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AN ALTERNATIVE TO ALTERNATE SIDE NEWS The City Council is proposing changes to alternate side parking rules that could alleviate some of the waiting-around time for car owners

BY MARY KEKATOS

THE SECOND-LUCKIEST MAN IN THE WORLD MILESTONES At home with the Upper East Side’s Lou Gehrig expert, on the anniversary of the famous speech

UPPER EAST SIDE “This is the most unproductive use of my time,” said Bob S. as he sat in his car on East 85th Street, waiting for the clock to hit 10:30 a.m. “I deal with this pretty much on a daily basis.”

It’s the bane of many a New Yorker’s existence: moving their cars for a 90-minute period while street sweepers come by to clean-up the litter. Often a row of cars can be seen doubleparked on the street as drivers idly and impatiently wait for the hour and a half to end – lest they be issued a $45 ticket.

Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez (D10th), however, is sponsoring a bill that will relax alternate side parking rules. This planned legislation would allow cars to return to parking spaces once the street sweepers have come through, helping cut down the wait time significantly. For many drivers, this is an ideal situation.

“Every time the [street sweepers] pass, I say to myself, ‘Just let me park so I can leave’,” said Yonah Zerykier. “[The bill] sounds awesome and would help save so much time.”

“Parking in the city is either impossible to find or extremely expensive,” added Keila Torres. “Relaxing the rules would help breed a less stressful environment.”

While the bill has more than its fair share of advocates, 39 co-sponsors on the City Council alone, not everybody supports it. Although Mayor de Blasio finds Rodriguez’s efforts “commendable,” his administration just asked the City Council to hit the brakes on any new legislation.

Perhaps the most vehement opposition to the proposed change comes from the Department of Sanitation.

Paul Visconti, assistant chief of operations, says that the relaxed rules will lead to more idling and that street

Every year around the 4th of July, the phone in Ray Robinson’s Upper East Side apartment, where he has lived for the past 57 years, starts to ring again.

Though it’s been nearly a quarter century since the publication of “Iron Horse: Lou Gehrig in His Time,” Robinson’s definitive biography, the anniversary of Gehrig’s “Luckiest Man” speech, delivered on Independence Day in 1939, inevitably brings Robinson back into the limelight. This year marked the 75th anniversary of the speech, creating a particular celebrity moment for Robinson, a crisp 93-year-old who, before the Gehrig book, spent most of his journalism career as an editor at women’s magazines.

The Daily News sent a reporter to interview him last week, as did Newsday. Bob Costas, a friend of Robinson’s, came by the apartment to interview him for a Gehrig special on the MLB Network. Though the Yankees held a special commemoration ceremony for Gehrig this year—every first baseman in the league read a line from the speech – Robinson had to skip it because of a persistently painful toothache.

Does it bother Robinson that it’s now looking like his own legacy will forever be tied to the baseball player he first watched at the age of two?

“Not a bit,” he said. “He’s remained my hero.”

Robinson’s ties to Gehrig long predated the book. First there was that toddler outing, when his father took him to watch Gehrig hit balls on

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BY KYLE POPE

In Brief ARTS FUNDING FOR CITY SCHOOLS Mayor Bill de Blasio, Comptroller Scott M. Stringer and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña announced last week how the city will spend $23 million in additional arts funding for New York City schools. The city will hire 120 new arts teachers at middle and high schools that are underserved, improve arts facilities across the city, and foster partnerships with some of the city’s cultural institutions.

“We want every child to feel the spark that comes from learning something they are passionate about. The investments we are making here won’t just help our students explore music, dance and the arts. They will help these children grow in a way that helps them succeed in school and in life,” said Mayor de Blasio.

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Robinson with one of the photos that line the halls of his E. 90th Street apartment. Photo by Kyle Pope

RAY ROBINSON’S LOU GEHRIG CONNECTION 1922: Watched Gehrig practice at Columbia, as a two-year-old on the lap of his father 1929: Met Gehrig briefly at

Yankee stadium after asking for an interview for his grade-school paper 1939: Paid 50 cents to attend Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day at Yankee Stadium 1990: Published “Iron Horse,” the definitive Lou Gehrig biography

Four people arrested at an anti-war march during the 2004 Republican National Convention have been awarded $185,000 in the first trial stemming from lawsuits over protest arrests surrounding the GOP gathering.

Coming about six months after the city reached an $18 million settlement with about 1,800 other RNC protesters, Wednesday’s federal jury verdict caps a lingering chapter in the legal saga that followed the arrests, nearly all of which ended with cases dismissed or defendants acquitted.

Jurors awarded each $40,000 in compensatory damages for being wrongfully arrested., more than what individual protesters got in the settlement, which included about $7 million in attorneys’ fees. The jury also awarded a total of $25,000 in punitive damages against police Deputy Chief Thomas Monahan, who led the response to the march.

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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS CHECK Inside Brazenhead Books, a secret book shop on the Upper East Side that will soon be evicted. Photo via the Etsy Blog

SECRET BOOKSTORE CLOSES Brazenhead Books, a secret bookstore that has been operating out of an Upper East Side apartment the past few years, received an eviction notice Thursday, DNAinfo.com reported. The owner of the bookstore, Michael Seidenberg, was told that he has just a few months to vacate the space completely. Brazenhead Books had been previously located in Brooklyn in the late 1990s, but rising rents forced Seidenberg to close that shop, as well. Since 2008, Seidenberg has met with customers in the Upper East Side location on an appointmentonly basis, selling second-hand books.

Recognizing that the set-up wasn’t strictly legal, Seidenberg did not open the shop to the public, as he explained in a 2011 documentary that featured the bookstore. DNAinfo.com

SENIOR-FOCUSED EXERCISE CLASSES AT ASPHALT GREEN Asphalt Green, a sports and fitness center located on the Upper East Side, has continued their free fitness program for people ages 60 and older. The program, which started in 2006, has invited people from local public housing neighborhoods to join the tailored exercise classes, and to

and ceasing expansions. Nasdaq had suspended trading of Crumbs shares last week, and the company’s CEO admitted in interviews that the brand was in trouble and looking to rely solely on licensing deals to stay afloat. Wall Street Journal

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learn how to use the equipment. The Daily News reports that instructors demonstrate how to use cardio and strength machines, and at the beginning and end of the 14 weeks, seniors are tested on their abilities to gauge their progress. Many participants claim that the program has not only bolstered their strength and energy, but has combatted depression, as well.

Seniors who attend at least 80 percent of the classes receive a membership to Asphalt Green. NY Daily News

CRUMBS CLOSES The Wall Street Journal reported that the cupcake franchise Crumbs shuttered all of its stores on Monday.

“Regrettably Crumbs has been forced to cease operations and is immediately attending to the dislocation of its devoted employees while it evaluates its limited remaining options,” the company told the Journal.

The cupcake behemoth, famous for its oversized, frosting-heavy creations, has been struggling in the past year, and had already begun closing stores

Authorities in New York City say two companies used cooks, hairdressers and bellhops to sign construction inspection logs. The companies are accused of using the names of licensed site safety managers, including one who was dead.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and city Department of Investigation Commissioner Mark Peters unveiled the case Wednesday.

Under city law, exterior work on buildings 15 stories or taller requires daily inspections by a licensed, private site safety manager. Prosecutors say the defendants had unqualified people sign safety managers’ names without their knowledge.

Avanti Building Consultants Inc., NYCB Engineering Group and three executives have pleaded not guilty. So have four people accused of signing the logs.

The charges include grand larceny.

The case is prompting tighter oversight of safety managers’ documentation. AP

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG SPECTACULAR THEFT Sometime between the hours of 8:30 PM on Monday, June 30 and 9:30 AM the following morning, someone stole eyeglasses from a local store. An employee told police that he had locked up the store and activated the alarm when he left the shop on Monday. The following morning, he discovered that glasses were missing from the shelves. There were no signs of a break-in, and no video is available of the theft. The employee said that other people had keys to the store, but he was the only one who had the alarm deactivation code. The value of the stolen eyeglasses amounted to $9,300.

