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After eight frantic days of searching, posting ﬂyers, scouring social media and the city, dog owners Sam A mini dachshund escaped from Roth and Helena Yoo were ﬁnally rea dog walker in Central Park and united with Duck, their red haired was missing for over a week before mini-dachshund who escaped hhis Centr leash and went missing in Central he was found safe th Park. The dog was found in the Bronx on Monday, giving a happ happy BY NICOLE DEL MAURO wor ending to every dog owner’s worst nightmare. It all started when the engage engaged apartmen couple had their apartment cleaned last week and le left their vacuum-phobic dog dogs Duck and Robin, also a dachshund, in the hand hands of Priceless Pet Service Services, Loca a doggy daycare. Located at 100th and Centr Central Park West, Priceless Pet Pets da takes clients’ dogs on day Par walks around Central Park. 100t Duck got off his leash at 100th and Central Park West, sprintin sprinting away from his dog walker and ou out of sight. ful Duck’s leash, unbroken and fully inciden functioning after the incident, seems to prove a human erro error is the cause of his escape. Yo Yoo guesses the clasp did not propprop erly close. “ It’s not abou about Priceles blame. Priceless bee Pets has been t very good to Yo our dogs,” Yoo i said. “But in ther this case, there wa s clea rly some mistak mistake happened that happened.” ho Unsure of how to find the litt little Yor dog in New York coup City, the couple sought help an and com for t f rom New Yorkers. They Duck, a mini dachshund, went missing from Central Park papered subways after he escaped from his dog walker last week.

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Community Board 8 member Jim Clynes will take over as chair of the hair Nick Viest board when current chair steps down at the end of the year. oard’s Nov. 19 The agenda for the board’s ting for offimeeting, when the voting cers will take place, listss Clynes as er sources the only candidate. Other lynes was told Our Town that Clynes ut forward the only candidate put mmittee in by the nominating committee their October report, and that no re made from other nominations were the ﬂoor. Nominations are now closed and Clynes is running unopposed, efg he will be the fectively guaranteeing next chair of CB 8. red the board Viest, who has chaired rced out due to since 2011, has been forced ity Board 8 ofterm limits. Community ore than three ﬁcers may serve no more one-year terms. iest were apBoth Clynes and Viest pointed by City Councill Member Dan erms expire in Garodnick and their terms me they’ll be up April 2015, at which time for reappointment. ear veteran of Clynes is an eight-year e board’s CorCB 8 and serves on the elt Island Task nell-Technion/Roosevelt venue Subway Force and the 2nd Avenue Task Force, as well ass the housing ife committee. committee and street life hairs several Viest chairs or co-chairs uding the CorCB8 task forces, including elt Island Task nell-Technion/Roosevelt Force, the CUNY-MSK Task Force and sity Task Force, the Rockefeller University dor Task Force and serves on the Vendor

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Yoo brought Duck to work with her after his happy homecoming. and poles with over 3,000 information ﬂiers. A “Find Duck” Facebook page was created and got over 300 “likes,” complete with an email address, FindDuckNYC@gmail.com, for sending tips and advice. Roth and Yoo even posted a thread on Reddit, garnishing 1,758 points and over 200 comments within three days. Scrolling through responses, a community genuinely concerned with the dog and his family’s well being emerges. Redditors suggested search methods, provided names of pet services and even posted potential sightings of the animal. “I think [Duck’s story] touched a chord really deep inside a lot of people, because we trust our dogs, who are members of our family, with dog walkers many times,” Yoo said. “It could have happened to anyone.” A Redditor suggested that Yoo and Roth hire SMART Dogs, a non-proﬁt out of Connecticut, to bring a tracking dog to Central Park and sniff out Duck’s trail. The dog, who can detect both air and ground scents, smelled Duck’s collar and lead the couple to 111th St. and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. before coming to a dead stop. This could indicate, Yoo said, a spot where Duck was picked up by someone. “Sometimes a dog will be picked up and then thrown out of cars if they act naughty in the car,” Yoo said.

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New York City is getting at least $1.6 billion in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds to help public A hhospitals install ﬂoodwalls, ﬂood proof elevators and otherwise pro become more storm-resilient, bec officials announced Thursday. Bellevue and Metropolitan B hospital centers in Manhattan hos are two of the hospitals that will get the aid Mayor de Blasio called “badly needed.” “ba About $65 million will reimburse A repairs and improvements already rep made after Superstorm Sandy in 2012; the rest is for projects yet to be completed, said Daniel Zarrilli, who runs the mayor’s recovery and resiliency efforts.

DRIVER CONVICTED IN SPEEDY LAP AROUND MANHATTAN A driver who whizzed across 26 miles of New York City in 24 minutes was convicted Thursday of reckless endangerment for a stunt trumpeted in dashboardcamera video posted online. But Adam Tang wasn’t in court to hear the verdict. The Canadian citizen was deemed a fugitive after failing to show up for court Wednesday. Prosecutors portrayed Tang, 31, as a dangerous daredevil who put lives at risk by circling Manhattan in a BMW Z4 convertible at an average of 69 mph, sometimes hitting 100 mph, and ﬂaunted it in a YouTube video that has drawn more than 875,000 views. But defense lawyer Gregory Gomez suggested that while Tang pushed the envelope on traffic regulations, he didn’t commit a crime.

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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS CHECK BUDGET OFFICE FINDS TRASH COSTS WOULD TRIPLE WITH M.T.S.

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The New York Post reported on a study from the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Independent Budget Office which found that costs to transport trash via the East 91st Street Marine Transfer Station would be nearly three times the current rate. According to the report, it now costs the city $93 per ton to ship garbage to New Jersey and Yonkers to be incinerated; the new route via the transfer station on the Upper East Side would cost $278 per ton. The report stated that â&#x20AC;&#x153;the perton export cost is higher under the MTS option due to the more costly multimodal method of transporting the waste from the transfer station to its ďŹ nal destination via barge and rail.â&#x20AC;? Council Member Ben Kallos requested the study and told the Post that he hopes the results will make the city reconsider its plan to continue construction on the Transfer Station. New York Post

New York Times reported. New York City law allows disabled veterans to attain food licensing for certain areas in the city, but non-veterans are selling food without proper certiďŹ cation. Vendors are hiring veterans to stand outside their food carts and show his specialized license in the event police survey the cart. A recent State Supreme Court decision permits police to only ticket vendors for safety issues, making it difficult for authorities to successfully eliminate vendors in violation of the licensing law. And the State Supreme Court also ruled that â&#x20AC;&#x153;food was excluded from state laws regulating specialized licenses for

MORE CONSTERNATION OVER MET FOOD TRUCKS The food vendors outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art are proving to police officials that it is difficult to tell which are illegal and even more difficult to shut them down, the

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CITYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PAST CHRONICLED IN 1M PHOTOS UP FOR SALE A photography company founded in Manhattan 110 years ago is looking to sell its collection of more than 1 million photographs, including tens of thousands of black-and-white images of New York City before World War II. The collection of the Brown Brothers photography company includes photos from the Triangle Shirtwaist factory ďŹ re in 1911 and the sinking of the Titanic the following year. Headliners of the day are well-represented, from Mark Twain and the Wright Brothers to Teddy Roosevelt and Babe Ruth. The Pennsylvania-based company has hired documents collector Eric Caren to sell the collection, with a price starting at $5 million. Caren said he has already gotten interest from institutions such as Columbia and Yale universities, and the New York Public Library. AP

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG

LONE-WOLF TERROR THREAT FOCUS OF NYPD CONFERENCE Top police officials from New York, London and elsewhere met Thursday to share strategies for combating the homegrown terror threat posed by self-radicalized people who are difﬁcult to thwart because they keep to themselves. John Miller, head of counterterrorism for the New York Police Department, said following the conference at NYPD headquarters in Manhattan that if a conspiracy to commit a terrorist act is “a conspiracy of one, “ it can be very hard to detect. Miller’s remarks came at a news conference that included New York Police Commissioner William Bratton, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck and Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police Service. The officials said that they share a concern over the influence of a sophisticated social media outreach campaign by al-Qaida, the Islamic State group and others geared in part toward inciting shootings and other violence by troubled individuals — sometimes referred to as “lone

wolves” — without any of the direct indoctrination seen in more ambitious plots. They cited the recent fatal shooting of a Canadian soldier in Ottawa and the attack on NYPD patrolmen by a hatchet-wielding man as examples of the phenomenon. “We’ve discussed how we have a common problem, a common enemy, and how we need to act against that,” Hogan-Howe said. “Things are changing in different parts of the Middle East, and these are things that actually materialize on the streets of our countries. We have to work together to deal with that.” Bratton said the NYPD is investing more time and resources in monitoring Muslim extremist-inﬂuenced websites and social media and is looking for ways to identify people who may be falling under their anti-Western spell. He and others also said they see better ways for police to build trust in Muslim communities to encourage people there to report changes in behavior in loved ones or friends that could be warning signs of a threat. “Although they’re said to be lone wolves, they usually know someone who cares for them or they’re in contact with, and those people will notice that type of change of behavior,” Hogan-Howe said. The Metropolitan Police’s website encourages citizens to report Web content that’s intended “to promote,

