Our Town February 19th, 2015

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CITIBIKE PREPS FOR EAST SIDE EXPANSION

45 years and Counting

THE RETURN OF THE NEW YORK ECONOMY

NEWS Neighborhood expected to receive about 25 stations, amid a mixed reception BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS

While the chunky blue bicycles of CitiBike are a common sight in Lower Manhattan and in midtown, uptown districts like the Upper East Side have been gearing up for months to receive the popular bike-sharing program into their neighborhood -- and not always with open arms. According to the Dept. of Transportation, between September 2011 and April 2012, the department held 33 bike share demonstrations; presented to community boards 54 times; held 13 community planning workshops; met over 150 times with other stakeholders, institutions and business improvement districts; and collected almost 10,000 individual station location suggestions and more than 60,000 support votes on the suggestion map. And last week, the DOT and Community Board 8 held a joint forum on CitiBike locations on the Upper East Side. For months the DOT solicited suggestions on its website for where to put CitiBike stations. Popular locations include around Grand Army Plaza, Hunter College and Rockefeller University, and the 86th Street corridor from Lexington Avenue to York Avenue.

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ALL IN THE FAMILY, SINCE THE 1800S Lobel’s, on Madison Avenue, is still run by the family that started it 175 years ago BY PANYIN CONDUAH

Every week for the rest of the year, Our Town will celebrate its 45th anniversary by profiling a neighborhood business that has been around longer than we have. Know of a local business that should be on our list? Email us at news@strausnews.com

Meat slabs, band saws, and a passion for quality are what ties the Lobel men to their Upper East side butcher shop. Lobel’s, at 84th Street and Madison Avenue, has been in the area for 65 years -- but has been in existence for much longer. The roots of the business go back to Austria, where Nathan Lobel made his living raising cattle. Today, the fifth generation of Lobel’s has taken over the business,

which is celebrating its 175th year. Father Stanley, brothers David and Mark, and cousin Evan all take shifts working in the small shop from Monday through Saturday. David was one of the very few family members to start in the business right away, and quickly realized it was where he belonged. “It’s a part of you,” he said. He remembers waking up early as a child to accompany his father on errands for the shop. The two would go to wholesale meat markets to inspect and stamp the best pieces of meat to sell at the store. That approach has continued, with Lobel’s committed to selling only the top 2 percent of prime U.S. beef. “We work very hard at that and it’s something we have to do every single day,” David said. “You’re only as good as the last meal you send

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That hum you’re hearing? It’s the sound of New York’s economy clicking on all cylinders. New data from City Comptroller Scott Stringer shows nearly every corner of the New York economy revving back. Unemployment, while still higher than the national average, is at a six-year low; city tax revenues are the fourth-highest ever; venture investment in the city last year surpassed $5 billion, nearly 60 percent higher than in the previous year; now office leasing activity is the hottest since 1998. And, as the Times pointed out this week, the very solid gains in the city economy came despite a relatively weak contribution from Wall Street, which has historically tended to lead New York out of its doldrums. In official circles, it’s considered good news that the city is recovering, job-wise, while Wall Street hiring has remained nearly flat. Of course, the generally good economic news doesn’t hide the fact that the wealth gap in the city -- the divide between the extremely rich and the rest of us -- is bigger than at any other time in history; the Times’ recent series on the absentee landlords at the luxury towers on Central Park has brought that point home. The second caveat, highlighted by Stringer, is that even though 2014 was strong, things dipped a bit in the fourth quarter, a point that bears watching. “While our economy lost momentum late in the year, most indicators are trending in the right direction,” he said.

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WHAT’S MAKING NEWS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD STATE SENATOR SAYS SHELTER FUNDS NEEDED FOR RUNAWAYS Citing thousands of young runaways turned away from New York shelters whose funding has been slashed, a State Senator Brad Hoylman is calling on the Legislature to restore the money. Hoylman, a Manhattan Democrat, said it is “unconscionable” that in one of the wealthiest parts of the world, they struggle to find a safe place to sleep.

Hoylman, Empire State Pride Agenda, the Coalition for Homeless Youth and other advocates gathered outside City Hall in Manhattan on Thursday to advocate for more funding for shelters. Last month, he asked Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a letter to allocate $4.75 million more for them in the governor’s budget proposal for the coming year. It wasn’t included. The advocates said funding for youth shelters was cut from $6.3 million in 2008 down to $2.35 million annually the past four years. Office of Children and Family

Services data show 5,000 instances when youths were turned away in 2012 from homeless shelters with no available space. “This is a moral imperative,” Hoylman said. “This investment will help protect the most vulnerable among us from sexual abuse and trafficking, reduce HIV/AIDS transmissions and keep our kids out of the juvenile justice system.” The Cuomo administration will consider it, spokesman Richard Azzopardi said. Its budget proposal for the year starting April 1 says the state currently spends about $780 million on services for the homeless and proposed investing $220 million over the next several years for New York City rental assistance and other programs for the city’s “growing” homeless population. AP

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Sen. Brad Hoylman is proposing more state funding to help homeless youth in the city.

A vacant building on East 92nd Street and Second Avenue will be torn down and replaced with affordable housing, DNAinfo.com reported. Extell Development Company

plans to construct a a six-story building with five affordable units and an 11-story building with 20 affordable units, according to Department of Housing Preservation and Development spokesman Eric Bederman. Planned amenities for the buildings include a roof deck, bike room, and laundry room. Currently the proposal for the buildings is still in review, but when if its approved the affordable units will be slated for households earning $47,000 for a single person and $67,000 for a family of four. In exchange for building the affordable units, Extell will receive air rights that can be transferred to other sites said spokesperson George Arzt. DNAinfo.com

N.Y.P.D. TESTING OUT SMART CARS The NYPD plans to replace its three-wheeled scooters with Smart cars. Police Commissioner William Bratton says the department is testing out the mini vehicles, which he says are more economical than the scooters. The Daily News says the agency has acquired nine of the single-passenger cars for the pilot program and currently is

trying one out in Central Park. The Smart cars would be used in NYPD’s parking and school safety divisions and at precincts across the city. Daily News

DAVID CARR, TIMES MEDIA CRITIC, DEAD AT 58 Media columnist David Carr, who wrote the Media Equation column for The New York Times and penned a memoir about his fight with drug addiction, collapsed at his office and died. He was 58. Just hours before his death Thursday, he had moderated a “Times Talks” conversation with Edward Snowden, director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald about the documentary “Citizenfour,” which chronicles Snowden’s leak of National Security Agency documents. Carr, engaged as always, drew them out with pointed questions and wry observations to speak candidly about the film. The Times’ publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., said Carr had “formidable talent” and was “one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times.” He called him “an indispensable

guide to modern media.” Carr, who grew up in Minnesota, joined The Times in 2002 as a business reporter, covering magazine publishing. His Media Equation column appeared in the Monday business section. It focused on issues of media in relation to business, culture and government, said The Times, which confirmed his death. Carr, who lived in Montclair, New Jersey, with his wife and their daughter and had two other daughters, also wrote “The Night of the Gun,” a 2008 memoir about addiction and recovery. Carr’s rise in journalism paralleled his recovery from drug addiction. After stints helming the Twin Cities Reader and the Washington City Paper, an alternative weekly in D.C., Carr went on to gigs writing for Inside.com, an online media news website co-founded by Spy magazine co-founder Kurt Andersen, and New York and The Atlantic Monthly magazines before landing at The New York Times. “I’ve always thought it (The Times) was a magnificent thing to read and look at,” Carr once said. “I just never pictured the likes of me working here.” AP

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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG

N.Y. TOP COURT OKS APPEAL OF EXPIRED ORDER OF PROTECTION New York’s highest court says orders of protection can be appealed even after they have expired because of the stigma they carry for someone accused of domestic violence or other offenses. The Court of Appeals, revers-

ing a midlevel court, says the issue is not moot simply because the court order is no longer in effect. A man identified in court papers only as Radcliffe A. was accused by his aunt, in whose Manhattan apartment he was staying, of assault and harassment in 2009. Family Court in 2011 found him guilty of second-degree harassment, ordering he stay away for two years. He appealed. Judge Sheila Abdus-Salam says even now, if the order

came to others’ attention, they would “almost certainly view him as a domestic violence offender...a decidedly pejorative label.” His case goes back to the midlevel court.

APP ZAP At 3 p.m. on Saturday, February 7, a 29-year-old female Upper East Side resident was notified by mail that two fraudulent credit card applications had been made in her name to Victoria’s Secret and Amazon. Fortunately, no charges were made against the fraudulent accounts, and both the companies involved and the police are investigating the matter.

