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PUBLIC SAFETY New Yorkers of a certain age grill DOT, bicycling advocates, on street safety BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS

Seniors from all over the city gathered last week at the JASA Club on West 76th Street for a lively -- and sometimes frustrated –- discussion about the fraught relationship they have with bicyclists while navigating city streets on foot. JASA, a senior center on the Upper West Side, organized the forum in conjunction with Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal, who sat on a panel with two representatives from Transportation Alternatives, an administrator at Riverside Park, a traffic safety officer from the 20th Precinct, and the Department of Transportation’s Manhattan Borough Commissioner Margaret Forgione. Tra n spor tat ion A lter nat ives brought along a volunteer named Gene Aronowitz, 77-years-old and an avid bicyclist, who said he could relate to both sides of the debate. Aronowitz said there have been 200 traffic fatalities so far this year, 100 of which were pedestrians; 17 cyclists were killed, he said. Although he said he recognizes that enforcement is necessary on dangerous bicyclists, he said that cars are the bigger issue, citing just two pedestrian fatalities from bicyclists compared to 98 from cars. “The probability that I will get killed on the streets from a bicyclist is inﬁnitesimal,” said Aronowitz. “It’s the cars that we have to look out for.” While that may be true, seniors at the meeting said they’re not just worried about dying in a collision with a bicyclist. They’re tired of the heartstopping near misses and watching bicyclists ﬂout the law with impunity, to say nothing of serious injuries that occur when a collision does happen.

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In Brief SEAWRIGHT ENDORSED BY POLITICAL CLUBS, FORMER OPPONENTS Democratic candidate for state assembly Rebecca Seawright announced the endorsements of all three Upper East Side Democratic Clubs, as well as those of her former primary opponents. East Side Democratic Club, Four Freedoms Democratic Club and Lenox Hill Democratic Club all joined to endorse Seawright in the race against Republican challenger David Garland. Primary candidates Gus Christensen, David Menegon and Edward Hartzog also endorsed Seawright.

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EDITOR’S NOTE Meet the people who make living in New York a little bit easier. This year’s list of Building Service Workers awardees -- the eighth such collaboration between our newspapers and 32BJ SEIU -- celebrates people who are usually happy living under the radar. They include the building super who grew up in the neighborhood in which he now works; the porter who alerted residents to a ﬁre in the building; the school cleaner who has become a mentor for his kids. These awards give us an opportunity to say thank you, both individually to this year’s winners and collectively to the thousands of other service workers who are equally as deserving. Straus Media-Manhattan, the publisher of Our Town, The West Side Spirit and Our Town Downtown, is proud to partner with 32BJ in presenting this list. Special thanks to Hector Figueroa, president and Elaine Kim at 32BJ for their collaboration on this project. Thanks also to all of our sponsors listed in these pages, and to Mary Newman, Morgan Keller and Nicole Wynn at Straus Media. We at Straus are proud to be part of this effort, and proud to bring this new selection of neighborhood heroes to your attention. Jeanne Straus, president of Straus News Kyle Pope, Editor-in-Chief

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About to take off. Avi, one of the pilots, prepares the Knight Vapor for a ﬂight in the moonlight.

NEWS A hearty band of hobbyists flies drones on the Upper East Side BY MAXINE DOVERE

UPPER EAST SIDE The planes carry no passengers. Cargo any heavier than a battery would overload them and knock them out of the sky. Still, ﬂy they do, buzzing windows along East End Avenue. Flyers gather informally, arriving

at the street side plaza, one by one. They are New Yorkers whose day jobs are in high tech or real estate or some of the other things Upper East Siders do. The Flyboys of 86th Street experience the thrill of flying via remote control, all operated through a single double A battery that lasts about 15 minutes, and always above Carl Schurz Park. “They can reach up to 450 feet,” one flyer said. A round orb floating above a slightly clouded sky cast a soft glow. The remote-controlled, ultra light mod-

el plane ascended into the moonlight. The planes have barely any weight and are made of plastic ﬁlm stretched over a hardwire frame. They are powered by a miniature motor and carry the tiniest landing gear imaginable. Some have sparkling, colored LED lights; the unlighted models are somewhat more stealthy. Only the sound of their tiny propeller alerts to their presence that a flying vehicle is skyward.

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Join us in celebrating the best doormen, supers, office cleaners and other service workers in the neighborhood. For the eighth year in a row, this newspaper has partnered with 32BJ SEIU to present the Building Service Workers Awards, honoring the standouts in their jobs. A special section proﬁling the winners appears inside this week’s paper. Jewish women and girls light up the world by lighting the Shabbat candle every Friday evening 18 minutes before sunset. Friday October 24 - 5:45 pm For more information visit www.chabaduppereastside.com.

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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS CHECK August. Court disputes arose between the restaurant and the building’s landlord over expensive repairs. Though it has been previously rumored that Cucina will return to the Upper East Side space, Monte Carlo’s opening conﬁrms it will not. Eater NY

SWEDISH MODEL DIES AFTER BIKE ACCIDENT A Swedish model who was bicycling in New York City was struck by a bus and hospitalized in critical condition before she died last week. Her family removed her from life support after she was declared brain dead. Friend Timothy Phillips says 29-year-old Anna Maria Mostrom was struck last Wednesday while riding to her home on Roosevelt Island, in the East River between Manhattan and Queens. Police say the bus driver remained at the scene and has not been charged. The Daily News says Mostrom was a contestant on the Scandinavian version of “Top Model” in 2005. Mostrom moved to New York about two years ago. She had been working to transition from modeling to other creative endeavors. AP

U.E.S. MAN CONVICTED OF MURDERING ROOMMATE A man living in an East 62nd St. apartment was convicted

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Swedish model Anna Maria Mostrom died after she was hit by a car while bicyling on the East Side.

of second degree murder after beating his roommate to death. A jury found Shaun Dyer, 49, guilty of killing David Shahda, 47, with a pipe three years ago. A city Marshall found Shahda’s body in the apartment after the murder during a visit to the apartment to evict Dyer from the apartment. When the Marshall discovered the body, Dyer was not in the apartment and later claimed he was ignorant to the crime and told police he had been at his

methadone clinic at the time of the crime. New York Observer

NEW RESTAURANT FOR FORMER CUCINA SPOT A new French restaurant called Monte Carlo will open on the Upper East Side in a space that has a landlord controversy in its past. It is moving into what used to be the home of Stratis Morfogen’s Italian Cucina Ciano in 2013 until it closed this past IONA.EDU/STRAUS

A hazmat crew arrived at an Upper East Side condo building on Thursday October 16th in response to a possible ebola case, according to the New York Daily News. Paramedics dressed in protective gear arrived at Park Avenue condo near East 61st St around 2:30 p.m. and transported two people who were experiencing cardiac distress and trouble breathing. An FDNY spokesman said that one of the patients was sent to Bellevue, and the other to New York hospital. If conﬁrmed ebola cases do appear in New York City, Bellevue is prepared to be the central treatment center, and would also take transfers of conﬁrmed ebola patients from other public hospitals in the city, according to the New

York Times. There has been no conﬁrmation of whether either patient is an ebola patient, or any discussion of why the paramedics were in hazmat gear. New York Daily News

IN NYC EBOLA PLAN, A CAMPAIGN TO TAMP DOWN PANIC BY JONATHAN LEMIRE

Deserted subways and buses. Kids being kept home from school. Harassment of West African immigrants. These are some of the scenarios New York City officials are trying to anticipate as they seek to tamp down the hysteria as well as the virus in the event Ebola hits the nation’s most populous, densely packed metropolis. “We will not be surprised ... we are ready,” Dr. Mary Bassett, the city’s health commissioner, said this week as she and other officials of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration gave The Associated Press a look at the city’s plan. So far, 133 patients referred to the city’s Health Department with Ebola-like symptoms have been cleared and the city hasn’t

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yet had a conﬁrmed case. Bassett said actions would be taken quickly if and when that happens, either as an isolated case or a full-blown outbreak, with Bellevue Hospital designated the main venue for handling Ebola cases. It has dozens of staff at the ready and four isolation rooms established that can quickly expand to 20 if needed. Managing the collective fears and anxieties of 8 million people is a more nuanced undertaking. Though the disease is not airborne, its outsized hold on the public’s imagination could lead to residents taking dramatic steps to avoid crowded public places, including workplaces, Knicks games or even bars. Officials are planning a public service announcement campaign -- which could include social media and TV advertising -- to reassure New Yorkers that the disease is not easily transmittable and that there is no need to abandon the subway or schools. De Blasio has urged calm and ordered a high-proﬁle Ebola response meeting at City Hall last week to reassure New Yorkers that they are managing the impending crisis. AP

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG BEST BUNCO And the identity thiefs keep on claiming victims. At 11 a.m. on Friday, October 17, a 27-year-old male Upper East Side resident received two statements in the mail for credit card accounts that had been opened in his name without his permission or authority. One statement came from Best Buy and showed charges of $3,000, while the other statement came from a Sears MasterCard with an outstanding balance of $30. Police said there is an ongoing investigation.

