be seeking re-election. “Rebecca Seawright will be a great partner in representing communities in Community Board 8 in the New York State Legislature,” said Quart in a statement released exclusively to Our Town. “She’s a dedicated and effective voice for our neighborhoods and our values, and I know that she will be a passionate and determined advocate for all New Yorkers. Quart represents Assembly District 73, which runs parallel and below the 76th District on Manhattan’s East Side. In addition to Quart, Seawright has the endorsements of Comptroller Scott Stringer, Borough President Gale Brewer, Public Advocate Letitia James and the East Side Democratic Club, among others.
MALONEY: 2ND AVENUE SUBWAY MILESTONES Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, who vowed last July to hold the MTA accountable for hitting milestones in the 2nd Avenue subway project, announced that phase one will be completed by December 2016, as planned. Phase one involves the completion of tunnel and track work between 96th Street and 63rd Street, where the 2nd Avenue line will hook up with the Q Train. Maloney said that portion of the track will serve 200,000 New Yorkers on day one. “The MTA has all of the federal and state funding needed to build the project, the designing is all done, tunneling is finished and blasting operations have been completed,” Maloney said.
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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS CHECK A robbery at this Upper East Side pharmacy led to a police chase after the suspect was identified by a GPS tracking device.
OFFICERS SHOOT, KILL SUSPECT WHO SHOWED GUN At least four uniformed New York City police officers shot and killed a man suspected of taking drugs and cash from an Upper East Side pharmacy after the man raised his weapon at them, police said Friday. It wasn’t clear how many shots were fired during the shooting, which occurred around 2 p.m. beneath an underpass of the FDR Drive at 96th Street, but it didn’t appear the suspect fired his 9 mm handgun at police, they said. The unidentified suspect, who police described as a man in his 40s, was shot while alone in a car that got stuck in traffic following the 1:40 p.m. robbery some 30 blocks away. Police said he was tracked to the Upper East Side by canvassing officers but wouldn’t confirm whether any of the stolen pill bottles were fitted with GPS devises, police said. Last year, the New York Police Department announced the initiative to put the devices in pill bottles after a spate of high-profile crimes associated with the thriving black market for oxycodone and other prescription drugs. They said the suspect demanded drugs and cash after going behind the pharmacy counter with a weapon. It wasn’t clear how much money or what drugs he took. A woman who answered the phone at Health Source Pharmacy said the store’s manager was being interviewed by
detectives and declined further comment. The four officers were being treated at a hospital for tinnitus. The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators are looking into whether the suspect in Friday’s shooting was responsible for at least three previous robberies at the pharmacy, dating back to last December, in which a man filled a brown paper bag with Oxycodone, Viagra and Cialis. AP
WORRIES OVER ROOSEVELT ISLAND TECH BUILDING DNAinfo.com reported that some Upper East Side residents are concerned about a new 26-story residential tower planned for the Roosevelt Island. The building will be part of the Cornell Tech campus, and locals have expressed worries over its potential to block views of the Ed KochQueensboro Bridge. Representatives from the university presented renderings of the 270,000 square-foot building, which will house about 500 graduate students, faculty and staff, to Community Board 8 last week. “I feel that this this building is very disrespectful to the bridge,” said community board member Teri Slater. “We’ve been able to look from Manhattan to the bridge for maybe 100 years. Why go with the tower form when it will obscure that view?” The Cornell reps responded that the
school must balance its need for space with the requirement that the campus be designed with 20 percent open public space, so wider, lower-rise buildings aren’t viable options. DNAinfo.com
MORE GYMS FOR MANHATTAN Gyms and boutique fitness centers are becoming ever more ubiquitous in Manhattan’s commercial real estate landscape, the Wall Street Journal reported. According to a report from real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield Inc., the number of leases signed for gyms and studio space in Manhattan last year was 22, up from 9 the previous year. While the concentration of new gyms has been in Midtown South, where many new tech companies are headquartered, and in Chelsea, the leases span the length of Manhattan and show an increased interest in fitness from local residents who are sure to flock to the new spots. The leases catalogued in the report include those for the high-end Equinox Holdings Inc., as well as lower-cost chains like Planet Fitness, and popular indoor cycling centers like SoulCycle and Flywheel Sports. Real estate experts say that having access and proximity to fitness centers has become increasinglin important for both renters and buyers in the market. Wall Street Journal
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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG BLOODY NUISANCE
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Someone stole a man’s bike while he was donating blood. At 11:25 AM on Saturday, May 10, a 66-year-old man chained and locked up his bicycle outside a blood donation center. After he had given blood, he exited the center only to ďŹ nd that his chain had been clipped and his bike was missing. There were no cameras recording the incident. The stolen bicycle was valued at $1,200.
The bank account of a local business was compromised. At 8:30 PM on Monday, May 5, the 44-year-old male owner of a local minimart learned that ďŹ ve unauthorized withdrawals had been made at ATM machines totaling $1,400. He still had his business debit card in his possession.
SMASH AND DASH A group of men smashed the window of a restaurant. At 2:45 AM on Saturday, May 10, several men were walking by a restaurant, when one of them punched and smashed the front window. The restaurant’s bartender came out and ran after the rowdy crew, but could not catch them. There is no video of the incident.
SHAVING HER SAVINGS Someone made unauthorized withdrawals from a woman’s savings account. At 10:50 AM on Friday, May 9, a 34-year-old woman checked her savings account balance and saw that $2,100 was missing. She called her bank and discovered that there had been ďŹ ve unauthorized withdrawals from ATM machines, though she still had her debit card in her possession.
19TH PRECINCT Report covering the week 5/5/2014 through 5/11/2014 Week to Date
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CELEBRATING AN UNLIKELY CAREER PROFILE The State Senate honored East Sider Fortuna Calvo-Roth with a 2014 Woman of Distinction award for her lifetime of work in media and communications BY CAITLIN OCHS
EAST SIDE It took five plane changes and 30 hours for 17-yearold Fortuna Calvo-Roth to reach Columbia, Missouri from Lima, Peru. It was 1952, and Calvo-Roth was determined to study at the Missouri School of Journalism. At the time, it was unusual for women to travel alone, and even more rare for women to pursue college educations. For a 17 year-old to relocate to another continent without knowing anyone was unheard of. For those who know Calvo-Roth, the move showed precisely the level of courage and determination that earned her a successful career in communications at a time when few women were present in the newsroom. This month, Sen. Liz Krueger (D-NY) recognized Calvo-Roth’s remarkable achievements, by naming her a 2014 Woman of Distinction. “When Senator Krueger’s office called for public nominations, Fortuna immediately came to mind,” said Pat O’Connell, a colleague of Calvo-Roth’s who also led a successful career in communications. “The nomination wrote itself, the only problem really was that there was so much to say.” Looking at the last half-century of Calvo-Roth’s work, is difficult to choose an accomplishment to highlight. She finished Missouri’s four-year journalism program in two and a half years by taking exams to waive coursework, enrolling in summer sessions, and working at a local paper for credit. As a reporter, she worked her way up through the ranks, starting as a New York correspondent for the Brazilian weekly Visao. Her work landed her a job at Vision, a nationally syndicated magazine, where she covered national and global affairs and served as a war correspondent, before becoming Editor-In-Chief. Ultimately, Calvo-Roth became the Editorial Director of Vision Inc. “When I found the job with Vision, it was legwork,” she remembers. “I went into the office, and asked for the personnel manager, who wouldn’t even let me into her office. She sat me on a bench and said ‘can you take short hand.’ And I realized she thought I was asking a job as a secretary and I said, no, I want a job as a reporter. Can I speak to the editor? I can wait all day…so she didn’t know what to do, and so she left to talk to the managing editor…when she came back, she said he would see me.” In addition to being the youngest editor at the magazine, CalvoRoth was the only woman who held a top editorial position at a news magazine at the time. To reach the highest level, she had to gamble her job. “In 1964, I was up for the top job with Vision, and my boss said, ‘Fortuna, we’ve decided to give your co-editor the job.’ And I said why? This is a Spanish-language magazine, he doesn’t speak Spanish fluently, I’ve been on the job longer and have seniority, I know I can do this job,” Calvo-Roth said. “My boss said, ‘we have three very good reasons. The first is you’re a woman, and this is a man’s magazine; number two, you’re very young; and number three,
Fortuna Calvo-Roth in Central Park. Photo by Caitlin Ochs you’re Jewish.’ And, at the time, they could say that because this was 1964 and before equality was truly under legal protection.” When her boss asked her if she understood, she assured him that she did – and also that she wouldn’t be sticking around the job to work under someone who didn’t deserve the position. “And then they said, ‘wait, let’s not make rash decisions’ – and I ended up with the job,” she said. Despite these challenges, Calvo-Roth chose to focus on creating opportunities and pursuing her passion instead of her unequal treatment. “It’s difficult to understand, it was just a different culture. At the time, we weren’t thinking about it in terms of being discriminated against, it was part of life,” said Calvo-Roth. “When you’d come up against an experience, either you handled it, or you moved on. You didn’t dwell on it…I don’t know how many times I heard, that just isn’t done, but I just kept going.” In addition to her successful journalism and editorial career, Calvo-Roth taught U.S. and Latin American Politics courses at Hofstra University and NYU, and is a past-president of New York Women in Communications. She currently co-owns an audio books company with her son, and lives with her husband of 57 years. At a ceremony last week, Sen. Krueger presented Calvo-Roth the Women of Distinction award in Albany, New York. “Senator Krueger called to tell me herself, and we had a long conversation,” Calvo-Roth said of her nomination. “It was very exciting, from the very moment Pat suggested nominating me, to receiving the award. An after the ceremony, the Senator took us to dinner with her staff, the whole experience was truly lovely.”
