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PUMPED UP RIDES The thrill of motorcycling meets winter fun at Tug Hill State Forest. Bring your own snowmobile, or rent from Flat Rock Inn at Tug Hill Plateau, and enjoy access to more than 800 miles of snowy groomed trails. Plus, after you’re happily exhausted, you can stay overnight at the Inn, or just pop in for a warm meal at the restaurant. Rentals are only for ages 18 and up.
Bristol Mountain takes you to new heights of excitement, beauty, and challenge, thanks to its 1,200 foot vertical rise — the highest between the Rocky Mountains and the Adirondacks. Views from the summit and the 34 slopes and trails are breathtaking and provide a variety of inclines for every skier and snowboarder from beginner to expert. Prefer cross-country skiing? Bristol Mountain has that too.
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The Cradle of Aviation Museum celebrates the history of Long Island’s contributions to American aviation. Home to over 70 air and spacecraft in 8 exhibit galleries, the museum has one of the largest collections in the world. Exhibits take visitors through over 100 years of air and space history, and features a Grumman Lunar Module among other notable craft.
This winter, head to the Holiday Valley Ski Resort to ride their unique Sky Flyer Mountain Coaster. You’ll ride over waves and curves, one jump, and a large spiral. You can control the speed by pulling levers in the car or just enjoy the ride. Afterward, check out Holiday Valley’s amazing ski slopes and warm up with hot chocolate in one of its several lodges.
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14-YEAR-OLD CHARGED IN BARNARD STUDENT DEATH CRIME
“This arrest is a major milestone on the path to justice for Tessa Majors,‘’ said District Attorney Cy Vance BY JULIE WALKER AND MICHAEL HILL, ASSOCIATED PRESS
A 14-year-old has been arrested in the fatal stabbing of a Barnard College student in a park during a robbery in December, a crime that rattled New York City residents,
authorities said Saturday. Rashaun Weaver has been indicted by a grand jury and was taken into custody Friday night without incident, New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said at a news conference. Weaver, charged with second-degree murder and robbery, is the second teenager to be charged in the attack on 18-year-old Tessa Majors in a Manhat-
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the job, because I want to continue the work that I’ve already been doing and then take it further as a council member.” Bottcher is running to represent District 3, which covers Hell’s Kitchen, Chelsea, Greenwich Village and part of SoHo. Last week he qualified for the NYC Public Finance Program, which grants public funds to candidates running for city office.
After five years as chief of staff to the City Council Speaker, Erik Bottcher is stepping up and running for a seat of his own BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM
In Erik Bottcher’s ideal political world, policy problems would be resolved by gathering stakeholders around a table to hash out the issues and come up with creative solutions together. As chief of staff to City Council Speaker Corey Johnson for the last five years, Bottcher says he’s seen it done. It’s what has inspired him to run for Johnson’s seat when he is term-limited next year. But it’s the experience he’s gained, and the community connections he’s made during this time, that he says make him the right candidate to lead that conversation. “We’ve been able to work really closely with [community members] and establish
A Troubled Teen Finds His Way Bottcher grew up in a small town upstate in the Adirondack Mountains, where he had a difficult time coming out as gay as a teenager, as profiled in The City last week. Bottcher tried to kill himself three times before he got the mental health help he needed. He moved to New York City days after graduating from college and just three months before 9/11. He became involved in LGBT advocacy and worked on Andrew Cuomo’s
Working to help pass New York state’s same-sex marriage legislation in 2011 was an early high point in Erik Bottcher’s career. Photo: Courtesy of Friends of Erik Bottcher
extremely effective working relationships,” Bottcher, 40, said in an interview with Straus News. “So that, to me, is one of the reasons why I think I’m most prepared to do
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In Brief MORE HELP FOR SMALL BUSINESS
The effort to help small seems to businesses in the city be gathering steam. Two city councilmembers, Robert Margaret Chin and Cornegy, have introduced create legislation that wouldSmall a new “Office of the within Business Advocate” of Small the city’s Department Business Services. Chin The new post, which have up told us she’d like to would and running this year, for serve as an ombudsman city small businesses within them clear government, helping to get through the bureaucracy things done. Perhaps even more also importantly, the ombudsman and number will tally the type small business of complaints by taken in actions the owners, policy response, and somefor ways to recommendations If done well, begin to fix things. report would the ombudsman’s quantitative give us the first with taste of what’s wrong the city, an small businesses in towards important first step problem. the xing fi of deformality for To really make a difference, process is a mere complete their will have to to are the work course, the advocaterising rents, precinct, but chances-- thanks to a velopers looking find a way to tackle business’ is being done legally of after-hours projects quickly. their own hours,” which remain many While Chin “They pick out boom in the number throughout lives on who problem. Angelo, vexing most said Mildred construction permits gauge what Buildings one of the Ruppert said it’s too early tocould have the 19th floor in The Department of the city. number three years, the Houses on 92nd Street between role the advocate She on the Over the past is handing out a record work perThird avenues. permits, there, more information of Second and an ongoing all-hours number of after-hours bad thing. of after-hours work the city’s Dept. problem can’t be a said there’s with the mits granted by nearby where according to new data jumped 30 percent, This step, combinedBorough construction project noise Buildings has data provided in workers constantly make efforts by Manhattan to mediate BY DANIEL FITZSIMMONS according to DOB of Informacement from trucks. President Gale Brewer offer response to a Freedom classifies transferring they want. They knows the the rent renewal process, request. The city They 6 “They do whatever Every New Yorker clang, tion Act tangible signs go as they please. work between early, and some come metal-on-metal can construction any small sound: the or on the weekend, have no respect.” the piercing of progress. For many can’t come p.m. and 7 a.m., the hollow boom, issuance of these business owners, that moving in reverse. as after-hours. The increased beeps of a truck has generto a correspond and you soon enough. variances has led at the alarm clock The surge in permits
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A VALENTINE’S DAY PROPOSAL ON ICE HOLIDAYS
Rockefeller Center, Carson Daly and the surprise of a lifetime: How one couple kicked off their engagement Manhattan-style BY JENNIFER DOHERTY
Hayley Nejman took to the ice at Rockefeller Center on Friday morning with extreme caution, holding onto her boyfriend, Anthony Piglowski, for support as she skated for the first time in over three years. The last time the Erie, Pennsylvania native ice skated was on the couple’s last visit to New York, for New Year’s
I didn’t even realize it was happening ... As I was talking, I was like ‘Oh my God, I’m on TV!’” Anthony Piglowski
Eve 2016. This time Nejman was particularly intimidated by her fellow skaters — a group of about 20 teenage girls who seemed preternaturally comfortable on the ice, flying around, doing spins and striking poses. Despite her nerves, Nejman glided gamely around the rink, smiling and clutching Piglowski, a former high school hockey player, for balance. But when an announcer asked skaters to clear the ice “for cleaning,” it was Piglowski’s turn to be nervous. Instead of heading for the exit like the other skaters, he guided Nejman to the center of the rink and dropped to one knee as his stunned girlfriend protested: “Oh my God, Anthony! Stop!” Despite her shock, Nejman was all smiles and said yes immediately as their fellow skaters pulled out pink pompoms and cheered. “We came to New York a few years ago and we went ice skating here,” Piglowski told Our Town regarding his decision to propose to his high school sweetheart on the ice. “I played hockey growing up, and she
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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG SUBWAY RIDER ASSAULTED
STATS FOR THE WEEK Reported crimes from the 1st precinct for the week ending Feb 9
At 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 5, police said, a 27-year-old man was sleeping on a southbound A train when he was punched by an unknown man as the train pulled into the Fulton St. Station. According to police, when the victim approached the suspect on the station platform, he was assaulted by five unknown men who took his backpack. The victim was transported to Maimonides Hospital, where he was treated for concussion, bruising and swelling to his face. The items stolen included two payroll checks totaling $2,200, a North Face backpack worth $100 and items of clothing totaling $100.
