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RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CMOM HERE COMES THE STRAND SHOPS
The legendary Greenwich Village bookstore is expanding to the Upper West Side, taking over the Columbus Ave. space where Book Culture was located BY JASON COHEN
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century, opens a new chapter next month when it expands to the Upper West Side. In business since 1927, at East 12th St. and Broadway, two blocks south of Union Square, the Strand will be taking over the space at 450 Columbus Ave. previously occupied by Book Culture, which shut down last month after struggling to pay more than $100,000 in back rent. Strand owner Nancy Bass Wyden is eager to make the move uptown. “We are so excited to expand the Strand and engage the community of the Upper West Side,” Bass Wyden wrote on Facebook. “We aim to continue the legacy of my father, and his father before him, by bringing the joy of books to everyone.”
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THE BLOOMBERG METHOD A rendering of the future home of the Children’s Museum of Manhattan in the former Christian Science church on Central Park West on 96th Street. It shows a new roof atop the landmark, complete with a walkway and performance space, as well as new transparent windows that would replace the 120-yearold stained-glass windows. Rendering: Courtesy of CMOM / FXCollaborative
DEVELOPMENT A beloved museum’s proposal for a redesign of its future home in a landmark church on Central Park West has disappointed a community that avidly embraced the move BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN
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Removing the stained-glass windows, with some of the finest turn-of-the-century art glass in New York City, would be like taking down a Rembrandt.” Susan Simon, founder of CPW Neighbors Association
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NY bill proposes banning retail sales of dogs, cats, rabbits BY MARINA VILLENEUVE, ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York could ban retail pet shops from selling dogs, cats or rabbits as soon as mid2021 under a Democratic state senator’s bill. The state would join Maryland and California and hundreds of municipalities nationwide that have taken a stand to outlaw sales of those pets, Deputy Senate Leader Mike Gianaris said Monday. Supporters including The Humane Society of the United States and the New York State Animal Protection Federation say the vast majority of New York pet stores already don’t sell cats, dogs or rabbits. But Libby Post, the executive di-
rector of the federation, says the proposal is an “opportunity for pet stores to rebrand themselves as compassionate businesses that put puppies over profits.’’ Post said the issue of puppy mills fueled by high demand for young canines is the “most pronounced.’’ But she said there are also mills that cater to owners seeking designer cat breeds and families seeking bunnies for the Easter holiday. The legislation would impact an estimated 80 pet retail stores largely located in New York City and Long Island that have registered with the state. New Yorkers could still buy cats, dogs and rabbits directly from breeders. Pet stores could face penalties for violating the law, which also allows shops to work with animal shelters or rescue groups to offer animals for adoption. The bill would become effec-
tive a year after it’s signed into law. Animal welfare groups argue that importation certificates show New York pet stores too often bring in puppies from states in the Midwest with high numbers of commercial pet facilities. Supporters say the federal government is failing to sufficiently investigate a system in which pet stores can turn to regulated dog brokers who buy puppies from breeders and resell them to retailers. A spokesman for New York’s agriculture department says licensed pet dealers that move animals across state lines must document that a veterinarian observed the pets and that they don’t appear to have a disease. “Buyers are also entitled to receive information about where their pets came from and dealers are required to provide that information at the time of sale,‘’ said spokes-
woman Kirstan Conley.
“Puppy Mill Pipeline” Over 2,000 dogs are for sale in pet shops in New York at any time, according to advocacy group New Yorkers for Clean, Livable and Safe Streets Executive Director Edita Birnkrant. “By passing this legislation we can shut down the puppy mill pipeline and ensure that animals from shelters are adopted at New York shops instead of enriching cruel breeders,‘’ Birnkrant said. Animal welfare activists argued Monday that pet stores make most of their money from
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is unclear. It so far has over a dozen Senate co-sponsors and at least one co-sponsor in the Assembly. A spokesman for Gov. Andrew Cuomo said his office is interested in any proposal that would better protect pets. The governor last year signed into law the nation’s first ban on declawing cats. “We’ll review this legislation in consultation with the state’s top kibble and chew toy advocate, Captain,“ said senior advisor Richard Azzopardi, referring to Democrat Cuomo’s two-year-old gray and white Northern Inuit dog.
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selling pet supplies anyways. But Pet Industry Advisory Council President and CEO Mike Bober said New York’s bill would threaten locally owned pet stores while doing nothing to address irresponsible breeders. Bober, whose group represents the nation’s pet industry, said it’s more important to strengthen and enforce federal standards for pet providers. “These protections, along with the consumer warranties that pet stores are required by law to offer, are not mandatory for any other animal source,‘’ Bober said. The fate of New York’s bill
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ARREST AFTER DOMESTIC DISPUTE A woman told police that on Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 28, her husband punched her in the head and face with a closed fist, causing swelling, bruising and substantial pain in her left eye and nose. She also said he took her iPhone from their apartment on West 109th St and when she followed him into the hallway to get the phone back he dragged her and slammed her head against a wall. EMS was called to the scene, and Jason K Ramos, 37, was arrested and charged with robbery. The stolen cell was an iPhone 11 valued at $700.
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Police reported that on Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 29, a male suspect grabbed a Nike gym bag off a rack inside the T.J. Maxx store at 808 Columbus Ave. at West 100th St., grabbed other items of merchandise and stuffed them in the bag, then walked past the cash register area. When a male employee confronted the suspect, police said, he displayed a needle, saying, “Come at me, and I’m going to stab you!” The suspect then fled the scene on foot. The employee
At 1:07 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 30, police said a female employee inside the Lenscrafters store at 2770 Broadway at West 107th St. saw a man take some eyeglass frames and attempt to leave without paying. When she tried to stop him, police said, the suspect grabbed her and slammed her to the ground outside the store, causing her to lose consciousness. She later complained of substantial pain and injuries to her head, neck and shoulder and was transported to Lenox
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contusion in his left eye and was transported to St. Luke’s Hospital. The items stolen in the incident, which occurred at 3:45 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 2, included $200 cash.
A man who withdrew money from an ATM in a bodega on West 102nd St. was followed home to 830 Amsterdam Ave., assaulted and robbed by two men, police said. The suspects followed the victim into the elevator and when he got off on his floor they grabbed him around the neck from behind and dragged him to the floor, where they punched him in the face and removed his jacket, taking items from his jacket pocket before fleeing. The victim sustained pain and a
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As the primaries get underway, my old boss, your former mayor, is using the same tactics in his run for president that he used throughout his billionaire business career BY JON FRIEDMAN
I have to smile as I watch America trying to make sense of Michael Bloomberg’s insurgent presidential run. Journalists and pundits are racking their brains to explain Bloomberg’s improbable, unconventional strategy. They claim on cable news shows to understand the origins of the lifelong success of this self-made billionaire, media tycoon and three-term mayor of New York City. To that, I propose a word that Bloomberg’s base of Noo Yawkers can appreciate: fuhgeddaboudit! The Intellegencia can’t appreciate that Bloomberg is simply repeating his history. The same tactics that he employed to become a billionaire media entrepreneur are the ones he is using again, now, in national politics. Forgive my arrogance but most of the so-called experts have not got a clue. Why? Because they see Bloomberg as outsiders.