19TH PRECINCT Report covering the week 10/6/2014 through 10/12/2014 Week to Date

Year to Date

2014 2013 % Change

2014

2013 % Change

Murder

n/a

Rape

n/a

Robbery

n/a

-19.8

Felony Assault

-33.3

-1.2

Burglary

33.3

175

174

0.6

Grand Larceny

-13.8

1,041 1,200 -13.2

Grand Larceny Auto

100

TAXING PROBLEM There were no happy tax returns for one Upper East Side resident this year. At 9 a.m. on Friday, October 10, a 54-year-old man discovered that an unknown person had ﬁled a tax return in his name, using his personal information to steal his tax return of $74,023. Police continue to look into the matter.

CHALLENGING SITUATION A thief was arrested after using an illegal form of car ﬁnancing. At noon on Monday, October 20, a 34-year-old woman reported to police that back on December 9, 2013, an unknown perpetrator had used her stolen New York state driver’s license and personal information to purchase a Dodge Challenger valued at $44,000. Police identiﬁed and arrested the perpetrator, a 39-year-old woman, and charged her with grand larceny.

HAIR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW One burglar gave some salon owners a reason to tear their hair. At 5:45 a.m. on Saturday, October 18, an unknown robber smashed the glass in the front door of a local hair salon before entering the establishment and stealing an Apple laptop valued at $2,000, along with $200 in cash. There were no surveillance cameras inside the establishment, but there was one outside, and police hope that the video will enable them to ﬁnd the suspect.

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A YORKVILLE CHILDHOOD, NOW ALSO IN BOOK FORM NEWS Late-blooming author Thomas Pryor recalls growing up on the East Side BY CATHERINE ROBERTS

UPPER EAST SIDE Reading from his new book, author Thomas Pryor was so engrossed in his story about listening to a Giants game as a kid that he gestured with both his hands, and his book snapped shut. He lost his place in the reading. It didn’t matter, he told his audience at the Yorkville Barnes & Noble Friday night. He left the book closed and finished telling the story. Though he was surrounded by storytellers growing up, Pryor, who is 60, didn’t write his first story until age 49. Now he’s a full-time writer and storyteller, and Pryor said that publishing I Hate the Dallas Cowboys: Tales of a Scrappy New York Boyhood, his new memoir about growing up in Yorkville, marks the next phase of his writing career. Before he became a writer (he’s been published in Our Town, among other outlets), Pryor said he spent about a decade as primary caretaker for his mother, father, grandmother and brother. “The last one of them died in ‘03,” he said. “I was lost because I was so used to taking care of people, and I had no one to take care of. My daughter was 15, she could easily have taken care of me, and I didn’t know what to do.” A friend suggested Pryor take a weeklong writing workshop in Vancouver. He said in the five days, he wrote five stories. His first stories were about his childhood, he said, because he grew up hearing stories. “I was surrounded by people who liked to talk about the past,” he said. Walking around Yorkville, Pryor has a story about most anything in sight. The Best Buy at East 86th Street and Lexington Avenue, for instance: “That building right there, that was RKO,” he said. RKO 86th Street Threatre was one of several neighborhood movie theaters. “It was so big, and when we played tag,” he said, “you could hide in the urinal.” “We could stay in the RKO for seven or eight hours,” he said. Pryor said that although he’s thrilled with his book’s publication, he thinks it’s time for a change. “Tonight is like an Irish wake for me,” he said. “It’s time to stop writing about myself as a youth in Yorkville.” Pryor is also an avid photographer and always carries a point-and-shoot camera. He has previously published his photos

Thomas Pryor signing copies of his book about Yorkville at the East Side Barnes & Noble.

Thomas Pryor, left, his father Bob and a friend outside Lotus Tavern (now Baileys Corner Pub) after a game of catch in 1966. in a book, River to River: New York Scenes from a Bicycle. Now he plans to write about the process of taking pictures. “When I’m shooting I’m not dwelling in the past,” he said. He said his father also used to bike around New York City taking photos. It’s sometimes not until months later, Pryor said, when he’s organizing his photos, that he realizes his father took a similar shot. “I see the two together,” he said, “and that’s when I want to write.” When his father was taking photographs,

Pryor said, “He wasn’t frustrated, he wasn’t telling me what to do, he wasn’t not taking care of himself.” “I want to write about the freedom of that moment,” he said. Before his reading and book signing on Friday for I Hate the Dallas Cowboys, Pryor compared himself to other writers his age. “Most 60-year-old writers, most of what’s going on right now for me would be old hat,” he said. “But for me it’s exciting.” “It kind of ﬁts the spirit of the book,” he said, “that my enthusiasm’s like I am 12.”

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< MOST DANGEROUS INTERSECTIONS A comment from the web on our story “The Most Dangerous Intersections On The Upper East Side,” October 16, 2014: East 91st is going to get more dangerous. To a narrow street add: M86 bus (runing through 91st Street west, and York Avenue north and south as it goes

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around the block) Trash trucks (up and down a ramp of the future 91st Street and York Avenue trash transfer station) Delivery trucks (Eli’s bakery north and south block of 91st Street between York and First Avenue)

Lots of school buses for Asphalt Green Fields (91st St. and York Ave.), Sacred Heart School Sport complex (91st St. between York Ave. and First Ave.), Upper East Side Middle School (91st St. and First Ave.), Public School 527 (Zone Elementary School, 91st St. next to the middle school) Construction trucks and equipment at the 7+ year old Second Avenue Subway construction site (91st St. and Second Ave) DB

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CRACKING DOWN ON BIKES

BONDING AT THE BOOK SIGNING BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL

Thanks for the editorial re bikes, Oct 8. It hit the nail—to not be confused about where responsibility lies, and it’s not a fair ﬁght between pedestrians and bikers on steel vehicles. Even if not speeding they can be lethal. The responsibility is on any moving vehicle to obey rules. Walkers in the city should not be in constant anxiety lest they be hit. They know to look out for cars. The perception of bikes as less dangerous than cars is distorted just because bikes are so much smaller and slower. The city officials pushing biking have not strongly opposed this view and have failed in their duty to public safety. New York should study the bike laws and licensing rules of other countries with long traditions of bike use, and use their experience. We need protection and need it now. Meredith Balk

Lena Dunham’s “Not That Kind Of Girl” book tour stop, with opening act Amy Schumer, is the most recent in a long line of celebrity signings that began for me six years ago, when my now 17-year-old daughter, Meg, wanted to go meet Miley Cyrus, who had just penned “Miles To Go.” The then-fifth grader, who would have to be pried from her bed each morning with the jaws-of-life, was up, washed, and dressed by 6 a.m. to head down to the mid-Manhattan location of Barnes & Noble to get her wristband that would guarantee her place on line. Since then, mostly thanks to our local B&N, I have become all too familiar with the varying degrees of paper bracelets, silver gaining entrance to the auditorium for the author Q&A, as opposed to the gold, which allows you to watch it either SRO in the back of the room or on the store monitor outside in the stacks. Most of these mother/daughter literary outings are for memoirs, with the exception of the novels written by “Gilmore Girls” star and Barnard grad, Lauren Graham, and the Jenner sisters (the word “written” is used loosely to describe the tome of the latter.) Meg loves these brushes with celebrity for the obvious reasons: the autographs, the photo ops -- of which she has amassed quite a collection – and, of course, the chit-chat. I, on the other hand, have no patience for waiting my turn to pay for the book, let alone some celebrity, but I put in my time to share in Meg’s

