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EDUCATION Volunteers urging New Yorkers to stop at St. James Recreation Center testing site on Fordham Road in the Bronx. Photo: NYC Health + Hospitals

MICROBE HUNTING CORONAVIRUS

The city is ﬁghting a blockby-block battle to keep the number of virus cases down BY MICHAEL ORESKES

The microbe hunters of New York are using every tool and tactic they can think of to seek out and contain the coronavirus. They crunch data. They sample sewage. They yell over bullhorns to convince people to get tested. Those are just a few snapshots from the biggest public health fight the city has ever waged. One of the biggest challenges has been to orchestrate all the elements. Early on, for example, there were so few coronavirus tests available that they had to be strictly rationed. Now there are plenty and the city is urging everyone to get tested. But as more people

get tested some labs have been overwhelmed. Some test results are so slow coming back - as long as ten days - that they are useless. Even what a city spokesperson called the “typical” time frame of three days for results is far too slow for quarantining and contact tracing to be most effective. “This means people aren’t isolating when they’re contagious,” warned the chair of the City Council Health Committee, Mark D. Levine. “It’s a major obstacle for contact tracings. And it’s discouraging people from even getting tested. This has to be fixed ASAP.” “We now see in New York and around the country delays in getting testing results, and we need to beat that back,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday. He urged President Trump to invoke the Defense Produc-

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Schools to open in September, but many details still in ﬂux BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM

Students, teachers and parents will once again need to adapt to a new mode of education this fall as the city attempts to balance health and safety with the need to get students back in the classroom. Last week, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that schools will re-open come September, but classroom attendance will be limited to one to three days per week in

order to keep the spread of coronavirus under control. The city will be implementing new precautions, such as face coverings for every students and staff member (which will be provided to those who need them), hand washing and hand sanitizer stations, and deep cleaning after each school day. The city hopes a partial reopening, which will include smaller class sizes, staggered schedules and the option to remain a full-time remote learner, will be the answer to the most difficult logistical question, which is, how will students and teachers maintain social distance inside school buildings?

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‘THEY THREW US A CURVE BALL AGAIN’ UWS restaurant owner Joe Germanotta - Lady Gaga’s dad - on the city’s changing rules for outdoor dining. p. 11

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MAKING MEMORIES FROM MOZZARELLA Mayor Bill de Blasio with Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza (left) at City Hall on July 8, at an announcement about preliminary school reopening plans. Photo: Office of Mayor Bill de Blasio, via flickr

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It’s up to individual principals to decide what “blended learning” — which is what the Department of Education is calling the mix of remote and in-person education — will look like at their school. The DOE has laid out a variety of models principals can choose from, depending on the size of its student population and the square-footage of the buildings’ classrooms. For example, one model would split the school’s population into three groups: two groups of in-person learners (groups A and B) and one group of full-time remote learners. Groups A and B will

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It’s almost like being back in high school when there’s this big test coming up and no time or way to study for it. Not to worry. This crib sheet explains all you need to know about the two basic tests for COVID-19 - the first to tell if you have the virus, the second to tell if you had it and recovered. Start with the letter A for Antigens and Antibodies. The first is something foreign, such as a virus which makes its way into your body, alerting your immune system whose white blood cells begin to churn out the second, immunoglobulins (Ig), Y-shape proteins whose sole aim in life is to recognize, capture and de-fang the invaders.

There are two tests used to diagnose COVID-19. Both look for antigens in mucus or saliva. The first and most effective is the PCR which stands for polymerase chain reaction, a lab technique in which an enzyme quickly stimulates the replication of zillions of copies of a specific DNA so that a very small sample can be used to identify genetic material in antigens. When done by a professional, PCR is considered the gold standard; some do-it-yourself kits are available but the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns they may not be reliable. The second diagnostic test identifies and tracks proteins in the antigens, producing results within minutes. Unfortunately, it also produces a higher percentage of false negatives, tests which say you don’t have the disease although you really do. One study of an early version of missed 10 percent of the cases

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it tested. Dick Gottfried, chair of the NYS Assembly Health Committee agrees that no test is 100% accurate, but adds, “for some purposes, a test with a small percent failure rate might be acceptable, like a light switch that works 99% of the time but you need to jiggle it 1% of the time to make it work. But if it will electrocute you 1% of the time, that’s not acceptable.”

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Antibody Testing An antibody test is an afterthe-fact event to determine the level of antibodies in your body. The first antibodies, IgM, appear in about two weeks after infection. Next up, a second round of antibodies called IgG, which the experts at WedMD.com explain take about four weeks to appear and usually hang around longer than the others. For an as-yet-unknown

reason, men - who appear more likely than women to experience serious adverse effects from COVID-19 produce more antibodies. As with antigen test, FDA cautions that antibody tests may deliver inaccurate results. All of which begs the question, should you get tested? The answer: It depends. Timing matters. For example, if you have symptoms of viral disease – fever, coughing,

headache, muscle ache – your doctor is likely to suggest testing for antigens. If your symptoms are so severe that you end up in hospital, the testing will almost certainly be done to confirm the diagnosis and plan your treatment. But if you have no symptoms, taking the test on Tuesday may show you COVID-19 free but that doesn’t mean you will be free on Friday, so you’d have to test every single day to be certain of your status. As for antibody testing, there’s that waiting period for the test to be useful. In the end, Gottfried concludes, testing helps to show whether, where and when COVID-19 infections are rising or falling. Eventually, it may also give doctors a clue to the most commonly asked question, whether COVID-19 antibodies prevent a second infection, and more interesting yet, whether these cells from a person who recovered from COVID-19 can help heal someone newly-infected. It wouldn’t be the first time one person’s blood protected another person’s life.

