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FORCES FROM THE CITY the concerns, and I think it was very valuable that the Mayor’s office was an eyewitness to the meeting.” The meeting, according to Gottfried, was “frustrating.” He explains that the “DOB did not seem interested in taking any of the steps that we all felt were important. They were not interested in

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revoking permits that had been granted on the basis of fraudulent paperwork, [and] did not seem particularly aggressive about pursuing criminal cases against people who had filed fraudulent paperwork to get permits.” Gottfried’s office was urged not to invite HPD to the meeting, but as he says, “It was clear in the meeting that it would have been helpful to have HPD [which enforces tenant protection plans] there.” The subject of DOB’s penalties arose. Gottfried pointed out that the DOB’s current fines have no impact, since landlords — if they move out current tenants and raise the rent from $1,000 a month to $5,000 — can easily make up a $5,000 fine for breaking the law within just a few months. “I don’t think the DOB has any sense of the harm that their weak enforcement causes,” says Gottfried. As for the DOB’s response to the meeting, a statement from its spokesman notes: “Under this administration, the Department has sought out and taken aggressive enforcement action against building owners that intentionally engage in nuisance or dangerous construction to harass tenants. Working with HPD, we’ve inspected and enforced violations at hundreds of sites to hold non-compliant owners accountable….We will continue to work on this issue with local elected officials where necessary, and welcome any discussion on ways the Department can enhance its efforts to protect tenants and keep buildings safe.” The DOB also acknowledges that its dialogue with elected officials will

While state officials were meeting with DOB officials, and CRP was continuing to monitor falsified DOB permit applications that allowed construction to take place and drive tenants from their homes, STS was growing in force and number. Today, it is a coalition of 23 tenant rights and legal services organizations. Betsy Eichel, who is a tenant organizer for Housing Conservation Coordinators (HCC), a member of the STS coalition, is also a media spokesperson for STS. She saw the results of the impressive tenant survey that STS undertook. The survey received 150 respondents, and shined a light on tenant harassment. “Once we [STS] had that [survey responses], and at the same time were reaching out to elected officials in the districts where these were huge issues, that eventually led to the creation of the proposed City Council laws,” says Eichel. “Legislators themselves, the Council members and their staff are responsible for drafting the bills, and deserve credit for that,” says Brandon Kielbasa, another spokesperson for STS who also notes, “We basically talked to those we knew, in the districts we knew were having problems, and then we talked to the different Council members who had taken on housing issues in the past and were likely to want to get involved in such a package. It was a combination of ideas. It was a collaboration.” Councilmember and bill co-sponsor Helen Rosenthal says that tenant harass-

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the next decade, as Chelsea Now reported in July. But according to Stringer, the litany of problems at NYCHA include the agency’s failure to secure nearly $700 million in federal funds, a broken inventory system, and the mismanagement of vacant apartments — with units kept off the rolls for years, including 80 apartments that have stood vacant for more than a decade, and 161 that were vacant for three to 10 years. In addition, the authority currently has a backlog of 55,000 maintenance and repair requests, and takes 370 days on average to fix critical safety violations, according to Stringer’s audits. The Elliott-Chelsea Houses (btw. W. 25th & 27th Sts., 9th & 10th Aves.) and Fulton Houses (btw. W. 16th & 18th Sts., 9th & 10th Aves.), for example, currently have around 200 backlogged work orders each, as well as 47 outstanding building violations between them. Stringer also argued that the plan’s 26 strategies were mostly recycled from previous proposals. “There’s only six new proposals, so stop calling it NextGen,” he said on Oct. 2. “Let’s try to figure out ‘RealityGen.’ What we have to do with NYCHA, if it’s going to move forward, we have to bring some light to the NYCHA budgeting process.” The comptroller’s suggestions for reform would require NYCHA to follow the same budgeting rules as every other agency, including issuing quarterly reports and creating a four-year financial plan. He would also make the authority release more information on maintenance requests and repair records, as well as its physical needs assessment, akin to an X-ray of every building that shows where roofs, boilers and other systems need to be fixed. Back in July, Stringer first suggested NYCHAStat, a tool for viewing building-by building breakdowns of repair data that would track work orders online and in real time.

The system is modeled on the NYPD’s accountability process, CompStat (short for Computer Statistics), and ClaimStat, which is used by the comptroller’s office. “You need to have transparency to hold management accountable. Imagine CompStat without data. Imagine ClaimStat without data,” he said. At the city council hearing, he also criticized one of the authority’s more recent efforts towards transparency, the MyNYCHA app, which lets users track their own work orders, but not see the bigger picture within their own building. Crediting Councilmember Ritchie Torres with the idea, he also called for integrating NYCHA’s contract information into Checkbook, an online transparency tool that has recorded the city’s day-to-day spending on a dedicated website since 2010. Although the system already includes exchanges of money between NYCHA and other city agencies, data on how it spends the vast bulk of its funding is still missing. A spokesperson for NYCHA responded to the allegations via email, saying that the authority was currently reviewing the comptroller’s report. “In its first hundred days, NextGen NYCHA has made real, meaningful progress in reforming the way NYCHA does business,” the spokesperson said. “Developed with the input of hundreds of stakeholders and residents, NextGen is the most inclusive plan in city history to tackle the critical needs in public housing head on.” But Stringer at least sees the potential for much more transparency, and also hinted at further audits of the authority in the future. “NYCHA can’t be held to a standard if we can’t find out what they’re doing,” he said. “No chair of NYCHA has ever said ‘Let’s take this to the finish line, I’m throwing it all open for the world to see.’ And I think we have to do that.”

