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The secondfloor corridor in the former Frick residence, which will be open to visitors as part of a planned renovation. Photo by Michael Bodycomb
In Brief DE BLASIO RENEWS COMMITMENT TO BAN CARRIAGE HORSES
Rebecca Seawright, a relative newcomer to state politics, grabs an early endorsement lead BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS
UPPER EAST SIDE Rebecca Seawright has emerged as the clear front runner in the race for the 76th Assembly District on the Upper East Side. She got a huge early endorsement from Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, who has a wealth of credibility in Upper Manhattan. And months before the race was on anyone’s radar, Seawright managed to round up a host of other big-name endorsements: in addition to Brewer, State Senator Liz Krueger, Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Tish James all have endorsed her, as well. She also has the support of a halfdozen Assembly members, including Dan Quart and Deborah Glick, and five City Council members, including Dan Garodnick, who first appointed her to CB8 in April 2013. The building workers union 32BJ and the Working Families Party have also endorsed her. The slew of endorsements represents an unusual consensus of political opinion very early on in the race -- all for a woman who until very recently was little-known in New York politics. Originally from Texas, Seawright got her start as a state delegate to the 1984 Democratic National Convention. She later became a fundraiser for Ann Richards when she was the Texas state treasurer running for governor, which is what eventually brought Seawright to New York. In Texas she was also the state director of the National Women’s Political Caucus, and served for five years as the chief of staff for central-Texas legislator Bob Melton. She later held positions with two Texas congressCONTINUED ON PAGE 4
ANOTHER MUSEUM EXPANSION, THIS TIME AT THE FRICK DEVELOPMENT The East Side gem plans a sixyear renovation project BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO
The intimate Frick Collection on East 70th Street, housed in the historic mansion built for Henry Clay Frick in 1914, has jumped on the museum expansion bandwagon. Last month, the Frick announced plans for an extensive expansion and renovation project that will take an estimated six years to complete and will increase the size of the museum by 42,000 square feet -- a massive project in an exclusive, residential part of the Upper East Side. It follows in the wake of other ambitious arts expansion efforts in the city -- including at the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Mod-
ern Art -- which have been dogged by controversy. In an interview, museum officials noted that early criticism of the project in the press and from the public wasn’t especially surprising, particularly the outcry against the planned demolition of a viewing garden built in 1977 by landscape architect Russell Page. “This is New York City, and people love gardens,” said Ian Wardropper, director of the Frick. “And we care about gardens, too. But in this instance, it was the most logical place to build.” The Frick, which boasts works by Old Masters, Italian Renaissance painters and sculptors and English portrait artists, plans to erect a new building on the site of the garden, which will house a larger entry wing, administrative offices, classrooms and conservation labs, and will also link the museum to
the Frick’s art reference library on East 71st Street, a structure that has always been physically separated from the museum. A landmark building since 1973— and part of a historic district—the Frick needs approval from the city before going forward with renovations, a process that includes presentations to the community board’s landmarks committee. The Frick plans for a lengthy approval process with the Landmarks Preservation Commission. In the meantime, museum officials said they expect to hear more from neighbors, community groups and concerned citizens, and Wardropper plans to spend much of the summer summer discussing the plans with interested parties. For a detailed look at the Frick’s plans, and the early reaction to them, go to CityArts, p.12.
At a press Q&A last week, Mayor de Blasio affirmed his commitment to enacting a ban on carriage horses in the city. In response to a question from a reporter following a press conference about improved security and safety measures at NYCHA buildings, the Mayor cited an intense legislative session occupied by other priorities, like the affordable housing initiatives his administration passed. “Certainly I’ve said many [times], and I’ll say it again, I think we need to ban horse carriages in New York City and we’re going to act accordingly,” de Blasio said. “We’re going to work with our City Council partners, there will be obviously a legislative process, and hearings, and a public process, but it’s something I believe we have to do.” Some animal rights activists have criticized the mayor and his administration for being slow to take up his campaign promise to end the tourist-driven industry of horse-drawn carriage operators. Proponents of the carriage operators hope that there is still time for the mayor and the city council to change course.
NEW STREETS CO-NAMED ON U.E.S. Last Wednesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into legislation the conaming of 63 streets and public places in honor of individuals and entities that have made lasting contributions to New York City. City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito introduced the co-naming of two Upper East Side locations after Reverend Norm Eddy and Reverend Peg Eddy. Reverend Norm Eddy was a minister in East Harlem. He and his wife, Peg, who was also a minister, helped start a drug treatment program, a tenants’ group, a housing project, a credit union and the myriad self-help organizations that have sustained his work there for over 60 years. The northeast and southeast corners of East 100th Street and Second Avenue will be conamed Revs. Norm and Peg Eddy Way.
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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS CHECK TAXI CRASHES INTO STOREFRONT On the morning of July 5, a cab driver lost control and crashed into a York Avenue hardware store, reported WABC New York. The taxi was traveling southbound on York Avenue at 10:30 a.m. before jumping a curb and crashing
into the glass window of Basics Plus, a hardware store between 78th Street and 79th Street. The store’s structure, however, remained intact. The driver and two pedestrians suffered minor injuries and were immediately taken to New York Presbyterian Hospital. According to the New York City Police Department, the cause for the accident
is still under investigation. WABC New York
FORMER METS STAR SELLING U.E.S. PAD The New York Post reported that David Cone, former pitcher to the Mets and Yankees, is selling his Upper East Upper East Side hardware store Basics Plus, where a taxi crashed into the storefront last week.
Side home. Cone, who holds ďŹ ve World Series rings, lives in a four-bedroom, three-plus bathroom apartment at The Lucida at 151 E. 85th St, and it seems he’s looking to make a proďŹ t. While Cone bought the apartment for $3.76 million in 2011 (the asking price was $4.34 million), the current asking price is $6.495 million. The luxurious 2,350-square-foot apartment boasts 10 foot oor-to-ceiling windows, a chef’s kitchen, a library, and a secluded master bedroom wing. The “certiďŹ edgreenâ€? building’s amenities include: a spa center, indoor pool, a catering kitchen for private events and an indoor playground design by Kidville, NY. New York Post
CELEBRITY DERMATOLOGIST ARRESTED A celebrity dermatologist, Dr. Cheryl Karcher, was arrested from her Park Avenue office – Sadick Dermatology – on July 9 on charges that she wrote out fake drug prescriptions that she used for herself, reported the Daily News. Karcher has now been handed a 50-count indictment and court papers say she ďŹ lled at least 15 prescriptions between February 2010 and November 2012 from at least three different pharmacies, obtaining hundreds of pills. Karcher is well known for being
quoted in several reputable magazines as well as appearing as a talking head on CBS’ ‘The Early Show’. She is also the “consulting dermatologist to the Miss Universe organization�. Her next court hearing is scheduled for August 15. Daily News
MOUNT SINAI HELPS “OLDER� PREGNANT WOMEN Doctors at Mount Sinai have noticed an increasing trend over the past decade of women in their 40s and 50s giving birth. According to a study by the Center for Disease Control, there was a 65% increase in babies born to women ages 45-49 between 2000 and 2012. Obstetricians like Mount Sinai’s Dr. Joanne Stoan, who specializes in high-risk pregnancies, attribute this to advancements in fertility, harvesting eggs, and in vitro fertilization (IVF). According to NY Daily News, Stone, the director of maternal fetal medicine at Mount Sinai, has said that 25% of her patients are older women, noting that in New York especially, many women put off having children because of busy careers. While Stone notes that the success rate of later pregnancies all depends on the mother’s health, she discourages people from losing hope, joking that “40 is the new 30.� NY Daily News
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HOSPITAL PHARMACIST CHARGED IN THEFT OF THOUSANDS OF PILLS NEWS An employee of Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital is accused of stealing over $5 million worth of painkillers BY JENNIFER PELTZ
A pharmacist who oversaw a major hospital’s vault of drugs stole nearly 200,000 powerful painkillers he was supposed to safeguard and dispense, narcotics prosecutors said Tuesday as they unveiled a case that makes unusual use of a state drug-kingpin law. For more than five years before his firing this spring, Anthony D’Alessandro exploited his access to the drug supply of what is now Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital to
grab oxycodone and other pills by the hundreds and then fudged records to cover his tracks, city Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan’s office said. Prosecutors are still investigating what became of the drugs but believe the medications ended up on the thriving black market for prescription narcotics, where the more than 193,000 missing pills could fetch a total of about $5.6 million. The case is one of the most striking examples of a pharmacist being accused of becoming a drug thief, and it could be the first such use of a toplevel New York drug trafficking law typically used against street dealers. It “underscores the vigilance required when addictive medication with a high resale value is readily available -- even to licensed professionals and
trusted employees,” Brennan said. Wh ile prosecutors pa int D’Alessandro as a drug lord with a professional license, his lawyer said D’Alessandro was just a druggist with a problem. “I was taking this drug for my own use,” to feed an addiction and treat ankle pain, D’Alessandro told a hospital investigator in an April 11 statement prosecutors filed in court. He disputes taking the quantity of pills he’s charged with diverting, attorney Joseph V. Sorrentino said, calling the trafficking charge “totally inappropriate.” Prosecutors noted that D’Alessandro came out clean when drug-tested April 11, and they said the sheer size of the alleged theft belied his claim of taking the pills himself.
