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TALLYING THE COST OF ACCIDENTS ON THE EAST SIDE
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SAFETY NYC has paid out more than $2 million for claims involving pedestrian accidents on the U.E.S. BY ADELLE BRODBECK AND HANNAH GRIFFIN
Pedestrian traffic accidents aren’t just dangerous in New York City. They can also be expensive. A report by Comptroller Scott Stringer shows that between 2007 and 2014, the city paid out at least $2 million as a result of accidents between pedestrians and city vehicles on the Upper East Side.
Nick Di iorio, a candidate for NY’s 12th Congressional District, meeting voters at the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House senior center. Photo by Daniel Fitzsimmons
AN UNDERDOG LOOKS TO THE POLLS POLITICS Those claims contributed to a whopping $27 million tab paid paid by the city in 378 claims throughout New York, according to the Stringer report. The Comptroller’s study drills into the pedestrian claims made over the past seven years. Victims’ ages, for instance, range from infanthood to 93, with an average age of 42. Most of the accidents occurred in “hot-spot” crowded areas such as Midtown Manhattan, where over 40 claims were filed. However, no neighborhood was spared, as a list of Upper East Side accident spots shows. A complete list of claims is below. In an attempt to abate and hope-
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GOP candidate Nick Di iorio hopes to unseat longtime Democratic congresswoman BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS
UPPER EAST SIDE Nick Di iorio (dee-oreo) is finally getting the ink he contends has been denied him since launching his congressional campaign in January. His opponent, Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY 12), has largely ignored his existence, with the tacit cooperation of the media, he says, leading him to claim the press is in her “back pocket.” And while it makes strategic sense for Maloney -- regarded as the stan-
dard-bearer of Manhattan’s Democratic establishment -- to avoid legitimizing a political opponent through engagement, the move left her open to criticism for seemingly flouting the democratic process, a point that was recently made for the second time in a New York Post editorial. Other attention includes Business Insider’s coverage of a press conference Di iorio held last week on the steps of City Hall, in which he vowed to focus on serious issues, in contrast to Maloney, he said. He has criticized her for embarking on a trip to China earlier this year in a bid to bring a panda to the Central Park Zoo. Di iorio’s presser featured a costumed panda, which was not lost on Business Insider; their article
highlighted the humor in claiming to focus on serious issues while a 6-foot panda is lollygagging in the background. Di iorio’s campaign promoted the article anyway. The episode is illustrative of the trials and tribulations facing any first time candidate, especially a 28-year-old Republican trying to unseat an entrenched Democrat in a race where the GOP, in recent memory, hasn’t bothered to field a candidate. And Di iorio’s claim to seriousness isn’t all political puffery. He spent six years in seminary training to become a Catholic priest before deciding it wasn’t for him (he wants a wife and kids). In August he embarked upon a fact-finding mission to Israel around the same time New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and a delegation of state officials were there, and later positioned himself as the pro-Israel candidate by saying Maloney failed to support Israel during the latest conflict in Gaza. “Even to this day she has not said a word about the most recent Gaza conflict,” Di iorio said. “That to me
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The de Blasio administration announced plans to implement system improvements to lower the rates of suicide and self-harm among inmates in New York City jails. Funded by a $400,000 grant from the National Institute of Justice, the Department of Correction, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and the Vera Institute of Justice will embark on a three-year project to standardize review of instances of inmate suicide or self-harm and document what can be done to reduce the likelihood of such instances happening again. Incidents of suicide, suicide attempts, and other acts of selfharm that can result in serious injury are called “sentinel events.” The health department currently has a systematic approach in place to review every case of suicide, which has kept rates of suicide in the City’s jail system well below the national average, despite increasing acts of selfharm.
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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS CHECK BIKES HIT 35 PEOPLE IN CENTRAL PARK THIS YEAR
visibility is low but the park paths are crowded. DNAinfo.com
95-YEAR-OLD MAN FOUND DEAD IN CENTRAL PARK
DNAinfo.com reported that bicylcists have hit 35 people in Central Park so far this year, according to a top police official, who also said that only one person has been hit by a car in the park in the same time period. That crash was on May 12 at West Drive and West 67th Street; the pedestrian involved suffered a minor foot injury. IN contrast to that relatively minor incident, the 35 bike/pedestrian collisions have resulted in several serious injuries, including three skull fractures, and two deaths. Deputy Inspector Jessica Corey, the commanding officer of the Central Park precinct, told Community Board 7 that the precinct is working to curb these accidents by educating cyclists and making pedestrians aware of the dangerous early morning hours, when
A 95-year-old Yorkville resident was found dead in the bushes of Central Park on Thursday October 23rd. Robert Porter had been reported as missing about nine days earlier from his home near 90th St. and East End Ave. A Parks Department employee found his body at about 9:30 a.m. near a statue of Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen near Fifth Avenue and 96th St, inside the park. Although Porter’s pants were pulled down and he was dead at the scene, investigators at this point said that they do not suspect any suspicious or criminal activity. The medical examiner will determine the cause of Porter’s death. DNAinfo.com/Gothamist
GRACIE MANSION MOONLIGHTS AS HAUNTED HOUSE For one night, Gracie Mansion is going to be a haunted house. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday that New York City’s official mayoral residence is going to host a Halloween party. De Blasio, his wife Chirlane McCray, and their two teenage children moved into the Manhattan mansion this year.
They are the ďŹ rst family to reside there since 2001. De Blasio’s predecessor Michael Bloomberg chose to remain in his home. De Blasio is unafraid to be goofy and has said in the past that a pirate outďŹ t is his “go-toâ€? Halloween costume. The party will be held on Oct. 28 and guests are asked to bring a nonperishable food item for a charity drive. Space is limited and those interested are asked to register at the mayor’s office’s website. AP
HOMELESS WOMAN’S BELONGINGS COST CITY $200G Court papers show that New York City taxpayers have paid $200,000 to store the belongings of a homeless woman since 2006. The New York Post says the city picked up the tab after Andrea Logan lost her Upper East Side apartment after a debilitating stroke. The city is required by state law to cover homeless people’s storage expenses. The Post says Logan’s possessions ďŹ lled 11 storage units. It wasn’t clear when the city learned of the huge cost of storing the items but refused to pay for all of them last year. Under a deal reached this year between the city and the state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance,
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N.Y.C. PRACTICES RESPONSE TO NUCLEAR EXPLOSION BY JONATHAN LEMIRE The voice over the speakers at New York City’s emergency command center calmly stated the unthinkable: a nuclear explosion had gone off in Times Square. More than 100,000 people are feared to have died instantly. A massive radiation cloud is being blown north by the wind, toward Westchester County and Connecticut. The city’s subway system has been shut down and the region’s cellphone service has largely failed. But, despite the sense of urgency that permeated the state-of-the-art operations center, the explosion wasn’t real, and midtown Manhattan was still standing. The nightmare scenario was part of a region-wide training exercise that was last conducted Wednesday by the city’s Office of Emergency Management to rehearse communications with the federal government and local law enforcement agencies in New York and New Jersey. “We wanted something that’s going to
challenge the system,â€? said department Commissioner Joseph Esposito. “This is a major, major incident.â€? The simulation is chillingly realistic and unfolds in real-time. It purports that a 10 kiloton nuclear device — far larger than a so-called “dirty bombâ€? — has gone off on 42nd Street. Most of midtown is vaporized immediately with damage spreading throughout Manhattan. In this scenario, the mayor survives and at ďŹ rst contacts the emergency management center in Brooklyn by phone, before later arriving. Other members of his inner circle are rushed to Coney Island, many miles away, to establish a new temporary seat of government. The drill focuses on the office’s ability to communicate in a crisis. Its gleaming command center was built in Brooklyn a decade ago after its predecessor, which was in Seven World Trade Center, was destroyed during the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. A backup command center has also been built at an undisclosed location elsewhere in the city. “We all have plans: Jersey. Connecticut. The city. The state,â€? Esposito said. “But when it actually happens, how do we communicate with one another? After 9/11, communications was down for a while. This is what we have to practice.â€?
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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG NOT SO GRANDSON A senior Upper East Side resident was undone by her love for her grandson. At 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, October 21, an 81-year-old woman received a phone call from someone claiming to be her grandson, saying he had been arrested in New Jersey on a DUI charge and needed help getting out of jail. He said that she would soon be contacted by his public defender, and sure enough, twenty minutes later she got a call from the alleged public defender, requesting that she remit $1,700 in the form of a Money Gram or Western Union wire transfer. He also left her a phone number she should call to conďŹ rm that she had sent the money. When she dutifully called the number after making the payment, she was asked to wire yet another $1,700. The next day, she telephoned her real grandson, who of course had not been in any kind of trouble, and realized that she had been taken for $3,400.
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The pandemic of ID thefts continues unabated. At 5 p.m. on Saturday, October 11, a 34-year-old woman living on the Upper East Side received a credit card and statement from Best Buy listing charges of $6,695. The only problem? She had never opened the account. When she next went to check her credit report, she discovered that a Victoria’s Secret card had also been opened in her name, but fortunately there was no outstanding balance on that account. Police said there is an ongoing investigation into the matter.
HALLWAY HAUL No wonder a man was moving away, with neighbors like these. Sometime between 1:50 and 2 p.m. on Wednesday, October 22, a 37-year-old man who was in the process of moving temporarily placed some of his belongings in the hallway outside his apartment. When he next looked for those items, a mirror and tabletop valued at $100, he found that they were missing. There was no video available inside the hallway, and a canvass of the building
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19TH PRECINCT Report covering the week 10/13/2014 through 10/19/2014 Week to Date
Year to Date
2014
2013
% Change
2014
2013
% Change
Murder
0
0
n/a
0
0
n/a
Rape
0
0
n/a
8
5
60
Robbery
0
2
-100
66
83
-20.5
Felony Assault
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0
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80
81
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Burglary
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6
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180
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30
24
25
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1,224
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Grand Larceny Auto
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1
200
67
46
45.7
produced no results.
