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GOING IT ALONE IN A ONE-PARTY TOWN POLITICS David Garland is running as a Republican in a GOP no man’s land BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS

UPPER EAST SIDE “The Republican Party is dying in New York City and nobody

them fondly when compared to their current condition. Right now, there’s not a single Republican in the Assembly representing Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens or the Bronx. Just two Republicans represent districts in Staten Island. David Garland was a paperboy the year of Schanberg’s

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THE CENTRAL PARK BALLERINA How hopes for a career in dance turned into posing for tourists on a box in the park BY STEVEN MAGINNIS

Therisa Barber-Shaw came to New York from England hoping to make it big on Broadway. Instead, she’s become a hit on a small plastic box in Central Park. The classically trained dancer performs in the park as a living ballet statue on the box, dancing momentarily when someone drops money in her collection bucket. “You don’t always get to plan your life,” she explains. “Sometimes you give things a shot, and it sends you in a different direction.” Growing up in Kent, England, BarberShaw became interested in dance at age five, when her mother took her to the Royal Ballet in London. She instantly fell in love with the art, and she started taking lessons

Mayor Bill de Blasio, Department of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, and State Senate co-leader Jeffrey Klein announced the expanded installation of speed cameras citywide near schools last week, as part of the city’s Vision Zero plan. Speeding drivers kill more New Yorkers than drunk drivers and drivers distracted by cell phones combined. Nearly one in three people killed in New York City traffic is killed by a speeding driver.

OFFICIALS CALL FOR REAUTHORIZATION OF 9/11 HEALTHCARE LAW New York lawmakers – Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, Rep. Peter King – gathered at Ground Zero along with Mayor Bill de Blasio, 9/11 first responders, community survivors and union leaders to push to reauthorize the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, which originally passed in 2010. Lawmakers plan to introduce measures to extend the bill’s two programs, providing medical treatment and compensation for 9/11 victims and first responders, for 25 more years, through 2041.

almost immediately. “There was a point,” she says, “where I almost gave up, but my mum knew me better than I knew myself, and she made me stick at it.” Barber-Shaw spent two years studying dance at the esteemed London Studio Centre, appeared in a royal gala performance at London’s Royalty Theatre, then worked as a dancer and choreographer on cruise ships. By the year 2000, Barber-Shaw was in New York, but things didn’t work out so well. Despite an affiliation with Geoffrey Doig-Marx’s Mantis Project Dance Company and a stint as a teacher’s assistant at the Broadway Dance Center, she was unable to get sponsorship or broaden her professional experience. After four years as a waitress, she sold calendars for a statue mime performing at Columbus Circle, which bored her. The mime suggested that she use her

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seems to care.” So wrote Sydney Schanberg in the pages of the New York Times over 30 years ago, after watching a political debate on public access television when he noticed that not a single Republican was present. However lean their party was in those days, Republicans in New York might remember

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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS CHECK Carnegie Park apartments, at 200 East 94th Street, are slated to be converted into co-op units by the Related Companies.

MORE RENTALS GOING CO-OP The New York Daily News reported Upper East Side landlords continue to transform rental buildings into luxury condos in a pattern of recent real estate productivity. The Related Companies real estate business has produced plans to turn Carnegie Park at 200 East 94th street into 339 for-sale units. Although a spokesperson from the building declined to comment on the condo prices, according to CityRealty a current space in Carnegie Hill sells for $5 million. This renovation chronicles a current trend in buying rental spaces and ipping them into purchasable spaces. Other upcoming plans in the Upper East Side include a conversion of the Wellington building at 200 East 62nd street and two rental towers at 160 East 88th street and 305 East 86th street. New York Daily News

personnel were able to dislodge the man and deliver him to New York Hospital. “It was scary but thank God nothing serious happened,� a woman present at the time said. “We are all very thankful for that.� New York Post

those before the hurricane. Staten Island Republican Councilman Steven Matteo said, “This is a troubling trend. We should be focusing our efforts on educating our residents rather than punishing them.� New York Post

INCREASED TICKETING FOR RECYCLING VIOLATIONS

ECCENTRIC MILLIONAIRE LEFT BEHIND CLUTTERED MESS

The New York Post reported that within the ďŹ rst six months of Mayor de Blasio’s tenure, citywide recycling tickets have increased by 47 percent, totaling to $2.3 million. Building superintendents seem to view the ticketing as unwarranted and excessive. One co-op superintendent of the Upper East Side, where summonses increased 80 percent, said, “It’s really a shakedown. They’re opening the compactor bags, and if they see one piece of paper, they write us up.â€? Another super of the East 50s said that there ELDERLY EAST SIDE RESIDENT never used to be an issue before, whereas just in the past year he received over ten INJURED FROM POOL SLIP violations. Wiley Norvall, spokesman for de Blasio, defended the ticketing due to The New York Post reported an elderly the new “rigid plasticsâ€? recycling category regular to the Chabad Upper East Side that was enacted in 2013. Norvall also synagogue slipped and fell in a ritual pool indicated that the rise in ticketing is due on Tuesday. The man suffered minor to the return of many inspectors who bruising from the incident. Luckily other had previously been diverted because synagogue members were close by at of Hurricane Sandy. Other citizens are the time and dialed 911 immediately. wary of the explanation since many of Upon falling the man’s leg was caught in the affected areas still show higher rates a three-by-three-foot shaft leading into of violations even when compared to the ten-foot deep pool. EMS and FDNY

A man who claimed to have a fortune of over $18 million left behind the documents proving his ďŹ nancial success in a cluttered rent-stabilized Upper East Side apartment where he lived for over 38 years, DNAinfo. com reported. Lewis David Zagor, who made his money on Wall Street, lived in a two-bedroom apartment on Park Avenue and East 96th Street, with his third wife, Valentina Phillips-Zagor, until his death last year. Now, court records and his widow say that the proof of Zagor’s wealth, and the ability to access it, lie buried beneath the mountains of boxes, papers and piles of junk that Zagor kept in his home. The management company that owns the apartment wants the court to appoint an executor to Zagor’s estate so that it can obtain what it claims is pastdue rent. Phillips-Zagor told DNAinfo.com that she would happily let someone else go through the hoarded masses, and that she’s living comfortably in another Upper East Side apartment in the meantime. DNAinfo.com

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG ARC VILLAIN A van driver and a thief both got an unwelcome surprise. At 2 p.m. on Monday, September 8, the driver of a commercial van parked on the corner of 71st Street and Second Avenue approached his vehicle only to see that the van’s side door was open and a man was inside, trying to remove an arc welder valued at $3,500. The driver confronted the thief, who left the arc welder and fled northbound on Second Avenue.

19TH PRECINCT Report covering the week 8/25/2014 through 8/31/2014 Week to Date

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SUSPECT ACTIVITY An employee was suspected of theft at an Upper East Side restaurant. The management of a restaurant reported to police on Monday, September 8 that surveillance video shot on Thursday, August 28 at 4:40 p.m. had revealed a male employee in his twenties entering the office where the restaurant kept its safe. The video did not show what happened inside the office, but the restaurant later discovered that $8,500 was missing from the safe. Police are investigating the incident.

22 SKIDOO Someone gained unauthorized access to a man’s Social Security account. At 3 p.m. on Wednesday, September 3, a 69-year-old man opened a letter from Social Security, asking him to confirm whether he had opened a new Social Security account and requested a change of address. When the man called Social Security back to report that he had done neither of those things, he discovered that $22,500 been transferred from his account to another bank.

