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WOMEN’S HISTORY MUSEUM HITS HURDLES NEWS The passion project of Upper East Side Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney faces challenges from budget hawks, and historians BY MEGAN BUNGEROTH

At a time when more women are serving in Congress than ever before in history - 79 in the House and 20 in the Senate - passing a bill on a women’s history museum might seem, if

M.T.S. OPPONENTS TURN ATTENTION TO HEALTH CONCERNS WASTE TRANSFER STATION Pledge 2 Protect rallies school kids while doctors send protest letter to health commissioner Opponents of the 91st St. waste transfer station have opened a new front in their effort to kill the Upper East Side project. Pledge 2 Protect, the main group fighting the garbage station, focused attention last week on the health effects of the M.T.S., which they say will exacerbate asthma and other health problems in a neighborhood that already is one of the most polluted in the city. More than 200 school kids attended at Pledge 2 Protect rally on Oct. 1 that began across the street from the site of

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not easy, then at least non-controversial. But the sponsor of that bill’s House version, Upper East Side Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, has hit a few roadblocks in her mission to establish the first and only museum in America that would deal solely and comprehensively with women’s history. The bill before Congress now, which passed the House with a major bipartisan push and fierce advocacy from Maloney, would establish a Congressional commission to prepare a report on recommendations for

creating and maintaining a national women’s history museum on federal land in Washington, D.C. The eightmember commission, appointed by members of both parties, would have 18 months to study the issue and deliver a report to Congress. Despite resounding public support and that of prominent Republicans including Speaker Boehner and former Majority Leader Eric Cantor, however, the bill is facing a major obstacle in the Senate.

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In Brief S.U.N.Y. SYSTEM TO GET NEW SEXUAL VIOLENCE POLICY New York’s 64 SUNY campuses are getting a new policy on sexual violence designed to address what Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday was an “epidemic” plaguing the nation’s colleges. The changes include a new campus definition of sexual consent as a clear, active and unambiguous agreement to engage in sexual activity and stress that silence cannot be interpreted as consent. The new policy also calls for comprehensive training for campus police, a public awareness campaign and a sexual assault victim’s bill of rights that ensures students can report sexual violence to either campus law enforcement or to local or state police. Implementation of the new policy, which was endorsed by the SUNY trustees, will be overseen by Linda Fairstein, a former prosecutor who led the Manhattan district attorney’s sex crimes unit. Public awareness campaigns and training programs are a big part of the new policy. Campus police and college administrators will receive new training on how to prevent sexual violence and help victims. The topic will also be incorporated into orientation for all incoming freshmen at SUNY colleges. As part of the new policy, students who come forward to report sexual violence will be given immunity from any student disciplinary actions relating to alcohol or drugs. The new rules will also create a uniform reporting program to ensure each campus is accurately reporting cases of sexual violence.

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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS CHECK MET DISPLAYS EPIC MURAL BY THOMAS HART BENTON A 10-panel mural by realist painter Thomas Hart Benton depicting American life before the Depression is going on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “America Today” was commissioned in 1930 for the New School for Social Research in Manhattan. The panoramic artwork features imagery of industrial American life throughout the 1920s. There are figures of farmers, coal miners, steelworkers and tycoons of modern industry and transportation. It established Benton as a leading American muralist. The exhibit recreates the school’s original boardroom, where the work once hung. Benton’s studies for the mural are part of the exhibition. The exhibition opened last week and runs through April 19. The work was donated to the Met in 2012 by AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company, which purchased it in 1984. AP

WRONGFUL DEATH TRIAL BEGINS ANEW IN CRANE FALL After a criminal acquittal and a once-derailed wrongful death trial, a construction crane owner on Thursday again faced a civil trial in a collapse that

Varganyi, who had arranged the crane repair, pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide. Varganyi was sentenced to a year of community service. AP

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killed two workers and helped spur new safety rules. Four months after his injuries in a car wreck forced a mistrial, owner James Lomma and the workers’ relatives sat in a Manhattan courtroom as opening statements began anew in the wrongful death case. It’s the latest attempt from the families and prosecutors to hold Lomma responsible for the May 2008 collapse on the Upper East Side. Top portions of a 200-foot-tall crane snapped off and tumbled to the ground, killing crane operator Donald C. Leo and Ramadan Kurtaj, a sewer worker who was on the ground.

“You’re going to know exactly who’s responsible” for the deaths, Leo family lawyer Bernadette Panzella told jurors Thursday. The workers’ relatives have sued various companies and agencies but largely blame Lomma, saying he sought to save money by getting a slapdash repair to a vital crane part that later failed and caused the collapse. The defense hasn’t yet started its opening statements, but Lomma’s lawyers have said other people were at fault for the collapse. Lomma was acquitted of manslaughter and other criminal charges in 2012. Mechanic Tibor

A Queens teen was charged with criminal trespass and reckless abandonment for scaling a residential building at 432 Park Avenue, DNAinfo. com reported. Demid Lebedev has an Instagram account filled with photos taken from the tops of skyscrapers. He posted what seems like pictures taken from the top of the building, which is still under construction and will be 1,396 feet tall when complete; it will be the second largest building in the Western Hemisphere. DNAinfo.com

TAXI CRASH INJURES TWO A taxi cab crashed into an eyeglass store on East 59th Street Monday morning and injured two people, ABC 7 reported. According to ABC 7 sources, one victim was put into a stretcher by EMS workers and sent to the hospital after being taken out of the back seat of the cab. The other was on the scene and able to walk herself to the ambulance. Neither of the injuries appeared to be life threatening. ABC 7

ATTENDANCE UP AT ROOSEVELT SITES AFTER BURNS SERIES Attendance increased dramatically at the FDR Presidential Library and Home in Hyde Park, New York, around the time that Ken Burns’ documentary series on the Roosevelts aired on public television. The Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace on East 20th Street in Manhattan, which is a National Park Service site, has also observed a slight rise in visitation since the Burns series aired, according to National Park Service spokeswoman Mindy Rambo. “And documentary-related questions are through the roof, so people are coming with purpose,” Rambo said. The FDR National Historic Site sold 10,500 tickets from Sept. 14-30, up 24 percent from the same time period in 2013, according to spokesman Clifford Laube. Sales at the library and museum’s New Deal Store increased nearly 40 percent during Sept. 14-20, the week the film aired, compared with the same week in 2013, Laube said. The attraction’s website had 65,300 visitors that week, compared to just 8,700 the same week last year. Burns’ series looked at the lives and legacies of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his wife Eleanor, and an earlier Roosevelt president, Theodore. AP

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG CALL BOOTY

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Cell phones make irresistible targets for thieves, especially late at night. At 2 a.m. on Sunday, September 28, a 33-year-old woman was walking east on 94th Street near Second Avenue texting on her phone, when a man on a bike zoomed by her and grabbed her cell phone. No video cameras were available to capture the incident. The stolen cell phone was an iPhone 5 valued at $500.

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People using cell phones in the street should be wary of passing bicyclists. At 10 a.m. on Sunday, September 28, a 32-year-old woman was walking on 88th Street near First Avenue, when a man on a black bike sped by and snatched her cell phone as he continued to head westbound. The stolen cell phone was an HTC One valued at $600.

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The pandemic of identity thefts continues unabated. On September 2, a 45-year-old male Upper East Side resident found out that during the period between August 7 and 29th, a number of purchases were made online by an unknown perpetrator using his bank debit card. Police said there is an ongoing investigation. The unauthorized charges amounted to $1,171.

ACT TOO MUCH? A local convenience store was sorely inconvenienced recently by an armed robber. At 11 p.m. on Wednesday, September 24, a 30-year-old man entered a convenience store, asking the 40-year-old store clerk if they had Lotto cards. Then the bad guy pulled out a black gun, which he pointed at the clerk, saying, “Don’t act too much. Give me your money!” The perpetrator was last seen fleeing eastbound, making off with $4,000 in cash.

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A pair of Republican budget hawks, Senators Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Mike Lee of Utah, are holding up the bill. Both say they won’t support the museum based on the fact that it could cost taxpayers, a point which especially exasperates Maloney, since she included language stating that the commission would use no federal funds. “They keep insisting that it’s going to cost money. It’s not,â€? Maloney said. “I ďŹ nd it’s a puzzle that they are opposed to it. Do they just want to keep women down and back? I don’t know.â€? The bill names a nonproďŹ t organization, called the National Women’s History Museum (NWHM), which would raise money to support the commission and also hopes to be appointed as a main fundraiser of the future museum. But that has brought the other obstacle to the forefront. Groups of prominent women’s historians have recently voiced objections to the bill as it stands in the Senate. They are concerned that the language for forming the commission doesn’t explicitly require any professional historian be appointed, and that the NWHM is named in the bill as the fundraising organization. The National Coalition for History wrote a letter to Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the Republican sponsor of the Senate companion bill, asking that it be amended to mandate the inclusion of professional historians to the commission, as well as strike any mention of the NWHM organization. “The major crux is asking that there not be a presumption that the NWHM should be the sole fundraiser,â€? said executive director Lee White. “They should just leave it out. You’re putting together this blue ribbon commission; let them decide who should raise the money.â€?

