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A former Department of Buildings official is returning to head the agency tasked with insuring the safety and proper use of the 975,000 buildings spread across New York. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Rick Chandler’s appointment. Former Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri retired last winter. Chandler is a professional engineer. He currently runs the daily operations of the physical facilities at city-run Hunter College in Manhattan. He formerly was the Department of Buildings’ borough commissioner for Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx. He also was an assistant commissioner in the city’s Department of Homeless Services.

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FROM THE CLASSROOM TO THE COURTHOUSE EDUCATION California court ruling results in New York lawsuit over teacher tenure, with more legal battles to come BY MARY NEWMAN

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Christensen, a former executive at JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, said he’s just playing it safe with his loan. “There’s a finite amount of money that makes sense for anyone to spend on this race,” said Christensen. “I’m not going to put a lot more

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UPPER EAST SIDE With less than 50 days before the Democratic primary, candidates in the 76th Assembly District race have revealed how much their campaigns have raised so far this year -- and some would appear to be more invested than others. Three of the Democratic candidates have put a combined $400,000 into their own campaigns in the form of loans, according to filings with the state Board of Elections. The recent July filing reveals that Ed Hartzog, a lawyer and Community Board 8 member, loaned his campaign $70,000 of his own money, while David Menegon, a Xerox executive and Army veteran, put up $85,000. The majority of the loan money in the campaign comes from exWall Streeter Gus Christensen, who, according to a filing earlier this year, cut his campaign a $250,000 check. The other two candidates include Democrat Rebecca Seawright and Republican David Garland, neither of whom put any significant amount of their own money in the race. As for his $85,000 loan, Menegon said voters in the district want to support a candidate who actually has a shot of getting elected, and the efficacy of his candidacy is tied in part to the amount of money he has to spend on his campaign. “I loaned the campaign to get over that first hurdle,” said Menegon. “People know that, ‘wow, Dave’s serious. He has the money to run a successful campaign.’ If you don’t have that, people will make other choices.” Menegon currently has $124,000 on hand, and said he’s the “one candidate who has a proven track record of results.” Those results, according to Menegon, include the successful management of a $1 billion economic development and infrastructure budget while serving on reconstruction projects in Iraq. “I’m able to roll my sleeves up and get people to work together who are not predisposed to do so and solve problems in the community,” he said.

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The tenure wars are coming to New York. Since a California judge ruled last month that several teacher tenure, dismissal and layoff laws were unconstitutional, it has sparked a new national debate over tenure in New York City, where 11 students have filed a class-action lawsuit in state Supreme Court. The issue goes to the heart of the debate in the city over public versus charter school education, carrying with it all the emotions that have framed that discus-

sion. On the one hand are public school and teacherunion advocates, who say that added pressures from tougher testing and teacher evaluations have made the need for tenure more urgent than ever. “Tenure is useful for the protection of teachers,” said Erin Farmer, a graduate student at Columbia University’s Teachers College. Farmer said tenure is necessary for “committed classroom teachers to do their jobs without the fear of losing it over pedagogical decisions they may make.” The most recent lawsuit in the city was filed on behalf of 11 students, and more expected to be added soon. The basic argument is that tenure hurts stu-

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A lawsuit accuses New York State health officials of cutting or denying Medicaid home care services to disabled and chronically ill people without proper notice. The federal class action suit was filed in Manhattan by the New York Legal Assistance Group on behalf of tens of thousands of disabled Medicaid beneficiaries. It names the state commissioners of the health department and the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance. The agencies said the state doesn’t comment on pending litigation. The New York Times says the lawsuit represents a challenge to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ambitious Medicaid overhaul designed to save money and improve coordination of care. The overhaul shifted $6 million in public spending on long-term services to private managed care companies that are paid a fixed sum for each enrollee.

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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS CHECK GROUPS PROPOSE PARK OVER THE M.T.S. Activists on the Upper East Side have begun to rally behind an idea of transforming the design of the East 91st Street marine waste transfer station to accommodate more neighborhood demands, the Daily News

reported. Groups who have fought against the transfer station would like to see the station used for residents’ beneďŹ ts, by building a park and outdoor recreation area similar to the High Line. The proposal suggests that the roof of the transfer station would be a park with a looping walk way into the park areas. The design does require, however,

that a ramp for trucks to transport the waste to be relocated, a move which the city so far has not signalled it will consider. Daily News

COURT: HOFFMAN DIDN’T WANT ‘TRUST FUND’ KIDS Court documents show Philip An aerial view rendering of a park that could be built above the East 91st Street marine transfer station, which neighborhood advocates hope the city will consider. Image by Michael Singer Studio/ Thomas O’Connor via the Daily News

Seymour Hoffman rejected his accountant’s suggestion that he set aside money for his three children because he didn’t want them to be “trust fundâ€? kids. The New York Post says the children’s court-appointed lawyer recently interviewed the actor’s accountant, David Friedman. In a July 18 ďŹ ling in Manhattan Surrogate Court, Friedman recalled conversations with Hoffman where the topic of a trust for his children was raised. He said Hoffman wanted his estimated $35 million fortune to go his longtime partner and the children’s mother, Mimi O’Donnell. According to the ďŹ ling, Friedman said Hoffman treated O’Donnell “in the same manner as if she were a spouse.â€? The court-appointed attorney says the actor’s will should be approved by the court because there isn’t anything suspicious about it. AP

MENTALLY ILL ATTACKER SENTENCED TO 12 YEARS IN PRISON Curtis Forteau, the mentally ill man who stabbed a woman on the Upper East Side in 2012, was sentenced to 12 years in prison, the Daily News reported. Forteau has had a history of mental illness, going in and out of psychiatric care since his teenage years. The

assault on Sabatha Tirado, who worked in a salon near East 86th Street where she was attacked, was random. Forteau said that voices he heard had pushed him to do it. Forteau suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, and the judge urged him to get psychiatric help while serving his sentence. Daily News

NYPD: MAN STOLE A DOZEN LAPTOPS, BOTTLE OF BOURBON Police say they’ve arrested a man in a three-month string of thefts in Manhattan than netted a dozen laptop computers, cash and even a bottle of bourbon. Officers arrested Darnell Lawson early Friday as he tried breaking into a midtown building. The 50-year-old Manhattan man is charged in connection with 11 burglaries in April, May and June. He’s also facing attempted burglary and trespass charges. Police say the thefts all happened after closing at businesses between 23rd and 38th streets, including some near the Empire State Building. Each incident involved a suspect wearing a “Brooklynâ€? ball cap forcibly entering businesses in the technology and marketing ďŹ elds and scooping up as many as ďŹ ve laptops at a time. Information on Lawson’s lawyer wasn’t immediately available. AP

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ELAINE STRITCH MOURNED AS A FEISTY, FUNNY BROAD MILESTONES The actress spent many years living at the Carlyle Hotel and was an integral piece of the New York show business scene BY MARK KENNEDY

Elaine Stritch was more than a Broadway actress. She was a New York institution, strolling around in a fur coat, pork pie hat or oversized sunglasses. She often wore shorts and ties, or just black stockings and a white owing shirt. Her weapon of choice was the zinger. “I like anything I don’t know about,â€? she said in a 2010 interview with The Associated Press. “And I don’t like most of the things I do.â€? She also offered this: “The most horrible line in the English language for me is, ‘God, you haven’t changed a bit.’â€? Stritch, who became a sort of shorthand for acting longevity since she made her Broadway debut in “Locoâ€? in 1946, died Thursday at 89 in her home state of Michigan -- far from her adopted home of New York and her former longtime home and stage at the Carlyle Hotel. But Broadway and New

