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Lawsuit filed on lost M14 stops

BY ALEJANDR A O’CONNELL-DOMENECH

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he attorney responsible for the, at least, temporary stalling of the 14th St. busway plan, Arthur Schwartz, has also filed a lawsuit to restore bus stops removed from the M14 bus route.

The lawsuit, which is being brought by the 504 Democratic Club and Disabled in Action, argues that the removal of the 12 stops causes an excessive burden for residents with disabilities.

During a press conference on Wed., Aug. 14, at the corner of 14th St. and Fifth Ave., near a former M14 bus stop, Schwartz called the stops “critical” and added that “under the city’s Human Rights Law,” the city should accommodate the needs of people with disabilities.

“In their request for speed, the M.T.A. and New York City Transit, in its usual manner, has once again forgotten about the needs of people with disabilities and the elderly,” Schwartz said.

Michael Schweinsburg, the president of the 504 Democratic Club — a political club whose members are disabled — called the plan a “disaster” for people with with disabilities, seniors and low-income residents.

Earlier this year, the Metropolitan

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Chelsea activist Paul Groncki was one of the neighborhood leaders who spoke in suppor t of restoring the lost M14 bus stops at the lawsuit’s announcement last week.

Transportation Authority announced its plan to remove 14 stops on the M14A and D bus routes and switch all the buses to Select Bus Service, in order to boost the route’s notoriously slow speed. According to an M.T.A. study, the M14A/D is the city’s secondslowest bus route and the second most heavily used, with an average of 27,000 riders daily.

But after outcry from residents with disabilities and the elderly, two stops, at Grand St. and Pitt St., were restored.

The M.T.A is standing its ground on the bus-stop removals, arguing that the S.B.S system helps all riders.

“We will defend against this lawsuit vigorously on behalf of bus riders, who deserve a modern and reliable service that moves people efficiently,” said Tim

Minton, M.T.A. communications director. “Rider advocates observe that it can be faster to walk than take the bus — we’re fi xing that. The bus system is fully accessible and far better for the environment than driving in private cars and taxis.”

According to an M.T.A. spokesperson, the city’s bus stops are, on average, 750 feet apart, a shorter distance than in most other cities, with nearly half being closer together than 750 feet.

But many of the press conference’s attendees stated that the distance between the bus stops is too great, whether for those on foot or in wheelchairs.

Schwartz is also currently representing Village and Chelsea block associations in a separate lawsuit calling for the 14th St. busway project to be scrapped.

Last Fri., Aug 9, the Village attorney filed an appeal that successfully stalled the busway. Under the busway, only buses, three-axle trucks and emergency vehicles would be allowed to use 14th St. between Third and Ninth Aves. as a through street between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. Opponents fear that closing the street to cars, vans and small trucks would force vehicles onto neighborhood side streets, causing congestion, noise, air pollution and vibrations from excessive traffic, among other problems.

Gardens rally nixed after hopeful delay

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON

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ocal community gardeners breathed a sigh of relief Saturday afternoon after learning a looming deadline for a relicensing agreement for the city’s GreenThumb gardens had been extended.

Gardeners had been set to rally on City Hall’s steps Monday at 10 a.m. But in an e-mail on Friday, Bill LoSasso, the director of the city’s GreenThumb program, notified garden leaders that the signing deadline had been pushed back a month.

The relicensing agreement involves GreenThumb gardens operating on city Parks Department property.

Gardeners had been alarmed at new regulations proposed by GreenThumb, fearing it could mean the green oases would, at a minimum, lose their community spirit or, in a worst-case scenario, potentially be lost to development.

The fear was that GreenThumb would be moving from basically a support system for the gardens into more of an oversight role.

One proposed update to the Gardeners’ Handbook, for example, on “garden abandonment,” notes that a garden’s licensing agreement could be

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Barbara Cahn showing off the compost hopper for the LaGuardia Corner Gardens’ clippings and other organic matter.

revoked if the space is not maintained, if correspondence is not answered, or if required public hours are not kept and required events held. Another proposed new rule would require that GreenThumb be notified in advance of any large event that a garden plans to hold.

On Saturday afternoon, Charles Krezell, the founder and president of Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens

a.k.a. LUNGS, announced the rally’s cancellation on the LUNGS Facebook page.

“We are very happy that GreenThumb has extended the license agreement deadline to Sept. 20,” Krezell wrote.

“We hope to continue negotiating in good faith. We all love our gardens and want to continue to have a good relationship with GreenThumb and the Parks Department. …

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“We are very grateful for the vigorous support [by] our community gardeners. We continue to recognize that our strength is in unity; and our goal is to continue to help New York grow.”

Elizabeth Ruf Maldonado, a member of LUNGS and of the East Vilage’s De Colores Garden, said there has been a tangible fear among the gardening community about the proposed changes.

“I feel like the new restrictions would have limited gardens’ ability to be autonomous and keep their community character and identity,” she said.

“The restrictions would have been prohibitive and would not have been in the original spirit of the gardens. It sounded like it was a slippery slope toward [losing] control” of the green spaces, she said.

Pamela Pier is the owner of Dinosaur Hill toy store in the East Village and a member of Green Oasis/Gilbert’s Garden. On Friday, a day before Krezell’s announcement that Monday’s rally had been nixed, she was feeling anxious about the threatened rule changes.

But in an e-mail after getting word of the relicensing agreement’s postponement, Pier said, “What a relief that Green Thumb is — hopefully — going to work with the gardens on this.”

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H.K. democracy, Beijing backers face off

BY ALEJANDR A O’CONNELL-DOMENECH

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rotesters rallying at Confucius Plaza for Hong Kong democracy were met by hundreds of pro-Beijing counterprotesters on Sat., Aug 17.

The pro-Beijing crowd was a sea of red as they waved Chinese flags and signs with the words “One China” across the street from the plaza.

This weekend’s protest was the fourth demonstration organized by the group NY4HK (New Yorkers for Hong Kong) but was the first time the group has faced a counterprotest.

Before the pro-mainland China group’s arrival, tensions were already high at the rally since some members had seen threats against them on WeChat, a popular Chinese messaging platform. Some individuals posted images of bullets, handguns and even an AK-47 rifle. According to NY4HK, some messengers posted a text saying, “We are ready.”

According to NY4HK, the pro-China group believed the Confucius Plaza rally was for Hong Kong independence, a misconception fed to them by the Chinese state media.

“With WeChat and their own censored news, it is very easy for them to misunderstand,” Ken from NY4HK explained.

All told, between the two factions, several hundred people filled Confucius Plaza and the area around it.

Beijing supporters followed prodemocracy protesters as they marched across the Manhattan Bridge and to Manhattan Bridge Small Park, where a second, slightly smaller rally took place. Gothamist reported that proBeijing protesters began throwing bottles at the pro-democracy group as they walked across the bridge. Shortly into the second protest, a small group of China backers attempted to storm the park but were stopped by police officers.

According to NY4HK, the large turnout of China supporters is a reminder of the division that has always existed within the Chinese-American community. Exacerbating that division within the community abroad and in the U.S. was not the pro-democracy protesters’ intention.

During the protests on either side of the Manhattan Bridge, Hong Kong legislators Dennis Kwok and Alvin Yeung spoke words of encouragement, and called on Hong Kong’s government to meet protesters’ five demands. The protests in Hong Kong are now in their 11th week.

“We are not afraid of them. We will not back down,” said Kwok, a member of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council, speaking to the prodemocracy protesters. Yeung also shared words of encouragement and support.

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Beijing suppor ters held a counterprotest across the street from Saturday’s Hong Kong-democrac y rally at Confucius Plaza.