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A NEW PLACE FOR PAINTINGS COMMUNITY ART Local non-profits give art a permanent home at the Stanley Isaacs Center BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO
YORKVILLE Some of New York City’s most famed cultural institutions call the Upper East Side home, with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the National Academy peppering Museum Mile along Fifth Avenue. The Frick Collection, the Whitney Museum and a slew of prestigious art galleries populate the uptown blocks as well. But for many residents, access isn’t synonymous with proximity. The Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center, a social services and community organization with a base at the New York City Housing Authority’s Holmes Towers and Isaacs Houses on First Avenue and 93rd Street, is working to make New York’s cultural landscape more accessible to some of the city’s youngest residents. The Isaacs Center has partnered with Art Connects New York, an organization that brings artwork to social service agencies, to place a permanent installation in its youth center. The exhibition, “Animalis,” focuses on nature and the environment and introduces the work of 18 contemporary artists to the center. The exhibition opened on Thursday, May 15, and was curated by Kirsten Flaherty, a Queens-based printmaker who pulled together friends and colleagues to donate pieces to the exhibition. “I really wanted to show the kids, just kind of expose them to all the different kinds of mediums of printmaking,” said Flaherty, who studied at the School of Visual Arts. “When I was growing up, I didn’t even hear about printmaking until college, and then I just kind of fell in love with it. So I thought it would be a great thing to show the kids it’s an option.” Of the 70 elementary school children the Isaacs Center
serves in its after-school program, around 60 live in the surrounding Holmes Towers and Isaacs Houses, many of whom attend the Yorkville Community pensive, curious monSchool six blocks south. key. “When we have young people As part of the partnership, who go to school a few blocks Flaherty and her fellow artists away and come to our after- will return to the center this summer for silkscreen workshops. Nadine Butterfield, an artist involved in the exhibition, works with children at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and recognizes the essential benA family might not efits of bringing art to young people. have the opportunity “They don’t quite yet have the or time or resources vocabulary for things, and art to visit museums and comes from a wordless place,” get exposed to all this Butterfield said at the show’s different culture. If the opening. “For myself growfamily can’t do it, and ing up it was a therapy for me. if the school can’t do it, It opens our eyes to a different we have to provide that world, just like books do.” space for the children we The Isaacs Center also operates a senior program, proserve.” vides youth employment and Greg Morris, president and executive director of the Isaacs job training and delivers food through Meals on Wheels. Center Though open to any resident in school program, that can be a the five boroughs, 85 percent of very narrow slice of the world,” those served at the Isaacs Censaid Greg Morris, president ter live in NYCHA housing or are and executive director of the underemployed, and the center Isaacs Center. “We’re bring- embraces the the immediate ing the culture here and that community in the adjacent then inspires us to open up our housing developments. doors and keep encouraging our While New York is a fine art young people to see the world as and cultural mecca, more than a much larger space.” 25 percent of the city’s public The center, located on the first middle and high schools do not floor of a NYCHA residence, employ a full-time art teacher. wasn’t especially inviting, Mor“Our job is to equalize opporris said, and in preparation for tunities for children and famithe installation, Isaacs Center lies who are working poor, who staff gave the center fresh coats are struggling, who are trying of red, white and blue paint, and very hard to make ends meet,” brought in plants and comfort- said Morris. “A family might not able furniture to warm up the have the opportunity or time or environment. The youth cen- resources to visit museums and ter includes classrooms and a get exposed to all this different small library, and the artwork culture. If the family can’t do it, lines the red-walled hallway. and if the school can’t do it, we The print-heavy installation have to provide that space for includes many black-and-white the children we serve.” pieces, including Flaherty’s “Footprint II,” an etching of a
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< UNEQUAL BUT FAIR Just as were the rent controlled tenants at 845 West End Ave, I too was “rankled” by the story of “Unequal Access.” However what rankled me was how obtuse these tenants are to the simple basics of economics. The new fitness and play rooms were not paid for by their below market rents. They were paid for
by the owners of the condo apartments and consequently those owners have the right to use their property as they see fit. One of the tenants was quoted as saying the new facilities should be free for all to use because the “rent is too high already.” Well those facilities didn’t just appear out of thin air. Someone paid for
them and guess what? It was the condo owner, not the renter. Those condo owners would be justifiably upset if they wanted to use the exercise room and found all the equipment being used by renters who didn’t contribute a dime to the facilities. It’s a matter of fairness. Bob F.,
West Sider since 1974
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Feedback BUSINESS ROOMMATES The idea I have, not to keep small business but to bring in new small business is this; although I am not sure if it is feasible. Why not have new owners share space, and therefore the cost of rent might be manageable? If there are two businesses, perhaps their products might complement each other, e.g. muffins, croissants, etc. and the other side might be variety of coffees and teas. Apartment rents are so high so there are roommates. Bunny Abraham, Upper East Side
ANOTHER GOODBYE TO A LOCAL MAINSTAY Lee’s Market had operated on the corner of First Avenue and E. 78th Street since the 1980s. When their lease was up, they couldn’t afford the increase.
A GOOD ARGUMENT AGAINST HORSE CARRIAGES As a long-time supporter of the movement to Ban Horse Carriages in NYC, I agree with Elizabeth Forel’s recent op-ed entitled, “The Argument for Banning Carriage Horses.” I am especially puzzled by the claim made by the carriage trade that they run a $15-$19M business - when as a cash only business, it must be rather difficult to prove such a worth, let alone use it to discourage a ban. I do not feel that having a horse-drawn carriage ban in NYC will cause horses to be sent to slaughter, nor do I believe that the movement is fueled by any kind of a land grab. This movement to ban horsedrawn carriages in NYC was begun and is supported by animal lovers (such as myself) because we feel that having horses pulling carriages in 21st Century NYC traffic is both inhumane to the horses and dangerous to both people and horses. Not so long ago, smoking in restaurants and public places was thought to be “traditional” and necessary to keep those places in business, but now that smoking is banned, those businesses are still thriving, and we are all better off health-wise as a result of the smoking ban. I believe the same will happen as a result of the horse-drawn carriage ban. Deborah Thomas, Upper West Side
A resident laments the loss of a neighborhood bodega BY LISA KLITSES
UPPER EAST SIDE Today Lee’s Market closed. Lee’s Market is a bodega, if you will, that has been on our corner of First Avenue and East 78th Street since, at least, the 1980s. Their lease was up and they could not afford the increase. Lee’s was a small business open 24/7, a rarity in these parts of town. On the 78th Street side of the building, there was an abundance of flowers and someone always cre-
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ating beautiful bouquets. Whatever flowers or trees were applicable for the holidays, they would have them lined up on the sidewalk to sell. During Christmas, there would be a row of trees that smelled amazing! If you needed anything from candles, batteries or milk for your coffee, they had it. During snow storms, black outs or your last minute needs, they always provided our neighborhood with supplies. They helped to keep our neighborhood safe, as their lights were always on. I will miss this mom-and-pop Associate Publishers, Seth L. Miller, Ceil Ainsworth, Kate Walsh Classified Account Executive, Susan Wynn
store, the owners and their employees. Not only have we lost them, but also, they lost their livelihoods. They served our neighborhood with their smiles, presence and ability to always be there when you really needed them. I feel sad! Not only because they are leaving, but also because they represent how our country does not support the needs of small business owners. In our neighborhood Duane Reade and Banks are more important than keeping the people of this country employed, prosper-
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ous and proud. Please remember to support your local small businesses. They are people who care, are talented and want to make a living and provide for themselves and their families. It is the small things in life that make a difference. From the smiles you receive when getting your morning coffee, or the flowers you bought your loved one at the last minute, to the batteries that did not come with the toy you bought your child for his/her birthday. These and more were all the small things Lee’s Market provided our neighborhood.