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2014

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Robbery

100

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FOCUSING ON TRAFFIC, CRIME ON E. 79TH STREET recent data, there have been 19 more grand larcenies than in the same period Neighborhood group also draws attention to 81st Street pedestrian bridge last year. “We’ve been getting hit pretty hard BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS VEHICLE ACCIDENT STATS - LAST 28 DAYS with grand larceaccidents First Avenue, two • 79th Street UPPER EAST SIDE The East 79th Street nies,” said Helms, • 80th Street accidents and York Avenue, Neighborhood Association met last Thurs- who noted some and First Avenue, • 80th Street four accidents day to discuss traffic safety, crime and of the thefts occur two accidents and York Avenue, reported other community issues on the Upper East when property is reported • 79th Street and no reported Side. left unattended and The contract to replace the roof at P.S. 153, a lot of the problem on York Avenue between 77th St. and 78th also involves idenSt., will be bid out in December, according to tity theft and conﬁdence games. “I see a lot with the city’s Office of Trials and Adminthe School Construction Authority. The SCA of con games…a lot of it is un-policeable.” istrative Hearings and are not yet enforceestimates construction will begin sometime Betty Cooper Wallerstein, president of able. When they are, drivers who fail to yield in the late winter or early spring, depend- the association, said many in the commu- will be penalized on a sliding scale, depending on when the weather warms enough to nity have been getting phony calls from ing on the severity of injury caused, from commence work. The authority still needs to people claiming to be from the IRS, who $100 to $1,000. obtain special permits to work on the school ask their victims to purchase pre-paid “I think we’re moving forward,” said Aldue to its age, and will apply to conduct con- money paks and hand over the details. bano of implementing Vision Zero, Mayor struction work in the evening hours. Another scheme, said Det. Helms, occurs Bill de Blasio’s plan to rid the city of pedesDet. Chris Helms of the 19th Precinct pro- when criminals call and claim to be from trian accidents and fatalities. The city revided a CompStat overview in the neigh- ConEdison. These schemes also involve cently implemented a 25 m.p.h. speed limit borhood association’s territory, which purchasing pre-paid money cards. Helms across the five boroughs, down from 30 included an alarming increase in grand said if you suspect you’ve been solicited m.p.h. prior to Vision Zero. Albano cited exlarcenies in the area. According to the most or fallen victim to one of these scams, call perts who he said believe that the chances him at the precinct of survival after being struck by a vehicle at 212-452-0613. traveling slower than 30 m.p.h are much On another front, higher than getting struck by a vehicle Daniel Albano of traveling at a faster rate of speed. the NYPD’s legal Albano also noted that electronic bikes are corps explained that illegal under a city regulation, and that if any although the City are seen they should be reported to the police. Council has passed Lastly, the Association is concerned about a law authorizing a Community Board 8 transportation comincreased penalties mittee meeting scheduled for Wednesday, for drivers who fail Dec. 3, at 3 p.m., which will include discusto yield, and then sion of the controversial East 81st Street hit pedestrians, the pedestrian bridge. Wallerstein is looking details are currently into why the meeting has been scheduled Learning to live with diabetes together! being worked out at such an odd time.

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6 Our Town NOVEMBER 13-19 ,2014 Helena Yoo and Sam Roth posted over 3,000 ﬂyers and launched a social media campaign that ultimately helped bring Duck home.

DUCK THE DOG COMES HOME CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Given the number of people who knew about Duck’s predicament, it’s not surprising that a stranger is responsible for his homecoming. A man saw Duck’s ﬂier in Harlem and realized he had seen the dog earlier that day in Pulaski Park in the Bronx, near Bruckner Boulevard. He returned to the Bronx the following day, and, on the lookout for Duck after seeing the flier, noticed the dog a second time in the same neighborhood as the day before. When he attempted to grab the pooch, a frightened Duck sprinted to a grassy patch near the Major Deegan Expressway. The man promptly called the couple, who rushed there from their uptown apartment. “When Duck saw Sam, he just leapt into Sam’s arms,” Yoo said. The couple was reunited with a much thinner Duck, who was wearing a metal collar that didn’t belong to him as well as his original collar with tags engraved with Yoo and Roth’s information. “The person, whoever found

Below; Yoo and Roth hired SMART, Summit’s Missing Animal Response Team, out of Connecticut to help track down Duck.

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EAST SIDE COMMUNITY BOARD CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Committee. The board chair is also an ex-officio member of each committee, according to CB 8’s bylaws. Every year the seven members of the nominating committee are selected by a boardwide vote in September. At the board’s October meeting the

him and put the new collar on, clearly had seen Duck was a loved pet and had a phone number, but they just didn’t call us,” Yoo said. Though the couple will happily celebrate their once-again complete family this weekend with a “Welcome Home” party for their pet, they are left to reckon whom they can trust to care for their animals. “I think we’re going to have to think long and hard about putting him on another dog walk, because it seems like a challenge [for a dog walker] to walk all the dogs together safely,” Roth said. For some New York City dog owners, situations like Duck’s make them unable to leave their pets with anyone. “It would have to be a personal friend who might have dog walking as a career, but I don’t even use those services,” Dustin Presley, a dog owner on the Upper East Side said. “If you’re going to have a pet, you should be as responsible as you can personally for it.” Many, however, believe cherry-picking their dog walkers eliminates the need to worry. “I made [a potential dog walker] walk with me and my dog committee suggests one or more candidates for each officer position. Nominations can also be made from the ﬂoor at the October full board meeting. However, the committee suggested only Clynes as board chair and there were no nominations from the ﬂoor, according to board sources. Clynes declined to comment for this story. His term will begin Jan. 1, 2015.

once around the Museum of Natural History before I allowed him to be my dog walker,” Jeffrey Sobodash from the Upper West Side said. Paulo Ramos, a dog walker from Astoria who was out in Central Park with his charges, said the key to controlling dogs on a walk is knowing their temperament before taking them out. “I only pick dogs that are kind of good, not truly badly behaved, to make it easier. If it’s a harder dog, I’ll just walk one dog at a time,” Ramos said. Duck’s story does not incite worry in some dog owners. Meghan Kennedy, an Upper West Side owner of a dog she claims is not friendly to other dogs or people he is unfamiliar with, hired a dog walker because he lived in her building and locality was most important to her. For the Upper East Side’s William Chan, ﬁnding a dog walker was never of great concern and neighborhood recommendations sufficed to convince him whom to hire. “It was a referral to someone else at the time, a neighbor of a neighbor,” Chan said.

Nick Viest, the current chair of Community Board 8, will be succeeded by Jim Clynes when his term ends next month.

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officials and the Landmarks Commission, which should deny approval. Frick Lover from Brooklyn

in New York and it’s high time the museum itself realized that! For others like me who are interested in speaking out, there is a movement called Unite I am totally opposed to this plan, as is the to Save the Frick rising up to ﬁght this illNew York Times’ architecture critic Michael Kimmelman. I plan to share my disapproval with conceived plan. You can check out their website the NYC Landmarks Commission when the time - UnitetoSavetheFrick.org. There is a petition comes. The Frick garden is a totally unique place too, and people should also write to their elected

Having provided Mr. Wardropper the opportunity to present his position free from any constructive critique, does this publication intend to offer a similar public platform to opposing views? Fighting to Preserve the Frick

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Mr. Wardropper might be losing his palatial office, but the community – locally, nationally and abroad – is on the verge of losing a masterwork of design and seeing its beloved Frick transform into an institution that would make Henry Clay Frick gape in disbelief. The addition the Frick is proposing will be 100+ feet tall (equivalent to 11 stories) and is mainly being done to add space for private catered events. It’s a disgrace. The View from the Bronx

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BREAKFAST FOR OUR SCHOOL KIDS BY KEN BIBERAJ

In October, some of the top restaurateurs in New York City joined national anti-hunger group Share Our Strength in an advocacy campaign to encourage Mayor de Blasio and schools Chancellor Carmen Farina to make breakfast available in the classroom, after the bell rings, in all NYC public schools.

