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Mayor reopens middle schools as COVID-19 infections drop
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n Still no return date for high schools, making them last to return come Feb. 25
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Palisade Ave was surprised with a set of speed humps. Could it cause more harm than good? Page A3
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Small biz rescue A new Lehman program gives an assist to mom and pops wading through some COVID recovery programs. Page A10
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Not even the cold, wintry weather could dampen spirits at the John Cardinal O’Connor Clergy Residence on Arlington Avenue. Snow flurries have made winter’s mark clear in our neighborhood, and more storms could follow close behind.
Getting back to school hasn’t been easy for many, but it’s been especially difficult for New York City. Public school buildings were not open two months last November when officials shut them down again in the midst of a new coronavirus surge. Elementary schools, preschools and specialized District 75 schools were among the first to reopen physically in December. But there was no reopening date in sight for middle and high schools. That all changed last week. Mayor Bill de Blasio declared middle schools would reopen Feb. 25, following a winter recess. Still closed for the time being, however, are high schools, although de Blasio says he hopes they will follow at some point this spring. BILL de Blasio has maintained public school de BLASIO buildings are among the safest places for children to be during the pandemic since positive test rates weren’t common inside them. That was his position last fall, and it continues to be the mayor’s argument even now as he reopens middle schools. “We know kids are ready to come back,” de Blasio said. “Teachers and staff are excited to see the kids again. This is going to be great for New York City. And a lot of work has gone into this to make sure we are ready, and of course, to always put health and safety first.” Because middle school employees now need to physically report to campus, they’ll be moved up the priority list to receive coronavirus vaccines, de Blasio said. The goal is to get as many vaccinated as possible, especially during INFECTIONS, page A4
On the computer? In the car? SAR here to help n Volunteers help seniors register for vaccines while also offering them literal lifts
Need assistance? If you’re eligible for the coronavirus vaccine but are struggling to schedule an appointment, SAR’s chesed team may be able to help. Just fill out this online form at tinyurl.com/ChesedVax
By ROSE BRENNAN rbrennan@riverdalepress.com
All you can be Army Black Knights finished a stellar football campaign in 2020, thanks in no small part to a quarterback with local roots. Page A5
SAR Academy and its nearby high school made national headlines becoming some of the first schools in the state — and perhaps the country — to close because of the coronavirus pandemic. Now, nearly a year later, they’re leading the charge to get their surrounding community vaccinated against the very virus that initially shut them down. For many of the pandemic’s early months, SAR’s focus was on how to reopen its campuses safely. That was ultimately a success — nearly 90 percent of SAR Academy’s students have been learning in-person the majority of the time, according to principal Binyamin Krauss. But once the coronavirus vaccine rollout began last December, Krauss noticed the schools prioritizing something new: Getting everyone inoculated. Educators and pretty much anyone working at schools were likely going to get higher priority for the vaccine, but the rabbi wasn’t exactly sure when those at SAR would become eligible. But getting vacci-
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Jen Kroll is one of several of SAR Academy’s chesed volunteers helping elderly neighbors get vaccinated. She hopes her effort to register people for vaccine appointments can help make a difference — especially since local vaccination sites are limited. nated became a team effort, thanks to an online messaging app known as Slack. “I basically said, ‘We have to crowdsource this. There’s no other way to do this, because it’s not like one website,’”
Krauss said. “It’s almost like getting concert tickets. You’re going to have to get on there and keep going until you get appointments.” And they got those appointments, cov-
ering nearly 100 faculty members and school workers. In fact, many are now well on their way to receiving their second and final dose. But SAR’s success didn’t necessarily translate to similar results for the rest of the community. So Krauss turned his viewpoint outward, asking his team how they could get the rest of their neighbors vaccinated. Krauss turned to a group of volunteers formed in the early days of the pandemic to deliver food and other essential supplies to the community. They were known as chesed volunteers — the Hebrew word for “kindness.” And kindness was just what the doctor ordered — along with two doses of the coronavirus vaccine, of course. Krauss reached out to one of chesed’s members asking if they’d be willing to revive the group. But the volunteers would CHESED, page A4
Newest council candidate under fire over Twitter account n Kevin Pazmino often shared tweets focused on many debunked conspiracy theories, baseless claims By ETHAN STARK-MILLER estarkmiller@riverdalepress.com
Up until the moment he was accused of inciting violence at the U.S. Capitol, Twitter was Donald Trump’s personal megaphone. The former president used it for everything — riling up his base, targeting political enemies, and even for firing several executive branch employees. That all changed after the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill — an insurrection attempt law enforcement says was led by Trump supporters,
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Just who is Kevin Pazmino? Page A7 and what many political leaders from both sides of the aisle say the president himself incited. Twitter finally suspended Trump’s account, silencing his digital voice to millions of followers. Yet, Twitter is not completely out of the political conversation just yet — at least as far as the March 23 city council special election race is concerned. One of the six candidates looking to fill Andrew Cohen’s final year, Kevin Pazmino, shared Trump’s love of the social media platform. And just like the former president, his account, too, was suspended by Twitter. Pazmino doesn’t know why he, too, was silenced — but those running against him in the council race say they do know.
Spreading conspiracy theories
It all comes down to what populated his feed, they TWITTER THEORY, page A4
Before his Twitter account was suspended, Kevin Pazmino often retweeted figures considered by many to be right-wing extremists, like Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Larceny turned up to the Maxx TJ Maxx may be known for its generous discounts, yet some just can’t seem to stop themselves stealing from its West 238th Street location. An employee told police he watched one of those thieves walk past the cash register without paying for several items in the early evening hours of Feb. 7. Among the items grabbed were bedding, active wear and women’s shoes, according to a report. In total, the wears were valued at a little more than $400. Police describe the thief as a Black man standing 5-foot-8 and weighing about 150 pounds. He was last seen wearing a baseball hat, blue jeans and white sneakers.
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A clever thief has been stealing and forging checks — something that might sound like the plot of “Catch Me If You Can,” but instead is happening near Knolls Crescent.
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A victim told police she mailed her homeowner’s insurance check for $424 just after Christmas, using a public mailbox nearby. Several weeks later, she found out the check never made it, and instead had been cashed out for $20,000. Police believe the check was stolen from the mailbox, had its original amount “washed” off, and then cashed for much more money.
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Even though it’s a new year, car thefts are still in fashion, and Honda CR-Vs seem to be the most popular item so far in 2021. The latest CR-V heist took place Feb 4. As the story usually goes, someone parked their car at the 3300 block of Henry Hudson Parkway, around 9 p.m., retuning later to find their car stolen. This particular CR-V was a black 2020 model valued at more than $31,000. Police said they have few leads on this one, but they promise not to give up.
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Fasten your seatbelts for bumpy ride on Palisade Ave n Four speed humps just outside Hebrew Home could do harm, not good By ROSE BRENNAN rbrennan@riverdalepress.com
Rollercoasters can be fun, so long as they’re within the confines of state fairs and amusement parks. But when they’re outside a nursing home, the adrenaline rush seems to suddenly disappear. When Daniel Reingold drove to work at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale on a recent morning, he found several work trucks outside the facility’s Palisade Avenue entrance. And when the senior care facility president left that evening, the trucks were gone. But in their wake were four new speed humps. No one told Reingold anything about the speed humps, or even asked whether it was a good idea. If they had, city transportation officials may have thought twice about installing them, especially with how the humps might rob emergency vehicles of vital seconds that could literally mean life or death for the hundreds of souls who call Hebrew Home, well, home. “I certainly understand the concerns of the community, to be sure that people are observing that 25 mph speed limit,” Reingold said. “But one of (the speed humps) is literally at the front entrance to our campus. One would think that they would’ve reached out to us and have had some conversation.” Because of the older population the Hebrew Home serves, ambulance traffic along Palisade is fairly common. Those vehicles need to move quickly in times of crisis — something that’s now especially difficult to do on a street like Palisade, with these four speed humps added to its name. “The concern is that we have frail,
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A car drives over a speed hump outside the Hebrew Home at Riverdale on Palisade Avenue. The humps’ installation came as a surprise to the senior care facility, and some in upper management are worried this speed control device might impede legitimate fast-moving vehicles — like ambulances during an emergency. elderly people who are coming in and out of our campus in ambulances and ambulettes. And even at a very low speed, this is very disorienting and disruptive to them,” Reingold said. “The patients who are coming in and out to the hospital have expressed real discomfort with it.” Speed humps aren’t intended to cause discomfort, but instead to slow traffic, according to Community Board 8 traffic and transportation committee chair Dan Padernacht. But there have been no known complaints about speed on Palisade — a narrow, winding street that runs parallel with the Hudson River. And no one stopped to tell Padernacht about the impending speed humps, either — something DOT normally wouldn’t install without community input. “I don’t know if this is something that came from downtown that the
Bronx DOT office was unaware of, or slipped through without somebody notifying the community board,” Padernacht said. It’s not that the city agency hasn’t been talking with the community board. In fact, Bronx DOT commissioner Nivardo Lopez had consulted with a working group exploring options to curb reckless driving on Independence Avenue. Yet, the Palisade Avenue work never came up. “I don’t know what DOT’s current policy is when it comes to advising the community board about changes to the roadway, traffic devices or parking restrictions,” Padernacht said, noting these are protocols that seem to change often. “This is something that might’ve slipped through the cracks.” But it’s not an isolated incident. Less than a year ago, DOT turned an oddly
laid-out intersection involving West 238th Street, Orloff Avenue and Fort Independence Street into a three-way stop, where previously only one stop sign existed. That change, done just blocks from where Padernacht lives, created confusion for many drivers for weeks afterward since there was no warning the stop signs were being added, and they were difficult to spot. The stop sign for Fort Independence was run six out of 10 times in a single hour observed by a Riverdale Press reporter at the time. Cars coming from the other direction didn’t fare much better. Reckless driving — especially drag racing — is a persisting problem on a few of the community’s streets, among them Independence Avenue. Over the summer, speed bumps were reinstalled on Independence in an effort to address the racing, although some
neighbors said it had little effect. But CB8 never received reports of reckless driving or drag racing on Palisade, Padernacht said, so he’s not really sure why speed humps — especially four of them — were installed there. “Based on the location of the Hebrew Home, on its face, it does not seem to be a good idea to put a speed bump right there,” said Padernacht, who first learned of the speed humps from a reporter. A DOT spokeswoman said there wasn’t much of a mystery here — the agency simply received a “community request” to install speed humps along Palisade. DOT commissioned a study, found it would be feasible, and sent out trucks. DOT shared few other details on who made the request, or what other neighbors — like the Hebrew Home — were consulted. Palisade is not without its problems, Reingold admits, especially the lack of light after the sun sets. There’s definitely a need for caution, but speed humps were not necessarily the answer to that need. “We remind our staff all the time about being a good neighbor and driving carefully,” Reingold said. “There’s definitely a need for cars to go slowly and carefully. I just wish we had an opportunity to discuss the various possibilities so our residents wouldn’t be so negatively impacted by it.” Not only does it slow down ambulances, but it could make for a very bumpy ride for residents who might not respond well to such movement. Reingold isn’t sure what his next steps will be. But he hopes in the future, DOT might at least pick up the phone and call before moving forward with other major changes. “It’s not up to me to say whether they should be removed or not,” Reingold said. If “we had an opportunity to at least discuss the issue and discuss different alternatives, it would have been more helpful.”
