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Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, seen here introducing Donald Trump at a 2016 campaign event in Iowa, has cemented his role as the president’s loudest and most combative supporter. Photo: Iowa Public Radio Images via Flickr
A TALE OF TWO RUDYS?
Never before in Central Park’s 161-year-old history has a single capital investment been greater, more transformative – or more urgently needed – than the $150 million now committed to the northern realm of the greensward BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN
The final price tag for the design, engineering and con-
struction of the entire 843 acres of Central Park in the 15year period between 1858 and 1873 was roughly $14 million. Now, the modern-day stewards of the park are about to spend more than 10 times as much over a four-year period to transform an area in the north end that occupies less than 20 acres. Historically neglected and serving a largely minority community – two miles north of the Zoo and Carousel, 1.5 miles north of The Lake and Bethesda Terrace – the less
trafficked, less touristy, less renowned, less pristine northeast corner is set for a $150 million makeover. It desperately needs it: The landscape, ecology and hydrology of the site are gravely damaged. The flow of people and water are obstructed. Viewsheds are blocked. And the passage into one of the park’s most picturesque areas has been partially blockaded for over half a century. The Central Park Conser-
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policy issue. Nor was it much discussed around the water cooler. Not exactly. The sneering But City Hall had just figure at the heart of Trump banned residents from ownWorld bears an uncanny ing them as domestic pets, resemblance to the ex-mayor deeming them feral, unhyand his unbridled furies. With gienic and menacing to chilone exception: No New Yorker dren because of their sharp will ever forget how Giuliani teeth. broke the mold after 9/11. Naturally, this being New York, the ferret-rights community was livid. And one BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN advocate, “David from Queens,” took his umbrage The year was 1999, and the topic was ferrets. It was hardly the utmost public- CONTINUED ON PAGE 20
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Comptroller’s investigation charges that multiple missteps left thousands of children exposed to the toxin. p. 6
WHEN THE METS TAUGHT A LESSON Recalling how the lovable losers rose up in 1969. p. 13
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An overview of the re-envisioned north end of Central Park looking northwest. The rebuilt Lasker pool and skating rink is at bottom left, the Harlem Meer is in the background and new trails, paths and boardwalks weave across the landscape. Renderings: Central Park Conservancy / Susan T. Rodriguez Architecture
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THE SOUND OF A SHOFAR FROM AUSCHWITZ
A shofar that was secretly blown in Auschwitz during Rosh Hashanah 75 years ago and clandestinely passed from one Jewish prisoner to another on a death march out of the concentration camp was revealed last week for the exhibition “Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. On Friday morning, ahead of Rosh Hashanah’s start, that shofar was sounded at Manhattan’s Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun for the 9th grade class of The Ramaz School. Also in attendance were Jack Kliger, the Museum’s President & CEO, and William Bernheim, a Holocaust survivor. “We should continue to remind the world of the injus-
Jack Kliger, President & CEO of the Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, speaks to students of The Ramaz School.
Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz sounds the shofar on loan from the Museum of Jewish Heritage’s exhibition, “Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.” Photos: Museum of Jewish Heritage
tice that must never be forgotten,“ said Bernheim. “There has never been a shofar as exceptional as this,“ said Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz. “This represents remarkable faith - Jews willing to risk their lives just to hear
the shofar. The men who were listening to this shofar [in Auschwitz] wanted future generations to know that they blew this shofar in Auschwitz. You are privileged to hear it today.”
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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG STATS FOR THE WEEK
ATTEMPTED PURSE SNATCH
Reported crimes from the 19th precinct for the week ending Sept 22
A 49-year-old woman was shoved to the ground during an attempted purse snatching at an ATM in front of 1604 Third Ave. at East 90th St., police said. The woman suffered minor lacerations to her hand and bruising to her thigh in the incident, which occurred at 9:25 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 20. The suspect, a woman in her 20s, took off without getting the older woman’s purse. The victim was treated at the scene by EMS but refused further medical attention. Police searched the neighborhood but did not locate the suspect.
A BARK IN THE DARK A hero dog scared off a suspected burglar, who was soon arrested, police said. At 4:50 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, a 52-year-old woman was sleeping in her bedroom on East 90th St. when her dog began to bark. According to police, she woke up and discovered a man standing next to her bed. She screamed, and the suspect fled. He was later discovered by police lying under a lawn chair in the courtyard at the rear of 160 East 91st St near Lexington Ave. The victim identified the suspect, and
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Sebastian Evans was arrested and charged with burglary. Police said that prior to waking the woman the suspect had opened two packages containing boots from Zappos belonging to the victim and put them into a black garbage bag, which he left behind in the staircase of her building when he fled. The victim confirmed the contents of the bag and said that the suspect had taken her boots without permission or authority.