SENIOR WINCES Seniors should be especially wary of identity theft. At 8 p.m. on Wednesday, January 28, a 72-year-old woman received a phone call from her bank alerting her that money had been withdrawn against her savings account in five different transactions totaling $14,000. A police investigation is ongoing. And at 12 noon on Friday, February 6, a 94-year-old

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STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 19th Precinct for Feb. 2 to Feb. 8 Week to Date

Year to Date

2015 2014

% Change

2015

2014

% Change

Murder

0

0

n/a

0

0

n/a

Rape

0

0

n/a

1

1

0

Robbery

2

2

0

9

7

28.6

Felony Assault

1

3

-66.7

10

13

-23.1

Burglary

4

7

-42.9

13

38

-65.8

Grand Larceny

21

35

-40

129

135

-4.4

Grand Larceny Auto

0

0

n/a

4

3

33.3

woman was advised by her bank that an unknown perpetrator had cashed checks against her account totaling $4,300. Police are investigating.

BAG TAG Put down your bag, and you may have to put up with a theft. At 6 p.m. on Monday, February 9, a 27-year-old man laid his bag down on the sidewalk next to

him at the corner of 65th Street and Fifth Avenue. Suddenly, an unknown man grabbed his bag and ran away. The victim gave chase until the thief displayed a “shiny instrument” and told the bag’s owner to back off. The robber then ran into Central Park. The good news is police managed to apprehend the bad guy, arresting him and charging him with robbery and recovering the bag for its rightful owner.

FOUR PLAY Cell phone stores have become the new go-to spots for greedy thieves. At 5:20 p.m. on Sunday, February 8, two men entered a local cell phone store and snatched four phones off a display case before fleeing the location. Video is available of the incident. The four phones were valued at a total of $2,600.


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CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU LIVE As a Verizon outage lingers on, Upper West Siders fume BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS

Some Verizon customers on the Upper West Side are in the third week of a phone and internet outage that has businesses and residents wondering how a chunk of Manhattan can simply be knocked off the grid. “I heard the entire east side of Columbus Avenue between 87th Street and 89th Street has had a Verizon cable problem,” said Andrew Albert, executive director of the West Manhattan Chamber of Commerce. “Council member Helen Rosenthal’s offices, as well as Goddard-Riverside [Community Center], have been without phone service for several days.” Rosenthal sent an email to constituents on Wednesday, Feb. 4, informing them that phones were down in the district office, which is located at Columbus Avenue and 87th Street. Rosenthal believed the problem would be fixed in a matter of days, according to the email. The following Monday, Feb. 9, she and her chief of staff, Marisa Maack, decided to dis-

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continue their service with the company and began using a digital phone service through the city council (the district office phone number was not changed). “We abandoned Verizon,” Maack said. “There was a real lack of responsiveness, and it turned out to be a more major problem. But to be honest with you I could never really get a real answer from them on what exactly the problem was.” Maack said there was a real concern with reaching seniors who don’t use email or the internet and would have no way of knowing the phones were down. “When you called you just got a busy signal,” said Maack. “We get a lot of phone calls every day. And in the winter it’s hard for some people to get out. We’re providing social services out of the office so we just couldn’t have this.” Rita McMahon, co-founder and director of the Wild Bird Fund on Columbus Avenue between 87th Street and 88th Street, said phones at the office are unusually silent and their internet service has been out since Feb. 3. “It’s an animal hospital; we

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can’t change the records and we can’t take donations,” said McMahon. “It affects the animals too. We can’t respond to peoples’ problems or inquires and with this cold weather people are finding more and more animals that are in distress.” McMahon said she’s also experienced a lack of good information and communication from Verizon and is considering dropping the company. “We’ve heard very little from Verizon,” said McMahon. “We’ve heard it will take 10 days to repair.” McMahon said the latest date for repair provided to her by the company was Friday, Feb. 20. John Bonomo, a spokeswoman for Verizon’s northeast bureau, said the only outage he was aware of was in northern Manhattan at 188th Street and Wadsworth Avenue. He said he’s since reached out to Verizon’s operations department to get more information. “I can tell you that on Feb. 4 our cables were involved in a manhole fire. We do not know the origin,” Bonomo said. “We replaced fiber cable that was burnt for the FIOS services, and we are currently replacing a damaged copper cable,

[which is] much more entailed and work intensive.” Bonomo said Verizon is offering their VoiceLink product to affected customers, which will provide voice-only service over the company’s wireless network. Because he was not aware of the problem on the Upper West Side, he could not give a date for when it would be fixed. “The only area where we have had a chunk of customers having problems is [around 188th Street and Wadsworth Avenue], as a result of the manhole fire,” said Bonomo. Bonomo indicated that many times, it’s hard to tell how big an area is affected by an outage caused by a manhole fire. “Manhole fires, which are not caused by us, are not common,” he said. “But when they do occur, they affect everything in that manhole, not just Verizon facilities: power, water, gas, cable and other communications services. There’s no simple or single answer to how large or small an area could be affected by a manhole fire.” Meantime, the wait for phone service continues.


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More neighborhood celebrations? neighborhood opinions? neighborhood ideas? neighborhood feedback? neighborhood concerns?

CITIBIKE PREPS FOR EXPANSION CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Officials said implementation on the Upper East Side will occur this summer, and the district is set to receive about 25 stations. Each station is capable of docking a minimum of 20 bikes, but many stations are larger. There are also plans this year to build a bike lane on 2nd Avenue. East side Councilmember Ben

Kallos was at the joint DOT/CB8 forum last week, and said the topic of bicycles is one that has come up repeatedly since he’s been in office. “Bikes are one of the most controversial issues in the district,� said Kallos. “When I was running and since I’ve been elected I’ve had thousands of conversations related to bikes. A lot of the discussions are related to enforcement, whether it is bike riders or pedestrians.� Kallos said his office will be involved in an enforcement drive in the spring when bicy-

clists come out of hibernation, and is working to make sure people are involved with the bicycle-infrastructure expansion into the district, which he supports. “We’re working with the community to ensure they have a strong say in the location and placement of CitiBike stations so they’re improvements to the community, support local businesses and improve transportation,� said Kallos. “We’re also working with the community on bike lanes to insure safety for pedestrians, cyclists and

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motorists alike.� According to CitiBike, as of last August there have been more than 10.3 million rides with only 40 people being hurt and requiring medical attention, said Kallos, “which is important information to know as we think about safety concerns with the new bike program.� Kallos said according to the DOT, there have been 15 million CitiBike trips overall covering 26 million miles, all with with no fatalities. As for locations that aren’t popular, Kallos said, “oftentimes right in front of peoples’ buildings, but those at the [CB8 forum] were often able to agree on a location within a block of everyone that was satisfactory to everybody.� Kallos said the DOT will likely use the suggestion map for guidance, and work closely with the community on the exact location of the station once a site has been selected. Suggestions for docking stations are still being taken by the DOT at nycbikeshare.herokuapp.com. In addition, Kallos said his office can place a suggestion on the map for anyone who calls his office.


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A Letter to the Community from the Friends of Asphalt Green Dear Neighbors, No one wants a garbage dump in their back yard. But the reality is the 91st Street Marine Transfer Station (MTS) is being built. Now. Before our eyes. Mayor Bloomberg proposed this dump and Mayor de Blasio has blessed it. With you, we have fought long and hard against the entire misguided plan. Sadly, we have lost every state and city legal battle so far. Last summer, Asphalt Green made a very tough decision to refocus our energy on moving the ramp that will cut through our campus and the adjoining Dekovats toddler park. Our hope is that – at the very least – we can protect the neighborhood from the accidents bound to happen when 150 garbage trucks a day turn in and out of an intersection that more than 1 million visitors cross each year, including vulnerable seniors and children. We also hope to avoid making kids breathe diesel fumes while they exercise. We hired “Gridlock Sam” Schwartz, former NYC Department Transportation Traffic Commissioner and Chief Engineer, who saw the proposed ramp and said, “the City could have thrown a dart and found a safer place.” After extensive review and analysis, he proposed an alternative. The Schwartz Plan moves the ramp one block north, to wrap around the back of Asphalt Green. It is safer for everyone in the community, including our neighbors at Isaacs Houses and Holmes Towers. Among the major benefits: • The new ramp will move trucks away from one of the heaviest pedestrian crossings in the area at 91st and York. Pedestrian counts show drastically reduced foot traffic at 92nd and York, the Schwartz Plan alternative. • Paired with the more direct truck routes we have proposed, the new ramp will keep trucks on wider commercial routes and sharply limit their use of residential streets and crosswalks. This will reduce diesel pollution exposure to pedestrians on nearby sidewalks throughout the neighborhood.

• It will require closing the southbound entrance to the FDR Drive at 92nd Street, taking more than 1,000 cars off 92nd Street daily and slashing associated noise and air pollution. • In addition, removing the York Avenue entrance to the southbound entrance to the FDR Drive will reduce car traffic in the community overall because many cars will simply use another entrance or take a different route. Moving the ramp is only one piece of our effort. We will fight for other sensible and meaningful mitigations to help the whole community, including requiring the best clean technology on all trucks using this MTS, emissions limits, hours of operation restrictions and disclosure to the community of any health issues that may arise once the MTS opens.