Maloney says that there is no way the bill would pass if it asked for federal funds, or if it didn’t include a plan to raise private money. She also emphasizes that the current bill is simply about creating a commission, not a fundraising plan for the future museum. “[The bill] looks at the creation of a national women’s history museum; it has no money. It will come back to the House and Senate to be voted on after the commission does their work and reports back,� she said. Dr. Sonya Michel, a professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park and a prominent scholar on women’s history, served on the Scholars Advisory Council to the NWHM, until that group was dissolved by the organization earlier this year, a move that Michel says came right before many of its members planned to resign over objections to how they have approached women’s history. Michel and many of her colleagues want to make sure that professional historians are involved from the outset of forming the museum, even at the commission level, because they say that women’s history is a complex and involved discipline that requires expertise to translate into a museum setting. “It’s theoretically possible that the entire commission could be made of people who have done public service [and are not historians],� Michel said. “We are just are very concerned about that, this is our big shot at getting a women’s history museum and we want to make sure it does justice to women’s history.� Michel and fellow historian Dr. Alice Kessler-Harris, the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of History at Columbia University, wrote an op-ed published last week by the History News Network laying out their objections to the way the NWHM has approached its subject matter. “The museum’s website and

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is commissioned they will hire curators who are historians.â€? She pointed to Emily Rafferty, the outgoing president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as an example of a theoretical commission appointee who doesn’t have a PhD in women’s history but who is a woman with extensive experience in running a world-class museum and could serve the commission well. (Maloney noted that she personally will have no power to appoint anyone to the commission if the bill passes.) Maloney isn’t sure what she’ll do if the bill doesn’t make it to the oor for a vote in the Senate this session; she sees this as a now-or-never scenario and acknowledges that her bill may not pass the House a second time, which is a big reason she doesn’t want the Senate version amended. “You have to get floor time, that’s hard to get,â€? Maloney said. “A lot of people don’t care about women’s issues. They just want to forget about it, as we’ve been forgotten throughout history.â€? Michel said that she and the scholars objecting to the bill aren’t against building a museum; they welcome it and appreciate all the work Maloney and her colleagues have done. But they also hold ďŹ rm in their insistence that the process should involve historians from the outset. “We’re not saying we have a monopoly on women’s history, but we do know a lot about it,â€? Michel said. She pointed to the NWHM website as an example of why historians should be consulted, even at this early stage. “Every day they have a little bulletin about some woman’s birthday or some woman did this event, instead of saying, why were there no women before that, and who were the women who came after that, what were the conditions, the economy, the culture,â€? she said. “Women’s history is more complicated than that.â€?

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M.T.S. OPPONENTS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 the planned transfer station and continued to a grassy area next to Gracie Mansion. Many of the students worse gas masks, which they said symbolized the increased health risks of the planned project. Mayor Bill de Blasio has pressed ahead with the marine transfer station, which is deeply unpopular in the Yorkville neighborhood of the East Side where de Blasio now lives. Despite opposition from every other elected official in the area. de Blasio has said that project needs to be built, to move garbage out of the Upper East Side via the East River. Opponents, largely through Pledge 2 Protect, have sought to unravel nearly every plant of the pro-M.T.S. case, from its environmental effects to concerns that it will deeply hurt business in a part of the city already hamstrung by the headaches from construction of the Second Avenue subway. In addition to organizing the chuldren’s march, Pledge 2 Protect also released a letter to New York Health Commissioner Mary Bassett and signed by nearly 100 doctors and other healthcare professionals. “The M.T.S. poses very real health and safety dangers for tens of thousands of New Yorkers, including the most vulnerable -- children, seniors,

and low-income families,� the letter stated. “We implore your office to take our concerns about the negative health and safety impacts of this facility seriously and immediately address these issues as a matter of public health and safety.� The doctors lodged a formal request that the city immediately halt construction on the station pending an air monitoring study. Of particular concern, according to the letter, is particulate matter exposure from the diesel-fueled trucks that will be bringing garbage in and our of the M.T.S. site. “Yorkville and East Harlem continue to have persistent pollution problems, which will only be made worse if immediate action is not taken,� the letter states. The doctors ended by asking that the city begin continously monitoring the air quality around the construction zone of the M.T.S., and that those results are released immediately. As Pledge 2 Protect was continuing to apply pressure on the project, some of the people arrested in a Aug. 6 protest at the site began appearing before a district court judge. More than 20 people were arrested at the rally, including some public officials and other local residents in wheelchairs. Of the cases that have gone before the judge so far, all have been dismissed.

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The Halloween Parade and Pumpkin Flotilla will take place on Saturday October 26 from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Enjoy spooky music, nocturnal animal mask arts and crafts, live pumpkin carving demonstrations, and the pumpkin flotilla, which sets sail across the Harlem Meer at twilight.

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WORKING TOGETHER ON TRAFFIC PROBLEMS I was pleased to see a resident as passionate as Jean (Guilder, “A Long History of Traffic Complaints,” Op-ed, Sept. 18) on the problem of dangerous intersections. Because of residents like her, I launched the “Livable Streets” program within my first months in

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GO AHEAD: BLAME THE BICYCLES Who’s right: the pedestrians or the bicylists? In the wake of a recent death in Central Park, the result of a collision between a walker and a cyclist, the question has centered on who is responsible for preventing such accidents. The answer isn’t even close. Last month, I’m proud to say, I ran my fifth marathon, this one in Long Island. To prepare for that race, and for all the ones that came before it, I’ve run hundreds of miles, almost all of them on city streets and many of them in Central Park. In the process, I’ve watched up-close the ongoing battle between bikers and joggers for a tiny slab of Manhattan to call our own. I can’t count the times I’ve been grazed by a bicycle slicing by me at five times my speed, forced into a game of chicken with a helmeted cyclist on the Brooklyn Bridge, been cut off by a rider ignoring a traffic light. It seems to me like something less than a fair fight: me, in my shorts and sneakers, versus someone in sleek designer tights, a helmet, and a steel vehicle going well above the speed limit. Recently, I started biking in the city for the first time, usually an eight-mile trek from home to work and back. I get the thrill; I tell people it makes me feel like a 10-year-old kid again. But let’s not be confused about where the responsibility lies here. I don’t know whether speed bumps or speed limits or some other kind of licensing is order. But I do know which of the two factions in this debate needs to do some serious soul-searching about how it moves around this crowded place. Kyle Pope Editor-in-Chief

office to solicit resident views from 60,000 households on dangerous intersections and other street improvements. I try to make my office available to residents through First Friday of the month meetings with me from

8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and Policy Night on the second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at my office on 244 E. 93rd St., monthly mobile district hours at Stanley Isaacs, Lenox Hill, Lexington Houses and Roosevelt Island Senior Association, meetings of community board 6, 8 and 11, community meetings of precincts 17, 19, and 23, monthly electronic and

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print newsletters, a monthly free legal clinic, numerous street fairs, and four monthly forums on transportation safety issues. You can always contact me by calling 212-860-1950, emailing bkallos@benkallos.com, tweeting @ BenKallos, liking /BenKallos or just dropping by our office. If you know of a dangerous intersection like Jean does, please report it to 311 and contact my

office or visit BenKallos.com/LivableStreets. We can always do better and strive to do so in order to tackle the issue of safer streets through our office and the community continuing to work together as one. Sincerely, Ben Kallos Council Member, District Five

THE POWER OF EAST SIDE CHURCHES

My wife and I look forward to reading Bette Dewing’s column in Our Town whenever it appears (which in our opinion is not often enough!). We don’t usually write to columnists, but after reading her Sept. 4th column “Even non-believers should save faith groups,” we felt she came right down to the heart and soul of the issues and we had to contact you. We agree that the churches in the community are more than just places of worship. They provide support for the needy, nourish the body and soul, and are a centerpiece/meeting place of community activity.