If he had, “we’d be at his funeral, instead of his arraignment,” prosecutor Ryan Sakacz told a judge as D’Alessandro entered a not-guilty plea. D’Alessandro grabbed oxycodone and other drugs on nearly 220 different dates, even signing out 1,500 pills the day after hospital officials first approached him April 1 about the disappearing drugs, prosecutors said. To account for the missing medicine, D’Alessandro made phony entries in an electronic inventory system to indicate that the drugs were being sent to a research pharmacy within the hospital, prosecutors said. The pharmacy wasn’t doing any oxycodone research then, and staffers were unaware of the phony requisition slips, according to prosecutors. A hospital spokesman wouldn’t comment on whether there were mechanisms to ensure drugs dispensed were actually received. The hospital noted that it brought the case to au-
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thorities after getting an anonymous complaint. D’Alessandro worked for about 14 years at Beth Israel, which merged into the Mount Sinai Health System in September. The case against D’Alessandro, 47, marks the first time Brennan’s office has charged a pharmacist under the 2009 kingpin law, which carries the potential for life in prison. It couldn’t immediately be determined whether any other New York prosecutors have done so. Less than 60 arrests have been made statewide under the law since its inception, state Division of Criminal Justice Statistics data show. Around the country, hospital pharmacists have occasionally been charged with getting involved in illicit drug use. Indeed, the idea has made its way into the public imagination in TV’s fictional “Nurse Jackie,” in which the title character has a relationship with a hospital pharmacist who supplies her with painkillers. In real life, a onetime pharmacy director at another Manhattan hospital pleaded guilty in 1998 to a federal drug-distribution charge for taking about $60,000 worth of cancer drugs, antidepressants and other medications and selling them for cash, and he was sentenced to just over a year in prison. More recently, a pharmacy manager was charged in 2008 with stealing a generic form of the stimulant Ritalin from a Raleigh, North Carolina, hospital.
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men, Marvin Leath and Charles Stenholm, and a senator, Lloyd Bentsen. In New York, Seawright served for 14 months as an assistant district attorney in the Brooklyn DA’s office, and still has a private practice specializing in contract law. She was appointed to the board of CUNY’s Feminist Press in 2006, and became vice-president in 2008. In 2011, she was elected chair. In that capacity, she raises funds for the Feminist Press - the oldest feminist publisher in existence - and manages a budget of nearly $1 million. Seawright’s daughter attends a public high school in Manhattan and her son is a student at SUNY Albany. Her husband, Jay Hershenson, is the senior vice-chancellor of university relations and secretary of the board of trustees at CUNY. “Being active on a PTA, raising two children, serving on a community board, practicing law, that is managerial experience. And not only that, she was chief of staff for ďŹ ve years to a Texas legislator,â€? said a Seawright spokesman. Seawright serves on CB8’s education and transportation committees, and was appointed by Councilman Dan Garodnick last April. However, Our Town found that in 2013, she missed ďŹ ve out of 14 meetings, including the ďŹ rst meet-
ing after her appointment. So far this year. CB8 records show Seawright was absent from four out of 10 full board and land use committee meetings, with three excused absences and one unexcused absence. “She has to balance a lot,� said the spokesperson, in explaining the absences. “She’s balancing children, she’s balancing being a PTA member, being a mom.� Seawright is facing Democrats Gus Christensen, a former investment banker; David Menegon, an Army veteran and former Xerox executive; Ed Hartzog, a lawyer and fellow CB8 member; and Republican David Garland, a former business management consultant. “She’s lived on the Upper East Side, raised a family here, been a PTA mom, her husband is obviously very well-known
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among legislators and government leaders having been a senior ďŹ gure at CUNY for a long time, so she’s sort of a known commodity in her own way,â€? said one Democratic insider. “Raising your kids in public schools on the Upper East Side, that speaks a lot. That means you have deep roots in the community in your own way.â€? Amid the wave of endorsements for Seawright, the only notable exception is Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, the dean of the East Side Democratic establishment, who has yet to endorse. As for why Maloney hasn’t yet jumped on the Seawright bandwagon, the insider said there’s no real beneďŹ t for her to impose herself in the race at this point. “Maloney has three political clubs she’s going to have to deal with in the long term future, everyone else has endorsed [Seawright], but Maloney is very leery of making enemies in her own back yard. I think she prefers to just keep her powder dry.â€? A Maloney spokesperson told Our Town that the congresswoman has been focused on constituent issues in recent months and has not been as attuned to political concerns in the district. Another longtime Democratic operative on the Upper East Side agreed that Seawright is the most comfortable candidate for the more established pols in the district. “Menegon and Hartzog don’t have the money, and Christensen scares them,â€? said the operative. “He could run for city council in 2017 without matching funds, or State Senate in two terms and outspend Krueger three to one.â€? But established Democrats like Brewer and Krueger told Our Town they endorsed Seawright because of her stance on the issues in the district and a history of championing causes
dear to the veteran politicians’ hearts. “When you look at her background and her understanding of a broad range of public policy issues‌I think her background matches very well with the issues that are going to come to her as an elected ofďŹ cial,â€? said Krueger. Krueger said she met with each of the candidates in the 76th Assembly district race, and is comfortable supporting Seawright. Brewer met Seawright in the 1980s through the National Women’s Political Caucus, and said she has similar reasons for supporting her. “She went to law school here, got married here, had her kids here, she’s just always in the right place in terms of the issues I care about,â€? said Brewer. “I know her really well, and I like the fact that she’s independent...and I respect the work she’s done in the past.â€? When asked about what she thinks of her political ascendancy, Seawright said she’s “humbled and honored by the endorsements of some of the most effective elected leaders in our community - they know and share my commitment to reforming government and relentlessly pushing to improve our housing, schools, transportation and senior services.â€? While the race is far from over, and the amount of money she can raise over the life of her campaign will certainly be a factor, Seawright is heading into the heart of campaign season well ahead of the rest of the ďŹ eld. “Many people regard this as her race to lose,â€? said the Upper East Side Democratic insider. “She’s the only woman in the race, and this is the most female-heavy Democratic primary electorate in any Assembly district. She’s got a huge edge.â€?