INCIDENT OF NOTE A mugger was arrested after an incident on a bus. At 7:40 AM on Sunday, June 29, a 53-year-old woman was riding an M15 bus when a 49-yearold man grabbed hold of her Samsung Note smartphone and attempted to take it. The two struggled before the thug punched the woman in the face, causing bruising and swelling of her lip. Another passenger

followed the mugger off the bus and detained him until police could make an arrest.

REPREHENSIBLE REPLACEMENT Unauthorized charges were made to a woman’s American Express card. At 5 PM on Tuesday, June 24, a 79-year-old female Upper East Side resident received a letter from American Express advising her that a replacement card had been sent to an address with which she was not familiar. Two days later, she received a statement from American Express itemizing charges on her account amounting to $49,170. She then discovered that someone had used her Social Security number to order the replacement card and make the unauthorized charges.

NO TIP FOR THIS DOORMAN An unknown perpetrator snatched a woman’s purse outside her apartment building.

At 2 AM on Saturday, June 28, a 22-year-old woman was outside her apartment building

waiting for her doorman to open the door, when an unknown perpetrator grabbed her purse and fled in an unknown direction.

Her purse contained an iPhone, credit cards, a driver’s license, and keys with a total value of $950.

UNHINGED PASSENGER An inebriated passenger broke a taxi door. At 2:50 AM on Friday, June 27, a 60-year-old male cabby picked up a male passenger, who turned out to be intoxicated, disorderly, and belligerent. When the passenger left the cab, he started slamming the vehicle’s sliding back door, managing to pull the door off its hinges and break the door’s window before fleeing the scene.

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South Field at Columbia, near the Robinson home at 115th Street and Broadway. Gehrig was attending Columbia and Robinson’s father, a lawyer, was an alum. “Everyone had heard about this young guy Gehrig, who seemed to have muscles on his ears,� he said.

Then, at the age of nine, Robinson and a pal of his at P.S. 165 wrote to Gehrig requesting an interview “for our nonexistent school newspaper.� Amazingly, Gehrig wrote back, telling the boys to come to the stadium for the interview, using the letter he had written as their entry pass. (Today, Robinson still marvels at Gehrig’s penmanship, which was being taught in public school at the time and which, he said, was unusually tidy.)

The cops at the stadium didn’t buy it, though, and the pair waited outside of the players’ entrance for five hours, to no avail. At the end of the game, Gehrig ďŹ nally did emerge, saw the boys, told them he felt terrible for their wait, and promised he would do the interview if they returned. He gave them two crumpled ticket stubs and told them to come back. “He could not have been nicer,â€? said Robinson, who laments that neither the stubs nor Gehrig’s original letter survived his adolescence.

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Left, a photo of the Gehrig speech at Yankee Stadium.

Below, Robinson in his home.

THE SECONDLUCKIEST MAN IN THE WORLD

They didn’t return, and a few years later, Robinson found himself in the 50-cent seats on July 4, 1939, for what was billed as Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day. The Yankees star was obviously ailing, but had managed to keep the extent of his illness a secret to all but his family and a very close circle of friends and fellow players.

Gehrig was slated to be honored following a double-header with Washington. Following a number of other speeches, a hesitant and clearly emotional Gehrig took a breath, then approached a bank of microphones. “Fans,� he began, “for the past two weeks, you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. I have been in ballparks for 17 years and have

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Gehrig went on to thank his manager, his teammates, his mother-in-law, and his wife, “who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed ‌ So I close in saying that I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.â€?

Gehrig died two years later, in his home in Riverdale. The speech, though, lived on as one of the greatest sporting moments in the nation, a pivot point for a country emerging from a Great Depression, but about to enter a horriďŹ c war.

In the years that would follow, many of Robinson’s friends and Columbia classmates would die in World War II (he avoided combat because of lousy vision) and he would bail on law school to pursue a career in journalism. After trying his hand as a Broadway publicist (he repped the hit show “Hellzapoppin,� for instance) and hating it, he became a magazine executive, raised three kids with his wife, Phyllis, then started a second career at the age of 65 as a book, magazine and newspaper writer. He’s continued to write regularly for the Times as a freelancer, and contributes often to the magazine published by the baseball Hall of Fame. He’s also a member of the board of the New York chapter of the ALS Foundation, raising money to help people stricken by the illness that would become known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

His apartment on E. 90th Street overlooks the ball ďŹ elds of Asphalt Green (the sound of children playing outside his window is “a noise I loveâ€?) and is stuffed with books and photos from a vivid life that remains very much in motion.

One hallway features framed pictures of him with President Kennedy, at a Fidel Cas-

tro speech, on the beach with Phyllis, reading a newpaper and smoking a cigar. (In the day, Robinson could easily have passed for Paul Newman.)

He types everything he writes on manual typewriters that Gay Talese helps him keep supplied with ribbon. His coffee table is weighed down with books by friends (George Vescey of the Times, for instance) and by those he admires (the financial journalist Michael Lewis, who shares his publisher.)

Asked if he’s got another book in him, as he approaches his 94th birthday, Robinson sighs and looks toward his beloved wife, the beauty in the bathing suit in the old photos, who now suffers from a long illness and whose care has consumed him in recent years. “Under these conditions, I can’t do it,� he said. “I’ve lost my heart for it.�

Then he’s out of his easy chair, and into his study, where he pulls the cover off his Olivetti typewriter and plans a trip downtown to see the writer Pete Hamill, an old friend. “The world just doesn’t stop, does it?�

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FOR DOG OWNERS, AN URBAN FEAR RETURNS NEWS Some dog owners are on high alert against potential pet snatchers in their neighborhoods

BY MEGAN BUNGEROTH

Moey, downtown’s missing poodle mix, with owner Ethan Falk

Resident Peter Falk was walking Moey, a uffy, friendly mixed breed of poodle, Bichon Frise and shih tzu, around 6 p.m. on June 25. He tied him to a fence briey and went to chat with construction workers across the street. Minutes later, Moey was gone. His leash had been looped around the pole; there was no way he could have run off on his own, and the Falks say he never tried to bolt from them. “I never thought anything like this would happen,â€? Yelena said. “Even the officers from the 6th precinct said that it does not happen in the Village.â€?

The “itâ€? Yelena refers to is a specter that many dog owners in the city fear – pet kidnapping. While it’s almost impossible to tell if dog thefts are on the rise or decline – the NYPD does not speciďŹ cally track reports of stolen pets – many owners say they are always vigilant, readily sharing horror stories from friendsof-friends who have had the worst befall their pooches. “I’ve lived here over 30 years; I’ve never tied my dog up to go in anywhere,â€? said Kevin Svetlich, who was walking his dog Elle near the Chelsea Waterside dog run last week. He said that while he hasn’t felt a direct threat, he knows not to leave Elle unattended even for the all-too-common quick run into a coffee shop. He has a friend who once caught a person walking away with his pet greyhound after tying the dog outside a convenience store in the Financial District for less than ďŹ ve minutes. “You can’t trust anyone,â€? Svetlich said.

Seventeen-year-old Elle, a Tibetan terrier who is blind and deaf but still walking on her own, curious enough to stick out her nose to friendly strangers, might not seem like a dog-napper’s prime target.

But people steal dogs for a range of reasons, including to sell them to shady research facilities, ip them to unsuspecting buyers on Craigslist hoping for a discount off pet-store prices, or even to extort the owners in true kidnapping ransom fashion.

Sometimes, as in the Falks’ case, predators target those with missing animals, even if they aren’t the ones who stole them in the first place.

After papering her neighborhood – and much of Manhattan, including Times Square, Port Authority, Penn Station and the East Village – with yers pleading for information leading to Moey’s return, she knew that the promise of a reward might draw some false calls and scams.

