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When postal delivery grinded to a halt during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, many customers with empty mailboxes were quick to forgive, since the virus was keeping many workers home. Still, it was tough to manage. Post offices closed at odd hours, and for those waiting at home or at their business, mail arrived days late, if at all. When post offices were open, they often were short staffed, subject to long lines and limited service. Mail has slowed down almost to a stop once again, and this time the country might not be able to blame COVID-19. Instead many — especially those leaning to the Democratic side of the aisle — believe service problems boil down to one person:
Louis DeJoy, the new postmaster general. A longtime ally of President Trump, DeJoy took over in mid-June what was supposed to be a self-funding federal service, but instead was one already struggling with funding and slow delivery. DeJoy quickly an- AleSSAnDrA BIAggI nounced service changes and cutbacks, saying that they were necessary to bring the post office back into the black. Cutting funding to what is often the cheapest and most relied-upon mail services in the country was troubling enough, but concerns grew even more so as the country prepares for the November elec-
tion — an election that will rely heavily on mail-in ballots in an attempt to prevent the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Fighting back against the changes, at least 20 states and the District of Columbia have filed suit against USPS and DeJoy. Another lawsuit, filed jointly by 16 plaintiffs — including state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi — was filed against DeJoy and Trump on Aug. 17. The suit alleges Trump and DeJoy have “set about to ensure USPS cannot reliably deliver election mail,” and says states can’t — and should not — ignore the problem. Days earlier, USPS told many states it was not equipped to handle the crush of last-minute absentee ballots expected to filter through its network, urging voters to request and return their ballots early to al-
low for longer delivery times. Some Democrats have accused Trump of using the DeJoy appointment to deliberately undermine the postal service, making it more difficult for voters to cast their ballots by mail. Trump has called mail-in voting prone to fraud, although he has not provided any evidence to support the claim. Instead, Democrats believe a larger voter turnout will play in their favor in an important election year — and say Trump’s efforts to throttle the USPS shows he believes the same thing. “We’re months away from a general election, a general presidential election, during a pandemic,” Biaggi said. “And so, sitting idly by while the president and the postmaster general are undermining the post office was not something I could do. POSTAL, page A4
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More than 200 law enforcement supporters march up Broadway from the 50th Precinct offices in Kingsbridge to Van Cortlandt Park last Friday in response to the Black lives Movement. The march and rally was organized by former nYPD officer and former congressional candidate Sammy ravelo.
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Nearly three months to the day George Floyd died during an arrest by Minneapolis police officers, protesters took to the streets again in the Midwest, this time in defense of Jacob Blake, a Black man witnesses say was shot multiple times in the back by a Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer at point blank range. As of Tuesday, Blake remained in stable condition — although there are concerns he could be permanently paralyzed — and the two officers involved in the shooting are on leave. Just days before, however, there was a much different protest a lot closer to home.
‘These guys took an oath to serve and protect. And Mayor de Blasio is putting walking targets on their backs.’
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Led by former congressional primary candidate Sammy Ravelo, they chanted as they marched from the 50th Precinct headquarters on Kingsbridge Avenue, up Broadway and into Van Cortlandt Park, demanding attention be paid not to people like Floyd, Blake and even Breonna Taylor who died or were seriously injured at the hands of police
in recent months, but to protecting the police officers themselves. Ravelo, himself a former member of the New York Police Department, feels the role of law enforcement is often skewed in the media and by detractors, and that his Blue Lives Matter march — referencing the common color associated with police officers — was a perfect response to recent Black Lives Matter protests, including a recent one at the 50th Precinct. “Obviously, the rise in violence that we’re seeing in the Bronx, and the lack of respect that has been shown to our officials and law enforcement officials — coupled with the fact that the silent majority are personally, what I see being a son of the Bronx — have BLUE LIVES, page A4
For people like Dan Padernacht and Eric Dinowitz, after two years of running campaigns that seemed to have no end in sight, watching the man you want to succeed finally step aside must be a welcome relief. But for Jessica Haller, she’s actually unhappy — even though votjeSSICA ers will decide HAller sooner than expected on who will succeed Andrew Cohen on the city council. “You are the Democratic Party,” Haller said of the county organization that nominated Cohen to become a judge on the Bronx supreme court. “This isn’t about Andy. You know that this district is represented by someone, who — to use Eliot Engel’s language — has a contract with us. He has a contract with us until the end of next year. So why are you taking him out of his role?” Cohen’s move to the bench was likely one of the Bronx’s worst-kept secrets. In fact, many had anticipated Cohen would COHEN, page A4
ConEd’s Isaias response won’t win them any awards By KIRSTYN BRENDLEN kbrendlen@riverdalepress.com
It was about mid-day on Aug. 4 when lights started to flicker out across New York City. Tropical Storm Isaias, the ninth named storm of the 2020 hurricane season, flooded streets and sidewalks, and downed trees and power lines with winds upward of 50 mph. That created some dark parts of the city, especially in the Bronx, where Con Edison estimates some 23,000 households, buildings and businesses in the borough lost power. One day without power is inconvenient, but not the end of the world. But as customers started reaching out for help, they
heard expected to wait times upward of eight days for power to be restored. Temperatures on some days were in the 90s, and with many people still working from home, there weren’t many other places to go. Elected officials, all the way up to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, criticized ConEd immediately. While crews seemingly were out in abundance, working to restore broken poles and wires, Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz thought ConEd was just too far behind. “I can appreciate that there may have been a lot of damage, but much of this destruction could have been prevented had Con Edison buried their aboveground power lines years ago,” Dinowitz said, in a reISAIAS RESPONSE, page A4
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Will free breakfasts stay hampered by early start times? By KIRSTYN BRENDLEN kbrendlen@riverdalepress.com
American school lunches might be one of the best-known meals in pop culture. Cafeterias feature in teen movies through the ages. Food fights erupt, couples break up, new students wander through tables looking for a seat. In real life, though, lunch time means students can get a break, sit down for a few minutes, and most importantly, eat. But the midday meal is not the only one available to New York City’s public school students. Free school breakfast doesn’t get the same attention, and according to pre-coronavirus pandemic report from the Food Research and Action Center, only 45 percent of public school students use the free breakfast program. That’s the worst free breakfast participation rate of any major city in the United States. The program’s expansion, implemented by then-schools chancellor Carmen Farina, allowed an estimated additional 200,000 students to start getting free lunch, according to reports published at the time. “We have, I would say, a couple dozen” students who use the breakfast program, said Steven Schwartz, principal of P.S. 24 Spuyten Duyvil, last spring before schools shut down in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. “Some days we can have 30 kids up there, some days just a handful.” The biggest obstacle connecting kids with the day’s most important meal? Getting to school on time. Many of P.S. 24’s students arrive to the West 236th Street campus by bus, and by the time many of them arrive, there just isn’t enough time to sit down and get a bite to eat before classes begin. “A lot of our kids that do bus are eligible for breakfast, but if something happens to the bus and they’re running late, we do still offer them breakfast,” Schwartz said. “But it’s kind of expedited. We give them the breakfast
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While city public schools, like P.S. 24, offer free breakfast to students, a study earlier this year by the Food Research and Action Center has found that less than half participate. and they take it up to their classroom. That’s only if they arrive within a certain timeframe.” Buses have sometimes arrived up to an hour late, the principal admits, and those kids usually miss out on breakfast since the cafeteria workers already are working on lunch by then. “In just talking to parents, whenever kids arrive and they’re not feeling well, they’re in a bad mood, the first question we ask is, ‘Did you eat breakfast?’” Schwartz said. “There’s definitely a correlation between nutrition and how the children are feeling that day.” It’s not just their mood that can be affected by not eating — students who don’t eat in the morning often have trouble listening once they get to class, said Eric Dinowitz, a city council candidate who also works as a special education teacher. “It not only interferes with a child’s ability to succeed academically, and to
engage even emotionally in a class,” he said. “And that’s just the short term, of course. We know kids who are malnourished get sick more often, they miss more school. There are a lot of negative effects of our children missing a meal.” At P.S. 24, Schwartz has had conversations about starting school later to reduce student and parent stress in getting out the door in the morning. That might also allow more students to eat breakfast at school. But those conversations are all hypothetical for now, and likely won’t get anywhere until after schools completely return to normal with the conclusion of the COVID-19 crisis. There are some options for late students. Schools can offer breakfast in the classroom or leave some quick grab-and-go options for students to take if they don’t have time for a full meal.
“That all increases participation in the program,” Dinowitz said, adding that making sure students and families know their options is key to the program succeeding. Full breakfast at P.S. 24 starts in the cafeteria at 7:35 a.m., during normal times, Schwartz said, and classes start 25 minutes later. He knew that school bus pickup times could vary — some members of the gifted and talented class, he said, live further away, as do some students who started school while living in the area but chose to finish out their elementary years at P.S. 24 while living a greater distance away. Schwartz wasn’t sure if those students were picked up significantly earlier than other students by bus, but it may take them longer to get to school and more likely to make them miss breakfast. When it comes to children going hungry, the Bronx is one of the worst
in the city, with some 30 percent not having adequate access to food in 2018, according to a study by Hunger Free America. That means that nearly a third of children rely on school meals to get them through the day. Before schools closed in March, city officials and educators had a tough decision to make. Closing schools would take away the source of at least one meal for students. To remedy that, hundreds of graband-go meal pickup stations were organized at schools across the five boroughs, allowing students and parents to drop by and pick up meals they might otherwise miss, including at P.S. 207 on Godwin Terrace and Riverdale/ Kingsbridge Academy on West 237th Street. More students at P.S. 24 participate in free lunch, Schwartz said. Lunch doesn’t have the same time constraints as the early-morning breakfast, and students can choose whether or not to take a packed lunch from home, or just choose from the cafeteria menu. “I would say on any given day, roughly 300 to 350 of our close to 900 students would eat the free lunch,” Schwartz said. “It is a lot more when pizza is being served on Fridays.” Breakfast isn’t the only thing P.S. 24 offers during more normal times, Schwartz said. There’s also earlymorning sports and yoga programs for students, encouraging them to get to school earlier to get off on the right foot. That might also give them an opportunity to get some food while they’re at it. P.S. 24 sends out regular reminders to parents that the program is available, Schwartz said, and they’re sure to remind them that children aren’t obligated to attend every day or every week. If they miss a few meals, they’re always welcome to come back. “We have to make sure that all of our children know about the program, and that all of the families are informed,” Dinowitz said. “The city has a job to do to make sure that more children participate.