York immediately sent their love. Liza Minnelli remembered her as “a true trail blazer. Her talent and spunk will be greatly missed by so many of us.â€? Lena Dunham said on Twitter: “May your heaven be a booze-soaked, no-pants solo show at the Carlyle.â€? Broadway’s marquees were to dim in her memory on Friday and a Twitter hashtag was born -- #EverybodyRise. Although Stritch appeared in movies and on television, garnering three Emmys and ďŹ nding new fans as Alec Baldwin’s unforgiving mother on “30 Rock,â€? she was best known for her stage work, particularly in her candid one-woman memoir, “Elaine Stritch: At Liberty,â€? and in the Stephen Sondheim musical “Company.â€? Stritch worked well into her late 80s, most recently as Madame Armfeldt in a revival of Sondheim’s musical “A Little Night Musicâ€? in 2010. She had built up so much goodwill that simply appearing onstage triggered a wave of applause, but she said she still tried to earn it every night. Her tart tongue also remained. “You know where I’m at in age?â€? she asked during the run. “I don’t need anything. That’s a little scary -- when you know that the last two bras you bought are it. You won’t need any

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more. I’m not going to live long for any big, new discovery at Victoria’s Secret.â€? In 2013, Stritch retired to Michigan after 71 years in New York City and made a series of farewell performances at the Carlyle, where she lived for a decade. A documentary released in February showed her final years, complete with forgotten lyrics, touching moments and ashes of irrational anger. Someone asked her if she liked it. “I said I loved it, I just wish I wasn’t in it,â€? she replied. When she flew back to New York to promote the film -“Elaine Stritch: Shoot Meâ€? -- she was as feisty as ever and even unleashing the F-bomb on the “Todayâ€? show. Her life story was the basis of “At Liberty,â€? the show in which she explored her ups, downs and in-betweens. She discussed her stage fright, missed showbiz opportunities, alcoholism, battle with diabetes and love life, all interspersed with songs. It earned her a Tony Award in 2002 and an Emmy when it was later televised on HBO. In “Companyâ€? (1970), Stritch played the acerbic Joanne, delivering a lacerating version of “The Ladies Who Lunch,â€? a classic Sondheim song dissecting the modern Manhattan ma-

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tron. Stritch originated the role in New York and then appeared in the London production. Among her other notable Broadway appearances were as Grace, the owner of a small-town Kansas restaurant in William Inge’s “Bus Stopâ€? (1955), and as a harried cruise-ship social director in the Noel Coward musical “Sail Awayâ€? (1961). She also appeared in revivals of “Show Boatâ€? (1994), in which she played the cantankerous Parthy Ann Hawks, and Edward Albee’s “A Delicate Balanceâ€? (1996), portraying a tart-tongued, upper-crust alcoholic. She was parodied in 2010 on an episode of “The Simpsonsâ€? in which Lisa Simpson attends a fancy performing arts camp. One class was on making wallets with Elaine Stritch and Andrew Lloyd Webber. “That’s worth being in the business for 150 years,â€? she said with a laugh. Stritch’s ďŹ lms include “A Farewell to Armsâ€? (1957), “Out to Seaâ€? (1997), and Woody Allen’s “Septemberâ€? (1987) and “Small Time Crooksâ€? (2000). She also appeared on TV, most notably a guest spot on “Law & Orderâ€? in 1990, which won Stritch her ďŹ rst Emmy. A recurring role in “30 Rockâ€? got her another in 2007. She starred in the London stage pro-

ductions of Neil Simon’s “The Gingerbread Lady� and Tennessee Williams’ “Small Craft Warnings.� It was in England that Stritch met and married actor John Bay. They were married for 10 years. He died of a brain tumor in 1982. In “At Liberty,� she delivered “I’m Still Here,� Sondheim’s hymn to showbusiness survival, a number she once described as “one of the greatest musical theater songs ever written.� It could have been written about her. “Good times and bum times/I’ve seen them all and, my dear/I’m still here,� the song starts. “Plush velvet sometimes/Sometimes just pretzels and beer/But I’m here.�

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money into this race, and I hope I don’t have to spend any of my own money.â€? Candidates typically loan t heir ca mpa igns money against future fundraising efforts. But with seven weeks left in the race, it’s not yet known how big a hit any of the selfďŹ nanced candidates will take. “I think all of the candidates have put more or less of their own money into the race,â€? said Christensen. Regardless of the money factor, he said, his resume and experience is the best in the ďŹ eld. He graduated from the prestigious Wharton School and Yale University, is a “very successful businessman,â€? and sits on the board of directors of two cultural institutions: the New York Landmarks Conservancy and the Bronx’s Historic Woodlawn Cemetery. He is also an organizer with Pledge 2 Protect, the main organization that opposes the marine transfer station at East 91st Street. In May, he was arrested with seven other P2P members in an act of civil disobedience aimed at preventing construction of the facility. “A key aspect of what I do every day of my life is ďŹ ght [the marine transfer station],â€? said Christensen, who despite being a registered Republican until 2007, nevertheless publicly supports progressive causes like the $15/hour minimum wage and taxing the rich to pay

for programs for the poor. Christensen has $376,000 on hand for the assembly race, according to the July ďŹ ling.

Rebecca Seawright Ed Hartzog Despite having the smallest war chest of any candidate, Hartzog doesn’t see himself as an underdog. He also doesn’t see any dissonance between loaning his campaign $70,000 and promising to push for campaign ďŹ nance reform if elected. “I think we’re as competitive as anyone else in terms of what we’ve raised so far, which is $125,000, which is as much as the other candidates if not more,â€? said Hartzog. “I find this race to be extremely competitive‌I don’t think of it as overcoming any kind of a gap.â€? Hartzog has about $50,000 on hand according to the July ďŹ ling, and said one indicator of his support in the district is the number of people who voted for him in his bid last year for City Council. “I received over 2,400 votes in that race, over 1,600 of which came from this Assembly district,â€? he said. “And I’ve been given no indication by anyone that those voters are going anywhere but continuing to agree with the message that I have.â€? Hartzog is serving his second term, fourth year, with Community Board 8. In last year’s city council bid, he received 15 percent of Democratic votes in the district. “People are responding and will continue to vote for me. Folks have continued to say, ‘we remember

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candidacy is about the dangers of one party controlling the conversation, the same platform he touted in a State Senate bid against Liz Krueger in 2012 and a city council bid last year. “Obviously there’s common issues that every candidate is going to come out strongly against, like the marine transfer station, but I also think that there’s the politics and then there’s the reality,� said Garland. “The fact is that when every single office at every level is held by the same party in Manhattan, it’s not good for democracy and it’s not good for good governance. There’s no dissenting voices or alternative viewpoints.� If he wins, said Garland, as a Republican his voice will be “inordinately louder.� “Standing on your own I think will make a big difference. I’d also have to work harder than the other candidates because I’d be under more scrutiny,� he said. Garland also has the benefit of experience to draw on in what will be his third campaign as a longshot Republican in a Democratic town. “I’ve run twice already, so I have pretty good name recognition in the district. We also have run two campaigns, so we know how to spend our money effectively and wisely to maximize our voter contacts,� said Garland. “I think those are two huge advantages for us. Everyone else is a neophyte in terms of running a campaign.� Primary Day is Sept. 9. For voter info visit www.elections.ny.gov.