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If you are interested in continuing your story, I would be happy to introduce you to the pastor of St. Catherine’s of Sienna Church, which is located on 68th Street between First and York Avenues. St. Catherine’s is the center of activity for many non-denominational community services, including a cancer support group, Sutton Place AA group, etc. In addition to what you described in your article about the churches in our area, St. Catherine’s has a unique bond with the medical community and the East Side hospital campuses surrounding it. St. Catherine’s provides a place for families of pa-

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tients and hospital staff to reflect and pray, and is filled with parishioners and a staff who care. It has a special relationship with each of the hospitals in the neighborhood. Over 150 people visiting these hospitals pass thru the doors of St. Catherine’s on a daily basis, and many are non-Catholics. It is a column like the one you wrote that brings attention to what New Yorkers of any faith do well – care for their neighbors. I would be happy to help you continue to shed light on the special attributes hidden within these East Side churches. Sincerely, Ed Munshower

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A play date with the rich and famous

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giver approached me to request a play date because their child had taken a shining to mine. The pavement beneath my feet quaked from all the jaws dropping. The afternoon that we went to their ponderosa in the sky, I fully expected to hang out with the nanny while the kids played. I tried not to be dumbstruck or star struck when The Actress opened the door. She was gracious and very pleasant, complimented my child’s manners, asked what my husband did for a living, and how long we’d lived in the city. In contrast, I asked her nothing out of fear it would sound as though I was “digging.� Besides, I already knew everything about her, courtesy of the New York Post, E! Entertainment, and all the women’s fashion magazines. The next day some of the other mothers unsubtly swarmed around me asking what The Actress was like; what the apartment was like; what it was like, period. I resented being mistaken for a “Page Six� reporter. “You know,� I lied, “it was with the nanny and we met at the park.� They looked at each other like, “See, I knew it.� The band dispersed. Not long after that The Actress’ even more famous Actor husband moved the family west to begin work on a new project. I can’t say I was sad to see her go. Although the celebrity and her child were lovely, there’s just something about the proximity to fame that brings out the syncophant in ordinarily sane people, and makes everyday activities feel self-conscious. I decided that the sheer act of living in Manhattan was glamorous enough. Lorraine Duffy Merkl is the author of the novels “Back To Work She Goes� and “Fat Chick.�

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11 PARK GIVES LESSON ON WILD BATS Central Park, mid-park at 79th Street 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m., Free Ever wonder about the bats that live in Central Park? Come and learn about the mysterious

Central Park Paws is a program run by the Central Park Conservancy, and they are celebrating all of the dog owners and their beloved pets that spend time in the park. Central Park is hosting a “My Dog Loves Central Park Dog Fair.� The on-leash event has an itinerary of owner-pet games, trainer tips, picture taking, dog food sampling, dog makeovers, information presentations about keeping the park clean and much more. The event will take place rain or shine. 212-310-6600

12 SUNDAY TRIPLE HEADER Cosmos Tree, 177 East 87th Street betwn Lexington and Third Avenue 10:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. – 4 p.m., Free, $5 for the Study Group Join the Cosmos Tree for The Sunday Program for an opportunity to get together with your friends and family as a group. The three-part program begins with a one hour Meditation, followed by a special Tools For Living Free

group reading and discussion, and concludes with a study group. The program intends to teach attendees how to live in peace regardless of the outer situation. cosmostree.org

LIBRARY TOUR AT THE FRICK The Frick Museum, 1 East 70th Street betwn 5th and Madison Aves. 12 p.m. – 1 p.m., Free Join a tour of the Frick’s 13-story Art Reference Library, a French revival building holding one of the most extensive art research collections. Experience the features of an advanced building of the 1930s, with dumb-waiters and a Telautograph system. Ten attendants are taken on a ďŹ rst come, ďŹ rst served basis. frick.org

13 PUSHING BUTTONS EXHIBIT Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., members only Join the Museum of the City of New York for a look into the history of the past political activism in New York City. The gallery displays 350 years worth of historic change. Visitors create their own political button after walking through the gallery. 212-534-1672

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FLORAL DESIGN WORKSHOP 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue 7 p.m., $60 Keep your home dÊcor on par with the seasons at Olga Sahraoui’s oral design workshop. Sahraoui, founder and creative director of Jardin Majorele Flowers, helps students put together beautiful variations of owers, pumpkins and other dÊcor elements to display in the home. All owers and other materials are included in the workshop. 92y.org

14 PHD DISCUSSES TODDLER BEHAVIOR 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue 7 p.m., $35 At “Understanding Your Toddler,� the Child Mind Institute’s Matthew Cruger PhD will discuss normal intellectual, behavioral, social and emotional development in young children. 92y.org

FORMER BOSTON MAYOR SPEAKS AT HUNTER COLLEGE Roosevelt House, 47-49 East 65th Street, betwn Park and Madison Avenues 6 p.m. – 8 p.m., Free Thomas Menino will talk about his 20 years of service to Boston as the city’s mayor, giving people a ďŹ rst hand look at urban politics. The conversation is a chance to learn about the city’s Puritan’s beginning and it’s journey to becoming the city it is today. The talk is part of a

series called “The Creation of Blue and Red America.� 212-396-7919

15 ARCHITECT AND URBANIST SPEAKS AT MCNY Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street 6:30 p.m., $12-16 Jamie Lerner will speak about his innovative work in Brazil as the mayor of Curitiba, where he created a bus transit system, minimal ooding parks and safety zones for pedestrians. Lerner will also discuss “Urban Acupuncture,â€? his new book about initiatives to improve communities all over the world. New York City Department of Transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and fellow author and urbanist Roberta Brandes Gratz will also take part in the conversation. mcny.org, 212-534-1672

GUGGENHEIM PANEL DISCUSSES DESIGN COMPETITION Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Avenue 6 p.m. – 8 p.m., $10, Free for students Listen in on a conversation about the Guggenheim’s ďŹ rst open, international design competition to create a design layout for a Guggenheim museum set to open in Helsinki, Finland. The museum held the competition in June of this year and is gathering together to discuss topics resulting from the contest and the future of the art museum. The conversation will be moderated by Joel Sanders, Professor Adjunct at the Yale School of Architecture and include panelists such as the chief curator and director of architectural projects of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, an associate professor at Yale School of Architecture and the founder of the Studio Gang Architects. 212-423-3500

16 LIBRARY OFFERS HORROR DRAWING WORKSHOP 67th Street Library, 328 East 67th Street near First Ave. 4 p.m., Free Learn how to creep yourself out with the pages of your sketchbook. Comic book artist Ivan Velez will be at the New York Public Library drawing vampires, monsters and other ghoulish creatures with teens. Art materials will be provided. nypl.org

PLAY INTERTWINES ACTING AND PHOTOGRAPHY Marymount Manhattan 8 p.m. – 10:30 p.m., $5-10 Marymount Manhattan’s Theatre Production Workshop is presenting the unique play “Polaroid Stories� by Naomi Iizuka. The performance is a mixture of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and photos of homeless teenagers. Actors are students in the college’s Theatre Arts program. 212-774-0760

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CELEBRATING TWO LESSER-KNOWNS OF EXPRESSIONISM EXHIBITIONS The Jewish Museum celebrates their “synergy” with a new show BY VAL CASTRONOVO

This fall, the Jewish Museum casts a spotlight on Lee Krasner (1908-1984) and Norman Lewis (1909-1979), two lesser-known artists from the abstract expressionist period, in an exquisite show of some 40 works that runs until February 1, 2015. Titled “From the Margins: Lee Krasner/Norman Lewis, 1945-1952,” the exhibit aspires to highlight the artists’ exceptionalism in a movement dominated by white men. It has been only six years since the Jewish Museum mounted “Action/ Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976,” showcasing more than 30 of the period’s leading lights. But Krasner, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, and Lewis, the African-American son of immigrants from Bermuda, were represented in a section called “Blind Spots,” where her “Untitled” (1948) and his “Twilight Sounds” (1947) were displayed side by side. That pairing, with its “unanticipated synergy,” subsequently inspired the museum to delve more deeply into the lives and works of these neglected painters, whose biographies and artistic vocabularies bore some striking similarities. The result is the current comparative display of their early abstract work, which aims to give Krasner, who was married to Jackson Pollock but overshadowed by him, and Lewis, who was part of the avantgarde circle but overshadowed by the big names, the critical recognition they were denied at the time. Both were New Yorkers who were born a year apart. They began their careers in the 1930s with the Depression-era arts programs of the Works