Like you, we wish the Mayor had looked more closely at our vibrant community and appreciated this is a residential neighborhood, full of homes, schools and kids at play, with no industry. At this point, the only realistic goal is to make a bad situation better, for as many people as possible. If you see what we do – that the MTS is being built right before our eyes – then please join us in convincing the Mayor to MOVE THE RAMP. Go to www.zerovision.nyc for more information on what you can do to help. Thank you, Friends of Asphalt Green


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Howard Hughes’ revised proposal includes a 494-foot, 42-story tower on the north side of Pier 17, at the same site on the New Market building as their previous Seaport proposal.

IN PRAISE OF THE OPPOSITION TO THE SEAPORT PLAN Last week’s op-ed column by Councilmember Margaret Chin and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer opposing the Howard Hughes Corp.’s plans for a new tower at the South Street Seaport generated these responses from the comment section of our web site: Chin and Brewer are to be commended. Hughes Corporation got the deal of the century leasing this unique, irreplaceable area from NYC at less than $3.50/sq ft, and ever since, they have simultaneously claimed poverty (they NEED the tower to make the deal work financially) while spending hundreds of millions buying up adjacent property. Even sans the tower, their plans for the area are stale, derivative and totally out-of-keeping with its character. They have no sense of the texture of the place, nor any respect for it. Developer after developer has gone bankrupt down here because they followed the same playbook: leech the character out of the place, make it more like other places around the country, and

if it doesn’t work, declare bankruptcy and leave the area picking up the pieces. The area deserves smart, caring development; understand what’s there, what was there, work with it, don’t tear it down or homogenize it out of recognition. There is a gold-mine in this area, with the bridge vista, a good public market, access to the water, and history that is relevant to today’s NYers. How long before developers get this message? rbeth Applause and appreciation to Councilmember Chin and Manhattan Borough President Brewer for taking a strong and sensible stance against inappropriate development of the South Street Seaport. They are representing the neighborhood with integrity. The short-term cash that will accrue to the Howard Hughes Corporation if their ‘vision’ for the Seaport is actually achieved will be at the expense of a priceless landmark district that will be compromised forever. Young families will not benefit (unless, of course, they are riding the HHC gravy train already). DHBrown

TWO VIEWS ON THE WASTE TRANSFER STATION To the Editor: In a Letter to the Community, Friends of Asphalt Green suggests closing the E. 91st St. ramp to the transfer station (now under construction) and have garbage trucks use a new ramp to be created by eiminating the existing southbound entrance to the FDR at 92nd St. While I am strongly opposed to the transfer station, I am also against closing the southbound 92nd St. FDR entrance. If it were eliminated, traffic seeking access to the FDR would have to head south on either York or East End avenues to the next southbound FDR entrance, at 79th St. Since left turns are not allowed from York Ave at 79th St., the only other option is via East End Avenue. This street is already constantly clogged by cars and school buses waiting for students at Brearley and Chapin, two large private schools. And there is also major building construction at East End & 80th, plus the turnaround of the 79th St. crosstown bus.

If cars proceed to the next southbound FDR entrance, at 63rd St. and York, they face more delays and constant congestion due to the many hospitals in the area. I believe the proposal by Friends of Asphalt Green to solve traffic problems at 91st Street only moves them down to someone else’s streets, to East End Ave at 79th St. or to York Ave. at 63rd St. Peter Rosenblatt East End Avenue To the Editor: In supporting the de Blasio administration’s five borough trash plan, The New York Times editorial board declined to acknowledge the disproportionate impact of the E. 91st Street waste transfer station on 2,200 moderate-to-low income residents of New York City public housing - many of them people of color - who live within 300 feet of the station. Relocating the ramp is a sensible concession, but it will do little to improve

the lives of the children, homebound seniors, and working poor families of the Isaacs Houses/Holmes Towers who will be breathing diesel exhaust and dodging garbage trucks for generations. Although residents of Isaacs Houses/ Holmes Towers share the same zip code as their more affluent peers on the Upper East Side, more people of color, public housing residents, and children will live within a quarter mile of the E. 91st Street waste transfer station than the other planned transfer stations combined. Our primary concern is the health and wellness of these residents who are being left behind and left out. We support the Mayor’s efforts to address inequality and the ‘Tale Of Two Cities’ narrative but fail to understand why our neighbors are not part of the story. Gregory J. Morris President and executive director, Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center

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A LECTURE SERIES PRESENTED BY THE LAURA AND ISAAC PERLMUTTER CANCER CENTER. BPH UPDATE — WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW. Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) occurs when the cells of the prostate gland begin to multiply. This lecture will discuss the causes, symptoms, and diagnosis of this condition. Date: Thursday, February 26, 5:30pm – 6:30pm. Presenter: Christopher Kelly, MD. Location: Perlmutter Cancer Center. 160 East 34th Street. 11th Floor, Room 1121.

COLORECTAL CANCER PREVENTION AND SCREENING. Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States, but it doesn’t have to be. With screening and early detection, this is one cancer that is highly curable and often preventable. This lecture will discuss who is at risk for colon cancer, who should be screened and when, as well as what screening options are available. Date: Monday, March 2, 5:30pm – 7:00pm. Moderator: Mark B. Pochapin, MD. Location: NYU Langone Medical Center. 550 First Avenue at 31st Street. Farkas Auditorium.

These lectures are free and open to the public, but you must RSVP. To attend, call 212.263.2266 or visit nyulmc.org/cancer-rsvp View past lectures at youtube.com/nyulmc

20 HARKNESS DANCE FESTIVAL: STRIPPED/ DRESSED 92nd street Y, 92nd St. and Lexington. 8 p.m., From $25. Come check out the work of 5 artists where they will show their dance pieces and how they were built to the final product. Artists curated by Doug Varone. 212-415-5500. www.92y. org/uptown/DancePerformances-and-Events/ Harkness-Dance-Festival

classic kid author Dr. Seuss. Dive into his colorful world filled with whacky creatures and rhymes. 917-302-8404. www. mommypoppins.com/event/ the-art-of-dr-seuss-the-catbehind-the-hat

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Florence Gould Hall & Tinker Auditorium, 59th St. and Madison. 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Tickets starting at $7. THE ART OF DR. SEUSS: Kid’s animated weekend includes a string of French and THE HAT BEHIND THE Francophone animated shorts CAT for children ages 3 and up. The Atrium of the Citicorp 212-355 6100. www.fiaf. Building, 53rd St. and org/events/winter2015/2015Lexington. 02-animation.shtml 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Free. Come enjoy the art work of

THE WOODSMAN 59E59 Theatre, 59th St. between Madison and Park Ave. 3 p.m., $30. Strangemen and Co. presents the untold story of the Tin Man from the Wizard of OZ. Learn how he finds love and struggles with keeping it stable from the witch. 212-753-5959. www.59e59.org/moreinfo. php?showid=194

22 PAM TANOWITZ AND DAVID LANG Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 88th St. and Fifth Ave. 3 p.m., $40, $35 members. Check out the premiere of Broken Story by Pam Tanowitz and David Lang. Four composers, four dancers, four


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Asia Society and Museum, 70th St. and Park Ave. 6:30 p.m., Free with museum admission. RICHARD PRICE TALKS Korean Movie Night New WITH DAVID SIMON York 2015 will kick off with the screenings of Broken, Ode to my 92nd street Y - Buttenwieser Father and Hwayi: A Monster Boy. Hall, 92nd St. and Lexington. 7:30 p.m., From $30. asiasociety.org Richard Price will talk about his latest crime novel “The Whites� with David Simon. 212-415-5500. www.92y. org/Event/Richard-Pricewith-David-Simon

SONG BOOK: BROADWAY FUTURE The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts - Bruno Walter Auditorium, 66th St. and Amsterdam. 6 p.m., Free. Song Book: Broadway Future presents new music by Broadway composers ad lyricists performed by Broadway vocalists. 212-870-1630. www. newyorkcity.eventful.com/ events/songbook-broadwaysfuture-/E0-001-0779960955

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One of Joseph Bau’s graphic-art pieces.

