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MARIO CUOMO AND THE POWER OF WORDS REMEMBRANCE The former governor was about so much more than great speechmaking
In Brief
BY CHRISTOPHER MOORE
As a kid in Jersey with a passion for politics, I followed the news through city tabloids. I found vast entertainment in the Mario Cuomo-Ed Koch follies. Their competitions in the city in 1977 and statewide in 1982 stuck in my brain and heart. They still do. I’m sitting here now with a copy of “Diaries of Mario M. Cuomo,” which is subtitled “The Campaign for Governor.” It’s hard to beat that first race for governor, when Cuomo was the decided underdog, for sheer political drama. Granted, when I finally grew up and, as the editor of this newspaper, interviewed Cuomo, I found him to be a little bit crazy. His passion about what he was talking about seemed almost scary – and I couldn’t get him to stop. But that’s the hazard of a real-life encounter with an idol. And when his son was a would-be gubernatorial candidate in 2002, I took his dad’s book to an editorial meeting with Andrew Cuomo. He thought I was the crazy one. He seemed to retreat when he knew I was a Mario Cuomo junkie. Now I’ve had enough therapy to realize I was, by bringing the book, putting the son in a weird position. Oops. Obviously I’ve been thinking and reading about the senior Cuomo, as the Upper East Sider was laid to rest this week. So much has been expressed about the former three-term governor, and some of it’s even true. Much has been said about what he said – and the powerful way in which he said it. There’s been criticism that the legislative and administrative record never matched his rhetoric, as if that were even possible. Evidently we remain wary and distrustful of eloquence, as if we’re being set up for
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DE BLASIO AND BRATTON ANNOUNCE LOW CRIME RATES
ONE YEAR IN FOR COUNCILMEMBER KALLOS POLITICS Ben Kallos, once considered a long shot for the job, looks back on his first 365 days in office BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS
Councilmember Ben Kallos had a good year. Of the 70 bills passed by the City Council in 2014, three were his --
impressive given that Kallos has 50 other colleagues on the council. The committee on governmental operations, of which he is chair, passed another four bills. Not bad for a first-year council member who two years ago was regarded as a long shot to represent the Upper East Side behind former State Assemblyman Micah Kellner, whose campaign collapsed in the summer of 2013 after allegations of
sexual harassment surfaced against him. Kallos surged ahead and won the election handily. He’s since used his background in technology and his sense that government should be as transparent as possible to pass legislation that aims to help New Yorkers better navigate city bureaucracy. For instance, the City Record, an
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Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton announced 2014 saw the fewest murders last year in recorded city history. The mayor and commissioner also announced the city saw the lowest murder, robbery and burglary rates in the past 10 years. In 2014, Overall Index Crime was down 4.6 percent since the previous year, Overall Index Crime in transit was down 14.8 percent over the previous year, and housing crime was down 6 percent over the previous year. In 2014, marijuana arrests dropped 10.5 percent over the previous year. In 2014, complaints to the Civilian Complaint Review Board also dropped 11 percent compared to the previous year. “We know that the path toward an even-safer city is rooted in closer bonds between police and the communities they serve. And from the hardworking officers who patrol our streets, to the parents who keep their children on the right path, to this city’s social workers, teachers and community leaders, we’ve worked together to achieve these extraordinary gains,” said de Blasio.
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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS CHECK HEDGE FUND FOUNDER ALLEGEDLY KILLED BY SON The New York Post reported that Thomas Gilbert Sr., the 70-year-old founder of Wainscott Capital hedge fund, was killed with a gunshot to the head on Sunday. His 30-year-old son, Thomas Gilbert, Jr. was arrested and charged with his father’s murder and is being held without bail. Police sources told the Post that the younger Gilbert came to his parents’ home on Beekman Place around 3:30 p.m. carrying a .40-caliber Glock semiautomatic pistol. He asked his mother to go out and get him a sandwich
before he allegedly executed his father with a single shot. Sources said that Gilbert Jr. was angry at his father over the threat to cut his monthly spending money allowance from $600 to $400. Gilbert Sr. was also reportedly paying his son’s $2,400 monthly rent on his West 18th Street apartment. After allegedly shooting his father, Gilbert Jr. ed the East Side home and his mother discovered the body and called 911. Gilbert Jr. was later arrested at his apartment in Chelsea at about 11 p.m. New York Post
Thoma Gilbert Sr. was found shot to death at his Beekman Place home on Sunday; his son has been charged with his murder.