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interest, but also because I’ve come to see these events as an investment in her education. Since these book-signing pilgrimages began, Meg’s reading level jumped two grades, with an improvement in her comprehension as well as vocabulary. Television watching has been voluntarily replaced by reading for pleasure. This of course pleases me, even when the memoirs being read are generated by reality stars like Kendra, or actors like Candace Cameron, who haven’t really known fame since childhood. I have also found these activities to be interesting studies in the work ethic of different generations. The late Joan Rivers stayed well after store hours personalizing and autographing (legibly) each and every book for all those who showed up for her, whereas her time-strapped younger counterparts, like Lea Michele, often sign only their initials, the letters not resembling anything close to the alphabet as we know it. Although I wish Meg were more attracted to let’s say, Jane Austen, I must admit the number of books she’s read – the memoirs of Alan Cumming, Neil Patrick Harris and Andy Cohen to soon join their ranks -- make quite an impressive display. Even when I peruse her library and catch a name on one of the book’s spines, such as Nicky Hilton, I take a deep breath and remember the words of my sister-in-law, a New York City public school assistant principal, who said, “Hey, at least she’s reading.” Lorraine Duffy Merkl is the author of the novels “Back To Work She Goes” and “Fat Chick.”

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Op-Ed

Lifelines in the Neighborhood BY BETTE DEWING

hatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in a name? A lot! As for â&#x20AC;&#x153;small businesses,â&#x20AC;? which weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re desperately trying to save and restore, they could use punchier, more heart-of-the-matter labels, like â&#x20AC;&#x153;City Life Linesâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;City Life Savers.â&#x20AC;? Help me out! They are deďŹ nitely â&#x20AC;&#x153;Planet Saversâ&#x20AC;? because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re only a short walk, not â&#x20AC;&#x153;a drive awayâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;? And how crucial that is, especially for the growing elder population and others with disabilities. A related digression: maybe you too know people in car-country places whose health deteriorated when they could no longer drive. But inďŹ nitely more must be said how public transit and passenger trains are Planet Savers, Life Lines and Life Savers of the very ďŹ rst kind. They deserve utmost support. But about those small neighborhood businesses City Life Lines and City Life Savers, bless this paper for going all-out to save and restore them. Of course, they need our utmost support (some speciďŹ cs coming up), and although this column has mostly noted the loss of longtime neighborhood eateries, other City Life Line/City Life Saver stores surely meet indispensable needs.

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Offhand, I think of neighborhood â&#x20AC;&#x153;medium scaleâ&#x20AC;? delis (the original East End Avenue Colemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is such a loss), independent pharmacies like Healthwise, book stores like Logos, newsstands and newspaper/magazine stores, hardware, paint, locksmith, shoe and other small-to-moderate cost clothing stores, shoe and clothing repair, dry cleaners, laundries, medium-scale barber shops and hairdressers, optical stores, gift and ďŹ&#x201A;ower/plant shops like longtime Evaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Garden. Etcetera.

And although food supermarkets are not considered small businesses, they (exclude Fairway) couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be more essential to neighborhood needs, and are also endangered. But about speciďŹ cs to save these City Life Line/City Life Savers which meet everyday needs, support them, even if online is cheaper and easier. Keep demanding that elected officials pass long-overdue commercial rent regulations. Write related letters to the editor. And while likely too late for this monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

elected officialsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Senior Resource Fairs to include social action resources for elders to rally for the small neighborhood places they depend on so much, but please, in the futureâ&#x20AC;Ś.? Ditto for senior centers. And, of course, civic groups, like the highly active and effective East 79th Street Neighborhood Association, surely belong in the vanguard of saving and restoring these City Life Lines/Life Savers. Hey, or should I say â&#x20AC;&#x153;Boo!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also involve Halloween in the cause! Maybe include this column in those trick or treat bags. Remind parents that small neighborhood businesses offer security and safe havens from early mornings and into the nights which grow ever longer now. But a whole lot of in-and-out-of-the box ways are needed, and with the approaching Thanksgiving, Chanukah and Christmas major holidays, doing all our shopping and entertaining in the nabe, giving local store and restaurant gift certiďŹ cates. And yes, supporting the struggling kind; especially those in the chaotic Second Avenue Subway construction area, and also, the near century-old Dresnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant, now revamped and called Flight, a neighborhood landmark which we want to look more crowded. (Reservations at 212-988-5153.) Some heartfelt thoughts on saving and yes, loving our neighborhoods, because, as Charlie Brown and Mr. Rogers would say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our neighborhoods sure do love us!â&#x20AC;? And with your ideas, your help, they will be saved because - enough of us tried! dewingbetter@aol.com

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Out & About NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL AND WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE FALL SEMINAR SERIES

O C T O B E R

Treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Other Common Gastrointestinal Disorders Christine L. Frissora, MD Alyssa Rutchik Padial, PT, MS, OCS, PRPC

NOVEMBER

Mindful Moments: Self-Care for Family Caregivers Sarah Waxse, LCSW Learn how to remain grounded in the midst of the multiple changes and challenges of caregiving. In this seminar, you will experience simple and empowering mindbody techniques and receive suggestions and tools to help you manage stress more effectively.

Time:

HUMANS AND THE ENVIRONMENT PRESENTATION

WRITING POETRY FROM PICTURES

92nd Street Y, Lexington Ave, at 92nd St. 8 p.m., $15 Ben Dolphin and Lars Jen discuss different relationships human beings have with Mother Nature. Jen presents his installation Holoscenes about the connection between Earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s climate change and peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daily habits. Dolphin uses his 3D underwater dance ďŹ lms to explain how he plans choreography for performances in the water. 92y.org

REVIEW PANEL CRITICS NYC ART

All seminars will begin at 6:30 p.m. Place: All seminars held at Uris Auditorium, Weill Cornell Medical College 1300 York Avenue (at 69th St.) For more information: For more information, if you require a disability-related accommodation, or for weather-related cancellations, please call: 212-821-0888. Or visit our website at: www.weill.cornell.edu/seminars All seminars are FREE and open to the public. Seating is available for SHRSOH RQ D ÂżUVW FRPH ÂżUVW VHUYHG EDVLV

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National Academy Museum, 1083 Fifth Avenue at 89th St. 6:30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 8 p.m., Free Frequent visitors of museums might ďŹ nd themselves wondering what art is â&#x20AC;&#x153;good artâ&#x20AC;? when viewing a display. During â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Review Panel,â&#x20AC;? art critics gather and debate their deďŹ nition of worthy art and the talent displayed in current NYC art exhibits. This is the 10 year anniversary of the National Academy Museum event. David Cohen, Ken Johnson, Joan Waltemath and Marjorie Welish make up this special eventâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s panel. 212-369-4880, communications@ nationalacademy.org

67th Street Library, 328 East 67th St. btwn 1st and 2nd Ave. 3 p.m., Free, registration required In this writing workshop, writers will rummage their minds for images. Instructors teach writers to ďŹ nd poetry inspiration in their memories, dreams and the world around them. People will expand their writing capabilities by ďŹ nding subjects in places they may not have looked prior. nypl.org

YOUNG GIRLS GYMNASTIC NIGHT NYC Elite, 421 East 91st St., entrance btwn 1st and York Ave. 6:30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 9:30 p.m. $40-50 Girls spend the night learning cartwheels and back handsprings with other young gymnasts. Dinner and juice is included. 212-289-8737

26 SUNDAY STORYTIME

Barnes and Noble, 150 East 86th St. at Lexington Ave. 11 a.m., Free Barnes and Noble believes Sundays are for relaxing with a good book no matter a personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s age. The store is hosting storytime for small children with a reading of Samantha Bergerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Halloween tale â&#x20AC;&#x153;Crankenstein.â&#x20AC;? Children craft and sing songs as well for more fun to end the weekend. barnesandnoble.com