Still, when she got a call last week from a man claiming to have Moey

and demanding cash, she willingly sent the man money, even knowing it probably was a ploy. “They said they steal dogs and sell them back to their owners,� Yelena said. “There was a one percent chance they have my dog, right?� It was a risk she was willing to take, but she wasn’t surprised that when they asked for more money and she demanded a picture of Moey, they sent a photo of a different dog. “It’s been very, very difficult emotionally with all these ups and downs,� Yelena said.

Elizabeth Mejia, who lives in Chelsea, has also been worried about her own dog’s welfare. Though Sam, her 11-year-old dachshund, remains safe, Mejia said that she’s witnessed three different attempts to steal him in recent months.

Mejia said that pup thieves are getting wilier and working in teams, and that they don’t always wait for distracted owners to leave the dogs unattended. She said that she’s seen pairs of men targeting women walking small dogs, and said that she was almost the victim of a recent attempt. “A young man I honed in on, he was walking with another young man dressed to the nines in suits coming toward me� around 7th Avenue and 18th Street, she said. “He came toward me, the other one stood around to my right. Behind me is the subway station entrance. He comes two feet

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away from me and said to me, ‘how old is that dog?’ So I said, ’11 years old, he’s got serious health problems, why?’ And the guy said to me, ‘oh we don’t want that one,� and walked by me.�

Mejia said she heard from a friend about a woman walking her teacup Yorkie on West 19th Street, right outside her brownstone, and all of a sudden she was knocked to the ground, watching a man sprinting away with her dog.

Poppy Stockwell, who lives in Gramercy and sometimes brings her one-year-old King Charles spaniel to frolic in the Chelsea dog run, said that she is careful not to divulge too much information (like his breed or how much she paid for him) about her puppy, named Louie, to inquiring strangers, just in case they have wayward intentions. “For me, my rule is, I don’t just let everybody pet him. There are some people who I don’t stop and chat with,�

Stockwell said. Her mother, Sandra Stockwell, was visiting and said that she makes sure to stay aware of her surroundings when walking Louie.

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Despite these anecdotal warning stories, Detective Mike Petrillo of the 10th Precinct in Chelsea said that they haven’t seen a rise in reports of dog thefts. “The ASPCA stopped enforcement, so this falls on the NYPD now,â€? Det. Petrillo said. “People do come in and report [dog thefts], we’d put up yers. It’s deďŹ nitely something we would take seriously.â€?

But he said he hasn’t noticed a marked increase in pet-theft reports.

Part of the trouble with tracking dog theft has to do with how the crime gets reported, if it does at all. Mejia said that when she tried to report her attempted dog-napping incident, the officer who greeted her at the 10th precinct dismissed her concerns and said there was nothing they could do. (Det. Petrillo said that he was surprised by Mejia’s account, and that an officer could have taken a report for attempted larceny.)

Most dog thefts fall under the category of petit larceny, a misdemeanor that covers the theft of property valued at less than $1,000. But Det. Petrillo said that if a perpetrator uses force or violence, like pushing over the dog’s owner

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A spokesperson for the city’s Animal Care and Control said that the agency is not aware of an increase in lost pet reports due to theft.

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More on the mayor Re: Welcome to the Neighborhood, Mr. Mayor As your neighbors living not far from Gracie Mansion, we were delighted to see all the welcoming ads in Our Town. We would suggest that instead of going shopping, you take your family for a stroll on the East River esplanade

Feedback EVEN WORSE FOR TENANTS While I appreciate your June 19 story about the problem of ever-increasing MCI’s for regulated tenants (“A New Front in the Tenant Battle”), it has an error. One of the injustices with MCI surcharges is that they are added to the tenant’s bill PERMANENTLY, not “over a number of years.”

You would think it would stop after the amount is paid off, but you would be wrong.

Also note that while rent-stabilized MCI’s are capped at 6 percent a year, rent-controlled tenants can be charged up to 15 percent a year.

Paula Glatzer

NO GARBAGE FOR YORKVILLE A comment from the web on our story “Protesting the Trash Transfer Station,” July 3, 2014: The NIMBY argument does not fly when people have facts. Chris Hamby did a research thesis at Pratt, totally independent. NYC needs to change the way it handles garbage because it does not have industrial areas to process it.

There is never an excuse for discrimination.

Denying one group environmental justice for the benefit of another is discrimination. Please review the last 100 years of the civil rights movement. No densely populated residential neighborhood anyway should have a garbage dump. roy123

street to 60th Street and below, so that this heavily used area next to the East River can become part of the chain of parks surrounding Manhattan with a necklace of greenery. You will find, now that you are our neighbor, how bereft we are of greenspace in your new neighborhood.

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LETTER

DEAR MAYOR DE BLASIO: LET’S MEET AND TALK TRASH Dear Mr. Mayor, Today as I walked past a small crowd of protestors by the Asphalt Green proposed waste transfer station, I once again marveled at the decision being made that this belongs here. Immediately I felt it a calling to invite you to join me for a cup of coffee at Timmy’s By the River, 91st and York Avenue. Just half an hour of your time – any time of the day (you choose) -- to see the numbers of children in carriages, on bikes, on scooters.

The point being: WHY! You are here and you want to do good for the children of this city.

Children from all economic levels are using this playground, field, swimming classes. Elderly people are using the gym. This is not an “Upper East Side Affluent Area” as described by the officials determined to make a statement at the cost of these children. You have the power to stop it. Get involved. Spend some time here and see how devastating this will be for the hundreds, maybe thousands, of kids using this area from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m., seven days a week.

I have no vested interest. I rent my apartment so I am not concerned about real estate values. I have no children or grandchildren living in the area, so I am not concerned about my family.

Why do I care so much? My children are now grown, but if only it was here when they were young. It finally became this amazing bit of country in a concrete city. It is inevitable, you know this, because these garbage trucks lined up 24/7 won’t see the children. York Avenue is not wide enough to accommodate garbage trucks, school buses, city buses, FDR traffic and the like.

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to see how deteriorated and dangerous it is.

Compared with the Brooklyn waterfront park and the westside Hudson River Park, it looks like the results of a tornado, e.g. crumbling edges, broken walkways, graffiti-marred walls and few places for children or adults to exercise other than carefully walking or running.

We urge you to use some of the funds you have set aside for parks throughout the boroughs to revive the esplanade from 125th

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of these pleas. But this is a plea that I hope you care enough to address. Even in the quiet summer when so many kids are away. The camp is in session, the buses are still outside. Now I see as of this week we have a policeman standing in front of the gate. Don’t know why. Are they no

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I am not going on vacation so I am available to meet on your schedule. (I am prompt but I hear you are not.) I will make sure to wait.

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EARLY AMERICAN GUITARS: THE INSTRUMENTS OF C.F. MARTIN The MET, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd St. 10 am-9 pm; Suggested donation $25 Featuring the handiwork of famous guitar maker Christian Frederick Martin, this exhibit has 22 of his original creations on display, as well as more than a dozen 19th-century guitars from overseas crafters. metmuseum.org; 212-5357710

KANDINSKY BEFORE ABSTRACTION, 19011911 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Ave at 89th St. 10 am-5:45 pm; $22/$18 students and seniors w/ID Before Russian artist Vasily Kandinsky became internationally renowned for his abstract paintings, he worked primarily with three printmaking techniques—etching, woodcut, and lithography—in an attempt to tell stories through a reduced means of expression. This exhibit explores his early work of paintings and woodcuts, which evoked the Russia of Kandinsky’s youth while combining folklore and fantasy. guggenheim.org; 212-4233500

12 FROM THE WESTERN FRONT AND BEYOND: THE WRITINGS OF WORLD WAR ONE The New York Society Library, 53 E. 79th St. 9 am-5 pm; Free This year marks the 100th anniversary of the ďŹ rst major war of the 20th century, one that left millions dead and that ravaged the landscape of both the Western and Eastern Fronts. This exhibition includes

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CENTRAL PARK TANGO Central Park, Enter at 65th St. on either the East or West Sides 6-9:30 pm; Free Hosted by New York Tango, this weekly event features open dancing for all skill levels and includes a beginner lesson at approximately 7:30 pm. newyorktango.com; 212726-1111

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12-5 pm; Free The French Institute Alliance Française will be hosting their annual Bastille Day street fair. Come celebrate French Culture with delicious crêpes, Êclairs, wine, and cheeses while listening to live music and taking part in a prize drawing. bastilledayny.com; 212-3556100

MEL BOCHNER: STRONG LANGUAGE The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave at 92nd St.