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Democrac y protesters in Confucius Plaza covered their right eyes in honor of a young woman who was shot in the eye with a beanbag at a Hong Kong protest and nearly lost her vision. The image of the wounded woman — believed to be a medic — is a symbol of the movement.

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Hong Kong legislator Alvin Yeung gave words of encouragement to the crowd of prodemocracy protesters at Confucius Plaza on Sat., Aug. 17.

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“We stand together on the five demands that Hong Kongers are reasonably demanding,” Yeung declared.

The democracy protesters’ first demand is the complete withdrawal of the extradition bill. The contentious piece of legislation would allow individuals in Hong Kong to be extradited to places previously lacking an extradition treaty with the semi-autonomous territory, like mainland China.

The second demand is stop the labeling of the protests as “riots.” The Chinese state media has branded the mostly peaceful protests “riots,” which is problematic due to the 10-year prison sentence one can get for rioting in Hong Kong.

In their third demand, they want an independent investigation into excessive use of force by the Hong Kong police and possible collaboration with the triads, organized crime groups. In July, a group of more than 100 men armed with metal rods began beating protesters and bystanders at a train station. Police, arriving late to the scene of the attack, initially made no arrests, according to The New York Times. Police later arrested a few individuals who had ties to the organized crime group.

Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive, responded by promising a policeled investigation into the incident.

The democracy protesters’ fourth demand is for the release of the detained protesters in Hong Kong. The fifth is the for the region’s chief executive and Legislative Council members to be elected by popular vote, rather than by an election committee.

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T.A. stoops to rally at foe’s home

BY ALEJANDR A O’CONNELL-DOMENECH

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fter hearing shouts, Arthur Schwartz stepped out of his W. 12th St. brownstone and began offering pastries to a crowd of roughly 50 protesters that had gathered around his stoop.

The protesters, most of whom were from Transportation Alternatives, called on the West Village attorney to “drop the suit” that, last Friday, resulted in an Appellate Division court issuing a stay that blocked the start of the 14th St. busway.

The busway is the city Department of Transportation’s proposed 18-month pilot program, in which only buses, threeaxle trucks and emergency vehicles could use the major crosstown street as through traffic between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. The plan is intended to mitigate any negative travel impacts

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TransAlt’s Tom DeVito led the crowd of about 50 protesters in chanting outside of attorney Ar thur Schwar tz’s home.

caused by the L-train “slowdown” due to subway-tunnel repair work and, in general, to speed up straphangers’ commutes.

Schwartz represents a broad swath of Chelsea and Village block associations and condo boards that fear that closing 14th St. to cars, vans and small trucks would force the vehicles onto neighborhood side streets, causing congestion, noise and air pollution, and vibrations from excessive traffic, among other problems.

Schwartz referred to the protest as “thuggery” that had nothing to do with honest political discourse.

Tom DeVito, director of advocacy for Transportation Alternatives, speaking shortly before the protest ended, said the busway advocates will keep up the pressure.

“We will keep on fighting and not stop,” he vowed.

‘Let them eat pastries’ or ‘Let them protest’?

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s Transportation Alternatives members and supporters angrily converged outside Arthur Schwartz’s home Wednesday evening — seething that his lawsuit had held up the city’s vaunted 14th St. busway — the attorney tried to make nice with them…by offering them food.

As the busway backers brandished insulting signs slamming Schwartz, like “Fake Progressive,” he responded…by handing out pastries.

“I had been given a bag of pastries by a local elderly lady I saved from eviction last week,” he said. “So I gave them out to protesters. Many took them — until someone yelled into a mic, ‘Don’t take his food!’”

Schwartz had called on local progressive leaders whom he has supported over the years to stand with him on his W. 12th St. stoop, including Mayor Bill de Blasio, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson. None of the pols heeded his call.

However, a group of local busway opponents and neighbors rallied to his side.

“I had about 10 people standing with me,” Schwartz said, “including my longest-time Village friend, Paco Underhill, an urban planner, David Marcus and Julianne Bond, Elissa Stein and her husband, Gail Fox, Michelle Golden and a whole bunch of people I didn’t know, many whom were 12th St. neighbors.”

Stein is a current member and Marcus and Bond are former members of the steering committee of the 14th St. Coalition, the plaintiff in Schwartz’s previous two lawsuits against the busway plan. Fox is a Union Square community activist.

Asked what he made of the protest, Marcus fumed at the TransAlt group’s continually trying to shame the busway opponents for allegedly being “rich.”

“It is beyond comprehension,” Marcus declared, “that this zealous T.A. lobby — funded with millions of dollars and staff earning six-figure salaries — should accuse our multicultural multi-socioeconomic constituency of being the privileged 1%, whilst attacking an officer of the court in front of his home, by

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Ar thur Schwar tz offered pastries to the TransAlt protesters.

demanding he cease seeking due process.”

Beforehand, Schwartz had blasted TransAlt for trying to “intimidate” him by protesting outside his home — which he shares with his wife and two daughters — and demanding he drop the lawsuit.

“TransAlt is engaging in a form of bullying,” he charged, “which is in the tradition of Donald Trump, and has nothing to do with how we function in a nonfascistic Democratic society. … Their complaint that Village and Chelsea residents, active in block associations are ‘rich’ is demagoguery similar to what we see emanating from the White House.”

Schwartz also likened TransAlt to the Ku Klux Klan, saying, “This kind of undemocratic bullying, reminiscent of how white-hooded zealots would threaten white lawyers who represented black people in the South, or dictators who threaten lawyers who represent unpopular figures, needs to be called out.”

However, Norman Siegel, the renowned civil-rights attorney, said TransAlt was within its rights to picket the activist attorney’s townhouse.

“On the issue of protesting, it’s a fundamental right and it’s a neutral principle,” he said, meaning “grounded in law.”

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While some states do not allow protests in front of people’s homes, according to Siegel, New York does.

“In New York, you can peacefully protest in front of someone’s home,” he said. “T.A. has the right.

They have to be peaceful, and they can’t block the sidewalk.”

Siegel said Schwartz’s likening the cycling and transit advocates to Trump, the Klan, fascists and demagogues was disappointing.

“I don’t think that’s an appropriate statement to make,” he said.

He noted that Schwartz, as someone “in the public arena,” is going to have people criticize and potentially protest against him.

“To compare TransAlt to the Klan is inaccurate,” Siegel said. “Arthur should know better. It’s a First Amendment-protected right — Arthur should know as well as anyone — people’s right to protest. And he’s represented people that protest over the years, and that’s why I admire him.”

Siegel said he has experienced being targeted by protesters. In the early 1980s, when he lived in the Village on Jane St. and was project director of MFY Legal Services, striking lawyers’ union members protested outside his residence.

Later, in the 1990s, when Rudy Giuliani was mayor and Siegel was head of the New York Civil Liberties Union, protesters picketed Siegel’s Upper West Side building after he got the Klan a rally permit over Giuliani’s objection.

Regarding the latter demonstration, he told building management not to call the police and just let it happen.

“I predicted that within an hour they would leave,” he recalled. “What they wanted was the publicity.”

As for TransAlt protesting outside Schwartz’s house, not only did they have the right, but the attorney should not have condemned them for it, particularly given the times, Siegel asserted.

“In the Trump era, we should be encouraging people to speak up,” he said, “including picketing and protesting, expressing their First Amendment right, not chilling that fundamental right.”

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Gunpoint robbery A delivery guy was robbed of his bicycle at gunpoint in the Chinatown area on Thurs., July 25, police said.

Around 9:45 p.m., the victim was approached in front of 120 Walker St. by a male and female who demanded his bike while displaying a silver firearm. The female rode off with the bike and the male fled with a third person in an unknown direction. There were no injuries reported.

