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FRANCIS’ VISIT BITTERSWEET FOR PARISHIONERS OF CLOSED CHURCHES NEWS As some churches wait for appeals in Rome, a pontiff’s visit stirs up complicated emotions BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS AND RICHARD KHAVKINE
About 20 blocks north from the United Nations, where Pope Francis gave a historic address to the General Assembly, sits Our Lady of Peace, a Catholic church shuttered in July by the Archdiocese of New York. The church was established soon after World War I, with peace a founding principle. Almost a century later, with a small but dedicated congregation and financial solvency, the archdiocese decided to merge Our Lady of Peace with the nearby Church of St. John the Evangelist on East 55th Street. The Catholic parish, established in 1919 by a growing population of Italian immigrants to the city and the neighborhood, was one of dozens closed by the Archdiocese of New York, which cited declining attendance, shifting demographics and a shortage of priests, among other factors, when it announced the merging of parishes from Staten Island to Albany late last year. Closing Our Lady of Peace made little sense to congregants, who have an appeal pending in Rome, even as Pope Francis was being cheered by huge crowds in their own backyard. “Here we have people who really love their church and want to participate and they’re driving them away,” said
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THE ENDURING STYLE OF TASTE ART OF FOOD The co-host of the Art of Food on fashion, food and conservative Manhattan styles BY ANGELA BARBUTI
Nicole Miller started her career as an intern and opened her first store on Madison Avenue in 1986. The rest is New York City fashion history. The Tribeca resident’s interests
extend well beyond fashion, and her passion for food has led her to cohost, with chef Michael White, Our Town’s Art of Food, happening at Sotheby’s on October 13. The event welcomes 25 Upper East Side chefs who will be preparing dishes inspired by art from one of Sotheby’s upcoming auctions.
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I read that your company grew significantly after you designed a tie. When we opened the store on
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WHATâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MAKING NEWS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD To try and combat the rising number of homeless families and individuals, the city plans to increase the amount of free legal representation in Housing Court. Photo: Sun Brockie, via Flickr
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New York City plans will increase the amount of free legal representation in Housing Court to try and combat a rising tide of homeless families and individuals, the de Blasio administration announced Monday. Within about two years, the city will nearly double spending â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to $60 million from a current $34 million â&#x20AC;&#x201D; on additional lawyers and staff to keep people in their homes, the Wall Street Journal reported. About 57,000 people are considered homeless within the city. Families with children â&#x20AC;&#x201D; more than 40,000 people â&#x20AC;&#x201D; make up the largest proportion of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s homeless shelter occupants, with eviction a leading cause of homelessness for those families, a statement from the de Blasio administration said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The economic recovery that so many New Yorkers are enjoying now hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reached everyone. Too many families are becoming homeless for purely economic reasons â&#x20AC;&#x201D; their wages are ďŹ&#x201A;at while their rent is steep,â&#x20AC;? de Blasio said in a statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With these programs, we are intervening early to keep families in their homes before shelter becomes their only option.â&#x20AC;?
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FUNERAL HOME SUED FOR NEGLIGENCE A family has ďŹ led a negligence lawsuit against an Upper East Side funeral home, in hopes of ďŹ nding out what happened to the cremated remains of the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s matriarch, DNAinfo reported. Bertha Mueller was cremated in February and the family was told by representatives at the Walter B. Cooke Funeral Home to expect her ashes in a few daysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; time. The family claims the parcel never arrived. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking for a chain of evidence,â&#x20AC;? Daisy McFadden, 67, Muellerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter, was quoted as saying by the news
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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG
PHONE SCAMMERS TARGET SENIORS Callers say they represent the IRS BY MARIA PANSKAYA
City officials are reporting a rise in phone scams, which predominantly target senior citizens. Phone scammers, who identify themselves as Treasury Department clerks, falsely tell people they owe taxes to the IRS. “Scammers would tell residents if they don’t pay immediately, the IRS would call the local sheriff and get them arrested,” said Sean Fitzpatrick, Community Liaison for Councilmember Helen Rosenthal, who represents the Upper West Side. More than 100 residents have reported the scam, and the issue is currently being investigated by the Attorney General’s office. The City Council has warned New Yorkers not to provide any private information over the phone to strangers. If any legal action were actually being brought against a person, then he/she would be notified by certified mail, not over the tele-
phone. If scammers were unsuccessful in reaching residents on the phone, they left a voice mail and provided a phone number to call back. “Residents who called back were charged hefty fees,” said the statement provided by the council member. According to the report, some of the phone numbers to watch for are: 213-985-1928; 760-284-3280; 202-8641122. However, other phone numbers might be in use as well, according to the officials. “It’s really upsetting that scammers prey on the most vulnerable,” said Fitzpatrick. “But it’s an unfortunate fact.”
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A street witness helped save a motorbike from a gang of young thieves. At 3:40 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 24, a 27-year-old woman parked her 2014 Kymco on 78th Street between First and Second Avenues. Sometime later, a 43-year-old man on the street saw six young men attempting to steal the vehicle. The witness called 911, and police were able to arrest all six. The oldest member of the gang was 17 years old, and the others were all juveniles. They were charged with grand larceny auto.
Reported crimes from the 19th Precinct for Sept. 14 - 20
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A 61-year-old woman reported that jewelry valued at $105,000 was missing following work done on her 88th Street apartment. The woman told police that numerous people had access to her premises, between Park and Fifth Avenues from Sept. 15 to Sept. 27. When the work was done, a diamond ring, an emerald ring and a diamond tennis bracelet were missing from a jewelry box in her dresser drawer.
and 67th Streets. She took her watch off during the procedure and laid it on a table. When her nails were done, her watch was gone. Police are hopeful that store surveillance video will help lead to an arrest. The watch stolen was a Rolex of unstated value.
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Between noon and 1 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 24, a 75-year-old woman was having her nails done in a salon on Second Avenue between 66th
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More street vendors could be doing business on city streets. City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito has signaled her office is looking into raising or eliminating altogether the street vendor permit cap, news that has delighted some in the vending community and given pause to some in the wider business community. The city currently issues 3,000 year-round food and truck cart permits and 1,000 summer permits, as well as 853 general merchandise permits. Advocates for eliminating the cap say there are many more vendors who want to work and are obliged to do so illegally, risking fines, or shell out thousands of dollars for a permit on the black market. But some officials within the city’s business community are wary of the proposal, citing a lack of details about the number of vendors that could be added. The New York City Business Improvement District Association, an umbrella group made up of 72 BIDs, has called for a comprehensive and research-based study, as well as input from the business community, before any change to the permit cap is made. The association would also like a guarantee of regulatory parity between brick-and-mortar businesses and street vendors. “In recent years, the city has placed sole responsibility for sidewalk and curb-front maintenance and cleanliness on property owners, and the law restricts the use of public space by storefront businesses,” the BID association said in a position statement released in June. “Equity demands that those making commercial use of public space be held to the same legal standards.” The association would like street vendors to have to comply with the same licensing, odor, trash, insurance and signage rules that brick-andmortar imposed on businesses. Not much is known about how many vendors would be added if the cap were lifted, or how an influx of street vendors would affect the multitude of city agencies — including the police department, Department of Health and Mental
Merchandise vendors at Columbus Circle. Photo by Daniel Fitzsimmons Hygiene and the Department of Consumer Affairs — that are charged with regulating vendors. There’s also the question of how much congestion adding hundreds of street vendors to the rolls would have on city streets, said Michael Lambert, the co-chair of the association. “There should probably be a bit more study of this issue because there aren’t a lot of concrete numbers out there,” he said. “We just want to make sure that any decision that’s made is done with the best interests of everyone in mind.” Sean Basinski, director of the Street Vendor Project, an advocacy organization, thinks he has a way to get those concrete numbers. “You know how we solve that problem?” he said. “Let them come down and sign up and then we’ll know how many there are.” Basinski argues that legitimizing more vendors will normalize the system and allow for increased regulation and safety as the new permit-holders will have to comply with current health and sanitation standards. “If they want to control vendors, let them get licenses,” said Basinski, who noted the city will also benefit from increased tax revenue on new permits. “Bring people into the system, don’t keep them out.” Basinski estimates there is one illegal vendor for every permitted vendor. And, he said, slinging hot dogs and T-shirts is no walk in the park for those who think pushing a cart is simply a way to avoid the hassle of operating a storefront. “When it rains and snows you get wet, you don’t have a bathroom to go to, you don’t get to roll down the gate at night and push your cart into a garage,
which, by the way, you do pay rent on,” he said. And, he added, many small businesses in the city got their start on the street. “The streets have been an incubator for small business,” he said. “Small businesses include street vendors.” On Central Park South recently, vendors mostly agreed that lifting the cap would be a good idea. “I think there should be more permits,” said Mohamed Haroon, who has been selling Tshirts and New York-themed memorabilia near Columbus Circle for about four months. “There’s not enough permits out there for people who want to work,” said a hotdog vendor named Ibrahim. He said he’s unconcerned about the potential for increased competition, claiming the city’s too big to worry about things like that, and that he knows “a lot of people” who want a vendor permit but cannot get one. Kevin Reilly, who has employees operating a hot dog cart and T-shirt stand on Central Park South, is of two minds about the issue. If he had a say in the matter he said he would probably vote to keep the cap where it is. But, he added, people should be allowed to work if they’re willing and able. “More power to them if they have the opportunity to work,” said Reilly, who as an Army veteran obtained his permits through a program guaranteeing vendor permits to honorably discharged veterans. “But on the other hand it’s imposed on me that this cap is beneficial to me to reduce my competition.” As for vendors competing with local stores, Basinksi said the research shows this to be a non-issue, and that a customer
who wants to sit down and eat somewhere isn’t going to opt for a halal cart, much like a day worker looking for a quick bite isn’t going to have time to look at a menu in a dining room. “Every research study that’s been done shows that vendors do not compete with brick and mortars,” he said. Lambert stressed his association isn’t against vendors. Association members would, however, like to see a slow-andsteady approach as opposed to blindly lifting the cap. “We’re not anti-vendor — vending is part of the fabric of New York City,” said Lambert. “We recognize this is part of New York culture.” A spokesperson for Melissa Mark-Viverito’s office said the speaker sees the issue as a way to expand opportunities for vendors who want to work but can’t due to the current cap, or are forced to operate illegally and risk fines. The spokesperson also said all options are on the table, including lifting the cap entirely. So far, however, a date has not been set for a proposal to be revealed. Lambert said the BID association looks forward to being part of that discussion. “We look forward to coming up with a solution that works for everyone,” said Lambert. Street vendors held a rally at City Hall on Sept. 22 to pressure lawmakers into lifting the cap, and Lambert said his group won’t be easing up anytime soon with a proposal on the way from Viverito’s office. “We’re definitely not going to let up,” Basinski said. “We have other tactics, there’s a lot of things a group can do to keep this at the forefront of people’s minds.”