WHAT A DRAG A driver was injured by a cabbie seeking to flee the scene of an accident. At 2:45 a.m. on Saturday, September 6, a 27-year-old man was sitting in a parked car on Second Avenue between 93rd and 94th Streets when he was rear-ended by a yellow cab. The driver confronted the cabbie, who agreed to stay on the scene until police could arrive to take an accident report. When the driver returned to his car, the cabbie attempted to drive away from the scene. The driver of the parked car then ran and held onto the driver’s side window on the taxicab while the cabbie drove off, dragging the man for 150 feet before he fell, injuring his face, arms, and legs. The cabbie managed to drive away.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 piece. “That was the year Reagan was shot,â€? he said recently, at the corner of 86th Street and 1st Avenue. Garland, a Republican, was talking to voters about his 76th Assembly District bid, which has come into sharper focus in light of Tuesday’s Democratic primary vote. A black Wilson gym bag ďŹ lled with campaign literature sat at Garland’s feet. Volunteers were posted at nearby intersections (“Hi, you look like a taxpayer,â€? was a common opening line). “This is my third time around,â€? he said, mentioning a State Senate challenge against Liz Krueger in 2012 and his City Council bid last year. “My name is known out there. I think on the Upper East Side the voters are well educated‌People are more inclined to vote for a candidate rather than a specific party, and that works for me.â€? But in a district where Democrats outnumber Republicans three to one, why did he choose the road less traveled? “I’ve always been what I call an independent Republican,â€? said Garland, who grew up in Burlington, Vermont, and touted his socially libertarian, small government outlook. “Vermont is a very progressive state, so obviously my thinking has been shaped a little bit by that. I very much believe in the government giving people the information in order to make a decision for themselves on social issues.â€? Garland pointed out that Republican Joe Lhota actually won the Upper East Side handily during his mayoral gambit last year, though that was mainly due to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s support of the city’s 2006 solid waste management plan, which included the massively unpopular East 91stStreet marine transfer station. That dynamic won’t be as strong in Garland’s Assembly

All politics is local, and I think all politics is cyclical. I don’t think everything will stay Democrat forever.� bid, because you have to be against “the dump� in order to be a viable candidate on the Upper East Side, but he sees widespread Democratic support for de Blasio as one manifestation of the dangers of oneparty control in the city. “What really gets me is that every Democrat who ran last year said they’re against the dump, and yet they stood next to de Blasio last year and campaigned for him,� said Garland. “It’s the same this year. Nobody has taken a stance against Bill de Blasio specifically – I’m talking about [Councilman] Ben Kallos, [Congresswoman] Carolyn Maloney and [State Senator] Liz Krueger – the [Democratic] Party is divided on this issue.� Ga rla nd, 4 4, at tended Georgetown University for his undergraduate degree, and earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. He also studied and worked abroad in places like Pakistan and Tokyo before moving to the Upper East Side in 2002. He said while he didn’t consider switching parties when he moved to New York, the thought did cross his mind after his State Senate defeat in 2012 to Liz Krueger, in which he saw the “institutional support� she drew on in terms of volunteers and fundraising. He decided against it. “I could switch parties and run as a Democrat, but to me that would feel like political opportunism,� said Garland. “As long as I’ve been old enough to read and have an opinion, there have been things in both parties I agree with and disagree with, and

that will always be true. I’m trying to present myself as a person with opinions that reect what’s best for the district, not what a party stands for.â€? Garland said he campaigns in the district – meeting voters, handing out literature – five days a week during the morning rush hours before heading to his day job running a company that provides immersive family hotel experiences. After work he campaigns during the evening rush hours, and on the weekends he hits the farmers markets and street fairs. “I want to serve the Upper East Side, it’s my home and it’s been my home for a decade,â€? said Garland. “I think there are a lot of things that could be done that aren’t even on the table right now because of the Democrats’ monopoly. I think lowering taxes is actually a viable option, you have a lot of people eeing the city because of the tax rates, a lot of businesses are leaving the city.â€? Garland said many Democrats in the district like his ideas and have approached him with messages of support. “As soon as people meet me and talk to me and see what I actually stand for, and get away from this image they have from what they see on television about government shutdowns - the negative

stuff - and see that I have a lot of common sense ideas, they want to vote for me,� he said. “Every seat in this district was held by a Republican until the early 2000s, I think Bush did a lot of damage to the Republican Party. All politics is local, and I think all politics is cyclical. I don’t think everything will stay Democrat forever.� That explains why he’s willing to go up against the belly of the Democratic machine in New York time and again, despite being rejected in two previous races. “Something will shift at some point,� he said, “I don’t know when.� On the street corner, a man approached Garland and asked him what he thinks his chances are of winning. “I think I’m going to win,� said Garland, who’s raised about $40,000 in the race so far, and hopes to raise and spend another $60,000 before the general election on Nov. 4. “No, come on,� said the man, who gave his name as Steven, and seemingly wanted a more substantive answer. “You have my vote, but I think you have to have a screw loose to run as a Republican on the East Side,� said the man. Garland took it in stride. “Well maybe I do, but it doesn’t mean that I can’t effect some positive changes here,� he said.

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CENTRAL PARK BALLERINA CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 performing skills by working as a living statue herself. “I said, ‘I came here to dance on a big stage, not be a street performer!’â€? she remembers. “He said, ‘It’s still art, you’d still be performing.’ As much as I fought him, he kept encouraging me. And I saw how much money he was making, and I thought, ‘Maybe I can do this.’â€? Barber-Shaw ďŹ rst performed in Times Square in the fall of 2004, and the experience was a disaster. She struggled to balance herself on her box, her eyes watered from trying not to blink, and the relentless street noise hindered her concentration. Her companion from Columbus Circle, having watched her, complimented her for a pretty good first effort, but she was far from satisďŹ ed. Later that day, she found a quieter place, next to the Waldo Hutchins memorial bench in Central Park off the corner of East 72nd Street and Fifth Avenue. While quieter than West 42nd Street, the location proved to be a well-traveled footpath, and she attracted attention and money. “From

a bank account of zero,â€? she says, “I had my rent money by the end of the weekend.â€? She has been performing in Central Park ever since. A typical workday means standing silently en pointe on her box dressed in a white tutu, appearing as if she were about to begin a ballet. With her wavy hair hidden under a headpiece and her face masked in white makeup, she looks like a Degas sculpture. The brief dance she performs when she receives money may be simple or elaborate; children receive a blown kiss for good measure. Standing still on her toes takes much concentration. Once she assumes her pose, she focuses on a spot on the pavement to avoid blinking as she tunes out everything else. “The ďŹ rst 20 minutes are the hardest,â€? she says, “but after that, I’m off; I’m in my rhythm.â€? While on her box, her mind may wander from contemplating her choreography to what she’ll have for dinner later. Barber-Shaw performs for up to four hours at a time; the pressure on her toes pain and tire her feet as she maintains her balance. To look lifeless, she breathes shallowly by using her lower back and stomach muscles. When she dances repeatedly through a steady stream of tips, though,

it can be difficult to resume a shallow breathing pattern. After four straight days, BarberShaw usually needs a few days off to rest and enjoy some time off. “I don’t need to exercise,â€? she boasts. “This job keeps me in shape.â€? She ďŹ nds her art rewarding,

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though, in ways that go beyond money. Her ability to suddenly dance with such beauty after being stationary for so long has a mysterious quality about it. “I think the thing that really gets people about my work is the standing still,� she muses. “It’s nice to have the pointe work

as well, to make it like a living doll. It’s unusual for people to see pointe shoes up close. Even after I’ve moved, some children still don’t comprehend that I’m real. So there’s really a magical element to what I do.â€? Her work does have drawbacks. Her schedule is contingent on the weather; she has to be ready to work in the park on a moment’s notice if the day turns out to be sunny, and she can’t make any plans unless she’s certain that rain will prevent her from performing on a given day. The conditions of the seasons also affect her. Autumn provides ideally cool, dry weather to perform in, while winter forces her to work in subway stations. Spring produces allergies that cause Barber-Shaw’s eyes to run, but the baby powder on her makeup conceals her tearing. Summer humidity causes her pointe shoes to ďŹ t imperfectly, and the money comes less easily with more people away. The abuse from some people is inďŹ nitely worse. One time in the subway a man touched the back of her neck, which felt like an electric shock to her after having stood still for so long immersed in her thoughts. Another time in Central Park, a group of children overturned her tip bucket, forcing her to

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break character and demand that they go elsewhere. The transit police have repeatedly disrupted her act in the subway, though the police in the park have been relatively more supportive. Many people still say rude things to her to get her to break character, but she’s become a natural at ignoring them. “You just have to blank them out,� she says. “The longer you do it, the easier it gets. Usually these people will get bored and leave. I stick it out longer than they do.� While she continues to pursue dancing, she’s also now a certified health coach; she runs Nutritious Harmony, which helps clients maintain their ideal weight, eat better foods, and reduce their cravings, and increase their energy levels to feel better about their wellbeing. She hasn’t turned away from dance, though, and she has also continued to pursuing acting opportunities. Could all of her efforts as a performer lead to the big career she hoped for when she arrived in America? Barber-Shaw is philosophical about the future. “I live in the moment. Tomorrow hasn’t happened, so I’m not going to worry about it. As long as I’m making good money and I’m in good shape, I’ll carry on doing my act.�

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Joan Rivers was the most interesting person I ever interviewed for these newspapers. But I wound up writing her a letter of apology. When I talked to her for a piece here about five years ago, I chal-

lenged her about whether the jokes in her act about sick people and old people were really funny. She brushed it off, told me I shouldn’t bother coming to her shows, but she kept circling back to my ill-timed critique. She knew it came from a huge fan, someone

who could recount her Broadway credits cause he’d been there, but somehow my comment had managed to get under her skin. She insisted there is nothing offlimits. There can’t be. Because we need to laugh, sooner or later, one way or another, about everything.

