Our Town January 15th, 2015

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THE COST OF THE POLICE SLOWDOWN NEWS Though the reduction in ticketing and summonses seems to be easing, its fallout was most felt in areas with traffic-safety problems

BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS

While Police Commissioner William Bratton appears to have put an end to the NYPD’s two-week-long reduction

In Brief IN MANHATTAN, HUNDREDS RALLY IN SUPPORT OF FRANCE

in summons activity, the slowdown seems to have been steepest in the area of Vision Zero enforcement.

The initiative is being driven by Mayor Bill de Blasio, and is already credited with having saved lives by reducing the speed limit citywide to 25 miles per hour and putting in place a host of traffic safety improvements, as well as enacting legislation

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TURNING GRIEF INTO ACTION NEWS Traffic victims and families press D.A.’s to prosecute drivers in pedestrian fatalities

BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS

Families for Safe Streets staged a rally Sunday calling on New York district attorneys to take more seriously cases where reckless drivers kill or injure pedestrians. Photo by Daniel Fitzsimmons

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Their faces peered out from pictures held by family members who gathered Sunday on the steps of City Hall. Those holding the pictures were all members of Families for Safe Streets, and all have lost their loved ones

to collisions with vehicles on the streets of New York.

Many held another sign that read “No Charges Filed,” a statement that’s become a rallying cry in the effort to get the five New York district attorneys to prosecute drivers that, due to negligence or recklessness, kill or seriously injure a pedestrian.

“Crashes caused by aggressive driving are not accidents. When drivers make turns at full speed without even looking, or speed through intersections and kill people, D.A.s never press charges,” said Amy Cohen, a founding

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Hundreds of mostly Frenchspeaking New Yorkers held pens aloft at a rally Saturday to insist on freedom of expression while decrying a deadly terror attack on a Paris satirical publication.

The demonstrators braved below-freezing temperatures in Washington Square Park, where a leather-clad pole dancer gyrated in a provocative display meant to reflect the over-the-top cartoons in the magazine Charlie Hebdo.

The dancer’s live soundtrack came from a concert grand piano hauled into the Manhattan square for the occasion as she twirled under a sign that read “Je suis Charlie.”

French for “I am Charlie,” the words have emerged as a global rallying cry since two gunmen with assault rifles killed 12 people last Wednesday at the Paris headquarters of the magazine.

New York organizers said they were showing solidarity with the French after three days of violence that, all told, left 20 dead, including three gunmen.

Olivier Souchard, a French-born New York resident who brought his family and friends, explained the fierce support for freedom of expression that drove Charlie Hebdo’s images of the prophet Mohammed.

He said he’s been in touch with his friend Philippe Lancon, a Charlie Hebdo columnist who is recovering from surgery after being shot in the face in the attack.

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CITY TO LIFT CELL PHONE BAN IN SCHOOLS Mayor Bill de Blasio will lift a longtime ban on cellphones in New York City public schools, ending a widely unpopular practice and bringing the city in line with other large school districts.

De Blasio, who announced the policy change Wednesday afternoon during a news conference at a Brooklyn school, said the new plan will go into effect March 2. “It’s time to take a common-sense action that will give parents a better peace of mind,� said the mayor, who has acknowledged that his own son, Dante, brings a phone to Brooklyn Technical High School. “We need to hear from our kids and this guarantees we can.�

The rule requiring cellphones and electronic devices like iPads to be left at home was put in place by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg to address concerns about cheating, theft and the

Students will soon be permitted to bring their cell phones into public schools, where administrators will craft their own school cell phone policies. risk of students using their phones to summon a crowd for a ďŹ ght. But the ban has never been enforced consistently.

At schools without metal detectors, many students bring phones and keep them stowed in their backpacks. But most schools in the 88 buildings with metal detectors enforce the ban, and some students at those schools pay $1 a day to store their phones in a van or at a local business.

Each school will have an individualized policy determined by its principal, with input from parents and teachers, according to Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina. The three most

common choices will likely be for the students to store them in their backups for the day, to be allowed to use them during lunch or in other designated areas or to be allowed to occasionally use them in the classroom for instructional purposes.

Students who violate the guidelines and are spotted using their phones at prohibited times — or for illicit purposes — risk having their devices conďŹ scated, Farina said.

Mona Davids, president of the New York City Parents Union, said she welcomed the change in policy. “As parents, we will feel more comfortable knowing we can keep in contact with our children while they are commuting to school,� Davids said.

Allowing phones inside a school but telling students to keep them stowed during class will mirror policies of other districts such as Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta. Under the new rules, principals and teachers will decide how to handle cellphones in schools.

Ernest Logan, the head of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, said in a statement, “Our collective priority is educating students

in a safe and secure environment. We hope these new policies do not undermine that goal.�

SURGERY CENTER THAT TREATED JOAN RIVERS TO CLOSE Yorkville Endoscopy, the clinic on the Upper East Side where Joan Rivers underwent outpatient surgery before complications resulted in her death, will be losing its federal accreditation.

WABC New York reports that the federal Centers for Medicare Services has determined that the center no longer meets the requirements for an ambulatory surgical center to receive Medicare and Medicaid funding.

Rivers died last year after undergoing a procedure to address vocal issues and acid reux on her throat. The medical examiner ruled that Rivers died from therapeutic complication, which means it was a predictable complication of surgery, that left her brain without oxygen for too long.

The clinic released a statement saying they would work with all regulatory agencies to reverse the decision, and that they are still licensed

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311 CUSTOMER SERVICE HOTLINE HAS RECORD YEAR Mayor Bill de Blasio says New York City’s customer service hotline had its busiest year ever in 2014.

The 311 line received over 28 million customer contacts. It surpassed the previous high, set in 2011, by 16 percent.

New Yorkers can use the number to get information on a wide range of city services and issues.

They include reporting a lack of heat, enrolling in pre-kindergarten and checking on alternate side of the street parking regulations.

Most customers call 311 but the service can also be accessed online or by texting.

The 311 service was created by de Blasio’s data-driven predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, in 2003.

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG

NO TICKETS IN TIMES SQUARE OVER NEW YEAR’S Of all the statistics from the recent New Year’s Eve in Times Square — 1 million revelers, 2,000 pounds of confetti, thousands of police officers, dozens of surveillance cameras — there is one number that stands out: zero, as in zero tickets for low-level crimes.

No tickets for having an open container of alcohol, no tickets for public urination, no tickets for double parking, no tickets for furry, costumed characters hassling tourists to take their picture. Add in low-level arrests, and there was just one, for a subwayrelated offense.

And that wasn’t just on New Year’s Eve. That was for the entire week containing the holiday. During the Christmas week, when the neon-lit streets were every bit as jammed, the total for such infractions was 23 — compared to more than 650 summonses per week the previous year, according to police statistics.

Times Square is perhaps the most jarring example of a slowdown in lowlevel enforcement across New York City amid tension between rank-andfile police and Mayor Bill de Blasio, whom they accuse of encouraging violence against cops by siding with

protesters after the chokehold death of Eric Garner. They were particularly incensed by comments in which the mayor warned his biracial son to be cautious in dealing with officers.

In the two weeks after two NYPD ofďŹ cers were shot to death in their patrol car Dec. 20 by a fugitive who had ranted online about avenging police killings, low-level arrests citywide dropped 61 percent. Summonses were down more than 90 percent. Arraignment courts have been so slow they have sometimes closed early, and Rikers Island’s jails have about 2,000 fewer inmates. “They haven’t been on top of us like they used to,â€? Luis Martinez said on a recent night in Times Square, where he roams the streets in a Cookie Monster costume posing for photos in hopes of tips. “They’re minding their own business now.â€?

The 14-block precinct in the heart of Times Square was among at least seven across the city where not a single summons was issued for parking, moving or criminal violations during New Year’s week — a statistic that makes some people nervous.

To A r my vetera n Hor tensia LaCorbiniere, police aren’t in a position to back off on doing any part of their jobs, whatever the reason. “Their orders are to protect and serve,� LaCorbiniere said as she went to a medical appointment in another precinct with zero tickets on the East

Side. “You do your job, or you get out of that occupation.�

The slowdown has overshadowed an overall, years-long decrease in every measurable crime statistic: complaints of crime, arrests and summonses. Crime of all kinds decreased 4 percent to all-time low in 2014, when there were 332 homicides, down from 335 the previous year.

The slowdown in enforcement hasn’t translated to a rise in crime. In the past two weeks, reports of serious crimes were down to 3,704 from 4,130 in the same period a year earlier.