Progress Administration (WPA). Krasner, who was born in Brooklyn, attended the Women’s Art School of Cooper Union, the Art Students League, and the National Academy of Design before she headed up a section of the mural division of the Federal Art Project of the WPA and embraced social realism. Lewis was born in Harlem and lived on Lenox Avenue near 132nd Street. He studied art in high school before befriending African-American sculptor Augusta Savage, founder of the Savage Studio of Arts and Crafts on West 143rd Street, and attending Columbia University. Like Krasner, he worked for the WPA’s Federal Art Project, becoming a teacher and adopting the style of the social realists. Both favored figurative painting at this time and were influenced by surrealism. By the 1940s, however, each had come under the sway of abstraction—think cubism and Picasso, expressionism and Kandinsky, and the geometric style of Mondrian. Krasner had experimented with abstraction under the tutelage of German émigré painter Hans Hofmann, studying at the renowned Hofmann School of Fine Arts in Greenwich Village. She even socialized with Mondrian when he was in New York, becoming his “occasional dancing partner,” the show’s catalog states. Lewis, for his part, was an admirer of modernist Vaclav Vytlacil, the influential teacher at the Art Students League who co-founded the American Abstract Artists group in the city to support the acceptance of non-objective art. The two developed personal approaches to abstraction while at the same time adopting its core principles. They eschewed strict representation and favored gestural brushwork and “all-over” pictures, paintings that covered the entire canvas and had no central focus. But, in a departure from the prevail-

ing aesthetic of the abstract expressionists, who painted outsized pictures, these modernists turned out smaller, more intimate works that integrated personal histories and experiences. Two series, Krasner’s “Little Images” and Lewis’s “Little Figures,” form the heart of the show and illustrate their distinct methods and preoccupations. The works are exhibited in tandem, playing off one another and continuing the “conversation” started several years before at the museum, when it seemed as if “the paintings of these two had a great deal to say to one another,” director Claudia Gould writes in the catalog. Krasner, who grew up in an Orthodox Jewish household, was fascinated by calligraphy and Hebrew script and painted from right to left in deference to her training. Her “Little Images” are dense grids, packed with geometric forms and small “calligraphic markings” and pictographs. With “Little Figures,” Lewis also pays homage to line and writing, but he invokes specific imagery based on his cultural experience—images that allude to Harlem streets, African textiles, and jazz—albeit barely discernible references in a thicket of long, sinuous lines. He was a master of linear abstraction. The use of line was a central element of both Krasner’s and Lewis’s innovative styles, as was their determination to imbue their art with personal significance. But major critics during abstract expressionism’s heyday failed to take their measure, no doubt blinded by Krasner’s gender and Lewis’s race. But that was then.

IF YOU GO “From the Margins: Lee Krasner/ Normal Lewis, 1945-1952” The Jewish Museum 1109 5th Ave. at 92nd St. Through February 2015

Lee Krasner, Untitled, 1948, oil on pressed wood. The Jewish Museum, New York Promised gift of Craig and Caryn Effron, P.1.2008. © 2014 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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The band pulls inspiration from classic punk bands like the Ramones as well as their own kids. Photo by Peter Wochniak

KIDS ROCK MUSIC Kid-friendly punk rockers The Boogers bring their silly brand of music to Symphony Space BY ADELLE BRODBECK

UPPER WEST SIDE The image of punk rock isn’t usually one of children grooving with their parents at 11 a.m. on a Saturday. But a kid-focused rock group, The Boogers, are here to make that absurdity a reality. With three albums already working their way around the toddler-sphere, Chicago natives The Boogers have a pretty good grasp on the kid-friendly music scene. Their 2008 debut album, “Road to Rock” was well received and paved the way for their next additions. “Let’s Go!”, the band’s sophomore set, which was marked as one of the top ten kid’s albums of 2011 by About.com. They also received praise from a man who knows The Boogers’ inspiration well, Ramones’ tour manager Monte Melnick. Lead guitarist and singer Paul Crowe introduced the idea for The Boogers after settling down as a parent after a 20year punk rocker career. Crowe explained that he could never find music that both rocked and was kid-friendly. “There are lots of kids bands out there that say they rock, but not to my standards, which to

be fair might be a little heavy,” said Crowe. Crowe began work on the first album mostly by himself and just for his own family, but quickly realised that he wanted to make a full fledged band. He recruited longtime friend Rich Reichert to drum, and found Dave Leffel to play on bass. Together they formed The Boogers. “We wanted a name that would be naughty, but not too naughty,” explained Crowe. Pulling from their Ramones influence, each bandmate has an aptly named stage presence. Crowe leads the band as Crusty Booger, Leffel as Greenie Booger and Reichert as Sticky Booger. “[The names] give us all a sense of solidarity,” said Crowe. Thinking that they were just punk enough but still good for kids, Crowe was surprised when he received some negative feedback regarding their booger related names. “Some people were offended, and I’m just thinking, ‘well then we’re not the band for you.’” The Boogers work to create original music as well as re-imagine some of their old favorites in order to keep their punk past, but translate it into a more innocent context. The songwriting process comes very organically according to Crowe. He said that he, and the other two bandmates who are also fathers, usually take inspiration from what is happening within their own family life. When rewriting the Ramones’ “Judy is a Punk”, Crowe said he changed some of the lyrics to reference his son’s favorite Thomas the Tank Engine episode. “We want to be able to give a nod to our roots, but still make it kid-friendly,” Crowe explained. With a PhD in developmental psychology, Crowe said that he

IF YOU GO As a part of Symphony Space’s Just Kidding series, The Boogers will be performing on Saturday, October 11th. Tickets are priced at $21 for adult non-members, $18 for adult members, non-member kid’s tickets are $14 while member kid tickets are $12. The show also offers a family 4-pack deal for $65 for any combination of member/ non-member adult/kid. The show is recommended for families with children ages 3 and up. Symphony Space is located at 2537 Broadway at 95th Street. is really able to appreciate how kid’s think and what they want. “No kid wants to listen to a song for longer than three minutes,” he said. “So all of our songs are about one to two minutes long. They want to dance for a bit and then move on the the next thing.” Crowe also said that punk is the perfect platform to teach kids important values. “Punk is all about thinking for yourself, doing things for yourself, and questioning authority,” he said. “Those are all things that I think are really healthy for kids.” However kid oriented The Boogers are, there is still plenty for adults to enjoy. “Punk really began in the 70s and 80s and a lot of those people who grew up listening to it are now parents,” said Crowe. The Boogers’ shows provide an opportunity for parents to share what they love with their children. “Getting to see kids stagedive into their parents arms, I mean what is more beautiful than that,” said Crowe.

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IN COLUMBIA APARTMENT BATTLE, IT’S THE LONG-TERM RENTERS WHO PAY INVESTIGATION How hidden cameras and housing court are used by one West Side landlord to force out rent-stabilized tenants BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS

Gloria Mejia’s son took a long look at the smoke detector in the hallway outside his apartment and knew something was amiss. Smoke detectors run on a battery, he told himself, so why does this one look like it’s plugged into the wall? He and his sister took the detector apart. Inside: a tiny camera, apparently installed by the family’s landlord. “The next day the landlord came with a picture of my sister’s face and said if the camera was damaged we’d have to pay to replace it,” he said. Mejia and her two kids live on W. 109 St. in a five-story apartment building between Broadway and Amsterdam. She’s lived in the building since 1968 and pays $664 for her three bedroom, rent-stabilized apartment. The building is owned by the Orbach Group, and is part of a portfolio of 23 buildings on the street that were acquired by the company in 2009 for $45 million. The properties are part of a larger portfolio of more than 70 buildings that Orbach has amassed in the past five years, all of which are located between West End Avenue and Central Park West from 101st Street to 115th Street. Orbach markets apartments in these buildings through a website called CoSo Apartments, targeted at students at nearby Columbia University. (CoSo stands for Columbia South.) Many of the existing tenants in the CoSo buildings are in rent-stabilized apartments, and many -- like the Mejias -- complain that Orbach is pressuring them to leave the units so they can be marketed to Columbia students at market rates. Mejia told The West Side Spirit that this summer, the landlord refused to renew her lease, and sent her a 30-day vacate notice in July. When she didn’t budge, the landlord used images from the hidden camera as the basis of an eviction suit that was launched against her in housing court. She often leaves the apartment to visit her elderly mother, who lives next door, and if the landlord could convince the court she wasn’t using her rent-stabilized apartment as a primary residence, Mejia could be evicted. She hired a lawyer for about $1,500 and the case was dropped, she said. A few weeks later a new lease arrived in the mail. Then in September a man dropped by the apartment and offered to pay her $75,000 to move out. She didn’t bite. “I’ve been living here in this building since 1968, I got married while I was living here, I raised my kids here, I’m not leaving,” said Mejia, 61. A months-long investigation by the Spirit has found that of the 1,450 apartment units Orbach has acquired since 2009, which are spread out over 73 buildings on the Upper West Side, 66

Gloria Mejia lives in a rent-stabilized apartment on West 109th Street and says that her landlord has been trying to oust her, claiming that the apartment is not her primary residence.

percent are rent stabilized. Thirty-two of the properties are entirely or almost entirely rent stabilized; of the 654 units in these 32 buildings, 578 are rent stabilized. All told, the Orbach Group has 958 rent stabilized units under its control, according to records with the Office of the City Register, Dept. of Finance and the Dept. of Housing Preservation and Development. Visitors to the CoSo Apartments website immediately see an interactive color-coded map of the Upper West Side and Columbia University, with icons denoting where each of Orbach’s 73 buildings are in relation to the campus. Clicking on a building icon will tell a visitor how far from Columbia University the building is using public transportation or walking. Luz Garcia pays $872 a month for her Orbachowned rent stabilized apartment at 120 West 109th Street. She’s lived in the apartment for 23 years and said recently she’s been approached with buyout offers after successfully fending off a non-primary residence suit brought by Orbach, which was dismissed in June. “I’ve had two calls from the negotiators trying to get me out of my apartment,” said Garcia. “They want me to give them a number and I said I’m not even considering it.” Negotiators came to her apartment when she wasn’t there, she said, and told her legally blind mother that Garcia owes $11,000 in back rent. Both Mejia and Garcia’s buildings are listed on the CoSo Apartments website but are shown as having “no availability at this time.”