STREET CORNER ATTACK A 28-year-old man was attacked from behind by a group of five men and two women at the corner of Thompson and Broome Sts. at 9:35 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 9, police said. The suspects punched and kicked the victim, causing a laceration on the top of his head, a cut lip, numerous scrapes and pain. One suspect removed the victim’s wallet from his back pocket. Later, the wallet was found with its contents
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removed. Police searched the area but did not locate the suspects. The items stolen included $100 in cash, a brown wallet worth $20, a Tennessee driver’s license plus credit and debit cards.
Police said the victim had visible redness on her face and was taken to New York Hospital by an EMS team for treatment. The suspect got away with the victim’s shopping bag, of no stated value.
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At 4:50 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 5, police said, a woman was sitting in the southbound mezzanine of the Fulton St. J train station when a man approached and tried to take her bag. He punched her repeatedly with a closed fist, breaking her eyeglasses.
Police said that at 10:20 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 3, a man entered the Target store at 255 Greenwich St., removed items from store shelves and attempted to leave without paying. When a male employee tried to stop him, the suspect took a
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needle from his pocket, pointed it at the employee and said, “I don’t want to do this to you!” Fearing for his safety, the employee stepped away. The items stolen included a robot vacuum valued at $300 and a Ninja blender priced at $200.
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Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (at podium) at a press conference on Monday before the passage of H.R. 1980, the Smithsonian Women’s History Museum Act, with (left to right) Jane Abraham, Chair of the Congressional Commission; Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton; and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick. Photo: Phi Nguyen
AMERICANS DESERVE A WOMEN’S HISTORY MUSEUM
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Congress takes the next step by voting to authorize the site BY REP. CAROLYN B. MALONEY
There are not many things that Democrats and Republicans agree on these days. But there is this: “America needs and deserves a national museum dedicated to showcasing the historical experiences of women in this country.” That is the unanimous, bipartisan, topline conclusion of a report by the Congressional Commission on the American Museum of Women’s History. The Commission spent 18 months studying the issue and presented its final report to Members of Congress on November 16, 2016. It recommended that a museum dedi-
My response to those who ask why this museum is important is this; If we fail to recognize women, we cannot empower them. Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney cated to American women’s history belongs on or near the National Mall in Washington, DC. And the need for such a museum is not just something that the members of a bipartisan Commission agree on. On Tuesday, 374 Members of the House of Representatives, both Democrats and Republicans, voted to pass H.R. 1980, the Smithsonian Women’s History Museum Act to establish a Smithsonian
women’s history museum on the National Mall. I introduced this bill with Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence (D-MI) and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (DDC) in March 2019. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) have introduced the companion bill in the Senate. Women have been left out of the telling of our nation’s history. Sadly, if you look at our 2,500 national historical landmarks across the country, only 5% honor women. And, studies have shown, women are underrepresented in the textbooks we use in our public schools. Properly honoring remarkable women in public spaces will serve to inspire people of all ages today and in future generations to pursue their goals in fields ranging from STEM disciplines to politics and everything in between.
Two studies published a decade ago in the Psychology of Women Quarterly found that because women face negative stereotypes regarding their competence in the workplace, they may derive particular benefit from the example of an outstanding woman who illustrates the possibility of overcoming gender barriers to achieve success. Years later, those examples remain hard to come by. Women have been at the center of every major moment in our nation’s history and made outstanding achievements in every sector of society, but our telling of history does not properly recognize them. Currently in the nation’s capital, there’s an Air and Space Museum, an International Spy Museum, a Textile Museum, a National Postal Museum, even a museum for buildings. But, there is no museum in our nation’s capital or anywhere in the country
that comprehensively shows the history of the amazing, brilliant, courageous, innovative and sometimes defiant women who have helped to shape our country during every moment of our history. Those visiting our nation’s capital, people of all genders and of all ages, deserve to know the full story of American history. My response to those who ask why this museum is important is this; If we fail to recognize women, we cannot empower them. Empowering women and unlocking the potential of every young person should be a universal goal. That’s why this bill passed so overwhelmingly in the House of Representatives and why I believe it should get the same support in the Senate. This is not about politics or partisanship. This is about giving women – all women – our rightful place in history.