CARD GAME Identity thefts show no sign of abating. A 33-year-old female Upper East Side resident received letters informing her that between Wednesday, December 17 and Monday, January 12, three credit cards had been opened in her name without permission or authority. Unauthorized charges totaling $1,647 appeared on the fraudulent accounts. Police said an investigation into the matter is ongoing.

RING DING A gym locker is never a safe place to keep your valuables. At 7 a.m. on Thursday, January 8, a 28-year-old woman returned to her locker in an Upper East Side gym to discover that the two wedding rings she had

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Apparently, the lock on her locker was undamaged and still in place. The value of the two stolen rings came to $29,000.

but became suspicious of two later attempts and froze her account. In all, the woman lost $2,000 from the transfers in November. Police are continuing to investigate the matter.

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For one banking customer, online funds transfers proved to be anything but convenient. On Sunday, January 11, a woman reported to police that she had tried to pay some bills online when she discovered that her account had been locked. It seems that two transactions had been made in November transferring money from her savings account to someone else’s checking account. Her bank Chase approved those transactions,

It pays to read emails from your bank. At 8:30 a.m. on Friday, January 9th, a 47-year-old man received an e-mail from his bank advising him that his password had been changed. He attempted to access his account and was denied. He then went to his bank in person and discovered that a whopping $47,498 have been taken out of his savings account by persons unknown.

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UPPER EAST SIDE VIGIL FOR FRENCH VICTIMS Hundreds of people, including the senior rabbi of the Park Avenue Synagogue, march to the French Consulate on Fifth Avenue

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As world leaders traveled to Paris to offer support and to mourn with the French community and the French Jewish community, hundreds of Upper East Side residents gathered at the French Consulate on Fifth Avenue on Saturday night to offer prayers and express their condolences.

Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, senior rabbi of the Park Avenue Synagogue, led a delegation from the 87th Street congregation in a solidarity march along Fifth Avenue to mourn the acts of terror in France.

“We all watched with shock and horror as the events of the past week unfolded. First the Wednesday massacre at the office of Charlie Hebdo and then the Friday afternoon attack at Hypor Cache, a kosher supermarket. So many in our own community prepare for the Sabbbath in much the same way. The horrific terrrorist attack hit home. The synagogue community repsonded with deep sadness. We wanted to do something to express our support and solidaity with France and with the French Jewish community.”

The rabbi noted that word of the rally went out Friday afternoon. “I expected that pehaps 20 or 30 people would respond,” he said. “It was amazing to stand together with the several hundreds who

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arrived at the French Consulate from all other the Upper East Side. The large number signaled the depth of the collective emotions of the community and its willingness to take a strong stand against those who would destroy society with terror.”

The rabbi noted that many of the victims were murdered as they prepared for Shabbat. A prayer of mourning was sung by the synagogue’s senior cantor, Azi Schwartz. The rabbi spoke the words of the memorial prayer.

Representing Bertrand Lortholary, the French Consul General in New York, Yann Yochum, head of the Press and Political Office of the French Consulate in New York, awaited the group.

He noted that “France, its values, its citizens, have been the target of a violent and heinous series of attacks.” He reiterated the call of French President Francois Hollande for “unity within our country...for nothing can divide us and nothing should separate us (and) also unity with our friends abroad, who, I trust, will stand with us in our fight against all forms of intolerance.”

A book of condolences was placed in the lobby of the French Consulate at 934 Fifth Ave. Many people left messages expressing support. Outside the building, a growing memorial of flowers and candles overflowed onto the sidewalk.

A stark black and white sign with the words “ Nous Sommes Charlie” recalled the attack on the satirical magazine.

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Hundreds of people, including Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, senior rabbi of the Park Avenue Synagogue, marched on Fifth Avenue on Sunday to mourn terrorism victims in France.

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BY BETTE DEWING xperts agree that young men especially need stable families and involved fathers to keep them out of trouble.

Maybe some join destructive youth gangs. And maybe some join terrorist groups, like the two brothers who slaughtered 12 innocents in Paris and who were raised in an orphanage. Now this is no defense of radical Islam, which aims to violently control the world. But the slaughter of innocents last week in Paris ties in somewhat with what must be remembered about NYPD Police Officers Wenjian Liu and Carlos Ramos ambushed, shot to death, as they guarded a high crime area. These men were such exceptional role models in both their personal and their work lives. Their families really mattered and were of the multigenerational and extended kind which I keep saying help keep the peace even between nations, surely on the home front and now in our city, peace between City Hall and the NYPD. It’s unlikely that Officers Liu and Ramos would turn their backs to the mayor at a fallen officer’s funeral, or later retaliate by ignoring so-called low-level offenses.

There are peaceable ways to protest, which don’t sully a sacred time and place or jeopardize public safety.

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Manhattan Country School 8th graders will honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by taking to the streets of Manhattan to speak out about what they consider to be the most pressing civil rights issues of their time. For this year’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative March, on Jan. 19, students will share their hopes and desires for their generation and the ones to follow.

Through speeches, the students will address a host of topics including police brutality, equal access to quality education, bullying, and women’s rights. As the oldest students at Manhattan Country School, the 8th graders are responsible for planning this annual march from choosing the theme and selecting the route to writing the speeches and publicizing the event. Now in its 27th year, the march is part of the school’s core curriculum, which includes activism, community building, and sustainability beginning in preschool.

LENOX HILL’S KNITTING PROJECT

Lenox Hill Hospital patients with cancer and other serious illnesses are a bit cozier this winter.

The Madresita Project, a knitting and crocheting group which produces and distributes handmade hats to patients, many of whom have lost their hair, was started by radiology receptionist, Susana Luna, who created the project in honor of her late mother who passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2012. Many hospital staff members have been involved with the project since its inception in November, not only making the hats but also donating yarn and other materials. “I want people to know that they are not alone and that people still care,” said Luna.

Naturally, this longtime safe traffic activist especially thinks of all the vehicular moving violations (crimes of traffic!) which were likely ignored.

But I wholeheartedly believe in the “broken windows” measure which City Hall has now denounced.

City Hall needs reminding how Liberal Democrat Senator Daniel Pat Moynihan believed in this crime-fighting tool in the 1970’s and also that shoring up families helps prevent youthful crime. Tragically, nobody up there picked up on the latter Rx. While a longtime supporter of police and their dangerous and often frustrating work of keeping the peace, for which too often they are wrongly accused of wrongdoing, some could learn a lot from the lives of Officers Liu and Ramos. For just one example, to take the time to listen to a lonely Vietnam Vet who needed help from the police after taking a fall. This beyond the call of duty action was thankfully remembered at Officer Liu’s funeral. Stories that need to be told – going the extra mile sometimes, and always thanking people for their support, including media when it defends and commends them. Yes, that’s a hint to the 19th Pct. Community Relations Officers.

So much was said that needs to be remembered and adopted from the funerals of Officers Liu and Ramos and also of Governor Mario Cuomo. The funerals were thankfully televised but too few watched and learned how these three men again so valued their families and their marriages in a time when so many leaders do not.

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Matilda Cuomo will miss her husband’s presence the most, and may her governor son be a role model who gives enough caring support. Incidentally, in 2012, Our Town honored Matilda Raffa Cuomo as the Eastsider of the Year, primarily for her dedication to children’s education. And now her presence and involvement would be enormously helpful to other endeavors like the forthcomng East 79h Street Neighborhood Association monthly meeting on Jan 15th from 6- 8pm at Temple Shaaray Tefila. And she would be an invaluable presence at the all-important Traffic Safety Forum sponsored by this newspaper on Jan. 21st at 6 – 8 pm at the Society for Ethical Culture.

The latest Upper East Side traffic tragedy victim is 27 year-old Wesley Mensing, considered by Golf Digest “to be the best young golf teacher in America.” How long, dear Lord, how long?

And Liz Krueger’s trailblazing Boomer/Senior’s forums related to caregiving of dependent elders, definitely needs this noted elder’s input and presence. And at the February 19th forum from 8:30- 10:30 am at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House focus on on late life living arrangements, if sharing a home with family members isn’t an option, maybe she’ll also speak out.

Ah, and speak out we must on Martin Luther King Jr.’s national holiday January 19th, maybe on all the above, but especially remembering how Dr. King’s protests were always non-violent and civil.

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THE COST OF THE POLICE SLOWDOWN CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 designed to keep pedestrians safe.

Whether officers purposely cut down on enforcing traffic law over their feud with the mayor is impossible to prove.

What is known, though, is that during the height of the slowdown statistics on parking tickets and moving violations fell off at a much higher rate than in other enforcement areas.