RED-HANDED AND BLUE-HANDBAGGED One careless thief was caught not just red-handed, but blue-handbagged as well. At 9:40 p.m. on Tuesday, October
21, some sharp-eyed police officers from the 19th precinct saw a suspicious character -- a 53-year-old man -- removing items from a blue purse and throwing them into the bushes in front of an apartment building. The officers accosted the man and discovered that he had a
matching wallet in his front pants pocket containing a New York State driver’s license in the name of a 29-year-old woman. Just then, that very same woman approached the officers and told them that her blue purse had just been stolen, after she had laid it on the counter
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Pledge 2 Protect’s battle against the E. 91st St. marine transfer station appears to be shifting from outright opposition to the plan to behind-thescenes discussions with the city aimed at mitigating its impact on the community. A spokesperson for the Department of Sanitation said they’re engaged in active discussions to address concerns about safety, air quality and traffic. “Among the items on the table are alternate ramp locations to
the north of Asphalt Green,” said the spokesperson. “We are evaluating the feasibility of these alternate ramps and other roadway improvements with an eye toward improving the pedestrian safety in the vicinity of the MTS.” The “ramp” refers to the access road that runs through the middle of Asphalt Green, the route upon which dump trucks hauling garbage to the MTS will drive. In July, a construction accident at the site caused a 10-pound jackhammer chisel to crash through a fourth-floor window at the athletic complex, narrowly missing an employee. Resistance to the MTS has coalesced around Pledge 2 Protect, the most vocal and well-funded of several organizations opposed to the city’s 2006 solid waste management
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plan, which includes the E. 91st St. MTS. This past spring and summer, Pledge mobilized residents in nearby NYCHA housing developments as well as other stakeholders in the community to hold demonstrations in front of the construction site. Despite these actions, which have led to several arrests since May, sources close to discussions with the city say that behind the scenes, Pledge has dhifted turned to convincing the city to move the ramp to E. 92nd St. In response to a request for comment, Pledge 2 Protect president Kelly Nimmo-Guenther told Our Town that the organization is part of a coalition in the community involved in confidential discussions with the city, but acknowledged negotiations are occurring. “The discussions with the city are ongoing and we need to honor the request to keep the discussions confidential until an agreement is made,” said Nimmo-Guenther. “We can say that we know all solutions discussed are feasible and it’s up to Mayor de Blasio and his administration on whether they want to take important and significant measures in protecting the health and safety of the millions of people impacted by the E. 91st St. MTS.” But Pledge, at least publicly, is maintaining the fight to stop the MTS outright. In the past
two weeks the organization has held two demonstrations and released a letter signed by more than100 doctors warning the Health Department about dangerous particulate matter that will be introduced into the air around the MTS. But conceding the point that the MTS at E. 91st St. will likely go forward seems somewhat obvious, letters and demonstrations notwithstanding. The city’s Department of Design and Construction, for example, told Our Town that, “The City of New York is fully committed to constructing the MTS at East 91st Street.” “Overall construction is approximately over 20 percent completed,” said a DDC spokesperson. “The existing building has been demolished. Installation work is continuing on new piles, caps and beams [and is] approximately 50 percent completed. The sewer and water connection at York Ave. is completed and significant road restoration is in progress. Utility work continues within the construction fence up to the incline of the ramp.” DDC estimated superstructure work on the new MTS will begin in the spring, said the spokesperson, who also noted the department, “will continue to treat all community stakeholder concerns about the MTS very seriously. We have an open-door policy for discussion on any issue and have hired a full-time community construction liaison who is available all the time on site, by phone, or by e-mail for this project.” A press release distributed by Pledge to raise awareness for the die-in even references the E. 92nd St. plan, urging Mayor de Blasio to “take measures that will significantly improve the health and safety risks like moving the ramp one block north.”
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Central Park The only dedicated Assisted Living Facility in New York City specializing in Enhanced Memory Care.
Ensconced in the landmark neighborhood of the Upper East Side, Residents continue to enjoy the heart and soul of this incomparable city they have always loved. • Beautiful Upper East Side Environment • Each floor a “Neighborhoodâ€? with Family Style Dining & Living Room • 24-hour Licensed Nurses & Attendants specially trained in dementia care • Medication Management • Around the clock personal care, as needed • Housekeeping, Linen & Personal Laundry • Courtyard & Atrium Rooftop Garden • Chef prepared Meals
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE PARK? ICE SKATING Ice skating season has arrived! Both Wollman and Lasker Rink are open. Grab your skates (or rent a pair) and head over for some fun this weekend! Skate school lessons are also available. More info on www.centralpark.com. The trees of Central Park are undergoing a beautiful fall transformation and the many species of birds are just as fascinating! Come out for a birding walk and see them for yourself. More info at www.birdingbob.com.
COMING UP THIS WEEK
Daily at 9am and 2pm Take a guided walk through the lesser known and often missed parts of the park. Contact info@centralpark. com for reservations www.centralpark.com/ guide/tours
CITIFARI: PHOTOGRAPHY WALKING TOUR
Nation’s first recipient of AFA’s Excellence in Care distinction.
80th Street Residents in Central Park with the Essex House Hotel peeking from behind.
11/8 and 11/9 at 10:30 a.m. Capture fall in Central Park on a walking tour! Bring your camera. Reservations required. www.centralpark.com/ citifari
430 East 80th Street, New York, NY 10075 Tel. 212-717-8888 www.80thstreetresidence.com
MOONLIGHT RIDE IN CENTRAL PARK 11/7 Meet at Columbus Circle at 10 p.m. Take a night bike ride
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through Central Park. Brompton folding bikes welcome and all other bikes as well. www.centralpark.com/ events
Event listings and Where in Central Park? brought to you by CentralPark.com.
WHERE IN CENTRAL PARK? Do you know where in Central Park this photo was taken? To submit your answer, go to centralpark.com/ where-in-centralpark. The answers and names of the people who guessed right will appear in next weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paper.
LAST WEEKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ANSWER Not an original part of Olmsted and Vauxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Greensward Planâ&#x20AC;? for the Park, Conservatory Water, now famous for its model sailboats, was initially intended to be a small pool for a glass house and formal, ornamental ďŹ&#x201A;ower garden. Congratulations to Robyn Roth-Moise, Frederic Hutchins and Ravi Rozdon for answering correctly!
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Planned Service Changes
Significant service changes impact the 1 in Manhattan and the Bronx. WEEKNIGHTS 11:30 PM to 4 AM, Mon to Fri Oct 27 – Nov 7 No 1 service between 137 St and 242 St. A trains and free shuttle buses provide alternate service.
WEEKENDS 11:30 PM Fri to 5 AM Mon Oct 31 – Nov 3 and Nov 7 – 10 No 1 service between 96 St and 242 St. A C trains, free shuttle buses, and the M3 provide alternate service. Stay Informed Call 511 and say “Current Service Status,” look for informational posters in stations, or visit mta.info where you can access the latest Planned Service Changes information, use TripPlanner+, and sign up for free email and text alerts.
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DEALING WITH EBOLA FEARS We asked people in Manhattan about their concerns and fears BY HANNAH GRIFFIN & NICOLE DEL MAURO
Erica Robenalt
it, but it’s not something that I go and think about a lot. Is there any point that you would start to get more worried about it? Well if it’s starting to be like outbreaks, with people in the city, that’s another thing, but yeah I’m not worried yet. Do you ever take the A train? Yeah. Were you concerned when you found out that the doctor had taken the A train? No. You have to….I’m cautious about when I take the train….you know I use antibacterial… afterwards…like you can’t it unless someone sneezes at you that has it, and its really hard to get infected by it.
Emily Weber
UPPER WEST SIDE, STUDENT Are you worried about Ebola? Yes, and no. Mostly I have fears because I heard he took the 1 train, and I use the 1 train. But I also think that he lives in Brooklyn, and he’s contained so not really. But yeah it hasn’t like stopped me from doing anything. At what point would you start to take precautions? If the World Health Organization was like, “don’t go outside.” Some institution, a respectable institution, would have to tell me to stop.
Paul Gusmorino
Celia Peterson LIVES ON THE UPPER EAST SIDE Are you worried about Ebola? No. Do you think its being blown out of proportion? Well I think it’s important to be cautious about
Slightly. It’s bizarre that it occurred and he was allowed to ride transportation systems and be in public. Have you ridden the A train at all? No, I very rarely take trains because I live very close to work and all that. Are you taking any precautions? Not yet, until it gets a little bit more escalated. Do you think the media is blowing the issue out of proportion? Not to a degree, I mean you really heard what happened in Texas and if they’re trying to secure it, if there’s someone here in the city they should react to it as soon as possible.
UPPER EAST SIDE Are you worried about Ebola? Not really. Is there a certain point that you would become more nervous and maybe change some of your routines? I feel like at this point I am not nervous at all. Do you ever take the A train? No. Would you be more worried if you did take the A train? I watched the news conference when they were asking questions about it, so I feel like no. I feel like he didn’t have the symptoms when he was taking the train, so no.
Are you worried about Ebola? Yeah, I guess I have some concerns about Ebola. I’m just watching the news and seeing if additional people become infected. If it started to spread I would worry about it more. I’m not thinking too much into it, I’m just keeping up with it. If it started to spread and all of a sudden it was 20 people instead of 2 people, probably. It seems like it’s only healthcare workers. So if people outside of the healthcare industry in New York City started to get it I would probably start to become concerned.