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Grassroots billionaire - NY has no shortage of millionaires - and some billionaires. And there’s nothing new about rich New Yorkers running for political office. But three billionaires with Manhattan roots seeking the same national office? That’s something, right? Well, here you go: For President: former mayor Michael Bloomberg, Tom Steyer, and POTUS himself. Steyer was born in Manhattan and attended Buckley School and is now a Californian. POTUS hails from Queens and lived at 56th St and Fifth until he tweeted he was leaving NYC for Mar-a-Lago at the end of his presidency because he was treated badly by NY’s political leaders. Mayor Mike, born in Medford, Massachusetts, resides on East 79th St, when he’s not out campaigning. Supermarket Man But the billionaires with Manhattan bona fides who’ve run in non-presidential political races, don’t stop there. Case in point, John Catsimatidis, who made his billions while living and working in NY. His Gristedes supermarkets are synonymous with NY and his investments in real estate and energy holdings are everywhere. So how come, as a billionaire New Yorker, he’s
NOT running for president? Easy. He was born in Greece. Came to the U.S. when was less than a year old. But Catsimatidis has been engaged in the political and civic life of NY, particularly in Manhattan, ever since. He was raised in Harlem. Has lived on Manhattan’s East Side and West side. He’s worked in the Bronx, in Queens and, of course, Manhattan. Like Bloomberg and Trump, he’s been both a Democrat and a Republican and has supported candidates from both parties. In his teenage years, he volunteered for West Side Democrat Congressman William Fitts Ryan and in later years worked in the campaign of Congressman Jerry Nadler. Today, he’s rooted in the life of the Republican Party. In 2013, he ran for Mayor in a Republican Primary. His daughter, Andrea, is chair of the Manhattan Republican Party.
Sto ries to Tell In his East Midtown office of the Red Apple Group (he’s the CEO), Catsimatidis sits casually in the conference room. Spectrum News 1 is on a big screen mounted on a wall, staring down, blaring mute, as he talks about his Gristede years on the UWS and how he started at the Red Apple off 96th and Broadway when his friend, who owned Red Apple, begged Catsimatidis to buy him out because he (the friend) didn’t get along with
his co-owner uncle; how, when he (Catsimatidis) was involved with the West Side Chamber of Commerce, he created the Columbus Avenue Festival in 1977 and how, under his leadership, the Chamber’s entire budget went from $20,000 to $200,000 a year and then five years later he created the Amsterdam Avenue Festival. Catsimatidis eagerly perused the walls of his photolined office suite to show me the grainy black-and-white pic of people and vendors packed in at the first Columbus Ave festival. Interestingly, in 1980 Our Town started the Third Ave Fair with the proceeds going to local organizations. I always thought that Ed Kayatt came up with the Manhattan Street Fair concept. Guess not. Catsimatidis spreads his billions through his philanthropy. He owns the Hellenic Times and recently acquired WABC Radio He hosts a weekly radio show on AM 970. While Catsimatidis financial and philanthropic empire are widespread, he’s a true denizen of the city. He made it. He gives back. Politics aside, he’s grassroots, and it started in the early days. In a 2015 article in the online West Side Rag, a former editor of Wisdoms Child, Arlene Kurtis, remembered that, it was through “the help” of Red Apple supermarket owner, John Catsimatidis, who “took full page ads and paid promptly,“ that Wisdoms Child, a local newspaper that started publishing in the 70’s but no longer does, was able to reach its West Side readers. Sounds like the generosity of spirit that started grassroots has come full circle. Way to go.
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NEWBIES OF NEW YORK ON THE TOWN
City life on the big and small screens BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL
277 people move out of New York’s metro area every day, according to Bloomberg News. “Katy Keene,“ a new series on The CW, is a 20-something, more diverse “Sex and the City” about four friends and just may have what it takes to fill the void with young people from near and far. As with SATC, Manhattan is the fifth friend. Lucy Hale, in the title role, plays a native New Yorker whose late mother, a seamstress, inspired her love of fashion design. She’s a personal shopping assistant at Lacy’s (read: Bergdorf’s.) What would the workplace be without a nemesis who undermines Katy out of a promotion? The undaunted retail associate gets snapped up by a different department head who sees Katy’s value. Somewhere on the Upper West Side, Katy resides in a four-story walk-up with two roommates, Josie McCoy and Jorge/Ginger Lopez. Josie is a soulful singersongwriter. On her second day in NYC, she meets a record producer who wants to launch her career. Jorge/Ginger is doing quite well as a drag entertainer, but aspires to perform on the Great White Way. We know he’ll make it, a la his impassioned, “Baby, remember my name,” speech with which he tells off a Broadway producer who’s rejected him. Pepper Smith, not a
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roomie, rounds out the quartet. This British It Girl is, “the most connected person in New York,” which can only guarantee success for the fashion-empire she’s building. After work, they go dancing at clubs in fabulous outfits created by guess who? “Is this what it’s like every night?” asks Josie. “Welcome to New York,” squeals Katy. Just like those who came here thinking they were going to live the Carrie & Co. life, the newbies calling Greyhound for their tickets might be a tad disappointed. Their experiences will probably end up closer to that of Jane in the indie film “The Assistant.” Jane, played by Julia Garner, is a wanna-be producer, paying her dues as a support staffer to a Weinstein-like boss, although she’s told by an HR manager that there’s nothing to worry about because she’s “not his type.” This is the part that I hope no one ever has to deal with again. The tried and true reality of those at the entry-level, though, is that Jane, albeit her degree with honors from Northwestern, can barely af-
ford to live in Queens and does not go out every night because she is working firstto-arrive-last-to-leave hours. Where Katy is a cockeyed optimist who never saw a frown she couldn’t turn upside down, Jane can’t even fake a grin and would be served best by a Prozac prescription. But that’s NYC life on the small and big screens. My daughter Meg is interning with the hope that the position will lead to full time employment. Her friend is working two part-time jobs until there’s an opening in her field of study. Some young people, like my son Luke, graduated and got the job they trained for in school, but still either live at home or with a multitude of roommates. Although none of their experiences are as bleak as Jane’s, they’re not quite as magical as Katy’s — yet there’s something about Manhattan that makes people believe they could be. That’s why, no matter how many people leave our city, there will always be those who just can’t stay away. Lorraine Duffy Merkl is the author of the novels “Fat Chick” and “Back to Work She Goes.”
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A makeshift memorial of flowers and candles at Barnard in December. Photos: Emily Higginbotham
2010 gubernatorial campaign, and was subsequently a part of the team that helped pass same-sex marriage legislation in 2011. Bottcher said it was one of his proudest moments of his career to date. “You talk about things when you’re in a rocking chair, what you’re going to think about when you look back at your life and, to me, it will be the campaign for marriage equality,” he said. “That really broke the dam for more equality around the country. I really believe it’s because New York showed the way.” Bottcher joined Johnson’s staff as chief of staff in 2015 and has since been learning the ins and outs of the office.