From Dec. 29 to Jan. 4, the second week of the slowdown, police in the 24th Precinct on the Upper West Side issued zero parking tickets and zero moving violations, according to CompStat records. Last year over the same week officers in the 24th issued 188 parking tickets and 152 moving violations, which includes the everimportant summons for failing to yield to a pedestrian.

Citing department policy, 24th Precinct officers declined to comment.

That same trend applies to police in the 20th Precinct, which covers the lower half of the Upper West Side. From Dec. 29 to Jan. 4, police issued three parking tickets and zero moving violations. Last year over the same period they gave out 180 and 125, respectively.

Contrasting another enforcement area, police in the 24th Precinct made 22 arrests compared to 40 over the same period last year, and police in the 20th Precinct made 22 arrests compared to 24 last year. While traffic enforcement is of a much different stripe than say, having to arrest an individual who poses a threat to the public, the comparison is noteworthy.

The trend also holds on the Upper East Side. From Dec. 29 to Jan. 4, police in the 19th Precinct issued 16 parking tickets compared to 310 over the same period last year, and 10 moving violations compared to 175 last year. Police in the contiguous 23rd Precinct issued 16 parking tickets compared to 225 last year and two moving violations compared to 69 last year.

In Lower Manhattan, police in the 1st Precinct gave out zero parking tickets and zero moving violations. Over the same period last year, those numbers are 271 and 129, respectively.

In the 5th Precinct, which covers Chinatown, Little Italy

and Two Bridges, police issued zero parking tickets and just one moving violation from Dec. 29 to Jan. 4. Last year over the same period they gave out 134 parking tickets and 109 moving violations.

Officers in the 7th Precinct, which is responsible for the Lower East Side, gave out 21 parking tickets compared to 143 last year and zero moving violations compared to 75 last year.

On the Upper West Side, where a woman was struck and killed on New Year’s Eve and a 10-year-old girl was struck on Jan. 7, Council Member Helen Rosenthal said a slowdown damages the trust that most New Yorkers, the majority of which support the police and their mission, place in the NYPD. “A work slowdown is not the answer to whatever grievances police officers or their representatives may have with administration policy or the environment in which uniform officers operate,” Rosenthal said. “The great confidence most New Yorkers have in the NYPD rests in police officers putting one hundred percent effort into their work, acting professionally and in many cases heroically. A work slowdown undermines this public trust.”

Across the city, pedestrian safety has taken center stage as the visibility of fatalities -- many of them involving children -- has risen. Pedestrian safety advocates have since called for New York’s five district attorneys to treat such cases involving reckless drivers as potential crimes instead of accidents. Several elected officials have lent their support to that cause, and Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson recently announced the formation of his District Attorney Driver Accountability Initiative.

In a 24th Precinct Council meeting just days before the assassination of officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in Brooklyn on Dec. 20, police reported a 519 percent overall jump in speeding tickets on the year. In 2013, police in the 24th issued just 58 speeding tickets.

In 2014, as part of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Vision Zero drive to decrease pedestrian deaths, police in the precinct issued 359.

Additionally, over 300 enforcement violations were issued against cabbies for things like running red lights and failing to yield to a pedestrian.

It was after those police shootings that the slowdown began in earnest.

The police unions and Mayor Bill de Blasio were already at odds over comments the mayor made about having talked to his biracial son about potentially dangerous interactions with the police. Officers are also rankled by de Blasio’s apparent alignment with Rev. Al Sharpton, a sharp critic of the NYPD. Demonstrations against police brutality that occurred after a Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict the officer that was responsible for Eric Garner’s death by chokehold, which was ruled a homicide, have exacerbated rank and file officers’ feelings of being embattled in a city they’re sworn to protect.

Relations between the administration and the NYPD were worsened when Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch said after the police assassinations that City Hall had blood on its hands and that de Blasio had contributed to a climate of hostility against cops. Since then, the mayor has been heckled at police functions and some officers turned their backs to him during Ramos’ and Liu’s funerals.

De Blasio has refused to apologize for the comments he made, and Bratton has tried to strike a middle ground, chiding officers who rebuffed the mayor but allowing that their actions are reflective of how they’re feeling at the moment.

The rift between the administration and the NYPD, he said, ““will probably go on for a while longer.”

Bratton seems to have put an end to the slowdownfor now.

News outlets began reporting earlier this week that officers were denied vacation time and even lunch breaks until they had brought their numbers up.

Residents from across the city reported being ticketed for all manner of insignificant infractions, signaling that police were scrambling to close the enforcement gap that was so evident just weeks ago.

“Standing by while observing transgressions - small or large - only serves to endanger ordinary New Yorkers,” said Rosenthal. “[New Yorkers] who by and large support the police, and respect police work and the dangers involved in carrying it out.”

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Voices

Letter THE OTHER SIDE OF MARIO CUOMO To the Editor: There is more to “Mario Cuomo and the Power of Words” (Chistopher Moore. Jan. 8). Former Governor Mario Cuomo was not a reformer, but rather a proud product of the Queens County Democratic Party clubhouse machine.

After losing the Democratic Primary for Lieutenant Governor in 1974, Governor Hugh Carey appointed him Secretary of State in 1975.

Mario was never above using class warfare as an issue to divide and conquer. Remember his reference to Republican Governor candidate Lew Lehrman’s expensive watch during a debate in 1982? Lehrman was a selfmade millionaire who was the founder of Rite Aid drug store chain.

One of Mario’s claims to fame was being a great orator and debater. In 1986, he followed the infamous Rose Garden strategy in his race for a second term. His opponent was unknown and under financed. The late Republican Westchester County Executive Andrew O’Rourke had to carry a cardboard cutout of Cuomo to debate. In the end, Mario agreed to one token debate at the 11th hour.

In 1992, Mario had no problem signing off on the reapportionment plan for new State Assembly and State Senate district lines based upon the 1990 census. This bill preserved and expanded the Democrats’ control of the State Assembly, along with preserving the Republican majority in the State Senate by gerrymandering district boundaries.

So much for good government reform of state government legislative districts.

When it came to supporting public transportation, rather than increase the level of state support by billions under MTA Five Year Capital Plans, it was Mario who started the trend of having state authorities like the MTA borrow rather than providing hard cash contributions. The same was true by increasing the level of state spending and long term debt hiding it offline under many other state authorities rather than the general budget.

We all mourn for the loss of anyone’s father. Mario is not worthy of sainthood.

He was a mere mortal, like the rest of us.

Sincerely, Larry Penner

FIGHTING WITH THE FACTS IN THE HORSE-CARRIAGE DEBATE Thank you for choosing me as one of the people to watch in 2015 concerning the horse-carriage ban. I was quite surprised to see that your Letters section titled “Debating Our Pick for People to Watch” included two anonymous negative comments that had been posted in response to the original online article. It is neither informative, nor useful when your newspaper prints comments by someone who hides behind a fake blog name - allowing them to spew lies and venom with me as the target. Apart from deliberate misrepresentation of facts,

this is gratuitous, personal criticism, libelous and damaging.

Here are some truths that we have taken the time to research: 1. Five-week vacations for the carriage horses are not all they are cracked up to be. Equine experts say that horses need daily turnout to pasture, which these horses do not get. Horses are sensitive animals and need to be able to relax after a long workday, to socialize with their herd and engage in mutual grooming to relieve stress. The Department of Health requires neither the names of the facilities

where the horses are sent nor inspections. In 2011, a former ASPCA equine veterinarian was quoted in one of the newspapers as saying that she noticed some of the horses looking worse after they returned from furlough. We suspect that some are made to work and/or they are not fed well enough.

2. The Teamsters like to refer to the carriage driver jobs as “good union jobs” with the hope of keeping them. But there are no benefits provided: no medical, vacation or sick days.

Not everyone belongs to the union and their dues

are essentially a lobbying fee. Most, if not all, of the workers are independent contractors and do not pay into Social Security. They are also not eligible for sick pay under the new City law.

Because the 68 individual businesses operate as “cash only,” no one knows how much they make or how much is paid into the NYC tax coffers -- but we suspect it is negligible. The IRS or the Comptroller’s office should investigate.

3. Since 2005, I have been following the lists of horses in the business. Last year I released a study that revealed that over 7-1/2 years,

529 horses passed through the industry. The law does not protect these horses, not even requiring sales records if a horse is sold outside NYC, as most are. Some probably found good homes but we believe the majority eventually went on to auction and then to Canada to be slaughtered. More than 100,000 American horses were sent to Canada in 2014 - surely some were carriage horses.

Drivers are entitled to their own opinion -- but not to their own facts.

Elizabeth Forel

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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.

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Hauser & Wirth New York, 32 E. 69th St, between Madison and Park Aves.