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Continued from page 1 NYCHA collapse then we are going to hurt a lot of great New Yorkers who live in public housing, who will never have a chance. Their kids will never have a chance,” he said in an interview last Fri., Oct. 2. “I’m in a position now where I can do something about it.” Stringer spoke with the editors of NYC Community Media (this newspaper’s parent group) and its sister publications from Community News Group in our Brooklyn office, where he also discussed the city’s problems in taking care of its homeless population, the need for cooperation between Albany and City Hall when it comes to the MTA’s funding, and what the comptroller’s office can do to help failing schools. The previous day, Stringer gave public testimony at a joint hearing before the City Council Committees on Public Housing and Contracts. The goal of the hearing was to examine the need for more contracting accountability and general transparency at NYCHA in light of leaking roofs at the Martin Luther King Jr. Towers development on Lenox Ave. in Harlem. Stringer used the opportunity to call for fundamental reform to the authority, one that would move away from the “old recycled proposals from mayors past,” which he accused NYCHA of still pursuing. “NYCHA has become a collection of broken windows, mold and roofs that never get fixed, like at King Houses,” he said at the hearing. “Year after year, we get plan after plan, promising on paper how the agency is going to improve. But over and over, those promises are broken.” Earlier this year, the agency unveiled NextGen, its latest plan to move the authority from the brink of fiscal catastrophe to a $230 million budgetary surplus over .com

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Finding the Beautiful and Mundane ‘In Jackson Heights’ BY LENORE SKENAZY Queens! As if it wasn’t enough that the Lonely Planet recommended it as the No. 1 tourist destination in all of America this year, along comes the world’s leading documentary fi lmmaker, Frederick Wiseman, to make an entire film — a three-hour film — about Jackson Heights. Wiseman debuted “In Jackson Heights” at the New York Film Festival on Sun., Oct. 4, and stayed to answer questions, beginning with, “Why Jackson Heights?” His answer: “Because it’s the most diverse place in the world.” It also happens to be where I live. So perhaps you’re wondering what it’s like to see so much of your own neighborhood on the big screen — its people, food stands, puppy groomers, Hindu temples, jazz musicians, taxi drivers, teachers, 98-year-old jokers and, in one scene that will make its way into every film class for the rest of the century, its live chickens as they go, in a matter of minutes, from cage, to knife, to de-feathering vat, to being sawed into chicken parts? Frankly, it is appalling. And at other times (and other scenes), it is exhilarating. Sometimes it is hilarious, sometimes it is embarrassing and sometimes — too many times — it is boring in

the way that real life can also be arm-gnawingly dull. A veteran of 40 fi lms, Wiseman is known for making the proverbial fly-on-thewall type of documentaries: no narration, no explanations, no captions except for translations. The scenes speak for themselves. So when he drops into a cramped mosque where the Imam is chanting Ramadan prayers, all we know is that this is a local place that, for many of us, has been off-limits. Then he shows us the faces of the men there — some intense and mournful, but some just plain sleepy — and slowly this “other world” starts to feel familiar. Maybe you’ve never been in a mosque. But you’ve probably been to a religious service at some point in your life, and you have probably seen (or felt!) those same emotions. Likewise, when he wanders into an eyebrow threading salon and watches a worker plucking out facial hairs with the speed of an AK-47, there is something familiar about her, too. She is as focused as a surgeon. The exotic, once again, becomes a little less so. That, to me, was what was so embarrassing about the movie. As a gal who lives here and likes to feel like I really know my neighborhood, the shameful truth is that I’ve poked my head into only a tiny fraction of

the places Wiseman sallied into. He takes us into belly dancing classes and transgender support groups. Gay bars and straight bars. A Holocaust memorial. A conference call in Councilman Daniel Dromm’s office. He even gets up close — very close — to the tough toenails being clipped at a mani-pedi salon. I don’t think I’ve ever looked that closely at my own toenails, much less a stranger’s. There is nothing that Wiseman isn’t curious about. The church just two blocks from where I live — the fantastically beautiful St. Joan of Arc — is filled to capacity for services in Spanish, with a priest who is simply enthralling. But I don’t speak Spanish and I’m not Catholic, so I’d never wandered in. Wiseman is not a Catholic and he doesn’t speak Spanish, either. But he filmed the heart-soaring scene there, complete with, once again, a sleepy parishioner. Like a great painter, Wiseman highlights the

humanity in all his subjects — including, sometimes, the human capacity to drive people crazy by talking too much. This is what will keep some viewers away from Wiseman’s fi lm: He counterpoints his fascinating chunks of daily life with stupefying meetings. A community meeting about commercial rents. A community meeting about discrimination of all varieties — age, sex, gender, transgender, economic, gay, and ethnic. A community meeting where participants discuss, at length, where to hold the next community meeting. Then another, and another, and another. Most of these seem to feature one speaker who gets up, takes the microphone, and then manages to ignore all the other people in the room as they start sighing, fidgeting, and finally being barely able to remain polite as the minutes tick by. To be able to sit through those meetings is perhaps the biggest testament to Wiseman’s heart. They’re part of the fabric of Jackson Heights life, and he wasn’t going to miss them. Though, frankly, I’d rather watch a toenail trimming. Lenore Skenazy is a public speaker who authored the book, and founded the blog, Free-Range Kids (freerangekids.com).

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HARASSMENT: Hugged against her will A 22-year-old woman found herself the unwilling recipient of a “bear hug” near the northeast corner of Eighth Ave. and W. 23rd St. on Fri., Oct. 2, police said. She was on her way to work at about 10:30 a.m. when an unknown male, about 35 years old, literally picked her up, carried her a short distance, mumbled, and walked away. She did not suffer any injury from the incident, except for the scare.

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GRAND LARCENY: Driver puts the brakes on trip to Maryland On Thurs., Oct. 1, a cab driver took off with his passenger’s luggage as she went to see whether her bus to Baltimore had already left. The cab brought the woman from Bushwick to the intersection of W. 33rd St. and 11th Ave. by 5:45 p.m. The woman told the driver to wait before she would pay him. Instead, he took off with her luggage, which included $1,200 worth of photography equipment and $700 worth of clothes.

