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LEADING OFF Parking - Will the jury rise?

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he court of public opinion has been convened in the matter of the new parking meters on Princeton streets.

The Princeton Merchants Association has created a poll for its members, and the public is weighing in via letters to the editor and online posts . We think we can guess the outcome — the new meters will be about as popular as a trip to the dentist.

The Merchants survey asked the organization’s retail members to rate how their customers feel about parking; how their employees view the new system; whether or not they feel parking fees are reasonable; and, in essence, how their volume of business has been since the new system was implemented.

The letters to the editor were sometimes amusing in their vitriol and almost always negative. “Being a merchant is difficult. Being a merchant in Princeton is extra difficult. Town Council and the mayor’s office can’t possibly spend any time in town,” wrote Lou Valente of Hunter Road. “The new parking debacle is an affront to our merchants and citizens. It’s frightening that our leadership made significant investments in parking studies, focus groups, and questionnaires and then proceeded with the poorest implemen-

tation that I could imagine. We have a different parking system, not a state-ofthe-art parking system. Let me count the ways:” He proceeded to list the loss of the 10-minute grace period, increased rates, inability to get used time back, and the loss of parking spaces at crosswalks and loading zones, among other complaints. “Wake up,” he concluded.

“It’s not a success, it’s a failure. Talk to us please.”

Online at Planet Princeton we saw 31 comments as this issue of the Echo was going to press. One was a point of information regarding state regulation concerning spaces at crosswalks and loading zones; all the others were negative. Most of them blamed mayor and council for the debacle.

The good news for mayor and council is that the uproar was predicted by the former business development director in Asbury Park, which went through a similar conversion, endured similar criticism, and then was rewarded with millions o f dollars a year in extra revenue when people finally got used to the new system.

Our own very limited focus group, Echo staffers and their significant others, also weighed in. One technologychallenged participant reported initial frustration when he first used a pay

station, but found that he mastered it perfectly by the second encounter — a considerably better experience than he had at the automatic check-out kiosks at CVS. Others in the Echo family easily adapted but were frustrated on several occasions when they discovered the individual meter heads jammed with coins.

And that’s the bad news. Old fashioned coins are used so frequently, we suspect, because the new-fangled smartphone app is accompanied by a 35 cent fee every time you use. No one wants to go to the dentist and no one wants to pay a penny for an online service that they think should be free.

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he $27 million school referendum, greatly reduced from the $130 million proposed at one point last year, was approved by voters, 2,186 to 1,613. For those who are tracking the relative level of support for school referendums, the most recent comparison was in 2012, when the school board raised $11 million. The turnout then was lower, and the vote was proportionately more in favor, 1,238 to 571. The board is expected to propose another and much larger referendum in the coming year.

The next referendum is not likely to include the acquisition of the two office buildings at 100 and 101 Thanet Circle.

The school district had been in negotia-

tion to buy the property, but last month a sale of the buildings was announced to a Ridgefield Park-based real estate company.

In other news, the Princeton High School principal since 2003, Gary Snyder, announced his retirement effective in June. Snyder followed a succession of a half dozen Princeton High School principals in the previous 10 years.

Also retiring: Stephanie Kennedy, the business manager, and Lew Goldstein, assistant superintendent.

Zoning on the Ridge

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This time the board continued the hearing to Wednesday, January 23, but with two twists: First, could the owner contact a neighboring property owner to see if an additional acre of land could be purchased and added to the lot, thereby making it a conforming size and not requiring a variance? Second could the neighbors who oppose the new construction consult among themselves and with Friends of Princ-

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The neighbors’ opposition is summarized in the letters below: A new house built at 500 Ridge­ view Road is an environmental disaster. A question now before the Zoning Board is whether we can be assured that the same engineer and builder who built at the 500 address will not compound the problems by the proposed new construction at 394 Ridgeview.

The new house and the proposed house are on the same wetland, which is at the headwaters of Mountain Brook.

The occupant at 500 has constructed a play set on the wetland, despite the requirement that the wetland not be disturbed or compromised. Shortly before building on the lot, the developer mowed the wetlands grass, which also appears to be against the requirement that the wetlands not be disturbed. I understand that citations have now been served for these violations.

On checking the records with the Princeton engineering department, it appears that storm water runoff was provided for in 2005 by placing two drains across Ridgeview Road and by cutting a channel across the wetland below one of these drains. The new house at 500 was built directly across this channel, and it apparently blocks the flow of water into the wetland. The

evidence of the blockage is the pond of water in front of the new house.

The town needs to know how the current storm water runoff problem will be mitigated, and how it will be addressed in the new construction.

The application for building a new house at 394 Ridgeview should be denied until the obvious environmental issues are resolved, if they can be, or until the lot is preserved as open space.

Lincoln Hollister 437 Ridgeview Road The concerns of numerous residents regarding the influx of McMansions in the Princeton area voiced at the November 19 Town Council meeting. Over the course of that meeting it was clear that Princeton residents are frustrated by the free rein allowed to developers to build oversized McMansions with no concern for the surrounding neighborhood.

We applaud the attempts by Mayor Lempert and the Town Council to preserve the character of the town from McMansions. Unfortunately, the whole Princeton area is under assault from these out-of-place spec homes.

The proposed McMansion on an undeveloped lot at 394 Ridgeview Road, is a microcosm of all issues angering Princeton residents about zoning, with an added layer of environmental concerns for good measure.

The proposed home on 394 Rid-

geview Road fails most of the criteria outlined by the council to give homes neighborhood character, in addition to failing any sort of fit test for the surrounding neighborhood.

Jaspal Singh 376 Ridgeview Road We, the concerned residents of both Ridgeview Road as well as some of our neighbors on Drake’s Corner Road, have been fighting this proposed construction at the November and December meetings of the Zoning Board. The resulting conundrum is that with the exception of the fact that the lots in question are too small to develop according to the zoning code, the developers seem to be conforming to all the legal issues imposed by the state and township.

To counter our arguments of environmental protection, those supporting development have promoted the idea of separating the lot size issue

from the environment, arguing that the only matter which the Zoning Board is empowered to decide is lot size and developer pleas of hardship, albeit selfinflicted. This insistence of separating lot size from environmental concerns is a false dichotomy. Lot size and the environment are inseparable.

Surely Princeton Township did not specify that lots on Princeton Ridge be a minimum of four acres simply to guarantee the privacy of its inhabitants.

In fact, Princeton Township enacted this zoning ordinance to protect the environment on which all of Princeton depends. We urge all who live in Princeton to attend the next meeting of the Zoning Board in the Municipal Building on Wednesday, January 23, at 7:30 p.m. to demonstrate your commitment to maintaining the environmental integrity of our community.

John F. Kenfield 360 Ridgeview Road

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or some, the continuing story of the Clarke Cottage may be a cautionary tale about the challenges and frustrations of repairing an historic Princeton house — especially when a $2,000 fine is involved.