10 a.m., Free.

Thomas Houseago uses an all- EGON SCHIELE: white palate and rough surfaces PORTRAITS on his sculptures to capture his audiences.

Neue Galerie New York, 1048 212-794-4970. hauserwirth. Fifth Ave, at 86th St. 11 a.m., $20. com Egon Schiele was an Viennese CHEYENNE JACKSON: artist who painted at the turn of the 20th century. These sensual EYES WIDE OPEN pieces depict the artist, his colleagues, and his lovers.

Café Carlyle (in the Carlyle Hotel), 35 E. 76th St, at 212-628-6200. neuegalerie.

Madison Ave. org 8:30 p.m., $45+.

Broadway star Cheyanne Jackson, from Glee and Xanadu performs show-tunes ranging from classics to contemporaries.

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MIAMI CITY BALLET WITH JUSTIN PECK Peter B. Lewis Theater of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Ave, at 89th St. 3 p.m., $40.

The Miami City Ballet performs snippets of Heatscape

by Justin Peck. Sunday’s play

will be followed by a panel discussion with the show’s artistic director and set designer.

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HELENA RUBINSTEIN: BEAUTY IS POWER The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave, at 92nd St. 11 a.m., $15.

This exhibit examines the career of Polish-born cosmetics mogul, Helena Rubenstein.

Patrons can examine personal artifacts of the entrepreneur.

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19 MIAMI CITY BALLET WITH JUSTIN PECK Peter B. Lewis Theater of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Ave, at 89th St. 3 p.m., $40.

The Miami City Ballet performs snippets of Heatscape

by Justin Peck. Sunday’s play will be followed by a panel discussion with the show’s artistic director and set designer.

212-423-3575. guggenheim.org

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THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART STORE SALE The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave., at 82nd St. 9:30 a.m.

Many items at the Met store are being offered at half price. A great sale for design enthusiasts or gift buyers.

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20 21 A NIGHT WITH KROLL SHOW’S “OH HELLO” 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave., between 91st and 92nd St. 8 p.m., $30.

Comedians John Mulaney and Nick Kroll delight audiences in this QandA, which is preceded by an advances screening of an excerpt of The Kroll Show.

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AMBASSADOR MARTIN S. INDYK WITH ROGER COHEN: WHAT’S NEXT FOR ISRAEL? MASTERPIECES FROM THE SCOTTISH 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave., between 91st NATIONAL GALLERY

and 92nd St. 7 p.m., $35.

Ambassador Indyk, former U.S. envoy of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations discusses what needs to happen in order for there to be peace between

The Frick Collection, 1 E 70th St, between Fifth and Madison Aves.

10 a.m., $20.

A number of classic pieces have been flown in from the U.K for this exhibitions. Featured artists include Botticelli and Singer Sargent.

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CHEESE PAIRING: BEER VS. CIDER 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave., between 91st and 92nd St. 7 p.m., $65+.

Which pairs better with cheese - beer or wine? This ageold question will be put to rest when attendees vote after trying various beer, cheese, and cider combinations.

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THOMAS HART BENTON’S AMERICA TODAY MURAL REDISCOVERED Daily Beginning Monday, Jan. 19 - Sunday, April 19. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave., at 82nd St. 10 a.m., Suggested: $25.

This 10-panel mural depicts America’s Jazz Age and was originally commissioned by New York’s New School of Social Research in 1930.

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Israel, Palestine, and Arab neighbors.

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Sunday, January 18 11am – 2pm

92nd Street Y 1395 Lexington Ave

Bring clean, reusable, portable items such as clothing, house wares, electronics, books & toys that you no longer need. No furniture or large items.

Take home something new-to-you, free!

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DJORDJE OZBOLT, “MORE PAINTINGS ABOUT POETS AND FOOD” Hauser & Wirth New York, 32 E. 69th St, between Madison and Park Aves.

10 a.m., Free.

London-based Yugoslavian artist, Djordje Ozbolt uses wit and and detail to incorporate pop-culture references into his paintings.

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KIDS READY TO ROCK MUSIC Local music school teaches kids to perform as classic rock cover bands

BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO

At 1 p.m. on Sunday, Lower East Side music venue Drom had a formidable audience assembled at tables in front of the stage, perching on stools and ordering drinks at the venue’s full bar.

A familiar scene for a downtown music club, though not one musician on stage could order much more than a ginger ale, and some might have trouble seeing over the bar.

The young musicians hail from School of Rock, a music school based on the Upper East Side that emphasizes live performance.

The concept originated in Philadelphia in the early millennium with musician and guitar teacher Paul Green, who discovered that music lessons structured as band rehearsals were more effective than one-on-one instruction alone. Now an international franchise, the music school pairs individual lessons with weekly band rehearsals with fellow students, which all leads to a live show at a local music venue. Recent themes included the music of Jimi Hendrix, Queen and The Police.

“If you’re not playing in rhythm or you’re playing bad notes, you’re going to

hear it in a way that you can’t when you’re playing by yourself,” said guitar instructor Bob Jones. “With a wind ensemble, if you’re one of six trumpets it’s really easy not to play at all.

But if you’re up there and you’re a bass player in a band, there’s nowhere to hide.”

On Jan. 10 and 11, two dozen students took to the stage, covering classics by the Rolling Stones and the Eagles, performances they’ve been preparing for since September.

“I get nervous,” said keyboard student Tejas Varma, 10, during rehearsal a few days before the show. “But that helps because I know I’ve gotta get this, and I’ve gotta try my hardest. I have bad days and good days.

Like today might be a bad day but on the show I just gotta be like, ‘OK, there are a lot of people here, you don’t want to mess up.’”

The students in the program cite a range of musical preferences, from Meghan Trainor and One Direction to Joni Mitchell, Billy Joel and Barry Manilow. Tenyear-old Eleanor Adams, a pint-size keyboard player and singer in leather jeggings and an AC/DC shirt, recently learned one of her favorite songs, the Beatles’ “Let It Be,” by ear on the piano.

“Taylor Swift is kind of my pop artist right now,” said bass player Ari Silverman, 14, as he sat on an amp dur-

Students with after-school music program School of Rock perform Rolling Stones song “Brown Sugar” at Lower East Side music venue Drom.

Photo: Gabrielle Alfiero ing a recent rehearsal, bass guitar in his lap. He went on to list Cream bassist Jack Bruce as inspiration, along with the new film “Whiplash.” “But don’t sign me up for country. I hate country.

It’s so catchy I want to kill myself.”

Meanwhile, Ari’s younger brother Henry, 10, is new to the program and just learning guitar. If he could meet any musician, alive or dead, he’d choose Jimi Hendrix “because he is God,” he said. “Actually, no. Clapton is God. But Hendrix is Hendrix.”

The School of Rock space on East 75th Street near York Avenue functions as part after-school hangout, part rehearsal space. During down time, students head out two-by-two for pizza and Subway sandwiches, and play video games on their phones. But when they plug in, it’s mostly business.

“You get these kids on these songs and the next year when they come back they know even more,” said guitar instructor Nick Llobet, who directed the Eagles show. “They’re just reliable. You can count on

them to learn these songs.”

At the performance, the students were decked out in their stage gear, in knit beanies and fedoras, leather jackets and Stones tees. Spare seats were hard to come by as parents and friends took pictures and video on their iPhones. Between songs, jokes were told to the audience while guitars were tuned, and the crowd was asked to sing along.

“Hello Drom,” Ari said into the mic before playing “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” a song that featured an impressive guitar solo by Foster Hudson, who dropped to his knees for the interlude.

The crowd, as they say, was feeling it. The band soaked it in. The whole show was a little bit magical.

“It makes going to see adults play music not quite as special,” said Jones, who directed the Rolling Stones set. “It’s really refreshing.

And it makes me less tolerant when I’m at a show and someone’s on stage with a bad attitude or whatever.

Like, I was just with a tenyear-old who can smoke you guys.”

Guitarist Adam Light and bass player Ari Silverman at School of Rock’s student performance series.Photo: Gabrielle Alfiero

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OUR BUS IS YOUR BEST BET.

FOR THE WEEK

BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO

THEATER

“NEVERMORE”

“NEWSTEPS” The semi-annual showcase of new work by emerging choreographers returns to the downtown dance space. The six choreographers selected for the showcase include Emily Craver, whose quartet incorporates traditional folk songs as part of her examination of everyday moments and the passage of time, and Ana Sosa, who contemplates the disparate emotions of manic episodes in her solo work.