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THE 10th PRECINCT Located at 230 W. 20th St. (btw. Seventh & Eighth Aves.). Commander: Deputy Inspector Michele Irizarry. Main number: 212-741-8211. Community Affairs: 212-741-8226. Crime Prevention: 212-741-8226. Domestic Violence: 212-7418216. Youth Officer: 212-7418211. Auxiliary Coordinator: 212-924-3377. Detective Squad: 212-741-8245. The Community Council meets on the last Wed. of the month, 7 p.m., at the 10th Precinct or other locations to be announced. The next meeting is Oct. 28.

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Tenth Precinct on Quality of Life Concerns, Catching Criminals

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Deputy Inspector Michele Irizarry, commanding officer of the NYPD’s 10th Precinct, said police will enforce laws against homeless people who harass residents.

BY ZACH WILLIAMS Proactive policing caught a trio of bank robbers last month, but some quality of life concerns might require a more passive approach, Deputy Inspector Michele Irizarry said at the Sept. 30 10th Precinct Community Council meeting. Irizarry, who commands the precinct, said she is optimistic that overall crime statistics will drop a few more percentage points, ending the year with less crime than 2014. However, dealing with problems associated with the local homeless population could prove more tricky, with the courts and Mayor Bill de Blasio supporting the right of the homeless to panhandle and sleep on West Side streets, she told approximagely 15 local residents at the precinct stationhouse (230 W. 20th St. btw. Seventh & Eighth Aves.). “To him and to the courts, it’s not a crime for homeless individuals to sit on the streets. It’s not a crime for someone to sit there with a dog

and hold a sign saying, you know, ‘I need money. I need food,’ that sort of thing,” she said. One resident urged the precinct to assign specific officers to local beats, so that residents know where to turn to when problems arise. There have been several troubling incidents in recent weeks where locals have felt threatened by homeless individuals, according to Douglas Leland, president of the Manhattan Plaza Tenants Association (400 and 484 W. 43rd St. btw. 9th & 10th Aves.). Homeless people have also been an occasional nuisance at the public library located at 209 W. 23rd St. (btw. 7 th & 8th Aves.), said employee Lateshe Lee, who requested that police conduct regular patrols of the library branch. She said in an interview that the troubling behavior includes homeless patrons who speak too loudly and take up extra seats. Irizarry recommended that the staff at the library “be careful”

of letting in homeless people, lest they make a habit of frequenting the branch during the cold winter months. While police welcome more cooperation with residents, events could divert police resources elsewhere in the near future, she said. An upcoming #BlackLivesMatter protest, scheduled for Oct. 24, raises the possibility that officers from the precinct will have to manage protests just like they did last winter following the grand jury decision in the Eric Garner case. Antipolice sentiment remains troubling, she added. “It seems that there is a perceived lack of respect for law enforcement nationwide, and, you know, it is disheartening,” she said. “I can be proud of the job we are all doing, but obviously not everyone shares that.” Even with the challenges of quality of life crimes, and the recent visits of Pope Francis and dozens of world leaders to the United Nations, there are still chances for 10th Precinct officers to get down to business catching the bad guys. Two officers from the precinct — Lt. Peter Benekas and Officer Scott Williams — recently apprehended

three suspects in connection to at least 10 bank robberies last month. The perpetrators would pass notes to bank tellers demanding $50 and $100 bills. All police had was surveillance footage as evidence, until three men piqued the interest of Benekas and Williams on Sept. 15 near the corner of Seventh Ave. and W. 18th St. Three men fitting the perpetrators’ descriptions entered a People’s United Bank as if they were researching the layout, Benekas said at the meeting. The officers followed them to a nearby Wells Fargo branch on W. 17th St., where the suspects entered and exited rather quickly for customers, he added. Midblock, they were changing into clothes, which matched the descriptions of the bank robbers. The suspects then went to a nearby Capital One Bank and continued what appeared to be some nefarious research, according to Benekas. The two officers then arrested the suspects, who police say confessed to committing the bank robberies. Benekas and Williams will receive recognition at the Oct. 28 Community Council meeting (7 p.m. at the 10th Precinct).

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Women in Sharp Focus at Chelsea Film Fest

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Sasha Krane’s thriller “Solitary” (starring its screenwriter, Katharine Lee McEwan) opens the festival.

1970s Turkey is the backdrop to a teenage girl’s rebellion against her actor father, in “Drawers.”

BY DUSICA SUE MALESEVIC Now in its third year, the Chelsea Film Festival has a fresh theme, and is launching two new programs. This time around, the Oct. 15–18 festival is setting its sight on women in film and media. “It’s something that we decided to focus on this year,” Ingrid JeanBaptiste, the festival’s co-founder, explained in a phone interview. “However, it’s always been an element that was never really named. We tried to make it equal in terms of having work from male and female filmmakers.” The festival, which focuses on global issues, has always had the tagline “Making the World a Better Place,” she said. That phrase is how the whole festival started — making the world a better place through cinema by screening films that share a specific message. Much of the work presented in the lineup this year, Jean-Baptiste said, finds women writing, directing and producing. Women directed five films, produced eight of them, and wrote six. Ruth Berdah-Canet, for instance, directed the documentary “For You Were Once Strangers,” which looks at three South Sudanese families that fled their country for Israel. “The closing film and opening are really gorgeous as well,” observed Jean-Baptiste. T he festival opens with “Solitary,” directed by Sasha Krane, and starring Katharine .com