SCHOOL DESK UFT to de Blasio: See you in court It’s no easy feat to reopen the largest public school district in the country. And the attempt to do so is causing a power struggle between Mayor Bill de Blasio and the city’s teachers. The United Federation of Teachers — the union for the
By ROSE BRENNAN city’s public school teachers — hosted a news conference Aug. 19 to discuss the details of its proposed reopening plan, which includes a three-page checklist detailing needs like stocks of personal protective equipment, the availability of nursing staff and facilities, ventilation, and signage, among other criteria.
UFT president Michael Mulgrew also submitted the plan with extra requirements for coronavirus testing. He believes anyone who wants to enter a city public school must have proof of an antibody test, or if the antibody test is negative, a negative diagnostic test. But how will some 1.1 million students and 75,000 teach-
ers — not to mention other essential school staff members — be tested and ready to go for Sept. 10? According to Mulgrew, they won’t. In fact, even if every school endeavored to pass the guidelines set forth by the union, Mulgrew doesn’t anticipate a safe reopening will be possible for all city schools until mid-September, or
possibly even early October. “This city went through hell and back, and we are not going to hell again because of shortsighted political agendas,” Mulgrew said. If de Blasio forces in-person classes when the building and its coronavirus-related policies are unsafe, Mulgrew says he’s willing to go to court over it —
even if their refusal to teach could be construed as a violation of law. He also floated the possibility of going on strike. “I’m not going to allow these provocations,” de Blasio said. “We are going to keep moving forward to get schools ready for our kids. That’s what the children and the parents of New York City are asking us to do.”
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A popular modification to the American flag by law enforcement supporters is to remove all color from the flag, and add a blue line. That line is said to represent what police say is all that separates civilization from chaos, and that officers are that line. Others have described the line as a symbol of police protecting their own, even in the midst of wrongdoing.
Are politics seeping into Black Lives vs. Blue Lives? BLUE LIVES from page A1 led me to say, ‘You know what? Let’s put a rally together in the Bronx that says we support law enforcement officials,” Ravelo said. “We support unity. We support peace.” Ravelo was joined at the march by dozens of law enforcement members — including some from the 5-0 — and members of two different unions, including the New York City Police Benevolent Association which broke its own tradition and backed a political candidate in the upcoming presidential election: Donald Trump. Still, Ravelo insists his rally last week was not political, especially since he maintains his allegiance to a different kind of blue. “I’m a lifelong Democrat,” Ravelo said, “but Democrats right now are perceived to be anti-police and law enforcement. As you can see, I’m not. So there’s nothing political about this.” Who Ravelo chose to join him at the rally may not think the same thing. PBA president Patrick Lynch, who pushed for the Trump endorsement, was there, as was Ed Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association. Joining them was Joseph Imperatrice, founder of Blue Lives MatterNYC, as well as Pace University adjunct professor Darrin Porcher — both regular contributors to Fox News programming. Two women even joined the group donning gear supporting Trump’s re-election bid. One of those women, Mary Muldoon, actually grew up on Kingsbridge Avenue, not far from where the 5-0 is now headquartered. “I come from a family of retired cops,” Muldoon said. “This BLM movement affects my family big time.” It’s tough for her to see police get treated poorly, especially from the very government she says is supposed to back them. “These guys took an oath to serve and protect,” said Muldoon, who now lives in Yonkers. “And Mayor de Blasio is putting walking targets on their backs. I will support any first responder, no matter who they are. There are good, good, cops. There are good, good people. There are bad people, and there are bad cops. But these guys do a job nobody else wants to do.” At Van Cortlandt Park, Porcher told the 200 or so people gathered there that New York was “under attack” by an “insurgence of an extreme left population, subsequently creating violence and chaos that’s causing public safety to go out
of control.” “I come under tremendous attack from the elements of the left,” Porcher said. “There’s no one that supports and defends the blue. There’s no one. There’s a very small contingent. However, we have few people are out here, and you can amplify that voice, that message, that we back the blue, and we are that silent majority.” Jennifer Scarlott, who helped organize the earlier Black Lives Matter-inspired march locally, said she was disturbed to hear about the Blue Lives Matter rally. “To juxtapose ‘blue lives’ with ‘Black lives’ makes no sense,” Scarlott said, in a statement. “The NYPD must face reality. With a $6 billion annual budget, and more than 40,000 work force … and the NYPD waging unlawful, militarized and frankly fascistic campaigns against Black Lives Matter organizers and organizations in New York City, the wider public is finally waking up to the need to defund the police and invest in communities of color.” Ravelo, however, told The Riverdale Press that these issues with bad cops aren’t happening in New York City, but in other parts of the country. And when it does happen here, the police department is successful in rooting those problems out. Efforts by the city council to take control only stop that from happening. “They politicized this whole thing, and now what happens is the people that suffer are people that look like me,” Ravelo said. “Yeah, people that are brown. People that are Black.” But do Black lives matter when it comes to talking about law enforcement? Rabbi Levi Shemtov of Chabad Lubavitch of Riverdale says God won’t let him discriminate. “My father taught me that when you look at a person, when you’re looking at a human being, you’re looking at God’s image,” Shemtov told the rally. “So we cannot differentiate and say ‘these lives matter, these lives matter.’ We all matter. Every single life matters.” And the rabbi says he’s willing to take it a step further by visiting Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, where the city painted a “Black Lives Matter” mural last month, and do his own handiwork. “I will go to Trump Tower with a gallon of blue paint, and you know what I would paint over there?” Shemtov asked. “Blue lives matter.” When someone from the crowd shouted they’d already done that, Shemtov only had one thing to say to him: “Good for you.”
Taking a hard look at ConEd ISAIAS RESPONSE from page A1 lease. “Instead, they chose to continue putting shareholder profits above the interests of people like us.” Dinowitz has long pushed a bill creating an independent state consumer advocate, and in the wake of the storm, he’s picked up the mantle again. Dinowitz’s updated bill would include ensuring those who need electricity for medical devices would be supplied with generators or an alternate place to stay. Emergency support locations would give people without power a place to charge cell phones and store their refrigerated foods and medications, the Assemblyman said, while increasing transparency between the company and customers. Every time there’s a major storm and power lines come down, there’s the same debate: Why aren’t power lines buried? When is that going to happen, sparing us the indignity of having a tree branch knock out power for a week? Jessica Haller, a city council candidate and long-time climate activist, said the United States has been falling behind for a long time, and burying power lines is only one small step forward. “I’ve been giving climate talks, these climate reality presentations, for many years,” she said. “Imagine, if you will, a power pole with like a rat’s nest of wires at the top.” During presentations, Haller notes that developing areas will never deal with that tangle of wires — the technology will “leapfrog” right over the need for them. “Why am I even thinking about burying wires, when in rural Africa, we’re talking about leapfrogging technology?” she said. Instead, Haller would like to see focus shift to community-owned, locally based renewables. That could mean an apartment building combining solar panels on its roof with another locally based energy source.
Haller isn’t the only one looking for community-owned power. Bronx Climate Justice North, which focuses on everything from the Putnam Trail to closing down the Indian Point nuclear power plant, is working alongside the city’s chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America on its public power campaign, endeavoring to take electricity from a privately owned commercial asset to a publicly owned necessary resource. “We change from a power plan grid focused on generating wealth from investors, and you focus on something that’s locally accountable,” said Steve Fox, who works on the organization’s ecological projects. Publicly owned utilities are cheaper and have fewer blackouts and power shutoffs, Fox said. He pointed to the New York Power Authority, an FDRera state power organization. The authority says it provides the lowest-cost electricity in the state, most of which is used by nonprofit organizations, other state organizations like the New York City Housing Authority, and some private businesses and organizations. “Public utilities as opposed to investor-owned utilities, you see that public utilities provide better service for cheaper rates,” Fox said. “Specifically, they have less blackouts, and their blackouts are shorter.” Con Edison did not return a request for comment. During Hurricane Sandy, millions of people across the Northeast lost electricity, some for weeks on end. ConEd wasn’t the only utility struggle. In Long Island’s Rockville Centre, power came back for some within 24 hours, while everyone else had to wait more than a week. Why? Rockville Centre is one of few Long Island towns with its own grid and electricity generated in part within the town’s plant, supplemented by the power authority and other sources.
‘We’ve known for years that weather events will continue to hit the area with more frequency, coming here. What’s more concerning, though, is not even that.’ — Steve Fox
Bronx Climate Justice North As climate change progresses, New York is expected to see more frequent and more intense tropical storms and hurricanes. The National Hurricane Center predicted at least 19 major storms during the 2020 season, including nine named storms that have already swept the Atlantic. “We’ve known for years that weather events will continue to hit the area with more frequency, coming here,” Fox said. “What’s more concerning, though, is not even that.” Even without a direct hit, he said, ConEd wasn’t prepared to handle the storm and the resulting outages. In a hearing called by state lawmakers to investigate state energy utilities, ConEd representatives said they were caught off-guard by changing storm forecasts. While they were prepared for the original forecast with slower winds, what ultimately came through the city was higher sustained winds, and more damage than they had expected. “I am glad that Gov. Cuomo has asked the Public Service Commission to investigate Con Edison’s response to these outages along with other utility providers across New York state,” Dinowitz said. “It is evident that the energy status quo in New York is broken.”
POSTAL from page A1 Especially because millions of Americans are expected to vote by mail.” New York’s June primary was “not functional,” Biaggi said, citing absentee ballots that were received on or after election day, ballots that were requested by voters but never received, and ballots sent back by voters but delayed in transit and received at the elections board after it was too late to count them. Many of those issues could have been avoided, the senator said, and those same issues will be present again come November — and likely exacerbated, as presidential elections usually have higher turnout than primaries. “The essential nature of this is that the Supreme Court, in several cases, has basically ruled that an attempt to undermine the post office, or the postal service, as it relates to speech and freedom of speech — so voting is a form of speech — is unconstitutional,” Biaggi said. “So that was, to me, one of the clearest complaints that was put forward.” Since the lawsuit was filed, DeJoy has appeared to walk back some changes to the postal service, saying in a statement that none of what he was doing — the removal of mailboxes and shutting down large numbers of sorting machines — was intended to impact the election. Just in case, DeJoy added, he would hold off on making those changes until after the election was over. Operating hours at post offices would not change or shorten, mail processing equipment and blue mailboxes would not be removed, and overtime — which had been reportedly stripped from postal workers — would be restored, as needed. “The postal service is ready today to handle whatever volume of election mail it receives this fall,” DeJoy said, according to reports. Walking back the changes wasn’t enough, however, and the lawsuit Biaggi says she’s filed with the likes of likely congressman-to-be Mondaire Jones and Assemblyman-to-be Chris Burdick, will move forward. “Even though they made those assertions, there hasn’t actually been a clear commitment to return what’s already been removed,” Biaggi said. “Restoring all the sorting machines that have been removed, restoring all
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Hundreds of blue U.S. Postal Service drop-off boxes have reportedly been removed by new postmaster general Louis DeJoy, prompting worry the November presidential election — which will be heavily conducted by mail because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic — will be impacted. the blue mailboxes that have been removed.” During a hearing before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Aug. 21, DeJoy said he had “no intention” of bringing the mail sorting machines back in, and that they were “not needed.” Biaggi wants DeJoy to announce which machines will be restored, and then see them be reinstalled. That would be a concrete step forward, she said, as it would be easy to physically see machines being reinstalled. Recent rules limiting routes or allowing mail carriers to leave without all their mail for the day also should be rolled back, she added, ensuring mail meant to be delivered in a day would actually get to its intended destination. “This is a very deliberate attempt to really undermine our elections, at the end of the day,” Biaggi said. “We’ve never seen anything like this before, and the fact that it’s happening now is not a mistake. And we should not think that it is a mistake.”