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tion Act “again because we need the lab capacity, we need the chemical reagents. We need the different pieces that allow these labs to do their work and do it quickly. And that will only happen if the federal government steps up.” Even with the bottlenecks in getting results, officials say that the contact tracing efforts are still useful, but not yet effective enough to achieve the ultimate victory, which is to drive down infections to the point where there are very few infected people around to pass on the virus. That would make it far safer to go to work, to school and to socialize.

“Powerful Lessons” But at the moment the more immediate goal is to hold the line. With contagion out of control in other parts of the country, New York City is fighting a block-by-block battle to keep the number of cases in the hundreds, as now, rather than the thousands, as we lived through last March and April.

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We’re up to 40,000 tests a day now. That’s something a lot of other places have not been able to achieve.” Mayor Bill de Blasio An immediate challenge, the mayor reported, is that infection rates are rising among young adults. “I understand that people are just yearning to break out,” de Blasio said. “But we’ve got to keep telling everyone, particularly our younger adults, how important it is to stick to what has worked, the social distancing, the face coverings, getting tested ... We’re going to do everything to reach younger adults, to remind them they’re not impervious.” Individual behavior is half the battle, and there is evidence that New Yorkers, while not perfect, have done better than other communities in adopting personal protective measures. The other half of the battle

is the collective action by public health agencies. That fight is ramping up. The city’s Test and Trace program announced a goal of testing 150,000 New Yorkers for the virus last week, far more than ever before. The Test and Trace Corps was out on Fordham Road Wednesday, bullhorn in hand, urging passersby to stop at a testing site in the St. James Recreation Center. “We’re up to 40,000 tests a day now,” the mayor claimed Friday. “That’s something a lot of other places have not been able to achieve.” The city promised to release last week’s testing numbers on Wednesday, July 15, whether the 150,000 target has been hit or not.

coming back way too slowly, public health experts say. That means tracing contacts and isolating them falls behind. Noah Goldberg, a furloughed reporter for the Daily News, said on Thursday that he had still not gotten his test result ten days after waiting on line for two hours at a City MD. “The test is now pretty much irrelevant,” he said. The test and trace spokesperson, Karla Griffith, said that many private labs had been overwhelmed, in part because they were handling tests from all across the coun-

try as the pandemic surged. The Mayor announced that in certain areas at high risk of renewed spread, the city will offer rapid testing, with results within a few minutes. The other challenge, according to public health officials, is to tighten the effectiveness of the tracing and isolating of potentially infected people. The Test and Trace Corps is catching some cases, but many others slip through, according to the data it has released. Health officials are trying to spot resurgence before it can

break out across the city. One technique was invented to identify intestinal outbreaks by monitoring sewage. If coronavirus in sewage from a particular neighborhood starts to spike, the microbe hunters know to head there. Mayoral health advisor Jay Varma said Friday that “the combination of our defensive strategies, physical distancing, wearing face covers, good hygiene ... and the offensive strategies, a massive increase in the amount of testing that’s going on” was, for now, the key to keeping the city safe.

Test Results Testing, however, is only the first step in boxing in the virus, explained the city health commissioner, Dr. Oxiris Barbot. The purpose of testing is to find the virus and stop it from spreading. Here, the challenges are still considerable. While the city has dramatically ramped up testing, the results are

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‘CLUELESS’ ABOUT FASHION ON THE TOWN

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Twenty-five years ago this month (July 19th to be exact), director Amy Heckerling’s “Clueless,” a modern take on Jane Austen’s Emma, hit the theaters — not a moment too soon for this new mother. My first born, Luke, was six months old that summer. When he arrived in the New Year, I had gone from being a full-time ad agency writer to #WFH freelancer and SAHM (stay-at-home mother.) I also had gone from someone who dressed up every day and chose my accessories with the meticulousness of a fashion editor preparing a Vogue photo shoot to my new black being jeans and a Tshirt. Make that an array of Tshirts, as I changed about

four-plus times a day since infant Luke used to spit up on me because, well, the spirit moved him. One Sunday, my husband Neil gave me a mommy’s day off and I chose to spend at least part of it in air conditioning, as well as the dark, watching the high school hijinks of Beverly Hills teen, Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone) & Co. Although the film had its charms, I remember that through it all, the only thing I could focus on was that these 10th graders dressed better than me. Given my new home-centric lifestyle, I wasn’t about to invest in Chanel, or run around in stilettos and feather boas; my one-time adolescent uniform of Levi’s and cotton tops would be most practical in the house, but when I took Luke out for a stroll to get the air I

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR On a Jewish response to George Floyd’s death, rehab after COVID and questions about an MTA fare hike Teaching Tolerance in Schools I am writing in response to Rabbi Ben Tzion Krasnianski’s Viewpoint entitled, “A Jewish Response to the Tragic Death of George Floyd,” (West Side Spirit, June 18 - 24). I concur with the Rabbi’s intention and his selection of the schools to teach tolerance. However, I disagree with his

methodology. Our country has a long tradition of the separation of church and state and his suggestion of a moment of silence in schools challenges that sacred tenet of our democracy. Furthermore, it assumes that each student will utilize that 60 seconds in a meaningful way in accordance with what belief they have learned at home. There are many who have no organized belief system taught in their home. And we cannot assume that children are taught tolerance or even love and acceptance at home.

decided putting on a summer dress, or trousers and nice blouse might help me not only look less hausfrau, but reconnect with the fashionable New York woman I had been. I’m feeling that way again, with the movie’s 25th anniversary (special event theater screenings are on hold thanks to the pandemic) coinciding with New York’s reopening. As denizens emerge from quarantine, Cher, Dionne, and their bevy of “Betties” and “Baldwins” (female and male hotties, respectively) have also returned, not only to celebrate their milestone but remind us that if we’re going to enjoy sidewalk dining or generally start “rolling with the homies” again, it’s time to forgo our #stayhome, dressdown ensembles.