PRESS POINTS Overnights (almost) return to subway New York City’s subway system moves a big step closer toward a return to round-theclock service Monday when overnight cleaning is reduced from four hours each day to just two. Patrick Foye, chair of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, shared the news this
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past Monday during Gov. Cuomo’s regular media briefing. Beginning Feb. 22, the subways will shut down at 2 a.m., and reopen by 4. That makes closing an hour later, and opening an hour earlier. The new hours “will allow us to continue our enhanced disinfecting regime, which has led the subways to be the cleanest they’ve ever been,” Foye said. “We will never stop doing ev-
Now, some 10 months later, erything we can to protect ridNew York City Transit Authoriers and employees.” The MTA shut down the ty interim president Sarah Feintrains overnight last May at the berg believes the state agency first height of the coronavirus can keep subways as safe as pandemic when much of the possible from coronavirus city was still shut down, and spread without limiting train buses were only transporting service to just 20 hours per day. “We have determined that a essential workers — and doing it for free. Even when fares re- shortened overnight closure is turned to buses last September, an appropriate step forward toCuomo kept trains shut downT:11"ward the return of around-theclock service,” Feinberg said overnight.
during Cuomo’s briefing. “To be clear, we will continue our cleaning regimen. We’ve been doing so for many months now, and we will continue to do so.” The MTA cleans around the clock already, Feinberg said, including disinfecting train stations twice daily. Subway cars also are cleaned and disinfected multiple times each day. Cuomo described the increased subway service as one
of several ways the state government is trying to restore some normalcy as more and more people are vaccinated and looking to return to lives interrupted nearly a year ago. “Many people have had significant pain and suffering with this economic shutdown,” the governor said. “The MTA is obviously vital to the reopening and the stimulation of the economy.”
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While middle schools throughout the city will reopen at the end of the month, it might look a bit different in this part of the Bronx. M.S. 244 is one of the only schools here strictly teaching sixth through eighth grade. Regardless, they’ll physically return to school Feb. 25.
Still some confusion on how middle schools return INFECTIONS from page A1 the winter recess when they don’t have classes to worry about — in-person or otherwise. “We’ll have thousands of appointments available for teachers and school staff,” de Blasio said. “But I also want to remind everyone our schools are among the safest places in the entire city. We’re testing every school every week. Whether someone is vaccinated or not, they’re going to be safe in our schools.” So what does reopening mean for this part of the Bronx? Middle grades will return to their school buildings, but this particular area is unique because there is really only one public school that strictly teaches sixth through eighth grade: M.S. 244 on West 231st Street. But even M.S. 244 — better known as The New School for Leadership and the Arts — is housed inside Marie Curie High School, making it a bit of an anomaly when it comes to school reopening. That means M.S. 244’s students will return without their high school peers with whom they share the building. The rest of the area’s middle-schoolers largely
attend campuses with mixed grade levels. Schools like P.S. 95 Sheila Mencher and P.S./M.S. 37 are schools that include elementary grades. Younger students have been coming into those buildings for the past two months, and will now once again share that campus with middle schoolers. But P.S. 95 and P.S./M.S. 37 aren’t alone. INTech Academy on Tibbett Avenue and Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy on West 237th Street teach sixth through 12th grade, meaning they’ll finally reopen — except with their older students staying home. This could create some confusion for anyone working on those campuses. While teachers over sixth, seventh and eighth grade would return, who else will need to physically show up among office staff members, administrators, counselors and anyone else not teacher? Principals can call in 20 percent of their nonacademic school personnel, but will still honor work-from-home medical accommodations for those who need them, according to Alison Gendar, spokeswoman for the United Federation of
Teachers union. That also applies to psychologists, social workers and other support staff members, provided their caseloads are spread out across grades. However, if their caseloads are isolated to one grade level, they’d follow the same in-person or remote model as that grade level. That means seventh-grade school counselors would need to report to the building every day, but 10th grade counselors could continue to work remotely. There could be an unforeseen advantage to reopening the buildings for schools like IN-Tech and RKA: Space. And lots of it. “We can use the high school side for social distancing, as well as the classrooms (to) support the students, so more could come in,” said Michael Simmon, an eighth-grade social studies teacher at IN-Tech. “Instead of keeping them on one side of the school, they can now use both sides. And they could accommodate more students.” Simmon has taught remotely since November, and says he’s excited to get back into the classroom. But that excitement isn’t necessarily
just for himself — it’s for the students. While middle and high schoolers might be better suited for remote learning than those at the elementary levels, some of them still need a bit of extra learning support that they can’t necessarily get at home. “You may not get that support that you need with somebody that’s very knowledgeable,” Simmon said. “Not saying the parents aren’t knowledgeable, but somebody in the content area can really support your algebra, your social studies, English (and) science labs, and get that extra support so the kids feel more encouraged to do their work.” Some students still struggle more than others academically. And opening school buildings might be what everyone wants for their kids ideally — but for students who need that support, reopening is crucial. “All the students lost a little bit (with) pandemic fatigue,” Simmon said. If school buildings reopen, “they’ll start to re-engage again, because they’re now back in the flow of the whole school. And I believe that will help them refocus back into grades, and getting their grades back up.”
Suspended Twitter account plagues council campaign TWITTER THEORY from page A1 said — mostly retweets of what many consider to be right-wing extremist figures and news sites trafficking in mostly debunked conspiracy theories. These figures include U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, the elected Republican most closely associated with QAnon — the conspiracy-based movement whose followers believe there’s a cabal of liberal elites secretly running a global child sex trafficking ring. They believe Trump worked behind the scenes to dismantle it. Greene was a major QAnon supporter on social media, but has since backed away a few steps after being elected to Congress. Still, some of her social media posts continued to spread QAnon-related conspiracies. Pazmino retweeted Greene, including a Feb. 1 post that “the Democrat mob and fake news media smear campaign launched against me is simply a continuation of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Here’s the truth, though, their derangement isn’t directed at Donald Trump or (me). It’s about their hatred for you, the American people.” Early this month, all House Democrats — joined by 11 Republicans — stripped Greene of her congressional committee seats, citing past statements they say endorsed violence against her colleagues while spreading what they described as dangerous conspiracy theories. Specifically, Greene liked a Facebook post advocating the assassination of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and suggested that several school shootings and the Sept. 11 attacks were staged by the government. Pazmino is a conservative and a Trump supporter, something he isn’t shy about. In fact, he’s running for city council on the Patriot Party line — a party Trump suggested he might start as an alternative to the Republican Party, although Pazmino said that’s more
coincidental. He joined the council race, he said, because he believes the country as a whole is trending toward socialism, and he hopes he can stop it at the local level. Pazmino followed people on Twitter with a range of political views, he said, but his feed is more right-leaning because he feels those views don’t get enough exposure. “I feel like there is no spotlight on that at all,” Pazmino said. “And, if anything, it’s being shunned and it’s just always like, ‘Oh, that’s right-wing.’ Label everything ‘right-wing,’ and then everybody will look away from it.”
‘I feel like there is no spotlight on that at all. And, if anything, it’s being shunned, and it’s just always like, ‘Oh, that’s right-wing.’ Label everything ‘right-win,’ and then everybody will look away from it.’
— Kevin Pazmino
Less, not more
His competitors strongly disagree, believing those views need less — not more — exposure. Shortly after Pazmino officially entered the race, Eric Dinowitz — an Assemblyman’s son and former teacher, issued a press statement denouncing Pazmino’s candidacy and the views he amplified on his Twitter feed. “Donald Trump tried to revitalize his candidacy with the Patriot Party,” Dinowitz told The Riverdale Press. “And now I see someone in the community that I’ve spent my entire life (in) run on that same line with that same ideology that has done so much damage to my students, to trust in our institutions: Questioning the results of elections. I don’t think that the northwest Bronx should be represented by someone who subscribes to that ideology.” Similarly, environmentalist Jessica Haller was shocked to learn a Trump supporter was running for city council — from her corner of the Bronx. “I obviously denounce all the bigotry that he stands for,” Haller said of the former president. “The fearlessness that I talked about in my race is not that kind of fearlessness. It’s stand-
Among tweets city council candidate kevin Pazmino shared before his account was suspended included this one that appears to make fun of incoming U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, set to become one of the few openly transgender government officials in the country. Pazmino says he followed people from a wide spectrum of political beliefs, and that any retweet by him does not necessarily constitute an endorsement of the views expressed in that tweet. ing up to people like that.” But Pazmino says these are just mischaracterizations because his tweets are not endorsements. Rather, they’re ideas he finds interesting that he wants to save for himself. “As I’m reading and scrolling, I’ll retweet and like almost everything that’s on my page,” Pazmino said. “And sometimes it will just be like, ‘Oh, I want to read this article later on.’ So, I’ll just retweet it, so it’s on my thing and I don’t have to go searching for it.” He also does this so the Twitter search algorithm can catch these tweets, he added, and more people can discuss and debate them. Real estate attorney Dan Pader-
nacht, another candidate in the race, doesn’t think this explanation holds up. “Candidates are aware that their tweets and re-tweets are public expressions of their opinions,” Padernacht said. Additionally, Pazmino said, as a freelance filmmaker he likes and retweets these right-wing extremist figures for research purposes — as ideas for scripts he might write. Just like the show “Law & Order” uses real crimes reported in newspapers as a basis for episodes, Pazmino uses social media as inspiration for his own stories. Haller doesn’t buy it.