THREE SENIORS, THREE SCAMS Three more seniors on the Upper East Side became scam victims recently. In the first incident, which began on Monday, July 15, an 83-
year-old man living on East 74th St. received an e-mail from an unknown individual saying that he’d won a lottery and would receive a prize in the amount of one million dollars. To claim his winnings, however, the victim needed to pay taxes and fees. Between the time he received the first e-mail and Monday, Aug. 26, the victim transferred a total of $69,400 to an individual in Kenya, according to police. It was only when the victim lost contact with that individual that he realized he’d been scammed. In the second incident, which occurred just after midnight on Thursday, Sept. 19, an 84-year-old woman living on East 80th St. got a phone call from someone claiming to be from Con Ed, telling her that she had overpaid her bill and that they
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would send her a $500 refund. First, though, she was instructed to check her computer, open up a communication they had sent her and enter the amount 500 as prompted. When she entered the amount, the 500 appeared as 5000, so she was instructed to send $4,400 in money orders to an address in Duluth, GA. When she went back to look for the original communication on her computer she couldn’t find it and realized that she had been scammed. In the third incident, a 76-year-old woman from Miami was staying at
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Kurt Pohmer, who opposes the men’s shelter, spoke at the committee meeting. Photo: Jason Cohen
UWS RESIDENTS WANT WOMEN’S SHELTER TO STAY COMMUNITY Meeting reflects anger about a decision to turn building into a men’s residence BY JASON COHEN
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That is the sentiment that more than 60 UWS residents expressed about turning a women’s shelter into a shelter for single men. On Sept. 24, the Health and Human Services Committee of Community Board 7 held a meeting, where residents expressed displeasure, anger and confusion that the DHS is springing this decision on the community without any type of input from them or the women that live in the shelter. A representative from DHS did not attend. The shelter, located at 237 West 107th Street, was once marred by controversy, but is now an integral part of the community, said Committee Chair Sheldon Fine. According to Fine, the recent spike in homeless single men throughout the city has caused the need for this. Fine noted that the current shelter houses 120 women; the men’s shelter would keep the same number of beds. Isaac McGinn, a spokesman for the NYC Dept
I came here to get answers and it’s unfortunate that I don’t even know why I have to move. Shanelle Emanuel, women’s shelter resident
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LEAD REPORT SLAMS CITY AGENCY HOUSING
Comptroller’s investigation charges that multiple missteps left thousands of children exposed to the toxin. BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM
The city failed to conduct lead inspections in private buildings where a government agency knew thousands of children who tested positive for elevated levels of the toxin in their blood were living — leaving others vulnerable to exposure, according to a new investigation. Using city data from 2013 to 2018, Comptroller Scott Stringer released a report last week finding that the Department of Housing Prevention and Development (HPD) did not perform lead inspections in 9,671 buildings that housed 11,972 children who had blood levels above the federal action level. According to Stringer, although the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene had collected data on the location of children with elevated blood levels, that information was never shared with HPD. In turn, by relying only on resident complaints instead of proactively inspecting lead “hotspots,” 63 percent of all buildings under HPD’s jurisdiction with documented cases of child lead exposure went uninspected.
“An Outrage” Of those nearly 12,000 children who tested positive for lead exposure, 2,749 of them tested positive only after other children in the same building had tested positive.
“Any lead poisoning of our children must be treated as a five-alarm fire, but the City isn’t utilizing basic tools at its disposal to extinguish the fires – even in the most problematic buildings it knows about,” Stringer said in a statement. “Nearly 3,000 children tested with elevated blood lead levels after the City was aware of a problem in their buildings. That is an outrage.” Additionally, the report found that 503 buildings under HPD’s jurisdiction were never visited by an HPD lead inspector despite the fact that the buildings housed three or more children with blood levels above the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s action level, which is five micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood (5 mcg/dL.) During the span of time that the report covers, the city used a lower standard than the federal benchmark and did not explicitly require a lead inspection unless a child registered a higher blood lead level of 15 mcg/dL.
Lax on Landlords In July 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s health department tightened the city’s benchmark to match that of the CDC’s standard for private apartments amid a scandal over lead paint found in NYCHA housing. In January, the administration introduced the Lead Free NYC initiative that aims to eliminate childhood lead exposure in part by screening every apartment for the toxin. Stringer noted in his report that the city had not been sufficiently holding landlords accountable for their conduct. During this five-year
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a goal to eliminate childhood lead poisoning once and for all – and for the health and safety of every single child – we must recommit to fulfilling that promise.”
The City needs to fully commit to rooting out lead exposure because half measures and haphazard strategies are failing. Comptroller Scott Stringer period, HPD did not issue a single violation for landlords’ failures to makes required annual inspections or when they failed to comply with lead-based paint hazard control requirements during turnover between tenants. “The City needs to fully commit to rooting out lead exposure because half measures and haphazard strategies are failing,” said Stringer. “Fifteen years ago New York City set
The Mayor’s Defense Jane Meyer, a spokesperson for de Blasio, said the city has driven down the number of children exposed to lead by 90 percent since 2005, and that the administration is already doing the work required to remediate the failures pointed out in Stringer’s investigation. “We identified all the areas the Comptroller mentions nearly a year ago as part of Lead Free NYC and have been inspecting the apartments and engaging any family with a child with elevated levels,” Meyer said. “We already closed these gaps and are doing more than ever to keep kids safe.”
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Vote early, not often - 2019 is the first year
that New York will have early voting - from October 26th to November 3rd, registered voters can cast their ballots before the designated election day. Manhattan will have seven poll sites for early voting. Voters will be assigned to early voting poll sites based on their addresses. The location will be different from their usual poll site. Voters can only vote at these assigned early voting poll sites during early voting. On election day, November 5th, voters must go to their assigned poll site. Presumably, the Board of Elections will provide advance notice of the early poll sites and give notice of the assigned election day poll site. In the usual course of civic life, some Stuyesant Town residents learned from the Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Tenants Assocation that their election day polling sites had changed to a location outside of Stuy Town, at East 14th Street, as reported in Town & Village. The change effects voters from as far away as East 20th Street. Early voting may be an option for them and others at one of the early voting sites, such as Borough of Manhattan Community College, Columbia University, George Washington High School, Jackie Robinson High School, Park Avenue Armory, and several other sites. During the early voting period, voting times at all locations are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday and Friday. Stuy Town’s Council Member Keith Powers has been working with the Board of Elections to find spaces in Stuy Town to be used as polling sites, which must be ADA compliant. Voting is a duty. Shouldn’t be an option. Early voting gives us more time to get to a polling site. It’s a must-do. Do it.
Crying over spilt wine - It didn’t have to be
Happy Hour at the bar for a glass of red wine. Just some sips before the woman went to her next event. Sitting at Sumela Mediterranean Bar and Grill, on First Avenue in the 80’s at four in the afternoon seemed a
good choice. Maybe not. The manager, who was running between the kitchen to the bar to a car parked in front of the restaurant, managed to pour the wine on his way out the door to talk to the man in the car. He didn’t place a coaster or little something beneath the wine glass to stop any sliding on the metal counter top. The woman, after a sip or two, put down the glass; it slid and the wine spilled onto the counter. No wait staff to clean up. And the manager was otherwise engaged in the car outside, car door open. When a server arrived, she came behind the bar and wiped away the wine. No replacement offered for the spilt wine so the woman ordered another. When the check came, there was a charge for two wines. Something to whine about.