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OPPONENTS PLEDGE MORE ARRESTS TO FIGHT M.T.S. NEWS
The jackhammer chisel that came crashing through a fourth-floor window at Asphalt Green. Source: Asphalt Green
Vows of further protests follow a construction accident at the East 91st Street site BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS
YORKVILLE Last Wednesday morning, a rogue jackhammer chisel sailed through the air, crashed through a window, and landed right in the middle of a neighborhood’s fight to stop a nearby garbage station from being built. The day after the construction accident at the East 91st Street marine transfer station, members of Pledge 2 Protect packed the Holy Trinity Church on the Upper East Side at an already-scheduled meeting to discuss strategy and to affirm to themselves and the de Blasio administration that their fight against the project is far from over. The new plan going forward? Get arrested. “We need to speak the language that today’s City Hall understands, and that language is civil disobedience,” said P2P member Gus Christensen, who also is running for state assembly. “I’m asking each of you to consider taking a stand by blocking that construction site…I am asking each of you to get arrested.” That strategy seemed to work in May, when eight members of Pledge 2 Protect were arrested, including Christensen and P2P President Kelly Nimmo-Guenther, after they refused to move out of an area that the Dept. of Sanitation was working in. As a result of those arrests, said Nimmo-Guenther, P2P got an hours-long meeting with the mayor’s staff, which was attended by Department of Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia. Garcia later attended a five-borough tour with P2P of other marine garbage transfer facilities throughout the city. Despite this traction however, Mayor de Blasio appears to be either unwilling or incapable of changing course on the city’s solid waste management
Pledge 2 Protect President Kelly Nimmo-Guenther addresses opponents of the East 91st Street MTS at Holy Trinity Church. Photo by Daniel Fitzsimmons plan, which was passed by the City Council in 2006. For that reason, said a P2P spokesperson, the organization is focusing on increased civil disobedience actions. “Pledge 2 Protect is escalating its actions to continue to educate New Yorkers to the untruths that have been put forward regarding the good that the Bloomberg [era] solid waste management plan and new marine transfer stations will provide to city residents,” said a P2P spokesperson. The construction site accident last week lent credence to P2P’s claims that in addition to being a bad idea in general, the MTS construction project is dangerous to the thousands of kids who take part in athletic activities at Asphalt Green. Pledge 2 Protect and Asphalt Green were in talks with the city on alternate locations for the access ramp leading to the MTS, which runs straight through Asphalt Green and is where the accident happened, but work began at the site in May. Sanitation Commissioner Garcia, in a statement to Our Town, indicated that despite those talks, her department would likely stick with the MTS access ramp that runs through
Asphalt Green. “The department has been actively engaged in a transparent multi-stakeholder process to address the issues of safety, traffic and air quality, and the engagement has included reviewing different concepts for ramp relocation,” said Garcia. “While we are still in discussions, preliminary cost estimates and engineering analyses suggest that relocation may not be feasible.” In response, Nimmo-Guenther said, “What value does Mayor de Blasio and Commissioner Garcia put on a child’s life? What does cost too much mean? Based upon the accident Wednesday, this is only a foreshadowing of a future tragedy.” Last Wednesday a backhoe that was transporting a manhole drum at the site became unsteady and the chain holding the drum snapped, causing it to crash to the ground from a height of about three feet. The resulting force caused a two-foot-long jackhammer chisel – which was being used improperly to secure the drum – to crash through a doublepaned glass window on the fourth floor of Asphalt Green. In a security video, the chisel is seen narrowly missing an em-
ployee who was exercising in the room but managed to react as she heard the glass breaking. “If she rolled the wrong way, it would have impaled her,” said Nimmo-Guenther. Skanska USA, the contractor responsible for the accident, said in a statement that despite their rigorous safety protocols, “some of our workers decided to take a shortcut instead of doing what they were instructed to do. We immediately took corrective action, removing these individuals from their positions and permanently banning them from working on this project.” The city later decided to stop work at the site pending a safety review. “All work has stopped while safety personnel are conducting a full and thorough investigation and recommending new safety measures for the site,” said Craig Chin, a spokesperson for the DDC. But the fight goes on. P2P is continuing to solicit donations from private individuals to fight the MTS project, which Nimmo-Guenther said is an expensive undertaking. From January to April this year, P2P spent $200,000 opposing the marine transfer station, mostly
for consulting and media relations, according to financial documents filed with the state. P2P’s financial disclosures for May and June of this year have not yet been released. The group is spending money at a much lower rate than they were in 2013, however. From March to December last year, the organization spent $900,000 opposing the MTS. It’s unclear whether the decrease in spending is due to a change in strategy or a decrease in donations. A P2P spokesperson said the organization does not discuss financial matters. Our Town reported in March that a significant portion of P2P’s funding comes from commercial real estate interests in the area who are likely concerned about a potential decline in property values if the MTS is completed. However, the organization does have considerable grass roots support, as evidenced by its ability to pack the spacious Trinity Church whenever it holds a community meeting. NimmoGuenther told Our Town in March that her organization has received donations from over 1,500 different sources. Bertha Lewis, a community activist with ties to de Blasio, was hired by P2P last year in a consulting role. State financial records show P2P is paying the Black Institute, a non-profit she founded and runs, $10,000 a month for services rendered from January through April of this year. Lewis is a co-founder of the Working Families Party, which endorsed de Blasio early in his mayoral campaign. It’s unclear, however, what exactly Lewis has done for P2P as she and the Black Institute have been unresponsive to repeated interview requests from Our Town. She did give a speech at last week’s rally. As the battle surrounding the MTS on East 91st Street continues, so too does construction, which will likely resume after the safety review stemming
from last week’s accident is completed. According to the city’s Dept. of Design and Construction, the demolition of the old marine transfer station is complete, and the contractor is currently installing pilings for the new MTS, as well as caps and beams for the new precast concrete deck. “Construction of its superstructure is expected to start this winter,” said a DDC spokesperson. “The second phase of the project that includes the demolition of the existing ramp and construction of the new one will commence this fall.”
PLEDGE 2 PROTECT SPENDING Jan. – April 2014 (four months): $201,719 March – Dec. 2013 (10 months): $902,390 Source: NYS Commission on Public Integrity How marine transfer stations work Step 1: Garbage trucks are weighed, tested for hazardous medical waste, and then head up a ramp into the marine transfer station. Step 2: Once inside the station, garbage is dumped from the tipping floor to the waste pit. Waste is then moved by a bulldozer to the pre-compactor system which uses a hydraulic ram inside a cylinder to create a dense “log” of waste. Step 3: Waste logs are placed in containers by a rail system and trimmed/capped before being transported by crane to the deck of a barge. Source: Condensed and edited from The Advance Group on behalf of Pledge 2 Protect
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BEHIND THE HEDGES OF A NEIGHBORHOOD OASIS PARKS Carl Shurz Park is a hidden gem on the East Side, thanks to a devoted gardener and an army of volunteers BY VALERIE GLADSTONE
Carl Schurz Park’s 15 acres stretch along the East River above the FDR Drive from 84th to 90th Streets and inland to East End Avenue. Unless you live in the neighborhood, you have to make a special trip to go there, which makes it feel almost like a private park. “One of the many things that are special about Carl Schurz Park,� says its executive director, David Williams, “includes its scale. It is designed pitch perfect for its location and the community that enjoys it. Unlike many other New York City parks it is not a pathway to another part of town. When you are in Carl Schurz Park you are basically there just to be in this park. There are nooks and crannies, special spots you can think are yours and yours alone.� Named for Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz in 1910, the park was built at the edge of what was then the solidly German-American community of Yorkville. Filled with shrubbery and trees, it has winding, shady paths, dramatic rock outcroppings, basketball courts, a large playground for children and a striking waterfront view from its promenade of the Roosevelt Island Lighthouse, the Tribor-