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However, I do agree that the schools are a primary venue for the teaching of values including respect and tolerance of difference. This can be taught in the classroom with the Golden Rule instruction. There are infinite opportunities throughout our public education to emphasize the Golden Rule when instructing and disciplining students in the classroom. Janis Brodie Upper West Side

Rehab After COVID-19 Thank you for your article “Learning to Live After COVID-19” (Our Town, June 4 - 10). As one who survived the virus, I am grateful to everyone at Bellevue who helped

has spent the past several months “totally buggin” for a haircut and/or color appointment, there hasn’t been too much longing to put back on business attire, and especially where women are concerned, high heels. Those who perhaps felt trepidatious about working off-site at first, got used to it and realized how less stressful (or perhaps more productive) it can be getting assignments done in comfy clothing and slippers. But New York is one of the fashion capitals of the world and we’ve always been in a sartorial league of our own. We’ve got to remember who we are. We’re the home of Carrie Bradshaw and her Manolos (and tutu), Blair Waldorf and her headband collection with the Boho/glam Serena van der Woodsen in tow; we’re the place where black has always

me through this crisis and now to the people in rehab medicine at Rusk who are returning me to a new-normal life. I also appreciate the good wishes of my friends and neighbors, and offer my good wishes to all the thousands of New Yorkers who shared my experience. Louise Dankberg East Side

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been the new black and taking fashion risks is de rigueur; where form and function go hand-in-hand; as do effortlessly stylish and chic. Keeping that in mind, envision yourself walking down one the avenues. You stop to window shop, then shift your perspective to see your own reflection. Yes, you sigh in relief at your new, worth-thewait haircut, but then your eyes wander down to below your neck. If you’re still donning something from your shelter-in-place wardrobe, perhaps recollect the harsh yet well-meaning words that Cher shared with Tai (the late

plan agreed upon by both Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio. It included both congestion pricing and fare increases as part of a funding package to support the $51 billion MTA 2020 - 2024 Five Year Capital Plan. This plan includes fare increases no greater than 2 percent per year. The MTA and State Legislature committed to fare increases occurring every two years. With a fare increase in 2019, the next would be in 2021. The MTA currently faces financial shortfalls in the billions for both capital and operating expenses. Any fare increase for NYC Transit local, express and select bus service, sub-

Brittany Murphy): “Do you prefer ‘fashion victim’ or ‘ensembly challenged’?” Or her evaluation of male grooming: “It looks like they just fell out of bed and put on some baggy pants and take their greasy hair - ew - and cover it up with a backwards cap and like, we’re expected to swoon?” If we don’t step it up, people, we’re all going to start to look like those who still live in the home towns we once escaped from. “As if.” Lorraine Duffy Merkl is the author of “Fat Chick,” “Back to Work She Goes,” and the upcoming “The Last Single Woman In New York City.”

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The American Folk-Art Museum hosts a series of Zoom sessions for seniors and their caregivers BY SAMI ROBERTS

At 305 West End Residence and various other senior care facilities in the city, where visitors have been prohibited due to the pandemic, the residents have continued to engage in the enrichment of an art museum. The American Folk-Art Museum on the Upper West Side hosts the Folk-Art Reflections series, which is designed for seniors with Alzheimer’s or other forms of cognitive impairment. Since museums and recreational programs for seniors were closed at the start of quarantine, Elizabeth Gronke, the access educator for AFAM, has taken the program to Zoom. In each Zoom session, which is also available on YouTube, Gronke walks through different pieces of art with the viewers, speaking slowly and giving generous

pauses for the audience members to digest the information and ask questions. “It’s not like what you think of when you go to a museum and you have a guided tour, where the they’re just sort of spouting off facts about the artist,” Gronke said. “In our program, the facts and the information, the background information about the art, comes up only if it’s relevant or resonant with something that someone’s noticing.” For seniors in nursing homes, the pandemic has made what is already a difficult situation even more isolating. Gronke points out that because Alzheimer’s patients struggle with their sense of time, the lockdown and lack of visitors — or even visitors via Zoom or FaceTime — can be hard for them to comprehend. While memories and other cognitive abilities are affected greatly by Alzheimer’s, the ability to comprehend art is not greatly affected by the disease. In one of the videos, Gronke talked her audience through a series called “New York City People and Places.” She asked the viewers to guess what parts of New York certain pieces of artwork

were based on. “One of those places is Coney Island, and people usually have some memories of going to Coney Island that they can share,” Gronke said. “Another piece of art is [the] Roseland Ballroom, and sometimes people remember going to Roseland and dancing there, because it was an operation from the twenties through the eighties.” She asked them to recall their favorite spot in New York, and for a moment out of their day, they are taken back through their memories in New York City. “Nobody doesn’t know what to say,” she said. “Everybody has a favorite spot.”