REMEMBERING THE WORK OF JOSEPH BAU EXHIBITIONS The Park Avenue Synagogue is showing the work of a Holocaust survivor, animator, and graphic artist BY MAXINE DOVERE

A retrospective exhibition of the work of Joseph Bau, known as the “Disney of Israel,” is on display until April 16 at The Gallery of the Park Avenue Synagogue on Madison Avenue at 87th Street. The artist, who was portrayed in Steven Spielberg’s iconic film “Schindler’s List,” was prolific: graphc artist, painter, animator, film maker, author, and poet. Only after the atist’s death in 2002 was it revealed that Bau was the creator of documents used in several high-profile international covert oper-

Joseph Bau’s daughter, Hadasa, discusses his work before the opening of the exhibition at the Park Avenue Synagogue. Photo by Maxine Dovere

ations. Hadasa Bau, the artist’s daughter, says he was “a man with many secrets,” working as a graphic artist for Israel’s secret service, the Mossad, for decades. Among the documentation he created were the papers used to extract Adolf Eichmann out of Argentina and the documents used by “our man in Damascus” Eli Cohen used to establish his identity as a Syrian businessman in the early 1960’s. Bau is the author of seven books. His best known is “Dear God Have You Ever Gone Hungry,” a Holocaust memoir, the first such text to be published in Chinese, and available in English, Hebrew, Polish, Spanish, and soon in Dutch. Among the paintings on display is Bau’s portrait of Oscar Schindler, the only live portrait sitting of the Holocaust hero. The painting was created in Bau’s Tel Aviv studio during one of Schindler’s several visits to Israel. Schindler had saved the wooden art

case which Bau used throughout the war and returned it to him. The originals of Bau’s Holocaust paintings had been hidden in a secret bottom in the case along with irreplacable family photograhs. In addition to these works - which have hung in the gallery of the United Nations -- aremore than two dozen examples of Bau’s series on the Hebrew language, his classic advertising images, stricking contemporary paintings and iconic graphics. Bau remained an essential optomist.

Even in the depths of the Holocaust in the midst of a concentration camp, he found reason for hope. During their internment in Płaszów, Joseph Bau and Rebecca Tennenbaum met and fell in love. The wedding depicted in the Spielberg movie, which took place February 13, 1944, was that of the young couple. The life-long love that began in the horrors of the concentration camp last almost five decades, until Rebecca’s death in 1997. The exhibit opening preceeded a lec-

ture tour by Hadasa Bau. She is the codirector of the Joseph Bau Museum in Tel Aviv, where she works with her sister Clila and has spoken to Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and secular audiences throughout the world. During her current tour, Bau is speaking at The Seventh Day Adventist Hope Church on East 87th Street, Nyack Christian College, The Center for Jewish History on 16th Street, and several area high schools.


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“BELLADONNA” Choreographer Adam Barruch premieres his collaboration with his frequent partner Chelsea Bonosky at the Harkness Dance Festival. “Belladonna,” a duet based loosely on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” casts Bonosky as the titular character of Hawthorne’s tale, whose immunity to the poisonous plants growing in her father’s garden also makes her lethal to others. Feb. 20-22 92nd Street Y, Buttenweiser Hall Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street Assorted show times Tickets $25-$29

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It’s a common lament that spreading development and rising rents in lower Manhattan have pushed artists and creatives into the outer boroughs and away from the city altogether, but this current exhibit at the Manny Cantor Center explores what and who are left. The exhibition features paintings, sculpture, video, photography and installations by 100 current Lower East Side artists whose work collectively spans three decades. Through April 1 Manny Cantor Center Ernest Rubenstein and Jewish Communal Galleries 197 East Broadway, Near Jefferson Street Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. FREE

A holdover from the recent New York Jewish Film Festival, the new documentary from directors Joseph Dorman and Oren Rudavsky examines the history of Zionism and the implications of the movement for Jewish and Palestinian people across the globe. Through interviews with experts and participants in the movement, as well as archival footage and still photography, the film examines the ideals and practices of the 130-year-old movement. The screening includes a Q&A with Dorman and Rudavsky. Tuesday, Feb. 24 Film Society of Lincoln Center Walter Reade Theater 165 W. 65th St., between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues 7 p.m. Tickets $13

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The ongoing Selected Shorts series, in which celebrities lend dramatic flair to short story readings, celebrates its 30th season this year. On Monday, the series takes a break from its regular stage at Symphony Space and heads downtown to the New York Theatre Workshop, where “How I Met Your Mother” alum Josh Radnor reads a story by Paul LaFarge, and Amy Ryan and Martin Short read from the works of Elliott Holt and Ramona Ausubel. Monday, Feb. 23 New York Theatre Workshop 79 E. 4th St., between Second Avenue and Cooper Square 7:30 p.m. Tickets $12 To be included in the Top 5 go to ourtownny.com and click on submit a press release or announcement.

The popular stories by children’s book author and illustrator Eric Carle come to life on stage in Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia’s performance of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” “Little Cloud,” and “The Mixed-up Chameleon.” Using black lights, bright, two-dimensional sets and a plush puppet caterpillar, Carle’s famous character eats its way through ice cream, hot dogs and a variety of foods before transforming into a butterfly in this children’s production. Appropriate for ages 3 and older. Sat. Feb. 28 Tribeca Performing Arts Center 199 Chambers St., at Harrison Street 1:30 p.m. Tickets $25

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READING BETWEEN THE LINES BOOKS An exhibition of annotated books at the New York Society Library BY MICKEY KRAMER

George Bernard Shaw’s 1932 draft copy of his play “Too True to be Good,” an 1816 copy of Jane Austen’s “Emma,” and James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s

Author Anthony Grafton looks at annotated books in the Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery. Photo by Karen Smul

Room” help make up “Readers Make Their Mark,” a new exhibition at the New York Society Library on East 79th Street, which opened February 5th. Despite the massive growth of ereaders, annotating books and an interest in viewing such markings still exists. In a Dec. 15 column for the New Yorker, Lauren Collins reported on the Oxford University Marginalia group, which was started in 2012 by graduate student April Pierce and now boasts over 2,500 members interested in finding and studying annotated books. New York Society Library’s special collections librarian and co-curator Erin Schreiner said the exhibition shows how readers personalized their books, making them like keepsakes. “We can see people from different backgrounds, with different purposes in mind, marking their books in similar ways,” she said. “People write in their books to respond to what they read.” The idea for the exhibition came in late 2013, when Schreiner took author and Princeton professor Anthony Grafton and his students on a tour of the library’s annotated collection, which Schreiner thought would make for a good exhibition. With the help of two of Grafton’s students-turned-cocurators, Frederic Clark and Madeline McMahon, Schreiner spent a year researching and narrowing down around 100 titles to the 23 books included in the exhibit. The books are housed in four glass cases and could be viewed in about an hour or less. Included in the show is Shaw’s draft, personally signed and dated “12th October 1932,” and marked clearly in cursive ink at the top of the front page with the words “frightfully private” and “no press agent to be let near it.” The 1816 copy of “Emma,” one of only three known worldwide Ameri-

A page from Paracelsus’s “Baderbuchlin,” annotated by John Dee and John Winthrop, Jr.

IF YOU GO: “Readers Make Their Mark” What: 23 annotated books from the New York Society Library’s special collections When: Feb. 5-Aug. 15 Where: New York Society Library, 53 E. 79th St., near Madison Avenue Admission: FREE during library hours, Monday and Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., TuesdayThursday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. “Readers Make Their Mark” runs through until Aug. 15, 2015. can first editions, is marked with very faded pencil, has some slightly torn, yellowed pages and is missing its covers. Sometime between 1816 and 1868 an unknown annotator wrote on the final page, “I am delighted to get through with Emma Woodhouse or Mrs. Knightly,” and noted that the character of Emma was “intolerable,” while Harriet was, “very pleasant?” Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room” features emphatic underlines, checkmarks, and “stars” during a conversation when Jacques urges the narrator to connect freely and without shame with his lover Giovanni. During the Feb. 5 opening, many attendees were drawn to this book, Schreiner said. “The underlines are so vivid,” she said. “You can really see how the reader connected with the story.” The New York Society Library, which houses more than 300,000 volumes, was founded in 1754 and is New York City’s oldest library. The landmark

townhouse is packed with donated paintings, photographs and sculpture, and across from the front desk sits a Dutch grandfather clock about as old as the library, which “usually works,” according to the front desk staff. Books from two of the library’s special collections make up a large portion of the exhibit. The Sharaff-Sze collection, from the estate of costume designer Irene Sharaff and her partner, Mai-mai Sze, includes Schreiner’s favorite piece in the exhibition, Sze’s annotations in “The Way of Lao Tzu,” a translation of the Tao Te Ching. Sze worked in the arts as a painter and later as a writer, actress and model, and annotated in both English and Chinese. About a quarter of the books in “Readers Make Their Mark” come from the Winthrop Collection, which dates back to the 1500s and was part of the personal library of John Winthrop, Jr., the first governor of Con-

necticut. The oldest book in the collection, a copy of Virgil’s “Eclogues” from 1505, is marked in the margins by an unknown student from around the time the book was printed, and is the personal favorite of librarian’s assistant Sara Holliday. “It’s something we’ve all done, taking notes in your Latin or literature class,” Halliday said. “But because presumably notebooks were expensive and the book had wide margins, he—probably a he—just shorthanded the lecture in the book itself. The book is his textbook and Trapper Keeper.” Even with the proliferation of electronic readers and digital publications, Schreiner is certain books on paper live on. “We hope to show viewers that there is an important relationship between readers, writing, and their books,” Schreiner said. “I don’t think we’ll see the last of books any time soon.”