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14-YEAR-OLD CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 tan park. “We are confident that we have the person in custody who stabbed her,‘’ Shea said. “And that person will face justice in a court of law.’’ The Associated Press is naming the juvenile defendant because of the seriousness of the crime and because he has been charged as an adult. Weaver’s attorney, Elsie Chandler, did not immediately return a call to Neighbor Defender Service of Harlem seeking comment. “He’s a 14-year-old child and he’s presumed not guilty,‘’ Chandler told the New York Post after Weaver’s bail hearing Saturday, at which he was ordered held without bail at a juvenile facility until his arraignment Wednesday. Majors was stabbed as she walked through Morningside Park early the evening of Dec. 11. She staggered up a flight of stairs to street level and collapsed in a crosswalk. A criminal complaint released Saturday described Majors as struggling on a landing with three people and screaming, “Help me! I’m being robbed!’’ Weaver said Majors was “hanging onto her phone’’ when he tried to take it, according to the complaint. Officials said they have evidence from videotapes, wit-
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As for issues he would like to tackle if elected to the council, Bottcher highlighted the street homelessness crisis as a major priority. He said residents in District 3 call Johnson’s office every day asking what more can be done to help unsheltered people, many of whom suffer from mental illness. He said one of the city’s major failings has been not doing enough to help those with mental illness. “I am someone who benefited from mental health care when I was in high school,” Bottcher said, explaining that he spent a month in a mental health facility in Saratoga Springs following a suicide attempt in high school. “At age 15 I got mental health care I needed and
I was able to go back to my community and finish high school and go to college. But many, many people don’t get that care. I think that the city needs to do much, much more than it’s doing in that in that capacity.” Bottcher could be facing two opponents in the Democratic primary for the council seat. Arthur Schwartz, a well known labor lawyer who most recently led a crusade against the 14th Street busway pilot program, and Marni Halasa, an ice skating instructor at Chelsea Piers who was described as a “professional protester” by the New York Times, have both been reported as candidates. Schwartz, though, has said he is still mulling it over. If Schwartz files his candidacy, he will likely run on a platform to put an end to the 14th Street busway, which he argued against in court, saying it would push traffic onto side streets. Bottcher said it was important to keep in mind that the 14th Street program is an 18-month pilot, and should be reviewed fully when it ends. But, he said, most of the feedback he’s gotten from constituents has been overwhelmingly positive. Halasa has come out hard against a program called RAD, or Rental Assistance Demonstration, through which the city and NYCHA would convert a third of its public housing stock to private management. The city said the move would pay for the millions of dollars of restoration needed in NYCHA properties. Bottcher said politicians for decades have been kick-
ing the can down the road on this issue, and it’s led the city
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to this point. He said the Speaker’s office has convened a working group of tenants from the Elliot, Fulton and Chelsea houses, along with advocates and elected officials, that meets every Thursday to come up with answers on how to approach the problems at NYCHA. “That we have people living in squalor virtually across the street from Hudson Yards is not acceptable,” said Bottcher. “We have to do something to come up with a plan to renovate these buildings.”
Stop and Look Up Bottcher hopes voters recognize that he pays attention to the finer details. He said he catches things others don’t — and often that includes the birds flying around the neighborhood. “People don’t know I’m a bird watcher,” he said. In October last year, Bottcher tweeted a video of a black and white warbler walking between his feet in the Clinton Community Garden in Hell’s Kitchen. “That’s highly unusual for that species.” “If we stop for a moment and look up,“ he said, “we’ll see some pretty cool things.”
Students gathered to pay respects to Tessa Majors at the Barnard College main gate in December.
ness identification and DNA evidence from Major’s fingernail clippings linking Weaver to the crime. The attack, two days before the start of final exams at the women’s school, troubled city residents because of its proximity to campus and its apparent randomness. Barnard is part of the Ivy League’s Columbia University. “This arrest is a major milestone on the path to justice for Tessa Majors,‘’ said District Attorney Cy Vance. A 13-year-old who was ar-
rested Dec. 13 and charged as a juvenile with felony murder told detectives he was at the park with other youths but wasn’t the one who stabbed Majors. Vance said his office and the police are “in active investigation in terms of other suspects, and that will continue.’’ Majors, of Charlottesville, Virginia, played in a rock band and had told an editor from a newspaper internship in high school that she planned to take journalism classes in college. Hill reported from Albany, New York.
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Rachel Feinstein’s unpredictable and intriguing works are on dazzling display at the Jewish Museum BY VIRGE RANDALL
“Maiden, Mother, Crone” is an idiosyncratic tour of the roles of women as envisioned by the highly original Rachel Feinstein, executed in 35 works of paint, sculpture, maquettes and video. Based on the three major stages in women’s lives, the exhibit at the Jewish Museum is an adventurous mashup of literal cutting-edge sensibility (Feinstein used a chainsaw to create Picasso-like freestanding wood sculptures), draftsmanship, and references to the Italian Baroque period, Regency England, the Bible and more (she studied art history and religion at Columbia). Curated by Kelly Taxter, the Bar-
Model, 2000. Mirror, wood, plaster, and enamel paint. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gallery. Artwork © Rachel Feinstein unknown
WHAT: Rachel Feinstein: Maiden, Mother, Crone WHERE: The Jewish Museum 1109 Fifth Ave at 92nd St. WHEN: Through March 22 nett and Annalee Newman Curator of Contemporary Art at the Jewish Museum, the show, just in time for Women’s History Month in March, surveys three decades of Feinstein’s art, with its unpredictable and always intriguing techniques, influences, subjects and style.
The Whimsical and the Serious The tone is set at the entrance, where you are greeted by three larger-than-life statues in wood and canvas, each with very different subtexts. On either side are impressionistic statues of Christian saints – St. Sebastian, martyred with arrows, and St. Michael, surrounded in drapery that a Baroque sculptor like Bernini would love (he’s among her influences). Front and center is a strangely twisted tree, each branch ending with a mirror. As an artist who modelled since her teens, Feinstein drew inspiration from her experience and observations about appearance and identity. Her explorations of beauty, time, art, and femininity echo throughout the exhibit. The show balances the whimsical and the serious, the imaginative and the historical, the austere and the exuberant. Feinstein’s antennae is set on “high” to receive many different influences, from drawings by her son (like the exuberant “Mr. Time”) to her time in Miami. “Goldstein,” a 40-foot wall relief work, commissioned by the Jewish Museum, executed in white enameled wood, features a Miami-ish villa with a fancy car parked in front. The mood shifts dramatically with a searing “Crucifixion,” created after
St. Michael, 2012. Polymer resin, steel, wire, and wood. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gallery Artwork © Rachel Feinstein Photo: Giorgio Benni
9/11, which Feinstein witnessed from her apartment window. Here, she gives traditional imagery immediacy and power by stripping it of all color, using only form – canvas and wood. Christ is angular and twisted in agony, the three figures below – Mary, Mary Magdalene and St. John – crouch in attitudes of grief, despair and shock.