CIRCUS PARADE AT HUNTER COLLEGE PLAYHOUSE Kaye Playhouse, E. 68th St. btwn Park and Lexington Ave. 11:30 a.m., $17-53 Music and theater company The Little Orchestra Society performs live classic music to enhance the genreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s modern audience. In their performance at Hunter Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kaye

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28 EXHIBIT OPENING AT MNUCHIN GALLERY

Playhouse, they’re showing a musical day at the circus ﬁlled with the works of Fucik, Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky. Perfect for both children and adults. 212-772-4448

27 METABOLISM LECTURE BY JONATHAN POWELL The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Ave. 1:30 – 2:30 p.m., Free The Rockefeller University makes information about science and the human body accessible to everyone from those passionate about science to others simply curious about their body. The institution is hosting a lecture by Jonathan Powell, M.D., Ph.D. and professor of oncology and pharmacology at Johns Hopkins University. He will discuss metabolism, T-cells and the protein mTOR that regulates cell growth. 646-888-3712

SENIOR EXERCISE SESSION 67th Street Library, 328 East 67th St. btwn 1st and 2nd Ave. 11 a.m., Free Volunteers for the Stay Well health program are teaching adult workouts for people at all stages of physical ﬁtness. NYC Department certiﬁed instructors will lead participants through an array of different routines. Attendees should wear comfortable clothes and will be required to sign a medical waiver before participating. nypl.org

Mnuchin Gallery, 45 East 78th St. btwn Madison and Park Ave. 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM The new work of contemporary artist El Anatsui will be displayed at the Mnuchin gallery. He is known for his acclaimed show at the Brooklyn Museum “Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui” in 2013. The exhibit will be featured until December 13. 212-861-0020

GARDENS OF THE CLOISTERS TOUR Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave at 82nd St. 1 – 2 p.m., Free with admission Learn about the history and architecture of medieval Europe throughout the period between the 12th and 15th centuries. The gardens are in northern Manhattan’s Fort Tryon Park, and the MET’s entire Cloister collection contains roughly 2,000 works of art. metmuseum.org

29 AUTHOR CELEBRATES LIBRARY’S HISTORY Yorkville Library, 222 East 79th St., btwn 2nd and 3rd Ave. 5:30 p.m., Free Dr. Jeffrey Kroessler wrote the story of New York City’s libraries in his book “Lighting the Way: A Centennial History of the Queens Borough Public Library 1896-1996.” Now he’ll discuss this history that began with Andrew Carnegie’s funding of 67 libraries in the early 20th century at the Yorkville Public Library. Seating is ﬁrst come, ﬁrst served. nypl.org

REALTOR GIVES NYC REAL ESTATE TIPS 58th Street Library,

127 East 58th Street, btwn Park and Lexington Aves. 5:30 p.m., Free The New York Public library is guiding Manhattan residents through the overwhelming NYC real estate market. Vandana Ranjan, salesperson at Halstead Property, LLC, will give information about the ins and outs of buying or renting property in the city. She will discuss vital topics such as the current real estate market, neighborhood values, credit ratings and mortgages. nypl.org

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LEARN TO COOK RAW Lexington Avenue at 92nd St 7 p.m., from $30 Christine Waltermyer will talk about the health beneﬁts and tastiness that come with eating raw foods. Learn about how the consumption of uncooked foods maximizes digestion and how to prepare easy raw dishes at home. 92y.org

“THE FALLEN IDOL” SCREENED AT LIBRARY 96th St. Library, 112 East 96th St. near Lexington Ave. 2 p.m., Free The 1940s black and white film “The Fallen Idol” will be shown at the New York Public Library. In the film’s 95 minutes, a small boy idolizes the butler that works for his family. The boy falsely accuses him of killing his wife after witnessing a fatal accident. A short film will follow the showing. The movie is recommended for adults. nypl.org

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12 Our Town OCTOBER 23-29, 2014

BY THE NUMBERS: NEW YORK IN 101 OBJECTS EXHIBITIONS An eclectic mix of collectibles on view at the New-York Historical Society BY VAL CASTRONOVO

Two years ago, Sam Roberts, urban affairs correspondent for The New York Times, wrote a column called “A History of New York in 50 Objects,” inspired by the British Museum’s and BBC Radio’s compilation “A History of the World in 100 Objects.” He invited readers to add to his list in the comments section, bringing responses from hundreds of people around the world. The overwhelming reaction caused Roberts to expand his list of urban artifacts, twice. In the end, his collection not only met but exceeded the number used to define the world’s history: 101. Why 101? Because “[The] 100-object cap proved too confining. Call it a conceit, but doing justice to the history of a city this big took 101,” Roberts writes with a wink in the introduction to his new book, A History of New York in 101 Objects (Simon & Schuster, $30.00), a compendium of the material things that define our city. A native New Yorker and veteran city reporter, Roberts developed his own, strictly subjective criteria for the items on the list, which include a Tiffany & Co. sterling silver subway throttle and a door covered in graffiti. There could be no people—neither dead nor living (in other words, no Ed Koch)—and the objects, generally speaking, could not be “too much bigger than a breadbox” (so no Staten Island Ferry). They had to actually exist—to have survived to the present day “in some form.” And no ephemera: These are things that are meant to endure, to have legs and be meaningful decades from now. Significantly, they had to be game-changers, “to have played some transformative role in New York City’s history or they had to be emblematic of some historic transformation,” Roberts writes in his introduction. But the story doesn’t end with the book. Now through Nov. 30, there is a fascinating exhibit at the New-York Historical Society that brings the pages of the book to life. More than 30 of these 101 collectibles, all culled from the society’s holdings, are on display in a small, dimly lit room on the second floor, tangible proof of their existence.

The objects presented span some 500 years of the city’s history and, taken with the rest, constitute “a” history not “the” history of Gotham. Actually, “my” history, Roberts concedes. Each item evokes a person, an event, an idea or a movement that is part of the city’s collective memory and says something about the forces that shaped the metropolis as we know it today. Some of the chosen emblems are quite familiar and ordinary, even kitschy, while others are less familiar and rather arcane. Some pertain to serious events and issues, while others are just fun. They range from a bagel, a subway token, and a black-and-white cookie to a Civil War draft lottery-wheel, shoes belonging to a three-yearold girl who perished in the 1904 General Slocum steamboat disaster, and a slice of transatlantic cable, ﬁrst used by Queen Victoria to send an 88word telegram. NYC natives and transplants alike will revel in the parade of memorabilia, which was intended to be somewhat unconventional while at the same time revealing. The show begins with an arrowhead, an oyster shell, and an English-Low Dutch dictionary and concludes with a metal button from the Metropolitan Museum (retired in 2013), an AIDS “Act-Up” sticker, and, chillingly, a small jar of dust gathered by society curators in the aftermath of 9/11. In between there is a pink “Spaldeen” and a mounted copy of the front page of Daily News, dated October 30, 1975, with the notorious headline: “Ford to City: Drop Dead.” The price to readers: 15 cents. The price to Ford (who never used those precise words): a loss to Jimmy Carter in the presidential election the following year, the exhibit label gleefully explains, maintaining a correlation between Ford’s initial refusal to bail out the city when it was on the verge of bankruptcy and his subsequent political demise. So wander over to the New-York Historical Society and brush up on your Big Apple history. But bear in mind: these objects represent more than a history of New York. Events and innovations here spilled over to the rest of the country. Rob-

Door with graffiti tags from the studio of Jack Stewart, ca. 1970’s. Metal, paint. New-York Historical Society, Gift of Regina Serniak Stewart, 2011 erts invokes E.B. White to make the point: “New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village—the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!”