City Parks gardener John Tweddle, keeper of the Carl Schurz greenery
FOR MORE ON THE PARK You can find out what’s in bloom at http://carlschurzparknyc.etapwss. com /index.php/blooming, a well curated sampling of the plants at any season. All year long, the park hosts special events including film screenings, concerts, children’s series, the Gracie Square Art Show (September 27 & 28), Halloween Howl, a dog costume event, and holiday tree lighting in December. To find out what’s going on: http:// carlschurzparknyc.etapwss.com/ index.php/events
ough Bridge and Randall’s and Wards islands. Gracie Mansion, the 18th century house that serves as the mayor’s official residence, sits on a hill on its northern edge. Flowers are almost always in bloom -- lilacs, honeysuckle, daffodils, hollyhocks, iris and many other varieties. It wasn’t always so beautiful. Williams points out recent improvements that the Conservancy helped initiate, like the well-situated gardens throughout the park, several of which were once ill-kept, and abandoned sandboxes along the Finley Walk (overlooking the river). Managed in partnership with the Department of Parks and Recreation, the Conservancy navigates a vast number of suggestions from the staff and volunteers. “We are blessed with generous donors and creative volunteers whose support and dedication to the Conservancy and their community park are legendary. Being absolutely certain that we can do what we say we will do in and for the park is a mantra. And when you look at where we have come, and how lustrous this city jewel is, I think we’ve been able to get the job done.� The landscape is maintained by City Parks gardener John Tweddle and an army of volunteers. Since 2001, he has been looking after the park, getting mulch and compost, weeding, pruning, edging, watering, buying plants, tools, and delegating tasks to the volunteers, each of whom is assigned to one of the park’s 20 zones or beds. He
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IN DEFENSE OF U.P.S. STORE OWNERS A comment from the web on our story “U.P.S.’s Manhattan Problem”: The post office can’t pay its bills with what it charges. UPS takes about 10 percent of the gross profit of a franchisee, it can cost $160,000 to $260,000 to open a UPS store. The
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UPS tells them what they can sell and can’t sell in their store. Also, they tell the franchisee what margin they can make, or price fix. And if a store is over 10 years old they come in and tell them to get a loan for $50,000 and up to update the appearance of their store. They
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BIG WIN FOR WESTSIDE LITTLE LEAGUE BY MARISSA EFFMAN
The Westside Little League 50/70 Division Team, led by Manager Paul Richards and coaches Sal Viviano and Rich Rosenberg, has achieved something that no other WSLL team has been able to accomplish: This group of 13 year-olds won the New York City Championship in their age group and earned the right to play for the New York State Championship. They partied with the celebratory pizza at V&T after the game last Monday. In the sectionals, despite being down 9-1 in the ďŹ fth inning, the Hawks came back to eventually beat Oceanside 12-11 with a walk-off single by Peter Gornik in the bottom of the ďŹ rst extra-inning, that scored Jake Effman from third base. The double-elimination State Championship – which is being played in Montgomery, NY – began for the Hawks this past Friday, with a loss to PenďŹ eld, from the Rochester area. The Hawks bounced back on Saturday, with a decisive victory over Sayreville, from Long Island. However, their hopes of a State title were dashed, when on Sunday the Hawks fell to Oneida, from the Syracuse area. Despite being eliminated from the tournament, the Hawks held their heads high, knowing that they were the ďŹ rst team from NYC to win a 50/70 Division Section 5 Championship and the ďŹ rst team from West Side Little League – in any Division – to make it to a State Championship. Four of the Hawks players (Effman, Tommy Richards, Jacob Rosenberg, and Joey Viviano) have been playing together on WSLL tournament teams since the age of nine, and most of the others joined the team a year later. As Richards said after the sectional victory, “These guys will be my friends for life.â€?
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PARMIGIANINO’S SCHIAVA TURCA AT THE FRICK The Frick Museum 1 East 70th Street (5th Ave.) 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Tues-Sat; 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sun $20 adults, $15 seniors, $10 students This exhibit is another collaboration between the Frick Collection and the Foundation for Italian Art and Culture. This is this small exhibition’s first appearance in America. The exhibit comes to the Frick, following other loans of Renaissance portraits of enigmatic women. Frick.org
CHARLES JAMES: BEYOND FASHION’ Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd st) 10 a.m. 5:30 p.m. Sun-Thurs; 10 a.m. - 9 p.m. Fri & Sat $25 adults, $17 seniors, $12 students (recommended) This exhibit showcases the American fashion designer as a great modern artist. It is a ravishing exhibition, featuring flowing ball gowns, and innovative garments that play with shape, draping, seams, and texture. Metmuseum.org
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Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Ave. ( at 89th St.) 10 a.m.;$22 , 5:45 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.; Pay what you wish An exhibition of contemporary Latin American art displays works from more than 20 countries. The exhibits scope is wide and provides a wonderful introduction into contemporary art within the region. The work of around 40 artists, is organized into six themes by the Mexican curator, Pablo Leon de La Barra. His vision leads the audience through the culture and reference of a rarely explored set of experiences. guggenheim.org
PHOTOGRAPHY WALKING TOUR IN CENTRAL PARK 59th St. and 5th Avenue ( By General Sherman statue) 9:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.; $75 Need reservations Sam Levy, a NYC photographer, shares his decades of experience to show you how to capture passion and essence in photography. His work has been regularly featured in large media like CNN, the Times, and also in galleries around the city. The tour features Central Park’s lakes, bridges, unique constructions, and the skyline that surrounds the park. centralpark.com
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Start your night with bang. Both men perform, sing, dance, and generally carry on for your entertainment. With their on-stage chemistry, and sophisticated comedy, this show is one that continually holds your attention. Not to mention, the atmosphere in this Art Deco lounge compliments the performance quite well. thecarlyle.com
OTHER PRIMARY STRUCTURES The Jewish Musuem, 1109 Fifth Avenue (B/t 92nd & 93rd St.) 11 a.m.; $15 An exhibition featuring major sculptures from the 1960’s, displays works from artists throughout the world. The exhibition highlights the works that have rarely been seen in the United States previously. Building upon an exhibition the museum had in 1966, this new installation revisits the premise of a radically new approach to sculpture. It surveys the style now known as Minimalism, and how it transformed sculpture and architecture across the globe. thejewishmuseum.org
21 CLIPS & CONVERSATION: “A MASTER BUILDER” Buttenwieser Hall, (92nd St. & Lexington) 8 p.m.; $30 Johnathan Demme, Andre Gregory, and Wallace Shawn update Henrik Ibsen’s The Master Builder, a modern classic about a successful, egomaniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses who nonetheless wants to make peace with himself as his life approaches its final act. 92y.org
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More JEFF KOONS: A RETROSPECTIVE Whitney Musuem, 945 Madison Ave ( at 75th St.) 11p.m.; $20 The exhibit features the extensive work of Koons, highlighting an exercise of viewing culture and history. The exhibit displays everything from inflatable toys to bright and reflective steel in paintings. It is most certainly an attentiongrabbing exhibition, both mysterious and interesting. Whitney.org
22 FILM: FRIDAY NIGHT FIAF, Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street 7:30 p.m.; $13 Claire Denis’ visually stunning and atmospheric film about a one night stand follows a simple premise: a couple meets amid a dreadful Paris traffic jam and find a more pleasant way to spend the evening. Denis focus on subtle detail and gestures of intimacy create a depth and infuse the story with tremendous feeling and passion. Fiaf.org
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The cast of Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging is performing songs at this bookstore branch. They will be signing copies of their original cast recording, which will be available for purchase throughout the performance. Barnesandnoble.com
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A NEW ERA FOR NEW YORK’S GILDED JEWEL MUSEUMS As the Frick plans a major renovation and expansion, the Upper East Side takes notice BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO
In the era of the mega-museum, the Frick Collection on East 70th Street is unique, a Gilded Age throwback, where the maze of carpeted, ornate galleries offers a quiet place to experience some of the art world’s greatest masterpieces, including paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer and van Dyck. At times, the most obtrusive noise is the muffled sound from a visitor’s audio guide. Now, the Frick is planning a major renovation and expansion, increasing the size of the 188,000-square-foot institution (which includes a six-story reference library) by nearly 25 percent, with a new building that will include a larger, expanded entrance area with a new gift shop, rest rooms, ticketing and coat room facilities, as well as additional gallery and exhibition space, dedicated classrooms and a 220seat auditorium. Museum officials, in outlining their plans, acknowledge the Frick’s unique standing -- both in the wider cultural world as well as in the rarefied slice of the Upper East Side it calls home. “We’re really conscious of the fact that this is a unique collection,” said Ian Wardropper, the director of the museum. “This is essentially a support to allow us to do better what we’re already doing.” Over the past three years, the Frick, which first opened to the public in 1935, has seen about a 20 percent increase in attendance, which the museum estimates at 325,000 annually—though the current year’s attendance is around 420,000, due to the “Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Hals: Masterpieces of Dutch Painting from the Mauritshuis” exhibit, which drew 235,000 attendees. Lines wrapped around the block as visitors waited in line to see Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring, “Carel Fabritius’ “The Goldfinch” and other work by Dutch masters on loan from The Hague. With the proposed expansion to the entrance wing, Wardropper said the museum will be able to accommodate the Frick’s growing audience. A new gallery for temporary exhibitions will provide space for large works. The mansion’s second floor bedrooms and living quarters, which currently house administrative offices, will also open to the public under the expansion, adding another 3,000 square feet of gallery space for the museum’s permanent collection. Not surprisingly, the proposal has received some negative scrutiny since the June 10 announcement, notably in a New York Times editorial by David Masello, executive edi-
The staircase to the second floor of the mansion, currently inaccessible to the public, will open to museumgoers under the planned expansion. Photo by Michael Bodycomb
tor of the design magazine Milieu, who wrote that, like the Museum of Modern Art, which is undergoing a contested renovation, the Frick is “another institution that now threatens to grow beyond itself, its metaphorical canvas becoming too big for its geographic frame.” But museum officials noted that public outcry has been relatively modest. As of early July, Wardropper said he had received just four letters of complaint. “Any architectural change in New York engenders controversy, and this surely will,” said Wardropper, who sent letters to the Frick’s immediate neighbors and is meeting with those who will be affected by construction. He does expect more complaints to come. “I think over time I can convince most of those people that we’re doing the right thing, and that’s where I think the trust can
come in. We love this place. We don’t want it adversely affected.” Phyllis Rosenfield, an Upper West Side resident and museum member, has written to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, imploring the city to prevent the expansion. “Mr. Frick would turn over in his grave if he thought they were going to build over this,” she said on her most recent visit to the museum. “I don’t think any addition could do the stonework. You couldn’t have the same craftsmanship.” Constructed in 1914 for steel and coke magnate Henry Clay Frick, the mansion was built by Carrère and Hastings, the architecture firm that designed the New York Public Library. Frick died in 1919 and bequeathed his home and extensive art collection to the public.
The landmark building in the historic district has seen updates over the years. Following her father’s death, Helen Frick worked with Carrère and Hastings to build a onestory art reference library on 71st Street, which opened in 1924. In 1931, the collection’s trustees commissioned architect John Russell Pope to convert the residence into a public museum, which included the addition of the enclosed garden court, two galleries and the expansion of the library on 71st Street from one to six stories. Much of the original home was altered by Pope in order to make it suitable for institutional use, a fact that museum officials hope the public considers. “People think of this garden court as a signature room in the Frick Collection, but actually Henry Clay Frick never saw it,” Wardropper said, noting that some of the original
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Overhead view showing the existing museum and library with proposed expansion in beige. Image courtesy of Davis Brody Bond
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rooms, including Frick’s office and the first library were dismantled during Pope’s addition. “In order to make way for the new, there has been, on occasion, the need to demolish some of the past structures.” The museum has always planned on expanding, Wardropper said. In 1940, Frick trustees began purchasing townhouses to the east of the museum, a process that continued through 1972, when the museum drafted plans for an expanded entrance, an auditorium and classroom space. The institution didn’t have the funding for a full expansion, and instead, a new reception hall and viewing garden were constructed in 1977, occupying the space where the townhouses had been. The proposed addition will replace the viewing garden on East 70th Street, adding another point of contention. Charles Birnbaum, president of the Cultural Landscape Foundation, lamented its prospective loss in the Huffington Post, but Frick officials noted that the garden was intended as a temporary step until the museum could fund a full expansion, and, save for about one party a year, the garden is inaccessible. “From our point of view, the garden is not in any way original to either the 1914 house or the 1935 house,” said Wardropper. “I just feel the greater good is to use the space that was always intended for the needs of the institution.” The proposal includes the addition of a smaller, public rooftop terrace, and the museum has discussed the possibility of opening the original Fifth Avenue garden, which is presently closed to the public, to museumgoers. The addition will remain consistent with the aesthetics of the building. The museum is working with Davis Brody Bond, the architecture firm behind the newly-opened National September 11 Memorial Museum, and will use the same Indiana limestone that Pope used in the 1935 renova-
tion. The addition will match the height of the six-story library, which will be accessible through the new building. “We have to respect that sort of non-urban character of the building,” said Carl Krebs, an architect with the firm who thinks of the Frick residence as a ‘country house in the city.’ “In the spirit of Pope, we’re going to work much more reverentially, as well as referentially, as opposed to trying to create a dichotomy of the new and the old.” Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts, an organization that works to preserve the neighborhood’s architecture, reviews every project that goes before the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Tara Kelly, the group’s director, said the organization does not yet have a position on the proposed renovation and is awaiting a presentation from the museum in the coming weeks, but the group has received phone calls and emails from concerned citizens who aren’t happy with the expansion plans. “This being both an individual landmark within the boundaries of a historic district means that I think there is a potentially higher level of scrutiny,” Kelly said. Architects and museum officials expect a lengthy rollout. Wardropper will continue to discuss the plan with community groups and neighbors, and will speak with community boards (a requirement for landmark buildings) in early 2015, before seeking approval from the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The Frick doesn’t expect construction to begin until 2017, which gives the museum time to raise funds for the project. Museum officials weren’t yet able to estimate the cost. The museum will remain open to visitors throughout the three-year construction project, which is estimated to last until 2020. “We want to have great exhibitions that may be popular, or not,” said Wardropper. “But we simply have more people-
Museum of Modern Art The MoMA’s expansion involves the muchcontested demolition of the adjacent former Folk Art Museum, which MoMA purchased in 2011. Following public outcry, the museum agreed to preserve the façade of the institution. The MoMA, which New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman called “as jammed and joyless as the Van Wyck Expressway on a Friday in July” in a story earlier this year, announced the expansion plans in 2013. Whitney Museum of American Art Community Board 8 challenged the Whitney Museum’s expansion efforts for its current space on Madison Avenue at 75th Street, leading the museum to build a new, 200,000-squarefoot structure in the Meatpacking District, with plans to open next year. The Metropolitan Museum of Art will then utilize the Whitney Museum’s current space. One57 The 90-story luxury tower on 57th Street, across from Carnegie Hall, offers sweeping views of Central Park, but, as it towers 1,000 feet above street level, casts massive shadows on the park below. Built by Extell Development Properties, One57 is the city’s tallest residential building, and made headlines in the fall of 2012 when a crane on the top of the building snapped during construction and dangled above the city street.