Currently, the city offers a free meal to all students who request one, but the vast majority of the cafeterias sit empty in the mornings because many kids do not get to school early enough or they worry about the stigma associated with being the only ones seeking free breakfast. Research shows that kids who eat school breakfast

regularly perform better on tests, have a better attendance rate and often graduate at a higher rate. With one in ﬁve kids in New York City struggling with hunger, it is becoming increasingly clear that mandatory breakfast will help address the glaring food inequity that exists. The mayor campaigned on the

My family and I live on West End Ave. at 97th St., at the intersection where Cooper Stock was killed by a taxi in January. Since then we’ve been actively supporting all of the efforts to bring some sanity/justice/common sense to bear on all of it. We support the DOT’s new design, but one of the unintended consequences of the new design, which includes traffic islands, is the inability of MTA buses to complete a left turn at this intersection. Which leads to gridlock. Which leads to backed up traffic (up to 106th). Which leads to noise, and in some cases nut jobs driving down the wrong side of the avenue. Some of the neighbors are contemplating pitchforks and torches, I’ve heard. I’ve attached a few photos I took this a.m. from my home office, while listening to a cacophony of honking horns. Peter Jurew Upper West Side

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notion that we exist in a “Tale of Two Cities,” and while he has made great strides to bridge that divide with universal Pre-K and higher wages, breakfast in the classroom should also be a priority. NYC is currently last in the nation when it comes to serving students breakfast. While more than a million children are eligible for free breakfast, less than a quarter actually take advantage of this offering. In fact, the city actually misses out on more than $50 million from the federal government because our breakfast rates are so low. Share Our Strength recently noted that “Los Angeles – the second largest school district in the country – is completing a rollout of breakfast in the classroom in 675 schools. In three years, LA has increased breakfast participation from 29% of low-income students to 89%.” New York should be the city leading the charge on this important cause. Children with empty stomachs or unbalanced morning meals will not be able to focus and cannot be expected to perform at the standards we expect of them. Succeeding in school is already hard enough – let alone trying to focus and succeed on an empty stomach. Sign the petition to the mayor and chancellor at NYCBreakfast.org, and call your representatives in city government to urge their support of this important cause. Ken Biberaj is vice president of the Ansonia Independent Democrats

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The Sixth Borough

It’s OK to name your dinner

BY BECCA TUCKER on’t name animals you plan to eat. I hear that pearl of wisdom all the time. It makes sense; it’s a way to draw some sort of line between pet and livestock so that when it comes to that most difficult moment on a homestead, time to make soup out of your two-yearold laying hen, you’re not eating a member of the family. Giving something a name is a step toward attachment. I’ve always felt that on sports teams, even if you hate your nickname, you should be happy to have one. And if you have many monikers, that’s a sign that you are loved – or if not exactly loved, then at least thought of often. Nicknames beget affection, with animal as well as humans. I get it. But I’ve found the don’t-name-your-dinner aphorism impossible to follow. I never made a conscious effort to name my animals; names just attached themselves to certain individuals. General Burnsides is the hen with the tufted sideburns who’s always barging into the house and jumping into people’s cars. The Streetﬁghter is the

hen with the crooked beak. The incessantly squawking Guinea hen is named after a frenemy who shall remain nameless here. The chick we discovered one morning missing half her head is Gabby Giffords. Ramón is the spindly buck whom the other two bucks like to mount. There’s Houdini, the escapeartist goat, and Zucchini, her brother (named by my twoyear-old daughter when she mispronounced “Houdini.”) We can’t help but name our animals. These are the beings we hang out with daily. Friends who are in graduate school are always talking about their “cohort”; well, the goats and chickens and pigs and cows are my cohort. Sure, any and all members of my cohort are eligible to become dinner at some point, but I still think it’s okay for them to have names. Preferable, even. Consider the example of Patty Pan. Patty Pan was a Boer goat, the classic ﬂoppy-eared, athletic breed known for its meat. Since all our other goats are dairy goats, she didn’t particularly need a name. We could refer to her as “the white goat” or “the meat goat” (next to that, any name sounds lovely). So she remained nameless throughout the summer until one October day, when Kai and I were walking down to the end of the driveway to get the paper. We were discussing the white goat, the only goat browsing in the lower ﬁeld alongside the cows. (Dairy goats prefer to laze around the barn, since they don’t need as much food as meat goats.) I proposed the name Patty Pan. Patty Pan is a type of white squash we attempted to grow this summer; it is also part of the title of a Beatrix Potter book. Kai approved, so the goat was as good as baptized. Now we

could say hello and goodbye to Patty Pan when we came and went. When we talked about her, too, Kai was now sure to understand. “Patty Pan has diarrhea.” “Patty Pan looks thin.” And when one morning, Kai and I couldn’t ﬁnd Patty Pan while doing our chores, then spotted her snow white form crumpled in the corner of a stall in the barn, we went inside to tell Papa the sad news. Kai delivered it. It sounded like: “Pie Pan det.” She said it a few times. I didn’t translate. Eventually, husband Joe understood. “Patty Pan is dead,” he said, looking from Kai to me. I nodded. He nodded, walked out to the barn and carried her body off to the woods. It was good, I felt, for Kai to be able to grasp and communicate that piece of information. There might be a time when she stumbles across a similar scene by herself and needs to alert us. There undoubtedly will come a time when she is confronted with the death of someone she loves, and Patty Pan might come in handy in explaining: remember, like Patty Pan died? Patty Pan’s death did not make us cry the way we cried for Charlie, the ﬁrst goat we lost – but I think it made us more somber than the passing of other goats that never had names. There was a time this summer when we had over 25 goats, which was so many that we didn’t even think of naming them, and couldn’t have told them apart if we wanted to. It wasn’t fun anymore to hang with the massive herd of nameless goats whose personalities got lost in the melee. Losing one barely registered. That anonymity bothered me. It’s okay for death to be tinged with sadness. It always is, if you stop long enough to notice it – whether or not you are the one wielding the knife. I try these days to remember to thank the animal on my plate, even if it’s the deer that spent all summer eating my broccoli. I try to take notice. Kai will remember Patty Pan better than she would if we’d just called her “the white goat.” We all will. Becca Tucker is a former Manhattanite who lives on a farm upstate and writes about the rural life.

MOVES AT STRAUS NEWS Jeanne Straus, president of Straus News, announced the promotion of Otilia Bertolotti to Vice President/Chief Financial Officer and Vincent A. Gardino to Vice President/Chief Revenue Officer for all of Straus News’ 14 weekly newspapers, magazine and websites throughout Manhattan, Orange County, N.Y., Sussex and Passaic Counties, N.J. and Pike County, Penn. Commenting on the personnel moves, Straus said, “Tia’s 16 years of exceptional leadership and unparalleled business acumen make her an outstanding asset to the team. And we’re incredibly fortunate to have someone as passionate, experienced and creative as Vince leading our sales team. We’re confident Vince’s past history of

success at WOR Radio and WNYC/WQXR Radio, combined with his extraordinary ability to build and motivate, will help us build the best media sales staff in the tri-state region.” Straus News publishes 14 local weekly newspapers, a magazine and local news websites. They are: Our Town, The West Side Spirit, Our Town Downtown, The Chelsea Clinton News, The Westsider in Manhattan, Dirt Magazine, The Advertiser-News (North), The Advertiser-News(South), The Sparta Independent, The Township Journal, The Warwick Advertiser, The Photo News, The Chronicle, The West Milford Messenger and The Pike County Courier.

Neighborhood Scrapbook SAINT ALBANS DONATES CANDY TO THE TROOPS

Students from Saint Albans School on E. 50th St. donated extra candy from Halloween adventures to Operation Gratitude, which sends care packages to veterans, new recruits, and U.S. service members deployed overseas. The students also expressed their appreciation to members of the military by creating personal letters and cards for the troops.