IF YOU GO “A Brief History of New York: Selections from A History of New York in 101 Objects” The New-York Historical

Society, 170 Central Park West, at 77th St. Now through Nov. 30

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FOR THE WEEK BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO

MUSIC

BUSTER POINDEXTER David Johansen, former singer of 1970s punk band New York Dolls, has enjoyed a successful solo career since the 1980s under the moniker Buster Poindexter, abandoning his punk inclinations for a tuxedo and a jazz-inﬂected lounge act, performing a mix of originals and covers with a edge. October 23-25 Café Carlyle 35 East 76th St., at Madison Avenue 8:45 p.m. Tickets $50-$130

FILM VERTIGO Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal 1958 thriller stars James Stewart as former cop Scottie Ferguson, who is hired to follow his friend’s beautiful and alluring wife, played by Kim Novak, and becomes hauntingly obsessed with her. October 24-30 Film Forum 209 West Houston St. Assorted show times Tickets $13

FAMILIES HALLOWEEN MURDER MYSTERY Guests play detectives at the historic Mount Vernon Hotel as they hunt for clues and explore the museum by candlelight in an attempt to solve a ﬁctional murder mystery sparked by the discovery of a body in the ﬂoorboards of the hotel. October 24 and 25 Mount Vernon Hotel and Museum 421 East 61st St., between First Avenue and York Avenue 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Admission $25 for adults, $10 for children under 12

KIDS BÉLA FLECK AND ABIGAIL WASHBURN Banjo virtuoso—and New York native— Béla Fleck, who formed his band Béla Fleck and the Flecktones in 1988 with guitarist Victor Wooten, is joined on stage with his wife, enchanting songstress and banjo player Abigail Washburn, at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space. Wednesday, October 29 Symphony Space 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street 8 p.m. $47-$97

CIRCUS PARADE The Little Orchestra Society brings classical music to children under ﬁve in its Lolli-Pops series. The latest Lolli-Pops production, Circus Parade, sets the music of Fucik, Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky in a circus scene. October 25 and 26 Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College East 68th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues Assorted show times Tickets $17-$53

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THE POET LAUREATE OF 100TH STREET After I die, And thus I may be remembered.

PROFILE A 91-year-old makes art from words BY KYLE POPE

Like any author in the Amazon age, Esther Lazarson keeps a close tally of how her first book, a collection of poetry, is selling. “I sold three books since between November and July,” she says, of “Everyday Poems for Everyday People,” which she self-published through Rosedog Books last fall. The book, all 276 pages of it, is a testimony to Lazarson’s late-stage passion for poetry, a genre she ﬁrst encountered as a child in Newcastle, England (her mother, a native of Lithuania, loved Pushkin), but one that has flowered as she has reached her 80s, and now 90s, on the Upper West Side. Lazarson, a sparking 91, writes from her 16th-floor apartment at 100th Street and Central Park West. Her poems, some of which she proudly recited over tea and cake on a weekday afternoon, are almost uniformly wonderful: poignant, funny, intimate, sharp. “I live alone,” Lazarson says, glancing around a small apartment adorned with black-andwhite photos of loved ones, all now gone. “Poetry to me is a way of telling you to pay attention, to listen to what I think about things. “ Here she is in “On Poetry,” the ﬁrst poem in the book.

Lazarson’s book makes art out of a biography that could otherwise seem ordinary. She grew up poor in Newcastle, the daughter of a man who peddled clothes to coal miners, and his stay-at-home wife. They evacuated to the Lake District during World War II. Though she went to teacher’s college, and ended up teaching school in London, a career was never what she was looking for. “I just wanted to be married and to be loved,” Lazarson said. “That’s all I wanted my whole life. It didn’t work out, but that’s all I wanted.” In fact, she was married twice, ﬁrst to the family doctor (whom she married at 35, and who was nearly twice her age). “I couldn’t stand him, to tell you the truth,” she says. Then, to a farmer in Israel. That lasted nine months. She moved to Manhattan with her sister Rose in 1951, worked a couple of dozen different jobs, and now considers herself a New Yorker at heart. Her book is largely about life in the city – riding the bus, admiring Central Park, going to the symphony. In “My Studio,” she describes the view out of a previous apartment, which was just off of Riverside Drive: My home is a room With four windows I am rich in windows, A tiny one In the bathroom, Not denied me

By modern architecture. A tall narrow window By a corner Is my window on the world. If you visit If you push a pram If you throw sticks to your dog I can watch you. White net Over white cotton Covers the west side window The huge wall Brick, glass and my too-nearneighbor Are invisible I am by myself! Facing me As I sleep My precious window Tall and wide The lower pane is covered With a white curtain Today I open my eyes To my morning masterpiece Through the top pane I see Wooly white islands wander Across an azure sky, And at night Perhaps there’ll be A framed picture of the moon Floating on black velvet. My home is a room With many windows I am rich Today, Lazarson lives the life of someone a fraction her age. She attends poetry classes, has taken up painting and sculpture, is addicted to Sodoku, and hits the gym, once a week for weight training, and again for an exercise class.

I want to tell you what happened, To me – or to the World. I want to tell you how I feel About what happened, And I want you to listen. Are you there: Are you listening: The paper always listens, So I gather My certainties and my wonderings And make a bouquet of words As beautiful as I can And write a poem. My thoughts and fun and work Won’t be thrown away, For this is my book. Something of me Will be left over

Lazarson points to an old photo of her teenage years in Newcastle, England.

Esther Lazarson at home in her Upper West Side apartment, in front of her original sculptures. She has no family nearby and no outside help, except for a housecleaner who comes every other week. Though she writes often in her poetry about the pains of growing old, Lazarson says she is happier today than she has been in a long time, maybe ever. She’s no longer obsessed with what she doesn’t have. “It’s not difficult when you’re old to be entertained,” she says. “It’s something I’m grateful for.” That said, a decent number of her poems, like “At the Senior Center,” record her fantasies for one last, big ﬂing. “Would you like to dance?” he said to me, As we heard The forceful music From the other room. “I would,” I said. And we wafted from The Thanksgiving table,

Where the turkey and potatoes were good And the pumpkin pie, Full of ginger and unnameable mush Was uneatable, Into the ballroom To dance to ‘Que Sera, Sera.’ He, younger Me, eighty eight Being held, Swaying to the lilt of the words I asked myself “How much Que Sera, Sera can there be Left for me?” But as I dance in my clumpy shoes, Twirled by an expert The clock struck NOW! Lazarson reads to me her latest poem, about a friend named Miwa who asked to leave a big,

purple suitcase in Lazarson’s apartment while she went away on a trip. Time went by and Miwa never returned to retrieve the suitcase. Lazarson, assuming Miwa had died, opened the suitcase, to see what her friend had left behind. In her poem, Lazarson transforms the incident from a minor domestic irritation to a meditation on loss. She asks me what I think. I tell her it’s perfect, though I also say I would change the title to “The Purple Suitcase,” which I think is more evocative. “OK, I will,” she says, making the change with her pen (she doesn’t own a computer). “That’s the amazing thing about writing. While nobody else really cares to hear my wisdom, this piece of paper does. It thinks I’m very clever.”

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS OCTOBER 14 - 17, 2014 The following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s website and include the most recent inspection and grade reports listed. We have included every restaurant listed during this time within the zip codes of our neighborhoods. Some reports list numbers with their explanations; these are the number of violation points a restaurant has received. To see more information on restaurant grades, visit www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/services/restaurant-inspection.shtml. Shiraz NYC

226 East 83 Street

Le Pain Quotidien

1592 1 Avenue

E.A.T. Cafe

1064 Madison Avenue

Chinatown Restaurant

1650 3 Avenue

Grade Pending (21) Filth flies or food/refuse/sewageassociated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or nonfood areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewageassociated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Falafel Express

1406 Madison Avenue

La Mulatresse

2155 2 Avenue

Not Graded Yet (24) Food Protection Certiﬁcate not held by supervisor of food operations. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Pediatric Ophthalmology

La Isla Restaurant

1883 Third Avenue

Grade Pending (21) Filth flies or food/refuse/sewageassociated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/ sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

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Camaradas El Barrio

2241 1 Avenue

Grade Pending (22) Food Protection Certiﬁcate not held by supervisor of food operations. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Mojito’s

227 East 116 Street

Grade Pending (27) Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

283 Pleasant Avenue

Grade Pending (19) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked ﬁsh and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