Mike the Boss But I am different. I worked for Mike Bloomberg’s nascent media company in its early days, from 1993 to 1999. Back then, Mike enjoyed kibitzing with his employees, both in the office, then located at 499 Park Avenue, and at the annual picnic that he threw for the staff and families every summer at his sprawling home in nearby suburban Armonk, N.Y. (The petting zoo was a favorite destination). We pulled together at the holiday party at the Big Apple Circus, too. I got a pretty good glimpse into his thinking. I had a ringside seat. You see, for a while, my desk was only a few yards from his – heck, if my memory serves me well, the
In November, Bloomberg filed for the Arizona Democratic presidential primary. Photo: Courtesy Mike Bloomberg 2020 via Twitter
entire company was housed on the same floor when I joined up, in 1993. We were all in it together – topping our then-rival Reuters, then taking down the heavyweights, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
Once Again, a Daring Strategy Once again, my old boss has come up with a daring strategy to push himself into the fray. In the 20th century, it was called the Bloomberg Terminal. It published data better and faster than anyone else on the Wall Street scene. Why did Bloomberg focus on Wall Street? Because that’s where the big money was. Let the mutual fund companies battle for the small-ticket investors. Now, he is bypassing the traditional Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada smackdowns to focus on Super Tuesday. Why? That’s where the big votes are. Let the other candidates scrap for scraps in small states.
Innovator Bloomberg understood how to get the most out of a small, ferociously hard working staff. He was a visionary and an innovator. To supply content on the Bloomberg Terminal, he decreed that we lifelong “print” reporters would now tape and film interviews in the field to accompany our stories. This may have been the first time that a news organization did this – years before the rest of the media joined in. My most profound memory
of Bloomberg was as an innovator who got things done. Period. That’s how he conquered the business world. That’s how he intends to become our next president. Mike never worried about offending people with his brashness. I’ve never met a smarter or more self-confident person. He is the epitome of a leader. He communicates his vision well, and people who believe in it follow him avidly. He commands loyalty. In the old days, we Bloomberg employees joked about “drinking the Kool-Aid.” But we did, anyway.
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Bumps in the Road Bloomberg is hardly perfect, of course. If he has fiascoes on the campaign trail, the point of his campaign might be moot. On Feb. 6, the Intercept reported that sizable chunks of Bloomberg’s policy positions had been taken from a plethora of news organizations. Being accused of rampant plagiarism isn’t in the playbook of winning friends and influencing people. He is still trying to explain his support for the controversial stop-and-frisk policy of his NYPD. And there’s the matter of some reckless comments he made way back when, which look especially damaging in the #metoo era. The media like to discover a New Thing and proceed to build it up until there is nowhere to go but down. That will happen to Bloomberg, too. Just watch. Still, bet against him at your peril. The guy is a winner.
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OF VALENTINES AND HALFTIME SHOWS BY BETTE DEWING
“You make me smile with my heart” As some of you know, those words are from the ever timeless “My Funny Valentine.” And yes, composers Rodgers and Hart wrote them about couple love. But “smiling with our hearts” is so universally needed. So are songs that apply to family, friendship and neighbor love. And you’ll agree that infinitely more needs to be said about these affections so essential to everyday health and well-being.
Super Bowl R-Rated Concern And yes, I dare to say it, a little of that was sure needed in the Super Bowl halftime show viewed or heard by a worldwide audience. Some critics allowed the pole and other dancing by Jennifer Lopez and Shakira was “not suitable” for young viewers. Not surprisingly, the Reverend Franklin Graham was one who protested the exploitation of women in this prime time performance, especially one watched by many children. Dad Billy might have said “not suitable for any viewer.” And as for the lyrics, they sure have little or anything to do with love. A few critics also called it “sexual exploitation” of these two pop star women artists, but others found it “a real breakthrough for Latina women artists to make the Super Bowl show.” Too little remembered in general now
is how “women as sex objects” was a foremost concern of the Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem feminist era. So was women being inordinately judged by their appearance, which had better be youthful. Have we come a long way?
Valentines for Volunteers But back to Valentine’s Day and the need to celebrate family, friendship, neighborly love, and don’t forget love of volunteers, especially those who spend time with those, often old people, who are too much alone. Reportedly, elders are low on the volunteer recipient list and yet New Yorkers are home to a record number of 85-plus citizens. Incidently, it’s also the fastest-growing age group and the needs often grow greater with age and these stories need to get out there.
Remembering Kirk Douglas’s Late Life And this relates to actor Kirk Douglas departing this life at age 103. Unlike so many living a very long time, he no doubt had the best care money could buy and a devoted wife and family close by. Even so, living so long is difficult with problems I suspect Douglas felt should not be publicly aired. He did mention the word “forgotten” once. And yet problems that come with age, often due in part to ageism and age segregation, especially need to get out there for these years to be made more livable – indeed livable. Then
too, just maybe we are living too long. When the going gets too rough, should assisted suicide be legal?