“Intangibles Really Do Remain” Gronke has an extensive background working with people with dementia, having been a caregiver for a woman with Alzheimer’s, working in day-care centers for people with dementia, and with a degree in art therapy. To help put herself in the shoes of someone who deals with Alzheimer’s, Gronke thinks back to college. “What I do to understand what it might be like, is to

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Seeing a loved one with dementia light up about a painting or piece of sculpture can help them to once again catch a glimpse of the person they once knew more fully.” From the Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s

think about professors that I had a long, long time ago,” she said. “Do I remember all the contents of their class? No. But do I remember whether or not that professor made me feel like I had something valuable to contribute? Did they stimulate me? All those, all those intangibles really do remain. I found that to be true working with people with dementia.” The videos Gronke produces aren’t just for the seniors. “It’s given caregivers a different kind of respite from their caregiving, because they’re getting to enjoy the program together with their loved ones without that hierarchy

Chelsea News|Chelsea Clinton News chelseanewsny.com of, ‘I know something you don’t,’ or, ‘I’m having to help you with this,’” she explained. “It’s just like, ‘What do you think about this? Do you enjoy this? What does it bring up for you?’” The NYC-based Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research Foundation determined that in a museum outing, “Seeing a loved one with dementia light up about a painting or piece of sculpture can help them to once again catch a glimpse of the person they once knew more fully.” “I think it’s more about connecting to some of the deeper parts of oneself through artwork, through communication, through sharing opinions, even,” Gronke said. “Just sort of starting to look at an artwork and asking yourself, ‘What does this make me feel? What does it make me think of? Do I like it? Do I hate it?’” Gronke laughs as she thinks of the discussions she’s had with her viewers about why they hated a piece of artwork. “They may not remember that they had an art program,” she said. “But they might keep with them that feeling that they were in a situation where someone valued their opinion and they were stimulated in a way that was validating of who they are.”

A work from the American Folk-Art Museum collection that Elizabeth Gronke has used in her visits: Fame Weathervane, Attributed to E.G. Washburne & Company; New York City, New York, United States; c. 1890; copper and zinc with gold leaf; 39 × 35 3/4 × 23 1/2, in; Gift of Ralph Esmerian; 2005.8.62 Photo: Gavin Ashworth

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DOCUMENTING A PANDEMIC MUSEUMS

As New York lives through turmoil, photography becomes the historical souvenir of choice. A look at the Museum of the City of New York’s #CovidStoriesNYC project BY AHAD SANWARI

Statues wearing face masks (and not the hydrating kind). An empty Times Square. An empty Museum Mile. Rolls and rolls of toilet paper, stacked to the very top of a window. These may sound like scenes straight out of an ‘80s postapocalyptic film, where the hero roams the desolate city streets, danger lurking at every corner. And there’s no difference between that and these scenes displayed by #CovidStoriesNYC, except that this hero is socially-distancing and

wielding a camera. The coronavirus pandemic continues to surge in the country, shifting focus from New York to states like Florida and Texas. The ravaged economy and public morale have resulted in the creation of a significant moment in modern human history, one that isn’t going to be forgotten any time soon. And taking part in that movement of documentation is the Museum of the City of New York and its #CovidStoriesNYC project. “We at the museum recognized pretty quickly that this was going to have a major impact on the city,” says Sean Corcoran, the curator of Prints and Photographs at the museum. ”And although we were closing down to the public, we wanted to make sure that we were keeping in dialogue with the people of the city. Of course, the obvious way to do that is through social media, partially because

Ultimately, I think what it shows is that we’re a city that does what it needs to do to get by, we’re a resilient city. We keep going in whatever capacity we can.” Sean Corcoran, Museum of the City of New York everybody is using it and it’s an easy way to see what’s going on in the world without having to physically be together, which is the major obstacle at the moment.” This isn’t the first time the MCNY issued an open call for the public to share how they were living through significant events in New York City, some examples being exhibitions on “Occupy Wall Street” and Hurricane Sandy. “So we have a track record of reaching out to the public and getting input from a wider range of people and experiences as possible,” Corcoran said.

“Work that Reﬂects Life” Since beginning the project in early April, Corcoran’s team has received nearly 5000 submissions. Those

The Gay Liberation Monument in the age of COVID-19. Photo: Philip Desiere

“Deﬁant” - A man waiting outside a family bodega for his turn. Photo: Mitchell Hartman

wanting to submit pictures need only to upload them with the hashtag #CovidStoriesNYC and tag the MCNY. “We have kind of a loose criteria with selecting images, that we want to be as inclusive as possible,” Corcoran says. “So we’re basically selecting work that reflects life throughout the five boroughs and the various ranges of experiences that people are having throughout the city.” The images are shared on the museum’s social media and website. A lot of the images that come from the #CovidStoriesNYC stand in stark contrast to the museum’s more recent social media exhibition, #ActivistNY, which it started in June. While the former depicts scenes of empty surroundings and general loneliness, the latter is filled with anger, seeping through the pictures of hundreds of protestors supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. Masks are a common element in both, however. “The story’s changed, now it’s about how people are out in the streets and being active again,” Corcoran explains. “It’s a constantly evolving and changing story. And as the pictures come in, we try to make selections