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MAY 22, 2014 Our Town
My Story
The Times’ take on pedestrian safety BY BETTE DEWING Jill Abramson’s “Struck on the Street,” May 4th lead Metropolitan section story ran before she was abruptly replaced on May 14th by Dean Baquet as the New York Times’ executive editor. In the piece, she recounts her own experience of being the victim of a pedestriancar accident, and mentions other Times reporters who have found themselves in the same boat. We who work endlessly against people being “struck on the streets,” wish her story got as much attention as her abrupt firing from one of the world’s most influential newspapers. And yes, the story deserves attention for its trail-blazing account about traffic-caused serious and painful injuries, including Abramson’s and three other Times colleagues, all struck down by moving vehicles. Although such injuries are countless, costly, painful and often permanent, they are rarely publicized or protested. And that’s the problem. No doubt, Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero crusade prompted Abramson to finally write about the horrors of her own struck-on-the street injuries suffered a few years ago,
and those of her colleagues. Included is a lot about what’s being done in the city to prevent what everyone should call “crimes of traffic.” Unable to travel alone, especially since my foot was fractured in a fall, 20th Precinct Community Council President Ian Alterman kindly escorted me to the May 5th monthly 19th Pct. Community Council meeting, where I could alert the council to Abrahamson’s all-important story. (Alterman also noted the need to enable elder or disabled persons’ attendance at civic meetings). Three evenings later at the East 79th Street Neighbor-
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Only a short time earlier a woman was fatally injured by a school bus on Second Avenue and 93rd Street.” hood Association meeting, the 19th Pct. community relations police officer was absent because, reported City Councilmember Ben Kallos’ aide, only a short time earlier a woman was fatally injured by a school bus on Second Avenue and 93rd Street. “It happened right outside our office,” he said, and told how the children were taken into the nearby Synergy Gym where social workers from either the Kallos or Liz Krueger’s office helped allay any distress, Ah, I only hope those who loved this tragic victim have
people to comfort them. And indeed, too little is known about this traffic tragedy; the victim’s name is not available. That doesn’t make it any less tragic. Shamefully little attention has been paid to the harrowing street conditions caused by the Second Ave, subway construction, especially for walkers. The Right of Way group headed by Charles Komanoff will do a memorial stencil for this woman, whose name they will learn, along with more details about the cause of her death. Incidentally, Komanoff’s “Killed by Automobile” manual should be required reading for its statistical and other proof that the rarely enforced “failure to yield on turns” traffic crime, is the number one cause of pedestrian injury and death. Thankfully, the recent locations of Senator Liz Krueger and Councilmember Ben Kallos’ offices make them most aware of the subway construction-caused chaos up there. Both legislators are actively concerned, especially after the recent traffic tragedy there. Now, if only Jill Abramson could apply her vast journalism and personal experience to getting every traffic tragedy “really out there” in mediums which so shape public concerns and legislative priorities. For starters, her “Struck on the Street” story needs to get out and stay out there, and be an example for what journalists, especially at the influential Times, need to address. And so much more …and again, I remind, “It can be done if enough of us try!” dewingbetter@aol.com
CALLING ALL TEACHERS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “It’s important to talk about the fact that this is an exceedingly ambitious project,” Clearly said. “I appreciate the Mayor’s desire to bring quality education to as many New York City kids as possible, as soon as possible.” According to the Mayor’s office, the pre-kindergarten expansion is planned to raise the number of New York City children attending pre-K from 20,000 to 68,000. The momen-
tum has already begun, as tens of thousands of parents have begun applying to find a spot for their children next fall. Raedell Wallace is one of the leading staff members on the Pre-K Teacher Pipeline Project, and has being working feverishly to process all the applications while continuing to recruit. She explained the importance of early childhood development, and how vulnerable a child’s mind is from birth
to eight years old. “This timeline is very demanding, but I think the Mayor’s efforts have brought attention to early childhood development,” Wallace said. “The attention these educators are now receiving has made the city more aware of the important work that they do. I think that has been the most positive things to come out of this plan.”
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Out & About 23 24 WELCOME DANCE IN CENTRAL PARK VICTORIAN GARDENS AMUSEMENT PARK
Central Park Bandstand, Bethesda Terrace between 66th and 72nd Streets 2-5 p.m.; Free In honor of Frankie Manning’s 100th birthday. More than two thousand people from 47 different countries will be joining in New York City while many thousands more prepare to celebrate virtually from other parts of the world. frankie100.com
GRAND CENTRAL SPRING FAIR 41st St. from Lexington to 3rd Avenue 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Free Since 1993, features over 200 trendy international food, art, craft, antique and merchandise exhibitors. There will be cultural non-profit and corporate displays on view, plus entertainment. nycstreetfairs.com
Wollman/Trump Rink, Central Park 10 a.m. - 9 p.m.; $8-$16 Every weekend, our various entertainers will be performing live, interactive shows that all park guests can partake in! Whether it’s helping King Henry and his friends with their tricks, laughing with Sammie and Tudie,or roping with Cowboy Chris, everyone in the family is bound to have fun! victoriangardensnyc.com
accordionist, and pioneer of electronic music Pauline Oliveros will present Deep Listening Room, a sound and video installation. Using generative computer technology, this installation transforms signals from a surround-sound microphone and a video surveillance camera that will be installed in the museum’s lobby. Featuring Pauline Oliveros. whitney.org
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INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE: ICE AT THE WHITNEY
HINDU-BUDDHIST SCULPTURE OF EARLY SOUTHEAST ASIA, 5TH TO 8TH CENTURY” Met, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street 10.am.- 5:30 p.m.; Free Some 160 sculptures are featured in the exhibition, principally associated with the identifiable cultures of Pyu, Funan, Zhenla, Champa, Dvāravatī, Kedah, and Śrīvijaya. These are the “lost kingdoms,” whose identities and sometimes very existence only emerged from the historical shadows in the twentieth century, as a result of pioneering epigraphic and archaeological research, much of it recent. The artistic achievements and cultural parameters of these early kingdoms bring new understanding to the beginning of state formation in Southeast Asia and broadly define the modern political map of the region today. metmuseum.org
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Whitney Museum, 945 Madison Ave. at 75th Street 4 p.m. For the 2014 Biennial, influential composer,
YA LIT AT 92Y Cassandra Clare with Special Guests Maureen
Frank E. Campbell – The Funeral Chapel Hosts Annual Bus Trip to Calverton National Cemetery As the seasons change and Memorial Day approaches, we find ourselves thinking about the men and women who are serving our country around the world. We also remember those who gave of themselves when our freedom was threatened, many of whom made the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of our nation. We here at Frank E. Campbell, “The Funeral Chapel” are sponsoring a trip to Calverton National Cemetery for those individuals who do not get an opportunity to visit their loved one who served our country. This FREE trip will take place on Wednesday, May 28, 2014. The bus will leave from 81st Street and Madison Avenue at 8:30 am and will return approximately 4:30 pm. A continental breakfast will be served at Frank E. Campbell between 7:30 am – 8:15 am. A box lunch will be provided on the bus at Calverton National Cemetery. If you are interested in joining us, please call 212-288-3500 by May 22, 2014, to reserve your place. Please have your section and grave information available when you call.