Valentines for Apartment House Staffs And close to home, this surely relates to those who live in doorman buildings – and heartfelt Valentines to these often veritable lifelines for some residents – and so essential in general for safe and livable housing. So are their supers of course, and all are role models for the very busy residents to take time to be more neighborly. And how essential that is for their children to learn. Building staffs bring residents and generations together, And they make the neighborhood safer which is becoming a bit more of a concern. Of course, Valentines are surely due to New York’s Finest and Bravest and elected officials who promptly respond to constituents calls for assistance, Yes, Valentines to philanthropic groups in general, and don’t forget faith groups, especially those who look after – include – their most vulnerable members. And back to the songs we need – well lyrics are needed for all the above – so let’s all write them and sing them! And for now, just change the lyric to “You’re my family Valentine...” or friendly or neighborly Valentine. Valentine’s blessings to you dear readers and advertisers. “You make me smile with my heart “
GIVING UP FLOWERS FOR V-DAY ON THE TOWN
BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL I no longer measure love in rose petals. My husband Neil and I have been together almost forty years. In that time, our Valentine’s Day acknowledgements have run the gamut. * In the very early years, Neil was on the partner track at his law firm, which operated like a 7-Eleven — they never closed. I should not have been surprised that, though every store in NYC had giant red hearts plastered all over its window displays, when I asked him tearfully how he could not have remembered what day it was, his ingenuous response was: “It’s today?” * One year, I received a ceramic keepsake box. He bought it because it was red. It had a bird on the cover. It’s the thought that counted. * The time I consider my coup de grace was when I got out of my morning shower to find two dozen roses on the bed, then, when I arrived at work, there was a delivery of a dozen more for my desk. And yes, I placed them strategically so all could see my cache. Two back-to-back V-Days in the mid-‘90s though were what put me on the road to not using the holiday as a metric for whether or not I am loved. * I sat in our apartment waiting for Chinese food-forone because Neil had to work late. To add insult to injury, I thumbed through a fashion glossy with a model-turnedactress on the cover. Her story described a perfect life, and last “ultimate date night” as a way of showing how equally perfect her marriage was. The star’s husband
The author with her husband, Neil. Photo courtesy of Lorraine Duffy Merkl led her up the mountain behind their Montana spread where she found a table set for two under a heated tent. They were served a catered meal flown in from her favorite NYC restaurant, and dined to the dulcet tones of a string quartet. I may have thrown the magazine across the room. I don’t recall exactly. I do remember that when Neil returned home, he removed a rather crinkled card from his briefcase. I’m pretty sure I mustered up a tired “thanks,” most likely through gritted teeth. * The following year, he again was on a case that required 24/7 diligence. That time, my reading material of choice was an entertainment magazine, where the aforementioned actress was giving her first interview since her divorce and new life as a single mom. I guess a quixotic Valentine’s Day does not a happy marriage guarantee, I realized. This time when Neil arrived with what looked like the last picked over card from Duane Reade and a bouquet on-its-lastlegs from the Korean deli, I was more gracious than the year before, hugging him and offering a genuine “thank you.” In the years since, I learned to give validity to the phrase I once heard that “love” is not a noun, but an action verb, and shown once a year
with a gift is not it. It’s — in my case, anyway — preparing dinner because Neil knows I would rather wash every dish and pot in the kitchen than boil water; when he used to take our young children to the park on Saturdays, so I could do errands in peace or have a nonchore afternoon to myself; or most recently, holding my 97year-old mother’s hand while she laid in her hospital bed, so she would not feel alone when I took a break to get some rest. Last year, was a first for our long relationship. I put a moratorium on flowers. I decided that I would rather get an impromptu, reasonably priced bunch in July to brighten our home, than get gouged by an obligatory, overpriced one. (Same goes for the pervasive $300 per person pre-fixe, 5-course Vday meal offered by many a restaurant.) I have no doubt that, even without either, love will be in the air on February 14th as it is the other 364 days. As for you dear readers: Happy Valentine’s Day. Or Palentine’s Day. Or Galentine’s Day. Whichever of the offshoots you celebrate. Happy Friday to everyone else. Lorraine Duffy Merkl is the author of the novels Fat Chick and Back to Work She Goes.
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The Spirit|Westsider westsidespirit.com According to Bass Wyden, her grandfather and father worked 10 hours a day six days a week and passed that passion onto her. Bass Wyden, now 58, began working at the Strand when she was 25. “It always felt like a magical place,” she said. “It feels like I grew up at the Strand.” As bookstores have been dying all over the city, Bass Wyden said she has mixed feelings about being one of the few remaining ones. See-
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ing Book Culture and Papyrus shutter their doors breaks her heart, she said.
Giving Readers What They Want But the Strand’s longstanding roots in the community have allowed it to thrive. And as times changed the store adapted and used the internet to its advantage. “We knew we had to get on the internet,” said Bass Wyden. “We had no inventory online at first. We love it as a communications tool.” The Strand carries over 2.5 million new, used and rare books, covering a wide range of topics. “Our mission is to put good books in our hands of readers,” Bass Wyden said. “I think people always like to shop. People want to go to their book -loving community.” Its in-store events feature writers like Patti Smith and political strategist Rick Wilson, as well as panel discussions, such as one later this month celebrating the life and work of Zora Neale Huston. Bass Wyden told Straus News she had been looking to expand and when she heard
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Recent additions to the collection of the Museum of the City of New York tell the story of Gotham and its diverse inhabitants BY VAL CASTONOVO
Peter Stuyvesant’s map of his farm property. Milton Glaser’s “I [Heart] New York More Than Ever” poster following 9/11. A coffee dispenser from Horn & Hardart. A pillbox hat designed by the late Bill Cunningham, “William J.” A New Year’s Eve invite for an inaugural ride on the Second Avenue Subway — and a silver tray mapping surveillance cameras in Manhattan. These material emblems of New York, plus 172 photographs of the city and its citizens, are on view in
WHAT: “Collecting New York’s Stories: Stuyvesant to Sid Vicious” WHERE: Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue (at 103rd Street) mcny.org WHEN: Through December 31. “Collecting New York’s Stories,” an exhibit in two parts that beautifully showcases recent acquisitions at the Museum of the City of New York. The artifacts are quite tactile and in some cases throwaways that fortuitously found their way to the museum. They are testaments to the everyday lives of everyday people in the teeming metropolis. “I think that a lot of people have one view of New York,” said curator Lindsay Turley, who organized the objects in the Tiffany Gallery. “They
Kathy Fixing Her Hair in a Cigarette Machine Mirror, Coney Island, 1959. From Series: “Brooklyn Gang”Gelatin silver print. Museum of the City of New York. Anonymous gift, 2018.40.385 Photo: Bruce Davidson
think of going to Broadway plays every night. New York is Times Square. It’s the Empire State Building. It’s going to the Statue of Liberty. It’s really fantastic to be able to present the view here in our galleries that the lives that people lead while residents of the city is not all glitz and glam. We do a lot of the same things that people do across the country—we work, we figure out which garments to wear each day.”
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Sid Vicious Under Arrest for the Murder of Girlfriend Nancy Spungen, New York, 1978. Gelatin silver print. Museum of the City of New York. Gift of Allan Tannenbaum, 2019.6.4 Photo: Allan Tannenbaum
One of the choicest bits of city history can be glimpsed in a Depression-era cosmetology set, owned by Sylvia Green Greenseid, a 1936 graduate of the Manhattan Evening Trade School. The kit boasts metal hair rollers, a curling iron, bobby pins, scissors and a nail file. Said Turley: “It’s a fabulous story. Sylvia Greenseid got her degree right after middle school. She went on to become a working woman in the
1940s. We didn’t have a lot of material in our collection that could speak to the experience of a woman worker in the 20th century.” Lately, the focus at MCNY has been on building out some of the more contemporary areas of the collection. “We’re also really conscious that we are striving to tell all of New York’s stories, so we are thinking about all different types of New Yorkers, not just people who are most likely to save things from exclusive events,” Turley said. The wall at the entryway to the artifacts gallery is festooned with posters, including a hand-made sign from the January 2017 New York City Women’s March — “Respect Us” — with a drawing of a diverse group of women and young girls linking arms in solidarity. The 2016 Presidential contest figures in another piece, artist Matthew “Levee” Chavez’s “Subway Therapy,” a project initiated the day
after the controversial election. Chavez handed out sticky notes and pens and encouraged straphangers to express themselves in the 14th Street pedestrian tunnel. The venting spread like wildfire and resulted in 50,000 notes, a selection captured here in a photomural, along with some of the original Post-its. A sampling of sentiments: “Love is the answer,” “My uterus, my rules,” “Hope is good, but action is better.”