Behold the Crones The Crones in this show – five paintings on oval mirrors of elderly women in the towering wigs, hats and finery of Regency attire – are an engaging bunch of characters, painted in grays and whites: Eileen, awaiting some juicy gossip; Ruth, daintily sipping her tea; Eva, the impatient grande dame; Rhoda, the cheerful neighbor; and Marie, protectively guarding a baby deer. It feels like Feinstein knows these women – but she hired a casting director and professionals to find, dress, make up, light and photograph them all. Feinstein created the paintings just after she had given birth, while she was working on a fashion ad campaign. She confessed that she felt strange in her own skin and perhaps was looking toward the last major stage in a woman’s life.
Life in Three Dimensions The sculptures – a mix of plain wood and brightly (even garishly) painted statues that embody Maidens and Mothers – are the stars of the exhibit. Flat yet dimensional,
Mr. Time, 2015. Powder-coated aluminum, vinyl, and working clock. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gallery Artwork © Rachel Feinstein Photo: Robert McKeever
“Adam and Eve” captures the intricate balance of an entwined male and female figure near a lush tree. Feinstein skillfully uses positive and negative space for her narrative – Eve’s hand pokes through the foliage, holding an apple to offer to Adam. “Mother and Child,” made of wood, has a Picasso flavor in its three dimensions. Mother has a huge, stylized ear attuned to the babe in arms, and the child is all wide-open mouth, either crying or hungry. In contrast, “Girl” seems positively sedate, a figure rendered in plain wood, featureless and elongated, like something by Elie Nadelman (another Feinstein influence). And then there’s “The Bird Girl,” a sculpture of a Caribbean woman, brightly painted, like a carnivale celebrant, surrounded by the birds she feeds, which are whimsically fashioned like stop action figures, including a bug-eyed bluebird.
A Roman Garden and a Sassy Gal The second room is dominated by “Panorama of Rome,” painted on Mylar and covering every wall. The baroque-inspired work, in black, gray and white, with touches of maroon, gives a sense of place and mood – walking through this room feels like walking through a sculpture garden. The standouts here include “Butterfly,” a gaily painted statue of a sassy gal in bra, panties and garter belt, with high heeled peekaboo boots, blowing a kiss to a butterfly. And “Bleeding Shepherdess” is a perfectly executed spin on a classic trope: the hatted, beribboned shepherd girl, holding a lamb, her frilly skirts blowing in the wind – and bloodstained at the bottom because she got her period. Virge Randall, a freelance culture writer, also blogs about city life at https://www.newyorknatives.com/author/virge/
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NEW LENOX HILL TASK FORCE GETS RESULTS NEIGHBORHOOD
Alternative plan for the redevelopment of the hospital is presented after group led by Brewer and Powers asks for changes BY DAVID NOONAN
“Everybody was upset about everything,” Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer said, describing the months of turmoil that followed Northwell Health’s announcement early last year of plans for the multi-billion dollar redevelopment of Lenox Hill Hospital. Community leaders and neighbors of the hospital, whose ten buildings occupy the block between 76th and 77th Streets, from Lexington to Park Avenue, were appalled at the scale of the project, estimated to take as long as nine years to complete. Among other things, the massive undertaking, first described in an exclusive Our Town story, included a land sale to facilitate the construction of a 41story luxury residential tower at the corner of 76th Street and Park Avenue. As the end of 2019 approached, and after “seeing all the angst without anybody talking to anybody else,” as she put it, Brewer and Council Member Keith Powers created a special task force to bring all the parties together, including Northwell. “The
means have we come to a definitive conclusion. We will continue to listen to the concerns, we’ll continue to work through this task force.”
“It’s a very sophisticated group of people, needless to say ... And we’ve been having some good discussions.”
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Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer hospital wanted to have one place where everybody’s concerns were discussed,” Brewer said, “and it seems to be going pretty well. It’s a very sophisticated group of people, needless to say. Community Board 8 is very active. And we’ve been having some good discussions.” In fact, after just three meetings – the first one was in early December – the residential tower was dropped from an “alternative configuration” that Northwell presented to the task force on February 4. Under the original plans, the proceeds from the residential component were intended to cover a significant potion of overall hospital construction costs, initially estimated at more than $2 billion and possibly reaching the $3 billion range. Without that level of funding, the rest of the project would necessarily be scaled back. As a result, in another major change, the revision calls for renovating eight of the existing hospital buildings instead of tearing them down
A typical congested street scene on East 77th Street with doubleand triple-parked ambulances outside Lenox Hill Hospital’s emergency room, one of the issues redevelopment was intended to address. Photo: Courtesy of Lenox Hill Hospital / Northwell Health
An architect’s rendering shows the hospital tower, left, and the residential tower, right, that were part of the original proposal for the redevelopment of Lenox Hill Hospital. A new, alternative proposal does not include the residential tower. Rendering: Courtesy of Lenox Hill Hospital / Northwell Health
and replacing them with new construction, as described in the original plan.