This was the woman who, according to New York magazine, was among the first to tell a 9/11 joke. She called a pal the evening after it happened and asked about dining at “Windows on the Ground.” For years after my visit to her apartment – and, God, what an apartment – I thought about what she had said. As time passed, I encountered a little something called life. A lost job. A lost friendship or two. More than anything, I watched my father fall apart. Mentally and physically. That filled me with a fair amount of rage, and I thought about how Rivers had told me about the anger she had about her late husband’s illness. Some of that anger was directed at him, for his own decline. The emotion, whether it made sense or not, was real. She said that anger fueled her jokes. After I saw what happened to my dad, I related – and wrote to her. She didn’t write back. Now I’m not expecting she will. But she was right. And it’s an important lesson. For some of us, it’s not really possible—or at least it’s not really smart—to carve out categories of life and decide they are “not funny” and not subjects for humor. We need the release. We need the laughter. We need the joke. Yes, there are good jokes and bad jokes, but hers were awfully good. She made “Fashion Police” almost the funniest damn show on TV, week in and week out. And she taught me a life lesson about laughter – and our primal need for it. Christopher Moore is a former editor of Our Town and the West Side Spirit.

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Losing Pixy

BY BECCA TUCKER hen I got home from work and her moptopped silhouette wasn’t quivering in the screen door, I knew Pixy was gone. If there’s anything worse than losing your dog, it has to be losing someone else’s. We had begged for my uncle’s cockapoo to come stay on the farm. My uncle’s girlfriend said sure, Pixy was getting pudgy in their Times Square penthouse and a farm visit would do her good. And now, because I hadn’t shut the door properly, a 14-pound citified lapdog was out there, alone. I stood in the door and channeled Pixy. A lovemonger, she’d head straight for the closest people. Across Union Corners Road is the town park, where children play soccer while parents cheer and coaches have aneurisms. On Union Corners Road are buses, trucks, pickups, SUVs. I biked over to the park, scanning the roadsides, and started asking: soccer moms, disc golfers, kids. I got no shortage of sympathy, but no sightings. I thought I heard a highpitched yelp. I stuck four fingers in my mouth and blew, sounding like a randy old lady who’s been smoking for 75 years. A few more tries and I finally got the piercing sound that travels. Every dog within half a mile replied, but I didn’t hear that yelp again. Pixy is more of a people dog than a dog dog, but first and foremost she likes to be where the action is. There’s usually some activity, both canine and human, at the new dog park. Maybe someone had let her into the dog run and she was yelping to let me know she couldn’t get out. When I got within sight of the run, I stood in my bike saddle

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and started pumping. It was a small white dog convention, four potential Pixies sniffing rear-ends. But that dog had a tail, that dog had pointy ears, that dog was ugly… no Pixy. The sun was setting, taking hope down with it. My legs were jelly but I had to keep moving. Fatigue blunted my mind, which otherwise dwelt on the image of a shivering Pixy baring her tiny teeth in a futile defense against circling coy-dogs. Thinking meant processing the knowledge that it was I who had let this happen, and it was I who was going to have to pick up the phone and tell my uncle’s family that their little polar bear was not coming home. That thought had the effect of a cattle prod. I would do anything not to have to make that call. I traded my bike for the car and drove through the town park with my brights on. A small white animal scurried across the road. Pixy!? An opossum. The nocturnal creatures were out. How would Pixy fare against an opossum? Even though I wanted badly not to think, I had to. It was imperative that I use these hours wisely. If she was out there, there was almost no chance of my finding her this way. Plan B: canvass the neighbors. Headlamp on head, I trudged from door to door, freaking people out as they were cooking dinner or watching football. One couple was hesitant to open the door. They said they’d had an attempted break-in recently. That got me wondering about dognappers. Pixy is an expensive dog. Eventually I had to call it a night. I dragged my sleeping bag out to the hammock. It was September, the days still summery, the nights bringing the chill that turns the leaves. I slept in snatches, dreaming Pixy and I were walking together somewhere sunny, maybe Greece. I woke around 5 a.m. to – was it a dream? – Pixy screaming. I wandered through brambles calling until my pants were wet to the thigh. When the sun came up, it lit up thousands of cobwebs festooning the meadow’s tall grasses. A neon-splotched spider embraced her breakfast. Why is it that life’s most chaotic nights are also its most beautiful? Is it just that you’re up at an unusual hour? Inside, husband Joe and

The sun was setting, taking hope down with it. My legs were jelly but I had to keep moving. Fatigue blunted my mind, which otherwise dwelt on the image of a shivering Pixy baring her tiny teeth in a futile defense against circling coy-dogs.” I ate breakfast in silence. She’d only been at the house two days, but if we didn’t find her we were going to have to move. The place was haunted by the lack of her. Yesterday, I’d been annoyed by the pawmarks Pixy left on the couch after a swim in the pond. Today, what wouldn’t I give to see fresh ones? At eight a.m. I started calling the Humane Society, even though it doesn’t open til noon. At 11 a.m. they picked up. Yes, they had a white cockapoo. She’d been running in the middle of Union Corners Road (so much for her city smarts), so someone brought her in. What, the lady asked, was her name? I’d done a middling job of holding it together over the last 18 hours, and now I lost it completely. It was all I could do to spit out one letter at a time between sobs: “P-I-X-Y.” Two hours and a pile of paperwork later, Pixy trotted out of the kennel, bum waggling. I buried my nose in her neck and called her unpublishable names. She smelled of warm hay. Becca Tucker is a former Manhattanite who now lives on a farm upstate and writes about the rural life.

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French Institute Alliance Française 22 E 60th St. at Madison Avenue 7:30 p.m., $10 Alliance Française’s annual Crossing the Line Festival returns in 2014 with a number of world and U.S. premieres throughout the city. This Friday check out a New York Premiere from New York’s Nature Theater GREENMARKET of Oklahoma spent the summer of 2013 in a wildly creative 82nd Street between First residency culminating in the and York Avenues Berlin premiere of Life and 9 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Times Episodes 1–5 and a workOn Saturdays year-round, a in-progress showing of Episode 6. In the midst of this artistic frenzy, the company ďŹ lmed an intimate documentary about their creative process, exposing with humor and heartache the reality of negotiating life, work, collaboration, institutional politics, and the public. www.ďŹ af.org

SHIRLEY TEMPLE: FROM CHILD STAR TO ADVOCATE 92nd Street Y 1395 Lexington Avenue at 92nd St. 12 p.m., $24 Marc Courtade discusses the life and career of the infamous child star Shirley Temple. Beginning her career in 1932 at the age of 3, and by 1934 she was the number one box office attraction in the United States. She hosted a successful television anthology called “Shirley Temple’s Storybook� before leaving her Hollywood career behind to eventually become Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia, and Chief of Protocol of the United States. Join Courtrade for a celebration of the one and only Shirley Temple. www.92y.org

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15 MASTERPIECE MONDAYS: COLORS ON COLORS The Jewish Museum 1109 5th Avenue at 92nd St 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Bring your little ones to the Jewish Museum on Monday to take part in their interactive children’s gallery tour. Explore the galleries with sketching, art activities, and more in this enjoyable afternoon series. www.jewishmuseum.org

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St. 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m., $25 Central Park’s northern landscapes, less altered by the design and construction of the Park, offer one of the few remaining windows into the pre-urban landscape of New York City. The area known as the Fort Landscape includes rocky overlooks that were the sites of fortiďŹ cations built during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Join us in marking the 200th anniversary of the construction of the War of 1812 fortiďŹ cations (built in August 1814) with a presentation on the Fort Landscape that integrates recent archaeological discoveries and new ďŹ ndings about its history. Reception on the Museum Terrace to follow. www.nycparks.gov