that then reflect that.” #CovidStoriesNYC aims to show a natural progression in the way we’ve been dealing with the pandemic. “Early on, it was the eeriness of the empty city pictures,” Corcoran details. “And then, it was about how people were cooped up in their apartment. And then later on a bit about what it’s like to go into the bodega and pick up some supplies or go to the grocery store. And then even later about again, getting out into the streets and speaking up about the issues of the day and knowing it’s time to go out and have your voice heard.” These images aren’t just about normal people dealing with the COVID pandemic, but how New Yorkers specifically have been handling this time. “I think what we see is the economic and social diversity of the city and the ways in which it’s impacted the city,” says Corcoran. “Ultimately, I think what it shows is that we’re a city that does what it needs to do to get by, we’re a resilient city. We keep going in whatever capacity we can.” Museums play an important role in documenting significant periods in our history. And it’s not always historical. They are

time capsules for not only events of the past, but also those of the present, contemporary events that can affect and change the way we perceive our lives and culture. There’s no doubt that this pandemic is one of them. “It’s a way for museums to stay engaged with their public,” says Corcoran. “By aggregating all these pictures and re-sharing, it’s a way of also showing people what’s happening around their city that they can’t necessarily see firsthand in real time.” Corcoran and the museum do intend to bring some of its “Covid Stories” to the physical space in the form of exhibitions when things open up again. “When the materials come into the museum’s permanent collection, they’ll be there for posterity,” he adds. “So when people want to see 50 years from now what was happening during this pandemic, we’ll have these materials to show and the documentation of what happened and what we went through.” And till then, because of that camera-wielding, socially distancing “hero,” we can just continue vicariously living the times and living our lives. Here’s a link to the exhibition: mcny.org/covidstoriesnyc

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LEARNING TO LIVE AFTER COVID-19 HEALTH

Rehabilitation is crucial for those recovering from coronavirus

UWS restaurant owner Joe Germanotta - Lady Gaga’s dad - on the city’s changing rules for outdoor dining

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For the past two weeks pasta, chicken marsala and, of course, Chianti, has been served at tables set in what a New Yorker would call the gutter of West 68th Street. The tables were separated from traffic by flowerpots with tall trees and wooden sawhorses topped with large plexiglass signs reading: Joanne Trattoria, 212-721-0068. Makeshift, to be sure, but following the rules, as far as the owner, Joe Germanotta, could determine. Then the inspector showed up. “Some guy walks in yesterday from the DOT,” Germanotta reported Monday. “And he says, ‘this isn’t good enough. You’ve got 24 hours to change it or there will be a $1000 fine.’ They threw us a curve ball again.” DOT stands for Department of Transportation, which Mayor Bill de Blasio put in charge of regulating the thousands of outdoor restaurants proliferating under special permissions created to help restaurants survive this summer of COVID-19. It’s fair to say the department has not won many admirers among restaurant owners. From all over town have come complaints that the department set rules for supper in the street and then suddenly changed them, costing extra money the establishments don’t really have. “Nobody is making any money,” fumes Germanotta, “and they are asking us to spend thousands of dollars.” Germanotta may not be the poster child for a struggling restaurateur.Hisdaughter,Stefani,is more widely known as Lady Gaga. On the other hand, he is a genuine Westsider, and Joanne Trattoria’swebsitegivesapicture of how business has vanished in

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After: Joe Germanotta spent around $2000 to comply with the shift in rules for outdoor dining. Photo courtesy of Joanne Trattoria

the neighborhood. “WALKING DISTANCE FROM: Lincoln Center,BeaconTheater,SecondStage Theater, Central Park & Strawberry Fields, AMC Theaters & Columbus Circle,” it states. CentralParkandColumbusCircle are the only places still open.

Fresh Air A key part of Phase Two reopening, which began June 22, was the city’s pledge to make it easy for restaurants to use sidewalks and streets to create outdoor dining, where fresh air could help disperse the coronavirus while increasing the revenue flow. The Department of Transportation acknowledges it made “adjustments” to the rules covering outdoor setups after the program was underway. The original rules were pretty general and more or less anything visible to traffic seemed to be okay. But then new rules last week required foot-and-a-half thick structures. Germanotta blamed the mayor for failing to think the program through from the start and suggested the basic motive for the change was “to make them look good.” The Transportation Department had a different interpretation. “This program is a brand-new arrangement, enacted at an unprecedented pace, and restaurants have been generous with their patience,” the department said in a statement to the New York Times last week. “Our adjustments to Open Restaurants have been to make sure this program works safely for everyone.” Department officials said

they were working on a response to an alternative safety suggestion from Germanotta. “If you are going to open up, and if safety is your concern, why do I have to provide the safety?” he asked. He suggested that the city had any number of concrete, wooden, metal and plastic road barriers that could be set out to divide traffic from diners. He noted that his street was blocked for both the NYC marathon and the Thanksgiving day parade each year “They’re waiting for the marathon which isn’t going to happen this year,” he said. The shift in rules for outdoor dining was extra painful because it came at the same time that the city decided to postpone indoor dining as the coronavirus continues to plague the city. Germanotta had prepared his dining room with plexiglass dividers between tables. He had done the work himself. But he noted that other restaurant owners had spent thousands to refit their interiors. “It just doesn’t make sense. They’re trying to help us and laid on these additional expenses.” As for the street dining, Germanotta suggested he’d try to comply. “I’m going to put something out there,” he said. “My other option is just shut it down ... It’s cheaper for me to close down.” In the end, Germanotta spent $275 for the wood and $1500 for the labor - around $2000 all told, and it now has to be painted. But an inspector approved the fix, and he’s still open, Germanotta said.