N.J. GOLF PRO KILLED, DRIVER TICKETED IN EAST SIDE CRASH Police have released the identity of a noted New Jersey golf instructor hit and killed by a car on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, and they say the driver who hit him was ticketed. The New York Police Department says 27-year-old Wesley Mensing of Scotch Plains and a woman were crossing a street Saturday evening when a Mercedes-Benz SUV hit them both. The 30-year-old woman is hospitalized in stable condition. The 45-year-old SUV driver got an unlicensed-driving ticket. Police haven’t released his name. Golf Digest listed Mensing in November as one of the “best young teachers in America.â€? Mensing worked at the PlainďŹ eld Country Club in Edison, New Jersey. Golf director Scott Paris tells the Daily News Mensing’s skill and passion for teaching golf were “never-ending.â€? AP
POLICE INVESTIGATING DEATH OF ONE-MONTH-OLD BOY Police in New York City are investigating the death of a 1-monthold baby boy. Police say Saturday they responded to a 911 call of an unconscious newborn
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inside the George Washington Houses at 1895 2nd Avenue Friday evening. They say officers discovered Deon McNeil unresponsive in a ninth oor apartment. He was rushed by ambulance to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. A spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office says more tests are needed to determine the cause and manner of death. Police say the investigation is ongoing. AP
CUOMO BEGINS 2ND TERM, SAYS N.Y. WILL BE LEADER Andrew Cuomo kicked off his second term as governor Thursday with a pep talk, urging New Yorkers to lead by example through some of the nation’s worst problems. Speaking from the symbolic heights of the newly completed One World Trade Center, Cuomo aimed high with his rhetoric, touching on national issues sure to trigger questions about his political ambitions while also hinting that he may ďŹ rmly insert himself into the imbroglio that has roiled the nation’s largest city. “We work harder and we earn less. Income inequality is at the highest point in over a century. While American capitalism never guaranteed success, it did guarantee opportunity,â€? Cuomo said. “For too many, the dream of economic of mobility has been
replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.â€? Cuomo said these frequently troubled times are “a uniquely New York moment because when things are at their worst, New York is at its best.â€? The governor also reacted to the protests against police brutality that have swept the nation since grand juries failed to indict police officers in the deaths of black men, including Eric Garner, whose last moments were captured on videotape as he was placed in a fatal chokehold by a white New York Police Department officer. “The world saw an African-American man in Staten Island die and people are confused, disgruntled and angry,â€? Cuomo said. He argued that “today, sadly, too many people are questioning if the blindfold is still intact or does the justice system now see black and white or black and blue or rich and poor.â€? The resulting protests have driven a wedge between Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City police unions, which have claimed that the mayor has helped create an anti-NYPD atmosphere that led to the fatal shooting of two police officers on Dec. 20. “Law enforcement officials have been wrongfully targeted and even assassinated. It must stop,â€? Cuomo said, before calling the two sides to work harder to ďŹ nd common ground. “Everyone is talking but no one is listening.â€? AP
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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG
NYPD SLOWDOWN REFLECTED AT LOCAL LEVEL News outlets across the city are reporting that the NYPD has cut back significantly on enforcement since the assassinations of officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu Dec. 20 in Brooklyn, a trend tracking with precincts on the Upper East Side.
The New York Times reported Monday that for the second straight week since the officers’ deaths, the NYPD as a whole has drastically reduced the number of arrests and summonses they issue. For the week ending Jan. 4 officers made 2,401 arrests citywide compared to 5,448 the same week last year, a 56 percent decrease. For criminal summons the drop is even more precipitous at 88 percent. For the week ending Jan. 4, the NYPD issued just 347 criminal summonses compared to 4,077 the same week last
year. Parking and traffic tickets are also down more than 90 percent. Those trends hold at the micro level for the 19th precinct. Police made 23 arrests compared to 40 over the same period last year, issued no criminal summons compared to 15 last year, and gave just 26 parking and moving violations compared to 485 last year. The trend, which was dubbed a “work stoppage” by the New York Post, comes amid increasing tensions between the police department and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration.
Protests over police brutality and the non-indictment of the officer responsible for Eric Garner’s death on Staten Island have, in addition to contract negotiations between the NYPD and the administration, led to a climate of hostility between many officers and their union and the mayor. Some officers have turned their backs to the mayor during Ramos’ and Liu’s funerals, and the mayor was heckled recently at a police inauguration ceremony. Fueling the officers outrage is heated rhetoric from the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association president Pat Lynch, who said City Hall has blood on its
hands in the deaths of officers Ramos and Liu. After a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict the officer in the Garner case, de Blasio remarked that his biracial son Dante could face increased scrutiny and danger at the hands of the police, a statement that outraged some officers and the union. Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has sought the middle ground in recent weeks, criticizing officers who disrespect the mayor but allowing that such behavior is reflective of how many officers feel at the moment. He said the rift between the NYPD and City Hall will, “probably go on for a while longer.”