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Out & About 14 17 CAREER LAB AT MET Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave. 4:30-6:30 p.m., Free. Teens interested in a career in the arts can explore possibilities for their future. 212-535-7710. metmuseum.org

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LOST DOG TALE, WITH A TWIST LOCAL NEWS

SOUNDS OF HOPE New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th St at Central Park West. 7:30 p.m., $20-$100. Presented by Salaam Bombay Children’s Fund, New York Society for Ethical Culture will host a beneﬁt concert for underprivileged youth in Indian slums. 212-874-5210. www.nysec. org, www.broadwayworld.com

A family hopes that Upper West Siders will help bring their Cavalier King Charles Spaniel back home Upper West Side For the past week, Eva Zaghari and her three children from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, have been papering the Upper West Side with over 1,300 ﬂyers asking for information on their beloved dog Cooper. ?We are devastated, please return our dog,? the sign implores. The catch though, is that Cooper didn?t technically get lost, or even stolen. He was given away. When she explains the story, sitting at Irving Farm coffee shop on West 79th Street before heading out to post more ﬂyers around the neighborhood, Eva and her kids are visibly distraught. About a month ago, on September 5th, her husband Ray had arranged to give the dog away, via a Craigslist ad. He mistakenly thought that removing a source of stress from his wife and kids ? walking and feeding and caring for a dog, tasks which had fallen mostly to Eva ? would make everyone happier

October 2, 2014

El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Ave. 12-5 p.m., Free. Children make crafts and listen to stories at this workshop celebrating the work of Marisol, a sculptor of Venezuelan lineage. 212-831-7272. elmuseo.org

16 FUNKEYMONKEYS JAM OUT AT JEWISH MUSUEM

CENTRAL PARK TOUR: NORTH WOODS Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, Central Park at West 110th St. 12 p.m., Free. Explore the woodland retreat right in Manhattan. See rustic bridges, picturesque pools and take a break from the crowded, concrete jungle. 212-860-1370. www. nycgovparks.org

The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave. btwn 92nd and 93rd St. 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., $11-18. Children’s band the FunkeyMonkeys perform a playful concert of silly songs in funny costumes. 212-868-0190. thejewishmuseum.org

SEISMODOME: SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF EARTHQUAKES AND GLOBAL SEISMOLOGY

HALLETT NATURE SANCTUARY AND POND TOUR

wondrous questions about the nature of earthquakes with Earth scientists, astrophysicists, and sound artists. 212-769-5200. www. amnh.org

Hayden Planetarium Space Theatre at the American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street. 7 p.m., Free with registration. Explore some of the most

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A CENTURY OF SEX TALK ON THE EAST SIDE

MILESTONES Shirley Zussman, who recently celebrated her 100th birthday, worked with Masters and Johnson, and still sees patients as a sex therapist

BREAK A LEG PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS: “GOODBYE, ALREADY”

BY KYLE POPE

UPPER EAST SIDE Some people’s life stories write themselves, and Shirley Zussman, the 100-year-old sex therapist of the Upper East Side, is one of those people. She was born in 1914 at the start of World War I (less than a month after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand), lived in Berlin at the height of the Cabaret era, became a protege of the original Masters and Johnson, and, now into her second century, continues to see patients in an office in the ground ﬂoor of her apartment building on E. 79th Street. Last month, more than 50 people crowded Yefsi restaurant, a Greek place

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Bloomingdale Library, 150 West 100th St. 2 p.m., Free. See a live reading of Joel Greenhouse’s “Goodbye, Already” presented by Break a Leg Productions and directed by Gerald vanHeerden. 212-222-8030. www.nypl. org

CHILDREN’S CRAFTS AT LATINO CULTURAL INSTITUTE

Central Park, 6th Avenue and Central Park South. 2-3:30 p.m., $10-15. Trail through the parts of Central Park usually prohibited to the public. 212-310-6600. centralparknyc.org

18 FREE MEMORY SCREENINGS 96th Street Library, 112 E. 96th St. near Lexington Ave. 2-6 p.m., Free. The Alzheimer’s Foundation

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of America believes in being proactive when it comes to health. 212-289-0908. nypl.org

STROLLER ART TOUR Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Ave. 3-4 p.m., $20. It’s never to early to love great art. Walk through the museum with parents and their babies. 212-423-3500. guggenheim.org

MANGA DRAWING WORKSHOP

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Yorkville Library, 222 E 79th St. 4 p.m., Free. Ivan Velez wants to make the next best comic writer as much as he does comic books. 212-744-5824. nypl.org

WINING AND DINING WITH STEFANI JACKENTHAL 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave. at 92nd St. 7 p.m., $45. Author Stefani Jackenthal’s book “Wanderlust Wining” tells readers the best places in the U.S. to wine and dine. 212-4155500. 92y. org

92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave. at 92nd St. 7 p.m., $60. It’s important that a Thanksgiving Table is ﬁlled with as much beauty as food. 212-415-5500. 92y.org

VERRAZANONARROWS BRIDGE TURNS 50 Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave. 6:30 p.m., $12-16. The record breaking construction of the VerrazanoNarrows Bridge in 1964 was noteworthy to acclaimed author Gay Talese. 212-534-1672. mcny.org

You Never Forget Who You Grew Up With. The rough touch of tree bark, the scent of freshly mowed grass, the gentle hum of pollinating bees as a flower blossoms — green spaces touch lives and all five senses. Green spaces are a vital part of growing up — they enhance lives, make memories and connect people with their neighborhoods and communities. Be a part of preserving and enhancing green spaces where we live, work and play. To volunteer, to learn how to help your community and to donate, visit ProjectEverGreen.org or call toll-free (877) 758-4835.

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MATISSE’S MAGICAL CUTOUTS EXHIBITIONS A glorious show at MoMA adds new depth to one of our best-known artists BY MARY GREGORY

Yes, they’re colorful, vibrant, expressive and ebullient. They can certainly be enjoyed as such. But a careful look at the cut-outs reveals fascinating stories about Matisse and his work. These lyrical compositions may look simple, but they have a radical and complicated side. “Simple forms, complex ideas,” said curator Jodi Hauptman. Hauptman and her colleagues have pulled together a dazzling collection of works that more than just delight the eye (though they do that in an unbelievable way). They also tell us a great deal about Matisse, the artist. Talking with Hauptman gave an idea of what the exhibition is trying to express, beyond the pure beauty of the works. “There are many narratives in an exhibition. There’s a chronological narrative, there’s a materials narrative, but there’s also, in this exhibition, deﬁnitely a sense of a shift in scale,” she said. The ﬁrst piece presented, Two Dancers, 1937-38, is a relatively small design for a ballet stage curtain. It’s a perfect choice because it shows so much of what is surprising in the cut-outs. Rather than the flat blocks of color seen in reproductions of the works, instead it’s almost like a mosaic, made not with chips of marble, but with innumerable shards of paper pinned together. The pins and pinholes, so evident in this work, are found throughout the exhibition. They’re intentionally emphasized, since they’re a crucial part of the story.

“The multiple pinholes show the labor,” Hauptman said. “You can kind of map how he moved one element and another element. A key part of the focus of this exhibition is the process, and the pinholes are a record of that process. So, if you’re interested in how artists work, you can almost see it in the work, itself. That’s exciting.” The next group of works are maquettes for Matisse’s famous book, Jazz, which are rarely exhibited. “He begins working on Jazz in ‘43, and in ‘47 Jazz is published, and that’s a turning point because that’s when he realizes it’s a medium,” Hauptman said. Matisse largely put down his paintbrush after he picked up his scissors. From there, the exhibition grows to include a focus on the scale of the works, and the idea that these were very early examples of what we now consider installation art (though the term didn’t exist at the time.) “He was one of the first people doing that,” Hauptman said. “His studio was a kind of installation.” Matisse made these works in the late 30s through the 40s and 50s. They were difficult times, in many