Ordinary and Not-SoOrdinary People The visual storytelling continues in an adjacent gallery devoted to photos acquired within the last three years, most of them dating from the 1980s to the present. Wellknown photographers like James Van Der Zee, Aaron Siskind and Bruce Davidson share the stage with lesserknowns like Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Robert Gerhardt and Mitchell Hartman. There’s a decided focus on
people versus places, but that’s not to say the city’s architecture and the Brooklyn Bridge are not represented. They’re here, too. But the spotlight is on ordinary, and some not-so-ordinary, people livin’ in the city, the bulk in Harlem, the East Village and the outer boroughs. Allan Tannenbaum photographed John Lennon and Yoko Ono in front of the Dakota (1980), Deborah Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie on a roof (1980), and Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious after his arrest for the murder of his girlfriend at the Hotel Chelsea (1978). Milt Hinton’s photos of jazz legends and Yousuf Karsh’s vintage portrait of the Marx Brothers notwithstanding, the rest capture a cross-section of anonymous folk — young and old, native and immigrant, Black, Asian and Caucasian.
Social and Economic Diversity Photo curator Sean Corcoran points to four photos from the go-go Eighties by Richard Sandler that highlight the city’s historic wealth gap. Two picture well-heeled pedestrians on Fifth Avenue — ladies in fur coats and a man and woman in front of Van Cleef & Arpels — the remainder take us below ground to the graffiti-saturated subways. A solitary man reads a newspaper in one image, a woman holds onto a subway pole that obscures her face in another. Mitchell Hartman’s scenes of Queens’ residents bring us into the 21st century and capture “food carts and street life, a slice of life in a particular neighborhood,” Corcoran said. “I think particularly for out-of-towners, there’s an impression of New York as a mythic city. We want to show a city of communities and neighborhoods with social and economic diversity, to reflect the varied ways of living that take place here.”
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HEALTHY IN MANHATTAN BY CAROL ANN RINZLER
How’s your health? Nearly eight of ten New Yorkers say, “Just peachy, thank you.” In Manhattan, the count is even higher. No wonder: Statistics compiled by the NYC Department of Health show that Manhattanites are more active, eat smarter, smoke less, and are more likely than folks in the other boroughs to get vaccinated against the flu. Here’s the catch. Like the United States, Manhattan has its own electoral college: Neighborhoods. Each one has its own health profile, some better, some worse than the island average. For example, says Assembly Member Dick Gottfried, “People living in Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen seem to be consuming more fruits and vegetables and less sugary sodas. We need to know why and learn how to bring others along.” One possibility: Keep supermarkets in place to avoid “food deserts,” places where fresh foods are hard to find because local bodegas outnumber full-service supermarkets by as much as 18-1. Some neighborhoods defy expectations. You may think our most populous one, the Upper East Side, is a bastion of billionaires with an exclusive cigar bar on every corner, but for Council Member Ben Kallos it’s “the secret sauce in the City melting pot, home to
Greenwich Village & Soho
3%
OBESE ADULTS
Photos: Steven Strasser
Financial District
Clinton & Chelsea
Upper West Side
Upper East Side
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Manhattan
Citywide
4%
10%
10%
11%
13%
15%
24%
ADULTS WHO SAY THEIR HEALTH IS GOOD Citywide
78%
Manhattan Clinton & Chelsea
83%
residents of every age, race, religion, sexual orientation, and socio-economic background.” It’s also got the low-
86%
Upper Stuyvesant Town East Side & Turtle Bay
89%
est percentage of smokers. Across the island at Riverside Park Conservancy, CEO Dan Garodnick endorses exer-
90%
Financial Greenwich Village Upper West Side District & Soho
91%
cising in public parks as “good not only for physical wellbeing, but also mental health.” He should know. Riv-
91%
93%
erside Park, which Gothamist calls the best green space in New York, draws more than 3 million visitors a year, lots of
whom must come from the southern West Side where nine of every ten people follow Garodnick’s advice to keep moving. Which is smart, especially when there’s a bicycle aiming for you. Since 2011, cyclists have run into more than 2,250 City pedestrians, mostly in Manhattan where East Harlem topped the list in 2018 with 29 injuries for every 100,000 residents. If you were one of them you know it’s a good idea to have health insurance like 97 percent of folks in Stuyvesant Town and Turtle Bay. Good for them, says their Council Member Carlina Rivera, Chair of the Council’s Committee on Hospitals. “While the number of New Yorkers without health insurance continues to decline, the Take Care New York [TCNY] 2020 goal is to have fewer than 9 percent go without needed medical care due to lack of a policy.” Finally, yes, we Manhattanites die of the same Big Three – cancer, heart disease, flu & pneumonia – as everyone else, but our suicide rate of 5.3 people per 100,000, is a whopping 30 percent lower than New York State as a whole. In fact, our one notable failing is that we binge drink more often than folks in the four other boroughs, probably due to the stress of being better in everything else.
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Exercising in public parks ... good not only for physical well-being, but also mental health.”