19TH PRECINCT Report covering the week 12/15/2014 through 12/21/2014 Week to Date
Year to Date
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% Change
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2013
% Change
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0
0
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0
n/a
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0
n/a
11
6
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2
2
0
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103
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3
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100
94
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Burglary
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10
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211
235
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Grand Larceny
31
29
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1,509 -9.5
Grand Larceny Auto
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0
n/a
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important yet dense public notice bulletin published daily by the Dept. of Citywide Services, is somewhat hard to glean any real information from. Kallos passed a law that will make it easily searchable and will enable people to set alerts for when something lands in the public domain that might concern them. He also passed legislation that will create an online voting guide for city elections that will tell users who is running in what races. The last piece of legislation he passed expands the number of city agencies that must integrate voter registration forms into their processes and compels the agencies to assist anyone that needs help filling them out. Fortytwo agencies must provide the forms, up from 35 prior to his law being enacted. In an interview at his district office on the Upper East Side, Kallos said he recently glanced through his campaign’s policy
book to compare what he said he would do with what he actually got done, and was pleasantly surprised. “It was surprising to see where we are as a city now compared to this time last year,” he said. In 2015, said Kallos, one of his focus areas will be insuring the laws he passed are actually put in place. “Making sure the laws are implemented properly,” said Kallos of his plans in 2015. “That is a huge priority.” Kallos said he’ll also be pushing to secure a universal broadband deal with Comcast where the company will provide free and low-cost internet access as part of their planned merger with Time Warner. On pedestrian safety, he identified the most dangerous intersections on the Upper East Side and said he’s working with the DOT to implement safetyenhancing fixes in his district similar to what’s happening on the Upper West Side. His report, dubbed “Livable Streets,” ranks the 10 intersections from
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He has other priorities for 2015: making sure bike lane expansions are done properly, pushing for more school seats and continuing his participatory budgeting program. York Avenue to 2nd Avenue in the 50s and 60s that have the highest number of collisions per month. The most dangerous intersection is at 2nd Avenue and 57th Street, with five-and-a-half collisions every month. According to research compiled by his office, drivers are failing to yield to pedestrians, turning improperly, and speeding. In addition, the crossing light does not provide enough time to get across the street and the crosswalk markings are not visible. His office compiled the report, in part, by soliciting comments from the community. The collision data came from a website, but insight on what factors were contributing to the dangerous conditions came from speaking with people and distributing surveys in the district asking residents what issues are important to them. That interaction gets to the heart of how he said he’d like to use his office. More concisely, he’d like to make government work better for constituents and become more responsive. Kallos said he continues to fight against the marine transfer station, and that if it does open he expects it will be shut down eventually due to how
much it will cost to operate. He endorsed Asphalt Green’s plan to move the MTS access ramp to 92nd Street, but said the whole proposal needs to be reconsidered. If construction does proceed, he said “anything other than driving garbage trucks into a children’s athletics facility is a pretty obvious choice. Of the options that the administration seems to want to consider, it’s the best one.” He has other priorities for 2015: making sure bike lane expansions are done properly, pushing for more school seats and continuing his participatory budgeting program. But turning his attention to the news of the day, he said he stands with the NYPD while appreciating the notion that “it is very possible for somebody to want to improve our criminal justice system and still be supportive of our police.” Kallos came out against stop and frisk during his campaign, and said the conflict between the NYPD and City Hall is a product of the agenda that Mayor Bill de Blasio has set for the city. “It’s a progressive administration from top to bottom, and we have a progressive mayor. We’ve refocused policing from stop and frisk to a community policing model where we’re focused on providing communities with support and rehabilitation, and it’s a matter of providing that for police officers as well,” said Kallos. “I hope we can mend where we are as a city.”
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< FAREWELL MALAGA ON E. 73RD I know Our Town likes to keep up with what’s happening, restaurant wise, so I thought you’d like to know that Malaga, on 73rd St., just off of First Ave., has closed. My wife and I had dinner there with friends Tuesday night and as we were leaving we were told that this venerable Spanish eatery was
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going away. In fact New Years Eve would be the end. Very sad. The hostess said there were several factors -- taxes, health code, declining patrons. She said her father wanted to keep it going but in the end it had become just too much so it was goodbye.
I took the photo. That’s my wife on the far left, our friend Nancy and Nancy’s son Doug, an American, who was in from Paris for the holidays. So farewell Malaga. We remember years ago the place would be packed, but no more, Bill Diehl
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DEBATING OUR PICK FOR PEOPLE TO WATCH Our choice of Elizabeth Forel, the anti-carriage horse campaigner, as a Person to Watch this year prompted the kind of mail we’ve come to expect on the issue. A sampling, including comments online, follows: Hooray for Elizabeth Forel. She has galvanized so many who witness these horses work day after day in freezing and scorching temperatures. I have seen the empty food and water buckets, their noses inches from exhaust pipes, down in the street after being hit and yes, being whipped. The time is now for a ban. I ask every Council member to walk down the line on Central Park South to listen, observe, and to look at each horse prior to the vote. If done, it will pass 100%. Hope that the Council is provided with past testimony since many who took the time to testify gave the history, the conditions of the stables, the hoof numbers switched to fake vet reports, etc. It is time, NYC! Barbara Hobens Feldt Indeed, Elizabeth Forel is definitely one to watch, in the same way one watches sneaks, cheats, liars, and bullies. The disinformation spread by her and her followers is outright cultish. She and her cult should have a defamation suit filed against them for the constant unprovable accusations that flow unhindered from their mouths. appyrdr The bottom line is horses and busy traffic do not mix. They spook. Their defense mechanism is flight and they don’t care if they’re pulling a carriage. The industry isn’t regulated like it should be. Enough is enough. Lisa Cronin Horses and traffic mix just fine. Traffic statistics kept by the NYPD indicate that carriages account for less than 0.003% of all traffic collisions, and almost all of those collisions result in ZERO injuries to horse or human and little to no property damage. Horses CLEARLY mix better in traffic than pedestrians or bicycles do! You also appear to not really understand that acclimated horses like ours rarely spook, and that spooks, when they do happen, rarely result in disaster, thankfully. We’re really the safest form of transit in NYC, whether you feel it to be unsafe or not. Statistics, not feelings, tell the truth. thedrafthorse STRAUS MEDIA-MANHATTAN President, Jeanne Straus nyoffice@strausnews.com Vice President/CFO Otilia Bertolotti Vice President/CRO Vincent A. Gardino advertising@strausnews.com