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UPPER EAST SIDE FALL PREVIEW

PIG HEAVEN REOPENS

ARTS Our top picks for arts and cultural events in your neighborhood BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO

From film to food to family affairs, Our Town’s fall preview delivers a sampling of upcoming arts and cultural events the neighborhood has to offer this season. The Paris Theatre 4 West 58th St. 7 p.m. Tickets $20

FILM NYFF OPENING ACTS This fall, the 52nd-annual New York Film Festival will debut some of the season’s hotly anticipated new films, including Gone Girl, director David Fincher’s film adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s bestselling crime drama, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice, based on a 2009 Thomas Pynchon novel. Ahead of the festival, moviegoers can see how these directors got their start, as the Film Society of Lincoln Center celebrates the earlier works of some of the filmmakers who will be represented in the festival. Included in NYFF Opening Acts, the 10-day showcase leading up to festival’s kickoff, is one of Anderson’s earliest directorial efforts, 1997’s Boogie Nights, Fincher’s 2007 crime drama Zodiac and British director Mike Leigh’s 1971 feature film debut Bleak Moments, which Robert Ebert dubbed “a masterpiece” at the time of its release. September 15-25 Film Society of Lincoln Center 144 West 65th St. Assorted show times Tickets $13

DAVID BOWIE IS The traveling art exhibition David Bowie Is lands at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art on September

FOOD In August, Our Town reported on the closing of Nancy Lee’s Pig Heaven, a beloved neighborhood Chinese spot since it opened in 1984. Now, owner Lee confirms that she will reopen the local favorite a block away from the restaurant’s former home. With the lease signed on the new property at 1420 Third Avenue (formerly home to Italian restaurant Bistango), Lee hopes for an October opening, following a renovation to the existing space. Nancy Lee’s Pig Heaven 1420 Third Avenue, between 80th and 81st Streets Reopening in October

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23, and though Chicago is the only stateside host on this exhibition’s international tour, New Yorkers can still behold the more than 300 objects from the exhibition, including the glam rocker’s most famous stage costumes. The Paris Theatre will screen, for one night only, a documentary about the wildly successful exhibition. The film was shot by Hamish Hamilton (the director of the Academy Awards) on the last night of the show’s 2013 run at Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the institution that produced the exhibit. September 23

French post-World War II novelist, playwright and film director Marguerite Duras, best known for her nonlinear screenplay Hiroshima Mon Amour, (an important influence on French New Wave cinema) is the subject of a weeklong retrospective produced by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. In celebration of the Duras’ 100th birthday, 19 of the writer and filmmaker’s feature and short films, many of which have been little-seen in the United States, will screen in 35mm. October 15-22 Film Society of Lincoln Center 144 West 65th St. Assorted show times Tickets $13

GALLERIES SAUL STEINBERG: WORKS FROM THE 50S-80S Contemporary art space Adam Baumgold Gallery specializes in the work of Saul Steinberg, a celebrated New Yorker cartoonist for more than 60 years, and exhibits 40 pieces by the artist from the 1950s through the 80s, in celebration of his 100th birthday. Through November 1 Adam Baumgold Gallery 60 East 66th St. Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. FREE

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Jeff Koons, Balloon Dog (Yellow), 1994 – 2000. Mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating; 121 x 143 x 45 in. (307.3 x 363.2 x 114.3 cm). Private collection. © Jeff Koons.

IN CONVERSATION JEFF KOONS IN CONVERSATION Artist Jeff Koons joins Adam D. Weinberg, director of the Whitney Museum, for the institution’s annual Annenberg Lecture. The Whitney’s current exhibition, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective nearly fills the entire Madison Avenue building with almost 150 pieces from throughout Koons’ career, becoming so popular that the museum extended its hours to accommodate the crowds. Jeff Koons in Conversation with Adam D. Weinberg September 30 Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Ave. 7 p.m. Tickets $20

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JIMMY PAGE IN CONVERSATION Before Jimmy Page became a rock and roll icon as the guitarist for The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin, he was a teenage choir singer, a member of a skiffle quartet and a full-time session musician, details that he chronicles in his forthcoming, eponymous autobiography. Page discusses his book, which includes 600 hand-selected photographs, from iconic images to rare and unseen selections from his personal collection. November 3 92nd Street Y Kaufmann Concert Hall Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street 7:30 p.m. Tickets $150

A collective of three German artists called Group Zero, credited with reigniting the country’s modern art scene post World War II, cultivated a network of likeminded artists (known as ZERO) across the globe throughout the late 1950s and mid-‘60s, creating an exchange that helped propel the avant-garde scenes in Amsterdam, Milan and other European cities. An American museum’s first largescale presentation of work by Group Zero and its extended, international network includes over 180 drawings, paintings, sculpture, publications and other ephemera that together explore the ZERO network’s themes, including the relationships between nature and technology, the use of light and the presence of elements such as air, fire and smoke. A documentary film series about the artists’ network accompanies the exhibition. October 10, 2014-January 7, 2015 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue Museum hours: Sunday through Wednesday, 10 a.m. - 5:45 p.m., Friday 10 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. - 7:45 p.m. Admission $22

Illustration from ZERO 3 (July 1961), design by Heinz Mack © Heinz Mack Photo: Heinz Mack

MASTERPIECES FROM THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY Ten European masterpieces, on loan from the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh, travel to the Frick Collection, including Botticelli’s reverent 1485 painting The Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child, on public view in the United States for the first time. The paintings represent a range of time periods, with John Singer Sargent’s 1892 portrait Lady Agnew of Lochnaw as the most recent piece in the collection. November 5, 2014- February 1, 2015 The Frick Collection 1 East 70th St. Museum hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Sunday 11 S aa.m. - 5 p.m. Admission $20

MIX IT UP WITH HERVÉ TULLET Bestselling children’s book author Hervé Tullet reads from his upcoming book, the highly-illustrative Mix It Up!, a directive that children and their families are invited to take literally as they create art inspired by Tullet’s colorful pages and the Guggenheim’ss exhibition, ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s-60s. October 18 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue Reading 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. Workshop 2p.m.-5 p.m. Ages 4-9 $25 per family (registration required at Guggenheim.org/familyprograms)

THEATER TH “SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM” “S St. Bart’s Players, one of the city’s longest S running community theater groups, continues run its 87th season with a musical revue of Stephen Sondheim’s classic show tunes, including favorites Son from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, For Follies and A Little Night Music. Sept. 19-Sept. 24 S St. Bartholomew’s Church S 325 Park Ave. 3 Assorted show times A TTickets $25

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The Original Teachings of

Theosophy as recorded by H.P. Blavatsky & William Q. Judge

Universal Brotherhood …we are connected in an enormous brotherhood, which includes not only the white people of the earth and the black people of the earth, and the yellow people, but the animal kingdom, the vegetable kingdom, the mineral kingdom and the unseen elemental kingdom. You must not be so selfish as to suppose that it only incudes men and women. It includes everything, every atom in this solar system. What then is the universe for, and for what final purpose is man the immortal thinker here in evolution? It is all for the experience and emancipation of the soul, for the purpose of raising the entire mass of manifested matter up to the stature, nature, and dignity of conscious-godhood. …This is evolution carried to its highest power; it is a magnificent prospect; it makes of man a god, and gives to every part of nature the possibility of being one day the same… the old theosophical view makes the universe a vast, complete, and perfect whole. - William Q. Judge

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SHUT UP AND TALK HEALTH New study shows putting cell phones out of sight can enhance in-person conversations Can the mere presence of a mobile device during a faceto-face conversation affect the quality of social interaction? Absolutely, according to a study led by Shalini Misra, assistant professor in the Urban Affairs and Planning program in Virginia Tech’s National Capital Region. “The iPhone Effect: The Quality of In-Person Social Interactions in the Presence of Mobile Devices,” published in the current issue of the journal Environment and Behavior, examines the relationship between the presence of mobile devices and the quality of real-life inperson social interactions in third places through a naturalistic field experiment. For the research, 100 twoperson conversations were randomly assigned to discuss either a casual or meaningful topic together. A trained research assistant observed the participants unobtrusively

from a distance during the course of a 10-minute conversation, noting whether either participant placed a mobile device on the table or held it in his or her hand. Research found that even when not in active use or buzzing, beeping, ringing, or flashing, a mobile device represents a wider social network and a portal to an immense compendium of information. In the presence of mobile devices, people have the constant urge to seek out information, check for communication, and direct their thoughts to other people and worlds. Using hierarchical linear modeling, the study showed that conversations in the absence of mobile communication technologies were rated as significantly superior compared with those in the presence of a mobile device, above and beyond the effects of age, gender, ethnicity, and mood. People who had conversations in the absence of mobile devices reported higher levels of empathetic concern. Participants who had a close relationship with one another reported lower levels of em-