But for others, it could be a hopeful story about how seriously the town takes building restoration and how the historic house owners and the Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) can achieve cooperative understandings.

It’s an irony that the Clarke Cottage on Mercer Road — originally a one-and-a-half Colonial Vernacular structure, circa 1725 (later to have a 19th-century addition) — survived the nearby Battle of Princeton on January 3, 1777, but was nearly destroyed 240 years later in 2017 by a storm-shattered ash tree (The Echo, March 2018).

The house stood empty for some time after the death of its previous owner, Donald Warnock, a businessman with a keen interest in Princeton history. In 2016 it was purchased from his estate by Joseph Guarnaccia, who was fortunate to have good insurance when the tree crashed upon the later addition, laying waste to its roof and

second floor. The original 1700s section was untouched, another ameliorating circumstance.

Guarnaccia set about making repairs. But the property is within the Stony Brook historic district (Princeton’s original settlement) and is thus under the purview of the Historical

The Historic Preservation Commission believes that small variations, multiplied across an entire structure, can significantly alter a building’s character.

Preservation Commission. Guarnaccia chafed at what he felt were overly exacting requirements, including fractions of an inch measurements on replacement windows and sidings. The HPC’s position is that even small variations, when multiplied across an entire structure, can significantly alter a building’s character.

Still, all seemed well until Guarnac-

cia replaced eight windows with custom-made units. He maintained that these completely fulfilled or even exceeded the preservation ordinances, not only in their appearance but in quality and sustainability. The Commission found, however, that the now-installed windows were not what it had specifically approved.

The Princeton municipal court agreed, ruling against Guarnaccia and fining him $2,000.

Guarnaccia paid the fine. Then, on the afternoon of November 19, he appeared before the HPC to amend the previous HPC window approval.

Clearly, it was a fraught situation.

There was a hopeful start when all agreed that the summons and fine would not be debated and the emphasis would be on moving forward.

“There was a fine, which was paid,” said Anthony Tadaro, an attorney attending the meeting on behalf of the town.

“From a municipal standpoint it’s concluded.”

Guarnaccia and Christopher S. Tarr, an attorney representing him, agreed that the emphasis should be solely on moving forward.

Guarnaccia gave a detailed Power-

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Before the storm: the Clarke Cottage at 545 Mercer Road. The porch is the next scheduled repair.

Point presentation on the old versus the new windows. By way of introduction, Tarr said: “He’ll explain why replacing the single pane windows with double pane custom windows was appropriate.”

“The intent is to be fully aligned with the preservation ordinances,” Guarnaccia said, adding that in his view, “It’s not the intent of the ordinance to discourage change but to preserve the integrity and authenticity of the historic district.”

With slides such as “Criteria” and “Rationale for Window Replacement Need,” Guarnaccia made a highly organized case. Interestingly — and perhaps appropriately, given the agreement to move forward — no one raised the issue of why Guarnaccia had not

come back earlier to make this case for a modification of the window replacement agreement, but changed his plans without notifying the HPC and thus becoming liable for the fine.

Guarnaccia pointed out that Clarke Cottage’s original 1700s section was “undisturbed [by the tree fall] and is unchanged,” and that the eight controversial windows were in the 1800s addition. He stressed that they were custom-made, not off-the-shelf replacements and very unlike the “unsightly” aluminum windows installed by a previous owner. Also, he has preserved the original window trim.

These units totally fulfill the intent of the historic preservation ordinances, he said. They preserve the original grid pattern of the windows and fulfill best practices for energy efficiency and sustainability in the ordinances.

Historic preservation officer Elizabeth Kim noted that “the porch will be coming up at another stage.” The porch, a front attachment to the 1800s wing, was destroyed by the tree fall, and, Kim added, there is an issue of shutters yet to be addressed.

Tarr made a case for compassion, noting that due to the storm devastation and subsequent restoration activity, Guarnaccia “is not living in the house. He needs to move in.”

“I’ve only lived in it for four months total,” Guarnaccia said.

“You ought not to act arbitrarily, unnecessarily, or capriciously,” said Tarr.

“This man has faced a disaster and dealt with it in a way that has beautified the home. He found the money to install custom windows that are virtually the same, with all the additional benefits.”

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nother part of Joseph Guaraniccia’s presentation was endorsement of neighbors who attended the meeting. Guarnaccia noted — with understandable indignation — that during the court proceeding against him it was claimed that neighbors had objected to how the window replacement activities were proceeding, though no such neighbors testified to that effect.

By contrast, the statements of Lynn Vaughey, who lives with her husband directly across Mercer Road from Clarke Cottage, were entirely positive: “We think he’s done a beautiful job,” she said at the meeting. “It was deserted and rotting away. He has lavished love on that house.”

Not surprisingly, frustrations occasionally blew through the room like a cold wind around ill-fitting window frames.

“I’m getting the message from this committee that I’m destroying this house,” Guarnaccia said. “I’m not getting any empathy in this room.”

“I don’t see any contrition,” replied Roger Shatzkin, a commission member. “If we lack empathy, you lack contrition.”

Elric Endersby, another commission member, had lent his consider-

able expertise in 18th and 19th-century American wood-framed structures to evaluating Clarke Cottage during onsite visits. He disagreed about a lack of empathy. “My sympathies are with you,” Endersby said, noting that the HPC had accommodated Guarnaccia on several modifications, such as allowing slight changes to the height of the addition’s second floor and the pitch of its roof.

“We went out, saw the house, made an assessment,” Endersby said. “I think we worked with you. I’m convinced you have every reason to preserve this house.”

“I give you credit for that,” Guarnaccia acknowledged.

Endersby took the occasion to make greater observations, stating, “We made it abundantly clear about the [approved] windows. But you took it upon yourself to change the windows.”

Guarnaccia expressed regret over “a mistake of judgment.” Endesby added, “It’s not the windows. It’s to foster the kind of stewardship that historic buildings deserve. As a commission, we need a better set of criteria in responding to applications like this.”

“I think the main point here is process,” said Julie Capozzoli, chairwoman of the Historic Preservation Commission. “The process hasn’t gone well so far.” Reinforcing Elizabeth Kim’s earlier comment, she urged the commission to move forward with a vote on the windows “because there’s a porch to be added,” this being “probably the most visible element in the front.”

It suddenly seemed as if the momentary chill of ill feelings had been replaced by a warmer practicality.

“Does this adversely affect the structure?” asked Capozzoli.

“I think the overall effect is acceptable,” Shatzkin replied, to general agreement.

The vote was unanimous in accepting the new windows as currently installed, although some members stated they were giving approval with the expectation of cooperation by the applicant.

“We’ll permit the windows with the understanding that we’ll work collaboratively on the porch,” said Cappozzoli, to which Tarr and Guarnaccia agreed.

And so ended, cordially and constructively, this portion of the meeting of the Princeton Historic Preservation Commission officially devoted to “Application of Joseph Guarnaccia, 545 Mercer Road — Clarke Cottage, Application to Amend Previous HPC Approval.” The commission next took up an application for exterior improvements to a John Street residence.