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THE PHOTOGRAPHIC OBJECT, 1970 Hauser & Wirth, 32 E. 69th St, btwn Madison & Park Aves.

10 am-6 pm; free Hauser & Wirth present this ambitious historical exhibition, exploring the legacy of artist Peter Bunnell’s landmark 1970 show “Photography into Sculpture.� Other West Coast artists that are featured include Robert Heinecken, Richard Jackson, and Jerry McMillan. hauserwirth.com; 212-7944970

CITY AS CANVAS: GRAFFITI ART FROM THE MARTIN WONG COLLECTION Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave. 10 am-6 pm; Suggested admission $10 Over 150 pieces of East Village artist Martin Wong’s collection of graffiti art will be on display, along with photographs of graffiti writing long erased from subways and buildings. mcny.org; 212-534-1672

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FIAF, Florence Gould Hall, 55 E. 59th St. 7:30 pm; $13/$7 students One of France’s most celebrated actors, Vincent Lindon will be celebrated at FIAF with screenings of seven of his films, each accompanied by a post-screening wine reception.

On July 15, Anything for Her, an action-packed thriller, will be shown. fiaf.

Central Park, Rumsey Playfield, Enter park at Fifth Ave at 69th St. 8-10 pm; free Recognized as the nation’s premier Latino dance organization, Ballet Hispanico explores the diversity of Latino culture through a fusion of Latin

ROBERT MELEE, “A DOZEN ROSES” Higher Pictures, 980 Madison Ave, btwn 76th and 77th Sts. 11 am-6 pm; free This exhibition features images from twelve staged shoots of the artist’s mother, Rose, made between 1993 and 2004. Through works that challenge the viewer to reconsider notions of real life versus theater, Melee shatters the traditional roles of mother and son. higherpictures.com; 212249-6100

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and contemporary dance.

Presented by SummerStage, Ballet Hispanico’s performance will be joined by A Palo Seco, a New York based Flamenco Company. cityparksfoundation.org; 212-360-2789

LOST KINGDOMS The MET, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd St. 10 am-5:30 pm; Suggested donation $25 Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, 5th to 8th Century, is the first international loan exhibition to explore the

EDWARD HOPPER AND PHOTOGRAPHY The Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Ave, at 75th St. 11 am-6 pm; $20 general admission Edward Hopper and Photography pairs Hopper paintings from the Whitney’s permanent collection with the work of contemporary photographers who share an interest in elevating everyday subject matter by manipulating light. whitney.org; 212-570- 3600

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SARTORIAL SPLENDOR EXHIBITS Exploring the Charles James: Beyond Fashion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

BY MARY GREGORY

It can take a bit of magic, when something has vanished, to make it reappear. The Metropolitan Museum’s Harold Koda, chief curator at the Costume Institute, and co-curator Jan Glier Reeder, have applied some technical wizardry and great showmanship to bring the work of America’s first couturier back into the light in Charles James: Beyond Fashion.

James, considered by those in the fashion industry as among the greatest of the greats, was a genius who approached design unlike anyone before him or since, but like many visionary artists, he died penniless and forgotten.

“He’s like a sexy treasure for a curator, because most people don’t know who he is, yet he has such a rich body of work, you’re able to present the public with a surprise,” said Koda.

The elegant, opulent satin and tulle gowns on view at the Met will almost certainly surprise. And some of the more quotidian dresses and coats show even more clearly the unprecedented originality of Charles James’s vision.

Oddly shaped panels, cut in winding patterns, wrap, flutter and hang in ways that might make other dressmakers gasp.

Charles James: Beyond Fashion is presented in two separate locations in the museum. The gowns, in hues of emerald, ruby, and pearly white and in shapes that evoke trees, swans and butterflies, are on view in the museum’s special exhibition gallery on the first floor. Low pedestals in a darkened room spotlight these creations without glass cases. The curators wanted to allow a sense of intimacy in viewing the dresses. They’re displayed only slightly higher than floor level, making it easy to imagine the swish and sway and sensation that wearing one would bring.

You can walk around each piece, seeing the back and the front, and, in certain cases, even what lies beneath.

Interactive monitors and robotic arms with cameras are used to bring viewers an understanding of the structure of these dresses. James used layers upon layers of different colors and fabrics to create shimmering surprises for those who saw or wore his dresses. A red gown has under layers of pink, white and scarlet. The subtle tonality of the Swan Dress is achieved through layers of rose and oyster tulle that combine below a gray surface. James applied colors the way a painter would.

The new Anna Wintour Costume Center, downstairs in the museum, recently reopened after a $40 million make-

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over. The upgrade has made a whole new level of technical sophistication possible in exhibiting clothing. For this show, the curators embraced all kinds of interesting gadgets. Videos display the way ribbons were joined into panels in James’s Dressing Gown. X-rays reveal the supports that allowed him to create some of the first strapless gowns.

Charles J ames, whose most productive period was from the 1930s to the ‘50s, died in 1978. He was largely selftaught, and combined irrepressible creativity with an inconsistent business sense, perhaps not a perfect pairing.

At one time, he was the most sought after designer in the country, dressing socialites and stars. His clients

ranged from members of the wealthiest families—Hearst and Vanderbilt Whitney—to fellow artists (Lee Krasner bought a dress for an opening) to Gypsy Rose Lee. But, in the end, he was too exacting, too creative and too unwilling to compromise to ever achieve commercial success.

The women who wore his creations often found them challenging, noting that it could be hard to tell the front from the back. They could also be rewarding, as when Matisse asked one of his portrait subjects to wear her Charles James blouse for a sitting, or liberating, as seen in one of James’s most notable creations, the Taxi Dress, which was designed to be so simple, one could put it on in the back seat of a taxi. A puffy down coat might intimidate today’s clients as looking too futuristic. It was made in 1937.

James’s own favorite was the Four Leaf Clover dress, a white satin and black velvet marvel of modern design, the skirt of which looks like a four-roomed tent. Many of his dresses evoke forms of nature, like tulips turned upside down or the graceful arcs of folded-under feathers of swans. James was the only American fashion designer ever to receive a Guggenheim Foundation Grant. The Metropolitan chose to exhibit his work partly because, curator Koda explained, James “never felt that he was a commercial fashion designer. He felt that he was an artist whose mode of expression was fashion. So that’s a perfect pairing for us—art museum, but fashion, with a fashion designer who thought he was an artist.”

An artist, indeed. Charles James: Beyond Fashion, which runs through August 10th, presents approximately 70 designs by an American master in an incredible display of clothing that transcends functionality and truly belongs on pedestals in a museum.

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“A HARD DAY’S NIGHT” The Beatles’ 1964 debut film, “A Hard Day’s Night,” turns 50, and a new restoration of the iconic musical, made from the original camera negative, screens at Film Forum. The film, about a few whirlwind days in the life of the band, features a soundtrack freshly-restored by Giles Martin at Abbey Road Studios, and includes “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “She Loves You,” and the film’s title track.

Through July 17 Film Forum 209 West Houston St. Assorted show times

KIDS KIDS DANCE! Salsa dancer and Dancing Classrooms instructor Rodney Lopez leads an introduction to ballroom dance for some of the city’s youngest aspiring dancers.

Geared toward dancers ages six through 10, the afternoon workshop offers students an introduction to the fundamentals of swing, merengue, tango and other forms.

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FOOD BASTILLE DAY ON 60TH STREET French Institute Alliance Française hosts its annual Bastille Day street fair. The al fresco celebration of French independence, a staple of the season in the neighborhood for over a decade, includes live music, French desserts, cheese, wine and beer, as well as kids arts and crafts and face painting.

Bastille Day on 60th Street Sunday, July 13 60th Street between Fifth and Lexington Avenues noon to 5 p.m.