As special election looms, questions arise COHEN from page A1 leave his role in 2018. But after some political pundits knocked rumors the Bronx Democrats were going to offer a judgeship to ousted state Sen. Jeffrey Klein, it seemed no one who wasn’t some kind of judge previously was going to get the nod that year. Still, the prospect Cohen would leave his seat early prompted Padernacht — a Kingsbridge Heights-based real estate attorney — to jump into the race back then. Dinowitz, son of the Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz who many say had complete control of Cohen’s judicial fate, immediately followed him into the fracas. Still, now that the inevitable has happened, Haller believes it’s the taxpayers who will face the fallout of the decision to have Cohen depart early by funding a special election. Even worse, between the end of the year and a projected special election in March, Cohen’s district — which covers all of Riverdale and large swaths of Kingsbridge — would go unrepresented. While, in theory, it should be only a few months between the end of Cohen’s term and the special election, some special elections were canceled or delayed this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. While New York City in particular has made enormous improvements over the last few months, no one knows what next spring will look like. In the early days of the pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo postponed some special elections from March to June, coupling them with party primaries, including ones for President of the United States. As June grew closer, Cuomo realized some candidates running in the special election would appearing on the ballot twice — once in the special election, which, in normal years, would have happened three months earlier, and once for the primary, likely confusing voters. His solution was to cancel several special elections for state senate and Assembly seats — leaving them empty until November. That left some districts without representation. “We didn’t necessarily love that decision, but at the same time it was sort of understandable,” said Jennifer Wilson, deputy director of New York’s League of Women Voters. “Every month that goes by that an elected official hasn’t been elected to a given seat — whether it’s local or congress or a state official — that community is not having representation before that body of government.” In the case that a council seat goes unfilled for a long period of time, Wil-
son said, it’s possible the community could miss out on money and contracts often awarded by the council member. But Wilson stressed it’s impossible to know what will happen next spring, especially with the hurdle of the November elections to clear first. Special elections also tend to garner less turnout, unless they happen at the same time has more highly publicized primaries, Wilson said. Voters tend to pay less attention to smaller races, even when they are run alongside larger contests. Some political observers eyeing what’s happening in this part of the borough believe a special non-partisan election would benefit Eric Dinowitz, primarily because of his name recognition as the son of the longtime Assemblyman for much of the same area. “I’ve been a teacher and a community activist for years — long before I decided to run for council,” the younger Dinowitz said. “Look, people have been attacking me for a long time. Before any special election, people have been attacking me. I’m running a positive campaign based on how we recover from this crisis, and we reimagine the way we do things in the city, and my successful experience in fighting for these things.” The special election also should give voters an early look at rankedchoice voting. Under this new system — designed to eliminate costly runoff elections — would allow voters to not just vote for one person they like, but instead rank all their choices. Under this system, if no one candidate achieves a majority, the candidate with the smallest amount of first-choice votes will be eliminated, their votes redistributed to second-choice candidates, and votes recounted. That continues until a victor is declared. “I’ve built a strong coalition of support throughout the northwest Bronx, and my goal is, of course, to get above 50 percent of the vote,” Dinowitz said. “I think it provides the voters more opportunity to make their voice heard.” With a special election imminent, Haller said, there was very little her campaign — or any campaign — could control. Some finance rules have changed. There’s the threat of the election being canceled or delayed, or maybe even worse, suffering low turnout. And the state of the pandemic come spring remains a mystery. “What I can control is that tomorrow night, I have a lot of people registered for a Norwood listening tour,” Haller said. “And right now I’m meeting a team down in Kingsbridge, and we’re meeting voters, and we’re having conversations.”
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Empty your pockets. Take off your belt and your shoes. Hope you don’t have to undergo “the wand.” It’s what we must endure to get on an airplane. But for Bryan Aju, it’s what she and other students face just to get to class. Metal detectors are part of life at Belmont’s High School for Energy and Technology, but they shouldn’t be. Not because Aju doesn’t feel she deserves to be safe — she just doesn’t believe that’s what metal detectors accomplish. Instead, they seem to only scare students, especially when such measures are used at elementary and middle schools. “Students don’t get caught with guns and knives in a school with the metal detectors,” Aju said. “They get caught with paper clips, little pins … mechanical pencils that have metal in (them). I was almost in trouble with cops because I had a metal pen.” Aju is a member of Sistas & Brothas United, a youth program organized by the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition. It was formed, in part, to help rid schools of its so-called pipeline to prison. And for her, that starts with ending the practice of treating teenage misbehavior as if it’s the crime of the century. It also means reassigning law enforcement officers off school campuses. As she shared during a recent coalition information session, the presence of these school safety agents doesn’t make her or many of her classmates feel any safer on campus. In fact, Aju believes some of what she described as unnecessary force used by officers on her classmates make them feel less safe. “I have seen it on school grounds … where they’re separating a fight,” Aju said. “They will use brute force and slam students on walls and on the floor to separate them.”
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While school safety agents aren’t necessarily police officers, they’re still part of the New York Police Department. But even without the title — and without a sidearm — coalition member Anisah Sabur believes there’s little difference between the two. “Everything that they’re taught is as police officers,” Sabur said. “Their response is punitive. There’s no way of communicating or navigating or mediating a confrontation without (them) being involved or some sort of punitive
The Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition considers itself at the forefront of fighting for social justice in this part of the borough. Seen here in 2015 fighting for housing equality, the coalition offered an information session on police-free schools earlier this month.
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measures.” The role of school safety agents, according to the NYPD, is to “provide security and ensure the safety of students, faculty and visitors in the New York City public school buildings,” which they do by patrolling, verifying the identities of and escorting visitors, and “challenging unauthorized personnel.” But according to the recent coalition information session, the presence of these agents is failing to meet those goals, and it’s having detrimental effects on students. Some might balk at the idea of schools without safety agents — especially in areas with higher concentrations of crime. But for Jamaal Bowman, there’s other ways to create a safe environment for students without the need to involve law enforcement. Before upending U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel in June’s Democratic primary, Bowman’s career was in education. He saw his students from the perspective of a teacher, guidance counselor and principal. And to him, the answer is not policing, but turning around schools that otherwise are chronically underfunded. One critical to a police-free school is implementing what Bowman describes as a restorative justice model. Rather than focusing on punishment, restorative justice focuses on healing and conflict resolution by allowing each side of a dispute to speak freely about what happened. “When that conflict arises, how the school responds is critical,” Bowman
said. Restorative justice “is a mediation that focuses on righting the wrong of the issue that took place, as well as building and strengthening the extended community of the school overall.” Aju believes restorative justice gets to the root of the problems through conversation, and doesn’t immediately require more drastic responses, like detention or suspension. “It’s great to have a restorative justice program because then things get talked out and sorted out,” she said. “I don’t have to be friends with my high school bullies, but I can let them know this is what’s hurting me, and this is what I don’t like.” Bowman also believes offering extracurricular activities like art, music and sports can provide outlets and positive environments for students to cultivate and expand their interests — and the programs help keep them out of trouble. But the focus doesn’t just need to be on extra-curriculars. Bowman believes change can also take place in the classroom. To him, teachers should be trained in approaches he describes as “culturally responsive.” “If you’re Black or Latinx, and you attend a school system that never teaches you about your history or your culture or your contributions to the world, you begin to believe that you and your ancestry have not contributed anything,” Bowman said. “We have to teach our kids Black history and culture, Latinx history and culture, all history and culture so they can see
themselves in the curriculum.”
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Yet, many who call for the removal of school safety agents are missing the bigger point, according to Gregory Floyd. He’s the president of Teamsters Local 237, a union representing more than 5,000 school safety agents. In a letter last June to the city council, Floyd said targeting school safety agents in massive NYPD budget cuts was short-sighted, at best. Dangerous at worst. “Each year, hundreds of dangerous weapons — firearms, Tasers, BB guns, knives, box cutters and other types of weapons — are intercepted by school safety agents,” Floyd said. “That does not include the many more that would be brought to school by students but for the deterrent effect of metal detectors and NYPD school safety agents. “How can we expect our school children to learn and our educators to instruct if we cannot ensure their safety?” Police-free schools are just a start, Aju said. Once school safety agents are removed, she believes students will once again feel excited to go to school each day. It’s “a school environment that is more invested in making sure each student’s education is on top and important,” Aju said, “making sure that the students’ mental health and physical health is important, as well as their social and emotional health.”
Schools are supposed to lead to college, the military, trade school, and ultimately a career. But more and more are finding themselves caught in what some have described as the school-to-prison pipeline, making that next stop not meeting with a professor, but instead behind bars. The American Civil Liberties Union says a number of factors contribute to the school-to-prison pipeline. Among them are lack of resources in public schools, zero-tolerance and suspension policies, and increased police presence. When combined, these circumstances essentially create a domino effect. Because public school students might not have access to extracurricular activities, guidance counselors and social workers, schools instead resort to harsh punishments when they act out, according to the ACLU. Zerotolerance policies mandate severe punishments like suspension for certain offenses, and do not often take surrounding circumstances — like mental illness, trouble at home or trauma — into consideration. Those policies, combined with police presence, can lead to suspensions, expulsions, and even school-based arrests. A 2018 study conducted by Million Dollar Hoods evaluated the arrest statistics of the Los Angeles School Police Department, the largest school police force in the country. It found while Black students only accounted for 8 percent of students in the city’s public schools, they were involved in 25 percent of the campus police incidents. In comparison, white students made up 10 percent of the student population in the school district, but were only involved in 3 percent of police-involved incidents. Male students of color accounted for 76 percent of all campus police involvement. — Rose Brennan
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‘Uptown C Company’ by recent fine arts graduate Jonathon B. Yubi-Gomez, was featured in Lehman College’s thesis catalog, a collection of the college’s many final thesis artworks.