Lee McEwan, who also wrote the screenplay. Jean-Baptiste called the thriller, which explores what happens when childhood secrets are revealed, “very powerful.” “Valley,” directed by Sophie Artus, will close the festival. In Artus’ debut feature, she portrays the lives of three teenagers dealing with violence in an isolated Northern Israel town called Migdal HaEmek. Films for the festival are carefully chosen. A selection committee reviews all the films that are submitted — this year Jean-Baptiste said there were 1,000 — from Jan. to the end of the July. The committee also looks at a film’s premiere status, as JeanBaptiste said it is important for the festival to feature New York premieres. This year, over 60 works will be shown, including features, documentaries and short films. Fifteen of them will compete for the festival’s Grand Prix. The idea for the Chelsea Film Festival was spurred by wanting to “promote films from emerging directors,” Jean-Baptiste explained. After thinking about how that could be accomplished, it was decided that some type of event would be needed, she said. “It came about that it would be a film festival,” she said. “And I live in Chelsea...hence the name.” Jean-Baptiste moved to Chelsea from Paris in 2010. “I was working as a journalist in

Paris and then I came to New York to do something different,” she said. “I enrolled in the Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg. I graduated from there and decided to go further into this learning of the acting, and the craft of acting.” After a terrible car accident, Jean-

Baptiste focused on creating a festival. She asked her mother, Sonia Jean-Baptiste, to help — and together, they founded the festival. “My mom and I are really close, and we do a lot of things together.

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Defense Says John Laubach Died During Consensual Rough Sex BY DUNCAN OSBORNE As the trial of the accused killers of John Laubach opened in Manhattan Supreme Court, the prosecution charged that Edwin Faulkner and Juan Carlos MartinezHerrera acted recklessly or with depraved indifference when they bound the 57-year-old gay man and covered his face with the duct tape that caused him to choke to death. The defense asserted Laubach’s death was an accident that occurred during rough sex. “His original plan was to attend the birthday party of a friend, but instead he was kidnapped by these defendants,” Lanita Hobbs, the assistant district attorney who is prosecuting the case, told jurors during opening statements on Sept. 28. Laubach was found dead in his Chelsea apartment on March 2, 2012. His hands and feet were tied, and his apartment had been ransacked. The prosecution’s case is that Laubach, Faulkner, and Martinez-Herrera had an ongoing relationship that turned sour when the gay couple began stealing from Laubach. He and a friend, Hiram Lopez, had banned Faulkner, 33, and Martinez-Herrera, 35, from Laubach’s home. They returned, tied Laubach up, and stole from him, Hobbs said. The couple then fled to Florida, where they were arrested on March 15, 2012, still holding many of Laubach’s possessions. The two are charged with second-degree murder in that they acted with depraved indifference, not that they intended to kill Laubach; felony murder, based on the assertion they caused Laubach’s death in the course of committing another felony; and kidnapping and robbery, the charges that form the basis for the felony murder charge.

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Edwin Faulkne, left, and Juan Carlos Martinez-Herrera at their criminal arraignment in 2012.

Hobbs told jurors that the relationship was so bad that Laubach took to carrying a weapon. “He had resorted to carrying a knife for his protection,” Hobbs said. “A few days later, he was dead.” After discussing Laubach in terms that bordered on homophobic during jury selection, Hobbs painted a more sympathetic picture of the man in her opening statement. He was a floral designer who had suffered a stroke and still walked with a limp. While he paid younger men for sex, he also allowed them to store clothes and possessions in his home, and take showers and sleep there. When prosecutors and defense attorneys have information about a victim or client that they believe

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a jury will find objectionable, they often disclose it early in a trial so jurors are not surprised, and might even become inoculated to it. “He was interested in teenagers,” Hobbs told prospective jurors on Sept. 21. “He sometimes paid men for sex… You’re probably going to learn that he was promiscuous. You’re probably going to learn that he was attracted to younger men.” A prosecution witness will testify that Laubach had sex with him when he was underage, Hobbs told jurors on Sept. 28, and she alluded to that during jury selection. Hobbs also aggressively attacked the defense argument that Laubach died accidentally during kinky sex. “This case is not about sex, as the defense indicated to you during jury selection,” Hobbs said. “He was restrained in a manner that was inconsistent with consensual sex.” While Faulkner gave a lengthy statement to police after his arrest, the jury is not going to hear that statement. The prosecution cannot use it because it creates what is called a confrontation problem. Faulkner implicated MartinezHerrera in the statement, and the only way Martinez-Herrera could refute it is by calling Faulkner to the stand. The US Constitution bars compelling a defendant to give evidence against himself as

Faulkner would likely have to do if he took the stand. Without Faulkner’s statement, there is no eyewitness to any crime. During jury selection and in her opening, Hobbs told jurors that they would not learn exactly who did what in Laubach’s apartment. “What we are going to do is give you the tools to make a reasoned assessment of what happened,” Hobbs said. Prosecutors have the butcher knife that Hobbs said was used to cut the lamp cord that bound Laubach. That knife has MartinezHerrera’s fingerprints on it. They also have a roll of duct tape that has both men’s fingerprints on it. They have video and cell phone records showing the couple repeatedly trying to use Laubach’s ATM card to take cash from his bank account. And they have recovered some of Laubach’s property that was pawned. The defense gave shorter opening statements. They pressed the kinky sex defense and, using the jury inoculation strategy Hobbs employed, the attorneys for Faulkner and Martinez-Herrera readily conceded that their clients stole from Laubach. But that is all they did, they asserted. “John Laubach died engaging in rough sex for which no one is responsible,” said Daniel Scott, the attorney for Faulkner, during his opening statement. “Edwin Faulkner may have acted negligently. He did not commit murder.” During jury selection, Scott called his client “a hustler and a thief” and he told jurors during his opening, “All of the evidence of larceny will be virtually uncontested.” Faulkner was on parole when Laubach died, and the defense may argue that the men fled what they believed was an accidental death because they feared that Faulkner would be sent back to prison. “When you hear all the evidence in this case you will understand why what they did makes sense,” Daniel Parker, the attorney for MartinezHerrera, told jurors. Earlier in his opening statement, Parker said, “The evidence will show that Juan Carlos MartinezHerrera did not rob, kidnap, or murder John Laubach… The evidence also will show that they are male prostitutes and petty thieves.” .com