The blame game - Everybody and everything
gets blamed for the rise in empty storefronts. It’s de rigeur to bemoan the loss of moms and pops, the influx of big box and chain stores, the internet and online shopping for upending retail businesses. The list goes on. But at the end of the day, the rent’s too damn high and not affordable for small and not-so-small businesses. Yes, online shopping’s a cause. Big boxes and chain stores add to the problem, but they aren’t the cause. They can pay the rent. So let’s lay the blame at the feet of the landlords who hold out for the highest paying renters. And at the feet of the builders who can’t build high enough except for the highest bidder. Costs are high, for sure. So don’t build so high. Don’t build to graze the stratosphere with miles and miles of skyhigh footage. Let there be light. And let there be retail at the street level - commercial businesses that serve the community besides, or in addition to, Equinoxes, Lululemons, Soul Cycles, Duane Reades, Morton Williamses. I’m wondering if it’s true that that some seemingly “local” neighborhood restaurants and bars are actually a part of a chain. It wouldn’t surprise. Nor would it surprise if their conglomerate offices were located around the corner in one of the sky-high towers, or maybe someplace in Hong Kong or wherever. Just not the small business types we had in mind.
New Yorkers do not wait in vain outside Levain Bakery on the Upper West Side. Photo: Alexis Gelber
WHAT WOULD YOU WAIT IN LINE FOR? PUBLIC EYE BY JON FRIEDMAN
Julianne Mosher is a sensible, 27-year-old freelance writer who found herself waiting in line outside of Rolf’s during last year’s Christmas season. Rolf’s, a German restaurant and Manhattan fixture on Third Avenue and East 22nd Street, packs them in during the November and December festivities, even more than at other times during the year. Mosher said she and a friend waited in line “in the cold, for about 45 minutes,“ and noted, “people behind us were saying that they once waited an hour and a half to get in.” How did the experience leave her? “Was it worth it?” she asked rhetorically in an email message. “It was pretty, but once we got inside, it was packed to capacity. The one saving grace: “I got to see the decorations.”
So Many Great Places to Wait Residents of New York and visitors will put up with a lot to have a uniquely Manhattan experience. Just check out the long line outside of Ess-a-Bagel in the East 50s on a weekend morning. Or the faithful pilgrims who wait and wait and wait for a table at Sarabeth’s on Madison Avenue and East 92nd Street or Bubby’s in TriBeCa or the Clinton St. Baking Company on the Lower East Side. Or, God knows, the zealots who flock to Times Square on New Year’s Eve to say they
were there when the ball dropped (I admit that I did this, too, when I was 22 - and then promptly vowed that I would never venture within a mile of that awful place on any December 31. Once bitten, twice shy!)
Why do we do it? Yes, the pancakes are superb at Clinton, and there are fewer classically Manhattan brunch rituals than paying high prices to chow down at Sarabeth’s (uptown) and Bubby’s (downtown). But that can’t be the only reason. I have a theory. New Yorkers will wait in line for a long time just to say they did it. We are a hearty bunch here. We will put up with a lot of - well, stuff - just to have the satisfaction of saying that we did it. We feel somehow and and somewhat superior to the slackers who will slink off to an altogether acceptable diner for brunch. We thumb our noses at the be-happy idiots who don’t have our sense of commitment. We like the feeling of accomplishment that conquering this travail gives us. It doesn’t take much, really, for us to feel like we have beaten The System. How great does it feel to charge through a subway turnstile and see the train approaching at that very instant? How fab does it feel when you and the bus arrive at a stop at the exact same time? So, what’s a half-hour - or even more - out of our lives to wait for an order of those pancakes? And where did you go for brunch last Sunday?
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A FAMILY SEARCH AND DESTROY MISSION VIEWPOINT
BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL
“Micro-living” in NYC According to Platinum Properties, living in New York City means downsizing, with the typical apartment built since 2000 averaging 866 square feet. However, in 2016 the city council approved the Zoning
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Here’s your little league hat, what’s your hurry? When my 24-year-old son Luke returned recently to NYC for a visit, I welcomed him with open arms and the directive, “For the last time, clean your room.” I meant it literally. In early May of 2018, Luke graduated from his Bostonbased university and by July was living and working in Northern California. In the two months in between, Luke had paperwork and other things to do for his new company, plus relatives and Manhattan friends to say goodbye to, and packing to do. We even threw in a family vacay to Montauk. There was little time though for my request of a thorough clean sweep of his onetime boy cave. Keeping it as some kind of shrine seemed to suit my husband Neil just fine. “Luke has to know he always has a place to come home to.” Excuse me? Were we moving without leaving a forwarding address? All I had suggested was repurposing his corner of our world as a guest/storage room, which Luke was welcome to when he was in town. Am I the only one who understands the value of Manhattan real estate? Not just the prices (a studio can fetch $2000 a month, more in a doorman building), but having space itself.
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After the clean sweep of the onetime boy cave. Photo: Lorraine Duffy Merkl
for Quality and Affordability proposal which allowed development of units to be as small as 360 square feet. So, it’s reasonable to assume that many people here enjoy what’s called “micro-living.” Something I remember well. As a young, single woman living in Tutor City, which Neil used to refer to as Tutor Closet because it was, dare I say, tiny, I would be envious of peers with one-bedrooms, until I found out the apartment was shared by three people. Then of course, there’s the microscopic kitchens, where if you stand in the center you can touch all your appliances. I know someone whose bathroom doubles as a pantry. Considering that if you really want spacious living in NYC, it’ll cost you (Corcoran has a little number on East 83rd Street for 80K a month), can you blame me for wanting to reclaim a piece of my own home? When Luke arrived, I insisted he give me at least a day to search and destroy. It took us three. I paraphrased a 12-Step Program idiom: “Take what you like and leave the rest—to be thrown out.” Anything with true sentimental value that there was no room for in his current residence I would gladly keep in the back of his closet. Very few things made the cut.