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THE ENDURING STYLE OF TASTE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Madison Avenue, I decided to make some ties. I was making scarves and my own accessories at that point. My business partner said, “Make me some ties while you’re at it.” So, we took some of our old prints and had the fabric reprinted and made some ties. It just became a huge hit. It was great because when women were shopping with their husbands, the men would have something to shop for. Or if the women were shopping, they would buy one for their husbands. And it was back when conversational ties were a new thing. There wasn’t anything like that around. And anytime a guy wore one of these ties, they just got so much attention. And they would come back for more. So we really had a huge tie business for a while. Until people started copying us and making ugly versions of them. And then there were casual Fridays and then men got conservative and went back to grey ties again. We still make a few ties, but it doesn’t have that super excitement it did back in the ‘90s. We made a lot of ties with food and alcohol on them.
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As far as New York City goes, you’ve called it ‘conservative’ clothing-wise. I’m talking about how when you go to events in New York, I find that a lot of times, everyone is kind of wearing your basic ball gown. Some of them are really great, but unless you go to a downtown event, then you see people being a little bit more adventurous.
How do you think New York fashion is different from anywhere else in the world? Well, at this point, it’s in a big comfort zone. I look around and everybody is always dressed for comfort, with sneakers. People will dress up to go out. Even offices have gotten so much more casual. I even noticed that when I went to the fabric shows in Paris, though. When I used to go, everyone was dripping in their leather jackets and cool, latest whatevers and now everyone’s in jeans and sneakers.
You’ve said that the fashion industry has changed as far as quality goes.
As far as this season goes, what are the trends you see?
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My runway show is very colorful this year. Even though I tend to wear a lot of black, I have a big feeling for color. I was actually kind of surprised that the United States’ shows seemed to have a lot of black and white. The European shows seem to be very color-
ful this year. I’m not the kind of person that goes out wearing white outfits. I’ve just never been a believer in white outfits. [Laughs] I’m more of a believer in color.
How do you define your style and that of your brand? Well, I think I’m not into that goody-two-shoes way of dressing. My girl, she’s a little bit more edgy than that. I don’t go for that kind of sweet-looking, girly type of clothing.
What are your favorite restaurants in Manhattan? In my neighborhood, which is Tribeca, I’m very spoiled since I live across from Nobu. I go there all the time. But my two all-time favorite restaurants are Indochine and Da Silvano. And Waverly Inn, I like that, too. And in my neighborhood there’s a great place called KheYo, owned by Forgione. It’s Laotian food. The Butterfly is in my neighborhood; I like that a lot. too. I also like to go to Santina in Meatpacking.
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Our Town’s The Art of Food www.ArtofFoodNY.com Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 When: 7:00 – 10:00 PM Location: Sotheby’s New York, 1334 York Ave. Ticket Prices: $200 VIP Ticket, $135 General Admission Ticket Our Town’s Art of Food presented by NewYorkPresbyterian Hospital is exciting new event for discriminating lovers of food and art. Mouth-watering dishes will be prepared by 27 culinary titans of the Upper East Side, each of whose creations will be inspired by art from Sotheby’s upcoming auctions. Café Boulud, Crave Fishbar, JoJo, August, Fred’s at Barneys, The Meatball Shop, The Cecil, The East Pole and others. Our Town interviewed some of the restaurant’s chefs below.
MAYA 1191 1st Ave.
THE MEATBALL SHOP
(212) 585-1818 www.richardsandoval.com
DAVID GONZALEZ What made you go into the restaurant business? Growing up, I’d watch my mother cook in kitchen and eventually, I started cooking with her. Those experiences with my mom are what eventually led me to become a chef What inspires you? When people enjoy my cooking! My mother was my original source of inspiration, but now it’s seeing those happy guests throughout the dining room. Is there a food or a dish you would eat every day if you could get away with it? Camarones a La Diabla. What’s your favorite food spot on the Upper East Side? Maya Restaurant of course! What’s the current dining trend or fad you wish would go away? Fast food. The amount of excess grease and salt it requires to make, really takes away from the art of preparing a dish from the beginning.
CANDLE 79
DANIEL HOLZMAN What made you go into the restaurant business? I started working in restaurants as a delivery boy when I was 13 years old. I’ve tried my hand at other things but the restaurant business is simply where I belong What inspires you? I’m inspired by the team I work with, when I see their constant passion, drive, care and creativity it stokes the fire inside of me to do more
What’s your favorite food spot on the Upper East Side? I really love going to Daniel, its such an excellent restaurant and the service at the bar is impeccable, no need to wait for a reservation, just have a bite and a drink at the bar What’s the current dining trend or fad you wish would go away? I’m not an angry chef, I’m happy to try to accommodate all people’s food fancies. That said, I’m about over Gluten free, let’s go ahead and move on to the next please.
fresh basil. Now that it’s turning to fall I’m using all the beautiful root vegetables that are coming in season.
154 E 79th St. (212) 537-7179 www.candle79.com
Is there a food or a dish you would eat every day if you could get away with it? Bread…in any form.
ANGEL RAMOS What made you go into the restaurant business? I started out as a busboy and quickly knew I wanted to move to the kitchen. I love my mom’s cooking and wanted to see what I could create myself after having watched her for years. I was also fascinated with what they did in a restaurant kitchen, from creating the dishes to executing service. When the opportunity came along to move up to line cook I took it and worked my up from there. It wasn’t something I really knew I wanted to do until I was doing it and fell in love with the process.
1462 2nd Ave. (212) 257-6121 www.themeatballshop. com
Is there a food or a dish you would eat every day if you could get away with it? I eat Meatballs almost every single day, I guess that’s the answer.....
What’s your favorite food spot on the Upper East Side? Candle 79 and Candle Cafe of course. What inspires you? Whatever produce is in season. One of my favorite things to do is go to the green market and talk to the farmers. I love to get whatever new seasonal vegetable they have and plan a dish around it. During the summer I’ve been using a lot of squash blossoms and
What’s the current dining trend or fad you wish would go away? To be honest I don’t pay a lot of attention to food trends. I just like to focus on using fresh organic ingredients and turning them into creative and elegant dishes.
FREDS AT BARNEYS NEW YORK 660 Madison Ave. (212) 833-2200 www.barneys.com/freds
could get away with it? Spaghetti Aglio, Olio e Peperoncini. It’s a pasta dish with olive oil, garlic, tomato, and crushed red pepper. A simple four ingredients, but it’s delicious.
MARK STRAUSMAN
What’s your favorite food spot on the Upper East Side?
What made you go into the restaurant business? I’ve been asking myself that question for 35 years! But actually, I love people – I love working with people and love cooking for people.
Freds of course! But following that, Agata and Valentina would have to win best market in New York in my book.
What inspires you? Great food and a wonderful audience Is there a food or a dish you would eat every day if you
What’s the current dining trend or fad you wish would go away? I could do without plain steamed spinach. I personally love spinach, but something about preparing it without any oil or salt and pepper just doesn’t feel right to me.
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1703 2nd Ave. (212) 335-0075 www.thewritingroomnyc. com
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CARLOS MANANSALA, CHEF DE CUISINE
LUCAS BILLHEIMER What made you go into the restaurant business? I got into the Hospitality industry very early on through the family business. My family owned restaurants for generations before me and I was started at an early age at my uncle’s restaurant.
What made you go into the restaurant business? I was a high school drop out and saw this as an easy way out, earning my GED then going to culinary school to get a degree was a no brainer decision then but quickly realized that being a Chef was way harder than I thought it would be. Long hours, 6-7 day shifts, 65-80 hour work week and crazy Chefs to deal with. But with all that being said I would not trade this craft that I have grown to love no matter what I go through on my daily duties because this is one learning experience that never ends.
What inspires you? I’m inspire by so much in NYC life. There are so many different ways to be inspired here but every day I draw a lot from the fact that in NYC ,cooking is a lifestyle not just a job. Other chef’s food, local ingredients and a very educated clientele are a big driving force behind what I do. Is there a food or a dish you would eat every day if you could get away with it? I would probably eat Pork every day if I could. Not the healthiest way to go, but definitely the tastiest.