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FIGHTING OVER TENURE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 dents, by keeping in place subpar teachers. In response to the lawsuit, parents and education advocates have emerged to speak out in favor of tenure in court, alongside the city and state officials. Their main message: the only way to attract a new wave of energized, committed educators is to ensure some job security. A spokesman for this group, Arthur Schwartz, said he expects to file a motion in state Supreme Court within two weeks, hoping to name is clients as co-defendants with the state and city in defense of tenure. Most of their case has build built around the argument that teachers aren’t the ones failing students, but increasing budget cuts, and excessive class size are hurting students ability to learn. Alex Newman has been teaching at the Upper West Side charter school, Success Academy Harlem 2, for the past four years, and has been recently named the new vice principal starting this fall. An avid believer in the use of the Common Core educational curriculum, Newman argues against tenure because he believes job security should be based on your performance as a teacher. “The school has a responsibility to develop their teachers, you can’t just throw them into the fire so to say, and think they are going to succeed,” Newman explained. “I realized very quickly after graduation that nothing can really train you effectively for this job except getting up in front of those kids and doing it.” Success Academy helped Newman through his first few years teaching, which he said was overwhelming. His advisors would observe his classroom and conduct a “real-time coaching session” where his school would hire outside education consultants to come in, observe him, and talk him through a lesson by using an earpiece. “They would be giving feedback in the moment in real time, which gave me the opportunity to implement immediately.” For now, though, the debate has moved to the courtroom. Legal experts say the success of the California case makes it likely that more, similar lawsuits will follow, forcing teacher advocates to begin work on a legal strategy of their own. Meanwhile, the first day of school, where all of the skirmishing ultimately coalesces, is just weeks away.

COMEDY Kids took to the microphone to display their joke-telling acumen at Gotham Comedy Club BY ALEJANDRO MENJIVAR

CHELSEA The children were nervous, fidgeting with their hands and sliding their feet. This was the first time performing in front of a crowd for many them. In this red-walled, dimly lit room, the stage was bright. With lights and smiles from students, the MC took the stage and introduced the show featuring the young comics of the hour. The tables were all angled toward the stage, with a camera in the back capturing it all. The room was warm, filled with tension from the families waiting to see their children in full comedic swing. Kids ‘N Comedy, a comedy summer camp in the city, is one of the only places that teaches younger children to write and perform stand-up comedy. KnC, founded in 1996 by Jo Ann Grossman, allows class clowns and others who

like to make people laugh a space to learn and grow. The camp gives students the opportunity to create and perform stand-up, from the ground up. There final performances are held throughout the year at the Gotham Comedy Club on 23rd St., a few doors down from the Chelsea Hotel. During this year’s final performances, a young man shuddered, as if shaking off any worries, and began to speak. This was the story of the day as student after student came to the stage to perform. As

they shook off their nerves and climbed out of their shells, they stood on the stage with a stance of confidence. The young man who started nervously, slowed down, and then began his set. “New York has a lot of characters. You see a lot of people on the train, like that one guy who is wrapped around the pole,” he said. “It’s like he doesn’t get enough love at home and is looking for love from poles on the train!” Another young comic, a girl with blonde hair, made jokes

about her parents divorce. “You know it’s strange,” she said. “That when I was a baby, my parents learned to walk out before I learned how to walk! Who do you think is being childish?” Line after line, the crowd burst into laughter. You could see the joy of the young comics, the fear, and also the validation. The performers, between giggles and whispers, spun out jokes about the city, family life, and being young. There was a lot of material about the students’ families. References were made to traffic jams, ball games, and comparing food quality to subway car cleanliness. The students’ eyes were wide as their surveyed the room, looking for laughs and parents in the crowd. Some of the performers were so young they struggled to reach up for the microphone. One parent, Rebecca Watson, has been sending her son to Kids ‘N Comedy for 3 years. “It is a beautiful, creative outlet, which makes him push himself,” Watson said. “To be comfortable in front of strangers and to be able to speak is a skill he will have for life.” Many parents present clearly felt the same.

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< ANOTHER VOICE AGAINST THE M.T.S. Comment from the web on a letter, “Dear Mayor De Blasio: Let’s Meet and Talk Trash,” July 10, 2014: I am in a similar position. I rent my apartment and my son played football on the Asphalt Green field 40 years ago, so I also have no vested interest. I am simply against a danger-

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ous, technologically antiquated project that does not belong in any residential neighborhood. Thanks so much for saying all of the things we’ve wanted to say to Mayor de Blasio and haven’t. Perhaps we can persuade him to change his mind through more politically oriented tactics to which he can relate.

As you may know, when Mayor de Blasio announced that he was looking for a gym in the Gracie Mansion vicinity, he was invited to join the Asphalt Green facility: as far as I know, he didn’t even have the courtesy to respond to his new neighbor. Nancy Lang

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M.T.S. IS BAD CITY PLANNING A comment from the web on our story “Opponents Pledge More Arrests to Fight M.T.S.,” July 17, 2014: If the city has no intention of moving the ramp, why is it leading the community by the nose in disingenuous discussions about alternatives? Why is it wasting taxpayer dollars and our time? The answer could be that it is checking the box: “we talked with the community and heard its concerns, but we’re moving forward because their wishes cost too much.” That’s a slap in the face. The city should look at and heed the facts; and the communities in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx who’ve borne the brunt of commercial garbage all these years (note: NO Manhattan residential trash goes to any other borough) should ask NYC why the Solid Waste Management Plan doesn’t actually clean up and reduce garbage trucks in their neighborhoods. The city is duping them. Sean Wood

CORRECTION In an article published July 17, 2014, “On The East Side, A New Political Force,” we mistakenly reported that David Menegon is a former executive at Xerox. Menegon, a candidate for state assembly on the Upper East Side, is still an executive at the company.

NOTE TO OUR READERS We are in the process of renovating the boxes where many of you pick up your newspaper. We are working to minimize any inconvenience during this process, but if you do have trouble finding your newspaper, please call us at 212-8680190 and we will gladly help. Thanks for your patience.

IN FAVOR OF THE FRICK EXPANSION A reader writes in support of the East Side museum’s proposed plans BY IAN ALTERMAN, UPPER WEST SIDE

As a member of the West End Preservation Society, a former cochair of the Community Board 7 Landmarks Committee, and a huge fan of the Frick, I have been watching with keen interest since news first broke of the Frick Collection’s intention to expand, including the construction of a new building (“Another Museum Expansion, This Time At The Frick” and “A New Era For New York’s Gilded Jewel,” July 17). Personally, I fully support the plan. The Frick is bursting at the seams: it is not just major exhibitions that lead to long waits; I have sometimes had to wait for an hour or more on a “normal” day. The museum has always had to “rotate” some works (many of which are kept on the currently off-limits second floor) since there is simply not enough gallery space on its single floor. And the proposed addition would not simply provide

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new, much-needed gallery space, it would also free up the space on the first floor currently used for entry, waiting, gift shop, etc.: a win-win. As for the small viewing garden on 70th Street, as noted in the article this was an afterthought, and not part of the original design (there were townhouses on that location until 1977). And while we all love gardens and green spaces, it has never been open to the public. Setting aside that the proposed new building is actually quite tasteful, and in my opinion does not “intrude” very much (if at all) on the current building, its addition would be “offset” quite generously by allowing for the opening to the public of both the second

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floor of the current building and the 5th Avenue gardens. There may be some “tweaking” to be done on the proposed plan, with respect to both the new building itself and other aspects of the plan. And that is what the public process is for. But I believe it would be a mistake to wholly prevent the Frick from expanding as it proposes, as the benefits far outweigh even the perceived problems, much less any real ones that may exist. I would like to wish the Frick good luck in its expansion plans, and I personally look forward with great anticipation to seeing its new facilities.

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Music to live better by BY BETTE DEWING hile we revere the recordings, there’s nothing like hearing it live!“ Oh, Steve Shaiman, you are so right about live music and hearing the swing era played by your 20-piece Swingtime Big Band. That is musical joy of the very first kind. And especially, but not only for the pre-rock generation who grew up with the incomparable sounds of bands like Basie, two Dorseys, Ellington, Goodman and Miller, and singers like Bing, Ella, Judy and Frank. And we could not be more thankful to the Carl Schurz Park Conservancy, and its president, David Williams, for bringing the Great America Song Book music to Carl Schurz Park for a fifth annual concert. (But we wish there was funding for two or three more. The conservancy number to call is 212-4594455) The concert setting at the top of the 86th Street Mall staircase on John Finley Walk overlooking the East River and the Triborough Bridge is also perfection.