now than we did 10 years ago, and we do need to address that.” To contact the Frick Collection about the expansion, email frick2014@frick.org
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The Pothole Project
FOR THE WEEK BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO
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SEAN HEMINGWAY ON EARNEST HEMINGWAY Sean Hemingway, Earnest Hemingway’s grandson and associate curator of Greek and Roman art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, discusses Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises.” A new edition of the classic novel, out on July 15, includes newly added supplementary material from the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. Thursday, July 17 Barnes and Noble 150 East 86th St. 7 p.m. FREE
MUSIC “NEW SONGS OF JUSTICE: AN EVENING HONORING PETE SEEGER”
If this pothole at 47th & Park Ave. looks like any of the potholes in your neighborhood, send us an e-mail with the exact location and we’ll go take a photo or send us a photo with the location to news@strausnews.com We’re compiling locations to inform the City & improve our neighborhood The local paper for the Upper East Side
FILM FEMMES NOIRS FILM SERIES Film Forum’s upcoming film series pays homage to “Hollywood’s dangerous dames.” Running through August 7, “Femmes Noirs” includes screenings of “The Postman Always Rings Twice,” Marilyn Monroe’s 1953 film “Niagara” and John Huston’s “The Maltese Falcon,” starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor. The series culminates in August with 70th anniversary showings of the 1940s noir classic “Double Indemnity.” July 18 through August 7 Film Forum 209 West Houston St. Assorted show times Tickets $13
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Comedians Dave Hill and Carl Arnheiter bring their roving comedy tour to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, leading a small group of visitors on a humorous, satirical tour of the museum. The comedians developed the concept while looking for a new venue for their stand-up acts. Space is limited; email fmyhcomedy@gmail.com to reserve a spot. Saturday, July 19 Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Ave. 5:30 p.m. Admission to museum $20 (tour is free)
American folk musician Pete Seeger, who passed away in January of this year at the age of 94, was known as much for his political activism as he was for his songwriting. Contemporary artists honor Seeger’s contributions to music and movements. Featuring Amanda Palmer, folk singers the Chapin Sisters and Rusted Root front man Michael Glabicki. Monday, July 21 Central Park Entrance at Fifth Avenue and E. 72nd Street 6 p.m. FREE
JON CLEARY London-born, New Orleans-based funk and R&B pianist Jon Cleary debuts a new band and new tunes at Madison Square Park’s summer concert series, as he perform music from his forthcoming record, “Pump It Up.” Mexican eatery Calexico serves casual fare during the performance. Wednesday, July 23 Madison Square Park Entrance at 23rd Street and Broadway 7 p.m. FREE
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YOU READ IT HERE FIRST The local paper for the Upper West Side
SOUP BURG CLOSED AFTER RENT INCREASE SAVING SMALL BUSINESS Venerable Upper East Side restaurant to be replaced by a TD Bank branch
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One of the Hagan brothers’ 11 Manhattan UPS stores, now closed.
“ 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 over
BUSINESS A former franchisee accuses the shipping giant of routinely gouging customers throughout the city BY KYLE POPE
UPS, and their right to operate a UPS store was revoked. But, in an effort to clear their name, the Hagans have filed 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 f hi i 2008 h b i
In Brief CITY FINDS SPACE FOR CHARTER SCHOOLS City officials say they have found space in closed Catholic schools for three charter schools that were denied the space they thought was theirs. City officials said Saturday that the three Success Academy charter schools will move into buildings that formerly housed two Roman Catholic schools in Manhattan and one in Queens. The Success Academy schools had been promised space in public schools during the administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg. But Mayor Bill de Blasio announced in February that he was reversing some of the so-called co-locations approved under Bloomberg last fall. Those included the three Success Academy schools. Under the agreement announced Saturday, the city will renovate the closed Catholic schools. Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz said she was grateful to the mayor for his support.
NYU LANGONE OPENS E.R. FOR 1ST TIME SINCE SANDY NYU Langone Medical Center has re-opened its Sandy damaged emergency room. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio were on h d Th d f th i
UPS tells employees to lie, overcharge customers: suit 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,
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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
Last November, one of New York’s most iconic art exhibits was uncermoniously whitewashed
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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.” was a need for While “Whitewash” 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,” an exhibi- fix will do so.” tion of 1980s graffiti art. City Gregory J. Lore, a non-profit 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 Underground” with “Moving Murals,” 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 ” said
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 defiantly at Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s cleanup efforts. Snyder also acknowledged the open tension between graffiti writers and street artists
Retail Workers in New York City Need Good Jobs – and Unions Stuart Appelbaum, President Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
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 finally 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 epi “How far can we go with this? Are we just been equal parts levelheaded and nostal
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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
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FIRST IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD The local paper for the Upper East Side
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n New York City and throughout the country, the inequality gap continues to widen and working people are being left behind. Retail workers, in particular, continue to be underpaid with inadequate part time hours and unpredictable scheduling. With a new mayor and a new vision, we are on the right track to building a better New York for all New Yorkers and rebuilding a middle class that has been disappearing. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) has been committed to fighting for working women and men since 1937. Our membership includes retail workers, grocery workers and car wash workers throughout this city. Earlier this month, workers at Book Culture on the Upper West Side voted to join the RWDSU. Many of these workers are young students at nearby Columbia University and rely on their jobs at Book Culture as their sole income. They decided to come together and speak up for issues they felt were important to them - low pay, inconsistent scheduling, respect on the job. These are all issues the workers felt could be best dealt with through the help of a union. The RWDSU, through our contracts, has shown that we can go a long way in closing the income and inequality gap by addressing the needs of both workers and employers. Many of our contracts contain some of the best and most innovative practices in the retail industry. Our contracts at Macy’s, Bloomingdales, H&M and other stores have proven that companies can both respect workers’ lives and be enormously profitable at the same time. With our contracts, workers have guaranteed hours for part-time and full-time positions, advanced notice of schedules with up to six months notice; health benefits and paid time off for part-time positions. These are benefits that working people deserve. The best way for New Yorkers to achieve them is by working together with a collective voice through a strong union. We are committed to continuing this fight for all workers - to organizing and improving conditions, to helping build a city where no worker should have to live in poverty. When workers join together with the support of their union, they are not powerless. Low wage workers can – and will – unite to make a difference in their own lives. Join us in this fight! Visit us on the web at:
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Food & Drink
< NEW APP TO PAY RESTAURANT BILL Cover, a mobile payment app that allows restaurant diners to settle their tabs on their phones, has gained traction, recently announcing that it raised $5.5 million dollars in funding, the Wall Street Journal reported. Much like Uber allows taxi passengers to pay their cab fare from their phone, Cover allows
guests at participating restaurants to pay with a credit or debit card that they registered with the app. Diners can even split bills using Cover—as long as each member of the party uses the application for their payment. At the end of the meal, diners are free to leave as soon as they are done with their food, rather than
wait around for the multi-step process of paying with a credit card or getting cash change. The new sum of money they received will help the app expand by teaming up with even more restaurants and signing up new costumers. As of now, Cover is accepted at over 80 restaurants throughout NYC and Brooklyn.
In Brief U.E.S. RESTAURANT ROBBED BY ARMED DUO Last Friday at around 9 p.m. two armed men entered the Le Pain Quotidien restaurant at 1399 Madison Avenue and demanded money from the safe. The surveillance camera showed that the two robbers were both Hispanic males, at a height of about 5’10. No one was harmed during the robbery, but the men successfully got away with an uncertain amount of money. The police have yet to identify either of the robbers, and encourage anyone with information to please contact NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS.
SMART PHONES TO BLAME FOR SLOW RESTAURANT SERVICE Eater NY reported that recent studies have pinpointed smart phones as the cause for slow restaurant services. An unnamed restaurant hired a firm to compare their current surveillance footage with footage from 10 years ago, and results showed an increased use of cell phones at the table. In 2004, the average meal took about an hour to serve—now, it takes about double that time. For starters, footage revealed “26 out of 45 customers spend an average of 3 minutes taking photos of the food,” according to the report. Researchers also found that costumers tend to busy themselves on their phone once they have finished their meal, and will wait up to 20 minutes after they are done eating to ask for a check. While these numbers are based off just one restaurant, many chefs around the world have expressed their disapproval of cell phones at the table, some even banning cellphones all together.