Below; The Snail (L’Escargot), 1953. Gouache on paper, cut and pasted, on paper, mounted on canvas. 112 ¾ x 113” (286.4 x 287 cm). Tate. Purchased with assistance from the Friends of the Tate Gallery, 1962. © 2014 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ways. He had survived a life-threatening illness and a difficult surgery, and spent a significant amount of time in a wheelchair. His mobility was further challenged, for some of those years, by living in occupied and war-torn France. When it was impossible to go to the seashore, in 1946, he created Oceania, The Sea, a wall-sized cut-out filled with shapes -- jelly fish, starfish, sharks and eels. He used his vision and artistry to create his own reality within the walls of his studio. “There’s a kind of myth out there,” Hauptman said, “that he stopped painting and he was cutting paper because he couldn’t paint anymore. We don’t really think that. We think that cutting paper was another way of dealing with certain pictorial challenges he had been addressing his whole life. Although he wasn’t in terrific shape…his inventiveness is not a result of being not well. He was still painting. He was still drawing. He was still at it in all sorts of ways.” Matisse talked about how these

pieces allowed him to cut “directly into color,” Hauptman explained, and that his focus on color and line never changed. He was, she said, just “doing the same thing with different means.” MoMA’s own The Swimming Pool from 1952 is Matisse’s largest cut-out. He installed it in his living room in Nice. Chief conservator, Karl Buchberg, and his team just completed a six-year long conservation, and built a replica of Matisse’s room in which to display it. The azure and white paper shapes, abstractions of ﬁgures, waves and starfish, surround the viewer. Pinholes are everywhere, and, while some of the shapes seem to have fallen from the scissors magically, in others, dozens of patched sections lay on top of each other to form a single ﬁgure. As Hauptman said, the record of the labor is clear, and the thought process is almost within reach. The Swimming Pool and the spectacular The Parakeet and The Mermaid, a more than 20-foot-long work in brilliant blues, pinks and oranges, carry the exhibition into large-scale works, and bring out another piece of Matisse’s story. Matisse always want-

ed to do a public mural, but It didn’t happen. Still, he was looking for a way to expand the size of his work. The cutouts made it possible. The exhibition that began with booksized sheets of paper closes with some of the largest cut-outs, deliberately chosen by the curators to show an arc of Matisse’s ambitions towards ever larger works. MoMa’s Memories of Oceania, at just about 10-by-10 feet, is an abstraction combining colors, shapes and drawn lines. The Snail (just as big) on loan from the Tate in London, is simple and bold, yet complex and brilliant. Facing them is the National Gallery’s Large Decoration with Masks spanning more than 30 feet of wall with resplendent color in a ballet of forms. Fragile works on paper don’t spend much of their lives on view. This is the largest group of Matisse cut-outs ever displayed, on view through February 8, 2015. It’s a stunning show, and what Hauptman agrees is a “once in a lifetime” chance to see them. Matisse’s cut-outs are innovative. They’re experimental. They’re radical. They’re elucidating. And, Hauptman added, “They’re glorious.”

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MUSIC JEREMY DENK Classical pianist Jeremy Denk, a 2013 recipient of the MacArthur Genius Grant, performs a solo concert, alternating between Czech composer Leoš Janáček’s On the Overgrown Path and selections from Franz Schubert, before moving to Mozart’s Rondo in A Minor and Schumann’s Carnaval. Saturday, Nov. 15 92nd Street Y Kaufmann Concert Hall Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street 8 p.m. Tickets $50-$72

American Classical Orchestra performs its ﬁrst concert of Bach’s uplifting Mass in B Minor. Conducted by the orchestra’s founder, Thomas C. Crawford, the performance features vocal soloists from the orchestra’s chorus. Saturday, Nov. 15 Lincoln Center Alice Tully Hall 1941 Broadway, between West 65th and West 66th Street 7:30 p.m. Tickets $29-$89

OPERA A WAKE OR A WEDDING A new comic opera, with libretto by Richard Pearson Thomas, A Wake or A Wedding follows the intersecting lives of eight people in Montana at the end of the 19th century, when an untimely death the eve before a wedding causes relationships to shift. Nov. 13-Nov. 16 Baruch Performing Arts Center 55 Lexington Ave., entrance on East 25th Street Assorted show times Tickets $30-$60

BOOKS VAHRAM MURATYAN Graphic designer and author Vahram Muratyan’s highly-visual 2012 book, Paris Versus New York, had its roots in the artist’s wildly popular travel blog of the same name. His new graphic memoir, About Time, explores time and memory, and was also inspired by his globetrotting. Wednesday, Nov. 19 Albertine 972 Fifth Ave., near East 79th Street 7 p.m. FREE

GALLERIES ANDY WARHOL: AT FACE VALUE Revolver Gallery in Beverly Hills features one of the largest collections of Andy Warhol prints for sale, and is now partnering with a Soho gallery to bring more than 50 of the artist’s pieces to New York, including his portraits of Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe and Muhammad Ali. Through Jan. 10 POP International Galleries Soho 473 West Broadway, near West Houston Street Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m.-6 p.m. FREE

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CLASSICAL COMPANY, NEW TERRITORY THEATER Hudson Warehouse branches out beyond Shakespeare in new original play BY ADELLE BRODBECK

Everyone has a “do-over,” something that they wish they could go back in time and change. Combine that relatability of regret with an unwaveringly enthusiastic and committed cast and you get Benjamin Elterman’s play Same River Twice. Set under the roof of an upscale and “overpriced” Chinese restaurant, Same River Twice explores the powerful relationship between two men with extremely contrasting perspectives. Brian, who sees everything through a cloud of ﬁerce nostalgia, is determined to mend a friendship that the easily overwhelmed and stressed Trevor never knew existed. Elterman wrote the script for Same River Twice a few years ago and in 2012 entered it in the outdoor theater Hudson Warehouse’s reading series “Writers-a-Go-Go”. After earning a ﬁnalist spot, Susane Lee, founder and director of WAGG, picked up the story and transformed it into a full production with the help of Goddard Riverside Community Center. Same River Twice is somewhat out of character for Hudson Warehouse. Typically known for producing renditions of classics such as Measure for Measure and The Three Musketeers along the Hudson River in the summertime, the Warehouse took a step indoors to present this contemporary

show in their new winter home at the Bernie Wohl Center of Goddard Riverside. Elterman said that he drew most of his inspiration for Same River Twice from his own life. “I was living in Seattle at the time, getting ready to move to New York and I was working at basically the same restaurant as in the play.” He said that he also experienced a lengthened summer with a friend that was a unique time. “There was this sense of ‘what if this is the most fun I will ever have?’ Whenever I saw him subsequently, there was nothing I could do to get back that same time.” To convey that longing to return to a cherished time of the past, Elterman created a character who did exactly that. Brian revisits the happiest, and most wholesome, time of his life through a mysterious ability to time travel. Despite the undertones of sci-ﬁ that inevitably surfaced, Elterman created a play that uses the improbability of time travel as a jumping off point to express very real emotions. Elterman commended the theatre environment for being the perfect platform for his story. “Theatre has a more active role from the audience,” said Elterman. “And it can be a remarkably intimate performance.” He explained that in theatre you’re allowed to glaze over explanations that you wouldn’t be able to leave out in a television show or in a film. “To some degree we don’t have to focus on the nuts and bolts of how [Brian] can time travel,” he said. Rather, when you have the input of the audience’s imagi-

Actors rehearsing a scene from Hudson Warehouse’s new play Same River Twice, running through Nov. 16 at Goddard Riverside Community Center.

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Same River Twice has four more performances this week: Thursday Nov. 13 Sunday Nov. 16, ThursdaySaturday shows begin at 8:00 p.m., Sunday show begins at 7:00 p.m. All shows take place in the Bernie Wohl Arts Center of Goddard Riverside Community Center at 647 Columbus Avenue at West 91st Street. All tickets are on a paywhat-you-can basis in accordance with Hudson Warehouse and Goddard Riverside’s mission to make art affordable and accessible for all.

nation, as well as the actors’, its easier to focus on the realness of the characters and their problems. “It’s always about tapping into the human condition,” said Elterman. Elterman’s writing capabilities, which he attributes to his coach Charles Waxberg, are not only complemented, but taken to the next level through the help of the Warehouse’s cast and crew. Lee served as artistic director for Same River Twice and has been working with the Warehouse since 2010. She said that she is particularly passionate about being able to support upcoming playwrights and help make new stories come to life through the Warehouse’s winter performances. “They are the new classics,” she said. “Mounting a new play is always risky because no one has heard of the story or in this case, this rising playwright. But you do it anyway, get it out there, and through word of mouth, it gains an audience and hopefully, ﬁnds life in another production elsewhere so others can enjoy it.” The motivation behind producing Elterman’s play was deeply rooted in one

of Lee’s own experiences. “The theme of going back in time to un-do a past regret resonated very strongly with me,” said Lee. “I fell in love for the ﬁrst time when I was young, but someone who had great inﬂuence over me made me promise never to see him again.” Eventually Lee said she found her happy ending, “but that deep sense of loss and regret is imbedded and this play captures these feelings eloquently and heartbreakingly.” Lee’s eagerness and commitment to generating a memorable contemporary play is evident through the personal touches she made to Same River Twice. The various locations throughout the play were masterfully communicated through her subtle tweaks; from a happy waving cat placed on a table to convey the manager’s office at the Chinese restaurant, a Star Trek calendar pinned to the reversible set walls of Trevor’s apartment, right down to a copy of the West Side Spirit used to indicate Brian’s return to his desired time. The Star Trek calendar was set to 2006, the year the play was set, and that the Doctor Who poster, also on

Trevor’s wall, featured the Doctor active in 2006 Lee pointed out. In between each set change, the speakers blasted a handful of early 2000’s throwbacks by the likes of Coldplay and All American Rejects; a touch that Lee was more than happy to make considering she saw it as an excuse to listen to some of her favorite songs. Upon remaining in the auditorium for a few minutes after the ﬁnal bow, all the cast members can be seen stacking chairs, disassembling the sets and showing their true commitment to the production. “It’s just us,” Lee proudly stated. Same River Twice has four more performances this week. Thursday Nov. 13 - Sunday Nov. 16, Thursday-Saturday shows begin at 8:00 p.m., Sunday show begins at 7:00 p.m. All shows take place in the Bernie Wohl Arts Center of Goddard Riverside Community Center at 647 Columbus Avenue at West 91st Street. All tickets are on a pay-what-you-can basis in accordance with Hudson Warehouse and Goddard Riverside’s mission to make art affordable and accessible for all.