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I’ve been living here in this building since 1968, I got married while I was living here, I raised my kids here, I’m not leaving.” Gloria Mejia, rent stabilized tenant on the Upper West Side

73 buildings bought between 2009-2014

1,448 apartments

The Orbach Group denied through a spokesperson that the company harasses its rent-stabilized tenants. The spokesperson also denied the CoSo Apartments website specifically caters to Columbia University students - despite its name, its logo that features an open book, its interactive map geared around the university, its brochure that touts the university’s history and CoSo’s shuttle service that runs through Columbia’s campus, and the website’s tagline that says, “Apartments at the heart of your education.” He likened the name “CoSo” to more of a moniker that denotes a specific neighborhood, similar to SoHo in Lower Manhattan, which stands for South of Houston Street. “Virtually every apartment is rented through third party brokers, not through the website,” said the spokesperson. “The brokers neither have special instructions about Columbia students, nor do they care as long as the tenant is qualified and can pay the rent.”

66 percent, or 958, are rent stabilized

32 buildings entirely or almost entirely rent stabilized, with 578 out of 654 units rent stabilized (88 percent) Columbia University did not respond to a request for comment about the CoSo Apartments. The Garcia case was brought, Orbach said, after she told an employee of the management company used by CoSo Apartments that she lives in Arizona for seven months out of the year. Garcia told the Spirit she left New York for a time due to a domestic violence situation, but always main-

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tained the unit as a primary residence. Orbach said Garcia’s case was dismissed purely on procedural grounds. A reading of the court’s decision said Garcia submitted “three affirmative defenses and a counterclaim,” and indicated the case was dismissed because Orbach could not ascertain and file in court papers where Garcia was living in Arizona. As for Mejia, Orbach said there’s still a question of which apartment she uses as her primary residence, and that by law she cannot claim two rent-stabilized units as her primary residence. Mejia told the Spirit her mother has lived in the building since 1968 and her apartment is rent controlled as well as rent stabilized, and that she secured her own rent-stabilized apartment in the building after living with her mother for some years. The spokesperson said he didn’t know how Mejia became a target for eviction proceedings in the first place, but that Orbach’s management style is “very hands on.” “When there’s reason to believe that a tenant is violating the law, then they’ll cause an investigation to be made, which can include the use of surveillance videos,” said the spokesperson when asked about the hidden camera facing Mejia’s door. “They have a pretty good sense of who comes and who goes and where people are living, and when their suspicions are aroused they conduct an investigation.” As for how suspicions are initially aroused and how these investigations are carried out, the spokesperson said, “there are various public databases, [Orbach] will interview the building staff, it’ll depend on what the circumstances of the particular case are. But in every instance before they go to court [Orbach] sends a tenant a notice that they have these concerns, and if the tenant isn’t able to satisfy them, then it’s up to the courts to sort it out.” As for the nine buildings on the CoSo website that are entirely rent stabilized, the spokesperson characterized them as an investment and said the annual turnover rate for rental housing in New York is around 10 percent. However, according to the most recent Housing and Vacancy Survey commissioned three years ago by the Dept. of Housing Preservation and Development, the city’s “vacancy rate for rent stabilized units as a whole was 2.63 in 2011.” That same report noted that the city has about 987,000 rent stabilized units, and that the overall citywide rental vacancy rate is less than five percent, which meets the legal definition of a housing emergency “as defined by New York State and City rent-regulation laws, requiring a continuation of both rent control and rent stabilization in the city.” The Orbach Group, which holds property in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, first garnered attention for alleged tenant harassment four years ago in a New York Times article about investors that acquire distressed properties. The article from August 2010 quotes a tenant activist at Housing Conservation Coor-

We’ve seen a pattern in these particular buildings of tenants being harassed, numerous eviction cases brought against rent stabilized tenants who have been living in their buildings for decades.” Marti Weithman, president of the Goddard Riverside SRO Law Project

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A screenshot from the CoSo Apartments website shows the buildings with available rental units, in blue. Buildings with all rent-stabilized tenants currently occupying the units are shown as “no availability at this time.” Weithman’s radar in 2009, soon after the compa ny acquired the 23 bu i ld ings on We s t 10 9 t h Street. Weithman is the president of the Goddard Riverside SRO Law Project, an organization that provides free legal support in housing court to lowincome tenants on Manhattan’s West Side. The organization represented Garcia in her eviction case that was dismissed. “As soon as t hey bou g ht the buildings on 109th Street, tenants started coming into our office about a ‘private investigator’ who was coming around, snooping into t he i r ap a r tThe video camera that tenants discovered hidden in a hallway smoke dectector in one ment s, mu sUpper West Side building with rent-stabilized units owned by the Orbach Group. cling his way into dinators as saying Orbach engages in vacancy their apartments, and trying to gather informadecontrol, a process whereby a landlord raises tion,” said Weithman. “That eventually become rent on a stabilized unit to the point where it ex- the basis for many [eviction cases].” its rent stabilization, and that the company is Weithman is referring to a man named Anpart of a wave of predatory investors that buy thony Falconite, who was the target of a cease buildings and seek to evict certain tenants at the and desist order this past summer from State expense of affordable housing. The Times article Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who said said city officials, including then-city council the ex-cop forces his way into rent stabilized speaker Christine Quinn, were “keeping an eye apartments to gather information and threaton Mr. Orbach’s buildings.” ens tenants with eviction through harassment The Orbach Group first arrived on Marti and intimidation.

That story broke in the Daily News, and Mejia said she recognized Falconite from pictures in the paper as the man who offered her $75,000 to vacate the apartment soon after Orbach renewed her lease. Falconite could not be reached for comment. “Falconite doesn’t work for the company and hasn’t for some time,” said the Orbach Group’s spokesperson. He later said in an email that Falconite actually worked for a management subcontractor used by CoSo Apartments, and that he left that company 18 months ago. As for why Orbach stopped employing Falconite, the spokesperson said, “They just agreed to part company.” The spokesperson maintained that Orbach and its CoSo Apartments subsidiary is a conscientious landlord to all of its tenants. “Orbach has cleared thousands of violations from the [CoSo portfolio]; crime in and around the buildings has dropped dramatically,” said the spokesperson. “Many, if not most, of the buildings have zero violations on them, and there has not been one adjudicated case of harassment.” But Weithman estimates since 2009 the SRO Law Project has been in contact with more than 200 rent-stabilized tenants that have alleged harassment at the hands of Orbach. “The harassment and deterioration of conditions that we hear about from long-term rent stabilized tenants living in buildings owned by Orbach are common tactics of predatory equity investors,” said Weithman. “Predatory investors purchase building portfolios with a business plan to evict rent stabilized tenants and use vacancy decontrol to remove the units from rent regulation.” Weithman said for every tenant experiencing harassment that reaches out to her organization and others like it, there are those who lack the knowledge or wherewithal to tap into resources designed to help them stay in their homes. These people, she said, simply take buyouts or succumb to other forms of pressure to leave their rent stabilized apartments. “We do our best to do outreach in the buildings so that tenants not only know what their rights are but know that our office is here to help them and assist them with their housing issues,” said Weithman. “But throughout the city, people fall through the cracks.”