CRUMBS WILL RISE FOOD RETAIL The faltering cupcake company closed its doors last week, but now it seems there will be a mini-revival BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO
Crumbs Bake Shop may not crumble after all. Following the company’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings and the abrupt closure of all Crumbs locations last week, the company announced on July 11 that the cupcake chain will receive financing by a group of investors with an interest in acquiring the company’s assets. Marcus Lemonis, CEO of RV parts supplier Camping World and Good Sam Enterprises, and host of CNBC series “The Profit,” partnered with Fischer Enterprises, L.L.C. to acquire
the company. The group plans to reopen some of the chain’s 50 stores, with the potential to launch new locations. The two investors work with a range of food products, including Boulder, Colorado company Doc Popcorn and futuristic ice cream franchise Dippin’ Dots, and Lemonis said in a statement that he hopes to “leverage the synergies” between Crumbs and the group’s other companies. Crumbs CEO Edwards Slezak will remain with the company to ease the transition. “We are very pleased to have reached this agreement with Lemonis and Fischer after carefully evaluating opportunities to strengthen Crumbs’ financial position in order to ensure a strong future for the Crumbs brand and business,” Slezak said in a statement. “The steps we are taking today will allow us to continue to execute our business strategy, expand
our licensing business and position ourselves to move toward a franchise store model. We remain saddened that we were forced to cease operations before this agreement was reached, but we strongly believe that pursuing this sale through the chapter 11 process is ultimately in the best interest of the Company and its stakeholders.” Crumbs was a major player in the
cupcake trend of the early aughts, opening its first outpost on the Upper West Side in 2003. At the time of its bankruptcy filing, Crumbs sold its densely frosted cupcakes, including ‘colossal’ cupcakes meant for six or more people, from retail locations in 12 different states, with 13 shops in Manhattan.
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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS JULY 1 - 8, 2014 The following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygieneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. Pita Grill
1570 1 Avenue
Grade Pending (5) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facilityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food and/or non-food areas.
Healthalicious
1594 2 Avenue
Grade Pending (27) Cold food item held above 41Âş F (smoked ďŹ sh and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ÂşF) except during necessary preparation. Food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal product temperature is reduced from 140Âş F to 70Âş F or less within 2 hours, and from 70Âş F to 41Âş F or less within 4 additional hours. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facilityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food and/or non-food areas.
Atomic Wings Dongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Great Wok Garden
1830 2 Avenue 1631 Lexington Avenue
Grade Pending (18) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facilityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food and/or non-food areas. Grade Pending (24) 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 facilityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food and/or non-food areas.
New Dragon Town Of Manhattan
2030 3 Avenue
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In & Out Special Food
360 East 116 Street
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Cucina Bene Pizzeria
1505 Lexington Avenue
Grade Pending (23) Hot food item not held at or above 140Âş F. Food Protection CertiďŹ cate not held by supervisor of food operations.
The Recovery Room
1446 1 Avenue
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Bagels & Co.
1428 York Avenue
Grade Pending (33) 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. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facilityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food and/or non-food areas. Live roaches present in facilityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food and/or non-food areas.
Gina La Fornarina
1016 Lexington Avenue
Not Graded Yet (47) Cold food item held above 41Âş F (smoked ďŹ sh and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ÂşF) except during necessary preparation. Food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal product temperature is reduced from 140Âş F to 70Âş F or less within 2 hours, and from 70Âş F to 41Âş F or less within 4 additional hours. Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. 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. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facilityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food and/or non-food areas.
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< PHONY BROKERS BILKED MANHATTAN APARTMENT-SEEKERS, SAYS D.A. Prosecutors say three people posed as real estate brokers to scam apartment-hunters out of thousands of dollars in fees and deposits on apartments they couldn’t get: Some places were already occupied. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. announced Wednesday that Ricardo Gon-
zalez, Elizabeth Adrian Perez and Juan Valoy have been indicted on grand larceny and other charges. They have pleaded not guilty. Vance says the scheme targeted Hispanic immigrants looking for places to live in the bustling Washington Heights neighborhood. Prosecutors say Valoy, Adrian Perez and Gon-
zalez showed more than 20 people apartments they claimed were available, then accepted as much as $5,500 for supposed application fees and security deposits. Vance’s office says the defendants then delayed move-in dates and ducked victims’ calls.
Fashion blogger Kristi Scarrozzo works a second job as a bartender to be able to afford her Chelsea apartment, and also takes on subletters. Photo by Mary Newman
Ask a Broker
Feelings and Facts love negotiation. It lies at the heart of the real estate business: the back and forth which leads to a successful outcome. I am not a scorched earth negotiator, but I have always understood the fundamental truth that negotiation is as much an emotional as a rational dialogue. As with economics, the role of feeling – be it excitement, the need to save face, or the desire to have someone else value what is ours the same way we do - is increasingly recognized as a central aspect of the dialogue. Every agent knows that people do not always make the best economic decision for themselves, either in the stock market or in the purchase or sale of a home. Other factors intervene. My wife recently sent me an article from the Harvard Business School Newsletter on precisely this topic. The article makes points I have been emphasizing for years in the negotiating seminars which I teach. In particular, it recognizes the value of using all the tools available to you, both quantitative and qualitative, to arrive at the best deal. The purchase or sale of a home is a critical life decision. It represents stability, a sense of place and belonging – core issues in most peoples’ lives. So there is bound to be feeling involved, sometimes a lot of feeling. Buyers almost always feel as if they are compromising, no matter the price range. It rarely happens that a property PERFECTLY aligns with a buyer’s criteria. Something has to give. On the other side of the table sit sellers with years of emotional investment in the place which has become their home. And almost always, especially if there are men involved, the need to be seen as tough complicates the landscape of the deal. As agents, our job is to advise these buyers and sellers so they make the best possible total decision for themselves; that means the decision with the most financial, emotional, and honorable return. Depending on the transaction, and the individuals involved, the balance between those factors will be different. Agents have many tools in our toolboxes. We can be accommodating, we can be sympathetic, we can be persistent, we can even play hardball once in a while if the circumstances demand it. But every stance we take should be strategic, not reactive. The best of us are always balancing feelings and facts.
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Frederick Peters is the president of Warburg Realty. This column reprinted with permission from WarburgRealty.com.
RAKING IT IN AND STILL PRICED OUT Manhattan, and you’ll usually hear comedic horror stories of 5th floor walk-ups, the lingering smells from the downstairs Thai Young professionals in restaurant, and a lack of storage Manhattan are finding it space. Generations of city dwellincreasingly difficult to find apartments, even for those with ers have been willing to sacrifice the size of their apartments to steady incomes move into a trendy neighborhood. But the newest wave of BY MARY NEWMAN young professionals are going Ask a successful New York- up against impossible rent iners about her first apartment in creases, untrusting real estate
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brokers, and unrealistic income requirements, making the idea of living in Manhattan as unattainable to some young professionals as winning the lottery. Manhattan has experienced years of gentrification and neighborhood makeovers, increasing the cost of living, and making property values reach record highs. According to the latest Apartment Research Market Report conducted by Marcus & Millichap, landlords are projected to increase effective rents 2.6 percent to $4,064 per month by the end of 2014. There are some industries that make employees feel as if living in Manhattan is a necessity, and we spoke with one young junior investment banker who explained that this isn’t just for superficial reasons. He asked to remain anonymous due to the strict privacy regulations his job requires, but he has been working on Wall Street since graduating from Stanford University in 2011. “Most people think we want to
live downtown because it makes us look good, but I work an average of 70-80 hours a week so for me any additional commuting time would kill me,” he said. “Being able to walk to work has been a life saver, especially because I am regularly called in on weekends.” He has been subletting different apartments in both Chelsea and Tribeca for the last three years, causing him to move every 6-8 months. He has attempted to get onto his own lease, but explained that although he meets all of the income requirements, his student loan debt makes him look “undesirable on paper.” He gave up looking for his own place several months ago after several failed attempts and sketchy experiences. “I had given this one broker a cashier’s check for $4,000 after she told me I was approved for the apartment I liked, and then she stopped returning any of my texts, emails, or phone calls for the next two