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CELEBRATE FLATIRON CHEFS! Some of the Flatiron area’s most recognizable chefs and cuisine take over Madison Square Park for the 10th annual Celebrate Flatiron Chefs! Guests at the outdoor tasting can nosh on signature bites from A Voce Madison, Hill Country Chicken, ilili, Maialino and other eateries, and sip beverages from local purveyors, including Long Island Wine Country, Rockaway Brewing Co., and Stumptown Coffee Roasters.

Tuesday, July 15 Madison Square Park Entrance near East 23rd Street and Broadway 6:30 p.m.

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MUSIC FUTURISMUSIC As part of its summer programming, the Guggenheim Museum presents Maestro Daniele Lombardi on piano as he performs work by composers Francesco Balilla Pratella, Silvio Mix and other Italian Futurists. Coinciding with the museum’s “Italian Futurism: 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe” exhibit, the performance showcases how Futurist composers challenged classic sonic ideas.

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Food & Drink

$120 BEER COULD HIT NYC RESTAURANTS Some New York City restaurants could soon start serving Shaved Black Truffle Pilsner, a $120 bottle of beer from Chicago’s Moody Tongue Brewing Company, the New York Post reported. Concocted by Jared Rouben, a former chef and onetime brew master for Goose

In Brief KOBEYAKI OPENS SO ON U.E.S. Japanese-inspired faststcasual restaurant Kobeyaki aki plans for an Upper East Side outpost, DNAinfo reported. The restaurant chain, which already has Chelsea and Bryant Parkk locations, will expand to the Upper East Side come August, moving into its 1,800-squarefoot, 50-seat location at 215 East 86th St., just st a block from Shake Shack ck and across the street from Fairway Market. The broad menu features both traditional sushi rolls and sashimi, as well as Japanese-inspired burgers, such as a spicy tuna burger with miso onions and wasabi mayonnaise, and a chicken burger with teriyaki ketchup and onions. With an eye on sustainable food practices, Kobeyaki sources from local farms, exclusively features locally and humanely raised poultry from Murray’s Chicken and naturally-raised Kobe-style Wagyu beef from family farms. The restaurant also uses recycled packaging and composts its discarded food products.

DANNY MEYER LAMENTS RENT HIKE IN TIMES OP-ED Following the news that his first restaurant, Union Square Café, will likely relocate due to a rent increase at its original location, Danny Meyer, restaurateur and brain behind the Shake Shack franchise, penned an op-ed in the New York Times, lamenting the ill fates of some of New York City’s restaurants that must move or shutter due to rising rents, including Bobby’ Flay’s Mesa Grill and Wylie Dufresne’s WD-50. Union Square Café is coming to the end of its second 15-year lease, and, Meyer wrote, “unless we’re able to complete a Hail Mary pass with our landlord before that point, we will have to move.” Meyer, whose Union Square Café was a neighborhood destination for almost 30 years and preceded the Duane Reade, American Eagle Outfitters and other chain retailers that now populate Union Square, argues that, as neighborhoods become sought-after, they become more generic, noting that “the more ‘successful’ a neighborhood becomes, the more it gradually takes on a recognizable, common look, as the same banks, drugstore chains and national brands move in.”

Island Beer Company in Chicago, the smallbatch brew (the first batch only yielded around 80 kegs), is made with hand-shaved Australian black truffles in addition to regular hops and malt. The decadent pilsner made a brief splash at Per Se in Columbus Circle in June—where

Rouben once worked as an expeditor—where it was served alongside roasted chocolate and truffle pudding. The beer already found a home in a few Chicago restaurants, but Rouben has yet to reveal which New York City restaurants will serve the expensive brew.

NEEDY NEW YORKERS GET FANCY FOOD LEFTOVERS CHARITY Leftover delicacies from the Summer Fancy Food Show were delivered to a food pantry on the Upper West Side

BY VERENA DOBNIK

UPPER WEST SIDE Some of the world’s fanciest foods are going to New Yorkers who can’t afford even basic meat-and-potato meals.

This week, they got about 90,000 pounds of delicacies left over from the largest marketplace of specialty foods and beverages in North America, the Summer Fancy Food Show in New York.

When the three-day display closed Tuesday at the Jacob Javits Convention Center on the West Side, hundreds of volunteers descended on mountains of artisanal cheeses, salsas and jams, plus chocolate, olive oil, prosciutto, spices and other items donated by many of this year’s 2,700 purveyors from 49 countries.

A half-dozen tractor-trailers then delivered the food to pantries and community programs.

“We throw away so much food in this country while so many people are going hungry,” said

Maria Vives as she led a nine-person team through the aisles of the 370,000-square-foot center.

They were volunteers for the massive food giveaway -- an annual joint effort by the Specialty Food Association that produces the show and City Harvest, a leading anti-hunger nonprofit that feeds at least half a million New Yorkers a week.

Nearly a fifth of the 8.4 million people who live in New York are estimated to suffer from what’s called food insecurity, meaning they don’t have consistent access to safe, nutritious food, according to the hunger-relief nonprofit Feeding America.

When the show ended, the convention center turned into a mammoth culinary demolition derby, with exhibitors packing products and dismantling displays while workers ripped up carpeting and forklifts zigzagged to waiting trucks.

Volunteer teams rushed around the aisles forming a sea of green, the color of their City Harvest Tshirts.

Those in need came the next morning to a pantry on the Upper West Side that received about 6,000 pounds of products from the show that filled shelves and

The Summer Fancy Food Show at the Javits Center last week, which displayed dozens of upscale culinary vendors and later donated many of the leftovers to a local food pantry. Photo credit Specialty Food Association refrigerators.

For anyone who wanted it along with staples, there was something special, such as Italian panettone, a sweet, fruit-filled bread.

Among the recipients was Lina Hernandez, who on many days doesn’t have enough money for a simple meal for her four children. But just before the Fourth of July, she was picking up milk, bread and vegetables at the pantry that also offered a veritable feast including the foie gras with truffles worth $80 a pound, duck breast and fine Mexican chocolate wafers.

“It’s very nice to have something different,” said Hernandez, 29, as foie gras was being passed around, spread on gourmet crackers.

Brooklyn-based Les Trois Petit Cochons (French for “three little pigs”) donated the foie gras, along

with the duck and a huge cured ham that all landed at The West Side Campaign Against Hunger in the church basement “where we come to get our food,” said Marcos Galvez, Hernandez’s 8-yearold son, cracking a smile.

The Bronx family had lost its steady income when the children’s father had to stop working at a restaurant where he slipped and fell, badly damaging his back.

Matthew Reich, City Harvest’s vice president of food sourcing, said the effort is a break from the norm.

“For the people we serve in New York City every day, when they don’t have enough to eat, we normally deliver potatoes, cabbage, onions, apples -- a wide variety of fresh fruit and vegetables; we normally don’t deliver $30-a-pound cheese or pate,” Reich said. “So this is a treat for all.”

JULY 10, 2014 Our Town

RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST

JUNE 25 - 30, 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.

Marty O’brien’s

Ooki Sushi

InďŹ rmary

1696 Second Avenue

1575 3 Avenue

1720 2 Avenue

SOUP BURG CLOSED AFTER RENT INCREASE

Grade Pending (19) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

SAVING SMALL BUSINESS Venerable Upper East Side restaurant to be replaced by a TD Bank branch

BY CATHERINE ELLSBERG

Soup Burg has served up its last bowl.

The restaurant, which had called its Lexington Ave. and 77th Street location home for the past 10 years, was ďŹ nally forced to call it quits June 29 after the building’s landlord tried to raise the rent exponentially. Unable to pay the higher rent, Soup Burg’s owner, Jimmy Gouvakis, had to make the difficult decision to close the restaurant—a family-owned business since 1963—to make way for the building’s new tenant, TD Bank.