2006 3 Avenue

Mcdonald’s

1871 2 Avenue

Marymount College Nugents Cafe

221 East 71 Street

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In Brief MANHATTAN CHAMBER NAMES BOARD OF DIRECTORS The Manhattan Chamber of Commerce announced its 2015 board of directors. Each board member serves a term of two years. The directors are: KD Acharya, Anchin Block & Anchin Bill Bergman, Office Depot Beth Bronfman, The View Agency Ralph Bumbaca, TD Bank Lani Doktori, Color Fast Printing Wendi Caplan-Carroll, Constant Contact Maralyn Dolan, Integrated Printing & Graphics Inc. Dan Gralton, Walgreen’s/ Duane Reade Melanie Gass, Centerpoint Solutions Bruce Hurwitz, BH Staffing Jill Kaplan, Crain’s New York Business Ann Kayman, New York Grant Co. Deborah Koenigsberger, Hearts of Gold Inc Brad Korn, The Mount Sinai Health System George Lence, Nicholas & Lence Communications Lisa Linden, LAK Public Relations, Inc. Robert Lopez, Blue Water Construction & Restoration Betty McCain, Citibank Jim McPartlin, Loews Hotel & Resorts Colleen Molter, QED National Nancy Moon, Moon PR Joseph Perello, Catch-NYC David Reid, Asia Society Rosina Rubin, Attitude NY Charles Ryan, HSBC Bank Westley Slater, Office Depot Darren Sussman, TheaterMania Robert Schwartz, Eneslow Shoes Bill Tyson, Time Warner Cable

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EVERYONE’S A TARGET -- EVEN ME CRIME Seniors aren’t the only people who fall victim to scams BY MEGAN BUNGEROTH

The robo-call voicemail should have been my ﬁrst tipoff. “This is agent Julie Smith of the IRS,” said the vaguely female computerized voice. “Do not ignore this call.” The voicemail was alarming, but I assumed it was legitimate, since I had recently received a letter from the

IRS, about a small amount of federal income tax I still owed after filing for 2013. I thought the automated call was strange, but it was from a Washington, D.C. area code. When I called back later that afternoon, a man picked up after two rings, and I told him I was returning the call from Agent Julie Smith. The man said that he was my case manager, and that the IRS was suing me for back taxes and fees amounting to over $4,000. I nearly tripped on the sidewalk of 7th Avenue. “Four THOUSAND dollars??!” I sputtered. “No way!

I know I owe some money, but it’s way less than that!” “Well m’am if you can pay the full amount right now, we’ll reduce the fees and penalties.” “How much would that be?” I asked, still terriﬁed. “Two thousand dollars.” My panic did not abate. “I can’t pay you $2,000 right now. I don’t understand, I had no idea anyone was suing me,” I said, struggling to remember the exact wording in that last letter from the IRS. It was relatively benign, telling me about payment plans and options for appeal. There certainly wasn’t a threat of

a lawsuit - but maybe I had missed the ﬁne print. “Well what about $1,000?” the man asked. So chivalrous. I did some quick calculations, thinking of when my next paycheck would be coming in. “Not really,” I said. “Could I call back on Friday and pay then?” That’s when the guy started getting pushy. “What, you don’t have someone you can borrow the money from?” Well that’s a little invasive, I thought. Of course, if it meant life or death (or being arrested) there were plenty

AVOID I.R.S. SCAMS The IRS reminds people that they can know pretty easily when a supposed IRS caller is a fake. Here are five things the scammers often do but the IRS will not do. Any one of these five things is a tell-tale sign of a scam. The IRS will never: 1. Call you about taxes you owe without first mailing you an official notice. 2. Demand that you pay taxes without giving you the opportunity to question or appeal the amount they say you owe. 3. Require you to use a specific payment method for your taxes, such as a prepaid debit card. 4. Ask for credit or debit card

numbers over the phone. 5. Threaten to bring in local police or other lawenforcement groups to have you arrested for not paying. If you get a phone call from someone claiming to be from the IRS and asking for money, here’s what you should do: • If you know you owe taxes or think you might owe, call the IRS at 1.800.829.1040. The IRS workers can help you with a payment issue. • If you know you don’t owe taxes or have no reason to believe that you do, report the incident to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax

Administration (TIGTA) at 1.800.366.4484 or at www.tigta.gov. You can file a complaint using the FTC Complaint Assistant; choose “Other” and then “Imposter Scams.” If the complaint involves someone impersonating the IRS, include the words “IRS Telephone Scam” in the notes. Remember, too, the IRS does not use unsolicited email, text messages or any social media to discuss your personal tax issue. For more information on reporting tax scams, go to www.irs.gov and type “scam” in the search box. Source: irs.gov

of people I could call for an emergency ﬁnancial bailout. That didn’t mean that I wanted to do it. “No,” I said. “You’re telling me there is no way you can pay $1,000 today? There’s NO ONE you can borrow money from?” That’s when I started crying, despite my best efforts to maintain my dignity. “I think you’re being a little bit hostile to me,” I said, my voice quavering. “Could I please speak to someone else?” “I’m your case manager! You think someone else is going to just make this whole thing go away? You have to pay!” the man practically shouted in response. It was downhill from there. I tried to keep my composure while the IRS agent eventually “settled” on having me pay $200 in cash, immediately, to “halt the legal actions against me,” with a promise to set up a repayment plan for the rest of the $2,000 I supposedly owed. When I offered to do a direct bank transfer, the man was quick to shut that down, telling me not to reveal any of my banking information. That makes sense, I thought. The next directive made less sense, but I was determined to make this go away as quickly as possible. By this time, I’d already been on the call for almost 30 minutes, and I had been transferred to a “supervisor” (the same one that hadn’t been available when I asked for him earlier) whose heavily-accented voice sounded very similar to the first man. The new guy said his name was Alex Campbell.

OCTOBER 23-29, 2014 Our Town 17 “Do you have the cash?” he asked me. I did. I had followed his directions to go to the nearest ATM and take out $200 in cash; when I asked why I couldn’t pay with my debit card, he told me since there was legal action being taken against me, they were investigating my bank account, so I couldn’t use it to pay. I’d have to use cash and fill out a special IRS form to send it. I had also been instructed to remain on the phone; I was scolded when I put the call on mute - because it was being recorded, and the recording could be used against me in court. “OK,” Alex Campbell said. “Is there a CVS near you?” I scanned the street. “Uh, there’s a Duane Reade,” I said. “Good, good. Are you there?” I dashed across the intersection, hauled open the door, out of breath. “I’m here. What do I do?” “Go to the cashier and purchase a Vanilla reload network prepaid debit card for $200.” I paused in front of the pretzel display. Oh, I finally, finally thought. This is a scam. It had never occurred to me that I could fall for a type of scam I regularly read about in the Crime Watch section of this newspaper. The victims in the police reports always seem to be senior citizens. I worry about my grandmother getting duped. Not myself. It’s part of my job as a journalist to look at things skeptically, demand verification, not jump to conclusions. I’m under 30 years old, I stay informed, I have a master’s degree! But there I stood in a midtown Duane Reade, $200 cash in hand, one step away from kissing that money good-bye forever because a criminal on the phone used scary trigger words like “legal action,” “used against you in court,” and “IRS investigation.” The scam itself is simple and ubiquitous. The perpetrators call from a masked number -they could be calling from anywhere and are likely not even in the U.S. -- and either catch people off guard in the moment or hope they’ll call back based on the vaguely threatening voicemail. If the person on the other end is as gullible as I am, apparently, they’ll go through the steps, buy a prepaid card, then read the numbers off on the phone so the criminals can get the money. Since it was bought with cash, there’s no way to trace the transaction or get the money back. It’s simply