Quick Turnaround Northwell prepared the revised plan in less than a month, after Brewer and Powers requested it in early January. “They’re not going to get their project through unless they have dialogue and unless they make changes,” Brewer told Straus News. “I think they knew that, and so they’ve been responsive. I think they weren’t responsive until the task force started meeting.” Joshua Strugatz, Northwell’s vice president for Manhattan redevelopment, said the task force, which includes board members from residential buildings close to the hospital, as well as representatives from the Committee to Protect Our Lenox Hill Neighborhood, a group formed to oppose the original project, offers Northwell a chance “to really listen on a smaller scale than what we might have experienced previously in community boards and things of that nature. We’ve found that this
has been a very productive process and an efficient use of time. And both Gale and Keith have exemplified some terrific leadership.” Strugatz also made clear that the process is ongoing, and what Northwell presented was a potential alternative and not the new plan. “I would just caution everyone that this [revision] was done in a very short period of time and there is a lot more study and analysis that would be required,” he said. “By no
In a background document that Northwell issued with a statement about the task force, it emphasized that certain core elements of its original plan, including single-bedded patient rooms, a new emergency room to replace the current crowded and undersized facility, and state-of-the-art ORs, are not negotiable. “These are all necessary features for a modern healthcare facility and cannot be compromised as part of Lenox Hill’s revitalization,” the document reads. In line with that position, the alternative plan preserves the 516-foot, 30-story main hospital tower on Lexington Avenue that was part of the original plan. Last March, Michael Dowling, president and CEO of Northwell, told Straus News that Lenox Hill needed to modernize to keep up with other city hospitals. “Other major facilities in Manhattan have advanced their physical plants dramatically and expanded over the past couple of years,” he said. “And we cannot just stand still and continue to exist where the youngest building in this facility today was built 40 years ago.”
Clashing Views
In contrast to Northwell’s view of Lenox Hill as a Manhattan-based, world-class medical center, the Committee to Protect Our Lenox Hill Neighborhood, a fierce opponent of the redevelopment project, sees the Upper East Side institution as a community hospital. In a statement, the group called the alternative proposal a step in the right direction, but said “the massive size and scale of the proposed hospital tower are still unnecessary and unacceptable, and this fight is far from over.” Derek Dillon, a neighborhood resident and committee board member, said it’s all a matter of scale, and the hospital tower is wildly out of proportion to the neighborhood, where current zoning limits building heights to 210 feet on Park and 170 feet on Lexington. “We support a better Lenox Hill, not a bigger Lenox Hill,” Dillon said. For his part, Keith Powers, who, along with Brewer, has the biggest say in the matter, is optimistic now that people are talking. “The task force has served as a productive forum to bring together stakeholders and share feedback on the proposal,” he said in a statement. “In the coming months, we will continue to work through the task force to find a plan that best balances the needs of the aging hospital with the community’s input.”
An architect’s rendering of the double-story, glassed-in atrium, at the base of the 30-story hospital tower at Lexington Avenue and 76th Street that is still part of the redevelopment plan.
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unit. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored. Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation.
FEBRUARY 6 - 12, 2020 The following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s website and include the most recent inspection and grade reports listed. We have included every restaurant listed during this time within the zip codes 10002, 10003, 10004, 10007, 10009, 10012, 10013, 10014, 10038. Some reports list numbers with their explanations; these are the number of violation points a restaurant has received. Aux Merveilleux De Fred
37 8th Ave
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Balade
208 1st Ave
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Benemon
108 E 4th St
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Bite
333 Lafayette St
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Boba Guys
261 Canal St
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Brazen Fox Kitchen And Bar
106 3rd Ave
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By Chloe
30 E 16th St
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Chalait
375 Hudson St
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Cocoron
37 Kenmare St
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Goemon Curry
29 Kenmare St
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Hanoi Soup Shop
115 St Marks Pl
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Harry’s Italian
2 Gold St
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Honeybrains
372 Lafayette St
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Il Buco Restaurant
47 Bond St
Not Yet Graded (34) Facility not vermin proof. Harborage or conditions conducive to attracting vermin to the premises and/or allowing vermin to exist. Non-food contact surface improperly constructed. Unacceptable material used. Non-food contact surface or equipment improperly maintained and/or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the unit. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred. Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
Joe Jr Restaurant
167 3rd Ave
Not Yet Graded (22) Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred. Non-food contact surface improperly constructed. Unacceptable material used. Non-food contact surface or equipment improperly maintained and/or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the unit. Hot food item not held at or above 140º F.
Julia Tea & Dim Sum House
68 Mott St
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Junzi Kitchen
30 Vandam St
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Kikoo Sushi
210 1st Ave
Not Yet Graded (27) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Non-food contact surface improperly constructed. Unacceptable material used. Non-food contact surface or equipment improperly maintained and/or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the
Kong Sihk Tong
65 Bayard St
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Lamano
39 Christopher St
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Le Coq Rico
30 E 20th St
Not Yet Graded (65) Food not labeled in accordance with HACCP plan. Food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal product temperature is reduced from 140º F to 70º F or less within 2 hours, and from 70º F to 41º F or less within 4 additional hours. Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Records and logs not maintained to demonstrate that HACCP plan has been properly implemented. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Facility not vermin proof. Harborage or conditions conducive to attracting vermin to the premises and/or allowing vermin to exist.
Mace
505 E 12th St
Not Yet Graded (49) Hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room. Hot and cold running water at adequate pressure to enable cleanliness of employees not provided at facility. Soap and an acceptable hand-drying device not provided. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan. Evidence of rats or live rats present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Plumbing not properly installed or maintained; anti-siphonage or backflow prevention device not provided where required; equipment or floor not properly drained; sewage disposal system in disrepair or not functioning properly. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred. Non-food contact surface improperly constructed. Unacceptable material used. Non-food contact surface or equipment improperly maintained and/or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the unit. Food contact surface not properly maintained. Facility not vermin proof. Harborage or conditions conducive to attracting vermin to the premises and/or allowing vermin to exist.
Majestic Pizza
8 Cortlandt St
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Maman Hudson
205 Hudson St
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Molly’s Cupcakes
228 Bleecker St
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New York Law School
185 W Broadway
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Oppa / W4 Pizza
162 W 4th St
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Pieces Bar
8 Christopher St
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Quartino Bottega Organica
11 Bleecker St
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Rosella’s Pizzeria
164 William St
Not Yet Graded (27) Facility not vermin proof. Harborage or conditions conducive to attracting vermin to the premises and/or allowing vermin to exist. Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred. Evidence of rats or live rats present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Personal cleanliness inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn in an area where food is prepared.