Anyone with information should call the Police Department’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Tips can also be submitted on the Crime Stoppers Web site at WWW. NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, or on Twitter @ NYPDTips. All tips are strictly confidential.

Seeking cell phones Police said a group of young toughs have been mugging solitary males in the early-morning hours in the Down-

town area and also on the Upper West Side and in Central Park.

On Fri., Aug. 2, around 3:50 a.m., a 22-year-old male victim was walking near Bowery and Delancey St. when the group approached and pushed him down the subway staircase.

They punched him several times, took his cell phone and fled. The victim was transported to Beth Israel Hospital in stable condition.

Police said that on Wed., Aug. 7, around 4 a.m., the same group of several males mugged a 25-year-old in front of 150 Lafayette St. They approached and one asked him for the time, after which they proceeded to punch and kick him in the body before snatching his phone and AirPods. They fled up Lafayette. The victim was uninjured.

The same perps, police said, mugged a 20-year-old at 66th St. and Central Park West on Wed., Aug. 7, around 5:05 a.m., knocking him to the ground and kicking him, and stealing his phone.

Ten minutes later, they assaulted another man in Central Park on the West Drive, knocking him to the ground and stealing his wallet and backpack.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Crime Stoppers Hotline.

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Pier 40 pack snatch A young man was mugged on Tues., Aug. 13, near 353 West St., at Pier 40 on the West Side, according to police.

Around 10:20 p.m., an 18-year-old man was walking at the W. Houston St. pier, when a group of men surrounded him and demanded his property. The victim tried to flee, but he was assaulted, and the group took his backpack containing personal property.

The perps fled in an unknown direction. The victim had minor injuries from the incident. Anyone with information should contact Crime Stoppers.

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Could kick himself Two male friends were inside a residential building at 202 W. 24th St., between Seventh and Eighth Aves., when one punched the other in the face, causing swelling and bleeding to his right eye, nose and mouth, according

to a police report. There was no reason given why the assailant, 33, punched his pal, 49, who refused medical attention. The attacker was searched by police and found to be in possession of an alleged controlled substance, individually bagged glassine envelopes, a scale with residue and a hypodermic needle with residue.

Gilroy Rogers was arrested for felony criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Cold shoulder A harassment violation was filed after an incident on Aug. 15 at Crunch Gym, at 220 W. 19th St., between Seventh and Eighth Aves., police said. According to a report, a 40-year-old man told police that last Thursday, at 5:15 p.m., another guy, 50, shouldered him “with the intent to annoy, threaten and alarm” him. The victim said the other man had been verbally harassing him over the past year, and told him, “You think you are so entitled.” There were no injuries reported from the incident.

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Chelsea woman dies Bomb-scare suspect after pickup-truck hit caused subway panic

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Chelsea woman died of her injuries on Tuesday after being hit by a turning pickup truck three days earlier.

Police said Melissa McClure, 67, of 117 W. 15th St., and another woman, age 59, were crossing W. 15th St. at Sixth Ave., in the west crosswalk, from north to south, on Sat., Aug. 10, around 9 p.m., when they were hit by the front of the vehicle, knocking them down.

Police said the blue 2011 Chevrolet Silverado was traveling up Sixth Ave. and trying to make a left turn onto westbound 15th St. Officers found both women with head trauma. E.M.S. responded and transported both victims to Bellevue Hospital. The younger woman was treated for a laceration to the back of the head and was in stable condition.

McClure was admitted in critical condition and succumbed to her injuries on Tues., Aug. 13.

The pickup truck’s driver remained at the scene and was not injured. There

are no arrests and the investigation remains ongoing.

The Daily News reported that McClure grew up in Mississippi and moved to New York in her early twenties. She attended Parsons School of Design and later worked in fashion. She had two cats, Momo and Sriracha, who lived with her at her apartment in Chelsea.

The News ID’d the other woman who was hit as McClure’s sister, who was visiting town.

Two days before McClure was hit, Iris Crespo, a 77-year-old Upper West Sider was fatally struck by a yellow cab when she was crossing in the crosswalk at W. 22nd St. at Eighth Ave. On Aug. 5, Michael Collopy, 60, of 170 W. 23rd St., succumbed to his injuries after he was hit by a cyclist on July 31 while standing in the bike lane at Sixth Ave. and 23rd St. The cyclist did not remain at the scene.

On June 24, Robyn Hightman, a 20-year-old bike messenger, was killed near the same spot as Collopy when the cyclist was hit by a truck while riding in traffic at Sixth Ave. and W. 23rd St.

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olice said they had made an arrest Saturday morning of a homeless man in connection with Friday’s incidents where two rice cookers were left in the Fulton St. subway station and another one was left in Chelsea.

Larry Griffin, 26, originally from West Virginia, was collared in a Bronx apartment after police responded to a call for “an apparent overdose,” the New York Post reported. A second man was also taken into custody there, the Post said.

Police said Griffin was charged with three counts of placing a false bomb in the second degree.

One rice cooker was left on the platform of the 2 and 3 lines at the Fulton St. station in Lower Manhattan and another was left on the mezzanine level.

Police were notified by a 911 call of the cookers around 7 a.m. As the Bomb Squad responded, straphangers were sent scrambling and the morning commute was snarled.

A third rice cooker was found about an hour later in Chelsea, at W. 16th St. and Seventh Ave., reportedly near a garbage can.

Police determined all three devices were safe. As they were searching for the suspect, cops released photos of Griffin in the Fulton St. station with a shopping cart allegedly containing one of the cookers.

According to news reports, he has previous arrests in West Virginia for drug and weapons possession and also for showing a sexual video to a minor.

The Post reported that the video “involved him having sex with a chicken.”

The tabloid quoted a West Virginia police source saying, “There is some type of deviant behavior there, obviously. In technical terms, there’s something that ain’t right with him.”

Three years ago, a pressure cooker bomb that was left by an Islamic terrorist in Chelsea on W. 23rd St. between Sixth and Seventh Aves. exploded, injuring 31 people. A second similar undetonated device was found four blocks away.

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The new Gansevoor t Plaza in the Meatpacking District.

Meatpacking District plazas are ‘well done’

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ribbon cutting was held by the Meatpacking Business Improvement District on Aug. 6 to celebrate the opening of new public plazas after a seven-year construction project.

The initiative included 20,000 square feet of plaza space, a new bike lane and large flower beds and planters.

The project stretched from Gansevoort St. and Ninth Ave. up to W. 16th St. It included the Chelsea Triangle, at Ninth Ave. between W. 14th and 15th Sts.; the 14th St. Square, at Ninth Ave. and the south side of W. 14th St.; and the new Gansevoort Plaza, at Gansevoort St. between Ninth Ave. and Hudson St. The new bike lane is on Ninth Ave. between Gansevoort and 14th Sts. Thirty trees were also added to the area, along with 2,600 shrubs and perennials in large planters. The work also included infrastructure improvements, such as repairing and replacing water mains, catch basins, sidewalks and streets.

The $20 million overall initiative was managed by the Department of Transportation and implemented by the Department of Design and Construction.

Funding came from the city, state and federal government.

The new plazas were constructed through D.O.T.’s Plaza Program.

“As someone who owns a small business along the plazas in the Meatpacking District, the positive impact that well-maintained public space brings to the business community is invaluable,” said Scott Kobrick, owner of Kobrick Coffee, at 24 Ninth Ave., between W. 13th and 14th Sts. “We look forward to working with the BID and our neighbors to further enliven the gorgeous new plazas that complement the aesthetic of the neighborhood’s history

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while adding a sense of tranquility to the bustling magic of the Meatpacking District.”