Participants who had a close relationship with one another reported lower levels of empathy while conversing in the presence of a mobile device compared with those who were less friendly with each other. pathy while conversing in the presence of a mobile device compared with those who were less friendly with each other. “Both non-verbal and verbal elements of in-person communication are important for a focused and fulfilling conversation,” said Misra. “In the presence of a mobile device, there is less eye contact. A person is potentially more likely to miss subtle cues, facial expressions, and changes in the tone of their conversation partner’s voice when his or her thoughts are directed to other concerns.” Misra’s research team for the project included Lulu Cheng, Jamie Genevie, and Miao Yuan. Source: Virginia Tech: vtnews.vt.edu

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< FOUR SEASONS RELINQUISHES PICASSO TAPESTRY Pablo Picasso’s massive 1919 painting of spectators at a bullfight, Le Tricorne, was removed from the restaurant at the Four Seasons on East 57th Street on Sunday, September 7, after 55 years in the prominent hotel’s dining room. The 19 feet by 20 feet piece, which the artist painted on a curtain to give to a ballet

group, is the largest painting by Picasso in North America, the Associated Press reported. The removal of the curtain came at the behest of the building’s owner, RFR Holding Corp., to make way for repairs to the wall where the curtain hung. The New York Landmarks Conservancy, the owner of the painting, tried to

prevent the removal of the piece for fear of damaging the material, and brought a lawsuit against the building owner in March, which was settled in June with the stipulation Le Tricorne would be donated to the New-York Historical Society for public display.

SLOW-ROASTED SUCCESS FOR LOCAL COFFEE CHAIN RESTAURANTS The founders of Birch Coffee let their business plan percolate and are ready to expand BY OLIVER MORRISON

Jeremy Lyman, co-founder of Birch Coffee, readily compares his company to that of a famous – if fictional – drug kingpin. Birch Coffee is about to celebrate the opening of its fourth location on the Upper East Side on Sept. 10, and Lyman thinks that, like the two characters in Breaking Bad who started an unlikely brewing business together, this is just the beginning. So how far along is Birch compared to Walter White’s crystal meth gig? “We’re at the moment before Walt says that he’s in the empire business,” said Lyman, meaning that, though Birch is growing, it is not yet one of the independent coffee cartels, like Stumptown or Blue Bottle. But within the year he and his cofounder, Paul Schlader, hope to make some inroads: they have plans to open their own roasting house and another new store in the Financial District.

“Before we get to a point where we’re just growing out of control, it’s super important that the stores are functioning well,” Lyman said. “We’d rather work out all the kinks when we have four or five stores than have those same kinks when we have 20 stores.” Five years ago, Birch looked like anything but a nascent coffee empire. Lyman was working a corporate desk job that he hated, and Schlader had been working in restaurants for fifteen years; neither of them knew anything about coffee. But Lyman loved coffee shops and Schlader had always wanted to own a business, so they moved forward with their pet project at a time when Starbucks was closing hundreds of stores and the future of coffee shops was far from certain. They were working 100 hours a week at their Flatiron shop but made only $100 on their first day, and started piling up credit card debt. Employees were quitting faster than they could hire them and Schlader was drinking so much coffee that he eventually had to give it up entirely for over a year. And then a Stumptown coffee shop opened a block and a half away.

BIRCH ON THE UPPER EAST SIDE 134 ½ East 62nd Street Between Lexington & Third 62ndstreet@birchcoffee. com Open daily from 7 a.m. – 8 p.m. www,birchcoffee.com “We immediately thought, forget it,” Lyman said. “We shouldn’t even have opened.” Instead of crushing Birch, however, the competition fueled Lyman to strategize a better business plan. He hired his masseuse, who had just opened a businessconsulting firm, to help guide the company. Lyman learned to delegate and not micromanage. He and Schlader doubled-down on what they’d learned from working in restaurants— incredible service—even if Lyman admits their coffee wasn’t as good as they were telling people. A loyal customer texted Lyman in the middle of the night when her plane landed, and said she would be “eternally grateful” if some of the iced coffee they delivered in growlers was waiting for her when she got home.

“I didn’t have anything better to do,” said Lyman, who lived 10 minutes from her apartment. “So I just dropped it off.” That got their growler delivery service started. And just when money looked like it was about to run out, a big catering gig came through. Toward the end of their first year, a neighborhood blog selected Birch over Stumptown for best neighborhood coffee. “It was so silly, but for us it was really important that first year,” Lyman said. “It kind of showed us, just because there is a big player a couple of blocks away, you’re not insignificant.” Their iced coffee became their signature, in part because of the special care they put into the brew and its delivery. But then it really caught on when they dressed

up as Walter White and Jesse Pinkman for a marketing campaign, just as Breaking Bad’s popularity was peaking. They have continued to prioritize service above all else, with the quality of their coffee now coming a much closer second. Schlader now roasts all their coffee himself and does a taste test of new and old coffees every Friday. A lthough Ly man and Sch lader have proved themselves to be shrewd businessmen, they won’t be making their employees wear corporate uniforms anytime soon. “I never want to hear someone describe working at a Birch Coffee Shop as a corporate job, that would be the worst thing I could possibly hear,” said Lyman. “I didn’t want to have to wear slacks

and a button down, I wanted to wear a t-shirt, jeans and flip flops if I wanted to. If I am comfortable with what I am wearing physically I am in a much better emotional and mental state.” And while Lyman and Schlader give talks at coffee conferences and been featured by business publications, Lyman isn’t sitting on Walter White-sized stacks of cash when he goes home. “It’s not about how much money I have in my bank account because if I told you, you would definitely not go into the coffee business,” said Lyman. “But I’ve never gotten up and looked in the mirror and been anxious about looking in the mirror. And that was what I looked like every single day before. I haven’t felt that in five years and to me that is the epitome of success.”

The latest outpost of Birch Coffee opened this week on East 62nd Street.

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS AUGUST 26 - SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Mee Noodle Shop & Grill

1643 2 Avenue

Grade Pending (17) Food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment. Evidence of rats or live rats 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.

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. Uno Chicago Grill

220 East 86 Street

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FP Pastisserie

1293 3 Avenue

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Ithaka

308 East 86 Street

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Glorious Food

522 East 74 Street

Grade Pending (19) Food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Il Salumaio Wine Bar

1731 2nd Ave

A

Milk Burger Express

2051 2 Avenue

Grade Pending (20) Cold food item held above 41Âş F (smoked ďŹ sh and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ÂşF) except during necessary preparation. 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.

Restaurant San Cristobal

339 East 108 Street

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La Casa Saludable

352 East 116 Street

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Zahlaya’s Bistro

2028 3 Avenue

Closed by Health Department (97) Hot food item not held at or above 140Âş F. Food Protection CertiďŹ cate not held by supervisor of food operations. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Sewage disposal system improper or unapproved. Hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room. Hot and cold running water at adequate pressure to enable cleanliness of employees not provided at facility. Soap and an acceptable hand-drying device not provided. Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

2Nd Ave Blue 9 Burger

1415 2 Avenue

Grade Pending (23) Cold food item held above 41Âş F (smoked ďŹ sh and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ÂşF) except during necessary preparation. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Sushi Para Manhattan

1461 3 Avenue

Not Graded Yet (2)

Subway

1523 York Avenue

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Lili’s Asian Cuisine

1500 3 Avenue

Grade Pending (20) Cold food item held above 41Âş F (smoked ďŹ sh and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ÂşF) except during necessary preparation. Live roaches 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.

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< N.Y. HEALTH INVESTIGATORS EYE JOAN RIVERS’ CASE The New York state health department is investigating the circumstances surrounding Joan Rivers’ cardiac arrest during an outpatient procedure. Spokesman James O’Hare said Thursday the department is looking into “the whole matter,” declining to discuss specifics.