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And, it’s all part of glorious Carl Schurz Park, replete with the Mayor’s mansion, and we sure wish its new tenants, especially the young ones, had experienced this concert and realized how this type of music must be part of their musical diet. I am most serious. A bit of a sidetrack, but the whole First NYC Family must also realize that the proposed “trash dump” site near their own backyard will do far more than spoil the view, but soil the air (especially around the adjacent public playground and sports field), and create garbage truck crowding to spike traffic danger the mayor’s inspired Vision Zero program vows to stamp out. And we sure could use a song protesting the trash dump, which Ken More and his band performing in Carl Schurz Park, Wednesday, August 6 from 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm, just might want to provide. Ah, and bless Steve Shaiman for honoring the members of the Swing Era generation attending the concert, especially several World War 11 veterans, And one of them said later, “This kind of music keeps me going.” Indeed studies galore show how music “not only soothes the savage breast,” (or is it “beasties”?) but has countless other social and health benefits, including

getting through, bringing joy, to fading brains when nothing else can. Some of us there mourned the absence of community activist, Sylvia Slavin, who so loved this park, this music and especially this concert, and who at 92, departed this life last year. But no one knows where to send condolences to her devoted son, Ira. About this photo, we’re sorry it doesn’t also show the “boy vocalist,” Jerry Costanzo, and a few other band members but even more that it doesn’t show the smiles and the tapping of toes of the standing roomonly audience, and some, like this former band singer, softly singing along and remembering the words. Music hath power. And doggone it, we need to hear, sing or otherwise make music, as much as we need a healthy food and exercise diet. This was the foremost goal of the late great Pete Seeger. All this is what America’s First Families need to advise! And for the many elder people without Internet, Steven Shaiman and his Swingtime Big Band can be reached at 516-876-8324 and again, the Carl Schurz Park Conservancy number is 212-459-4455. They deserve all-out support. dewingbetter@aol.

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SOUP BURG CLOSED AFTER RENT INCREASE 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,â€? says Henkin, catering to the hospital staff, neighborhood doormen, and “just people.â€? 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.â€? Other Soup Burg patrons have taken the restaurant’s closing as a particular blow and, to a degree, a sign of a wider decay:

“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

been equal parts levelheaded and nostalgic. Recognizing that “a lot of people are upset,â€? Gouvakis acknowledged that this is “all part of business; it’s nothing personal against us.â€? 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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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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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

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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

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

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 Undergroundâ€? 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

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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,â€? 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

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JULY FILMS: FLYING DOWN TO RIO 58th Street Library, 127 East 58th Street 2 – 3 p.m.; free This ďŹ lm, containing the ďŹ rst of many Fred Astaire - Ginger Rogers partnerships, concerns a troupe of entertainers stranded in Rio. Songs include “The Carioca,â€? “Orchids in the Moonlight,â€? and the title song. Notable for a brilliantly photographed ďŹ nale with chorus girls on the wings of ying airplanes, the movie was the musical that broke with the rather contrived Busby Berkeley production and moved toward a closer integration of musical and narrative elements. Astaire’s dance numbers come not as interruptions but as extensions of the plot. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Delores Del Rio. 1933. Community Meeting Room – ďŹ rst come, ďŹ rst served. nypl.org

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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 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,â€? 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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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street) 5 – 8 p.m.; free with museum admission (suggested donation of $25) ETHEL and Friends is a music series speciďŹ cally designed for the Museum’s Balcony Bar. ETHEL is one of the most acclaimed string quartets in the contemporary classical ďŹ eld. With an eye on tradition and an ear to the future, ETHEL is a leading force in concert music’s

reengagement with musical vernaculars, fusing diverse traditions into a vibrant sound. Expect familiar classical tunes mixed with a fair share of the group’s signature, cutting-edge repertoire. Guest artists and collaborators will also make periodic appearances. Relax and enjoy cocktails and appetizers while looking out over the majestic Great Hall. Featuring works by Bartók, Debussy, Ligeti, Dvořåk and Fuchs. metmuseum.org

26 ST. STEPHEN’S GREENMARKET 82nd Street (btwn First Avenue and York Avenue) 9 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.; free On Saturdays year-round, a dedicated following of shoppers ock to the 82nd Street Greenmarket which wraps from a sidewalk into a church courtyard on the Upper East Side. A full range of products including fruits, vegetables, baked goods, cheese, locally caught ďŹ sh, chicken, goat meat and grass fed beef ďŹ ll regular shoppers’ bags week after week. Active community partners The Upper Greenside and St Stephen’s Church contribute environmental and recycling information and activities, volunteers, and promotional support to help Greenmarket create a thriving market in this neighborhood. grownyc.org

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street) 10 a.m. – 7:45 p.m.; $22 (btwn 5:45 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. pay what you wish) This exhibition reconsiders the state of contemporary art in Latin America, investigating the creative responses of artists to complex, shared realities that have been inuenced by colonial and modern histories, repressive governments, economic crises, and social inequality, as well as by concurrent periods of regional economic wealth, development, and progress guggenheim.org; 212-4233500

27 VOX NOVUS/ COMPOSER’S VOICE Jan Hus Presbyterian Church, 351 East 74th Street (at First Avenue) 1 – 2 p.m.; free Composer’s Voice presents a free concert featuring music by living composers guest curated by AGBU NYSIP & Vox Novus intern Joseph Bohigian. Performances by Eva Ingolf, Beth Griffith, Anne Goldberg, Sarah Carrier, Joseph Bohigian, and Anna Aidinian. voxnovus.org

SUMMERSTAGE PRESENTS ROCK STEADY CREW 37TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT Central Park Mainstage, 830 Fifth Avenue 3 – 7 p.m.; free Originally founded in 1977 in the Bronx, by Jimmy D and Jojo, Rock Steady Crew has become one of the most well-known and recognizable B-boy groups in the world. The pioneers and creators of break-dancing used dance battles as a means of recruitment to grow its talented team and gain national acclaim while touring throughout the world. Since its original generation of members, Rock Steady Crew has adapted all

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28 SUN TO PRINT Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue (btwn 103rd and 104th Street) 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.; free Forget smartphones or point-and-shoots—the earliest photographers used daguerreotypes and glass plate negatives. Learn about these while exploring the Museum’s photography collection, then create your own sun print using blue cyanotype paper. We’ll incorporate natural elements inspired by city parks as we try our hands at using early photographic tools. Weather permitting. mcny.org

FROM THE WESTERN FRONT AND BEYOND: THE WRITINGS OF WAR ONE New York Society Library, 53 East 79th Street (btwn Park Avenue and Madison Avenue) 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.; free To mark the 100th anniversary of World War One, the New York Society Library presents an exhibition of select literary works and materials from its extensive open stack and rare book collections about the Great War. The exhibition commemorates the war’s unprecedented and extraordinary literary output— including memoirs, ďŹ ction, poetry, and propaganda— published during the four years of bloodshed that left millions of

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WHAT DO YOU DO WITH AN IDEA? Barnes & Noble, 150 East 86th Street and Lexington Avenue 11 a.m.; free Join us for this for this children’s Discover and Learn Event featuring What Do You Do With an Idea? by Kobi Yamada. This is the story of one brilliant idea and the child who helps to bring it into the world barnesandnoble.com

A FEW HOURS OF SPRING FIAF, Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.; $13/$7 for students With Vincent Lindon, HĂŠlène Vincent, Emmanuelle Seigner. In French with English subtitles. In this drama directed by StĂŠphane BrizĂŠ, Lindon plays a former truck driver just released from prison for drug smuggling. Forced to move in with his widowed and ailing mother, he struggles to deal with their failed relationship and her impending death. Introduced at 7:30pm by Scott Foundas, Variety ďŹ lm critic. Free wine reception following both screenings. ďŹ af.org

30 NEW PARENT GETTOGETHERS 92Y, Lexington Avenue at East 92nd Street 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.; $10 Bring your baby and join Sally Tannen, director of 92Y’s Parenting Center for a lively, weekly get-together to share, learn and make new friends. Come when you can. No registration required. 92y.org