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Sports STRONG SHOWING FOR TWO ASPHALT GREEN TEAMS

The Asphalt Green Wave girls volleyball teams participated in the Capitol Hill Classic in Washington, D.C. Three Asphalt Green teams played, and the 14U team highlighted a strong weekend for the program, finishing 2-4 in pool play and playing well in playoffs, making it to the second round.

This was the 14U teams’ second tournament of the season and they will be competing in their first regional tournament this weekend. Earlier, the Green Wave’s 15U basketball team beat the New York Phoenix in a 55 Swish League game to improve their record to 6-2 this season.

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Seventy-eight local schoolchildren aged 5-12 – along with their families – learned the significance of giving back as they “packed the pantry” and filled grocery bags for their homebound elderly neighbors who are too frail or sick to shop for themselves. Pack the Pantry is an initiative conceived by Danielle Valenti Smith, pictured above, co-chair of the Citymeals-on-Wheels Young Professionals Committee. The children packed the bags with shelf-stable items such as chicken noodle soup, pasta and applesauce at The Carter Burden Center for the Aging. The Mobile Food Pantry was launched in 2011 to provide supplementary meals to those who are most at-risk for malnourishment. In fiscal year 2014, the Mobile Food Pantry delivered 54,182 meals. Photo by Eric Groom

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Food & Drink < CHAMPAGNE BAR ON DOCKET FOR LINCOLN CENTER

Lincoln Center plans for a new champagne bar at its Upper West Side campus, DNAinfo reported. A food and beverage manager for the performing arts destination, which includes Avery Fisher Hall, home to the New York Philharmonic, as well as the Metropolitan Opera House, told Community Board 7 that the small bar area will include only about 16 seats at the back of Avery Fisher Hall,

In Brief MARIA LOI OPENS NEW RESTAURANT Chef Maria Loi, whose eponymous Greek restaurant on West 70th Street near Amsterdam Avenue shuttered this past summer and is now home to the newly opened Lincoln Square Steak, recently opened her new fine dining restaurant Loi Estiatorio, the New York Times reported. Loi’s new venture will feature her classic Mediterranean cuisine, including mussels in white wine and saffron broth and grilled octopus served over fava beans, and borrows healthy recipes from her new book “The Greek Diet,” which came out last fall. The restaurant, which opened in the former W. 58th Street space of Austrian restaurant Seäsonal, recruited the former tenant’s chef de cuisine Arno Mueller. Loi Estiatorio is located at 132 West 58th St., between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, and is open Monday-Friday for lunch from 11:30 a.m-3 p.m., and daily for dinner at 5 p.m., with weekend brunch served from 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

FAO SCHWARZ WELCOMES FAVORITE SWEET SHOP If FAO Schwarz weren’t already a child’s dream come true, a trip to the city’s iconic toy store just got a bit sweeter. Local sweets purveyor Sugar and Plumm, which operates its flagship store and restaurant on Amsterdam Avenue and West 78th Street, opened a new location on the ground floor of the Fifth Avenue toy store last week, DNAinfo reported. Replacing the FAO cafe, the new Sugar and Plumm outpost will specialize in sweet and savory stuffed waffles made to order, with a variety of filling options, including ham, chicken sausage, cheddar and gruyere cheese, or toppings like powdered sugar, Nutella, caramel or chocolate sauce. The cafe will not compete with the toy store’s notable candy selection; though Sugar and Plumm’s flagship location on the UWS, as well as its Bleecker Street shop, sell a variety of candy, it’s cafe at FAO Schwarz will stick to waffles, pastries, desserts and coffee.

and will not prohibit the public from sitting in the bar area, even allowing guests to bring their own food and drink into the small bar area. Lincoln Center also requested the board’s approval of an indoor bar each for Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall. Though the board won’t formally vote on the libations additions until March, it’s expected to approve all three.

CSA - Community Supported Agriculture programs provide small farms with needed capital for the growing season, and buyers get fresh produce every week.

HOW THE C.S.A. MODEL SUPPORTS A FARM COMMUNITY KITCHEN Now is the time to consider signing up for a Community Supported Agriculture program BY LIZ NEUMARK

I am thinking about spring. Although it is still several weeks away, there are decisions to make that will affect what grows on Katchkie Farm in 2015. Despite the frozen earth, now is the time our planning begins. The seed orders went in last week, including over 60 varieties from arugula and eggplant to king kale, tomatoes and zucchini – over 1 million individual seeds. But the most critical farm activity starting now is the launch of CSA sign up season. CSA – Community Supported Agriculture – is better recognized as the veggie bag members get weekly, filled with whatever was harvested on the farm. We are in the process of signing up our 500 members – not a simple task, yet central to the financial health of the farm. For us at Katchkie Farm, and at hundreds of farms across the country, CSA is the economic anchor. Why? Members pay for their “shares” before the growing season – providing farmers with money to buy seeds, ready fields and equipment– all before a single veggie has grown. CSA defines a commitment that will weather a bumper crop season

(when members benefit) or withstand the occasional disruption due to hurricane, hail, blight or bug (less to share). It fosters a connection between consumer and grower that transcends marketing or e-commerce. The advent of two trends threaten to disrupt the CSA model. The first is the aggregator/middleman model, which collects crops from different farms and resells directly to consumers. Retail aggregators include models like Good Eggs or Farmigo, allowing buyers to skip the vegetables they don’t like (no okra please) and get the ones they prefer (more kale or varietal tomato). In season, Fresh Direct not only offers a wide selection of local options (conventional and organic) but a farmer’s box of “best picks” of the week for a CSA-like experience. No doubt, Amazon will be right behind. Depending on your location, Peapod, Whole Foods and others with online shopping will worm their way into the farm fresh market. In the bricks and mortar world, merchants are responding to the demand for local food and promote an array of items, from fruits and vegetables to cheese, meat, fish and beverages as well. Here too, there is abundant marketing about local farm connections – often a source of controversy as there is little transparency and no regulation. There are more local vegetables everywhere with more product

choice, ordering flexibility and greater accessibility (if you are in the delivery zone). This is what the food movement has been advocating and finally, businesses have figured out how to make convenient and profitable. Shopping for local vegetables and fruits will be like shopping for anything else we buy – you get what you chose. Is that a problem? Yes and no. First of all, only actual CSAs should be called CSAs. It signifies a specific operating model and financial arrangement, one that is most supportive of and favorable to the farmer. It should not be used by an aggregator or retail organization to describe a selection of seasonal produce. Although CSA requires upfront payment, many offer a payment schedule as well as reduced prices for low-income communities. Once you factor in the amount of produce over a 22-week period, the cost is generally cheaper than buying via retail outlets. But I think there is more to this conversation than convenience or price or selection alone. At the core of CSA is an understanding of how growing food (farming)

happens. It involves a financial commitment to the farm before delivery – that is an act of faith. It acknowledges the acceptance of circumstances beyond our control – weather, climate change and natural impacts. It embraces the joy of surprise, stimulating conversation and culinary exploration. It gets people cooking, swapping, learning, and talking. Above all else, it is belonging to a community that celebrates the same inexplicable “farm joy” you feel. It’s having a farm to call your own, a farmer to learn from and a place to go if you want to get into the dirt. It transforms the way you think about a rain on a summer’s day – it’s good for the crops. Change in distribution of food from farms to homes is happening and there is room for multiple of models. More healthy, accessible and delicious options benefit everyone. I just hope that the humility that comes with understanding how precious our food is will be sprinkled in every bag and box. Liz Neumark is the CEO of Great Performances catering and the author of the cookbook Sylvia’s Table.


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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS FEB 6 - 14, 2015 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. Blimpie

1928 3 Avenue

A

Restaurant San Cristobal

339 East 108 Street

A

Creative Cakes

400 East 74 Street

A

Just Salad

1306 1St Ave

A

Bounce Restaurant&Sports Lounge

1403 2 Avenue

A

Zucchero E Pomodori

1435 2 Avenue

A

Good Health Natural Cafe

1435 1 Avenue

A

Bagels & Co.

1428 York Avenue

Closed by Health Department (38) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, crosscontaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.

Nectar Of 82Nd Street

1090 Madison Avenue A

Maz Mezcal

316 East 86 Street

A

Carlow East

1254 Lexington Avenue

A

Dunkin Donuts

1248 Lexington Avenue

A

Brady’s Bar

1583 2 Avenue

A

Highlands Cafe Restaurant

1505 Third Avenue

A

Jacque’s Cafe

204 East 85 Street

A

Erminia Restaurant

250 East 83 Street

A

Ko-Sushi Japanese Restaurant

1619 York Avenue

A

Tisane Pharmacy

340 East 86 Street

A

The Penrose

1590 2 Avenue

A

El Aguila

1215 Lexington Avenue

Grade Pending (18) Hot food item that has been cooked and refrigerated is being held for service without first being reheated to 1 65º F or above within 2 hours. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

Ithaka

308 East 86 Street

A

Papaya King

179 East 86 Street

A

Green Cafe

1324 Lexington Avenue

A

Lex Restaurant

1370 Lexington Avenue

A

Cantina

1436 Lexington Ave

Grade Pending (17) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

Domino’s Pizza

200 East 89 Street

A

Adam Chinese Cottage

1748 2Nd Ave

Grade Pending (45) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.