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Grover’s Corners, the ﬁctional New Hampshire town where Thornton Wilder set his 1938 play Our Town, likely bears little resemblance to today’s Midtown East, where community theater group St. Bart’s Players will stage their production of the show, which opens Nov. 13. But members of the closeknit troupe have fostered strong ties on the Upper East Side, where the neighborhood around St. Bartholomew’s Church on Park Avenue serves as a home base. “This sounds cliché to say, but this is a second family,” said Gayle Artino, co-producer of Our Town and a seven-year member of the group. “I’ve gone to weddings, to funerals. We go on vacations together. It comes with all the sadness and happiness and drama that you come to expect from a community.” The St. Bart’s Players formed in 1927, 11 years before Wilder completed Our Town, his Pulitzer Prize winner about life in turn-of-the-century New England. It’s a stretch to compare the theater group to the intimate community in the play, though some parallels exist. The show’s director, Adam Fitzgerald, hails from New Hampshire, where Our Town takes place. The first perfor-

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mance of the play he ever saw was a local production, in which his sister played one of the lead characters, the teenaged Emily Webb. And while there’s no daily milk delivery, the group does have their favorite neighborhood watering hole, Ashton’s Alley on Third Avenue, a few blocks from the church, where they’ve been unwinding after rehearsals for years. The group knows the bartenders, knows the owners. Ashton’s routinely purchases an ad in the St. Bart’s program. Longtime group member Jim Mullins plays the stage manager, and is reprising a role he first took on more than 30 years ago, when he was new to St. Bart’s. The group is literally a family affair for Mullins; he met his wife, a fellow member, when he joined in 1979. Their daughter is working the lights for the upcoming production. “Most of what is important to me in my entire life I have because of the Players,” he said. Despite such convivial surroundings, the cast and crew are taking pains to convey the gravity of Wilder’s script. It’s a show that can, in some productions, come across as a “feel-good look back at vintage America,” said Mullins. “This stage manager is very matter-of-fact,” said Mullins. “He’s telling you the facts and some of them are not pretty. It’s very interesting walking that line, not being overly sentimental or overly dark, but being matter-of-fact in a play that,

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on the other hand, is very lyrically written. It’s hard work, and it’s very rewarding when it works.” The magnificent St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church provides a home stage for the theater group. The church’s massive, dim nave, vaulted ceilings and Byzantine-style mosaics and inlay offer a curious grandeur to a play that famously has little more than a few chairs, tables and step ladders for a set, and this production takes full advantage of its surroundings. The church’s organist recorded Mendelssohn’s Wedding March for the show’s second act wedding scene, in which the marrying couple stands alone at the church’s altar, while the audience watches from the rows below, like a rapt congregation. “They aren’t simple-minded,” Artino said of the characters in the play, “But there’s no frills. You say what you mean. And I think the church is a perfect background for that. I think the church informs the gravity of a simple life, and life and marriage and birth and death are all things we take for granted.” Artino lives on 59th Street and Second Avenue, and recognizes a small-town nature in her neighborhood, and ﬁnds a natural parallel between the way lives intertwine in New York and in Wilder’s script. “We’re all kind of living and dying and breathing in the same small square blocks,” she said. “It’s nice to be able to step back and remember that it’s the people that matter. We can get busy with the hustle and bustle of New York, but I live in a community where I see my neighbors every day and I know their names. It’s nice to remember that that still exists in such a big city.”

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What: The St. Bart’s Players production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town When: Nov. 13-23 Where: St. Bartholomew’s Church, 325 Park Ave., at 51st St. Time: Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets: $25; to purchase tickets in advance, call 212378-0248 or visit stbarts.org/stbarts-players-inour-town/

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Food & Drink < NEW CHEF AT TAVERN Tavern on the Green hired iconic chef Jeremiah Tower to take over its troubled kitchen, following the abrupt departure of its executive chef, Katy Sparks, in September. Sparks left the restaurant just ﬁve months after Tavern on the Green’s highly-anticipated reopening,

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following a string of underwhelming reviews. This will be Tower’s ﬁrst restaurant job in New York, and marks a return to the kitchen for the chef, who has spent the last few years living in Mexico. Tower rose to prominence in California kitchens, notably at Alice Waters’ Berkeley

PUMPKIN IS A SUPER FOOD Those giant orange orbs don’t just make nice fall decorations — they are packed with nutrients. High in fiber and low in calories, pumpkin packs an abundance of disease-ﬁghting nutrients, including potassium, pantothenic acid, magnesium, and vitamins C and E. The nutrient that makes pumpkin a super-food is its rich supply of carotenoids, which have been shown to decrease the risk of various cancers. In the landmark Nurses’ Health

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All hail the French fry, the great culinary guilty pleasure. Sir Kensington’s, a local gourmet ketchup company, recently exhibited some of New York’s most delectable fried potatoes, each preserved and archived with a layer of resin and displayed under glass. “Fries of New York” displayed crinkle cut, waffle and steak varieties, with fries from 100 of the city’s restaurants at its Bowery and Kenmare exhibition Nov.7 and 8, including samples from Upper East Side spots, such as iconic West 52nd Street restaurant 21 Club, P.J. Clarke’s on 3rd Avenue and East 65th Street eatery the East Pole, which serves a thick-cut wedge variety.

PAPAYA KING NOW SELLING HOT DOGS ONLINE New Yorkers away from the ﬁve boroughs can now get a Papaya King ﬁx-albeit one with a steep price. Papaya King, the neon-signed hot dog institution with a location at 179 East 86th St., another at 3 St. Mark’s Place, and a mobile truck, is using online food marketplace Goldbely to sell its products online in the form of hot dog “kits.” The Classic New York Hot Dog Kit comes with 6 all-beef hot dogs, six buns, a package of sauerkraut, sweet onions, mustard and ketchup, and a Papaya King t-shirt to wear while enjoying the $69 purchase. For the no-frills crowd, $89 will fetch 50 hot dogs and 1 t-shirt, and the truly hungry can relax as free overnight shipping is available. Started by Greek immigrant Gus Poulos in 1932, Papaya King has been serving up hot dogs to generations of New Yorkers who love the classic frank covered with sauerkraut, sweet onions and relish in a soft white bun, accompanied by a sugary tropical drink. Even Martha Stewart has admitted that they are a guilty pleasure of hers.

spot Chez Panisse before opening his own restaurant, the acclaimed Stars in San Francisco. He reportedly sought out the executive chef position at Tavern on the Green after learning of Sparks’ departure.

There’s not much pumpkin — if any — in these treats, but plenty of fat and sugar: • Pumpkin Spice Latte, Starbucks (extra large) — 470 calories, 62 grams of sugar • Pumpkin Pie Donut, Dunkin’ Donuts — 380 calories, 25 grams of sugar • Pumpkin Crème Brulee Coffee with Cream (extra large), Dunkin’ Donuts — 430 calories, 61 grams of sugar. • McCafe Pumpkin Shake (medium), McDonald’s — 670 calories, 92 grams of sugar • IHOP’s Pumpkin Pancakes (three) — 480 calories, 26 grams of sugar • Pumpkin Spice Frozen Yogurt, Red Mango — 290 calories, 64 grams of sugar • Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffin, Starbuckss — 420 calories, 47 grams of sugar • Pumpkin Spice Oreos, Nabisco (two cookies) — 150 calories, 12 grams of sugar Instead, make ke your own pumpkin concoction ncoction with the real deal: Pumpkin Smoothie This is a refreshing smoothie recipe that uses lowsodium