Local politicians at the ribbon cutting included Congressmember Jerrold Nadler, Assemblymember Richard Gottfried and Council Speaker Corey Johnson.

“We know open space and welldesigned streetscapes improve pedestrian safety, beautify neighborhoods and boost our economy,” Johnson said, “and I am so excited to watch this area become an even better place to live, work and play as a result of these improvements.”

D.D.C. Commissioner Lorraine Grillo also lauded the project’s emphasis on pedestrians.

“Prioritizing people over vehicles is in keeping with Mayor de Blasio’s vision for a safer and more equitable New York City,” Grillo said. “The city’s design and construction teams also went to great lengths to help preserve the historic nature of the neighborhood, reusing old cobblestones and granite slabs where possible, and bringing in new granite that matches the old stone in color and character.”

The project included the laying of more than 255,000 cobblestones, 980 square feet of granite slabs for accessible crosswalks and 555 cubic yards of concrete sidewalk.

Other recent construction in the district included street restorations at Little W. 12th, 13th and 14th Sts. from Ninth Ave. to Washington St. This summer, the Meatpacking BID plans to add 11 trees and 21 planters to 14th St. between Ninth and Tenth Aves. Even more public space is being created near the Meatpacking District, with projects currently under construction at Piers 55 and 57, while a new park is being planned at Gansevoort Peninsula.

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Bakery in old Vesuvio spot closes on Prince

BY GABE HERMAN

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irdbath Green Bakery in Soho, at the former site of the legendary Vesuvio Bakery, closed on Aug.

9.

Birdbath, which is owned by City Bakery, moved into the space at 160 Prince St., between Thompson St. and West Broadway, in 2009. The bakery still sports the original Vesuvio storefront.

Maury Rubin, founder of City Bakery, said in an Instagram post that the shopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 10-year lease was up. When Rubin was asked by Gothamist for details, he reportedly said the same thing.

Rubinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Instagram post included memories of being in the Prince St. space for 10 years, and thoughts on the locationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historic significance.

He wrote about opening there in 2009, â&#x20AC;&#x153;after Vesuvioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sat empty after the death of Anthony Dapolito, the 2nd generation of the family that created Vesuvioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in 1920.â&#x20AC;?

Anthony Dapolitio, known as the Mayor of Greenwich Village, sold the bakery in 2003 because of health issues and died later that year at age 82.

Known to all as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tony,â&#x20AC;? he was a local activist, with a focus on parks, especially, and served on Community Board 2 for more than 50 years, including as

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Birdbath Green Baker y on Prince St., which kept the original storefront and canopy from Vesuvio Baker y, closed on Aug. 9.

its chairperson for many years.

The park around the corner from the bakery, at Thompson and Spring Sts., was renamed Vesuvio Playground

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in the 1990s in honor of Dapolito. A Parks Department policy did not allow it to be named for a living person, so it was named after his bakery. In 2004,

the nearby recreation center at Carmine St. and Seventh Ave. South was named after him.

Like only a few other Village spots, the bakery still was using a coal-burning oven during Dapolitoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s days.

Rubin added in his Instagram post, â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are few places like Vesuvioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s left in New York, a sad, diminishing reality.

To a bakery lover, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an heirloom. To a New York lover, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had ten special years behind that storefront. We kept the facade exactly as time delivered itâ&#x20AC;Ś I always felt this was the perfect evolutionary handoff: last century baking yielding to a new generation. In material terms, Semolina Bread and Pepper Biscuits turned to Pretzel Croissant and Rice Milk Muffins with Red Beans & Ginger.â&#x20AC;?

Rubin noted that many people had thanked him for not changing the placeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exterior, â&#x20AC;&#x153;a compliment that settles in my heart. Same time, have to admit that that was no grand decision: I simply wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to be the schmendrick who desecrated a city landmark.â&#x20AC;?

Rubin ended his post by writing, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In these days of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;retail apocalypse,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; we ran an old-fashioned neighborhood bakery.

We knew each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s names and felt part of a continuum. It was neighborhood, community and friendship. Vesuvio Bakery is magical, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m grateful I got to swim in that magic.â&#x20AC;?

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Editorial

Respect city’s Finest

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ine New York Police Department officers have taken their own lives this year, six cops in Philadelphia were shot last week while protecting their city, and the nation seems to continue to slip into a dark divide between police and civilians that needs mending.

But the much-needed way out of this darkness starts with a respect for the authorities. Make no mistake, there have been times when police have acted inappropriately. This editorial is to remind us all that the good of the many always outshines the darkness of the few.

Just imagine this: You’re an officer out on patrol and a call comes through the radio for a domestic-abuse incident. You then rush into that home to see a screaming child attempting to defend her helpless mother from an abusive aggressor, but fortunately you’re in time before anything too severe happens.

After almost suffering a broken jaw, along with cuts from the knife that the sick-minded individual was wielding, you’re able to subdue the individual with no harm to either the mother or child, just as backup arrives.

You decide to head downstairs and step outside as soon as you see that your colleagues are in control of the scene. You just want a second to clear your head from the horrible trauma that unfurled before continuing your patrol; after all, you’re only an hour into your shift.

So, you step outside, and suddenly you’re drenched head to toe from a bucket of water while you see almost a dozen people laughing while recording your humiliation on their cell phones. They don’t know what you had just been through and, almost just as sad, they don’t seem to care.

We can’t imagine a day at work going like that. But in a department of roughly 35,000, far too many N.Y.P.D. officers have seen something similar to that hypothetical scenario — and especially this summer.

Now more than ever, there’s a civic duty of all New Yorkers, let alone all Americans, to remind police that they are welcome in our communities. It’s on us to show that we respect law enforcement and their families for the sacrifices made, so that we have safer streets to walk.

No matter what, there will come a time when you are in need of the police.

However, now is a time that the police are in need of us. Even just saying, “Stay safe officer” to a cop leaving a deli can go further than you could imagine.

Letting the police know that their work isn’t in vain could end up saving a life, perhaps even yours, some day.

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STORY: “Bakery in old Vesuvio spot closes on Prince St.” (posted on thevillager.com 8/15/19) SUMM A RY: Birdbath Green Bakery, located in the former Vesuvio bakery space on Prince St., in Soho, recently closed after its 10-year lease was up. Vesuvio had been run by two generations of the Dapolito family, going back to 1920, including the late Tony Dapolio, the former chairperson of Community Board 2, who sold the store in 2003 due to health reasons. Maury Rubin, a baker and founder of City Bakery, which owns Birdbath, said he was glad he never changed the space’s historic wooden facade and that he tried to keep Vesuvio’s spirit alive.

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Letters to the Editor 12th and 13th Sts. bike lanes.

We urgently need more space for bicycles — everywhere.

On the factual tip, I’d like some corroboration that Transportation Alternatives’ “top officials” make $200,000 a year. Did you check with the organization, Villager?

A power broker’s legacy; Schwartz pulls a Moses

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Editor’s note: The Transportation Alternatives staff members’ salaries are listed in the group’s 2018 IRS 990 form, available online.

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sk any New York City history buff about the ultimate legacy of Robert Moses, and she’ll probably say something like, “He did a few good things, but in the end, he’ll be remembered for blocking mass transit from his state parks, to keep poor — as in, black — people out.” Ask a lifelong Villager the same question, and he might seethingly add, “And he nearly wiped out our neighborhood for a highway.”

It was Jane Jacobs’s community organizing that saved the Village from being sacrificed to Moses’ love affair with the automobile. I have to wonder what she would make of local activist Arthur Schwartz’s current lawsuit. Schwartz is fighting critical improvements to the M14 bus in order to preserve congested lanes for dangerous, polluting cars and trucks.