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
Dan Garodnick, CEO of Riverside Park Conservancy
(IN THE PAST 30 DAYS)
CURRENT SMOKERS
ADULTS WITHOUT
CITYWIDE: 14% MANHATTAN: 13%
HEALTH CITYWIDE: 12% INSURANCE MANHATTAN: 9%
FINANCIAL DISTRICT: 16%
FINANCIAL DISTRICT: 4% GREENWICH VILLAGE & SOHO: 4% CLINTON & CHELSEA: 11% STUYVESANT TOWN & TURTLE BAY: 3% UPPER WEST SIDE: 5% UPPER EAST SIDE: 4%
GREENWICH VILLAGE AND SOHO: 16% STUYVESANT TOWN & TURTLE BAY: 12% CLINTON & CHELSEA: 11% UPPER WEST SIDE: 10% UPPER EAST SIDE: 8%
BINGE DRINKERS
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34%
Stuyvesant Town & Turtle Bay
31%
Financial District
30%
Source: NYC Health Department’s New York City Community Health Profiles 2018
Greenwich Village & Soho
30%
73%
81%
Clinton and Chelsea
Stuyvesant Town and Turtle Bay
83%
83%
Financial District
Upper West Side
90%
83%
Greenwich Village and Soho
Upper East Side
87%
90% Citywide
25%
Manhattan
25%
*5 OR MORE DRINKS PER DAY FOR A MAN;4 FOR A WOMAN Stuyvesant Town & Turtle Bay
Manhattan
Citywide
CITYWIDE: MANHATTAN: FINANCIAL DISTRICT: 15%
Upper East Side
29%
GREENWICH VILLAGE & SOHO: 15% Upper West Side
19%
CLINTON & CHELSEA:
23%
ADULTS WITH 18 HIGH BLOOD 22 PRESSURE 21 %
%
STUYVESANT TOWN & TURTLE BAY: UPPER WEST SIDE: UPPER EAST SIDE: 15%
24%
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After his positive experience, John Campbell hopes to inspire more living donors. Photo: Courtesy of John Campbell
GOOD DEEDS After a successful career on Wall Street, he wanted to do something that couldn’t be measured in dollars BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM
When John Campbell decided to retire four year ago, he started to take stock of his life. He grew up in Sunnyside, Queens and had a tough upbringing. He had to learn how to take care of himself. “I’ve kind of been on my own from the very beginning. I didn’t really have a close family relationship with anybody,” said Campbell, who turned 71 on Jan. 1 of this year. “I just needed to get out of there.” So he did well in school, eventually earning an MBA from the Wharton School and finding success on Wall Street. And now, at the end of his career, he was looking to make an impact outside of the financial world. He wanted to do something you couldn’t put a price tag on. “I read a paper by Alvin Roth, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics,” said Campbell. “And he came up with this notion of: how do you price a good that you can’t charge for?” One example Roth laid out in his paper: becoming a living kidney donor. “It made sense to me,” said Campbell. “I thought it was a pretty
neat idea.” A Gift for a Stranger The idea stayed with him and finally, last September, he went to the Langone Center at NYU to see if he qualified to become a living donor. Typically, people in need of a kidney receive the organ from a family member or loved one. In Campbell’s case, he was volunteering his kidney to whoever in the general public needed it. The screening process was extensive. He met with a nephrologist and a surgeon. They conducted sonograms, X-rays and many, many blood tests. “It was probably close to two full days in the hospital, taking every imaginable test,” Campbell said. “They were probably also assessing me psychologically, to make sure you’re doing this for the right reasons.” Campbell’s kidney was healthy; and by December, doctors found a compatible recipient. “I was quite fortunate that my kidney function was really, really good for a guy my age,” he said. Campbell didn’t broadcast his decision to many of his friends. For one, he’s not much of an attention seeker. And, two, he figured people might find him wanting to donate a kidney to a stranger to be a bit odd, and he didn’t want to be talked out of it.
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A KIDNEY DONOR’S STORY
The demand for kidneys is just staggering. I feel so blessed that I could do it.” “I thought: ‘If it’s something I want to do, I’ll just do it and tell everybody afterwards,’” said Campbell. Success in the OR, and After He arrived at the hospital on Dec. 11 at 5 a.m., calm and ready for the procedure. He listened to the explanations from the doctors about how the day would go, and was wheeled into surgery. The doctor asked him what music he wanted to listen to during the procedure, which he thought was a pretty funny question to ask someone who — hopefully — would be asleep for the surgery. “I told him to listen to what he wanted to listen to,” said Campbell. “He goes, ‘No, no, no.’ So I asked for the Irish group, The Cranberries.” The anesthesiologist put him under and he didn’t wake up until 6 p.m. The surgery was successful, for himself and the recipient. Going into the surgery, Campbell had wanted to donate the kidney anonymously. Again, he didn’t want a lot of attention. But when the recipient told the hospital that he
would like to meet the donor, Campbell decided to do it. “This is the God’s honest truth, and I’m being very honest here, I was more nervous the night before I met the recipient than I going to the hospital for the surgery,” said Campbell. When he walked into the hospital on Jan. 16, just a few weeks after the surgery, he and the recipient were a bit shocked when they saw one another. “When he walked into the conference room, we looked at each other and started laughing,” said Martin Cernese, the recipient of Campbell’s kidney. During their respective recoveries in the hospital, Campbell and Cernese would take walks around the floor of the hospital. They passed by one another, and would say hello, but nothing more. The more they saw of one another, the more each of them wondered, “Could that be him?” ‘Bawling Like a Baby’ Cernese, 77, had been on dialysis and waiting for a donor match for two years after his kidneys had stopped functioning. The routine of dialysis had basically taken over his life, and his life was already pretty full. For 25 years he had worked as the director of operations for an airline communications company. As a par-
ent, he had served as president of his children’s school board on Long Island and was active in Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. Since retiring in 2006, he’s enjoyed reading and going for walks. Now, with “John’s Kidney,” as Cernese says, he is getting that life back. “I went up to him and shook his hand and I said, ‘John, thank you is so inadequate, I don’t know what else to say,’” he recalled. Campbell thanked him in return, which took Cernese by surprise. “What do you mean?” Cernese remembered asking him. “And he explained his situation and he wanted to leave something behind and I started bawling like a baby. I couldn’t control it after that.” The meeting was an overwhelming experience, Campbell said. The two shared their contact information and have been trading emails since. After meeting Cernese, Campbell said he’s glad to have done something in his life that was really meaningful in the moment. He’s also hoping to become an advocate for living donors, and explain his experience so that others in need might benefit. “People might think this is a dramatic thing to do, but it’s not that difficult,” Campbell said. “The demand for kidneys is just staggering. I feel so blessed that I could do it.”
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WHAT DID YOU TOUCH TODAY? PREVENTION
You can reduce the risk of the coronavirus, flu and common cold by washing your hands BY CAROL ANN RINZLER
So far, the Wuhan coronavirus appears to be more contagious but less deadly than a previous one that caused SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), which killed nearly ten percent of the people it infected. Last week Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a new hotline to help answer questions about the novel strain: (888) 364-3065, staffed by public health professionals. While there is clearly more to be learned about this new respiratory infection, one thing is sure: You can reduce your risk for this as well as all varieties of the “ordinary” flu and the plain old common cold by washing your hands with soap and water for two minutes - about the time it takes to sing two choruses of “Happy Birthday.” What did you touch today? Every day, before you touch them, each item on this list is touched by dozens - maybe hundreds - of people, each of whom leaves microscopic particles on the surface. A checklist:
■ The button to call the elevator when leaving your apartment ■ The button to signal your floor ■ The door knob or push-bar to exit the building ■ The door to the cab ■ The change (bills or coins) from the cabbie ■ The change (bills or coins) and new card form the subway clerk ■ The door or pole or seat or strap in the bus or subway car ■ The change (bills or coins) when you buy coffee on the way to work ■ The door knob to your office building ■ The door knob or push bar to enter your office building ■ The office elevator call button ■ The office elevator floor call button ■ The door knob or push bar to your office
“An Apple a Day...” Talk to your doctor about preventive services covered by Medicare
■ The light switch in your office ■ The coffee machine, milk or sugar containers in your office ■ The keyboard at someone else’s desk ■ The phone at someone else’s desk ■ The pen or pencil or folder or book on someone else’s desk ■ The door to the lunch restaurant ■ The flatware and glasses and cups at the lunch table ■ The bill for lunch
■ The change (bills or coins) when you pay the lunch bill ■ The door to the store where you shop for dinner ■ The packages you pick up while shopping ■ The change (bill or coins) when you pay the bill
So wash your hands before preparing food or eating and/or touching your face, lips, eyes, or nose. You have nothing to lose but some germs.