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EGON SCHIELE: PORTRAITS Neue Galerie New York, 1048 Fifth Ave, at 86th St. 11 a.m., $20. Egon Schiele was an Viennese artist who painted at the turn of the 20th century. These sensual pieces depict the artist, his colleagues, and his lovers. 212-628-6200. neuegalerie. org
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ISIS: WHAT COMES NEXT? 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave., between 91st and 92nd St. 8 p.m., $30+. isis has dominated news in
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2014. But, just who are they and what does this mean for the fight against radical ideology? Find out in this analytic lecture. 212-415-5500. 92y.org
DOUGLAS GORDON, PHANTOM Gagosian Gallery Park & 75, 821 Park Ave, at 75th St. 10 a.m., Free. In this sculpture and video instillation, Douglas Gordon combines his work with that of musician Rufus Wainwright to create what the artist calls a “requiem.” 212-796-1228. www. gagosian.com
LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN Metropolitan Opera House (at Lincoln Center), Lincoln Center Plaza, at 65th Street. 7:30 p.m., $25+. Composed and performed in French, Les Contes d’Hoffman uses a new cast to tell a classic tale of three heroines. Subtitles available in English, Spanish, and German. 212-362-6000. metoperafamily.org
SIMPLE FLORAL ARRANGEMENTS: DEBBIE KOPINSKI 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave., between 91st and 92nd St. 12:30 p.m., $35+. Learn how to turn flowers from the corner deli into a masterpiece using Sogetsu, a Japanese form of arrangement. Bring own vase, scissors and flowers. 212-415-5500. 92y.org
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Barnes & Noble 86th & Lexington Ave, 150 E 86th St, at Lexington Ave. 7 p.m., Free. Best-selling author Seth Grahame-Smith reads from his newest work in which he reinvents Reconstruction-era America through the lens of a vampire. 212-369-2180. barnesandnoble.com
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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
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CHEYENNE JACKSON: EYES WIDE OPEN Café Carlyle (in the Carlyle Hotel), 35 E. 76th St, at Madison Ave. 8:30 p.m., $45+. Broadway star Cheyanne Jackson, from Glee and Xanadu performs show-tunes ranging from classics to contemporaries. 212-744-1600. thecarlyle. com
WANG JIANWEI, TIME TEMPLE Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Ave, at 89th St. 10 a.m., $22. In his first American exhibition, Wang Jianwei uses multiple platforms, both still and moving, as a commentary on societal order. 212-423-3500. guggenheim.org
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 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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IRONY AND HUMOR IN POP ART SCULPTURE EXHIBITIONS In an intimate show at the Flag gallery, Roy Lichtenstein pays tribute BY MARY GREGORY
Pop art icon Roy Lichtenstein brings to most people’s minds large-scale canvases painted with comic book imagery and tongue-in-cheek text. But for those not already familiar with it, there’s a whole other realm of Lichtenstein’s works to be discovered. Throughout his career, but particularly in his final years, Lichtenstein created sculptures large and small, and always imaginative and inventive. The Flag Art Foundation Gallery on 25th Street in Chelsea is currently showing an exceptional selection of Lichtenstein’s three-dimensional works in Roy Lichtenstein: Intimate Sculptures, an exhibition of 14 sculptures, organized in collaboration with the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, through Jan. 31. The Pop Art movement started in the late 1950s and early 60s partly as a reaction to the Abstract Expressionism of the previous decades. Painters like Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell poured their expressions and their paint onto canvases that captured their gestures and their idiosyncratic signatures, both manual and conceptual. They made paintings about nothing so much as the idea of painting. Subject matter, perspective,
foreground and background all went out the window and pure painting was all that mattered. Enter the 60s, when artists like Lichtenstein and Warhol found inspiration in popular culture. Rather than highlighting the private and often inaccessible mind of the artist, they sought to bring everyday life into the spotlight, democratizing subject matter, style and technique. With Pop art, everything could be art – from soup cans to comic strips, and how a piece was made might not be as important as why. While Warhol riffed on advertising and celebrity, Lichtenstein turned to the humorous yet dramatic possibilities in comics. He used the Ben-Day dots found in newspaper print and created works of art that seemed far simpler than they turned out to be. The collection on display in the Flag Art Foundation’s 10thfloor gallery gives a perfect introduction to Lichtenstein’s sculptures. Smaller pieces can be seen up close, and the many artist’s models, or maquettes, for large-scale works give a sense of major pieces installed at museums and in public spaces from Long Island to Tokyo. In all of them, you’ll find Lichtenstein’s bold, simple forms, his use of bright primary colors highlighted in black and white, and a healthy dose of the artist’s characteristic wit and humor. Parody played a big role in Lichtenstein’s work. He played on the splattery, painterly style of the Abstract Expressionists in the series of Brushstroke
bition. sculptures in the exhibition. Lichtenstein depicts driphat are ping strokes of paint that neither dripping nor paint. ul, meInstead, they are careful, ons of ticulous representations paint. The liquid look of his es, like Brushstroke sculptures, stroke Maquette for Brushstroke (the actual work, at 32 feet adrid’s tall stands outside Madrid’s Museo Nacional Centro de Arte ct that Reina Sofía ) belie the fact they’re constructed of dense, he arthard metal, treated by the ere just ist to appear like they were left by a wet brush. “It’s a sym’t, and bol of something it isn’t, that is part of the irony I’m inn said. terested in,” Lichtenstein ptures Lichtenstein’s sculptures that look like pictures are full ons. In of playful contradictions. d questhem, the artist raised ntions tions by turning conventions re of a upside down. A picture ture of house is actually a sculpture ere’s a a picture of a house. There’s y thing mirror in which the only ction. missing is the reflection. There’s a stable mobile, a nod ander to fellow sculptor Alexander s. But Calder’s dancing forms. spect. always, it is a nod of respect. e said, In fact, Lichtenstein once rently “The things I have apparently mire.” parodied I actually admire.” Lichtenstein was an artist who made art about art. ion is The Flag Art Foundation a relaxed, welcoming place, hrman founded by Glenn Fuhrman eciato encourage the appreciation of contemporary art ce. among a diverse audience. he It’s free and open to the upublic, and through January 31st, offers visitors a et rare opportunity to get
to know the sculptures of one of the acknowledged masters of 20th century art. It’s an extraordinary, delightful exhibition in a beautiful, intimate venue that’s bound to bring a smile. Flag Art Foundation, 545 W 25th St, Wed. – Sat. 12-5 pm.