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Gabrielle Navetta
WEST VILLAGE
EAST VILLAGE, STUDENT Are you worried about Ebola? Not really. Is there any point that you would start to get more worried about it? No, I don’t think so. I feel like they’re taking all the proper precautions. Is the media blowing this out of proportion? No I don’t think so because I feel like if one thing goes wrong then…
Are you worried about Ebola? I am not concerned. I don’t think we have anything to be worried about. I don’t know if I would say the media is blowing it out of proportion because it’s obviously something to be concerned about but I think that currently I’m not concerned about it. One person in New York and someone who’s quarantined, I don’t think it’s really something to worry about yet. I think it’s impossible to not keep up with it considering the amount of coverage of one person. I’m sure that I will whether I’m seeking out tons of information about it or not.
Jackson Robin Ostrow Khalil CHELSEA
UPPER EAST SIDE I am not worried at all. I think people are overreacting to it. The media always wants to have stories so they tend to make a bigger deal out of things. If I saw there was a significant spread I would become concerned about it.
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UPPER EAST SIDE, WORKS AT ABC
Are you worried about Ebola? No, I take a flu shot, I think a flu shot’s way more important, so I’m amazed people don’t do that because…you feel like you can die from that. Yeah, way more than the Ebola thing. They have that so much more under control, and the flu is so much more communicable. So Ebola doesn’t scare me. Maybe because I’ve been listening to the news and work in the news, I know all the details, and I listen to the news all day long. I have a lot of facts.
William Tucker GRAMERCY PARK Are you at all concerned about Ebola?
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Are you at all concerned about Ebola? Well, I think that it’s to be expected. You know people travel all over the place and New York City being such a large hub, um…I’m surprised that it’s a doctor and that he wasn’t more conscious. Maybe that’s something that saved him from spreading it, maybe because he is a doctor but just…I guess it’s the nature of the work. Has the media blown this out of proportion? Media always blows this out of proportion. I am not necessarily a fan of American media, partially because it’s either left or right leaning, and the politics makes the media almost unusable. So as far Ebola, I think there’s a lot of information that’s getting out there. If I had the choice of no information versus some, I would probably choose at least some information.
Bobby Benninger
Hayley Clendenning VISITING FROM PERTH, AUSTRALIA How long have you been in New York? I was here for two and a half weeks in September and I’m here for two and a half weeks again, in October. As a visitor, what kinds of concerns do you have about Ebola? Subway! That worries me a little bit when I was thinking about it. I always carry-not that the hand sanitizer would do much but I do carry it. I don’t know, as I said I feel like I don’t have a great opinion right now, it’s a little bit scary that it seems to be coming closer, it’s becoming closer to you guys than anyone else, I think in transferring from Africa.
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Op-Ed
The best of times, the test of times BY ARLENE KAYATT efore primaries, political club members stood at bus stops and outside supermarkets asking passersby to sign petitions to get their candidates on the ballot. I’m a member of the East Side Democratic Club and you may have seen us collecting signatures for Rebecca Seawright, who ran successfully in the Democratic primary for Assembly in our district. Our club has the distinction of being the only one to endorse her before the primary. If she wins, she’ll be the first woman to hold the seat. When I got to Our Town, our Assembly Member was Peter A.A. Berle, who was succeeded by Pete Grannis. I’ll never forget the nasty primary between Pete Grannis and Bob Postel, a City Councilman in the early 70’s. Yorkville has changed consequentially since then. Fewer small buildings (meaning less affordable housing), more cars. Fewer German, Czech and Hungarian restaurants and bakeries. There’s still the Heidelberg on 2nd and Glaser’s bakery on 1st. Mom and pop shops gone. Gimbels, 86th St, gone.
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Movie theater that replaced it, gone. Now there’s a luxury high rise where the ASPCA once stood on 92nd and York, and the ASPCA moved to East 92nd, a short distance from a recently built Marriot Hotel. At least the garbage dump on 91st and York operated only four days a week. We didn’t realize how noxious it was until it was shut down in 1999. I hope the fight to dump the bigger, more noxious dump prevails. The booming increase in real estate development has resulted in diminishing neighborhoods. There’s more crowding – on the streets and sidewalks, transportation, and in public spaces. While our streets are safer and restaurants and bars are booming and cultural life is thriving, we lack affordable housing, open space and small local businesses. We need to fight for these community assets along with cleaner streets, affordable housing, more open space, help for small business owners, and more schools. Joseph Berger, in a 2006 New York Times article, described best the old Yorkville and its ethnic composition: “Once, New York’s Mitteleuropeans lived side by side along Second Avenue, with the Czechs and Slovaks lodged in the walk-ups of the upper 60’s and the 70’s, the Hungarians occupying the low 80’s, and the Germans in the high 80’s and 90’s.” A Yorkville that is no more. The ethnic tide has turned with an increase in Asians and Mexicans as reflected in
the restaurants throughout Yorkville. During election time and on Election Day there was a large turnout of Asian voters in my Yorkville polling place. Something else that has – and has not – changed are the many parades celebrating various ethnic groups – Germans, Puerto Rican, Greek, etc. They take place on 5th Ave, but the marchers, viewers, and the buses and cars they come in spill over into Yorkville. The parades bring a festive excitement to the neighborhood, but also noise and dirt and sometimes bad behavior by overexcited revelers. When I was editing Our Town, the St. Patrick’s Day Parade had a particularly bad reputation. As marchers reached 86th St, where the parade ended, they would let off steam after the rigors of the day’s march, turning 2nd and 3rd Avenues into a freeflowing party. I’m told that a member of the East Side Democratic Club got the police together with the mayor’s office and the parade managers, and they were able to resolve the matter without fighting. Things improved after that, and the parade now ends on 79th St. And there are far fewer problems. Definitely an Our Town story. Arlene S. Kayatt, a former editor of Our Town, is a practicing Matrimonial and Family Law attorney and member of the Executive Committee of East Democratic Club in Yorkville.
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Out & About 31 FLOWER EXHIBIT OPENS AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM 1109 5th Ave. at 92nd St. 11 am – 5:45 p.m., $7.50 $15 The Jewish Museum’s flower exhibit of Willem de Rooij’s work “Bouquet XI (2014)” will be making its debut Halloween weekend. The piece is a product of de Rooij’s collaboration with floral designer Bella Meyer and is composed solely of flowers native to the Middle East region. thejewishmuseum.org
MOVIE MATINEE FRIDAY 58th Street Library, 127 East 58th St. btwn Park and Lexington Ave. 2 – 3:45 p.m., Free Spend Halloween afternoon enjoying a film with classic actors such as Shirley MacLaine and Audrey Hepburn. In the black and white work “The Children’s Hour,” students ruin the reputations of two female teachers by spreading rumors of lesbianism. nypl.org
Writers can learn how to read and write about physical trauma at the New York Public Library. Poet Loren Kleinman, author of “Flamenco Sketches and Indie Authors Naked” and “The Dark Cave Between My Ribs,” will be leading the workshop and helping all attendees complete a poem. This hands-on event is for adults. nypl.org
RANDOM HOUSE REP. VISITS LIBRARY Yorkville Library, 222 East 79th St., btwn 2nd and 3rd Ave. 11 a.m., Free Want to keep up to date on the latest literary gossip? At Book Buzz, a representative from Random House will talk about forthcoming books in the summer and fall. Come to hear the inside scoop and receive advanced reader copies, book catalogues and ‘Keep Calm and Read On’ tote bags. nypl.org
2 FLUX QUARTET DEBUTS NEW COMPOSITIONS Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave. at 89th St. 7:30 p.m., $30-35 The works of choreographer Pam Tanowitz and composer David Lang will be exhibited in a dance performance set to the musical stylings of the FLUX Quartet. New compositions by Ted Hearne, Hannah Lash and Caroline Shaw will be played. The event is a one-week residency of the Guggenheim’s Works & Process series,
1 WRITING AS HEALING WORKSHOP 67th Street Library, 328 East 67th St. btwn 1st and 2nd Ave. 3 – 4:30 p.m., FREE
which will feature other new commissions in Feb. 2015. guggenheim.org
MUSEUM CELEBRATES FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave at 82nd St. 2 – 4:30 p.m., Free with admission The Multicultural Audience Development Initiative wants to help people learn about new cultures by experiencing different traditions. The Development Initiative in collaboration with the MET is celebrating the Hindu festival of lights Diwali. Audience members watch a performance of the story of Diwali by members of the East-West School of Dance in a perfect family environment metmuseum.org
3 PUBLIC TOUR AT THE GUGGENHEIM Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave. at 89th St. 2 p.m., $18-22 Experience the New Narrative tour around the Guggenheim to explore varying themes in art. Museum educators lead a tour and discussion around the museum to talk about engaging with works from different eras. guggenheim.org
PORTUGUESE RECIPES FROM CHEF GEORGE MENDES 92nd Street Y, Lexington Ave, at 92nd St. 7 p.m., $24 Chef and New York City restaurant owner George
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Mendes can teach you a thing or two about Portuguese food. Named one of Food & Wineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best New Chefsâ&#x20AC;? in 2011, Mendes in the owner of Flatironâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aldea. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be discussing tales about his heritage as his cooking inspirational and recipes with food writer Francis Lam. 92y.org
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Halloweens of Yorkvilles Past BY MARIAN ARMSTRONG henever we were greeted with, “Now who do we have here?” we were certain the confusion stemmed from the addition of the shirt. Despite the fact that we were denied full creative liberty, there was something of a novelty in the concept of actually “making” your own costume. Gone were the days of the costumes I grew up on, the jumpsuits that came with an uncomfortable plastic mask, kept in place by a restricting elastic band that burrowed into our tender jowls. We were delighted to be free, and to marvel at the fact that my sister would never suffer such a fate. Whatever happened to these costumes that could so easily be found in tidy boxes, the creepy masks with two holes for eyes and two holes for nostrils staring out from cellophane windows on the shelves of the local five-anddime stores, or in our case, Lamston’s on Lexington Avenue between 84th and 85th or Woolworth’s on 86th and Third. Woolworth’s, be-
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ing the larger store, had the larger selection, but still not large enough. As was the case with these costumes, variety was scarce, and the early bird caught the worm. Let’s just say there were many years of settling. At least at Woolworth’s you could drown your disappointment in an ice-cream soda at the soda fountain on the first floor, and then ride the escalator downstairs to check out the unfortunate fish, birds, and hamsters in the pet store on the lower level. So why, now, do I look back on these costumes with such fondness? Was it the simplicity of it all? The whole costume came in a box, after all. It was very little work, which I suppose had its appeal, at least to our parents. All you had to worry about was foot attire, which of course was the pair of sneakers you already owned. There was no such thing as shelling out additional money for go-go boots, as I recently did for my own daughter’s costume. And there was no such thing as accessorizing either. Heavens no! You were too afraid that your own idea would interfere with the manufacturer’s grand plan for you and thousands of others. We were seemingly happy to climb into our vinyl and silkscreened jumpsuits, one leg at a time, pull them up over our everyday clothes, and then tie them at the back of the neck, with not much more closure than a hospital gown.