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RESETTING THE BODY EXERCISE
Yoga instructor Suzanne Taylor talks about the health benefits that can come from practicing restorative yoga BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM
Like so many others, Suzanne Taylor was first drawn to yoga as a meditative practice. “I was at a very low point in my life,” said Taylor. “I felt like I needed somebody to help me navigate the emotional, tumultuous waters.” Taylor sought out a therapist, who suggested she take up yoga as part of her exercise routine. It was advice that ended up changing the direction of her life. After three years of practice, she became an instructor. Now, 24 years later, she’s been able to witness her clients gain the same mental health benefits that she did by taking up yoga. But just as notable, she’s
Suzanne Taylor. Photo: Fernando Milani
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witnessed clients have some unexpected physical health benefits through the practice of restorative yoga, a passive form of yoga. Restorative yoga, Taylor said, is a cross between deeper relaxation and guided meditation. Props such as bolsters, blocks and blankets are used to support the body while its being held in different poses. But these poses, Taylor said, are much simpler than one might do during an active yoga class. The practitioner might be lying on their back with their feet propped up by bolsters or lying on their side, slightly twisting their torso. Each pose is held anywhere from 15 to 20 minutes; and in a 90-minute class, only about five poses are held. “It’s about opening up the body and helping the body relearn how to relax,” said Taylor. “So many of us are just wound way too tight.” This practice, Taylor said, has positive effects for each of the organs and systems that
It’s about opening up the body and helping the body re-learn how to relax. So many of us are just wound way too tight.” Suzanne Taylor
the body needs to function. “If someone who’s laying on their back and they have their legs elevated with blocks and bolsters, that affects the circulatory system,” said Taylor. “So it helps to get fluid away from the legs and your legs get a chance to rest, the heart gets a chance to rest. Oxygenated blood flows up to the head, which helps to renew healthy cells in brain.”
Accessible to All Ages One client, who has high blood pressure, told Taylor that after a class, they would test their blood pressure and it would be at a normal level without having taken medication. Another client, who is diabetic, told Taylor that their blood sugar drops dramatically after practicing restorative yoga. “And you think, ‘How the heck can that happen?’” Taylor said. “But I think it really does help to normalize the body.” She said the practice can positively affect the digestive system as some of the poses engage the colon. Additionally, she said it boosts the immune system because the body is less stressed. “So many different components from the body really benefit from the practice,” said Taylor. “Everything just felt so much more calm and peaceful and at ease.” Another benefit, Taylor said, is that restorative yoga is accessible to all ages. She has clients who are students and clients who are in their 70s. Prospective clients shouldn’t feel nervous or intimidated either, Taylor said. This class, compared to active practices, is really about relaxing and resetting the body. “Restorative yoga is just an opportunity to replenish the depleted resources that help us to navigate daily life.”
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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS
packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Facility not vermin proof. Harborage or conditions conducive to attracting vermin to the premises and/or allowing vermin to exist.
JANUARY 30 - FEBRUARY 5, 2020 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 10019, 10023, 10024, 10025. Some reports list numbers with their explanations; these are the number of violation points a restaurant has received. Amorino
414 Amsterdam Ave
A
Argo Tea Cafe
1792 Broadway
Not Yet Graded (26) 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/sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Facility not vermin proof. Harborage or conditions conducive to attracting vermin to the premises and/or allowing vermin to exist. Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Non-food contact surface improperly constructed. Unacceptable material used. Non-food contact surface or equipment improperly maintained and/or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the unit.
Astro Restaurant
101 W 55th St
A
Bagel Talk
368 Amsterdam Ave A
Blockheads
322 W 50th St
A
Bluestone Lane
417 Amsterdam Ave
Not Yet Graded (4) Toilet facility not maintained and provided with toilet paper, waste receptacle and self-closing door. Food contact surface not properly maintained.
Casa Mexicana
898 Amsterdam Ave A
Cha Pa’s Vietnamese Eatery
314 W 52nd St
Employee Cafeteria 1335 Avenue Of The Americas (New York Hilton Midtown)
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Not Yet Graded (24) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. 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. Facility not vermin proof. Harborage or conditions conducive to attracting vermin to the premises and/or allowing vermin to exist. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred. A
Maria Pia
319 W 51st St
Not Yet Graded (9) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Facility not vermin proof. Harborage or conditions conducive to attracting vermin to the premises and/or allowing vermin to exist.
New Kam Lai
514 Amsterdam Ave
Not Yet Graded (23) 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/sewage-associated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Pesticide use not in accordance with label or applicable laws. Prohibited chemical used/stored. Open bait station used. Facility not vermin proof. Harborage or conditions conducive to attracting vermin to the premises and/or allowing vermin to exist. Non-food contact surface improperly constructed. Unacceptable material used. Non-food contact surface or equipment improperly maintained and/or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the unit. Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.
Orwashers
440 Amsterdam Ave A
Pasta Lovers Trattoria
142 W 49th St
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Pazza Notte
1375 Avenue Of The Americas
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Plant Junkie
152 W 52nd St
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Saba’s Pizza
403 Amsterdam Ave A
The Coffee Pot
403 W 51st St
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The Parlour
250 W 86th St
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Tonic Times Square 727 7th Ave
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Viv Thai Restaurant
717 9th Ave
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Vive La Crepe
532 Columbus Ave
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Womens Natl. Republican Club
3 W 51st St
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Freddie & Pepper’s 303 Amsterdam Ave A Pizza A
Grand Salon And Bar
28 W 53rd St
Jake’s Dilemma
430 Amsterdam Ave A
Kefi Greek Cuisine
222 W 79th St
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La Esquina
200 W 55th St
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Manting Restaurant 150 W 49th St
Not Yet Graded (37) 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. Non-food contact surface improperly constructed. Unacceptable material used. Non-food contact surface or equipment improperly maintained and/or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the unit. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen
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GETTING A JUMP ON COLLEGE PREP CAMP
For some high-schoolers, summer camp is for SAT study sessions, working on essays and getting a taste of college life BY KATHERINE ROTH, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Some summer camps are for unwinding, getting outdoors, playing sports or music, or doing crafts. And then there are those that offer kids - most of them heading into junior or senior year of high school - intensive study sessions focused on upping SAT scores, working on college applications and essays, getting help navigating the admissions process and, in some cases, experiencing a taste of college life. “Our goal is to give them tools for success, and access to high-level instruction and materials that they may not otherwise have access to,‘’ says Nermin Fraser, director of admissions at the Berkeley, Californiabased Education Unlimited.