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t’s loud and busy around the Jerome Park reservoir. The nearby boulevard is full of cars and passersby. It’s not cold out yet, but it’s a little chilly despite the low-hanging August sun. It’s scholastic weather, the perfect atmosphere for studying. And grand old Lehman College is nearby. But the campus is empty. The paths are abandoned. The doors are locked. The quiet is palpable. Branches shaking in the breeze seem to be the only movement. But inside the college’s art gallery — be it in-person or safely through a computer screen — executive director Bartholomew Bland tries to inject as much life as he can into a seemingly dead grounds. “It’s true, it’s a little eerie on campus,” Bland said. “It’s often high density, even at this time of year. But that’s why we’re taking so many precautions, like having very few in-person classes and getting students laptops.” That means the arts, here at Lehman, will be online through the fall. At least for now. “In fact,” Bland added, “we’re preparing a full online series based on graphic design.”
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Award-winning musician Pedro Giraudo and his band perform at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers to an audience limited to 50 people due to social distancing in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Lehman Art Gallery will present that series alongside the Sara Little Turnbull Foundation, an organization that advances and promotes underrepresented youth in the graphic design field. Several designers will give talks and interviews on vital topics in any artistic or social field, such as how design interacts with Latino heritage, gender and sexual identity, race and ethnicity, and — in a world like this one — disasters. “What does the next pandemic look like?” Bland asked. “That’s one of the ideas some very significant designers will answer as well. It’s also open to the public.” Lehman is working with the Bronx Borough Arts Festival, itself online this year. “We often have the live show at the gallery,” Bland said. “But we’ve had to switch so much to virtual.” It’s not as though being virtual is a waste, however. For some artists — like Lehman’s own graduating students — it was an opportunity to create work which could examine strange feelings like isolation, disconnect and powerlessness, in their graduating theses. Pieces like “Following Indecision” by Lady Pena focus on paralysis, spectators, addiction and death in an ominous world, according to the artist. Intense contemplations like those can sometimes best be milled over in a place that is quiet by design, such as a garden. A cautious ride on the Bx10 bus to Riverdale, followed by a brief stroll, leads to the Wave Hill gardens, and the very edge of New York City. The gardens reopened at the end of July, and those managing the 28-acre estate have since been very careful about how they implement social distancing guidelines and welcome visitors.
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artists in the fall, which we’re very excited for. Providing the space to local artists is an opportunity even now. We’re going to be very busy.” The focus of September, however, on top of everything else, will be bees. From classes on learning to cook with honey to learning distinctions between native bees and honeybees, Gellens hopes visitors learn the importance of pollinators in any season. Some of those bees may be found buzzing northward over the edge of New York City and into neighboring Yonkers, where the Hudson River Museum stands with, of all things, open doors. Deputy communications director Samantha Hoover, along with the museum staff members, have worked over the last few months to create a safe environment within Westchester County’s regional pandemic ground rules. “We had our own task force,” Hoover said. “They made sure we put together the right guidelines and a checklist. We’re only permitting 40 visitors at a time, but they come in and they’re so grateful for a little normalcy.” The museum’s amphitheater, however, has become its main attraction. Every Saturday through Sept. 19, the museum hosts a live, socially distanced concert with a limit of 50 people in a space which, technically, fits 500. Saralinda Lichtblau, the museum’s assistant education director, believes visitors may find it all a bit strange, but certainly adaptable. “People are so hungry for live performances,” Lichtblau said. “They’re willing to agree to account for the health requirements of a physical space — to agree to a social contract of sorts, which has been so important.” From tango nights to jazz tributes and classical orchestras, live performances at the museum continue. Performances and classes, live or recorded art and music, continue at the cultural institutions of the northwest Bronx as well. In the end, however, the hope of each institution is to maintain the health and safety of each other. “We’re so nimble, we’ve had to try many different things,” Hoover said. “We’re just trying to adapt and learn like everyone else.”
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‘Life Inside Me: I Am Olusola,’ at left, is a piece by Urban Scholars Community School student Olusola Famuyide, featured recently at Lehman Art Gallery’s virtual exhibit with the Bronx Borough Arts Festival. ‘Panda Mosaic’ is a piece by Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy student Bridgette Donnery. The gallery and the festival have presented work by students across the borough for six years, ‘and this year is no different,’ according to executive director Bartholomew Bland. Yet Martha Gellens, communications director at the 4900 Independence Ave., establishment, says such measures are worth getting the opportunity to step out onto the grounds again. “We’ve put guidelines in place such as fewer days and less hours on top of social distancing measures,” Gellens said. “You have to make a reservation and register for a certain day over
the phone or the site. We’re not sure when we’ll expand that, but people have been trying to come back since the moment we closed. “They’re relieved we’re open at all, even if it’s in a limited way.”
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As mask-wearing workers maintain the grounds, the garden itself continues to host many virtual events, some
in the form of live classes — such as watercolor painting — or simply as videos. Despite only being available and open in a limited capacity, Gellens and her team continue to plan carefully into the future. “We’ll be hosting a botanical show soon,” Gellens said. “Some of its events will be virtual, and we’re still determining if any of it will be live. We’ll also have three sunroom space
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After 24 years, lawyer helps prisoner out of solitary sistance. And especially in the criminal justice area.” In 2002, Seiff represented Korey Wise, one of the Central Park Five, as he fought to have charges against him tossed out. He was successful, and Weiss was released from prison more than 13 years after he and four other men were wrongfully imprisoned for the 1989 rape of a jogger in Central Park. “Prisoners’ rights is not something at the forefront of the American conscious,” Seiff said. “Even now, where it’s been a better response in the last year or so than there has been before, there are so many other things that take precedence.”
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In 1996, cell phones weren’t quite a thing. Students didn’t type essays on laptops, or anywhere other than a stationary computer or even a typewriter. Bill Clinton was president, but his relationship with young intern Monica Lewinsky hadn’t yet come to light. Twenty-four years ago, Imhotep H’Shaka — already serving time for homicide — roughed up a guard, earning him a trip to solitary confinement. And there he stayed, in a 9-by-11-foot cell, through the rest of 1996, 1997, the rest of the 1990s, and into the 21st century. Past 9/11, and even through the entire George W. Bush presidency. H’Shaka was supposed to be released back into the prison’s general population in 2010, but guards decided to hold him in the cell for an additional decade, citing concerns for the safety of other prisoners if he was released. This despite what court documents described as a long record of good behavior. There’s a good chance H’Shaka could still be in solitary confinement even today, if it weren’t for the three-year effort from a team of lawyers from Amini LLC and Prisoners Legal Services of New York — a team that included Eric Seiff, who moved to Riverdale more than 30 years ago. Finally, just as July 2020 was getting under way, H’Shaka was finally released from his small cell, earning a chance to interact with other prisoners once again. “We got into it and saw how
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Eric Seiff, a longtime Riverdale resident and lawyer, previously represented Korey Wise in the Central Park Five case. He also was part of a team of lawyers who helped a prisoner out of solitary confinement after 24 years. Seiff says the rights of prisoners aren’t in the forefront of the American mind — but maybe they should be. irresponsible the corrections department had been in overseeing his particular situation,” Seiff said. “In other words, there had to be reviews every 60 days. As the years went on, they kept saying, ‘You’re doing wonderful, you’re doing wonderful, but that was a terrible crime you committed.’ It became quickly apparent that they were never going to let this guy out.”
Digging up bones in Egypt? Seiff has had a long legal career spanning across the globe that has included some wellknown court cases before he defended H’Shaka. “I was in my senior year of
college and I didn’t know what I wanted to do,” Seiff said. “And I was too squeamish to take biology for medical school, and probably too limited in my daring to do something like archaeology — which really interested me. But I knew I wanted a family, and I didn’t know how I would do that in the middle of the Egyptian desert.” He started in the private sector but didn’t much like it, he said, and also quickly realized he didn’t want to work for the U.S. government abroad after he moved to Rio de Janeiro as part of the Alliance for Progress. One of his best jobs, Seiff said, was working as part of a special commission under Gov. Hugh Carey, which investigat-
ed issues in the criminal justice system — including mishandling by police and prosecutors of the Attica prison riot case of 1971. The Attica uprising was an early display of the prisoner’s rights movement, which helped start reforms that would ultimately improve state prisons over the next few decades. Finally, Seiff ended up working as an “18B” lawyer, working as a private attorney on cases assigned by the state. “I found it very fulfilling,” Seiff said. “I’m a great believer in the right of the individual to address charges by government. Because government is imperfect and it makes mistakes, and I think individuals need as-
Out of sight, not out of mind While the prison population in New York is large, what happens to them only impacts their immediate friends and family members, Seiff said. For everyone else, it can be easy not to spend much time thinking about them. But the prison system — especially solitary confinement — can be brutal. “We see how many reports there are of individual damage to people who are being confined in their apartments for four months,” Seiff said, referring to the stay-at-home orders that have come with the coronavirus pandemic. “Think about living four months in a 9-by-11 cell. No less 40 months. No less a year, or two years, or 10 years.” Just having legal representation and a team of lawyers fighting for his right to get out of solitary confinement boosted
H’Shaka’s morale, said Bijan Amini, another member of the team who worked closely with H’Shaka. “My assessment was that he has come a long way in terms of dealing, emotionally, with what he was facing,” Amini said. “The last time he had real meaningful social interaction with somebody, he was 22 years old. And he is now 46. And you can imagine what that does to somebody.” Under different circumstances, Amini said, H’Shaka is someone he might enjoy sitting and talking with. Even with so many years isolated from everyone else, H’Shaka still won’t face parole anytime soon, Seiff said. But, until then, he’ll be able to talk, eat meals, and exercise with others. “I’m convinced he’s going to be very, very productive,” Seiff said. “He’s just determined to get an education, and he’s got some real interests, and some real talent. He’s a leader and he really wants to talk, and he speaks very intelligently. It’s a real blossoming that you can expect.” In a phone call, Amini said, H’Shaka had asked if he had ever seen a rabbit. “I’m thinking to myself, ‘Have I ever seen a rabbit? I almost drive over one every other day.’ He said, ‘I’ve never seen a rabbit.’ There was a rabbit in the yard, and he got a bunch of guys together and they tried to catch the rabbit, it became like a sport. They weren’t able to, of course. The guards got in on it. Just to see the joy of that, when you think of twenty years of looking at four walls of concrete.”