No Regrets As we tossed possessions into Hefty bags, Luke and I enjoyed a number of conversations that began, “Remember the time…,” yet had no regrets or nostalgia about the item that started the story: a baseball from his sixth-grade Yorkville winning game, random Yugio cards, or a basketball trophy from ... what year? Don’t get me started on books, games with missing pieces, and general “stuff.” I knew going in that I myself would have no qualms about what was now deemed garbage. A new color and coat of paint would not erase my recollection of every incarnation of his childhood room, and because I was there at every game, event and concert, I needed no yellowed program or statuette or team jersey to remind me. I’m grateful that I was able to afford Luke his own area of the apartment in which he could express himself with mementos that meant something to him at the time. I have even more gratitude though because he has moved on successfully in his life, ready to have new experiences and make what I hope will be happy memories—and if those include souvenirs, they will be in his own house, not mine. Lorraine Duffy Merkl is the author of the mom-centric novel “Back To Work She Goes.”
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Oct 6 HERMAN MELVILLE: SAILING TOWARDS MY FATHER / WALT WHITMAN: UNLAUNCH’D VOICES New York Society Library 53 East 79th St 3:00 and 6:00 p.m. $20 nysoclib.org 212-288-6900 In two extraordinary solo shows, Walt Whitman and Herman Melville visit the Library in the person of actor and educator Stephen J. Collins. Registration for each performance is separate; audiences may attend one or the other or both.
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FRIDAY, OCTBER 4TH, 6:30PM Morgan Library+Museum | 225 Madison Ave. | 212-685-0008 | themorgan.org To celebrate the opening of John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal, Richard Ormond, curator of the exhibition and author of the artist’s catalogue raisonné, presents a new overview of Sargent’s draftsmanship, which manifested during a later-life shift from oil to charcoal ($20).
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12TH, 12PM Pioneer Works | 159 Pioneer St./Red Hook | 718-596-3001 | pioneerworks.org Join evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins as he presents Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism, which shares his passion for the ways the natural world arose (free, RSVP required).
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92Y 1395 Lexington Ave 7:30 p.m. $45 An all-star cast of Billy Crudup, Zachary Levi and Tony Shalhoub present a dramatic reading of Don DeLillo’s classic baseball novella “Pafko at the Wall”— a transcendent account of one of the iconic events of the twentieth century and a masterpiece of American sportswriting. 92y.org (212) 415-5500
The Frick Collection 1 East 70th St 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. Free The first-ever exhibition on the Florentine sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni, a renowned student of Donatello and a teacher of Michelangelo, which includes nearly his entire surviving oeuvre. Admission is free on the first Friday of the month.nypl.org 212-288-5049
Stanley Isaacs Playground First Ave between East 95th and 96th Sts 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Free Join NYC Parks and Council Member Ben Kallos for a fun skate night at the park. Dance and enjoy an outdoor roller skating night with a live DJ, jumbo games and much more. A family skate session takes place between 4:00 and 5:00 p.m. nycgovparks.org 212-408-0243
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BROADWAY’S FINE-FEATHERED FRIENDS Avian sculptures dotting the avenue’s malls draw attention to climate change and imperiled bird species
What: “Nicolas Holiber: Birds on Broadway, the Audubon Sculpture Project” Where: From 64th Street to 157th Street on Broadway When: Through January 2020. https://birdsonbroadway.com/
BY VAL CASTRONOVO
Call it a show for the birds — an open-air exhibition on the Broadway Malls that raises awareness of avian species threatened or endangered by global warming, according to the 2014 National Audubon Society study, “Birds and Climate Change Report.” On view through January 2020, “Nicolas Holiber: Birds on Broadway, the Audubon Sculpture Project” is a sequel to the ongoing Audubon Mural Project in Harlem and Washington Heights. The giant sculptures, inspired by the illustrations of renowned ornithologist John James Audubon (1785-1851), first popped up on the Broadway greenways in May. They assumed even more relevance in the last month when scientists published a study concluding that the number of birds in the U.S. and Canada had dropped by nearly 30 percent since 1970. According to the Audubon Society’s reckoning, more than half of all North American bird species are “likely to be in trouble,” the result of shifting and contracting habitat zones from a warming climate. Of the 145 at risk species that reside in or transit through New York City, Brooklyn-based artist Nicolas Holiber singled out 10 to spread their wings on the legendary boulevard, from Dante Park at 64th Street to 157th Street in Washington Heights, adjacent to Audubon Terrace. Holiber, 34, told us in an email that the works were constructed in two ware-
64th Street Red-Necked Grebe (only on view through November 2019). Photos: Val Castronovo
houses over the course of about a year — one in Flatbush, Brooklyn, the other in Long Island City, Queens. He had one assistant, Bishop McIndoe, who helped him several days a week.
“Alarming Message” In a bow to the environment, each piece is made entirely of reclaimed lumber. “The only other materials are paint and the hardware keeping each piece of wood together. The reclaimed wood is significant because it meant that I did not have to use newly harvested lumber, and I was able to keep things out of the trash cycle,” Holiber said. “It also provides a unique connection to the exhibition’s alarming message about climate change. The reclaimed lumber, although painted, is not weatherproofed. The sculptures are left untreated to allow for the city’s natural forces to affect them, highlighting the environmental challenges faced by each species in the wild.” Sites along Broadway were carefully evaluated prior to
construction. “I chose these specific locations because I thought the placement would take New Yorkers by surprise and remind them that the urban environment is a natural environment.” The Red-Necked Grebe, with three adorable chicks on its back, is situated across from Lincoln Center at 64th Street, followed in a neat northerly line by: the Peregrine Falcon at 72nd; the American Bittern at 79th; five Scarlet Tanagers at 86th; the Brant at 96th; the Double-Crested Cormorant at 105th; the Common Goldeneye at 117th; the Hooded Merganser at 139th; the Snowy Owl at 148th; and, in a splashy finale, the vividly colored Wood Duck at 157th.