What’s your favorite food spot on the Upper East Side? My fiancé and I love Pio Pio for take out and Two Lizards for Mexican food. For more high brow dinners we do Daniel and Restaurant Morini. What’s the current dining trend or fad you wish would go
away? I feel like the burger bar fad is played out. There’s so many different people doing burger joints on the UES IT’s really difficult to tell them apart. Not to mention that people are looking for more healthier options that most burger bars provide these days.
JOJO
Is there a food or a dish you would eat every day if you could get away with it? I am particularly big on high quality raw fish. Raw fish because the simplest of things can be the best things in my my opinion.
37 E 60th St. (212) 750-3270 www.ilmulino.com
RON GALLO, CHEF DE CUISINE
What inspires you? The farmers markets. I have gotten to know many of the different farmers from the TriState area over the years that come to the Markets in the city. I have the utmost respect for them. You really have to have passion to be able to do what they do. It is really a labor of love for most of them. From the fruit and vegetable farms to the cheese producers or the small Pig and poultry farms, you have to admire how much work goes into what they sell.
What inspires you? It was my late grandmother who introduced me to cooking. Waking up in the morning and going to the farmers market with her was a treat for me. Seeing fresh fruits, vegetables and livestock brings me so much inspiration which transpired to what I have become today. thru cooking I am able to express my artistic side and passion for making something edible that has no rules or boundaries because food can translate no matter what language you speak.
IL MULINO
160 E 64th St. (212) 223-5656 www.jojorestaurantnyc.com
What made you go into the restaurant business? I come from a big Italian family and I realized very early on that good food makes people happy. Some of my fondest childhood memories have happened around the dinner table. As I got older , I cooked for my family and realized that the kitchen is where I wanted to be.
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MICHELE MAZZA What made you go into the restaurant business? “I was inspired by food at a young age while watching my mother and helping her in the
Seeing all of this incredible product motivates you to provide a vehicle to show case all of those wonderful flavors. And another source of inspiration for me is JeanGeorges. I have been working for him for over 25 years and even to this day, every time I have a meeting with him, I get up from the table wanting to be a better cook. Is there a food or a dish you would eat every day if you could get away with it? Fish tacos!!! I love them. When they are done right, they are all at once, crispy, crunchy, salty, creamy, spicy, lemony
and sweet! To me they are the perfect balance of all the taste sensations. What’s your favorite food spot on the Upper East Side? Besides JoJo???? Sushi Seki on first avenue. Best sushi I’ve ever had. What’s the current dining trend or fad you wish would go away? The Cronut!! Nothing against Chef Ansel, the idea was brilliant, but I’m just done hearing about it.
What’s your favorite food spot on the Upper East Side? With a busy restaurant, a 6th grader, 2 month old baby and living in Long island it’s pretty much work home routine but Parlor Steak and Fish never disappoints of course. Love your own!!! What’s the current dining trend or fad you wish would go away? For me as long as the food is prepared properly, looks and tastes good, I think trends will continue to push the boundaries of what food can be so I am not really against any of it.
kitchen. It was so important to her to make a simple meal for the family, at a time when everyone would sit down together as a family. This brought me joy to see her passion for cooking and the family’s appreciation for her hard work. I carried that feeling to the restaurant business, my love for cooking with his passion for making people feel good. There is no greater
feeling than walking through the dining room full of smiles.” What inspires you? “Mi Famiglia. There is nothing more fulfilling than cooking for those you care for.” Is there a food or a dish you would eat every day if you could get away with it? “Fresh fish. It is good for the body and tastes delicious. We get the freshest daily at our restaurant, the guests have come to expect nothing but the best and freshest from us. ” What’s your favorite food spot on the Upper East Side? Il Mulino New York What’s the current dining trend or fad you wish would go away? Fried food. Chef Mazza’s philosophy of cooking is simplicity. He likes to “let each ingredient shine” When it comes to taste, nothing can beat fresh ingredients. Whether it is succulent meat, fresh produce and florally herbs, when simply combined there is nothing better. All the components shine through. “When something is battered and fried, it loses its finesse”.
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The Benefits of CitiBike BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL
A scene from the HBO miniseries “Show Me A Hero”
THE SEGREGATION AT SCHOOL EDITORIAL Just how segregated are we going to allow our city schools to get? The issue hit home after a recent viewing of HBO’s terrific miniseries “Show Me A Hero,” a true story about Yonkers’ efforts to desegregate its public housing in the late 1980s and early 1990s. A federal judge ordered the city to build new public housing in white neighborhoods, and the residents in those areas responded with bitter protests. The case, and the city, became a touchstone for the issues surrounding court-mandated desegregation, then roiling the country. While HBO’s filmmakers faithfully kept to their time period, dressing their actors in sideburns and white suits and having them drive around in super-sized sedans, the question has to be asked: How much has really changed in the last quarter century when it comes to the blending of our own city? One side effect of New York’s
gentrification is a hardening of the racial lines between neighborhoods. Hot real estate markets tend to homogenize cities, drawing together people from similar economic and social backgrounds, and pushing everyone else out. And nowhere is the impact of that more apparent than in the racial makeup of our public schools. As our neighborhoods have become more segregated, our schools — particularly at the elementary level, which draw almost exclusively from kids who live in the surrounding neighborhood — have become much less diverse. On the Upper East Side, Upper West Side and Greenwich Village, particularly, there are public schools where the student body is 80 percent white, a fiveminute subway ride away from a neighboring school where the student body is 80 percent African-American. This in a city where the combined AfricanAmerican and Hispanic populations, as tracked by the Census, are bigger than the white population. As this newspaper
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noted in a story last year, in some of our pricier neighborhoods, it’s the private schools that have become the diversity option, given what’s happening to the local public school. Last month, The Times chronicled rising tensions in Brooklyn over efforts to relocate students from a predominantly white elementary school in DUMBO to a nearby school that was not. Scenes from the complaining parents, in gentried Brooklyn circa 2015, would not have been out of place in the HBO miniseries set in 1987. School officials can rightly respond that the racial makeup of the neighborhoods they pull from is out of their control. They don’t set the price of real estate. Yet this a “Tale of Two Cities” at its most fundamental level. The federal judge in “Show Me a Hero” takes it upon himself to impose on Yonkers a solution it couldn’t come up with on its own. City leaders’ reluctance to comply nearly bankrupted the place. Our city is heading down a similarly dangerous path. It’s now our leaders’ obligation to frankly acknowledge the problem of segregation in our schools, and start to work towards a solution, before one is imposed on them from the outside.
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“Oh, no. Those are prime parking spaces.” My 20-yearold son Luke, who drives down from Boston, where he’s in college, was alarmed to see my text, which included a photo of the new CitiBike installation on 85th Street off York Avenue; the nearest rack to our house (and around the block from a bike shop – I’m sure they’re thrilled.) As if parking isn’t hard enough -- often a long day’s journey -- with construction cordoning off sections of streets for huge dumpsters, as well as the doorman conspiracy that saves/trades spots with each other to be on time for their shifts, now stretches of prime real estate on the Upper East Side are devoted to two-wheeled vehicles. There are approximately 40 stations planned for the area between 59th to 96th Street and 5th Avenue to the FDR. Here’s where they are now: Park and 85; 3rd and 85th;1st and 84th; York and 85; 2nd and 82nd; 3rd and 81st; Park and 81st; 1st and 78th; 2nd and 75th; York and 72nd; 1st and 68th; Lexington and 67th; Fifth and 63rd . For me, this is one of those “watch what you wish for” situations. When CitiBi kes were only available up to around 60th Street, I admit to feeling put out. Why was the downtown crowd, as well as tourists, getting all the new shiny toys? What about us? I thought, never realizing that when one is giveth, something has to be taketh away. But rather than focus on what’s missing, since it’s now
a done deal, I figured it was better to consider the upside of the CitiBike blitz. UESers are no longer dependent on the buses and trains to get us around town. We can pick up and CB up here, take it to work and be rid of it with one of the convenient locations near wherever we’re going in Manhattan. The CBs will also come in handy during any transit strikes. You don’t have to sweat it if your favorite class at SoulCycle on Third and 83rd is booked. Have credit card, can spin – around the block, that is. You don’t need to carry around a bike lock/chain; carry your bike up stairs to your apartment, or deal with your building’s bike room. Just make sure you see the blinking green light when
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you return a CB to its dock, or after 24 hours, the bike is considered stolen and you get charged $1000. For that amount, you could buy a Kestrel Talon Full Carbon Road Bicycle. Our local coiffures will benefit from all the new blow-out business generated by “helmet hair.” Filling up on carbs before your ride will give you an excuse to try the pasta at Rosina, the new Italian restaurant on York and 89th. I will choose to consider the extra time I will get to spend with Luke driving around and around and around looking for a parking space it quality time. Thank you CitiBike. I couldn’t have wished for better. Lorraine Duffy Merkl is the author of the novels Fat Chick and Back To Work She Goes.