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Community Board 8 continues to meet via the Zoom online videoconferencing app. For links or how to access those meetings, visit NYC.org/CB8. Upcoming meetings include: • The land use committee Tuesday, Sept. 1 at 7 p.m. • The housing committee Thursday, Sept. 3 at 6:30 p.m.
Kingsbridge Heights Community Center hosts a virtual tour through its community garden and park Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 5:30 p.m., via the Zoom online videoconferencing app. Activities include a stroll with Buddy — the center’s therapy dog — an overview of the community garden volunteering experience, and more.
By RAPHAEL LASSAUZE Tickets are available via donations: • A $25 food box for a family of four. • A $50 month’s supply of cleaning items for a family. • A $100 micro-grant for a family struggling with bill payments. Visit KHCC-NYC.org.
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The Riverdale Art Association presents its new online art gallery in the form of a video, “Art in a Time of Quarantine,” featuring work by Doris Cordero, Maria Formoso, Thomas Maceranka, and others. Visit RiverdaleArtAssociation.org.
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Gretchen McHugh’s photography work graced the pages of The Riverdale Press through the late 1980s and early 1990s. She moved upstate to Granville in 1993, and died Aug. 20 at 78.
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hen the former Broadway offices of The Riverdale Press were firebombed in the early morning hours of Feb. 28, 1989, Gretchen McHugh — the newspaper’s chief photographer — was one of the first people on the scene. Her images that morning detailing firefighters’ work to put out the flames that ultimately gutted the newsroom would be republished again and again over the 30-plus years since the attack. At the time, McHugh already was a published author, her “Hungry Hiker’s Book of Good Cooking” a staple for many venturing out on trails and journeys through nature. And she always loved the outdoors — a passion that pulled her out of New York City in the early 1990s and into the very rural escape of upstate. McHugh died in Granville on Aug. 20. She was 78. At The Press, McHugh was not only the paper’s photographer, but was also a reporter and editor of the paper’s Lifestyle section, according to an obituary published in the Granville Sentinel. She was honored by the New York Press Association in 1989 as its photographer of the year, and also won for best feature story that same year. When not at the newspaper, she taught English literature at Bronx Community College, or could be found sailing the Hudson River through Pete Seeger’s Clearwater Foundation. Many of
her photos of life on the Hudson were featured in a 2004 exhibition in Glens Falls. McHugh moved into a 200-year-old farmhouse in Granville — a village of about 6,700 people along New York’s border with Vermont — in 1993. She restored the house and farm, according to the Sentinel, and became active with tree farming groups. McHugh continued teaching, this time at what is now SUNY Adirondack in Queensbury, while also teaching piano lessons privately. Born as Gretchen Ann Ruhl in Michigan, she learned to play piano while still quite young, eventually attending the Interlochen Center for the Arts and Aspen Music Festival and School in Colorado. She is a 1963 graduate of Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and earned her master’s from the University of Michigan. McHugh is survived by her husband, Jack Hedin, and their children: Emmet, Oscar and Jasper Hedin of Minnesota. She also is survived by sons J. Murray McHugh of Asheville, North Carolina, and Benjamin McHugh of Granville, her daughter Jennifer McHugh, as well as grandchildren, nieces and nephews, and two sisters — Mary Edwards of Hendersonville, North Carolina, and Kathryn Allen of Northville, Michigan. The family has asked for donations to be made in her memory to The Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, 724 Wolcott Ave., Beacon, N.Y., 12508.
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THE RIVERDALE PRESS - Thursday, August 27, 2020 - A9
Permit issues have youth leagues crying foul
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By MICHAEL HINMAN
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When the third phase of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s economic coronavirus reopenings reached the city just after the Fourth of July, among those “old normal” pastimes allowed to return were “lowrisk” youth sports. That was anything non-collegiate and recreational, like baseball and softball leagues and soccer clubs allowed to host games with up to two spectators per child in attendance. It was great news for young athletes itching to get back on the field. When the state shut down back in March, the city’s parks department canceled all field-use permits for the spring season — a move that continued throughout the summer. And it continued, even after Cuomo gave the greenlight for youth sports to continue. Applications for these permits now aren’t expected to be available until next week, but even then a number of question marks remain. While the state has provided minimum requirements for the return of normalcy in the wake of the pandemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio has taken a much more cautious approach. Even when it comes to schools, de Blasio is going beyond state minimums with the worry that despite weeks of the lowest coronavirus infection rates in the nation, just about anything could trigger a recurrence in New York. Over the summer, some of the older girls’ softball teams acted as travel teams, playing in Westchester County — where there were less local restrictions — while the status of their home field remained up in the air. The South Riverdale Little League would love nothing more than to hold games on their own fields, said Peter Gauss, the local league’s co-president. But it seems that handing out permits isn’t a priority for the parks department. And Gauss understands. “Here we are with a month left in summer,” Gauss said, “and there’s nothing for us to do.” Planning for the fall season has been difficult as feelings of uncertainty weigh heavily on the league. Organizers were right in the middle of registration for the summer when the season got canceled, forcing the league to refund parents who already had paid their fees. Some families chose instead to have their fees donated to the league, while others decided to roll their money over for the fall. While Gauss says there are no fears of the league dissolving, he admits there will be a struggle, at least for the foreseeable future. “We’re definitely aiming for a fall season,” Gauss said. “But, ultimately, it’s up to whether or not parks issues these permits.” Other leagues have been sidelined in recent months as well. The Riverdale Soccer Club lost its spring season, leaving the players and management — like club president Damian McShane — hoping for the best and doing their part to prepare for the fall. That is, if the parks department gives its blessing. There have been a number of con-
Cuomo takes aim at power utilities Gov. Andrew Cuomo is not happy with how some of the utility companies like Con Edison performed in response to Tropical Storm Isaias. So he’s proposing new legislation he says will hurt utilities where it counts if they don’t perform as expected. “We don’t pay just to have the utility companies function on a nice day,” Cuomo said Monday, during a news conference. “The essence of what we pay for is, be ready for a storm. Be able to handle the storm. Give me the information when my power goes out, and get my power on quickly. That is what we are paying the utility companies for.” Although Cuomo himself cannot introduce legislation into the Assembly or senate, he is asking lawmakers to increase the current legal limits on penalties for utility companies that fail to effectively respond to power outages from the current limits of $100,000, or 0.02 percent of gross operating revenues. “If that’s the limit compared to the money they’re making, this is de minimis,” Cuomo said. “They’re just paying penalties, basically, as a cost of doing business.” Cuomo also wants to streamline the process involved in revoking a utility’s operating certificate if they continuously fail when it comes to outages. “They have to know they can lose their operating certificate, and it’s going to take years to do,” Cuomo said. “We’re not going to wind up in the courts. We can do it, and we can do it quickly.” On top of all that, Cuomo also wants a mandatory communication system that would allow utilities to better relay information and updates to customers during outages while giving accurate information on when they can expect to have their power restored. “People are reasonable,” the governor said. “Yes, there was a storm. My power went out. I got it. I need to know when it comes back. I have children in the house. I need to know if I should stay in my house, if I should leave. If it’s one day, two hours, one week — I need that information. And they have to provide that information. “I’ve heard many legislators about how they’re upset. If you’re upset, do something about it. Change the law.”
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Back in 2018, these players were gearing up for the first game of the season. This year, they’ll have to wait — maybe even until next year — to get back into the game. Last summer, the Riverdale Soccer Club Avengers — below — came up short in their state club final. With the coronavirus pandemic still wreaking havoc locally, the Avengers won’t get a chance to avenge that defeat, although some hope remains soccer could return for the fall.
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versations amongst board members on how to move forward into the fall, McShane said. With a light-contact sport like soccer, it’ll be difficult at times to properly maintain distance between players. They’ve proposed policies such as requiring players to wear face masks and limiting the number of spectators at games. The restrictions will feel strange at first, McShane said, but it’s the club’s duty to follow important guidelines, like the ones that are a result of the pandemic. “We think it’s good for the kids to play soccer,” he said. “But it needs to be done safely.” To help with frustrations, McShane and other board members volunteered to hold practices over the online videocon-
ferencing app Zoom. This allowed coaches to stay in touch with players while keeping them focused on soccer. These sessions included drills, mechanics, and even updates for parents on when they might return to the field. “When the time comes for us to start the season,” McShane said, “we want to make sure the parents are the first to know.” Marion Martin can’t wait to hear that news. Her sons, Eamon and James, have been in the soccer club for nearly a decade. Until now, they’ve been cooped up inside their homes and have just started going outside to shoot hoops with friends. “It’s not anything organized,” she said. “I can tell how much they want to
get back on the field.” As a nurse, Martin knows there are risks with having players return to the field. However, McShane and other board members have discussed these issues, and because of that, she has no fears of letting her boys play if the fall season comes to fruition. With the necessary safety measures in place, Martin believes the benefits of holding the season will outweigh any risks. For right now, the boys are content with watching soccer on television. But Martin knows they can’t wait to grab their cleats and head outside. “At least they’re entertained,” she said. “But I would love to see them play again.”
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Press captures best news story, general excellence at awards STAFF REPORT The Riverdale Press won seven statewide awards from the New York Press Association last week, including the top two spots for best news story. The first-place win was from the team of reporter Kirstyn Brendlen, editor Michael Hinman, and former reporter Heather J. Smith, taking a deep dive in to the New York Health Act. The story talked to a number of people working for and against the bill, and even explained why universal health kiRSTYN bReNdLeN care might be a longer-term goal than a shorter-term one. Brendlen also won second place in the same category for her coverage of how SAR Academy handled a scandal last year involving one of the school’s administrators. Brendlen was invited to the school RAPHAeL LASSAuze to see firsthand how Rabbi Binyamin Krauss and his team reassured students, faculty and parents that children at the school were safe. “A nicely written, well-researched profile of a school dealing with disturbing news,” according to a judge from the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association, which helped provide a fair look at the more than 2,900 entries representing 173 New York newspapers, that made up this year’s contest. “You really feel the sadness mixed with social realities, and the deliberate steps officials took to reclaim confidence and trust.”