TEEN SUMMER EXPLORATORIUM Yorkville Library, 222 East 79th Street (btwn 2nd Avenue and 3rd Avenue) 4 p.m.; free Come enjoy our summer experiments here at Yorkville’s Summer Exploratorium! We will be crafting our own fun with experiments, contests and more using physical objects as well as experimenting on computers! Do you know how to build your own batteries? Do you think you could craft the longest ying paper airplane? Or just merely impress your friends and family by making a tool to predict the weather! Share your creative knowledge and skills, while building new ones and most importantly have fun! For ages 13 -8 years. nypl.org

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“QUIET”: AN ORAL HISTORY PERFORMANCE ART Artists remember Josh Harris’ seminal work from the ‘90s that introduced the concept of people being constantly watched and recorded BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO

Before Facebook, Google and “Big Brother,” there was Josh Harris. The internet entrepreneur who amassed a net worth of $80 million dollars in the late ‘90s

and lost it all has always been a few steps ahead. He started internet research firm Jupiter Communications in 1986 and founded audio and video webcasting site Pseudo in 1994, far predating YouTube. In December 1999 he opened the art installation “Quiet: We Live in Public,” an underground bunker where over 100 participants lived for free under 24hour surveillance, until the city shut him down on New Year’s Day. Harris turned the cameras on

WHO’S WHO Josh Harris Internet entrepreneur, conceptual artist and subject of the 2009 documentary “We Live in Public,” directed by Ondi Timoner Harris became enmeshed in the downtown art scene and threw parties throughout the city, uniting the art and tech worlds. In December of 1999, he opened “Quiet: We Live in Public,” an underground capsule hotel where over 100 participants lived under 24-hour surveillance. The experience was captured on film by director Ondi Timoner, whose footage resulted in the 2009 documentary, “We Live in Public.” Donna Ferrato Photojournalist Participant in “Quiet: We Live in Public” Ferrato’s photographs from the installation were shown to the public for the first time as part of “A Quiet Summer.” For over 30 years, she has documented domestic abuse, resulting in a lifetime of activism. Also a street photographer, Ferrato photographs all over downtown Manhattan, especially her neighborhood of Tribeca. Alfredo Martinez Artist involved in “Quiet: We Live in Public” Longtime friend of Josh Harris Throughout the 1990s, Martinez collaborated with Harris on large-scale installations, including “Quiet: We Live in Public,” for which he assembled an artillery range in the underground bunker. In 2002, Martinez was arrested for forging Jean-Michel Basquiat prints, and served time in a Brooklyn prison. His prints depicting the machine guns used as part of the 1999 project will show as part of “A Quiet Summer.”

himself later that year, when he wired his entire apartment and streamed a year of his life with his girlfriend, whom he claims he “cast” for the project, online, resulting in the dissolution of his relationship and his own psychic breakdown. Since t hen, Ha rris has bounced around, living in Ethiopia, Los Angeles and on an apple orchard upstate, and he’s presently in Lordville, New York, at work on his latest art project. Harris debuted “Net Band Command” as part of “A Quiet Summer,” an ongoing exhibition featuring work by participants in the 1999 “Quiet” installation, curated by downtown gallerist Amy Li. The long-term performance piece is Harris’ prediction of the mental effects of total media immersion; he hopes to find participants to live in a “human chicken factory” to demonstrate what will happen when our lives are completely programmed, not unlike his projects of 15 years ago, which now seem spookily prescient. “The idea is to sort of induce a very high-quality psychic fracture before it happens in the mainstream,” Harris said. “So that when you walk in on day one, you’re a centered, unique human individual, and 30 days later when you walk out, you’re hive-minded.” Our Town Downtown spoke with three artists participating in “A Quiet Summer” about the 1999 experiment.

Josh Harris I had the dough and that was critical, but there had been a crew of us doing this kind of installation for 10 years. Mostly from Williamsburg. That whole scene in Williamsburg I’d been corralling and working with in Manhattan since 1994. Between all of us we probably each had at least 30 big time installations under our belt. More with some of these cats. So once I had the space, and we kind of had the concept down and it was made clear that money was no object, which was very important. It’s not so much that money was no object, it was that I wasn’t going to get in the way of their vision. In order to get the best work

Donna Ferrato

that’s what you gotta do, and I Alfredo Martinez It was several floors of space in got the best work. lower Manhattan, and like the Alfredo Martinez way a cult was, one artist did By August of 1999 [Josh] was where everyone would sleep, like, ‘we gotta do something one artist did the church where big for the millennium.’ There everyone assembled, where we was a lot of paranoia in the air had ceremonies for the group, that was kind of misplaced. and an artist did where everyEven if people didn’t believe all one ate. the conspiracy theories it kind I did the firing range. of seeped into the atmosphere, Another artist did a place even if you didn’t believe it. So where if you wanted to become we had like a little bullshit ses- part of the group and sleep in sion, me, and the other artists one of the pods, you had to go and Josh, and he thought, why through interrogation. don’t we play on something Me and the guy who did the inthat’s more of a cult than a com- terrogation, we set up a system pany, and we thought, why not a where, while people were being millennium cult? interrogated, I would be [in the nearby firing range] firing a maDonna Ferrato chine gun while they were being I read about them in the paper. interrogated…we tried to freak They were getting a lot of press people out as much as possible. back in 1999 and Josh was really titillating the media back Josh Harris The beauty and the freedom then with these crazy stories about this other world he was of art is I hired this guy [who going to create, which would appears in “We Live in Public”] be very much like “1984,” “Ani- who worked for the CIA as a mal Farm.” It would be like Big professional interrogator…We Brother was watching and ev- did it professionally. We went erybody would be tested, you for blood. Usually you go to an know, to see how they would artsy-fartsy interrogation room survive in a place where there and they’re screwing around were no rules, there was no in- with you. Everybody goes to art openformation. We were pretty much guided ings and all that and they feel by whatever we saw on our comfortable and safe but you monitor and we would be con- went in to this thing, and we trolled by it. It just sounded like were gonna zonk ya. And everya fantastic mind experiment. body who was doing it knew it. I And I wanted to be one of them. guess if you think about it this was hardcore art. I wanted to be a guinea pig.

Each of the bunks, where we slept, we each had a TV set that was wired to be able to watch each other in our pods doing anything…The whole premise was outrageous that we would all live together, sleeping together, showering. The toilets were in public. I mean, basically you had to submit to a somewhat higher authority’s will. It was like being on a film set. Even though, although no one had any roles or scripts. It was all very spontaneous…there were usually between 60 to 75 people running around, and during the day we would allow outsiders to come in and see how we were living and talk to people. We were like animals in a zoo. I didn’t really know the people who slept near me. I really didn’t try to get to know people. It was a lot to keep my mind together to figure out what was going on.

Alfredo Martinez I didn’t sleep in the pods. I was too worried about somebody futzing with all the guns so I just slept in the vault where I kept all the guns.

Donna Ferrato There was a sign on the wall that basically said that if you come through here you will be videotaped, so you are giving up your rights to us. And I was shooting stills. For me it was like winning the jackpot to be able to take any pictures I wanted and not have to get releases. I was still a little bit shy. It was a great feeling of true liberty to just be able to walk around and take pictures.

Josh Harris You could say the same thing of Facebook or Google or Pinterest or Instagram. It’s free service. Big data, we own it. We were just saying it out loud. That’s the whole trick. You stay it before it happens and no one seems to believe you and they’re not interested. Until now, 15 years later, and you realize this isn’t free. When I was looking to rent that car 30 days ago, who knew that ad would be haunting me for 30 days after?