Maquette for Brushstroke, Roy Lichtenstein. Photo by Mary Gregory
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ENSEMBLE ACJW Ensemble ACJW, a two-year performance fellowship for postgraduate students and a joint program through The Juilliard School, Weill Music Institute and Carnegie Hall, performs a concert of works by Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu and French composers Maurice Ravel and Olivier Messiaen. Jan. 8 Paul Recital Hall at The Juilliard School 60 Lincoln Center Plaza, Broadway between W. 65th and W. 66th Streets 8 p.m. Free tickets available online at https://events.juilliard.edu/
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A GOOD THING GOING: THE STEPHEN SONDHEIM AND HAROLD PRINCE COLLABORATION Some of composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s greatest successes came from his 11 year collaboration during the 1970s with director and producer Hal Prince, including Company, Sweeney Todd and A Little Night Music. Broadway vets perform songs from some of the pair’s most notable plays, including Liz Callaway, who made her Broadway stage debut in Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along. Jan. 10-12 92nd Street Y Kaufmann Concert Hall Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street Assorted show times Tickets $55-$75
drummers performing indigenous South African music from throughout the country’s history, including traditionals, jazz and contemporary kwaito club tunes. Jan. 8-9 Symphony Space 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street Assorted show times Tickets $75
FILM LA POISON Writer and director Sacha Guitry’s 1951 French language satire follows Paul and Blandine, a longmarried couple who are so sick of one another that they simultaneously plot the other’s murder. New York University professor Charles Affron, who specializes in French film, introduces the evening screening. Tuesday, Jan. 13 French Institute Alliance Francaise 22 E. 60th St., between Park and Madison Avenues 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets $13
DANCE AFRICA UMOJA: 20 YEARS OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY Created by Soweto natives Todd Twala and Thembi Nyandeni, Africa Umoja is a pulsing and vibrant celebration of South African music and dance, featuring 32 dancers, singers and
ROYAL DANISH BALLET’S PRINCIPALS AND SOLOISTS Principal dancers from Copenhagen’s Royal Danish Ballet, the world’s third-oldest ballet company, visit the Joyce Theatre, performing a collection of works by 19th century Danish dancer and choreographer August Bournonville. Jan. 13-18 Joyce Theater 175 Eighth Ave., at W. 19th Street Assorted show times Tickets $10-$75
failure when a leader is able to use language to describe a vision. The speeches were just speeches, the argument goes. Performance art, and not much more. We’re missing the point, or part of it. Cuomo gave good speech, indeed, and this week, thanks to C-SPAN showing his 1984 Democratic keynote address at the gym, I wept on the treadmill. But for some of us, a speech like that – a misstatement, really, since there never was any other speech like that – is an action. It’s an achievement. It motivates some peo-
ple, especially younger ones, to become far more interested in civic affairs. I know, cause that’s what happened to me. We’ve overstated the schism between words and actions. They’re related. There’s such a thing as cause-and-effect. Some of what Cuomo often said – like how we must think of our state as “the family of New York” – provided a framework for other action. And some of what he argued in his San Francisco keynote – “we would rather have laws written by …Saint Francis of Assisi than laws written by Darwin” – gave liberals in a conservative age a mental-health break from the me-me-money ethos of the Reagan era. Sometimes
an address, especially when you’re the president or the governor and giving speeches is a key part of your job, is at least partly an end in itself. It’s no small thing to give voice to progressive thinking in America. The question of whether Mario Cuomo lived up to his words is left now to history. The question for us is whether we believe in his notion of a family of New York, and beyond, and whether and how we might live up to his words. Christopher Moore, a freelance editor and writer, is a former editor of Our Town and the West Side Spirit.
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Food & Drink
< WHOLE FOODS EMPLOYEES CAUGHT ON CAMERA BEATING MAN Employees of the Union Square Whole Foods Market were captured on video beating a man in front of the grocery who attempted to enter the store after hours, Grub Street reported. A five-minute video shot on the evening of Dec. 30 shows an altercation between the store’s
In Brief FINANCIAL CONSULTANT ARRESTED FOR EMBEZZLING FROM CITY RESTAURANTS John McKee, a financial consultant for accounting firm Bambina Magra, was arrested last week for stealing $255,000 dollars from three area restaurants he was working for, the Daily News reported. McKee was hired as a financial consultant by Greenwich Street restaurant White Hall, West Village Mexican eatery Agave and Scottish gastropub Highlands on W. 10th Street and Waverly Place, allowing him to cut checks to the restaurant’s vendors, as well as to himself, a privilege he used to overcompensate his firm and embezzle additional funds for the last two years, the Daily News reported. McKee will face grand larceny and defrauding charges.