In the hallway, Guarnaccia thanked neighbors who had attended the meeting to speak on his behalf. And the moment suggested a thought: that the U.S. Congress would certainly do well if it resolved contentious issues with as much frankness and ultimate cooperation.

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Farm. 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $360,000.

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18 Willow Street. Seller: Thalia Deneed Trust. Buyer: Arturo and Neri Silva. Townhouse. 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $730,000 ($31,000).

68 Potters Run. Seller: Michael and Angela Cortese. Buyer: Yanqing Zhou and Kun Wang. Two-story Colonial in Heatherstone. 5 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $743,225 (-$155,775).

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14 Cameron Court. Seller: Alice Rogers and Howard Adams. Buyer: Phyllis Marganoff. Townhouse in Queenston Common. 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $577,500 (-$77,500).

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By Ethan Sterenfeld

he future of the Dinky is once again in doubt. The Princeton Line has not run since October, when New Jersey Transit went into deadline mode to implement a new federally mandated safety technology system. In December the troubled agency announced it had finally met the federal equipment installation milestone.

At that point it was “currently evaluating the schedule for restoring regular service” to the Dinky and two other lines that had been suspended during the race to upgrade the safety equipment. Back in October NJ Transit had said it hoped to Dinky service would only be curtailed for about three months. By December it was saying it was working “as fast as possible” but there was “no determined date.”

This is not the first time that some uncertainty has clouded the future of the Dinky — this seems to happen every few years. Whenever something comes up, some Princetonians warn that the train will shut down forever, and that this will irrevocably damage the town. But there is a different question that others are asking: is there a possible replacement for the Dinky that could actually be better?

“The real question is the future of the Dinky corridor, and how to design a transit system that works with people the way they live,” says Ralph Widner, a Princeton resident and retired regional planner who has served on a variety of transportation planning boards and committees for the town over the past decade.

Change will happen at some point, sooner rather than later, Widner says.

Emerging technologies and a more spread-out town mean that a single heavy rail line — each of the two Jersey Arrow cars used on the Dinky run weighs about 60 tons — may no longer be the best option for transit between Princeton and Princeton Junction.

Since the heavy rail line also requires a conductor and an engineer, it has additional overhead in terms of personnel.

The Dinky has endured for more than 150 years — one or two railroad cars traveling the 2.6-mile distance between the Princeton University campus and Princeton Junction, where it meets NJ Transit trains on the main line of the Northeast Corridor. While the Dinky’s termination point on the Princeton campus has moved a substantial distance south from its original destination near what is now the Blair Hall arch (three miles from the main line), the basic Dinky ride has remained remarkably unchanged.

Ridership on the Dinky, however, has fallen dramatically in recent years compared to the days when cars had

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to be added to accommodate crowds With decades of experience in regional planning, Princeton resident for Princeton football games and other Ralph Widner says the existing Dinky tracks right of way could be special events. According to docu- a valuable resource for an improved transportation option. ments NJ Transit provided under the On the cover: the original station on the campus, from a photo at the Dinky bar. state’s public records law, there were more than 600,000 rides on the train in stationed at different bases. While his to the chairman of the U.S. Senate Subfather was serving in the Pacific during committee on Employment and Man2012, but fewer than 500,000 in 2017.

Over the same period, total ridership World War II, the Widner family lived power, executive director of the Apon the Northeast Corridor line grew. in a suburb of Philadelphia. Traveling palachian Regional Commission, vice It has dipped slightly over the past few into Center City Philadelphia and see- president of the Urban Land Institute, years, as NJ Transit has faced increas- ing deteriorating neighborhoods, Wid- president of the National Academy for ing delays and infrastructure issues, ner recalls thinking that “we could do State and Local Government, and execbut ridership on the Dinky has still better than this.” After college at Duke utive director of Greater Philadelphia fallen even faster than on the Northeast (graduating in 1952 with a degree in First Corporation. During the 1990s English), Widner served in the Navy he undertook missions for the State Corridor overall. during the Korean Department, World Bank, and UN to The important conflict, and then assist former Soviet-bloc countries get thing to rememstarted a career in on their feet. ber in the debates Amid numerous journalism, first After Widner retired in 2006, he and over the Dinky, uncertainties, Ralph at the Paterson his wife, Joan, moved to Princeton at Widner says, is Evening News the urging of their daughter, Jennifer that most people Widner says, ‘One thing and then the New Widner, a professor of politics and inare primarily York Times. ternational affairs and director of a proconcerned not so is almost certain: we’re He soon was gram called Innovations for Successful much about the going to see a dramatic selected as a Con- Societies at the university’s Woodrow Dinky itself as gressional Fellow, Wilson School. The Widners have not they are with get- change in how mass part of a program regretted the move. “Princeton is a perting where they transit is delivered.’ in which journal- fect scale,” he says, “and civically you need to be, ideally ists got to work can really make a difference.” with as little cost with staffers in As an energetic 88-year-old Widner and aggravation both the Senate and the House. As he has done just that. Widner’s approach as possible. Almost everyone agrees that the Dinky is facing problems, so it was exposed to the inner workings of to questions such as the Dinky’s future makes sense to look for pragmatic solu- government he thought back to the is data driven. Before looking specifiimages of Philadelphia and decided to cally at the Dinky, he says, we need to tions that work for everyday riders.

“It’s all a matter of schedule and see if he could play a role in revitaliz- examine the larger problems surroundtime,” he says. “If we’re too fixated on ing cities and economically challenged ing transportation in the area. The the Dinky as it is today, we’re not going rural areas. Widner changed direction community needs to ask what type of and became assistant director of Penn- transportation will best serve Prince­ to solve the problem.”

Widner has the experience to know sylvania’s state planning board. This tonians before trying to maximize the that things will change over time: he was a critical time in Pennsylvania’s riders on the train. Finding the best has managed regional development ef- economy: coal, steel, and other old-line way to serve the community will lead forts across the country and around the industries were already in decline, and to higher ridership. the state had to act.

Thanks to Widner and people workglobe during his career.

Widner worked in regional develop- ing with him Princeton is not withWidner (pronounced wide-ner) was born in Philadelphia and moved around ment and planning for the rest of his out data on what the transportation the country as his father, a Marine, was career, serving as legislative assistant problems are and where the solutions

might come from. In 2014 he presented a detailed report for Princeton Future that drew on Census data to create a demographic profile of the town. In 2016 he was principal investigator of a committee that prepared a report on alternative mobility choices. In 2017 Widner chaired an ad hoc task force of the Complete Streets Committee that has completed a draft report on “Transportation Choices for Princeton: A Strategic Analysis.” The task group, which also included community members Nat Bottigheimer, Sam Bunting, and Surinder Sharma, expects to have a final version of this report in the coming months, once updated versions of some of the data used are available.