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< CHURCH CONVERSION PLAN REJECTED AGAIN Plans for the condo-conversion of a century old church on the Upper West Side were again shot down by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, who while supporting the residential repurposing of the church, maintained their position that more information is needed for them to ap-

prove major changes to the church’s Central Park West façade. The church, at 361 Central Park West and 96th Street, was designed by Carrere and Hastings and dates back to 1903. It was purchased last summer by developers Ira Shapiro and Joseph Brunner, who hired GKV Architects

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Dear Seller: A Buyer’s Love Letter

BY MICHAEL SHAPOT hose of us who routinely help buyers and sellers sometime forget how emotionally charged letting go of a beloved home can be. Submitting a personal, handwritten, heartfelt love letter to a seller has helped many lovelorn buyers clench the deal. The When & Why’s of a Dear Homeowner Love Letter A Dear Homeowner Love Letter is typically used in competitive bidding situations to distinguish a buyer from the rest of the pack. According to Redfin, a bid with a Love Letter increases a buyer’s success rate by 9%. It’s also an effective tool when accompanying an offer that’s below the asking price. Rather than “The comps don’t support a higher offer,” it’s much better to say, “We’re stretching because this will be our ‘home’ and we’ve connected with it.” Additionally, a letter

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may help a seller judge whether a buyer will be a good long-term partner. Accepting an offer is just one step in the transaction, but what about working through the complexities and drama of the sale? What will due diligence, inspections and contract negotiations be like? A letter gives a glimpse into the buyer’s personality, smoothing out some of the unknowns. The What’s of a Love Letter Done well, a good letter paints a vivid picture, connects with the seller and expresses a sincere sense of excitement about owning the home. In short, the Love Letter humanizes an offer. • Keep it short and sweet. Three or four paragraphs, tops. Any longer, and you lose a seller’s interest in a sea of words. • Use proper grammar. Keep it on the formal side. Avoid slang. Put your best foot forward to create a lasting positive impression. • Introduce yourself. Sellers are naturally curious about buyers are and why they’re interested in their home. Give details that may sway odds in your favor: connections to the community, family particulars, interesting coincidences. • Focus on positives. Note the home’s best assets, why you love them

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and how you appreciate its uniqueness. That also means: avoid mentioning ripping out the kitchen. • Be honest and authentic. Express your true inner feelings, emotions and excitement, but communicate truths. • Demonstrate stability. Explain that there will be no problem closing the purchase. Ease a seller’s fears about the uncertainties of a transaction. • Show humility. “We would be honored to live in your home” vs. “We’re hopeful, yet confident, that you’ll accept our generous offer.” They Love Me…They Love Me Not…. Money talks, but money being equal, people want to do business with those they like and trust. Sellers are likely to choose buyers they’re comfortable with and can relate to. But sometimes, even the best-written and most heartfelt letters don’t work. A seller and a listing agent who are totally focused on the bottom line are unlikely to care one iota about a Love Letter. Some sellers may even view a Love Letter as a sign of weakness. What to do? Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Write your letter. Declare your love for that home. Michael Shapot is a broker at Keller Williams Realty

and Li Saltzman Architects to devise a plan that would create about 30 units, including a penthouse. At issue is the applicant’s plan to carve out six new windows on the side of the church that faces Central Park West. Architects have argued that the windows are necessary to cast light into the individual units, but were criticized by the LPC at a December

hearing for not providing floor plans that prove the windows are necessary. The website New York YIMBY indicated that architects on the project again declined to present floor plans that showed why the windows are necessary at a hearing last week, which led to the commission’s second denial and set the stage for another hearing on the plan.

BID TO BRING D.N.C. TO CITY FAILS NEWS Mayor de Blasio’s efforts to lure the convention to Brooklyn lost out to Philadelphia BY JONATHAN LEMIRE

Mayor Bill de Blasio made a strong push to bring the 2016 Democratic National Convention to Brooklyn, cheerleading its urban comeback story and liberal credentials while tirelessly working behind the scenes to raise money for what he envisioned would be a coronation for his former boss, Hillary Rodham Clinton. But the national Democratic party chose Philadelphia on Thursday, opting for swing state optics and simpler logistics over Brooklyn’s trendy grit and deep pockets. The decision was a blow to de Blasio, who relentlessly championed his borough’s ascension as the perfect home for a media friendly convention that would see President Barack Obama pass the torch to the Democrats’ next standard bearer. “I really do believe a convention in Brooklyn would have sent a great message about what this country has historically been and can be in the future: an inclusive place, a place for everyone,” de Blasio said in a news conference hours after the Democratic National Committee announced its choice. “I’m disappointed, by definition.” De Blasio also congratulated Philadelphia which, notably, he did not do in a statement released immediately after the decision. Before making its choice, the national party had stressed the

importance of logistics and fundraising after problems with both in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2012. Brooklyn led the other finalists — which, beyond Philadelphia, included Columbus, Ohio — in raising money, in part thanks to a committee of well-heeled donors who contributed despite not all being natural allies of the liberal de Blasio. But logistics were never a slam dunk for Brooklyn. The convention would have been centered in the gleaming Barclays Center, the home of the NBA’s Nets in downtown Brooklyn, but some of the delegates would have had to stay across the river in Manhattan. And while de Blasio and his team repeatedly boasted about the public transit options to the arena, which included several subway lines and a commuter rail stop, the frozen zone that would have been put in place far in advance to secure the site would have disrupted life in several bustling neighborhoods. Philadelphia, meanwhile, touted that most of its hotels were grouped in a walkable downtown but the arena that would house the convention is located in a sports complex removed from downtown, making it easier to secure. New York would have been a homecoming of sorts for Clinton,

who represented the state in the U.S. Senate and has a home in the suburbs north of the city. But aides to de Blasio said Clinton’s recent inclination to base her campaign in New York City — a process that her team is coordinating with City Hall — also hurt Brooklyn’s chances, since party officials were reluctant to house two major campaign markers in the same city. Additionally, a convention in deep-blue Brooklyn could attract protests from the left — where Clinton was vulnerable in 2008 — and stir uncomfortable conversations about the Clintons’ ties to nearby Wall Street as their party takes a more populist turn. De Blasio is expected to still be a key liberal surrogate for Clinton if she runs. He was the campaign manager of her 2000 Senate bid and has made several recent public appearances with her and her husband. But losing the DNC, which would have been the first New York-based convention outside of Manhattan, remains a defeat for de Blasio, who has had limited success swaying events outside his home city. He campaigned aggressively to flip the state Senate to the Democrats last fall only to see his party lose seats. De Blasio, who said he was satisfied with Brooklyn’s bid, would not rule out making another attempt for a future convention and dismissed talk that the decision was a rebuke to himself or the progressive politics he represents. New York last hosted a convention in 2004, when it held the Republican National Convention. The Democrats last used the nation’s largest city in 1992. Despite some fundraising concerns, Philadelphia was viewed as the favorite throughout the process and also has ties to Hillary Clinton, whose father was raised in nearby Scranton. Additionally, Pennsylvania is considered a nominal swing state, often a plus in convention calculus, even though it last went for the GOP in 1988. The Republicans are holding their convention in Cleveland.


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Real Estate Sales Neighborhd

Address

Price

Bed Bath Agent

Beekman

414 E 50 St.

$7,720,000

5

6

Douglas Elliman

Beekman

455 E 51 St.

$975,000

2

1

Charles H. Greenthal

Beekman

439 E 51 St.

$890,000

2

1

Douglas Elliman

Beekman

433 E 51 St.

$675,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

Carnegie Hill

170 E 87 St.

$2,585,000

3

3

Halstead Property

Carnegie Hill

72 E 93 St.

$1,562,500

3

2

Corcoran

Carnegie Hill

1088 Park Ave.

$4,450,000

3

3

Sotheby’s

Carnegie Hill

162 E 91 St.

$269,000

0

1

Corcoran

Carnegie Hill

130 E 94 St.

$820,000

2

1

Corcoran

Lenox Hill

420 E 64 St.

$981,798

1

1

Fenwick Keats Real Estate

Lenox Hill

301 E 62 St.

$767,000

1

1

Town Residential

Lenox Hill

360 E 72 St.

$2,112,500

3

3

Douglas Elliman

Lenox Hill

605 Park Ave.

$2,168,833

Lenox Hill

233 E 69 St.

$699,000

2

1

Douglas Elliman

Lenox Hill

11 E 68 St.

$14,815,537

Lenox Hill

737 Park Ave.

$8,655,125

3

5

Corcoran

Lenox Hill

315 E 68 St.

$2,410,000

3

2

Corcoran

Lenox Hill

710 Park Ave.

$4,500,000

3

3

Corcoran

Lenox Hill

130 E 67 St.

$7,300,000

Lenox Hill

200 E 66Th St.

$1,965,222

Lenox Hill

139 E 63 St.

$1,500,000

CAMP 2

2

Town Residential

Lenox Hill

3 E 71 St.

$1,300,000

2

2

Douglas Elliman

Lenox Hill

359 E 68 St.

$849,000

1

2

Corcoran

Lenox Hill

130 E 63 St.

$1,650,000

Midtown

135 E 54 St.

$180,340

Midtown E

325 Lexington Ave.

$865,512

Midtown E

211 E 53 St.

$735,000

Murray Hill

327 Lexington Ave.

$880,000

Murray Hill

320 E 35 St.

Murray Hill

320 E 42 St.

Murray Hill

630 1 Ave.