How ironic that Ben Cooper, one of the major manufacturers of these costumes, was referred to as the Halston of Halloween. If you were a princess, the only earrings you wore were the ones already “painted” on the ears of the mask and the only necklace draped around your neck was the one already “sewn into” your jumpsuit. And your hair, well it was whatever was already on the mask. It never occurred to us to be inventive. How I would love to see my nine year old’s reaction to such a costume today, particularly after purchasing two cans of white hairspray to get her through the Halloween season. So where does it go from here? Isn’t that what every generation asks? At the risk of sounding like our forefathers and foremothers, the ones who walked to and from school in a snowstorm, uphill both ways, we wore these sweat-inducing costumes because that’s what was available to us, and we liked it. Is it possible that these onestop-shopping, all-in-one kits will be back again someday? After we’ve exhausted ourselves from our online searches to get just the right hotdog bun for our frankfurter costume? Like the stock market, is it cyclical? I hope not, because—like all good things—it would never be quite the same.
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AN UNDERDOG LOOKS TO THE POLLS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 is a dereliction of duty.” And there are signs he’s beginning to get under the veteran Congresswoman’s skin. Coincidentally or not, she announced this month a piece of pro-Israel legislation and a planned trip to Warsaw for the opening of the Museum of Polish Jews. Maloney’s camp sent a letter to the Post complaining about an unfavorable editorial they published on her decision not to debate Di iorio, which led them to incorporate the letter into another editorial reinforcing the point. Last week she agreed to debate Di iorio, less than a week before the general election. In the meantime, Di iorio is pounding the pavement and meeting voters in the district. One recent morning he visited subway stops throughout the 12th Congressional District and later addressed a group of seniors at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House. “Carolyn Maloney is the ultimate Washington insider, she’s been in office 22 years,” he told the seniors. “She’s not actively campaigning because she doesn’t feel the need to.” The point seemed to resonate with some of the seniors who said they haven’t seen her around in a while. Other times, his seriousness seemed a bit misdirected, such as when he launched into a foreign policy discussion about shipments of Hellfire missiles to Israel and the “need to fight terrorists in the Middle East” while the seniors waited for their lunch. “In Stuyvesant Town the landlords are greedy, what’s your position on taking care of seniors?” asked one woman. Di iorio mentioned his 33-year-old brother, who has a nervous system disorder and is dependent on Social Security benefits, “and will be for the rest of his life,” he said. “Without those benefits I don’t know where we’d be as a family.” He said he’s committed to preserving Social Security benefits and other social programs but “making sure they’re sustainable.” Di iorio seemed to be at his best when working the room one on one, personable and attentive. Of the two-dozen tables in the room, he visited almost all of them, gaining traction at some and less at others, but always forging on to the next one.
Di iorio spoke to seniors at the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House. One woman asked how she could volunteer for his campaign. Another told him to get lost and that he had “some nerve.” “I didn’t know there was another candidate, I like to see that,” said a senior named Rita DeFaro, who’s running to sit on the advisory committee at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House. Another man at her table named Frank Maltese, who is also running to sit on the advisory committee, liked to refer to Maloney as “Carol Mahoney.” By the end of the conversation Di iorio had secured their votes. Later at a nearby diner he laid out his campaign strategy over fried eggs, which sat untouched throughout the conversation. He’s received endorsements from the Republican Party (automatically granted when he hit a certain number of petitions), the Queens County Libertarian Party, the Conservative Party and the Independence Party. Between those, he said, he should only have to make up about 20,000 more votes to win the election. Questions about voter turnout or the district’s heavily Democratic registration roles don’t faze him. But perhaps his biggest wedge is painting Maloney as out of touch and ineffective. He said Maloney last year ranked fifth in Congress for the most bills introduced, but 392 out of 439 in getting bills signed into law. In interactions with voters in the district he has a penchant for always bringing the conversation back to how entrenched Maloney is and asking people when they last saw her. “I don’t think she enjoys meeting new people, and to be honest that’s what I thrive on,” said Di iorio, who mentioned that his time in seminary taught him to be a great listener. “There have been many low
points during the campaign, whether it be the fundraising or the lack of support from other Republicans, but the high points that give me the energy to keep going are the subway visits and the trips like the one to Lenox Hill, where I get to meet people who just want to be listened to.” There are gaps in his platform that stand out in contrast to Maloney’s record. When asked about women’s issues, he didn’t seem to have a well-defined position on his priorities and spoke vaguely about empowering women through education. Di iorio says he’s against abortion but also that he’s supportive of women being provided the full range of medical care and services they need. Of the dozen platforms on his website, women’s issues aren’t mentioned. There are some similarities between Maloney and Di iorio. Both are from out of town; Maloney is from North Carolina and Di iorio grew up in Rhode Island. Maloney launched her campaign over 20 years ago against an entrenched Republican incumbent and narrowly beat the odds to win the election. Di iorio’s people skills, and his exuberance and earnestness, were on display in an exchange he had with Frank Maltese at the senior center. Maltese, a former official with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, was holding forth about corruption in the city. Di iorio didn’t add much to that part of the conversation, but brought it back to how many years Maloney’s been in office and the need for change. Before Di iorio stood up to go, Maltese commented that he knows who he’s voting for on Nov. 4. “You’ve got my vote kid,” he said. For more information on Nick Di iorio and his platform, visit www. nickfornewyork.com.
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On My Issues Working to End Gun Violence and Gun Safety Reform Congresswoman Maloney is the NRA’s Target…. Because she fights for common sense gun safety laws to keep our communities safe. Carolyn authored legislation to
crack down on gun trafficking and cosponsored legislation requiring universal background checks, limit “massacre gun magazines” and renewing the ban on assault weapons.
Working for economic justice for seniors Congresswoman Maloney fights for seniors and delivers… $700 million dollars in lower prescription costs for New York seniors since 2010. To Carolyn, economic justice for seniors means opposing benefit cuts and privatization of social security, while fighting to expand Medicare services such as free preventive screenings. Carolyn led members of Congress and local lawmakers to City Hall to tell the deBlasio administration that seniors in affordable rental housing must not be relocated. “It’s not acceptable to tell a senior that they should live out their lives in one room sleeping on a couch,” she said.
Working for Equal Rights at Home and Abroad Congresswoman Maloney a proud supporter of LGBT rights… She fought for Marriage Equality in Washington and New York, she voted against the “Defense of Marriage” law and worked for its repeal. Carolyn has sponsored numerous bills (ENDA) to ensure LGBT workplace rights. She sponsored the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and Guardianship protections for everyone.
Congresswoman Maloney a leader for gender equality….. She sponsored the Equal Rights Amendment, the National Women’s History Museum, and The Lily Ledbetter Workplace Protection Act to outlaw pay discrimination against women. Carolyn’s leading the fight in Congress to overturn the Supreme Court’s “Hobby Lobby” decision. She has worked to expand Medicare services such as preventive screenings for women’s health issues, access to women’s health and reproductive services. Carolyn’s Rape Kit Backlog Law was just reauthorized by Congress, and has helped and protected women by funding the testing of DNA from Rape Kits to arrest and convict sexual predators. She has led the fight against sex trafficking, and fought for the rights of women and girls to vote, participate and receive an education in all parts of the world.
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In my neighborhood Fighting the MTS
Improving Infrastructure
Opposes creating a 10-story garbage transfer station at East 91st Street, which is being constructed more than 5.5 feet below the high flood mark in a densely populated residential community adjacent to Asphalt Green, several schools, two public housing developments, a senior center and more than 30,000 residents. Called for a work stoppage and full investigation on July 9, 2014 after a drill bit being improperly used to move material at the MTS site was catapulted through a window at Asphalt Green injuring an employee.
Recognizing that New Yorkers need more mass transit options, better bridges and cleaner water, fought for federal investment in our infrastructure, including: • $1.3 billion for the Second Avenue Subway which will relieve overcrowding on the Lexington line, scheduled to start December 2016. All tunneling has been completed, all contracts are in process and the project is currently more than 65% complete. • $2.6 billion for the East Side Access project which will bring the LIRR into Grand Central Station and create a new stop in Sunnyside, Queens.
Preserving and Expanding Affordable Housing
• $670 million to replace the Kosciuszko Bridge, considered one of the nation’s worst bridges.
Supported more funding for federal affordable housing programs, opposed City plan to move people in former Mitchell Lama buildings to smaller apartments and working to ensure that affordable housing remains at Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town. Helped build six affordable senior housing developments, including Carnegie East House which was the first HUD-sponsored assisted living facility in Manhattan.
• succeeded in getting the Environmental Protection Agency to declare Newtown Creek a federal superfund site so that it can be cleaned up.
Working for Jobs Introduced several bills to help small businesses get access to more loans and ensure that more people have access to vital Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) job training and education. Advocated for the new high tech engineering school known as Cornell NYC Tech on Roosevelt Island, which is expected to attract as many as 600 new computer science companies and lead to tens of thousands of new STEM jobs. The campus alone will help create up to 20,000 construction jobs and up to 8,000 permanent jobs.