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Who is Elderly, Anyway? BY MARCIA EPSTEIN
I was talking with my children about our lives on the Upper West Side in the 1970â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Who remembers Uncle Wongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Hunan Balcony, tiny smoke shops, the Army Navy stores, small book shops? Also, Woolworthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Red Apple, Tip Toe Inn, Teachers, Teachers Too, and Marvin Gardens (the last four being restaurants with good American food). My daughters went to public schools, and both attended The High School for Performing Arts near Lincoln Center. While parents always worry, helicopter parenting hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet been born, and my children, after a certain age, took buses and subways to school, and around the City. My neighborhood wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t upscale, (pretty down-scale actually), but now it has Michaels, Whole Foods and Ann Taylor Loft, plus a place called Bareburger. Oh, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get me started on Bareburger. According to Zagat (itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a chain), they are â&#x20AC;&#x153;ecoconsciousâ&#x20AC;? and serve organic patties, exotic meats and super-
customized toppings. Suffice it to say that the menu was indecipherable to me because of all the choices, the array of toppings and sides, and the way it was laid out. I think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll pass on the bison, wild boar, elk and ostrich burgers (isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t an ostrich a bird)? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Build Your Own Mealâ&#x20AC;? is what they say; too complicated, too many choices, too odd a layout to be comprehensible to my aging mind. I am going to stick with my neighborhoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s old-fashioned burgers where I can understand what is being served, the prices arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t astronomical, and the meats are recognizable. Let the young people have Bareburger (which they do, judging from the population I saw there). I have a pet peeve that has nagged at me for years. My blood boils when I read a newspaper article that refers to anyone over 55 or 60 as â&#x20AC;&#x153;an elderly person,â&#x20AC;? such as in the sentence, â&#x20AC;&#x153;an elderly man of 60 was robbed of his wallet on the Upper West Side.â&#x20AC;? Or, â&#x20AC;&#x153;An elderly grandma of 65 was run down by a bicycle near Columbia University.â&#x20AC;? The â&#x20AC;&#x153;run down by a bikeâ&#x20AC;? part is another story, but why mention that she is a grandmother at all? Or even worse, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Granny.â&#x20AC;? Even at 65, that makes her sound like a little old lady. Which she cer-
tainly isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, especially if sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s able to ride a bike. In fact, why do papers have to mention peoplesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ages at all? But since it seems to be a tradition, I send a plea to all the youngsters leading the world today that 55, 60, 65 isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t elderly, and that in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world, even 80 or 85 doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re crotchety and irrelevant oldsters. I suggest anyone who thinks otherwise come to the JCC political discussion group on Wednesday mornings and listen to the vibrant, vital octogenarians and nonagenarians discuss the current world situation. One Stop at JASA is worth a mention. One Stop Senior Services was founded in 1981 and is now affiliated with JASA (Jewish Association of Ser-
vices for the Aged). It provides legal, housing, elder abuse and general assistance services to older adults. One Stop has for many years assisted Upper West Side seniors with accessing benefits, resolving housing issues and providing legal help. There are no fees at One Stop. Just walk in and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll ďŹ nd professionals to lend a hand with many of the problems you are dealing with and to help you apply for all of your beneďŹ ts and entitlements. One Stop at JASA receives support from the Department for the Aging and provides services in English, Spanish and French/ Creole. One Stop is located at 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 1846. The telephone number is 212864-7900.
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ew Yorkers of every faith have been inspired by Pope Francisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; visit to our city. The Pope is an extraordinary moral leader on economic justice for all people in this world. He inspires me, he inspires lowwage workers seeking dignity and justice, and he inspires humanity across the globe. Car wash workers in New York City have also been an inspiration to immigrants and working people in New York. Workers at the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s car washes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; who call themselves â&#x20AC;&#x153;carwasherosâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; have been exploited by unscrupulous employers, and live in the shadows out of fear that their bosses may use their immigrant status against them. Car Wash operators have been forced to pay millions of dollars as a result The invitation for of charges brought by the New carwasheros to York Attorney General and New York Department of Labor for meet with the stolen wages, tips, and overtime Pope serves as a pay. message that every Carwasheros work long hours with no paid time off, health worker is entitled care, or other benefits. Workersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to be treated schedules are unpredictable, with dignity and and bosses routinely keep them on premises for hours and send respect. them home without pay. Workers handle dangerous, caustic chemicals and arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t provided with the proper protective equipment. The industry operates in a culture of exploitation. But workers are fighting back. With the help of the RWDSU and community groups Make the Road New York and New York Communities for Change, they are taking control of their lives. By winning union contracts and representation with the RWDSU they are proving that when workers join together, they can make a difference in their lives. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why it is so fitting that Pope Francis chose to include carwasheros Patricio Santiago, Refugio Denicia, and Jose Reynaldo Sanchez in his visit to Our Lady Queen of Angels School in East Harlem. The invitation for these RWDSU members to meet with the Pope serves as a message to all people in this country that every worker, regardless of what they do or where they came from, is entitled to be treated with dignity and respect. Pope Francis has called for an end to an economy he calls one of â&#x20AC;&#x153;exclusion and inequality.â&#x20AC;? The decision to include the carwasheros in his visit makes a strong statement that when workers stand together, they can win the voice â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and the dignity and respect â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that all workers deserve.
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Look, move, and sing while exploring art and music together in the galleries. This monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s theme is Power. 212-535-7710. www. metmuseum.org/events/ programs/met-tours/start-withart/start-with-art-and-music-
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Explore tumbling waterfalls, rustic bridges, and picturesque pools, on this woodland tour led by Central Park Conservancy guides. 212-310-6600. http://www. centralparknyc.org/events/
Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, inside Central Park at 110th Street between Fifth and Lenox Aven. 2 p.m.free.
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Thu 1 â&#x2013;˛ IN THE COMPANY OF LEGENDS
92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave. 12 p.m. $24. SUKKOT DINNER The Emmy Award-winning UNDER THE STARS â&#x2013;˛ producers take you behind the scenes into some previously 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington undisclosed stories of Hollywood Ave. productions and personalities. 6 p.m. $30. 212-415-5500. Celebrate the joyful festival of Sukkot and welcome Shabbat in 92Y beautiful rooftop Sukkah START WITH ART AND with singing, family and friends. MUSIC â&#x2013;ź 212-415-5500. www.92y.org/ Event/Sukkot-Dinner-Under-theThe Metropolitan Museum of Stars Art, 1000 Fifth Ave. 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free, with museum admission
Sat 3 NEW YORK OPERA FORUM PERFORMS ELEKTRA 96th Street Library, 112 East 96th St.
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1 p.m. Free A live musical recital performed in concert with piano accompaniment. 212-289-0908. www.nypl.org/ events/programs/2015/09/19/ music-new-york-opera-forumAMERICAN MASTERS performs-strauss-elektra EXHIBITION AND SALE
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FAMILY WORKSHOP: ROBES AND REGALIA The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave. 1-2 p.m.free. From the robes of monks to the armor of knights, medieval costume has a story to tell. Learn the ins and outs of medieval fashion. 212-535-7710. www. metmuseum.org/events/ programs/met-creates/familyworkshops-at-the-cloisters/robe
Sun 4 FAMILY ART MAKING ADVENTURE: PUMPKING PAINTING
Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Ave. 8 a.m. A ďŹ ne art exhibition and sale held for the beneďŹ t of the Salmagundi Club. Enjoy the newly renovated Upper Gallery with works of art by nationally recognized artists.
CHADD PRESENTS: ADULT ADHD BUILDING COPING SKILLS FROM THE INSIDE OUT The Church of St. Thomas More, 65 East 89th St. 6-7:30 p.m. Free, with a $10 donation requested. Join us for an exciting evening where you will learn to build coping skills for Adult ADHD. 212-721-0007. www.addrc. org/oct-5th-chadd-nycpresents-robert-tudisco-esq/
92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave. 10 a.m. $15. Brighten your doorstep with hand-painted jack-oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;-lanterns. 212-415-5500. www.92y.org/ Event/Pumpkin-Painting
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Carl Schurz Park 10 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Free Held every autumn since 1972, the art show is judged among the top 100 open pen air art shows in the United nited States by the Art Fair Sourcebook. www. graciesquareartshow. info.
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THE SUBWAY AS STUDIO MUSIC Two entrepreneurs hope to raise the profile of subway musicians BY GABRIELLE ALFIERO
Harpist Emily Hopkins plays for commuters at Penn Station. Photo: Glynnis Jones
Kirill Valyas and Bens Hilaire, the founders of Subway Talents, launched their website in June. Photo: Gabrielle Alfiero
Bens Hilaire was new to the city learning the subway system when he heard a beautiful singing voice at an underground station. “At first, I thought the station itself had like a radio station underground,” said Hilaire, who moved here from Delray Beach, Fla., in 2014. But as he walked through the station, the sound of the female opera singer grew louder. Hilaire thought he was nearing the speakers until he found a woman singing live. When he returned home, he searched for the singer online, but he didn’t know her name. He couldn’t even remember the station he was in when he heard her voice. In a cultural mecca like New York, talent abounds, both above ground and below. Hilaire and his partner Kirill Valyas hope to bring more attention to artists like the opera singer with Subway Talents, a website for subway musicians and street performers that they launched in June. The concept is part talent database, part social media platform, where artists receive unique profiles that include performance videos, interviews, links to their own music pages and an option to book artists for gigs directly from the website. Hilaire also helps raise artist profiles. When woodwind quintet Washington Square Winds, which performs at Penn Station and Times Square, joined Subway Talents about a month ago, Hilaire promoted one of their performances on social media (the site has 5,200 Instagram followers) and traveled to Queens to record the group’s concert. Hilaire, 26, met co-founder Valyas, 24, on Craigslist, when both were looking to start a website to promote subway talent. Valyas hatched a similar idea around the same time; he wanted a site that gave fans a direct way to donate money to performers online. He had web building experience, but lacked video expertise and the necessary film equipment. Hilaire was a former film student who started a film company when he moved to New York. He was searching for musicians to include on his site when he
encountered Valyas’ ad. Valyas, who moved to New York from Kemerovo, Russia, five years ago, and Hilaire both possess entrepreneurial sensibilities, and initially started Subway Talents as a side project while working other jobs, each finding a skill set in the other that they lacked themselves. “The fact that randomly we, Russian and South Florida kids, somehow we come together on Craigslist to kind of build this thing to help out other people too, I feel like it was kind of meant to be,” said Hilaire as he sat next to Valyas on a narrow bench at Seven Grams Caffe in Chelsea. Hilaire possesses seemingly boundless energy, and does much of the talking. Valyas is more measured, with fewer words. “Destiny,” Valyas added. Subway Talents is a non-profit, designed to provide its artists with free promotional tools. But money is tight so far. Users can donate to the organization through the website. A recent Indiegogo campaign brought in a little more than $300. “It’s basically bootstrap,” Valyas said. The founders invested their own money into the project, and are focusing their energies on Subway Talents full time. With the crowdfunding campaign over, they’re looking for investors. They worked with clothing brand Boy Meets Girl during a New York Fashion Week event, which brought out celebrities such as Kendall Jenner and Randy Jackson. Subway Talents brought one of its artists, breakdance group Extreme Kingz, as the event’s entertainment. So far, Subway Talents has 17 musicians on its roster, from pop group 212Green to Theremin player Llamano and saw player Natalia “Saw Lady” Paruz. Qualifying for a presence on the site is simple: have an act, and perform on the subway or street. “If you go to YouTube, there’s some garbage singers up there, but YouTube won’t say, ‘you know what, you suck, you can’t sign up,’” said Hilaire. Some of the artists are also part of audition-based Music Under New York, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority arts program that grants permits for artists to perform at designated spots in the transit system. Most of Subway Talents’ artists are based in New York, with one in Paris and another, a 15-year-old singer named Evan Cole, who busks in St. Louis, Missouri.