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Of the seven awards earned by The Riverdale Press newsroom from the New York Press Association last week, the paper placed as a finalist for best front page for the first time in recent memory. Front pages are typically designed by either Michael Hinman or co-publisher emeritus Richard L. Stein. The Press also was recognized for its coverage of the arts, earning a second-place win for the team that included at the time Tiffany Moustakas, Julius Constantine Motal, and Raphael Lassauze. Some of the stories included in that mix was an overview of an exhibit focused on author Edgar Allan Poe, and a feature of various musical performances at An Beal Bocht Café. The Press also was honored with three of NYPA’s larger awards, including the newspaper among the state’s elite. For the second straight year, The Press was a finalist for the Past Presidents’ Award for General Excellence
as well as for best front page for Hinman and Richard L. Stein. The Press also finished on the podium for best design — an award named after Stein, the paper’s co-publisher emeritus — marking the third year in a row the Riverdale paper has been awarded for its design work. “This is an excellent newspaper,” the judges said of The Press. “There is a wide variety of content in news coverage, good use of pictures, community, editorial, front-page content, family/ lifestyle features, sports, advertising and graphic design.” Hinman also received an honorable
mention in the feature story category for his anchor piece on the 30th anniversary of The Riverdale Press firebombing. The Riverdale Press has now won 21 state awards since Hinman was installed as editor in 2017. “My primary goal when I arrived was to ensure this vital resource — our community newspaper — remained important to the community,” Hinman said. “We have been blessed with some of the industry’s best journalists, and we couldn’t achieve any of this without their efforts and the hard work of so many others here at the paper. This
is also thanks to the fantastic support we get from the greater Riverdale, Kingsbridge and Marble Hill neighborhoods.” Nearby, the Norwood News was the only other Bronx newspaper to take home NYPA awards this year. The paper won second place for local government reporting, third place for in-depth news reporting, second place for news or feature series, and an honorable mention for feature photos. A local Riverdalearea resident, Paul MiCHAeL Schindler, also won HiNMAN some awards through the newspaper he edits, Gay City News, including an honorable mention for special sections, third place in coverage of elections and politics as well as religion, and first place in editorials. The Riverdale Press is part of Richner Communications, which also owns the Herald Community Newspaper chain on Long Island, as well as The Jewish Star. The chain won a number of awards including best news or feature series for the Nassau Herald, spot news coverage from the Freeport Herald Leader, education coverage for Merrick Herald Life, special section for the Long Beach Herald, and Christina Daly for photographer of the year for the Valley Stream Herald. “Each week, The Press’ editorial team provides readers with the news they need most, and it is always nice to be recognized for this important work,” said Stuart Richner, the paper’s publisher. “Congratulations to the editors, reporters, photographers and the entire sales and production team who make what we do an indispensable part of the Riverdale and Kingsbridge communities.”
PRESS POINTS Cabrera wants bigger Bx3 buses The buses traveling along the Bx3 line are not big enough and aren’t frequent enough, and Councilman Fernando Cabrera believes it’s time the Metropolitan Transportation Authority does something about it. “We’re in a pandemic, in one of the most seriously COVIDimpacted communities in the city,” Cabrera said, in a release. “We’ve worked hard to control community spread, but our
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cording to the MTA. That ranks it the 16th most-traveled line in the Bronx, and the 51st mosttraveled in the city. Two local lines that use articulated buses — vehicles with two linear sections joined together by a pivoting point — are the Bx1/2 and the Bx9 lines. Both have a combined ridership of more than 49,000 daily passengers, and are typically more than double the passengers on the Bx3. The Bx13 — which connects the GWB with East 163rd Street
and Third Avenue in Morrisiana — is the most heavily used line in the borough with 40,260 passengers every day. It’s second in the city only to the M15 in Manhattan with more than 46,000 daily passengers, and does not typically use an articulated bus. Still, Cabrera believes the MTA needs to spend more time getting its Bx3 line in order, either by bringing in more buses, or mixing in larger buses into the fleet. “The data is in and the num-
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SATs, ACTs take back seat in college apps this year The pandemic “is more just another factor to consider,” Schachner said. “As far as me specifically, I’ve been pretty lucky. I was able to take the SAT once. Hopefully I’ll be able to take it again in October.” The decision to move to make tests like the SAT and ACT optional is gaining prominence nationally, but it’s also happening locally. Manhattan College made the decision to make the tests optional fairly early on. Not that they had much choice — standardized tests were being canceled across the country. Before the coronavirus pandemic, SAT and ACT scores were a significant factor in Manhattan’s admissions process, according to Tara Fay-Reilly, the college’s admissions director. But this year, her team will take a stronger look at transcripts along with other aspects of applications beyond test scores. Fay-Reilly noted the high volume of first-generation applicants Manhattan College receives. The college application experience can be especially challenging for those who might be the first in their family to attend college, even outside of a public health crisis. “For those students and their parents, this is a whole new world and process,” Fay-Reilly said. “This has just added such a layer of uncertainty and stress that we were looking to … eliminate any other hurdles or obstacles for students.” While test scores and transcripts remain important factors in the college admissions process, Fay-Reilly worries the process is too reliant on tests, ultimately pulling away from a holistic view of who the applicant truly is. “When you look at it at face value, you see numbers,” Fay-Reilly said. “But one of the things that our team does best is really that relationshipbuilding and knowing who our pipeline is. “And they’re not just applications. They’re students with stories.”
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There are fewer times in a teenager’s life more anxiety-inducing than junior year of high school. College planning and preparation is stressful enough, and it’s only made more so by the alphabet soup of standardized testing to get into those colleges: SAT, AP, IB, ACT and everything in between. But much of this testing begins in the spring — which this past year was the same season the country plunged headfirst into the coronavirus pandemic. Standardized tests were canceled across America, grading policies were hastily revised to accommodate remote learning, and the usual NEhA processes of college MANi searching and planning were thrown into flux. And now, as September nears, college applications and essay supplements are starting to go live online. But there are still many questions for the students filling them out, especially since two of the major factors in college admissions — standardized testing scores and grades in school subjects — aren’t what they used to be. Neha Mani’s college search certainly isn’t shaping up the way she thought it would. She was unable to take any standardized tests to include on her college applications. But while Mani might not necessarily be bummed about missing out on hours of testing, the high school is still a bit unsure how colleges will select their incoming classes without the information gleaned from test scores. “If admissions (offices) have a testoptional policy, then the standardized testing policy is not really that impor-
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Manhattan College is following the lead of more than 1,000 colleges nationwide when it comes to standardized testing for college admission. They’re all moving to make such tests optional after the standardized testing season was interrupted and largely canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. tant for many applications,” Mani said. “So it’s kind of like, what really is important for an application this year?” Although the pandemic has made several aspects of the college application process more difficult for Mani, it also presented a blessing in disguise: More time to flesh out and organize everything she still needed to do. “In terms of writing my applications, I have found the time to really work through essays,” she said. “And I’ve created a schedule, because when you’re in quarantine, that’s kind of needed.” Even though standardized test scores are not as vital in the college admissions process as they used to be, they still carry a lot of weight. Accord-
ing to the College Board, nearly half of the 75 most selective schools in the country list standardized test scores as “very important” factors in their admissions process, as opposed to a third that listed them as “important” and about the same amount that they are “considered.” There are three available SAT testing dates before November, which is when most early action and early decision applications are due. And there are two more before the year ends, as January usually marks the deadline for regular decision applications. But some colleges are modifying their admission processes due to the unprecedented impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The vast majority of
those aforementioned top colleges and universities in the country have moved to a test-optional admissions process, including all eight Ivy League schools and Stanford University. Mattan Schachner, who is set to start his senior year at the High School of American Studies, is interested in pursuing public policy and law. Because of that, he’s taking his college search outside New York, largely concentrating on the nation’s capital. Unlike Mani, Schachner took his SATs in March, right before the pandemic essentially closed the state down. Because of that, he doesn’t view the coronavirus as something significantly impacting his college application process.
POLITICAL ARENA Bowman: Don’t forget those in prison A lot of talk has taken place in recent months on how the coronavirus has affected society, and those living in it. But one area that hasn’t received the attention it deserves is inside our jails and prisons — and Jamaal Bowman believes the time has come to have those conversations. “New York state lawmak-
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ers have completely failed the people of this state by refusing to hold hearings about how COVID-19 is hurting our incarcerated brothers and sisters,” said Bowman, the Democratic nominee in line to replace Eliot Engel in the U.S. House, in a release. “When the government does not do its job, we the people must step up and hold them accountable.” Bowman hosted a “people’s hearing” last week as a way to
hear some of the stories facing those who work and reside in such systems. It’s a population that involves 48,000 people in New York alone, and without proper social distancing coupled with overcrowding, prisons and jails have been breeding grounds for COVID-19 spread. “We have a cruel criminal legal system that we must fight tirelessly to transform,” Bowman said. “But, while we fight to defund the police and end mass
incarceration, we have to immediately advocate for the members of our community who are behind bars right now. “Let’s speak the truth: Jails and prisons were dangerous as hell before COVID-19. And they are even more lethal now.”
Engel pushes for more schools funding U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel may be preparing to leave Congress af-
ter more than 30 years, but he’s not taking it easy before then. Engel led the New York congressional delegation in pushing leadership to provide more funding for the state’s public schools in response to the coronavirus pandemic. “The COVID-19 pandemic continues to alter our daily lives, and this is especially true with regard to our state’s education system,” Engel said, in a release. “Our teachers and
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Opinion
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Editorial
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Accountability matters
t’s dangerous to be a cop. A dozen cops are injured on average every day within the New York Police Department, according to internal data, with officers facing serious injury more than twice a week. That’s 4,260 injuries in just 2019 alone, including 21 here in the 50th Precinct. But they are not alone. Every day, 10 people facing arrest are injured by NYPD officers, with the serious injury rate about the same as it is for cops. Those aren’t the only eye-catching stats. Police use physical force 19 times a day, on average, based on 2019 numbers. They use weapons like stun guns more than three times a day. They fire their gun once a week. But looking at raw data doesn’t help tell the whole story. How did the officer get hurt? How did someone being arrested end up in the hospital? Did it have to happen? Was there another way it could’ve been handled? Many cops feel they’ve been targeted unfairly by the Black Lives Matter movement. That they are being judged by the actions of a few, and that we should leave it to the police departments to clean their own house. We’d be all for that, if police departments actually seemed to be rooting out these bad apples. They can’t understand why the public in general doesn’t believe them — but the answer to that is simple. There is no transparency in the process to deal with what some have described as bad arrests that have resulted in the death of someone — usually someone of color. And seemingly every few weeks
or so, we turn on the television and have to learn about another tragic case. Police need power to enforce the law, and no one is challenging that. But power can never be left unchecked, and we don’t have to tell you, but there’s no one guarding that station. Wearing body-cameras is not fun. Having a public process to deal with complaints is not fun. Having people film you when you’re conducting an arrest is not fun. Having to share data on who you interact with and arrest — and how those arrests are conducted — is not fun. But it’s how we keep this power in check. Someone who attended last week’s Blue Lives Matter march down Broadway told a reporter that if someone doesn’t want to be a victim, then they shouldn’t do something wrong. Police unions have called its officers victims because the public simply wants to hold them accountable. But wouldn’t the same mentality exist? The only way an officer could become a victim of accountability is if he or she did something wrong. Police are entrusted with power in return for serving and protecting the very people who bestowed it upon them. There is no divine right to that power. That power doesn’t provide immunity to the law, or give authority to violate the basic rights of individuals. Use of force necessary? Great. Then there should be no problem explaining it — Publicly. Because numbers may not tell whole stories, but context delivered through accountability does.