“Princeton’s Master Plan expresses the hope that motor vehicle traffic can be reduced if we expand transportation options,” the task force found.

“That may not occur unless the alternatives offered are so appealing in convenience, reliability, and cost that at least some drivers will take advantage of them.”

A lack of coordination between transit agencies in Princeton makes mass transit less attractive to users, the study found. The town and the university operate separate bus systems that serve separate areas — the town’s FreeB mostly runs north of Nassau Street, and the university’s TigerTransit stays to the south. As the study found, this dichotomy happened because of the First, the train is not always reliable different bureaucracies, not because it or convenient. On multiple occasions is good for riders. in recent years, service has been canMore than a quarter of Princeton celed for large portions of the day beresidents whose jobs are in town work cause engineers did not come to work. at the university, yet few of them comWhen the Dinky is running, it does not mute on either bus service. Around 625 meet every train on the Northeast Corpeople drive less than 10 minutes every ridor, so some commuters must wait day from the town to work at the unilonger at the Junction. And the Dinky versity, and the study found that many does not always of them could be wait for trains arserved by betterriving late at the coordinated pub- Princeton University Junction, an adlic transit. played a major role in ditional inconveAnother probnience for those lem identified in preventing the Dinky’s commuters. the draft report is This problem closure in 1984 but that many people extends to NJ did not know provoked controversy Transit in genabout the transit eral, which has options offered in when it moved the suffered reliabilPrinceton. Both station farther from ity problems for the FreeB and the nearly a decade, TigerTransit bus- downtown. About Widner says. This es are free to all led to the sohalf of the Dinky’s residents, and two called “Summer low-cost NJ Tran- regular passengers are of Hell” in 2017, sit bus lines run and the spate of through town, but associated with the random train many residents inuniversity. cancellations this terviewed for the year, in addition report were unto regular delays aware of the lines that make the or where they stop. Part of this probtrain a less attractive option. lem could be solved in the short-term Then, there is the price — taking the through marketing the availability of Dinky adds $1.75 each way to the fare bus service to town residents, the reto and from New York. The Prince­ port finds. ton Junction station has expanded the Even within these regional transit isamount of parking in recent years, so sues, the Dinky has its own problems. it is slightly easier to park there than

Left, the end of the Dinky line near the southern end of the Princeton University campus. Right, the interior of the new Princeton Station, designed by Arizonabased architect Rick Joy. The former station buildings were repurposed into two restaurants, the Dinky Bar and Cargot.

New York, the airport, and other points along the Northeast Corridor.

The university played a central role in preventing the Dinky’s closure back in 1984. NJ Transit considered shutting down the line due to low ridership, but the university bought the station house from the agency, providing funding for the Dinky to continue. A provision of this sale said that the university could move the Dinky station farther south.

“I don’t think there would be a Dinky today if we hadn’t intervened back in the 1980s,” says Robert Durkee, the university’s longtime vice president and secretary. He notes that the university’s administration is concerned about town residents who use the Dinky, but that about half of the train’s riders are associated with the university. That includes students, professors, lecturers, and visitors.

The university’s priority is making sure that people can easily go from the campus and town to the Junction, Durkee says. “Whether it’s a train or a bus is less important than preserving that unimpeded right-of-way between the art of any debate over the Dinky town and the Junction.” involves Prince­ ton University — the Dinky is located on campus. Very ne idea has been to replace the few of the university’s 5,400 underDinky with a bus on the same corgraduates have cars on campus, so they ridor. A 2010 study funded by the New rely upon the Dinky for a connection to

before when spaces were available only after spending years on a waiting list.

It’s also more expensive — rates were recently increased. But many commuters still prefer getting directly on the train at the Junction rather than taking the Dinky.

“The state wanted more and more people to get off of the highway and onto the train,” Widner says. “When they raise the fares, they get the opposite result.”

Some competition to the Dinky comes from the buses that travel from the center of Princeton to New York, Widner says. According to his data, more commuters have started using them in recent years, but the numbers are still small. For people who have to get a ride to the bus line on Nassau Street, the bus option is no better than taking the train from the Junction.

“The irony is not a lot of Princetonians want to take a bus to New York,” he says. “There’s something about being Princetonians, we look down upon taking a bus.”

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Jersey Department of Transportation proposed a bus rapid transit system throughout the Route 1 corridor, from the Trenton through New Brunswick areas, that would include the current Dinky right-of-way. This idea is being reconsidered by the state, after the Christie administration shelved most transit projects.

Under the plan, buses could keep going past the station on Alexander Road into the town of Princeton, or they could stop in the middle of the current Dinky line, near Route 1, and meet up with buses from employers in suburban office parks.

“It’s just like a train, except that it has rubber tires,” Widner says. The tires can be a benefit, as a bus could avoid traffic around Route 1 on the Dinky right-ofway and then, he says, “you can take it up into town.”

In addition, multiple buses at a time could operate on the current Dinky right-of-way, which used to have two train tracks. The current train fills to capacity on certain days, so more buses could be added at the busiest times, such as the start and end of Princeton University’s breaks or the university’s reunions weekend in early June.

Bus rapid transit is a system in which buses are used for services that more closely resemble light rail. There are often dedicated lanes on the road for the buses, bus stops are upgraded with

In this archival photograph, passengers wait on the Dinky platform in 1891.

Image courtesy of the collection of the Historical Society of Princeton.

enclosed stations, and passengers buy tickets before boarding the bus.

Pittsburgh has one of the most successful bus rapid transit systems in the country, with its three “busways,” streets that are reserved for bus use.

Each stop is easily viewable on smartphone applications, like Google Maps, which also show when the next buses are scheduled to arrive. Parking lots are available at many of the bus stops, just like at a train station.

Los Angeles, Hartford, Connecticut, Alexandria, Virginia, and other cities have also built bus rapid transit systems with dedicated rights-of-way. Buses

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The main advantages over a train, even light rail, are that the buses are cheaper and they can come off the dedicated lanes or corridors onto normal city streets for part of their journey. On the other hand, some people prefer just prefer trains — Americans tend to look down on buses — although many cities that have installed bus rapid transit have found that people separate those more efficient systems from traditional city buses.

Sheldon Sturges, co-founder of the civic planning organization Princeton Future, thinks that it is important to keep the train chugging between Princeton and the Junction. He has consistently opposed efforts to change the location and vehicle of the Dinky. “Trains work,” Sturges says. “They’re on time.

Buses get stuck in traffic.”

A number of years ago, Sturges was involved with a committee that brought together representatives of the town and the university and looked at replacing the Dinky with light rail. The light rail could have continued into the town, under University Place or student dorms, to Palmer Square, he says.

Cost presented the biggest problem: the light rail plan would have cost tens of millions of dollars even before considering an extension farther into town.

Sturges and many others were also adamantly opposed to the university’s decision to move the Dinky 450 feet farther south to make space for a new arts center at the university. After years of fierce fighting, the new station was built in 2014, and the arts center opened in the fall of 2017.