A Kickstarter Campaign As with any public art installation, especially one of this magnitude, it takes a village to pull it off — in this case, the artist, gallerist Avi Gitler, the Broadway Mall Association, the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation and New York City Audubon, the project’s fiscal sponsor.
Corporate backing and donations from individuals through a Kickstarter campaign were crucial to making it happen. The Broadway Mall Association is tasked with both maintaining the plantings along this five-mile-long “linear park” — in partnership with NYC Parks, which owns the land — and mounting contemporary art exhibitions, something it has been doing nearly every year since 2005. Artists whose works have seeded the parkland include Tom Otterness, Joy Brown, Saint Clair Cemin, Dan Colen, Carole Eisner, Don Gummer, Kathy Ruttenberg, Manolo Valdés and Peter Woytuk. Said Deborah Foord, Chair of the Broadway Mall Association’s Public Art Committee: “The Broadway Malls offer environmental advantages for the West Side and the city, providing green space and bird habitat. People like the birds. Feedback indicates that the public appreciates having art on the malls, and this exhibition in particular makes them think about climate change and the many ways in which we and others green New York City.” Holiber, who has an MFA from the New York Academy of Art, is not new to the public art realm. His large-scale “Head of Goliath” debuted in
72nd Street Peregrine Falcon Map : Broadway Mall Association and Nicolas Holiber
Tribeca Park in 2015 and was on display for six months. About his latest foray, he said, “Since I was young, I have been in awe of predatory birds. I’m always on the lookout for something flying around in the sky or perching in a tree.” What’s next for birdman? “I would be thrilled to continue
working on public art projects that are environmental in nature. At the moment, I’m building a new body of paintings and sculptures to be exhibited in 2020 … People have been visiting the sculptures non-stop since they were installed in May and show a real concern for the project’s environmental message.”
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WHEN THE MIRACLE METS TAUGHT A LESSON SPORTS
Remembering how the city’s lovable losers rose up in 1969 BY BEN KRULL
“Do the Mets have a chance?” I anxiously asked Mom. “I don’t think so,” she answered, deflating my hopes. It was late August 1969 and the team was six games behind the Chicago Cubs. That fall I started fifth grade at Bentley, an Upper East Side private school school, where learning disabilities landed me in the dumb class. It was officially Mr. Reynold’s class, but we all understood the track system. It was the first year that tests were part of the curriculum, and I failed the initial history exam. From then on I frequently suffered stomach aches. I escaped the pressure during recess, when we played softball in Central Park against the smart class. I often struck out, but once I powered a homer over the park benches that ringed our makeshift outfield. Much like the pre-1969 Mets — who had never finished higher than ninth place — we went winless. While we continued losing, our Major League counterparts went on a long hot streak. Dad had no interest in sports, but Mom appreciated baseball from attending games during childhood. Watching the Mets became a nightly ritual for us. “It’s a grounder to short. This could be it. One, two, the game is over and the Mets are the champs!” I remember the announcer saying, as the Mets clinched their division with a game-ending double play. Mom wrapped an arm around my shoulder to pull me close, as I cheered wildly. “Can the Mets win it all?” I breathlessly asked. “Anything is possible,” she said. In Mr. Reynold’s class we
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saw our softball games and the drama unfolding in Queens as a single phenomenon — a test of the universe’s sympathy for the underdog. We challenged the smart class to a best-of-three softball playoff. Our teachers promised to buy the winners banana splits, so we called our series the Banana Split League. The Mets won the National League playoff, putting them in the World Series. They would play the heavily favored Baltimore Orioles. The Mets lost Game One, making me doubt that they could complete their David versus Goliath scenario. “It’s not over yet,” Mom said, when I admitted my despair. My classmates and I also started poorly, losing the Banana Split League opener. We remained upbeat. “If the Mets can do it, so can we,” we said before Game Two. Our leadoff hitter smacked a home run on the first pitch, as
we won in a rout. We hugged each other after the game, just like the Mets did after winning the pennant.
The World Series was mostly played during school hours. Incredibly, our teachers brought a television into
the classroom for the games. In Game Three, centerfielder Tom Agee made two remarkable catches, saving the game for the Mets. During the first catch the ball stuck out over the top of his glove’s webbing — snow-cone-style — but Agee held on, causing our classroom to explode into cheers. Game Three of the Banana Split League seemed anti-climactic, after our dramatic win the game before. We were flat for the contest and lost big. Our opponents hugged each other after the final out, just as we had done earlier. The Mets, meanwhile, were within a victory of the championship, giving the universe a chance to redeem itself. When school let out near the end of Game Five the Mets led by two runs. I rushed home where Mom was watching the game with Mr. Scott, our building superintendent, who was fixing a leak. We watched the final outs. “I put money on Baltimore, but I don’t mind seeing the Mets win,” Mr. Scott said, with a sad smile. “It’s good for the city,” Mom said, as the Mets embraced
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SEPTEMBER 18-24, 2019 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 of our neighborhoods. Some reports list numbers with their explanations; these are the number of violation points a restaurant has received. To see more information on restaurant grades, visit www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/services/restaurant-inspection.shtml.
Not Yet Graded(50) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Hot food item that has been cooked and refrigerated is being held for service without first being reheated to 1 65º F or above within 2 hours. Food from unapproved or unknown source or home canned. Reduced oxygen packaged (ROP) fish not frozen before processing; or ROP foods prepared on premises transported to another site. Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including inuse food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
Hui Restaurant and Bar
314 E 70th St
A Love Cafe
283 Pleasant Ave A
Union Club Of City Of New York
101 East 69 Street
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Steak And Hoagies
1657 Madison Ave A
NYC Squeeze
956 Lexington Ave
Not Yet Graded(30) Toilet facility not provided for employees or for patrons when required.