Study, women with the highest concentrations of carotenes in their diets had the lowest risk of breast cancer. Carotenoids have also shown great promise in their ability to lower rates of heart disease. In one 13-year-long study, researchers found a strong correlation between lower carotenoid concentrations in the blood and a higher rate of heart disease. As has frequently been found, the correlation between increased carotenoid

canned pumpkin and ripe bananas. Ingredients: • 1 can low-sodium pumpkin, chilled (about 15 ounces ) • 1 can evaporated low-fat milk, chilled (12 ounces) • 1 1/2 cups orange juice • 1 small banana (sliced) • 1/3 cup light brown sugar, packed (or 1/3 cup regular sugar) • 2 dozen ice cubes (if you like) • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon (if you like) Directions: 1. Place pumpkin, evaporated milk, orange juice, banana, and sugar in blender. 2. Cover and blend until smooth. 3. If using ice, pour mixture over ice. If using cinnamon, add that too. Makes: 6 servings Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture: www. whatscooking.fns. usda.gov/recipes

consumption and decreased risk of heart disease was higher when all carotenoids, not just beta-carotene, were considered. Carotenoid consumption also decreases the risk of cataracts and macular degeneration. The two carotenoids that are richly present in pumpkin — beta- and alpha- carotene — are particularly potent phytonutrients. Studies have also shown that a good intake of beta-carotene can help to reduce the risk of colon cancer, possibly by protecting colon cells from the damaging effects of cancer-causing chemicals. While beta-carotene has long been linked with health promotion, it’s the bounty of alpha-carotene in pumpkin that makes it a real nutrition standout. Its presence in the body along with other key nutrients is reportedly inversely related to biological aging. In other words, the more alpha-carotene you eat, the slower your body shows signs of age. Not only may alpha-carotene slow down the aging process, it also has been shown to protect against various cancers and cataracts. Moreover, the combination of carotenoids, potassium, magnesium, and folate found in pumpkin offers protection against cardiovascular disease. Pumpkin is also a terrific source of fiber. Most people aren’t aware of the fiber content of canned pumpkin because it seems so creamy. Just one hull’-cup serving provides 5 grams of fiber — more than you’re getting from most supermarket cereals. But beware of the many pumpkinflavored offerings out there this time of year. Not only do most of these treats not contain any real pumpkin, they come loaded with fat and sugar. The sidebar is a sampling of pumpkin lattes and other items that show the dent they will leave in your diet. Instead, take advantage of real pumpkin — fresh or canned — to make a host of easy dishes that will hit your sweet spot while giving you benefits the sugary imitations never will. Here are some healthy pumpkin recipes from the U.S. Department of Agriculture that won’t take long to make.

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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS La Mulatresse

2155 2 Avenue

Grade Pending (32) 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. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Brasserie Cognac East

963 Lexington Avenue

Haru Sake Bar

1327 3 Avenue

Chirping Chicken

1560 2 Avenue

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. Blue Coco

153 East 106 Street

Not Graded Yet (15) Hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room. Hot and cold running water at adequate pressure to enable cleanliness of employees not provided at facility. Soap and an acceptable hand-drying device not provided. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Bally Total Fitness

1915 3 Avenue

Burger King

226 East 86 Street

Dreamer’s Pizza

1850 3 Avenue

Pita Grill

1570 1 Avenue

King Food Takeout Restaurant

2036 2 Avenue

Grade Pending (20) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked ﬁsh and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Food Protection Certiﬁcate not held by supervisor of food operations.

Thai @ Lex

1244 Lexington Avenue

Gracie’s On 2nd

300 East 86 Street

Vietnaam

1700 2 Avenue

Drunken Munkey

338 East 92 Street

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< GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS FOR SMALL BUSINESS A new study on small business in the city paints a good news/bad news picture of the state of the local market. The report, by the Center for an Urban Future, states that just over 90 percent of the businesses in the New York metro area have fewer than 20 employees, a higher percentage than all but one of the 363 metro regions in the

country. In addition, companies with fewer than 50 employees accounted for 97.7 percent of the growth in businesses citywide between 2000 and 2013. The problem, according to the report, is that too few of the city’s small businesses are growing into medium and large busineses. “The vast majority of small businesses in the

city,” according to the report, “never expand in a meaningful way.” Relatively few of the city’s restaurants ever open a second location, most vendors never move from the pushcart to a storefront, and most manufacturers don’t expand into markets outside of New York.

The 55th Street vent plant in the East Side Access tunnel construction. Photo courtesy of the MTA

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Who’s Buying Ultra Luxury Condos? ltra luxury condominium development has recently dominated the market, and everyone is asking the question: Is this new obsession with tall towers needed or even desired? The epicenter of Central Park South, the 57th Street corridor, is a massive tourist attraction and currently preparing for 869 new units. At an average price-persquare-foot of $5,500 (per sq BY JARROD GUY m, $511), who will purchase RANDOLPH these multi-million dollar mansions in the sky? These opulent crash pads will be spread over 8 buildings and delivered in the next five years. That’s approximately 174 units per year, anywhere from 2-beds starting at $5M to 11,000 square-feet triplex penthouses in excess of $100M. Aside from bragging rights, there are real logistical reasons as to why these are smart investments. There is an extremely limited quantity of trophy properties in Manhattan. Only 1% of individually owned Manhattan properties are considered trophies, which is less than 2,000 units—only 0.002% of the current housing stock. As far as the macro view, consider the impact on infrastructure, political proponents of less development, exorbitant prices of land, and construction material and labor. There will be a clear strain on the auxiliary services and transportation in the neighborhood if continued development persists. This is leading many political figures like Gale Brewer, Manhattan Borough President, to lobby for the implementation of a stricter community board process for developers looking to develop. Also, land is trading at more than $1,000 per-square-foot and union labor cost is increasing at an average of 4% annually, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. These could all impede future development in the neighborhood. At first glance, the amount of new buildings coming the market looks intimidating. But the long-term perspective shows that these are special properties– properties that we may not see come to the market again in the future. Jarrod Guy Randolph, a Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker with TOWN Residential, specializes in luxury and investment property sales throughout Manhattan.

EAST SIDE CONSTRUCTION UPDATE Neighborhood group provides the latest news on the MTA’s East Side Access project The East Sixties Neighborhood Association sent a newsletter out to community stakeholders on the progress of East Side Access project, and said that activity in a lot at Second Avenue and 63rd Street is set to pick up as work crews enter the next phase of construction at the site. The neighborhood association met with members of the East Side Access construction team to discuss the scope of the project and mitigation efforts at the site. From the newsletter: “The good news is there will be no blasting or signiﬁcant rock excavation necessary at this site. For the next four to ﬁve months, [East Side Access] contractors will be working to prepare the lot for the next phase of construction. Once the site preparation

work is completed, activity for the next two to three years at this location will include some minor excavation for and construction of an underground mechanical equipment room, as well as regular deliveries of material, equipment and access by personnel. Work during both site preparation and ongoing activities will be weekdays from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.” The association said trucks will enter and exit the site for deliveries and pickups, and that equipment may be temporarily staged on sidewalks in the area, but only with a DOT permit. “A vehicle or two may be parked within the lot overnight and on weekends. In general, noise should be minimal most of the time,” said ESNA. The East Side access project is a multi-year initiative to bring the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal. The project involves the construction of a tunnel under

the East River at 63rd Street, which will connect to another tunnel running underground between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue that hooks up with Grand Central. On the other side of the river the tunnel connects to the LIRR terminal in Sunnyside, Queens. ESNA said workers will install a decorative fence and use sound suppressing blankets to further keep noise down, and that landscaping currently in the lot will be removed while hedges surrounding the lot will receive regular upkeep. “Site perimeter cleanup and fence screen inspection will take place regularly and informational signage and contact information will be posted.” The East Side access project is set to be completed in 2023 and currently has a budget of about $10.8 billion. It’s among the biggest infrastructure projects currently underway in the country.

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A DOCTOR INSPIRED BY THE YOUNGEST PATIENTS A pediatric psychologist on helping kids through trauma, reality TV, and what’s in the secret box BY ANGELA BARBUTI

As Supervisor of Pediatric Psychology at Rusk’s Rehabilitation at NYU Langone Medical Center, Dr. Joe Taravella sees children who have experienced traumas like brain injury, cancer and stroke. He began this challenging, yet rewarding, role in April, and he praises his young patients for their resilience. “It really makes you think about living in the present moment and being grateful for what you have,” he said. Although he has three kids of his own at home, he ﬁnds time to sit on a board for a center for underprivileged students, publish books and work on a pilot for a reality show.