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FOR THE WEEK BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO

MUSIC

MOSTLY MOZART FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Music Festival opens with a performance of Mozart’s overture to the two-act opera “Don Giovanni,” which he wrote with Italian librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. Conductor Louis Langree leads the Festival Orchestra in a program that also includes Gluck’s finale from “Don Juan” and Berlioz’s “Symphonie fantastique.” Tickets to the free performance are first-come, first-served. Saturday, July 26 Avery Fisher Hall 10 Lincoln Center Plaza 7:30 p.m. (tickets available at 10 a.m.) FREE

COMPOSER’S VOICE

JAZZ IN JULY: CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT WITH BILL CHARLAP TRIO: Contemporary music collective Vox Novus CELEBRATE SARAH VAUGHAN presents the work of young composer Joseph

Bohigian, along with pieces by six other working composers. Bohigian, who also curated the program and will perform on piano during the concert, is a student at California State University in Fresno. Composer’s Voice Presents Joseph Bohigian Sunday, July 27 Jan Hus Presbyterian Church 351 East 74th St. 1 p.m. FREE

Jazz singer Cecile McLorin Salvant takes the stage with the Bill Charlap Trio to pay tribute to one of her musical heroes, legendary vocalist Sarah Vaughan. Part of the 30th annual Jazz in July concert series at 92Y, McLorin Salvant will perform jazz classics, including “April in Paris” and “Body and Soul.” Wednesday, July 30 92 Street Y Kaufmann Concert Hall Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street 8 p.m. Tickets $60

CONOR OBERST AND DAWES AT SUMMERSTAGE

FILM

Indie rock darling Conor Oberst started his band Bright Eyes in 1995 and went on to become one of the genres most identifiable voices and songwriters. Joined on Central Park’s SummerStage with Los Angelesbased folk rock band Dawes, Oberst, who also founded independent label Saddle Creek Records, released his latest solo record, “Upside Down Mountain,” in May. Conor Oberst and Dawes at SummerStage Tuesday, July 29 Central Park SummerStage Entrance at East 72nd Street & Fifth Ave. 6 p.m. Tickets $40

AN EVENING WITH ISABELLE HUPPERT French actor Isabelle Huppert presents two of her most celebrated film performances—she plays a filmmaker who suffers a stroke in Catherine Breillat’s “Abuse of Weakness,” and an abusive educator in Michael Haneke’s 2001 film “The Piano Teacher.” Huppert will host a post-screening conversation about her career with director John Waters. Wednesday, July 30 Film Society Lincoln Center Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center 144 West 65th St. 6 p.m. Tickets $30 for two films

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Our Town JULY 24, 2014

Food & Drink

< POTENTIAL BAG BAN COULD CUT WASTE Anthony Shorris, Mayor de Blasio’s deputy mayor and fill-in while he and his family vacation in Italy, told WNYC’s Brian Lehrer on July 18 that the administration is “looking very closely” at a citywide plastic bag ban or fee. Washington, D.C., Seattle and San Francisco

In Brief ITALIAN RESTAURANT REOPENS AFTER GAS SHUT DOWN Italian restaurant Caravaggio will reopen after a two-day hiatus earlier this week, reported the New York Post. The restaurant, located at 23 E. 74th St. near Madison Avenue and across from the Whitney Museum of American Art, was forced to close when the building shut off its gas. When the restaurant reopened, the regulars returned to the upscale Italian dining room, including notable clientele; John Catsimatidis, owner of the Gristedes grocery chain dined with his wife, while New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman joined guests in a private dining area.

MISSION CHINESE POP-UP COMING TO MANHATTAN Chef Danny Bowien gears up to open a Manhattan pop-up of Mission Chinese this weekend. Bowien, who closed Mission Chinese on Orchard Street in November for renovations following failed inspections by the Department of Health, has yet to reopen the outpost, but has been operating a successful pop-up location behind Frankie’s 457 in Carroll Gardens since April. The Brooklyn pop-up serves Bowien’s western take on Szechuan cuisine to hungry diners—including spicy kung pao pastrami and thricecooked bacon with tofu skin and bitter melon—on a first-come, first-served basis, and offers a limited takeout menu. Though specifics for the Manhattan site haven’t yet been revealed, the chef announced his plans for the forthcoming pop-up via Twitter, and expects to open on Sunday, July 27 and operate every Sunday through August. Before closing, the popular Lower East Side brick-andmortar restaurant routinely drew crowds in droves and three-hour waits weren’t uncommon. Bowien will continue to run the Brooklyn location through August.

have already implemented measures designed to cut back on plastic bag use, Gothamist reported, and the deputy mayor indicated that such measures could be critical in cutting back on the 5.2 million plastic bags that city residents use annually. The City Council put forth a bill

in March asking for a 10 cent fee for all plastic bags, and similar efforts in other cities have spurred a significant decrease in plastic bag usage. Mayor Bloomberg attempted to implement a 6-cent fee on plastic bags in 2008 to no avail.

COOKING WITH KIDS Students from P.S. 11 learned to make vegetable biryani and Getting little ones involved in oatmeal cookies shopping, food prep and cooking through a helps them develop lifelong healthy- program with eating skills - and have a lot of fun The Sylvia Center last year. BY LIZ NEUMARK Photo courtesy The Sylvia Center Recall childhood moments in the Facebook page. kitchen with a parent or grandparent – and the joy of sweet or unexpected activities in the kitchen so the little flavors along with the beauty of or- hands can stay busy. And what worse ganized chaos? Flour everywhere. show stopper than to discover you Bowls of batter to lick clean. And the are missing a key ingredient. payoff: brownies or cookies, a hearty 2. Talk through recipe steps first so bowl of soup, pancakes. It was a spe- the kids realize they understand the cial time of focused attention and steps in the process. It is a moment exploration. to bring science, math or reading Fast forward to 2014. Home cook- into the kitchen. Even history finds ing in the Foodie Age is paradoxi- a place in cooking. cal as take-out/eat-out habits leave 3. I love the pre and post taste testhome kitchens empty; we are grap- ing. How do items change when gopling with diet-related illnesses be- ing from raw to cooked states? cause we have surrendered control 4. This is a good place to learn about over what we eat and how our food is the importance of hygiene. Hand prepared. Remember the joke refer- washing and safe food practices are ring to your cookbook as the pile of good lessons. take-out menus? Even those are rel- 5. Don’t be scared off by recipes that ics, as an app can do it all for us. call for lots of handwork. Kids love So is anyone cooking with the kids? to roll, fold and stuff so bring on the I have rarely met a child who is not dumplings, empanadas, phyllo trieager to get into the kitchen and angles and spring rolls. cook. It starts as soon as they can 6. Knives are important tools once stand on a chair at the counter, ex- kids learn the basics like the bear press their preferences and off we claw grip – even I could use a refreshgo. And the older kids get, the more er now and again. But it is a simple interesting the process becomes as skill worth learning and cultivating. additional worlds open up – foreign 7. Start a cooking adventure with words (chiffonade), exotic flavors, a trip to the market, be it your local more varied food prep skills, stories supermarket or farmers market. Exabout food – the landscape is rich plore choices together and experiwith inspiration. ment with something new (let your How do to get started with a child in child pick!) This is also a great mothe kitchen? A few tips: ment to figure out where food comes 1. I believe in spontaneity, but un- from. Compare a supermarket carrot til you have it down pat, plan your with one from the farm stand.