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Johnson, Holly Black, Kelly Link and Scott Westerfeld 92Y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd St 10 p.m.;$22 Join Cassandra Clare for the exclusive book launch for The City of Heavenly Fire. Shadowhunters and demons square off for the final showdown in the spellbinding finale of the bestselling series The Mortal Instruments. Cassandra Clare will meet fans at a special midnight book-signing after the talk. Books will be on sale at the event. 92y.org
7:30 p.m.; $13 Curated by Cahiers du Cinéma. Discover rare films presented in partnership with Cahiers du Cinéma, the unparalleled French film magazine. Enjoy a glass of wine after screening. Films in French with English subtitles. fiaf.org
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BLONDIE’S DEBBIE HARRY AND CHRIS STEIN WITH ANTHONY DECURTIS
SENIOR YOGA CLASS Carl Schurz Park, East End Ave. 9-10:30 a.m.; Free Every Tuesdays and Thursdays through June. Classes are for adults 60 and older. They are sponsored by CityParks Foundation and the 79th Street Neighborhood Association. You are welcome to come by to interview the instructors and participants. Some photos and comments from earlier sessions can be found on the website. cityparksfoundation.org/sports/seniorsfitness
CINÉSALON: FRENCH CINEMA’S SECRET TROVE FIAF, Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street
28 92y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd St 8 p.m.; $29 Forty years after Blondie pioneered their unique mix of new wave, punk and hip hop to an enthralled New York music scene, the band is as inventive and forward-thinking as ever.Music icons Debbie Harry and Chris Stein join Anthony DeCurtis of Rolling Stone for a discussion about their sound, style and enduring influence. They’ll take us inside their creative processes—from the early hits to their newly released double CD package, Blondie 4(0) Ever, and album, Ghosts of Download. 92y.org
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT DRAWING Acquavella Galleries, Inc., 18 East 79th Street (btwn Madison and Fifth Avenues) 12 p.m.; Free
Rare works from the elusive and rare collection of the American painter. Basquiat first achieved notoriety as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti group who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City during the late 1970s where the hip hop, post-punk and street art movements had coalesced. By the 1980s he was exhibiting his Neo-expressionist and Primitivist paintings in galleries and museums internationally, but he died of a heroin overdose at the age of 27 in 1988. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992. acquavellagalleries.com
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29 SENIOR EXERCISE CLASS John Jay Park, btwn E. 76th & 79th near FDR Drive 9-10:30 a.m.; Free Every Tuesdays and Thursdays through June. Classes are for adults 60 and older. They are sponsored by CityParks Foundation and the 79th Street Neighborhood Association. You are welcome to come by to interview the instructors and participants. Some photos and comments from earlier sessions can be found on the website. cityparksfoundation.org/sports/seniorsfitness
TALK & BOOK SIGNING: THE ESOTERIC GARDENS OF LOUIS BENECH FIAF, Le Skyroom, 22 East 60th Street 7 p.m.; $25 In honor of his beautiful new book, Louis Benech: Twelve French Gardens, celebrated French landscape architect Louis Benech will share the philosophy that guides his unique garden design. Learn about his work on Paris’ Tuileries Garden as well as his contemporary reinterpretation of a Château de Versailles garden, originally designed by André Le Nôtre for Louis XIV and since completely destroyed, notably by storms. fiaf.org
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Our Town MAY 22, 2014
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NOURISHING ART ON THE EAST SIDE ART EDUCATION The National Academy teaches more than 1,000 students in a lavish setting BY VALERIE GLADSTONE
Walking into the stately Beaux Arts mansion on Fifth Avenue at 89th Street that houses the National Academy Museum and School, one would never suspect that within its handsome walls thrives a dynamic art environment where more than 1,000 students attend classes, exhibit their work and have access, as does the public, to first-class exhibitions and a permanent collection of over 7,000 works. Established in 1825 by a group of artists and architects including Thomas Cole, Rembrandt Peale, Samuel F. B. Morse and Asher B. Durand, it is modeled after the Royal Academy in London, and has a mission to “promote the fine arts in America through instruction and exhibition.” Located on Fifth Avenue since 1939 when Archer Milton Huntington and his wife, sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington, donated their house to the institution, it prides itself on being both a distinguished museum and supporting an intimate and democratic community of artists and art lovers. No one could better embody the National Academy’s spirit than the director of the school, Venice-born Maurizio
Pellegrin, a respected artist, scholar, author, teacher a nd, above all, advocate for art, who has been on the faculties of Columbia University, NYU and the Rhode Island School of Design. Talking to him in a small office on an upper floor of the mansion, above the elegant galleries, he dives into conversation between meetings and teaching. In only two and a half years on the job, he has appreciably raised the level of student work and helped make the institution far more progressive. Dressed in an orange suit adorned with a pink scarf, intense and wiry, he says, “I love it here because there’s a chance to be flexible. We attract people from different generations and jobs and provide a place for exchange. Art is humanitarian. We explore together; we debate. There’s positive energy here. We want to be a laboratory, not a place where you pay a ticket and then leave.” One only has to look at the list of exhibits and programs to see what he is talking about. In recent months 19th century Swedish artist Anders Zorn, late 19th and early 20th century mu-
ralist Edwin Blashfield, and contemporary painter Philip Pearlstein have all been exhibited, while at the same time lectures, films, concerts and storytelling and music for families have taken place. In the recent show, “Creative Mischief,” student artists exhibit in the same galleries as the established artists. The Annual 2014 Exhibition, “Redefining Tradition,” from June 11-September 14, shows works by the Museum’s academicians. A seasoned artist, Nancy Shapiro, only began studying at the school two years ago. “ “Maurizio is extremely inspiring. I do sculpture. He has incredible insight and looks upon each student as an individual. Sometimes he sees so deeply, it makes my head spin. He moves me to another place.” Years in universities have made Pellegin leery of students’ anxiety about careers. “It can begin to dominate everything they do,” he says. “We teach them about business here but first they have to enjoy their creativity and make a real commitment to art and the craft
of art making. You have to know art in a deep way not just a conceptual way. You’ll understand more about a painting if you know how to prepare a canvas; you’ll know more about a work of art if you know it was painted on mahogany or poplar. I believe to be an artist you have to care about architecture, fashion, cinema, photography, dance and video. I’m available 24 hours to my students. We’re like a family.” The sense of community today is not that far removed from that of the original founders, who held the first session of the National Academy School on November 15, 1826, in the Old Alms House at City Hall Park in lower Manhattan, with two academicians and 20 students sketching by candlelight. Monika Camillucci, who has studied there for 25 years and exhibits in New York galleries, says, “It is my home away from home. It’s my other family. I have taken every class there from painting to sculpture to printmaking, everything except video, and who knows, maybe I’ll take video next.”