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Meg Canton lives on the Lower East Side in an apartment with three roommates; she may have to move out of the neighborhood due to the cost of rent in the area. Photo by Mary Newman
days,” he said. “I really thought I had just been scammed, but then she finally got back to me only to say that the building had declined my application.” His annual salary of $75,000 allows him to comfortably pay $2,000 per month for his Tribeca sublet, but he said most of his frustration comes from the attitude buildings and real estate agencies give young people. “They are so unwilling to help you out in anyway, and it has just become so difficult to find a place to live when you’re just starting out,” he said. “Because of my student loan debt, they were requiring me to pay 4-5 months of rent in advance. It is just so unrealistic because most kids coming right out of college don’t have $10,000 to hand over up front; it makes living here feel impossible.” The co-chair of Square Foot Realty Howard Aaron has been working in real estate in Manhattan for the past 25 years and expresses his sympathy for younger generations of New Yorkers. “People who can afford to live in Manhattan are mostly the ones who have lived here for a long time, and gotten into their apartments 40 years ago,” Aaron said. “I think people have really changed their state of mind about Manhattan, mostly because they’ve been forced to. People are going further uptown, further into Brooklyn and Queens to the areas that they can afford.” Jack Eustace graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology and has been working doggedly to start a career in fashion. Unable to afford the rent and living expenses in Manhattan, Jack has been commuting from Amityville, New York where he lives in his parents’ second home. “I feel very lucky to have a place to stay so close to the city, because for me the main issue
has been trying to balance the start a career for myself while making enough money to live comfortably,” Eustace said. In addition to his monthly student loan payments, he is also paying $500 for unlimited monthly LIRR and Metro Cards. Despite the glamorous appeal of working at a fashion library, which regularly rents designer clothing to celebrities and Vogue photoshoots, Eustace was only making $22,000/year at his last job. Even if he were to find a cheap apartment in Bushwick, there would be no way to afford his student loans, or any additional living expenses, he said. “You have to be willing to live off peanuts to
make it in this kind of industry, and you also have to be able to manage those peanuts to pay for the lifestyle that is expected of you,” Eustace said. “I was often expected to attend different industry events wearing expensive designer labels, so affording an apartment in Manhattan has never even been a part of the picture for me.” Many young people are forced to get creative with Manhattan real estate by converting onebedroom apartments into a two or three bedroom spaces, or taking advantage of online networks like Air BnB and Craigslist. Kristi Scarrozzo works as a popular fashion blogger on her site theladyk.com and as a fashion
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stylist. She has been able to remain in her three bedroom Chelsea apartment for the past five years by renting the two other rooms to a number of sub-letters and working as a bartender in midtown. She has had 10 different roommates occupy the two other bedrooms since moving in. “I’ve been able to hang on to this apartment because I’ve always had a side job bartending or waiting tables,” she said. “But at what point does that stop, I’m now 26 and don’t want to be a bartender and the cost of living in New York keeps getting higher, making it more difficult to pursue my fashion work.” Meg Stanton has been able to afford her Lower East Side apartment for the past few years by splitting a $4,000 per month, three bedroom place among four people. But with two of her roommates leaving, she is now having trouble finding a new place that is within her budget. “I’ve fallen in love with living in this area, but I don’t think it is realistic to stay here after they move out,” Stanton said. “Two bedrooms in our neighborhood are so priced out, and it might be easier to look if we used a broker, but I just can’t afford a broker’s fee this time.” Stanton has until September to find a new place, but has started looking earlier than usual because she knows it will be difficult to find a situation similar to the one she has now, one she explains as being extremely lucky. “This is all really about supply and demand. It’s a shame because such a low percentage of space available in Manhattan, landlords get to charge whatever they want,” she said. “I mean it is a shame what’s happening here in Manhattan, but soon there will be trendy neighborhoods in all five boroughs. These higher prices have completely changed the city.”
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Price
Bed Bath Agent
Beekman
444 E 52 St.
$1,350,000 2
2
Beekman
400 E 52 St.
$550,000
1
1
Midtown E
245 E 54 St.
$365,000
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Douglas Elliman
Upper E Side
177 E 77 St.
$2,345,000 2
2
Corcoran
Douglas Elliman
Midtown E
225 E 57 St.
$735,000
1
1
Corcoran
Upper E Side
400 E 77 St.
$1,235,000 2
2
Corcoran
Town Residential
Midtown E
225 E 57 St.
$722,500
2
1
Corcoran
Upper E Side
45 E 72 St.
$4,295,000 3
3
Sotheby's
220 E 54 St.
$680,000
1
1
Brown Harris Stevens
Upper E Side
325 E 77 St.
$620,000
1
1
Town Residential
Upper E Side
308 E 79 St.
$600,000
1
1
Douglas Elliman
Upper E Side
7 E 85 St.
$849,000
2
1
Douglas Elliman
Carnegie Hill
1185 Park Ave.
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45 E End Ave.
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190 E 72 St.
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310 E 46 St.
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$6,175,000
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575 Park Ave.
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530 E 76 St.
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PARADISE IS NOT LOST IN A NEW NOVEL Q&A Upper East Side author talks historical literature and thrillers BY ANGELA BARBUTI
Some authors have the ability to revisit a topic in literature and cause excitement about it once again. Upper East Side resident Barry Libin has done just that with his new novel, The Mystery of the Milton Manuscript. The thriller, which some are already dubbing the “Literary Da Vinci Code,” takes on the search for Milton’s lost manuscript in an effort to unveil the secrets of his timeless poem “Paradise Lost.” To piece together this work of historical fiction, Libin, who himself is part of the esteemed Milton Society, researched for three and a half years, even taking a course on Milton at Yale.
evant today as he was in the 17th century. He was the one who told us that women and men should be allowed to divorce each other. Before that, if you didn’t do exactly as Jesus said, which was that divorce should only be in case of rape or something, you were ostracized. Milton said, “What about if someone was simply uncomfortable or unhappy?” He was the first to proclaim that, and he was under a lot of criticism for that, actually. And he took that directly from the Old Testament, right from Deuteronomy.
How did you do your research? I researched this of course by reading Milton’s volumes. I even took a course at Yale just to review my Milton. It’s three and a half years of research.
What made you write about “Paradise Lost?” Milton was, of course, a very unusual figure. If you believe in a God that’s all merciful and all powerful, then how do you reconcile how tragedy can occur? It was really John Milton who wrote “Paradise Lost” to answer that question. He writes at the beginning that it’s an attempt to reconcile those answers. More people have read “Paradise Lost” than any other poem in Western literature.
What is the Milton manuscript? The mystery is what is contained in the Milton manuscript, that can be so controversial that it can cause a conspiracy to occur for 300 years. Because whoever gets close to findng the manuscript, which Milton, supposing dly, has written, will actually get the real edly, nswer to what the book is about. answer
What can you ell us about tell Milton? He was the most briliant man in liant 7th century 17th ngland and England emains toremains ay one of the day most pertinent nd controversial and igures in all of figures nglish hisEnglish ory. He tory. iss as elrel-
In the book, the character researches at the New York Public Library. Well the New York Public Library, in 2009, celebrated the 400th anniversary of Milton’s birth and had a huge program on that. I was able to find a tremendous amount of material at the public library. They had some wonderful things that they received from other museums and colleges in England.
I read that you’re a periodontist. What made you yo start writing? In 1995, I went we into medical research. I’ve written scienjournals plays, and mutific journals, sicals. I was a history and science major in college, so this ou really is an outgrowth of my hi interest in history. I’m writing my second historical novf el because I find it fascinating. It’s easier for people who have forgotten forgotten, since almost everyone ha has read something about M Milton, to get back to him. I make it easy by putting it into an excitm ing mystery story.
What kind of feedback have you gotten so far? If you go to Amazon, it’s interesting to see the responses of people who have forgotten Milton and are going back to read “Paradise Lost” now. The responses are very, very interesting.
What will your second historical fiction book be about?
You also wrote a play about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
died because the owners locked the doors. The terrible thing was, when the fire came, people were on the eighth and ninth floors and the ladders only went up to the sixth. And so these young ladies who worked there, mainly Jewish, and some Italian, just jumped all the way down.
It was performed in New York and now we’re giving it to schools. We just recently had the 100th anniversary of the fire. So many people
To read more about Barry and his book, visit www. miltonmanuscript.com.
It has to do with Judeo-Roman history. At this point, I’m not allowed to say too much about it.
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