Jan. 15-17 Chen Dance Center 70 Mulberry St., at Bayard Street, second floor, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets $12

GALLERIES “CROSSING LINES” A new group exhibition at international gallery Able Fine Art showcases work by three artists that crosses lines both conceptually and physically.

Korean artist Yun-Woo Choi’s three-dimensional sculptures made from folded bits of magazine pages and recycled paper consider the universe’s dimensions, while Adel Gorgy’s abstract paintings and large-scale photographs, which contain references to works by Henri Matisse, Cy Twomby and Andy Warhol, explore issues of authorship and appropriation. Art critic and painter Robert C. Morgan’s work plays with light and dark, exploring the role of light in works of art.

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The troubled life and dark works of literary and cultural icon Edgar Allan Poe—known for his Gothic tales and his addictions—inspires Canadian company Catalyst Theatre’s “Nevermore.” Weaving Poe’s fiction with pieces of his biography, the macabre musical debuted in Canada in 2009 and first opened in New York at the New Victory Theater in 2010. The new, expanded production, written and directed by Catalyst’s Jonathan Christenson, opens with previews this week.

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SONATAS FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO As part of 92nd Street Y’s School of Music faculty performance series, esteemed pianist Lora Tchekoratova, who received her doctoral degree in musical arts from the Juilliard School, joins violinist Georgy Valtchev for a program of sonatas

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DINAPOLI AUDIT CHALLENGES SPECIAL EDUCATION PROVIDERS EDUCATION Probe reveals $42 million in mismanagement of programs Audits of special education providers across New York state have uncovered a disturbing pattern of mismanagement that cost taxpayers nearly $42 million in the last decade, including $20 million in 2014 alone, according to a report released by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.

In conjunction with the report, DiNapoli released 11 new audits that identified more than $6.7 million in public funds that special education providers misspent or misused, including cases of possible fraud that have been referred to law enforcement for further investigation.

“Special education providers play a crucial role in our education system, but some unscrupulous contractors have taken advantage of lax oversight to game the system, ripoff children and taxpayers, and line their own pockets,” DiNapoli said. “Over the past year, we’ve aggressively audited these providers and found $20 million in questionable costs and blatant abuse of taxpayer money. It is time for this to stop, and my office will do everything we can to make sure that students with special needs and their parents get all the help they deserve.”

About 81,000 preschool students with disabilities receive Special Education Itinerant Teacher services in New York annually at a cost of more than $1.4 billion to the state and localities, according to the State Education Department. Unlike in other states, preschool special education services in New York are predominantly provided by for-profit and not-forprofit private contractors rather than the school districts themselves.

The Education Department, which approves providers to operate in New York, reimburses providers for eligible costs. There are currently about 320 approved private preschool special education providers in the state.

In June 2012, DiNapoli announced a new special education

audit initiative involving a broad look at the special education sector as well as multiple individual providers. The effort found numerous cases of waste, abuse, and in some cases, criminal conduct.

As a result of these findings and at the request of DiNapoli, the state enacted legislation requiring the Comptroller to audit the expenses reported to SED by every program provider of special education services for preschool children with disabilities at least once by March 31, 2018. Investigations related to these audits have resulted in 10 arrests and five criminal convictions and the recovery of more than $5 million in stolen public funds.

In 2014, the Comptroller finished 19 audits of expenses submitted to SED by special education providers. This included audits of the expenses submitted by three providers with school age only programs and audits of the expenses submitted by 16 providers with preschool programs. Under the legislation, the Comptroller was provided $2 million to hire new auditors. In 2014 DiNapoli’s auditors identified more than $20 million that was misspent. In total, the Comptroller has completed 40 such audits over the last decade, finding nearly $42 million in questionable or fraudulent expenses.

Of the 11 new audits released, auditors found: · New York City-based Functional MDS charged taxpayers $794,219 in reported costs that did not comply with SED requirements for reimbursement, including: $373,200 in compensation to 11 employees for which there was no evidence that they worked for MDS; $198,888 in executive compensation that was improperly allocated to MDS; and $109,187 in other than personal services costs that were unsupported by appropriate documentation or were ineligible for reimbursement, including costs for food, travel, international recruitment costs, and air conditioners that were installed in the personal residence of MDS’s executive director. The audit’s findings have been referred to law enforcement for further investigation with the Comptroller’s office. · In Brooklyn, DiNapoli identi-

fied $800,000 in inappropriate spending by the Children’s Center for Early Learning based on the findings of another audit released today. The non-profit spent more than $600,000 to pay salaries of 27 individuals who worked for other programs. The balance of disallowed funds were paid to employees for hours they did not work and ineligible expenses like food and income tax penalties.

The audit’s findings have been referred to law enforcement for further investigation with the Comptroller’s office.

The audits released today, along with other recently completed SEIT audits can be viewed at: http://www.osc.state.ny.us/au-

dits/auditAgencyList.htm under the heading State Education Department.

Thirty-seven of the 40 audits completed have been released.

Three are pending review by law enforcement and have yet to be released.

Many of the audits also found: · A lack of due diligence by the certified public accountants who are supposed to examine providers’ financial statements and certify that their claims are done in accordance with SED guidance; · Providers claimed expenses from SED for programs that were not part of its SEIT work and incorrectly allocated costs among programs;

· Inadequate oversight by boards of directors; · Errors in accounting methodologies used for depreciation, amortization and accruals; and SED has agreed to implement all the recommendations in the Comptroller’s special education expense audits. Specifically, SED has reviewed recommended disallowances, made adjustments to reimbursable costs, recalculated tuition rates and recovered overpayments. In addition, SED undertook a comprehensive examination of preschool special education programs, services and costs and explored specific measures to enhance its oversight and monitoring of private providers.

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DOES FREE MEAN FREE IN NEW COMMUNITY COLLEGE PLAN? EDUCATION Wading through the fine print in free-tuition push

BY KIMBERLY HEFLING

President Barack Obama’s plan, called “America’s College Promise,� seeks to make two years of community or technical college “as free and universal as high school.� It comes with a steep price tag and doubts about sufficient support in Congress.

Some questions and answers about the plan: How would the plan work?

Students would need to go to school at least half-time, maintain a 2.5 grade point average and make progress toward a degree.

States would have to provide about a quarter of the costs of the program, maintain exist-

ing education spending and work to reduce the need for remedial classes and repeated courses.

Colleges with participating students would have to offer academic programs that fully transfer to four-year colleges or job training programs with high graduation rates that lead to degrees and certificates sought by employers.

How can it be “free’’?

It’s only free to students. The proposal, estimated to cost the federal government $60 billion over 10 years, could save students an average $3,800 in tuition per year. The White House estimates that if every state opted in, about 9 million students could be helped.

Why now?

Obama’s proposal is loosely modeled after the “Tennessee Promise,� a scholarship program to begin this fall using

lottery money in Tennessee that provides two years of free tuition to state community and technical colleges. Roughly, 90 percent of the state’s high school seniors have applied, although not all are expected to use the beneďŹ t. The goal is to help bolster the percent of Tennesseans with a post-secondary degree from 33 percent to 55 percent.

There also is a similar program in Chicago.

Will Obama’s proposal pass Congress?

The Republican-led Congress has shown a reluctance to adopt new, big spending programs. Even supporters of the Tennessee program, like Republican Sens. Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker of Tennessee, say that the program is better kept at the state and local level. “Unless the president has a responsible plan to meet

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Besides questions about funding, what are the argu-

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While supporters say such a program expands the pool of students going to college, educators disagree on whether this is the best use of tax dollars.

That’s in part because some of the students who beneďŹ t could afford to pay for tuition on their own and the neediest of stu-

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In Tennessee, some private college leaders and politicians have expressed concern that the Tennessee plan could divert students and scholarship money away from four-year schools.

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Food & Drink

< DUNKIN’ DONUTS DITCHING STYROFOAM COFFEE CUPS In compliance with a city-wide ban on Styrofoam food and beverage containers, Dunkin’ Donuts is searching for alternatives to its coffee cups made of the material, the New York Daily News reported.

The company’s 536 stores has until July

In Brief STUDY FINDS FOOD CART VENDORS AREN’T CHANGING GLOVES ENOUGH

1, when the ban goes into effect, to come up with a new way to serve their hot coffee to go.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the ban on Styrofoam takeout and delivery containers on Jan. 8, picking up a plan initiated by former mayor Michael Bloomberg.

According to company officials, Dunkin’ Donuts is currently exploring alternative products, including double-walled plastic varieties, to replace the Styrofoam vessels.