Painting students at the Academy, which was established in 1825. Photo courtesy David Plakke Media
IF YOU GO The National Academy is located at 1083 5th Avenue, at 89th Street. The museum will re-open for the summer on June 11. Hours are Wed – Sun, 11 AM – 6 PM Mon – Tues, Closed Current exhibitions include: The Annual 2014: Redefining Tradition On view through Sept. 14
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FOR THE WEEK BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO
The Poetry of Parmigianino’s Schiava Turca
MUSEUM
MEL BOCHNER: STRONG LANGUAGE Mel Bochner, a trailblazer in the Conceptual Art movement in the 1960s, spent much of his career exploring words and language, and his exhibition, “Strong Language,” now showing at the Jewish Museum, is a 70-piece representation of this decades-long study. Bochner’s latest paintings include words he plucked from the Thesaurus, and feature mundane, ordinary phrases colliding on canvas with more formal language. The Jewish Museum 1109 Fifth Ave. Now through September 21 11:00 a.m.-5:45 p.m. Friday-Tuesday 11:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Thursdays Admission $15
KIDS JAZZED! THE CHANGING BEAT OF 125TH STREET The sights, sounds and swing of the Harlem Renaissance come to an all-ages audience on the present-day Upper West Side when new interactive exhibit Jazzed! opens at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan on May 23. The museum, in partnership with the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, invites visitors into recreated jazz clubs, theaters and ballrooms, all set to the tunes of Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and other musicians of the era. The Children’s Museum of Manhattan The Tisch Building 212 West 83rd St. Opens Friday, May 23 Museum hours: Tuesday-Friday and Sunday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Saturday 10:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. Admission $11
BOOKS MERYL GORDON READS FROM “THE PHANTOM OF FIFTH AVENUE” Journalist Meryl Gordon, who teaches magazine writing at New York University, reads from her upcoming book “The Phantom of Fifth Avenue: The Mysterious Life and Scandalous Death of Heiress Huguette Clark.” Gordon’s biography explores Clark’s brief marriage, public divorce and eventual withdrawal from the public eye as she became increasingly reclusive. The Corner Bookstore 1313 Madison Ave. Tuesday, May 27 6:00 p.m. FREE
LEARN POLAND/UKRAINE 2014
MUSIC NEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY For the final concert of its spring season, the New York Youth Symphony performs compositions by American composers, including Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein. Guest violinist Benjamin Beilman, who won the 2012 Avery Fisher Career Grant, will perform Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto, and composer Conrad Winslow will premiere his original composition, “All Decays.” Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium 881 Seventh Ave. Sunday, May 25 2:00 p.m. Tickets $20-$55
The Kosciuszko Foundation, a non-profit and non-partisan organization that promotes understanding and education of Polish culture and history, hosts a dialogue about Poland’s responsibilities to Ukraine and the future of the state. The Kosciuszko Foundation’s president, John S. Micgiel, a former professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, will join in conversation with Adrian Karatnycky with the Atlantic Council’s program on transatlantic relations. The Kosciuszko Foundation 15 East 65th St. Tuesday, May 27 6:00 p.m. FREE
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The Frick Collection 1 East 70th Street, NYC 212-288-0700 frick.org The exhibition is organized by The Frick Collection with the Foundation for Italian Art & Culture (FIAC). Parmigianino, Schiava Turca (detail), c. 1531–34, oil on panel, Galleria Nazionale di Parma; photo: Scala/Art Resource, NY
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WALK ON THE WILD SIDE TEXTILES Art exhibit raises awareness about endangered species BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO
CENTRAL PARK Australian artist Ruth Marshall can blame her interest in animals on her day job. In 1995, she started working at the Bronx Zoo as an exhibit sculptor, where she painted murals, built faux rocks and crafted rubber vines. A graduate of the Pratt Institute’s Master of Fine Arts program in Brooklyn, she needed a job in her field in order to extend her student visa. While at the zoo, she became fascinated with the animal collections, but the former sculpture student wasn’t sure how to incorporate that interest into her artwork—until she picked up a pair of knitting needles. Now Marshall, whose mother and aunt taught her knitting when she was young, creates life-size textile pelts of animals endangered by illegal wildlife trade. Her current exhibition, “Closely Knit: A Textile Analysis of Animals,” at the Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, includes to-scale, knit renderings of actual tiger, ocelot and leopard pelts stretched on wooden frames as though they were drying in the sun. The exhibit highlights the severity of the illegal
skin trade, but, Marshall said, also uncovers the beauty of the animals that she discovered while a zoo employee. As research, Marshall gained access to the American Museum of Natural History’s collection of animal pelts, which are stored behind the scenes at the museum on 79th Street, just across the park from the Arsenal building. She measured every stripe and spot and sketched the intricate patterns of the tiger and ocelot coats on large
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I like the idea of bringing the story of the animal out of the drawers or the cupboards of the museum.” Ruth Marshall, artist pieces of grid paper. Once she completed her sketch, she set to work hand-knitting the recreations, a laborious process that can take four months. “Nobody sees these pelts at the museum, and actually nobody’s really that interested in them,” she said. One of her pieces recreates a Russian tiger pelt the museum acquired in 1930; the female tiger was tracked and killed after hunters found its footprints in the snow. “I like the idea of bringing the story of the
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animal out of the drawers or the cupboards of the museum,” she added. “The stories of these individual animals are just kind of forgotten or stored away in the mammal collection.” For the show, Marshall also knit the pelt of a living animal: the snow leopard, Askai, at the Central Park Zoo, located next door to the Arsenal building. The knitted pelt references Askai’s possibly tragic fate, if he were living in the wild. Though she sells her pieces— the pelts in the exhibit range from $7,000 for an ocelot to upwards of $12,000 for a nearly nine-foot tiger—she struggles to find buyers. “It has to be a pretty unique person that’s going to buy a reallooking thing that big to put on the wall,” she said. She did sell a knitted Amur leopard pelt to “eccentric” Turkish collectors recently. The leopard, native to the Russian Far East, has been widely poached for its thick, spotted fur coat and is one of the world’s most endangered species. According to the World Wildlife Fund, approximately 30 Amur leopards exist in the wild. Marshall sold the knit pelt for $14,000, more than a real, black market pelt sells for, she said, which led her to wonder if artistic replications could offer substitutes for illegally-traded
pelts. “People really go on a journey when they see my work,” said Marshall, who lives in the Bronx and whose landlord is the lion keeper at the Bronx Zoo, where she worked until 2009. “They see it from a distance; they think it’s real; they’re horrified. I think that’s the tricky thing with selling my work. Everybody understands that nobody does this anymore. It’s completely not acceptable to put a hunter’s trophy on the wall. But then if they do allow themselves to sort of come closer…then they have to reassess. Then they sort of appreciate not just the craftsmanship, but there’s an immediate understanding of how beautiful this animal is, and how having endangered species is a tragedy.”
IF YOU GO CLOSELY KNIT EXHIBIT What: Ruth Marshall’s hand-knit, toscale interpretations of endangered animal pelts includes ocelots, tigers, snakes and snow leopards. When: Now through June 20 Where: The Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, 830 Fifth Avenue at 64th Street, third floor Hours: Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Contact: 212-360-8163 Free admission
Some of the lifesized knit renderings of animals, stretched on wooden frames.
MAY 22, 2014 Our Town
The Sixth Borough
Trying anything once
BY BECCA TUCKER pening the fridge, the black garbage bag was the first thing I saw. I’m all about slow food, but this garbage bag contained more than I was sure I could deal with. But dilly dallying was a decision in and of itself: maggots, or bacteria, or some more motivated life form would beat me to it. If I was going to turn what was in that bag into dinner, then it had to be done soon. Inside that ominous bag was all that remained of our goat, Latte, who had met his end on Friday night. Husband Joe and two other guys had slaughtered him, collecting pretty much everything – blood, innards – at the request of the family that had bought him. It was hard to say goodbye to Latte. He was among the first group of six goats on our farm. But we’re learning fast that there’s no room for sentimentality on a farm. Handsome though he was, he was pocket-sized, and now that we were getting more serious, he was not the one buck we’d choose to breed our does. He did, however, have an impressive pair of testicles: “pelotas grandes,” our Latino customers had noted, nodding appreciatively. But the family that bought the rest of Latte didn’t want the hide, to which those pelotas were still attached. So we put it in a bag and stuck it in the fridge. There it sat, slowly migrating toward the back of the shelf, where it wasn’t so obvious anymore. If we forgot about it for another day or two, the only thing left to do would be to dump the contents into the compost.
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But what a waste that would be. Testicles from a grassfed goat have to be about as nutrient-dense as food gets. I’ve been getting deep into nutritional literature lately, and organ meats, particularly from animals that grazed on grass – liver, brain, heart, kidney – are unmatched as super foods. You can buy these things online; but here we had fresh organs from a healthy, pastured goat in our fridge. They belonged to an animal we had worked hard in caring for, whose hooves we’d trimmed and whose hair we’d brushed of burrs, an animal we had fed every day through the winter, sometimes getting to the barn on snowshoe. To dump his organs in the compost and then go order other organs with my credit card was lazy at best. 5 a.m. Monday morning. I don’t know why I was up, but I knew it was now or never. I slipped out of bed, grabbed the garbage bag out of the fridge, a bowl and a knife, and headed outside. I hosed down the hide to get rid of the leaves and debris that were clinging to it and went to work. I will spare you too many details. Suffice to say that once I’d exchanged my smooth knife for a serrated one, the job – while it required focus and persistence – was neither particularly gruesome nor strenuous. I came back inside just as Joe and toddler Kai were waking up, carrying two smooth, slippery ovals in a bowl, along with a couple of other pieces I’d been able to salvage. When I got home from work that evening, he had the testicles marinating in garlic buttermilk to get rid of some of the gaminess, a trick he’d picked up from his dad,
a hunter. Joe cut each oval in half, then in half again, for a total of eight pieces, which he sautéed with green garlic and curry. I don’t know whether chopping up a pair of testicles is a disturbing thing for a man to do. I got the sense that, although good smells were wafting, the mood was not particularly jovial. Kai seemed to have that sense, too. It was one of those nights. She was overtired by the time we sat down, and at first, wouldn’t sit at the table, much less taste the entrée. Joe and I both nibbled between attempts to calm her. Some of the pieces were chewy like calamari, others were squishy like liver. At some point Joe went outside with the disgruntled Kai. There I was, sitting by myself eating goat testicles. Had I become a zealot, I wondered blackly? Maybe I should just stick a broom between my legs and gallop around the yard, muttering about duck hearts and rabbit giblets. “Well,” I said lamely, when they came back in, “it’s supposed to be super nutritious.” Eventually, Kai deigned to slurp some of the buttermilk broth. Feeding the baby was the whole point. I felt a little better. While I regret to report that goat testicles did not turn out to have the rumored aphrodisiac effect I’d read about, I do feel like we did right by Latte. And nutritional zealotry aside, I like testicles better than liver. They may not become the new family staple, but if a pair comes our way again, I’m thinking we’ll prepare them as a side dish or an appetizer. Less pressure. Becca Tucker is a former Manhattanite now living on an upstate farm and writing about the rural life.