• created a Task Force to improve and repair the East River Esplanade from 60th Street to 125th Street. • working to create a new esplanade from 38th to 60th, with work already underway on the Con Ed pier and at Asser Levy Place. • helped direct federal funding to create a tree-lined path at Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island.
Superstorm Sandy Rebuilding Fought to obtain federal recovery aid for New York after Superstorm Sandy to help people rebuild their homes, to restore New York’s hospitals, MTS tunnels and other infrastructure and to protect against future storms. Advocated for barriers to protect lower Manhattan from flooding.
Creating New Schools Led the fight to create new schools to serve our neighborhood, establishing task forces that led to the creation of Eleanor Roosevelt High School, P.S. 151, PS 452, P.S. 267, PS 281 and others.
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Carolyn Maloney Works For Me ……And She Saves Me Money Helping Consumers Authored and passed the Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights, saving people $14 billion per year, according to an independent study. Introduced the Overdraft Protection Act to protect consumers from unfair and exorbitant checking account fees.
Called Her Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights a win for the little guy – and said that thanks
to Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney – “Main Street scored a victory in the House of Representatives.” Ed Mierzwinski of USPIRG chose to put it:
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TALLYING THE COST OF ACCIDENTS ON THE EAST SIDE
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 fully eradicate accidents such as these, NYC Fleet, a subset of the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, announced its intention to promote crucial reforms. In accordance with the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vision Zero initiative to make pedestrians feel safer in the city, NYC Fleet has been working with a collision tracking system that allows surveillance and analysis of city agency accidents. Other reforms include enforcing seat belt usage, expanding the State Defensive Driver Training programs and working towards including back-up cameras and rear-wheel side guards in city vehicles.
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LEXINGTON AVE. AT 63RD ST. Date ďŹ led: 10/20/2006 Vehicle type: Police Department Amount of claim: N/A Pedestrian age: 59
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YORK AVE. AT E. 74TH ST.
Date ďŹ led: 3/26/2008 Vehicle type: Police Department Amount of claim: $1,500 Pedestrian age: 55
Date ďŹ led: 7/9/2007 Vehicle type: Department of Sanitation Amount of claim: N/A Pedestrian age: N/A
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1ST AVE. AT 74TH ST.
Date ďŹ led: 1/16/2007 Type of vehicle: Department of Sanitation Amount of claim: $30,000 Pedestrian age: 40
Date ďŹ led: 7/9/2010 Vehicle type: Taxi/Limousine Commission Amount of claim: N/A Pedestrian age: N/A
2ND AVE. AT E. 59TH ST.
PARK AVENUE AT E. 67TH ST.
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Date ďŹ led: 12/30/2013 Vehicle type: Police Department Amount of claim: N/A Pedestrian age: 32
YORK AVE. AT E. 61ST ST.
YORK AVE. AT E. 72ND ST.
Date ďŹ led: 4/13/2007 Vehicle type: Police Department Amount of claim: $3,000 Pedestrian age: 43
Date ďŹ led: 11/25/2013 Vehicle type: Police Department Amount of claim: N/A Pedestrian age: N/A
Date ďŹ led: 11/9/2006 Vehicle type: Police Department Amount of claim: $22,500 Pedestrian age: 60
1ST AVE. AT 75TH ST. Date ďŹ led: 5/9/2011 Vehicle type: Police Department Amount of claim: $15,000 Pedestrian age: 48
Vehicle type: Police Department Amount of claim: N/A Pedestrian age: 45
MADISON AVE. AT E. 82ND ST. Date ďŹ led: 7/30/2009 Vehicle type: Department of Sanitation Amount of claim: $110,000 Pedestrian age: 49
2ND AVE. AT E. 84TH ST. Date ďŹ led: 12/20/2012 Vehicle type: Department of Sanitation Amount of claim: N/A Pedestrian age: 32
YORK AVE. AT 86TH ST. YORK AVENUE AT E. 80TH ST. Date ďŹ led: 7/8/2008 Vehicle type: Fire Department Amount of claim: N/A Pedestrian age: 30
75 EAST END AVE. Date ďŹ led: 7/25/2011
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Date ďŹ led: 3/19/2009 Vehicle type: Department of Parks and Recreation Amount of claim: $1,925,000 Pedestrian age: 49
3RD AVE. AT E. 86TH ST. Date ďŹ led: 4/11/2011 Vehicle type: N/A Amount of claim: N/A Pedestrian age: 39
3RD AVE. AT 102ND ST.
3RD AVE. AT 87TH ST. Date ďŹ led: 8/29/2007 Vehicle type: Department of Environmental Protection Amount of claim: $50,000 Pedestrian age: 27
Date ďŹ led: 8/26/2009 Vehicle type: Police Department Amount of claim: N/A Pedestrian age: 4
3RD AVE. AT 103RD ST. Date ďŹ led: 10/5/2007 Vehicle type: Fire Department Amount of claim: $75,000 Pedestrian age: 45
LEXINGTON AVE. AT 95TH ST. Date ďŹ led: 9/8/2012 Vehicle type: Police Department Amount of claim: $28,000 Pedestrian age: 40
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DEFENDING THE FRICK Q&A Talking with Frick director Ian Wardropper about the museum’s expansion plans BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO
Ian Wardropper, director of The Frick Collection. Photo by Michael Bodycomb
< A recent photograph of The Frick Collection (above) juxtaposed with a rendering of the proposed plan illustrating the same view (below). Photograph Michael Bodycomb; artist’s rendering courtesy Neoscape Inc., 2014.
Not many offices in the city can rival Ian Wardropper’s. The director of the Frick Collection works out of a large, sun-soaked office, with a marble fireplace, sumptuous velvet chairs and floor-length curtains giving way to views of Fifth Avenue and Central Park. Since the Frick announced plans for expansion on E. 70th St. in June, which include a new, six-story building that will house gallery space, larger reception areas, classrooms and an auditorium, the proposal has had its detractors. New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman urged the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission to reject the proposal. The Historic Districts Council, which reviews presentations on landmark properties bound for LPC, issued a statement earlier this month in opposition to the plan, suggesting that the expansion will jeopardize the intent of the mansion’s original architects and threaten the intimacy of the museum. As museum officials continue to prepare for a formal presentation to LPC (expected in early 2015), we caught up with Wardropper in his office, which, if all goes as he hopes, he’ll have to vacate once the renovation is complete, when the second floor, which is currently administrative space, becomes open to the public for the first time. Did you anticipate a strong public response to the expansion plan? Certainly we did. The Frick is really a beloved institution. People care deeply about it. And we care, too, so we knew there would be intense scrutiny and interest in everything we did. The process has actually been a really in-
teresting one because we tried to be as open and transparent as we could from the beginning and we will continue to be. What I’ve found is that all of these constituent groups who have come in—the preservationist groups, elected officials, neighbors—have all had really interesting things to say, whether they’re for or against. This has been a very lively dialogue, even if it’s contentious sometimes. People really are paying attention, I think for the best of reasons. Who have you met with from the community? Over the summer we met [informally] with essentially all of the preservationist groups, elected officials, really people who have an interest in this. In terms of the neighbors, we will continue to meet with them. We’ve told all of these groups that it’s a preview, and as the plan is refined and we get moved to the next stage, we will invite them back to view the next stage. Did you host these meetings in order to involve those groups in the discussion? Certainly to inform them, and to listen to them, and indeed to get into a dialogue over it. In terms of the neighbors, we sent letters to them immediately to inform them of the plan. I’ve met with individuals personally, had phone calls, email exchanges, and as we get closer to the Landmarks stage, we will have open houses for the neighborhood to come in and see the plans. What were some of the responses you got from the neighbors? The same kind of concerns that any construction plan in any neighborhood would have. People wonder, are their views going to be blocked? Is there going to be noise? You know, all of that. We will be as considerate as we can of the needs of the neighbors in terms of making everything as compact as possible when construction happens, minimizing noise, letting
OCTOBER 30-NOVEMBER 5 Our Town 21 them know in advance. Are you still refining the plans? It’s in that process now. We’re in a kind of second phase of the design, but we’re now showing it to our trustee committee that has been charged with looking and working with us on this. So this will take through December to talk through the various components of the revised plan. The trustees are very happy and very excited with the direction that this is going. I just can’t say really what we’re doing yet because the trustees haven’t really approved. But by the time we get to the December meeting the trustees should approve it and then it’s that plan that we’ll essentially be going to Landmarks with. Is the evolution of the plan taking into account feedback you’ve gotten? Absolutely. That’s actually been really critical. I can’t speak too specifically about it but certainly some of the points that have been made that we’re really paying close attention to is the relationship of the new building to the old building, and being absolutely clear in demarking the old building from the new and giving it the visual space that it needs and making the new building as harmonious as possible with the old one, but clearly having a language that’s different from that. I think it’s evolved in really a natural way and in a way that’s just improving it. The proposal has been both criticized and defended in the press. What do you take away from those critiques? Even the critics who have been somewhat hostile have had interesting things to say. They’re often inaccurate, and I’ve got to try and set that straight. Even in setting the inaccuracies straight, it reminds me that some misinformation is out there and our job is to try to set the record straight. Not everybody will print a rebuttal or bother to set the record straight. We’re trying just to do so calmly and carefully, and I think as people understand it’s not a tower, all these things that people were saying, and get more fully why we need to do it, not everybody will be converted but at least people are more open to it. How did you gauge the immediate need for expansion? Did it have to do with membership growth? Attendance has grown by
about 37 percent over the last five, 10 years. For many years attendance hovered around 250,000 people a year, for several decades. It’s now close to 340,000, so it really is quite a major increase. We’ve already been planning to have better facilities, but that just really drove it home, that we need it now.