Side Park Cafe
1230 5th Ave
Ralph’s Coffee
888 Madison Ave
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Subway
1613 2nd Ave
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Carlow East
1254 Lexington Avenue
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Churutto Ramen & Poke
1534 3rd Ave
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Grade Pending(44) Food Protection Certificate not held by supervisor of food operations. Evidence of mice or live mice 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. 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. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
62 E 116th St
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Cafe Sabarsky
1048 5 Avenue
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Cross Culture Kitchen
Brandy’s Piano Bar
235 East 84 Street
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Il Gnocchi Restaurant
118 East 116 Street
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Cafe Jax
318 E 84th St
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2155 2nd Ave
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Taco Today
1659 1st Ave
Grade Pending(37) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment. Evidence of mice or live mice 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.
Brothers Bakery Cafe
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Juliano’s Espresso Bar
1378 Lexington Avenue
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UWS SHELTER CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 Caught Off Guard The consensus at the meeting was, why take these women out of the shelter and put in single men, who are often associated with crime. Shanelle Emanuel is one of the 120 women who live in the shelter. She said she and the other women were caught off guard about the news. She explained they were not given notice or an explanation, so she hoped by attending the meeting she could get answers or hear from DHS. She got neither. Emanuel explained when she got first got to the shelter she was nervous and afraid, but today she is focused, working and in school. She credits the shelter with helping her. “To just relocate somebody is like you already have a sense of I’m homeless,” she said. “Then you just take that away when you finally feel at home. I came here to get answers and it’s unfortunate that I don’t even know why I have to move.”
“We Are Ready for a Fight” Kurt Pohmer a member of the West 107th Street Block Association, was among the many who do not want the shelter to change. Pohmer was on the community action board that helped establish the current shelter. “I’ve been involved in helping the less fortunate for more than 30 years,” he said. “The relationship with the shelter has been good for
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HOW TO BUILD YOUR NEST EGG SENIOR LIVING
A financial advisor’s tips about investing for retirement BY SUZANNE M. AKIAN
If you have less than $1,000 saved for your retirement, you aren’t alone. According to the Employee Benefits Research Institute, 37 percent of employees age 35 - 44 and 34 percent of employees age 45 - 54 have less than $1,000 saved for retirement. If you’re in this category, all is not lost. You can build a decent nest egg, but you need to take certain steps. Here are some tips to consider when investing at age 40 or older: ■ If your employer offers a 401(k) plan, you should consider investing Photo: MIchael J. London at least enough to get the maximum matching contribution. This year, status, an individual can invest up to the IRS allows individuals to put up $6,000 this year. The benefit of havto $19,000 into a 401(k). That’s up ing a Roth IRA is that withdrawals upon retirement are not taxed. from $18,500 from 2018. ■ Still have discretionary income to ■ Be mindful of risk. You may get invest for retirement or don’t have a higher returns with greater risk but 401(k) plan from your employer? greater risk can also mean potenYou may be able to open a Roth Indi- tially greater losses. Make sure your vidual Retirement Account (IRA). risks are aligned with your emoDepending upon income and filing tional tolerance for risk and with your age. Typically, the closer you
get to retirement, the lower the risk you may want to assume. ■ A very simple tactic to boost the retirement fund is to save more and spend less. Easier said than done, of course, but it is possible. Spending less can be a huge boon to your retirement account. Taking a good hard look at your budget, and seeing where you can cut back, can be beneficial.
■ It may help to eliminate debt, and use it only for big purchases, like a house. If there’s something you desperately want, save up for it, and don’t max out the credit cards. To get rid of debt, start with the highest interest items first, and use any extra money to pay off the debt. ■ Consider freezing your credit or cutting up your cards. If you take a hard look at your credit card bal-
ances, you’ll realize that if you’re just paying the minimum amount each month, it’s extremely difficult to promptly pay off even a small balance. Another tip to make faster progress is to make a big payment on one account each month until it’s paid off. ■ You can also ask your creditor for a lower interest rate. If you have a good credit history, you have a better chance at negotiating lower rates. ■ Many people try to take money from their retirement funds to pay off debt. Generally, this is a bad idea because you may face early withdrawal penalties and additional tax liability. This also defeats the purpose of securing a prosperous nest egg. ■ One final tip is to refrain from looking at your portfolio every day. If you check it too frequently, you may start making too many emotional decisions that won’t bear fruit. Suzanne M. Akian, CFP ® is a Financial Advisor with the Global Wealth Management Division of Morgan Stanley in New York, NY. She can be reached at 212-613-6773 or at http://fa.morganstanleyindividual.com/akianzalanskas/.
MINORITY WOMEN BUSINESS CREATION JUMPS ENTREPRENEURS
A new report shows that women of color own half of all women-owned businesses BY JOYCE M. ROSENBERG, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Minority women are starting firms at a pace more than double that of woman business owners overall, and nearly five times the pace of all company owners.
That’s one of the findings of a report on women-owned businesses released Monday by American Express. The report found that the number of companies owned by women of color grew nearly 43% from 2014 to this year. The number of new businesses owned by women in general grew by 21.3%, while companies overall grew 9%. Minority women own half of all women-owned businesses, AmEx found. Their annual growth rate between 2014 and 2019 was nearly
double that of women-owned businesses overall - 7.4% compared to 3.9%. AmEx put its report together after analyzing government data including Census Bureau statistics on business ownership. It also analyzed national and local economic data to reach its conclusions. The growth rate for women-owned businesses overall is even more dramatic when looked at from a 1972 vantage point. That year, 4.6% of companies were owned by women. In 2019, women owned 42% of com-
panies, or nearly 13 million businesses. Employment at all companies owned by women overall rose 8% from 2014 to 2019, compared to 1.8% at all businesses. Their revenue growth rate was virtually the same as all companies, 21% versus 20%. However, revenue grew at a faster rate at companies owned by minority women: Their revenue rose at a 6.7% annual rate versus 3.8%. Half the women-owned businesses were concentrated in three industries, AmEx found. The number of
service providers like hair and nail salons and pet care businesses owned by women rose by nearly 30% between 2014 and 2019. Companies that provide services like home health care and child care increased by 14%. And woman-owned companies that offer professional, scientific or technical services, such as lawyers, bookkeepers, public relations firms and consultants also grew by 14%.