When it comes to medical jargon, these past three months have certainly expanded the list, starting with the microbe SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) and COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), the illness it causes. Here are two entries more for the lexicon: PICS and PICS-F. The first stands for post intensive care syndrome; the second for the effects of PICs on a patient’s family. As every medical professional knows, spending time in an intensive care unit (ICU) can leave a patient with both physical and emotional problems. Add a ventilator and the problems multiply. E if th ti t i

Steven Flanagan, medical director of the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at NYU Langone Health. Photo courtesy of NYU Langone Health

lem after a relatively long time lying motionless in bed is likely to be weakened muscles. That means patients will have to repeat the childhood experience of learning how to walk without toppling over while having a hard time catching their breath because time on a ventilator can leave a person gasping if he tries to walk quickly. Manhattan Democratic district leader Louise Dankberg

fects on memory and thinking. To which Joshua Morganstein, MD, chair of the American Psychiatric Association Committee on the Psychiatric Dimensions of Disasters, adds appropriate stress and anxiety which, he says, will likely resolve over time. Back at the walking and breathing stage, reclaiming one’s “normal” requires exercise, physiotherapy, occupational therapy symptom

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THE VITAMIN D QUESTION SCIENCE

New studies report a correlation between COVID19 death rates and D deﬁciency BY MICHAEL ORESKES

Why has New York City been slammed so hard by COVID-19? There are almost as many theories as lights gone dark on Broadway. But one obvious factor does not seem to draw the same blame as our crowds, our subways, our leadership or our location at the crossroads of the world. Which is odd, since New York doctors all know about it. Vitamin D deficiency is, well, epidemic among New Yorkers. And in just the past few days three separate studies, from the US, the UK and Indonesia, have reported a strong correlation between death rates from COVID-19 and vitamin D deficiency. “Our analysis shows that it might be as high as cutting the mortality rate in half,” Professor Vadim Backman of

vent a patient from contracting the virus, but it may reduce complications and prevent death in those who are infected.” The strong correlation does not prove causation, of course, and the researchers recommended further studies. But health professionals say there is no reason to wait to reduce the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency, which has been well known for years. “Vitamin D is typically much lower in New Yorkers,” said Dr. Eric Ascher, who has offices in Chelsea and on East 76th Street, around the corner from Lenox Hill Hospital Northwell Health, where he is affiliated. “Buildings are so high, everybody’s working indoors.” Vitamin D deficiency is so prevalent here that Ascher says, “I’m more shocked when a patient has a normal vitamin D level.” Ascher says he regularly prescribes vitamin D supplements and urges patients to consume dairy products and get more sun.

Public Health Actions A vitamin deficiency may seem trivial against the dra

Hopes for an end to the lockdown have rested heavily on a scientific or medical breakthrough. A vaccine or effective treatment will be welcome. But increasingly experts are pointing to the importance of basic public health actions. They say these can both reduce the spread of the coronavirus, through testing, tracing and sanitary measures, and the severity of COVID-19, by reducing conditions that make patients more vulnerable. “We are only as healthy as our most challenged residents,” said Dr. Oxiris Barbot, New York City’s Commissioner of Health and Mental Hygiene. “It is inevitable that we are going to have a second wave and so we need to not only prepare for that but really look toward seeing this as an opportunity to re-imagine what it means to live in a world where we support people’s total health.” This involves everything from improving overcrowded housing to alleviating concentrations of chronic disease in communities of color, she said. S l h i di i

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THE PASSION OF ST. BERNARD’S Forty Years at the Blackboard

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Parents, alumni and donors at a private Manhattan boys’ school are in an uproar over the planned departure of the beloved longtime headmaster BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN

It was a fleeting moment the “Old Boys” will never forget. At least 200 all-male alumni of St. Bernard’s School on the Upper East Side descended on East 98th Street on Jan. 16 for a joyous event known as the Old Boys Dinner. From all over the country and all over the world, they come to Carnegie Hill on the third Thursday of every January to exult in a tradition dating to 1916 – and featuring a healthy dose of wine, liquor and camaraderie. But before the bonding, networking and singing of the “Old Boys’ Song” got underway that evening, the former classmates – as young as 21, as old as 90 – would hear from Stuart H. Johnson III, the headmaster they all seemed to revere. His very first words brought a gasp and nervous laughter, followed by a loud ovation: “It’s a great opportunity to be able to preside at your own funeral,” Johnson said, according to separate accounts from three Old Boys in attendance. “Graceful gallows humor,” is how one witness described the episode in the school’s first-floor auditorium. “Funereal words spoken in funereal times,” another said. “A cri de coeur, a cry from the heart, to everybody in that room,” a third offered. All three requested anonymity. If the Old Boys’ English usage seems particularly eloquent, it’s because St. Bernard’s has taught them very well indeed. And it may sound corny, but as they belted out h i “Si f fi

A sea change is coming to St. Bernard’s, an elite, private school that currently enrolls 365 boys, from kindergarten through ninth grade, who stand out in their navy blue blazers, Oxford shirts and khaki trousers. Founded in 1904, the school boasts an enviable record of placing its graduates in top private day and boarding schools. Since 1985, with Johnson at the helm, the school’s character, prestige, and pedagogical excellence has been enhanced, while its diversity has been boosted – students hail from 52 countries, Armenia to Vietnam, and speak 24