Rubirosa Pizza & Ristorante
235 Mulberry Street
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Seamore’s
390 Broome St
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NUTS FOR NEW YORK BUSINESS
An Israeli market staple plants itself on the Upper East Side with plans to grow BY JENNIFER DOHERTY
Nuts Factory opened its first U.S. location at 1030 Third Ave. with a drive to create a sensory experience for its shoppers. Aromas provided by three stainless steel roasting ovens greet customers at the entrance. On a recent Thursday, the smell was cinnamon, courtesy of a batch of house-made granola toasting at the front of the store. Nearby, a conveyor belt shuttled almonds into another oven for roasting, while behind them an industrial mixer folded pecans into a sugary glaze. The machinery is a particular point of pride for store manager Din Allall. His grandfather developed the store’s roasting ovens, kicking off three generations of growth and entrepreneurship that reached New York at the end of 2019 with plans to expand within the city. “This is my grandfather’s invention. He had the vision to do it in front of the customer, not in some basement or in a factory somewhere in Jersey or whatever,” Allall says, patting the oven. “He didn’t even graduate from elementary
Gift box from Nuts Factory. Photos: Jennifer Doherty
school, but he still had the vision. He was in the nuts business and he had this vision, like, ‘Let’s do it in the store.’” Thanks to Allall’s grandfather, Nuts Factory products are dry roasted, meaning they’re more healthful than many similar products. “Most of the nuts here in America, when you see roasted almonds, when you look at the ingredients, you’re going to see oil, which means it’s kind of fried more than roasted,” Allall explains. Positioned in the store windows, the machinery also works to lure customers in off the street, intrigued by the moving parts and enticing smells. Allall’s father used their appeal to grow the brand into a household name in Israel,
You come; you fill yourself. Everything is in bulk. You can bring your own container. You see what you get, you can taste what you get. You see how it’s made.” Store manager Din Allall
where Nuts Factory boasts 150 specialty boutiques located within grocery stores. Today, the company also claims its own lines of chocolate covered nuts, jams and fruit-based tea infusions, which all feature prominently at the New York location, along with rows upon rows of sweet and savory roasted nuts and other snacks. For their Upper East Side location, the idea was to create a market feeling, as Allall explains. “You come; you fill yourself. Everything is in bulk. You can bring your own container. You see what you get, you can taste what you get. You see how it’s made. You can get as much as you want. You don’t have to get it pre-packed.”
invite shoppers to choose as much—or as little—as they like from the store’s broad selection of treats made inhouse. Oreo-coated pecans are the store’s bestseller (These also came out on top in an informal taste test by the Our Town staff.) The coconut-covered macadamias are also delicious, as are the shop’s candied walnuts. The boutique boasts an equally large selection of sa-
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vory nuts, among which the za’atar flavor and sweet-andsour macadamias stood out for their cocktail-hour appeal. Beyond establishing the brand’s first U.S. presence, Nuts Factory’s Upper East Side outpost also marks the company’s first step into the world of prepared foods, with a coffee and sandwich bar in the back of the house that offers green chimichurri steak sandwiches (the store’s only non-
Kosher product, Allall specifies). Allall and his staff are eager to share their products, proffering samples readily and explaining where and how everything is made. Confident in the brand’s value, Allall plans to open a second Nuts Factory location in Chelsea in March, with more stores to follow.
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Store’s Bestseller This last point is apt to please eco-conscious and the thrifty-minded alike. Allall and his team welcome zero-wasters equipped with their own containers, while the store’s pick-and-mix style containers Making candied pecans.
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DELAYED GRATIFICATION AND HOME OWNERSHIP
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REAL ESTATE
The past, present and future of the value of buying in New York BY FREDERICK PETERS
For decades, real estate in New York was an asset with a sure-fire short-term return. Users and investors could be in and out in two to three years, either occupying the property or renting it to defray carrying costs. After that they could walk away with a tidy net profit, often as much as 12% to 18% over two years and 20% or a bit more over three years. That remained true until the big shift occurred in late 2015/early 2016. Now the story is different. Over the past four years, real estate values in Manhattan have (with some exceptions) fallen anywhere from 15% to 25%. Many of the sales consummated in recent months closed at prices which compare nearly to those of 2012. So we are going into 2020 with a market which, after all its ups and downs, has essentially delivered flat results over the past eight years. Is it any wonder that millennials, more experience-focused than ownership-focused to begin with, wonder what the value of homeownership might be? The local market’s reaction to multiple factors — including the loss of most SALT tax deductibility, the increase in the mansion tax, and the uncertainty caused by both domestic and global upheaval — has been to drive buyers to the sidelines in droves. Ultimately, the decision by buyers not to buy has recalibrated the market. Slowly at first, and then with increasing rapidity throughout the second half of 2019, prices dropped, often considerably. Now, if the last six weeks are any indication, buyers have regained some
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PARKING SPACE FOR SALE? BY ANDREW J. KRAMER
Buyers are now bidding on properties that offer real value, including the townhouse market. Photo: Steven Strasser
real estate appetite, bidding on properties that offer real value relative to the last four or five years. This has proven true even in the notoriously finicky townhouse market, where, according to the Olshan Report, more townhouses went into contract in January than in any month since mid-2016. The benefits of owning a residence are many, but they unspool over the arc of time. New York real estate can no longer play a part in anyone’s get-richquick scheme. The time horizons have stretched out such that the investment becomes a buy-and-hold, especially today as excess inventory clogs most areas of the marketplace. This includes rentals but is most acute in the luxury and ultra-luxury marketplaces.
As buyers once again activate the market, this inventory will be absorbed. Smaller units city-wide will probably go first, followed by the larger co-ops, which, because of their stringent rules, have increasingly offered terrific value for those willing to play that game. Then, over the next three to four years, the high-end condos which are still coming onto the market, augmenting an already saturated chain of supply, will sell. Once the absorption proves sustainable, prices will gradually start to rise. Frederick Peters is the CEO of Warburg Realty, a luxury residential real estate brokerage in New York City. Reprinted with permission from Frederick Peters’ Forbes column.
I own a two-bedroom coop and an indoor parking space, which I’m going to be putting on the market this month. Should the parking space be included in the asking price or should it be offered separately? The best way to answer this question, which is an excellent one, is to say that it depends on a few variables. In a market with a lot of available inventory, a great way for a seller to make their apartment stand out is to provide that extra “something” to capture attention and clinch a deal. However if
a sharper asking price is going to make your place stand out, you can offer the parking space as a separate/additional cost, and if the buyer isn’t driven to make this purchase, I’m sure you’ll have no problem selling it to someone else in the building.