“I think he’s the next Justin Bieber,” said Hilaire. “I was about to say the same thing,” said Valyas. “He’s like mega-famous,” Hilaire added. When the site grows, the pair hopes to build regional sections for each city. Emily Hopkins, a harpist from Long Island who’s on the website, plays at Penn Station during the evening commute. She first saw a harp player at a Mexican restaurant when she was eight years old, and was hooked. “I hand out a lot of business cards when I play on the subway, and I talk to people, and some people have no idea what the harp is about,” she said. “Sometimes I’m the first harpist they’ve ever seen. So that’s really nice that I’m kind of representing the harp.” Subway Talents has brought in more email inquiries for weddings and cocktail hours, Hopkins said, as well as new Instagram followers. The organization is still in its earliest stage, and by the end of the year, Valyas and Hilaire will start rebuilding the website, adding filters and search functions. They also plan to launch a concert series next summer, and hope to spread to other locations, especially during the winter, when busking in New York becomes frigid. “I love thinking big,” said Hilaire. “I just like, think beyond.” Hilaire hopes that the site will become the singular source for promoting and discovering underground talent globally, which he thinks could make record labels unnecessary. The website will provide free promotion to a built-in audience, and fans can purchase music from the site. Brick-and-mortar studios are also part of the vision, which artists could book online to record music and shoot videos, interviews and photos, a free resource for typically pricey, but necessary, services. “The music market, there’s stars, Rihanna and Beyoncé, and there’s someone else who’s behind them,” said Valyas. “We basically want to put that lower layer at the same level as the stars.” Meanwhile, they’re growing, and hope to add around 10 new artists a month, they said, which could bring Hilaire back to the voice that first piqued his interest. “I never found the girl,” Hilaire said of the opera singer he heard when he first moved to the city. “Maybe I will.”
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Was it really almost 30 years ago that Cindy Crawford first burst onto magazine covers and runways? (You can’t tell by looking at her, at least in un-retouched versions.) She dishes about her supermodel days and her designing career with fashion industry consultant Fern Mallis. ($32)
ARCHIBALD MOTLEY: “JAZZ AGE MODERNIST” On Sunday, the Whitney Museum of American Art closed its inaugural show at its new building, a museumwide survey of its collection, opening up the airy galleries for a new set of fall exhibitions, including a retrospective of painter Archibald Motley. The artist’s vivid portrayals of city life as it played out in the streets, night clubs and parks of his hometown of Chicago and Jazz Age Paris made him one of the most significant artists of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Andrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH, 6PM The NY Academy of Medicine | 1216 Fifth Ave. | 212-822-7200 | nyam.org Historian Andrea Wulf presents a new book on visionary German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) and his contributions to the way we understand nature today. (Free) Archibald J. Motley Jr., Blues, 1929. Oil on canvas, 36 x 42 inches (91.4 x 106.7 cm). Collection of Mara Motley, MD, and Valerie Gerrard Browne. Image courtesy of the Chicago History Museum, Chicago, Illinois. © Valerie Gerrard Browne.
Archibald Motley: “Jazz Age Modernist” Oct. 2-Jan. 17 The Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort Street, between Washington Street and Tenth Avenue Museum hours: Monday, Wednesday and Sunday, 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m.; Thursday-Saturday, 10:30 a.m.-10 p.m.; closed Tuesday Admission $22 For more information, visit whitney.org or call 212-570-3600
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH, 7PM 92nd Street Y | 1395 Lexington Ave. | 212-415-5500 | 92y.org Star chef Danny Bowien tells the story of Mission Chinese’s humble beginnings as a San Francisco food truck on the occasion of the release of his new cookbook. ($32)
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Playwright Danai Gurira, perhaps best known for her role as Michonne on “The Walking Dead,” debuts her new show “Eclipsed” to a New York audience at the Public Theater. Directed by Liesl Tommy, the play follows the wives of a rebel officer, held captive during the Liberian Civil War, and stars Academy Award-winner Lupita Nyong’o as a woman whose arrival shakes the small female community. Free tickets to the Sept. 29 preview are available through mobile app TodayTix. Sept. 29-Nov. 29 Public Theater 425 Lafayette St., between E. 8th and E. 4th Streets Assorted show times Tickets $90-$110 To purchase tickets, visit publictheater.org or call 212967-7555
Named a “jazz master” by the National Endowment for the Arts earlier this year, saxophonist George Coleman came up in Memphis, then went on to perform and record with other luminaries, including Miles Davis. Oct. 1-4 Jazz Standard 116 E. 27th St., between Lexington and Park Avenues Show times nightly at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Tickets $35 To purchase tickets, visit ticketweb.com or call 212576-2232
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“Welcome to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” a new musical comedy written and directed by Luke Landric Leonard, with lyrics by Obie winner Katie Pearl, charts the experiences of American expats as they navigate culture and gender divides in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
The 17-member company Ballet Inc. premieres new work by artistic director Aaron Atkins and executive director Edgar Peterson, who often infuses aerial silk and hoop performances into his pieces.
“Welcome to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia” Oct. 8-Oct. 25 59E59 Theaters 59 E. 59th Street, between Park and Madison Avenues Assorted show times Tickets $18 To purchase tickets, visit 59e59.org or call 212-2794200
Saturday, Oct. 3 Ailey Citigroup Theater 405 W. 55 St., at Ninth Avenue 8 p.m. Tickets $25-$35
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ANCESTRAL GOLD ON THE UPPER EAST SIDE EXHIBITIONSS Asia Society hosts osts a glittering lonial artifacts show of pre-colonial ingdoms from ancient kingdoms BY Y VAL CASTRONOVO
It’s the purestt and most malleable materiall on the planet. The Philippines, nes, an archipelago of 7,000-plus 0-plus islands situated between een the Pacific and Indian Oceans, ans, boasts the world’s second-largest -largest deposit of the precious metal. What is less known iss that the island country’s pre-colonial culture harnessed arnessed the resource and produced extremely mely sophisticated objects ects for adornment, ritualistic ualistic purposes and trade, centuries before ore the Spanish arrived, ed, settled and converted rted the native population on in the 1500s. With a focus on creativity in the 10th to the 13th centuries uries in “lost” kingdoms ms located in the Luzon, uzon, Visayas and Mindanao island groups, oups, “Philippine Gold: Treasures of Forgotten Kingdoms” oms” (through January ary 3) showcases some me 120 dazzling artifacts, cts, the majority on loan an from the Ayala Museum eum in Metro Manila a and the Central Bank ank of the Philippines. nes. Most have never ver traveled outside de the country. Much of thiss spectacular cache was only ly discovered in the he last half century. The most celebrated find, and a highlightt of the current exhibit, was an n accidental one in a hamlet in the Surigao del
Sur province in northeastern Mindanao. On April 27, 1981, Berto Morales was operating a motorized scraper as part of a government irrigation project when a worker alerted him to a metal helmet obstructing his path. Closer inspection revealed that the glistening helmet was
Set of two wais waist cord weights. Surigao Treasure, Surigao del Sur province, ca. 10th–13th century. Gold. Each: H. 2 3/8 in. (6 cm). Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, G7P-1981-0003. Photography by Wig Tysmans; Imag Image courtesy of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines).