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A ‘ROLLERCOASTER JOURNEY’ FILM

Documentary ﬁlmmaker Roger Sherman chronicles the transitioning of a longtime friend BY ANGELA BARBUTI

“I think “The Second Life of Jamie P” is the most important film I’ve ever made,” said Roger Sherman, who’s earned two Oscar nods, an Emmy, Peabody and James Beard Award throughout his over four-decade-long career. “And I have made films about divorce, the military, and the environment.” When Sherman’s friend for over 40 years, Jamie Peebles, told him that she had always been a woman, but only realized it at 63 years old, the Midtown East-based filmmaker admittedly did not know

much about the transgender world. What he learned through the making of this documentary, he hopes will enable others to empathize with the suffering and rejoice in the liberation that Jamie experiences while transitioning. The audience is invited into Jamie’s home, where she smiles as she dresses in feminine clothing and applies makeup, and her car, as she nervously drives to doctor appointments for painful procedures such as breast augmentation surgery and electrolysis for facial hair removal. Sherman even takes his camera into the operating room as she undergoes gender confirmation surgery. Filled with poignant and raw interviews with Jamie’s daughters, ex-wife, and new love interest, the docufilm shows the effects transitioning has on those around her, but most im-

portantly, Jamie herself.

You were the producer, director and cinematographer of the ﬁlm. What are some challenges you faced in making it?

We are four hours apart, driving, so I couldn’t be there for every moment. Jamie’s a super tech and was a brilliant television engineer, ﬁlmmaker, photographer and college professor, so has about four GoPros, those little cameras. So I said, “Whenever something important happens in your life, do a video diary.” She ended up putting a GoPro in her car; she was most comfortable talking to viewers there. She would call me after something happened that was not fun, like maybe she had a telephone call and the person kept calling her, “Sir,” even after she said, “Excuse me, I’m a woman.” And she would call me in tears and I would do everything I could to be there

for her. Then I had to put my director’s cap on and say, “While it’s still raw, you need to go out to your car and tell us about what just happened.” And most of the time, she did.

One of Jamie’s daughters, Tina, said, “My dad is gone.” Tell us about the girls’ reactions.

Tina and her, at that time, fiancé Nick, lived with Jamie, so they were all in this maelstrom together. I went up and hung out for a couple of days and got to know Tina. My expertise is getting people to open up to me and to trust me, and she did. She was very open and clear about the issues between she and her father and how she was having trouble dealing with them. She worked a lot in theater, so is very much in the gay community. One of her closest friends, who’s gay, introduced her to her future husband. So this is not a foreign thing for her; she has trans friends. But when it came to her father, she completely lost it, as you saw in the film. She became a puddle on the floor. And Jamie called up his ex-wife and said, “You gotta come up here.” Angie, who is on the spectrum, had a much easier time. She was just angry at her dad for telling her that she was transitioning by text, as you saw in the film. And that really shows what kind of state Jamie was in. This is an incredibly smart, introspective person who texts her daughter that she’s transitioning.

As for Jamie’s ex-wife Elaine, at one point in the ﬁlm, she said, “I wouldn’t wish it on anybody.” How did she cope with the ordeal?

Filmmaker Roger Sherman (right) with Jamie Peebles outside of The Stonewall Inn.

I was surprised at how well she was handling it. She was able to use the female pronouns, as many people are not able to do when they know somebody as the other sex before. I had that problem for a while, calling Jamie, “he,” and Jamie was very nice about it and would gently correct me. They would go do girl things, like shopping, and that was not completely comfortable for Elaine, she said to me privately. But she

‘The Second Life of Jamie P’ poster. Photos courtesy of Florentine Films obviously saw that it was a way to get back in a relationship with Jamie that was very important because of the children. They had not been close for quite some time since their divorce. She did immediately come up to Massachusetts when Jamie told her what happened with Tina. She was a hero; she saw the pain Tina was going through and realized that she had to act and be there even though she and Jamie were divorced and barely speaking, and she did that in spades.

What is a misconception Jamie wants to dispel?

Jamie says that quite often when she meets people, they say, “You’re so brave.” And she says, “I am not brave. This was a life and death decision. It was either transition, which I did not want to do, or jump in front of a train.” Which happens, too frequently. This year is the highest number of killings of transgender people ever. Twenty transgender people have already been killed this year.

You ﬁlmed Jamie’s gender conﬁrmation surgery. What was that like?

Dr. Marci Bowers was incredibly generous, and is narrating what’s going on while

she’s doing the surgery. She’s world renowned and has done thousands of these and happens to be transgender. She’s very eager to spread the word and tells us it’s not an amputation, everything is repurposed, as evidenced a month later, when Jamie has her first orgasm as a woman. I had never filmed in an operating room in my life, but knew this was a very important scene and I just needed to do it. There were not even moments of me feeling queasy and I saw everything. The challenge for me as a filmmaker was what do I want to show you, the audience? How am I going to bring you along on this rollercoaster journey? I thought, even before I went into the operating room, that I had to show the surgery without actually showing the surgery. The Second Life of Jamie P is now streaming on YouTube, Amazon, GooglePlay and Apple TV. To watch the film’s trailer and learn more about Roger, visit www.florentinefilms.com/sherman/project/the-second-life-of-jamie-p

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Chelsea News|Chelsea Clinton News chelseanewsny.com burned my hand a few times trying pick up the ball of mozzarella out of a bowl of nearboiling water. Finally, after a few tries, I had a few roundish mozzarella pearls. After eating a few, I dipped the rest in balsamic vinegar and olive oil; though to be honest, they tasted better by themselves. As expected, the mozzarella I made was delicious. What I didn’t expect was how hard I had to work to stretch the mozzarella - I broke a sweat trying to repeatedly lift and shape each ball as I followed along with the Big Mozz team. But at the end of the class, I felt a real sense of accomplishment as I had successfully made cheese by myself in my own kitchen.