Gouvakis has had the difficult news hanging over him since April; since then, his customers have showered him with support -- as well as a healthy dose of outrage. Many neighborhood fans and long-time customers see the closing of Soup Burg as part of a sad, and larger, epidemic—the ousting of small businesses, and the rampant excess of banks and chain stores that replace them. Nikki Henkin, who lives above the Soup Burg and who has been a devoted customer from the beginning, described the restaurant as a favorite local hangout. Located directly across the street from Lenox Hill Hospital, Soup Burg has long “served a neighborhood function,� says Henkin, catering to the hospital staff, neighborhood doormen, and “just people.� The restaurant, which was open from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m., represented a neighborhood spirit for many people, including Henkin, who describes such small restaurants as “(necessities) in every community.�

Other Soup Burg patrons have taken the restaurant’s closing as a particular blow and, to a degree, a sign of a wider decay:

Grade Pending (25) Cold food item held above 41Âş F (smoked ďŹ sh and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ÂşF) except during necessary preparation. Appropriately scaled metal stem-type thermometer or thermocouple not provided or used to evaluate temperatures of potentially hazardous foods during cooking, cooling, reheating and holding. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Grade Pending (21) Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

Heavenly Rest Stop

2 East 90 Street

A

Enthaice

1598 3 Avenue

A

Cafe Twist

1700 First Avenue

A

Table D’hote

44 East 92 Street

A

Tenzan Japanese Cuisine

1714 2 Avenue

Grade Pending (20) Cold food item held above 41Âş F (smoked ďŹ sh and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ÂşF) except during necessary preparation. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Cafe On 5Th/Sterling Affair

1216 5 Avenue

A

Grand Cafe (Metropolitan Hospital)

1901 2 Avenue

A

Brisas Del Mar Seafood Market

17851787 Lexington Avenue

Grade Pending (35) Cold food item held above 41Âş F (smoked ďŹ sh and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ÂşF) except during necessary preparation. Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, crosscontaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Il Gnocchi Restaurant

118 East 116 Street

A

Asian Gourmet

1509 Lexington Avenue

A

Natural Essencials & Wellness Llc

2105 1 Avenue

Not Graded Yet (6)

China House Chinese Restaurant

1624 Madison Avenue

A

La Preciosa China Restaurant 163 East 116 Street

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been equal parts levelheaded and nostalgic. Recognizing that “a lot of people are upset,� Gouvakis acknowledged that this is “all part of business; it’s nothing personal against us.� Gouvakis, who owns Soup Burg with his two partners—his brother John and his brother-in-law Timmy— plans on relocating to somewhere else on the Upper East Side, an area they love and are now long familiar with.

In the meantime, Gouvakis spent Soup Burg’s ďŹ nal day serving up last meals, to people and dogs alike. Joking that in his next life he’d “rather live with dogs than most humans,â€? Gouvakis has been known to hand out bits of ham to neighborhood pets. Gouvakis also made one of his famous cheeseburgers for his mother. “It was a pleasure being here for ten years,â€? Gouvakis told me: “This was my second family.â€?

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July 6, 2014

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UPS tells employees to lie, overcharge customers: suit

U.P.S.’S SECRET MANHATTAN PROBLEM One of the Hagan brothers’ 11 Manhattan UPS stores, now closed.

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Employees in virtually every Manhattan (UPS Store) location were so comfortable with the practice of ‌ lying about expected delivery dates, withholding accurate price quotes and overdimensioning boxes to trigger higher retail billable rates, that they would gladly engage in conversations on the topic.�

A former UPS franchisee

BUSINESS A former franchisee accuses the shipping giant of routinely gouging customers throughout the city

BY KYLE POPE

Last month, when nearly a dozen UPS Stores across the city closed down in a single day, the initial focus was on the customers put out by the shutdown: dozens of people found themselves unable to access their rented mailboxes, while others complained of packages lost in the The UPS Store believes shuffle. On the West Side, a blog surfaced the allegations made against to swap information about the fate of a store on West 57th Street. it and UPS ... to be false.

What none of these customers knew at The UPS Store customer service team is doing all we the time, though, was that they had uncan to assure the customers wittingly become part of a much bigger in the Manhattan store area – and at times bizarre – dispute involving affected are taken care of� the franchisee who until the shutdowns

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What can Brown screw from you?

Two former UPS franchisees accuse the worldwide delivery service of telling employees to lie about the size and weight of packages in order to jack up prices on unsuspecting customers.

Brothers Robert and Thomas Hagan, who owned and operated 11 UPS stores in Manhattan, claim in a federal lawsuit that a typical scam was to “add inches to the sides of measured boxes,� as well as an “enhanced declared value,� which allowed clerks to charge customers more.

For example, a package with a length, width and depth totaling 26 inches would cost $106.85 to overnight from New York to Pittsburgh, but a 29-inch package would cost $117.19. In some cases, customers were overcharged as much as 400 percent, legal papers allege. “It’s pretty ugly,� said Steve Savva, the Hagans’ attorney. “It seems to be systematic, and the customers have no way of knowing.�

The Hagans allege in court filings that The UPS Store, a subsidiary of the publicly traded United Parcel Service, was responsible for violating “the covenant of good faith and fair dealing� by: t 5FMMJOH DVTUPNFST UIBU HSPVOE EFMJWFSZ DPVME OPU CF HVBSBOUFFE BOE XPVME take longer than it actually would, in order to entice them to buy expensive, guaranteed air delivery. t $PODFBMJOH UIF DPTU PG DIFBQFS TIJQQJOH TFSWJDFT t $IBSHJOH DVTUPNFST GVFM TVSDIBSHFT GPS BJS EFMJWFSZ FWFO XIFO QBDLBHFT XFSFO U shipped by plane but by truck.

Videotapes offered as evidence show UPS Store employees cheating customers,

UPS, and their right to operate a UPS store was revoked.

But, in an effort to clear their name, the Hagans have ďŹ led an extraordinary claim against UPS in Federal Court that lays out, over 200 detailed pages, what they say is a systemic effort by UPS to rip off its Manhattan customers. The Hagans, UPS franchise owners since 2008 whose business grossed $6 million a year at its peak, even brought in a private investigator to secretly document the abuses they say occur at every UPS store in the city.

Among their claims: Customers are routinely duped into paying more than necessary for shipping Employees are encouraged to lie about the weight and dimensions of packages to result in a higher bill Customers are told that one method of shipping is the cheapest, when often it is not The Hagans, in their lawsuit, says the deception is so widespread at UPS in

May 1, 2014

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Our Town MAY 8, 2014

From Vandals to Artists: Time Rouses More Appreciation for Graffiti

THESE WALLS CAN TALK ART Current exhibits explore NYC streets’ past and present

BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO

Grade Pending (41) Hot food item not held at or above 140Âş F. Cold food item held above 41Âş F (smoked ďŹ sh and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ÂşF) except during necessary preparation. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Personal cleanliness inadequate.

Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared.

Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.

“How far can we go with this? Are we just going to end up with a lot of banks?� added Henkin. Joie Anderson, another local devotee, chastises Mayor de Blasio, who in her eyes has allowed everything to “turn into a Duane Reade and a TD Bank.� For Anderson, these “mom and pop stores give character� to the area, and are welcome remedies to the ubiquitous Starbucks or Panera chains. At places like Starbucks, Anderson complains, there are different workers there every time you visit; Soup Burg, on the other hand, promises personalized attention, regularity, and consistency. “You go into Soup Burg and they act like you’re their favorite customer,� Anderson says, noting that such local joints keep “New York from being a suburban shopping mall.�

But as angry as Henkin, Anderson, and a slew of other customers are, Gouvakis, has

Last November, one of New York’s most iconic art exhibits was uncermoniously whitewashed.

Outdoor art space 5Pointz, a destination in Long Island City where graffiti writers from all over the world came to leave their mark, was covered over with white paint last November at the behest of the building’s owner, Jerry Wolkoff.

When the vast walls of colorful graffiti were covered, Long Island City resident Jeffrey Leder took notice. Wolkoff had allowed graffiti writers to legally create work on his property for more than a decade, but now plans to demolish the building and construct residential high-rises after winning legal disputes with the 5Pointz artists.