gone. The NYPD has issued warnings related to this type of scam, which is more commonly used with Green Dot MoneyPak cards, and sometimes has the scammers posing as a utility company who threaten to shut off the person’s heat or electricity. “We’ve seen a lot of calls where they’re just calling taxpayers completely out of the blue, and the person of course is going to panic,” said IRS spokesperson Peggy Riley. She said that the criminals will threaten a lawsuit, arrest, taking away a driver’s license, or even deportation. They often do target elderly people and immigrants, but they’re trained in extracting money from anyone who takes their calls. So even savvy twenty-something journalists might fall for it? “You shouldn’t feel stupid, they really make it sound legitimate,” Riley said. “They have background noise so it makes it sound like it’s coming from a call center. They have a little bit of information about you.” Plus, Riley said, people hear “IRS,” and they get scared. Even people who don’t owe any taxes can fall for it, and if you do happen to owe anything -- which many hundreds of thousands of people do -- it becomes doubly scary. But there are monumental differences between the way these scammers operate and the way the IRS does business. “The IRS could call you in some occasions, but you’re always going to get a notice in the mail first,” Riley said. “They’re not going to be threatening you. They’re not going to ask for a prepaid debit card. We’re going to be calling you to work out some type of agreement.” Riley said that the best way to insure it’s really the IRS contacting you is to simply hang up the phone and call the IRS directly. Anyone who works there can access your case number -- which will also be included in the letters they’ll send -- and will help you figure out what you owe, if anything. “There’s never any harm in calling the IRS,” Riley said. When I called the IRS a few days later, the agent I spoke to couldn’t have been nicer or more helpful; he even figured out that I might still be due some money from previous years’ tax returns that would wipe out the balance of what I owed for the latest tax year. Not once did he threaten legal action, taunt me about my extended family’s wealth, or

provide elaborate reasons why I couldn’t do something as reasonable as call back within the same business day. “I don’t think this is how the IRS accepts payment,” I said to the so-called Alex Campbell, as the realization of his trickery slowly washed over me. “M’am, you have to pay us today. You need to get the money card.” Looking back, it’s clear why it was so important to keep me on the phone, and why it was lucky for them that I was alone at the time. If anyone in my office had overheard my call, or if I had been with a friend, or called my mom or my husband, the bright red flags would have jumped right out at me. I could have stopped a stranger on the street, let her listen to 20 seconds of the call, and that person would have said, “Oh honey, this is a scam.” It’s so obvious in hindsight, from the outside. But even in the moment when I connected the similarities in my call and the GreenDot scams I’d been reading about, I was still wary about hanging up. Thirty-eight minutes and a lot of emotional manipulation into the experience, I had to convince myself to trust my instincts. And Google. As Alex Campbell tried his best to coerce me -- I wonder if he gets little star stickers on a chart for every person he swindles -- I was stalling and typing the phone number I’d called into my phone’s web browser. The scam alerts came up on the first page. Same thing when I entered in Julie Smith, the name from the voicemail. “I think you’re scamming me,” I said to Alex Campbell. “I’m going to call the police.” Alex Campbell, to his credit (he must have been working for that bonus) still didn’t back down. “Sure m’am, just stay on the line, I’ll call the police. They’ll make you pay. Just stay on the line.” I imagine that another “agent” was standing by, ready to press a few sound effects and then hop onto the phone to impersonate a police officer. “No asshole,” I said, right before I hung up. “I’ll call the police myself!” As far as witty rejoinders go, I admit, it wasn’t the best. But the feeling of shame over almost falling for a scam still weighed less than the feelings of relief and triumph as I marched to the bank to deposit my hard-earned cash back where it belonged. Megan Bungeroth is an editor at this newspaper.

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HALLOWEEN EVENTS IN MANHATTAN FAMILY/KIDFRIENDLY HALLOWEEN DOG PARADE Saturday October 25 Tompkins Square Park East Village Avenue B and E 7th St 12:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m.; Free Dubbed the “largest dog costume parade in the world” by CNN, Tompkins Square’s pup parade welcomes all four-legged friends and owners to celebrate Halloween. This years event is sponsored by Purina and offers contestants to compete for most creative, cutest and scariest costumes with prizes worth up to thousands of dollars.

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Saturday October 25 Sony Technology Lab 550 Madison Ave at 56th St. 10 a.m., Free This interactive technology and entertainment museum invites kids and their families to come engage with and explore their exhibits. Kids can take photos in the Freaky Photo Station, make spooky crafts, hear scary stories, get their face painted, and take home some candy. Several halloween-themed movies will also be screened throughout the day. Ages 2-6. www. sonywondertechlab.com

Wednesday October 29 MAGIC Makers Clubhouse 510 E 74th St at York Ave 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.; $35 Enjoy the not-so-spooky side of Halloween with fun arts and crafts, dramatic play, and experiments with cooking. This tamer celebration of Halloween is the perfect setting for younger trick-or-treaters from preschool to younger. www.74magic.com, 212-737293

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Friday October 31 Washington Square Arch Washington Square Park at 5th Ave 3:00 p.m.- 6:00 p.m.; Free Known to be the city’s largest free kid-friendly Halloween event, NYU and Community Board 2’s Halloween Parade is guaranteed to be a good time. Line-up begins at the Washington Square Arch at 3 p.m. and the parade continues throughout the park, accompanied by circus performers, a brass band and costumed characters. At around 4:00, the troupe will arrive at LaGuardia Place to be treated to free trick or treat bags ﬁlled with candy. Exciting games and rides will also be available at the end of the march for children and

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“SUPER SPOOKY” CANDLELIGHT TOUR Saturday October 25 Merchant’s House Museum 29 East Fourth St. between Lafayette and Cooper Square 6:30, 8 and 9:30 p.m., $35 Called “Manhattan’s most haunted house” by The New York Times, the Merchant’s House is a National Historic Landmark and former home of the Tredwell family, believed to still haunt the building. On this candlelight tour guests will walk through the preserved house where eight family members died and will hear witness accounts from those who have witnessed recent unexplainable

NATURAL HISTORY CELEBRATION Friday October 31 American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th St. 4-7 p.m., $12 ($11 for museum members) The halls of the American Museum of Natural History will be ﬁlled with kid-friendly fun on October 31st. Kids can trick or treat, see a special appearance by the BIG NAZO LAB, catch Robert Austin’s magic show, do arts and crafts, and maybe even bump into some roaming characters including Clifford, Curious George, Miffy, and Cookie Mouse. www.amnh.org

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STREET SPACE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Sitting in the front row with a cane resting against her knee was Toby Bush, a JASA regular who said she was struck by a bicyclist going the wrong way on Park Avenue in August. Bush said she suffered a shattered hip and a broken femur. “My life was taken away,” said Bush. She suggested criminal liability for those who injure bicyclists and said informational campaigns by the DOT and Transportation Alternatives don’t make a difference in terms of educating bicyclists. “All these brochures don’t do a thing, nobody reads them,” she said. Several people in the room had stories of being struck by bicyclists, and nearly everyone who spoke knew someone who had a run-in. Aronowitz did gain some traction when he addressed the issue of signal timing in crosswalks, which he said is inadequate for a senior’s gait. “The lights aren’t made for us,” said Aronowitz. He cited a 2010 study that claimed seniors represent 12 percent of the city’s population, but 36 percent of pedestrian fatalities. Aronowitz said unruly bicyclists running red lights and riding the wrong way, combined with inadequate signal timing for seniors, is a recipe for disaster. “When we’re trying to make the light and don’t know which way the bikes are coming from, we get disoriented,” he said. Several seniors at the forum agreed and called for the lengthening of signals at 72nd Street and Columbus Avenue. Sgt. Felicia Montgomery, the 20th Precinct’s traffic safety officer, said so far this year police in her precinct have given out 446 summonses to bicyclists breaking the law, more than any other prior year. Violators must settle their summonses at the Dept. of Motor Vehicles, said Montgomery, and face a hefty $250 ﬁne, similar to what drivers who are caught breaking the law have to pay. “Every day we’re out there enforcing this,” said Montgomery. Montgomery said the department has a general policy of not pursuing bicyclists who break the law, and that in order to issue a bicyclist a summons they must be at a full stop. In response to that, Tom DeVito, a representative with Transportation Alternatives, said the NYPD should look into deploying more officers on bicycles who can more easily and safely track bicyclists who break the law. Several people at the forum brought up the dangerous mix of bicyclists and pedestrians in