Point of view
‘Whole strength’ needed to make schools happen again
By DEIRDRE BURKE
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inding the ability to return New York City public school students to safe and effective and meaningful in-person instruction is the seminal issue of our time. The loss to young children is incalculable — first-graders may never be able to make up the deficits. So far, central decisions are being made piecemeal. Information is not readily forthcoming, and as a result, principals are hamstrung in planning instruction for their individual and unique buildings. Hermes Caraballo, a Bronx religious leader, enjoyed telling students about his brother, who was sent to live with his grandfather — his abuelo — in Puerto Rico as he was prone to trouble. Each morning, abuelo would send his grandson out to the field to move a large rock. The boy struggled to move the rock each day, and when he returned exhausted and unsuccessful, abuelo said, “You must use your whole strength to move the rock.” Finally, after days of struggle in the hot sun, the young man looked up to see his grandfather accompanied by his extended family with picnic baskets, all his neighbors, and their mule: “Here is your whole strength!” Likewise, the education department and New York City must use its whole strength to ensure that more than a million children are not cheated out of their future. This requires leveraging every resource — just a few of which are noted here. • Buildings must be equipped with effective, known safety measures, including virus filters and UVC blue lights. These measures also capture flu and rhinoviruses. The School Construction Authority has building and facilities experts who must be re-tasked to the buildings to determine what can be done for each building, and then install those measures. • Teacher shortages are a concern. Every person with an instructional credential employed by the central offices of the education department must be engaged in direct teaching, and tasked to the most at-risk areas. The initiatives they currently serve must be postponed, including — but not limited to — the current laborintensive teacher evaluations. New York state must waive many of its man-
dates. Hospitals task specialists with the care of medical patients. We can do no less. • The costly state student evaluation must be deferred until all schools have been up and running for at least two years. Instead, less laborintensive machine-scored reading and math tests should be used. One with a split-half reliability could be administered fall and spring to give a picture of student progress and program effectiveness. • All possible resources must be quickly catalogued and made public. These might include vacated buildings, schoolyards, tents, and bubbles like those used to create hospital space, etc. • Time must be considered in a new light. All seven days of the week could be used for inperson learning. Elementary schools could have half-day kindergarten, and shortened morning and afternoon sessions. High schools could operate evening school and use the college model of in-person contact hours, and triple that time for independent work or digitally assisted learning, depending on need. Instruction could be recorded for families to be used at other times. • Curriculum must be carefully planned and paced to ensure equity. Textbooks don’t require a constant digital platform and would be of enormous help to parents. • DOE budgets and expenditures must be analyzed to capture cost savings that can be driven into making school safe and learning possible. Expensive contracts to outside vendors are not needed at this time. • Everything in our approximately $24 billion budget must be on the table so as to make buildings safe and ensure that no teacher, para, school aide or school-based administrator is laid off or furloughed. Other city agencies must do their part. The job of our schools is teaching and learning — we cannot take on other roles. We need the support of homeless services, the health department, and every other agency or department. • Finally, we need an honest analysis of remote learning. If a tiered return to in-person learning is to be implemented, I believe it is imperative that elementary-aged children get priority for face-toface teaching. It is at this age where the foundation for future learning is built. The likely delay in school opening may give us an opportunity to get things right.
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Dinowitz not paying attention To the editor: Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz is wrong again. In his Aug. 20 email newsletter, he writes “the best path forward is to commit to remote learning until schools are adequately prepared while simultaneously ensuring financial support for families to cover lost income for parents and guardians who have to stay home, or child care expenses for those who cannot. Our only option right now is remote learning.” While he is entitled to his opinion, it is one not shared by many (perhaps even a majority) of parents here in Riverdale. I live in the same building complex as his son, so he didn’t have to reach out very far to get his finger on the pulse of how eager some parents are to send their kids back to school. And yet, he continues to demonstrate a pattern of incorrectly over-emphasizing health risks at the expense of taking away liberties, freedoms and quality of life for his constituents. This started with his vaccine bill last year, which disenfranchised numerous students from attending schools because of valid religious exemptions from our Jewish and other faith-based communities. His bill also made it nearly impossible to qualify for legitimate medical exemptions, thereby making parents choose between not being able to send their kids to school, or risking their children’s health. His current call for remote-only learning commits the same crime of taking a holier-than-thou stance, assuming that he knows better about how to weigh the various risks (medical, economic,
educational) for each individual family instead of letting them make their own decisions. Ironically, for a Democrat who is supposed to represent the will of his constituents instead of an iron-handed dictator reminiscent of the Republican Trump administration, his actions over the last two years have more resembled the latter than the former. Some families are in no financial position to keep their kids home. The “financial support” that Dinowitz calls for is inadequate when it does come, and its further existence is itself not a certainty. Some families who are in low-risk situations might view the disastrous educational outcomes that took place via remote learning through March through June and decide that the potential risk of sending their kids to school is vastly outweighed by the certain educational and economic devastation that will occur by requiring remote learning for everyone. There are no perfect answers here, so allowing families to choose what works for them is a necessity as we all try to navigate a world with COVID-19 for the foreseeable future. I ask the Assemblyman to refrain from further conducting himself as if we elected him to put forth his own opinions, even when they diverge from ours. He was elected to represent the will of his constituents, and in both last year’s vaccine bill and his current stance on remote-only learning, his opinions differ widely from a large swath of the population. It is our wishes and our decisions that he should be working to empower, not his own. DaviD EpsTEin
Make cops live where they work To the editor: Two generations ago, in the bad old days, the New York Police Department had many officers who were right extremists, in violation of the federal Hatch Act and New York state law, which require their political neutrality in job performance. Some of its officers were even avid readers of magazines that were looking for white mercenaries to help in coups d’etat in the Third World, like Soldier of Fortune. The brass weren’t much better. They used to run a “red squad” dedicated to spying on and intimidating political dissenters. When marchers pro-
tested the Vietnam War and some observers threw dangerous objects at them, the attending police did no more than order the victims to keep moving. I remember that era well. In 1964, the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater, lost to Lyndon Johnson in a landslide. But on Election Day, a group of NYPD officers were caught running a scheme to use police cars to drive Goldwater voters to the polls. Over time, the ethnicity of the force changed, and much of the openly reactionary orientation of the officers abated, but not all. Part of the problem is
that many officers do not reside in the localities they work for. In Buffalo, for example, where a group of off-duty officers recently came out to cheer for officers who were arrested for viciously attacking a 75-year-old peaceful marcher — an event recorded on video — there is now a city residency requirement. But it is only for newly hired officers, and was added only about five years ago. In New York City, even a newly hired officer does not have to reside in the city. The state legislature should change that. alan saks
Manhattan College good neighbor To the editor: I write to you as a neighbor and a partner in safeguarding our community. Over the past four months, those of us at Manhattan College have engaged in an enormous effort to reopen our campus safely for the fall semester, when some students will take classes in-person, and some will take classes remotely. We recently started welcoming resident students back to campus over the course of two weeks, with staggered arrival times. Since one of our residence halls, Overlook Manor, is offcampus — and some of our students live in offcampus housing in the neighborhood — I wanted to inform the community about how we are working with our students to maintain the health and safety of our campus community and our neighborhood during this pandemic. We have created a pledge for all students and employees to review and sign. The pledge specifically asks them to take responsibility for the health and safety of our community, and outlines the steps necessary to prevent the spread of COVID-19. We have revised the college’s code of conduct to reflect our current reality. We will have zero tolerance for large gatherings, on or off campus. Students who are facilitating events that could spread the virus, and students engaging in behaviors that intentionally put others at risk, will be subject to appropriate discipline. Any off-campus apartment, house or other dwelling where there have been repeated complaints about disruptive behavior may be designated as a “nuisance residence.” Repeated complaints may be documented in a number of ways,
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such as neighbor complaints, reports to 311, reports to 911, police reports, police response to an off-campus residence, or reports of the same to Manhattan College Public Safety. Once a dwelling has been designated a “nuisance residence,” Manhattan College students will be prohibited from living at that residence for a designated length of time. The college will also notify the landlord — if contact information is available — of policy violations as they become known to the college. We understand our obligation to our surrounding neighborhood is as important as our obligation to our students, faculty and staff in returning to campus this semester. We love this neighborhood. In fact, I lived here as a child. We appreciate our community and are aware that people in this area have been vital in lowering the infection rate to less than 1 percent since we were last on campus. Manhattan College students consistently give back to Riverdale through community service, and add significantly to the local economy. Nonetheless, we are committed to holding ourselves and our students accountable for the values on which the institution is based. We look forward to rejoining you in the neighborhood, pledge to do our part to keep that infection rate where it is, and assist in the well being of everyone in our own Manhattan College community and the greater Riverdale and Bronx communities. EsmilDa abrEu-HornbosTEl The author is associate vice president and dean of students for Manhattan College.
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No crowds, but that didn’t stop us from making history
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e were very excited at the possibility of representing our neighbors and going to the convention, scheduled to be held in Milwaukee. Having been to conventions before — we have each attended seven Democratic National Conventions — we knew that conventions provide an opportunity to meet political activists from throughout the country. It’s an event that allows us to exchange ideas, to learn and to advocate. The various meetings and caucuses that take place can be invaluable. Weighing in on the party platform gives us — and our community — the chance to have input. By April, it was pretty clear to us that we would not be going to Milwaukee, although the in-person convention wasn’t canceled until much later. Was this cancellation of the in-person convention — where 20,000 people would gather in one place in the midst of the pandemic — the end of a great American tradition? Or was this a one-off decision, and we can expect conventions again in 2024? And we learned this year that, in the future, many people can participate remotely and still be part of it. Either way, we think the Democrats hit a home run. In fact, a grand slam.