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London and Paris Are Living Large in Chelsea BY FACEBOY London, Paris, eternal kittens and free drugs. It sounds like a dream — but it’s quite real, as my first NYCritters column for Chelsea Now will set out to explain. I had heard about an intriguing cat residing in a health food store in Chelsea and headed up to get the story. Once there, I remembered that I never write about animals that live in food shops, because the health department seems to think that cats are as much a health hazard as the mice, rats and roaches they keep at bay — and I will not rat on a cat. So there I was with no story and no umbrella when, of course, it started pouring rain. I quickly ducked into New London Pharmacy, and what did I see? A beautiful cat named London, who lives there with her sister, named Paris. General Manager Eleni Argyrus tells us that she adopted them from the North Shore Animal League in 2006 as kittens. “It was love at first sight for the staff, the employees and the customers,” she recalls. “We do have a couple of customers that are afraid of cats, but most of our customers are literally obsessed with our cats. When I say obsessed, I mean customers come with treats to feed London and Paris.” They are big cats. Argyrus notes, “As you can see, they are well-fed. We do have them on a Science Diet. They love their meals. In 2008, I was away for a couple of months and the person that was feeding was kind of over-feeding them.” London and Paris both hate dogs. I asked Argyrus to elaborate, and she

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explained that London will go the extra mile to show she hates them. “London will smack the dog with her paw,” she says, adding, “We had incidents, unfortunately, that London has scratched a little bit. Thank God New Yorkers are animal lovers. You know, just because the customer has a dog doesn’t mean he hates cats, so they’ll be like, ‘Don’t worry about it. She’ll be fine, the dog.’ ” She concludes, evoking the French resistance, “Paris doesn’t really do that much. She’ll just walk away. London does all the fighting.” Like most cats, they are very loving and intuitive. Argyrus says, “What I love about Paris and London…we have three chairs in the waiting area, and while the customer is waiting — they could be getting over a cold, they could be just waiting for their regular monthly prescriptions. But when that elderly lady is sitting on that chair, and then all of sudden London jumps on [her] lap, the customer loves it. You know she could be upset about something or not feeling well, but you have London purring and pressing on you, with a ‘Pet me more. Pet me more,’ kind of thing, and I feel that customer leaves the store not only with a great thought from the pharmacy point of view, but also from, ‘Hey you know, I got a lot of love from London today.’ You know what I mean? I certainly do.” When asked if they had any quirks, Argyrus replies, “Okay, they’re nine years old, but they act like kittens. They play all day long. They ARE kittens. You probably know more about that than I do — but do they ever grow out of that

stage, ever?” I told her that if they’re in a loving environment and they’re healthy, if that’s their nature, they will act like kittens forever. Medications, especially those for HIV, are very expensive — but what many people don’t know is Photo by Faceboy that there are coupon London (seen here without the camera-shy Paris) codes that those eliwaits to keep you company, while you wait for gible can use to cover your prescription. the co-pay. At New London Pharmacy, they will check withsmile and saunter of in a Parisian out the customer even asking — and cat-walk style. often, folks can get the entire cost of their medications covered. New London Pharmacy is located So if you’re having hardships, at 246 Eighth Ave. (btw. W. 22nd & give them a visit and brag to your W. 23rd Sts.). You can visit the cats friends, “I just saw London and and have all your pharmaceutical Paris. Oh, and I got some very costneeds met Mon.–Fri., 8:30 a.m.–8:30 ly drugs for free.” Top it off with, p.m., Sat., 9 a.m.–8 p.m. and Sun., 10 “And how was your day?” a.m.–6:30 p.m., For further informaDon’t wait for a response. Just tion, visit newlondonpharmacy.com.

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Memorial Service Lauds Corrigan’s Activism and Moral Core BY ALBERT AMATEAU Loving, selfless, and with a temper as short as her stature, Mae Doris Corrigan was remembered on Sun., Oct. 7 for her fierce devotion to her Chelsea neighborhood and her persistent advocacy of progressive Democratic Party politics. More than a hundred friends, neighbors, and colleagues gathered at the Hudson Guild to pay tribute to Doris, who died July 23 at the age of 87. The crowd included elected officials whose campaigns Doris promoted, Democratic Party volunteers with whom she worked for more than 35 years, and several of her nieces and nephews. “Doris was a community center all on her own,” quipped Ken Jockers, executive director of Hudson Guild, host of the memorial event. “I would pass this conference room at the end of my day and there she’d be, holding another meeting. It made me think I should go back to my desk and put in another couple of hours.” Tom Schuler, a fellow member of the Chelsea Reform Democratic Club who, along with Laura Morrison and Steven Skyles-Mulligan, took care of Doris during her fi nal months, said, “She made us all better neighbors, better citizens, and better democrats. She was the epitome of the neighborhood activist.” He recalled one of her favorite causes, the completion and opening of the Chelsea Recreation Center on W. 25th St. in 2001, after the project had been interrupted for 25 years. Schuler also remembered a trip they took in Doris’s battered old car that ended in a breakdown, and left them both laughing. He also recognized Mary Dorn, Sylvia Dipietro

and Judge Lottie Wilkins for helping secure a place for Doris in the Amsterdam Nursing Home, where she lived at the end of her life. “Doris had an incredible life,” said Skyles-Mulligan. “We all remember how she could fly off the handle and took great joy in arguments. She told me she wanted to be cremated, with no urn, and wanted the speeches at her memorial to be as short as she was,” he recalled. Kathy Kinsella, a resident of Rhinebeck and a former neighbor, said, “Doris was old enough to be my mother or my aunt. She wasn’t. She was my friend. She was fiercely independent and adventurous.” Kinsella noted that Doris once went to the Galapagos Islands, and also went rafting down the Colorado River to the Grand Canyon. “Once, when we were hiking near my place in Rhinebeck, she fell and broke an ankle. I told her, ‘Just sit there while I go for some help.’ By the time I came back she had walked halfway home,” Kinsella said. Doris’s kindness extended to everyone she met. “She took care of her cats, and of other people’s cats,” Kinsella said, recalling that she took temporary care of a cat that a homeless man had been keeping in his knapsack. Doris became the owner of the cat, Sunshine, when the original owner couldn’t take him back. Doris would often let friends of friends sleep on her couch when they needed a temporary place to stay, Kinsella recalled. “Doris was my mentor. She taught me how to analyze a problem and think it through. We had a loving friendship, even though she’d sometimes hang up the phone