The organization runs college admission prep camps on the campuses of the University of California at Berkeley, UCLA, Yale and Georgetown. Kids stay in dorms and eat in the campus cafeteria. The camps are a lot of work (sometimes accompanied by a little play), and aren’t for everyone, administrators say. Kids who are struggling academically might not be a good fit. “Kids should have an A or B average and be academically motivated. The nice thing about it is that there are no grades. Some kids seek out extra work. Other kids may not be there yet in terms of their mindset. They can benefit from the process in either case,‘’ says Fraser, a former high school principal. “Because we work in small groups with personalized attention, we are able to help kids make incremental growth from wherever they are starting,‘’ she says. Most students in the program are rising juniors, getting ready to take SAT and ACT exams. Rising seniors tend to focus on college applications
and essays. Fraser says campers also go on field trips and tours of local colleges.
Working on Essays Command Education runs college-prep summer programs in New York and Los Angeles. They cater mainly to kids entering senior year. “A lot of students tend to procrastinate during the school year, when there isn’t a lot of time to focus on college essays and applications anyway,‘’ says Christopher Rim, who runs the program. “We structure the camp so that they’re working independently. But it’s easier to focus on working on the essay because they are surrounded by other kids who are working, too .... They submit their essay before they go to sleep. It’s looked at at night, and in the morning they get it back and start on it again,‘’ Rim says. If that sounds like a grueling way to spend part of the summer, Rim says the camps sell out quickly. The hard work put in during the summer makes the college application process less stressful in the long
Summer class at Education Unlimited. Photo: Education Unlimited
run, he says, since students can enter senior year with application and essay completed.
High Costs and Discounts The camps tend to have hefty price tags, though. Education Unlimited’s summer camps range from around $3,000 for a 7-day college admissions camp to $8,000 for a 21-day version. Command Education’s offerings cost an eye-popping $20,000 for a weeklong camp, including counseling before and after camp to help navigate the college admissions process. Many camps offer discounts or, in
some cases, full scholarships for qualified students in need. Nevertheless, for-profit collegeprep camps give wealthier kids a leg up, says Rick Mayfield, director of learning and achievement at the San Luis Coastal Unified School District in San Luis Obispo, California. “What we have tried to create in schools are resources that kids and families can tap into to help them with the process that do not cost money,‘’ he says. “There are adults that can show how to go about the application process, help with letter writing, and applying for scholarship funding.’’
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The massive barrelvaulted worship hall of a former Christian Science church on Central Park West would become the main exhibition hall of the Children’s Museum of Manhattan when it moves into the landmark building at 96th Street.
A proposed one-story rooftop addition that the Children’s Museum of Manhattan would build atop a former Christian Science church on Central Park West would house a workshop-and-performance space and glassed-in walkway. It’s sparking controversy since it would alter the landmark’s look and scale. Renderings: CMOM / Community Board 7
CMOM CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 preservationists, architects and community leaders say they’re troubled by the museum’s aggressive plans to retrofit the interior and exterior of the monumental Beaux-Arts classic. From new rooftop construction and the removal of signature stained-glass to the yanking out of walnut doors and granite steps, they say the proposed changes would mar the character of the 120-yearold church. “You can’t take a family heirloom and treat it as a paint-by-numbers and break it up and change it around and then glue it back together again,” said Sean Khorsandi, the executive director of Landmark West! CMOM says it will bring new life to a valued landmark, create a “place of wonder for families” and a “safe space for children” that adaptively reuses the building – while respecting its unique beauty and integrity. “The building itself will become a part of the exhibition experience,” said Sylvia Smith, a museum architect at FXCollaborative, during a presentation for Community Board 7. But critics savaged the plan, saying it would eviscerate the landmark’s look and scale: It calls for building a onestory rooftop addition atop the existing top floor. Big chunks of the original sloped terra cotta tile roof would be
Children, parents and volunteers earlier this month at “Inside Art,“ a new exhibit featured at the current home of the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. The museum plans to relocate from the leased space it has occupied on West 83rd St. since 1989 to a former Christian Science church on Central Park West at 96th Street. Photo: January Stewart / CMOM
removed. A glassy new workshop and performance space would rise over the roof beams. And a glassed-in walkway with park views would stretch out near the base of the granite steeple.
An Elevated “Fruit Box” on CPW “It’s almost like a playground, a mini-theme park, up on the roof, and it will intrude into neighboring buildings that have been here for 100 years by taking the street noise and ground-level activity up to the roof,” said Susan Simon, founder of CPW Neighbors Association. Added Dan Cohen, a Community Board 9 member, “The additions are like a takeout dinner tray slicing off a portion of the roof.”
CPW resident David Murphy offered yet another metaphor: “It’s like putting a big hat, or even a fruit box, on top of the roof, and it will ruin the top of the church and subvert the spirit of the landmarks law,” he said. Meanwhile, the church’s irreplaceable stained-glass windows would be hauled off under the museum’s proposal, giving way to more modern transparent glass. They include one of the most stunning pieces of art glass in New York, a two-story-tall rectangular aperture with religious iconography that graces the main entrance on the CPW façade. “The only artistic elements left in the church interior are the stained-glass windows, and with the light coming
through, they’re really quite beautiful,” said Jay Adolf, the former chair of CB 7’s Preservation Committee. “In the best of all possible words, they’d be kept in place.” Stripping them from the church would be an artistic desecration, Simon argues. “Removing the stainedglass windows, with some of the finest turn-of-the-century art glass in New York City, would be like taking down a Rembrandt,” she said.