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Food & Drink
< DANNY MEYER DEFENDS SHAKE SHACK AGAINST FOOD POISONING ALLEGATIONS When Lucas Duda, the New York Mets’ outfielder and first baseman, and Philadelphia Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg both developed severe stomach illnesses over the weekend of May 10, they blamed the burgers they ate from Citi Field’s Shake Shack food stand. Duda was hospitalized with the illness,
which kept him out of the lineup for the first meeting of the three-game series against the Phillies on Friday, May 9, according to ESPN. com, and Sandberg said he lost six pounds in two days. However, restaurateur and the chain’s founder Danny Meyer disputed the claim, telling the New York Post that “It’s high-
ly unlikely” that a Shake Shack burger caused the illness, since there were no other reports of food poisoning by Citi Field customers. On Wednesday, May 14, the Wall Street Journal reported that fans weren’t concerned about potential contamination, as long lines still grew at Citi Field’s Shake Shack stand.
In Brief SONNY’S SODA SHOPPE OPENS IN MONDRIAN HOTEL Cocktail bar Sonny’s Soda Shoppe opened May 15 on the roof of the Mondrian hotel in Soho, offering what Grub Street called the city’s “most expansive” view. The 3,000 square foot space, with both indoor and outdoor bars, was designed by DeVinn Bruce (who is also redesigning the restaurant and bar at the Hotel on Rivington) and features pastel stripes on the straws, napkins and walls, crisp white and tan furniture and green turf as nods to Italian beach club Forte Dei Marmi. The cocktails range from the classic Negroni and Bellini to the inventive, such as a tequila-based drink with olive oil, honey dew melon, arugula and tarragon. An outdoor gelato stand features rotating flavors from Laboratorio Gelato, and the kitchen serves up signature pizzas. Sonny’s Soda Shoppe is located at the Mondrian Soho, (entrance at 150 Lafayette St.), and is open Wednesday and Thursday from 6:00 p.m. until midnight, and Friday through Sunday from 4:00 p.m. until midnight.
NEW YORK TIMES VISITS CHELSEA TAPAS SPOT For his May 13 review of Chelsea tapas bar El Quinto Pino, New York Times food writer Pete Wells found much to praise in the Spanish eatery’s small plates. “Some of the seafood is so appealing and out of the ordinary that dividing it can test your ability to play well with others,” Wells wrote about some of the standout tapas, including the ortiguillas, fried sea anemone with soft scrambled eggs, and a salad of raw salt cod, tomato, romesco, anchovy and chicory, which Wells said “seemed to get more lively with each bite.” In his recent review of Telepan Local, a new small-plates restaurant in Tribeca, Wells found the haphazard speed at which dishes came from the kitchen to the table problematic, but at El Quinto Pino, which recently expanded to include a full dining room, he appreciated the mindfulness of the servers, who didn’t overcrowd his table with too many dishes at once. He also offered accolades for the sandwiches, including a po’boy made with fried squid, and the Cubano, “in which the ham and crisp pickle have more oomph than usual, the cheese doesn’t taste processed, for once, and the braised pork is supplemented with a red wallop of blood sausage.” El Quinto Pino is located at 401 West 24th St., at 9th Avenue, and is open for lunch Tuesday through Friday at noon, weekend brunch at 11:30 a.m., and daily for dinner at 5:00 p.m.
The husband and wife team of Kelly (right) and Glyn Jaime opened Sweet Shop NYC to fill a void of upscale confections on the Upper East Side. Photo by Lauren Rothman
Th S The Sweet Sh Shop NYC 404 East 73rd Street (212) 960-8685 thesweetshopnyc.com
NEW SWEETS SHOP GEARS UP FOR SUMMER RUSH CANDY Sweet Shop NYC brings vintage confections to the neighborhood BY LAUREN ROTHMAN
UPPER EAST SIDE On a quiet stretch of East 73rd Street, there’s a portal back to a simpler, sweeter time. The Sweet Shop NYC’s small storefront is crammed from top to bottom with the treats you might remember from your childhood, or at least the childhood you wish you had lived: glass jars of soft peanut butter cups, double-dipped in rich, smooth milk chocolate; handmade marshmallows that are lighter than a cloud; wooden drawers filled with penny candy—yes, literally—such as hard butterscotch candies and peppermints. From the ceiling hangs a “candylier,” a kitschy light fixture dripping with faux jawbreakers and an array of Technicolor crystals. The Sweet Shop NYC is the creation of Kelly
Jaime—AKA “The Candy Man”—and his wife Glyn, or “The Confectionista.” The shop opened in October, but has really hit its stride over the last few weeks of warm temperatures. Because as much as the store is about celebrating great candies, it’s also slinging some of the best ice cream in town, sourced from small-scale local producers such as Williamsburg’s OddFellows, the Lower East Side’s Il Laboratorio del Gelato and Long Island City’s vegan Alchemy Creamery. Glyn explained that after the couple relocated to the Upper East Side from downtown about a decade ago, they found themselves unable to satisfy their collective sweet tooth for frozen treats. “In the evenings we would constantly ask each other: ‘Where can we get good ice cream around here?’” she said. “When we discovered that the answer was ‘nowhere,’ we decided we had to do it ourselves.” Glyn, a graphic designer who conceived of the store’s décor as well as its fun line of packaging—ice cream scoops are served in tiny
Chinese takeout containers, and bulk candies come in small, hand-lettered brown paper coffee bean bags—said she’d always wanted to start her own ice cream shop. The love of dairy was ingrained in Kelly from a young age, too—as a child, he spent countless hours at Disneyland, where his grandmother was a buyer and merchandiser, sipping shakes and crunching on cones. After researching and taste-testing handmade candies for more than two years prior to opening The Sweet Shop, Kelly possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of all things candy, which he puts to good use stocking the store. Marshmallows come from Brooklyn’s historic JoMart Chocolates, as does the shop’s signature candy bar, “The Candyman,” a graham cracker layered with raspberry jelly and dipped in dark chocolate. In another nod to history, the shop offers soft marzipan from the Elk Candy Company, whose factory operated in Yorkville for over 70 years. “We’re trying to make what’s old new again,” Kelly said.