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8. Explore seasonings – as simple as salt and pepper to different herbs and varieties of hot accents. The same veggie or pasta or chicken with a different seasoning can be an eye opener. 9. Consider starting a little window herb garden. It’s as simple as a few seeds and soil in a paper cup. Before long, you will be snipping fresh herbs into your dishes. Don’t forget the avocado pit either! You might not see it bear fruit, but you will be able to watch it grow. 10. One of my kids used to spend hours standing on a chair at the sink washing dishes. Not only is it part of the cooking process, but it can be fun for young ones. Make clean up a fun part of your kitchen routine. 11. I love to quote Miss Frizzle from the Magic School Bus: “get messy, make mistakes.” And that is truly the most important thing to remember for grown ups as well as kids. Cooking is following recipes but it is also about creativity. Try new combinations, new ingredients. The more you experiment, the better and more confident you will be. Cooking is about letting go and giving your culinary child the chance to explore while learning a skill that is a key building block in her future ability to make good food choices. If you can’t cook for yourself, the ability to

eat well is diminished. Several independent schools have brought back cooking. One great example is Manhattan Country Day, with its affiliated farm and regular visits. Several schools have robust after-school cooking classes and clubs. Commercial enterprises have classes for kids, including Haven’s Kitchen, William Sonoma and other smaller shops like The Creative Kitchen, Freshmade NYC and Tastebuds Kitchen. In the non-profit sector, the 92Y and Asphalt Green have wonderfully innovative cooking class options for a wide range of ages. Cookshop, the nutritional education and cooking program of Food Bank N.Y., works with families in food pantries and in schools. The Sylvia Center works predominately in NYCHA community centers with young kids, youth and families to influence food choices with intense and fun six- week-long programs. Everywhere I have observed children in the kitchen I hear laughter, I see a willingness to taste something new, I see learning and feel the excitement for the meal to come. Liz Neumark is the CEO of catering company Great Performances and the author of the cookbook Sylvia’s Table, published by Knopf.

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS JULY 11 - 15, 2014

Tang’s Garden

1328 3 Avenue

Not Graded Yet (24) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

Le Charlot

19 East 69 Street

Grade Pending (24) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared.

Just Salad

1306 1 Avenue

Grade Pending (23) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) 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. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.

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. Good Taste Chinese Restaurant

1974 2 Avenue

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Pasteles Capy

242 East 116 Street

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Fox N Fiddle

1410 Madison Avenue

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Bounce Restaurant Sports Lounge

1403 2 Avenue

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Tanoshi

1372 York Avenue

Grade Pending (14) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation.

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425 E 51 St.

$1,150,000 2

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1050 5 Ave.

$1,500,000 2

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166 E 92 St.

$503,000

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120 E 87 St.

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55 E 86 St.

$3,500,000 3

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1361 Madison Ave.

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1040 Park Ave.

$641,000

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131 E 93 St.

$640,000

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1050 5 Ave.

$3,300,000 4

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400 E 67 St.

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245 E 54 St.

$545,000

Midtown E

200 E 57 St.

$1,800,000 2

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Midtown E

245 E 54 St.

$530,500

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Midtown South 244 Madison Ave.

$530,000

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Murray Hill

7 Park Ave.

$295,000

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240 E 35 St.

$398,000

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201 E 37 St.

$1,150,000 2

$2,900,000

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67 Park Ave.

$2,195,000 2

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Murray Hill

225 E 36 St.

$1,050,000 2

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Murray Hill

210 E 36 St.

$300,000

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245 E 35 St.

$328,919

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137 E 36 St.

Murray Hill

$3,050,000

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910 5 Ave.

$2,600,000

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120 E 79 St.

$460,000

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39 E 74 St.

$27,250,000 7

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169 E 78 St.

$1,498,650

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875 Park Ave.

$6,450,000 2

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Upper E Side

301 E 75 St.

$720,000

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Upper E Side

205 E 78 St.

$270,063

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Upper E Side

178 E 80 St.

$475,000

1

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1080 Madison Ave.

$7,757,500

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177 E 77 St.

$1,190,000 1

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Upper E Side

343 E 74 St.

$840,000

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$542,000

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363 E 76 St.

$1,450,000 2

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16 Park Ave.

$505,000

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Upper E Side

400 E 77 St.

$579,000

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Sutton Place

345 E 57 St.

$1,675,000

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820 Park Ave.

$2,100,000

350 E 57 St.

$502,500

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178 E 80 St.

$540,000

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205 E 59 St.

$2,947,833 3

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Lenox Hill

150 E 72Nd St.

$3,935,536 2

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Sutton Place

434 E 58 St.

$275,000

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Upper E Side

308 E 79 St.

$600,000

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Lenox Hill

301 E 62 St.

$770,000

2

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Sutton Place

425 E 58 St.

$2,135,000 2

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Upper E Side

444 E 75 St.

$449,000

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Lenox Hill

875 5 Ave.

$3,597,814 3

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Sutton Place

425 E 58 St.

$1,600,000 1

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Upper E Side

241 E 76 St.

$755,000

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Lenox Hill

420 E 64 St.

$680,000

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Sutton Place

303 E 57 St.

$856,350

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Halstead Property

Upper E Side

205 E 78 St.

$615,000

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Lenox Hill

200-210 E 65 St.

$3,150,000

Sutton Place

430 E 57 St.

$1,750,000 2

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Upper E Side

35 E 76 St.

$4,500,000 2

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Lenox Hill

200 E 69 St.

$3,200,000

Sutton Place

303 E 57 St.

$652,900

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Upper E Side

155 E 73 St.

$800,000

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303 E 57 St.

$355,000

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501 E 79 St.

$1,350,000 2

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220 E 65 St.

$2,500,000

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300 E 71 St.

$930,000

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Turtle Bay

333 E 46 St.

$916,425

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Yorkville

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NY’S MEDICAID COVERING POST-BIRTH CONTRACEPTIVES BY MICHAEL R. SISAK

Emboldened and incensed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision limiting certain contraceptive coverage in the private sector, New York health officials moved forward Thursday with a plan to provide contraceptive devices to low-income women who don’t want to get pregnant soon after giving birth.

In Brief U.E.S. HOSPITAL GETS HIGH MARKS NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital landed a spot on U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Hospitals” Honor Roll, published online last week, for the 14th consecutive year. The hospital ranks No. 6 on the Honor Roll, which recognizes national excellence in multiple specialties. Only 17 hospitals out of 5,000 nationwide were included. NewYorkPresbyterian earned the top spot among all hospitals in New York state and the New York metro region. NewYork-Presbyterian, one of the largest hospitals in the country with some 2,600 beds, ranks second in the nation for neurology/neurosurgery and psychiatry.

HISTORIC BUILDINGS MADE INTO ONE Curbed NY reported that two historic townhouses on East 77th Street (between 5th and Madison) will soon be combined into one, and sold as three units. 17 and 15 East 77th street were both built in 1878. Architect Armand Dadound took his plans to the Landmark Preservations Committee, and they were approved with a vote of eight to zero. In the meeting, there was talk of making sure that each building kept their integrity and original façade—the architect’s plans assured that each original building’s characteristics would remain true. Dadound will be demolishing the wall that sits between them, and building additional railings for a sundeck on the roof. Plans also include a small greenhouse in the rear.

The state, which this spring became one of a few covering intrauterine devices and contraceptive implants through its Medicaid program, went public encouraging health providers to ensure women get the $350 to $700 devices immediately after delivery. And they’re calling on private insurers to follow their lead.

“Birth control plays a vital role in helping women plan the best time to have a baby,” acting state Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker said at a news conference at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. “When a woman is able to plan her subsequent pregnancies, she is better able to safeguard her health and wellbeing, as well as that of any future children.”

Officials said giving women access to the devices immediately after birth, instead of at a post-delivery appointment -- usually about six weeks later -- would guard against a recurrence of pregnancy in the interim or a growing reluctance to having a device inserted.