Some local history: A decade ago, I helped organize a campaign to save the M8 bus, which was then on the chopping block. A total of 3,609 neighbors from Avenue D to West St., signed our successful petition to save the bus. Notably, longtime community activist and District Leader Arthur Schwartz was not one of them. Since then, his view of mass transit has shifted from indifferent to hostile.

Like Moses, Schwartz has had a long, dedicated career of public service. Unfortunately, none of that may be remembered by future generations. Instead he’ll be the guy who used his power and legal acumen to keep lower-income people of color from getting to their jobs — just as Moses kept them from getting to the beach. This is especially odd, since Schwartz recently compared his critics to the Klan.

Let me be clear: Unlike Moses — whose hatred of people of color was well-documented, unambiguous and expansive — I’m not calling Schwartz a racist. His long career is the story of a man who has sought justice for the powerless at (almost) every turn. But the policy he’s fighting for is both racist and classist, and no amount of progressive bona fides can get around that.

Folks like Schwartz who choose to drive in the Village are very different (racially, economically) from the folks who rely on buses to get to their jobs, schools and doctors appointments. We know this because of the study Community Service Society did during the congestion pricing fight.

And while I’m singling Schwartz out, he’s not the only limousine liberal (or SUV socialist?) in our city. Across the river in Brooklyn, there are similar “progressives” fighting against a shelter for women and children in Park Slope. There are countless stories like this across our ostensibly left-wing city.

These kind of activists must be out-organized and defeated — at community board meetings, but also in Schwartz’s case, at the ballot box.

The difficult reality is that the chasm between what we say we believe versus our actual deeds is a universal condition.

This is the central moral question, and it’s a tough one.

Framed another way: There’s a little bit of Arthur Schwartz in all of us, and when it comes out we need to take a step back, look at the big picture, and think of our legacies.

Quinn Raymond is an IT security consultant who grew up and lived in the Village for 30 years. He currently lives in Brooklyn Heights.

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Lower Eastside Girls Club members joined 504 Democrats’ Michael Schweinsburg, right, in calling for restoring M14 bus stops. They said buses are reliable transpor tation for lower-income residents, and that more stops add to Girls Club members’ safety at night.

Jane would be smiling To The Editor: Re “Court slams brakes on 14th St. busway — again!” (news article, thevillager.com, Aug. 9): No one gave thousands of dollars. Block associations made commitments of $1,000 to pay for the record — meaning, the documents required for the lawsuit.

Meanwhile the executive director of Transportation Alternatives makes $200,000 per year, its deputy director make $140,000, and its communications director makes $120,000.

They are the wealthy folks telling residents of the Village and Chelsea what to do.

The Department of Transportation has already banned left turns, painted a busway, turned University Place around, closed Union Square West, barred right turns going east onto Broadway, barred left turns from Fourth Ave. onto 14th St., and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has instituted off-board ticketing.

My bet is that they have eliminated the problem without the dramatic shift of vehicles onto residential streets.

According to D.O.T.’s own data, under the busway plan, 1,000 cars per hour would be shifted just to 12th, 13th, 15th and 16th Sts. The agencies should study the impacts of what they have done so far, and rely on real data, not the rhetoric. And TVG

anyone who says that the local block associations are “organizations of a small wealthy minority” doesn’t know anything about our community.

Writing this three days after getting a new stay on the busway, I know that Jane Jacobs is smiling down at me this morning, not on Mayor de Blasio.

Arthur Schwartz

Cyclists’ righteous roll To The Editor: Re “Wheely mad: TransAlt rages at attorney” (news article, Aug. 15): Transportation Alternatives’ decision to picket Arthur Schwartz’s home may not have been particularly politic, but the “fascism” charge is offthe-charts irony. Bicyclists are an oppressed and stigmatized group in New York City, while motorists are ultra-privileged and have a virtual license to kill. Time and again we hear of pedestrians or cyclists killed by motorists in what are euphemistically called “accidents” or “crashes,” with no charges filed. The cyclists are on the side of social justice, and the motor-heads (and their enablers, like Schwartz) on the side of fascistic Ugly Americanism.

And if Schwartz and his colitigants have a legitimate argument against the plans for 14th St., they blow all their credibility with their opposition to the

Streets are for everyone To The Editor: Re “Wheely mad: TransAlt rages at attorney” (news article, Aug. 15): Transportation Alternatives, the well-funded lobbyists behind many of these street-level changes, are a bunch of elitist bullies throwing a temper tantrum because they didn’t get their way.

This fight is making sure our neighborhood and our streets are safe and easy to travel for everyone — a simple fact that’s gotten lost in this lovefest/push for commuters and bicyclists.

We are neighborhoods full of local businesses, of residents who’ve been here for decades, of projects, of public and private schools, of fancy and rentcontrolled buildings, of day workers and visitors.

The “rich” label that’s being slung at us is just another lie bandied about by TransAlt, the side in this that is actually oozing money.

How about we work together to make sure everyone is safe on streets that are becoming increasingly lawless?

Elissa Stein

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he Hudson River Park Trust is starting the process of taking over management of The River Project after the retirement of the latter’s founder, Cathy Drew. The two groups announced the transition earlier this month.

The River Project, an independent marine science group, has been on the West Side since the 1980s. Drew, its executive director, retired on May 31.

Drew founded the project in 1986 at Pier 26 in Tribeca, with the goals of doing estuarine research, providing educational programs about the Hudson River, and promoting the well-being of the local waters. Working with New York State, Drew helped create the Hudson River Estuarine Sanctuary.

The River Project’s mission will continue under the Trust, the statecity authority that operates and is building the 4.5-mile-long waterfront park. Over a period of 12 to 18 months, TRP will transition from an independent nonprofit to an entity under the Trust’s leadership. Two TRP staff members have begun working full time at the Trust, and other TRP staff will help with the transition.

TRP relocated to Pier 40, at W. Houston St., in 2005, where it has its offices and Wetlab. The group has worked with the Hudson River Park’s Estuary Lab on environmental research and education projects, along with improving the health of the waters. This work will continue and expand as TRP merges into the Trust, according to the announcement.

“My vision in founding The River Project 33 years ago was of publicly accessible scientific research and hands-on, get-wet education for all ages,” Drew said when the announcement was made. “We believe that in connecting people to the Harbor and Hudson Estuary, they would come to appreciate and protect our rich and vulnerable marine life.”

Drew highlighted ways TRP connects people to the river, such as a marine science field station with access for the public and the Wetlab for research and education.

“I am excited that this vision will continue and grow under the leadership of Hudson River Park Trust as part of the Hudson River Estuarine Sanctuary,” she said.

Madelyn Wils, president and C.E.O. of the Trust, said Drew has

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An intern with children at TRP’s “touch tank.”

set the bar high.

“Under Cathy Drew’s visionary leadership,” she said, “The River Project has played a vital role in protecting and promoting the long-

term health of the river, wildlife and surrounding habitat.”

Wils noted that Drew’s initial programming of TRP back when it was at Pier 26, with its Wetlab — fish tanks TVG

full of local aquatic animals — inspired the designation of the Hudson River Park Estuarine Sanctuary.

“In this next chapter, we look forward to pooling our collective knowledge and resources to preserve Cathy’s legacy and advance our work in the field,” Wils added.

The Trust will preserve The River Project’s name after the transition, along with recognizing Drew’s contributions and the grassroots group’s founding story.

The new TRP executive director is Richard Corman, a longtime Tribeca resident, who recently became president of the Downtown Independent Democrats political club. Corman has been on the TRP board since 2017.