Leder, who operates an art gallery a block away, joined forces with Marie Cecile-Flageul, a member of the 5Pointz community who also manages its press, to curate “Whitewash,� an exhibition responding to the destruction, featuring work by nine artists who once painted at 5Pointz. Included in the exhibit are paintings by Meres One, the longtime curator of 5Pointz as well as prints

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Leder about the debut of the exhibit. “It was a celebration 5Pointz of the life of 5Pointz and also showed that there mourning its death.â€? was a need for While “Whitewashâ€? is a di- graffiti culture rect response to the recent as a tourist events at 5Pointz, the Jeffrey destination spot, Leder Gallery is not the only and so therefore local space exploring graf- any gallery or art fiti’s presence in New York institution that City. In February, Museum of can provide people the City of New York opened with their graffiti “City as Canvas,â€? an exhibi- ďŹ x will do so.â€? tion of 1980s graffiti art. City Gregory J. Lore, a non-proďŹ t organiza- Snyder, author tion that preserves and pro- of “Graffiti motes folk and grassroots Lives: Beyond arts movements, opened its the Tag in New new gallery space in April York’s Urban Undergroundâ€? with “Moving Murals,â€? a photographic display of graffiti-covered subway cars shot by photographers Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper during the 1970s and early 1980s. “Graffiti is so emblematic of the way people can be creative in their own environment,â€? said Steve Zeitlin, founding director of City Lore, who noted that, while graffiti still exists in the city, painted train cars are rare. In August, Gothamist reported that a tagged 4 train was spotted in the Bronx, though Zeitlin said it didn’t stay in public view for very long. “They never make it out of the train yard,â€? Zeitlin said.

While graffiti is more policed now than in the 1970s and 1980s, street art has become a more accepted public display in urban areas, thanks in no small part to the international celebrity of clandestine British street artist Banksy, who completed a month-long ‘residency’ on New York City’s streets in October. Gregory J. Snyder, a sociologist and professor at Baruch College whose book “Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York’s Urban Underground� resulted from a decade of immersive research into graffiti’s subculture, makes a distinction between the two forms. “A lot of what we consider street art was antici

Above, a train mural from the City Lore exhibition. Photo

by Henry Chalfant Left, Henry Chalfant and graffiti writer SHARP at the City Lore exhibition opening. Photo by Fernanda Kock

the early 1990s stared deďŹ antly at Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s cleanup efforts. Snyder also acknowledged the open tension between graffiti writers and street artists. “Street artists do not necessarily have to answer for their vandalism the same way that graffiti writers do,â€? he said. “Graffiti is thought to break windows, where street art is just, ‘hey, I’m putting up art.’ So it’s a little bit easier in the public mind to be a street artist than to be a grafďŹ ti writer, and I think both of those subcultures like it the way it is.â€?

Abby Ronner, director of the City Lore gallery, echoes Snyder’s sentiments. “They’re totally different aesthetics,� Ronner said, noting that the City Lore exhibit explores an era when graffiti was transitioning from pure vandalism to legitimate expression in the art world’s view.

Graffiti’s presence in galleries and museums isn’t new, Snyder said, nor is its alignment with ďŹ ne art. Brooklyn Museum exhibited graffiti in 2006 and included some of the same artists as the Museum of the City of New York show which

sent artists rooted in graffiti and street art. Many artists who were part of graffiti’s halcyon days have gone on to professional art careers, including Barry McGee, also known by his tag name Twist, and Steve Powers, known as ESPO, who are now successful studio artists.

Still, Ronner notices a recent uptick in public interest. “In New York City, the cost of living is increasing so signiďŹ cantly and quickly, and there’s so much commercial development,â€? said Ronner. “A lot of people feel New York is being lost. The very deďŹ nition of New York and the character of it are lost. People are seeking old New York City culture.â€?

Snyder suggests that Banksy’s mainstream success and the current popularity of street art renewed some interest in graffiti art and its culture, though he wonders if the recent events at 5Pointz affected gallery and museum attention. “Curators have a good sense of the moment,� said Snyder, who said that, though 5Pointz became a prestigious space for graffiti writers from all over the world it wasn’t necessarily home to

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Our Town JULY 10, 2014

Op-Ed

RETHINK YOUR DRINKS

When a community loses its pillars

HEALTH

BY BETTE DEWING

Summer tips on how to hydrate the right way, from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

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oo little considered is how the “small business” label doesn’t really reflect the incalculable good these independent eateries and neighborhood stores do for big city life.

“Community pillars” is more like it, a label we found in Danny Meyer’s impassioned oh-so-welcome July 3rd Times op-ed, “There Goes the Neighborhood Café.”

Meyer is the original and longtime proprietor of this community pillar, the Union Square Cafe, now threatened by a triple rent increase. Ah, but his patrons include many “power people,” whom we hope will mount a crusade to stop the killing off of countless neighborhood community pillars - like most recently, the 50 year-old Soup Burg on Lexington Avenue. It’s driven out of business not by sky-high rent hikes, but a landlord who says in essence, “Get out ! A bank’s going in!” (If ever a landlord needed public shaming!)

These life and healthsaving community pillars are needed as much, maybe more, than the widely recognized need for clean air. They offer intergenerational, affordable places to eat, shop and gather. It’s a community need, not just a want, and a safety net for many without viable support systems. Neighborhood places make for a safer as well as a healthier community.

Okay, you know all that, but long overdue is all-out, big-time action to save and restore these places which meet essential everyday needs. First, we talk about it – a lot – and at civic and political meetings which, frankly, many more must attend, including the concerned who need help from the able-bodied to get there.

Push for all-out media involvement. Indeed, this paper deserves top honors for its comprehensive and continuing coverage. Access and share Meyer’s op ed and call the Café (212-243-4020 ) urging its powerful patrons to mount a real crusade, for starters, to establish a kind of London Rent Assessment Panel, which Meyer said “is credited with helping prevent the rapid erosion of that city’s neighborhood fabric.” Well, we can’t afford any such erosion; we need restoration of those places we must all call “community pillars.”

This must all become required reading, especially for policy-makers who still won’t see the city’s critical need for commercial rent regulations to save and restore these community pillars.

Ah, and the Second Avenue subway constructionbesieged community pillars sure need artists to paint long-overdue murals on both sides of those grim subway construction walls.

Murals facing the avenue side should portray each and every store and res-

taurant long hidden from Second Avenue view. And cover those walls facing these community pillars with idyllic city scenes, maybe of the nearby East River and Triborough Bridge and that lovely urban oasis, Carl Schurz Park. Portray whatever makes those now claustrophobic walkways inviting, so pedestrians will stop avoiding them.

Add captions to remind the public that these community pillars need support to offset the heavy, even the lethal price they’re paying, so New York will have another subway.

And let’s get those Union Square Café author and publisher patrons to research and publish stories of the keen personal and other ongoing community losses caused by the wrongful death of these beloved community pillars.

So much more can and must be done, including that “shame the greedy landlord” campaign. Again, your ideas and involvement could not be more needed. And it “can be done” if enough of us try… dewingbetter@aol.com

With the official start of summer and temperatures on the rise, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics reminds everyone to rethink your drink and keep hydrated during summer months and throughout the year.

“With warmer temperatures and increased outdoor activities of a typical summer, it is important that everyone make sure their bodies are getting the fluids they need to stay healthy and avoid dehydration,” said registered dietitian nutritionist and academy spokesperson Kelly Pritchett.

“With an almost endless variety of beverages to choose from, we need to make smart choices when it comes to hydrating right while keeping calories in check.”

Studies suggest calorie intake from beverages has more than doubled since the 1960s, primarily due to a surge in soft drink, sports drink and sweetened tea consumption.

“According to the research, people don’t balance out these extra liquid calories by eating less from food or by increasing

physical activity,” Pritchett says. “Over the long run, these additional beverage calories can lead to energy imbalance and weight gain.”