Riverside Park, both of which have to share a relatively narrow ribbon of path that gets dangerous as dusk falls, said several seniors. John Harrold, an administrator at Riverside Park, said where possible, the park attempts to separate the two streams. “That’s not always an option, but it’s something we continue to work on,” said Harrold. Many in the room were in favor of some sort of licensing program for bicyclists, an idea that was immediately shot down by Forgione, who said such an undertaking would be bureaucratically burdensome and not feasible. For instance, she said, how would tourists who don’t live in New York obtain licenses to tool around the city? Others requested an audit be conducted of just how many bicyclists use the bike lanes around Columbus and 72nd Street, and suggested that the lanes weren’t used enough to justify their existence. But Forgione said there is a need for even more bike lanes on the Upper West Side, which she claims make everyone safer. She revealed that DOT has agents in the street, particularly around Columbus Avenue who, while lacking the authority to issue summonses to unruly bicyclists, nonetheless engage with those who disobey traffic laws and encourage both bicyclists and pedestrians to be vigilant and safe. Forgione also said the DOT would be announcing in the coming weeks what plans they have to make Central Park safer for pedestrians. One popular suggestion was a ticketing blitz on unruly cyclists, which Forgione said would probably need to happen over a sustained amount of time for any effect to be seen. She suggested targeted ticketing campaigns in areas that see the highest number of bicyclists breaking the law. On the whole, seniors called for increased enforcement and stiffer penalties for bicyclists who break the law, and some sort of registration system where violators can be easily reported and held accountable. But Forgione made it clear that any sort of registration mechanism is unlikely to be put in place, and indicated the city is committed to integrating bicycling culture to an even larger extent, a notion that was unpopular among the seniors at the JASA Club. “I’m not hearing anything new here,” said one woman. Suggestions that seemed to stick included maintaining the upwards trend in ticketing unruly bicyclists and making parks safer for pedestrians, as well as lengthening signal timing at key intersections.

The unfortunate fate of one of the planes. It was later freed by a rope and a rock.

DRONES CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Suddenly a cry arose from one of the pilots. A member of the mini fleet had crashed into an outstretched branch high in a tree. “The tree came on too fast. It came out of nowhere!” says the pilot, named Gil. “I’ve wrecked many fine planes here.” One of the pilots left to retrieve rescue gear - a 50-foot rope and a park rock. Together, the two aviators started heaving their sling and shot at the tree, in hopes of freeing their respective planes from the hold of the offending branches. Despite initial failure, a strong throwing arm and a bit of physics produced a welcome result: not only one, but both planes dropped from the trees. With a bend here and a squeeze there, one airship was made flight ready and was skyward

almost immediately. The second plane had suffered more significant damage and had to be scheduled for scotch tape repair before it could return to the open skies above Schurz. “It’s my outlet. I don’t like sports; I don’t like drinking. I prefer this - it’s my thing. It’s a spiritual hobby,” says Gil. “Flying makes it easier to relate to the rest of the world.” His descriptions of “trim” and “elevation” reveal more knowledge that many who fly the “one footers” might have. When his plane unexpectedly banked, he commented that “the neutral on the stick does not equal neutral on the plane.” The onetime private pilot was based at Teterboro Airport in North Jersey, and actually flew small planes. During his non-ﬂying hours, Gil is a real estate investor. Would he invest in an airport on the Upper East Side? “I would not! It’s too close to the future garbage dump.”

Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal spoke to a group of concerned seniors at a forum on bike and pedestrian safety last week. Photo by Daniel Fitzsimmons

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A WRITER’S NEW YORK STORY Q&A Alexander Chee looks at New York through the eyes of a writer BY ANGELA BARBUTI

The fact that Alexander Chee moved to New York three times in his life made his story a perfect ﬁt for Never Can Say Goodbye, the new anthology where writers explain their love for the city. Although he is originally from Maine, Chee has earned the title of being a New Yorker, especially one working in the arts. He’s experienced everything from waiting tables, to struggling to live on a bookstore salary, to multitasking at a magazine startup. In his essay, “New York Three Times,” readers are taken on his path that starts in Williamsburg, continues with him publishing a novel, and ends with the promise of things still to come.

Your ﬁrst apartment was in Williamsburg in 1991. The obvious question is, how have you seen the neighborhood change? The rent was $450 a month that we split. The postman dropped all of your mail through the door of the building. There was no mailbox -- it just sort of laid in the hallway while people sorted it out. I remember there were crack vials on the street that I would start crunching on when I was walking. I’d suddenly hear these snapping sounds and realize I was stepping on them. And I had a car back then, an Oldsmobile station wagon, really old. Apparently they’re one of the easiest cars to steal. They’re also really popular because they’re huge and the people who would steal them can run a lot of things in them. This I learned from the cops, after it was stolen. But for a long time, what amused me was, that it was not stolen, and I would come out and the hood would be a little bit lifted. And maybe one of my battery connections would have been loosened because the crack addicts were trying to steal my battery so they could sell it for money. But they were kind of too out of it to actually get the battery. At that time Williamsburg was divided between the Polish, the Italians, and the Dominicans. I guess I was prehipster or something. My friend and I, you could call us “class trad-

Photo by Michael Sharkey ers.” We both went to expensive private colleges but had decided not to become the standard product of that. She was trying to work on anti-violence projects and I was working at a gay and lesbian bookstore in the West Village.

I read that your bookstore salary was so low that you had to choose between eating or taking the subway. [Laughs] Yes, whether I was going to take the train or have breakfast. This was true for quite some time, and I don’t know if it’s still true, but maybe it is. Whatever a subway token cost was also what the cheapest thing to eat cost. I ate a lot of bagels and cream cheese back then, a lot of slices, and a lot of falafels.

What’s one of your favorite bookstores here now? I still make it a point of going to Three Lives in the West Village. They have such great taste. They changed ownership a few times, but there’s been a core staff that stayed. And the people who bought it were attracted to what it was and didn’t want to change that. I lived around the corner from them for a little while in a sublet with a guy who told me he was a masseur, but really he was a prostitute.

You said the “Village Voice” personals was one of the main ways to get roommates then and that people would line up to get the paper. Up until the late ‘90s, there would be a line for the new issue, which is so hard to imagine now, people standing in line to get something that was printed on paper. The line began very early where that St. Marks’ Starbucks

is now, at that one newsstand that was there for a long time. That was the place it came to ﬁrst, the ﬁrst drop-off.

account guys.

Now you have your second novel coming out.

You still have the waiter check where that you wrote the outline for your ﬁrst novel.

You worked at “Out” magazine when it was just a startup.

Yeah, when I was trying to figure out the structure of my novel. For the first three years that I was working at the restaurant, I was living all over the place. I didn’t get my Park Slope place until ’96. So I was commuting from Gramercy and Harlem at one point, from what I jokingly called “my Harlem summer share.”

I’m publishing the second now and am working on a third. The second one will come out in about a year. It’s definitely in the Fall 2015 season for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It’s called The Queen of the Night. Sometimes people say to me, “You’re really proliﬁc.” And I’m kind of like, “Well, I have to pay the bills.” [Laughs]

Sarah Pettit and Michael Goff started to create it and they were like, “Come work for us.” Startups are hard and you’re not paid a lot of money, comparatively, and you work a lot. So that ﬁrst year it was pretty regular to be there 50 or 60 hours a week, sometimes more. I was technically the assistant editor, but I was also helping everyone who needed assistance. [Laughs] I did everything from creating a subscriber database to corresponding with authors, to editing and writing some pieces. During the launch party, I was tasked with finding the go-go boys and drag queens. [Laughs] It was held in the Palladium nightclub which doesn’t exist anymore. It’s an NYU dorm. It had all these tunnels underneath it, and when I arrived for the party, they didn’t know where they put the talent.

What was it like to go to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop? Now more people will know it because of “Girls.” [Laughs] Yes, I know. I think it’s kind of a brilliant plot twist for them. When they announced it, it was so perfect because for a lot of us who have gone, it was like a plot twist. It was like taking 20 years of wondering if you’re any good and turning it into two years of ﬁnding out.

In your essay, you talk about living with your brother and sister on the Upper West Side. I thought that dynamic was interesting. It was interesting because if any of us brought someone home, they met the family. [Laughs] We liked it; it was a difficult time for all three of us professionally. I was waiting tables at Sfuzzi on 66th and Broadway, across from Lincoln Center. It was an Italian chain and we did a lot of pre-theater business.

How many years did you work as a waiter? I was a waiter from 1994 until about 2000. I left Sfuzzi and went to Morton’s of Chicago, which is still around, on 45th and 5th Avenue. So I went from Upper West Side pre-theater mania to expense

Visit Chee’s blog at www.koreanish. com Follow him on Twitter @alexanderchee

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