“If you’re a filmmaker, and that’s how you memorialize (things), then you (need to) get a better way to memorialize things,” she said. When it comes to QAnon, Pazmino said he’s familiar with it and thinks it’s “pretty interesting” — especially parts of the theory that’ve been endorsed by Fox News host Sean Hannity and other right-wing media figures. However, Pazmino added he doesn’t believe in theories unless they’re actually proven. Pazmino does believe there was massive voter fraud supporting Joe Biden’s 2020 election win, although he offered no evidence to support that claim. Mainstream news outlets didn’t cover public statements from those who said they witnessed voter fraud in swing states, Pazmino said, and he added his belief that many of Trump’s court cases were dismissed without looking at the evidence. Although Pazmino’s views and candidacy are concerning, Haller said she’s confident that he’s not going to get very far in the special election race. “I don’t think the Patriot Party has a foothold in the Bronx in enough of any way to be anything more than background noise for us.”
SAR does neighbors a kindness finding COVID vaccine sites CHESED from page A1 have a new mission: Connecting neighbors — particularly senior citizens — with vaccine appointments. And soon enough, chesed was back in action. “We have 50 people in a WhatsApp group called ‘COVID Vaccine Volunteers,’” Krauss said. “They’re literally sharing these things with each other and helping seniors in our community (and) outside our community.” And the help goes further than simply scheduling vaccination appointments, Krauss said. Some of the volunteers even go so far as to drive people to those appointments, especially since there have only been two primary local vaccination sites — none of which are within the 10471 ZIP code. For Jen Kroll, the vaccination effort mainly began as a fight for accurate in-
formation — which she had, and gladly dispensed to anyone who needed it. And from there, it snowballed. “I helped two couples, and then they shared my name with six more people, and they shared my name with eight more people,” said Kroll, who parents two children in the SAR system. “You can’t sit there every minute of the day, clicking all 80 sites to find out where there’s an opening. So when there was a BINyAMIN group of us, who were kRAUSS all available at different times of the day, we would say, ‘Hey, go on this site, they have openings now.’”
During the early months of the pandemic, Kroll delivered food to seniors as a chesed volunteer. It was overwhelming to see how many people needed help then, and it was all too easy for her to connect the dots once it was time to get people inoculated. “When this vaccination effort was mentioned, I just turned to my husband like, ‘How are all these people going to get it?’” Kroll said. “If I can just play a little, small part and help a few be able to feel safer a week or two or a month faster than they may have been able to … I’m happy to help.” The volunteer effort has only been live for a few weeks, but it’s already making waves. The moment seniors 65 and older became eligible for vaccines, Ben and Carin Dachs tried to make an appointment. Carin worked the inter-
net while Ben manned the phone — all without success. Before long, the process became far too frustrating for either of them to navigate. “Four-and-a-half hours later, my hands were shaking,” Carin said. “I was crying, and I threw up my arms and said, ‘I give up. I’ll just stay in the house for the next six months.’” Their daughter, who happens to work at SAR, reached out to see if they needed any help. Seeing that frustration, she connected them with a chesed volunteer, who helped them schedule two vaccine appointments that had just opened up in Brooklyn, where they live. And by the end of the day, they both received their first doses of the vaccine. Now, some weeks later, Ben and Carin have collected their second and
final doses. And for the first time in a long time, they feel safe. “Shortly, we might be able to actually be indoors with our grandchildren,” Ben said. “We’ve been avoiding them specifically because of our age. We really miss our kids, but certainly our grandkids. And Zoom and other virtual stuff just doesn’t cut it.” While the prospect of getting a vaccine certainly makes the community a bit more hopeful, the logistics are proving difficult to navigate. And it may take a while before everyone who wants a shot gets one. Yet Krauss is more than happy to make it as painless as possible, for as many people as possible. “This is going to be a long haul (for) the next six months, at least,” Krauss said. “So we’d be very much interested in being part of that effort.”
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Army QB doesn’t stray far from Riverdale roots n Christian Anderson finds his future on the gridiron at West Point By PETE JANNY Correspondent
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he 50 miles between Cardinal Hayes High School and the U.S. Military Academy transitions from a busy urban corridor to rural hilly terrain along Palisades Parkway. There’s a natural ease for embracing the difference in lifestyle between the Bronx and West Point — two places whose only apparent commonality is the state each calls home. Christian Anderson has seen his journey take him from one milieu to the other — from the Friday night lights at Cardinal Hayes to the Saturday afternoon games in front of his fellow Army cadets. However, Anderson’s success on the football field has not made him take for granted where he comes from — where he hopes his talents at quarterback will take him. Anderson completed his junior season on an Army football team last fall, leading his team to a 9-3 record before losing on New Year’s Eve to West Virginia by a single field goal at the AutoZone Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tennessee. In his bowl debut, the Riverdale native rushed for 84 yards in what amounted to a final audition of sorts to be Army’s starting signal caller heading into next season. Anderson has come a long way since Cardinal Hayes. In his senior year there in 2016, he threw for 3,653 yards, leading the Cardinals to the state championship game. He also earned first-team all-state honors from the New York State Sportswriters Association. “I still have a relationship with all the coaches there and the administrative people,” Anderson said. “I still have a great connection and definitely miss a bunch of my teammates from there. I still keep up with how they’re doing in college.” Now four years later, Anderson
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Army quarterback Christian Anderson tries to break loose from defenders in a November college football game against Tulane. Anderson helped West Point to a 9-3 record, culminating in a 24-21 loss against West Virginia in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl. and his Army teammates endured an unconventional season, while their families rooted for them back home, unable to attend any games due to COVID-19 restrictions. It wasn’t an easy adjustment. “It was a challenge to remain focused in case a player tested positive or a game got canceled,” Anderson said. “You have to keep all the guys focused and not discouraged, so that was a big testament to the senior leadership we had, and the coaches.” Anderson opened the season leading his team to a 2-1 start, beating Middle Tennessee State and LouisianaMonroe at home before falling to nationally ranked Cincinnati on the road. He racked up 98 yards on the ground and scored twice against LouisianaMonroe, marking the second time in his college career Anderson rushed for multiple touchdowns in a game.
Yet, Anderson’s path to playing time at West Point was a windy one, oftentimes finding himself getting lost on the depth chart for a program notorious for rostering a glut of quarterbacks. He didn’t play his first two seasons at all. Anderson moved to the playing field in 2019, appearing in six games while still only a sophomore from an eligibility standpoint. Last year saw him start to turn the corner as everything seemed to fall into place. The starting quarterback job was seemingly Anderson’s to lose. But the 55-23 win against Abilene Christian in October was bittersweet for Anderson, suffering an injury that sidelined him for more than a month. Even with rehab, there were no guarantees he’d have any playing time upon his return. Adding to his bind was the stress of the academic
semester and being away from his family, something that almost pushed Anderson back to square one. “It was difficult because I felt I had a lot of injuries that happened back to back,” he said. “It helped having my teammates there and they trusted me to get back to my form and come back better.” Through patience and perseverance, Anderson returned behind center on Nov. 14 at Tulane. Despite running for a touchdown, Army came up short in a 36-12 loss. The Black Knights bounced back by winning the last three games of the season, highlighted by a 15-0 win over archnemesis Navy. Anderson didn’t play that game, but knows exactly what the rush of emotions feels like after starting against Navy in 2019. “It’s always good to play good com-
petition and play against your rival,” Anderson said. “Navy was my first start at West Point, and scoring in that game was amazing knowing so many people were watching that game.” He returned to the field a week later against Air Force, zipping for 85 yards in a 10-7 win that clinched the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy. It was a classic example of the run-heavy style of football that Army prides itself on, and proved to be the final hurdle in clinching a bowl game. But it’s not all football for Anderson. Right now, he’s studying systems engineering, yet other possibilities outside of that major are beginning to cross his mind once his collegiate playing career comes to a close. “Honestly, right now I think I may end up being a coach, and that’s something I’m really passionate about,” Anderson said. “I know obviously that doesn’t have much to do with my major, but if coaching doesn’t work out, then I’ll be able to do whatever I want with my major.” First, he must prepare for his senior year on the gridiron. His personal workout plan enlists the help of someone special — his father, Robert Earl, pastor of Shekinah Glory Worship Center in Harlem. Anderson says their regimen includes plenty of weightlifting in their makeshift gym at home, making for a good balance between staying safe and staying fit during the days of staying home. Anderson spent most of the pandemic at home with his family. Getting that time was important for him, especially after both parents contracted COVID-19, but have since recovered. As for his little brother, Anderson kept him busy by playing a lot of video games, an activity they love bonding over. During his visits back to Riverdale, Anderson feels as if he never left the city. It’s enough to keep him grounded. “It’s a nice area and I feel like everybody is pretty nice,” Anderson said. “I’ve met a bunch of people just playing at the park or going to The Riverdale Y, and they’ve always been good people to me. They still keep tabs on me on how I’m doing here.”