$1,344,090

Murray Hill

330 E 38 St.

$1,410,580

Murray Hill

225 E 36 St.

$560,000

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2

2

Corcoran

0

1

Corcoran

$370,000

0

1

Douglas Elliman

$430,000

1

1

City Connections Realty

1

1

Citi Habitats

Murray Hill

120 E 36 St.

$545,000

1

1

Brown Harris Stevens

Murray Hill

305 E 40 St.

$645,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

Murray Hill

330 E 38 St.

$1,800,000

Murray Hill

225 E 36 St.

$389,000

0

1

Corcoran

Murray Hill

77 Park Ave.

$1,185,000

1

1

Corcoran

Murray Hill

225 E 36 St.

$1,050,000

2

2

Corcoran

Murray Hill

225 E 34 St.

$970,000

1

1

L.G. Fairmont Group

Sutton Place

60 Sutton Place South

$515,500

1

1

Halstead Property

Sutton Place

430 E 57 St.

$2,200,000

2

3

Stribling

Sutton Place

303 E 57 St.

$908,279

Sutton Place

419 E 57 St.

$1,865,000

3

2

Sotheby’s

Sutton Place

60 Sutton Place South

$769,000

1

1

Halstead Property

Sutton Place

14 Sutton Place South

$673,000

1

1

Stribling

Turtle Bay

321 E 43 St.

$383,750

1

1

Halstead Property

Turtle Bay

212 E 47 St.

$855,000

1

1

Douglas Elliman

Turtle Bay

310 E 46 St.

$525,000

0

1

Douglas Elliman

Turtle Bay

224 E 52 St.

$635,000

1

1

Corcoran

Turtle Bay

155 E 49 St.

$350,000

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How camps support children facing challenges BY MELORA MAYO, R.N.

Carol LeBoeuf will never forget the day her twelve-year-old son David came running out of the Clara Barton Day Camp in North Oxford, Massachusetts, yelling, “Mom, they’re all just like me!” David, who has had Type 1 diabetes since early childhood and has been attending a school where is the only child with diabetes, had made a discovery of his own. There were other kids just like him. And he and they could have a serious medical condition, one that is alarmingly on the rise in this country, and still enjoy the carefree summer activities of normal children. Carol says, “David has always been a serious child. Sometimes he meets girls who have his condition, but rarely boys. At camp he met a counselor named Kevin who also had Type 1 diabetes and bonded with him instantly. He began to relax to the point where he got the ‘Barton Boy Award’ as the most happy camper.” Carol, too, had a positive experience. As a registered nurse, she had given up working to be on call for David’s school because they had no nurse on staff. While David was at camp, she said she felt confident about his safety away from home for the first time since he was diagnosed.

Camp Can Be the Common Bond Across the country, among families dealing with serious diseases, the camp movement

for children with such conditions is on the rise. Whether it’s juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, diabetes, or lifelong challenges such as blindness, through camping their conditions have become the common bond that helps them to not define themselves by their diseases but to view themselves as kids first. Major diseases and disabilities burden the childhood of tens of thousands of youth each year. One in five hundred children suffers from either Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. It is the most expensive major disease known, costing over $100 billion for treatment and its complications. Juvenile arthritis affects an estimated 285,000 children under age seventeen and 50, 000 of them have juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. And cancer is the leading cause of nonaccidental death among children.

A joyful discovery In experiencing camp with other children affected by the same condition, David is not alone in his joyful discovery. Claudia Uppendahl, age ten, who has had Type 1 diabetes since she was five and has attended the Clara Barton Camp since she was six, feels the same way: “I feel happy knowing I’m not the only one and that I can be a regular kid. The counselors treat everyone the same.” Claudia’s mom, Laura, is a single parent who gave up her floral business and moved in with her parents to care for her daughter full time. She says that camp is a place her daughter can be totally herself “while I sit back and relax...a total break for me. Also, Clau-

dia learns how to do one major thing for herself each summer. Last year she learned how to give herself an insulin shot in her abdomen.”

Camps for Special Needs Are on the Rise Currently, according to American Camp Association (ACA) files, there are more than two hundred camps for children with special diseases such as diabetes and cancer. The camps serve those with a range of diseases, including HIV/AIDS, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis, and cerebral palsy. Several of these camps include those with related conditions, such as spina bifida, blindness, and hearing loss.

Camps’ Remarkable Influence One anecdote seems to illustrate best the influence camp has had on children’s lives. Carol, mother of David, relates that the Barton Day Camp experience made her son so confident he developed a science project about diabetes as the invisible disease the following year in school. The project was entitled, “What’s It Like Being a Child with Diabetes?” A photo of normal-looking boys, including him, illustrated it. Underneath the picture of the four was a caption that read, “Which one has diabetes?” The answer...they all do. To learn more about camp and child development, please visit the American Camp Association’s family website: www.CampParents. org. Originally printed in CAMP Magazine, reprinted by permission of the American Camp Association.


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6th Borough

Hawking Eggs

BY BECCA TUCKER t’s 3 a.m. and I can’t sleep. When I doze off it’s fitful and every time I wake I see egg cartons. The dawn approacheth. With its arrival, our 120 chickens will begin to do that thing that humans have bred them for millennia to do – deposit these perfectly encased, in our case multicolored, packets of protein in the next boxes in their coop. Yesterday, a cold day in early February, we got 77 eggs, and the hens are gearing up, up, up, with the lengthening days. This is what we were going for, obviously. We didn’t accidentally acquire this massive flock of laying hens. Some days, we can get rid of seven dozen eggs, when we happen to see family or friends, or I drop them off at the local health food store that’s just started selling them, or I bring them to the office to sell to coworkers. But my co-workers’ fridges are full, the health food store’s fridge is full, and we’ve got nothing coming up on the calendar as far as massive reunions are concerned. I’ve been waiting for the snow to melt a little to put up our Free Range Eggs sign, but our road is a dead-end and we’re pretty far up it, so that’s not going to generate a massive amount of traffic. So I’ve been hustling. The other day I tried to bring some to the shrink’s office that shares a building with my company. This is the kind of place people are court-ordered to go. Moaning and screaming occasionally emanate from behind the door, which we in the editorial room do our best to ignore, unless we’re on deadline, in which case we nod amen. I swallowed my hesitation and marched in, telling myself it was a sociable and not-abmormal thing to do. I

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squeezed past a man in the waiting room with his head between his knees and only too late realized it was really busy right now, not a good time. But I’d come this far. I tried to convey to the ladies in the office behind the window what I was doing, holding up an egg carton until they slid back the glass. I have chickens, and they’re laying a lot of eggs. Anyone want to buy free range eggs? One of the ladies smiled at me for what seemed like a pretty long time. Me standing there with my carton, her smiling, the guy behind me with his head between his knees. I figured she was excited to see free range eggs this time of year, when the farmers markets are closed and all. “I’m good!” she finally said, and the other lady slid the glass back. That head-in-knees position suddenly looked pretty comfortable. One of my co-workers suggested I try the chiropractor in the other office in our building, since chiropractors are into holistic health. I did not. I ended up getting rid of all the eggs I brought to work that day. But the thing about this business is, you’ve got to do it again tomorrow – or the fridge gets full fast. Why are we doing this? It ain’t for the money. If all we were looking for was a little cash flow, we could probably do better picking bottles out of the garbage for the five cent deposit. Our little poultry farm’s creation story begins with our emerging awareness that our food system is broken, followed by a desire for pastureraised, free range eggs that came from chickens that got to live a chicken-y life. Then we fell in love with cohabitating with chickens, and figured, we’re already doing this work, we might as well ramp it up. What’s the difference between taking care of 25 chickens and 120? It would be cool to make a little money in the process. And the truth is, it’s not a whole lot more work… until they start laying eggs. Then you’ve got to collect them three or four times a day so they don’t get crushed or frozen, put them in cartons, put our sticker on the carton, grade and size them if you’re selling them at a store (we’re ballparking AA, medium) and write up a receipt, and, of course, when you’ve got more