MAY 22, 2014 Our Town
RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS MAY 7 - 13, 2014 The following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s website and include the most recent inspection and grade reports listed. We have included every restaurant listed during this time within the zip codes of our neighborhoods. Some reports list numbers with their explanations; these are the number of violation points a restaurant has received. To see more information on restaurant grades, visit www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/services/restaurant-inspection.shtml. New Moon Cafe
129 East 102 Street
Grade Pending (4)
Kennedy Fried Chicken
2041 1 Avenue
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Domino’s Pizza
1993 Third Avenue
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Grill Works
1974 2 Avenue
Not Graded Yet (4)
Sette Mezzo
969 Lexington Avenue
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Grace’s Trattoria Cafe & Grill
201 East 71 Street
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Six Happiness
1413 2 Avenue
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Insomnia Cookies
1579 2 Avenue
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Bagel Bob’s On York
1638 York Avenue
A
Andre’s Cafe
1631 2 Avenue
A
Wa Jeal
1588 2 Avenue
Grade Pending (11) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
Antonucci
16870 East 81 Street
A
Timmy’s By The River
1737 York Avenue
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Cafe Maggio
1750 York Avenue
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Buddha B Beeq
1750 2 Avenue
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Property
STUYTOWN LIKELY HEADED TO MARKET The largest apartment complex in New York – Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village – is likely to go back on the market soon after foreclosure proceedings conclude with its new owner, CW Capital, the New York Times reported. CW Capital has been managing Stuyvesant
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Are Townhouses the Best Value? Although many buyers in the past have shied away from townhouse living in favor of full-service condos and co-ops, a variety of factors have converged that many believe is creating a major shift in buyer interest. In fact, it has already occurred in the very active multi-family category. Investors see these proper ties as attracBY DEANNA KORY tive investments, but they also appeal to buyers who are looking to use rental income to offset mortgage and tax bills. The on-going low level of inventory has created a third category of buyer interested in multi-family homes that can be converted to singlefamily status. Another group of buyers who would normally gravitate to condominiums are turning away from them to protect their privacy. More condos are requiring a level of financial disclosure that many buyers find objectionable. Many condos also have rules restricting short-term rentals, live/work arrangements, and sometimes use by friends and family members. Townhouses on the other hand offer total privacy and are without restrictions on personal use. For all types of buyers, value is a major factor that now favors single and multi-family townhouses. With new development condos reaching an average of $2,178 per square foot, and for re-sale condos $1,382 per square foot, townhouses look to be bargains with a market-wide average price per square foot of $1,162. Condos’ monthly common charges can also be a consideration—some part-time residents would prefer not to pay hefty monthly common charges that include the expense of high-end amenities that they seldom, if ever, use. One of the main drawbacks of townhouse ownership has been the regular upkeep associated with these buildings. This aspect of ownership is becoming easier thanks to management companies that are springing up to keep an eye on townhouses and condominiums for absentee owners. Deanna Kory is a broker at the Corcoran Group. Reach her at dek@corcoran.com, (212) 937-7011, www.deannakory.com.
Town-Peter Cooper since its previous owners lost it to lenders in 2010. The complex, on the East Side of Manhattan between 14th Street and 23rd Street, has over 11,000 apartments in 56 buildings. The Times reported that CW Capital announced last Tuesday that it planned to foreclose on a
secondary loan for the complex that, if successful, would signify its official ownership of the property. Real estate analysts told the Times they believe the foreclosure will be the first step in selling the property, and the entire complex is valued at around $4 billon.
NOT-SO-AFFORDABLE HOUSING REAL ESTATE Tenants say a city agency is unfairly allowing landlords to overcharge Section 8 tenants in Hell’s Kitchen BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS
HELL’S KITCHEN Residents of affordable housing usually are charged a set portion of their income for rent; it’s what ensures that the units retain their affordability, regardless of inflation. Section 8 tenants in Hell’s Kitchen said they’ve been paying well above 30 percent of their yearly income for housing since 2003, in an apparent contradiction of what they were told when their building was bought that year by a private company called Empire State Management. “In 2003, we were told that our rent would be 30 percent of our annual income by both a [NYC Dept. of Housing Preservation and Development] representative and the landlord,” said Kelly Ann Junior, a Section 8 enhanced voucher tenant of Hudsonview Terrace, a 400-unit tower at 747 10th Avenue. Junior and four others As part of the Great East Midtown Challenge on were Section 8 tenants June 11, Our Town will be holding a trivia contest! when their MitchellLama building changed Starting this week, we’ll pose a question that can hands and Empire began be answered by looking elsewhere in this week’s paper. filling it with market-rate tenants. Section 8 tenFind all the answers over the next four weeks and ants were given a choice to retain their regular you’ll have a leg up on the other teams in next Section 8 status and find month’s challenge. a different subsidized apartment elsewhere in THIS WEEK’S QUESTION: the city, or stay in their apartments under SecName the New York heiress who is the subject of tion 8’s enhanced vouchjournalist Meryl Gordon’s most recent book. er program. Look in this space next week for answers. Enhanced vouchers, EAST MIDTOWN also known as sticky Answer to last week’s question: 100 meters GREAT CHALLENGE vouchers, are specifically For more info on the challenge, go to 2014 designed to protect tenants of rent-regulated http://eastmidtown.org/challenge apartments when their
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buildings end a subsidized program like Mitchell-Lama. Enhanced voucher holders are still subject to rent increases under a formula determined by the federal Dept. of Housing and Urban Development that calculates a tenant’s share of the rent and the share paid by the government as part of the subsidy. Junior and other tenants of Hudsonview Terrace chose to participate in the enhanced voucher program, and as a result, they said, have been paying steadily increasing rents after a series of “re-certifications” by their landlords, which were subsequently approved by HPD. Now those tenants have filed a lawsuit to ad-
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One tenant who lives in a one-bedroom apartment and makes $9,000 a year in Social Security is paying over $400 a month, over half her yearly income, in rent. dress what they see is an unfair discrepancy. According to the suit, one tenant who lives in a one-bedroom apartment and makes $9,000 a year in Social Security is paying over $400 a month, over half her yearly income, in rent. In the legal complaint, the tenants’ attorney, Robert Katz, alleges that his clients’ right to due process was violated because they were not granted evidentiary hearings as their rents were being raised. The suit also says that Junior and the other tenants were not adequately made aware by HPD that their rents could increase under the enhanced voucher program. The lawsuit may not go anywhere; an earlier version that named the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development as a defendant was dismissed in 2011 by a federal judge. In that ruling, Judge Paul Crotty said Katz’s argument was not sufficient to demonstrate his clients’ right to due process was violated. But the suit does raise the question of whether the guidelines under the enhanced voucher program are vulnerable to exploitation. It also asks if HPD could do a better job letting Section 8 tenants know about their options and the possible rent increases they could face.
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Real Estate Sales Neighborhd
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Beekman
870 United Nations Plaza $1,485,000 2
2
Brown Harris Stevens
Beekman
420 E 51 St.
$895,000
2
2
Douglas Elliman
Carnegie Hill
1326 Madison Ave.
$712,000
2
1
Corcoran
Carnegie Hill
1192 Park Ave.
$4,100,000 3
3
Halstead Property
Carnegie Hill
11 E 87 St.
$795,000
1
1
Corcoran
Carnegie Hill
1235 Park Ave.
$2,100,000
Lenox Hill
200 E 66Th St.
$4,174,825 3
3
Corcoran
Lenox Hill
233 E 70 St.
$389,000
0
1
Owner
Lenox Hill
315 E 65 St.
$305,000
Lenox Hill
737 Park Ave.
$12,778,082
Lenox Hill
166 E 61 St.
$779,500
1
1
Brown Harris Stevens
Lenox Hill
167 E 61 St.
$995,000
2
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Stribling
Lenox Hill
737 Park Ave.
$4,704,559 2
2
Macklowe Investment
Lenox Hill
205 E 63 St.
$1,545,000 3
2
Douglas Elliman
Lenox Hill
315 E 70 St.
$1,225,000 2
2
Corcoran
Lenox Hill
795 5 Ave.