And in the plan we create some dedicated spaces for them to do whatever they want with. I think our education programs will get better and more interesting, and that will benefit the public, and the neighborhood for that matter. We have teen programs, college programs, college nights, so there’ll be more of that.
So you will be able to better accommodate crowds when you do popular exhibitions? We’re not planning to do more blockbusters, but sometimes an exhibition is popular, and we have to prepare for that. A big portion of this plan is to create a better temporary exhibition space on the first floor. The next exhibition that we’re just about to open is this wonderful Scottish exhibition of masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery. There are 10 paintings, from Botticelli to [John Singer] Sargent. So we’re going to have those 10 pictures in the Oval Room, which is one of the galleries we traditionally have used for paintings exhibitions. And it will be beautiful, but we will have to take down our Whistler’s, which everybody loves, in order to make that exhibition happen. And it’s going to be a little crammed. It’s not ideal. The temporary exhibition space that we’re planning would allow a show like this to be presented spaciously, more gracefully, and we wouldn’t have to take the Whistler’s down.
You’ll have to give up your office. Yeah, and people walk in here and say this is one of the most beautiful offices in New York. It’s very peaceful, it’s a beautiful place, but the public should be able to enjoy it, too.
What has the response been from museum members? The number one fear is that people will lose the sense of intimacy, the quality of the Frick that they know, and my immediate response is no. It’s just only going to be better because you’ll be able to come upstairs. I’ve written an essay in our members’ magazine that’s gone out to the members. I think that’s helped a lot. I started giving lectures. I’ve given lectures here, kind of to our upper level members, three of those now, and I’ll continue to do so. Aside from the museum and the collection, who else will benefit? Who’s the major beneficiary in this? Our visitors, I think. This is really why we’re doing it, to make the space even better for them. We have a wonderful education department. They’re so creative and they work so hard, with so little. There are no dedicated classrooms in the space, so they’re always scrambling, trying to do what they can.
You haven’t released any projected costs. No. And we’re still refining the plan. Around the time that we’re going to Landmarks would be probably the appropriate time, or at least when we know when we’ve gone through Landmarks and if we’ve succeeded in that we’ll know the plan, and at that point we’ll be able to create accurate figures and we’ll release that. And we’ll have to obviously raise money for that as well, and so that’s around the time we would launch probably a capital campaign as well. Are you confident that you’ll be able to finance the project? It wouldn’t have gone this far if I didn’t think we could. Why not go modern with the new addition? Why did you feel that would not be an appropriate approach for this particular institution? For several reasons. The first is just the character of the building itself. It’s a building that’s evolved over time. We’re in the 1914 building, but the 1931-1935 John Russell Pope addition is so harmonious to the existing building that I think very few members of our public who come here actually are aware they’re two separate buildings, either outside or inside. This is pretty rare in museums of 100 years or so of history, because many museums have naturally their growth spurts and they add on and they kind of become an amalgam of different styles and different periods…And so this is something that people really love about the Frick. That sense of harmony and grace of it. So to us it just doesn’t make sense to do something totally different at this point. This interview was edited for length and clarity.
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< PAPAYA KING LAUNCHES FOOD TRUCK New York’s famed hot dog spot Papaya King, which started serving grilled frankfurters alongside fruit smoothies from its original location on 86th Street and Third Avenue in the 1930s, launched its
first food truck in midtown last week. The uptown staple, noted for its classic toppings of sauerkraut, sautéed sweet onions and relish, expanded to the East Village in 2013, opening an out-
post for its signature dogs on St. Mark’s Place, before capitalizing on the mobile food trend with its new roaming truck. The Daily News reported that, in addition to the familiar franks, the food
In Brief
The interior of Barbetta restaurant, which is donating 10 percent of its proceeds to Doctos without Border to help fight Ebola in west Africa.
DE BLASIO DINES AT MEATBALL SHOP
Mayor Bill de Blasio ate at the Greenwich Avenue location of the Meatball Shop on Saturday, four days after Dr. Craig Spencer, who tested positive for Ebola on Thursday, dined at the locale. Spencer was admitted to Bellevue Hospital on Thursday, and the Meatball Shop voluntarily closed for lunch the following day, before the city’s Department of Health and Office of Emergency Management gave it the go-ahead to open for dinner service. The mayor, who was joined for lunch by his wife, First Lady Chirlane McCray, and the city’s health commissioner, Dr. Mary Bassett, was greeted by restaurant coowner Daniel Holzman, who told him that the news of Spencer’s visit to the restaurant hadn’t deterred clientele from lining up for the restaurant’s meatballs on Friday evening. Holzman, along with his business partner Mike Chernow, also owns a busy Meatball Shop location on Second Avenue between 76th and 77th Streets, along with four additional locations throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn.
ZAGAT REPORTS MORE RESTAURANTS CLOSING A Zagat Survey released last Wednesday reported that twice as many New York City restaurants closed in 2014 than in 2013. Eater NY spoke with survey co-founder, Tim Zagat, who pinned the blame on rent increases. “There is no question that rents are going up in New York,” Zagat said. He went on to say that it is very common now for landlords to drastically increase a culinary business’ rent once their 10-year lease has expired. It is impossible to ignore the epidemic of local restaurants being pushed out of business, and now Zagat’s survey provides a numerical backing; over 40 New York City restaurants shuttered their windows in 2013, whereas over 80 have closed in 2014. The survey also reported that there have been the most restaurant openings in the city since 2007, with 160 new dining options.
truck will serve new offerings, including veggie dogs, corn dogs and fried Oreos. The Papaya King Truck travels to different locations throughout the city, including Murray Hill, Herald Square and 58th Street and Broadway. Follow @PapayaKingTruck on Twitter to stay up to date on its location.
BARBETTA DONATING FUNDS TO FIGHT EBOLA Owners are sending 10 percent of their proceeds to Doctors Without Borders to combat the disease in West Africa BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS
The owner of Barbetta Restaurant announced recently the storied eatery on restaurant row will be donating 10 percent of its sales to Doctors Without Borders to combat Ebola in West Africa. “They’re a fabulous organization,” said Barbetta owner Laura Maioglio. “These doctors, they risk their lives to help people with serious diseases and do tremendous work fighting Ebola.” Maioglio said she first conceived of the idea a few weeks ago but got sidetracked by family business. Barbetta donated to the same organization during the conflict in Kosovo in the late 90s, and said once she
saw the scale of the Ebola outbreak, she knew she had to do something again. “That’s my nature,” said Maioglio. “If you have a humanitarian feeling, if you feel compassion for this, you’re going to help.” Maioglio said she hopes other restaurants and organizations will donate funds to combat the outbreak as well. The World Health Organization estimated about 5,000 deaths can be attributed to the Ebola virus in West Africa, but acknowledged the toll could be three times higher due to unreported deaths. New York received its first Ebola-positive patient last week. Dr. Craig Spencer, who just returned to the city from a trip to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to combat the virus with Doctors Without Borders, was admitted to Bellevue Hospital last Thursday and tested positive for
the virus. He is being treated in an isolation ward at the hospital, whose staff has been training for months to respond to any cases that turned up in the city. Barbetta was opened in 1906 by Sebastiano Maioglio and is located on 46th Street between 8th Avenue and 9th Avenue. Laura Maioglio assumed management of the restaurant in 1962.
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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS OCTOBER 21 - 24, 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. Uskudar Restaurant
1405 Second Avenue
A
Little Vincent’s Pizza Restaurant
1399 2 Avenue
Grade Pending (25) Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, crosscontaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. 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.
Starbucks
345 East 69 Street
A
Two Lizards Mexican Restaurant
1365 1 Avenue
A
Szechuan Gourmet
1395 2 Avenue
Grade Pending (24) Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
Nicola’s Restaurant
146 East 84 Street
Grade Pending (24) Toxic chemical improperly labeled, stored or used such that food contamination may occur. 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.
Sushi Suki Yorker
1577 York Avenue
Grade Pending (19) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.
Charley Mom Kitchen
1580 York Avenue
Closed by Health Department (11) Evidence of rats or live rats present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
Rathbones Pub
1702 2 Avenue
A
New Sunny East 88 Restaurant
1680 1 Avenue
Grade Pending (19) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared.
Pinocchio Ristorante
1748 1 Avenue
Grade Pending (22) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
Cafe (At The Museum Of The City Of New York)
1220 5 Avenue
A
Spice Hut Indian Restaurant
2172 2 Avenue
A
Bosie Bakery
2132 2 Avenue
A
El Nuevo Caribeno Restaurant
1675 Lexington Avenue
A
Lexington Restaurant
1863 Lexington Avenue
A
Bakery on 3rd Cafe
1885 3 Avenue
Grade Pending (29) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Toxic chemical improperly labeled, stored or used such that food contamination may occur. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.
5 Star Cheese Steak And Pizza
2039 1 Avenue
A
Harley’s Smoke Shack
355 East 116 Street
Grade Pending (65) Food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal product temperature is reduced from 140º F to 70º F or less within 2 hours, and from 70º F to 41º F or less within 4 additional hours. Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations. Food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment. Appropriately scaled metal stem-type thermometer or thermocouple not provided or used to evaluate temperatures of potentially hazardous foods during cooking, cooling, reheating and holding. Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
Jfk Fried Chicken And Pizza
1998 2 Avenue
Closed by Health Department (76) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Appropriately scaled metal stem-type thermometer or thermocouple not provided or used to evaluate temperatures of potentially hazardous foods during cooking, cooling, reheating and holding. 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. Insufficient or no refrigerated or hot holding equipment to keep potentially hazardous foods at required temperatures.