Kinnari. Surigao, ca. 10th–13th century. Gold. H. 4 ¾ x W. 2 15/16 in. (12 x 7.5 cm). Ayala Museum Collection, Cat. No. 81.5189. Photography by Neal Oshima; Image courtesy of Ayala Museum.
crafted ffrom gold. Morales spent the rest of the d day in recovunearthing ery mode, u gold 22 pounds of ancient a items retrieved jewelry. The item on that day, along with subsequent finds in tthe vicinity by treasure hunters, hunte became Surigao Treaknown as the Su The fruits of sure. T American-led Am excavations ex earlier that e year around y present-day pr Butua n Cit y But Mindanao are in Min here. also featured fea short film narAs a sho the entrance rates at th to the show, the islands’ pre-colonial, indigenous belonged to a peoples belo stratified society. highly stratifie necklaces, earThe lustrous neck sashes, diarings, bangles, sa ceremonial weapons, dems, ceremonia chastity belts and pectorals, chastit were tiny tweezer on display di the accoutrements of an elite, were ruling class. The objects o denoting an status markers, d power and owner’s wealth, p prestige. by the end of And as we learn b pre-Hispanic the exhibit, these p only prized inhabitants not o gold in life but also prized it in buried with death: they were b ensure a cordial their gold—“to ensu welcome” to the afterlife—and aft even crafted items to protect journey, such as them on their journ “orifice covers” face masks and “ori and lips. The for the eyes, nose a latter were crafted in situ, as rites. part of funerary rit Written records documenting this culturally rich, eco-
nomically prosperous period in Philippine history are scarce. But as co-curator Florina Capistrano-Baker writes in the catalog, the lack of a strong historical record “endows the objects with even greater significance as signposts to mapping forgotten cultures.” A study of the treasures points to the influence of Chinese export ceramics and Indonesian arts, tangible evidence of trading activity with China and Southeast Asia. Case in point: “Openwork vessel,” ca. 10th -13th century, a delicate cutwork container from the Surigao Treasure trove, with a phoenix on one side and a kilin (a hooved animal) on the other, two Chinese mythical creatures that appear frequently on trade pottery. But as the curators note in the catalog, “the forms and styles of the majority of these works developed locally,” a testament to the native culture’s highly developed metalworking and goldsmithing traditions. Advanced techniques such as filigree, granulation and repoussé (hammering on the reverse side to create a raised design on the front) are showcased in item after item—from the smallest cord weight (used to weigh down and decorate cord waistbands) to the mammoth, 10-pound ceremonial sash (or caste cord) with pronged finial that looks like a golden serpent and once was embellished with a ruby. “We’re actually still looking for the ruby cabochon that used to be there,” co-curator Capistrano-Baker said to laughs from the audience at a recent lecture.
IF YOU GO What: “Philippine Gold: Treasures of Forgotten Kingdoms” Where: Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street) When: Through January 3 asiasociety.org “[It] might be in someone’s necklace, somewhere.” Magnifying glasses are available for close-ups of the precious objects, which notably include necklaces fashioned from “gear beads”—beads that neatly interlock. The largest known example is presented here, Capistrano-Baker said, adding that “gold chains [were] among the most valued forms of wealth. The number and quality of neck chains signified one’s wealth and status.” Another eye-catcher is a gleaming vessel in the form of a kinnari, a creature from Indian mythology that is part “celestial female,” part bird. It’s the show’s signature image and boasts exquisite detail, including a hair bun and hair part, though its precise function remains unclear. The object is paired with a bronze kinnari vessel-lamp from Java, suggesting cross-pollination and illustrating the spread of Hindu and Buddhist religions to Southeast Asia—though until now scholars have typically thought the Philippines were bypassed, the curator said. “It is like our King Tut,” a cochair of the Philippine Gold Benefit Committee recently enthused about the collection. Get ready.
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Bruno Cappellini, who attended Our Lady of Peace since 1937. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s insane. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reconcile them ... driving people away.â&#x20AC;? Cappellini, 80, said many in the congregation are elderly and even the short walk to St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is taxing. He also said the congregation hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t given up on saving the church. Weeks before Francisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; arrival in New York, members of Our Lady of Peace held prayer vigils in front of the church, which theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re continuing now that the pontiff has left. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The pope was so close, he went to the U.N. We tried to get [him] possibly to come by and we were hoping that Rome would keep us open until a decision on our appeal,â&#x20AC;? Cappellini said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a question of how do you reach someone like the pope? My brotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s idea was have the pope come by to our Lady of Peace to pray for world peace,â&#x20AC;? he added. Asked what the congregation would say to the pope if granted an audience, Cappellini said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just like he is, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re descendants of immigrants and we founded that church because we were looking for a church that was more receptive to Italian immigrants.â&#x20AC;?
Cappellini said a nearby Slovenian church refused to baptize Italians before Our Lady of Peace came on the scene. A decision from the Vatican was postponed several times and is said to be forthcoming Nov. 1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do expect to win by the way, our appeal is a very fine appeal,â&#x20AC;? Cappellini said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was no reason to close our church, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make any sense at all.â&#x20AC;? Kalman Chany, a trustee at St. Elizabeth of Hungary, which also was shuttered in August, said Francisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; visit renewed some heartfelt and difficult emotions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People thought that with time the hurt would subside,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I guess Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in more pain that I was before.â&#x20AC;? As a whole, he said, congregants were left unbalanced by the visit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was a lot of support for the pope, but the same feelings arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t shared for Cardinal (Timothy) Dolan,â&#x20AC;? he said referring to the archbishop of New York. Chany, a congregant at St. Elizabethâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for more than 30 years, is also seeking recourse from the Vatican about the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s closure. He said that St. Elizabethâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, which served the deaf community, was ďŹ nancially sound. Decisions on appeals by both Our Lady of Peace and St. Eliz-
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Remember: the key is to have successful interactions with your dog. Be patient and do not expect them to change right away. Do not go too fast to more difficult steps unless your dog is totally comfortable. These are suggestions that can help with any dog. Basic obedience training is very important to give dogs with anxiety structure and conďŹ dence. If they are taught appropriate behaviors, they will know how to get attention in a calm manner. For example, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;sitâ&#x20AC;? and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;downâ&#x20AC;? commands help dogs relax. The stay command builds up the duration they can learn to focus when you leave a room, for example. You will then be able to praise your dog more often and both you and your dog will be happier. Remember: if your dog is anxious there is a lot you can do to help your dog. Submitted by North Shore Animal League America To learn more about caring for your pet, visit animalleague.org
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< FORMER SUTTON HOTEL EATERY MOVING TO NEW LOCATION Il Valentino, a longtime fixture in the Sutton Hotel, is reopening at a new location on the Upper East Side. Renamed Il Valentino Osteria, the new outpost is located at 1078 First Ave., at 59th Street. Restaurateur Mirso Lekic worked with C3D Architecture to renovate the space,
In Brief BASTIANICH PREPARED POPE FRANCIS’ MEALS Lidia Bastianich, the celebrity chef and television personality behind some of Manhattan’s finest Italian eateries, Felidia on E. 58th Street and Becco on W. 46th Street, found herself cooking for the city’s most high-profile visitor last week. Bastianich, along with chefs from the Felidia and Becco kitchens, and Angelo Vivolo of E. 74th Street restaurant Vivolo, prepared meals for Pope Francis during his New York stay, Eater reported, with menus that included house-made burrata, truffle and porcini mushroom risotto, pear and pecorinostuffed ravioli and whole roasted bass. Bastianich, who is Catholic, also prepared meals for Pope Benedict XVI when he visited New York in 2008.
LOCAL PIZZERIAS HELP COMBAT HUNGER Annual charity event Slice Out Hunger kicks off on Oct. 7, with some of the city’s notable pizzerias donating pies. Difara, Lombardi’s, Keste, and Arturo’s are among the more than 50 restaurants slinging slices, many of which only sell whole pies to diners. Each slice sells for a dollar, and every dollar made will be matched by sponsors, including Tumblr and Fog Creek Software, and all proceeds benefit the Food Bank for New York City. Located at St. Anthony’s Church at 155 Sullivan St. at Houston Street and starting at 6 p.m., guests can purchase $1 slices and beverages until the pies run out. For more information, visit sliceouthunger.org.
and LMF Group designed the mango wood tabletops and chairs, gold-threaded leather banquettes and long bar and metal barstools. Erminio Conte, former executive chef at Serafina, built the menu as the restaurant’s executive consulting chef, along with sous chef Lauro
HOW THE HOMELESS EAT A vast patchwork of agencies and donors provides meals, but hunger persists BY LIZ NEUMARK
On the eve of Pope Francis’ visit to New York, I waited on the corner of Fifth Avenue — a mere 50 yards from where he would soon be sleeping. It was the start of Yom Kippur. The corner of 72nd Street is the second to last stop on the uptown route of the Coalition for the Homeless mobile food van, dispensing free meals to anyone who shows up. It was almost 9 p.m., a quiet time in this toney neighborhood and I didn’t see a soul waiting. The van pulled up and out of the shadows came a dozen men – gradually and silently. The exchange was a familiar greeting and description of the meal; turkey stew, an orange and milk. Meal in hand, the men slipped back into the darkness. In recent weeks there has been much discussion about the homeless population, mostly speculation about how once again, they seem to be everywhere. As the headlines turned to shelters and policy, I began to wonder what and where this itinerant population ate. What I have subsequently learned about homelessness, hunger, soup kitchens, shelters and many of the NFP organizations tasked with providing services, could fill pages. Embedded in the controversy is both a tribute to and condemnation of our social and political
system and a deep a complex problem that defies any quick or simple solution. The homeless, though a most visible manifestation of the hungry, are a fraction of the demographic lacking access or ability to feed themselves on a daily basis. (Food insecure is the term.) Joel Berg, the tireless advocate for the hungry, shared statistics: In New York, the average current shelter population is about 57,000; chronic street homeless, a few thousand; and food insecure at 1.4 million. Thus the realization that our attention is focused on the tip, while we remain ignorant or oblivious to the iceberg below it. Where do the homeless find shelter and food? To begin with, there are subsets: Families with young children or with adult children, singles, victims of domestic violence, mentally ill, physically disabled, and veterans. The majority are sheltered in a range of sites; most managed by private/non-profit agencies and few by the city. Some sites are simply beds and varying levels of social services, while many offer longer stays and focus on helping individuals recover their lives. Families with young children are most often housed in temporary apartment units with kitchen access. Within the patchwork of bed-only shelters, most homeless are expected to arrive at night having eaten, and are offered simple fare like peanut butter sandwiches or
items dropped off by congregants. A pediatrician at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital who does community outreach to East Harlem and South Bronx families, described food in shelter housing kitchens as a can of spaghetti, convenience food or reheated frozen meals. Homeless families are eligible for SNAP (food stamp) benefits, which means they can shop but the environment is not conducive to home cooked nutritious meal. Over 80 percent of homeless children go to schools with access to free lunch and sometimes breakfast. These families, the doctor said, are stressed and though sheltered, in extreme poverty, with few prospects. Soup kitchens are a major source of meals. I visited Mike Ottley, director of operations for Holy Apostles on 28th Street and Ninth Avenue where 1,200 lunchtime meals have been served daily for more than 33 years. Mike is a Culinary Institute of America graduate, overseeing meals at Holy Apostles since 2009 after a traditional culinary career in hospitality. That passion stays with him. The kale salad on the lunch tray is part of his commitment to serve fresh vegetables and comes from the local farmer’s market around the corner at end-of-day, greatly reduced prices. There were local peaches for dessert. Five hundred pounds of bread is served daily, although most keep it with them for later. His food budget comes from the Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program administered by the state) and block grants but over 80 percent comes from donors. He receives food from City Harvest as well as purchasing from wholesalers. “I’m a shopper,” he says, looking at bid sheets from vendors very critically.