HEALTH NOTES X-ray-loving robot joins surgical team Montefiore Health System has welcomed a new member to its medical team — and it’s a robot. RoSA — the robotic sur-
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gical assistant — is part of Montefiore’s new robotic joint replacement program led by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Carlos Alvarado. While using robots for the more than 1 million hip and knee replacements that take
place each year in the United States is not uncommon, RoSA creates a 3-D model of a patient’s bone anatomy using Xrays, as opposed to the far more costly CT scans used by her counterparts. A surgeon uses RoSA to tai-
lor the placement of the knee implant. A robotic arm helps improve the precision of the surgery, and reduce the need for revisions. Patients are typically able to return home the day after their surgery.
Longer lives, fewer babies in the city People are living longer in New York City. That’s the news from the 2018 vital statistics data released by the city’s health de-
partment. Life expectancy has grown to 81.3, while births are half of what they were in 2009 for people younger than 20. Still, people living in highpoverty areas struggle with premature death — 2.4 times higher than wealthy areas.
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Pazmino lone conservative in crowded council race n Filmmaker wants to rethink social programs, invest in communities By ETHAN STARK-MILLER estarkmiller@riverdalepress.com
After a divisive 2020 election season that pit many against a president they said went too far, Kevin Pazmino is concerned about the direction his country is headed. With Joe Biden moving into the White House and Democrats taking over both chambers of Congress, Pazmino worries government is moving too far left, squelching the voice conservatives like him have in politics. “I just don’t really like this whole push that’s been going (on) toward socialism, and it just feels like that’s the direction everybody’s going in,” Pazmino said. “A lot of people stay on the sidelines and just talk and grumble about it, and I find that it really doesn’t serve a purpose.” A freelance videographer, Pazmino is the last to enter the March 23 city council special election race to replace Andrew Cohen. He’s joined a crowded field with five competitors, but is proud he stands out as the only rightwing candidate in the race — an anomaly in the heavily Democratic council district, not to mention the borough overall. He supports Donald Trump, and has declared his special election party the Patriot Party — inspired by the new party Trump suggests he may start as an alternative to the Republicans.
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Kevin Pazmino is running his campaign entirely by himself because he’s not accepting major campaign contributions. The North Riverdale resident says he’s running for city council because he wants to help his neighbors recover from the coronavirus pandemic by rethinking the way local government provides assistance to those in need. “I’m looking toward communitybased solutions,” Pazmino said. “I want to make sure that all of our taxpayer subsidies — whether they’re federal or state — are directed toward our neighborhoods and our streets. Moving people off of the government system and empowering them to start their own businesses.” This model would lessen dependence on social safety net programs, Pazmino said, which in turn would allow the city to lower taxes. It’s an important step toward revitalizing the economy. He doesn’t believe in taxing the rich to pay for social programs because it’s ultimately going to drive
wealthy people out of the city and hurt the economy overall. Another problem, Pazmino said, is the city often gives contracts for running social programs to what he sees as ineffectual corporations and non-profit organizations. Instead, the money should go directly to individuals and businesses in a specific neighborhood. Pazmino says he can accomplish this by treating the council office almost like a human resources department in a company — serving people in the community who need support. “So, if you’re unemployed, come drop your resume off with us,” Pazmino said. “We (will) help you, give you guidance in terms of how to incorporate yourself” as a working member of the community. For instance, if there’s a snowstorm and you’re a low-skilled worker — you could work with the council office to
shovel snow in the neighborhood and get paid for it, Pazmino said. Or when it comes to feeding the hungry, taxpayer dollars should go directly to neighborhood restaurants, who could then lower their prices, making food more accessible for low-income and homeless people. “I’d rather give the restaurants and delis on the block money that’s supposed to be toward feeding the homeless, feeding the less fortunate … and allow them to lower their prices for people in the community, then once again pay some giant conglomerate or some bloated not-for-profit that’s a special interest,” Pazmino said. How he would manage such a system to ensure taxpayer money is used as intended was something Pazmino didn’t make clear. He also didn’t say where the money would come since he also wants to significantly cut taxes. Pazmino’s parents immigrated from Colombia and Ecuador. He grew up in nearby Rockland County and attended SUNY Albany — all with the intention of going into local politics. After graduating, he started substitute teaching and taking police officer exams so he could learn how local government works from the inside. However, Pazmino quickly became disenchanted with the central role of money in politics and gravitated instead toward another passion of his — film production. After attending the Connecticut School of Broadcasting, he worked as a production assistant on the 2007 Will Smith film “I Am Legend.” He took assistant director jobs on smaller independent films, and over the years, gravitated back toward
working on popular shows like “Sesame Street,” he said. Working as an assistant director gave Pazmino the skills he said he needs to be an effective and creative city councilman. On film sets, he handles all of the logistics of breaking down a script and scheduling with various departments, sorting out issues and timing. He believes he can improve the efficiency of local government by using these same skills. Pazmino is against money in politics, so he’s keeping his campaign budget to less than $1,000. In fact, he’s not accepting any cash donations except for some small in-kind donations to purchase palm cards and other campaign necessities. Having an almost empty war chest does have its downside though. Chief among them? Pazmino runs his campaign alone. This means he, as an individual, must cover ground in the district’s multiple neighborhoods stretching from Riverdale to Woodlawn, trying to familiarize voters with his message. Pazmino’s five competitors have tens of thousands of dollars in their coffers and campaign staff fanned out around the district connecting with voters. It’s not a leap to say that very little money and no campaign organization puts Pazmino at a significant disadvantage. Yet, he thinks his lack of money and resources makes him a more authentic and accessible candidate. “I don’t want anybody’s money. I want their vote,” Pazmino said. “I’m really just about getting out there, grassroots talking to people, finding out what it is they need.”
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U.S. Rep. Espaillat hosts Black history roundtable
U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat welcomes what he describes as local champions in the fight for racial equality and representation at a virtual roundtable Thursday, Feb. 18, at 6:30 p.m. Joining the congressman are: • Kevin “K.B.” Bracey, president of the Epsilon Sigma Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity • Hazel Dukes, president of NAACP New York State Conference • the Rev. Ronald Sullivan, pastor of the Christian Parish for Spiritual Renewal • C. Virginia Fields, founder and chief executive of the National Black Leadership Commission on Health. To watch the roundtable live, visit Facebook. com/RepEspaillat.
Bronx Toastmasters set February meeting
The Bronx Toastmasters Club of Riverdale meets Wednesday, Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m., through the Zoom online videoconferencing app. To RSVP, email bronxtoastmastersclub@ gmail.com.
SHSAT strategy sessions begin Prep and strategy sessions for eighth- and ninth-graders expecting to take the Specialized High School Admissions Test have begun at Riverdale Neighborhood House. Led by community classes coordinator Rob Adelman, the sessions focus on realistic practice and targeted content review, including a mock exam, time management strategies, and the review of skills and formulas in approaching the test. For more information, email radelman@riverdaleonline.org.
Become a piano phenom
Learning to the play the piano is one thing. Finding a way to challenge yourself on the ivories is a much different story altogether. Riverdale Neighborhood House and Riverdale Community Center offers a 10-week intermediate piano course through April 13 designed for those who have played for at least a year, and who can read music. It’s a chance to learn syncopation, jazzy chords and progressions, as well as scales, wrist motion, staccato and legato touches. Each session is expected to run 90 minutes, and costs $175. For more information, email radelman@riverdaleonline.org.
Artists wanted for new project
Wave Hill and the Lehman College Art Gallery seek artists for its 2021 eco-urgency exhibit, planned to begin in July. Artists have a chance to present existing work, propose a new work, or participate in a public program. Joint curatorial teams will review applications over the winter, with artists notified
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of any interest by the end of February. Eco-urgency focuses on critical issues affecting ecosystems and biodiversity, according to a release. Artists address the need to establish a cooperative relationship with nature, one that is rooted in respecting the Earth’s vulnerability, and acknowledges the systems that contribute to global loss of habitat and species. To apply, visit tinyurl.com/WaveHillArt.
Wave Hill offers COVID-safe shopping
Wave Hill, 4900 Independence Ave., has reopened for special restricted hours Thursday through Sunday from 10 a.m., to 5:30 p.m. Admission requires advance ticket purchase at WaveHill.org. Also reopened is The Shop at Wave Hill with a re-imagined floor plan intended to make safety a priority. It’s open Wednesdays through Sundays from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wave Hill House is open from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with Glyndor Gallery open from noon to 4:30 p.m. — both featuring exhibitions to limited-size audiences. The café is open from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., for limited grab-and-go entrees, snacks and beverages. Although eating indoors is not allowed, seating remains available outside on the Kate French Terrace. Advanced registration is required, and the maximum number of visitors allowed each day is limited. A ticket is required to enter the grounds, and is available for reservation every Monday. Thursday continues to be admission-free until Wave Hill resumes normal operating hours. For more information, visit WaveHill.org.
Black History Month goes virtual for NYBG
All throughout February, visitors to the New York Botanical Garden can celebrate Black History Month — and they won’t even have to leave their homes. The garden’s celebration moves online with a number of programs showcasing cultural traditions of the African diaspora, exploring the influential contributions of Black people to botany, horticulture, ecology, and the collective understanding of the natural world. Online features include a performance by the Harambee Dance Company, arts and crafts for kids, discussions of influential Black horticulturists with Thomas Gaither and Lafayette Frederick, and lectures from cultural geographer Carolyn Finney and landscape architect Walter Hood. To participate, visit tinyurl.com/NYBGBHM.
Music, dancing and more coming to arts ensemble Bronx Arts Ensemble welcomes teaching artist Kika Wright and Ashley Adams on Thursday, Feb. 18, as they perform spirituals like “Go Down Moses,” and recite essays like “The Hill We Climb.” To learn more, visit BronxArtsEnsemble.org.