A GASTRO REBIRTH FOR DEATH AVENUE RESTAURANTS A new restaurant off the High Line taps into the history of a formerly gritty neighborhood

BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO

A study by New Jersey’s William Paterson University found that food cart vendors aren’t changing their gloves frequently enough, the New York Daily News reported. The study found that vendors at 100 different food carts in high-traffic areas in Manhattan don’t often change their gloves between handling money and then serving food to the next customer, which can contribute to the spread of foodborne illness as U.S. money can contain thousands of different types of bacteria.

In nearly 60 percent of the transactions at the 100 food trucks included in the study, the vendors did not change gloves after taking money from customers.

HEALTHY PIZZA COMING TO U.E.S. Tom and Anthony Martignetti, the brothers behind Broome Street gastropub Brinkley’s, East 65th Street eatery East Pole and the now-shuttered Brinkley’s Station on East 60th Street, are bringing another restaurant to the Upper East Side, Eater reported. Pizza Beach, a healthy pizzeria with beach decor slated to open on Third Avenue at East 81st Street on Jan. 21, is the brothers’ latest venture, and it will focus on vegetable-topped, nutritional pizzas, rather than the burgers and duck fat fries at Brinkley’s or the fish and meat heavy mains at East Pole.

When Michael Tzezailidis opened his craft beer garden Gastromarket near the 28th Street entrance of the High Line in 2012, he knew he wanted to grow beyond his small bar and backyard garden spot. He worked with his landlord, who also owns the adjacent property, to take over the space next door.

With the popular High Line in the restaurant’s backyard, and the construction of the nearby Hudson Yards residences and other apartment complexes in the West Chelsea neighborhood, Tzezailidis hopes to tap into what he sees as an inevitable local crowd.

“We’re kind of sold on the neighborhood,” said Tzezailidis, who commutes from his home in Astoria. “The ups and downs will be short-lived. We are the pioneer in this neighborhood.”

After two years of planning and construction, Tzezailidis reopened as an upscale restaurant called Death Ave in late November, with an adjacent takeaway coffee shop. Gastromarket’s big draw—a romantic backyard garden—remains. The restaurant’s name nods to the area’s history; a freight train, dubbed “The Butcher,” ran down Tenth and Eleventh Avenues, claiming the lives of hundreds in its path over the years before it shut down in 1941.

Tzezailidis said that while the burgeoning residential neighborhood offers some pres-

ent challenges—loud hammering and drilling from nearby high-rise construction hurt summer business—he expects that the residential boom will make the investment in the neighborhood well worth it.

“We have a 2,000 square foot garden adjacent to the High Line,” he said. “People come here for the backyard.”

Tzezailidis mostly abandoned the former beer garden concept of the restaurant’s earlier incarnation, and now focuses on a balanced bar program run by his cousin, Stamatis Dimakis, whom the staff calls Steve. Dimakis, who worked as a bartender in Mykonos, Barcelona and the French Riviera, developed a cocktail program that includes the familiar, such as jalapeno margaritas and caipirinhas, and the less conventional, like a house-infused banana bourbon, as well as a selection of wine, including four Greek varieties.

“When you go out with friends, one person likes beer, two people want wine, and one person wants their stiff drink,” he said. “Our menu fares well with all three.”

Tzezailidis, who never received formal culinary training, developed the menu and works with a sous chef to run the kitchen. Everything on the menu, from oven roasted baby back ribs to baked feta with honey, has roots in family recipes. Tzezailidis replaced traditional ingredients with Greek alternatives; the French toast on the restaurant’s brunch menu comes with a thick grape syrup called petimezi instead of a maple variety, which

also serves as a base for the house made barbeque and chili sauces.

The restaurant bakes its own croissants and danishes for its café, and brews Greek coffee in hot sand over a burner, using an ancient system called a Hóvoli, in addition to more modern methods. The sand box was custom made in Greece.

“We’re trying to push the envelope as far as quality goes,” Tzezailidis said. The restaurant also roasts and mills all its coffee beans in house daily.

Though the new incarnation is more upscale restaurant than beer bar, with custom made wooden tables, commissioned paintings and heavy iron chandeliers, Tzezailidis, whose family has long made beer and wine, is still devoted to craft brews. The restaurant’s stillunfinished basement is home to six silver beer tanks for brewing the proprietor’s own recipes. Though not yet operational, Tzezailidis hopes to have his brews on tap and in to-go growlers by April. He’s also growing his own hops at his upstate home, which he plans to utilize come fall.

“If you want to make something good, without smashing customers with the price, you have to make it yourself,” he said. “Obviously we’re not raising cattle on the roof, but for us it makes business sense.”

Death Cafe is located at 315 10th Ave. between 28th St. and 29th St. and is reachable at 212-6958080

JANUARY 15-21 ,2015 Our Town 17

RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS JAN 5 - 9, 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.

Dulcie Canton survived a horrific collision with a speeding car in Bushwick in August of last year. Photo by Daniel Fitzsimmons

TURNING GRIEF INTO ACTION CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 member of Families for Safe Streets who lost her son, Sammy, in October 2013. “We need to change the culture on our streets and make it unacceptable to drive recklessly. We will never get to zero fatalities and serious injuries unless we hold dangerous drivers accountable for their actions.”

According to the organization, a pedestrian is killed in New York every 33 hours. Statistics included in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Vision Zero initiative say that traffic crashes are the leading cause of injury-related death for children under 14.

Families for Safe Streets maintains that five children in New York City are hit by vehicles every day.

The organization was a major force behind Vision Zero implementation last year, contributing to traffic safety improvements throughout the city and the installation of more speed bumps and traffic cameras, as well as a citywide speed limit reduction to 25 miles per hour.

About 30 family members and a handful of survivors attended the rally Sunday, along with Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and council members Margaret Chin and Brad Lander.

Judy Kottick, whose daughter was killed crossing the street by a bus at the age of 23, said her daughter, Ella Bandes, was a beautiful dancer and artist.

“But her dream was to bring mental health interventions

to underserved populations.

She was in the process of applying to PhD psychology programs [when she was killed],” said Kottick. “Ella was killed by a bus outside the Myrtle/ Wyckoff subway station on the Brooklyn-Queens border, and both the Brooklyn and Queens DA failed to press charges against the driver.”

Kottick was one of a handful of people that told stories of their loved ones who had been killed in what Families for Safe Street’s calls “traffic violence.”

Many of the stories ended with the statement that the respective district attorney failed to file charges against the drivers involved.

But that all could change.

Families for Safe Streets announced Sunday that Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson was launching the District Attorney Driver Accountability Initiative.

While details on the initiative are scarce, momentum seems to be building for the argument that in incidents where it is found a motorist killed or seriously injured a pedestrian by driving recklessly, the incident should be regarded not as an accident but as a potential crime.

“Explain to us why someone violates the law and you don’t prosecute, you don’t convict, you don’t fine, you don’t take their license away,” said Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney.

“Some of these people are consistent traffic violators and are harming other people.”

Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and Council Member Margaret Chin both said they’d urge Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance to consider joining the driver accountability

Nino’s Restaurant

1354 1 Avenue

Grade Pending (25) 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.

Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

Delizia Ristorante

1374 1 Avenue

A

Tasti D-Lite

1380 1 Avenue

A

Laduree

864 Madison Avenue

A

Demarchelier Restaurant

50 East 86 Street

Grade Pending (18) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Vespa Cibobuono

1625 Second Avenue

Grade Pending (26) Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or nonfood areas.

Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

Crown

24 East 81 Street

Grade Pending (26) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

Pita Grill

1570 1 Avenue

A

Maison Kayser

1535 3 Avenue

A

Yura & Company On Madison

1292 Madison Avenue A

Buddha B Beeq

1750 2 Avenue

A

Saba’s Pizza

1376 Lexington Avenue

A

Food Passion Park Ave

1080 Park Avenue

A

Via Quadronno

1228 Madison Ave

A

Selena Rosa Mexicana

1712 2 Avenue

Not Graded Yet (35) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation.

Appropriately scaled metal stem-type thermometer or thermocouple not provided or used to evaluate temperatures of potentially hazardous foods during cooking, cooling, reheating and holding.

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.

Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewageassociated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies.

Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

New Fresh Wok

1777 1St Ave

Not Graded Yet (28) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

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.

TO HEAR MORE ON THE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY PROBLEM This newspaper, together with the New York Society for Ethical Culture, is hosting a Town Hall meeting on Jan. 21 on pedestrian safety. Speakers will include Polly Trottenberg, NYC’s Transportation Commissioner, former New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson, Councilmember Helen Rosenthal and members of Families for Safe Streets.