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on me when we had an argument,” Kinsella said. Tim Gay, a former Chelsea resident who now lives in Kingston, met Doris when both were elected Democratic District Co-leaders for Chelsea. “We wouldn’t have the wonderful waterfront that we do if it weren’t for Doris and Bob Trentlyon,” he said. (Trentlyon, a co-founder with Doris of the Chelsea Waterside Park Association, was out of town and could not attend the memorial.) Gay recalled that in 1994, he and Doris faced two other candidates for district leader. “Doris got more votes than the three of us combined,” he said. A nephew, Jason Hannon, recalled that Doris rode 30 miles on her bicycle to Watchung, NJ, to visit him. “She came to New York after graduating from Wayne State University in Detroit in a beat-up old car with $30 in her pocket,” he said. “She would beam whenever she talked about Chelsea,” Hannon said. A niece, Lisa Wagner, a member of the Clark family that adopted Doris as a child, said her aunt taught her to live each day to the fullest. “She was a moral leader,” said Congressman Jerrold Nadler. “She put pressure on everyone to do the right thing. We were all the beneficiaries of her belief in the power of collective action. It’s a testimony to her that the community cared for her at the end,” he said, adding, “May her memory be a blessing and continue to inspire all of us.” Comptroller Scott Stringer said, “Doris was the one who got it done.

She was always there for us.” Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney recalled that when she was fi rst elected to the New York City Council, she voted against the Westway landfi ll highway project, against most of the Manhattan delegation. The leader scolded her and made her sit in an obscure corner of the chamber. “I told Doris about my humiliation and she said, ‘He can tell you where to sit but he can’t tell you how to vote.’ We were all lucky to have had Doris in our corner,” Maloney said. Former State Senator Tom Duane recalled the many occasions when he and Doris solicited election petition signatures. One September evening after the Yom Kipper fast ended at sundown, Duane and Doris were on W. 23rd St. near a synagogue. Doris said, “They’ll be starving, go get their signatures.” Duane also remembered Doris’s efforts — successful in the end — to get the shed on Pier 64 demolished because they believed that, if the shed remained up, there would be pressure to lease it for commercial development. He also remembered Doris’s support for a Chelsea residence for homeless HIV-positive people. “Doris was the least NIMBY [not-in-my-backyard] person that I knew,” he said. Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer paid tribute to Doris Corrigan’s advocacy, and Assembly Member Richard Gottfried commented that she was never afraid of a fight. “She was an extraordinary person who made a difference,” Gottfried said. Brad Hoylman, current State Senator representing Chelsea, said, “Doris always kept it real. Many of us in politics are overly interested in getting credit. Doris wasn’t concerned with credit. She wanted to get things done.” Corey Johnson, current City Council member for Chelsea, recalled that Doris always convinced him to go out to close a poll at 9 p.m. on election day, even when he didn’t want to be bothered. “Doris set the example for me on how to live in a community and be a part of it,” said Laura Morrison. “She loved Chelsea. She loved the tree outside her window. It was a privilege for me to be part of her life.” .com

Continued from page 2 Transportation safety and free speech activists quickly balked at such an idea. The mayor established a task force to recommend strategies to address the matter, and walked back from his earlier suggestion to remove the plaza areas where the women and costumed characters congregate. The recommendations included measures to improve traffic conditions as well as battle crime in the area. In the short term, the city will focus on completing construction of plazas in the square, while also deploying a dedicated NYPD detail to the area. Public outreach will inform visitors about risks such as pickpocketing and unwanted solicitations, according to a statement announcing the recommendations. Traffic enforcement will also receive a boost, including adding more

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A protected bike lane on Ninth Ave. was the first of its kind in the US, and led to a 58 percent decline in traffic injuries, according to the DOT.

traffic cops and crossing guards. The DOT currently lacks the authority to regulate commercial activ

ities in pedestrian plazas citywide, a power which the City Council could grant through legislation in the next

year, according to the statement. Legislation could also empower city agencies to regulate ticket sellers and the activities of the costumed characters and topless women, the statement adds. Dedicated inspectors could also better enforce current rules on street vendors in the area, according to the recommendations. Twenty local officials and civic leaders signed onto the recommendations, including West Side elected officials State Senator Brad Hoylman, Assemblymember Dick Gottfried and Councilmember Corey Johnson. “The action items recommended by this task force will help address the issues facing Times Square, while respecting first amendment rights,” Johnson said in the statement. “We must enact thoughtful, constitutionally robust solutions that are the right fit for this location.”