P.J. CLARKE’S PETITIONS FOR ITS PLACE RESTAURANTS The popular restaurant is fighting its landlord and hopes to stave off eviction from its downtown home BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO

What’s a neighborhood without a neighborhood restaurant? That’s the question that Battery Park eatery P.J. Clarke’s is asking in a campaign against its landlord, Brookfield Office Properties, which is undergoing a massive, $250-million dollar renovation to its Brookfield Place retail areas. It’s a project that, the restaurant claims, the developer is using to try to force P.J. Clarke’s out of its space. The restaurant recently launched an online petition to keep P.J. Clarke’s in its current location. The petition, which amassed 130 signatures to date, states that “Brookfield has been using construction in the building to make it almost impossible for P.J. Clarke’s to succeed,” and that the landlord wants to lease the space to another restaurant at a higher rate. The restaurant’s lease expires in November 2020. Online comments on the petition represent a range of supporters, from those unhappy with Brookfield’s management

of the ongoing renovations, to fans of the restaurant’s burgers, to concerned citizens who don’t approve of a large developer forcing out a city staple. “The petition is meant to rally people who care about P.J. Clarke’s but also all local community restaurants in New York City,” the Clarkes’ Group said in an email statement. “Our hope is that our landlord Brookfield Properties recognizes our importance to the neighborhood and works with us to mitigate the harm done by the intrusive construction to the property.” In early June, P.J. Clarke’s filed a $40 million dollar lawsuit against its landlord, claiming that Brookfield is taking “deliberate and willful” steps to force the restaurant out of the Hudson River location. The legal documents state that Brookfield has asked the restaurant to relocate “several times” in order to make room for Keith McNally’s Meatpacking District bistro Pastis, which is presently closed for renovations. The documents also claim that, since construction began in October 2012, Brookfield has obscured the restaurant’s entrance, parked food trucks directly outside the restaurant and erected scaffolding on the outdoor patio, obstructing views of the river and the Statue of Liberty. Accessible from

P.J. Clarke’s original restaurant opened on the East Side in 1884. the street through a temporary, labyrinthine maze erected for the construction project, P.J. Clarke’s claims that it has suffered a 50 percent decline in profits since construction began. The restaurant has two other locations in Manhattan, including its iconic, red-brick flagship on Third Avenue and 55th Street, which opened in 1884. On its webpage, the restaurant celebrates its resistance to change over the decades, noting that, even after renovations, the Third Avenue location remained mostly unaltered. The Battery Park restaurant opened in 2004, and the restaurant maintains that its presence helped transform the neighborhood into a desirable destination. In certain respects, the restaurant does not align with

the direction Brookfield Place is taking its dining options. Brookfield’s recently opened Hudson Eats food court houses some of the city’s more sought after eateries, including Black Seed Bagel and Umami Burger, in a sleek, modern setting, quite a contrast to P.J. Clarke’s checkered tablecloths, dark mahogany bar and black-and white-tile floors. Some might say it’s classic New York. Others could call it stuffy and stodgy. Brookfield plans to open six new restaurants in the facility, including Italian eatery Parm and a New York outpost for Philadelphia tapas spot Amada. P.J. Clarke’s familiar, laidback atmosphere serves a cross-section of downtown clientele that, amidst the regular workday crowd from within Brookfield Place and

the nearby Goldman Sachs building, also includes tourists and young families who live in the neighborhood. The bartender knows his customers by name, shakes hands with anyone who sits down and talks golf and music with the mostly male regulars. On a sunny day, young men in suits order chicken wings and Brooklyn Lagers and sit in the shadow of the scaffolding on the outdoor patio. In addition to the online petition, the restaurant is handing out postcards, asking customers to write letters of support. Featuring vintage scenes from the restaurant and positioning P.J. Clarke’s as Manhattan’s answer to “Cheers,” the postcards are addressed to Ed Hogan, director of retail leasing for Brookfield Place.

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COLUMBUS AVENUE AS MUSICAL MUSE Q&A Musician Joe Gianono on Blue Note, turning pages at the ballet, and getting his songs on television BY ANGELA BARBUTI

New Yorkers can find inspiration in their neighborhoods just by simply stepping outside. Joe Gianono, a longtime Upper West Sider, frequently writes music as he walks home on Columbus Avenue. His career spans decades, and includes a gig with Blood Sweat & Tears, page turning for the pianist at the New York City Ballet, and arranging for Broadway. I met him at A.G. Kitchen, one of his favorite local spots, and we discussed his songs, and how New York has influenced his music. He said, “I can’t imagine living anywhere else. Things move; it’s never boring. I mean I can go to Birdland at 5 o’clock and Dizzy’s at 6.”

ing and orchestrating for Broadway, making other people’s music sound good. I was Chita Rivera’s arranger for a long time. And then I started to write my own, and for that past seven years, that’s what I’ve been doing. Now, I’m also the resident composer at the White Horse Theater Company downtown. So far, I’ve done about 10 shows and right now I’m doing “Eyes for Consuela,” by Sam Shepard.

Joe Gianono says that the streets of Manhattan provide inspiration for his musical compositions. Photo by Chris Pizzolorusso

Do you work out of your home? I work at home, yeah, but I could work anywhere. Strangely enough, most of the stuff I write, I initially get the idea from walking down the street. I’ve written so many things on Columbus Avenue, coming home from dinner.

I just listened to your song about the environment. “I Like Green” is a very funny song, but also very profound. It’s all about the environment and has a lot of factual information in it. It’s sort of like Me. Rogers meets Tiny Tim. And I’m singing it, and I’m not a singer.

How did you get started in the music industry?

You have your own record company.

I started playing the guitar at 6. I heard a guy play his guitar and I said, “That’s what I want to do for the rest of my life.” I went to college to study music and spent 30 years arrang-

It’s relatively new. It’s me and a couple of producers. Basically it’s a per project producership. I need a certain amount of dollars to get this thing done. Like for my song “Silly Girl,” I raised about 6,000 dollars, went to down to Nashville, and recorded the song. We’re supposed to be releasing it really soon. I release through CD Baby and when that happens, CD Baby automatically sends it out to iTunes, Amazon, and all those other spots. So it’s like one-stop shopping. They also have a partnership with YouTube monitors, so if you’re registered with CD Baby, when your songs are played in other people’s music videos on YouTube, you get the penny.

What are your favorite restaurants in your neighborhood? This [A.G. Kitchen] is one of them. I come here for dinner a lot. I like Arte Café, they have nice food in the restaurant part of it.

In your opinion, where are the best places to listen to music in the city? I go down to the Blue Note a lot and the Jazz Standard. I play jazz guitar and sometimes play at Birdland. I get a call once in a while, saying, “We need a guitarist.” The problem with that is you never see the music in advance. They turn the lights on and say, “Start

playing.”

Explain your page-turning job at the New York City Ballet. My good friend, Elaine Chelton, is the concert pianist over there. In fact, she does most of my recordings. A lot of times, she needs people to turn pages for her. And it’s so fantastic; I love it. It’s not simple though. You’re not there to turn pages. You’re there as a psychiatrist, an unnerver, the fall guy. At the end of every show, the conductor comes up and says, “Great job, kid.” Because they know if you screw up, the whole ballet goes down.

Do you have any interesting stories from page turning? We’re in the middle of Maurice Ravel’s “Piano Concerto In G, 2nd Movement,” which is a very slow, beautiful movement. Elaine’s mother was about to die, and she’s concentrating on getting through the ballet, which was very difficult. In the middle of nowhere, this beetle crawls right in front of the music. What would you do? Would you try to scoot it away? If it lands on the pianist, she’ll start

screaming. If it goes in the piano, it will mess up the piano. No matter what you do, you’re screwed. Plus we’re in the pit with the orchestra, so we’re in view of the audience at all times. I’m sitting there, wondering what to do, and thank God, it just crawled over the top of the music and disappeared. About a week later, I had lunch with Elaine, and said, “By the way, what did you think of the beetle?” She said, “What beetle?” She was so focused on the performance and her mother that she didn’t even see the thing.

You wrote the theme song for the TV show “The Soup.” How did that come about? Yeah, “The Soup” uses one of my pieces. I have a publisher, and his job is to get my stuff on television. “Chelsea Lately” uses some stuff. A lot of my stuff is in the “Boardwalk Empire” library. They haven’t used it yet, but they’re supposed to. For more information on Joe and his music, visit www.joegianono.com.

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