Pritchett offers four tips for quenching your thirst and maintaining energy balance at the same time:

Drink plenty of refreshing, calorie-free water Whether it’s bottled or from the tap, water does the body good. Without any unnecessary calories, it helps your muscles and brain stay hydrated for optimal physical and mental performance. “Add slices of citrus fruit, strawberries or cucumber to water to make the flavor more appealing, which may help you drink more,” Pritchett says. How much water you need depends on your gender, size and activity level; larger, more active people need more fluids. Drink enough for your urine to be pale or almost colorless.

Limit soda and sugar-sweetened drinks More than 35 percent of added sugars in the United States come from soft drinks. “Make beverages like soda, sweetened teas, fruit drinks, sports drinks, ‘energy’ drinks or your favorite coffee drink a special treat instead of a daily need,” Pritchett says. “They have lit-

tle if any nutrition value, and they add a significant amount of calories to your diet.” Sports drinks are appropriate for athletes engaged in moderate to high intensity exercise that lasts an hour or longer.

Add milk and milk-alternatives daily Milk is one of the best sources of calcium for the body and can be a good way to keep hydrated since it contains almost 90 percent water. “Whether it’s flavored or unflavored, milk offers calcium, phosphorus, protein, riboflavin and vitamin D,” Pritchett says. Non-dairy alternatives that are fortified with calcium and vitamin D can be nutrient-rich alternatives for vegans and those with milk allergies or intolerances.

Drink alcohol in moderation Barbecues, picnics, beach parties and baseball games are all traditional venues for drinking alcohol, but alcohol actually has a diuretic effect, meaning it can dehydrate the body. “If you feel thirsty, drink water first and alternate a glass or two of water in between each alcoholic beverage to keep your body hydrated,” Pritchett says. Women should limit themselves to one alcoholic drink per day, while men should limit consumption to two drinks per day.

“Fluids, like food, are essential for our health, but it’s important to remember that not all beverages are treated the same,” Pritchett says.

For more information about which fluids are best for your lifestyle, consult a registered dietitian nutritionist. Learn more at www. eatright.org.

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Real Estate Sales Neighborhd

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Price

Bed Bath Agent

Murray Hill

222 E 35 St.

$403,302

Carnegie Hill

108 E 91 St.

$900,000

2

1

Brown Harris Stevens

Murray Hill

45 Park Ave.

Carnegie Hill

11 E 86 St.

$3,424,125 3

4

Olshan Realty

Sutton Place

425 E 58 St.

Lenox Hill

737 Park Ave.

$3,839,870 2

2

Corcoran

Sutton Place

425 E 58 St.

$2,400,000 2

3

Douglas Elliman

Lenox Hill

181 E 65 St.

$4,175,000 2

2

Sotheby’s International Realty, Inc.

Sutton Place

36 Sutton Place South

$825,000

1

Corcoran

Sutton Place

300 E 59 St.

$2,150,000

Lenox Hill

524 E 72 St.

$8,700,000 3

4

Douglas Elliman

Turtle Bay

321 E 48 St.

$660,000

Lenox Hill

205 E 69 St.

$357,500

0

1

Halstead Property

Turtle Bay

345 E 52 St.

$570,000

1

Lenox Hill

333 E 66 St.

$430,000

1

1

Maxwell Jacobs

Turtle Bay

145 E 48 St.

$540,000

0

Lenox Hill

130 E 67 St.

$430,000

1

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Upper E Side

370 E 76 St.

$410,000

Midtown E

235 E 57 St.

$538,000

1

1

Corcoran

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UPPER WEST SIDE Art imitated life for Joanna Clapps Herman when she used her Upper West Side neighborhood as the setting for her novel No Longer and Not Yet. Although it’s a work of fiction, the stories are based on the many life experiences she’s had with her neighbors, so much so that many of the central characters live at 370 Riverside, the building she once inhabited with her husband and son.

When she moved to New York City from Waterbury, Connecticut, Clapps came ready to find a big family like the one she had at home. It was through her openness that she discovered and contributed to a real sense of community in her buildings. “I love that feeling that there’s a whole world that you live in that knows you and cares about you,” she said.

So you live on Riverside?

I’m on the Drive, yes. I used to live at 370 Riverside Drive. I think I lived there for 17 years. And then my husband and I moved to the building I’m in now, which is also on the block.

Some of the characters are based on your neighbors, right?

Not everybody and not match for match. But definitely, fiction writers always draw from people they know, one way or another.

The book begins in Italy - why did you choose that setting?

I come from a big, provincial, Italian family. My family is from the South of Italy. And Clapps, oddly enough, is a Southern name, even though it doesn’t sound like it. It never got changed, it never had a vowel on the end of it, but it’s all over the town my family comes from. We’re from Basilicata, in the instep of the boot. I really have a passion for Italy - my husband and I both did - and we traveled there a lot, even though we didn’t actually meet there at all. The fact that Italy is a part of our lives somehow allows me to incorporate it into my stories.

Your focus on the relationships neighbors have in their building.

Coming from an Italian family, you understand how important the whole thing with community is. I grew up in the middle of all of my cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents. We were always in and out of each others’ houses, and that’s what I expect to happen wherever I live. When I left my big Italian family in Waterbury, I had to create another one where I went. And that building became that for me. It became a big village.

So do you have a lot of friends in your building?

My husband just passed away, but when we first moved into this building, I thought, “I

hate this building, nobody talks to each other.” But that’s the way we are, my husband was Jewish. We are very social and make that happen wherever we are. I would ask my neighbors to come over to my house and have a cup of coffee, just like my mother would do with my aunts. People don’t do that as much in New York, because people work so hard here. I do it more than the norm is in New York, because I can’t live without it. I love New York, but that’s the one thing that’s hard for me, that a sense of human connection isn’t automatic.

The doormen are also characters in the book. Are you close to yours?

I love being connected to the staff in the building. I love talking to them and finding out about their families, making sure I know them and they know me. When my husband got sick, the staff was so kind to him and to me. On a hot day I like to bring a cold drink down to the doorman, and in the winter, I like to make sure they have hot drinks or soup.

There’s a part in the book where someone brings a homeless man a sleeping bag. Is that based on a true event?

Yes, that man living in the box, that actually did happen. A friend and I were really so worried about him. And we were constantly bringing him food and then there was a gigantic snowstorm. We were so terrified about whether he was going to freeze to death or not, and that’s where that story came from.

What are you favorite places in your neighborhood?

Oh my goodness, I have so many! I may as well talk about Italian restaurants as part of it. I love Gastronomia which is on

106th and Manhattan Avenue. It’s a relatively new Italian restaurant and it’s spectacular. Pisticci, on La Salle. It’s really homemade cooking. Another one is Max Soha, which is south of Harlem. Now, institutionally, I love Saint John the Divine, it always has incredible art shows and is very socially conscious. I love 110th Street and Broadway, the absolute dead center, it’s a huge intersection. I remember reading a book when my son was a little boy that said the medieval town always had a big crossroad, a cathedral, and a university, and I thought, “That’s 100th Street and Broadway.”

You have a character in the book called “The Flower Lady.”

Who is she based on?

She was based on somebody I watched for a couple of years. She was a homeless person, obviously quite crazy.

She used to go around and steal flowers from the flower stores, gardens, from everywhere. But she would make the most beautiful bouquets I’ve ever seen in my life, and then she would sell them. I was just absolutely intrigued by her.

You moved from downtown to uptown. What were the differences you saw?

My husband lived on Bank Street and I lived on Grove.

Very, very West Village. I don’t think there’s a more romantic part of New York City. I loved living there and would have probably never left voluntarily, but we had a son and needed more space. The Upper West Side is much more family oriented. It’s much more about a grown up professional life.

How did you meet your husband, Bill?

I went to do my masters degree at City College and he was teaching there. Now, he was not my professor. Thank goodness because we both felt that would have been really tacky.

I met him through my advisor. We had this wonderful, long courtship in the Village. When I go back there, I still feel like I’m going back in time, to when my husband and I first met.

Visit www.joannaclappsherman.com to find out more about Joanna and the book.

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