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A bird’s-eye view of the reimagined north end of Central Park, looking south, with the Harlem Meer in the foreground, a boardwalk that traverses a freshwater marsh and a series of small islands (center left) and the new oval-shaped Lasker pool and skating rink (center right).
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vancy, which is contributing $100 million to the project, and the city’s Parks Dept., which allocated $50 million – a nest egg that includes a $40 million maintenance and capital-repair fund – unveiled preliminary blueprints aimed at fixing those flaws on Sept. 18. Plans call for an ambitious re-envisioning of a square-shaped site that’s bounded by Fifth Avenue to the east, Central Park North on the north and an area that would be equivalent to 105th Street on the south and Malcolm X Boulevard to the west. The bottom line: More emerald, and less concrete, is on the way.
The Berlin Wall of Central Park Central to the project is the demolition of the Lindsay-era Lasker Pool and Skating Rink, a 1966 relic that’s suffered from systemic problems from the day it was built. The complex’s infrastructure is aging, rusting and floodprone, but that’s only part of the problem.
As an urban designer, I can’t wait to see this transformation! Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver Lasker sits atop, and rests within, a massive, fortress-like concrete box. A looming, unsightly presence, it essentially stands as a physical barricade between the Harlem Meer, an 11-acre, horseshoe-shaped, manmade lake to the north, and the Ravine, a woodland designed to resemble the forest canopies of the Adirondacks to the south. By razing Lasker, park planners say, they will remove this blockage, and in doing so, seamlessly reintegrate the scenic landscape. Longlost view corridors and pedestrian connections will be restored, and direct access to the semiwilderness of the Ravine will no longer be walled off.
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A summertime view of the boardwalk that will run along the edge of the Harlem Meer in Central Park by 2024, when a $150 million re-imagining of the north end of the park is expected to be completed.
At the same time, a buried watercourse will once again see the light of day. Right now, the stream that runs north through the Ravine vanishes into a culvert beneath the existing recreational structure. Soon, it will flow overland into the Meer, and the rushing sound of water will drown out the noise of the city. Meanwhile, a new eco-friendly, oval-shaped pool-and-rink complex will replace the old Lasker, but it will be shifted to the site’s eastern portion instead of straddling the middle. Built into a gentle slope in the topography, it will be enveloped within a landscaped berm and provide a showcase for panoramic views of the majestic oak, beech, gingko and bald cypress trees that surround it.
Improving on Mother Nature The facility will sport a green roof crisscrossed with paths, overlooks, amenities, public spaces and lush vegetation – all built in the spirit of park designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, who created a skein of seemingly naturalistic settings that were all manmade. “The design achieves one of the highest goals of the Conservancy,” said Elizabeth W. Smith, the president of the public-private partnership that manages the crown jewel and raises cash for its improvement on behalf of the city. “It connects recreational activities with the restorative and uplifting experience that is the essence of Central Park,” she added. The Conservancy, which is overseeing design and construction, and the Parks Dept., which is developing a plan to minimize disruption during a projected three-year build-out, anticipate groundbreaking in the spring of 2021 and completion at an unspecified time in 2024. “The design fully meets Central Park’s unsurpassed standards for public engagement and urban beauty,” said Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver. “As an urban designer, I can’t wait to see this transformation!” Created by the Conservancy’s design office and an outside architectural team headed by Susan T. Rodriguez, the plan’s highlights include the following:· ■ A new curvilinear boardwalk will traverse a series of small islands and a freshwater
marsh at the point where the restored watercourse from the Ravine flows into the Meer. ■ The wooden planking expands access for fishing, birding and canoeing seasonally, then converts in the winter months into a “skating ribbon” that resembles an old 19th-century Currier and Ives lithograph. ■ Meandering pedestrian paths will stitch the severed landscape back together, passing under the architecturally distinctive Huddlestone Arch, providing new vantage points for wildlife observation and following the waterbed to further connect the Meer with the Ravine. ■ Lasker’s new green roof will be outfitted with an exterior overlook that commands sweeping views of the park and pool below, essentially adding new park space at the structure’s crown while concealing the mechanical spaces that support the operations of the rebuilt complex. ■ A light-filled public gathering space will grace the deck of the pool, and if it gets too hot in summertime, the large floor-to-ceiling glass doors and slender wooden columns that border it can be opened up to create a shaded area resembling a vast covered porch. ■ Locally quarried stone, washed by sunlight from an overhead skylight, will be fashioned into a curving wall used to cordon off such amenities as changing and locker rooms, public restrooms, recreational rentals, snack bars and other concessions. ■ Accessibility is a cornerstone, and to expand the range of water-play experiences for children, a splash pad will be built at the southern side of the deck encircling the pool. When summer season ends, the pool will be transformed into a state-of-the-art, ice-skating rink. The project “builds upon the area’s unique topography and historical underpinnings,” Rodriguez said. “It will transform the site, reopening it to the rest of the park to create a new recreational experience that is integrated into the magnificent landscape – and accessible to the public throughout the year,” she added. invreporter@strausnews.com
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ACONTINUED TALE OF FROM TWO PAGE RUDYS 1 straight to the weekly radio call-in show of the man who signed the bill. Rudolph W. Giuliani’s explosion was unforgettable, an oddly defining, four-minute diatribe that 20 years later still provides insight into his fire-breathing style, bulldog character and slightly twisted sense of humor: “There is something quite deranged about you!” the mayor said. “This excessive concern for little weasels is a sickness. You should go consult a psychologist or psychiatrist …You’re devoting your life to weasels! You need somebody to help you! Something has gone wrong with you.” I had a front-row seat to this spectacle because I was the Daily News City Hall Bureau Chief from 1997 through 1999, and even at that time, the same incredulous questions were raised that have been amplified with such urgency today: Has something gone wrong with Rudy? Has he become perhaps a little bit unhinged? And like the poor ferret enthusiast, does he need to see a shrink himself? Back then, we were not the “enemies of the people” who deployed the big lie and the naked hoax to perpetrate “fake news.” But the reporters in Room 9, the City Hall press room, if considered to be “off-agenda,” would still suffer his lash, and I recall feeling humbled and stung when he mocked a question I asked, I don’t even remember what it was, as “completely idiotic” and “quite embarrassing, frankly, to both you and the Daily News.” Colleagues were similarly eviscerated, intimidated, and if the intent was to make us reframe or modulate a future question, well, guess what? It worked. The bullying, ill temper and fist-clenching were not pleasant to behold. But let’s give credit where due. They enabled Giuliani to bend the city to his will, in turn fueling his unquestioned success in clamping down on crime, porn shops, squeegee pests, scofflaws, public urination, subway graffiti, fare-beating, aggressive panhandling and open-air drug dealing, to name a few. Thus, this urban scold and scourge of the liberal elite was able to usher in a booming, feelgood, low-crime, high-employment city.