$10,000,000 4
3
Douglas Elliman
Midtown
480 Park Ave.
$6,900,000 4
3
Sotheby’s
Midtown E
153 E 57 St.
$434,500
1
1
Corcoran
Midtown E
153 E 57 St.
$743,322
1
1
Firstservice Realty
Midtown E
245 E 54 St.
$530,000
1
1
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Murray Hill
144 E 36 St.
$1,625,000
Murray Hill
20 E 35 St.
$695,000
1
1
Douglas Elliman
Murray Hill
45 Park Ave.
$1,450,000 1
1
Trump
Murray Hill
305 E 40 St.
$610,000
1
1
Corcoran
Murray Hill
5 Tudor City Place
$807,310
Murray Hill
35 Park Ave.
$530,000
0
1
Halstead Property
Murray Hill
314 E 41 St.
$770,000
2
2
Core
Murray Hill
105 E 38 St.
$535,000
1
1
Halstead Property
Murray Hill
240 E 35 St.
$398,000
Murray Hill
16 Park Ave.
$575,000
1
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Corcoran
Murray Hill
151 E 37 St.
$1,850,000 3
2
Halstead Property
Turtle Bay
100 United Nations Plaza $1,595,000 2
2
Douglas Elliman
Turtle Bay
255 E 49 St.
$710,000
1
Corcoran
Turtle Bay
349 E 49 St.
$750,000
2
2
Halstead Property
Turtle Bay
865 United Nations Plaza $499,000
0
1
Keller Williams
Upper E Side
784 Park Ave.
$4,500,000
Upper E Side
515 E 72 St.
$1,500,000 2
2
Halstead Property
Upper E Side
515 E 72 St.
$880,000
1
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Corcoran
Upper E Side
176 E 77 St.
$43,200
Upper E Side
35 E 76 St.
$3,000,000
Upper E Side
343 E 74 St.
$499,000
Upper E Side
508 E 78 St.
$270,000
0
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Coldwell Banker Bellmarc
Upper E Side
1036 Park Ave.
$335,000
0
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Charles H. Greenthal
Upper E Side
1420 York Ave.
$380,000
0
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Green Line Realty
Upper E Side
440 E 79 St.
$587,000
1
1
Corcoran
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IMPORTANT AND VERY SPECIAL MEMORIAL DAY/VETERANS DAY EFFORT BEHIND EVERY NAME IS A FACE AND A STORY
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Foundation project “Faces Never Forgotten” needs help obtaining missing photos of Vietnam veterans from New York. These photos will help complete an electronic “Wall of Faces” in the new education center at the Vietnam Memorial Wall. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Foundation is working to locate photos of all 58,286 soldiers listed on the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington D.C. They are building a new Education Center at the Wall right near the existing memorial wall on the National Mall. Construction for the facility is planned to start in 2016 and be completed for a grand opening in 2019. The new building will include an electronic “Wall of Faces” corresponding to the names on the wall. So far, the VVMF has collected 34,000 of the photos and still needs to find approximately 24,000 photos of soldiers listed on the wall. More information about this project can be found at www.vvmf.org. The New York Press Association (NYPA) and this newspaper are partnering with other newspapers across the country in an effort to help the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Foundation find photos of Vietnam Veterans from their readership area. We know that publicizing this effort in newspapers across the country is the most effective and efficient way to collect these photos. We are asking our readers to send photos of these soldiers to NYPA, and NYPA will in turn send the photos to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Foundation. Please email photos to: Mdecann@nynewspapers.com You can view the gallery in progress at www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces. There are effective and moving tributes to fallen soldiers from your area.
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845 West End Avenue, another example of an apartment building that bars rentregulated tenants from accessing some amenities. Photo by Daniel Fitzsimmons
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ACCESS DENIED CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 who they are they’re excluded from entering into a gym or benefitting from some amenity. I think it offends most people’s basic sense of morality.” As legacy tenants tend to be older and are more likely to be people of color, Levine said such discrimination, “has an angle of racial and age-discrimination that shouldn’t be ignored.” Last week, this paper revealed that a similar practice is occurring at 845 West End Avenue, a pre-war co-op building at West 101st Street. Rentregulated tenants said they’re being denied access to a fitness center and a children’s playroom in the building’s basement. Other properties where similar practices have been documented include Lincoln Towers at 142 West End Avenue, the Windermere West End at 666 West End Avenue, and a condo-conversion building at 230 Riverside Drive. Councilmember Helen Rosenthal has also spoken out against the discrimination. In exchange for her approval of a massive residential project on West 57th Street, the developer has agreed to provide equal access to amenities for all tenants in the building’s 1,189-units, 20 percent of which will be rent-regulated. The solution, say City Council members who oppose the discrimination, is to charge rent-regulated tenants the same fee as market rate tenants or a pro-rated fee for access to the amenities. Levine said the bill is working its way through the drafting process and should be introduced in no more than a couple weeks.
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YOUR FIFTEEN MINUTES
A WALK ON THE PARK Q&A The new executive director of Friends of the High Line talks teen horticulture, the intersection of theater and parks, and pie in the sky ideas BY MEGAN BUNGEROTH
CHELSEA Jenny Gersten has perfected the walk-and-talk meeting. As the recentlyinstalled executive director of Friends of the High Line, the non-profit conservancy group that runs the 1.45-mile long elevated park on Manhattan’s West Side, Gersten is often conducting business while traversing the park she oversees, checking on the progress of gardening and art projects, chatting with staff members and greeting visitors like they’re old friends. A lifelong New Yorker, Gersten previously worked in theater, serving as the associate producer for The Public Theater, and most recently as the artistic director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Now she’s turned her focus and ability to create art from the stage to the High Line’s revitalized railroad tracks. You come from a professional background in theater. Were you looking for a change? Not at all. I’d been the artistic director of the Williamstown Theater Festival for about three and a half years. I got a call from a family friend, saying, are you thinking about leaving? And I said, no I think I’m good to stay here a little bit longer. And he said well if you’re interested, the High Line
is looking for an executive director. And I said, well I would definitely talk to the High Line, and that’s how I got this job.
What kinds of things are you doing now that are different from what you previously did? The similarities are that they both traffic in live experience. In theater, it’s a little more contained. This is obviously a more open, democratic platform for live experience, but that’s essentially where they have commonalities. But I think that when we open the third section, which is the last major section of the High Line to open, the focus of the organization is going to shift. It will be much less about protecting, which was the first mission of the organization – ‘don’t let anyone tear down the High Line’ – and then, ‘let’s build the High Line, let’s make this incredible place,’ and it’s going to shift to, ‘what happens on the High Line, and what are the programmatic priorities for the organization.’ We have our horticulture program, we have this amazing food program, we have this incredible public art program. We’re just going to keep layering onto that and seeing how else we can be a resource both to the city writ large and to the local community in Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen and the Meatpacking District.
What are some ways you engage with the community? Right now we have this teen program that was developed back in 2011 after the High Line did a survey of the two NYCHA complexes that are in our neighborhood, Chelsea Elliot and Fulton Housing. We asked them what they wanted from the High Line, and they said programming for teens [and] jobs for teens. So we created a couple of teen programs that are in their third year, and we have one teen program around horticulture, it’s a job training program, so they get on pay roll, they’re part time jobs, and they work with our horticulture and gardening staff to learn about green skills. We have a teen arts council, their area focus is on cultural programming and production, so they do a lot of peer-to-peer networking. They meet with other teen arts councils around the city, like at the Met or the Brooklyn Museum. They create two teen nights on the High Line. They’ve done concerts, they’ve done carnivals. Last year we had over 700 teens attend.
How do you balance the day-to-day work with the long term planning for the High Line? A lot of my theater producing experience was what I call swinging at pitches, which is like ‘I gotta deal with this thing right now and get it out of the way,’ but as I become really familiar with this territory and how the public interacts with it, I can start to think about the future. But I didn’t show up on the door step being like, I have this fantastic huge idea that I want to fulfill! I just want to spend time talking to the staff, I want to be on the High Line, I want to experience it, I want to understand it better before I set up what the future looks like.
What’s your job’s biggest challenge so far? I think it’s been learning the language of parks. I was talking earlier about the similarities between theater and the High Line,
but the language of open space in New York City is very different, and I’ve been spending a lot of time talking to colleagues who run other parks or conservancy groups to get a better understanding of the significance. Even talking to one of our board members, Amanda Burden, about how important open space is to urban life. I think that’s particularly interesting as we hear a lot of conversation now in the de Blasio administration about park equity.
You’ve lived around here your whole life. I grew up on 14th Street and 7th Avenue. I spent 27 years in the Village. I was always in New York, I would move up to Williamstown for the summers. I currently reside on the Upper West Side. I left the Village kicking and screaming, [but] I really adopted the Upper West Side. I live on 82nd Street.
What do you like to do in the neighborhood?
VISIT THE HIGH LINE Hours The High Line is open daily from 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM. Access Access the High Line is possible via any of the points listed below. The High Line is fully wheelchair accessible. • Gansevoort Street (elevator access) • 14th Street (elevator access) • West 16th Street (elevator access) • West 18th Street • West 20th Street • 23rd Street • West 26th Street • West 28th Street • West 30th Street (elevator access)
I work out, I do a bootcamp kind of thing in Riverside Park, I go to the Greenmarket on 77th and Columbus religiously on Sunday, where I compost and buy my produce. I have two children, so I mother them, in my spare time, and I bike ride.
What are you looking forward to on the High Line this summer? We are celebrating our fifth anniversary of the opening of section one on June 9th, and we’re going to have an event called Pie in the Sky, where we’re going to give everyone some pie! We linked it to the anniversary because the idea of actually opening the High Line 10 years ago, when Josh [David] and Robert [Hammond] first started it, probably was a “pie in the sky” idea, so it’s kind of great that it’s been achieved.
Above, Jenny Gersten, the executive director of Friends of the High Line, on a recent day in the park. Below, looking north from the High Line at a mural by artist Faith Ringgold, titled “Groovin High,” commissioned by the park. Photos by Mary Newman
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