Sucuz, which includes fresh baked breads and pizzas made in the kitchen’s brick oven. Other menu items include homemade cavatelli pasta with tomatoes, mozzarella and basil, grilled salmon, and duck with sweet potato puree and apple gremolata. Il Valentino Osteria is open from 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 10 a.m.-10 p.m. on Sunday. For reservations, call 212-784-0800.
At Holy Apostles on on 28th Street and Ninth Avenue, about 1,200 lunches have been served daily for more than 33 years. Yet the menu, which changes daily, will surprise you. Voted best free meal on Yelp was a distinction he succeeded in squelching. By the way, most of the kale salad wasn’t touched. Rice and beans, cooked collards, potatoes do much better, but Mike isn’t discouraged. St. Francis Food Pantries and Shelters serves 1.5 million meals annually in their 40 pantry locations. Joe Sano, executive director, sees both the homeless and the working poor daily. On his grocery list are cases of ravioli, beef stew, chili beans, tuna, corned beef, cereal, mac-n-cheese, oatmeal, spaghetti, rice and fresh produce. The fruits and vegetables comes as a donation from Gristedes. No cookies, no candy, no sugary drinks. He sees more working poor as well as an increase in Asian faces and the elderly, all a result of gentrification pressures. The Salvation Army services 2.5 million meals to the city’s homeless and working poor each year in 32 locations where the ratios of home-
less to working poor vary. With increased emphasis on healthier meals, many guests resist the fresh vegetables, whole fruit or grains, said Joe Phillips, director of emergency programs. On the list of banned foods: Sausage, whole milk, bottled water, high sodium items, fruit roll ups, pudding, doughnuts, chips and obvious junk food. Overall, he said, an increase in demand for meals had been matched by a decrease in funding. Delving into this topic was fed by my curiosity but also a sense of the connection between social justice and food. We think of ‘the homeless’ as an anonymous monolith and very apart from mainstream life, but when we look at mealtime and the necessity of eating, suddenly, they are just like us. I’ll address The other half of the story, meals in shelters, in my next column. 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 AUG 24 - SEP 25, 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. Oriental Cafe / Sunny
1580 1St Ave
Grade Pending (26) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
Dorrian’s Red Hand Restaurant
1616 2 Avenue
A
H & H Midtown Bagels East 1551 2 Avenue
A
Dunkin’ Donuts
355 East 86 Street
A
Om Indian Restaurant
1593 2 Avenue
Grade Pending (15) Evidence of rats or live rats present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. 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.
The York Social
1529 York Ave
Not Graded Yet (2)
Starbucks Coffee #7682
1449 2 Avenue
A
Mezzaluna
1295 Third Avenue
A
Corrado Bread And Pastry
960 Lexington Avenue A
FP Pastisserie
1293 3 Avenue
A
Uskudar Restaurant
1405 Second Avenue
A
Little Vincent’s Pizza
1399 2Nd Ave
Grade Pending (21) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
Ko Sushi
1329 2 Avenue
A
Dunkin Donuts
411 East 70 Street
Grade Pending (20) 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. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
Crumbs Bake Corp
1418 Lexington Ave
Not Graded Yet (17) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations.
Milk Burger Express
2051 2 Avenue
A
Subway
1873 2 Avenue
A
Mojito’s
227 East 116 Street
A
Domino’s Pizza
16A W 8Th St
A
Amorino
162 8Th Ave
A
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The Diner
105 West 13 Street
44 9 Avenue
Grade Pending (24) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal product temperature is reduced from 140º F to 70º F or less within 2 hours, and from 70º F to 41º F or less within 4 additional hours. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Grade Pending (22) Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
Cho Cho San Japanese Restaurant
15 West 8 Street
A
Papa John’s Pizza
2119 1St Ave
Not Graded Yet (31) Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations. 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. 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.
Uptown Roasters Cafe
135 E 110Th St
Not Graded Yet (21) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Evidence of rats or live rats 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.
Ottomanelli’s Restaurant
1325 5Th Ave
Grade Pending (17) Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewageassociated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies.
Taco Bell Pizza Hut Express 173 East 116 Street
A
Subway
455 East 116 Street
A
Mcdonald’s
1872 3 Avenue
A
Zahlaya’s Bistro
2028 3 Avenue
Closed by Health Department (141) Food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal product temperature is reduced from 140º F to 70º F or less within 2 hours, and from 70º F to 41º F or less within 4 additional hours. Food, food preparation area, food storage area, area used by employees or patrons, contaminated by sewage or liquid waste. 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. 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. Toilet facility not provided for employees or for patrons when required. Wiping cloths soiled or not stored in sanitizing solution.
Cross Culture Kitchen
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THE PORT AUTHORITY OF NY & NJ NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY FOR PUBLIC REVIEW OF THE TIER I FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR THE CROSS HARBOR FREIGHT PROGRAM The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) have prepared a Tier I Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) to evaluate alternatives to improve the movement of goods in the region by enhancing the transportation of freight across New York Harbor. The Cross Harbor Freight Program (CHFP) would provide near-term and long-term improvements to the regional freight network by reducing truck traffic congestion, improving air quality, and providing economic benefits. The FEIS includes responses to comments on the Tier I Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) and identifies Preferred Alternatives recommended for advancement. The FEIS was prepared in compliance with applicable federal environmental laws, rules, and regulations, including Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966, Section 4(f) of the U.S. Department of Transportation Act (1966), and Executive Order 12898, “Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations,” among others, and identifies permits or approvals that may be required for the implementation of the Build Alternatives identified therein. AVAILABILITY The FEIS is now available on the project’s website at www.crossharborstudy.com. This Tier I FEIS is available for public review until October 26, 2015, after which time a Record of Decision (ROD) will be issued. Comments on this FEIS can be submitted in multiple ways: • Mailed to: Cross Harbor Freight Program, c/o InGroup, Inc., P.O. Box 206, Midland Park, NJ 07432; • Submitted electronically through the crossharborstudy.com web site; and • Submitted via email to crossharborstudy@ingroupinc.com with “FEIS Comment” in the Subject line. The ROD will address any new or substantive comments made during the public review period. Printed or electronic copies are also available at the following viewing locations during normal business hours: MANHATTAN (NEW YORK, NY) Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer Municipal Building, 1 Centre Street, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10007 New York Metropolitan Transportation Council 25 Beaver Street, Suite 201, New York, NY 10004 New York Public Library - Mid-Manhattan Library 455 Fifth Avenue (at 40th Street), New York, NY 10016 New York Public Library - Science, Industry, and Business Library 188 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Port Authority of New York & New Jersey 4 World Trade Center, 150 Greenwich Street, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10006 BRONX, NY Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. Borough Hall, 851 Grand Concourse, 2rd Floor, Room 206, Bronx, NY 10451 New York Public Library- Hunts Point 877 Southern Boulevard (at Tiffany Street), Bronx, NY 10459 New York Public Library - Mott Haven 321 East 140th Street (at Alexander Avenue), Bronx, NY 10454 New York Public Library - Soundview 660 Soundview Avenue (at Seward Avenue), Bronx, NY 10473 BROOKLYN, NY Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Brooklyn Public Library - Central Library 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238 Brooklyn Public Library - Bay Ridge 7223 Ridge Blvd (at 73rd Street), Brooklyn, NY 11209 Brooklyn Public Library - Borough Park 1265 43rd Street (at 13th Avenue), Brooklyn, NY 11219 Brooklyn Public Library - Flatlands 2065 Flatbush Avenue (at Avenue P), Brooklyn, NY 11234 Brooklyn Public Library - Kensington 4207 18th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11218 Brooklyn Public Library - Kings Highway 2115 Ocean Avenue (nr. Kings Highway), Brooklyn, NY 11229 Brooklyn Public Library - Leonard 81 Devoe Street (at Leonard Street), Brooklyn, NY 11211 Brooklyn Public Library - Mapleton 1702 60th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11204 Brooklyn Public Library - McKinley Park 6802 Fort Hamilton Pkwy (at 68th Street), Brooklyn, NY 11219 Brooklyn Public Library - Midwood 975 East 16th Street (at Avenue J), Brooklyn, NY 11230 Brooklyn Public Library - New Lots 665 New Lots Avenue (at Barbey Street), Brooklyn, NY 11207 Brooklyn Public Library - Paerdegat 850 E. 59th Street (at Paerdegat Avenue South), Brooklyn, NY 11234 Brooklyn Public Library - Ryder 5902 23rd Avenue (between 23rd Avenue at 59th Street), Brooklyn, NY 11204 Brooklyn Public Library - Sunset Park 5108 4th Avenue (at 51st Street), Brooklyn, NY 11220 QUEENS, NY Queens Borough President Melinda Katz Borough Hall, 120-55 Queens Boulevard, Kew Gardens, NY 11424
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A damaged stairway leading to a Riverside Park soccer field has been closed for months. The cost of repairs could be around $500,000. Photo: Richard Khavkine
PARK STAIRS’ REPAIR COULD COST $500,000