A VOCE GM TO HEAD NEW STEAKHOUSE The general manager for upscale Columbus Circle Italian eatery A Voce just jumped ship for a new, nearby restaurant, Eater reported. Louis Andia departed the restaurant, which lost its Michelin star this year, to run the soon-toopen Lincoln Square Steak, a new, classic steakhouse on W. 70th Street and Amsterdam Avenue that is scheduled to open on Jan. 14 following two nights of preview dinners benefiting City Meals on Wheels. The new spot about ten blocks northwest of A Voce, features a traditional steakhouse menu, with sliced tomato and onion salads, creamed spinach and hefty dry-aged meats. Eater reports that at least 10 front of house staff members from A Voce followed Andia to Lincoln Square Steak.
security staff and employees and a reportedly intoxicated man who repeatedly tried to enter the store and was forcefully thrown out by the staff, who proceeded to punch and kick him on the sidewalk in front of the store. In a statement to Grub Street, Whole Foods said
the company is working on an internal investigation into the matter and that the staff members pictured in the video have been placed on leave during that process.
HEARTLAND BREWERY CLOSES ORIGINAL LOCATION RESTAURANTS As another restaurant prepares to leave the area, Union Square’s fate as a dining destination is in question BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO
UNION SQUARE The original Heartland Brewery, a craft beer and pub food mainstay in Union Square, poured its last pint on New Year’s Eve. The restaurant, open since 1995, is the latest victim of dramatically rising rents in Union Square, joining Danny Meyer’s Union Square Cafe, which is scheduled to close at the
end of this year. Founder Jon Bloostein opened the bi-level, 275-seat bar and restaurant in 1995, abandoning his original beer and pizza concept for a more chef-oriented food menu in order to afford the $150,000 a year rent. His 19-year lease expired last October, and he’s been occupying the prime space to the west of Union Square Park on a month-by-month basis. The asking rent is going up to $2.5 million a year. “It’s very hard to justify,” Bloostein said. “You can’t. You’re out of business.” Bloostein remembers a “grittier” New York in the mid-1990s, before Whole Foods, Barnes
Opening year of Heartland Brewery Union Square, 1995
& Noble and Nordstrom Rack opened around the park. He expects that, as long-term leases near Union Square Park expire, other businesses won’t be able to re-up. Eater reported in October that upscale seafood restaurant Blue Water Grill on Union Square West is hunting for a new location in anticipation of a massive rent spike this year. “Some of them can afford it,” Bloostein said. “And some will leave.” Bloostein said Union Square’s changing appearance, with more and more big-box chains, is symptomatic of the rental climate in Manhattan, in which fewer small bars and restaurants can keep up with rental costs unless they’re high-volume establishments, and even large, popular destinations aren’t safe. As a result, massive brew pubs and beer halls and high-end cocktail bars replaced the small neighborhood dives, said Bloostein, who also operates the cavernous Houston Hall on W. Houston Street and Flatiron Hall on W. 26th Street, as well as Bernheim & Schwartz Hall near Columbia University, and three midtown Heartland locations. With the closure of the Union Square spot, Bloostein will look to expand to other cities where costs are lower, like Washington, D.C. and Boston. If he were starting out today, he said, he’d never consider opening Heartland Brewery in Manhattan, where the financial risks are too great. “It’s a supply and demand for space,” he said. “We live in a free
Opening year of Heartland Brewery Union Square, 1995. market economy. Now Danny (Meyer) has Shake Shack. Now I’m in other places, and the landlord is entitled to make whatever they want.” At stake is Union Square’s already fading role in Manhattan’s dining culture. With Union Square Cafe on its way out, and the fate of Blue Water Grill uncertain, diners will have fewer reasons to visit the shopping and dining area now dominated by chains such as Petco and Staples. As outer boroughs continue to become both residential and dining havens, residents in Brooklyn and Queens may have little reason to come to Manhattan at all, Bloostein said. “As older places shut down, character is compromised,” said Bloostein, who laments the loss of the corner dives and delis. “[Union Square] becomes less of an interesting place to live and shop.”
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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS DEC 29 - JAN 2, 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. Moustache
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The Recovery Room
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1367 1 Avenue
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PETS Prepare for emergencies with your four-legged family members Emergencies seldom give warning, but we can be ready for them. Most people have first aid kits on hand for themselves and family members. But what about your animals? Pet care experts at North Shore Animal League America, the world’s largest no-kill animal rescue and shelter organization, recommend having a pet first aid kit that’s right where you need it if an animal emergency occurs. You can buy kits that are preassembled or assemble your own. Keep them in different locations so that you are prepared at all times, in all places. It’s wise to keep one kit at home, one in the car, and wherever else your pet spends time -- the office, a relative’s or friend’s home, a vacation retreat, etc.