Legislation and Activism Aim to Secure Tenant Rights Continued from page 4 ment is profound on the Upper West Side. “Because the market is so hot, we’ve lost roughly 650 units a year over the last five years due to harassment or buyouts or evictions, all of which are against tenants’ rights. The tenant has a right to live there harassment-free,” she asserts. The bill she is sponsoring with Councilmember Corey Johnson requires the DOB to provide written notice of construction plans — at least 30 days before a permit is issued — to the Borough President, local Councilmember, and local Community Board. “That way we would know that people live there, and we could, even before construction began, could say we have to have a tenant protection plan if they’ve lied on their application,” says Rosenthal. Also in the bill is a doubling of the cost of penalties for violations. “And every time the DOB has to come out to inspect a complaint-based inspection, that cost will be pushed back to the landlord. The city won’t have to pay for those inspections,” says Rosenthal. Councilmember Corey Johnson adds, “The reason you’ve seen this packet of bills introduced into the Council is because tenants across New York City are really crying out for help. With real estate .com

prices at record highs there are some unscrupulous landlords who will stop at nothing to force tenants out of affordable rent regulated units.” “We’ve asked the Department of Buildings to take a more proactive role when it comes to combating landlord/ tenant harassment,” Johnson adds, noting that he has been working with advocates, tenants, City Council colleagues and local state legislators to address this urgent problem.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT The dozen bills introduced by the City Council are assigned to the Council’s Committee on Housing and Buildings, which is chaired by Councilmember Jumaane Williams. At his discretion, the chair schedules a hearing where the bills will be heard. Johnson explains that at the hearing, “The DOB will come and testify on what their thoughts are on those bills. The public can testify as well, tenants and nonprofit organizations, and others who have interest in the legislation.” After the hearing, there are a number of months when the Council negotiates the bills with the administration and the DOB, and consults with other interested parties. Once there’s agreement on the final bills, another hearing is scheduled to vote on them as they were presented at the first

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At Stand For Tenant Safety’s press conference, Cooper Square Committee Board Member Rob Pinter speaks.

hearing, or as they have been modified. Then, the Committee votes. If the bills pass Committee, they will be assigned to the next stated full meeting of the Council after that Committee hearing, to be voted into law. The timing of the process is unpredictable. Some bills can be voted into law in three to six months. For these bills, the first committee hearing has yet to be scheduled. STS’s Kielbasa is ready. “We’re really harnessing the power of the community,” he says. “All those tenants coming to us

want to be part of it, want to come to the hearings with us, want to testify. The tenants really need a place at the table. It’s terrible, dangerous, physically and psychologically threatening to have your building used as a tool against you.”

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umentary photographers of her generation.”) When asked how the exhibition came about, Anais Feyeux, the gallery’s director and the show’s curator, explains, “I did not want to reproduce work that had been in her other New York shows, so when Jill opened her archives for me, I was interested in her series about Holocaust survivors, and her work shot on London and New York streets.” Freedman says, “It was interesting for me to see my work through the curator’s eyes…I’m sick of seeing the same stuff over and over. I have tons of pictures from New York in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s that have never been seen.” In fact, Freedman is now trying to get them published in her eighth book, which is tentatively titled “Madhattan.”

Illustrating that madness is one picture called “Naked City” on the last page of the book — in 1979, she photographed the back of a completely naked man going through the revolving door of the Hilton on Sixth Avenue. Quite simply, it’s an in-your-face picture that I’d expect to become recognized as a classic New York street photograph now that it’s out of the archive and in the public eye. Freedman paraphrases a line from the 1960s TV show, “Naked City” — “There are eight million stories in the naked city, and that was one of them.” Exactly. Back in the day (the ’60s and ’70s), Freedman honed her reputation as a quintessential New York documentary and street photographer, book by book. She had seven books published as the

result of her self-assigned projects, and the exhibition includes one image from each of the seven, plus one from “Madhattan.” No doubt her feisty, irrepressible, irreverent and fearless personality — combined with her photographic talents — helped her go where few photographers (particularly female ones) had gone before. For example, when she covered the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign in Washington D.C., she lived among the protestors of Resurrection City. Her photographs opened doors for her and led to her first book, “Old News: Resurrection City,” which was published in 1971. For “Firehouse,” Freedman spent a year following NYC firemen in Harlem

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Seeing a New Side of Freedman’s ‘Stories’ Continued from page 15 and the Bronx, living in their firehouses for days at a time, and sleeping in the chief’s car. In those days, women weren’t allowed in the firehouse past 10 p.m. She followed the success of “Firehouse” with her book “Street Cops,” in which the photographer talked her way into being allowed to accompany cops on patrol in the pre-gentrified days of the Lower East Side and Times Square. Freedman says, “There were already lots of stories about bad cops. I wanted to do a book about good cops and show what the job was really like.” Her pictures captured the human side of her subjects. In “Circus Days,” she borrowed a van and traveled with the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers circus on the East Coast for two months, documenting the strange, hardscrabble life of circus performers and clowns, and the claustrophobia of the animals. Here, as in much of her work, many of her pictures show a connection between subject and photographer. “I’m a photographer, but I’m also a storyteller,” Freeman notes. “Some interesting stuff is going on in many of the pictures and each one tells a long story, but it takes place in the fraction of a second.” Thus the title, “Long Stories Short.” The story is quite evident in her 1979 image, “Surf ’n Turf.” Here, Freedman has captured the irony of an apparently homeless man sleeping on a Manhattan sidewalk next to a vendor’s display of paintings depicting crashing ocean surf and quiet country landscapes. Dream on. There’s also a story — actually two stories — behind the 1967 image, “Christ Loved Men Only,” which she took in London. Four middle-aged women are walking past a door with graffiti scrawled on it that reads, “Christ Loved Men Only.” Huh? One woman is enjoying an ice cream cone, and another is staring at the camera, while the other two seem unaware of anything out of the ordinary. There’s a lot going on in this picture, with the juxtaposition of the words and women creating a delightful, subtle irony. The other story is that John Szarkowski, the legendary photography director at MoMA, bought the picture for the museum’s collection. Freedman says, “I

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Ruth Berdah-Canet’s “For You Were Once Strangers” documents three Sudanese families living in Israel.

Protesters fight for their civil liberties in “Imminent Threat,” a documentary on the effects of the War on Terror.

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“Poor People’s Campaign” (1968) was used for the cover of Freedman’s first book, “Old News: Resurrection City.”