In Brief NEW SERVICE OFFERS FEMALE DRIVERS FOR NYC WOMEN Starting next week, women in New York City will be able to request a female driver through a new livery service. It’s called SheRides (in other cities, it’s SheTaxis, but regulations here prevent them from using “taxi” in the name). It starts Sept. 16. The New York Times says the drivers will wear hot pink pashmina scarves. The service will take requests for rides through an app. Potential riders will be asked if there is a woman in their party. If not, they’ll be automatically redirected to other car services. The app will be available only through Apple, but will eventually be made available for Android. Stella Mateo is behind the livery service. Her husband is Fernando Mateo, the founder of the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers. The group represents 30,000 taxi and livery drivers. She says she plans to expand the service to other cities.

CENTRAL PARK FIVE SETTLEMENT APPROVED A federal judge has signed off on the city’s $41 million settlement with the five men who were wrongly convicted in the vicious 1989 rape and beating of a Central Park jogger. Mayor Bill de Blasio called the settlement approved Friday an “act of justice” that’s “long overdue.” The five black and Hispanic defendants were convicted as teenagers in the attack on a white woman. They served six to 13 years in prison before their convictions were thrown out in 2002 because of evidence connecting someone else to the attack. The victim was found with more than 75 percent of her blood drained from her body and her skull smashed. She was in a coma for 12 days, suffered permanent damage and remembers nothing about the attack. Corporation Counsel Zachary W. Carter acknowledged that the five men were wrongly convicted, but also emphasized, in a statement, that the city was admitting no wrongdoing. “To the extent that the evidence suggests that these five young men were wrongfully convicted and sentenced to substantial prison terms for a crime they did not commit, that in and of itself constitutes an injustice in need of redress,” Carter said. “Toward that end, we have reached an agreement to settle this case. This agreement should not be construed as an acknowledgment that the convictions of these five plaintiffs were the result of law enforcement misconduct.” He went on to say that a review of the case led his office to believe that the investigating detectives and the district attorney’s office that prosecuted the case “acted reasonably” at the time.

The 81-year-old comic and red carpet commentator died last Thursday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. She went into cardiac arrest during an unspecified routine procedure on her throat at nearby Yorkville Endoscopy Center a week earlier on August 28.

Further tests are needed to pinpoint comedian Rivers’ cause of death, the New York City medical examiner says. Spokeswoman Julie Bolcer said that the “cause and manner of death” will require further studies.

A PLACE FOR BAKED GOODS -- AND EVERYTHING ELSE SAVING SMALL BUSINESS Glaser’s reopens after a summer hiatus, and reconnects the neighborhood BY LENORE SKOMAL

I won’t lie to you. When we first moved back to the Big Apple this spring upon my husband’s retirement, worry danced around the edges of my mind about where I’d get my wisdom fix. That’s right. I’m a wisdom junkie, and wherever we’ve pushed in our tent stakes, I’ve been able to ferret out life’s little lessons and pick up pearls of punditry from the most improbable sources. Now, a few months later, it’s clear there’s no shortage of the stuff here, whether it be from subway-riding sages, checkout doyennes, tour guide gurus or your everyday, sidewalk savant. In fact, wherever I plant my feet in this great city, if I tune in and simply listen, I scoop up a nugget or two. One of my go-to wells of wisdom, Glaser’s, recently reopened after a long and lazy summer vacation. The iconic bakeshop on the Upper East Side (1670 First Ave.) has afforded itself the luxury of a month and half-long vacation for as long as anyone can remember. And those of us who go there for more than just the sweets and lovely breads struggle with the pangs of

withdrawal during that six-week plus hiatus. This 112-year old bakeshop—a throwback to the days when Germans ruled Yorkville—is a simple walk from our apartment. More than once, I’ve willingly waited in line, eyeing the curved glass of mile-high pies, blackand-whites, and minimeringues, focused more on the hum of conversation than the pastries. Glaser’s, like so many other neighborhood joints, is rife with quality chitchat. Thick, chewy stuff—not unlike its Christmas Stollen. You can roll it around in your mouth before slowly ingesting. And then walk away somehow feeling lighter. The last time I pushed through the heavy, glass door, right before they shut down for vacation, I had dinosaur cookies for my nephews on my mind. Watching the woman behind the counter carefully tie the thin red and white cotton string around my boxed parcel, her colleague shoved something warm and lovely wrapped in wax paper into my hand. A woman on a mission, she did the same to the handful of customers waiting on line. “Here. Have some Kitchen Sink Cookie.” The generous chunk of what is essentially a chocolate chip cookie with white and dark chips, potato

chips, pretzels, coconut and who knows what else, would have not made it past my lips on any other day, in any other place, as I am not a sweettooth. But, the way she offered it, lighthearted and certain, prompted me to dutifully pop the delicious thing into my mouth. “Now, that cookie? It’s like life, right? A little salt, a little sweet—but overall, delicious. Am I wrong?” I couldn’t help but nod. I’d been having a salty day myself. And her simple bit of bakery wisdom, along with the tasty analogy, subtly changed my perspective. Laughter can do that. But it’s my first visit that has prompted me to go back to Glaser’s time and again. Then,

I stood behind a fellow Upper East sider who ordered a large sampling of pastries. When asked the occasion, he piped up that it was his anniversary. “Oh! Congratulations. How many years?” From there, the conversation expanded like yeast bread on the rise, and all of us milling around the counter, added our two cents about what makes a good marriage last, with consensus agreeing on communication. The final word, however, went to the bakeshop mistress. “Yes, communication is right. But it’s not what you say. It’s what they say that matters. You gotta to listen to each other. It’s all about the listening.” Lenore Skomal can be reached at www.lenoreskomal.net.

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of Bohemia.” I remember coming across an essay she wrote which was an attack on the 19th century media for portraying women as skinny. She was really ahead of her time.

LITERARY LEGEND SHAKEN & STIRRED BACK TO LIFE In his new book, Justin Martin takes us into the scintillating world of Pfaff’s saloon in the 19th century BY ANGELA BARBUTI

The corner of Broadway and Bleecker was once home to a subterranean bar where wit and rebellion was just as important as lager. What happened in Pfaff’s saloon in the 1850s is stuff of literary legend, as the progressive writers of the time, like Walt Whitman, Henry Clapp, and Ada Clare, gathered not solely for a drink, but to exchange their views on pivotal issues of the day. On September 1st, the Greenwich Village saloon was finally paid the homage it deserves with the release of “Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians.” Biographer Justin Martin spent two years unearthing the tales of this fascinating cast of characters that assembled, who he referred to as, “the rebels of their small towns who made their way to the big city, just as people do today.”

You got the idea for the book from a professor. I was chatting with a university professor and he said to me, “Have you ever heard of Pfaff’s saloon?” And he told me a little bit about it and it sounded kind of interesting. It didn’t click right there, but then he sent me an email saying I should really look into it. He was a professor with a specialty in 19th century history and he perceived this as an unturned chapter.

Why do you think no one has ever written about Pfaff’s before? It’s really, really hard, as I can now attest, to do all the digging. It’s kind of like a cold case in a way. Whitman has

Explain the “Saturday Press,” which was one of the most influential papers in America in the 19th century. Clapp, who was its editor, grew up in New England and had an incredible antipathy for it. In 1858, a magazine which is still with us, The Atlantic, was founded in New England. His newspaper was the antidote to The Atlantic. His journal was New York-based, and full of these wild and wily Bohemians writing satire and experimental poetry. It was a little bit like The New Yorker, with its sense of urbaneness and putting art at a premium about all else, although it was a lot more meanspirited. They have the paper at Lehigh University. It doesn’t have many pictures or illustrations. On the face of it, it doesn’t look very radical. But I read probably all of the 157 issues and I’ll tell you that the articles, after 150 years, still retain their sting and their wit. That only told me that in their day, they must have been scathing and hilarious.

hemians, the guy who imported the idea of Bohemia from Paris, they set him up in a little vaulted room separate from the main one. The proprietor, Charles Ignatius Pfaff, gave him this long table that could seat 30 people and that is where he started assembling this group of Bohemian artists.

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achieved artistic immortality, but the rest of the people in the scene, a lot of them faded into obscurity. The other thing is, it’s a saloon, and what happens there is so ephemeral. And so I really had to figure out ways to create an organizing principle and bring these people together.