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PUBLISHING’S DIVERSITY CHALLENGE
BOOKS
Two recent controversies spur industry to review inclusive efforts BY HILLEL ITALIE, ASSOCIATED PRESS
As debate rages around “American Dirt,‘’ the bestselling novel criticized for its portrait of Mexican life and culture, publishers are pledging to change a historically white industry as critics question whether it can truly transform. Diversity has been an issue in publishing for years, but perhaps never so urgently as in the past few weeks, when Mexican American authors and others have cited “American Dirt’’ as evidence of a publishing culture where white voices are valued above others. Critics say flaws in Jeanine Cummins’ narrative about a Mexican mother and son fleeing to the U.S. were overlooked by the book’s editorial and promotional team and the many writers and booksellers who were early advocates. “Of course, we’ve had a lot of conversations, looking at diversity and ways - as we always do - to address the recruitment and publishing of Latinos,‘’ says John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan, which released Cummins’ novel last month through its Flatiron Books division. Marketed in part as a new “Grapes of Wrath,‘’ the John Steinbeck novel which helped define the Great Depression,
“American Dirt’’ was lauded by an i ndustry that is predominantly white, liberal, anxious to make a profit and eager to make a difference. A book that Cummins and Flatiron had thought would personalize the experience of immigration instead became an example to some of its own distance from the issue. Publishing executives and editors often shy away from discussing diversity on the record, but Flatiron president and publisher Bob Miller bluntly acknowledged they had not anticipated the “anger that has emerged from members of the Latinx and publishing communities.’’ “The fact that we were surprised is indicative of a problem, which is that in positioning positionin this novel, we acknow failed to acknowledge our own w limits,‘’ Miller wrote in a recent statement press statement.
“Homogeneous Industry” “Homogeneou According to a new study by the mul multicultural chilpubli dren’s publisher Lee & Low, industr is around 75% the industry white, and mostly female. publish who spoke to No publisher Asso The Associated Press dist puted those numbers, w which were roughly the a those in a Lee same as & Low survey released y four years earlier. “E “Even though ther may be more there awa awareness of diversit issues, the sity nu numbers on the in industry side a aren’t really changing says Lee & changing,‘’ Jaso Low. “It’s still Low publisher Jason
a very homogeneous industry, especially in some of the executive and gatekeeping roles.`` CEOs including Sargent, Michael Pietsch of Hachette Book Group and Carolyn Reidy of Simon & Schuster say longtime barriers to diversity in publishing include the self-reinforcing networks of a historically white, upper-class industry, and the stress of being the only non-white member in a room. The industry’s low salaries, “often from $36,000-$40,000 in one of the world’s most expensive cities, can also make it hard to retain good people. “They don’t necessarily see a career path. They can get burned out and a little exhausted,‘’ says Nicole Johnson, executive director of the activist organization WeNeedDiverseBooks. Jennifer Baker, an author and editor who in 2014 created the “Minorities in Publishing’’ podcast, says the book world faces structural issues common to a wide range of industries. Asked if she had seen signs of signs of progress in publishing, she said she saw “no clear pathway to correction,“ adding that “Bottom line,‘’ there won’t be “sustainable change” without fully taking on the system itself.
Internships and Outreach Programs Several publishing executives agreed on a rough outline of industry demographics: Entry level positions, notably in publicity and marketing, are the most diverse, while high-level editorial jobs are more white; employees under 40 are more diverse than those over 40; those who work in children’s publishing are more diverse than those in adult books divisions. “Children’s librarians and educators have been at the forefront of urging publishers to diversify the books we offer,‘’ Pietsch says. All of the so-called “Big Five’’ publishers - Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, Macmillan and HarperCollins - have for years had diversity efforts, including internships and outreach programs, and in-house initiatives like mentoring and requirements that all job openings include a diverse range of candidates. In 2019, Penguin Random House announced a “Strategy Plan’’ with goals including the diversification of employees and a more inclusive work culture. But the publisher faced its own embarrassment last
ollaboweek. It had collabornes & rated with Barnes verse’’ Noble on “diverse’’ editions of such ure as classic literature in,‘’ “Frankenstein,‘’ “The Wizard of and Oz’’ nd ``Romeo and or Juliet’’ to honor y Black History h Month, which n takes place in February. The covers featured illustrations of the main characters with dark skin, while tly by and the texts, mostly about white people, were left the same. After widespread criticism online, with many wondering why the publisher and Barnes & Noble didn’t simply promote writers of color, the program was canceled. “These recent events underscore the critical importance of the work we have to continue to do together,“ says Penguin Random House US CEO Madeline McIntosh, adding that the publisher would ``recommit’’ to a “full range of perspectives, experience, and expertise.’’
Dedicated to Diverse Voices Earlier this week, Myriam Gurba, David Bowles and other prominent critics of “American Dirt’’ met with Flatiron executives. In a press release issued after the meeting, the writers - members of the activist group (hash)DignidadLiteraria - said Macmillan had committed to developing an “action plan’’ within 90 days. Sargent declined to offer details but confirmed there was “an agreed upon effort’’ to address diversity. Imprints dedicated to diverse voices have been around for decades and continue to be formed, among them One World at Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster’s 37 Ink. HarperCollins imprints include Amistad Press, one of the country’s oldest African American publishers; and the Native-focused Heartdrum, scheduled to begin in 2021. Amistad’s editorial director, Tracy Sherrod, says she hopes to publish around 20-24 books this year, double what Amistad was releasing when she joined it eight years ago. Amistad’s books range from Jacqueline Woodson’s novel “Another
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Brooklyn’’ to Jenifer Lewis’ memoir “The Mother of Black Hollywood.’’ “I first came into publishing in the 1980s and at that time it was believed that black people didn’t read. That statement was made to me multiple times, so we’ve come a long way, a long way baby,‘’ she said with a laugh. “We’re growing as an industry, but there will be some growing pains.’’ Since 2016, the trade group the Association of American Publishers has partnered with the United Negro College Fund for a paid internship program that places around 10 students each year. The activist organization WeNeedDiverseBooks works with publishers and agents to recruit interns; the program began with five interns in 2015 and will likely place 15-20 this summer. Out of 44 interns, 39 have since graduated from college and 30 have found full-time work in publishing, according to the organization. Recent interns who spoke to The Associated Press had positive memories and said they learned valuable lessons. “It made me want to continue pursuing a career in publishing,“ said Michaela T. Glover, who interned at Candlewick Press in 2018 and is now an intern at Heineman. Among other things, she said she read a few “tremendous manuscripts’’ and contributed to the illustrator meetings. “I am still seeking to be a part of publishing and striving to have more diverse and inclusive stories and environments,`` she said.
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