Shut up, moron! Shut up, shut up! You don’t know what you’re talking about. You have no idea what you’re talking about, idiot! Rudy Giuliani, to a Democratic critic on Fox News on Sept. 24 Ninth Symphony Interruptus He was a most uncivil mayor: “RUDY’S ONE RUDE DUDE,” splashed the Page 1 headline in The News in 1995 after aides bounced thenPLO Chairman Yasir Arafat out of Lincoln Center during a Beethoven concert marking the 50th anniversary of the United Nations. Yet in his own way, he was also seeking to restore civility. In fact, a deputy mayor in 1998 leaked me details of a planned quality-of-life crackdown, dubbed the “Civility Patrol,” and I still cringe when I read my account of his scheme to get tough on the “impolite, the uncivil, the rude, the crude, the profane, even the inconsiderate.” Needless to say, it didn’t work. New Yorkers, after all, like their 107th mayor, feel we have an historic and inalienable right to be churlish. Flash forward two decades. A consensus has emerged that “America’s Mayor” has become one of America’s rudest and crudest, an archetype of the uncivil and the foulmouthed as he takes on the “deep state,” the “crooked press corps” and even right-wing bugaboo George Soros. Now Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, roving ambassador to TV land and the architect of his Ukrainian entanglement, Giuliani’s trash-talking in recent days has become positively brobdingnagian.
The Idiot, the Moron and the Hero In one instance, he told CNN host Chris Cuomo he was a “sellout, totally blinded by prejudice” and “very bad for America.” As for a Democratic adversary on a Fox News show, Giuliani bellowed, “Shut up, moron! Shut up, shut up! You don’t know what you’re talking about. You have no idea what you’re talking about, idiot!” Meanwhile, shouting into the phone, he de-
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clared to a reporter for The Atlantic, “It is impossible that the whistle-blower is a hero and I am not. And I will be the hero! These morons – when this is over, I will be the hero.” So add it all up, and the questions boil down to this: Has he devolved into a pugilistic parody of self? And how much has he really changed? There is a huge commonality between Rudy the mayor and Rudy the Trump World intimate – right down to the spectacular dissolution of two of his marriages in the public glare. In 2000, as he battled prostate cancer and mulled abandoning his U.S. Senate bid against Hilary Clinton, he announced in Bryant Park that he was seeking a separation from Donna Hanover, wife No. 2. The only problem: He hadn’t bothered to tell this to Hanover yet. Then in 2018, his marriage to Judith Nathan, wife No. 3, for whom he left Hanover, also imploded. She alleged he was having an affair and buying expensive cigars and fountain pens with marital assets. Expect operatics at a January trial where Nathan is expected to elaborate on a cryptic remark, “For a variety of reasons I know as a spouse and a nurse, he has become a different man.”
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As for the hyper-nastiness that Giuliani has patented in the Trump era, that, too, is hardly new. In 1999, ex-Mayor Ed Koch, one of his predecessors, penned a book, “Giuliani: Nasty Man,”
in which he attacked his “mean-spiritedness,” accused him of “trying to disembowel people,” and said he “might have picked the wings off a fly as a child.” Koch’s conclusion: “I see this as almost a Greek tragedy … His nastiness is causing his self-destruction.” So what has changed the most may simply lie in the order of magnitude. Rudy was always brash, vitriolic, riled up and a little bit off the rails. But the level of hysteria, venomousness, even the semi-crazed registering of disgust and emotionality, may have gone over the top. And today’s Rudy remains light years away from Time Magazine’s 2001 Man of the Year, the Rudy it called “America’s Mayor,” the inspiring leader who guided the city in the aftermath of 9/11, boosting its spirit and healing its wounds and making it believe in itself all over again. That was the ennobling Rudy, the mayor who broke the mold, who ached with us, who told us the causalities “will be more than any of us can bear,” who fostered unity in a divisive city, who even turned down a $10 million check from a Saudi prince. And that is the Rudy – “Winston Churchill in a Yankees cap,” the Washington Post called him – who appears lost to us forever. invreporter@strausnews.com
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1 BRS FROM $3,495 • 2 BRS FROM $4,995 • 3 BRS FROM $6,595 • NO FEE RENTAL RESIDENCES UPTOWN 212-535-0500
DOWNTOWN 212-430-5900
OPEN 7 DAYS, 10AM-6PM Live the Glenwood lifestyle in these fine neighborhoods: TriBeCa · FiDi · Battery Park North · Fashion District · Lincoln Square · Murray Hill · Midtown East · Upper East Side
All the units include features for, and Glenwood provides reasonable accommodations to persons with disabilities, as required by FHA.
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