If customizing your own, use a container that is sturdy, waterproof and easy to spot when you need to locate it in a hurry. Here is what every basic first aid kit should contain: • Phone numbers and addresses: Veterinarian, Emergency Vet, Poison Control • Basic pet first-aid book • Photocopies of your pet’s paperwork: important medical records, vaccinations, etc. • Medical gloves: to protect hands and prevent contamination • Scissors: to cut gauze or the animal’s hair • Bottled water • A mild antibacterial soap: to clean skin and wounds • Paper towels • Gauze pads: for wounds • Gauze rolls: for wounds and can also be used as a temporary muzzle • Alcohol prep pads: to sterilize equipment – NOT for use on wounds • Self-adhesive bandages: flex-
ible bandage used to wrap and stabilize injuries (do not wrap too tightly) • A large cloth towel: to wrap animal • Hydrogen peroxide: to clean minor wounds • Eyewash: such as contact lens solution or water in a squeeze bottle to gently but thoroughly flush out wounds and eyes • Antibiotic ointment: for cuts and abrasions (never for eyes) • Cotton applicator swabs • Tweezers: for the removal of foreign objects from skin and paws; and for the proper removal of ticks One important rule to observe: make sure to always read directions and warnings before applying any medications, either prescribed or over the counter, to your pet. If you have an emergency, you should always contact your veterinarian for further instruction.
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Sports ASPHALT GREEN’S RANGERS MOVE UP A DIVISION Asphalt Green’s oldest boys premier soccer team, Rangers (U/15), compiled a 4-0-1 record in their abridged league season, finishing 2nd in their division, 1 point off 1st place. The squad will be promoted to the highest division of premier for spring play. After winning their opening State Cup game they are currently ranked 17th in Eastern New York and 95th in the region, which includes teams from 13 states.
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Address
Price
Bed Bath Agent
Murray Hill
140 EAST 40 STREET
$1,625,000
Beekman
415 EAST 52 STREET
$705,000
1
1
FirstService Realty
Murray Hill
225 EAST 36 STREET
$602,000
Beekman
860 UNITED NATIONS PLAZA
$1,180,000
2
2
Brown Harris Stevens
Murray Hill
140 EAST 37 STREET
$3,375,000
Beekman
400 EAST 51 STREET
$1,450,000
1
2
Stribling
Murray Hill
10 PARK AVENUE
$875,000
1
1
Halstead Property
0
Douglas Elliman
1
1
Keller Williams NYC
Carnegie Hill
141 East 88th Street
$3,022,329
2
2
Stribling
Murray Hill
104 EAST 37 STREET
$399,000
0
1
Citi Habitats
Carnegie Hill
25 EAST 86 STREET
$2,865,875
2
3
Warburg
Murray Hill
630 1 AVENUE
$970,000
2
2
Noble Realty
Carnegie Hill
1095 PARK AVENUE
$7,375,000
3
3
Brown Harris Stevens
Murray Hill
305 EAST 40 STREET
$615,000
1
1
Corcoran
Carnegie Hill
115 EAST 87 STREET
$1,662,500
2
2
Halstead Property
Murray Hill
330 EAST 38 STREET
$1,340,000
1
2
Sotheby’s
Carnegie Hill
15 EAST 91 STREET
$4,850,000
Murray Hill
5 TUDOR CITY PLACE
$1,200,000
Carnegie Hill
1100 PARK AVENUE
$5,650,000
3
4
Corcoran
Murray Hill
5 TUDOR CITY PLACE
$410,000
1
1
Town Residential
Carnegie Hill
150 EAST 93 STREET
$850,000
2
1
Orsid Realty Corp.
Sutton Place
420 EAST 58 STREET
$1,575,000
2
2
Citi Habitats
Lenox Hill
737 PARK AVENUE
$5,091,250
Sutton Place
50 SUTTON PLACE SOUTH
$1,600,000
2
2
Brown Harris Stevens
3
3
Corcoran
1
1
Stribling
Lenox Hill
550 PARK AVENUE
$4,500,000
3
3
Corcoran
Sutton Place
16 SUTTON PLACE
$1,150,000
Lenox Hill
610 PARK AVENUE
$4,250,000
2
3
Vivaldi Real Estate
Sutton Place
400 EAST 56 STREET
$1,995,500
Lenox Hill
405 EAST 63 STREET
$345,000
Sutton Place
339 EAST 58 STREET
$38,540
Lenox Hill
330 EAST 70 STREET
$480,000
Sutton Place
300 East 59 Street
$775,000
Lenox Hill
304 EAST 65 STREET
$1,750,000
Lenox Hill
422 EAST 72 STREET
Lenox Hill
1
1
Douglas Elliman
Sutton Place
400 EAST 56 STREET
$625,000
$1,958,000
2
2
Ken Deutsch Real Estate
Sutton Place
440 EAST 56 STREET
$1,125,000
2
2
Halstead Property
21 East 61st Street
$4,636,287
2
2
Extell Development Company
Yorkville
505 EAST 79 STREET
$1,165,000
2
2
Citi Habitats
Lenox Hill
340 EAST 72 STREET
$1,543,500
2
2
Brown Harris Stevens
Yorkville
201 EAST 80 STREET
$2,300,000
2
2
Nestseekers
Lenox Hill
205 EAST 63 STREET
$1,245,000
Yorkville
505 EAST 79 STREET
$425,000
0
1
Corcoran
Lenox Hill
150 EAST 69 STREET
$945,000
1
1
Brown Harris Stevens
Yorkville
405 EAST 82 STREET
$395,000
Midtown East
220 EAST 57 STREET
$336,000
0
1
Bond New York
Yorkville
350 EAST 82 STREET
$685,000
1
1
Halstead Property
Midtown East
153 EAST 57 STREET
$570,000
1
1
Corcoran
Yorkville
301 EAST 79 STREET
$10
Midtown East
209 EAST 56 STREET
$360,000
Yorkville
505 EAST 79 STREET
$1,500,000
2
2
Harrison Properties
Midtown East
235 EAST 55 STREET
$1,185,000
1
1
Douglas Elliman
Yorkville
321 EAST 89 STREET
$365,000
1
1
Manhattan Flats
Midtown East
220 EAST 57 STREET
$685,000
1
1
Corcoran
Yorkville
501 EAST 79 STREET
$1,084,809
Midtown South
425 5 AVENUE
$855,000
0
1
Citi Habitats
Yorkville
500 EAST 83 STREET
$879,000
1
1
Halstead Property