WHAT: Pedestrians vs. Cars: Manhattan’s Deadly Traffic Problem and What Can Be Done About It WHEN: Wednesday, Jan. 21, 6 pm - 8 pm WHERE: Society for Ethical Culture, 64th Street and Central Park West IF YOU GO: Admission is free but seating is limited. To reserve a spot, email RSVP@ strausnews.com initiative.

Families for Safe Streets said charges are filed in just two percent of traffic incidents where pedestrians are struck, excluding hit and runs and against drivers who are under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

“Clearly there’s more that needs to be done,” said Cohen, who noted her organization is working to schedule meetings on the issue with the remaining district attorneys.

18 Our Town JANUARY 15-21 ,2015

Property

< SUPREME COURT WON’T HEAR LAND DISPUTE OVER HIGH LINE PARK The Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from New York property owners who say the federal government should compensate them for land converted to Manhattan’s High Line Park.

The justices on Monday let stand an appeals court ruling that said owners of land around

Ask a Broker

The Year of the Condo

BY JARROD GUY RANDOLPH orcoran Sunshine estimates 6,500 units will come to market over 100 buildings in 2015. That means buyers will have more to choose from and sales velocity will slow. This will have a very positive effect for investors, as developers will be more eager to sell their initial stock at original Schedule-A pricing to establish market absorption.

Shaun Osher, Founder and CEO of CORE, states that the amount of product will create a competitive market for buyers. The effect will be less immediate price appreciation.

However, this slow down in price escalation will be short lived, as the amount of new product coming to market will decrease sub-

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stantially in 2017 and 2018.

This is due to fewer land sales, which equates to less new development.

Jonathan Miller echoes this fact by saying soaring land cost is making it difficult for developers to turn a profit unless they purchased land years ago.

This means development beyond 2016 will dramatically slow as land costs are too high, construction costs are up nearly 20 percent over the last five years, and the underwriting standards will have to increase to at least $3,500 psf on average for luxury product.

This will make new development product more costly to build and therefore be delivered at higher price points to buyers beyond 2017. For example, a 1,500 sf new development two-bedroom which would trade for $3,000,000 ($2,000 psf) in 2015 would have to trade for $4,800,000 ($3,200 ppsf) in 2018 for a developer to achieve their same profit margin.

This should encourage investment in 2015 and 2016, as you will be buying at substantially lower price-per-square-foot than what new development will trade for in five years. This means in the future market, investors can deliver a competitively priced (still considered new development) product that an end-user can move into immediately.

Stephen Kliegerman, President of Terra New Development Marketing, said developers are focused on architecture and design. Roy Kim, head

of new development for Urban Compass agreed, saying they are creating a higher quality of product.

Developers are building a product that is truly blue chip whether it is categorized as standard, luxury, or ultra luxury product.

Most importantly, 6,500 new condos will account for only 10 percent of the total condominium stock in Manhattan. Of the 199,000 total privately held housing stock, it will account for only 3 percent. The property the aforementioned buyers and investors will own will be in higher demand amongst domestic and international consumers, as it will still be considered new. Additionally, the consumer base is growing and will continue to do so over the next decade according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

This too will create more demand for the properties purchased in 2015-2016 by investors.

The 6,500 units in 2015 and estimated 5,000 in 2016, according to Corcoran Sunshine, should take 36 months to be absorbed.

But with the lack of new development in 2017 and 2018 to satiate demand, it will put upward pressure on pricing in the next 60 months, thus, forcing the future consumer to pay more for the available product and justifying the investment strategy.

Jarrod Guy Randolph is a licensed associate real estate broker with TOWN Residential, specializing in luxury and investment property sales throughout Manhattan.

the unused freight rail line gave up their right to sue when they signed a deal with New York City officials to develop the park.

The property owners claimed the federal government was not a party to their agreement with the city. They’re seeking compensation for giving up development rights to valu-

able land surrounding the 1 1/2 mile long park on the city’s West Side.

But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled the agreement specifically prevented lawsuits against the United States.

MAYOR PROPOSES TAX REFORM SMALL BUSINESS Mayor de Blasio announced a plan to reform and modernize the city’s corporate tax system On Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed a reform of the city’s corporate tax structure, modernizing an outdated system, providing tax relief to the city’s small businesses and local manufacturers, and streamlining City and State corporate tax codes. The revenue-neutral reforms will be retroactive to January 1, 2015.

Certain New York City corporate tax provisions have not been reformed since the 1940s and reflect an outdated financial regulatory structure. The City reforms announced today recognize the realities of the modern marketplace and treat firms consistently.

By conforming the City’s corporate tax system with that of the State, the administration’s reforms will ensure that firms will not need to maintain separate records for State and City tax purposes, and create the consistency in computation of taxes that is critical to facilitating joint audits and preventing major administrative burdens for both taxpayers and the city.

The reforms are intended to protect and support the expansion of the city’s tax base.

The corporate tax reform will do the following: • Conform City tax code to State provisions in the most important areas of tax computation, including updating the City’s corporate income tax and minimum tax codes to mirror the State codes.

• Target relief toward New York City’s small businesses and local manufacturers.

Retain the alternative tax

Mayor de Blasio proposed corporate tax reform for the city this week.

Photo by Demetrius Freeman/Mayoral Photography Office base on capital, which will help stabilize revenues in years of low profits for large corporations. Under current law, banks pay under an assets base with no tax cap, and corporations are subject to a capital base with a tax cap of $1 million. Under this reform, 90 percent of current payers will be excluded (per the small business relief detailed above). Remaining eligible banks and corporations will be subject to a capital base with a $10 million tax cap.

• Merge the bank tax into the corporate franchise tax for large corporations (C-corporations).

• Adopt a new method for computing net income that broadens the tax base by treating most income as business income. (Current tax code provides preferential treatment for certain categories of income.)

• Adopt a new method for determining how corporations attribute net income, based on where a firm’s markets

are located, rather than the location of the business operations. This will eliminate a tax penalty for increasing operations and employment, and incentivize businesses to locate their employees—and thus create jobs—in New York City, because increasing staff in the city won’t increase taxes.

• Adopt unitary combined reporting rules, so that economically related business entities that are commonly owned are required to file as one taxpayer. This will prevent the shifting of income and expenses among related entities to inappropriately reduce taxes.

• Broaden the tax base by eliminating certain special deductions and exemptions.

• Business leaders and some council members praised the mayor’s proposal and said it would greatly help small businesses in the city. The proposal must be approved by the city council before it can become law.

JANUARY 15-21 ,2015 Our Town 19

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Moderated by Editor-in-Chief Kyle Pope Featured speakers will include:

Polly Trottenberg Commissioner of the NYC Department of Transportation

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Real Estate Sales Neighborhd

Address

Price

Sutton Place

300 E 59 St.

$2,225,000

Beekman

415 E 52 St.

$1,400,000

Turtle Bay

216-218 E 47 St.

$630,000

Beekman

434 E 52 St.

$1,780,000

Turtle Bay

335 E 51 St.

$535,000

0.5 1

Bond New York

Beekman

434 E 52 St.

$585,000

Turtle Bay

333 E 45 St.

$649,000

1

T&T Real Estate

Beekman

870 UNITED NATIONS PLAZA

$1,900,000

Carnegie Hill

1140 5 Ave.

$2,700,000

Lenox Hill

530 PARK Ave.

$7,820,718

Lenox Hill

405 E 63 St.

$507,000

Bed Bath Agent

1

1

Douglas Elliman

2

2

Corcoran

1

1

Heller Organization

1

Upper E Side

515 E 72 St.

$885,000

1

1

Warburg

Upper E Side

350 E 77 St.

$370,110

0

1

Halstead Property

Upper E Side

520 E 76 St.

$625,000

Upper E Side

1001 5 Ave.