The Zoom class, with ingredients. Photos: Yusuf Husain

MAKING MEMORIES FROM MOZZARELLA FOOD

Big Mozz’s cheese-making class has become a smash hit. Our reporter tried the handson experience BY YUSUF HUSAIN

I found out about Big Mozz’s mozzarella-making classes when I first spoke to founder Matt Gallira a few weeks ago. While he usually hosts the classes at his Chelsea Market cheese bar, Gallira had to rethink his business when the pandemic hit. Originally, one of his main objectives in conducting his classes over Zoom was to help keep his dairy supplier, Caputo Brothers Creamery, in operation, but before long, Gallira’s online mozzarella-making classes were a smash hit. Usually, Gallira hosts the classes six times a week, and they’re often fully booked up to two months in advance. One of the advantages of hosting classes online, however, is there isn’t really an upper limit on how many people can attend. Case in point: Gallira mentioned to me that he hosted a private class with more than 150 people. The base cost of the class is $65. Another perk of hosting classes online is the accessi-

bility the class now offers. “If you live in New York and you tried our class, you can now do it with your parents in Missouri and your friends in L.A.,” Gallira said. “You can all be in the same room, same class.” Gallira also talked about how interested the class attendees were in the science behind cheesemaking, dairy production, and how the mozzarella Big Mozz makes is lactose-free. “People ask really amazing questions,” Gallira said. “You’ll get these interesting questions about cheese science, dairy farming, farming practices and fermentation. We have had to become students of all these topics.”

A Pound of Curds Frankly, I was a little skeptical when Gallira told me they shipped mozzarella curds to class attendees around the country from their dairy supplier in Pennsylvania. But my curiosity got the better of me and before I knew it, I was signed up for a class. Big Mozz sends all their attendees a pound of mozzarella curds to make into fresh mozzarella. At first, I thought a full pound sounded a bit excessive, but Gallira assured me that most of his attendees ended up eating most of the first pound of mozzarella dur-

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Mozzarella curds.

People ask really amazing questions. You’ll get these interesting questions about cheese science, dairy farming, farming practices and fermentation. We have had to become students of all these topics.” Matt Gallira of Big Mozz ing the class. Many of his attendees actually ordered two pounds of curds, and Gallira recommended doing so, as it doesn’t cost much more to buy two pounds of curds from the dairy farm than one. (The cost of the extra pound is $30.) Caputo Brothers Creamery sent me one pound of mozzarella curds wrapped up in an ice pack, a small bag of sea salt and a few packets of information about the dairy farm and the steps required to make mozzarella. The only things I needed were a few large bowls, a spoon, hot water and a computer. The class started with a quick introduction from Gallira and his colleagues. They gave an overview on how mozzarella is made, then dove straight into a presentation on the steps we’d be taking to make our own mozzarella. Then, we tried it for ourselves. While the Big Mozz team made it look easy, it was quite difficult to get the hang of - not to mention that I

Mozzarella ball.

Finished mozzarella pearls with balsamic vinegar and olive oil.

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School for Environmental Studies, also has a lot of questions that she hopes will be answered over the course of the next two months. From a teaching perspective, Utting is relieved that she will have some face time with her students. “Learning completely remotely was very challenging,” said Utting. “I did feel like we really slowed down. My biggest challenge was trying to teach anything new.” She said she was able to make it through the spring because of the relationships she had established with her students during the first half of the year — and having time in the classroom, even less frequently, will be invaluable to her students’ success. Utting said she will need to reimagine her entire curriculum to work with blended learning. But she doesn’t yet know how this will work with to separate cohorts: in-person learners and full-time remote learners. “Do I create two different curriculums: one for the students that are coming to the building and another for students who are working at home?” she said. “Do I just film myself, teaching when I do it live, and post it online and hope that they could just watch the video and figure it out? What happens if they have a question or they don’t understand something?” But many of her unanswered questions deal with the physical logistics of learning in schools and whether the will be able to accommo-

date the health guidelines. “I’ve worked in five different buildings in the Department of Education, and in three of them, I was in windowless classrooms,” she said. “That’s not the school’s fault but I’m concerned about how do we how do we work with that if we don’t have air circulation if we can’t open a window, and we’re all just sitting in a room, breathing each other stagnant air.” Utting said she also doesn’t know how students will be able to keep social distance when they move from classroom to classroom in between periods. “It’s like cattle going through the little gates out,” she said. “I’m wondering if that’s something the schools are considering.” Utting hopes these questions are answered come September, and that the DOE will keep communicating with teachers and students to find out what worked in the spring and how to make this experience work for students. “I mean, there is the pandemic that is completely out of anyone’s control and we don’t know where it’s gonna go and we don’t know how it’s gonna evolve over the summer. I’m not asking anyone to perform miracles here but it is going to be a very delicate balance between being flexible but also being consistent,” said Utting. “The best way to support students through all those uncertainties is to have a consistency because then they know what to expect and they know what to do.”

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