Murray Hill
225 EAST 36 STREET
$364,026
0
1
The RSP Companies
Murray Hill
160 EAST 38 STREET
$1,400,000
2
2
Coldwell Banker Bellmarc
Murray Hill
325 EAST 41 STREET
$465,000
1
1
Douglas Elliman
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YOUR FIFTEEN MINUTES
AN ARTIST TAKES THE STAGE Q&A Artist and comedienne Eileen Hickey explains her artistic purpose BY ANGELA BARBUTI
By using lipstick, nail polish and eye shadow as painting mediums, Eileen Hickey speaks to women through her art. She also utilizes materials like fabric and thimbles, because she feels they are devalued because of their connection to women. The 68-yearold longtime Tribeca resident spends her days in her home studio and occasional nights on stage. The divorcee uses her marital situation as comedic material and recently made her on-stage debut at Broadway Comedy Club. Since then, she’s performed at open mics throughout Manhattan at
venues like the Village Lantern and The Stand. She spoke to us about her earliest art shows, studying at Hunter and what inspires her work.
You recently began to perform standup. How did that come about? I took a class at Gotham Writers’ Workshop for stand-up comedy. But I’d been dying to do it for a long time because I admired Richard Pryor and Lenny Bruce so much. I saw that people were able to change the world by making people laugh. I worked at HBO in 1979 when it was starting out, and my boss put on this eight-track tape of Richard Pryor’s first stand. I was with Mickey Kelly who was married to Bill Murray at the time. She was an executive there too. And it changed my life and I saw the power of comedy.
What did it feel like to be on stage? It feels great. It feels energizing. Like when I’m having an art show, I remember that people want me to succeed. And it’s so great that people will let you in and take some time to listen to what you have to say.
How can you describe your comedy? I would say dark. But I would say that my interest is bringing out of the shadows the position that women are still in and talking it about in a way to great through to people, which is comedy. So, for example, when I say the marriage years are like dog years. I was 25 when I got married, and three years later, I was 65. Talking about my husband emptying out the bank accounts.
How long were you married? Where did you meet your ex-husband?
Eileen came to NYC when she was 18 years old with only $250. Thirty one years. I was working in an art gallery in Soho and he was the architect for the building next door, for the Leo Castelli Gallery. He saw me, and found out his best friend, who I had the world’s shortest date with, knew me.
When did you come to New York? I grew up in Buffalo, the Queen City of the Great Lakes. I arrived here with my aunt and uncle when I was 18 and pregnant. And I had $250 dollars. I came to New York to be Jackson Pollock. I wanted to take on abstract expressionism and gender discussion of art history and bring it into modern times.
You started painting at an early age. At 6 or 7. When other kids had lemonade stands, I had an art gallery on a card table on our front yard. I got my little friend to be my art dealer, and she would sit there and I would go paint some more. I got my first art scholarship when I was nine at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
You studied art at Hunter College. What was your experience like there? It was awesome. It was the best education I ever could have had. The year I graduated, in ‘76, was the last year of free admission and we wore black arm bands at our graduation. Hunter had open and free admission. I studied with Bob Swain and Ron Gorchov. And Leo Steinberg, one of the greatest art historians of all time. I was his librarian. I worked my way through college
by working at the Frick Art Reference Library and the Guggenheim Museum.
How do you describe your work? I use a lot of things that are devalued because they are connected with women, like fabrics and patterns. I did a whole series with nail polish. I paint with lipstick, eye shadow and nail polish.
Your art has been featured in movies. Yes because I lived in this building in Tribeca for 39 years. My upstairs neighbor for 17 years is a very famous art director in film, Patrizia von Brandenstein. She collected my work and puts me in films that she does, like Eat Pray Love. The most recent one was Phil Spector that was on HBO.
There was an article in the Daily News about an issue you had with your landlord, who accused you of making a profit by subletting your apartment on Airbnb. Was it ever resolved? No, because I’m a rent-stabilized tenant, he’s trying to get me out so he can charge market rent. That’s the deal. So everything that was in the article, except for the fact that I’m a mini-skirt wearing motorcycle- riding painter, isn’t true. My landlord has broken into my loft, and he also knows that I’m impoverished because of my divorce proceedings, so I think he feels that I’m vulnerable now. www.eileenhickey-hulme.com
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