$2,600,000

2

2

Douglas Elliman

Upper E Side

40 E 83 St.

$2,075,000

Upper E Side

338 E 78 St.

$825,000

2

1

Halstead Property

Upper E Side

815 PARK Ave.

$3,325,000

3

3

Douglas Elliman

Lenox Hill

220 E 65 St.

$920,000

Lenox Hill

21 E 61st St.

$4,771,205

Lenox Hill

26 E 63 St.

$900,000

Lenox Hill

401 E 60 St.

$2,200,000

2

3

Douglas Elliman

Upper E Side

123 E 75 St.

$790,000

1

1

Elegran

Lenox Hill

301 E 63 St.

$249,000

1

1

Keller Williams NYC

Upper E Side

520 E 76 St.

$300,000

0

1

Corcoran

Lenox Hill

220 E 65 St.

$1,125,000

1

1

Peter*Ashe

Upper E Side

304 E 73 St.

$330,000

0

1

Urban Compass

Lenox Hill

520 E 72 St.

$325,000

Upper E Side

151 E 85 St.

$5,400,000

315 E 72 St.

$1,350,000

3

2

Corcoran

1

1

Douglas Elliman

2

2

Extell Development Company

Lenox Hill

360 E 72 St.

$530,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

Upper E Side

Lenox Hill

345 E 69 St.

$1,295,000

2

2

Warburg

Upper E Side

333 E 75 St.

$562,000

Lenox Hill

176 E 71 St.

$1,950,000

Upper E Side

200 E 78 St.

$1,400,000

Lenox Hill

420 E 72 St.

$535,000

1

1

Corcoran

Upper E Side

200 E 78 St.

$1,600,000

2

2

Halstead Property

240 E 79 St.

$560,000

1

1

Charles Rutenberg

305 E 72 St.

$1,270,000

2

2

Douglas Elliman

Lenox Hill

300 E 71 St.

$440,000

0

1

Douglas Elliman

Upper E Side

Lenox Hill

205 E 63 St.

$425,000

1

1

Corcoran

Upper E Side

Lenox Hill

340 E 64 St.

$1,250,000

2

2

Corcoran

Upper E Side

925 PARK Ave.

$8,797,500

150 E 85 St.

$705,000

1

1

Plaza Real Estate Group

Lenox Hill

205 E 63 St.

$1,152,500

2

2

Corcoran

Upper E Side

Lenox Hill

825 5 Ave.

$7,200,000

3

2

Douglas Elliman

Upper E Side

300 E 77 St.

$4,000,000

5

3

Douglas Elliman

Lenox Hill

167 E 67 St.

$1,273,000

3

2

Brown Harris Stevens

Upper E Side

410 E 79 St.

$3,450,000

3

3

Corcoran

Lenox Hill

530 E 72 St.

$1,649,000

2

2

Halstead Property

Upper E Side

515 E 72 St.

$1,519,000

2

2

Clickit Realty

1 GRACIE TERRACE

$1,850,000

2

2

Corcoran

2

2

Ian K. Katz Residential

Midtown

117 E 57 St.

$735,000

0

1

Brown Harris Stevens

Yorkville

Midtown

117 E 57 St.

$1,875,000

2

2

Corcoran

Yorkville

444 E 86 St.

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Corcoran

Yorkville

400 E 85 St.

$630,000

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Midtown E

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Yorkville

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Corcoran

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$2,050,000

2

2

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Yorkville

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$720,000

1

1

Corcoran

Murray Hill

333 E 34 St.

$715,000

1

1

Meier Group NYC

Yorkville

439 E 88 St.

$585,000

2

1

City Connections Realty

45 E END Ave.

$937,500

Murray Hill

25 TUDOR CITY PLACE

$350,000

0

1

Urban Compass

Yorkville

Murray Hill

325 E 41 St.

$811,303

2

2

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Yorkville

525 E 82 St.

$975,000

2

2

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Murray Hill

16 PARK Ave.

$586,000

1

1

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Yorkville

525 E 86 St.

$1,800,000

3

2

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50 PARK Ave.

$675,000

1

1

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$499,999

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300 E 40 St.

$616,000

0

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Yorkville

334 E 83 St.

$242,500

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136 E 36 St.

$880,000

2

1

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Yorkville

435 E 86 St.

$560,000

1

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424 E 57 St.

$300,000

Yorkville

435 E 86 St.

$526,266

1

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344 E 87 St.

$595,000

2

2

L.G. Fairmont Group

2

2

Corcoran

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339 E 58 St.

$35,169

Yorkville

Sutton Place

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$2,350,000

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205 E 85 St.

$2,262,500

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303 E 57 St.

$1,900,000

Yorkville

1601 3 Ave.

$1,260,000

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339 E 58 St.

$36,717

Yorkville

345 E 80 St.

$875,000

1

1

Hecht Group

Yorkville

340 E 80 St.

$676,250

1

1

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Yorkville

237 E 79 St.

$385,000

Yorkville

1725 YORK Ave.

$899,000

1

1

Sotheby's

Sutton Place

339 E 58 St.

$39,814

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400 E 56 St.

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339 E 58 St.

$36,717

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339 E 58 St.

$41,363

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357 E 57 St.

$1,170,000

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2

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FIGHTING CRIME FROM ALL SIDES PROFILE District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. on his job prosecuting, and preventing, crime in Manhattan

BY MEGAN BUNGEROTH

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. wants to focus his office on preventing and prosecuting cyber crime, domestic violence, and youth crime, among other priorities.

In his role as the District Attorney of Manhattan, Cyrus Vance, Jr. sees himself as more than a prosecutor. He’s also a crime preventer, a problem solver, and protector of the most vulnerable crime victims.

He’s serving at a time of historically low crime rates in the city, circumstances that Vance sees as an opportunity to address the root of crime. Last year, for example, the D.A.’s office opened the Manhattan Family Justice Center, at 80 Centre Street. It’s a place for victims of domestic violence, and other often-related crimes like child abuse, sexual assault and trafficking and elder abuse, to get crucial services all under one roof, from Special Victims prosecutors as well as representatives from other city agencies.

“It enables us to best screen these cases for the range of criminal conduct that may have occurred,” Vance said at a recent interview at Rosa Mexicana on the Upper West Side.

“We’re able to provide critical services to these women, typically, who need a place to live, who need emergency money, who need a cell phone, who need to have a place, [need to figure out] who’s going to take care of the kids whose lives are completely disrupted, and many of them don’t know where they’re going to sleep that night.”

Vance has made cracking down on domestic violence a priority, even lobbying Albany to pass a bill that would enable prosecutors to charge repeat domestic violence offenders with a felony for committing two or more misdemeanor offenses within five years – so

the man who punches his girlfriend once is charged with a misdemeanor, and when he does it again in three months is slapped with a felony.

Helping elderly crime victims is another priority for the D.A.’s office, which Vance said can be difficult because victims often don’t report the crimes out of shame or fear. In 2013, his office prosecuted about 900 cases of elder abuse crimes – most of them financial in nature – but that number likely represents a small percentage of crimes actually committed.

“Elder abuse is at the same place, I think, where domestic violence was five years ago,” Vance said. “People understand this is a real problem, but public awareness and action hasn’t reached the place it has with domestic violence.”

Advancing public safety is important to Vance, and he bases all his decisions on facts, data and the law. He’s received some criticism from pedestrian safety groups for not prosecuting more drivers who fatally injure pedestrians in crashes, but he says that his office is aggressive in pursuing the cases it’s able to bring to court.

“My job is to essentially prevent crime, or to prosecute it fairly and evenly. When a tragic accident occurs, if we’re notified we’ll send assistants out to the scene, and try to make sure that evidence is preserved and do an investigation,” Vance said. “The truth is, first and foremost, that not every tragic accident is a crime. If you are a family member who has just lost a loved one, that’s sometimes simply inexplicable. And yet it is in fact what you want a D.A.’s office to do. As unpopular as it may be not to charge a crime, it is far more dangerous, I believe, to charge a crime when you believe that one hasn’t been committed.”

He said that he takes the problem of traffic fatalities seriously, but that it will take more than just the D.A.’s office to address it – solutions, he

suggested, need to come from the Department of Transportation, speed limit enforcement, tighter regulations on taxi and limo drivers, and better education for pedestrians, too. He’s familiar with many of the challenges, particularly on the Upper West Side; he and his wife live on West 103rd Street near West End Avenue, and often walk their dog in Riverside Park in the mornings and bike in Central Park, where Vance said he sees firsthand how some cyclists flout the traffic laws.

Education and prevention are key tools of Vance’s office.

In the upcoming year, he plans to focus on cyber crime – which President Obama is also making a key issue nationally – as well as domestic violence, and youth and gun violence.

One way of combatting youth violence is to give kids alternatives to gangs and crime, which is the impetus behind the D.A.’s Saturday Night Lights program, providing fields, courts and coaches for sports for middle and high school students on Saturday nights.

“Philosophically, I really believe that a modern D.A.’s office’s job is reducing crime.

You do that by your work in the courtroom, you also do that by effective strategies out of the courtroom and in the community,” Vance said. “If I can get kids on a court on Saturday night, or a volleyball court, or a tennis court or a soccer field, nothing but good comes out of that.”

It’s programs like these, Vance hopes, that will keep crime rates low, and drive them even lower. He measures his success not just by cases won, but by the effect of his efforts on Manhattan communities.

“We’re good at enforcement, we’re very good at it,” Vance said. “But I’d rather not prosecute a robbery; I’d rather have prevented the gun from getting in the kid’s hand. That’s the win.”

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