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COVID recovery means more than just vaccine or two n New Lehman College initiative lends hand to struggling Bronx groups
turn this internship into hopefully a part-time job in the future,” Muniz said. “That’s one way to look at it, you know: Look at the bigger picture, just hope for the best, and hopefully, new opportunities coming my way.” For Shaquanna Thomas, the workplace isn’t as much of a mystery. The senior sociology major works for the Child Center of New York — a position she had before joining the Bronx Recovery Corps. While Thomas might not really describe herself as a joiner, she showed interest in the recovery corps right away. “I may not get involved in everything, but I pay attention to the emails,” Thomas said. “So when something strikes my interest, I reach back out.” Thomas might get something different out of the recovery corps program than Muniz simply because of her workplace experience. For instance, Thomas hopes to shift into more public policy-focused work than what she’s doing now, and the recovery corps can potentially assist her. “They are able to kind of guide me with that, because I’m not really sure where to start with that,” Thomas said. Fingers are crossed that, by fall, the city will be less fraught by the coronavirus pandemic. Yet, Dubois-Mwake still sees a future for the Bronx Recovery Corps. “There’s always something that you can respond to,” she said. “So whether or not it’s the pandemic, or it’s some other situation that we can be focusing on in the community, there’s (going) to be like this local version of the Peace Corps. Where something is happening in the community, people know that they can count on me and students to support them.”
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The coronavirus pandemic impacted nearly every aspect of life as we know it. But with President Joe Biden committing to secure enough vaccine doses for every American, the country might be turning the corner on this once-in-a-lifetime health crisis. But vaccinations aren’t the be all, end all of ending the pandemic. Many businesses still need to reckon with financial losses the likes of which they’ve not seen since the Great Depression. And economic recovery might not necessarily be as easy as an inoculation or two. But Lehman College believes it can help. It’s called the Bronx Recovery Corps, pairing students with local nonprofits or small businesses to aid in their recovery through internships, professional development and other programs hosted by the college. And best of all, these students earn college credit for taking part. Lehman’s recovery corps program was birthed through the college’s already-existing partnership with Here to Here, a student career success program that primarily targets lowincome students of color. And while career development programs are important even in the best of times, that need is much higher in the middle of a pandemic. “The goal, really, of this program
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Raishiel Muniz might only be in her first year at Lehman College, but she’s already scored an internship at U.S. Rep Ritchie Torres’ local congressional office. She’s one of 40 students participating in the Bronx Recovery Corps, a program designed to help Lehman students like herself develop career skills while supplying local businesses and non-profits with extra assistance in wake of the coronavirus pandemic. is to give students the opportunity to get some work experience in the midst of a pandemic, where it’s very hard to find work, but also giving back to organizations that because of the pandemic cannot afford extra staff right now, but still have a mission to carry out,” said Amanda Dubois-Mwake, Lehman’s community engagement director. With nearly 40 students participating, the partner organizations are fairly wide-ranging. Some are non-profits,
like The Bronx is Blooming and Cents Ability. Others are community-based organizations, like the office of Bronx borough president Ruben Diaz Jr., a Lehman graduate himself. Raishiel Muniz scored a position at U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres’ Bronx congressional office. And while the Lehman freshman won’t start there until later this month, she has an idea of the type of work she’ll be doing there. “I’m going to be helping the com-
munity, hopefully attending meetings (and) working on cases,” Muniz said. “I intend on becoming an immigration lawyer, and I told that to the lady who interviewed me. And she told me, ‘You could let us know if you want to work on (a) specific case.’” Muniz already has her sights set on future goals, and working with Bronx Recovery Corps could help her achieve them. “The way I’m looking at it, I could
SCHOOL DESK Students receive top marks at Holy Cross Making the dean’s list anywhere is no mean feat. But when it happens at one of the nation’s leading liberal arts colleges, it’s all the more cause for celebration. Two local students were among nearly 1,500 Holy Cross students making the list last fall: Julianne Esteves and Justin Hudson. Esteves is a junior majoring in biology, while Hudson, a sophomore, hasn’t declared a major quite yet. In order to make the dean’s list at Holy Cross, students
By ROSE BRENNAN must pass four or more classes and accumulate a GPA of 3.5 or higher during the semester.
Espaillat announces challenge winners STEM and coding are quickly becoming the way of the future. And to encourage that, U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat hosted the Congressional App Challenge to test the computer science skills of middle and high school students from New York’s 13th Congressional District. Each participant submitted a video demonstrating how
their app works, which is then judged by a panel of educators and entrepreneurs. This year, the winning team was a group of students from Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science and Engineering. Their app’s goal was to help high school and college students apply active learning to their study habits. The second-place winners, a team of twin brothers who also attend Columbia Secondary School, created an app to spread information about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic quickly and accurately. The third-place winner, Avi-
va Schwarz, is a senior at the Bronx High School of Science. She also created an app related to COVID-19, making information both easily accessible and available through video feeds of popular city destinations.
Bowman wants debt cancellation Seemingly everyone with a dog in the fight wants to get their two cents in on what President Joe Biden should do in his first 100 days in office. And New York-based lawmakers want college students — past and present — to be included in
those plans. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer joined newly minted U.S. Reps. Jamaal Bowman, Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones to call on the Biden administration to forgive up to $50,000 of federal student loan debt for borrowers across America. The student debt crisis continues to grow each year, with Bowman noting the sum had reached $1.6 trillion. And nearly $90 billion of that debt belongs to students in New York. Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported the
average student loan balance here was $34,600, and the average New York City resident owes more than $38,000 in student debt. Both are higher than the national average of $32,700. Bowman noted Biden could implement this loan forgiveness program through executive action — and Bowman urged him to do exactly that. “Forgiving $50,000 in student debt will change young people’s lives, particularly for Black young people, who hold far more debt than their white peers,” Bowman said. “It’s the right thing to do. And I urge the Biden administration to act.”
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Candidates debate legalizing sex workers n Should it be fully decriminalized, or just those who work in it?
By MICHAEL HINMAN Espaillat, Bowman not happy with Senate verdict
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Society calls it the “oldest profession,” but some both in and outside of government believes it also could be one of the most dangerous. Sex workers face as much as a 75 percent chance of experiencing sexual violence on the job, according to statistics compiled by the Urban Justice Center. Yet, many of these assaults go unreported because sex workers fear potential arrest or even further assault if they go to the police. And at least from a global perspective, law enforcement has not been too kind to sex workers. A United Nations report from 2004 claimed a pattern of police violence that included assault, sexual harassment, public “gender searches,” and even rape. But what can New York City do about it? And who’s going to do it? That was exactly what some of the candidates hoping to be this community’s next city council member discussed during a debate last weekend hosted by NYCD-16 Indivisible. “That’s hard, because I’m trying to keep my religion out of it,” said Carlton Berkley, a former New York Police Department detective, and one of six looking for votes during a March 23 special election. “I don’t think that it should be decriminalized. But then again, we’re living in times that we never thought we would be living in.” Still, Berkley says it’s hard not to look back at his own career dealing with sex trafficking, and his fears that young women could become “sex slaves.” “I’ve seen that, and I know what it can lead into,” Berkley said. “It can lead into drugs, it can lead into sex slaves. So maybe we might have to still keep it criminalized so that we can keep people safe.” Yet, for many debating what to do with the sex worker trade, the choices seem to be a bit more liberal: decriminalize those who work in the industry, or decriminalize the entire industry itself. Manhattan state Sen. Liz Krueger has taken a side there, introducing a bill last month that would maintain laws against anyone paying or trafficking people for sex, but would no longer punish those who are in prostitution themselves.
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Many looking to become the next leaders in New York City find how laws govern sex workers is something that needs addressing. Yet, even among the most progressive groups, there are debates whether to fully decriminalize the practice, or simply keep the act illegal, but protect those who work in the sex trade. The idea, according to published reports, would be to allow sex workers to report crimes without fear of being arrested themselves. But others believe it just doesn’t go far enough. Eliza Orlins, a candidate for Manhattan District Attorney, is pushing a platform that would fully decriminalize consensual sex work, and would start by not prosecuting such cases if she were elected. “Sex work is work,” said the public defender on her campaign website. She is probably best known nationally as a contestant on the CBS reality competition show, “Survivor,” but in recent years has focused her work with The Legal Aid Society. “Criminalizing sex work stigmatizes and disproportionately targets people of color and trans women, who are already marginalized members of our community,” Orlins said. “It traps sex workers in poverty and makes them afraid to come forward to report abuse or other violent acts perpetrated against them.” Mino Lora, a theatre non-profit executive also seeking to replace Andrew Cohen on the city council, mirrored Orlins words that “sex work is work,” but believes it’s the government’s job
to provide options where going into sex work isn’t needed. “This impacts Black trans women the most,” Lora said. “So the conversation needs to be how do we make sure that Black trans women have work and have opportunities to get work so they don’t have to do this. That is where this conversation needs to be.” Eric Dinowitz, a former school teacher, agrees current enforcement practices target both women of color and trans women. But he stopped short of full decriminalization. “It does not address fundamental needs of commercial sex trade, like as Carlton was saying, sex slaves and sex trafficking,” Dinowitz said. “I think any move to fully decriminalize sex work and commercial sex work needs to address the fact that women are still being kidnapped and trafficked. That is a sad reality, and that needs to be addressed.” Dan Padernacht, a real estate lawyer, has a different approach, however. For him, sex work should not only be made legal, but the government should regulate it as well. “Some of these sex laws should be decriminalized,” he said. “I think it’s more of a public health issue. I believe
if you regulate it, you promote it as a health issue. You make sure that the folks in these industries have plenty of health care, safety, etc.” It’s a question that can’t be resolved through a single debate, but it does show that many seeking office have taken very strong stands on the issue. Like environmentalist Jessica Haller. “I agree with decriminalizing sex work,” the city council candidate said. “Doing that will eliminate the black market for sex work, and make these people safer.” Berkley may not be for making sex work legal, but he does believe a bunch of other laws currently on the books shouldn’t be there. “Yeah, hopping a turnstile shouldn’t be a misdemeanor,” Berkley said. “It should be a violation. And there’s a lot of other laws on the books that should be violations, because when you keep them as misdemeanors, that affects people’s records to get jobs — and not only just to get jobs, but to get housing. “There’s the whole criminal justice system that needs to get revamped.” Voters will choose among these candidates along with Kevin Pazmino during a special election March 23.