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Food & Drink

< MICHELIN GUIDE KNOCKS DANIEL DOWN TO TWO STARS The Michelin Guide’s latest roster of top New York City restaurants says Brooklyn and Queens are hot, but Daniel Boulud has lost a little sizzle. For the past three years, the same seven restaurants have held a virtual lock on the organization’s coveted three-star rating: Daniel,

In Brief NEW TAPAS SPOT ON U.E.S. Tapas restaurant Boqueria is putting a Spanish twist on breakfast. In its new uptown location, the restaurant will serve breakfast and add a few new dinner items as well as a market menu, according to Eater. The new restaurant at 1460 Second Avenue, between 76th and 77th streets, is the third Boqueria, with two others location in Flatiron and Soho. Menu staples include gambas al ajilo, shrimp, garlic and Guidilla pepper and roasted eggplant with egg, red onions, pine nuts and peppers.

Per Se, Masa, Le Bernardin, Eleven Madison Park, Jean Georges and Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare. But this year, only six maintained the honor for the guide’s 10th edition. Daniel, Boulud’s flagship Upper East Side restaurant, was bumped down to two stars. “We are, of course, disappointed to not re-

ceive three stars from Michelin, but two stars is still an honor,” Boulud said via email. “Our team at Restaurant Daniel is committed to excellence, and we look forward to seeing Michelin again in 2015!” Despite the rise of Brooklyn in food circles and Michelin stars, Manhattan remains the hub of the highest-rated eateries in the city, albeit with one less, now that Daniel is off that elite list.

JAPANESE CASUAL DINING SPOT MOVES UPTOWN TO 86TH STREET DINING What happens when a firefighter, a chef from Le Cirque, and a cook from Mexico City open a new restaurant? BY MAXINE DOVERE

Kobeyaki, a casual-dining Japanese restaurant with outposts in Chelsea and Midtown West, has opened on E. 86th St. on the Upper East Side. The restaurant, at 215 E. 86th St. off of Third Avenue, is the work of three partners, who bring a breadth of experience to the neighborhood.There’s Brian Kelly, a 17-year veteran of the New York City Fire Department, Brian Konopka, a nice Polish boy from Greenpoint, who spent more than a decade at Le Cirque, and Salvador Barrera, the chef from Mexico City who learned to cook Japanese in L.A. and Japan. “We started about three years ago with a really great concept,” Kelly said. “We want this to be a national chain. We plan to have hundreds!” After leaving the world of upscale restaurants, Konopka worked as a restaurant consultant. “I discovered I love Japanese food,” he said. “It feels healthy. The energy of the food comes from lean protein and fresh vegetables. The flavors - ginger, soy, wasabi - are really pungent, and the foods don’t pack so many calories. lt’s lots of lavor without all the guilt.” Barrera brings a bit of romance to his kitchen. “This is a dream that I had years ago - to one day, become a restaurant owner and, here we are, in our third store,” he said. How had he chosen Japanese cuisine as his specialty? “I got trained in L. A., working side by side with Japanese chefs, and in 2006, visited Japan for more culinary experience. Brian (Konopka) and I worked together, and he introduced me to Brian Kelly. Together, we had this dream.” Kobeyaki’s main dishes include rolls - cooked, raw or broiled; assorted “bowls” - meats or vegetables on a base of rice, salad or noodles; soups, and assorted burgers and buns. Meals range in price from about nine to ten dollars. Sides or deserts add another three to four dollars to the bill. In addition to soft drinks, beer, wine or sake are available. The setting is a serve yourself, buzzer alert, causal dinning atmosphere, yet without much clatter or noise. There are no private party rooms at Kobeyaki, but off-site catering is available.

SWIM-UP BAR SLATED FOR SPA CASTLE Spa Castle is giving New Yorkers on the Upper East Side the ultimate relaxing dining experience. A swimup bar will be built on 115 East 57th Street location. Eater reports guests won’t even have to leave the pool for a drink, as the bar will be built directly inside the pool. This is unlike the current bar in Queens, where cocktails are banned by the pool area. In addition to alcoholic beverages, the venue will have a Starbucks and serve food such as acai bowls and bento boxes.

AUGUST MOVING TO LEXINGTON AVENUE Fans of the beloved August of the West Village need not fret about the restaurant’s closing after 10 years. Eater reports the restaurant will be opening at 791 Lexington Avenue sometime this autumn. The opening will bring a new vibe to the restaurant without completely obliterating its previous identity. Some of the menu items will stay the same, like the roast chicken with green bean salad and tarte flambe, while new ones will be added, according to Eater. Salvador Barrera, the chef at Kobeyaki, originally from Mexico City. Photo by Maxine Dovere

The restaurant is located a 215 East 86th Street; 212 860 2300; or online at www.kobeyaki.com

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Business

HILTON SELLING WALDORF ASTORIA NEW YORK FOR $1.95B Hilton Worldwide is selling the Waldorf Astoria New York to Chinese insurance company Anbang Insurance Group Co. for $1.95 billion. Hilton will continue to manage the storied hotel for the next 100 years as part of an agreement with Anbang. In March 1893, millionaire William Waldorf

In Brief PARENTS SENDING KIDS OUT OF CITY FOR PRIVATE SCHOOL Manhattan parents are grappling over deciding where to send their children to elementary school. Though they are willing to pay high tuition prices - roughly $47,000 a year - Manhattan private schools have proven inaccessible due to highly competitive admissions and city traffic, making children’s commute long and arduous. According to Crain’s, parents are beginning to send their children to private schools in surrounding suburbs, schools that boast similar college admission success and acres of land for student sports. Amanda Uhry of admissions counseling group Manhattan Private School Admissions told Crain’s that 25 percent of her 1,500 clients are applying to suburban schools when only 5 percent did five years ago.

IDENTITY THEFT RING BOUGHT LUXE SHOES, BAGS AT SAKS Prosecutors say an identity theft and fraud ring used shoppers’ stolen information to buy over $400,000 worth of designer shoes, handbags and accessories from Saks Fifth Avenue’s flagship store. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announced the case Monday. At least eight people are being charged. Vance says the ringleader obtained Social Security numbers and other personal information for over 20 Saks credit card holders. Prosecutors say the information was provided to four salespeople, who’d use it to look up account numbers and ring up the fraudulent sales of Chanel, Valentino and other designer items. Then other accomplices would allegedly pick up the items, posing as the shoppers. Prosecutors say some items were sold on the black market. Prosecutors credit Saks with initiating the investigation.

Astor opened the 13-story Waldorf Hotel. The Astoria Hotel opened four years later. The Waldorf Astoria New York, on Park Avenue, opened in 1931, according to the company’s website. At the time it was the largest hotel in the world. The hotel became an official New York City landmark in 1993.

Hilton Worldwide plans to use proceeds from the hotel’s sale to buy additional hotel assets in the U.S. Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. was taken private in 2007 by private equity firm Blackstone Group LP. The hotel chain returned to public stock markets in December 2013.

READERS RESPOND TO SAVING SMALL BUSINESS EFFORT SAVING SMALL BUSINESS Last week, we published a list of closed momand-pop shops in your neighborhood Saving Small Business has been a topic of many stories in these pages as well as a rallying cry from our editors. Last week, we published an editorial urging city officials and landlords to address the crisis facing small businesses in Manhattan (“Special Report: Our Neighborhood in Crisis”). We also held a forum to discuss the issue with business leaders, politicians and small business owners. Below, readers respond to the call for action, and address some salient points in the ongoing struggle to keep independent stores afloat.

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF, AGAIN BY IAN ALTERMAN

To The Editor: Kudos to you for your ongoing coverage of the loss of small businesses, and your recent seminar thereon. I was unable to attend, but I want to comment on a couple of points, and bring up one that has not been mentioned. You say, “It began as a drip of closings a few years ago.” Actually, the issue has been with us for well over two decades. In fact, for many years in the ‘90s and ‘00s, I did an annual survey of empty storefronts on Broadway, Amsterdam and Columbus between 72nd and 86th Streets. My letters “reporting” these surveys were published regularly by this newspaper. So while it is true that it became worse after the 2008 recession, it is not a new phenomenon. As well, while it is true that many, if not most of the empty spaces are eventually taken by “big box” stores and banks, what is unmentioned is that these storefronts often lie empty for years before being re-rented. Thus, landlords are forcing out small businesses that could have stayed and paid rent until a new ten-

ant was found. Instead, landlords are depriving themselves of rent they could have been collecting. In an article in this newspaper some years ago, Upper West Side commercial real estate broker Rafe Evans called this behavior “illogical...irrational... self-defeating.” I would add mean-spirited, since landlords could keep current tenants for longer. One point not brought up yet is that this issue followed very closely the (over)development of “luxury” housing (co-ops and condos) of the 1980s and 1990s, and the influx of a higher socio-economic class – which has not only continued, but has reached fever pitch, as apartments and townhouses now regularly sell in the millions and even tens of millions of dollars. I believe that this influx of comparatively wealthy residents led inexorably to the loss of small businesses and the rise of the “big box” stores and banks. This is because the majority of these people are not community-minded: they want the convenience of a “one-stop shop” like Duane Reade or CVS (particularly now that they have large “grocery” and prepared food sections), and a bank within striking distance. They simply don’t care about “local business” (except those they must use, like dry cleaners and locksmiths) because they would have to go to multiple stores to get what they need, and might have to pay a few pennies more for those items. (Indeed, ask the president of any block association, neighborhood association or other organization that has been involved in community activism and they will almost undoubtedly agree with my assessment here.) Add to this that even many long-time residents have come to appreciate the “convenience” of one-stop shopping, closer banks, etc., and it becomes only natural that landlords would provide the kinds of merchants that residents seem to prefer. Without being hopelessly pessimistic, I am not sanguine that we will ever “fix” this problem. This is because, while landlords almost certainly bear the greatest responsibility here, the issue is ultimately about behavior: since we cannot control the behavior of consumers (whether the new wealthier class or the long-time residents), if we cannot get them to understand the value of local businesses – even if it takes a little more time to shop and costs a few more pennies – then landlords

actually have little or no incentive not to bring in “one-stop shops,” banks and “big box” retailers.