Sturges and others in town blame much of the drop in Dinky ridership in recent years on moving the station. Widner does not believe that the changed location of the new station has had any significant long-term effect on the Dinky ridership since the construction ended. Other factors, including in-

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creased parking at the Junction and reliability problems with the Dinky, have probably played a larger role.

Most of the Dinky’s riders drive or take a bus to Princeton Station, since they live too far to walk, and the 450foot move did not make it much harder to get there. Likewise, most people who walk or bike to the station can handle the extra minute or two on their trips.

Widner remembers one nonagenarian who was able to make the walk to the station, even with the increased distance. “At some point, it was a problem for her,” he says. “But she still did it.”

The traffic study shows the bigger picture: Drawing on data provided by the Census Bureau’s annual American Community Survey during the years 2011 to 2015, the 2017 draft report shows that an average of 884 commuted daily by rail from Princeton, but only 462 rode the Dinky to Princeton Junction. Most of the remaining 422 lived well beyond walking distance of the station in areas so dispersed that riding the Dinky was impractical.

The 2017 draft report noted that the state DOT identified the Dinky line as one of three principal axes for cross connecting transit in the region. “To perform the functions envisioned,” the report continued, “the Dinky rail line should serve as more than just a way to catch a train to New York. Confined to that role, its ridership is unlikely to expand much beyond its 2006 levels.

not limited to mass transit options.

Widner sees technology making transit more personalized. Smartphones could call buses or smaller public transit vehicles right to where people are, obviating the need for bigger buses on routes around the less densely populated areas outside the town center. us rapid transit is one option, but The advent of Uber and Lyft has technology is changing so rap- opened up opportunities for mass tranidly that nobody really knows what sit planners. Some transit agencies are the best transit solutions will be, even hiring the ride-hailing companies to offer off-peak serin the next 10 to vice to bus or rail 15 years, Widner stations or even says. to provide “paraToday’s gold Advances in GPS standards may technology, smartphone transit” for riders with mobility limseem inefficient itations. In Sumin a few years. applications, and mit, New Jersey, A u t o n o m o u s autonomous vehicles, the city has instivehicles, for extuted a program ample, could dra- could make today’s offering free or matically change inexpensive Uber the cost basis of transportation gold rides to commutoperating a tran- standards obsolete ers who othersit system. GPS wise compete for technology and within a few years. parking spaces smartphone apat the town’s NJ plications enable Transit station. transit operators to put buses on the roads when and where they are need- The goal of the program was to free up ed. Even now in Princeton the path of about 100 parking spots at the station, the FreeB bus making its way around and delay the need to create additional town can be followed on a smartphone. parking there.

The “final mile” of a transit system The passenger can “see” the bus coming could include dockless electric scootfrom miles and minutes away.

Transportation planners today are ers, which are now appearing in more

Modernized, it should serve much more diverse purposes and ridership . . . One option is to install a stop intermediate between Princeton and Princeton Junction near U.S. 1 from which shuttles . . . could transport passengers to their destinations.”

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In San Jose, California, town officials already are worried about safety issues if dozens of speeding scooters descend on a transit center all at once. But technology even offers a solution for that: “geofencing” that would apply a governor to limit the scooter’s speed or stop the scooter entirely when its GPS sensor determined it had crossed a virtual boundary.

“Nobody can tell you exactly how this is going to wash out, because there are so many uncertainties,” Widner says. “One thing is almost certain: we’re going to see a dramatic change in how mass transit is delivered.”

Ten years ago, few people would have predicted the extent to which smartphones would revolutionize society, Widner says, especially in the transportation sector. Uber and Lyft have upended the taxi industry, and there is a chance that a combination of smartphones and autonomous vehicles could bring a similar change in public transit.

“When I was a kid, Philadelphia was a leading manufacturer of Stetson hats, but that’s all gone now,” Widner says.

“In fact, the guys I worked for in the 1980s, all the companies but one are gone. The world is changing, and the trouble is you’ve got a lot of folks who fixate on one thing from the past, and they keep advocating that, without recognizing the ballgame’s changed.”

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Adding the visual arts to that conversation is Princeton-based artist rained as both a mathematician Marsha Levin-Rojer, whose exhibit and an artist, I constantly struggle “Music Made Visible: Metaphors of the to find the proper balance between Ephemeral” is on view at the Wood- logic and intuition. row Wilson School’s Bernstein Gallery My work has moved along a series through Thursday, January 31. An asof parallel paths sociated panel disover the last 30 cussion takes place years. Exploring Wednesday, Janu- ‘The very different a variety of styles ary 9, at 4:30 p.m. and mediums, bodies of work with in McCosh Hall 10 including landon the university which I have engaged scape drawings, campus followed organic drawings, by a reception at seem to play well watercolor grids, the gallery. Both off each other as I and musical landevents are free. scapes, I see each, Levin-Rojer was continue move back in its own way, as drawn to art as a “drawing”, with a and forth among them.’ a child in Lower focus on linearity Merion, Pennand mark-making. sylvania, but was My process is an drawn to a more career-oriented field iterative one — depending a lot on in college at Temple University, where erasure. The often seemingly random she studied math. She worked in medi- line, heavy use of black and emphasis cal research and as a cryptanalyst for on negative space allow my images to the NSA, but resumed drawing and emerge from darkness. taking art classes after the birth of her My series of organic abstractions daughter in 1976. She also continued are inspired by work of Martha Gra-

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Marsha Levin-Roger’s backgrounds in both art and mathematics shine through in her work. Pictured above is ‘Hallelujah.’

ham from the 1940s. By encasing the dancer in cloth, Graham used the folds and tensions of the fabric to express the emotions of the piece and I try to capture this in my drawings.

I have taken a more mathematical approach along some of the paths. For the musical landscapes, I envisioned mappings of rhythm into line, harmony into plane, and the intersection of the planes into the landscape itself — music suffusing and infusing the world.

The grids are explorations of color in which I impose a set of constraints (size of square, color/no color) to see what different forms, architectural or organic, can be created by manipulating such a limited set of parameters. For a “City Rhythm” series, I was most interested in the edge between being and not being — where the colored squares reach a critical density and a building emerges.

Most recently, I have moved the line “off the page” by using wire, tape, beads, monofilament and cut paper. For these works, the three-dimensional “drawing” is often played against its shadow to create a “conversation” between two and three dimensions. For the Prince­ ton University Concert Series 2015-’16, I created three individual installations, titled “The Musical Line,” to be suspended above the musicians and move in response to the energy and air currents generated by the performers.