The U.S. Senate voted to acquit former president Donald Trump for a second time last week, not willing to make him at least politically responsible for inciting a mob that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6. The trial came after what was considered a “speedy” impeachment in the U.S. House, completed just before Trump left office Jan. 20. It was a measure supported not only by all the House Democrats, but even a handful of Republicans. It also had the support of the Bronx congressional delegation, including Jamaal Bowman and Adriano Espaillat. Neither were satisfied with the Senate trial results, even though seven Republicans joined the Democrats in an effort to convict Trump. “By voting to acquit Donald Trump, 43 Republicans excused fascist violence,” Bowman told The Riverdale Press in a statement. “By doing so, they said clearly that the use of violence against political opposition is excusable, so long as the perpetrator’s success would have meant Republican rule. “We can’t — and won’t — forget this.” Espaillat shared similar sentiments soon after the vote on his Facebook page. “Senate Republicans’ refusal to stand up against a violent insurrection by a president trying to cling to power will go down as one of the darkest moments in history,” Espaillat said. — Ethan Stark-Miller
Bowman set to chair energy subcommittee
U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman has his work cut out for him inside Capitol Hill. Just days after becoming vice chair of the House Education and Labor Committee, Bowman was elected chair of the House Subcommittee on Energy. The subcommittee is part of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Bowman said he’ll focus the subcommittee on achieving complete renewable energy resources across the country to help combat the global climate crisis. “We can heal our planet, use cleaner and more efficient sources of energy while creating green jobs,” Bowman said, in a release. “Now is the time to usher in the decade of the Green New Deal and ensure environmental justice for all.”
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Opinion
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Editorial
No, the Earth is not flat
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o European scientists deserve blame — or, based on your political beliefs, praise — for the election of Donald Trump in 2016? There are a few people who indeed believe that an accident with one of the famed particle colliders at Switzerland’s European Organization for Nuclear Research pushed all of us into an alternate reality where Trump was elected president over Hillary Clinton. Then you have so-called “chem trails,” the stream of condensation left in the wake of high-flying aircraft in the sky that some believe are actually chemicals the government is releasing into the atmosphere to control the weather. And then there’s QAnon. It’s something many of us heard about at one time or another, but didn’t really become a full household name until the Capitol Hill insurrection attempt Jan. 6. But what is QAnon? It’s hard to pinpoint it down to a specific belief, outside of the fact many believe Trump is the lone defender against some massive leftwing conspiracy to bring down the country, all from a Washington pizza joint. That Trump is interfering in a massive child sex ring run by Democrats, and that they’ll do anything — and we mean anything — to bring Trump down to keep their nefarious business thriving. We can blame some of the deepest, darkest corners of the World Wide Web for this nonsense. And the claims sound far too silly to be believed. But believed they are — by thousands of people. Conspiracy theories, of course, are nothing new. We didn’t land on the Moon. Paul McCartney did indeed die
in the 1960s while Elvis lives. A secret government sect has stopped the Buffalo Bills from ever winning the Super Bowl. It’s easy to chuckle over some of these theories, that is, as long as believing in that theory is harmless. It’s one thing to be convinced the Earth is flat, but it’s something totally different when you’re convinced vaccines will hurt you or control you in some terrible way. Those kinds of conspiracy lead to people opting out of vaccines. And here’s the thing: You shouldn’t opt out of them. Many terrible diseases — including (hopefully) the coronavirus — have been controlled or even wiped out because of vaccines. People skipping vaccines means diseases like measles and the mumps could make a comeback. We’re sorry, but comebacks are for people like Paul McCartney and the Buffalo Bills, not dangerous diseases that went out with the fedora (well, the first time). QAnon is far worse. While we should be skeptical of government and leaders, we can’t go overboard. Even after the Capitol riot, many believers in this balderdash really believed that on Jan. 20, before Joe Biden could be sworn in as president, televisions around the country would go black, many Democrats — including Biden — would be arrested, and Trump would save us. It’s not easy to break the spell of conspiracy theories, but we have to try. Our only real anecdote is fact. And we need to deliver it over and over until people are cured. And we can’t give up, or the tragedy of Jan. 6 is only the beginning.
Point of view
Battling twin pandemics: COVID-19 and racism
By IAN LEVY & STUART CHEN-HAYES
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ew York City, the state and the nation are gripped in twin pandemics: racism and COVID-19. As we write this, this same city, state and country celebrate both National School Counseling Week and Black Lives Matter in Schools Week. As Bronx-based professors of social counseling, former school counselors, and anti-racist white accomplices, we know that our profession is key to helping students challenge both pandemics. The demands of Black Lives Matter in School — fully supported by the MORE Caucus of UFT are to: • End zero tolerance (create restorative justice) • Mandate Black history/ethnic studies • Hire more Black teachers/educators • Fund more school counselors, not cops The purpose of National School Counseling Week is to increase the support and knowledge of appropriate roles of school counselors and school counseling programs at all grade levels as a key tool fighting twin pandemics. New York City employs more cops than school counselors with zero evidence of effectiveness of school “safety” officers. Research shows school counselors implementing school counseling programs increase attendance, lower behavioral issues, and are more likely to have students graduate and enter college and successful careers. Mayor Bill de Blasio promised to defund $1 billion from the New York Police Department — and lied. New York state mandated elementary school counseling programs in every elementary school in 2019. The current school counselor-to-student ratio in the state is 471-to-1, but the national recommendation is 250-to-1 — or less. We also want to end the use of the “G-word” — “guidance counselor” is steeped in racism and classism. And too many school counselors do inappropriate roles — discipline, paperwork, and not all have been trained in anti-racism. At least 80 percent of school counselor time should be direct and indirect services with students — group and individual counseling, and
advising a plan for every student annually, and school counseling curriculum lessons. The lack of funding for school counselors, lack of requiring elementary school counselors, high school counselor-to-student ratios, and lack of training for building leaders in how school counselors should do their jobs, suggest the state remains unwilling to unearth and reconcile racist policies and practices that, themselves, produce developmental inequalities. We can respond to the emergence of issues (like the exacerbation of mental health concerns) by attempting to plug holes in an evercombusting dam, or by hiring school counselors who help to create new structures that help prevent the emergence of the very concerns we wish to address. Anti-racist work must be preventative, and move beyond individual and group counseling. This requires engaging all stakeholders in interrogating racist policies, and co-creative protective school environments, supporting students of color in their holistic development. From the collection and disaggregation of data, to the identification of racist school-based practices, and the forming of asset-rich schoolfamily-community partnerships — school counselors possess unique skills. At Lehman College, we’ve made anti-racism a centerpiece of our curriculum, and our school counselor candidates and recent alums reflect that training. The same is true for Manhattan College, where school counseling students have received unique training in the integration of hip-hop-based approaches into their online small group work to aid students in processing and making sense of emergent stressors surrounding the twin pandemics. A commitment to Black Lives Matter in schools must focus on the establishment of school ecosystems devoid of racist policies and practices, and requires statewide legislation that offers school counselors who are best positioned to engage in that work for all kindergarten through 12th grade schools. Levy is an assistant professor of school counseling at Manhattan College, and Chen-Hayes is a professor of counselor education and school counseling at Lehman College.
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An ode to Officer Sicknick To the editor: This child of the ‘60s who protested police brutality and called the cops “pigs” and never rooted for them to win, watched television and saw that they call the remains of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick being honored in the Capitol Rotunda. This ‘60s child is now in her 70s, and no longer thinks that every policeman is up to no good. I cried at this life lost because of lies and deception. “Remains” is a polite word to say the dead body of someone who did two tours in the U.S. Air National Guard, and came home to be beaten to death by a horde of sick people who thought they had the white right to protest using violence, thinking perhaps — unconsciously or not — that their white skin would keep them from facing jail time. So used to that white privilege, they probably didn’t even think that there would be consequences for their actions. The hypocrisy of our country is making my stomach turn this morning. How dare this country tell Russia anything about Alexei Navalny when the duly elected representatives of the American people have chosen to let the perpetrator in charge go free for inciting a riot. When people elected to protect us, who were at death’s door a month ago, hiding under chairs with gas masks on, fearful and afraid for their lives, who were waiting for a mob to come get
them, now will not vote to indict that perpetrator in charge. Not vote him guilty of insurrection because they want to be re-elected by the people at home who put them there. The people who think it’s OK Brian Sicknick died in vain. Not vote him guilty because the elected are afraid of those same people who elected them, afraid that someone will show up at their home and threaten them and their family with death if they do vote “yes” to indict. The hypocrisy is so evident. To me, to the good people of this country who are waking up with the same sense of despair, and to the rest of the world who used to believe that America was the land of the free and the home of the brave, and that justice prevailed. I have known for many decades now how prejudice and hatred of others simmers not so quietly. I just couldn’t anticipate Jan. 6 — not in our country. Perhaps I have been naïve all along, and other citizens who bear the brunt of this hatred knew all along that Jan. 6 was right around the corner. How will we ever become whole again, America? I mourn you. Rest in peace, Officer Sicknick. AriAnA HolbAck The author is a member of the Sunshine Writers Circle.