CONSUMERS GET HIT BY ROBERT LANDAU

A good and necessary article, I would like to add that many businesses that have remained open through the years, have done so by raising prices (I am thinking particularly of the several “Greek” diners, particularly the one on 75th street and Broadway), probably because they signed a second lease. This rent increase is, of course, immediately passed on to consumers like myself; it used to be one could enjoy a sandwich in one of those diners and a cup of coffee and still leave having spent around $6.00. Now just a sandwich by itself, tax and tip is close to $9.00. Birdbath, a newly opened food store on Broadway and 80th street just charged me $3.80 for one chocolate chip cookie. Of course they are a new business and are probably paying a high rent, thus the cost gets passed along to us. What can be done? Most New Yorkers, while not apathetic, simply shrug their shoulders and think “what can I do?” and just continue dealing with these changes. Our representatives understand that the real estate lobby is a strong one, and don’t want to confront it. Until the politicians really experience outrage from their constituents, it will be hard to get them to act. What would be great would be if a group could be formed truly devoted to effecting some commercial rent control changes in favor of the consumer. What we need are petitions, flyers around the Upper West Side, anything to make most of our neighborhood citizens aware that change is possible. And done in a very strong way. But is this possible; can such a group be formed? Hopefully, yes, the more this issue is brought to the attentions of every day citizens, the greater hope for change.

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Corcoran

45 E 89 St.

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1

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Town Residential

Carnegie Hill

120 E 90 St.

$527,000

0

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Coldwell Banker Bellmarc

Carnegie Hill

1185 PARK Ave.

$2,800,000

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Douglas Elliman

Carnegie Hill

1220 PARK Ave.

$4,395,000

2

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Corcoran

Carnegie Hill

120 E 87 St.

$2,220,000

Carnegie Hill

1261 MADISON Ave.

$3,140,000

4

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Stribling

Carnegie Hill

1111 PARK Ave.

$72,652

Carnegie Hill

181 E 93 St.

$471,793

1

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Cohen Smith Chang LLC

Carnegie Hill

55 E 87 St.

$900,000

1

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G. Laurie Cooper

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40 E 94 St.

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Lenox Hill

233 E 69 St.

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2

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230 E 71 St.

$449,000

1

1

Brown Harris Stevens

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440 E 62 St.

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3

2

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Lenox Hill

401 E 65 St.

$689,000

1

1

Akam Sales and Brokerage

Lenox Hill

795 5 Ave.

$3,000,000

Lenox Hill

440 E 62 St.

$630,000

1

1

Coldwell Banker Bellmarc

Lenox Hill

1175 YORK Ave.

$1,880,000

3

3

Douglas Elliman

Lenox Hill

164 E 72 St.

$5,300,000

3

4

Stribling

Lenox Hill

200 E 66th St.

$3,225,000

2

2

Halstead Property

Lenox Hill

875 5 Ave.

$1,240,000

1

1

Brown Harris Stevens

Lenox Hill

440 E 62 St.

$50,000

Lenox Hill

188 E 64 St.

$900,000

1

1

Peter*Ashe

Lenox Hill

301 E 62 St.

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1

1

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Lenox Hill

228 E 62 St.

$7,200,000

4

5

Brown Harris Stevens

Lenox Hill

130 E 63 St.

$1,840,000

2

2

Douglas Elliman

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245 E 54 St.

$610,000

1

1

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Midtown E

220 E 54 St.

$400,000

0

1

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Midtown E

240 E 55 St.

$530,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

Murray Hill

300 E 40 St.

$701,500

1

1

Real Direct

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117 E 37 St.

$395,000

Murray Hill

330 E 38 St.

$1,995,000

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Murray Hill

144 E 36 St.

$845,000

1

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325 E 41 St.

$725,000

2

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Murray Hill

415 E 37 St.

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QUANTIFYING THE ‘ANGELINA JOLIE EFFECT’ HEALTH Actress’ impact on genetic testing for breast, ovarian cancer is ‘global and long lasting’ BY MARY ENGEL

Angelina Jolie disclosed in a May 2013 op-ed in The New York Times that she had undergone a preventive double mastectomy after finding that she carries the rare BRCA1 gene mutation, which dramatically raises her risk of breast and ovarian cancers. The so-called Angelina Jolie effect not only is real but has been “global and long lasting,” leading to a twofold increase in the number of women getting genetic testing to help determine their risk for hereditary breast cancer, according to new studies from the United Kingdom and Canada. The number of women found to have a genetic mutation that increased their risk also has doubled. And contrary to concerns that women at low risk for hereditary breast cancer would flood testing centers, researchers said that those being tested are women like Jolie who have a family history of breast cancer or who have personal risk factors such as ethnicity. Certain ethnic groups, including Ashkenazi Jews, have a higher prevalence of BCRA mutations, which significantly increase breast cancer risk.

out the information and medical experts who can help you … make your own informed choices.” An uptick in people seeking health services after a celebrity awareness campaign is not unusual, and doctors and genetic counselors in the United States and elsewhere spoke of seeing a greater interest in genetic counseling immediately following Jolie’s much-publicized announcement. But the two studies are the first to confirm and measure the effect as well as how long it has lasted. “Having women with strong family histories seeking counseling and education and in many cases, surgery, based on having the role modeling of Angelina Jolie can be very helpful,” said Dr. Robyn Andersen, a member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s Public Health Sciences Division whose work focuses on ovarian cancer. “A lot of people thought that once genetic counseling and testing were viable, the major-

Some may be doing the right things for breast cancer, but the other thing they can learn at counseling is their ovarian cancer risk.” Dr. Robyn Andersen, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Women got the correct message “What surprised us was that we didn’t get the worried well,” said Dr. Andrea Eisen, head of preventive oncology for breast cancer care at the Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre in Toronto and an author of the Canadian study, in a phone interview. “We got women who got the correct message. That was gratifying.” Jolie has an extensive family history of both cancers. She lost her mother to ovarian cancer and an aunt to breast cancer. Jolie urged other women — especially those with fa m i ly or personal risk factors — to “seek

ity of the high-risk population would seek that counseling. But it’s been over 10 years, and a substantial majority of them have not sought genetic counseling.”

Genetic testing increased Two recent studies found that in the six months following Jolie’s revelation, twice as many people were tested for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in Toronto and the United Kingdom. The increased numbers of high-risk women being tested signaled that, before Jolie’s announcement, many people must have been either unaware of the relevance of their family history or hiding concerns, the researchers wrote. Even if they don’t seek genetic counseling, many women with a family history of breast cancer realize they are at risk and take steps to protect themselves by getting regular mammograms, said the Hutch’s Andersen, who was not involved in either study. But what they don’t realize is that genetic counseling would also be able to tell them their risk of ovarian cancer, which is much harder to detect. “Some may be doing the right things for breast cancer, but the other thing they can learn at counseling is their ovarian cancer risk,” she said. A woman could discuss with a genetic counselor steps that could be taken to reduce that risk, such as including long-term use of contraceptives, certain blood screenings or ultrasound, or surgical removal of the fallopian tubes or ovaries. In her New York Times op-ed, Jolie hinted that she may have future surgery to remove her ovaries. Although no published studies have quanti-