Candidates for New York city council are being asked by Democratic Socialists of America to pledge not to visit Israel. The council’s 13-member Jewish Caucus has strongly denounced the move as anti-Semitic. With 35 of the 51 council seats up for re-election this year, the DSA clearly seeks to steer the direction of its own agenda. We find this requirement for DSA endorsement dangerous, undemocratic, and patently absurd. First, foreign policy is not a responsibility of the New York city council, but serving the best interest of the country’s most-diverse city is. Every year, the Jewish Community Relations Council organizes missions to Israel for city council members. These trips serve to provide perspective for each individual traveler, offering opportunities to meet and interact with Israelis, Palestinians, Arabs, Jews and Christians. In short, to ask their own question and return with first-hand information not filtered through a media lens. These trips are valuable and necessary. The perspective gained is intrinsic to the protection of the diversity we so love in our city, and the democracy we all strive to uphold on a daily basis. Effective policymaking requires information, context and wisdom. Disagreements are not settled and conflict is not resolved in a vacuum of stalemate. Demand-
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Both authors were Biden delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Dinowitz is a state Assemblyman while Morik is a vice president of government and community affairs at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
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BDS is inspired by the antiapartheid movement, which helped end the racist South African regime. It’s notable that white South Africans now live in peace with the majority of South Africans who are neither white, nor racist. The U.S. government gives billions to Israel every year — the most of any country — and the Zionist government uses part of that money to lobby politicians here to continue the aid. This includes hosting city council members on all-expensespaid trips to Israel. DSA does not want candidates it endorses to take
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NeW exclusive FieldstoN Web #885 Stately, secluded georgian revival stone 6-bdrm, 6-full, 2-half bath residence situated on nearly three quarters of an acre. Completely renovated with wide front terrace, large living room with WBFP and french doors to four-season sunroom. $4,900,000
NeW exclusive FieldstoN Web #877 Renovated bright and airy 6-bdrm, 5.5-bath house with spacious grounds. Features entry hall, living room with fireplace, spacious and inviting eat-in kitchen, formal dining room, sunroom with radiant-heat floors and finished basement. $3,450,000
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West oF the parKWay Web #886 Charming and renovated 3-bdrm, 2-bath with center hall, living rm with WBFP, dining area and eat-in kitch. $1,350,000
West oF parKWay Web #891 Lavish newly built 8-bdrm, 7.5-bath house. 2-story center hall & double height great room w/ gas fireplace. $4,888,000
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NeW exclusive south riverdale Web #884 Renov 6-bdrm, 2-full and 2-half bath brick house. Tiled entry foyer, formal dining rm & renov kitchen. $1,395,000
NeW exclusive FieldstoN Web #890 Secluded 3-bdrm, 3.5-bath stone house with 2 additional guest bdrms, 2 sunrooms in cul-de-sac. $1,690,000
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NeW exclusive West oF parKWay Web #880 Grand bucolic beauty and open space classic 6-bdrm, 5.5-bath mansion with wraparound porch on over one acre with grassy lawns. Large center hall, living room with WBF, formal dining room with fireplace and eat-in kitchen. $4,475,000
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NeW exclusive North riverdale Web #892 Two-family, semi-attached brick house with wide entry terrace & backyard with a deck & patio on Cul-de-Sac. $945,000
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exclusive ceNtral riverdale Web #859 4-bdrm, 3-bath detached brick house with high ceilings, living room with brick WBFP & formal dining room. $890,000
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NeW exclusive West oF parKWay Web #755 3-bdrm, 2.5-bath center hall colonial. WBFP in living rm, open plan kitchen & dining & finished basement. $1,420,000
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exclusive FieldstoN Web #839 Bright 4-bdrm, 3-bath solar modern home with patio & garden. Living rm with WBFP & eat-in kitchen. $1,750,000
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North riverdale Web #889 Renovated 3-bdrm, 2-bath house with side and back yards, patio and garden. Living room with fireplace. $1,095,000
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exclusive West oF parKWay Web #873 4-bdrm, 3-bath Tudor-Style house on double lot with grassy yard and river views on private cul-de-sac. $1,575,000
NeW exclusive West oF the parKWay Web #856 Classic 3-bdrm, 2.5-bath house features a center hall, living rm with WBF, formal dining rm and eat-in kitchen. $995,000
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NeW exclusive West oF parKWay Web #883 Renovated and countrified 4-bdrm, 3-bath house with patio and level grassy backyard. Features an entry hall, living room, formal dining room with WBFP, skylighted eat-in kitchen and family room. Central a/c, tool shed and driveways. $1,950,000
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North riverdale Web #888 Sunny and spacious 3-bdrm, 3.5-bath with sunken living room, dining room with bay windows and deck. $969,000
exclusive south riverdale Web #872 Three vacant lots with R2 Zoning and Single-family 4-bdrm, 2.5-bath, stucco, Tudor-style house. $3,000,000
exclusive North riverdale Web #887 Secluded single level side by side twofamily house with porch, deck and grassy front yard on Cul-de-Sac. $850,000
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FieldstoN Web #844 Classic & Elegant 4-bdrm, 3.5-bath with abundant French doors leading out to expansive front terrace, a stone patio, an open, shady side porch and a level grassy yard. Living room with WBFP, formal dining room and eat-in kitchen. $1,895,000
south riverdale Web #871 Spacious 4-bdrm, 2.5-bath house with living room with WBFP, formal dining room and eat-in kitchen. $1,595,000
NeW exclusive West oF parKWay Web #882 Vacant site of approx 0.37 acres is a rare opportunity to build a home with commanding views of river. $1,495,000
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3800 blacKstoNe ave Web #cc630 Contemporary 2-bdrm, 2-bath duplex penthouse with private roof terraces, laundry & indoor parking. $699,000
3875 hh parKWay Web #cc638 Spacious & bright 3-bdrm, 2-bath corner unit with entry foyer, living room and renovated kitchen. $618,000
601 KappocK st Web #cc647 Bright, low-floor Junior 4 (converted to 2-bdrm), 1.5-bath Co-op with doorman and pool. $335,000
3616 heNry hudsoN parKWay Web #cc642 Spacious and Bright 2-bdrm, 2-bath co-op with balcony and doorman. Entry foyer, living room with picture window, stylish pass-through kitchen, professionally soundproofed music room, refinished hardwood floors and near all. $429,000
ceNtral riverdale Web #cc643 Contemporary Condo with balcony, modern kitchen, laundry in unit, DM and indoor parking. $670,000
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West oF parKWay - 3-bdrm, 2-bath, w/ balcony, L-shaped LR/DR area, DM, fitness room, private playground and childrens recreation room. Dogs OK. Indoor parking available. $515K West oF parKWay - 2-bdrm, 1.5-bath, w/ balcony, L-shaped LR/DR area, DM, fitness room, private playground and childrens recreation room. Dogs OK. Indoor parking available. $420K sold - North riverdale - Renov Jr-4 with entry foyer living rm, dining rm and windowed eat-in kitchen. $299K sold - ceNtral riverdale - Newly renov studio with hrdwd flrs, seperate kitchen and sleeping area. $185K
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445 West 240th st cc637 Postwar 2-bdrm condo with large entry foyer, living rm & windowed kitchen. $375K
290 West 232Nd st cc626 2-bdrm with entry foyer, living room, kitchen, dining area and balcony. $315K
3875 Waldo ave cc640 Charming & updated Jr4 with large dining foyer and sunken living room. $229K
West oF parKWay - Luxury 2-bdrm, 2-bath with balcony, doorman, tennis courts and fitness room. $3,595/mo West oF parKWay - Luxury 2-bdrm, 2-bath, 24-hr doorman, pool & tennis courts. 1 month free rent $2,795/mo West oF parKWay - Luxury 1-bdrm with balcony, doorman, tennis courts and fitness room. 1 month free rent $2,295/mo West oF parKWay - Luxury studio in 24-hr doorman building NeW exclusive with pool and tennis courts. 1 month free rent $1,850/mo 555 KappocK st cc605 Bright 1-bdrm with dining pet-FrieNdly reNtals area, C/A/C, Hudson River West oF parKWay - Spacious and bright 3-bdrm, 2-bath, view and 24-hr DM. $179K
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5715 mosholu ave cc635 Bright L-shaped 2-bdrm postwar co-op. Hrdwd flrs, South & West expos. $208K
3601 JohNsoN ave. cc587 Walk-in level doctor’s office with seperate entrance and reception area. $295K
FieldstoN vic. rr880 Spacious 6-bdrm, 4.5-bth center-hall Colonial w/ patio & yard on cul-de-sac. $8,800
3850 hudsoN m.t. cc644 Low floor 3-bdrm, 2-bath with updated kitchen, W/D in unit and part time doorman. $449K
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611 West 239th st cc645 Spacious split-design, 2-bdrm, 2-bath co-op w/ indoor parking, balcony and doorman. $425K
reNtal - pets oK West oF parKWay rr879 Friendly 3-bdrm, 2-bath, dining area, sunset balcony, drmn & fitness rm. $3,195
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FieldstoN vic. rr642 6-bdrm, 3.5-bath, 7,500 sq. ft. house w/ Expansive wraparound porch & pool. $19,500/mo
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FieldstoN vic. rr878 8-bdrm, 6.5-bath w/ entry vestibule, living room w/ frplc, eat-in kitchen. $18,500/mo
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sunset balcony, D/M, fitness. Dogs ok. $3,195/mo GreystoNe aveNue - 3-bdrm, 1.5-bath with dining area and yard in multi-family house. $2,800/mo south riverdale - 2-bdrm, 1.5-bath with large kitchen and hardwood floors in multi-family house. $2,450/mo reNted - West oF parKWay - 2-bdrm, 2-bath, sunset $2,400/mo balcony, doorman & fitness room. Dogs OK.
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4455-65 douGlas cc622 3755 hh pKWay - the imperial - Walk-in level doctor’s Spacious Townhouse with office with reception area and 2 exam rooms. $360K 3-bdrms, 3.5bths, sunken North riverdale - Office Space Available. $1,500/mo LR, WBFP & patio. $1.699K
exclusive 3530 hh parKWay cc628 Huge 3-bdrm conv 4, 2-bath at Parkway House. Low floor, high ceilings. $649K
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3875 Waldo ave cc639 Spacious and charming Jr4 corner unit w/ lrg dining foyer and widowed dining area. $249K
exclusive 3755 hh parKWay cc623 Spacious 1-bdrm with entry foyer, living room, renov kitch & dining area. $199K
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exclusive 5355 hh parKWay Updated Jr-4 with balcony, living rm, rm and eat-in kitch.
cc634 sunrise dining $279K
5355 hh parKWay cc629 Renovated Jr-4, living room, dining room & eat-in kitch. No board approval. $299K
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