Not the way things should work To the editor: How can a landlord want to evict tenants in 255 apartments in nine buildings just to make more money? That’s what the partners, led by Myles Horn — who owns real estate investment firm Glacier Equities — are trying to do. If they are not stopped, they will sell the apartments to new tenants for what Horn calls “inexpensive” — $250,000 to $500,000 an apartment. As if working class people have that type of money on hand. Does it matter that one of these tenants is New York Fire Department EMT hero Joseph Conzo Jr., who’s fighting cancers he developed from working at the 9/11 Ground Zero site? Does it matter that his fellow tenants at 3245 Perry Ave.,
are like family? That having such tenants in one building is good for the neighborhood? No! That’s the problem with capitalism. All that matters is making as much money as possible, regardless of who you hurt. Despite what some will tell you, unregulated and unrestrained capitalism does not work for most people. Some will tell you socialism does not work, but it works fine in Scandinavian countries. The socialism we do have here — Medicare, Social Security, and regulations that have helped create labor unions — have allowed for a better quality of life and more longevity for most people. During one presidential primary debate about a year ago,
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders called out Michael Bloomberg when he straight-out lied by equating Sanders’ socialism with the failed policies of the Soviet Union. But nobody in the news media did. In fact, one journalist supported Bloomberg’s lie. I’m glad the news media called out Donald Trump on most of his lies. But I want them to show the same vigilance toward other politicians — such as Bloomberg — when they lie as outrageously as Trump. Also, I’m glad there are legal prohibitions against organized crime figures making money by victimizing innocent people. But I want to see laws passed and enforced that stop allegedly legitimate businesspeople from doing the same thing. ricHArd WArren
What does ‘love’ mean for Israel? To the editor: In the opinion pages of The Riverdale Press, there are those who harshly criticize Israel while at the same time professing their “love” for her. Analogies are rarely, if ever, perfect. But with this being the month of Valentine’s Day, I am reminded that in abusive relationships, the abuser will shower the subject of the abused with flowers and candy while effusively making pronouncements of affection. Just recently, many hundreds of an expected 2,000 Ethiopians arrived in Israel, escaping the ravages of civil war in that country. They didn’t even qualify as refugees because Israel rushed to their rescue. They also happened not to be Jews, but Christians, brought to Israel on a family reunification program on behalf of close to 200,000 Ethiopians previously rescued in operations Moses and Solomon. We feel great pride for our son who, as a young husband and father — and at some personal risk — played an essential role in this complicated and costly rescue effort. Previous to 2021, boycott-divestment-sanctions advocates against Israel should be reminded that, last year, 10,000 refugees drowned trying to reach Italy from North Africa where hundreds of thousands more have been in, and an equal number driven into, refugee camps due to the lamentable Assad rule of Syria. I know nothing of BDS bashers of Israel call-
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ing for the demise of that nation, or even its ruler. In (so-called) communist China, 1 million Muslims have been driven into detention camps to be brainwashed and for slave labor. Why? No call for BDS against Myanmar, where that nation’s rampaging army committed rape and murder against tens of thousands of that country’s Muslim minority, driving hundreds of thousands more across the border to Bangladesh. One could list countless other examples of nations persecuting their minorities. How does one explain why Israel — one of the world’s few democratic nations — is the one they target where Jews, Christians and Muslims have equal voting rights? My own educated guess is that one major reason is that Israel is a Jewish state. My respectful request is that such critics of Israel “love” Israel less and stop beating up on her. They point, for example, to the most recent election when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on his supporters to rush to the polls because Arab Israelis were voting by the busload. The prime minister’s comment was hardly commendable, but it would seem the term “apartheid” is misapplied if Arab Israelis are exercising their equal right to vote. I suggest that those “lovers” who single our Israel for unfair criticism check Google or the dictionary for any changes in the definition of the word “love.” THeodore FeTTmAn
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Op-Ed Point of view
Jamaal Bowman, a quiet mensch
By DAVID KNAPP (re: “Israel is under attack by Bowman and The Squad,” Jan. 7)
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n July 2019, I was invited to attend a small gathering of people at a mutual friend’s home to meet a brand-new congressional candidate, Jamaal Bowman. Over iced tea, seltzer and desserts, he introduced himself, shared a bit of his story, and tried out his new platform. He wasn’t ideological or bombastic, and spoke in the even-toned voice of an educator. While I remember thinking how odd it was that he didn’t know some basic things related to House legislation, what impressed me the most was his willingness to say, “I don’t know, but I will think about your question and get back to you.” A week later, I picked up my phone and called my friend and asked her if I could have the candidate’s number. There we were, at the Riverdale Diner. We talked for two hours. He seemed to really care about those living in the congressional district, whose lives were hard and intertwined with the policies that so often did not benefit them directly. A few weeks later, I invited him to join me at a Benjamin Franklin Reform Democratic Club meeting. It was a cold night, but he came, stood outside the club on West 231st Street, and he met people. I remember that my son was walking up the street as we were all chatting outside, and the candidate stopped and engaged him. They talked for some time. He treated my 22-year-old with respect, concern and consideration. Over the course of the 2020 political season, I had the unique opportunity to see the candidate in action at a variety
of different social settings and venues, including a political event at my home. He was growing in the right direction for a candidate. We might call Jamaal a person of honesty, consideration and respect. In Yiddish, we would refer to him as a mensch. He is that rare person who treats everyone he meets with consideration, seriousness and respect, no matter what their occupation, job title, position, viewpoint or ZIP. He is attentive to their needs, is eager to understand their experiences, and is a great listener and conversationalist. That doesn’t mean he is a pushover or doesn’t have a moral compass. Jamaal cares deeply about injustice here — and everywhere — and is empathetic to those who have experienced life’s challenges. As the June 23 primary approached, I began to lose my patience with Jewish friends calling Jamaal anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, racist, and pro-boycott-divestment-sanctions, still without having ever made any effort to meet him or examine his platform. Any time “Palestinians” were mentioned, people jumped on him as proof he was unsympathetic — or worse, anti-Semitic. I kept asking fellow Jews to justify their beliefs about him. What came back to me was frightening — fear, anxiety, that often turned inward to hate. Not only hate for the candidate, but hate for me. One friend expressed to me that he was fearful that Israel would be abandoned and Jews exterminated, and that Jews could be looking at a second Holocaust. Others told me, off the record, that Jamaal was dangerous because he was joining The Squad who wanted to destroy Jews and Israel. One, in fact, told me this was driving him to support Trump in the upcoming
election. Trump is the greatest friend of the Jews. None of these critics took the time to meet him, read his positions, or even email him. In fact, many confused him with Andom Ghebreghiorgis. One meeting between the two candidates would help clarify their differences. Following Jamaal’s letter to Rabbi Avi Weiss in The Riverdale Press, I remember speaking with him about what was happening with some of my Jewish and liberal friends and neighbors, and the divisiveness and fear in the Jewish community. His response sticks with me until this day. If we can fracture friendships, then we can rebuild them and make them whole. He pushed me to do the work to repair my former friendships. We have much work to be done. We need to bring everyone along. After reading the Point of View in the Jan. 7 edition of The Press, I was again struck by how easy it is to character assassinate someone — to smear and attack with words and associations someone with whom you have never met and clearly know so little about. The Point of View expressed by the author seems so antithetical to the actual Bowman I’ve grown to know. Jamaal is about respect, commitment, and honoring the best in each of us. I have watched Jamaal spend hours learning about issues he knew previously little about. Listening to those with divergent views. And comforting those who have been victimized. I have seen him struggle to look at different points of view as an educator, to grow his knowledge from strength to strength. You may call Jamaal many things — teacher, father, advocate for justice, educator, friend, husband and mensch — but one thing he is not? A hater.
Don’t attack what you don’t understand By CHARLES MOERDLER (re: “Building the world we all want,” Feb. 4)
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aayan Seligsohn’s thoughtful letter warrants comment. Only a fool or a rogue would disagree with Ms. Seligsohn’s statement of the vision ascribed to Rabbi Avi Weiss (long a leader in the fight for human rights, and a person of unequaled vision and integrity), namely that “all human blood, and the bloods of all people crying out from the ground — Black, white, Israeli and Palestinian, gentile and Jew” (and I would add Muslims and others) is sacred, and demands dignity, equality and just treatment. Ms. Seligsohn’s statement was made in the context of concern that Israel’s government supposedly had failed to provide coronavirus vaccinations to Arabs, including Palestinians. But her comments are flawed. The politician, U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman, who first jumped on that canard — and who Ms. Seligsohn cites — had not done his homework. Indeed, his assault was only the latest in a series of hateful and harmful slurs attacking the Israeli nation that raise serious question as to his real purpose. Israel undertook to provide vaccinations to its entire population — Arab, Palestinian, Christian, Muslim, Jew and agnostic alike. Once that herculean task was under way, it would look beyond its own citizenry and provide for the Palestinian Authority. Although under the Oslo Accords, the authority had that responsibility, and some among the Israeli population would question that judgment in view of the ongoing indiscriminate terrorist attacks upon innocent Israeli citizens, and concerns as to whether those who dominate the authority and Hamas would actually provide fairly and honestly for their populace. Israel nonetheless discreetly determined to provide from its own limited vaccine allotment thousands of doses to
the authority so that it could vaccinate the populace in Judea and Samaria — the so-called West Bank — plus Gaza, although the authority already has a pending vaccine application to the World Health Organization, whose COVax program was designed to meet just such needs. Israel did not wait to first take care of its own elderly and infirm. Thousands of doses have been already allocated to the West Bank and Gaza populations, not withstanding the indiscriminate savagery that some in that community continue to practice against Christians and Jews alike. Ms. Seligsohn’s stated concern and vision is laudable, but I would submit it misses several marks, and ignores others. To illustrate, her thesis that partnership — in providing “universal access to food, housing, health care and safety” as between Israel and its neighbors is ignored — is a fundamentally flawed notion. Partnership presupposes at least two parties — “it takes to two to tango.” And as the late Abba Eban famously stated, the Palestinian leadership “never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” Look at the emirates, Bahrain, Dubai and even Saudi Arabia, and the contrast becomes plain. Partnership is at work there. Yet, those hostile to the state of Israel and its people — including Congressman Bowman and his like-oriented extreme Republican counterpart from Georgia — ignore that demonstration of reality and what good faith as contrasted with posturing can achieve. It is true that there continues to be serious distrust and tension between Israel and the authority and its Hamas “affiliate.” Bombs, missiles, stabbings, firebombs, and other acts of indiscriminate barbarity tend to generate distrust, and worse. Ms. Seligsohn’s vision is laudable, but there are two sides to most stories, and that is certainly the case here. Unfortunately, Ms. Seligsohn makes no mention of Hamas and Palestinian
corruption and butchery, let alone their historic refusal to partake of meaningful dialogue, or its implementation. Not surprisingly, her pedestrian politician friend ignores it. However, it really does take two to tango, and consistent finger pointing at just one is unforgivable, though revealing. Israel’s leadership has its faults. So do those of China (like in its persecution of the Muslim Uighur population), Russia (like in its persecution of its Muslim Chechnyan population, and the Stalinlike savagery against Alexei Navalny and the voices of freedom he leads), Turkey (in its renewed genocide against Armenia), and certain African nations (like the Eritrean massacre), to name a few. Indeed, our own government has rightly been accused of human rights abuses against people of color, Latinos and others. Interestingly, politicians on the extreme left — like their colleagues on the extreme right — are utterly silent when it comes to the unquestioned human rights abuses or genocidal actions of other nations, but stridently vocal when it comes to any issue they can cobble up with respect to Israel. That studied silence and striking contrast speaks volumes. Ms. Seligsohn doubtlessly acts in good faith, and has standing to challenge the governing policies of the ruling individuals in Israel and those of every other nation she legitimately believes is violating basic rights. However, those are challenges to the conduct of individuals and their policies, not to the essence of a nation, its people, and the lone democratic institution in the area: the state of Israel. That is a fundamental distinction with a vital difference. I think Ms. Seligsohn recognizes the difference and I fervently hope that, in the future, she makes it clear. I seriously doubt whether some extremist politicians comprehend — or even care about — the distinction.