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REMEMBERING LONGTIME MANHATTANITE HOWARD WESLEY ENNES, JR. oward Wesley Ennes Jr. was born in Asheville, North Carolina on July 10, 1917 and died on September 22, 2014 at his home in Fort Bragg, surrounded by family. He was 97 years old. Howard is survived by his four children: Judy Ennes of Brooklyn, NY; Jokhanah Ennes of Seattle, WA; Linda Pack of Fort Bragg, CA; Michael Ennes of Riverdale, NY; four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Howard Ennes was a lifelong fighter for justice and public health, focusing on social action and the sharing of information. As a young man in Washington D.C., he became active in the American Youth Congress where he met Eleanor Roosevelt who was an inspiration throughout his life. In 1942, while attending George Washington University, Howard met and married his first wife, Sylvia Bahar, who died at the end of 1965. After college Howard joined the U.S. Public Health Service. During World War II he served in the Navy Medical Department and worked in VD prevention for servicemen. After the war he obtained a Master of Public Health from Yale University, and served as Director of Health Education in Buffalo, New York and also as Executive Editor of Public Health Reports for the Surgeon General’s office. The family moved to the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 1953 where Howard set up the Bureau of Health Education at the Equitable Life Assurance Society. In 1969, Howard became a Vice-President with oversight of corporate social responsibilities and health and community service for the Equitable. Howard was involved with both national and international organizations focused on Health Education. He was a Distinguished Fellow and President of the Society for Public Health Education and served as President of the International Union for Health Education from 1962 to 1965, during which time he presided at the 5th International Conference on Health

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and Education in Madrid. In 1969 Howard married Marion Dusoir and in 1977 he retired from the Equitable. They moved to Columbia County, NY and became involved in that community. Howard served as editor of Marion’s weekly nature newspaper column. After Marion’s death in 2002, Howard assembled and published an illustrated collection of the columns titled Nature’s Way. Howard and Marion moved to Fort Bragg, California in 1996 and became active in the Alliance for Democracy and Occupy Mendocino. He was celebrated as a “Local

Peacemaker” in 2007, and his 95th birthday was celebrated as a fund-raiser for the Redwood Coast Senior Center. He continued to support Occupy Mendocino and other progressive efforts and arts organizations on the Mendocino Coast until his health limited his ability to participate. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday December 7th at the Redwood Coast Senior Center. In lieu of flowers, please follow Howard’s example and generously donate to support the local health, human rights and arts organizations of your community.

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LAUGHING WITH THE SHE-DEVILS COMEDY An all-female comedy festival hits Manhattan clubs this month BY NICOLE DEL MAURO

Jani Tillery has been practicing law for seven years. But the 38-year-old lawyer would rather people came to see her when they needed a good laugh over legal advice. She attended comedy classes and open mic nights this year dreaming to someday take the stage professionally. Knowing exposure was the next step, she applied to perform at the She-Devil Comedy Festival, a female comedy competition throughout Manhattan entertainment hubs like Broadway Comedy Club, Greenwich Village Comedy Club and The West End. Steve Hofstetter, the festival’s co-creator and executive producer and host of FOX’s stand up show “Laughs,” had women like Tillary in mind when he started the event. “One of the things we wanted to do was honor

and expose women who were in the comedy world and give them an opportunity,” Hofstetter said. Competitors’ exposure to the industry sets SheDevil apart from similar festivals. All of the show’s judges are members of the comedy industry, which can prove life changing for contestants. “Three bookers from Letterman were at the final our first year when Carmen Lynch won and three months later she was on Letterman,” Hofstetter said. Employees of HBO, FOX, MTV, journalists and owners of comedy clubs throughout the country make up the judging panel. Hofstetter himself can be deemed a morethan-worthy judge of comedic talent. His comedy YouTube channel has over 21 million views, he’s released five comedy albums and written comedy columns for SportsIllustrated.com and the New York Times, making him a type of comedy connoisseur. A few years ago, when he owned comedy club Laughing Devil in Long Island City, Hofstetter ran a weekly, all-female show called She Devils and watched it become the venue’s most popular set.

The obvious market for female comedy inspired the festival. But working as a comedian taught Hofstetter that the idea that woman aren’t as funny as men was commonly held in the world of comedy. “I have seen many shows where bookers will often do one of two things with female comics, both of which are detrimental,” Hofstetter said. “One is not book someone because they think women aren’t funny. And the other is booking someone just because they’re female, even if they’re not ready yet.” The latter, Hofstetter said, puts unprepared female comedians on stage that are not yet ready to perform well, which perpetuates the stigma. Tillary said audience and bookers’ negative perception of female comics was obvious at her performances. Often, she is a show’s sole female performer. “There’s always this vibe. Everyone kind of looks at you like ‘what are you going to bring to the table?” Tillary said. After sending in 5-minute videos of material, hundreds of competitors are judged by comedy

industry pros and 60 are chosen to compete. Comedians perform sets ranging from four to 10 minutes in four rounds from Oct. 22 to the 26. Many of the contestants learn about SheDevil by being members of Comedy Soapbox, Hofstetter’s resource website for comedians with 12,000 members. His role in the national comedy club scene spreads the word as well. Hofstetter is part of a group of seven known as Comedy LLC that owns Louisville’s Laughing Derby, Mory’s Comedy Joint in Indianapolis and Wiley’s Comedy Niteclub in Ohio. The festival’s third year will be its last in New York and it will take up a new home in Dayton, Ohio next year. Touring the country to scout stand-up talent with his show “Laughs,” Hofstetter said he realized the majority of female comedians are concentrated in New York and LA. “We thought, we’ve got this female comedy festival, why don’t we use it to encourage female comedians from other places and create a better scene for them in other places,” Hofstetter said.

IF YOU GO She-Devil Comedy Festival October 22-26, various locations Visit www.nextroundinc.com/shedevilfestival for information on shows and to buy tickets.

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YOUR FIFTEEN MINUTES Left: Participants at last year’s festival sample wine at one of the events. Below: Lee Brian Schrager is the founder of the Food Network’s NYC Wine and Food Festival. Photo credit: Melanie Dunea

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Founder of the Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival dishes on the event

You started the festival in South Beach. How did you adapt it to New York?

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A pizza and meatball party with Jon Bon Jovi and Adam Richman is happening on the roof of Pier 92. This is just one of the over 100 events taking place at the Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival that runs from October 16-19. A who’s who of celebrity chefs will be working to satisfy every palette with diverse delectable celebrations from a Hot Dog Happy Hour to a Greenmarket Brunch. Lee Brian Schrager started the festival in Miami and decided to bring the concept to Manhattan in 2007. What was originally a one-day feast quickly transformed into a four-day extravaganza. As a member of the Board of Directors of the Food Bank For New York City, Schrager makes certain that all

When I started South Beach 14 years ago, it wasn’t a food destination like it is today, so we had to bring in chefs from all over the world. The difference is, when I started New York seven years ago, it already had all these great chefs. There’s probably not one Michelin-starred chef not participating in the festival. I mean it’s their hometown and, more importantly, we raise money for hunger, and chefs love to support hunger causes.

So most celebrity chefs participate in the festival? Every one of them. I don’t know a chef in the city not participating in the festival. There are millions of chefs in the city, but I’m talking about restaurants that are more pop culture. It’s Thomas Keller’s birthday weekend, so he’s probably not participating. Jean-Georges, Alain Ducasse, Cesare

Casella. I think in New York alone, over 200 chefs.

What events are you looking forward to this year? I’m looking forward to the pizza event [Ronzoni’s La Sagra Slices] Adam Richman and Jon Bon Jovi are hosting. [Bon Jovi’s father started a new line of Bongiovi Brand Pasta Sauces]. I’m also looking forward to the Meatopia event, a carnivore ball.

What exactly is Meatopia? I think there are over 35 chefs grilling. A lot of them are doing whole animals.

When I Googled your name, a lot came up about your fried chicken book. Well the book, “Fried & True,” is very popular. It came out in May. I’m working on a third book now called “Breakfast in America,” about the ultimate breakfasts across the country.

Where are your favorite places to eat fried chicken here? I like Charles Gabriel [Charles’ Coun-

try Pan Fried Chicken] up in Harlem. I like Red Rooster, and Sylvia’s in Harlem. Hill Country Chicken is one of my favorites too.

What made you want to start writing? I guess I like to be challenged and step out of my comfort zone. It keeps me current.

You went to the Culinary Institute. Did you work as a chef? Sure, I worked for a caterer in New York City called Glorious Food. I also worked at Tavern on the Green and The Four Seasons.

How often do you eat out in the city? What are your favorite restaurants? I would say that I eat out six nights a week. So I’m out to dinner over 20 nights a month. I love Marea. I like Porter House in Time Warner, Michael Lomonaco’s restaurant. I love Italian food, so a regular for us is right across from our apartment, Salumeria Rossi. I’m a big fan of anything from Keith McNally, so I love Minetta Tavern and his new restaurant, Cherche Midi.

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