How would you describe your new role? I oversee the pediatric psychology service on an inpatient and outpatient basis. We have a 16-

bed inpatient unit run by Dr. Joan Gold and Dr. Renat Sukhov. At NYU, we have Rusk Rehabilitation where we take a comprehensive approach to rehabilitation with patients. At the pediatric ward, we get patients with a variety of acquired and congenital disorders and disabilities and take a complete look at them. Howard Rusk was at the helm of that and started it many moons ago. We use physical, occupational and speech therapy and psychology in treating these patients. On an inpatient basis, we’re usually getting kids after they’ve had surgeries. So a lot of traumatic brain injuries, whether they are hit by cars as pedestrians or in a car and get hit. We see some really signiﬁcant traumatic things. We’ve had several people who have lost a parent or a sister from motor vehicle accidents and they’ve sustained a variety of traumas, broken limbs or an injury to their head. Right after surgery, they’ll come for rehabilitation in the medical center and that’s when we get them. And then we also follow patients on an outpatient basis. And for that, we mostly do neuropsychological comprehensive assessments where we test for IQ, attention, concentration, memory and executive function skills. We do all these tests with them and put together a report and then have recommendations for the school, home and psychotherapy. So the two services are kind of different but involve a lot more than just psychology or their emotional state. We see kids with cerebral palsy, spina biﬁda, spinal cord injuries. Even kids who’ve had a stroke. And a lot of kids in cancer remission as well.

What’s the best and worst thing about your job? Collaborating with so many incredible doctors, members of the team, therapists, families, and ultimately, the children, who are unbelievably resilient. I mean, getting out of surgery and smiling and wanting to run around. Each and every day is bright and wonderful. Honestly, the greatest challenge is that all of the notes are now electronic. So there’s an electronic, universal system to input your notes when you see patients. Learning that system was challenging.

and rewarding. And I often think back to what she said to me and I feel it gives you another layer and perspective when you have a family of your own.

Cyberbullying is a serious issue many of your patients deal with. How can parents monitor this? By keeping up the communication with their kids and noticing any changes in their personality. I tell parents, “You know your kid better than anyone. So when you notice changes, like they’re suddenly starting to get withdrawn. it’s time to have a conversation.” I think it’s important for them to feel they have a safe place in the home to communicate with their parents. It’s really the ﬁrst line of defense. If it doesn’t go away quickly, it will accelerate and exacerbate and start blowing up in the social media world. We want the kids speaking to the parents and the parents speaking to the teachers and then to the administration of the schools. And at home, limit the computer time, have it in an area that’s visible to everyone. And monitor their activities. A lot of parents have their kids’ passwords. This information that is out there on the web is too overwhelming for children and they don’t truly get the impact of it.

You trademarked Dr. Joe’s Secret Box. Explain what that is. What I’ve noticed in my work through the years is that everyone has secrets that they’re holding onto. These secrets cause a divisive line between you and someone else, whether it’s the rest of your family, your spouse or your friend. Over time, it starts to create a lot of toxic, negative energy. So people would come into my ofﬁce wanting to reveal certain traumatic things that had happened in their lives, and it was hard at times to reveal them. So I decided to bring the Secret Box to my office. People could write down their secrets and put them in the box. I let them be in control of this process. Even writing it out and putting it in the box increases their level of anxiety. I leave it up to them, if they want me to read, if they want me to read it in front of them, or when they’re not there or leave it in the box until the next time. It bridges the gap and brings people together in terms of communicating and not holding onto this information.

You ﬁlmed a pilot for a reality show about families in crisis. What step are you in with that? It has intermittently gotten sent to different agencies. I think more of the zeitgeist in reality TV is for more sensational stuff. But I think the sensational piece is what’s in the Secret Box. What is the secret that they put it?

When did you know you wanted to go into psychology?

DR. JOE TARAVELLA’S SECRET BOX What is it? Literally, a box in Dr. Joe’s office. He encourages people to write down secrets, traumas, or anything else difficult that has happened in their lives and put them in the box. Then what happens? It’s up to the patients whether they want to read the contents in front of the

doctor or leave it in the box unread. Some patients ask him to read it after they leave the office. Why is it effective? Secrets can be toxic, creating a barrier between the keeper of the secret and the rest of the world. The box helps people let those secrets go.

I was a political science major and was going to go to law school and opted against it. I was looking for a job and a friend of mine worked at Carmel Richmond nursing home. And I became really interested in the psychological well-being of the patients there who were geriatrics. It was the last stage or last few chapters of their lives. So I started to take a couple of classes in psychology at St. John’s in Queens and met Dr. Elizabeth Brondolo. She became my mentor and said, “I want you to get your graduate degree here and come work for me. And I’ll pay your tuition as a fellowship.” So I got my master’s and PhD there, working under her. We did cardiovascular research in her behavioral lab, and I worked my way up to running the lab in my last few years in graduate school.

Do you think having your own children helps you in your work? I do. When I was in graduate school, we were given this case where the parents were coming in with their teenage son for problems that they were having with him. I said to my supervisor, “I don’t know what I’m going to do with this family. They’ve been parenting this kid for 15 years. I don’t have any kids.” And she said to me, “You have all your training behind you. Believe me they will beneﬁt from your time together.” And sure enough, they did. I think having a family of my own has just enhanced what I was taught in graduate school. I had a parent who would say to me, “You really don’t understand how hard it is. As a mom, it’s so challenging.” And now, having three kids myself, who all arrived within 14 months of each other, it is very challenging, interesting

You also started a publishing company and have created two books about kids with two dads and two moms. Yes, with my friend from grad school, Dr. Stacey Bromberg. About nine years ago, we were looking for books for kids with two dads and two moms and couldn’t ﬁnd any. We were in California; she lives in Denver. She came out to the East Coast, and we went to a popular bookstore. When we asked the lady there, she said, “Go into the kids section on disorders.” We were outraged with that response and ultimately, couldn’t ﬁnd any for the 0 to 5 age group. We decided to publish our own set of books starting at the beginning of the life span, so parents can really spend the time bonding with their kids with these board books. We did one for kids with two moms and one for kids with two dads and called it the Hugs of Three series. It was a real labor of love, but we wanted to see that come to fruition. To learn more about Dr. Joe’s work, visit www.drjoetaravella.com

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HUNTER COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM READY TO GO SPORTS SPOTLIGHT After last season’s run to the semiﬁnals, the 2014-15 Hunter College men’s basketball team is ready for another run at the title. This year’s team will be a mix of returning players, transfers and freshman. “We’ve matured a lot and asked our guys to be strong and smart,” said Head Coach Shay Berry. “I think we are at a point where we are going to let the experience and development transform us into a more competitive team.” The Hawks lost leading scorer and leading rebounder Frankie Drayton to graduation. “Everyone has to chip in to replace Frankie,” said Berry. “It’s not just on one guy to pick up their scoring or rebounding, it’s got to be everyone improving on their averages from last year. I think we have the guys that are going to be able to do that.” Brian Kruger, Jerrell Antley, Lester Anim, Tulant Ibraj, Rob Borusiewicz and Eric Kippins will be relied upon to bring the team

together and help the newcomers manage the up and downs of a season. “Our team goal is to improve our defensive rebounding and defensive ﬁeld goal percentage and we are committed to improving in those areas,” said Berry. The Hawks open their 2014-15 season at the Admiral’s Classic where they will take on Martime College on Nov. 15 and USMMA on Nov. 16. Returning Players Brian Kruger – Junior Jerrell Antley – Senior Lester Anim – Senior Tulant Ibraj – Junior Rob Borusiewicz – Junior Eric Kippins – Senior Danny Sokolovosky – Senior Chris Garcia – Senior Bryan Silvera – Senior Transfers/Freshman Gerrard Carty – Freshman Alex Mattina – Freshman Dan Shulman – Freshman Matt Franks – Freshman Matia Divac – Sophomore Blendi Ibraj – Freshman

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Fri

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Wed

1/28/2015

CCNY

7:00pm

New York, NY

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Hunter Sportsplex

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2/17/2015

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7:00pm

Hunter Sportsplex

Wed

2/18/2015

CUNYAC Make-Up

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Fri

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NCAA Regionals

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7:30pm

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Mon

12/1/2014

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7:00pm

Hunter Sportsplex

Fri

12/5/2014

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8:30pm

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Mon

12/8/2014

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8:00pm

Newark, NJ

Fri

12/12/2014

CCNY

7:00pm

Hunter Sportsplex

Fri

1/2/2015

John Jay College

7:00pm

New York, NY

Tues

1/6/2015

Medgar Evers College

7:00pm

Hunter Sportsplex

Fri

1/9/2015

York College

8:00pm

Jamaica, NY

Mon

1/12/2015

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7:00pm

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