“Tivoli Fashion Shop” (1973) jumps at the viewer, with the man’s dejected look a sharp contrast to the snooty attitude of the mannequin.

refused to donate it so they bought it, but I didn’t get a fortune for it. I was just starting out.” The story in the 1973 image “Tivoli Fashion Shop” jumps at the viewer. Freedman captures a man’s dejected look and slump-shouldered body language, a sharp contrast to the snooty attitude of the mannequin in the window, whose coat doesn’t seem all that fashionable. The dark rich tones of Freedman’s gelatin silver print adds to the strength of this picture. One of the published images is “Poor People’s Campaign,” which was used for the cover of her first book, “Old News: Resurrection City.” The low angle from which the picture was taken serves to emphasize the woman’s bare, flat feet, and the US Capitol in the background. Jill Freedman has been back in New York for about

10 years, having left the city she loved in the 1990s for medical and financial reasons. When she returned, she was shocked by all the changes. She missed the sleaziness of Times Square and bemoaned all the gentrification. Still voicing her opinions at age 75 in her own inimitable way, Freedman’s story is happily getting longer and her photographs, old and new, continue to speak for themselves.

It just seemed logical for her to be involved,” she recalled. The theme of women in fi lm and media carries over to the festival’s Q&A sessions. Jean-Baptiste noted that it is important not just to screen fi lms, but also to engage in conservation afterwards. In film, the “magic hour” refers to the period shortly after sunrise or before sunset, frequently used for shots — which is where the Reel Magic Hour derives its name. This new program, to be inaugurated

at the festival, is a series of five panels that will feature high-profile industry insiders, from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., on Sat., Oct. 17, said Jean-Baptiste. The lineup is yet to be released, but it will be held at the Fashion Institute of Technology (227 W. 27th St. at Seventh Ave.). Another new program established in conjunction with the festival is the Kino & Vino Series at Bow Tie Cinemas Chelsea (260 W. 23rd St. btw. Eighth & Ninth Aves.), a monthly event. The fi rst installment will take place on Nov. 9 at 7 p.m., when the

festival’s 2015 Grand Prix Winner will be screened at the Bow Tie, and followed by a Q&A and a wine reception. T he ser ies w i l l t a ke a bre a k i n D e c. a nd Ja n., but w i l l resu me i n Feb., J e a n- B apt iste sa id. Jean-Baptiste highlighted a number of the festival’s best offerings. A film called “P TSD : PostTraumatic Stress Disorder” follows Jason, who returns from Iraq and tries to adjust to life after war. “Imminent Threat” takes a look at how the United States’ War on Terror has affected its citizens’ civil liberties.

Other fi lms, like “Drawers,” touch on completely different subjects. A Turkish fi lm set in the ’70s, “Drawers” is about Deniz, a woman who rebels against her father, an eminent actor and writer. “This year…will be very special because of the quality of work that we’ve received,” Jean-Baptiste said. “It’s really gorgeous work from fi rsttime fi lmmakers.” Oct. 15–18 at the SVA Theatre (333 W. 23rd St. btw. Eighth & Ninth Aves.) and other locations in Chelsea. For more information, visit chelseaﬁlm.org.

“Jill Freedman: Long Stories Short” is on display through Oct. 24 at the Steven Kasher Gallery (515 W. 26th St. btw. 10th & 11th Aves.), Tues.–Sat., 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Visit stevenkasher.com. Artist info at jillfreedman.com.

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The “docu-fiction” film “The Fiances of Imilchil” receives its US premiere at the Chelsea Film Festival.

Hailing from Belgium, the dramedy “Marry Me” is indicative of the diverse offerings at the Chelsea Film Festival.

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Just Do Art BY SCOTT STIFFLER

H.T. CHEN & DANCERS: SOUTH OF GOLD MOUNTAIN Chinatown-based Chen Dance Center finds itself in Chelsea, with this new work by husband and wife team H.T. Chen and Dian Dong. They spent three years mulling over documents from official and private sources, and conducting interviews with immigrants and their descendants — then created this multi-generational dance/theater work, to memorialize the struggles of those who built America’s infrastructure and laid the groundwork for family-run grocery stores, laundromats, and restaurants that thrived for decades (many of which survive to this day). Oct. 15–18. Thurs., Fri. & Sat. at 7:30 p.m. Sun at 3 p.m. At New York Live Arts (219 W.19th St. btw. Seventh & Eighth Aves.). For tickets ($35, $18 for students/ seniors), call 212-924-0077 or visit newyorklivearts.org. Artist info at chendancecenter.org.

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Chamber choir The Crossing plays the SONiC Festival as part of a free concert, Oct. 16 at Winter Garden at Brookfield Place.

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The dance/theater work “South of Gold Mountain” praises the legacy of immigrants.

THE SOUNDS OF A NEW CENTURY (SONiC) FESTIVAL Here comes the SON — as in, those whose scholarly knowledge and aesthetic appreciation of the past can be felt in

the grooves and curves of the stamp they put on our present soundscape. SONiC celebrates over 80 up-and-coming composers representing “every conceivable style,” by presenting 15 ensembles at 10 venues throughout NYC. Opening night’s 7 p.m. concert at WQXR (44 Charlton St.) features the resident ensemble at Westchester County’s Aaron Copland House. Oct. 16’s “New York Stories” (Winter Garden at Brookfield Place, 230 Vesey St.) is a free 8 p.m. concert of world premiere works curated by WNYC’s John Shaefer (“New Sounds Live”). The chamber music collective Nieuw Amsterdams Peil plays (Le) Poisson

Rouge (158 Bleecker St.) at 7 p.m. on Oct. 19, and Oct. 20’s 10 p.m. “Hybridity” after-hours event at DROM (85 Ave. A) features, among others, the 15-piece, multi-generational Eco-Music Big Band. The festival happens Oct. 15–23 at 10 Manhattan & Brooklyn venues. Tickets range from free to $50. Festival passes (which provide codes to purchase tickets discounted by at least 20%) are $25. Visit SONiCfestival. org. Follow on facebook.com/SONiC. SoundsOfANewCentury. On Twitter and Instagram: @SONiC_Fest. Participate using the hastag #SONiCfest.

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