In NYC Area: Low Wage Workers are Sending a Clear Message of Change Stuart Appelbaum, President Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
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n October, Workers at the Knickerbocker Ave location of Shopper’s World in Brooklyn scored a huge victory by voting overwhelmingly to join RWDSU. These workers – some of whom have worked minimum wage for as long as ten years – have taken the first step toward improving their jobs and their lives. Also this month, over 120 workers at Flexon, nearby in Newark, NJ, scored a major victory, winning their union election by an overwhelming margin to become a part of the RWDSU family. The workers – who manufacture lawn and garden hoses sold through retailers including Target, Walmart, Home Depot, and Costco – won the union voice they sought to address a number of problems in their workplace such as no annual wage increases, and working 12 hour shifts – sometimes seven days a week – in unbearable and unsafe working conditions without benefits or health care. Shopper’s World and Flexon both have a large immigrant workforce; and these workers’ actions send a powerful message to other low-wage, immigrant workers in the city that they don’t have to accept poor working conditions, wage theft, low pay, and other abuses. And they are not alone. They join hundreds of car wash workers in the five boroughs, that are among the most exploited workers in the city. They receive illegally low pay, sometimes below even the $5.45 hourly minimum wage that tipped workers are supposed to receive. They are exposed to chemicals that impact their health, and they work in all kinds of weather. To date, workers at eight car washes in the city have voted for union representation and seven of them already have union contracts. This most recent victory with workers at Shopper’s World and Flexon proves that we are building a movement among low-wage workers in New York. Low wage workers -- regardless of immigration status -- are coming together and standing up for better working conditions and respect on the job. What is happening in the car wash industry, and now other sectors, is sending a clear message to other workers throughout New York – that all workers deserve to be treated with dignity and respect regardless of the language they may speak or where they were born.
When workers stand together with the support of their union, they are not powerless. Low wage workers can – and will – unite to make a difference in their own lives. Join us in this fight!
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Property
PIEDS-A-TERRE TAX PROPOSED FOR ABSENTEE OWNERS State senator Brad Hoylman is set to introduce legislation that will impose a tax on people who own expensive homes in New York City but do not live here year round, according to the New York Times, which cited startling numbers of vacancy rates along the wealthier corridors of Manhattan.
According to Census Bureau’s 2012 American Community Survey, from East 56th Street to East 59th Street between Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue, 285 of 496 apartments, including co-ops and condos, are vacant for 10 months out of the year. Almost half of the 1,261 apartments from
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BY JARROD GUY RANDOLPH All things are relative, but one thing is for certain –- buildable land in Manhattan is drying up. That, in addition to the aspects discussed below, point to the postulation that we may see less product in the coming 3-5 years at even higher prices. Land Cost – Developer’s margins are not getting larger as the prices increase. In fact, for properties acquired in today’s market, they are getting smaller. However, the higher land prices are directly reflected in today’s average $2,400 per-square-foot cost for new development product. Land Availability – For any developer shopping in the market, there is very little to purchase. Anything shopped to the open market is grossly overpriced and likely won’t sell. Developers are now turning to the submission of unsolicited offers hoping for the outside chance that owners respond. However, since a large majority of land and building owners have little to no debt on their asset, the tax ramifications of selling outweigh keeping the asset. Even if they were to sell, there are few secure physical assets like land in Manhattan on which to apply a 1031 tax exchange.
Construction Cost – Per-squarefoot cost for standard product is exceeding $500 PSF for standard product and upwards of $800 PSF for luxury product (which is 20% higher than two years ago). Resale Housing Stock – The resale market isn’t opening up either. According to City Realty there are approximately 5,100 units on the market today in Manhattan. That includes the listed new development stock. Since there are few properties for these homeowners to trade into less resale product will come to market in the future. Job Growth – New York City’s new initiatives encouraging tech companies to move to the city has introduced a new buyer pool. From 2003 to 2013, the New York City tech ecosystem grew 18 percent, while overall employment increased 12 percent. The NYC tech ecosystem generates approximately 541,000 jobs and $50.6 billion in annual compensation. Civic Impact – Mayor De Blasio plans to require developers to include affordable housing in future projects. This is part of his 10-year plan to build 80,000 new affordable housing units. Additionally, there is the threat of a pied-à-terre tax, which would be an annual payment of up to 4 percent on all apartments with a current market value over $5M. All of these issues are putting strain on the development community, not just the consumer’s wallet. We will continue to see a wave of new development come to the market over the next 36 months with approximately 2,500 condominium units rolling out each year. Beyond that, it is anyone’s guess. Keep an eye on the market in the coming years to see how these factors impact prices, inventory, and overall performance. Jarrod Guy Randolph, a Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker with TOWN Residential, specializes in luxury and investment property sales throughout Manhattan.
East 59th Street to East 63rd Street in the same corridor are also vacant for the majority of the year. This trend leaves Hoylman and colleagues like state senator Liz Krueger to wonder why people who would otherwise be found in the city and state’s top income tax bracket to be
allowed to pay merely a fraction of their apartment’s value in property taxes. Hoylman’s legislation is based upon a proposal authored by the Fiscal Policy Institute, and the idea behind it is to compel wealthy owners of expensive property in the city to pay their fair share of taxes.
THE NEW DEAL ON THE EAST SIDE DEVELOPMENT FDR jewel now owned by Hunter College is reporting a spike in interest Like everything else having to do with FDR, a nondescript townhouse on E. 65th St. is back in the spotlight, thanks to a recent documentary on PBS. The Roosevelt House, now a policy institute operated by Hunter College at 49 E. 65th St., has seen its profile skyrocket in the last few weeks following PBS’s seven-part documentary by Ken Burns. The film, called “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History,” has been a ratings hit for public television, and has spiked attendance at FDR-related sites across the country, including Hyde Park, where Roosevelt was born was buried, and Val-Kill, Eleanor Roosevelt’s retreat. At Roosevelt House, the number of public visitors has more than quadrupled since the film, drawing attention to a slice of history on the Upper East Side that still operates under the radar, The house, a six-floor double-wide townhouse, was built in 1907 by FDR’s mother, Sara, as a gift to her son and his new bride. While generous, the gift came with a downside; Sara lived in half the house, while her son, daughter-inlaw and kids lived in the other. Her visits were frequent, and, according to Hunter President Jennifer Raab, not always expected. “The joke is, ‘You think you’ve got mother-in-law problems,’” Raab said, in a tour of the house on a recent weekday. Raab said the house is still somewhat of a secret in Manhattan, even though its resume is momentous: It’s the place where Roosevelt started planning the New Deal, after his election but before he took office as president, and it was where he recuperated after he fell ill with polio. (The house was built with an elevator.)
After Sara died in 1941, the Roosevelts sold the house to Hunter for $50,000. Over the next half century, the house slowly fell into disrepair, and was closed in 1992. Raab arrived on the scene nine years later. “By the time I got here, the place was shot,” she said. It would take most of the next decade to get the house back in order, and a lot of cajoling by Raab to raise the $23 million to finish the project. Today, the house is immaculate, restored to the original, simple design envisioned by architect Charles A. Platt. It is available for public viewing, but is, more importantly, a calling card for Hunter, which houses its Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute there and hosts a range of forums and lectures there, nearly all of them free. “It’s amazing what has happened here,” said Raab, looking at a library that has been meticulously refinished to its FDR-era condition. “Amazing.”
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220 Madison Ave.
$1,637,187
Midtown South
220 Madison Ave.
$1,368,750 2
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The Siderow Organization
Murray Hill
25 Tudor City Place
$275,000
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Corcoran
Murray Hill
2 Tudor City Place
$289,000
Murray Hill
137 E 36 St.
$950,000
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Stribling
Murray Hill
225 E 34 St.
$2,150,000 2
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Murray Hill
300 E 40 St.
$585,000
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Noble Realty
Turtle Bay
333 E 46 St.
$555,000
0
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Corcoran
Turtle Bay
210 E 47 St.
$480,000
0
1
Manhattan Connection
Turtle Bay
251 E 51 St.
$430,000
0
1
Joan Shacter Real Estate
Turtle Bay
240 E 46 St.
$735,000
1
1
Corcoran
Upper E Side
120 E 86 St.
$817,500
2
1
Corcoran
Upper E Side
408 E 73 St.
$320,000
1
1
Douglas Elliman
Upper E Side
303 E 77Th St.
$2,280,000 2
2
Brown Harris Stevens
Upper E Side
1035 5 Ave.
$2,300,000 3
3
Corcoran
Upper E Side
205 E 78 St.
$662,500
1
1
Helen Downey Company
Upper E Side
830 Park Ave.
$7,050,000 3
4
Corcoran
Upper E Side
16 E 80 St.
$499,000
0
1
Douglas Elliman
Upper E Side
935 Park Ave.
$4,600,000 3
3
Douglas Elliman
Upper E Side
509 E 77 St.
$355,000
1
1
Mississippi Realty
Upper E Side
225 E 74 St.
$821,000
1
1
Argo Residential
Upper E Side
520 E 76 St.
$386,000
1
1
Corcoran
Upper E Side
140 E 83 St.
$1,800,000 3
2
City Connections Realty
Upper E Side
45 E 72 St.
$1,799,000 2
2
Stribling
Yorkville
421 E 84 St.
$780,300
1
1
Douglas Elliman
Yorkville
505 E 79 St.
$450,000
1
1
Douglas Elliman
Yorkville
333 E 79 St.
$400,000
Yorkville
311 E 83 St.
$1,200,000
Yorkville
305 E 88 St.
$735,000
2
1
Douglas Elliman
Yorkville
1601 3 Ave.
$765,000
Yorkville
400 E 90 St.
$745,000
1
1
Level Group
Yorkville
250 E 87 St.
$1,879,000 3
2
Sloane Square
Yorkville
450 E 83 St.
$1,100,000 1
1
Sotheby’s International Realty, Inc.