Describe the bar’s location and atmosphere. It was located at the intersection of Broadway and Bleecker in the 1850s. Broadway, in that day, was great entertainment for New Yorkers. This was a few years before Central Park even existed. This was obviously before television, radio, and high literacy rates. You would just wander around and could go to the theater, a saloon, a weird curiosity shop. You could go see P.T. Barnum’s various freak shows. Pfaff’s was this subterranean saloon located at 647 Broadway and the only thing that marked it was on the wall it said “Pfaff’s” in dim lettering. You entered by opening up this hatchway in the Broadway sidewalk, then you went down this narrow ladder, and you were in this ample space that extended the whole length of the Coleman Hotel, which was above it. The hotel disavowed itself from the saloon below it. It was modestly appointed, sawdust on the floor, tables scattered about, no musical acts or anything. It was dimly lit with gaslights, so everyone was kind of cast in shadow. Henry Clapp, the King of Bo-

You focus a lot on Whitman. I never knew that he lived in Brooklyn with his mother. At the time he joined this group of Bohemian artists, he was adrift professionally. He was unemployed. He was 39 years old. He was living home in a basement apartment with some of his siblings and siblings’ kids. He hadn’t published a poem in a couple of years, so he was really in an artistic and personal slump.

You’re part of a kind of modernday version of the Pfaff’s Bohemians, the Gotham Biographers Group.

You bring up the argument that Pfaff’s may have been the first gay bar. Pfaff’s was opened at a time when “gay” meant lighthearted, thirty years before the term “homosexual” came into wide use. The best way to describe it is as a libertine bar. It was just a place where if you were a social outlier of any kind, you might be walking along Broadway and see that dimly lettered sign, or you may have heard of it through the grapevine. You had these two separate rooms. You had the vaulted room, where Clapp formed his rigorously curated collection of Bohemians. Then you had another room, with Bohemian odd and ends. Those of them that were gay didn’t called themselves that, but the bar was a place where you could find a person like yourself. For Whitman, it was a six-mile round trip to get to the bar from Brooklyn. There was a reason that he traveled there. It was a perfect place for a gay poet who was struggling. Half of the time, he was hanging out at that long table with the artists,

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and the other half, he was in that other room, meeting men.

Tell us about how the bar treated women, which was progressive for that day. One of the things that really distinguished Pfaff’s was that it was a saloon that welcomed women. McSorley’s, which everyone knows, is from the same time period, and their slogan in those days was, “Good food, good ale, no women.” Pfaff,

the man who owned the saloon, he came from Germany and had libertine, European values, kind of like the French Bohemians. And Clapp, he was real open to having women in his coterie. At that long table, you had a nice representation of female artists, including a woman named Ada Clare, who was a trenchant essayist and wrote for the “Saturday Press.” She was known as the “Queen

It’s just eight or nine of us which includes a group of really accomplished writers like Will Swift, who wrote a joint biography of Pat and Dick Nixon, Kate Buford who wrote a great biography of Jim Thorpe, and Stacy Schiff, who wrote the well-regarded book on Cleopatra recently. We’re all New Yorkers and we meet at various bars around the city. It’s really great because it’s so specific, it’s a group whose members are all struggling with the topic of biography. It’s about five years old and I was invited by one of the members, a woman named Anne Heller, who wrote a fantastic biography on Ayn Rand. I was thrilled because, as you know, writing is such a sort of lonely pursuit and to have a group of people who are not only fellow writers, but also biographers, sometimes I feel like I’m dreaming. For more information on Justin, visit www.justinmartin1.com Justin will be appearing at the Strand Book Store, on Broadway at E. 12th St., on November 11th.

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one-time or recurring move in/out, post-party INTRODUCTORY OFFER FOR FIRST TIME CLIENTS

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ANTIQUES WANTED

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Chinese Objects Paintings, Jewelry Silver, Furniture, Etc. Entire Estates Purchased

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Interior & Exterior 25 Years Experience Neat & Clean Work Licensed & Insured

To advertise in this directory Call Susan (212)-868-0190 ext.417 Classified2@strausnews.com

gay (ga ¯ ) 1. there once was

AUCTION

a time when all “gay” meant

Unique Antiques & Collectibles, Paintings, Costume Jewelry, Decorative Objects

was “happy.” then it meant

EXCITING NEIGHBORHOOD AUCTION

“homosexual.” now, people

Saturday, September 20, 3pm (Preview & Registration 11am-3pm)

Location: The Caedmon School 416 E 80th St. (between 1st and York Avenues)

Auctioneer: Stephen Feldman Info: Martine’s Auctions, 212 772 0900 Martine’s Auctions, Lic. #2006090-DCA

Stephen Feldman, Lic. #1440856-DCA

REAL ESTATE

Buying or Selling? I can help. It’s not just real estate. It’s your home.

VICTOR FERRER Licensed Real Estate Agent

Affordable Pricing/Free Estimates

347-573-3882

SABBY PAINTING

victor.ferrer@elliman.com

(917) 292-9595

p

are saying “that’s so gay” to mean dumb and stupid. which is pretty insulting to gay people (and we don’t mean the “happy” people). 2. so please, knock it off. 3. go to ThinkB4YouSpeak.com

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CLASSIFIEDS Classified Advertising Department Information Telephone: 212-868-0190 | Fax: 212-2868-0190 Email: classified2@strausnews.com Hours: Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm | Deadline: 2pm the Friday before publication ACCOUNTING/FINANCIAL SERVICES ALLSTATE INSURANCE Anthony Pomponio 212-769-2899 125 West 72nd St. 5R, NYC apomponio@allstate.com LOMTO Federal Credit Union It’s hard to beat our great rates! Deposits federally insured to at least $250K (212)947-3380 ext.3144

ADOPTION Loving married couple longs to adopt newborn. We’ll provide a beautiful life, unconditional love, opportunities & security. Expenses paid. Tricia & Don anytime at 1-800-348-1748. https://donandtriciaadopt.shutterfly.com/ ANIMALS & PETS

BIDEAWEE - Animal People for People Who Love Animals! -Manhattan-Westhampton866-262-8133 www.Bideawee.org North Shore Animal League AnimalLeague.org 1-877-4-SAVE-PET Facebook.com/TheAnimalLeague ANTIQUES/COLLECTIBLES

Antique, Flea & Farmers Market, East 67 St Market (bet. First & York Ave). Open every Saturday, 6am-5pm, rain or shine. Indoor & Outdoor, Free Admission. Call Bob 718-8975992. Proceeds benefit PS 183. AUCTIONS

Exciting Neighborhood Auction. Antiques and Collectibles, Paintings, Costume Jewelry, Decorative Objects. Auction 3pm, Sat. Sept 20 (Preview & Registration 11am-3pm), The Caedmon School, 416 E 80th St (bet 1st & York) Auctioneer: Stephen Feldman. Info: Martine’s Auctions - 212 772 0900

CAMPS/SCHOOLS Alexander Robertson School Independent School for Pre-K through Grade 5 212-663-2844, 3 West 95th St. www.AlexanderRobertson.com Boys & Girls Harbor “A vibrant hub for education and the arts.” 1 East 104th Street, 212.427.2244 www.theharbor.org Huntington Learning Center Your tutoring solution! UWS. 212-362-0100 www.HuntingtonHelps.com Learn Something New Today! Free computer classes at The New York Public Library LEARN MORE nypl.org/LearnToday 917-ASK-NYPL

CAMPS/SCHOOLS German Classes for Children NY State Accredited Language Program. No previous experience necessary. www.German-AmericanSchool.org. 212-787-7543 GRF Test Prep Classes We prepare students to take the SHSAT! 120 W 76th St, New York, NY 10025 201) 592-1592 www.grftestprep.com Success Academy Charter Schools “A proven record of excellence…” We are applying to open new schools in Manhattan and encourage your input! www.SuccessAcademies. org /NewSchools

CARS & TRUCKS & RV’S Donate your car to Wheels For Wishes, benefiting Make-AWish. We offer free towing and your donation is 100% tax deductible. Call (855) 376-9474 CLEANING SERVICES/LAUNDRY

Green Cleaning & Steam Cleaning ... Done With Care. One-time or recurring; move in/out; post-party. Introductory offer for first time customers - 718-865-8583 www.spotlesscastle.com COUNSELING