The current exhibition: “Music Made Visible: Metaphors of the Ephemeral” is an extension of “The Musical Line” where the primary focus is on the magical transformation of invisible, evanes-

cent sound waves into the “concrete” musical forms that we perceive. With a nod to the wave/particle duality of energy, light and sound, I have used both lines and dots throughout much of the work to capture the energy and movement. The titles and inspiration for several of the works come from direct quotes by Maestro Gustavo Dudamel, whose residency with the Princeton University Concert Series gave rise to this exhibition, and from the “Partita for Eight Voices” by Caroline Shaw, a PHD graduate of the Princeton University Department of Music.

Fortunately, the very different bodies of work with which I have engaged seem to play well off each other as I continue move back and forth among them with hopefully fresher eyes and new insights.

For more information: visit wws. princeton.edu/about-wws/bernsteingallery or www.princetonuniversityconcerts.org

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Monday January 7 The Glass Room Experience, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-9529. www.princetonlibrary.org.

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Through Sunday, January 27.

Los Angeles Philharmonic, Princeton University Concerts, Richardson Auditorium, 609-258-2800. www.princetonuniversityconcerts.org. $30. 7 p.m.

Tuesday January 8 Opera Film Festival, Princeton Senior Resource Center, 45 Stockton Street, 609924-7108. www.princetonsenior.org. “La Traviata.” Free. Register. 12:30 p.m.

An Evening with Ken Druse, Friend Center, Princeton University. www.fopos. org. The lecturer, writer, and photographer discusses his book, “The New Shade Garden: Creating a Lush Oasis in the Age of Climate Change.” Free. Register. 5:30 p.m.

La Musica Como Libertad: Gustavo Dudamel en Princeton, Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street. www.princetonuniversityconcerts.org. Conversation between Javier Guerrero and Gustavo Dudamel. Free. 6 p.m.

League of Women Voters, Suzanne Patterson Building, 45 Stockton Street. www.lwvprinceton.org. Program planning. 7 p.m.

Wednesday January 9

Poets at the Library, Princeton Public Black Voices Book Group, Princeton Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609- 9529. Robert Rosenbloom reads from his 924-9529. www.princetonlibrary.org. “The work, followed by an open-mic. 7 p.m.

Color of Law” by Richard Rothstein. 7 p.m.

Meetings, PFLAG Princeton, Trinity Jazz at Princeton University Small Church, 33 Mercer Street. www.pflagprincGroup X, Lee Rehearsal Room, Princeton eton.org. Support group for families and University, 609-258-9220. music.princeton. friends of (LGBTQ) individuals. 7 p.m. edu. Free. 7:30 p.m.

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Tuesday January 15

Wednesday January 16 Topics & Trends in Education, Lewis School of Princeton, 53 Bayard Lane, 609924-8120. www.lewisschool.org. “Numerical Cognition.” Register. 1 to 2:30 p.m.

Paul Zeitz, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-9529. Discussing his memoir “Waging Justice: A Doctor’s Journey to Speak Truth and Be Bold.” 7 p.m.

Thursday January 17

Opera Film Festival, Princeton Senior Westminster Conservatory at Nassau, Winter Songs XII, Capital Singers of Resource Center, 45 Stockton Street, 609- Niles Chapel, 61 Nassau Street. www.rider.

Trenton, St. Paul’s Church, 216 Nassau 924-7108. www.princetonsenior.org. “Guidit- edu/wcc. Free. 12:15 p.m.

Street. www.capitalsingers.org. 4 p.m. ta.” Free. Register. 12:30 p.m.

Friday January 18 Princeton Hockey, Baker Rink, PrinceFinancial Literacy: Becoming an Inton University. www.goprincetontigers.com. formed Investor, Princeton Public LiDavid Massengill, Princeton Folk MuHarvard. 7 p.m. brary, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924- sic Society, Christ Congregation Church, 50 Walnut Lane, 609-799-0944. www.princThe Niceties, McCarter Theater, 91 Uni- 9529. www.princetonlibrary.org. 6 p.m. etonfolk.org. $20. 7:30 p.m. versity Place, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.

Historical Fiction Book Group, Updike org. Zoe, a black student at an Ivy League Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road. www.princZhang and Upshaw: Earth and Heavuniversity, is called into her white professor’s etonhistory.org. “Telex from Cuba” by Rachel en, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, office to discuss her thesis about slavery’s Kushner. Register. 6:30 p.m.

Richardson Auditorium. www.njsymphony. effect on the American Revolution. Through org. Mahler’s Fourth Symphony and Maria Anti-Semitic Hate Speech and Bots February 10. 8 p.m.

Schneider’s Winter Morning Walks with soEpidemic, The Jewish Center, 435 Nassau prano Dawn Upshaw. 8 p.m.

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Saturday January 12 org. Joel Finkelstein presents. Free. 7:30 p.m.

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Sunday January 13 The Madness of George III, Princeton Garden Theatre, 160 Nassau Street. www. princetongardentheatre.org. New production of Alan Bennett’s play from England’s Nottingham Playhouse. $18. 12:30 p.m.

El Sistema, McCosh Hall, Princeton University. www.princetonuniversityconcerts.

Choral Reading, Princeton Society of org. Panel discussion about the music eduMusical Amateurs, Unitarian Universalist cation program featuring Gustavo Dudamel, Congregation, Route 206 at Cherry Hill Road.

Elsje Kibler-Vermaas, Anne Fitzgibbon, and www.princetonol.com/groups/psma. PerStanley Katz. Free. 4:30 p.m. form Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Yeomen of the Teen Panel: Meaningful Learning Guard” with an informal chorus. $10. 3 p.m. through Self-Directed Education, PrincBetween War and Peace: The Origins eton Learning Cooperative, 16 All Saints of Queen Christina’s and other Swedish Road. www.princetonlearningcooperative.

Art Collections of Her Time, Princeton org. Followed by a Q&A. 7 p.m.

Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609924-9529. Thomas Kaufmann, professor of Thursday January 10 art and archeology at Princeton, speaks in Princeton Farmers Market, Princeton advance of the Dryden Ensemble’s “Queen YMCA, 59 Paul Robeson Place. www.princ- Christina Goes to Rome” concert. 3 p.m.

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EVENTS, continued from page 17 We Shall Overcome: A Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., McCarter Theater, 91 University Place, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. Damien Sneed performs a blend of classical, jazz, and gospel music inspired by the words and actions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. $25 to $50. 8 p.m.

Sunday January 20 Queen Christine Goes to Rome, Dryden Ensemble, Miller Chapel, Princeton Theological Seminary. www.drydenensemble.org.

The saga of the Swedish queen who gave up her throne for music, art, and religion. Theat- 1/18 • Soprano Dawn Upshaw rical program includes actors Roberta Maxwell and Paul Hecht. $25. 3 p.m.

Thursday January 24

1/24 • ‘Inside Peto’s World’ at Morven Museum

Tuesday January 29

Sunday January 27

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Inside Peto’s World: An Evening with Princeton Men’s Basketball, Jadwin John F. Peto Museum Curator Harry Gymnasium. www.goprincetontigers.com.

Opera Film Festival, Princeton Senior Bower, Morven Museum and Gardens, 55 Wesley. Noon.