eggs than customers, find people to sell them to. Each part of this is kind of fun, and our toddler gets to help, and hopefully someday (soon!?) she can become a little entrepreneur and ferry eggs around in a wagon to sell door to door. But until then, on certain weekdays when we’re both trying to get our jobs – the paying ones – done, sometimes it gets to feel insane. That doesn’t make it any less gratifying, though. As far as feeling useful, not much beats feeding your neighbors, friends and family. I’m convinced that the future of food production is about decentralization – a flock on every block – and in this department at least, I can be the change I want to see. The day after I finished putting out the magazine I edit, I played hooky. I bundled toddler Kai up and we packed as many eggs as would fit into a basket and walked up our road, with the intent of giving the eggs to our neighbors as a neighborly gesture (and secretly as a loss-leader). We headed uphill, since the people who live above us are the ones who have to pass our house to get to civilization and are therefore our best bets for future customers. Kai quickly decided it was “slippy” and she did not want to walk, so I carried her in one arm and the basket in the others, announcing “switch!” every few minutes, at which point Kai would grab my neck

while I rotated basket and child. I was working up a shvitz, but we felt good. It was a beautiful day, we were getting to know our neighbors and getting our eggs out into the world. We would not go home until we’d gotten rid of all of them, we decided. But the driveways on our hill are long, man, and Kai was right about them being slippy. We were trudging along like troopers, tiptoeing through snow banks and around ice sheets, headed to a house that another neighbor told me contained three children – prime egg customers. A little boy opened the door and ran away, to Kai’s delight, and a nanny carrying a little girl – to Kai’s even greater delight – came to the door. I explained my mission and offered a dozen eggs. “No, thanks,” the nanny said. “They’re free,” I smiled, holding child and basket on one arm and extending the carton in the other. “We’re your neighbors.” “No, thanks,” she said. “We just came from the store.” I wasn’t sure how to explain to her that she did not have the authority to refuse this neighborly gesture, especially since it seemed pretty clear that actually, she could. Also I was about to drop everything. So I handed her a six-pack – a compromise. Becca Tucker is a former Manhattanite who now lives on a farm upstate and writes about the rural life.

BOOK-GROUP REPORT FROM THE BIG READ The Goddard Riverside Community Center has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant for The Big Read, an effort to get the entire Upper West Side reading and talking about the same book at the same time. The novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, is by Upper West Side resident and MacArthur Award winner Dinaw Mengestu, and focuses on issues of concern to the community, including immigration, gentrification and the widening wealth gap. Book discussions and related arts events in the neighborhood are running through March. The following is a report from the book discussion group that has been meeting at Rutgers Presbyterian Church on W. 73rd Street, from its pastor, Rev. Ondrej (Andrew) Stehlik: We opened our book discussion with the question: “How does the book make you feel?” About half of the participants felt the book was depressing and the other half saw it as realistic and a lovely story. Regardless of the emotional response, all agreed that we viewed the main character, Stephanos, as both tragic in respect to his past and present success, or rather lack of it, in

business, while at the same time seeing him as a gentle spirit with an intense love of life. So is it tragic? Or joyful? Do you concentrate on his economic and business difficulties or his overwhelming love of life? Another important theme of the evening was about measuring success. This book, one participant commented, is like the alternative to the great American novel where success is only measured by material success. Everyone in the discussion commented on how beautifully the story is written and how the author’s use of language allows images to “stick in my head.” One woman told the group that she would sometimes read the passages aloud because of their beautiful poetic flair. The conversation then veered to the politics of the book and there was lively discussion of capitalism, wealth and Marxist theory responsible for the main character’s tragic past, but also so useful for describing his and our predicament. Some commented that the book, based in Washington, DC, is very much like our own neighborhood’s issues with gentrification and the great divide of wealth.

ALL IN THE FAMILY, SINCE THE 1800S CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 somebody.” The reputation of the shop extends well beyond the Upper East Side. Tourists flock into Lobel’s to take pictures of the cabin-like decor, which includes elk heads on wooden walls. In addition, the Lobel’s ship their products across the country, thanks to a thriving next-day delivery business. But the family never strays from the old-fashioned way of doing business. “You’re proud of your heritage,” David said. “It’s a wonderful opportunity.”


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Q&A Author Shari Goldhagen on her second novel and what she loves about her neighborhood

You bounced around Manhattan quite a bit before settling on the Upper East Side.

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Long time Upper East side resident Shari Goldhagen’s second novel, In Some Other World, Maybe was released on January 13th by St. Martin’s Press and was honored by Metro on January 29th as a “Weekend Book Pick.” Goldhagen, while promoting her latest novel, teaching creative writing workshops, writing celebrity gossip, and caring for her 11-monthold daughter, found time to discuss her latest work, her neighborhood, and family.

Tell us a bit about the story of In Some Other World, Maybe. The novel begins in 1992, when three different groups of teenagers in three different cities — Cincinnati, Chicago, and a small town in Florida — go to the movie theater to see the film version of a famous comic book. They have unique reasons for going, but it ends up being a pretty formative event in all of their lives, and the book follows them across the globe (and of course NYC!) over the next twenty years where their lives intersect and affect each other. I’ve always been intrigued with this idea of cultural phenomenon — like who you were with the first time you saw Jurassic Park or first heard the Rolling Stones, where you were on 9/11. The book allows me to explore that for these groups of characters.

Your sister is an actress in Los Angeles, and two of the characters in the book also go to Hollywood to try to make it as actors. How much of that is based on her experience? The actors in the book have an experience that is definitely very different than my sister’s, but I did incorporate some bits and pieces of stories she told me. I’m always interested in relationships where both people are in the same field, and one makes it and the other doesn’t. That was also something I wanted to explore.

Tell us about your first novel from 2006, Family and Other Accidents?

I wrote most of my first novel during graduate school and then I finished things up when I moved to New York. Like the current book, Family and Other Accidents spans 20 plus years. It follows the lives of two orphaned brothers who are hugely important to each other, even if they struggle to express their connection.

What were your emotions when you got the book deal? Selling my first book was an interesting experience. For so long, that’s all I ever wanted to do and then it happened and I wasn’t prepared for what to do after that. In a lot of ways it was amazing, but I was still the same person; I still had to tie my shoes and brush my teeth in the morning, so it was also strangely hard. I think that might have been one of the reasons it took me so long to finish a second novel, I just wasn’t prepared for what to work for next.

You’ve spent years covering celebrity gossip, while also teaching writing. Yes, I’ve worked in the celebrity journalism world for more than a decade, and I’ve had some really fun experiences — I’ve gone to strip clubs in Montreal, movie sets in South Dakota, and I’ve sat in the lobbies of some of the world’s finest hotels waiting for various stars. Now I mainly just write

At first I lived in the East Village, then this sort of non-neighborhood on 35th and 10th (I kept trying to call it BELT — By Entrance Lincoln Tunnel), then the Upper West Side. For some reason, I was really averse to the Upper East Side, but I broke up with my fiancé and had to move quickly; the way, way East Side was one of the few places where I could afford to live alone. So I had this emergency move to the East 70s in late 2006. And it turned out to be the perfect fit for me! I stayed in that apartment until last November, and then only moved because my husband (not the ex-fiancé) and I were expecting a baby and needed an extra bedroom. We literally moved half a block away. I think we might be lifers.

Do you have any favorite Upper East Side places and stories? I love that the Upper East Side is so neighborhood-y — the bodega guys stock Cherry Coke Zero because I like it, the employees at Healthwise Pharmacy ask about the baby, and Finestra is always the perfect place for dinner. As far as funny stories, well, a few years ago, another writer — whose work I’d read and loved — moved into my building. I discovered this, not because I saw her in the hall or recognized her name on the mailbox, but because the pet store owner told me that she’d been in to get supplies for her cat.

Speaking of pets, we met on the street because of our adopted dogs Tilly and Lycos. Tell us about Lycos, who recently passed away at 15 years old. To call Lycos a good dog would be, well wrong; she was kind of a challenging dog. I adopted her when she was nine, and Lycos took to me immediately — following me everywhere, crying when I left, always running over with her toys. To me she was loyal, protective, and loving, but she pretty much was fearful of every other

person and dog, which made things as simple as a walk in the park difficult. She bit more than one boyfriend; my husband views winning her over after nearly a year as a point of great pride. We miss her every day.

You got married and had a baby in the past couple of years. Will these life changes influence your future work? Speaking of which, is novel #3 in the works? Well, I now realize that the baby in my first book was doing things that real babies never actually do, like speak in complete sentences, so in a way having a baby was great research — kidding!

Obviously these things do influence my writing, probably in ways I don’t even realize. And it’s definitely changed the way I write. I do a lot of magazine work and I want to spend time with my family, so I’ve had to become pretty strategic about finding time to write. I think I drink more caffeinated beverages than most people. And yes, novel number three is definitely in the works!

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