Non-trad therapist, 40 yrs exp, formerly w/Casriel Inst & Daytop Village. Help raise self-esteem, overcome insecurities. Hazel James, 212-645-3135 Psychotherapy Services: Addiction/Recovery; Depression/Anxiety; Relationship Issues; Lesbian & Gay Issues; Approved provider for DWI Offenses. Private, convenient UWS office. Laura-Ann Robb, LCSW CASAC, 646-753-2879, robb.lauraann@gmail.com Weill Cornell Medical College Department of Psychology Barbara Milrod M.D. 212-746-5868

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Need to know about everything that’s happening in lower Manhattan? DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE, www.downtownny.com or just download our mobile app onto your cellphone and go! LIPS The Ultimate in Drag Dining & Best Place in NYC to Celebrate Your Birthday! 227 E 56th St., 212-675-7710 www.LipsUSA.com HEALTH SERVICES

Are you HIV positive? ASCNYC is here for you. Call or visit today! 212-645-0875 www.ascnyc.com Carnegie Hill Endoscopy 212-860-6300 www.carnegiehillendo.com Columbia Doctors of Ophthalmology - Our newest location at 15 West 65th Street (Broadway) is now open. www.ColumbiaEye.org 212.305.9535 Make Your Body Thin & Healthy Colon Hydrotherapy & High Enemas. Swedish MassageComplete Relaxation. Shaving & grooming. Alternative Medical Center of New York since 1985. 7 days, 11 am - 8 pm. All Credit Cards Accepted. 176 W 94 St - 212.222.4868 and 235 E 51 St- 212.751.2319 NYU Langone Medical Center Introduces the Preston Robert Tisch Center for Men’s Health. 555 Madison Ave bet. 55th & 56th, 646-754-2000 HELP WANTED

$8,000 COMPENSATION. EGG DONORS NEEDED. Women 21-31. Help Couples Become Families using Physicians from the BEST DOCTOR’S LIST. Personalized Care. 100% Confidential. 1-877-9-DONATE; 1-877936-6283; www.longisland ivf.com

ENTERTAINMENT

Carino on Second Blending traditional Italian favorites with contemporary accents. 1710 2nd Avenue (bet. 88th & 89th) NYC 212-860-0566 www.carino2nd.com Chirping Chicken - We Deliver & Cater! Mon/Sun 11am-11pm 1560 2nd Ave,(212)517-9888-9 Ask about our daily Greek specialty dish! Mohegan Sun Why D rive? For info call Academy: 1-800-442-7272 ext. 2353 - www.academybus.com

AIRLINE CAREERS begin here Get FAA approved Aviation Maintenance Technician training. Financial aid for qualified students – Housing available. Job placement assistance. Call AIM 866-296-7093 HOME IMPROVEMENTS

Expert on-site repair and restoration of antiques & new furniture in your home or office Quality custom-made furniture & cabinetry. FURNITURE MEDIC, (212)470-3850, Visit us on Facebook FurnitureMedicBH Serving NYC

POLICY NOTICE: We make every effort to avoid mistakes in your classified ads. Check your ad the first week it runs. We will only accept responsibility for the first incorrect insertion. Manhattan Media Classifieds assumes no financial responsibility for errors or omissions. We reserve the right to edit, reject, or re-classify any ad. Contact your sales rep directly for copy changes. All classified ads are pre-paid. HOME IMPROVEMENTS

Want to save $ on your electric bill? NRG Home Solar offers free installation if you qualify. Call 888-685-0860 or visit nrghomesolar.com

LEGAL AND PROFESSIONAL Anthony Pomponio, Allstate 212-769-2899 apomponio@allstate.com REAL ESTATE CLOSINGS Buy/Sell. Expd Attorney, Real Estate Broker, ESTATES/ CRIMINAL MATTERS Richard H. Lovell, P.C., 10748 Cross Bay, Ozone Park, NY 11417 718 835-9300. www.LovellLawnewyork.com Rick Bryan, Attorney & Counselor at Law. Wills, Living Trusts, Probate, Elder Law, Guardianships, Legal Advice. Home Visits Available. We honor all AARP and Legal Service Plan Discounts, 237 1st Ave, 2nd Fl, S.W. Corner of 14th St and 1st Ave, New York, NY 10003, 212-979-2868.

MASSAGE

Massage by Melissa (917)620-2787 SENSUAL BODYWORK young, handsome, smooth, athletic Asian. InCall/OutCall. Phillip. 212-787-9116 MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

Imperial Fine Books & Oriental Art - Rare & fine books, Chinese ceramics and art from the Ming to Qing Dynasties. 790 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor New York, New York 10065 (212)861-6620 www.imperialfinebooks.com Pandora Jewelry -Unforgettable Moments412 W. Broadway · Soho, NYC 212-226-3414 PAINT & WALLPAPER

SABBY PAINTING (917) 292-9595 Interior/Exterior Painting Wallpaper Removal Free Estimates, Affordable Prices, Neat & Clean Work Licensed & Insured REAL ESTATE - RENT

REAL ESTATE - RENT

OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND. Best selection of affordable rentals. Full/ partial weeks. Call for FREE brochure. Open daily. Holiday Real Estate. 1800-638-2102. Online reservations: www.holidayoc.com REAL ESTATE - SALE

CONTRACT FAILED! 6 acresStream- $26,900 Views, apple trees, pines, gorgeous stream, 3 hours from NY City! Terms avail! Discounts for cash! 888905-8847 NewYorkLandandLakes.com Victor Ferrer , Licensed Real Estate Agent, Douglas Elliman Real Estate. 347-573-3882 / 212-712-6083 - victor.ferrer@ elliman.com BANK ORDERED SALE. Up to 10 acres from $59,900. Beautiful Bethel NY. Near Woodstock site. 85 miles from Manhattan. Assorted hardwoods, approved building site, underground utilities, across from lake. Walk to Performing Arts Center, Financing. Call (877)8361820. SERVICES OFFERED

CARMEL Car & Limousine Service To JFK… $52 To Newark… $51 To LaGuardia… $34 1-212-666-6666 Toll Free 1-800-9-Carmel Event Hair Stylist 347-243-3170 for appointment www.sharimelisabeauty.com Frank E. Campbell The Funeral Chapel Known for excellence since 1898 - 1076 Madison Ave, at 81st St., 212-288-3500 Hudson Valley Public Relations Optimizing connections. Building reputations. 24 Merrit Ave Millbrook, NY 12545, (845) 702-6226 John Krtil Funeral Home; Yorkville Funeral Service, INC. Independently Owned Since 1885. WE SERVE ALL FAITHS AND COMMUNITIES 212-744-3084 Marble Collegiate Church Dr. Michael B. Brown, Senior Minister, 1 West 29th St. NYC, NY 10001, (212) 689-2770. www.MarbleChurch.org

GLENWOOD - Manhattan’s Finest Luxury Rentals Uptown office 212-535-0500 Downtown office 212-4305900. glenwoodNYC.com

New-York Historical Society Making history matter! 170 Central Park West www.nyhistory.org (212) 873-3400

Now Leasing! SHARED OFFICES Park Avenue 212-231-8500 www.410park.com

Riverside Memorial Chapel Leaders in funeral pre-planning. 180 W 76th St (212) 362-6600

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SPORTS CENTER at Chelsea Piers ChelseaPiers.com/SC 212-336-6000 TEKSERVE NYC’s Store For Technology Apple Repairs & Services Business Support 119 W 23rd St www.tekserve.com (212) 929-3645 Vamoose Bus Providing premium bus service between: NYC|MD|VA www.vamoosebus.com VACATIONS

Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises HIDDEN HARBOR TOURS For tix, visit: www.circleline42.com/hiddenharbor or call 1-855-382-0397 Dutchess County Tourism Make plans for an easy weekend escape at www.DutchessTourism.com, 800-445-3131 Interlaken Inn A resort getaway in the hills of CT. Lodging, Dining, Spa and More! 800-222-2909 www.InterlakenInn.com WANTED TO BUY

ANTIQUES WANTED Top Prices Paid. Chinese Objects, Paintings, Jewelry, Silver, Furniture, Etc. Entire Estates Purchased. 800-530-0006. B u y o r s e ll a t A A R a u ctions.com. Contents of homes, businesses, vehicles and real estate. Bid NOW! AARauctions.com Lights, Camera, Auction. No longer the best kept secret.

CASH BUYER! Buying ALL Gold & Silver Coins, Stamps, Paper Money, Comic Books, Entire Collections, Estates. Travel to your home. Call Marc in NY: 1-800-959-3419

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