“During the transition, we will be working closely with the Trust to expand, enhance and integrate our programming and we continue to look forward to the wonderful public support we have always had,” Corman said. He said TRP will continue working with the Trust on plans for a new, more extensive estuarium at Pier 26, The River Project’s first site.

The plan, which calls for a wetland tidal pool, is scheduled to finish by 2020, though there is no specific timetable for the new estuarium building.

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Progress Report

Budget wins for District 3 and all New York

BY COREY JOHNSON

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budget is more than just numbers. It is a reflection of values.

While the current White House administration is trying to kick 3.1 million people off food stamps, New York City is making unprecedented investments in programs that serve the most vulnerable, including those who are food insecure. While the federal Environmental Protection Agency is threatening budget cuts of nearly $1.4 billion in state environmental funding, we’re investing in our public parks and green spaces.

The city budget we recently passed, my second as Council speaker, will make a real difference in the lives of millions of New Yorkers. It includes more money to reopen community centers in New York City Housing Authority buildings, to add social workers in schools, to make sure more seniors are getting meals, and to provide more adult literacy classes for immigrants who want to learn English.

I’m particularly proud of all the investments this budget will make in the district I represent, Council District 3.

This budget includes $4.1 million for NYCHA Fulton and Elliot-Chelsea Houses for new water heaters, stairway and hallway lighting, and more. We allocated $100,000 to Encore Senior Center in Hell’s Kitchen for two new meal delivery vans. Another $85,000 will fund Greenwich House to provide more senior programming and case management, including at Westbeth and West Village Houses. And we designated $892,000 for new technology in schools across Council District 3 to give our young people the first-rate education they deserve. Additionally, we allocated $65,000 for state-of-the-art wastebaskets to clean up our streets.

One of my goals as councilmember is to fund the renovation of every park in my district, and to create new parks in neighborhoods underserved by green space. This budget includes $1.6 million for the creation of a new park in Hell’s Kitchen on a vacant lot on 10th Ave. at 49th St., as well as funding for the completion of Hudson River Park, Chelsea Waterside Park and more. Our public indoor recreation centers are equally important, so we’re purchasing new fitness equipment for both Chelsea Recreation Center and Tony Dapolito Recreation Center in the Village.

Greening our city is about more than just parks. Street trees absorb traffic noise, decrease pollution and create a mental and physical barrier between the sidewalk and the street. I have set out to fill every empty viable tree pit in

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COURTESY COREY JOHNSON’S OFFICE.

Council Speaker Corey Johnson tr ying out a slide in the recently opened Chelsea Green park.

Society of New York to plant shrubs or install raised flowerboxes in unviable tree pits. Often, these empty tree pits cannot be planted because they are sited above utilities or are under another tree’s canopy. The choice becomes pave over these tree pits or reutilize them.

It was a clear choice for us: Greenery must be replaced with greenery. New York has enough concrete. Now these tree pits will continue to collect storm water runoff and add beauty and oxygen to our neighborhoods.

We want a city that works for all of us. Clean, safe and affordable, with green space and good schools, and a city that supports our neighbors who are struggling with food insecurity, mental illness, lack of legal help and healthcare and other basic necessities.

I am proud of my colleagues in the Council for fighting for a budget that reflects the city we want to be, and I will keep fighting for budgets that make New York City work for District 3 and all New Yorkers.

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Council Speaker Corey Johnson at an “Invest in Libraries” rally.

the district with a new street tree before I leave office in 2021. To date, I have allocated more than $800,000 for new street trees and tree guards. And

this winter, several hundred new trees are scheduled to arrive.

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Johnson is the speaker of the New York City Council and represents Council District 3 (Greenwich Village, Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen, Times Square, Hudson Square, West Soho, Flatiron and Garment District).

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Square deal: Tech Hub, hospital, new shops

BY JENNIFER FALK

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nion Square-14th St. is a destination like none other in New York City or anywhere in the world. Here the city’s most vibrant and historic site of activism and protest sits shoulder to shoulder alongside one of its most peaceful public refuges. The Union Square Partnership (USP) is proud to serve as the organization that advocates for, beautifies and catalyzes change in ways that make this great neighborhood a true success story.

Here in Union Square, significant development projects are well underway that together represent investments valued at more than $450 million. These projects will bring hundreds of jobs, leading-edge tech, expanded healthcare services, and distinctive mixed-use commercial and residential developments to our ever-evolving community.

With all this activity, USP always sets our sights on the district’s future. We’re working with community stakeholders and design experts to examine ways to meet the area’s evolving needs in the short term, while making smart capital investments to positively transform our community for decades to come.

To map out a plan, we have engaged Marvel Architects — a noted architecture and design firm based in New York and San Juan, Puerto Rico — and immersed ourselves in a unique visioning process. This initiative has included unprecedented engagement with 1,000 Union Square residents, businesspeople, local politicians, visitors and others at more than a dozen outreach events and two large-scale community forums.

Community members shared their desire for more outdoor seating, additional healthy eateries, and new amenities that would activate underutilized spaces throughout the district. Stay tuned for news about the results of this effort later this year, when we will present a final report that spells out the community’s core vision for the future — and the steps we’ll need to take to realize it.

Very much in the present, one of the district’s most anticipated projects is a world-class tech-training center at 124 E. 14th St., at Irving Place. This exciting new asset is well on its way to being realized, with demolition of the former on-site building almost complete. The new 22-story structure will house a large-scale digital training facility run by the nonprofit Civic Hall. It will offer a full slate of community events and workshops, and lease flexible-term office space designed to meet the changing needs of early-stage tech startups.

With the vigorous backing of City Hall,

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Jennifer Falk, executive director of the Union Square Par tnership.

— includes more than 135 free events with 30 community partners, including heart-pumping cardio classes from some of the neighborhood’s hottest instructors, and tai chi led by instructors from the 14th Street Y, to lunchtime jazz and dance performances. We hope you’ll join us on Aug. 8 for summer’s grand finale — a spectacular movie night on the North Plaza, and then on Thurs., Sept. 19, for our fall fundraiser, Harvest in the Square, which funds our beautification work and community programming throughout the year.

One of USP’s many functions is to drive foot traffic and interest to the area by creating and highlighting Union Square’s unique attributes and sense of place.

This work pays off in many critical ways, including showcasing the area’s thriving retail scene — a flourishing sector boasting a 6.5 percent storefront vacancy rate as of the beginning of the third quarter of 2019, one of the city’s lowest. Our incredible transportation options, the tireless work of our Clean Team, the unmatched amenity of the park, and the sheer number of visitors — nearly 344,000 a day on a busy summer Friday — all helped attract more than 40 new businesses last year.

Among the newcomers are several chocolate and treats purveyors providing yet another reason to visit our

this $250-million, public-private project promises to add 600 good-paying jobs to New York’s innovation economy.

Union Square Park, the beating heart at the center of our district, is all about bringing people together. We’re particularly excited about work focused on sustainability this past year. We conducted our first-ever waste-characterization study in partnership with Columbia University’s Earth Institute and Sustainability Management program. USP also hosted our inaugural “Getting to Zero Waste” forum to help local small businesses and organizations reduce waste and improve recycling. We also issued a “Zero Waste Resource Guide” for businesses — and we recruited five area businesses to undergo waste audits. We’ll be presenting the results of those audits at our follow-up event, called “Waste Warrior Training,” later this year.

Union Square Park has been abuzz over the past year with more than 200 high-profile community events — a record-setting number — that together drew many thousands of participants.

This spring, our “It’s My Park! Day” celebration on Sat., June 1, kicked off our summer programming and highlighted ways to reduce waste, eat local, appreciate nature and live sustainably.