Resource Center, 45 Stockton Street, 609Stockton Street. www.morven.org. $15. RegWestminster Conservatory Faculty 924-7108. www.princetonsenior.org. “The ister. 6:30 p.m.

Recital: A Postcard from Slovenia, Bristol Tales of Hoffman.” Free. Register. 12:30 p.m.

Chapel, Westminster Choir College. www.

David Howard, Princeton Public Li- Saturday January 26 rider.edu/wcc. Free. 7:30 p.m. brary, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924Politics Behind the Painting: Trumbull’s 9529. The author discusses “Chasing Phil: The Declaration of Independence, Morven Monday January 28 Adventures of Two Undercover Agents with Museum and Garden, 55 Stockton Street.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centhe World’s Most Charming Con Man.” 7 p.m. Local historian John Baxter discusses Richard ter, McCarter Theater, 91 University Place, Stockton and his portrayal in John Trumbull’s 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday January 23 “Declaration of Independence.” $10. 2 p.m.

Tour Homecoming Concert, Richardson Andrew Curran, Princeton Public LiSaturday Evening Pops!, Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University. www.ridbrary, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924Auditorium, Princeton University. www. er.edu/wcc. Welcome the Westminster Choir 9529. www.princetonlibrary.org. The author princetonsymphony.org. Music from stage back to Princeton. Free. 7:30 p.m. discusses his biography, “Diderot and the Art and screen. 8 p.m. of Thinking Freely.” 7 p.m.

New Year

Opera Film Festival, Princeton Senior Resource Center, 45 Stockton Street, 609924-7108. “Orlando Furioso.” 12:30 p.m.

Donna Clovis, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-9529. Discussing “Time Is the Length to Forever,” her fourth book about Princeton. 7 p.m.

Wednesday January 30 LGBTQ+ Cultural Competencies, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-9529. Panel discussion. 6:30 p.m.

Thursday January 31 Storytime, Morven, 55 Stockton Street. www.morven.org. “Still Life Stew” storytime and painting session. $10. Register. 11 a.m.

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When class is a literal field trip food until I would go off every year to visit the family farm in Colombia, my hen technology entrepre- parents’ home country. There I would neur Alex Cardona was see and enjoy this incredible wealth of growing up in gritty Wash- fruit trees and vegetables.” ington Heights in Manhattan, the furSkip ahead about 35 years later and thest thing from his mind was educat- Cardona is chairing a farm to school ing elementary and middle-schoolers program that links up the Princeton about consuming healthy foods grown Montessori School, the Northeast Orlocally, and the concept of alleviating ganic Farming Association New Jersey chapter (NOFA the long-standing NJ), the West challenges rooted Windsor-Plainsin the global food A grant is allowing boro school dissystem was a district, and the farmcussion not held at Princeton Montessori ers from Cherry the family dinner School to develop Valley Coop. table.

Prince­ton MonIn a one-bed- a farm-to-school tessori received room apartment curricular program a $39,000 planwith two sisters, ning grant from the food wasn’t that will ultimately the USDA Food entirely limited be replicated in other and Nutrition Serto, but keyed previce to expand the dominantly on school districts. school’s farm to a fairly typical school pilot prolower-income cultural trinity of rice, beans, and meat. gram to other area schools.

The plan is to develop a sustainable “For us,” says the now 43-year-old Cardona, “our food retailers were mainly farm to school curricular program the butcher, the baker, and the bodega. for early childhood through middle Being a first-generation citizen I didn’t school students (ages 8 to 14) that will really know much about other types of ultimately be replicated in the West

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Alex Cardona looks on as Alec Gioseffi of Cherry Valley Coop leads a classroom lesson on farming at Princeton Montessori School.

Windsor-Plainsboro school district.

Like a lot of ambitious ideas, this one had modest beginnings.

“We started with just a handful of children four years ago, and now we have a chance to reach more than 10,000 students in the greater Princeton area,” says Cardona, whose children Nicholas, 8, and Zarah, 11, are both students at Princeton Montessori.

“This just exemplifies the value of a community public-private partnership

that invests in our children and in local farmers such as Cherry Valley Coop.”

The “guy on the ground” for the program, working directly with the students, is Alec Gioseffi, president and founder of Cherry Valley Coop. For the students, it’s not a matter of clicking on the Chromebook, distilling, and regurgitating information. It’s truly a handson, boots-on experience.

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sized to all three of us that we needed to work to create the best opportunities Gioseffi, now a farmer, was formerly a for ourselves. He didn’t direct me to chef at the renowned Eno Terra restauany one industry, and I didn’t have any rant in Kingston. “This is the real deal,” specific interest in food or technology, he says. Students help survey fields for but he made it clear that I had to use drainage methods, build greenhouse education as my way out.” structures for winter production, and Life there in the Heights was at times preserve the harvest through fermentaharrowing but had frequent joys, an tion. Participating in the food producinteresting combination of “fighting tion cycle gives children a deeper conand festivities.” In addition to required nection to the food they eat and makes nightly family dinners and a general them ecologically conscious consumembrace of culture, he says, there was ers for the future.” a regular procession of feasts, celebraIn the colder months, says Princeton tions with family and friends, and lots Montessori science teacher Michelle of Dominican and Colombian music.

Jacob, “preserving the harvest” inHe never took up an instrument but cludes making and “jarring” fermented he did learn to dance — “no dance, no Kimchi and growing foods such as letdates you know.” tuce in tunnels and greenhouses. Says At George Washington High School Jacob: “The students have even assisted he realized that a broad academic track in the construction and of those tunwas an avenue to becoming econominels and greenhouses.” cally successful and independent.

She adds that in addition to the Cardona wound up at SUNY Albany, hands-on tasks the students perform, which he says was not only an excelthey also think about, reflect on, and lent school for business but at the time suggest solutions to the business and was voted by a nalogistical chaltional magazine lenges that farmers as one of the top face. “We devote ‘Participating in the party schools in some of our curthe country. “Let’s food production cycle riculum time to just say I partied considering things gives children a deeper a lot and I did not like how do they make the dean’s list connection to the food make ends meet, my freshman year. how do they deal they eat and makes I got on track the with food safety next year.” issues, what’s en- them ecologically When he gradutailed in dealing ated in 1998 with conscious consumers with open space, a degree in Spanand the uncertain- for the future.’ ish civilization and ties of varying terarts and a minor in rains and topogbusiness, he went raphy, and, importantly, how do they into SUNY’s MBA program, majoring begin to arrive at solutions.” in the relatively new field of manageStudents, she emphasizes, do get to ment information systems. “I well resample the vegetables they have helped member taking on business cases like nurture and grow, such as various Amazon. Back then, in our eyes, Amakinds of lettuce, root vegetables, carzon was just waiting to flame out after rots, beans, and parsnips.

10 years of operating without a profit.”