A heavy winter is thought to have damaged a stairway bed leading to a Riverside Park soccer field. Photo: Richard Khavkine open.” A statement from Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal’s office said she is aware of the stairway’s poor condition. The statement said Rosenthal, who has helped funnel money
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A heavily damaged stairway leading to a Riverside Park soccer field could cost about $500,000 to refurbish and months to repair. Since capital projects are typically funded by the city council through specific line items at budget time, John Herrold, the president of the Riverside Park Conservancy, acknowledged that it could be another nine months before renovation is under way. “We’re trying to see if there’s some other way to do it,” said Herrold, who also is the Park and Recreation Department’s administrator for the park. “This is time sensitive because it’s such a key access point.” Several kids’ leagues use the field, on the park’s lower level at the level of about 101st Street, nearly year-around. During weekends, practices and games take place throughout the day. An entrance at the southwest end of the park is now the only practicable entry to the field. A gate to the stairway was closed earlier this year after several long flagstone steps loosened and workers discovered a hole through one of the landings. “It was getting worse and worse,” Herrold said. “It
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was deteriorating very rapidly.” About half of the stairway has since been taken apart and Cyclone fencing was set up at the top and bottom of the stairs. Youngsters nevertheless scamper around the fencing, climb along a retaining wall about 15 feet high and around protruding anti-climbing iron spikes. A parks department spokeswoman said the $500,000 estimate, which she characterized as a “very general range,” is based on the cost of similar previous projects. A more exact price breakdown won’t be known until the project goes out for bids, she and Herrold both said. “No one knows what it will cost,” Herrold said. “It can’t happen until the money is available.” Herrold said the heavy winter likely damaged and weakened the stone beds. A statement from the parks department said the agency is “actively seeking funding to reconstruct the staircase as soon as possible.” Herrold said the conservancy, which pays for smaller-scale projects and maintenance, with the parks department responsible for securing capital funding for large capital projects, is helping the department locate funding for the repairs. “We’re all putting our heads together,” he said. “We want it
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Elizabeth Fink, a New York lawyer who helped state inmates win a $12 million settlement three decades after the bloody 1971 prison riot in Attica, has died. She was 70. Fink died of cardiac arrest, said her brother, Larry Fink. Elizabeth Fink sued state authorities over the force used to retake control of Attica Correctional Facility from inmates. Troopers and guards fatally shot 29 inmates and 10 hostages, and prisoners who had rioted five days earlier and taken control of part of the prison were beaten and tortured. “It took 27 years,” she told The Associated Press last year. “It was not a lot of money.” The federal class-action lawsuit was tried in 1991 in Buffalo. An appeals court overturned the jury verdicts for the prisoners for violations of their civil rights. The settlement was reached in 2000. Attorney Jonathan Gradess called Fink’s efforts “heroic.” He represents families of killed and injured hostages who got a $12 million state settlement in 2005. Both groups still seek two
more things -- full disclosures of what happened and apologies from the state, he said. “In essence, what she did was bring to light something that the state wanted to bury: that there was torture inflicted on prisoners in the aftermath of the violent retaking.” Gradess said. Fink worked on other prominent civil rights cases and represented criminal defendants, including difficult cases other lawyers avoided, said former colleague Sarah Kunstler. “She believed standing between a client and the crushing weight of government power was a political act,” she said. Former colleagues said she was part of a team of attorneys who in 1990 won the release of former Black Panther Party leader Dhoruba Bin Wahad on grounds that the prosecution had withheld evidence of innocence in the 1971 drive-by shooting of two New York City policemen guarding the home of Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan. Larry Fink said his sister had been ill for the last year or so. A memorial service, without too much fanfare as she’d prefer, will be held later, he said. To see more Our Town obituaries, go to ourtownny.com. To submit one, click on Submit Stuff or email us at news@ strausnews.com
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LIFE’S A CABARET AT BIRDLAND The host of ‘Cast Party’ turns on the charm
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“I saw a t-shirt the other day that said, “I hate Mondays,” and thought, “Mondays are my favorite day of the week and it’s because of ‘Cast Party,’” Jim Caruso said. As the host of the cabaret show he created 13 years ago, he’s introduced everyone from Martin Short and Ariana Grande, to hula dancers and jugglers on stilts. The one-of-a-kind event at the iconic Birdland celebrates every talent imaginable, and Caruso never knows who will be there. Before it begins every Monday night — at 9:30 because that’s when Broadway is dark — hopefuls give their names and what they’ll perform, and he jots everyone down in a notebook which serves as the evening’s lineup. To accompany the performers is a trio of musicians, including Caruso’s best friend Billy Stritch on piano, who all seem as though they’ve already rehearsed, but what we see are actually first runthroughs. Once on stage, everyone is made to feel like a star — at least for one night — because of Caruso’s quick wit coupled with his warm personality. The atmosphere he’s created is truly welcoming and the audience follows his gracious lead. “One time, right after Liza Minnelli, I introduced a lady from Commack who sang an original song about her feet,” he explained. “She got just as much applause. People were just as kind to her.”
How did “Cast Party” come about? I read you were doing PR for a nightclub and that’s how it started. Yeah, it just kind of happened. I certainly never thought I would host an open mic as a job. I didn’t know that was a job, actually. What do you major in for that? The community around me has always been Broadway, jazz and cabaret performers, so at that party, everybody showed up and sang ‘til the wee hours of the morning. And the next day, the club owner called and said, “Would you do that every Monday?” And I said, “No. Why would I do that? That’s insanity.”
So we did, and 13 years later, we’re still doing it. A different club, obviously, but I’m so lucky to be at Birdland. I can’t say enough about our venue here and across the country- we do “Cast Party” all over the country now. We’re lucky to be in all these fantastic spaces.
You moved to New York in 1990. What was it like for you when you first got here? Well I moved here with a vocal trio called Wiseguys. We were working the club scene. We were at The Algonquin at the time and were an opening act for Joan Rivers, Chita Rivera, people like that. So I came here with a job, which is very odd for a performer. [Laughs] I knew who I was. I was also older, I wasn’t 19, which is when I really wanted to move here, but didn’t. I felt very established. I had a coterie of friends around me. So it was kind of like my second home. So by the time I moved here, I knew the town, there were not a lot of surprises. I knew when I was a little kid I wanted to move here. There was a TV show called “Family Affair” about these two orphans who lived with their fancy uncle in Manhattan. I pointed to his highrise apartment and said to my mother, “I want to live there.”
You said in an interview that you asked for an agent at 6 years old. Oh, that’s totally true! Wow, you really did read some stuff. Yes, I just knew I wanted this life. Maybe I’m an old soul and lived here some other time, but I just knew I wanted to live in New York and be around show business. And have fancy, beautiful, talented friends and laugh and be in nightclubs. It’s so ironic, really, that, in a roundabout way, that’s exactly how my life has ended up. It took forever, by the way. [Laughs] You met Liza Minnelli in 1991 and said that it changed your life. It certainly did. She came to see this vocal group that I was in and took me to dinner a couple of nights later. We were at Joe Allen, I’ll never forget it. And she said, “Would you guys be interested in opening for me?” Literally, she said it like, “You probably
wouldn’t.” I fell under the table and couldn’t believe it. And I said, “Yeah, I think we can find our way free to perhaps open for Liza Minnelli.” She was at Radio City at the time. So that started, we opened for her and she would always show up for our gigs. And it really gave us, because she was really at the height of her powers at that point, a shove into a world we had never been in. Hanging with celebs in major rooms. We were doing what we’d always done; nothing changed about us. But when somebody like that puts their stamp of approval on you, all the sudden people looked at us differently and we were a little bit more interesting. She threw us into a whole other stratosphere.
Give us some examples of “Cast Party” nights. I walked in one night and Martin Short was there and I went over and said, “What are you doing here?” And he said, “Oh, there’s an open mic here on Mondays.” And I said, “Yeah, I know, I’m the host.” And he said, “Paul Shaffer and I want to try out some material we’re gonna do on Letterman tomorrow night.” Of course they killed. One of the thrills of my life was when Donny Osmond came and sang and told me I was the new Osmond brother that they had been looking for. And that made my whole life because that’s my era. He’s the ultimate showman for me. People like Natalie Cole, Tony Bennett. [Michael] Feinstein has been very supportive. Hugh Jackman, Bon Jovi. Ariana Grande, when she was 13 and 14 years old. We definitely watched her become a star. I’m not saying we had anything to do with that, but we have certainly watched many people grow their communities. Visit www.CastPartyNYC.com and www.BirdlandJazz.com for more information.
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