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area. They include Blue Stripes Cacao Shop, Venchi and the Nutella Cafe, the brand’s first stand-alone restaurant in New York City. Milk Bar, the nostalgic dessert chain, opened inside CAMP, a new experiential store with a summer camp theme that offers many free and paid family-friendly activities. CAMP is one of several new concepts that are thinking about the retail experience in fresh new ways — and infusing life back into previously vacant spaces. Another great example is the tech startup Spacious, a co-working company that took occupancy at 34 Union Square East, while brokers continue to market the space for sale.

Our area is also a place where more and more New Yorkers want to live.

Two large-scale residential and retail projects that will together bring close to 100 more residences to the district are transforming the intersection of 14th St. and Sixth Ave. At the northeast corner, DNA Development and Landsea are leading a 63,400-square-foot project slated to include 50 residential units, along with retail space. Directly across the street at 101 W. 14th St., developer Gemini Rosemont has started work on a 13-floor, 45-unit condo project, with plans to include 21 duplexes. Featuring a facade of glass boxes, the mixed-use project was designed by ODA New York.

Amid all this activity, on the district’s east side, our healthcare hub is growing.

On Second Ave. at 14th St., adjacent to the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, Mount Sinai Downtown is set to build a 70-bed mini-hospital that will feature a state-of-the-art emergency room.

Working strategically — and often in tandem — with a long list of neighborhood partners, the USP team raised more than $1.5 million in 2018. This funding, along with our assessment of $2.6 million, supports our “clean and safe” programs, as well as our beautification and capital work.

It’s our honor and pleasure to serve this vibrant, dynamic community. With its amazing history, location, character and amenities, Union Square is one of New York’s most sought-after neighborhoods.

We want you to be a part of this remarkable district’s continued success and growth. Please reach out to us at any time via e-mail or through our social media channels @UnionSquareNY. The USP team and I Iook forward to welcoming you to the Square.

Falk is executive director, Union Square Partnership.

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“Untitled” (2018), by Eloy Arribas, acr ylic and collage on canvas, 132 in. x 88.5 in.

Watermelon, wine and bird do

“Untitled” (2018), by Eloy Arribas, acr ylic and collage on wooden panel, 16 in. x 12 in.

bly and Basquiat.

In one of these grand-scale paintings, a crudely drawn Venus of Willendorf-like figure, a checkerboard pattern, and the words “salud,” “vino,” and “sandia” are arranged in a loose composition. Another features many disparate elements, like a stick figure painting on a collaged piece of paper, blueand-white boxes, a line drawing of the sun, a smoking head and the words “wine” and “fuma porro.”

This embrace of the commonplace can also be seen in some of his small-scale word paintings. In one, the word “sandia” (“watermelon” in Spanish) appears above an awkward, square-ish slice of seedless watermelon. The painting is reminiscent of a sign outside a roadside fruit stand.

Another word painting showcasing his sense of humor has the word “pajaros,” Spanish for “birds,” in black block letters at its bottom. The only color is five spots of paint in blue, green and red, and the painting mostly is filled with thick yellowish dabs of paint and a barely noticeable thinly drawn blue box. There are no visible birds; perhaps the colored dots are supposed to represent them. The white blobs are probably bird feces and this is, in fact, probably a painting of bird droppings.

roughly textured, pieced-together canvases that are sewn together. These paintings evoke artists Arribas seems to be in conversation with, like Twom-

Eloy Arribas’s “Frugivore Bats” at Freight + Volume, at 97 Allen St., until Sept. 1, Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

BY NANCY ELSAMANOUDI

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loy Arribas’s intensely intuitive energetic paintings are an odd mix of blobs and dabs of paint, blurred shapes, glued-on collage, scrawls, doodles and loose drawings. They include sun rays, colored checkerboard patterns, smoking heads, fertility goddesses, wine jugs and watermelon. There are also handwritten and block-printed words in Spanish and English (like “sandia,” “pajaros,” “salud,” “Ceres” and “wine”).

There is freshness to Arribas’s paintings, currently on view in his solo show “Frugivore Bats” at Freight + Volume gallery on the Lower East Side.

There is a particular attitude in his work that seems to embody a kind of contagious, Bartleby-like stubbornness. It seems, for him, being an artist means doing exactly what he wants without hesitation regardless of whether it makes sense to anyone else.

Arribas draws freely from history, from both the primitive and contemporary worlds — from graffiti and advertising to cave paintings and hieroglyphs.

There is an openness to how he uses space, a refusal to be precious in his use of materials, an unaffected celebration of everyday life and things.

This generous approach is apparent in Arribas’s four untitled large-scale canvas paintings in the show. They are all a kind of dirty gray, calling to mind the grit of the city, and are constructed from

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One of the winning designs for the Seapor t-area anti-flood murals, by Kaayla Lee.

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A winning design, by Mia Marais.

Thirteen new murals for Seaport District

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nti-flood barriers can repel storm surges and look good while doing it, too.

Winning designs were announced earlier this month for the Seaport Community Mural Project, which will install designs on structures that are part of the city’s Interim Flood Protection Measure (IFPM). The announcement was made by Borough President Gale Brewer and New York City Emergency Management.

Thirteen designs were selected for the mural project. The chosen illustrations relate to various aspects of Lower Manhattan, including its history, architecture and connection to marine life, plus the project’s goal of protecting the area from floods.

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A winning mural design, by Naima Rauam.

The murals will be printed on vinyl and installed late this summer or in the early fall and stay up for around one to five years.

The $3.5-million IFPM program will include the city’s Emergency Management installing “just-in-time” waterfilled dams if a storm is imminent, along with pre-deployed sand-filled barriers.

The protections will be installed along a section slightly more than one mile long in the Seaport area and parts of Two Bridges and the Financial District.

They are intended to defend against a 10-year flood — meaning floods that have a 10 percent chance of happening in any given year.

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new Georgian restaurant in the Village boasts a wide variety of dishes from the Eurasian country and has been getting good reviews since it opened this spring.

Chama Mama opened in March at 149 W. 14th St., between Sixth and Seventh Aves., after signing a 10-year lease for the space.

The restaurant touts its â&#x20AC;&#x153;classic Georgian cuisine with a modern spin,â&#x20AC;? including three foundational â&#x20AC;&#x153;ingredients.â&#x20AC;? One is called tone, which is a large clay oven, custom built in this location, for baking daily bread.

The second key element is khachapuri, a cheese bread that is part of traditional Georgian cuisine. Two of the signature types of the bread are lobiani, which includes kidney beans slow cooked with smoked pork, and adjarui, with cheese and egg.

The third key is qvevri, an egg-shaped clay pot for making and storing wine.

The menu features five kinds of the khachapuri cheese bread, ranging from $13 to $15. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Small Cold Platesâ&#x20AC;? on the menu include stuffed eggplant, stuffed sweet red peppers, gebjalia (handmade cheese rolled with yogurt

and mint), and adjabsandali (eggplant stew with tomato, mixed peppers and purple basil).

Small hot plates, from $10 to $13, include lambstuffed grape leaves, a bean stew called lobio, roasted wild mushrooms, and house-made dumplings called khinkali, with fillings, such as cheeses, nuts and meats.

Larger â&#x20AC;&#x153;shared platesâ&#x20AC;? feature meats, such as game hen, braised lamb, braised beef short ribs, and a beef and pork dish.

Chama Mama gets good reviews, averaging four-and-a-half stars out of five on Yelp. While some noted the small space can get crowded, the food gets high marks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything was extremely delicious and the bread was so soft and yummy, it literally felt like it was melting in our mouths,â&#x20AC;? one diner wrote in July. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I could literally eat all of their dishes daily because of how fresh, filling and flavorful it was. The honey cake was absolutely perfection and tasted like tiramisu and baklava in one.â&#x20AC;?