From Manhattan to Missouri The stained-glass pieces wouldn’t only leave the church. They’d leave town altogether: “CMOM is committed to ensure that the stained-glass windows are maintained and preserved in their entirety,” a
spokesperson said. “To this end, they will be going to the National Building Arts Center in St. Louis.” The museum said it initially looked to find a home for the art glass in New York, but since no local institutions were able to maintain and preserve them in full, they had to broaden their search outside the city. Replacing stained glass with clear glass will usher in natural sunlight and open up a structure that’s historically presented a closed or opaque aspect to its UWS neighbors, FXCollaborative said. At stake is the future of the original First Church of Christ, Scientist, which fronts Central Park and was built between 1899 and 1903 to rival the cathedral-like grandeur of the faith’s “Mother Church” in Boston. Centered on a huge barrelvaulted worship hall that once seated 2,200 people, crowned by a spire soaring above Ionic columns, it is a masterpiece by Carrère & Hastings, the architects best known for designing the main branch of the New York Public Library. CMOM bought the building, at 361 CPW, for $45 million in 2017 to meet its compelling need for expansion space and a new home. Founded in 1973, the museum has been crammed into 38,000 square feet of leased space at 212 West 83rd St. since 1989, where it enthralls 375,000 children and parents a year. After renovation, those numbers could double to about 70,000 square feet of
exhibition space and annual attendance of 750,000, early projections show. But obstacles abound: The Preservation Committee of CB 7 passed a resolution disapproving CMOM’s proposal in December, and in January, CB 7’s full board also voted, by a 25-to-13 margin, to nix the project. The votes are advisory. But they’re part of the public record and can be taken into account when the Landmarks Preservation Commission reviews the museum’s application on Feb. 25. “We look forward to presenting our plan to the LPC and strongly believe it is the best way to both preserve the historic landmark and meet our programmatic needs to serve more of New York’s children and families,” a CMOM spokesperson said. While “disappointed” with the CB 7 vote, CMOM said it was grateful for the feedback. “The plan we presented was the result of a months-long, broad-based community outreach initiative, a process that is still ongoing and which we’re committed to continuing for the duration of the project and beyond,” the spokesperson said. “We have deep gratitude to CMOM for wanting to rescue this iconic landmark and stay in our neighborhood as they expand,” said Mark Diller, the CB 7 chair. “But the rooftop bulk and the visual impact of the glass box on top of the historic church was a bridge too far.” invreporter@strausnews.com
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YOUR 15 MINUTES
RESILIENCE AND HOPE BOOKS
Author Erin Khar talks about her battle with heroin and opioid addiction, and why she wrote a memoir
Part of what compelled me to write this memoir is that it is the book I needed when I was younger.
BY ASHLEY AROCHO
Erin Khar is known for writing on addiction, recovery, mental health, relationships, parenting, infertility and self-care. Her first book, “Strung Out,“ reveals the struggles she faced with addiction at age thirteen in Los Angeles and how having her first child helped her get sober. As she began the process of finding an agent, selling, writing and editing her book, her Lower East Side apartment suffered major water and roof damage during a fire. Through it all, Khar managed to write an open and honest story of her fifteen-year battle with addiction. “Strung Out,” from HarperCollins/Park Row Books, comes out on February 25.
You talk a lot in the book about your opioid addiction, and I wondered what got you to a place where you felt like you could write a memoir about your experience? When I was actually at the New School, I had a professor there say to me that she thought I had a memoir in me.
Khar struggled with addiction for 15 years. Photo: Sylvie Rosokoff
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As I started writing more and more about my addiction and recovery, the response from people was so overwhelming that I realized I had an opportunity to use my story to create this narrative that might actually help people. Not just help people struggling with addiction, but also help people understand addiction who may have preconceived ideas about what addition is and what addiction looks like. Doing that it helps lessen the stigma and shame around addiction. That was the driving force for me.
What made you decide to seek help and get clean? When I found out that I was pregnant I was still using drugs, and I didn’t stop using immediately. I stopped within less than two months. But I had to find a doctor who would detox me without using methadone. And I did. And I knew that I was committed to staying off of drugs for my pregnancy, but I didn’t have faith that I’d
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be able to do so once the baby was born because I had fifteen years of struggling. When I talk about this story to people, it always sounds a little bit trite. But when my son was born, I just looked at the baby, who I hadn’t really felt connected to while I was pregnant. But from the moment that I first held him, just looked at him and the love that I had was just so overwhelming that I had that thought pop up in my head — I love you more than I hate myself. That was sort of the impetus to start doing the work I needed to do so that I could stay off of drugs permanently ... I really did stop beating myself. I learned to like myself, learned to take care of myself, and learned to show myself love and compassion that I hadn’t been able to do before.
Photo Courtesy of Courte Harper HarperCollins/ Park Ro Row Books
After you gave birth, did you battle with postpartum depression? Was it a difficult time when you thought you might relapse? I was definitely concerned that I might have postpartum depression, because I had a history with depression and anxiety.But I did not, thankfully. It was really hard, but I think having him and feeling like I wanted to do this not just for me but for him, kind of pushed me to do the work. The other factor is that I had support from my family. You know, I had my parents who were supportive, that financially made it possible for me to get things like therapy. And also, they were supportive in terms of my emotional well-being at that time. You know a lot of people don’t have those things, and I always try to highlight that because, you know, I had a lot of privilege in terms of a community around me, in terms of financial privilege that I could afford to access mental health services. All of those factors. And it was still really hard for me. So, when people don’t have those support systems in place, it’s extremely difficult to maintain any long-term sobriety. And I mention this because one of the things that’s part of my platform is advocating for government funded treatments.
What do you recommend for people struggling with addiction who don’t have insurance or have insufficient insurance and can’t pay out of pocket for treatments or programs that can help them? There are options, but it’s not easy to get subsi-
dized services. There are services through harm-reduction organizations where they can help people with medically-assisted treatment. I’m talking about for people struggling with opioid addiction. So instead of going on something like methadone, which has a whole other set of problems, they’ve been really successful helping people with Suboxone, which is an antagonist. So that’s one thing…looking for subsidized programs that may offer medicated assisted treatment. There are 12-step recovery programs that are free. And I think, you know, one of the things, in terms of spreading the word about this, is it’s not just for people that are struggling, but for the people who know people who are struggling. It’s really important that we as a community, number one, meet people where they’re at. And number two, are there [for them]. I understand that it can be frustrating when we’ve seen somebody relapse repeatedly. But helping them doesn’t mean that you have to go and enable them. But helping them means showing up to have a meal with them, picking up the phone when we need somebody to talk to. When somebody reaches out for help, I think that we were taught for a long period of time to have this tough love approach, and that doesn’t really work. You know, community is probably the number one thing that is free that we can do to support people who are in recovery.
You’ve said that communities of privilege and their addiction stories are being told, but the same is not necessarily true for people of color. Can you share how those stories could be told, or how you’re helping to change the conversation so those stories can get out? I think that the variety of addiction stories being shared is expanding, and that’s important because it will pave the way for others to do the same. Part of what compelled me to write this memoir is that it is the book I needed when I was younger. I didn’t have a frame of reference for young, female heroin addicts who had shared their stories. Historically, across all book genres, there has been a lack of diversity. That is changing, which is great, but we still have a long way to go. As a writer with the opportunity to share my story with a wide audience, one of my goals is to help destigmatize the topic of drug addiction. And further, I feel a responsibility to support and uplift the stories of people who face barriers that I did not — racial, financial, social, cultural. These are barriers that people struggling with addiction face, and barriers that people of color have faced in the publishing industry.
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