Yorkville
501 E 79 St.
$625,000
1
1
Douglas Elliman
Yorkville
250 E 87 St.
$475,000
Yorkville
500 E 83 St.
$795,000
2
1
Halstead Property
Yorkville
300 E 90 St.
$690,000
1
1
Douglas Elliman
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NYSNA: Caring for ALL New Yorkers
Here in New York City and throughout our state, nurses are uniting to improve care for our patients. We’re working together to end healthcare inequality and to raise standards so that every New Yorker has access to quality care. Through our union, the New York State Nurses Association, we’re creating a better future for nurses and our patients:
¨ Safe RN Staffing. Having enough nurses at the bedside is key to safe patient care. In our union contracts and in the legislature, we’re working to ensure that every patient has access to the care of a nurse whenever they need it.
¨ Community Voices. We believe that our communities should have a voice in decisions that impact their access to care. Healthcare decisions should be based on community needs, not on the bottom line. That’s why we’re advocating to strengthen community voices in care.
¨ Quality Care for ALL. Every patient deserves equal access to quality care regardless of income, borough, or insurance coverage. We’re working with fellow healthcare unions, patients, community leaders, and elected allies to stop the devastating tide of hospital cuts and closures in underserved communities.
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OCTOBER 30-NOVEMBER 5 Our Town 27
Strategic Management for Discerning Co-ops and Condos Experienced managers t A record of excellence Green Management Program
All the winners from the 2014 Building Service Workers of the Year.
CELEBRATING BUILDING SERVICE WORKERS
Last week, Straus News and the building service workers’ union 32BJ SEIU came together to honor 20 outstanding workers from all over the city. Winners and their families came to the award ceremony to celebrate and hear one another’s stories of courage, hard work and dedication to the job. PHOTOS BY MARY NEWMAN
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Open enrollment for 2014 is October 15th to December 7th. During this period you can enroll for the first time, and sign up for or switch your Medicare Prescription Plan and/or Medicare Advantage Plan. All changes are effective January 1st, 2015.
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Winner Rickey Candelario reads the program.
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These are examples of the special events during CUNY Month at our 24 colleges, graduate and professional schools. – Chancellor James B. Milliken
pen houses, admissions and financial aid workshops, sports tournaments, lectures, performances, book talks, and panel discussions—most of them free—with world-class faculty, high-achieving students and honored guests.
NOV. 6-NOV. 16
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NOV. 11
NOV. 11
A WAKE OR A WEDDING Baruch College Thurs-Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 3 p.m. $30-$60
NATIONAL ACROBATICS OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA Lehman College 4 p.m. $45-$25, $10 for kids 12 and under
JEFF MADRICK IN CONVERSATION WITH PAUL KRUGMAN The CUNY Graduate Center 6:30 p.m. Free
CUNY GRADUATE EDUCATION PROGRAMS FAIR Lehman College 2-6 p.m. Free
AUTHOR JEFFREY RENARD ALLEN with Leonard Lopate Queens College 7 p.m. $20 or CUNY student ID
NOV. 11-NOV. 20
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VETERANS DAY Exhibition College of Staten Island 2:30-4 p.m. Free
THE FACES OF ISLAM Photography Exhibition LaGuardia Community College Free
FINANCING TERRORISM Juan Zarate John Jay College of Criminal Justice 3 p.m. Free
TEDxCUNY Macaulay Honors College 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free
THE VOCA PEOPLE Queensborough Community College 3 p.m. $35
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NOV. 20
WRITING CENTER EVENT: ED HIRSCH Hunter College 7 p.m. Free
CONSERVATORY GUITAR ENSEMBLE Brooklyn College 7 p.m. Free
FREEDOM SUMMER Film City College of NY 6 p.m. Free
HOSTOS REPERTORY COMPANY: YOUNG HOSTOS Hostos Community College 7 p.m. Free
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NOV. 22
WALTER MOSLEY UNBOUND AND UNRESTRICTED City College of NY 6:30 p.m. Free
GOTTA DANCE! Kingsborough Community College 8 p.m. $30-$35
NOV. 20
JOHN LEGUIZAMO: “LATIN HISTORY FOR DUMMIES” College of Staten Island 8 p.m. $35, $30
CUNY GRADUATE STUDIES FAIR Hyatt Grand Central 2-7 p.m. Free NOV. 23
NOV. 24
A CHRISTMAS CAROL Borough of Manhattan Community College 1:30 p.m. $25
CONTEMPO II Brooklyn College 7 p.m. Free
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YOUR FIFTEEN MINUTES Jesse Schenker wrote a memoir about overcoming drug addiction and working for some of the best restaurants and chefs in the country. Photo by Albert Cheung
A CHEF’S JOURNEY FROM ADDICTION TO THE KITCHEN Q&A Jesse Schenker opens up about his former life, which helps him appreciate his culinary success BY ANGELA BARBUTI
In his memoir All or Nothing, Jesse Schenker takes us through his long and painful struggle with drug abuse from the age of 12. Readers are with him every step of the way as he serves jail time, becomes homeless, and recovers in rehab. Although the end of the 32-year-old’s story is well known -- he now owns two restaurants in the city and has
won “Iron Chef” -- it is hard to imagine as his troubled youth is revealed on the pages. But that’s what makes the book so awe-inspiring. Schenker’s customers at Recette and The Gander agree, and he’s gotten comments like, “I respected you so much after eating your food, and now that I know your life, I respect you even more.”
After you wrote the book, did you think, “Wow, now anyone who reads this will know everything about my life”? Not really. It was a conscious thought, but it wasn’t a realized fear. I kind of knew that going into it. I have no regrets. I’m not ashamed of my life or my past. Everything I’ve been through has put me in a place to be
who I am and what I am today. I think it’s very important for me, not only as a recovering addict, but just a person in general who suffers anxiety and is very intense, to give back. Because when I give to others, I’m out of my head, which is a good place for me. Writing the book, doing things like this, and getting involved and telling my story, it’s the ultimate way of showing people that there’s hope for struggling addicts and that, if you’re a young cook or entrepreneur, anything’s possible.
When you finished rehab, how old were you? Which time? The last time, when I finished Turning Point, I was 22. The way the story reads, it’s hard to imagine that an 18, 19, 20 year-old kid is going through that. Hence the subtitle, “appetite for the extreme.” Everything I’ve done, if you really look at my life, is so quick and so extreme. Basically 16 to 21 is when it was like prescription pills, pain pills, to heroin, to crack, to cocaine, to torture. And done by 21. And I got clean, was out of rehab and started cooking in kitchens again at 22. And by 27, I opened up Recette and got 2 stars in the Times.
At one point, you were homeless. How do you feel when you see homeless people in the city? I’m a little more empathic than most, I think. Even when I was living in Harlem with my wife, who was my girlfriend at the time, she always made fun of me because we’d be walking through the neighborhoods and all the homeless people would be like, “What’s up Jess?” and I’d go over and talk to them. I’d buy a sandwich and hand it to somebody. I was just very involved in the community because I had been there. I don’t give money to homeless people. I know that you’re homeless for two reasons, you either have some sort of mental issue or you’re an alcoholic or drug addict. So for me, I’ll help people by getting them food or clothes. I work a lot now, so my interaction is minimal
with people on the street, but a few years ago it was more. You know, I feel for them. I remember those days in the winter last year when I just said, “Thank God I wasn’t homeless in New York this time.”
In the book, you mention how your spirituality saved you. I was never religious. I grew up in a Jewish household. We celebrated holidays, but it wasn’t so much temple and prayer, but more like family get-togethers. I was not very much not into the Bible, I thought it was man-made, and didn’t really believe in it. I had been to a lot of rehabs and A.A. meetings, but didn’t understand anything. And that was just because I wasn’t ready to get clean. So I’m sitting in jail in June or July of 2004 and had been locked up for a while and clean for a few months, when they brought a meeting into the jail. I remember someone speaking and basically telling my story. It was like identical. And he was 20 years clean and had a family and supported them. I remember getting the chills and feeling so emotional. And I know, for me, that was my higher power. Something lined up. I don’t know what it was. Call it Jesus, call it God, call it a Higher Power, but something touched me, and I started to feel things, and realized that things weren’t coincidence. I found a place where I got involved with meetings and a 12-step program. It was this guideline that I followed every day that helped me stay focused and grounded. And I still do it today.
At 24, you visited your sister in New York, tried Gordon Ramsey’s restaurant and wrote a letter which resulted in the sous chef calling you the next day. What did you say in it? Oh man, I don’t remember. I’m sure I can find it. I basically begged and pleaded. I just was like, “I’m a chef. I’ve been doing this for a long time. I’m 24 years old. I started at McDonald’s when I was 15. Life hasn’t been so easy. I’m sure you get these letters all the time, but give me an hour in your
kitchen to prove myself.” I remember standing at the gate at American Airlines, about to board, and my phone rang and it was the chef.
When you started at Gordon Ramsay at the London, how many hours a week were you working? Holy s**t. Well there were weeks where I worked seven days, no exaggeration. I probably started at 5 days, but as they realized I was an asset, anytime someone was late or sick, they asked me to come in early or stay later. I never said no.
What was the atmosphere like in the kitchen there? It was intense. It was like a military camp. I just remember the anxiety on the train every day going to work. You walked in there and everything was pristine and clean. Everything was labeled. It was not what I was used to. Don’t get me wrong, being in South Florida, I worked for great chefs, but I had never seen such finesse, technique and organization in my life.
You said being on the streets and in jail prepared you for opening a restaurant in New York City. I think because of everything I’ve been through, nothing does shock me. So whether it was dealing with investors, landlords, architects, employees -- all the stuff that it takes to get it going- it was enjoyable.
What’s your favorite dish on each of your menus? On Recette’s menu, my favorite is the ravioli. It’s a root-vegetable ravioli with a sepia guanciale in a bisque made from shrimp shells. And then on The Gander’s menu, I would have to say the spaghetti and clams. As cliché as it is, my own version of it is a lobster bisque instead of a normal white wine butter and I put guanciale and fennel in there. And there’s three kinds of clams. www.jesseschenker.com
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