Other desserts include Easter cheesecake, a parfait with cottage cheese, and cream cheese with dried fruits and almonds, plus Death By Chocolate, with chocolate, chestnuts and citrus sauce.

For more information, visit chamamama.com.

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Manhattan Happenings

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KIDS Summer on the Hudson: Game Days: Children age 12 and younger are provided with games like giant tic-tactoe, hopscotch, jump rope and more.

Wed., Aug. 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m at 125th and Marginal Sts. on the West Harlem Piers. Free.

Family Festival: Young Artists en Plein Air: New York families — young artists and their caregivers, too — are invited to make art en plein air (that’s French for “outdoors”) with High Line partner the Children’s Museum of the Arts. Join the parade to the Young Artists Dance Party from noon to 1 p.m.

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The show runs till Aug. 25, Thursdays through Sundays at 6:30 p.m. All shows are “donate what you can.” At the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in Riverside Park, at W. 89th St. and Riverside Drive.

New York City Opera — “Carmen”: The innkeeper Lillas Pastia narrates the tempestuous story of the irresistible seductress Carmen and her hapless lover Don José in this hourlong presentation of highlights from Bizet’s beloved opera.

Offered to the New York public free of charge, this presentation is a perfect introduction to opera for newcomers of any age. Mon., Aug. 26, from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., at Bryant Park, W. 41st St. and Sixth Ave.

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Historic-st yle Whitehall rowboats, from the Village Community Boathouse, pulled up on the shore in New Jersey. The boathouse, at Pier 40, offers free rowing on Thursdays and Sundays.

to 11 a.m., at Hudson Park Fountains in Bella Abzug Park, between W. 34th and W. 35th Sts. and 10th and 11th Aves.

to 55, plus saw stints by several other professional teams. This exhibition will explore and celebrate those teams that made the stadium a New York icon and the associated personalities that became local and national heroes. Free, but advanced registration required on Eventbrite. The opening reception for the exhibit will be on Thurs., Aug. 22, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., at the MorrisJumel Mansion, in Roger Morris Park, at 65 Jumel Terrace.

Carl Allen’s Art Blakey Tribute, George Coleman Trio, Fred Hersch and Lakecia Benjamin on Sun., Aug. 25, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.

OUTDOORS Community rowing at Pier 40: Village Community Boathouse provides free community rowing on the Hudson River in historic-style Whitehall boats — no experience necessary — at Pier 40, at 353 West St., at W. Houston St., every Sunday at noon and every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. until November, weather permitting.

MOVIES Movies Under the Arch: “Dirty Dancing”: Bring a blanket, food and friends to Movie Night Under the Arch, featuring perennial favorite “Dirty Dancing.” The space opens at 6 p.m. for blankets and picnicking — first come, first served — so arrive early to get a spot. The movie will begin at dusk (around 8 p.m.) at the Washington Square Arch, on Thurs., Aug. 29, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

MUSIC Blues BBQ Festival: Hudson River Park’s Blues BBQ Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary this season. Join the party to close out your summer with a fantastic lineup of artists from across the United States. Enjoy barbecue from local New York City favorites, and sip beverages while you listen to the sweet sounds of Kevin Burt, the World Famous Harlem Gospel Choir, A.J. Ghent, Ruthie Foster and Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe. Sat., Aug. 24, 2 p.m. to 9 p.m., on Hudson River Park’s Pier 97, at W. 59th St. and 12th Ave. Free.

EXERCISE Yoga Flow with Malorie: Hosted by the Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance, come flow through a chaturanga with views of New York City’s newest park and neighborhood. HYKA provides mats and blocks for the first 25 participants. Sat., Aug. 24, from 10 a.m.

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WALKING TOURS Washington Square Park tour: For nearly two centuries, Washington Square Park has been a beloved hub and respite for locals while attracting visitors from around the world. Join a park docent at the Holley Plaza, on the park’s western side, for a free tour and learn about the expansive and colorful history of this space. Sat., Aug. 24, from 11 a.m. to noon.

A trip through 19th-century Noho: The Merchant’s House Museum will guide you on a one-hour walking tour of Noho, focusing on its 19th-century landmark buildings and history. Take a journey back in time to the elite Bond St. area, home to the Tredwells, the residents of the Merchant’s House. See how the neighborhood around the Tredwells’ home went from a refined and tranquil residential enclave to a bustling commercial center. Reservations recommended, $15. Sun., Aug. 25, 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Meet at the Merchant’s House Museum, 29 E. Fourth St., between the Bowery and Lafayette St. August 22, 2019

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las, summer is more than two-thirds over, and cooler weather is just around the corner.

On a positive note, fall is the perfect time to give your yard, garden or window boxes a seasonal refresh.

Some planning and forethought can yield a colorful bounty of flowers come spring. And gardeners say fall is the best time to plant new trees and shrubs.

“Fall is a really good time for planting any kind of big perennials, trees or shrubs,” said gardener Krissie Nagy of BK Bumpkin. “In the winter, they’re allowed to work on their root systems and establishing their roots and not worry about any leafy, vegetative growth.”

If you have window boxes, Nagy recommends hardy plantings, such as ornamental cabbages, kale and dwarf conifers to last through winter. Mums also survive the first frosts, she said.

Carmen DeVito of Groundworks Inc. clears out window boxes by Thanksgiving and plants a mix of dried, live and cut evergreens. She uses a spray called Wilt Pruf to protect them in the coldest months.

“I combine pine cones, along with living evergreens and cut evergreens to make the look nondenominational and wintery,” she said. “We buy giant sugar cones, and plants like junipers and grasses and combine that with beautiful cut boughs.”

Other outdoor containers should be raised at least a half-inch off the ground to prevent freezing and cracking.

“If you have ceramic ones, you want to empty them out, turn them upside down and put them in a place like a garage or a shed or attic,” DeVito said.

For gardens, Nagy recommends a fresh layer of hardwood bark mulch to aerate the soil, and cutting

PHOTO BY SUSAN DE VRIES

For beautiful gardens in the spring, begin laying the groundwork in the fall.

back annuals after the first frost.

Raking up leaves is another way to prepare your garden or yard for the winter months.

“I like to do it lazy gardener way — wait until all of them fall down, then take them out for compost,”

Nagy said. “Sometimes, I’ll leave some leaves in the garden, so come springtime, you’ll have sort of a leafy semi-decomposed product that can fertilize your plants.”

DeVito recommends a thorough fall cleanup.

“We like to really clean up the gardens in the fall, cut down most of the perennials,” she said, “so in the spring it’s not a mess of dead leaves and decaying branches to clean up.

“I really believe in doing as much as possible in the fall,” she added. “This way, in spring you can really focus on design and planning and thinking about all the new things you want to bring in your garden, and not all the backbreaking work you have to do.”

October and November are the best months to plant bulbs like crocuses, snowdrops, Spanish bluebells, grape hyacinth and allium, said Christina Brown of Christina Brown Gardens. Some perennials will grow back for 10 years or more and may multiply.

Tulips usually need to be replanted each year.

“It’s fun planting a bulb,” Brown said. “You have this little nugget that’s not going to do anything for the winter. It’s a fun surprise, because I feel like in early spring, we’re just so sick of the weather, and you get this early spring cheer coming from the ground.”

DeVito recommends planting extra bulbs and covering them with chicken wire in squirrel-infested areas.

“Always plant 10 or 15 percent more than you think you’ll need because some will rot, some will get eaten by the squirrels,” she said.

“It will make a bigger show. When you plant bulbs, you want to put them in masses.”

PHOTO BY SUSAN DE VRIES

This article first ran in Brownstoner, a sister Schneps Media publication of The Villager.

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