Letters to the editor Streets are just not safe To the editor:
(re: “Turning the corner revamping intersection,” Jan. 21)
I was so sorry to read in your Jan. 21 edition that a car hit a pedestrian on Independence Avenue. Like the man who expected someone to get hit, tragically, I too expect that on the stretch of Mosholu Avenue from Fieldston Road to Broadway. There is no stop sign, crosswalk or traffic light from Broadway to Fieldston. There are many stores located on the south side of Mosholu, and there is constant crossing in the middle of the street — much of it by senior citizens and the disabled. It is considered a through street with active car, truck and bus traffic — and traffic that has recently left the parkway, causing more speed than smaller local streets have. I have written to Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz and to the city’s transportation department. No action has been taken other than to say it’s not necessary to even provide a “yield to pedestrian” signal, or even paint stripes for a crosswalk, even though there are curb cuts for crosswalks at Spencer and Huxley avenues, and Post Road. Interestingly, a camera to detect speeding was recently installed on Mosholu, just east of Fieldston. I wonder why that happened if there is no dangerous speeding? Well, I shouldn’t wonder as I conclude that, politically, issuing speeding tickets is more important than saving lives. PaTricia SmiTh
Making my voting choice To the editor:
(re: “Council candidates spar, but agree on equity,” Feb. 4)
Like many other residents of this city council district, I watched the first debate and forum on BronxNet recently. I appreciated the fact that the moderators were professional and in control, and the candidates were calm and clear in their answers to the questions. This is a very important job representing our council district, and Andy Cohen did an excellent job in representing every corner of our diverse district. Andy enabled our district to receive millions of dollars in city funding to support our schools, parks, not-for-profit agencies like Riverdale Neighborhood House, The Riverdale Y, Mosaic, Mosholu Montefiore Community Center, Knox Gates, Kingsbridge Heights Community Center, and many more. Andy understood our entire district, and how to meet with groups to understand neighborhood needs. As a city councilman, Andy became the head of various important committees that would approve major funding for our district’s needs. As I watched the debate unfold, it became clear to me that only Dan Padernacht — of all the candidates — had the experience, done the professional
work, and understood the role of what an elected council member does. Dan would calmly and effectively, if elected, represent our entire district, work with all of our stakeholders, and smoothly transition into our vacant council position. Dan Padernacht has my vote. I hope he has yours. Don BlueSTone
Able to make my decision To the editor:
(re: “Council candidates spar, but agree on equity,” Feb. 4)
I would like to personally thank The Riverdale Press and BronxNet for an interesting and informative debate for the candidates in the upcoming March 23 city council special election. It was clear the moderators came well-prepared with their questions for each candidate, and kept the debate moving along nicely. As a voter, I found this debate to be very valuable in my decision to vote for who I think should be the next council member to lead our district. After watching the debate, I know that our next council member should be Eric Dinowitz. Eric displayed a command of the issues that are most important to our district, like better schools, affordable housing, and support for our small businesses. It’s clear his vision is rooted in the community service he has been doing since he was a kid, growing up right here in our district. He handled tough questions well, and always managed to distinguish himself by referencing the things he had already accomplished for the people of the Northwest Bronx. I encourage everyone who hasn’t seen the debate already to do so, and get out to vote in this important special election. hillel lanDman
Do we really know Israel? To the editor:
(re: “Bowman is critical of Israel,” Feb. 4)
I am a Jewish refugee of Nazi Germany. I am deeply concerned to read the comments from Rabbi Avi Weiss to U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman. Why is it that you present this manipulation by political Zionists who, since 1948, have had an agenda that has led to apartheid and an attempt to destroy the Palestinian population? Isn’t it time that Zionists acknowledge what they have done — How apartheid has led to the “Judaization” and gradual destruction of Palestine and its people? Please take a moment and ask yourself how and why Zionists are transforming Palestine into the state of Israel, a land for Jews only, by destruction and elimination of Palestine. Just as Jews were hated and deemed inferior by the holierthan-thou Nazis, so Palestinians are deemed inferior by holierthan-thou political Zionists. I am for social justice, and Palestine must be free from political Zionism. For all people have a right to their collective identities. lillian roSengarTen
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It’s all about a tale of two letters between Bowman, Rabbi Weiss To the editor:
(re: “Bowman is critical of Israel,” “Building the world we all want,” Feb. 4)
Two letters printed in the Feb. 4 issue of your newspaper offer a stark contrast. The first letter from Rabbi Avi Weiss is eloquent, passionate — but most importantly, fact-filled. Rabbi Weiss has dedicated his life to helping the Jewish people, in particular; and humanity, in general. Rabbi Weiss is speaking the truth based on facts to Congressman Jamaal Bowman’s power. It will be interesting to see if he responds with the same respect Rabbi Weiss accorded him. Congressman Bowman made a conscious choice to circulate a lie about Israel on Twitter when he sent out the following tweet: “Netanyahu must ensure that both Israelis and Palestinians
have access to the COVID-19 vaccine. This cruelty is another reminder of why the occupation must end.” As a congressman, Mr. Bowman has a large following on Twitter, and many people saw this tweet, retweeted it, and probably believe it, even though it’s a lie based on lies. As a member of Congress and our representative, he has a special responsibility to deploy the abundant fact-checking resources at his disposal before messaging under his name — our name — on Twitter, or any other platform. While he did take the tweet down, as far as I know, he has not issued an apology or tweeted a correction of this modern-day blood libel. As Rabbi Weiss correctly noted in his letter, the Israeli government offered COVID-19 help to the Palestinian Authority, but they turned it down. He
also noted that the authority elected to purchase the less-effective Russian Sputnik V vaccine because political considerations are more important than the lives of their own people. Based on the Oslo Accords and the Paris Protocol, the authority’s health ministry is the decision-making body responsible for the vaccination of its population. Congressman Bowman should direct his criticism to the authority’s health minister, Dr. Mai al-Kaila, who by her own admission, only submitted an official request for help to Israel on Jan. 5 after their Russian and World Health Organization COVax suppliers came up short. In fact, Israel immediately approved 5,000 Moderna doses for Palestinian health care workers, and in the meantime, 10,000 Sputnik V doses arrived as well as 37,000 COVax doses.
It’s interesting that someone who made attention to local concerns one of his signature campaign issues found the time to circulate this lie when he had been in office less than one month, and his congressional district is the borough with the lowest vaccination rate in the city. Perhaps the congressman should show the same level of concern for the people he was elected to represent as he does for those living under Palestinian Authority control. He certainly was not elected to smear a longtime friend of the United States with mendacious lies that do the opposite of advancing the cause of peace between Israel and her neighbors that he claims to care so much about. The second letter from Maayan Seligsohn is all feelings and completely devoid of any facts. She says she
is “heartbroken” to see Rabbi Weiss “calling out” Congressman Bowman. She said we should listen to him instead of offering an alarming shout of “anti-Semitism” when, in fact, Rabbi Weiss made no such reference, and in fact, he respectfully suggested to him that he also hear from Israeli and Jewish leadership before he circulates any more falsehoods. Seligsohn would do well to listen to her own advice and ask Congressman Bowman to pay attention to the facts before spreading more lies about Israel. We stand ready to hear Ms. Seligsohn’s and Congressman Bowman’s concerns, and expect they will be equally as receptive to the facts. DaviD Frankel The author is vice president of the Riverdale chapter of NorPAC, a proIsrael political action committee.
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290 West 232nd st cc626 2-bdrm with entry foyer, living room, kitchen, dining area and balcony. $305K
3816 WAldo AVe cc643 Contemporary Condo with balcony, modern kitch, lndry in unit, DM & prkg. $640K
445 West 240tH st cc637 Postwar 2-bdrm condo with large entry foyer, living rm & windowed kitchen. $375K
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3515 HH pArKWAy cc638 Spacious & bright 3-bdrm, 2-bath corner unit. Entry foyer, living rm & renov kitch. $618K
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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