The program is still in its infancy, In the early 2000s Cardona joined a with activities both at the Montessori consulting firm doing work for the DuSchool and at Cherry Grove farm. A pont Corporation on enterprise-level more detailed playbook is being formucrop protection. Within two years the lated that will serve as a working temcompany (which became Accenture) plate for the West Windsor-Plainsboro reassigned him to Germany. “I grew to schools — and possibly for a number love the country, culture, and people; of other school districts, including urI found that people were so inclusive ban ones like Trenton, Camden, and and welcoming. It was just different Newark. … smaller cars, smaller parking spots, The role that Alex Cardona played in smaller portions, which changed up my kick-starting this program doesn’t rest thinking on food. And meeting people solely in his successful completion of from Turkey, Sweden, Italy, India, it the USDA grant, but in his entreprewas unexpected and special.” neurial-driven and somewhat counterHe also met his wife, Sandeep Kaur, intuitive journey to get there. who as a descendent of farmers grew Cardona says that growing up in up in the “breadbasket,” the Punjab a tough neighborhood, where drug region of India. In 2006 they returned dealers were not the most positive role permanently to the United States and models, also drove him to take educawere married, and he began to apprecition seriously — with strong daily reate the variety of fresh foods that Sandinforcement from his parents, who set eep utilized in food preparation. strict curfews and tight social limits. “It “Our food culture is to consume as was tough, yes, but it was also a hardmuch as possible locally, organic or working blue-collar community. I saw organically grown, know as much as how hard my dad worked at his factory, possible where our food comes from where he still works, and he empha-

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production and shipping with optimal to be in the black and be on a sustained market times. run in that direction. Amazon could af“This made it easier for buyers to buy ford to do it for 10 years. But I can see more and sellers to sell at higher pric- 47 Farms eventually succeeding.” es,” says Cardona.

Cardona ultimately looked hard at Cardona and his partners soon re- the cost of grubstaking his ventures alized that scaling the company in during the previous four years and Africa was not an easy thing. They the inherent challenges of introducing turned their attention the U.S., where a new technology solution to the dethey were able to secure new clients, mographically evolving farmers area. but the scalability challenge reared its The average age of farmers nationally stubborn head again. Humbled and is 59.5, but newer organic farms that somewhat overwhelmed by the litany skew younger are coming on stream. of business, logis“Figuring out how tical, and cultural to create value for obstacles, Cardona ‘I realized there were them, individually launched another and collectively is digital initiative, strong linkages in deep an ongoing proof 47 Farms, in 2014. rooted issues across of concept thing.”

It was an ambitious He began a new concept that actu- our agricultural, health, position at Bristolally worked, but and food systems,’ says Myers Squibb in it was undercapi2017. He is part of talized. “The idea Cardona of lessons a team that does was to make it like advanced planAmazon, like an he learned from two ning and optimiAirBnB where any farming startups. zation of biologifarmer can come cal medicines for in, sell products, the medium to retail or wholesale, with the ability to long term. The team uses technology collect on-line payments through the and analytics to help ensure there is platform. They could also manage their enough life-saving medicine to supply inventory and we’d help market their patients across the world. product.”

To Cardona, his post-Accenture Says Cardona, “We had 10 farmers experience has been one that left him and we did it for a year, but it goes back grasping for answers where there were to the fundamentals of profitability… no obviously right ones. “There were how long can you go before you need several times,” he says, “that I wondered

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Cardona is eagerly anticipating the chance to submit a more comprehensive follow-up implementation grant, partnering with a group like NOFA (the Northeast Organic Farming Association), or the Cherry Valley Coop or other school districts. “I would love to see Cherry Valley Coop meet the needed requirements by the end of June, which would make it possible to then put through the implementation proposal.”

Cardona says he also would like to help the next generation of farmers use technology to their advantage and collaborate with each other — and with students.

“I look back at these four years and it’s easy to get stuck in the exhausting aspects of launching two ventures,” he says. “Not to be up on a soapbox, but I realized there were strong linkages in deep rooted issues across our agricultural, health, and food systems. These issues will require radical changes in mindsets, innovation, and long-term applications.

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PARTING SHOT

The teapot that created an empire

By Pia de Jong

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ne day he appeared, standing pontifically on our stovetop. The gleaming Alessi Whistling Kettle that belonged to my roommate. She could not stop talking about it. We finally would have modern design in our humble student dorm. And affordable, too. Of course, it was a lot more expensive than the HEMA Whistling Kettle we already had, but, she said, well worth the money.

I could not share her enthusiasm. I thought it was odd, with its cone-shaped shiny belly. And then that red bird that whistled when the water came to a boil.

It was funny the first time, but would I have to endure this every time I heated up water for tea?

It was 1985. I’ve seen the stainless steel Alessi kettle shine even more brightly since then. The Alessi kettle turned out to be the postmodern answer to the desire of many households to make something special out of the ordinary. Since its debut more than 2 million have been sold.

It all came full circle last month when I walked through the house of the teapot’s celebrity designer, Princeton architecture professor Michael Graves, who died in 2015. Well, some house. The low building in Tuscan vernacular style was built around 1920 as a warehouse by the Italian stonemasons who crafted the fake gothic buildings of the university. It stands tucked among the backyards on a modest residential block in Princeton, invisible from the street.

Graves was immediately sold when he saw the dilapidated building. He turned every nook, ceiling,

table, and bookcase into a unique expression of his most individual tastes. He was not a man to buy something in a store. He made his house into his designer’s studio, where he lived and worked most of his 80 years of life. He designed around 350 buildings around the world, including the groundbreaking Portland, Oregon, Municipal Building and the boldly fanciful buildings at the Walt Disney entertainment parks.

Walking through his house, which has not changed since the day of his death, it becomes clear to me where his inspiration came from. His postmodern style borrowed freely from antiquity. The Greek statues and amphora, the Roman candlesticks, prints of classical buildings, romantic paintings, modern tiles. The walls of his small personal studio are lined from top to bottom with almost identical watercolors of Italian landscapes in the same terracotta palette.

Graves did not hesitate to design utensils for large chains, such as Target, so that sophisticated design would be available to the general public. In his designs he always went out of his way to think about the end user, no matter whether he was making a skyscraper or a lemon press.

When Graves suddenly became paralyzed by a virus in 2003, he started designing wheelchairs, furniture for hospitals, and handles for doors and showers

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Finally I end up in the kitchen, surprisingly modern and familiar. Ikea, I thought for a moment. On the top of the stove, at the height of a wheelchair, there is a whistling kettle. Not with the annoying bird at the sprout, but with the fanciful dragon that he invented for the 30th anniversary of his most successful design.

I want this “Tea Rex” in my kitchen. It’s a lot easier to live with a mischievous dragon than an annoying bird. It seems to wink at me. Something I missed 30 years ago.

Pia de Jong is a Dutch writer who lives in Princeton. Her bestselling memoir, “Charlotte,” was published in the U.S. in 2017. She can be contacted at piadejong.com.

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